US11139137B2
A system for preventing collisions between components in a particle beam instrument is disclosed. The system is particularly beneficial in use with instruments wherein moveable components are used within a chamber that obscures them from being viewed from outside the chamber. The system comprises: a capacitance sensor configured to monitor the capacitance between a first component and a second component of the instrument, and a proximity module configured to: derive a capacitance parameter from the monitored capacitance between the first component and the second component; and output a proximity alert signal in accordance with a comparison between the derived capacitance parameter and a predetermined capacitance parameter threshold value.
US11139130B1
A safety switch includes an actuator that has a first possible actuator position and a second possible actuator position and a blocker that has a first possible blocker position and a second possible blocker position. The first possible blocker position overlaps with the second possible actuator position. The safety switch includes a device for generating an electrical signal representative of a current position of the actuator. When the actuator is in the first possible actuator position and the blocker is in the first possible blocker position, the blocker prevents movement of the actuator from the first possible actuator position to the second possible actuator position without first moving the blocker from the first possible blocker position to the second possible blocker position.
US11139127B2
A switch device includes a first rubber dome, a second rubber dome, and a slider disposed on the first rubber dome and the second rubber dome. The slider presses the upper surface of the first rubber dome, causing deformation of the first rubber dome when the slider is moved toward the first and second rubber domes, and presses the upper surface of the second rubber dome, causing deformation of the second rubber dome when the slider is further moved toward the first and second rubber domes in a state in which the first rubber dome is subjected to the deformation. A thick portion is formed on each side of the second rubber dome so as to increase the thickness on the each side of the second rubber dome. Each side of the second rubber dome is in a direction in which the first and second rubber domes are aligned.
US11139116B2
A gel electrolytic capacitor that can further improve withstand voltage is provided. The gel electrolytic capacitor includes: an anode foil; a cathode foil; and a gel electrolyte disposed between the anode foil and the cathode foil. The gel electrolyte consists of a polymer having three-dimensional (3D) network structure and an electrolyte solution held in said polymer. The polymer is formed by polymerizing 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate or methacrylic acid. The electrolyte solution includes amines or quaternary cyclic amidinium.
US11139109B2
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of a power transformer are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a transformer comprising a core; a first winding wound around the core; a second winding coaxially wound around the first winding so as to surround the first winding and forming an air gap between the first winding and second winding; and a plate having a relative permeability greater than 1 and less than 25 structured to be inserted into the air gap.
US11139105B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a coil component includes: an element body part 10; a coil 40 embedded within the element body part 10 and constituted by a wound conductive wire; lead wires 44a, 44b that are each extended from the conductive wire and led out from the coil 40, and whose tip parts 46a, 46b are each fixed to a bottom face 22 of the element body part 10; and terminal parts 70a, 70b that are each constituted by the tip part 46a or 46b and a metal member 72a or 72b that is joined to the tip part 46a or 46b on the bottom face 22, and also has an opening 74 or 76 at a position overlapping the tip part 46a or 46b in a direction intersecting the bottom face 22.
US11139101B2
A coil component includes an insulating layer in which a magnetic core is embedded, coil electrodes wound around the magnetic core, external connection pad electrodes that are provided on the upper surface of the insulating layer and are connected to the coil electrodes. Each of the coil electrodes includes a plurality of inner metal pins standing in the insulating layer, a plurality of outer metal pins standing in the insulating layer, a plurality of upper wiring patterns formed on the upper surface of the insulating layer, and a plurality of lower wiring pattern formed on the undersurface of the insulating layer. Each of the pad electrodes is directly connected to the upper end surface of the inner metal pin or the outer metal pin, and has, in plan view, an area larger than that of the single upper wiring pattern or the single lower wiring pattern.
US11139094B2
Provided is a power inductor. The power inductor includes a body, at least one base material disposed within the body, at least one coil pattern disposed on at least one surface of the base material, an insulation layer disposed between the coil pattern and the body, and an external electrode disposed outside the body and connected to the coil pattern. The body includes a magnetic pulverized material and an insulation material.
US11139093B2
The present invention relates to magnetocaloric materials comprising manganese, iron, silicon, phosphorus, nitrogen and optionally boron.
US11139089B2
A conductive paste and method of manufacturing thereof. The conductive paste comprises conductive particles dispersed in an organic medium, the organic medium comprising: (a) a solvent; and (b) a binder comprising a polyester. The conductive paste typically comprises silver and may contain various other additives. A stretchable conductive layer can be formed by curing the conductive paste.
US11139086B2
A customizable thin plate fuel form and reactor core therefor are disclosed. The thin plate fuel will comprise a fuel material embedded within a matrix material, with the entire unit having a coating. The thin plate fuel may be flat or curved and will have flow channels formed within at least the top surface of the fuel plate. The structure of the thin plate fuel will make it easier for coating with Tungsten or any other suitable material that will help contain any byproducts, prevent reactions with the working fluid, and potentially provide structural support to the thin plate fuel.
US11139084B2
The present invention provides an integrated health care surveillance and monitoring system that provides real-time sampling, modeling, analysis, and recommended interventions. The system can be used to monitor infectious and chronic diseases. When faced with outbreak of an infectious disease agent, e.g., influenza virus, the system can identify active cases through pro-active sampling in high risk locations, such as schools or crowded commercial areas. The system can notify appropriate entities, e.g., local, regional and national governments, when an event is detected, thereby allowing for proactive management of a possible outbreak. The system also predicts the best response for deployment of scarce resources.
US11139076B2
Approaches presented herein enable cognitive oral health management. Specifically, data from at least one internet of things (IoT) sensor and data from at least one visual image sensor are collected over time for a user via one or more sensors operatively coupled with one or more personal daily oral care devices as the user is performing a periodic oral care activity with the one or more personal daily oral care devices. Collected data are subjected to cognitive diagnostics to identify abnormalities in a user's oral healthcare regimen and physiological abnormalities within the oral cavity by categorizing data. A report for a medical professional may be generated providing recommendation of potential diagnoses and treatment options.
US11139073B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for personalized care management. The method includes collecting login credentials of a user. The login credentials are checked and the user is authenticated accordingly. Then, user profile of the user is accessed to determine a specific role of the user. Based on the specific role of the user, a user interface is presented on a user device of the user. The user interacts with the user interface by providing at least one voice input including a request. Further, a notification is generated based on the voice input of the user for at least one user. The at least one user provides at least one voice input including a response for the user via a user interface on at least one user device of the at least one user. The response is presented to the user through the user interface.
US11139064B1
A system for generating a body degradation reduction program including a computing device configured to receive at least a degradation marker, retrieve a body degradation profile as a function of the at least a degradation marker, assign the body degradation profile to a degradation category, identify, using the degradation category and the body degradation profile, a plurality of nutrition elements, wherein identifying the plurality of nutrient elements includes calculating a plurality of nutrient amounts as a function of a respective effect of each of a plurality of nutrients on the body degradation profile as a function of the degradation category, identifying the plurality of nutrition elements as a function of the plurality of nutrient amounts, and generate a body degradation reduction program, using the plurality of nutrition elements, wherein the body degradation reduction program includes a frequency and a magnitude of consumption of the plurality of nutrition elements.
US11139058B2
A distributed system can include a server outside of a clinical environment and a connectivity adapter and a plurality of infusion pumps within the clinical environment. The connectivity adapter can receive from the server a location of an update, such as a drug library update or an operational software update, to be delivered to the infusion pumps. The location can be received over a first messaging communication channel of a network, and the update data can be received over a second, data communication channel of the network. The update data can be stored at the connectivity adapter such that it can be sent to the infusion pumps.
US11139055B1
A system, method, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating clinical decision making, and in particular, decision making based on a third party's clinical situation by determining and providing useful, up-to-date information, such as patient-related information to a decision maker. In one embodiment, a user first identifies an information item concerning a patient. Based on that item, a reference pointer, which identifies the information item, is generated. The reference pointer is communicated to the user's mobile device. Subsequently, the user's mobile device receives updates related to the reference pointer.
US11139050B2
Provided are systems and methods for pre-qualification of candidate patient populations. The systems and methods can be are configured for inexpensive, selective, and lightweight procedures that identify patients against desired criteria. In some implementations, willing participants are enrolled in pre-treatment execution of a clinical trial. The participants are issued telemedicine monitoring devices for capturing and reporting health information. For example, non-invasive monitoring devices can be issued to track mobility, exertion, blood pressure, heart rate, brain activity, among other options. The participants can be monitored for time periods similar to actual trial execution phases (e.g., monitoring periods of years can be used) or monitored for any length of time to develop comparable clinical histories for the participants.
US11139049B2
A method comprising causing a simulation machine for molecular dynamic simulation to determine that a topological distance that separates two particles is less than a threshold. The simulation machine includes nodes connected by a network. The nodes collectively representing a volume with each node corresponding to a portion of the simulation space. A topological relationship between the nodes corresponds to spatial relationship thereof in the simulation space. The simulation volume is occupied by particles that interact with each other. The two particles are among these particles. The simulation volume includes node boxes, each of which is handled by one of the nodes. Each of the nodes is implemented as an application specific integrated circuit that includes a combination of first and second hardware elements. The first hardware elements are especially designed to perform pairwise interactions. The second hardware elements operate to provide potentially interacting particles to the first hardware elements.
US11139043B2
Due to design variations, process variations, manufacturing variations, and other factors, memory of a certain type manufactured by one manufacturer often exhibits a unique pattern of performance characteristics relative to the patterns of the same type of performance characteristics exhibited by memory from other manufacturers. A system for identifying counterfeit memory is trained to learn the different patterns of performance characteristics for different manufacturers of memory. Thereafter, the system may analyze the performance of a given memory device to determine whether the memory device has been manufactured by a particular manufacturer. Thus, the system is capable of determining whether the memory device is counterfeit (e.g., has been manufactured by an unexpected manufacturer).
US11139036B2
Using variable voltages to discharge electrons from a memory array during verify recovery operations
Provided are an apparatus, memory device, and method for using variable voltages to discharge electrons from a memory array during verify recovery operations. In response to verifying voltages in memory cells of the non-volatile memory array programmed during a programming pulse applying charges to the storage cells, a memory controller concurrently applies voltages on wordlines of the non-volatile memory array to clear the non-volatile memory array of electrons and applies voltages to the bitlines to perform bitline stabilization.
US11139034B1
Methods, systems, and devices for data-based polarity write operations are described. A write command may cause a set of data to be written to a set of memory cells. To write the set of data, a write operation that applies voltages across the memory cells based on a logic state of data to be written to the memory cells may be used. During a first interval of the write operation, a voltage may be applied across a memory cell based on a logic state of a data bit to be written to the memory cell. During a second interval of the write operation, a voltage may be applied across the memory cell based on an amount of charge conducted by the memory cell during the first interval.
US11139030B1
An apparatus includes a plurality of NAND strings in a block with word lines connected to cells of the NAND strings and select lines connected to select gate transistors of the NAND strings. A plurality of blocks are connected together and selected for operations using a block select signal. A control circuit is configured to, after a read operation of memory cells of the block, hold a block select signal applied to a block select line to select a group of blocks having a same block select line at an on level. The control circuit can further discharge an unselected control gate in the group of blocks from a charged level to a lower level, lower than charged, prior to turning off the block select signal and charge the unselected control gate to a level greater than the lower level after the block select signal transitions from the on level to an off level.
US11139029B2
A programming method for a memory device includes simultaneously starting to program a first plane and a second plane; and bypassing the first plane and keeping programming the second plane when the first plane has been programmed successfully and the second plane has not been programmed successfully yet.
US11139027B1
A method, apparatus and system. The method includes: generating, during a read operation of a memory cell, a mirror current iMir1 at one of a WL node or a BL node of the memory cell opposite, respectively, one of a BL side or a WL side of the memory cell to which a current mode sense circuitry is connected, the iMir1 to reduce a value of the read voltage from VDM1 to VDM2, wherein the read voltage is between the WL node and the BL node; and sensing, using the current mode sense circuitry, a logic state of the memory cell at VDM2.
US11139015B2
An apparatus may include multiple memory devices. Each memory device may include multiple memory banks. Addresses of accessed word lines for a particular portion of memory and the number of times those word lines are accessed may be tracked by each memory device. When a memory device determines that an accessed word line is an aggressor word line, the memory device alerts other memory devices of the apparatus. The memory devices may then perform targeted refresh operations on victim word lines of the aggressor word line.
US11139013B2
Methods, systems, and devices for enabling fast pulse operation are described. A threshold voltage of a selection component and a requisite duration for a voltage applied to a selection component to reach a threshold voltage in response to a voltage generated by an external source may be determined. The threshold voltage may correspond to a voltage at which the selection component is configured to release electric charge. A voltage may then be generated and applied to an access line that is in electronic communication with the selection component and a memory cell for at least the requisite duration. Electric charge may be stored at the selection component during the requisite duration and transferred to memory cell after the requisite duration.
US11139008B2
A memory device includes a command interface configured to receive a write command and internal write adjust (IWA) circuitry. The IWA circuitry is configured to receive the write command from the command interface, generate an internal write signal (IWS) based upon the received write command and train a data strobe (DQS) signal to generate a DQS signal having a set amount of phase alignment with a clock (CLK) of the memory device to capture a data signal (DQ) using the IWS.
US11139006B1
A self-biased sense amplification circuit includes a local bit line, a reset unit, a main bit lie, a pre-amplifier, a data line, a sample reference unit, and a sense amplifier. The local bit line receives a cell current generated by a memory cell during a sense operation. The reset unit resets the local bit line to a first system voltage during a sample operation. The pre-amplifier generates a read current on the main bit line according to a voltage of the local bit line during the sample operation and the sense operation. The data line is coupled to the main bit line. The sample reference unit generates a first reference current and a second reference current during the sample operation, and generates the first reference current during the sense operation. The sense amplifier senses a voltage of the data line.
US11139003B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a memory cell device includes at least one memory cell; a first switch connected between the at least one memory cell and a reference potential node; a second switch connected between the at least one memory cell and the reference potential node, and switch driver logic adapted to put the first switch selectively into one of at least three operating states by activation or deactivation of a first subcircuit of the switch driver logic, wherein the at least three operating states comprises an on state, an off state, and a conductive state in which an electrical conductivity of the first switch is lower than in the on state and higher than in the off state, and put the second switch selectively into one of the at least three operating states by activation or deactivation of a second subcircuit of the switch driver logic.
US11139000B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide an apparatus that includes interface circuitry and processing circuitry. The interface circuitry is configured to receive signals carrying metadata that associates a region of interest in a first visual view provided by a first visual track with the first visual track and a second visual track that provides a second visual view that is a part of the first visual view. The processing circuitry is configured to parse the metadata, determine, when the region of interest is selected, the second visual track to provide visual data, and generate images for the region of interest based on the visual data from the second visual track.
US11138999B2
A playback method of reading out and playing streams from a recording medium is provided in which are recorded a stream file, a playlist file, first and second combination information, elementary streams that can be played at the same time with the first luminance video, and elementary streams that can be played at the same time with the second luminance video. The playback method includes in a case of playing the first luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the first combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the first luminance video, and in a case of playing the second luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the second combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the second luminance video.
US11138990B1
A headset that can detect the voice activity of a user includes an inner microphone generating an inner microphone signal; an outer microphone generating an outer microphone signal, wherein the inner microphone and outer microphone are positioned such that, when the headset is worn by a user, the inner microphone is disposed nearer to the user's head; and a voice-activity detector determining a sign of a phase difference between the inner microphone signal and the outer microphone signal and generating a voice activity detection signal representing a user's voice activity when the sign of the phase difference indicates that the outer microphone received an audio signal after the inner microphone received the audio signal.
US11138986B2
A method for filtering a sound signal acquired by a voice recognition system is proposed wherein the filter used to delete the unwanted sound signal is based on a noise model created from a history of preceding acquisitions of the sound signal. The method is based on the history for predicting the characteristics of the signal in the course of acquisition and relies on this prediction to establish the noise model used by the filtering function.
US11138985B1
A voice interaction architecture has a hands-free, electronic voice controlled assistant that permits users to verbally request information from cloud services. The voice controlled assistant may be positioned in a room to receive voice commands from the user. The voice controlled assistant may also pick up background sources of speech, music, or other noise, such as from a television or stereo system, which may adversely impact the user's intended vocal input to the assistant. The assistant transmits the aggregated audio data (user command and background noise) over a network to the cloud services, which implements noise cancellation functionality to remove the background noise while isolating and preserving the user's command. Once isolated, the cloud serves can process and interpret the user input to perform some function, and return the response over the network to the voice controlled assistant for audible output to the user.
US11138980B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving audio signals representative of speech via multiple audio streams transmitted from corresponding multiple distributed devices, performing, via a neural network model, continuous speech separation for one or more of the received audio signals having overlapped speech, and providing the separated speech on a fixed number of separate output audio channels.
US11138978B2
A method and system of automatically identifying topics of a conversation are provided. An electronic data package comprising a sequence of utterances between conversation entities is received by a computing device. Each utterance is classified to a corresponding social action. One or more utterances in the sequence are grouped into a segment based on a deep learning model. A similarity of topics between adjacent segments is determined. Upon determining that the similarity is above a predetermined threshold, the adjacent segments are grouped together. A transcript of the conversation including the grouping of the adjacent segments is stored in a memory.
US11138977B1
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for determining device groupings, or clusters, for multiple voice-enabled devices. The device clusters may be determined based on metadata data for audio signals (or audio data) generated by each of the multiple voice-enabled devices. For example, a remote system may analyze timestamp data for the audio signals received from the devices, and determine that the devices detected the same voice command of a user based on the timestamp data indicating that the audio signals were received within a threshold period of time from each other. Additionally, the remote system may analyze other metadata of the audio data, such as signal-to-noise (SNR) values, and determine that the SNR values are within a threshold value. The remote system may determine device clusters for the voice-enabled devices of a user based on these, and potentially other, types of metadata of the audio signals.
US11138974B2
Techniques for configuring a speech processing system with a privacy mode that is associated with the identity of a user that activated the privacy mode are described. A user may speak an indication to have the speech processing system activate a privacy mode. When such an indication is detected by the speech processing system, the speech processing system determines an identity of the user, determines a unique system identifier associated with the user, and generates a privacy mode flag. The speech processing system then associates the privacy mode flag with the user's unique system identifier. The privacy mode flag indicates to components of the speech processing system that any data related to processing of the user's utterances should not be sent to long term storage, thus causing various components of the system to delete data once the respective component is finished processing with respect to an utterance of the user.
US11138966B2
A method for generating an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model using unsupervised learning includes obtaining, by a device, text information. The method includes determining, by the device, a set of phoneme sequences associated with the text information. The method includes obtaining, by the device, speech waveform data. The method includes determining, by the device, a set of phoneme boundaries associated with the speech waveform data. The method includes generating, by the device, the ASR model using an output distribution matching (ODM) technique based on determining the set of phoneme sequences associated with the text information and based on determining the set of phoneme boundaries associated with the speech waveform data.
US11138965B2
A technique for estimating phonemes for a word written in a different language is disclosed. A sequence of graphemes of a given word in a source language is received. The sequence of the graphemes in the source language is converted into a sequence of phonemes in the source language. One or more sequences of phonemes in a target language are generated from the sequence of the phonemes in the source language by using a neural network model. One sequence of phonemes in the target language is determined for the given word. Also, technique for estimating graphemes of a word from phonemes in a different language is disclosed.
US11138956B2
A method for controlling display of a terminal, an electronic device and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. A target object is determined in a first display scenario, where the first display scenario contains display content of at least two objects. The number of times display content of a first object being prevented from being displayed in a predetermined period is obtained. If the number of times reaches a preset threshold corresponding to the first display scenario, the display of the display content of the first object is blocked in the first display scenario.
US11138949B2
An Information Handling System (IHS) includes a foldable display and is configured to determine a posture of the IHS based on the angle that the display is folded. The folded display is divided into first and second screen portions. Changes in the posture of the IHS are detected and the content and orientation of the content to display in the respective screen portions is determined. A gap is displayed along the fold of the foldable display, where the gap separates the screen portions along the fold. The width of the gap separating the screen portions may be determined based on the angle that the foldable display is folded and/or based on various additional aspects of the current posture of the IHS.
US11138945B2
The present disclosure provides a source driver module for driving a display panel. The source drive module includes a source driver circuit, a first conductive wire and a first switch unit. The first conductive wire is electrically connected to the source driver circuit. The first switch unit is connected between the first conductive wire and a first data line of the display panel to conduct current therebetween during a first data outputting period and a second data outputting period, and to interrupt current therebetween during a first switch-off period connecting the first data outputting period and the second data outputting period. The source driver circuit outputs a first voltage signal during the first data outputting period and the first switch-off period; it outputs a second voltage signal during the second data outputting period; and it outputs the first voltage signal during the first switch-off period.
US11138942B2
The present disclosure provides a driving method of a display module, a driving system thereof, and a display device. The driving method of the display module includes a display panel driving process, and a backlight module driving process driven synchronously with the display panel driving process. The display panel driving process includes steps: performing a color saturation adjustment; and obtaining second color signals to drive the display panel. The backlight module driving process includes steps: obtaining a first light source adjustment coefficient and a second light source adjustment coefficient; obtaining a second brightness value and a third brightness value; and driving the primary hue light source and the secondary by the second brightness value and the third brightness value respectively.
US11138939B2
Embodiments of the application provide a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and display apparatus, which is capable of outputting signals of positive and negative pulse waveforms using a simplified circuit design.
US11138933B2
A display device and an operating method of the display device are provided. The display device includes a first light emitting diode (LED), a first switch, a second switch, a second LED, a third switch, and a first controller. A first terminal of the first switch receives a first electrical signal. A first terminal of the second switch receives a second electrical signal. A first terminal of the third switch receives a third electrical signal. Here, whether the first switch, the second switch, and the third switch are switched on or off is determined by whether the first LED and the second LED are damaged or not. The first controller is configured to detect whether the first LED and the second LED are damaged or not, generate the second electrical signal and the electrical signal, and generate a plurality of control signals controlling the first switch to the third switch.
US11138924B1
A driving circuit for driving a light emitting unit includes a driving transistor, a compensating transistor, and a switch transistor is provided. The driving transistor includes a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal. The compensating transistor includes a gate terminal electrically connected to the gate terminal of the driving transistor, a source terminal, and a drain terminal electrically connected to the gate terminal of the driving transistor. The switch transistor includes a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal electrically connected to the source terminal of the compensating transistor.
US11138915B2
Apparatus and methods for displaying an image by a rotating structure are provided. The rotating structure can comprise blades of a fan. The fan can be a cooling fan for an electronics device such as an augmented reality display. In some embodiments, the rotating structure comprises light sources that emit light to generate the image. The light sources can comprises light-field emitters. In other embodiments, the rotating structure is illuminated by an external (e.g., non-rotating) light source.
US11138913B2
The present invention provides a static display along with manufacturing processes of the said static display. The static display comprises two or three distorted images adapted on a corrugated sheet in the form of segments in such a way that only one or two images are distinctly visible at a predetermined angle at a time due to optical illusion created as the spaces of the corrugations are not visible when the display of the present invention is viewed at the predetermined angle.
US11138912B2
A bendable computing device can operate in a single display region mode when the device is in an unbent posture and can operate in a multiple display region mode when the device is in a bent posture. The multiple display region mode subdivides the bendable screen of the bendable computing device into a first display region and a second display region. When operating in the multiple display region mode, the bendable computing device can display an artificial hardware seam between the first display region and the second display region. User input gestures originating at the artificial hardware seam or terminating at the artificial hardware seam can be utilized to provide various types of functionality. Various types of functionality can also be provided when the bendable computing device detects that it has transitioned from an unbent posture to a bent posture or from a bent posture to an unbent posture.
US11138908B2
A component for a fluidic circuit is provided with at least one tubular portion extending around an axis and with at least one annular identifying band, which is coupled to the tubular portion.
US11138906B2
A breastfeeding simulation system (BSS). The BSS includes a breast prosthesis having a pliable nipple, and a baby mannequin configured to interface with the breast prosthesis, the baby mannequin includes an articulating head, a motorized jaw, the articulating head further includes a mouth normally placed in a closed position by the motorized jaw, where the motorized jaw opens when an object is detected near the mouth and the baby mannequin is positioned according to a predetermined angular position, and a palate sensor, configured to provide a proper placement signal when the pliable nipple is placed at a predetermined position.
US11138903B2
The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, a device and a system for sign language translation, where a server receives video information sent by a terminal device, and preprocesses the video information to obtain at least one sign language action; the at least one sign language action is input into a sign language model for classification and prediction to obtain a word corresponding to the at least one sign language action; each word is input into a language model to determine whether an intention expression is complete; and each word is sent to the terminal device when the intention expression is complete, so that the terminal device displays each word, thereby realizing the translation of the sign language action into text, enabling the ordinary persons to better understand intentions of the hearing impaired, thus improving efficiency of communications.
US11138902B2
An incident simulation system supports an incident exercise in a virtual environment. The incident simulation system accesses a simulation plan defining an incident within a theater of operation. The incident simulation system simulates the incident exercise by displaying, to a participant in the incident exercise, images representing what the participant would see within the theater of operation as the participant moves within the theater of operation. The incident simulation system further simulates the incident by generating incident data indicating effects of the incident at target locations and at target times as the participant moves within the theater of operation. The incident simulation system further simulates the incident by displaying to the participant images representing the user experience that a detector would provide based on the generated incident data.
US11138895B2
In certain implementations, creation of an educational test may be facilitated based on prior performance with individual test questions. A user input indicating a subject matter for a test, one or more question categories related to the subject matter, and a questionee group for which the test is intended may be received. A plurality of questions may be obtained based on the user input. For each question of the plurality of questions, a question performance metric value associated with the question (that is calculated based on prior performance of one or more questionees with the question) may be obtained. A test performance metric value associated with the test may be calculated based on the question performance metric values associated with at least some questions of the plurality of questions. The at least some questions and the test performance metric value may be provided for presentation on a user interface.
US11138894B1
A system for educational learning importation includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive a selection of educational information. The selection of educational information is made from a combined set of search results based at least in part on searching a real time source and a static source. The processor is configured to determine whether the educational information is allowed to be imported; in the event that the educational information is allowed to be imported, determine whether it is selected to import the educational information; in the event that the educational information is selected to import the educational information, import the educational information; and provide the educational information.
US11138890B2
The present invention may receive a plurality of unlock instructions based on determining a location is secured from access by the drone. The present invention may use the plurality of received unlock instructions to access the location with an access device while determining the drone is present at the drop off location. The present invention may use the plurality of received unlock instructions to re-secure the location with the access device when determining successful delivery of a package by the drone, and may monitor a security of the location.
US11138883B2
A communication system for vehicles includes a first communication device disposed at a first vehicle and a second communication device disposed at a second vehicle. The first communication device wirelessly transmits data indicative of a predicted path of travel of the first vehicle, and the second communication device receives the transmitted data from the first communication device. An ECU of the second vehicle processes data received from the first communication device and data indicative of a predicted path of travel of the second vehicle to determine a potential collision between the first vehicle and the second vehicle during a turning maneuver of the first vehicle toward the second vehicle. Responsive to determination of potential collision between the first vehicle and the second vehicle, the ECU controls braking and/or steering of the second vehicle.
US11138882B2
A vehicle-to-X communication system for use in a vehicle, including a first communication interface which is configured to receive a first signal from at least one satellite, a second communication interface which is configured to receive a second signal from at least one environment object, and a controller which is configured to determine a quality of the first signal. The controller is further configured to generate a signal for controlling an output unit of the vehicle depending on the determined quality of the first signal and of the second signal in order to issue warning information about the at least one environment object.
US11138873B1
Systems and techniques are described for identifying, monitoring, and sharing vehicle information amongst sensors. In some implementations, a system includes a central server and a plurality of sensors. The plurality of sensors are positioned in a fixed location relative to a roadway. Each sensor in the plurality of sensors is configured to: detect vehicles in a first field of view on the roadway. For each detected vehicle, each sensor is configured to identify features of the detected vehicle and perform operations for each feature. The operations include generating feature data representing the feature, generating a unique identification of the detected vehicle from the detected vehicles by concatenating the feature data representing the identified features of the detected vehicle, and adding the unique identification to a list.
US11138872B2
An Intelligent Transportation System, ITS, service station is disclosed. The ITS service station has: a receiver, having an area of radio coverage, configured to receive a first Collective Perception Message, CPM, from a first ITS station at a first position within the coverage area, the first CPM including first sensor data on an object perceived by the first ITS station; an aggregator connected to the receiver and configured to aggregate said first sensor data with at least one second sensor data on the same object into a third sensor data, which second sensor data either is received via the receiver in a second CPM from a second ITS station at a second position within the coverage area perceiving the same object or is determined by a sensor of the ITS service station perceiving the same object; and a transmitter configured to broadcast said third sensor data in a third CPM.
US11138857B2
Described here is a portable sensor for detecting a loss of balance consisting of an accelerometer, a gyroscope, an alerting signal module and a smart device in communication with a microcontroller. Also described is a wearable postural sensor for protecting a user from a fall-related injury consisting of a microcontroller, an integrated motion processing module, an alerting signal module, a smart device and an optional safety device such as an air bag. Also described is a method for preventing a fall and a fall-related injury by monitoring realtime changes in the rotation angle, planar rotation or sway velocity of the postural sensor.
US11138855B2
A variety of methods, medical devices, responder network servers, emergency services interfaces and call center related processes are described that can help improve responder networks designed to get a medical device such as an automated external defibrillator and/or volunteer responders to the scene of a potential medical incident.
US11138844B2
An artificial intelligence apparatus is provided. The artificial intelligence apparatus includes: a communication interface configured to receive status information from an IoT device; and a processor configured to detect whether the IoT device is stolen based on the received state information, acquire position information of the IoT device when theft of the IoT device is detected, control the communication interface to transmit the acquired position information to a mobile terminal, receive a theft process execution command request of the IoT device from the mobile terminal, and transmit a theft process execution command corresponding to the received theft process execution request to the IoT device.
US11138835B1
A method, system, and computer readable storage to implement a skill based video game wagering system. Different video games can be implemented, and within each video game, a player's skill can affect the award model that is initiated when the player takes an action to earn an award (e.g., successfully destroying a target). Upon each award model being initiated, a credit cost is deducted from the player's credit meter, and then award model is activated which can generate an award, or a value of zero which is a loss for the player.
US11138832B2
A game system includes a receiver that receives an input of setting information related to the use of a service for an electronic money payment from a player when the service is used; a reader that reads electronic money information from a recording medium; a payment unit that makes a payment corresponding to the setting information received from the player by using the electronic money information read from the recording medium; and a setting information recorder that records first setting information input by the player. When the service is used, a screen for receiving the input of the first setting information from the player is generated when the first setting information is recorded in the setting information recorder, and a screen for receiving the input of second setting information from the player is generated when the first setting information is not recorded in the setting information recorder.
US11138820B1
An unlocking method for an electronic lock includes capturing an environmental background outside of the electronic lock by a person. An environmental background feature is used to create an authenticated environmental background feature information and is saved in an authenticated environmental background feature database. At least one facial feature is set as an authenticated facial feature and is saved in an authenticated facial feature database. A real-time unlocking information is inputted by the person and analyzed to obtain the facial feature of the person and an environmental background feature. The authenticated electronic lock remains in a locking state when the environmental background feature cannot be not obtained. The electronic lock is unlocked only when the facial feature matches with the authenticated facial feature and the environmental background feature matches with the authenticated environmental background feature.
US11138807B1
A system for producing extended-reality images for a display apparatus. The system includes camera(s) and processor communicably coupled to camera(s), wherein processor is configured to: control camera(s) to capture image(s) representing test object present in real-world environment, wherein test object is physically covered three-dimensionally with coded pattern; obtain information pertaining to three-dimensional geometry of coded pattern; analyze image(s) to identify first image segment representing part of coded pattern visible in image(s); determine virtual content to be presented for test object, based on said part of coded pattern; process image(s) to generate extended-reality image(s) in which virtual content is virtually superimposed over said part of the coded pattern, based on information pertaining to three-dimensional geometry of coded pattern.
US11138806B1
Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to a workstation computing system(s) (“workstation”) that receives camera pose data from a camera(s) disposed on a first headset device. The workstation receives camera image data comprising one or more images portraying a current view of the camera. The workstation generates a rendering of the 3D model of medical data for display within a composite image. The workstation generates one or more portions of the composite image based on the camera image data. The workstation generates and displays a composite image to include simultaneous and contiguous portrayal of the rendering of the 3D model of medical data with the one or more portions based on the camera image data.
US11138803B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, scanning, by an augmented reality system, a local environment which includes an object. The scanning includes identifying one or more characteristics of the object such as its size or shape. The subject disclosure may further include providing, to a display device of a local user in the local environment, local image information of the object from a viewing perspective of the local user and providing, to a display device of a remote user in a remote environment, remote image information of the object from a viewing perspective of the remote user. The subject disclosure may further include detecting a local user interaction with the object, detecting a release of control of the object by the local user to control of the object by the remote user, and providing updated local image information of the object to the display device of the local user and providing updated remote image information to the display device of the remote user based on the release of control of the object. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11138797B2
An XR device for providing an augmented reality (AR) mode and a virtual reality (VR) mode and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The XR device is applicable to 5G communication technology, robot technology, autonomous driving technology, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. It is disclosed that the XR device that displays a virtual clothes item to the user's appearance in the mirror when the user selects the virtual item among the fitting items displayed while the user wears the XR device in front of a mirror.
US11138795B2
In a situation where a capturing device is capturing a first image of a scene comprising a display device displaying a second image, a salient idea is to send both the captured first image and the second image, being displayed by the display device to a processing device, for comparatively processing the first and the second image to determine a characteristic associated with the display device. Being able to process the first image (comprising a displayed second image) together with the original second image advantageously allows to determine various characteristics associated with the display device that altered the displayed second image within the first image, making it different from the initial second image. Characteristics associated with the display device are for example a specular reflection occurring on the display device in the scene and disturbing the capture of the scene.
US11138791B2
A computer-implemented method that allows users to upload a set of two-dimensional images for evaluation using different virtual reality methods. The disclosed method allows the user to select one aspect of an image, see the corresponding image highlighted, and manipulate the corresponding image.
US11138788B2
A three-dimensional model creator creates individual models indicative of individual shapes of at least two objects from an integrated model created based on data obtained by imaging or measuring the objects together. The three-dimensional model creator creates a plurality of division models by dividing the integrated model with extension planes obtained by extending surfaces that define the integrated model, identifies two-dimensional regions in which the objects exist individually, based on the obtained data, tags the division models based on projections of the division models and the two-dimensional regions, and creates the individual models of the objects from the tagged division models.
US11138780B2
A method for setting a multi-user virtual reality chat environment. The method adjusts a distance between avatars of participants in the VR chat scene from a first distance to a second distance according to detected volume received from the participants.
US11138779B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display controller configured to group dipole estimation results with the same direction out of dipole estimation results of a signal source corresponding to part of biological data indicating a chronological change of a biological signal and display the grouped dipole estimation results in a manner superimposed on a plurality of biological tomographic images sliced in a predetermined direction. The display controller is configured to, when displaying a non-grouped dipole estimation result, display the non-grouped dipole estimation result in a different color or form from a color or a form of the grouped dipole estimation results depending on a direction of the dipole estimation result.
US11138777B2
The present application provides a mixed reality interaction method, an apparatus, and a storage medium, where the method includes obtaining position information of a real object in space in real time through a positioning chip disposed in the real object, and controlling, according to the position information of the real object, a virtual object in an augmented reality AR scenario to move in the AR scenario according to a moving track of the real object. The technical solution allows an object in the real world and an object in the virtual world seen by a user to be synchronized, thereby improving the user experience.
US11138764B2
To provide an image processing device which is user-friendly and is able to acquire an optimum image in which a user's intention is reflected based on various kinds of parameter setting by the user, the image processing device includes: a combination processing unit configured to combine a visible-light image signal and an infrared-light image signal to generate a combined image signal, and a parameter setting unit configured to set a parameter other than combination ratios of the visible-light image signal and the infrared-light image signal in the combined image signal. The combination processing unit changes the combination ratio in accordance with a change in the parameter when the parameter setting unit changes the parameter.
US11138756B2
A 3D object detection method includes: obtaining two-dimensional (2D) coordinates of at least one predetermined key point of a target object in an image to be processed; constructing a pseudo 3D detection body of the target object in a 2D space according to the 2D coordinates of the at least one predetermined key point; obtaining depth information of a plurality of vertices of the pseudo 3D detection body; and determining a 3D detection body of the target object in a 3D space according to the depth information of the plurality of vertices of the pseudo 3D detection body.
US11138733B2
Automated image analysis used in vascular state modeling. Coronary vasculature in particular is modeled in some embodiments. Methods of “virtual revascularization” of a presently stenotic vasculature are described; useful, for example, as a reference in disease state determinations. Structure and uses of a model which relates records comprising acquired images or other structured data to a vascular tree representation are described.
US11138729B2
Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI data and dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI data for a volume of the patient's body including a tumor are used in order to identify the risk of lymph node metastasis. A volume of interest enclosing the tumor is identified and the MRI data for the volume of interest is processed in order to identify one or more parameters relating to the transverse relaxation rate and/or to dynamic changes in the transverse relaxation rate. A comparison is made to previously obtained similar parameters for other patients having similar tumors that are either known to exhibit lymph node metastasis or are known not to exhibit lymph node metastasis in order to determine if the MRI data indicates that the patient has a tumor at greater risk of exhibiting lymph node metastasis or a tumor with a lesser risk of exhibiting lymph node metastasis.
US11138728B2
A computer-implemented method determines a geometric feature of a section of a blood vessel in an operating region. An image of the section is provided. An adapted blood vessel model is provided via image processing for the section by adapting a blood vessel model, which describes the section as a flow channel with a wall delimiting the latter and with an axis of symmetry. A centerline of the section of the blood vessel is determined as a contiguous pixel line. A relative spatial position of the side of the wall is ascertained based on the centerline and the image provided. The geometric feature is derived from the adapted blood vessel model. The disclosure also relates to a method for determining the length of a contiguous pixel line in an image and a system for determining a geometric feature of a section of an object.
US11138724B2
Neural network classification may be performed by inputting a training data set into each of a plurality of first neural networks, the training data set including a plurality of samples, obtaining a plurality of output value sets from the plurality of first neural networks, each output value set including a plurality of output values corresponding to one of the plurality of samples, each output value being output from a corresponding first neural network in response to the inputting of one of the samples of the training data set, inputting the plurality of output value sets into a second neural network, and training the second neural network to output an expected result corresponding to each sample in response to the inputting of a corresponding output value set.
US11138720B2
Described is a computer-implemented method for recognizing the geometry of a portion of an object in a digital representation of the object having a plurality of image points representing at least one material interface of the object. The method comprises determining and displaying the object representation, receiving a user input specifying a first position in the object representation as a starting point, determining a first set of image points in the vicinity of the starting point representing the geometry of the portion of the starting point, determining a checking geometry on the basis of the first set of image points by adapting at least one geometry element to the first set of image points, determining a second set of image points in the vicinity of the starting point representing the geometry of the portion of the checking geometry, inserting the second set of image points into and displaying a target set of image points.
US11138716B2
An X-ray inspection apparatus 1 includes a calculation unit that calculates a luminance conversion function of matching or approximating a first output value of a first element 11a based on a first transmission image G1 to a second output value of a second element 12a based on a second transmission image G2 of the second element disposed to face the first element 11a, for each of a plurality of the first elements 11a and a plurality of the second elements 12a; and a correction unit that corrects at least one of the first output value of each of the first elements 11a and the second output value of each of the second elements 12a based on the luminance conversion function calculated by the calculation unit.
US11138714B2
A system detects an object being viewed through a visual recognition system, the object having an associated expiration date. The system determines a caloric content associated with the object. The system assesses caloric consumption needs of at least one consumer. The system determines a likelihood of consumption of the object by the consumer based on the caloric content of the object, the caloric consumption needs of the consumer, and the expiration date of the object. The system is displayed as a gradient on a display device as an overlay associated with the object, the gradient representing a changing likelihood of total consumption of the object by the consumer over a period of time.
US11138712B2
An object identification method is disclosed. The method includes obtaining images of a target geographical area and telemetry information of an image-collection vehicle at a time of capture, analyzing each image to identify objects, and determining a position of the objects. The method further includes determining an image capture height, determining a position of the image using the capture height and the telemetry information, performing a transform on the image based on the capture height and the telemetry information, identifying the objects in the transformed image, determining first pixel locations of the objects within the transformed image, performing a reverse transform on the first pixel locations to determine second pixel locations in the image, and determining positions of the objects within the area based on the second pixel locations within the captured image and the determined image position.
US11138707B2
A method for processing multiple images according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise the operations of: acquiring multiple images by using multiple cameras; extracting image information for each of the acquired multiple images; preprocessing the multiple images on the basis of the extracted image information, and generating parameters corresponding to the multiple images, respectively; selecting one or more images required according to a zoom magnification among the acquired multiple images; and applying parameters corresponding to the selected one or more images and performing image processing. Other embodiments are possible.
US11138701B2
An image processing method includes acquiring an image in a chrominance-luminance separation color mode; performing scene recognition of the image to determine a scene of the image; traversing luminance components of respective pixel points in the image, and generating a luminance distribution of the image according to a traversing result of the luminance components; generating a luminance mapping relation based on a standard luminance distribution corresponding to the scene of the image and the luminance distribution of the image; and adjusting the luminance components of the respective pixel points in the image according to the luminance mapping relation to generate a first processed image.
US11138699B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that utilize context-aware sensors and multi-dimensional gesture inputs across a digital image to generate enhanced digital images. In particular, the disclosed systems can provide a dynamic sensor over a digital image within a digital enhancement user interface (e.g., a user interface without visual elements for modifying parameter values). In response to selection of a sensor location, the disclosed systems can determine one or more digital image features at the sensor location. Based on these features, the disclosed systems can select and map parameters to movement directions. Moreover, the disclosed systems can identify a user input gesture comprising movements in one or more directions across the digital image. Based on the movements and the one or more features at the sensor location, the disclosed systems can modify parameter values and generate an enhanced digital image.
US11138696B2
A process improves accuracy in mapping geodetic coordinates to image sensor coordinates via an image rational function. The image rational function is fitted to an image-to ground sensor model at an input grid of image u coordinates and image v coordinates, and further at geodetic longitudes, geodetic latitudes, and geodetic heights corresponding to the image u coordinates and the image v coordinates. This fitting generates fit residuals. The fit residuals are stored as a function of the image u coordinates, the image v coordinates, and the geodetic height coordinates. The fit residuals are applied to metadata associated with the image rational function. This application corrects for a residual error in a fit of the image rational function to the image-to-ground sensor model.
US11138695B2
The present disclosure provides a method for video processing. The method includes: obtaining a current image frame and a previous image frame in a video to be processed based on a preset sampling frequency value; obtaining a first skin tone weight map of the current image frame and a second skin tone weight map of the previous image frame; superimposing the first skin tone weight map and the second skin tone weight map to obtain a third skin tone weight map; and superimposing a first luminance map of the current image frame and a second luminance map based on the third skin tone weight map to obtain a second image. The first luminance map is a luminance map of the current image frame, and the second luminance map is a map obtained after the first luminance map is smoothed.
US11138691B2
A terminal for receiving streaming data may receive information of a plurality of different quality versions of an image content; request, based on the information, a server for a version of the image content from among the plurality of different quality versions of the image content; when the requested version of the image content and artificial intelligence (AI) data corresponding to the requested version of the image content are received, determines whether to perform AI upscaling on the received version of the image content, based on the AI data; and based on a result of the determining whether to perform AI upscaling, performs AI upscaling on the received version of the image content through a upscaling deep neural network (DNN) that is trained jointly with a downscaling DNN of the server.
US11138680B1
Notifying customers of available efficiencies via updates to electronic menus, personal notifications, etc. is described herein. As an example, a computing system can receive a first request indicating that an item that is offered for sale by a merchant that has been requested by a customer and can determine an efficiency associated with combining the first request with a second request from another customer. Such an efficiency, for example, can comprise sharing an item on a menu or preparing multiple items together instead of individually. The computing system can notify, in near real-time and based at least partly on determining the efficiency associated with combining the first request and the second request, at least the other customer about the efficiency. In some examples, the other customer can be notified via an update to the electronic menu, a personal notification to a user computing device, etc.
US11138677B2
An online agricultural system manages and optimizes interactions of entities within the system to enable the execution of transaction and the transportation of crop products. The online agricultural system accesses historic and environmental data describing factors that may impact crop product transactions and/or transportation to determine market prices for crop products and crop product transportation. Responsive to receiving a request from an entity, the online agricultural system determines an optimal transaction for the entity, such as a price for selling a crop product, an available crop product for purchase, or a transportation opportunity to transport a crop product.
US11138675B1
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for preparing an electronic tax return in which a supporting document is associated with a specific form field of the tax return and attached to the tax return. The system displays a tax data input screen for a user to input tax data for a current form field of the tax return being worked on. The system determines that a supporting document is required for the current form field and displays an attach document command. When a user selects the command, the system displays a file selection function. The system receives a selection of a document file selected using the file selection function and automatically associates the selected document file with the current form field and uses metadata related to the form field to assign a document description to the selected document file.
US11138674B2
Utilizing machine learning models to automatically perform actions that maintain a plan for an event
A device receives, from a user device, plan information that identifies a plan for an event and includes information identifying an account associated with the plan, plan items of the plan, and priorities and preferences associated with the plan items, where the user device is associated with a user of the account and the plan. The device receives transaction information identifying transactions associated with the account, and processes the plan information and the transaction information, with a first model, to identify transactions related to the plan. The device processes information associated with the particular plan item, the plan information, and the transaction information, with a second model, to determine recommendations for the plan, where the information associated with the particular plan item includes information identifying a priority and a preference associated with the particular plan item. The device provides information indicating the recommendations to the user device.
US11138670B2
An insurance verification system and methods for verifying insurance information are provided. The insurance verification system includes an insurance verification (IV) device. The IV computing device includes including a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The processor is programmed to receive vehicle user information from a client device, generate an insurance information request including at least a portion of the vehicle user information, transmit the insurance information request to at least one insurance provider computing device, and receive a response from the insurance provider computing device. The response indicates whether or not an insurance profile associated with the vehicle user information is stored at the insurance provider computing device.
US11138667B2
An example computer-implemented method includes retrieving, by at least one processor, one or more first data structures pertaining to a current state of a financial portfolio of a first user, one or more second data structures pertaining to one or more historical and/or current states of a financial market, one or more third data structures pertaining to one or more predictions regarding one or more financial assets of the financial market, and one or more fourth data structures pertaining to the first user's preferences with respect to the financial portfolio. The method also includes determining, by the at least one processor, one or more transactions to be conducted on the financial market based on the first, second, third, and fourth data structures. The method also includes executing, by the at least one processor, the one or more transactions.
US11138661B2
Implementations of various methods and systems to transform agriculture units with two waypoints or a destination waypoint or a series sequence of waypoints into objects which have associated price-time priority queues for transformed agriculture units. The present disclosed invention relates to combining the concepts of objected oriented programming, market price queues, agriculture, navigation systems and social networking and transportation as a fungible asset class or agriculture linked to transportation as an open market.
US11138656B2
A mobile application to conduct an auction based on physical presence is provided. The mobile application may be provided by a system comprising one or more modules. A notification module may identify an item to be sold at an auction. If a pre-auction window time period has arrived, the notification module may transmit auction notification messages to a plurality of client devices located within a predefined geographical area. A bidding module may conduct the auction by providing an auction interface to the client devices within the predefined geographical area. The auction interface includes an option to bid on the item. A completion module may transmit a confirmation to a winning auction participant.
US11138649B2
A server receives a description of an item from a first computing device. The server determines attributes of the item based on the description of the item. The server identifies a geographic region based on the attributes of the item. The server identifies a second computing device that is located in the geographic region and generates a first query to the second computing device. The server receives additional item data based on a physical presence of the item in the geographic region from the second computing device. The server updates attributes data of the item in the database with the additional item data received from the second computing device.
US11138644B2
A commerce system includes an EC server connecting to a user terminal and executes E-commerce, a customs clearance authentication server that administers pre-customs clearance information, and an administration server connected to the customs clearance authentication server and the EC server. The administration server receives a registration request including product information regarding a product, transmits the registration request to the customs clearance authentication server, receives pre-customs clearance information regarding the product from the customs clearance authentication server, and notifies the pre-customs clearance information to the EC server. The customs clearance authentication server generates pre-customs clearance information based on product information, in response to a request from the EC server, and transmits generated pre-customs clearance information to the administration server. The EC server transmits the received pre-customs clearance information along with product information to the user terminal, and accepts, from the user terminal, an instruction to circulate the product specified via customs.
US11138634B2
A gig parking system is provided with a mobile platform having a secure access mechanism permitting a trusted parking agent to gain control over the platform. The platform may include a location subsystem to determine the geographic location of the platform and a communications subsystem to transmit verification information including an identification code associated with the parking agent, an identification code associated with the vehicle, and geographic location. A parking software application may permit the selection the destination parking location from a plurality of potential destination parking locations, which may have weighted values with a corresponding reward, and which may be given to either, or both, the platform owner and the parking agent. The reward may be based upon additional factors, such as vehicle starting parking location, distance between starting and destination parking locations, travel time between starting and destination parking locations, time of day, and day of the week.
US11138621B2
A multi-lender architecture evaluates applicant data against lending rule sets of multiple lenders. Rule sets provided by different lenders may be expressed differently. The multi-lender architecture transforms the rules in each rule set and represents the rules in a normalization grid. The normalization grid allows a single algorithm to evaluate the rules of different lenders.
US11138620B1
Automatically generating guaranteed offers for commodities and non-commodities As such, the present disclosure presents various embodiments, as well as features and aspects thereof, of a guaranteed offer generator (“GOG”). The GOG accumulates and assimilates data, and then algorithmically processes this data with a server system to generate a guaranteed offer that, while removing the risk of an asset owner relinquishing his or her property in response to a low-ball sell, does not create an unacceptably high risk on the part of the guaranteed offeror.
US11138615B1
Location history data can be used to identify attributes for a known geographic location of a business listing record for a business. As an example, location history data is received from each of a plurality of client computing devices. For each device, the location history data identifies an arrival and departure times for the known geographic location as well as prior and next visit information. The location history data is used as input into a classifier in order to identify a set of attributes for the geographic location and corresponding likelihood values for each of the attributes of the set of attributes. A subset of the set of attributes is determined such that the attributes describe aspects of the known geographic location based on the likelihood values. This subset is provided to a client computing device in response to a request for information about the geographic location.
US11138614B2
Non-abstract devices, systems, and processes for the display and furnishing of tangible benefits in order to permit entities to more effectively make use of targeted benefits from a plurality of benefit providers; where; in preferred embodiments; the benefits are offered to those entities meeting the specified qualifications and eligibility requirements as established by the benefit providers.
US11138612B2
The disclosure relates to a system and method for consumers to identify articles at a place of sales before purchasing, which are high in security level, low in cost, mobile, high in availability and easy to use. The system and the method are based upon capture of the physical and logic features of a security label containing at least two security tracers applied to an article, and also upon local or remote processing, and at least one of the tracers comprises an invisible energy response material. The identification operation can be performed in a special and offline way by any system of registered consumers through a mobile communication device that has an image capture component and is combined with other particular functions of system software.
US11138610B2
A card number and an address are requested from a customer at a POS device. An AVS system compares the customer-provided address against a billing address or record for the card that is maintained by a card issuer. If the address provided by the customer matches the billing address of record, a second card number is requested from customer. That second card number is sent to the AVS system and the billing address stored by the issuer for the second card number is also checked against the address provided by the customer.
US11138607B2
Systems and methods for intelligently authenticating payment transactions are disclosed. A user initiates a payment transaction to purchases goods or services from a merchant. The merchant sends a payment initiation request to a server computer in communication with a payment processing network and an issuer. The server computer queries various databases to determine one or more available communication channels that may be used as authentication channels by the issuer. The server computer also determines one or more communication channels, available for use by a mobile device of the user, that may be used as authentication channels to authenticate the payment transaction. The user is provided with a list of available/eligible authentication channels. User selects one of the authentication channels and the issuer is notified of the selection. The issuer uses the selected authentication channel to communicate with the user and authenticate the payment transaction.
US11138606B2
Systems and techniques are provided for a resource transfer system. An instruction to transfer a first quantity of a resource from a first resource pool to a second resource pool may be received. A hold may be placed on a second quantity of the resource in the first resource pool. The held second quantity of the first resource may not be transferred from the first resource pool until the hold is released. Responsive to receiving a message that fulfills a condition on the hold and an instruction to execute the transfer, the hold may be released. A register that is in the first resource pool and is associated with the resource may decremented by the first quantity, and a register that is in the second resource pool and is associated with the resource may be incremented by the first quantity.
US11138605B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to access transactions. A gate access device may interact with a payment card such as a credit card. The gate access device may generate and transmit a first authorization request message to a payment processing network computer. The first authorization request message does not include an amount for the transaction, but only contains identification information. A first authorization response message is transmitted back to the gate access device. At a later point in time, a second authorization request message containing the transaction amount is transmitted from the gate access device to the issuer, and a response is received from the issuer.
US11138602B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for processing blockchain-based guarantee information. One of the methods includes receiving a first cyphertext of a first digital document specifying a guarantee from a first computing device associated with at least a first guarantor and one or more zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) related to one or more values associated with the guarantee, and the first digital document specifies one or more predetermined conditions of executing the guarantee; verifying that the one or more ZKPs are correct; storing the first cyphertext to a blockchain based on performing a consensus algorithm; receiving a first message from a second computing device associated with a beneficiary or a representative of the beneficiary.
US11138599B1
Systems, devices, methods, instructions, and other implementations are described for network data management. One embodiment involves request data received at a device associated with a digital lockbox, where the request data includes identifying information for an originating device associated with a location and is associated with a user device. A unique token is generated with the identifying information. The unique token can be used to tokenize a network link to create a secure one-time link. The system transmits the one-time link, which can then be used to facilitate secure communications between a computing system associated with the originating device and the user device.
US11138593B1
A method of activating a smart card includes issuing a smart card in a deactivated state such that the smart card is incapable of performing a transaction; receiving an authentication token from a mobile device via a wireless communication of the authentication token from the smart card in the deactivated state to the mobile device; extracting data from the authentication token; confirming the extracted data corresponds to stored data regarding a customer who was issued smart card; and in response to confirming the extracted data, enabling the smart card for a subsequent transaction.
US11138588B2
The invention relates to a method for providing and executing, by a transaction server, of a payments service, which payment service is executed over a sales channel between at least two user registered to the service, the user being at least a buyer and at least a merchant, wherein the transaction server can be accessed through the sales channel by the communication unit of the at least one buyer and can be accessed by the sales unit of the at least one merchant, for processing the electronic transaction instruction as well as further commercial agreements between the buyer and the at least one merchant.
US11138587B2
A portable device receives an account information request signal from a merchant machine. The portable device transmits a response message to the merchant machine. The response message comprises the account information for a purchase. The portable device transmits a first message to an account server. The first message comprises a request to get information comprising the purchase amount. The portable device receives a second message comprising the information from the account server. The portable device sends the purchase amount to a display.
US11138578B1
Illustrated herein are systems and methods of transferring physical currency into electronic credit that becomes electronically available. One method includes remotely and quickly depositing non-negotiable instruments, such as cash, by communicating information, such as an image of the currency, about the instrument to a depositor. An exemplary system includes computing devices and a capture module with a retrieval engine, a transmission engine, an inspection engine, and a conferral engine. The capture module receives information about a non-negotiable instrument, and an inspection engine analyzes the information to confirm if the unit of currency is authentic.
US11138575B2
A method and system for processing a payment over a computerized network. An icon generating module automatically generates active payment icons for the payee associated with particular payment obligations, each including a link to the computerized payment interface and machine-readable information regarding the specific payment to be made, and automatically generates active payment icons having alternative programming associated with a plurality of utilization modes (e.g. for use with SmartTVs, mobile devices). A payment processing system generates substitute checks for the payor and is a non-bank e-wallet account which uses a phone number as the account number. An interactive user interface is activated on selection of an active payment icon such that machine-readable information regarding the specific payment is displayed together with interactive user interface tools for effecting payment thereof through the payment processing system.
US11138561B2
A computer system for selection of data records for forwarding includes one or more data storage devices storing data records including structured and unstructured data, and an analysis hardware server configured to, in cycles, determine sets of data records for predictive model review, extract words and phrases from the unstructured data, apply the predictive model to determine current-cycle scores for the data records of the set, assign the data records to groups in accordance with the current-cycle score, determine a velocity of change in group, and select data records for forwarding to an operation system based at least in part on the determined velocity of change in group.
US11138558B2
The invention provides a system for managing food information based on an odor, which comprises a gas sensing module, a processing module, a blockchain module and a display module. The gas sensing module includes a colorimetric gas sensing chip reacting with odor molecules emitted by the food to form a coloring reaction and present a color image corresponding to the food. The processing module includes a conversion unit for converting the color image into identification information corresponding to the food. The blockchain module includes a plurality of nodes, and the plurality of nodes store identification information corresponding to the food. The display module includes an identification label corresponding to the identification information. Therefore, when the invention is applied to the blockchain technology, it can remove the doubt that the data on the chain can be falsified before the data is uploaded.
US11138537B2
Customer data volume of a database and estimated transaction throughput requirements for a multi-tiered transaction system are received at a server sizing computing device. The customer data volume is compared to the estimated transaction throughput requirements. Based upon the comparison of the customer data volume to the estimated transaction throughput requirements, a customer data volume edge case for which server hardware is improperly sized by transaction-based hardware sizing is detected. Using the customer data volume, a quantity of operational memory of a server sufficient to store the customer data volume generated under the detected customer data volume edge case during real-time transactional processing by the server is calculated.
US11138536B1
A method of project management is provided. The method comprises receiving identity of a number of customers requiring data migration and receiving a target completion date for data migration for each customer. A number of data migration implementations are identified for all customers. A number of tasks required for each implementation is calculated, as is a required time for completion of each task. A number of people are then identified from a candidate pool to assign to complete the implementations. An estimated completion date is calculated for data migrations for each customer according to a total required time for all implementations and the number of people assigned to complete the implementations. The target completion date and estimated completion date for each customer are displayed in a user interface.
US11138529B2
In various embodiments, techniques are provided for coordinating the assignment of codes to infrastructure elements in an infrastructure modeling software architecture. A chain of authority is provided from a code authority local to a client to a cloud-based code authority service. Further, a code is structured in three parts, including a code specification part identifying a code specification that indicates what information is encoded into the code and how it is encoded, a code scope part based on boundaries over which the code authority guarantees the code is unique, and a code value part with a unique value.
US11138528B2
Systems and methods for managing professional development are provided. A client provides information indicating a current status, which may concern a professional task performed by the client and a portion of income associated with the task. The progress of the client toward a professional goal is calculated, and a recommendation concerning an appropriate next step is communicated to the client. Professional goals may include a level of income, efficiency, type of tasks performed, etc.
US11138520B2
An input dataset for training a new machine learning model is received by a processor. For each of a plurality of trained machine learning models, a hash function and a sketch of a training dataset used to train the machine learning model is retrieved. A sketch of the input dataset is computed based on the hash function and the input dataset, along with a distance between the sketch of the training dataset and the sketch of the input dataset. The computed distances of the trained machine learning models are ranked from smallest to largest, and a seed machine learning model for the input dataset is selected from the trained machine learning models based at least in part on the ranking. A training process of the new machine learning model using the selected seed machine learning model and the input dataset is initiated.
US11138515B2
A data analysis apparatus executes: acquiring a group of learning input data; setting a plurality of first hash functions; substituting each learning input data in each of the plurality of first hash functions to thereby calculate a plurality of first hash values; selecting, for the group of learning input data and for each of the plurality of first hash functions, a specific first hash value that satisfies a predetermined statistical condition from among the plurality of first hash values; setting a second hash function; substituting, for the group of learning input data, each specific first hash value in the second hash function to thereby calculate a plurality of second hash values; and generating a learning feature vector that indicates features of the group of learning input data by aggregating the plurality of second hash values corresponding to respective specific first hash values and obtained as a result of the calculation.
US11138512B2
Energy usage can be monitored within at least one building having a plurality of energy consuming components. A database can be generated that contains values for a set of data points corresponding to data received from the plurality of energy consuming components. A change in a configuration can be detected for the plurality of energy consuming components based upon a change in values received from plurality of energy consuming components relative to the database. Based upon the change, an additional data point can be added to the set of data points in the database. Based upon the values for the set of data points, a probability can be determined that a rule for the additional data point is valid. A message can then be generated that includes the determined probability.
US11138494B2
A storage controller of a machine receives training data associated with a neural network model. The neural network model includes a plurality of layers, and the machine further including at least one graphics processing unit. The storage controller trains at least one layer of the plurality of layers of the neural network model using the training data to generate processed training data. A size of the processed data is less than a size of the training data. Training of the at least one layer includes adjusting one or more weights of the at least one layer using the training data. The storage controller sends the processed training data to at least one graphics processing unit of the machine. The at least one graphics processing unit is configured to store the processed training data and train one or more remaining layers of the plurality of layers using the processed training data.
US11138483B2
In a system, mobile terminal and a reader are communicable with each other. In the mobile terminal, a terminal tilt state is detected by a detecting unit as a terminal environmental state, an information code is generated such that the detected terminal environmental state and predetermined information are recorded in the information code, and the generated information code is displayed on the screen of a display unit. In the reader, a reading surface tilt state corresponding to the terminal environmental state is detected by a detecting unit as a reading surface environmental state. When the reader reads the information code and the detected reading surface environmental state and the detected terminal environmental state show the same environmental state, the read predetermined information is used by a control unit to perform processing based on the predetermined information.
US11138475B2
Systems and methods for data protection are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for providing data protection may include: (1) receiving a plurality of data classification rules; (2) receiving end user data classification from end user software; (3) receiving developer data classification from SDLC software; (4) generating a data inventory; and (5) applying at least one data protection to the data inventory based on the data classification rules, the end user data classification, and the developer data classification.
US11138474B2
A parameter training method for a convolutional neural network, CNN, for detecting items of interest visible in images by a data processor of at least one server. The method is implemented based on a plurality of training image databases. The items of interest are already annotated, the CNN being a CNN common to the plurality of training image databases and having a common core and a plurality of encoding layers, each one specific to one of the plurality of training image databases. The method is also for detecting items of interest visible in an image.
US11138471B2
Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that generate augmented training data for machine-learned models via application of one or more augmentation techniques to audiographic images that visually represent audio signals. In particular, the present disclosure provides a number of novel augmentation operations which can be performed directly upon the audiographic image (e.g., as opposed to the raw audio data) to generate augmented training data that results in improved model performance. As an example, the audiographic images can be or include one or more spectrograms or filter bank sequences.
US11138466B2
An image processing method includes: obtaining an input image; performing image conversion processing on the input image by using a generative neural network; and outputting an output image that has been subjected to image conversion processing. The input image has N channels, N being a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; input of the generative neural network includes a noise image channel and N channels of the input image; output of the generative neural network is an output image including N channels.
US11138454B2
A movable carrier auxiliary system includes a driver state detecting device and a control device. The driver state detecting device includes a biometric feature detecting module, a storage module, and an operation module. The biometric feature detecting module detects a biometric feature of a driver. The storage module stores a first biometric feature parameter, a second biometric feature parameter, a first operating mode corresponding to the first biometric feature parameter, and a second operating mode corresponding to the second biometric feature parameter. The operation module detects whether the biometric feature of the driver matches with the first biometric feature parameter or the second biometric feature parameter or not via the biometric feature detecting module, and to correspondingly generate a detection signal. The control device retrieve the first operating mode or the second biometric feature parameter from the storage module to control the movable carrier based on the detection signal.
US11138447B2
A method is disclosed for detecting raised pavement markers in an environment of a vehicle by a camera system. The method includes capturing at least one first image of at least one first part of the environment by at least one first camera of the camera system and analyzing the at least one first image and determining whether at least one first pavement marker is present in the environment in dependency of a result of the analysis of the at least one first image. The method further includes capturing at least one second image of at least one second part of the environment by at least one second camera of the camera system and analyzing the at least one second image and determining whether the at least one first or at least one second pavement marker is present in the environment in dependency of a result of the analysis.
US11138445B2
A vision system (10) for a motor vehicle having an imaging apparatus (11) to capture images from a surrounding of the motor vehicle and a data processing device (14) performing image processing on images captured by the imaging apparatus (11) and to control at least one driver assistance device (18) depending on a result of the image processing. The image processing having object detection through edge detection and the object detection having decomposing (21, 22) images captured by the imaging apparatus into a plurality of decomposed images (23, 24) having different color characteristics. Separate edge detection (35, 36) is performed on the decomposed images. The edges (37, 38) from the separate edge detections are merged (39) into a common list of edges. An edge distinguishability measure is calculated for each of the edges (37, 38), and the merging of the edges (37, 38) is based on the edge distinguishability measure.
US11138443B2
A guidance processing apparatus (100) includes an information acquisition unit (101) that acquires a plurality of different pieces of guidance information on the basis of states of a plurality of people within one or more images, and a control unit (102) that performs control of a plurality of target devices present in different spaces or time division control of a target device so as to set a plurality of different states corresponding to the plurality of pieces of guidance information.
US11138441B2
Embodiments herein treat the action segmentation as a domain adaption (DA) problem and reduce the domain discrepancy by performing unsupervised DA with auxiliary unlabeled videos. In one or more embodiments, to reduce domain discrepancy for both the spatial and temporal directions, embodiments of a Mixed Temporal Domain Adaptation (MTDA) approach are presented to jointly align frame-level and video-level embedded feature spaces across domains, and, in one or more embodiments, further integrate with a domain attention mechanism to focus on aligning the frame-level features with higher domain discrepancy, leading to more effective domain adaptation. Comprehensive experiment results validate that embodiments outperform previous state-of-the-art methods. Embodiments can adapt models effectively by using auxiliary unlabeled videos, leading to further applications of large-scale problems, such as video surveillance and human activity analysis.
US11138438B2
Metadata for one or more highlights of a video stream may be extracted from one or more card images embedded in the video stream. The highlights may be segments of the video stream, such as a broadcast of a sporting event, that are of particular interest. According to one method, video frames of the video stream are stored. One or more information cards embedded in a decoded video frame may be detected by analyzing one or more predetermined video frame regions. Image segmentation, edge detection, and/or closed contour identification may then be performed on identified video frame region(s). Further processing may include obtaining a minimum rectangular perimeter area enclosing all remaining segments, which may then be further processed to determine precise boundaries of information card(s). The card image(s) may be analyzed to obtain metadata, which may be stored in association with at least one of the video frames.
US11138436B2
Embodiments of a wearable device can include a head-mounted display (HMD) which can be configured to display virtual content. While the user is interacting with visual or audible virtual content, the user of the wearable may encounter a triggering event such as, for example, an emergency condition or an unsafe condition, detecting one or more triggering objects in an environment, or determining characteristics of the user's environment (e.g., home or office). Embodiments of the wearable device can automatically detect the triggering event and automatically control the HMD to deemphasize, block, or stop displaying the virtual content. The HMD may include a button that can be actuated by the user to manually deemphasize, block, or stop displaying the virtual content.
US11138434B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment may include: a camera module; a display; and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to: obtain a preview image corresponding to an external object using the camera module; determine attributes of the external object, based on the obtained preview image; synthesize the preview image with a virtual character image, based on the attributes of the external object; and output the synthesized preview image through the display. Other embodiments may be provided.
US11138433B2
A computer-implemented method of processing raw sensor data in an Aviation Internet of Things (AIoT) system is provided. The computer-implemented method comprises obtaining, by a network interface of a sensor processing unit (SPU), raw sensor data from one or more systems of a vehicle; providing, by the network interface, the raw sensor data to one or more processing units of the SPU; performing, by the one or more processing units, one or more processing tasks on the raw sensor data to produce processed data; and providing, by the network interface, the processed data to the one or more systems.
US11138432B2
Provided are mechanisms and processes for visual feature tagging in multi-view interactive digital media representations (MIDMRs). In one example, a process includes receiving a visual feature tagging request that includes an MIDMR of an object to be searched, where the MIDMR includes spatial information, scale information, and different viewpoint images of the object. A visual feature in the MIDMR is identified, and visual feature correspondence information is created that links information identifying the visual feature with locations in the viewpoint images. At least one image associated with the MIDMR is transmitted in response to the feature tagging request.
US11138431B2
Provided are a method of judgment for in or out, and a recording medium and an apparatus for performing the same. The method performed by the apparatus for judging whether an object landed inside or outside of a line, includes: capturing a sport environment image provided with the line according to a preset rule, wherein the sport environment image includes an audio signal and an image signal; separating the audio signal and the image signal included in the sport environment image; detecting the line by analyzing the image signal; detecting a landing point-in-time of the object by analyzing each of the audio signal and the image signal; and judging whether the object landed inside or outside of the line by comparing the line with a location of the object at the landing point-in-time of the object.
US11138427B2
The method comprises the steps: of applying the identifier (100′) on an object; of making a first digital image and, subsequently, a second digital image of the identifier; of deriving first and second digital keys from the first and second images, respectively; and of comparing the second digital key with the first digital key; wherein the identifier (100′) is made up of same-diameter microbeads (120) distributed in a random manner on the surface of the object, the microbeads being embedded in a layer (110′) of binder, and deriving the first digital key comprises the steps of applying elliptical regression to a distribution of points representative of the positions of the microbeads in the first image in order to define an ellipse, and of applying a change of reference frame consisting in expressing the positions of said points in a reference frame based on the ellipse.
US11138425B2
Methods and systems for recognizing named entities within the text of a document are provided. The methods and systems may include receiving a document image and recognized text of the document image. A feature map of the document image may be created, a tagged map may be created, and locations of tags within the tagged map may be estimated using a machine learning model. Named entities with the recognized text may be recognized based on the one or more locations of the tags. In some embodiments, the machine learning model is a convolutional neural network. In further embodiments, creating the feature map may include determining, for a subset of the cells of the feature map, one or more features of the recognized text contained in a corresponding portion of the document image.
US11138416B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for recognizing an organism action, a server and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining body feature information of an organism corresponding to time-successive multiple frames of images; creating a feature information sequence, wherein the feature information sequence includes body feature information respectively corresponding to multiple frames of images which are arranged according to a time sequence of the multiple frames of images; and inputting the feature information sequence into a trained recurrent neural network model, and determining an action of the organism corresponding to the feature information sequence according to an output of the recurrent neural network model.
US11138414B2
A system for processing digital images comprising: at least one remote hardware processor; and at least one device, comprising at least one processing circuitry configured for: receiving from at least one image sensor, electrically coupled to the processing circuitry, at least one digital image captured by the at least one image sensor; partitioning at least one object, identified in the at least one digital image, into a plurality of object segments; replacing in the at least one digital image each of the plurality of object segments with a schematic segment, illustrating respective object segment, to produce at least one schematic image; and sending the at least one schematic image to the remote hardware processor; wherein the remote hardware processor is adapted to: receiving the at least one schematic image from the at least one device; analyzing the at least one schematic image to identify at least one behavioral pattern.
US11138412B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a facial recognition method performed at a server. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-recognized facial image and extracting a target eigenvector of the facial image; calculating a distance between each target eigenvector and a mean vector corresponding to each facial identifier to obtain a first distance set, and determining a first recognition result corresponding to the facial image and a corresponding first score according to each first distance set; calculating a distance between each target eigenvector and each eigenvector corresponding to each facial identifier to obtain a second distance set, and determining a second recognition result corresponding to the facial image and a corresponding second score according to each second distance set; and determining a facial recognition result for the facial image and a corresponding score according to a comparison of the first and second recognition results and the first and second scores.
US11138398B2
A mobile device may include a camera assembly, a processor, memory, and a barcode-reading application. The camera assembly may include an image sensor. Pixels in a predetermined location of the image sensor may be defective pixels that provide the same output values regardless of actual characteristics of incident light. The barcode-reading application may be stored in the memory. The barcode-reading application may be executable by the processor to enable at least one enhanced mode of operation of the barcode-reading application conditional upon confirming that the image sensor comprises the defective pixels in the predetermined location.
US11138394B2
A method for integrating assets is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving, by a kinematic asset management platform, an indication of an attribute needed to perform a task. The method further comprises generating, by the kinematic asset management platform, a request to a plurality of reader nodes disposed at a respective plurality of locations for an inventor of assets at each of said respective plurality of locations. The method further comprises receiving, by the kinematic asset management platform, said inventory of assets from said respective plurality of locations. The method further comprises determining, by the kinematic asset management platform, and based on the attribute, that the attribute needed to perform the task is assigned to an asset present at a first location.
US11138392B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for machine translation using neural networks. In some implementations, a text in one language is translated into a second language using a neural network model. The model can include an encoder neural network comprising a plurality of bidirectional recurrent neural network layers. The encoding vectors are processed using a multi-headed attention module configured to generate multiple attention context vectors for each encoding vector. A decoder neural network generates a sequence of decoder output vectors using the attention context vectors. The decoder output vectors can represent distributions over various language elements of the second language, allowing a translation of the text into the second language to be determined based on the sequence of decoder output vectors.
US11138384B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for announcing and detecting automated conversation are disclosed. One of the methods includes initiating, over a natural language communication channel, a conversation with a communication participant using a natural language communication method that includes a dialogue of natural language communications. The communication participant is determined to be automated using a pre-defined adaptive interactive protocol that specifies natural language linguistic transformations defined in a sequence. The conversation can be transitioned to a communication method that is different form the natural language communication method in response to determining that the communication participant is automated.
US11138379B2
A method may include obtaining audio of a communication session between a first device of a first user and a second device of a second user. The method may further include obtaining a transcription of second speech of the second user. The method may also include identifying one or more first sound characteristics of first speech of the first user. The method may also include identifying one or more first words indicating a lack of understanding in the first speech. The method may further include determining an experienced emotion of the first user based on the one or more first sound characteristics. The method may also include determining an accuracy of the transcription of the second speech based on the experienced emotion and the one or more first words.
US11138377B2
At least two processing device-implemented company name recognition components, operating upon a body of text in a document, identify at least one company name occurrence in the body of text based at least in part on a company identifier list. The company name recognition techniques implemented by each of the at least two company name recognition components are different from each other. The at least one company name occurrence is used to update the company identifier list. The updated company identifier list is then used by the at least two company name recognition components to identify at least one additional name occurrence in the same body of text. This process of repeatedly identifying occurrences of company names in the body of text and updating the company identifier list is performed until such time that no further company name occurrences are identified in the body of text.
US11138356B1
A power usage estimation system for a design emulated on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) comprising a periodic dump unit implementing statistical data sampling to generate a periodic dump without emulation stops and interactions with a host, and without affecting the emulation performance.
US11138349B2
A computer-implemented method and system for simulating traffic flow configurations. The method includes simulating vehicle traffic on a virtual roadway configuration in a simulated environment using a car-following model to provide simulated vehicle traffic at an intersection, wherein the car-following model includes vehicle parameters of at least one of a lead vehicle and a subsequent vehicle at each timestep, the lead vehicle positioned in front of the subsequent vehicle, and modifying the simulated vehicle traffic using a ghost vehicle approximation model to provide simulated traffic flow distributions while maintaining incident avoidance criteria, wherein the ghost vehicle approximation model includes setting a speed value and a gap distance value of a ghost vehicle positioned in front of the lead vehicle and/or the subsequent vehicle to modify the vehicle parameters of the lead vehicle and the subsequent vehicle at each timestep.
US11138342B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining an access request provided by an application that seeks to interact with one or more backend systems through a computing system. One or more predefined restrictions can be enforced on the application, the computing system, or the one or more backend systems.
US11138337B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for preserving patient privacy while transmitting health data from one geographic region to another geographic region for data analysis. One method includes receiving patient-specific health data including patient privacy information at a first region; removing the patient privacy information from the patient-specific health data to generate anonymous health data; storing the patient privacy information at the first region; and transmitting the anonymous health data to a second region for analysis.
US11138317B2
A system for determining a vulnerability of source code includes a processor; and non-transitory computer readable media that includes instruction code that causes the processor to receive source code and a selection of one or more code analyzers for detecting vulnerability issues in the source code. The processor executes the one or more code analyzer to generate initial vulnerability data. The initial vulnerability data specifies one or more vulnerable code sections in the source code. The processor communicates the initial vulnerability data to a vulnerability analyzing engine. The vulnerability analyzing engine is configured to identify one or more code sections of the one or more code sections of the initial vulnerability data that correspond to false positives. The vulnerability analyzing engine removes the one or more code sections that correspond to false positives from the initial vulnerability data to generate second vulnerability data; and generates a report that specifies the second vulnerability data.
US11138316B2
An apparatus of a computing system, a computer-readable medium, a method and a system. The apparatus comprises an input/output interface and one or more processors connected to the input/output interface and adapted to perform a first reading of first fuse data stored in a fuse array storage circuitry to result in read first fuse data, and receive the read first fuse data from the fuse array storage circuitry through the input/output interface; after a random time-delay, perform a second reading of second fuse data stored in the fuse array storage circuitry to result in read second fuse data, and receive the read second fuse data from the fuse array storage circuitry through the input/output interface; and compare the read first fuse data with the read second fuse data, and if there is no match, halt a boot-up of the computing system.
US11138314B1
A software ecosystem includes a software supply chain in which each of the participants in the software supply chain produce software components using reproducible builds. By using deterministic compilation practices, each of the software components produced by a respective participant should be identical. The software ecosystem also includes a set of tamper proof distributed ledgers. Hashes of the software components are generated and securely recorded in the set of distributed ledgers. The software ecosystem also includes an intrusion detection system configured to compare hashes of the software components to determine when one or more of the software components has been generated in a corrupt manner. The secure software ecosystem includes a full-platform approach to integrity which incorporates designing against attacks, rather than patching after them, which creates a paradigm in which computing platforms can be trusted because they have been designed to operate in an untrustworthy environment.
US11138310B2
Devices and nodes associated with a vehicle may communicate using a higher-level, common messaging protocol over an ad-hoc network to publish and subscribe to services, even though different nodes may utilize different types of links and channels. The network includes a rules node that is fixedly connected to the vehicle and that stores a set of rules. Given a possible publisher, subscriber, and/or a service, a node action is allowed or denied based on the set of rules. The rules may be generated or updated based on priorities, security levels, and/or characteristics of publishers, subscribers, their respective users, and/or services; a current dynamic condition; and/or user input. The rules node and at least one other node may be transported by the vehicle, and both transported nodes and nodes external to the vehicle may use the common messaging protocol to join the ad-hoc network, discover other nodes, authenticate, and publish/consume services.
US11138296B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: generating, using an information handling device, digital content; providing an indication of the digital content to at least one other device; and receiving, from the at least one other device, a digital signature for the digital content. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11138282B2
An information processing system, an information processing device, an information processing method, and a storage medium are provided that can extract group terminals from among a plurality of surrounding information processing terminals that have been detected, and calculate a degree of happiness in a surrounding area. The information processing system includes a communication unit configured to receive identification information from a detection device that detects the identification information of a surrounding terminal device, and a control unit configured to extract, as group terminal devices, a plurality of pieces of identification information that are received by the communication unit and indicate a plurality of terminal devices detected by the detection device within a predetermined time, and to calculate a degree of happiness around the detection device in accordance with an extraction result.
US11138276B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting, by a processing system including a processor, access to a search engine by a user; obtaining a user model associated with the user; generating, by the processing system, a search query according to the user model; and presenting an overlay on a graphical user interface of the search engine, wherein the graphical user interface includes the search query field, and wherein the overlay includes the search query. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11138274B2
A method may include, in an initial virtual machine session for a user running on a virtualization server, loading a roaming user profile for the user, generating a user search index database for the user, and indexing the roaming user profile in the user search index database. In a subsequent virtual machine session for the user running on the at least one server, the user search index database for the user may be loaded and the index for the roaming user profile obtained therefrom without re-indexing the roaming user profile.
US11138273B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: generating an onboarding document specifying an interaction event based on a document specifying the interaction event and an implementation guide between a pair of partners. The interaction event is cognitively analyzed for accuracy and the implementation guide is updated based on reinforced machine learning for optimized onboarding of following interactions.
US11138271B1
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for efficiently providing a graphical user interface for visualizing large amounts of data on a single interface. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize topic hierarchies and multidata display elements to intuitively present many types of data for many topics on a single interface. The system also uses an activatable timeline to visualize changes to large amounts of data over time.
US11138264B2
A computer system for video management may provide a GUI that may enable repeating the steps of user thumbnail selection, representative subdivision of a recorded video to be viewed based on the thumbnail selected, and display of representative thumbnails in a GUI. The representative thumbnails may be selected based on a parameter such as random selection or images that may be evenly distributed from within the recorded video. After the representative subdivision of a recorded video to be viewed reaches a lower limit, the computer system for video management may display a shortened portion of video in the GUI to be viewed.
US11138263B2
A method includes generating metrics based on a first plurality of interactions with first content of a playlist. A first metric indicates approval of a first content item of the playlist and a second metric indicates a first duration of playback of a second content item of the playlist during playback of the playlist. The first duration of playback of the second content item is greater than a first default duration of playback. The method further includes reporting at least the first metric and the second metric and receiving a modified playlist. The modified playlist may be the playlist modified based on at least the first metric. The method further includes identifying, in captured data associated with access to the modified playlist, a second plurality of interactions with second content of the modified playlist. The second plurality of interactions corresponds to fewer deviations than the first plurality of interactions.
US11138260B2
A method, apparatus for determining output information are provided. The method includes: acquiring at least one history behavior of a user after a first content is output, based on history behavior data of the user; determining a behavior habit of the user after the first content is output, based on the at least one history behavior of the user; and; determining output information for the user in response to the output of the first content, based on the behavior habit of the user. By obtaining different behavior habits corresponding to different users, personalized output information for the users is established.
US11138248B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a product query operation, comprising: receiving user input from a user; identifying keywords contained within the user input; comparing keywords to vector representations of words and also to a document vector representation of product specifications in a backend product repository, each vector representation of a word being associated with a particular query type; identifying component details based upon the comparing; and, providing a list of products corresponding to the component details to the user in real time.
US11138246B1
Techniques for searching a corpus of textual data using probabilistic data structures are described herein. The corpus of textual data is indexed using the probabilistic data structure on a piece-by-piece basis and the pieces are combined so that the textual data can be searched. The search results are returned, indicating a likelihood that the data item is in the textual data.
US11138221B1
Systems and methods that facilitate data center infrastructure management are discussed. One such system can include a plurality of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools. Each DCIM tool can maintain data associated with one or more data centers. Such a system can also include a data aggregation component that can extract the maintained data from at least two of the plurality of DCIM tools and can transform the extracted data into a common format. Such a system can also include an aggregated database that stores the extracted data, and can include a user interface that can provide for simultaneous access to the plurality of DCIM tools.
US11138220B2
Data transformation workflows may be generated to transform data objects. A source data schema for a data object and a target data format or target data schema for a data object may be identified. A comparison of the source data schema and the target data format or schema may be made to determine what transformations can be performed to transform the data object into the target data format or schema. Code to execute the transformation operations may then be generated. The code may be stored for subsequent modification or execution.
US11138219B2
A database management system according to one embodiment includes at least one processor configured to control a hierarchical database including a plurality of end databases and a primary database directly or indirectly connected to the plurality of end databases. Each of the plurality of end databases stores sensor data. The primary database provides a virtual data table. The at least one processor transmits, to the end database, a search instruction for obtaining a result set containing a combination of an intermediate result based on the sensor data and a path ID for uniquely identifying a path connecting the primary database and the end database, receives a result set, and represents a search result based on the result set by the virtual data table and outputs the search result.
US11138218B2
Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed to optimize the size of index files to improve use of storage space available to indexers and other components of a data intake and query system. Index files of a data intake and query system may include, among other data, a keyword portion containing mappings between keywords and location references to event data containing the keywords. Optimizing an amount of storage space used by index files may include removing, modifying and/or recreating various components of index files in response to detecting one or more storage conditions related to the event data indexed by the index files. The optimization of index files generally may attempt to manage a tradeoff between an efficiency with which search requests can be processed using the index files and an amount of storage space occupied by the index files.
US11138209B2
A data pipeline system includes a binary data extractor to receive a data portion identifier, extract a portion of a binary data item based on the data portion identifier; and output the portion of the binary data item. A data iterator provides a first data portion identifier to the binary data extractor, receives, from the binary data extractor, a first portion of the binary data item, determines a second data portion identifier, provides the second data portion identifier to the binary data extractor, receives, from the binary data extractor, a second portion of the binary data item, and outputs the second portion of the binary data item. A data converter receives, from the data iterator, the second portion of the binary data item; and transforms, based on a data format specification, at least the second portion of the binary data item for processing by components of the data pipeline system.
US11138206B2
Techniques and solutions are described for transferring metadata between software applications. A translation framework stores metadata models in a standard format. Source applications can cause metadata models to be stored in the translation framework in the standard format. A target application can receive metadata models, or elements thereof, from the translation framework, which metadata models can be optionally converted from the standard format to a target format used by the target application. The translation framework can store annotations to a metadata model in the form of custom metadata types. The custom metadata types can be used by one or both of the target application and a source application. Source applications can cause values to be stored for annotations they support. Target applications can read values for annotations they support. Source applications and target applications do not write or read, respectively, unsupported annotations.
US11138204B2
Techniques are disclosed for generating metrics for a stream of interaction data. In some embodiments, a computing system receives a stream of interaction data that is based on user interactions with one or more computing systems, where the stream of interaction data includes information for multiple interaction characteristics including an interaction category. In response to receiving additional interaction information in the stream of interaction data, the computing system may generate cumulative metric values for one or more interaction categories. Generating cumulative metric values may include: sharding the additional interaction information based on multiple characteristics including interaction category, storing the sharded information in a non-relational database, determining respective metric values for shards modified by the storing, storing the respective metric values and shard information for each of the modified shards in a relational database, querying the relational database using one or more interaction categories corresponding to the modified shards, and determining the cumulative metric values based on the results of the querying.
US11138196B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a query processing system. An embodiment operates by receiving a query associated with a table. An ordered index with entries that include key values that uniquely identifies a corresponding record in the table is determined. A last key value is initialized to store a minimum value for a data type of the key value. The query is executed as a union-all of a plurality of queries. While a count of selected records is less than or equal to a threshold quantity and at least one entry remains in the ordered index, an ordered next entry with a key value subsequent to the last key value in the index is identified, the corresponding record is selected from the table, the last key value is updated, the query is executed, and the count is incremented.
US11138189B2
A method for managing contents shared by a Social Network Service (SNS), executed by a cloud server which is associated with an account of the SNS. It is detected whether a first content has been newly uploaded to the SNS or whether a metadata related to the first content previously uploaded to the SNS has been newly added. A second content corresponding to the first content is searched. The cloud storage is updated by linking context information related to the first content to the second content corresponding to the first content. The cloud server interworks with an account of the SNS of each user's individual to link context information of content shared on the SNS with the content stored in the personal cloud storage, thereby enabling easier update of the cloud storage. A user may easily search for desired contents using the context information.
US11138157B2
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to implementing machine learning to define business logic and lineage. The system analyzes data patterns of SORs as well as consumption attributes to define the business logic. An embodiment of the present invention may achieve over 95% match rate for complex attributes. When provided with thousands of SOR attributes, the innovative system may identify a handful of relevant SOR attributes required as well as the business logic to derive the consumption attribute.
US11138146B2
In a fabric-based infrastructure a flexible scalable server is obtained by physical disaggregation of converged resources to obtain pools of a plurality of operationally independent resource element types such as storage, computing, networking and more. A plurality of computing facilities can be created either dynamically or statically by a resource manager by abstracting instances of resources from such pools of a plurality of resource element types expressed within a single disaggregated logical resource plane.
US11138131B2
Techniques are provided to adjust the behavior of a cache based on a count of cache misses for items recently evicted. In an embodiment, a computer responds to evicting a particular item (PI) from a cache by storing a metadata entry for the PI into memory. In response to a cache miss for the PI, the computer detects whether or not the metadata entry for the PI resides in memory. When the metadata entry for the PI is detected in memory, the computer increments a victim hit counter (VHC) that may be used to calculate how much avoidable thrashing is the cache experiencing, which is how much thrashing would be reduced if the cache were expanded. Either immediately or arbitrarily later, the computer adjusts a policy of the cache based on the VHC's value. For example, the computer may adjust the capacity of the cache based on the VHC.
US11138116B2
A network interface device comprises a programmable interface configured to provide a device interface with at least one bus between the network interface device and a host device. The programmable interface is programmable to support a plurality of different types of a device interface.
US11138111B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing coherence processing and memory cache processing in parallel are disclosed. A system includes a communication fabric and a plurality of dual-processing pipelines. Each dual-processing pipeline includes a coherence processing pipeline and a memory cache processing pipeline. The communication fabric forwards a transaction to a given dual-processing pipeline, with the communication fabric selecting the given dual-processing pipeline, from the plurality of dual-processing pipelines, based on a hash of the address of the transaction. The given dual-processing pipeline performs a duplicate tag lookup in parallel with a memory cache tag lookup for the transaction. By performing the duplicate tag lookup and the memory cache tag lookup in a parallel fashion rather than in a serial fashion, latency and power consumption are reduced while performance is enhanced.
US11138110B1
Designs of persistently managing mapping tables are described. To keep the performance of writing data into or reading out data from a storage device, such as flash memory, RAM (Random Access Memory) is often used to manage the mapping tables. To prevent the mapping tables from being damaged for whatever reason (e.g., power failure), MRAM (Magnetic RAM) is employed to keep the mapping tables in magnetic domains while the RAM is only used for updating the content of the mapping tables. Not only is the capacity for RAM is significantly reduced, the mapping tables are securely maintained in MRAM and available to RAM while data is being written into or read out from the storage device.
US11138108B2
Devices and techniques for logical-to-physical (L2P) map (e.g., table) synchronization in a managed memory device are described herein. For example, a plaintext portion of an L2P map may be updated in a managed memory device. In response to updating the plaintext portion of the L2P map, the updated portion can be obfuscated to create an obfuscated version of the updated portion of the L2P map. Both the updated portion and the obfuscated version of the updated portion can be saved in storage of the memory device. When a request from a host for the updated portion of the L2P map is received, the memory device can provide the obfuscated version of the portion from the storage.
US11138104B2
A method is described. The method includes tracking a logical saturation value for each of multiple streams having read and write commands directed to a mass storage device, wherein, a stream's logical saturation value is a measurement of how much of the stream's assigned storage resources of the mass storage device contains valid data. The method also includes repeatedly selecting for garbage collection whichever of the multiple streams has a lowest logical saturation value as compared to the other streams.
US11138095B2
Mechanisms are provided for propagating source identification information from an application front-end system in an application layer to a data layer inspection system associated with a back-end system. An incoming user request is received, at the data layer inspection system, from a gateway system associated with the application front-end system. One or more outgoing statements targeting a back-end system are received at the data layer inspection system. The data layer inspection system accesses a mapping data structure based on the one or more outgoing statements to thereby correlate the one or more outgoing statements with the incoming user request. The data layer inspection system retrieves source identification information associated with the incoming user request based on the correlation of the one or more outgoing statements with the incoming user request. The data layer inspection system performs a data layer inspection operation based on the source identification information.
US11138083B2
Methods and apparatuses relating to a multiple master capable debug interface are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a device circuit, a wireless connector circuit, and a switching circuit coupled between the device circuit and the wireless connector circuit to switch a debug and test mastership from the wireless connector circuit to a debug and test tool, wirelessly connected to the wireless connector circuit, to perform a debug and test operation on the device circuit.
US11138071B1
On-chip XOR parity data management combines storage blocks in non-volatile memory. Multiple source storage blocks are selected to be combined and stored into a destination storage block. Each source storage block includes a data section and a parity section. The parity section includes XOR parity data that enables data recovery of physical pages of the source storage block. The source storage blocks are merged into the destination storage block, which is configured to store multiple bits per memory cell. Parity sections of one or more of the plurality of source storage blocks remain unchanged after merging into the destination storage block.
US11138069B2
Apparatus and method for storing data in a non-volatile memory (NVM), such as a flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). In some embodiments, a distributed storage space of the NVM is defined to extend across a plural number of regions of the NVM. A non-standard parity data set is provided having a plural number of data elements greater than or equal to the plural number of regions in the storage space. The data set is written by storing a first portion of the data elements and a first parity value to the plural number of regions and a remaining portion of the data elements and a second parity value to a subset of the plural number of regions. The regions can comprise semiconductor dies in a flash memory, and the distributed storage space can be a garbage collection unit formed using one erasure block from each flash die.
US11138065B1
A storage system has a controller with an encoder. The encoder is configured to perform first and second stages of an encoding process in parallel on pipelined data blocks. In this way, while the first stage of the encoding process is being performed on a first data block, the second stage of the encoding process is performed on a second data block.
US11138060B2
An application performance management system is disclosed. Operational elements are dynamically discovered and extended when changes occur. Programmatic knowledge is captured. Particular instances of operational elements are recognized after changes have been made using a fingerprint/signature process. Metrics and metadata associated with a monitored operational element are sent in a compressed form to a backend for analysis. Metrics and metadata from multiple similar systems may be used to adjust/create expert rules to be used in the analysis of the state of an operational element. A 3-D user interface with both physical and logical representations may be used to display the results of the performance management system.
US11138055B1
An information handling system includes a processor and a basic input/output system (BIOS). The processor executes an operating system, and detects a corrected error from a memory controller of the information handling system. In response, the processor generates a system management interrupt (SMI). In response to the SMI the BIOS executes a SMI handler. The SMI handler detects a row of the corrected error within a dual inline memory module (DIMM) of the information handling system, and determines whether an entry for the row is located within a hash table. In response to the entry for the row being located within the hash table, the SMI handler increments an error count in a field of the entry for the row. Otherwise, the SMI handler adds a new entry for the row to the hash table, and increments an error count in a field of the new entry for the row.
US11138053B2
A system for determining a quota comprises an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receiving a current workload. The processor is configured to: determine whether the current workload less than or equal to target workload; and in response to the current workload being less than or equal to target workload: indicate no modification to input values; set output values to input values; and provide the output values.
US11138051B2
According to the claimed invention, an information processing apparatus comprises an application unit in which at least one application is installed; and a data unit configured to store application data corresponding to the at least one application, wherein the application unit and the data unit can be connected to or separated from each other, the data unit determines, when connected to the application unit, whether the connected application unit is linked to the data unit, and in a case in which the application unit is not linked to the data unit, the data unit obtains the application data from a second data unit linked to the connected application unit, stores the obtained application data, and causes the connected application unit to store information to link the data unit connected to the application unit.
US11138050B2
Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes execution slices and a dispatch network of the multi-slice processor implementing a hardware level transfer of an execution thread between execution slices. Operation of such a multi-slice processor includes responsive to a thread switch signal: halting dispatch of one or more instructions retrieved from an instruction cache; generating a plurality of instructions to transfer an execution thread from a first execution slice to a second execution slice; and dispatching the plurality of instructions instead of the one or more instructions retrieved from the instruction cache; and transferring, in dependence upon execution of the plurality of instructions from the thread switching instruction generator, the execution thread from the first execution slice to the second execution slice.
US11138043B2
Systems and methods for outlier mitigation in safety-critical systems are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system comprises: a processor comprising one or more processing cores; a scheduling function that schedules the execution of applications, the applications each comprise threads; a contingency budgeting manager (CBM) that defines at least a first pre-determined set of threads from the threads of the applications and assigns a contingency budget pool to the first set of threads. The first set of threads are each scheduled by the scheduling function to execute on a first processing core. The CBM is further configured to monitor execution of each of the threads of the first set of threads to identify when a first thread is an execution time outlier. When the CBM determines that the first thread is an execution time outlier, it allocates additional thread execution time from the contingency budget pool to the first thread.
US11138037B2
A multi-processor system includes multiple processors arranged in multiple clusters. Different clusters have different power and performance characteristics. The system includes a task scheduler to schedule tasks to the processors. The task scheduler, in response to detection of a scheduling event trigger, is operative to identify a scheduling objective between a first objective of energy optimization and a second objective of load balance. The scheduling objective is identified based on at least respective operating frequencies and loading of all processors in a highest-capacity cluster of the multiple clusters. According to the identified scheduling objective, the task scheduler schedules a given task to a processor selected among the processors in the multiple clusters.
US11138036B2
Requests are received by a routing circuit. A plurality of first round-robin arbitration circuits are coupled to the routing circuit. There are as many first round-robin arbitration circuits as there are possible priority levels for the requests. The routing circuit operates to transmit each received request to a number of first round-robin arbitration circuits determined according to the priority level of the request. A second round-robin arbitration circuit has inputs respectively connected to the outputs of the first round-robin arbitration circuits.
US11138031B2
Implementing static loaders and savers for the transfer of local and distributed data containers to and from storage systems can be difficult because there are so many different configurations of output formats, data containers and storage systems. Described herein is an extensible componentized data transfer framework for performant and scalable authoring of data loaders and data savers. Abstracted local and distributed workflows drive selection of plug-ins that can be composed by the framework into particular local or distributed scenario loaders and savers. Reusability and code sparsity are maximized.
US11138023B2
A method and apparatus for modelling and generating a composite user interface comprising a plurality of user interface elements provided by at least one source application. Modelling the composite user interface comprises modelling at least part of a user interface provided by the or each source application, and modelling relationships between the at least part of the user interface provided the or each source application and the composite user interface.
US11138018B2
Profile-guided optimization is a technique for optimizing execution of computer programs using profile information to improve program runtime performance. Obtaining the profile information can be challenging, especially in live production environments such as high-performance gaming systems. A profiling strategy is provided herein that obtains profile information without requiring extra effort from users. The profiling strategy collects several approximate, lightweight profiles called piecemeal profiles over one or more lifetimes of a computer program, or application. The piecemeal profiles are then used to generate whole program application profiles that can then be used to improve the execution of the application. A piecemeal profile is profile information of a section or portion of an application.
US11138016B2
A system construction support device includes a storage unit, an operation receiving unit, a setting unit, and an arrangement control unit. The storage unit stores a system configuration file having a base area including a plurality of objects hierarchized, the plurality of objects each being design information on an instrument of a factory automation system. The setting unit sets identification information for at least one of the plurality of objects on the basis of the user operation received by the operation receiving unit. The arrangement control unit moves the object for which the identification information has been set by the setting unit, to a different location within the system configuration file or to an external file, and places a dummy object at an original location of the object moved to the different location, the dummy object including the identification information set for the object moved and information on a destination of the object moved.
US11138006B2
Systems and methods may include software development tools that allow for planning hybrid projects performed according to a combination of project development models. A processor may be operatively coupled to a memory. The processor may determine a target application of an enterprise service. The processor may determine a backlog associated with the target application, wherein the backlog comprises one or more tasks, one or more stories, or any combination thereof. The processor may generate a hybrid project from the backlog comprising a waterfall phase having at least one task and an agile phase having at least one story.
US11137997B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to opportunistically updating Electronic Control Unit (ECU) software in a vehicle. Operations may include receiving, at a controller in a vehicle, a wireless transmission indicating a need to update software running on at least one ECU in the vehicle; monitoring an operational status of the vehicle to determine whether the vehicle is in a first mode of operation in which an ECU software update is prohibited; delaying the ECU software update when the operational status is prohibited; continuing to monitor the operational status of the vehicle to determine whether the vehicle is in a second mode of operation in which the ECU software update is permitted; and enabling updating of the at least one ECU with the delayed ECU software update when it is determined that the vehicle is in the second mode of operations.
US11137994B2
A baseboard management controller (BMC) may comprise a processor, a non-volatile memory and a volatile memory. The non-volatile memory comprises firmware categorized into a plurality of independently updatable service modules. Each of the independently updatable service modules is stored on a read-write partition of the non-volatile memory and comprises at least one of an application, a library and a driver. The BMC comprises an update agent that performs an update process. In the update process, a BMC update package, which comprises an update service module for updating an existing service module stored in one of the plurality of RW partitions, is stored in the volatile memory. The existing service module stored in the RW partition is replaced with the update service module.
US11137990B2
An apparatus includes at least on processor to: parse a job flow definition for a job flow to identify an implicit expression of a data dependency arising from a data object output by a first task of the job flow and input to a second task thereof, wherein the first task is referred to as a data object required by the second as an input; in response to identifying the implicit expression, derive an order of performance of the tasks of the job flow that includes performing the first task before the second to ensure generation of the data object prior to performance of the second; for each task, retrieve a corresponding task routine; execute the task routines in an order that follows the order of performance of the tasks; and transmit, to the requesting device via the network, an indication of successful performance of the job flow.
US11137982B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to acceleration circuitry are described. The acceleration circuitry may be deployed in a memory device and can include a memory resource and/or logic circuitry. The acceleration circuitry can perform operations on data to convert the data between one or more numeric formats, such as floating-point and/or universal number (e.g., posit) formats. The acceleration circuitry can perform arithmetic and/or logical operations on the data after the data has been converted to a particular format. For instance, the memory resource can receive data comprising a bit string having a first format that provides a first level of precision. The logic circuitry can receive the data from the memory resource and convert the bit string to a second format that provides a second level of precision that is different from the first level of precision.
US11137974B2
The present application provides a method for audio processing, an apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium, the method includes: performing a segmentation processing on an audio to be processed to obtain N audio segments, N is an integer larger than or equal to 2; obtaining a target sequence according to maximum volume values of each of the audio segments, the target sequence includes: maximum volume values of M audio segments sorted in order of maximum volume values from large to small, M is a positive integer smaller than N; obtaining a volume adjustment parameter of the audio to be processed according to the target sequence, the volume adjustment parameter is used to adjust playing volume of the audio to be processed to target volume. The method avoids the problem that the user frequently adjusts the volume of the audio.
US11137973B2
Various implementations include computing devices and related computer-implemented methods for developing and previewing audio pins in an augmented audio environment. Certain implementations include a computer-implemented method including: generating a digital audio workstation (DAW) on a display, the DAW including a set of inputs assignable to an audio pin for playback; receiving assigned inputs for the audio pin from selections by a user at the display or at a wearable audio device worn by the user; and rendering the assigned inputs as audio playback at the wearable audio device worn by the user to preview the audio playback associated with the audio pin, where the set of inputs are configured to be rendered as audio playback at the wearable audio device worn by the user in real time as the inputs are assigned.
US11137967B2
In an exemplary process for interacting with user interface objects using an eye gaze, an affordance associated with a first object is displayed. A gaze direction or a gaze depth is determined. While the gaze direction or the gaze depth is determined to correspond to a gaze at the affordance, a first input representing user instruction to take action on the affordance is received, and the affordance is selected responsive to receiving the first input.
US11137965B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first controller and a second controller. The first controller performs processing dependent on hardware having a function. The second controller is connected to the first controller via a general-purpose communication path and performs processing not dependent on the hardware. Each of the first controller and the second controller transmits control information used for controlling the hardware to a counterpart controller of the first controller or the second controller via the communication path while varying a transmission interval in accordance with a type of the control information.
US11137964B2
An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor. The processor is configured to create, under a first folder associated with a cloud system used by the information processing apparatus, a second folder set to perform operations provided by the cloud system, and is configured to perform control to perform the operations provided by the cloud system set in the second folder if a document is registered in the second folder.
US11137959B2
Provided is an information processing system capable of changing a point increase condition or method in various ways in a case of giving points depending on printing by a printing apparatus. To this end, the information processing system includes an information processing apparatus, a printing apparatus configured to print an image according to a print instruction transmitted from the information processing apparatus, and a server connected to the information processing apparatus and the printing apparatus via a network. The printing apparatus generates a print log in which at least one identifier out of an application ID unique to a print application in the information processing apparatus and a content ID of the image is associated with a printer ID unique to the printing apparatus, and transmits the print log via the network.
US11137956B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to perform grouping on plural devices for each location at which the device is positioned based on position information, which is information related to positions of the plural devices; perform regrouping so that at least one device belonging to each grouped group belongs to another group; and create a schedule of changing software used in the device for each regrouped group.
US11137953B2
An image forming apparatus includes a storage, circuitry, and an information provider. The storage is configured to temporarily store one or more sheets to be removed without being used in the image forming apparatus. The circuitry is configured to determine whether a manual operation is performed on the image forming apparatus and whether the one or more sheets stored in the storage exceed a given value in number or height. The information provider is configured to provide information urging removal of the one or more sheets from the storage in response to determination by the circuitry that the manual operation is performed and that the one or more sheets stored in the storage exceed the given value in number or height.
US11137947B2
A system and method of recognizing a hard disk movement, the system and method including recognizing hard disk information recorded in a hard disk in response to the hard disk being moved to a slot in a hard disk array, determining the movement type of the hard disk based on the recognized hard disk information, judging validity of the hard disk movement based on the movement type, and updating the hard disk information of the hard disk in response to the hard disk movement being judged as valid, wherein the hard disk information comprises position information of the hard disk in the hard disk array.
US11137939B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory region including a plurality of memory blocks, and suitable for outputting first and second read data from first and second memory blocks among the plurality of memory blocks based on first and second read control signals and a read address signal; a scheduler suitable for outputting a read scheduling signal based on the first and second read control signals; and an output driver suitable for outputting the first and second read data by a predetermined burst length alternately twice or more to a data pad based on a mode signal, wherein the first read data are outputted to the data pad according to a first burst sequence, and the second read data are outputted to the data pad according to a second burst sequence, based on the read scheduling signal.
US11137937B2
A master issues the valid data is specified when the data update processing is interrupted. The control unit 3 stores in the storage unit 2 the second update status flag 8_2, which indicates the update status of the first update status flag 8_1 and the second data 6_2, which indicate the update status of the first data 6_1, and the third update status flag 8_3, which indicates the update status of the valid indication flag 7. When the determination based on the valid instruction flag 7 is impossible, the usage data determination unit 4 determines which of the first data 6_1 and the second data 6_2 is valid based on the values of the first update status flag 8_1, the second update status flag 8_2, and the third update status flag 8_3.
US11137936B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing data on a memory controller. One of the methods comprises obtaining a first request and a second request to access respective data corresponding to the first and second requests at a first memory device of the plurality of memory devices; and initiating interleaved processing of the respective data; receiving an indication to stop processing requests to access data at the first memory device and to initiate processing requests to access data at a second memory device, determining that the respective data corresponding to the first and second requests have not yet been fully processed at the time of receiving the indication, and in response, storing, in memory accessible to the memory controller, data corresponding to the requests which have not yet been fully processed.
US11137935B2
Provided is a storage system in which a plurality of storage controllers communicate with each other and an identifier of each storage controller is determined. The storage system includes a plurality of controllers that receive and process an input and output request specifying any of a plurality of volumes from an external device, and a plurality of switches each having a plurality of ports. The plurality of controllers are connected in parallel to the plurality of switches and communicate with each other via the plurality of switches. Each of the plurality of controllers acquires a plurality of port identifiers identifying a plurality of connected ports from the connected switches, and determines a controller identifier in the storage system based on the acquired plurality of port identifiers.
US11137933B2
A method for accelerating transaction execution across geographically dispersed clusters is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes receiving a request to read data in a data replication system comprising a primary storage system and a secondary storage system in a synchronous mirroring relationship with the primary storage system. The method determines whether at least one of the following conditions is true: (1) the secondary storage system is closer from a communication standpoint; and (2) a high speed communication technology is available to communicate with the secondary storage system that is not available to communicate with the primary storage system. In the event either of the conditions is true, the method directs the request to the secondary storage system. In the event neither of the conditions is true, the method directs the request to the primary storage system. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11137931B1
Backup metadata deletion based on backup data deletion is described. A system receives a request to delete a backup data set associated with a host, a path, and a backup time. The system identifies a backup metadata object associated with the host and the path. The system determines whether the requested backup time is the earliest backup time associated with any backup data set associated with the host. The system determines whether the identified backup metadata object is a backup metadata deletion object associated with the backup time if the backup time is the earliest backup time. The system deletes the identified backup metadata object if the identified backup metadata object is a backup metadata deletion object associated with the backup time.
US11137929B2
An apparatus is configured to initiate a first replication session to replicate data of a first consistency group in a first storage system to a second consistency group in a second storage system, to create an additional consistency group linked to the second consistency group in the second storage system, and to initiate a second replication session to replicate data of the additional consistency group to another consistency group in a third storage system. The additional consistency group linked to the second consistency group in some embodiments is periodically updated against the second consistency group. For example, in one or more embodiments the second consistency group is updated based at least in part on an active snapshot set of the first replication session, and the additional consistency group is updated based at least in part on the second consistency group.
US11137924B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing a distributed file storage system that permits containerized applications running in distinct container hosts to read/write to the same storage volume. In one embodiment, a file sharing volume service is configured to use a container orchestrator to start a respective file server for each shared storage volume mounted for use by user-level containerized application(s). The file sharing volume service further manages the file server by creating and updating a metadata entry that specifies (1) a count of a number of times the shared storage volume has been mounted for use, and (2) a port number exposed for use in mounting path(s) to access the shared storage volume. Upon receiving a request to run a containerized application with the shared storage volume, the file sharing volume service updates the metadata entry to increase the count, and retrieves and uses the port number to mount path(s) for accessing the shared storage volume.
US11137921B2
A data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes: a first function block of a device controller configured to receive user data and perform a first data processing; a first buffer memory connected to the first function block and configured to store user data subjected to the first data processing as first process data; a second function block of the device controller configured to receive a data write command determined based on the first process data; and a non-volatile memory connected to the second function block, and configured to receive and store data stored in the first buffer memory. The user data is provided to the first function block before the data write command is provided to the second function block.
US11137917B2
A memory system includes a memory controller. The memory controller includes a program history manager for managing a program history of a first memory unit including a plurality of sub-units of which write protection mode is set; and a memory unit manager for selecting, based on the program history, at least one sub-unit on which a program operation is not performed during a set period among the plurality of sub-units, and releasing the write protection mode of the at least one selected sub-unit.
US11137910B2
Fast Address to Sector Number/Offset Translation to Support Odd Sector Size Testing. A machine-implemented method of determining a sector number from a given address for testing a solid state drive (SSD), wherein the SSD sector size is not an integral power of 2, includes determining an approximate sector size as the closest power of 2 less than the sector size and determining an error factor as the ratio of the approximate sector size divided by the sector size. The method also includes forming the sector number by shifting the address right by the base 2 logarithm of the approximate sector size.
US11137897B2
A method and a device for implementation of a browser for intelligently recognizing a gesture-based zoom instruction are provided, relating to the browser technologies. The method includes: detecting, by a mobile terminal, a gesture-based instruction input by a user (S101); finding a web page element associated with a position of a touch point of the gesture-based zoom instruction if the detected gesture-based instruction is a gesture-based zoom instruction for zooming a browser page (S102); and performing a corresponding operation according to the web page element (S103). The method and the device determine, according to the web page element associated with the position of the touch point, whether to perform a zoom operation of the browser page or a re-layout operation of a text region, being capable of improving the user experience.
US11137895B2
An unlocking method and apparatus for an electronic appliance are disclosed. The method and apparatus may enable a user to unlock the electronic appliance by identifying a gesture and to invoke a function mapped to the gesture. The unlocking method includes detecting a preset gesture input when an input means is locked. The method includes unlocking the input means in response to the input gesture. The method also includes invoking an application mapped to the input gesture in response to unlocking.
US11137891B2
A display processing method-is provided, comprising: displaying, by an electronic device a first display object and a second display object on a first screen based on a first positional relationship; in response to determining that a length of a to-be-displayed character string corresponding to the first display object is greater than a first width of the first display object on the first screen, stopping displaying the first screen and displaying the first display object and the second display object on a second screen, where the first display object and the second display object on the second screen have a second positional relationship, the second positional relationship is different from the first positional relationship, and a second width of the first display object corresponding to the second positional relationship is greater than the first width.
US11137890B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a flexible display configured to display an image, a driver configured to change a screen size of the flexible display, and a processor configured to control the driver to display an image corresponding to a content, at a screen size corresponding to a size of a content to be displayed in the flexible display.
US11137881B2
A method and an apparatus for changing a screen in an electronic device that provides a plurality of windows are provided. The method includes providing, by an electronic device, a plurality of windows functionally connected to the electronic device, selecting at least one window displaying a first application among the plurality of windows, obtaining an input related to a second application being executed in the selected at least one window, and displaying the second application through the at least one window, based on the obtained input. The present disclosure is not limited to a specific embodiment, but various embodiments based on a technical spirit of the present disclosure may be implemented.
US11137880B2
In some example embodiments, an indication of a selected data point of a current visualization can be received. A context of the selected data point can be determined based on a dimension of the data point, and explanation candidates can be generated based on the context of the selected data point. Each exploration candidate can have a different dimension context that is within the context of the selected data point and a corresponding value for the dimension context. For each one of the explanation candidates, a corresponding score can be generated based on a difference between the value for the explanation candidate and an average value of all the values of the explanation candidates. The explanation candidates can be ranked based on the scores. At least one of the explanation candidates can be selected based on the ranking, and selectable explanation(s) for the selected explanation candidate(s) can be displayed.
US11137877B2
A computer system provides at least one workspace as a user interface corresponding to a user-generated topic. A home topic is provided to the user as an initially selected topic. The home topic provides a workspace to the user as a user interface. User selection of a first topic within the home topic causes designation of the first topic as the current topic. A first workspace is associated with the first topic, and a first topic data structure associated with the first topic is generated and the first topic data structure is associated only with application windows, files and application related data used by the user while the first topic is designated as the current topic. The user is provided, within the first workspace, only application windows, files and application related data used by the user while the first topic is designated as the current topic.
US11137870B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for adjusting a user interface according to a cognitive mode is disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of user events based on a user interacting with a system, determining a cognitive operating mode of the user based on the user events, with the cognitive operating mode selected from a predefined set of cognitive operating modes, and modifying a user interface element according to the cognitive operating mode of the user.
US11137865B2
A touch screen, a method for manufacturing the same and a touch display device are provided. The touch screen includes, a substrate; an electrode connecting layer on the substrate; a first insulating layer covering the electrode connecting layer; an electrode layer on the first insulating layer; the electrode layer comprises a plurality of first electrodes arranged in an array and a plurality of second electrodes arranged in an array; each first electrode and each second electrode are in a closed loop structure, and each second electrode surrounds a first electrode, wherein two adjacent second electrodes in each row of the second electrodes are electrically connected to each other, the first insulating layer comprises a plurality of through holes to expose a part of the electrode connecting layer, and two adjacent first electrodes in each column of the first electrodes are respectively electrically connected to the electrode connecting layer through the through holes to electrically connect the two adjacent first electrodes.
US11137857B2
A detection device includes: a detection unit that detects a predetermined non-contact operation by a detection reference; and a control unit that changes the detection reference when the predetermined non-contact operation is not detected by the detection reference.
US11137856B2
A sensing device comprises sensor electrodes arranged in an array of rows and columns, and vias. A first vias is arranged in a first direction, and corresponds to a first column of sensor electrodes adjacent to a first side edge of the sensing device. A second via is arranged in a second direction different than the first direction, and corresponds to a second column of the sensor electrodes adjacent to a second side edge of the sensing device. Each of the sensor electrodes is configured to be coupled to a routing trace through one of the vias. In a first row of the plurality of sensor electrodes, a two vias are different distances from the first side edge and in a second row of the plurality of sensor electrodes, two vias are different distances from the second side edge.
US11137847B2
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring the status of a touchscreen at a display assembly. Signals are transmitted to the touchscreen. Where signals to the touchscreen are interrupted for at least a predetermined amount of time, a type and location of damage are identified. A visual representation reflecting the type and location of damage at the touchscreen is generated.
US11137835B2
A modular interactive visual display platform including interconnecting modules including tile modules forming a visual display sensing surface which generates graphical images and senses object proximate to the surface. Tile connector interfaces use tricoupling mechanisms including a mechanical connector, a power connector and a communication connector to connect modules together. The visual display sensing surface may include integrated addressable LEDs, proximity sensors and pressure sensors.
US11137830B1
A control device for an interactive computing system includes a first elongated member, a second elongated member, and a biasing actuator. The first elongated member and the second elongated member are pivotably coupled at a pivot axis. The biasing actuator is coupled to the first elongated member and the second elongated member to provide an output torque between the first elongated member and the second elongated member about the pivot axis. The control device is configured to receive user input for controlling a virtual device displayed by the interactive computing system to visually resemble a physical device. The biasing actuator is controllable to provide tactile feedback to simulate physical behavior of the physical device. The control device is movable freely in space.
US11137828B2
A system includes a video recorder configured to record video data, a sensor configured to sense movement of an object and output sensor data representative of the movement of the object, a transformer configured to transform the sensor data into a haptic output signal, a haptic output device configured to generate a haptic effect to a user based on the haptic output signal, a display configured to display a video, and a processor configured to synchronize the video data and the haptic output signal, and output the video data to the display and the haptic output signal to the haptic output device so that the haptic effect is synchronized with the video displayed on the display.
US11137817B2
A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium stores therein an arrangement search program that causes a computer that searches arrangement of virtual machines in plural servers in a facility including the plural servers to execute a process that includes setting an initial value of a parameter concerning the arrangement of the plurality of virtual machines in the plurality of servers, based on at least any one of first performance information on power consumption of the plurality of servers, second performance information on power consumption of air conditioning equipment installed in the facility, third performance information on power consumption of power source equipment installed in the facility, and heat coupling information on heat coupling among the plurality of servers and among the plurality of servers and the air conditioning equipment; and updating the parameter by a sequential parameter estimation method, so as to optimize power consumption of the overall facility.
US11137813B2
The power consumption of an analog arithmetic circuit is reduced. The analog arithmetic circuit includes a plurality of first circuits. An output terminal of the k-th (k is a natural number) first circuit is connected to an input terminal of the k+1-th first circuit. Each of the first circuits includes a memory circuit which holds an analog signal, a second circuit which performs arithmetic processing using the analog signal, a switch which controls power supply to the second circuit, and a controller. The conduction state of the switch included in the k-th first circuit is controlled by the controller included in the k+1-th first circuit. The arithmetic processing performed by the second circuit included in the k+1-th first circuit is started by the controller included in the k+1-th first circuit.
US11137809B2
A plurality of thermal electric cooler (TEC) elements are formed in a TEC grid structure. Control logic dynamically varies a supply current supplied to each TEC element (or group of TEC elements) in the TEC grid based on changes in power density respectively associated with areas cooled by each of the TEC elements or group of TEC elements.
US11137800B2
A foldable display device includes a flexible display panel, a case supporting the flexible display panel, a bonding member fixing the flexible display panel to the case. The case includes a hinge portion, and supports respectively coupled to the hinge portion at opposing sides of the hinge portion. The flexible display panel includes a bendable area corresponding to the hinge portion, and planar areas respectively at opposing sides of the bendable area and corresponding to the supports of the case. The bonding member is between a support of the case and the corresponding planar area of the flexible to display panel, and is displaceable with respect to the support along one of a thickness direction and a width direction of the flexible display panel when the flexible display panel is folded.
US11137790B2
Voltage supply system with boost converter and charge pump. A voltage supply system can include a boost converter controllable to receive an input voltage at an input node and generate an output voltage when the output voltage is greater than or equal to the input voltage. The voltage supply system can include a charge pump controllable to receive the input voltage at the input node and generate the output voltage when the output voltage is less than the input voltage. The voltage supply system can further include a controller configured to receive a control signal and control the boost converter or the charge pump to generate the output voltage at an output node based on the control signal.
US11137787B1
A comparator circuit included in a computer system employs an inverter circuit as a high-speed comparison circuit. To allow the inverter circuit to compare an input signal to a particular threshold value, a trip point of the inverter circuit is adjusted to match the threshold value by modifying a voltage level of a power supply node coupled to the inverter. To modify the voltage level of the power supply node, a replica of the inverter circuit is biased to generate a bias signal that corresponds to the trip point of the inverter circuit. A comparator circuit compares the bias signal to the threshold value, and adjusts the voltage level of the power supply node using results of the comparison. An output circuit adjusts an output of the inverter circuit to generate a full-rail output signal.
US11137776B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for the coordination of actions between movable objects. For example, a method may coordinate actions between at least a first and a second movable object. The method may detect, by the first movable object, the position of a target. The method may control the position of a first movable object based on the position of the target. A command may be received for the first movable object to perform an action in coordination with the second movable object. In some embodiments, the command may be to take images of the target to create a bullet time effect.
US11137768B2
A position estimation system and the like that prevent accuracy of self-position information from decreasing is provided. A position estimation system 100 according to the present disclosure includes a first sensor configured to output first data including data of an angular velocity of a wheel driven when a moving apparatus 10 moves. The position estimation system further includes a second sensor configured to output second data including position data of the moving apparatus 10 detected not according to the angular velocity of the wheel or data concerning a change in a posture of the moving apparatus 10. The position estimation system further includes a self-position estimation unit configured to set a priority of the first data according to a value of the angular velocity of the wheel and integrate the first data with the second data based on the set priority to estimate a position of the moving apparatus 10.
US11137755B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) configured as a drone-coupled wireless device may be configured to transmit a message indicating information relating to the drone-coupled wireless device (e.g., aerial state, non-aerial state, airborne status, drone capability, quality of service (QoS) requirements of a drone service) to a base station. The message may also carry a session connectivity request, which the base station may use to determine that the UE is a drone-coupled wireless device, establish a bearer appropriate for a subscription service of the UE (e.g., as indicated by the drone capability), and apply appropriate protocols for the UE.
US11137754B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for mitigating issues for a vehicle executing a remote vehicle operation, wherein there is a communication delay between the vehicle and a remote computing device providing control. An example vehicle includes a communication system, an autonomy unit for performing a remote vehicle operation, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a remote vehicle operation control signal via the communication system from a remote computing device. The processor is also configured to determine a delay corresponding to the control signal. And the processor is further configured to modify the remote vehicle operation responsive to determining that the delay rises above a delay threshold at a threshold rate.
US11137753B2
A system for RF communications with UAVs which includes two distinct frequency bands, one for optional use to support datagrams between a UAV payload and a computer or controller and a second RF communications band dedicated to command and control and navigation datagrams transception between the UAV and a host controller or control network. Embodiments of the system are implemented to cover, with regard to the second RF communications sub-system, a large region suitable for enabling communications with a number of UAVs by creating a skyward projected cell system, and dividing its frequency range into sub-channels, where sub-bands into which the frequency range may be divided may be used in a re-use scheme.
US11137750B2
A time-series data processing device (10) includes: a protruding data extracting unit (2) for extracting, from time-series data (1) which is a sequence of values obtained from sequential observation with the elapse of time, protruding data including an ascending leg a value of which continuously rises with respect to time and a descending leg a value of which continuously drops with respect to time; an occurrence pattern defining unit (3) for defining an occurrence pattern of protruding data in the time-series data (1); and an occurrence pattern detecting unit (4) for detecting, as a segment (5), one or more pieces of protruding data matching the occurrence pattern defined by the occurrence pattern defining unit (3), from among a set of pieces of protruding data extracted by the protruding data extracting unit (2).
US11137747B2
A control device that controls a drive unit included by a production line includes: an obtaining unit that obtains physical information indicating a variation with time of a posture of a worker at work; a storage for storing physical information of the worker obtained when the worker works in a stable posture; a detection unit that detects a difference between a magnitude of the variation with time indicated by the physical information obtained and a magnitude of a variation with time indicated by the physical information stored in the storage; and a determination unit that determines from the detected difference whether to change an amount of controlling the drive unit.
US11137741B2
In order to realize stable quality control, provided is a quality control device (1) having an input device which receives data such as an operation condition of each device (21) to (26) in a production system (20) for producing a product; a calculation unit which assigns a value of the operation condition to a correlation formula calculated in advance and calculates a value derived from the correlation formula; and a determination unit which performs good or bad determination on a quality of a workpiece in each process, on the basis of a result calculated by the calculation unit. Further, when “bad” is determined as a result of the good or bad determination, the quality control device (1) calculates an appropriate value of the operation condition and sets the value to each device (21) to (26).
US11137738B2
A method for calibrating a computer-numerically-controlled machine can include capturing one or more images of at least a portion of the computer-numerically-controlled machine. The one or more images can be captured with at least one camera located inside an enclosure containing a material bed. A mapping relationship can be created which maps a pixel in the one or more images to a location within the computer-numerically controlled machine. The creation of the mapping relationship can include compensating for a difference in the one or more images relative to one or more physical parameters of the computer-numerically-controlled machine and/or a material positioned on the material bed. Related systems and/or articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11137734B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide an environment where the functions of communicating with an external device are multiplexed in a controller. A controller executes a plurality of communication programs, and executes a user program for controlling an object to be controlled, the user program including an instruction for communicating with an external device. The controller includes a communication interface that is connectable to any of the plurality of communication programs and controls communication between the plurality of communication programs and the external device. The controller receives data to be communicated to the external device when the instruction is executed, and based on a destination of the data, determines a communication program for transmitting the data to the external device, from among the plurality of communication programs.
US11137728B2
Provided is a processing device including a simulation system including a model control unit and a predetermined control block structure corresponding to a predetermined device-side configuration, wherein a time response of the predetermined device-side configuration to a predetermined input value is calculated by convolution processing using impulse response information for calculation relating to the predetermined device-side configuration and the predetermined input value, and simulation of the simulation system is performed using the calculated time response. By changing a model control parameter set in the model control unit and performing the simulation, a correlation between a predetermined performance index and the model control parameter is calculated based on a response result of the simulation system, and a device control parameter is determined based on the correlation. According to this configuration, a device control parameter of a motor control device in a control system can be accurately and efficiently determined.
US11137725B2
A smartwatch comprises a CPU configured to acquire current location information, acquire map information based on the current location information, select any icon from a plurality of icons associated with predetermined information wherein the plurality of icons are different from each other, add the selected icon to a designated point designated on the map information in response to a user operation, and report predetermined information corresponding to the icon added to the designated point to the user when a predetermined condition for the selected icon is satisfied, and a display unit configured to display additional information added by the CPU and its corresponding designated point together with the map information.
US11137724B2
An electronic timepiece can prevent overrunning when driving a motor at a high speed. The electronic timepiece has a controller that controls a driver to an on state or an off state according to the current value detected by the current detector; a polarity changer that determines driving one step of the motor ended and changes the polarity of the drive current when the on time or off time is detected to meet a specific condition; and a drive period adjuster that sets the terminal supplying the drive current to the coil to a first state if the remaining drive step count is greater than the remaining count evaluation number, and if the remaining drive step count is less than or equal to the remaining count evaluation number, sets the terminal to a second state in which the brake force applied to the rotor is greater than in the first state.
US11137718B2
An image-forming apparatus includes: a cover; and a separation mechanism. The separation mechanism includes a cam; a cam follower; and a release member. The release member is configured to move the cam follower from an operating position to a non-operating position in accordance with movement of the cover from a closed position to an open position. In a state where the cam follower is at the operating position, the cam follower is guided by the cam in accordance with rotation of the cam to allow the cam follower to slidably move between a protruding position and a standby position. In a state where the cam follower is at the non-operating position, the cam follower is not guided by the cam to allow the cam follower to be maintained at the standby position independently of the rotation of the cam.
US11137717B2
A process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a charge roller unit, and a storage recess. The photosensitive drum is disposed on a body frame. The charge roller unit includes a charge roller and is separate from the body frame. The storage recess stores the charge roller unit. The charge roller unit includes a storage frame and a support. The support supports the charge roller and is movably held on the storage frame. The support includes an operation portion that switches between a remote position and a contact position while the charge roller unit is stored in the storage recess. In the remote position, the charge roller is separated from the photosensitive drum. In the contact position, the charge roller is in contact with the photosensitive drum.
US11137715B2
An image-forming apparatus includes: a main body; a toner cartridge having a first opening; a process cartridge having a photosensitive drum and a second opening; a positioning part; a transfer unit; and an urging member. The toner cartridge and process cartridge are attachable to and detachable from the main body in an axial direction of the photosensitive drum. The positioning part and transfer unit are positioned above the process cartridge attached to the main body. The positioning part fixes the attached process cartridge in position relative to the main body. The urging member urges the attached process cartridge toward the positioning part and urges the process cartridge such that the toner can be supplied from the toner cartridge to the process cartridge through the first opening and the second opening when the toner cartridge and the process cartridge are attached to the main body.
US11137709B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer member, a voltage source, a current detecting portion, and a controller. In a case that the predetermined voltage is changed in a first job on the basis of the detection result of the current detecting portion during passing of the recording material through the transfer portion, in a second job subsequent to the first job, when a first recording material of the second job passes through the transfer portion, the controller changes a voltage applied to the transfer member on the basis of the predetermined voltage changed in the first job.
US11137702B2
A fixing unit includes a heater, a fixing member, a press roller, a sensor, a processor, and a memory. The fixing member is heated by heat generated by the heater. The press roller forms a nip portion through which a medium having a fixing target material transferred thereto passes, between the press roller and the fixing member. The sensor measures a temperature of the fixing member. The processor controls the temperature of the fixing member so as to be a target value by acquiring the temperature detected by the sensor in a first period, and also acquires the temperature detected by the sensor in a second period shorter than the first period. The memory records the temperature acquired in the second period.
US11137701B2
A fusing apparatus for an image forming apparatus includes a fusing belt having a sidewall that faces the fusing bel, a guide member, disposed on the sidewall and having a lower portion disposed above a lower portion of the bushing, and a ring member, disposed between the guide member and the fusing belt. The ring member can be deflected toward the sidewall in a gap which is provided below the lower portion of the guide member and between the ring member and the sidewall.
US11137697B2
A developing cartridge may include a developing roller including a developing roller shaft extending in a first direction, a casing, and a developing electrode, or a pivotable member configured to be electrically connected to the developing roller shaft. The developing electrode or pivotable member has a first end portion electrically connected to the developing roller shaft and a second end portion located farther away from the developing roller shaft than the first end portion, the second end portion being pivotable about a rotation axis extending in the first direction with respect to the first end portion.
US11137684B2
A method of performing a lithography process includes receiving a lithography mask and performing overlay measurement. The lithography mask includes a substrate that contains a low thermal expansion material (LTEM); a reflective structure over a first side of the substrate; an absorber layer over the reflective structure and containing one or more first overlay marks; and a conductive layer over a second side of the substrate and containing one or more second overlay marks. The second side is opposite the first side. The overlay measurement includes using the one or more first overlay marks in an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography process or using the one or more second overlay marks in a non-EUV lithography process.
US11137680B2
A shaping apparatus that shapes a composition on a substrate by using a mold, includes a substrate positioning mechanism for positioning the substrate, a mold positioning mechanism for positioning the mold, a dispenser for arranging the composition on a shot region of the substrate, and a gas supply for supplying a gas onto the substrate from a gas supply port in a state in which the substrate is driven by the substrate positioning mechanism. A flow rate of the gas supplied onto the substrate by the gas supply starts to decrease in a period during which the substrate is driven by the substrate positioning mechanism so that the shot region where the composition is arranged by the dispenser is moved under the mold.
US11137676B2
The present application discloses a photomask and an exposure system, the photomask comprising a completely transparent region and a completely shading region disposed around the periphery of the completely transparent region, and a shading region is disposed in the completely transparent region, and a light transmittance of the shading region is defined as T, 0≤T<100%.
US11137672B2
A method of forming a mask includes forming a reflective multilayer over a substrate; forming a capping layer over the reflective multilayer, in which the capping layer includes a ruthenium-containing material and a low carbon solubility material that has a carbon solubility lower than a carbon solubility of the ruthenium-containing material; forming an absorption layer over the capping layer; and etching the absorption layer until exposing the capping layer.
US11137658B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling transitions in an optically switchable device. In one aspect, a controller for a tintable window may include a processor, an input for receiving output signals from sensors, and instructions for causing the processor to determine a level of tint of the tintable window, and an output for controlling the level of tint in the tintable window. The instructions may include a relationship between the received output signals and the level of tint, with the relationship employing output signals from an exterior photosensor, an interior photosensor, an occupancy sensor, an exterior temperature sensor, and a transmissivity sensor. In some instances, the controller may receive output signals over a network and/or be interfaced with a network, and in some instances, the controller may be a standalone controller that is not interfaced with a network.
US11137656B1
A flexible bistable light modulating device includes a first flexible transparent conductive film and a second flexible transparent conductive film; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first flexible transparent conductive film and the second flexible transparent conductive film. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal mixture and a sealing structure to seal the liquid crystal mixture within the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal mixture includes at least one bimesogenic compound, at least one nematic liquid crystal compound and at least one chiral compound; and a plurality of supporting structures dispersing inside the liquid crystal layer. The weight percentage of the supporting structures over the liquid crystal mixture is 0.1%-4.5%. The flexible bistable light modulating device has two states that are stable without application of an external electric field, thus saving energy, simplifying the production process, saving cost and improving product yield.
US11137654B2
Some of a plurality of image signal lines of a display apparatus according to one embodiment includes: a plurality of bypass wiring portions (bypass wirings) arranged in a frame region so as to have both ends being connected to a plurality of extension wiring portions (extension wirings). The plurality of bypass wiring portions of the plurality of image signal lines include: a plurality of second-layer bypass wirings arranged in a second conductive layer; and a plurality of third-layer bypass wirings arranged in a third conductive layer that is different from a first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. Each of an arrangement pitch between the plurality of second-layer bypass wirings and an arrangement pitch between the plurality of third-layer bypass wirings is smaller than an arrangement pitch between the plurality of image signal lines in a display region.
US11137653B2
A display device includes a base, a semiconductor layer on the base and including source, drain and channel regions, a first insulating layer on the semiconductor layer, a gate line on the first insulating layer and overlapping the channel region, a second insulating layer on the gate line, a data line on the second insulating layer, a third insulating layer on the data line, a drain electrode disposed on the third insulating layer and in contact with the drain region through a contact hole in the first, second and third insulating layers, a first protective electrode on the drain electrode to overlap the drain electrode, a fourth insulating layer on the third insulating layer where the first protective electrode is formed, and a pixel electrode on the fourth insulating layer and in contact with the first protective electrode through a contact hole in the fourth insulating layer.
US11137652B2
An array substrate and a fabrication method thereof, and a display device are provided. In the array substrate the pixel units includes common electrode, and the common electrodes of adjacent pixel units in the column direction is electrically connected through a first connection portion; the first signal line is located between the adjacent pixel units in the column direction. A total area of the first connection portion between the common electrodes of every two of the pixel units overlapping with the first signal line is a first overlapping area, at least one end of the first signal line is a first signal input end, and the first overlapping areas decrease as minimum distances from the first connection portions to the first signal input end increase in the row direction.
US11137648B2
An electronic device may be provided with a display having a thin-film transistor layer. One or more holes in the thin-film transistor layer may be used to form pathways from display circuitry to other circuitry underneath the display. One or more conductive bridges may pass through holes in the thin-film transistor layer and may have one end that couples to the display circuitry and a second end that couples to a printed circuit underneath the display. These conductive bridges may be formed from wire bonding. Wire bond connections may be encapsulated with potting material to improve the reliability of the wire bond and increase the resiliency of the display. Display signal lines may be routed through holes in a thin-film transistor layer to run along a backside of the display thereby reducing the need for space in the border region for display circuitry.
US11137642B2
A transparent liquid crystal display panel is provided, including a first substrate and a second substrate oppositely to each other, where the first substrate is configured to enable light incident therein to be transmitted through a reflection; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first grating layer between the liquid crystal layer and the first substrate, where the first grating layer includes a plurality of first gratings arranged in an array; a first electrode layer between the first grating layer and the liquid crystal layer, where the first electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged in an array; and a second electrode layer between the liquid crystal layer and the second substrate; an orthographic projection of each of the first gratings onto the first substrate at least partially covers an area between orthographic projections of two adjacent first electrodes onto the first substrate; where the liquid crystal layer is configured to form a plurality of liquid crystal prisms arranged in an array in the case that voltages are applied to the plurality of first electrodes and the second electrode layer respectively, to enable light emitted from the plurality of liquid crystal prisms to return to the plurality of liquid crystal prisms after being reflected by the second substrate.
US11137626B2
An ophthalmic device includes a lens and an electronic component embedded in the lens to enhance the functionality of the lens. The ophthalmic device includes a first coil to wirelessly receive energy from an external device, such as a wireless charger, and wirelessly transmits the received energy to a second coil coupled to the electronic component so as to power the electronic component. The first coil can function as part of a repeater to facilitate the wireless charging. The repeater can receive electrical energy wirelessly and works with various positions, sizes, and shapes of the electronic component. The wireless power efficiency can also be increased using the repeater to concentrate a magnetic flux within the second coil.
US11137623B2
The spectacle lens includes a lens substrate including a blue light absorbing compound, and a multilayer film including a metal layer having a film thickness of 1.0 nm to 10.0 nm, wherein a blue light cut ratio is 21.0% or more, an average reflectance in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 500 nm measured on an object-side surface is 1.00% or less, and an average reflectance in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 500 nm measured on an eyeball-side surface is 1.00% or less.
US11137615B2
An illumination apparatus for a projector that includes a light modulator is provided. The illumination apparatus includes a first illumination module emitting first radiation, a second illumination module emitting second radiation, a light mixing rod extending in the axial direction and a superposition unit, which superposes the first and second radiation and couples this into the light mixing rod. The superposition unit includes a first imaging optical unit which focuses the first radiation into the light mixing rod such that a first focus is present, and a second imaging optical unit which focuses the second radiation into the light mixing rod such that a second focus is present. The first focus is spaced apart from the second focus in the axial direction.
US11137612B2
A head-mounted device may include a housing structure, a display module mounted in the housing structure, and adjustable support structures coupled to the housing structure. The adjustable support structures may include a first portion that rests against a user's forehead and second and third portions that rest against the user's cheeks or temples. In some arrangements, the adjustable support structures include posts with adjustable lengths, telescoping layers of material, inflatable structures, and/or elastomeric materials that expand and retract to accommodate different face shapes and sizes. In some arrangements, the adjustable support structures include a cable located in a flexible member. When pressure is applied to a forehead portion of the flexible member, the cable pulls the temple portions of the flexible member towards each other. In some arrangements, the adjustable support structures include a movable member that pivots about a pivot axis.
US11137610B1
A wearable display apparatus has an image generator that is energizable to form a 2D image; a partially transmissive mirror having a curved reflective surface; a beam splitter disposed to reflect light toward the curved mirror surface; and an optical image relay that is configured to relay the formed 2D image at the image generator to a curved focal surface of the partially transmissive mirror, wherein the curved focal surface is defined between the curved reflective surface of the partially transmissive mirror and the beam splitter, wherein the relay, curved mirror, and beam splitter are configured to form an exit pupil for viewing the generated 2D image as an optical virtual image; and a spatial light modulator configured with addressable array of pixels for selectively changing opacity for visible light from the object field according to dimensions of the generated 2D image.
US11137603B2
Techniques disclosed herein relate generally to surface-relief structures. In one embodiment, a surface-relief grating includes a plurality of grating ridges. The plurality of grating ridges includes a first set of grating ridges characterized by a first refractive index, and a second set of grating ridges interleaved with the first set of grating ridges and characterized by a second refractive index different from the first refractive index. The plurality of grating ridges is imprinted in a polymer layer by a nanoimprint lithography process and is exposed to a light pattern to form the first set of grating ridges and the second set of grating ridges that have different refractive indices.
US11137600B2
Provided is a display device to prevent a decrease in visibility of a work object. The display device includes a display unit that displays work support information through surrounding scenery, a sensor group including at least one imaging unit that images in a visual line direction of a user, a work state determination unit that determines a work state of the user based on an output from the sensor group, and a display control unit that changes display of the work support information on the display unit corresponding to the determined work state of the user.
US11137595B2
A light deflection device includes a reflector; a drive beam supporting the reflector such that the reflector is movable; a supporting section supporting the drive beam; and a piezoelectric drive circuit disposed on the drive beam. The light deflection device further includes circuitry configured to output a first drive-voltage waveform and a second drive-voltage waveform to the piezoelectric drive circuit. The first drive-voltage waveform has a period of a positive slope within one cycle, the period of the positive slope includes a period of a first slope and a period of a second slope different from the first slope. The second drive-voltage waveform has a period of a negative slope within one cycle, and the period of the negative slope includes a period of a third slope and a period of a fourth slope different from the third slope.
US11137591B1
The present disclosure relates to an imaging system which may make use of an electronic controller, a digital micromirror array, an aperture control system and a detector to image a desired scene. The digital micromirror array has a plurality of micromirror elements responsive to control signals generated by the electronic controller for electronically aiming the micromirror elements in a desired direction to image the desired area, and for receiving and reflecting light emanating from the desired area. The aperture control system receives light reflected from the digital micromirror array and passes a predetermined subportion of the received light therethrough. The detector is responsive to the predetermined subportion of light.
US11137587B2
A light sheet microscope includes a specimen-side objective having an illumination device configured to provide a first illumination beam which is focused for forming a first light sheet for illuminating a specimen from a first direction, the first light sheet being inclined obliquely in relation to an optical axis of the objective and being guided through the objective. A detector is configured to detect light passing through the objective. The illumination device is further configured to provide at least one second illumination beam which is focused for forming at least one second light sheet for illuminating the specimen from at least one second direction that differs from the first direction, the at least one second light sheet being inclined obliquely in relation to the optical axis of the objective and being guided through the objective.
US11137585B2
A lens module is provided, including: a lens barrel including first and second barrel walls; and a set of lenses received in the lens barrel and including at least a first lens and a second lens arranged from an object side to an image side. The first lens includes a first optical portion and a first peripheral portion surrounding the first optical portion. A surface of the first barrel wall close to the image side includes a first planar surface extending horizontally towards an optical axis from a position where the first barrel wall is connected to the second barrel wall; a first oblique surface extending obliquely from the first planar surface towards the optical axis and towards the image side; and a second planar surface extending horizontally from the first oblique surface towards the optical axis.
US11137582B2
A generally conical element is defined about a vertical axis and having a tip on the vertical axis, and a generally conical odd aspheric contour mirror surface that is defined upward from the tip relative to the vertical axis. A toroidal lens element, disposed to capture light data input of a surrounding scene reflected from the odd aspheric contour mirror surface, has a cross-section shape defined relative to a plane passing through the toroidal lens element and including the vertical axis and is defined by revolving a convex or concave lens surface cross-section shape around the vertical axis, the convex or concave lens surface cross-section shape defined from another axis parallel to the vertical axis but offset, wherein the toroidal lens element cross-sectional shape is constant in rotation about the vertical axis and imparts a toroid shape to the toroidal lens element relative to the vertical axis.
US11137576B2
A photographing optical lens assembly includes eight lens elements, the eight lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. Each of the eight lens elements has an object-side surface facing towards the object side and an image-side surface facing towards the image side. At least one surface of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of at least one lens element of the photographing optical lens assembly is aspheric and includes at least one inflection point.
US11137575B2
The present disclosure relates to a camera lens processing method, a camera lens, a camera assembly and an electronic device. The camera lens includes a lens barrel. The processing method includes: a first lens group and a second lens group are obtained, wherein the second lens group is configured to form a light emitting surface of the camera lens, and the first lens group is configured to form a light incidence surface of the camera lens and includes a plurality of interconnected lenses; the second lens group is mounted into the lens barrel; and the first lens group is mounted into the lens barrel and made to partially protrude from an end surface of the lens barrel to obtain the camera lens.
US11137574B2
An image capturing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, a second lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, a third lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, and a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof.
US11137570B1
A reflection assembly is configured to reflect a three dimensional image in two planes. The reflection assembly has a housing that further has a back wall joined to a top wall, and a bottom wall. A first frame is rotatably joined to the top wall and the bottom wall. The first frame further comprises a first frame major axis and a first frame minor axis. A first mirror is joined to the first frame. A second frame is rotatably joined to the top wall and the bottom wall. The second frame further comprises a second frame major axis and a second frame minor axis. A second mirror is joined to the second frame. An intersection angle is formed by the first frame minor axis and the second frame minor axis is about eighty degrees measured counterclockwise from the first frame minor axis to the second frame minor axis.
US11137566B2
The present disclosure provides a lens module comprising a lens barrel, a lens received in the lens barrel, and a pressure ring configured for fixedly holding the lens in the lens barrel, wherein, the lens barrel comprises a primary barrel wall and a secondary barrel wall extending from a end of the primary barrel wall to an optical axis and forming a light through hole, wherein, the primary barrel wall comprises a first annular groove disposed on an inner wall adjacent to the lens, the lens fits with the first annular groove to form a pressure ring position, and the pressure ring is partly received in the pressure ring position. Compared with related art, the lens module provided by the present disclosure has higher reliability.
US11137559B2
An optical chip package is provided. The optical chip package includes a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, and a spacer layer. The first and second transparent substrates each has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first transparent substrate has a thickness that is different than that of the second transparent substrate. The second transparent substrate is disposed over the first transparent substrate, and the spacer layer is bonded between the second surface of the first transparent substrate and the first surface of the second transparent substrate. The recess region extends from the second surface of the second transparent substrate into the first transparent substrate, so that the first transparent substrate has a step-shaped sidewall. A method of forming an optical chip package is also provided.
US11137555B2
An optical coupling device can couple incident light from a fiber into waveguides, but can reduce the coupling of return light from the waveguides into the fiber. A Faraday rotator layer can rotate by forty-five degrees, with a first handedness, respective planes of polarization of incident beams, and can rotate by forty-five degrees, with a second handedness opposite the first handedness, respective planes of polarization of return beams. A redirection layer can include at least one grating coupler that can redirect an incident beam of one polarization so that the redirected path extends within the redirection layer toward a first waveguide, and can redirect an incident beam of an opposite polarization so that the redirected path extends within the redirection layer toward a second waveguide. An optional birefringent layer can spatially separate incident beam having different polarizations, so that two single-polarization grating couplers can be used.
US11137552B2
An expanded beam connector for use with a fibre optic fibre is described, the expanded beam connector comprising; a body and at least one bore located within said body for accepting a fibre optic ferrule, wherein the perimeter of said bore comprises at least one channel extending from an open end of said bore. Methods of manufacturing an expanded beam connector are also described.
US11137549B2
An optical fiber holder includes a first holder having a first upper surface and a first lower surface. The optical fiber holder is configured to be in contact with a working station through the first lower surface. Further, the optical fiber holder can include a second holder having a second upper surface and a second lower surface. The second holder can be operably attached to the first holder through the second lower surface. Also, the second holder is configured to rotate with respect to the first holder. Further, the optical fiber holder can include a third holder having plurality of holes therethrough configured to receive a respective plurality of optical fibers. The third holder can include a plurality of protrusions operably coupled to the second holder and configured to enable the third holder to move with respect to the second holder.
US11137539B2
A multicore optical fiber that includes a plurality of waveguiding cores disposed in a cladding. The plurality of waveguiding cores include one or more first waveguiding cores that have a first propagation constant and one or more second waveguiding cores that have a second propagation constant, where the first propagation constant differs from the second propagation constant. The one or more first waveguiding cores and the one or more second waveguiding cores are disposed in the cladding in a ring distribution and at least a portion of the ring distribution is arranged based on a quasi-periodic sequence having a plurality of sequence segments. Each sequence segment is determined based on a quasi-periodic function, has an order, and corresponds to an arrangement segment of a first waveguiding cores, a second waveguiding cores, or combinations thereof. The ring distribution includes at least one arrangement segment corresponding with a third-order sequence segment or higher of the quasi-periodic sequence.
US11137529B2
One embodiment of a camera module comprises: a lens part; a front body on which the lens part is mounted; a substrate part which is disposed apart from the lens part in a first direction and coupled to the front body; an image sensor which is disposed on the substrate part and disposed opposite to the lens part; and a first adhesive part which is disposed between the front body and the substrate part, wherein the front body and the substrate part are coupled by the first adhesive part, and at least one through-hole is formed between the front body and the substrate part.
US11137525B2
A display device includes a plurality of layers stacked such that outer edges thereof coincide with each other at both ends in at least one of a first direction and a second direction that are orthogonal to each other and each layer including holes communicating in the stacking direction at a plurality of positions, and a resin continuously filled in the holes over the entirety of the plurality of layers. The plurality of layers include a display panel including a display area. The display panel includes the corresponding holes outside the display area. The holes of the plurality of layers are displaced in a plan view, as compared with the matching accuracy of the outer edges.
US11137520B2
A method of making an integrated depth sensor window lens, such as for an augmented reality (AR) head set, the depth sensor window lens comprising a sensor lens and an illuminator lens separated by an opaque dam. The method uses a two-shot injection molding process, a first shot comprising an optically clear polymeric material to form the sensor lens and the illuminator lens and the second shot comprising an opaque polymeric material to form the separator of the two.
US11137515B2
Described are tools, systems, and methods for dielectric logging using transient waveforms. In some embodiments, one or more microstrip antennas are employed for the measurements. In various embodiments, the waveforms are processed in the time-domain to determine the dielectric properties of a formation, from which geophysical formation properties can then be derived. Further embodiments are disclosed.
US11137512B2
A method for operating a sensor system having at least three sensor elements that can be attached on the surface of machines or components, the sensor elements having electrodes for forming electrical fields between electrodes having different electrical potential, the electrical fields changing upon the approach and/or contact of a body or an object, the electrodes acting as transmit electrode and/or as receive electrode, and the sensor elements being controlled in succession by a control device in a particular temporal or positional sequence.
US11137506B2
A positron tomography device using a micropattern detector is provided. The positron tomography device comprises: a micropattern gas detection device accelerating electrons so as to generate second ionized electrons; a lead-out strip through which an electrical signal is transmitted by the second ionized electrons; and a signal processing unit for processing the electrical signal detected in the lead-out strip arranged at a predetermined position, wherein a plurality of micropattern gas detection devices is disposed in a ring shape, and the lead-out strip is disposed outside the micropattern gas detection device.
US11137505B2
The invention relates to a method for reconstruction of an image of a morphometric parameter being a ratio of the frequency of annihilation of an electron with a positron to three and two quanta. The device for imaging the interior of the studied object comprises a series of TOF-PET detection modules (110), a data acquisition subsystem (111), a data selection subsystem (113) configured so as to record and identify all types of quanta emitted from the studied object after administration of an isotopic marker, the data processing system being characterised in that it allows for reconstructing (121, 123, 131, 133, 141) and visualising (143) of a δ3γ(x,y,z) image of the ration of two-quantum and three-quantum annihilations without the necessity to measure the deexcitation quanta.
US11137495B2
Example sonar transducer assemblies configured for reduced interference are provided herein. An example sonar transducer assembly includes a housing, a first transducer, and a second transducer. The first transducer is positioned within the housing such that a length is configured to extend in a first mounting plane and a produced first beam defining a fan-shape extends in a first plane. The second transducer is positioned at a tilted angle within the housing such that a length is configured to extend in a second mounting plane and a produced second beam defining a fan-shape is in a second plane. The second mounting plane is non-parallel to the first mounting plane and is offset from the first mounting plane by at least 1 degree such that the second plane is not parallel to the first plane so as to reduce interference between the first transducer and the second transducer.
US11137494B2
Distance-detection system includes a signal-generator configured to provide a drive signal and an ultrasound transducer having at least one ultrasonic element. The ultrasound transducer is configured to transmit a pulse of sound waves and detect reflected sound waves. The distance-detection system also includes a receiver configured to receive a detection signal from the ultrasound transducer. The detection signal includes a reverberation component representing reverberation of the ultrasound transducer and a reflected component representing reflected sound waves from the interface. The receiver is configured to receive a drive-cancellation signal that is inverted with respect to the reverberation component of the detection signal. The receiver is configured to determine a time-of-flight measurement based on the detection signal in which the reverberation component of the detection signal is reduced by the drive-cancellation signal.
US11137491B2
An electronic device and an operation method of the electronic device for transceiving data through ultra-wideband (UWB) in a wireless communication system are provided. The operation method includes broadcasting or multicasting, by the electronic device, a ranging start message including first data; receiving, by the electronic device from another electronic device, a ranging response message including second data; and broadcasting or multicasting, by the electronic device, a ranging final message including third data.
US11137487B1
In a general aspect, a radar system includes a photonic crystal receiver. In some aspects, the radar system includes a transmitter station configured to emit probe signals of RF electromagnetic radiation into a region. The radar system also includes a receiver station configured to process return signals of RF electromagnetic radiation from the region. The return signals are based on probe signals scattered from one or more objects in the region. The receiver station includes a photonic crystal receiver formed of dielectric material. The photonic crystal receiver includes an antenna structure, a photonic crystal structure, and a vapor. The receiver station also includes an optical system and a data processing subsystem. The optical system is configured to generate spectroscopic data based on optical signals from the photonic crystal receiver. The data processing subsystem is configured to generate a time series of property data based on the spectroscopic data.
US11137484B1
A calibration system for calibrating tracking equipment includes a segmented dish formed from a plurality of individual panels, a support frame formed from a plurality of individual structural shafts to support the segmented dish, and a rotatable platform to hold the tracking equipment to be calibrated. The segmented dish includes a plurality of sensor assemblies rotatably coupled to its individual panels and a plurality of motor assemblies to control operation of the sensor assemblies.
US11137476B2
A frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system is provided that includes a receiver configured to generate a digital intermediate frequency (IF) signal, and an interference monitoring component coupled to the receiver to receive the digital IF signal, in which the interference monitoring component is configured to monitor at least one sub-band in the digital IF signal for interference, in which the at least one sub-band does not include a radar signal.
US11137473B1
An acoustic goniometer device may include at least four microphones coupled to a collapsible structure. The device may further include a processor configured to receive at least four sound signals from the at least four microphones and to determine a direction of arrival of a sound event within three dimensions based on a time shift between the at least four sound signals. A method may include receiving at least four sound signals from at least four microphones coupled to a collapsible structure and determining a direction of arrival of a sound event within three dimensions based on a time shift between the at least four sound signals.
US11137461B2
In a magnetic resonance method and apparatus for the quantitative spatially resolved determination of a physiological tissue parameter of an examination subject, a signal model is determined with m different signal parameters that influence an MR signal of the subject. N different MR images of the subject are recorded with m⇐N, and measured data tuples with N measured values are determined from the N MR images. A lookup table is created with multiple table entries, which each assigns an N-dimensional tuple of t synthesized measured values, which were calculated using the signal model, to an m-dimensional tuple of signal parameters. The lookup table is pre-processed into a sorted lookup table, and at least some of the signal parameters are determined by comparing the pixel-by-pixel measured data tuples with N dimensional tuples of the synthesized measured values in the sorted lookup table for at least some of the pixels.
US11137454B2
Example embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic relaxometry measurement apparatus, comprising: a magnetizing system configured to supply a pulsed magnetic fields to a sample; a sensor system configured to detect magnetic fields produced by induced magnetization of the sample after a magnetic field pulse from the magnetizing system; one or more compensating coils configured to suppress generation of eddy currents in an environment surrounding the apparatus due to the pulsed magnetic fields.
US11137445B1
A system and method for operating a data processing system to modify a time domain input signal to a signal generator to correct for distortions introduced by the signal generator are disclosed. The method includes receiving a target signal specifying a signal to be generated by the signal generator and initializing an input signal with the target signal, the method includes a) inputting the input signal to the signal generator to arrive at a signal generator output signal; b) measuring a frequency spectrum of the signal generator output signal with a test instrument; c) updating the input signal based on a comparison of said measured frequency spectrum and a frequency spectrum of target input signal; and d) repeating steps a)-c) until an exit condition is satisfied.
US11137443B2
Systems for probing superconducting circuits, including using a non-magnetic cryogenic heater, are disclosed. A system including a circuit board having a socket and a heater, mounted on the socket, is provided. The heater includes a resistive element and an arrangement for connection with wires configured to supply a current to the resistive element, where the heater is non-magnetic. The system further includes an integrated circuit package, mounted on the socket, such that the heater is located between the socket and the package, where the integrated circuit comprises superconducting circuits having a first temperature corresponding to a superconducting transition temperature. The heater is configured to raise a temperature associated with the integrated circuit from a second temperature to the first temperature, where the second temperature is lower than the first temperature, and where each of the first temperature and the second temperature is a cryogenic temperature.
US11137441B2
A device for testing performance of main boards of electronic devices includes a housing, two bases, a control device, a humidifier, a heating device, and a refrigerating device. A cavity in the housing comprises separated first and second portions. The heating device is interconnected with the first portion to create a predefined high temperature environment and the refrigerating device is interconnected with the second portion to create a predefined low temperature environment. The humidifier is interconnected with the first portion and the second portion, and configured to create predefined degrees of humidity respectively in the first portion and the second portion. The bases are inside the first portion and the second portion, and electrically connected to the control device.
US11137439B1
A digitally controlled hybrid (active-passive) tuning system includes a passive slide screw tuner using a slabline in which also fixed and adjustable signal couplers (wave-probes) are mounted, leading to and from an active feedback loop, digitally controlled using an electronic tuner. The wave-probes control the static amplitude and phase of the feedback signal and the electronic tuner controls the actual dynamic (high speed) amplitude and phase of the re-injected signal. The slide screw tuner serves as an additional static pre-matching for reducing the required feedback injection power. Appropriate passive and active calibration and search routines allow identifying tuner states satisfying DUT parameter targets.
US11137436B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for monitoring traveling waves in an electric power system. In various embodiments, a data acquisition subsystem may acquire electric power system signals. A traveling wave detection subsystem may detect two or more traveling waves based on the electric power system signals and determine a location of an event triggering the traveling waves. A traveling wave security subsystem may selectively generate a restraining signal based on the location of the event as within a blocking zone. A protection action subsystem may implement a protective action when the location is outside of a blocking zone. In various embodiments, a protective action will not be implemented for traveling waves launched from known locations of switching devices operating normally. Further, protective actions may be restrained if a magnitude of a traveling wave differs from an expected value based on a pre-fault voltage.
US11137429B2
A signal measurement device and method are provided for receiving an RF input signal using frequency sweeping. The method includes determining RMS power levels of a noise floor of the signal measurement device at respective frequencies from a start frequency to a stop frequency of a swept frequency range; determining values of resolution bandwidths corresponding to the frequencies, the values of the resolution bandwidths being inversely proportional to the RMS power levels of the noise floor at the respective frequencies; performing frequency sweeping from the start frequency to the stop frequency to receive the RF input signal at the signal measurement device; and implementing the determined values of the resolution bandwidths corresponding to the frequencies while performing the frequency sweeping. Implementing the determined values of the resolution bandwidths results in functional sensitivity of the signal measurement device being substantially constant over the swept frequency range, and provides faster sweep times.
US11137424B2
System and method for parallel measurement of devices under test in an open over the air environment
A system for parallel measurement of devices under test in an open over the air environment is provided. The system comprises a plurality of alignment structures, each comprising a shaped reflector arranged at a top end of the alignment structure and an antenna arranged at the focal region of the shaped reflector. In this context, the devices under test are arranged at bottom ends of the plurality of alignment structures, opposite to a respective shaped reflector. In addition, the plurality of alignment structures are placed parallel to each other without shielded enclosures.
US11137421B1
An energy metering system includes a plurality of current sensors suitable to sense current levels in a respective power conductor and each of said plurality of current sensors providing a respective first signal indicating respective the current levels. The energy metering system includes a plurality of non-contact voltage sensors suitable to sense voltage levels in a respective power conductor and each of the plurality of non-contact voltage sensors providing a respective second signal indicating respective the voltage levels. The energy metering system includes a monitoring device that receives each of the respective first signals and receives each of the respective second signals, and the monitoring device provides an indication of whether a circuit breaker has tripped based upon a respective first signal corresponding with one of the power conductors and whether the second signal indicates an insubstantial voltage level for the corresponding one of the power conductors.
US11137410B2
Described herein are methods for determining the overall survival of maintenance hemodialysis patients. The methods include measuring low density lipoprotein (LDL) particle size and subfraction concentrations as prognostic tools for early mortality risk detection. For example, the presence of increased very small LDL concentration or decreased LDL particle size in blood-serum serves as a useful means for prognostic risk assessment and monitoring.
US11137403B2
The present invention provides methods that are for acquiring various types of supplementary information used for diagnosis or treatment of prostate cancer, and that can be implemented in a less-invasive manner at a low cost. Provided are, by measuring the content of prostate specific antigen (PSA) having a β-N-acetylgalactosamine residue at a non-reducing terminal of a sugar chain in a specimen, and comparing the measured value with a threshold value, (1) a method for estimating whether a Gleason score (primary pattern and secondary pattern) is not less than or less than a prescribed value, (2) a method for estimating whether the pathological stage (pT) is not less than or less than a prescribed value, and (3) a method for acquiring information for assessment indicating diagnosis or treatment should be actively conducted because a GS at gross total removal is expected to be higher than a GS at biopsy.
US11137401B2
The present invention relates to a method for detecting cancer, comprising measuring the expression of a polypeptide having a reactivity of binding to an antibody against a CAPRIN-1 protein having an amino acid sequence shown in any one of the even-numbered SEQ ID NOS: 2-30 in the Sequence Listing via an antigen-antibody reaction in a sample separated from a living organism, and, a reagent for detecting a cancer comprising the CAPRIN-1 protein or a fragment thereof, an antibody against the CAPRIN-1 protein or a fragment thereof, or a polynucleotide encoding the CAPRIN-1 protein or a fragment thereof.
US11137400B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for predicting and/or determining responsiveness to an activator of JNK kinase activity. The present disclosure further relates to improved methods for treating a cancer patient with an activator of JNK kinase activity. The present disclosure also relates to methods for screening for a modulator of XBP1s protein phosphorylation.
US11137396B2
Disclosed is an in vitro method for assessing, evaluating, monitoring or predicting cell aging of a cell, wherein the method includes measuring the expression level of at least one cell surface nutrient transporter on the cell.
US11137392B2
A method of preparing a cantilever sensor for measuring biochemical interactions and their associated stress wherein a cantilever having two sides is coated on one side with at least a gold layer and both sides of the cantilever are functionalized with a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of a probe molecule by incubating the cantilever in a solution having a concentration of the probe molecule of between 1 to 1000 μM. The unpassivated cantilever sensor comprising a layer coated on one side with a coating comprising gold and being unpassivated on the opposite side, wherein both surfaces comprises a self-assembled monolayer of a probe molecule in which the surface area occupied per probe molecule varies in the range 0.4-1.5 nm2, enabling the stress at the gold top surface that is not cancelled out by a counter stress from the bottom surface so that accurate quantitation of a target molecule is achieved.
US11137386B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a device for molecule sensing. In some embodiments, the device includes a first electrode separated from a second electrode by a dielectric layer. The first electrode comprises a large area electrode and the second electrode comprises a small area electrode. At least one opening (e.g., trench) cut or otherwise created into the dielectric layer exposes a tunnel junction therebetween whereby target molecules in solution can bind across the tunnel junction.
US11137378B2
A fitting for providing a fluid connection between a capillary and a fluidic conduit of a fluidic component, wherein the fitting comprises a capillary reception configured for receiving the capillary, a force applicator configured for being operable to apply a fixing force for fixing the capillary within the fitting, a force limitation mechanism configured for limiting the fixing force being applicable by the force applicator to the capillary, a force splitter configured for splitting the fixing force into an advance force component for advancing the capillary received in the capillary reception towards the fluidic component and into a clamping force component for clamping the capillary received in the capillary reception within the fitting, and a biasing mechanism particularly arranged between the force applicator and the force splitter and configured for biasing the force splitter against the capillary.
US11137373B2
A water hardness mitigation or treatment evaluation system includes a first quartz crystal microbalance cell and a fluid coupling adapted to be fluidly coupled to a pre-treated water to be flowed over a first quartz crystal. A second quartz crystal microbalance cell and a fluid coupling are adapted to be fluidly coupled to a post-treated water to be flowed over a second quartz crystal. A computer processor receives a first frequency data from the first quartz crystal and a second frequency data from the second quartz crystal and based on a difference of frequency over time between the first frequency data and the second frequency data, provides an indication of an effectiveness of a water hardness mitigation or treatment component or system. A method to evaluate and effectiveness of a water hardness mitigation or treatment evaluation system is also described.
US11137372B2
Some embodiments of the invention may include an eddy current nondestructive evaluation device. The eddy current nondestructive evaluation device may include a rotating body; a motor coupled with the rotating body such that the motor rotates the rotating body; a permanent magnet coupled with the rotating body; a pickup coil coupled with the rotating body; and an integrator circuit electrically coupled with the pickup coil that integrates a voltage from the pickup coil to produce integrated voltage data.
US11137367B2
An electrolyte conductor (1) has a nonwoven fabric (2), onto which a plastic film (3) is laminated. A process is provided for the manufacture of the electrolyte conductor (1). An electrochemical gas sensor (10) is provided with such an electrolyte conductor (1). A gas-measuring device is provided with such a gas sensor (10).
US11137365B2
The invention relates to an assembly and a method for measuring electrical and dielectric properties of a material having dielectric properties which vary over time, with a sensor that generates an electrical field interacting with the material and which is connected indirectly or directly to a signal generator. The signal generator generates an excitation signal that can be applied to the sensor which is able to generate a sensor signal depending on the electrical and dielectric properties of the material. An analog-digital converter converts the excitation signal and the sensor signal or analog signals derived therefrom into a digital excitation signal and digital sensor signal which can be supplied to a processor-based evaluation unit. The signal generator generates a multifrequency signal with a predetermined bandwidth as the excitation signal.
US11137359B2
A defect sensing apparatus is configured to identify defects or targets in materials. A further aspect of the defect sensing apparatus includes a reference split-ring resonator coupled to the microstrip. The defect sensing apparatus includes a reference split-ring resonator located on a reference side of the microstrip and a first sensing split-ring resonator located on a sensing side of the microstrip.
US11137358B2
A testing system for testing a workpiece for a characteristic by irradiating microwaves to the workpiece and also irradiating a laser beam at an irradiation position of the microwaves, receiving microwaves reflected at the irradiation position where the workpiece has a reflectivity increased by carriers generated through photoexcitation, and measuring a lifetime of the carriers. The testing system includes a chuck table that holds the workpiece, a microwave irradiation unit that irradiates the microwaves to the workpiece held on the chuck table, a microwave reception unit that receives microwaves reflected by the workpiece, and a laser beam irradiation unit that irradiates the laser beam onto the irradiation position to which the microwaves have been irradiated.
US11137356B2
A method for exposing a buried defect, the method may include illuminating, by a radiation source, an object that comprises the buried defect, with illuminating radiation that passes through radiation transparent part of a chuck, while the object is supported by the chuck; detecting, by a sensor, a detected radiation that passed through the object, to provide a visual indication about the buried defect, wherein the visual indication is indicative of a location of the buried defect; setting, based on the location of the buried object and a spatial relationship between a cleaving element and the sensor, a cleaving axis of a cleaving element to virtually cross the buried defect; and cleaving, by the cleaving element, the object to expose the buried object.
US11137348B2
A method and system for detecting sulfur fires that comprises a remote infrared or microwave sensor to detect sulfur dioxide gas and provide an unsupervised remote daytime and nighttime sulfur fire-watch, hot spot detection, early sulfur fire prevention, sulfur fire detection, or sulfur fire control of unattended combustible sulfur blocks, sulfur stockpiles, sulfur plants, or equipment using remote sensing devices that includes detection, measurement and analysis of electromagnetic radiation to determine the presence of sulfur dioxide gas.
US11137347B2
The invention is used to ascertain a sun protection factor for light, for example for cosmetics and sunscreens for which a sun protection factor (SPF) is specified. Two measurements of the light backscattering on the skin surface are carried out in vivo or in vitro or on skin models (animal skin models or artificial skin models) before and after applying the radiation protection means onto the skin, and the sun protection factor is ascertained therefrom. In contrast to standard methods used until now, the distance between the lighting surface and the detection surface on the skin is ascertained for the irradiation path of the measurement method. The skin lighting dose used during the measurement lies below harmful limits. The sun protection factor can be ascertained according to previous standards or for additional wavelengths or wavelength ranges (e.g. UVA, VIS, NIR, IR).
US11137340B2
[Object] To provide a particle detection sensor that is compact-and-flat designed and manufacturable at low cost. [Solution] A particle detection sensor (1) includes light transmissive resin (5) that encapsulates a light emitting element (3) and a light receiving element (6), and a reflective surface (7) that is arranged on the light transmissive resin (5) and reflects output light (8) radiated from the light emitting element (3) toward an incident light field area (10).
US11137339B2
A method for counting blood cells in a sample of whole blood. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a sample of whole blood; (b) depositing the sample of whole blood onto a slide, e.g., a microscope slide; (c) employing a spreader to create a blood smear; (d) allowing the blood smear to dry on the slide; (e) measuring absorption or reflectance of light attributable to the hemoglobin in the red blood cells in the blood smear on the slide; (f) recording a magnified two-dimensional digital image of the area of analysis identified by the measurement in step (e) as being of suitable thickness for analysis; and (g) collecting, analyzing, and storing data from the magnified two-dimensional digital image. Optionally, steps of fixing and staining of blood cells on the slide can be employed in the method.
US11137327B2
This invention relates to devices and methods for purifying, detecting and using biological cells. A variety of cell types including viable tumor, stem, immune and sperm cells can be purified from a complex biological sample using a column, including a pipette tip column. Methods of the invention can aid research, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Purified viable cells can be detected on the column or eluted from the column and detected. Cells on a column can be used as a stationary phase for liquid chromatography. Cells may be removed, recovered and analyzed.
US11137325B2
Provided is a continuous isokinetic sampling device of a stack gas having a suction nozzle to which a cross-sectional area control device is attached, and a continuous automatic measurement system of fine dusts in the stack gas combined with the same, the device and system being configured to continuously separate and automatically measure the suspended particles into PM10 (Particulate Matter Less than 10 μm) and PM2.5 (Particulate Matter Less than 2.5 μm) by introducing a suction gas into a particle size separation device (cascade Impactor) at a constant flow rate of 16.67 l/min, simultaneously with removing an measurement error caused due to inertia force of the suspended particles by automatically adjusting the cross-sectional area of the suction nozzle to suck the sample at the same flow rate as that of the stack gas in the stationary source emissions.
US11137310B2
GaN/Al0.20Ga0.80N/GaN heterostructures Micro-Hall effect sensors providing simultaneous current and temperature detection over at least a best performance temperature range of −183° C. and 252° C.
US11137307B2
A sensor chip (24) is joined to an inner wall surface (20a) of a base body (21-1), with a lower surface (24a) of a first retaining member (24-2) serving as a joint surface, in such a manner as to allow an enclosing chamber (23) (including a pressure receiving chamber (23-1) and a pressure guiding passage (23-2)) between a pressure receiving diaphragm (22) and the joint surface (24a) of the sensor chip (24) to communicate with a pressure guiding hole (24-2b) in the first retaining member (24-2). In this state, a narrow tube (31) made of stainless steel is passed through the pressure guiding passage (23-2) in the base body (21-1) and inserted and secured in the pressure guiding hole (24-2b) in the first retaining member (24-2). This reduces the pressure receiving area of a pressure guiding passage that guides a pressure (P1) of a measured fluid to a first surface (24-1a) of a sensor diaphragm (24-1), suppresses force applied in the direction of separating the joint between the sensor chip (24) and the base body (21-1), and makes it possible to use a soft adhesive.
US11137304B2
A system, probe and method accurately measure the strain or extension of a fastener that occurs as a nut on the fastener is tightened and the fastener is put under load. The measurement technique is based on measurement of the time for an ultrasonic wave generated on one end of the fastener to travel a round trip through the fastener. As the fastener is tightened, the applied stress causes an associated increase in length. This length can be determined from a measurement of the increase in transit time. In various embodiments, the disclosed device and method uses laser ultrasonic testing (LUT), in which a pulsed laser generates the ultrasonic wave and a type of laser vibrometer detects the wave when it returns to the position of generation following a combination of longitudinal and shear wave reflections, which result in a higher magnitude and more easily and precisely measurable reflected signal peak than a signal peak associated with a signal directly reflected against the opposite end of the fastener.
US11137301B2
Some embodiments of the disclosure provide an optical fiber Fabry-Perot sensor (1), and a manufacturing method thereof. According to an embodiment, the optical fiber Fabry-Perot sensor (1) includes a hollow tube body (10), a first optical fiber (20), and a second optical fiber (30). The hollow tube body (10) has a first tube body (11), a cavity portion (12), and a second tube body (13) sequentially arranged in an axial direction. The first optical fiber (20) is provided within the first tube body (11) in the axial direction and has a first light guide end face (21) provided within the cavity portion (12). The second optical fiber (30) is provided in the second tube body (13) in the axial direction and has a second light guide end face (31) provided within the cavity portion (12).
US11137293B2
A wound electrical component includes a wound body comprising a plurality of wound layers of an electrically insulating material around a longitudinal axis of the body. The component also includes at least one printed electronics sensor consisting of printed circuits on a flexible substrate. Each sensor is interleaved between two of the wound layers of the wound body.
US11137281B2
According to one embodiment, a sensor includes a structure body, an element portion, and a power line. The structure body includes a supporter and a film portion. The film portion is supported by the supporter and includes an end portion. The end portion is aligned with a first direction and supported by the supporter. The element portion includes a first element provided at the film portion. The first element includes a first magnetic layer, a first opposing magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the film portion, and a first nonmagnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the first opposing magnetic layer. A second direction from the first opposing magnetic layer toward the first magnetic layer crosses the first direction. The power line is electrically insulated from the element portion. The power line includes a portion aligned with the first direction.
US11137274B1
This gauge stand will adhere to a metallic surface in the field so that a technician can hang gauges from the short hollow pipe and work hands free on the equipment to be serviced while at the same time viewing the gauges that are normally used with this type of job. The gauge stand is designed to be portable and should be made to withstand extremes in temperature and all types of environments. A short hollow pipe will enable the technician to store commonly used small items in the short hollow pipe; an insert will be placed in one end of the short hollow pipe to ensure that the small items do not spill out when the device is taken apart.
US11137273B2
Embodiments relate generally to a gas detector system. The gas detector system comprises a gas detector mounting flange, where the gas detector mounting flange comprises an explosion-proof cylindrical body that is configured to couple the gas detector mounting flange to a gas detector and a plurality of bolt receiving slots configured to couple the gas detector mounting flange to a mounting system by securing bolts, where each bolt receiving slot is at least three times as long as a diameter of securing bolts.
US11137272B2
A subsea housing assembly, in particular for a subsea sensor, is provided. A subsea housing includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion. The first housing portion includes a first electrical connection for data communication and the second housing portion includes a second electrical connection for data communication. A wall provides separation between the first housing portion and the second housing portion of the subsea housing. An inductive coupler, that includes a first coupling section disposed in the first housing portion and a second coupling section disposed in the second housing portion, is provided. The inductive coupler is configured to provide inductive coupling across the wall for providing at least a data communication between the first and second electrical connections.
US11137271B2
Various embodiments of sensors are described that exhibit several spectral features that together offer coverage of a wavelength range corresponding to the desired strain dynamic range (or temperature range) of a system. The spectral features arise from a Fabry-Perot interferometer formed by two overlapping chirped FBGs, the free-spectral range (FSR) of which varies with wavelength. The spectral features may be differentiated due to a combination of spacing and slope of the overlapped, chirped gratings.
US11137270B2
A method is provided for spatially modulating electromagnetic radiation at high frequency where the modulation is phase, polarization or direction of propagation comprises a substrate carrying an ordered array of optical elements in relative motion with respect to an incident beam of electromagnetic radiation to be modulated and measuring the relative motion. The array contains at least three optical elements and at least two different types of optical elements. At least some of the optical elements are formed from and integral to the substrate material. The optical elements may be fabricated on the substrate material by a subtractive process. The electromagnetic radiation to be modulated is incident on a region of the substrate termed the active region. As the substrate moves relative to the incident electromagnetic radiation, the active region also moves and the designation of individual optical elements changes also.
US11137264B2
A display system includes: a display that displays an image; and a display controller that causes the display to display a first image resembling roads around a vehicle and a second image resembling a recommended lane determined on the basis of a route to a destination set by the vehicle among the roads around the vehicle. The display controller causes the display to display the second image and a third image guiding a course of the vehicle when the vehicle has reached a second position located a predetermined distance before a first position at which the vehicle has to make a turn in the route to the destination.
US11137257B2
A method and system for providing improved navigation through interactive suggestion of improve solutions along a path of waypoints includes receiving in a user device a destination for a user. Data associated with the destination is transmitted to a network as well as information correlated to a location of the user. Data associated with at least one modified waypoint for an improved navigation solution is received from the network. The modified waypoints are determined in accordance with a set of parameters. Task and notification information are received from the network.
US11137256B2
A method includes receiving data corresponding to detected objects in a parking region, the data including information ascertained by an ascertaining vehicle driving through the parking region, determining a parking region distribution, based on detected objects in a street segment located within the parking region, determining a street segment distribution, calculating a difference between the parking region and the street segment distribution, identifying an anomaly located within the street segment, and generating an updated parking area map of the parking region based on the identified anomaly. The method includes receiving the data, for example, each time an ascertaining vehicle drives through the parking region.
US11137253B2
A method for measuring a behavior of a MEMS device is disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes mounting the MEMS device to a testing apparatus that comprises a vibration source, wherein the MEMS device comprises a 6-axis or 9-axis inertial sensor, applying a vibration to the MEMS device by the vibration source and simultaneously moving the testing apparatus according to a predefined movement pattern, reading output data provided by the inertial sensor and comparing the output data to the predefined movement pattern and/or reading output data provided by the inertial sensor and calculating a frequency response curve of the inertial sensor.
US11137251B2
A ring gyroscope which comprises a substantially circular and flexible ring which defines a ring plane, one or more primary piezoelectric split transducers configured to drive the ring into resonance oscillation, four or more mass elements which form a symmetrical mass distribution in relation to both a first and a second transversal symmetry axis and to a first and a second diagonal symmetry axis. The ring gyroscope also comprises a suspension structure configured to support the weight of the ring and the mass elements, wherein the suspension structure comprises N outer suspenders, where N is an integer greater than or equal to two, and each outer suspender extends along a ring tangent from a suspension attachment point on the outer edge of the ring to an anchor point.
US11137248B2
A sensor element according to the present technology includes a base portion, a movable portion, first and second bridge portions, and an acceleration detector unit. The movable portion is movable relative to the base portion by reception of an acceleration along at least a uniaxial direction. The first bridge portion includes a first beam and a first structure, the first beam connects the base portion and the movable portion, the first structure being provided between the first beam and the base portion and supporting the first beam. The second bridge portion includes a second beam and a second structure, the second beam extends in a second axis direction orthogonal to the first axis and parallel to the main surface and connects the base portion and the movable portion, the second structure being provided between the second beam and the base portion and supports the second beam.
US11137244B2
The invention relates to a method for positioning measurement points (15, 18) with respect to a feature (8) locationally fixed on an object (5), wherein the object (5) is moved along an adjustment track. A first and a second optical detection region (10, 11) are formed, by means of which the current actual position of the feature (8) is detected. The two detection regions (10, 11) are arranged overlapping each other thus forming an overlapping section (13). The measurement points (15, 18) are each arranged at a predefined fixed distance (16, 19) from the feature (8). If the feature (8) is within the first detection region (10), the measurement occurs at the first positioned measurement point (15). If the feature (8) is within the overlapping section (13), the first measurement point (15) is deactivated and the second measurement point (18) is activated and the measurement is performed.
US11137242B2
A conductive fiber including a metal-nanobelt-carbon-nanomaterial composite. A manufacturing method thereof includes preparing a composite including a carbon nanomaterial and metal nanobelts and manufacturing a conductive fiber by mixing the composite with a polymer. A fibrous strain sensor and a manufacturing method thereof are also provided. Thereby, a conductive fiber including a metal-nanobelt-carbon-nanomaterial composite, which is able to increase conductivity of the conductive fiber through synthesis of metal nanobelts enabling area contact and to exhibit good contact between the carbon nanomaterial and the metal nanobelts due to formation of the metal nanobelts on the surface of the carbon nanomaterial and superior dispersion uniformity, and a fibrous strain sensor including the conductive fiber can be obtained. The conductive fiber can be effectively applied to a strain sensor based on a principle by which resistance drastically increases with an increase in a distance between metal nanobelts aligned in a fiber direction upon tensile strain of metal nanobelts enabling area contact.
US11137240B1
A pipe alignment tool for aligning a pair of pipes is disclosed. The tool includes an anchor member configured to abut the pair of pipes and a spindle coupled to the anchor member. The tool further includes a block in threaded engagement with the spindle and adapted to move axially along an axis of the spindle in response to a rotation of the spindle about the axis. The block includes a first retention structure and a second retention structure. Furthermore, the tool includes a flexible member for supporting the pair of pipes and adapted to be disposed around the pair of pipes and engaged with the first retention structure and the second retention structure. The flexible member is tightened about the pipes upon the rotation of the spindle in a first direction, wherein the tightening of the flexible member facilitates the alignment of the pair of pipes.
US11137233B1
A slide plate target-drop hole changing structure used in an auto target throwing trap is disclosed to include a slide plate slidably coupled to an upper cover plate of the auto target throwing trap and provided with a first target-drop hole for large-size targets to drop down from a target-drop opening of the upper cover plate through the first target drop hole, and a filling piece detachably connected to the slide plate. When the filling piece is connected to the slide plate, a second target-drop hole is formed between a concave arc gap of the filling piece and the first target-drop hole of the slide plate for the passing of small-sized targets.
US11137224B2
A break open rifle and bolt action rifle having a barrel extension with a breech end for receiving a propellant charge, a muzzle end with an extended attachment structure for receiving a complementary attachment structure of a barrel, and a chamber disposed within and through the barrel extension having a first diameter at a first end and a narrowing portion adjacent a second end opposite the first end, the narrowing portion having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter, wherein the first diameter of the chamber is sized to receive the propellant charge therein, and the second diameter of the narrowing portion is sized to prevent the propellant charge from being further inserted past the narrowing portion, and to prevent a projectile from being inserted through the chamber from the barrel muzzle end. A bolt action configuration having dual diameter non-rotating bolt with an extractor and ejector mechanism for removing a propellant charge.
US11137219B2
An annular seal for a motor vehicle heat exchanger is configured to be stretched between two opposite supports that the annular seal surrounds. The annular seal includes two opposite support parts that cooperate with the two supports, two connecting parts joining the support parts together, and an annular bead that deforms elastically by axial compression perpendicular to a plane parallel to the annular shape of the seal. Additionally, said annular bead is extending in the support and connecting parts. Further, the cross section of the annular bead between each support part and the connecting parts to which the annular bead is joined changes such that a radial dimension of the annular bead, measured in a median plane of the seal parallel to the annular shape of the seal, is smaller in the support part than in the connecting parts.
US11137217B2
A rotor for a high temperature rotary pre-heater includes a hub that has an exterior surface thereon. The rotor includes an annular rim positioned around and coaxially with the hub. The annular rim has an interior surface. A plurality of partitions extend between the hub and the annular rim. Each of the partitions is located in a predetermined circumferential position by one or more alignment features. The exterior surface, the interior surface and/or the partitions have one or more of the alignment features thereon.
US11137215B2
There is provided a flat heat pipe that is not easily deformed in spite of a reduction in thickness and can maintain high heat transport capacity. A flat heat pipe 100 includes a container 130 in which a cavity 130S is formed by plates 110 (110a, 110b) made of metal and disposed substantially in parallel with each other, working fluid that is enclosed in the cavity 130S, and a wick structure 150 that is inserted into the container. The wick structure 150 includes a first sheet-like member 140, and hollow protruding portions 170 protruding in a height direction of the container 130 are formed on the first sheet-like member 140.
US11137214B2
A manifold structure is formed using ultrasonic additive manufacturing and machining. The manifold structure includes a body having a base plate and a cover plate that define a flow passage therebetween, and a plurality of walls that segment the flow passage into a plurality of channels, wherein each of the walls has a height extending from the base plate to the cover plate and a non-linear length that is elongated relative to a width of the wall and extends in a direction normal to the height of the wall. The walls are wavy in shape to provide enhanced rigidity and stiffness during lamination over the channels.
US11137213B2
A water cooling head includes water cooling head includes a casing, a base and a pump. The casing includes an inlet and an outlet. An outer side of the base has a heat-absorbing surface. A thermal conduction structure is disposed on an inner side of the base. An active space is defined by the base and the casing collaboratively. The pump includes a first magnetic element, a second magnetic element, an impeller and a pivotal part. The first magnetic element is located outside the active space. The first magnetic element is arranged between the impeller and the base along a direction perpendicular to the base. The pivotal part, the second magnetic element and the impeller are disposed within the active space. The pivotal part is connected with the impeller and arranged between the impeller and the base. The second magnetic element is installed on the pivotal part.
US11137207B2
A method and apparatus for the continuous sublimation of a substance includes cascading a material containing a substance capable of sublimation, such as water, between a plurality of trays vertically stacked within a processing zone provided within a processing chamber. A substantially atmospheric environment is maintained within the processing zone at a temperature whereby the substance sublimes forming a sublimate within the environment. The environment containing the sublimate is contacted with a drying agent such as a desiccant to maintain the environment whereby the substance sublimes at substantially atmospheric pressure and at the controlled temperature.
US11137205B2
A method for reducing heat bumps following regeneration of adsorbers in an air separation unit is provided. The air separation unit can include a front end purification unit, a main air compressor, a main heat exchanger, a distillation column system, a regeneration gas heater, and a regeneration gas cooler, wherein the front end purification unit comprises a first adsorber and a second adsorber. The method can include the steps of: regenerating the first adsorber while the second adsorber operates in an adsorption cycle, wherein the step of regenerating the first adsorber further includes the steps of heating the first adsorber and then cooling the first adsorber, wherein during the step of cooling the first adsorber, a regeneration gas sourced from the distillation column system and cooled in the main heat exchanger is further cooled in a regeneration gas cooler prior to being used to cool the first adsorber.
US11137204B2
The present invention relates to a cold box cycle which allows for independent control of the heat supplied for reboilers associated with the separation columns. More specifically, the invention relates to the tight control of the hydrogen removal separation, thus avoiding the possibility of excess reboiling in this separation. Optimal reboiling also results in a lower temperature of the hydrogen depleted liquid from this separation. As this stream is used to provide a portion of the cooling at the cold end of the primary heat exchanger, lower temperatures facilitate cooling of the incoming syngas feed, reducing carbon monoxide (CO) losses into the crude hydrogen stream from the high pressure separator. Lower CO in the crude hydrogen allows for smaller hydrogen purification equipment.
US11137191B2
In a gas supply device that supplies gas to a target space through a filter unit, the filter unit is composed of a filter box and an air filter housed in the filter box, and the air filter is a filter having a filter substrate made of a membrane filter and a fibrous coating layer covering a surface of the filter substrate through which air is sucked.
US11137185B2
The present invention provides a system and method for an improved multistage, cascade refrigeration system using hot gas defrost to rid the evaporator of ice build-up which accumulates over time, while the air in the evaporator enclosure remains below the freezing point of water. The present invention thus provides greater defrost flexibility with increased ease of design and implementation than current refrigeration systems, which allows for more robust hot gas defrost function for multistage refrigeration systems, such that it is unaffected by temperature changes of the condensing fluid (ambient air temperature for air cooled condensers, water temperature for water cooled condensers), and can be readily adapted to any refrigerant suitable for a selected temperature range.
US11137181B2
An expansion engine operating on a Brayton cycle which is part of a system for producing refrigeration at cryogenic temperatures that includes a compressor, a counter-flow heat exchanger, and a load that may be remote, which is cooled by gas circulating from the engine. The engine has a piston in a cylinder which has nearly the same pressure above and below the piston while it is moving. A valve connecting the warm end of the cylinder to a buffer tank allows a partial expansion and recompression of gas in the cold displaced volume that increases the refrigeration produced in each cycle with the same compressor flow rate.
US11137179B2
A refrigeration apparatus includes a compressor connected to a refrigerant circuit, and a bearing monitor. The compressor includes a compression mechanism, an electric motor, a drive shaft, and a plain bearing that supports a journal portion of the drive shaft. The bearing monitor performs an abnormal-state operation to cope with poor lubrication on the plain bearing if an abnormal state condition is satisfied. The abnormal state condition is a condition indicating that a rate of change of current exceeds a first reference value. The rate of change of current is an amount of change in a driving current usable to drive the compressor per unit time. The journal portion of the drive shaft has a surface roughness of at least 0.05 μm.
US11137174B2
An absorption chiller includes a boiler with a vessel for storing a working fluid and a heat source configured to heat the working fluid. A first device is configured to cool the working fluid, and a second device is configured to cool the working fluid. A flow path is arranged to enable the working fluid to flow from the boiler through the first device, through the second device and back to the boiler. A first waste heat source is generated by the first device when cooling the working fluid. The first waste heat source is configured to heat the working fluid along the flow path after exiting the second device and prior to re-entering the boiler.
US11137172B2
A heat pump system includes a first heat pump arrangement having a compressor having a compressor output; a second heat pump arrangement having an input portion and an output portion; and a coupler for thermally coupling the first heat pump arrangement and the second heat pump arrangement, the coupler including a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger, the first heat exchanger being connected to the input portion of the second heat pump arrangement, and the second heat exchanger being connected to the output portion of the second heat pump arrangement.
US11137165B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a heating and cooling system includes a heat exchanger configured to place an airflow and a refrigerant in thermal communication with one another, where the heat exchanger has a coil and a plurality of fans coupled to the coil, and where the plurality of fans is arranged in an array adjacent to the coil.
US11137163B2
A method for managing air quality may include, at one or more processors, receiving sensor data comprising a plurality of air quality parameters for an environment, wherein the sensor data is generated by one or more environment quality monitoring devices located in the environment, predicting an adverse air quality event based on the sensor data, and automatically controlling one or more devices to mitigate the adverse air quality event. An environment quality monitoring device may include a housing, a plurality of sensors in the housing and configured to generate sensor data comprising a plurality of environment quality parameters, a network communication device configured to communicate the sensor data over a network, and an alert configured to indicate an environment quality score of the ambient environment, where the environment quality score is based on at least a portion of the sensor data.
US11137159B2
A sensor apparatus for integration with a building fire system includes a first mounting interface configured to physically couple to a mounting surface. This first mounting interface comprises a first power connector configured to receive power from the building fire system. The sensor apparatus further comprises an environmental sensor electrically coupled to the first power connector and configured to use the power from the building fire system to monitor environmental conditions of a building.
US11137158B2
An illustrative HVAC controller may include a communication module for wirelessly communicating with a network and wiring terminals for receiving a wired connection to a remote temperature sensor that is situated remote from the HVAC controller and in a living space of the building. A controller may be operably coupled to the communication module and the wiring terminals and may be configured to implement a thermostat control algorithm to generate one or more control signals, wherein the one or more control signals are provided by a wired connection to the HVAC system to control one or more HVAC components of the HVAC system. The thermostat control algorithm may be configured to compare a sensed temperature received from the remote temperature sensor via the wiring terminals and a temperature setpoint received from the server via the network.
US11137149B2
A comfort cassette (1) and a method which comprises a pressure box (2) with an inlet (3) and a plurality of outlets (4) for through flow of a supply air flow (L1). The outlets (4) are arranged at more than two of the pressure box edges (5a, 5b, . . . 5n) and form a group (6a, 6b, . . . 6n) of outlets per edge (5a, 5b, . . . 5n). The outlets are arranged in a configuration which is changeable by outlets (4) of a cover member (8) when the cover member (8) is displaced in relation to the outlets (4) of the pressure box (4). The cover member (8) is arranged to change simultaneously the configuration of all groups (6a, 6b, . . . 6n) of the outlets, by movement of the cover member (8) in only one direction, while the supply air flow (L1) is changeable in more than two directions by movement of the cover member.
US11137143B2
A system includes a layered structure. The layered structure includes first and second coalesced layers and an intermediate layer disposed between the first and second coalesced layers. The first and second coalesced layers have a higher degree of coalescence than the intermediate layer.
US11137139B2
A combustion chamber assembly for an engine includes a wall element fixed to a combustion chamber structure and a chamber between the wall element and the structure, the chamber being supplied with air through impingement-cooling openings in the structure and connected to the combustion space by film-cooling openings in the wall element. Two cooling-air holes formed in the structure generate a cooling-air flow toward the combustion space and past the wall element. The wall element has a flow guide device for generating at least one scavenging-air flow directed between the two cooling-air holes. A sum of flow cross sections of film-cooling openings in the wall element and of the flow guide device yields a larger area than a sum of flow cross sections of all wall element impingement-cooling openings via which air is guided through the structure into the chamber and to the rear side of the wall element.
US11137126B2
A projector-type vehicle headlamp not having a physical shade is disclosed. The vehicle headlamp comprises a first light source for emitting light, a lens through which the light exits the headlamp, and a first optics for receiving light from the first light source and directing the received light towards the lens, with the lens having a focal surface between the first optics and the lens, and with the lens having an optical axis. The first optics is configured to generate multiple images of the first light source on the focal surface above an intersection line of the focal surface with a reference plane, with the reference plane containing the optical axis of the lens, and with the reference plane enclosing an angle in the range of 0-45 degree with a horizontal plane when the headlamp is installed in a vehicle. The first optics is a curved reflector with an elliptical side edge.
US11137124B2
An anti-glare headlamp for a motor vehicle, including a large number of light units, each of the light units having: a light source element, which is configured to emit light along a first optical axis in the direction of a space; a projection optic, which is disposed behind the light source element in the direction of the emitted light and is configured to project the light emitted by the light source element into the space at a solid angle; and a photodetector, which is situated in front of the projection optic in the direction of the emitted light and is configured to detect the light projected into the space by the projection optic and reflected from an object in the space, along a second optical axis back to the projection optic.
US11137123B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: bonding a wavelength conversion sheet containing phosphor particles onto upper surfaces of light emitting elements mounted on a substrate; dividing the wavelength conversion sheet into a plurality of wavelength conversion members, each corresponding to one of the light emitting elements, by cutting from an upper surface of the wavelength conversion sheet; forming light reflecting members between adjacent ones of the wavelength conversion members to reflect light emitted from the light emitting elements; and machining an upper surface of a collective body including the wavelength conversion members and the light reflecting members into a curved surface having a concave shape.
US11137122B2
A vehicle-mounted illumination device comprising: one or more lamps that are mounted on a vehicle and illuminate with an LED, and a controller that is mounted on the vehicle; the device is powered by a storage battery within an engine compartment of the vehicle, and is controlled to emit light by a mobile phone having a Bluetooth and installed with an APP software; the controller includes a main control module, a Bluetooth module, a drive module and a battery protection module; and the lamp emits light in the following modes: white light, color light, and white light mixed with color light; the emitted light may be stroboscopic, the brightness of the emitted light may be adjusted, a color of the emitted color light may be adjusted, and the controller may be protected by a password.
US11137120B2
According to an aspect of this disclosure, a lighting system comprises at least first and second luminaires wherein each luminaire comprises a housing, an optical waveguide suspended from the associated housing, and one or more LEDs disposed adjacent the optical waveguide. Further in accordance with this aspect, the system comprises circuitry disposed within the housing of the first luminaire wherein the circuitry comprises LED driving circuitry and power circuitry, the power circuitry provides power to the first luminaire and at least a second luminaire, and the second luminaire is modular.
US11137109B2
A remote greasing system for lubricating a valve of a wellhead or frac manifold includes a grease supply skid, remote greasing skid, and a control skid. The grease supply skid includes a grease reservoir and a grease pump. The remote greasing skid includes a grease manifold and a grease supply valve. The grease manifold is operatively coupled to the grease pump of the grease supply skid by a grease trunk line. The grease supply valve is operatively coupled to the grease manifold. The grease supply valve includes an output port operatively coupled to a lubrication port of the valve of the wellhead or frac manifold by a grease supply line. The control skid is operatively coupled to the remote greasing skid by a control line. The grease supply skid and remote greasing skid are positioned within a hazardous zone, and the control skid is positioned outside of the hazardous zone.
US11137108B1
Apparatus for attaching a lockbox used for retaining a key to a door opened by the key to a door handle and especially a door lever used to open and close the door. The apparatus includes two arms each having a head portion and a bottom portion below the head portion. The arms have an open state in which the head portions are at least partly separated from one another, and a closed state in which an aperture is defined between the head portions and receives the door handle. The arms are positionable around the door handle or removable from such a position when in the open state. The arms are maintained in the closed state and movement thereof from the closed state to the open state is prevented by inserted a shackle of the lockbox through a staple engaged with both arms.
US11137105B2
A monitor arm coupling unit (1) for coupling a flat panel display monitor to an end of a monitor arm (2) of a monitor arm stand (3), comprising a monitor coupling part having a back plate (5) that is provided with mounting provisions arranged in a mounting pattern that in use cooperates with corresponding mounting provisions (6) on the back of a flat panel display monitor. The back plate comprises a central portion and a peripheral edge spaced away therefrom, and a monitor arm coupling piece that is connected to the back plate via an adjustment mechanism (10). An end part of the monitor arm coupling piece is adjustable via the adjustment mechanism between a first position in which the end part of the monitor arm coupling piece is located away from a peripheral edge of the back plate, and a second position in which the end part is located closer to that peripheral edge of the back plate.
US11137100B2
A zero-flow thread-lock quick connect/disconnect coupling having male and female couplers that enhance the fire-resistance capability of the coupling in a zero-flow pressurized state. The couplers include a fire-resistant seal assembly including a seal ring and non-metallic backup rings disposed. A first backup ring is made with a high-temperature non-metallic material and is formed as a delta ring for enhancing sealing performance during a fire event. A second non-metallic backup ring is formed as a half-delta ring between first and third backup rings. The third backup ring is made with a non-metallic material that is softer than the first and second backup rings and which abuts the seal ring. The female coupler includes a bearing ring that operatively connects a rotatable threaded support to the coupler body, a protrusion-slot interface between an actuating sleeve and the rotatable support, and a seal in the actuating sleeve for damping and/or debris-resistance.
US11137098B2
A hydration system including a fluid reservoir, a fluid path in communication with the reservoir, and a magnetic quick connect interposed in the fluid path is disclosed. A fluid delivery system for a hydration system is also disclosed that includes a magnetic quick connect interposed in a fluid delivery path of the delivery system. The magnetic quick connect can also be used in a wide variety of fluid delivery systems. A kit for forming a fluid delivery system for a hydration system is also disclosed, as are various components of a hydration system.
US11137094B2
A fitting includes at least one port permitting flow of fluid and a connector body to which the port is attached. The connector body has a first mating portion. The fitting additionally includes a retainer structured to engage with the connector body and having a first tapered terminal portion and a second tapered terminal portion opposed to the first tapered terminal portion. The fitting further includes a tubular member configured to be fitted into the connector body and having a second mating portion structured to receive terminal portions of the retainer and configured to align with the first mating portion, and a seal positioned within the tubular member and disposed to be flush against an inner surface of the connector body.
US11137091B2
A firestop collar (10) for sealing of openings, especially of line penetrations (12), that pass through walls (11) or ceilings has a frame (16) and a block (20) of optionally intumescent material disposed therein, and is characterized in that an intumescent inlay (22) is disposed between the block (20) and the frame (16).
US11137090B2
A clamping assembly for supporting a tubular object accessing a through-hole in a panel includes a clamp and a retainer configured to be positioned at least partially around the tubular object on a first side and a second side, respectively, of the through-hole. The clamp and retainer respectively include at least one clamp lock mechanism and at least one retainer lock mechanism configured to move between a respective open position and a respective closed position. The clamp includes at least one clamp hook configured to engage with the at least one retainer hole in the retainer in a snap-fit relation when the clamp and the retainer are in the respective closed position at the first side and second side, respectively, of the through-hole. A method of supporting a tubular object and an aircraft having the clamping assembly are also disclosed.
US11137087B1
A water level control system and device is provided which maintains a desired running level of water in a surge tank connected to a pool or other body of water by facilitating automatic drainage of precipitation water from the body of water. The water level control system includes a water level control device configured to open and close a drain in the surge tank. The water level control device can adopt an open position when water in the surge tank is at a first level slightly above the running level, and a closed position in the presence of surge water or water displaced by bathers causing a rapid water rise in the surge tank above first level.
US11137078B2
A fluid control valve includes a cover portion and a body portion. Inner surfaces of the cover and the body portion define a chamber that includes an inlet and an outlet in communication with the chamber. The fluid control valve also includes a diaphragm disposed between the cover portion and the body portion. The diaphragm has a flexible member that is disposed within the chamber for controlling communication between the inlet and the outlet. The upper surface of the flexible member has a substantially smooth wall portion. The flexible member has an inverted position in which the upper surface conforms to at least a portion of the inner surface of the cover portion to define a passageway that permits communication between the inlet and the outlet. The diaphragm is configured such that the diaphragm exclusively biases the flexible member from the first position to the second position so that the flexible member conforms to and seals against the elongated seat member when the flexible member is in the second position.
US11137076B1
A spool valve assembly, configured to control the flow of fluid, includes a spool valve, configured to move axially along an axis to control fluid flow, having a spool cavity and a plurality of spool apertures that communicate fluid between the spool cavity and an outside surface of the spool valve; a valve sleeve, in which the spool valve is concentrically positioned, that slidably receives the spool valve; and a valve plug, received within the spool cavity, having at least one plug aperture and a plug cavity, wherein the spool apertures at least partially overlap the plug aperture(s) in a radial direction to permit the flow of fluid between the plug cavity and the outside surface within a defined flow rate variance regardless of the angular position of the valve plug relative to the angular position of the spool valve.
US11137075B2
The present disclosure provides a quantitative tank bottom sludge valve. The extension and retraction of a cylinder drives a lower valve body, a valve rod, an upper valve body and respective accessories to move up and down, and sludge at the bottom of a water tank that is deposited to the upper part of an upper valve plate and the lower part of an upper valve body gasket is discharged quantitatively, thereby saving water and avoiding blockage; moreover, the quantitative tank bottom sludge valve has simple components in structure, and it is low in processing and assembly precision requirements, low cost, convenient to install and maintain, and suitable for mass production and use.
US11137074B2
A regulator may include an inlet from which a high-pressure fluid is introduced, a valve seat provided at the inlet, and a pressure regulating valve body. The fluid may pass an opening between the valve seat and the valve body formed with a communication passage to a pressure regulating chamber. A load generated by pressure of pressure-regulated fluid acting on a piston unit joined to the valve body may be balanced with a load by a pressure regulating spring in an atmosphere chamber provided coaxially in parallel with the pressure regulating chamber on an opposite side of the piston unit. Fluid pressure of the pressure regulating chamber may be controlled by changing an opening area between a valve-seated seat and the valve body. The valve seat holding the valve-seated seat may be installed on an elastic member via a buffer having a sliding performance.
US11137073B2
A parking lock includes a locking pawl (2) and an interlocking element (7). The locking pawl (2) is pivotably mounted on a pawl pin (1) and engageable with a parking interlock gear (3). The interlocking element (7) is arranged on a connecting bar (4) to a selector disk (5), spring-loaded with a spring element (6), and clampable between the locking pawl (2) and a guiding plate (8). An end of the connecting bar (4) facing away from the interlocking element (7) is articulatedly connected to the selector disk (5). An engaging piece (16) of the selector disk (5) is operatively connected to a parking lock actuator (12). The connecting bar (4) is arranged below the locking pawl (2) such that a motion plane of the connecting bar (4) is parallel to a motion plane of the locking pawl (2) and perpendicular to the pawl pin (1).
US11137072B2
A transmission device and method for operating a transmission for a motor vehicle, which transmission device has an input shaft which is operatively connectable to a drive device of the motor vehicle, and has a first output shaft and a second output shaft, and has a spur gear differential transmission configured as a planetary transmission, whereby the input shaft and an intermediate shaft are coupled to the first output shaft and the second output shaft. An electric machine is coupled to the input shaft in a first shifting position of the shifting device and to the intermediate shaft in a second shifting position of the shifting device, and the electric machine is operated for applying a torque to the input shaft.
US11137070B2
A transmission cooler thermal bypass device that includes a body having a front side, a back side, a top side, and a bottom side. A first opening, a second opening, a third opening, and a fourth opening, whereby a first passageway connects the first opening and the second opening, and a second passageway connects the third opening and the fourth opening. At least one fin. The first passageway and the second passageway do not include a flow control valve.
US11137067B2
An automatic transmission may include a rotating shaft; a slider portion provided on the rotating shaft; a first connecting member having one end hinged to the rotating shaft and the other end rising or falling by a centrifugal force as the rotating shaft rotates; a second connecting member having one end hinged to the first connecting member and the other end connected to a slider portion to vertically slide the slider as the first connecting member rises or falls; a diaphragm spring coupled to the slider portion and deformed in an axial direction of the rotating shaft depending on position of the slider portion; a shift fork connected to the slider portion or the diaphragm spring and engaging a synchronizer with a shift stage gear depending on position of the slider portion; an elastic regulator controlling an elastic force of the diaphragm spring; and a controller controlling the elastic regulator.
US11137046B2
A drive shaft assembly includes an elongate member and a tuned absorber assembly. The elongate member has an exterior surface that is disposed about an axis. The tuned absorber assembly includes a mass and a sleeve. The mass is at least partially disposed about the exterior surface. The sleeve extends between a first sleeve end and a second sleeve end. The sleeve is disposed about the mass and spaces the mass apart from the exterior surface of the elongate member.
US11137037B2
A fluid friction clutch may include a rotatably mounted shaft, a drive disk arranged on the shaft in a rotationally fixed manner, a driven body rotatably arranged on the shaft, and a ring-shaped transfer region disposed between the drive disk and the driven body. The transfer region may be configured to receive a viscous fluid via which the drive disk is couplable to the driven body for transferring a torque. The transfer region may be defined by a ring-shaped first groove profile of the drive disk and a ring-shaped second groove profile of the driven body that engage one another axially. The clutch may also include a storage chamber fluidically connected to the transfer region via an inflow path and via a return path. The return path may include a first retaining body and a second retaining body arranged radially offset relative to one another by an arc angle.
US11137032B1
An example of a ceramic bearing system includes a shaft comprising two radially extending shoulders that define a channel therebetween, a first tolerance ring disposed in the channel of the shaft, and a bearing assembly comprising a ceramic bearing. The bearing assembly is positioned around the first tolerance ring and has an axial length that is longer than an axial length of the first tolerance ring.
US11137031B2
A bearing part is composed of a chromium molybdenum steel, and includes a raceway surface or a rolling contact surface. A precipitated compound composed of at least one of a carbide, a nitride, and a carbonitride exist in the raceway surface or the rolling contact surface. An area ratio of the precipitated compound in the raceway surface or the rolling contact surface is more than or equal to 3%. An average grain size of the precipitated compound in the raceway surface or the rolling contact surface is less than or equal to 0.3 μm.
US11137028B2
Slide-bearing assemblies capable of enabling sliding of a load-carrying implement relative to a load-supporting structure, having first and second load-carrying surfaces, respectively, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the slide-bearing assembly includes substantially nonmetallic first and second elongate bearing elements extending in parallel to support the first load-carrying surface of the load-carrying implement slidably upon the load-supporting structure. One of the bearing elements being composed of multiple elongate pieces each shorter in length than a length of the other of the bearing elements. The slide-bearing assembly additionally includes a post that extends from a surface of each of the multiple elongate pieces, which is a surface that is opposed to the second load-carrying surface, each post is sized to fit in a respective recess of the second load-carrying surface. The slide-bearing assembly further includes at least one coating on the first load-carrying surface made of high-performance thermoplastic material(s).
US11137021B2
A rolling bearing providing a first ring and a second ring in relative rotation one each other, and at least one row of rolling elements being arranged between the said rings. At least one the rings is made by metal injection molding process including the successive steps of mixing a metal powder with a thermoplastic binder, forming a part by injection of the mixed powder in a closed die, debinding such a formed part in a furnace, sintering to densify the part, and quenching to set a ring hardness, to improve wear resistance and fatigue life.
US11137014B2
A conductive fastening system, a fastened assembly, and a method of fastening an assembly composed of layers of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (“CFRP”) and/or metallic material includes fasteners with an electrically conductive coating and electrically conductive gap filler materials between the fasteners and sidewalls of holes formed through the layers of the assembly. The sidewalls of the holes are coated with the electrically conductive gap filler material by abrading, injection or spraying. The fasteners with the electrically conductive coating are inserted through the holes. The conductive coating on the fasteners and electrically conductive gap filler material work together to enhance electrical conductivity between the fastener and assembly. The conductive coating also acts as a lubricant to reduce the amount of force required to insert the fastener into the hole thereby reducing damage to the assembly.
US11137010B2
A connection is formed between a held member and a holding member with the use of a connector and one or more fasteners. In one aspect, the connector has a main body that has integral nail prong fasteners. In one aspect, the main body of the connector is attached to the held and holding members by means of double-shear fastening. In one aspect, the main body is formed with a bendable end flange to attach the connector to the holding member. In one aspect, the main body is formed with a nail guide for directing the fastener at an angle to the main body.
US11137006B2
A collapsible telescoping pole assembly provided comprising at least first, second and third elongated tubular members, the second and third tubular members being slidably received within the first and second tubular member, respectively, between retracted and extended positions. A first locking mechanism is associated with the distal end of the first tubular member for releasably securing the second tubular member within the first tubular member in its extended position. The first locking member is biased to a locked position and movable to an unlocked position by rotating the first locking mechanism relative to the first tubular member, causing the first locking mechanism to move axially in a distal direction to permit the second tubular member to slide freely within the first in tubular member. A second locking mechanism is associated with the distal end of the second tubular member for releasably securing the third tubular member within the second tubular member in its extended position. The second locking mechanism is biased to a locked position and movable to an unlocked position by axially moving the second locking mechanism relative to the second tubular member in a distal direction to permit the third tubular member to slide freely within the second tubular member.
US11137003B1
A hat clip flag holder includes a flag holding tube having an upper end, a lower end, and an elongated conduit. The hat clip flag holder includes a clip and a placard connected with the flag holding tube. Elongated ribs project into the elongated conduit and taper for narrowing the cross-sectional dimension of the elongated conduit. A cap secured over the upper end of the flag holding tube includes a cylindrical wall having an upper end, a lower end, and a top wall that closes the upper end of the cap. The top wall has a central opening aligned with the elongated conduit and resilient fingers that surround the central opening. A flag secured to the hat clip flag holder includes a flagstaff with a first section engaging the elongated ribs and a second section engaging the resilient fingers of the cap.
US11136998B2
A vertical pump features a shaft having an end with an impeller arranged thereon and rotates about an axis; a stationary bushing having an axial bushing surface, a radial bushing surface, and a central bushing bore; and a thrust balance drum that includes a central balancing drum bore to receive the shaft, that couples to the shaft so as to rotate about the axis, that includes an axial balance drum surface and a radial balance drum surface, and that is arranged in the central bushing bore of the stationary bushing with the axial balance drum surface positioned with respect to the axial bushing surface to define an axial clearance, and with the radial balance drum surface positioned with respect to the radial bushing surface to define a radial clearance. In operation, the thrust balance drum balances thrust loads produced by the impeller.
US11136995B2
A pre-diffuser for a gas turbine engine includes an exit guide vane ring having a multiple of exit guide vanes defined around an engine longitudinal axis; a hot fairing structure adjacent to the exit guide vane ring to define a multiple of diffusion passages around the engine longitudinal axis; an outer radial interface between a radial outer surface of the hot fairing structure and the exit guide vane ring, the outer radial interface being a full hoop structure; and an anti-rotation feature between the hot fairing structure and the exit guide vane ring, the anti-rotation features inboard of the multiple of diffusion passages.
US11136989B2
An impeller designed for use in radial pumps. The impeller compensates for axial forces during pumping operations. The impeller utilizes vanes having 3D geometry which extend from the impeller intermediate plate eye to the external diameter of the intermediate plate. On the backside of the intermediate plate, the vanes define a plurality of hydraulic passages. The hub plate also includes a series of balancing holes.
US11136979B2
A scroll compressor that includes a rotating shaft, an eccentric bush having a recess, into which one end of the shaft is inserted, and an eccentric portion eccentric to the shaft, an orbiting scroll operatively connected to the eccentric portion for orbiting, a fixed scroll engaged with the orbiting scroll, and a buffer member interposed between the one end of the shaft and the recess. Therefore, it is possible to prevent damage to the scrolls due to liquid refrigerant compression during initial operation and to prevent an impact sound between the shaft and the eccentric bush due to the rotational clearance therebetween.
US11136967B2
An articulating joint for a wind turbine having a tower defining a shaft and a deck provided in the shaft includes a bracket extending from a first end having a fixed connection with the deck to a second end including an opening. A fastener includes a head pivotably connected to the tower and a shaft extending through the opening. A washer connected to the bracket is aligned with the opening for receiving the shaft such that the fastener is pivotable with the washer relative to the opening to allow for relative movement between the tower and the deck.
US11136965B2
A joint for the oscillating connection of the rotary shaft of a wind turbine includes a box-shaped hub defining a longitudinal axis and having a pair of holes longitudinally opposite and aligned with each other, a shaft head adapted to be connected to the rotary shaft and having a pair of pivots designed to be inserted in the holes of the hub and having a cylindrical outer surface and a transverse end edge, and a pair of hinges placed at the level of the pair of holes to promote the oscillating connection of the pivots to the hub. Each hinge includes at least one plain bearing mounted on the outer surface of a corresponding pivot, damper elements operatively interacting with the edge of the hub, and a connection system adapted to mutually connect the at least one plain bearing with the damper elements so as to obtain a unitary assembly.
US11136962B2
The present invention relates to a wind turbine and a method of operating a wind turbine for reducing edgewise vibrations, wherein the wind turbine comprises a wind turbine control system having at least one vibration sensor for measuring the edgewise vibrations and a controller for receiving the vibration signal from the vibration sensor. The sensor unit is preferably an accelerometer arranged in a stationary frame of reference. The controller determines at least one whirling mode frequency and the vibration level thereof. The controller initiates a corrective action if the measured vibration level exceeds a threshold value. The corrective action is preferably an adjustment of the pitch angle of the wind turbine blades which in turn dampens the edgewise vibrations.
US11136960B2
A method of operating a wind turbine comprising a generator in the event of a voltage dip is disclosed. The method comprises detecting an end of the voltage dip, determining an acceleration of a rotor of the generator, and increasing a torque of the generator when the end of the voltage dip is detected according to a selected torque profile. The selected torque profile is selected from a plurality predetermined torque profiles, wherein the predetermined torque profiles describe torque as a function of time. The selected torque profile is selected based on the determined acceleration of the rotor of the generator. Also provided are wind turbines configured for such methods.
US11136954B2
A fuel injection valve is a fuel injection valve for injecting fuel to a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, which includes a valve body that is lifted by any one of a first lift amount of a maximum valve body lift amount and a second lift amount smaller than the first lift amount. In a case where the maximum valve body lift amount of the valve body is the first lift amount, a flow path area of a seat portion is larger than a sum of flow path areas of all injection holes, and in a case where the maximum valve body lift amount of the valve body is the second lift amount, the flow path area of the seat portion is smaller than the sum of flow path areas of all the injection holes.
US11136949B1
Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger of a hybrid vehicle. In one example, a method comprising spinning a turbine in a reverse direction during an engine off event to execute a diagnostic test.
US11136947B2
A filter cartridge and filter assembly using the filter cartridge is provided. The filter cartridge having a contoured end member to angularly orient and/or axially orient the filter cartridge, and particularly a seal thereof, relative to a filter housing. The filter housing is reconfigurable to allow it to be used in different locations having different spatial configurations.
US11136946B2
An EGR gas distributor includes an inflow portion into which EGR gas that has passed through an EGR valve flows, a first EGR port connected to a section of the intake manifold in which intake air introduced into the first cylinder flows, a second EGR port connected to a section of the intake manifold in which intake air introduced into the second cylinder flows, a first gas passage that connects the inflow portion and the first EGR port to each other, and a second gas passage that connects the first gas passage and the second EGR port to each other. A shortest path between the first EGR port and the second EGR port is longer than both of a shortest path between the inflow portion and the first EGR port and a shortest path between the inflow portion and the second EGR port.
US11136944B2
Methods and systems are provided for split exhaust engine system including a blowdown exhaust manifold coupled to an exhaust passage and a scavenge exhaust manifold coupled to an intake passage. In one example, a turbine wastegate couples a single exhaust runner out of a plurality of exhaust runners of the blowdown exhaust manifold to an exhaust passage, downstream of a turbocharger turbine. Additionally, the turbine wastegate may couple the single exhaust runner to the exhaust passage, downstream of the turbocharger turbine arranged in the exhaust passage.
US11136943B2
The evaporative fuel processing system includes a fuel tank, a canister, a pump, a pressure detection unit, a temperature detection unit, and a leak diagnosis unit a leak diagnosis unit configured to diagnose leak in the diagnostic object based on a first pressure change which is a change in pressure detected by the pressure detection unit when the temperature in the diagnostic object changes, a second pressure change which is a change in pressure detected by the pressure detection unit when the inside of the diagnostic object is pressurized or depressurized by the pump, a detected temperature by the temperature detection unit, a first preparation information and a second preparation information.
US11136940B2
A hydraulic thrust reverser system (TRAS) including a first return line having a first check valve therein, and a second return line having a second check valve therein, wherein the first return line and the second return line are in fluid communication with each other via a fluid restrictor located upstream of the first and second check valves, wherein the first return line extends from a piston system of the TRAS, the piston system being for moving at least one thrust reverser door, and wherein the second return line extends from a lock system of the TRAS, the lock system being for controlling locks to selectively prevent the movement of the at least one thrust reverser door.
US11136936B2
A piston for an internal combustion engine may include a piston axis and a radial plane extending orthogonally thereto. The piston may further include a piston head having an outer circumferential face including at least one ring groove configured to receive a piston ring. The at least one ring groove may be arranged sloped to an outside in a radial direction. The at least one ring groove may be oriented at an angle α between 0.5°≤α≤2° obliquely with respect to the radial plane. The piston may also include at least one piston ring having a rectangular-like cross section with a plurality of rounded corner regions and an oblique outer flank. The oblique outer flank may differ from an inner flank of the at least one piston ring disposed opposite the oblique outer flank by an angle β between 2°<β≤5°.
US11136932B2
Methods and systems of controlling operation of a dual fuel engine are provided, comprising determining a target exhaust temperature, sensing an actual exhaust temperature, determining an exhaust temperature deviation by comparing the actual exhaust temperature to the target exhaust temperature, comparing the exhaust temperature deviation to a threshold, adjusting at least one of an intake throttle, a wastegate, a compressor bypass valve, an exhaust throttle, a VGT and engine valve timing when the exhaust temperature deviation exceeds the threshold to control charge-flow to the engine, and continuing the adjusting until the exhaust temperature deviation is less than the threshold.
US11136915B2
A wastegate assembly includes a valve arm moveable between a first position and a second position to control flow of exhaust gas to a turbine housing interior of a turbocharger. The valve arm includes a proximal end, a distal end spaced from the proximal end, and a valve arm orientation projection spaced from the distal end and extending away from the proximal end. The wastegate assembly also includes a valve body coupled to the distal end of the valve arm that is moveable with the valve arm. The valve body includes a valve body orientation component, and the orientation projection of the valve arm extends toward and is orientable with the orientation component of the valve body to orient the valve arm relative to the valve body. The valve body is disposed between the orientation projection of the valve arm and the distal end of the valve arm.
US11136906B2
A rocker arm assembly comprises a first arm, a second arm, and a latch assembly. The first arm comprises a main cam interface end, a body comprising a shaft port configured to pivot on a rocker shaft, and a valve end configured to lift and lower when the main cam interface end is acted on by a cam lobe. The second arm is overlaid on the first arm. The second arm comprises a secondary cam interface end, a latch lip end, and a shell connecting the latch lip end and the secondary cam interface end. The shell is configured to pivot relative to the first arm. The latch assembly is mounted to the body. The latch assembly is configured to selectively latch and unlatch the first arm with respect to the second arm.
US11136905B2
A power pack for converting waste heat from exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine to electrical energy includes a working fluid loop fluidly connecting an evaporator, an expander, a condenser and a pump. The power pack also includes a working fluid tank fluidly connected to the working fluid loop between an outlet of the condenser and an inlet of the pump. The working fluid tank has a single working fluid port operable to receive working fluid from the outlet of the condenser and to supply working fluid to the inlet of the pump. The power pack also includes a power pack control unit in communication with the working fluid tank. The power pack control unit is operable to change a pressure of the working fluid in the working fluid loop at the inlet of the pump by changing the pressure of the working fluid in the working fluid tank.
US11136892B2
A rotor blade for a gas turbine, includes a blade extending in a radial direction, with a blade body having a peripheral wall with pressure-side and suction-side wall sections, a plate-shaped crown base connected to the peripheral wall in the region of the blade tip, and a sweep edge extending along the peripheral wall, the peripheral wall and the crown base defining a cavity in the blade body, the sweep edge being aligned on the outer side with the peripheral wall and protruding radially over the crown base, and cooling channels are embodied in the blade body, extending from the cavity to cooling fluid outlets provided in the sweep edge. At least one recess being formed in the front surface of the sweep edge, into which at least some of the cooling channels flow such that the cooling fluid outlets are entirely arranged in a bottom region of the recess.
US11136880B1
A device for centering a sensor assembly in a bore comprises a plurality of arm assemblies connected between first and second support members. Each arm assembly comprises a first arm pivotally connected to the first support member by a first pivot and a second arm pivotally connected to the second support member by a second pivot joint. A beam is connected between the first and second arms, the first arm pivotally connected to the beam by a third pivot joint and the second arm pivotally connected to the beam by a fourth pivot joint. A wheel is rotationally mounted to the beam on a rotational axis located axially between the third and fourth pivot joints to contact a wall of the bore in use. A third arm is pivotally connected to the first support member by a fifth pivot joint having a fifth pivot axis axially spaced from the first pivot axis, and is pivotally connected to the beam by a sixth pivot joint having a sixth pivot axis. The third arm is configured so that the wheel is maintained at a radial extremity of the device as the first arm and second arm pivot relative to the first and second support members to move the wheel between a maximum outer diameter and a minimum outer diameter of the device.
US11136879B2
A borescope may include a housing including a transparent viewing window, a bumper surrounding at least a portion of a periphery of the transparent viewing window, wherein the bumper is configured to be pressurized by a fluid, and at least one imaging assembly configured to visualize a field of view exterior of the housing through the transparent viewing window.
US11136875B2
This document relates to systems and techniques for downhole separation of water and oil in oil well operations.
US11136874B2
Apparatus for separating solid particles from a hydrocarbon-containing fluid produced from an oil and/or gas production facility, supported on a wellhead or a riser connected to a wellhead, the apparatus comprising: a conduit for conveying a hydrocarbon-containing fluid from a wellhead or a riser connected to the wellhead; a solids separator in fluid communication with the conduit adapted to separate solid particles from the hydrocarbon-containing fluid, a solids outlet for outputting solid particles separated by the solids separator, a fluid outlet for outputting hydrocarbon-containing fluid separated by the solids separator; and an output conduit, coupled to the fluid outlet, for conveying the hydrocarbon-containing fluid from the fluid outlet into a production line attached to the wellhead.
US11136871B2
A method for developing shale gas by tapered gradient pressure drop with multi-stage fractured horizontal well is provided and the method comprises: acquiring fracturing crack form parameters of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well and reservoir characteristic parameters of nearby formation; dividing the formation near the shale gas multi-stage fractured horizontal well into strongly transformed area, weakly transformed area and matrix area; establishing pressure difference-flow models of gas-phase and water phase of the three areas respectively, and coupling the models of the three areas to establish production equation of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well; according to the production equation of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well, performing numerical simulation with different combinations of production pressure differences in the three stages of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well; and selecting a combination of production pressure differences with the greatest economic benefit as combination of production pressure differences.
US11136862B2
The invention relates to a method of conducting a perf wash cement (“P/W/C”) abandonment job in an offshore oil or gas well annulus (2), in particular the washing or cementing operation using a rotating head (6, 8) with nozzles (7, 9) dispensing wash fluid or cement at pressure. Certain values of parameters of a washing or cementing job have been found surprisingly to affect the quality of the job, or the degree to which they affect the quality of the job has been unexpected. These include including rotation rate of the tool, the direction of translational movement of the tool, and the volume flow rate and pressure per nozzle of cement or wash fluid (and hence nozzle size).
US11136856B2
A method of sealing in a bore, such as plugging a well for abandonment. The method includes applying a swellable in particulate form to the bore. The swellable includes a polymer. The particulate swellable is positioned in place within the bore at a desired location. The method includes swelling the swellable so as to form a seal at the desired location. The technology may also include a well comprising a bore with a seal applied by injecting the swellable in particulate form as a flowable into the bore.
US11136851B2
An element including an undercut in the element extending from an innermost surface of the element radially outwardly into the element, and a pathway intersecting the undercut and extending from the undercut to an outermost surface of the element, the pathway fluidly connecting the outermost surface of the element to the undercut prior to setting of the seal.
US11136842B2
A downhole device delivery and drive transfer system includes a sub which is arranged to attach to a drill string and a tool which is configured to enable it to travel through the drill string and releasably couple to the sub. The sub and the tool are arranged so that when they are releasably coupled to each other torque imparted to the drill string is transferred by the sub to the tool. The tool is arranged to carry one or more devices for performing one or more downhole functions such as core drilling, hole reaming or wedge placement for directional drilling. The system also has a guide mechanism that operates between the sub and the tool to guide the tool to a known rotational orientation relative to the sub as the tool travels into the sub. A fluid control system controls the flow of fluid through the tool through a downhole outlet and a plurality of ports intermediate opposite ends of the tool.
US11136839B2
A bit breaker for coupling a drill bit to a drilling string includes a base defining a central opening and a wrench portion extending upward from the base. The wrench portion has two opposing lateral sides and an end wall that define an open interior that receives a shank of a drill bit. The open interior and the central opening are in alignment. A handle is coupled with the base and is movable between a storage position in which a top of the handle is positioned below a top surface of the wrench portion and a toting position in which the handle extends upward with the top of the handle positioned above the top surface. A gate is movably positioned between a retaining position in which the gate encloses the open interior of the wrench portion and an access position that provides lateral access to the open interior.
US11136837B2
A mobile, coiled tubing drilling apparatus includes a non-rotating mast on a mobile platform. The mast has mounted thereon an injector, a coiled tubing reel having a tubing pay-off point associated therewith, and a tubing control system. The tubing control system is located between the reel and the injector, and includes a tubing abutment adjacent the tubing pay-off point for applying an opposite bend to the tubing during pay-out of the tubing. The reel is mounted for horizontal (x,y) movement such that, during pay-out of the tubing, the tubing pay-off point can be maintained generally above the injector, and can also be moved towards or away from the tubing abutment.
US11136836B2
A high trip rate drilling rig has first handling equipment to transport stands in/out of setback, second handling equipment to deliver stands to/from well center, and a hand-off position to set down stands for exchange between first/second equipment. Second equipment can include a top drive and a delivery arm translatable along the mast past each other, and a clasp on the arm slidable on the stand for constraint below the upper end, which can allow the top drive to engage/disengage the constrained stand above the arm. A high trip rate method transports stands in/out of setback, delivers stands to/from well center, and sets down and hands off stands at hand-off position between the setback transportation and well center delivery. The delivery can include engaging/disengaging the top drive and a stand constrained by the clasp.
US11136822B1
A ladder mounted system for supporting a panel during installation may include a lower hanger that may comprise a vertical support with a top end and a bottom end opposite the top end. The vertical support includes a backside configured to be oriented towards the ladder, and a frontside opposite the backside. An upper hook may be coupled to the vertical support, the upper hook being configured to be disposed over a first step of the ladder. A lower hook may be coupled to the vertical support, the lower hook being configured to be disposed over a second step of the ladder below the first step. A holding area may be disposed below the lower hook and be coupled to the vertical support for supporting the panel during installation.
US11136821B2
An improved operating system for use in an architectural-structure covering for extending and retracting a covering portion is disclosed. The operating system including an operating element for raising the covering portion and for transitioning the operating system between a retraction mode to raise the covering and an extension mode to lower the covering. To transition between the retraction and extension modes, an operator may move the operating element in a preset direction, such as, in the manner akin to a switch. For example, moving the operating element in a first direction (e.g., a rearward direction away from the operator) shifts the operating system into the retraction mode, while moving the operating element in a second direction (e.g., a forward motion toward the operator) shifts the operating system into the extension mode. In one embodiment, the first and second directions may be transverse to a longitudinal axis of the architectural-structure covering.
US11136820B2
A mechanical module for filtering vibrations, designed to be mounted at least in part inside a casing of an electromechanical actuator, comprises a mechanical member for filtering vibrations (34), being in one piece and extending along a longitudinal axis (X34) designed to be aligned with an axis of rotation of a rotor of an electric motor. The member (34) comprises a first end portion (35) and an intermediate portion (36). The first end portion (35) comprises a first ring (37). The intermediate portion (36) is connected to the first end portion (35). The first ring (37) of the first end portion (35) has a first diameter that is greater than a greatest dimension of the intermediate portion (36) measured in a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal axis (X34). The first end portion (35) further comprises a plurality of first arms (38), each first arm (38) connecting the intermediate portion (36) to the first ring (37).
US11136811B2
A method for constructing an extension mechanism for a closure panel of a vehicle, the extension mechanism including an extension member housed in a body housing, such that the extension member extends and retracts with respect to the body housing as the closure panel is opened and closed, the extension mechanism having a first connection at one end for connecting the extension member to the vehicle and a second connection at the other end for connecting the body housing to the vehicle, the method comprising the steps of: overlapping a tube wall of the body housing with an end portion of the body housing, the end portion having a receiving indentation; receiving a deformed portion of the tube wall into the receiving indentation in order to form a crimp connection between the tube wall and the end portion; and positioning a clamping member having a body by at least a portion of the body over the tube wall, such that the deformed portion is sandwiched between the portion of the body and the receiving indentation.
US11136807B2
A door component has a controllable rotary damper and two connector units which can be moved relative to one another. One of the two connector units can be connected to a load-bearing construction and the other one can be connected to a movable door device of a vehicle, in order to damp a movement of the door device between a closed position and an open position in a controlled manner. Two mutually engaged spindle units are arranged between the two connector units, one spindle unit being a threaded spindle and the other being a spindle nut. A first spindle unit is fastened rotatably on a coupling rod connected to one of the connector units. A magnetorheological transmission device is arranged between the coupling rod and the first spindle unit, in order to brake a rotational movement of the first spindle unit as required.
US11136804B2
A guide system is hingedly connected to a second furniture part, and has a rail arrangement including a guide rail having a longitudinal direction for guiding the furniture parts, and a carrier movably mounted transversely to the longitudinal direction of the guide rail. The carrier can be moved into a transfer position in which the carrier adjoins the guide rail in the longitudinal direction such that a guiding device to be connected to one of the furniture parts and movable along the guide rail can be transferred to and from between the guide rail and the carrier. The guide system includes a column connected to the carrier, the column being arranged vertically, and can be moved together with the carrier transversely to the longitudinal direction of the guide rail. The first furniture part is connected to the guiding device, and the second furniture part is movably connected to the column.
US11136800B2
A roller facilitates movement of a gate or similar barrier between a first and second position. The barrier fits at least generally within a channel formed at the periphery of the roller, and the channel is shaped to reduce the contact area and resulting friction that can otherwise occur between the confronting surfaces of the channel and the barrier.
US11136797B2
A sash window restrictor (20) has a housing (22) which is to be let into a vertical frame member (10) of one sash (normally the upper, outer sash) of a window, at a position, say, 10 cm above the top rail of the lower sash when the windows are closed. A tab (24) is mounted in the housing and can be retracted into the housing or extended from the housing. A mechanism acts between the tab and the housing and allows the tab to be pressed into the housing and held in the housing for a period of time before the tab is released to allow the tab to extend. With the tab extended, the lower sash (12) can be lifted until it reaches the tab (24) but no further, so that a 10 cm gap will be opened at the bottom of the window.
US11136790B2
A progressive deadlatching arrangement for a deadbolt lock prevents an external force applied on the deadbolt from retracting the deadbolt or otherwise compromising a secured door. The progressive deadlatching arrangement prevents external forces from retracting the deadbolt while still allowing an authorized user to operate the deadbolt. ASSA ABLOY Residential Group, Inc. is a subsidiary of ASSA ABLOY AB.
US11136786B2
A lock assembly for a door includes a lock mechanism moveable between an extended position wherein the door is locked and a retracted position wherein the door is unlocked such that the door may be opened and closed. The lock assembly also includes first and second lock cylinders operably connected to the lock mechanism such that actuation thereof causes the lock mechanism to move to the retracted position, the lock cylinders each including a first keyhole. A tamper resistant member is moveable between a protected position in which the keyhole of the second cylinder is inaccessible and an unprotected position in which the keyhole of the second cylinder is accessible, such that a tool is required in order to move the tamper resistant member from the protected position to the unprotected position, the tool adapted to be stored separately from the door.
US11136780B2
An annular bracket for the external tensioning of a tower segment, in particular a tower segment of a wind power plant, to an external tensioning system of a hybrid tower, preferably a hybrid tower of a wind power plant, to a tower section of a hybrid tower, preferably a hybrid tower of a wind power plant, to a hybrid tower, preferably a hybrid tower of a wind power plant, to a wind power plant, and to an assembly method of an external tensioning system for a hybrid tower, preferably for a hybrid tower of a wind power plant. An annular bracket for the external tensioning of a tower segment, in particular a tower segment of a wind power plant, with a connector element for the connection of a tensioning element, a bearing element for the transmission of a tensioning force to a tower segment, and an annular force transmission element for the transmission of the tensioning force between the connector element and the bearing element, the bearing element being at a greater spacing in the radial direction from a longitudinal axis of the annular bracket than the connector element, is described.
US11136775B2
Automatic swimming pool cleaners and components thereof are described. The cleaners may provide dual filtration of debris suspended in water of pools as well as a fluid path allowing some water to by-pass one of the two filters. They also may include any of all components such as multi-section inlet tubes, Venturi jets, nozzles exhausting water onto rotatable vanes, brushes, downforce turbines, and mechanisms for adjusting water flow through thrust jets or sweep tails.
US11136768B2
An inside corner drywall finishing comprising a first segment composed of a first side and a second side, a second segment composed of a first side and a second side, a third segment composed of a first side and a second side, a flap composed of a first side and a second side, the first side of the first segment attached to the first side of the flap wherein the first segment is affixed to the flap, the second side of the first segment attached to the first side of the second segment wherein the first segment is affixed to the second segment and the second side of the second segment attached to the first side of the third segment wherein the second segment is affixed to the third segment.
US11136756B2
An edge protection system for use with concrete flooring, including a first part for coupling to an edge portion of a first concrete flooring panel and a second part for coupling to an opposed edge portion of a second, neighbouring, concrete flooring panel, a dowel plate and a dowel sheath, wherein the dowel plate is for supporting the second concrete flooring panel relative to the first concrete flooring panel, the dowel sheath is fitted to extend laterally from the first part, with an internal cavity of the dowel sheath aligning with apertures formed in the first and second parts such that the dowel plate is able to be inserted into the dowel sheath cavity through said apertures to a supporting position in which the dowel plate remains in the apertures and extends laterally from the second part.
US11136751B2
The present invention provides an electronic plumbing fixture fitting including a preset feature.
US11136748B2
A dampening valve unit, for use in a liquid distribution system is disclosed. A feeding conduit is evacuated of liquid after an associated tap unit is closed and refilled with liquid after the tap unit is opened. The dampening valve unit comprises a dampening chamber, connectable to said feeding conduit, and a liquid stop valve unit, connectable at an inlet end thereof, to said associated feeding conduit and which has an outlet end being connectable to said associated liquid tap unit. Said dampening chamber is adapted to collect gas and is connectable to said associated feeding conduit via a passage. The passage is directly connected, without any restrictions therebetween, also to a liquid stop valve at said inlet end. The passage is always open at the dampening chamber for fluid connection between the passage and the dampening chamber.
US11136744B2
Vehicles and methods of operating vehicles are disclosed herein. A vehicle includes a main frame, a work implement, and a control system. The work implement is supported by the main frame and configured to carry a payload in use of the vehicle. The control system is supported by the main frame and configured to control operation of the vehicle. The control system includes a payload measurement system configured to provide payload input indicative of a variable payload carried by the work implement in use of the vehicle and a controller coupled to the payload measurement system.
US11136743B2
An electric construction machine that can travel from a work site to charging equipment and prevent the lowering of the work efficiency is provided. An electric hydraulic excavator includes a motor (28) that is driven by power of a battery device (19) and drives a hydraulic pump (29), a controller (37), and a display device (24). The controller (37) computes and stores the amount of consumed power of the motor (28) consumed during the period from the departure of the hydraulic excavator from the charging equipment to arrival at the work site, based on movement information of the hydraulic excavator acquired by a movement information acquiring device. The controller (37) subtracts the amount of consumed power from the amount of stored power of the battery device (19) to compute the amount of power consumable at the work site. The controller (37) computes the period of time for which operation is possible at the work site, based on the amount of power consumable at the work site, and causes the display device (24) to display the period of time for which operation is possible at the work site.
US11136741B2
The invention relates to a hydraulic rotator (11) for rotating a tool with respect to a crane arm, the hydraulic rotator comprising a first attachment piece (12) for connection to a crane arm and a second attachment piece (13) for connection to a tool; and a stator (14) and a rotor (15), the rotor (15) being rotatably arranged inside the stator (14) to rotate around an axial axis (A), wherein the rotor (15) comprises vanes (18) that are biased to extend radially outwards from said rotor (15), and wherein the stator (14) comprises an inner circumferential surface (25) to receive said vanes (18), which inner circumferential surface (25) comprises at least two chambers (19a) arranged to receive each vane of said vanes (18) to a first extent, and at least two shallow portions (19b) arranged to receive each vane of said vanes (18) to a second extent, which is substantially less compared to said first extent, wherein said inner circumferential surface (25) is arranged to receive at least a tip portion of the vanes (18) throughout its whole periphery.
US11136738B2
A structural pile sheet spur including a void creating section located in a fore part of the spur, a pile sheet interfacing section located in an aft part of the spur, and a fluid delivery passageway located in or adjacent to the pile sheet interfacing section.
US11136734B2
A sound barrier system for use in mitigating noise having an origami sheet or origami-inspired mechanism that can use folding to change configuration and lattice topology; and a plurality of cylindrical inclusions disposed on top of the origami sheet. The plurality of cylindrical inclusions being periodically arranged such that folding kinematics of the origami sheet induces reconfiguration of the periodicity of the plurality of cylindrical inclusions and associated wave blocking of the noise.
US11136732B2
A milling machine may include a frame. The milling machine may include a first wheel and a second wheel connected to a first end of the frame, and a third wheel connected to a second end of the frame. The milling machine may include a first leg, a second leg, and a third leg connecting the frame and the first wheel, the second wheel, and the third wheel, respectively. The milling machine may include a pair of arms pivotably connected to opposite sides of the frame. The milling machine may have a milling drum rotatably connected to the arms with a rotational axis parallel to the pivot axis. Further, the milling machine may have an engine that rotates the milling drum via a transmission. An output shaft of the engine positioned transverse to the frame may have an output shaft axis spaced apart from the pivot axis of the arms.
US11136729B2
An edge protection system for use with concrete flooring, including a first part for coupling to an edge portion of a first concrete flooring panel and a second part for coupling to an opposed edge portion of a second, neighbouring, concrete flooring panel, wherein the system includes a retaining clip for retaining the second part to the first part, the retaining clip being frangible to allow separation of the first and second parts after setting of the first and second concrete flooring panels.
US11136723B2
An aqueous coated paperboard is disclosed which exhibits good barrier properties and anti-blocking behavior and is heat sealable.
US11136720B2
The present invention relates to a wet strength, fibre-containing substrate having adjustable wet strength and wetness strength, wherein the substrate comprises fibres, at least one binder, at least one amphoteric amine and at least one moistening agent, wherein the at least one binder comprises or consists of at least one polysaccharide having at least one acid group-containing residue, and wherein the at least 1 moistening agent comprises at least 1 organic component selected from the group consisting of aliphatic alcohols, aliphatic ethers, aliphatic esters, monosaccharides, oligosaccharides and mixtures thereof, preferably aliphatic alcohols, aliphatic ethers and mixtures thereof, and also, furthermore, to a method for producing the wet strength, fibre-containing substrate, and to use thereof.
US11136716B2
A process for the isolation of lignin from black liquor and modification of lignin for use in many plastic applications is disclosed. The isolation of lignin consists of removing all of the non-lignin components from black liquor solution. The non-lignin components including but not limited to organic acids, sugars, and inorganic materials can be removed using either solvent extraction or ion-exchange resin or a combination of both methods. The isolated lignin is water soluble. The non-lignin components can be further isolated and sold or reused in the pulping or lignin isolation processes. The isolated lignin can be further modified in order to meet the needs of the desired plastic application.
US11136713B2
A wire rope is disclosed that comprises metal wires, preferably steel wires, as a load-bearing material, which rope comprises at least one or more strands laid from said metal wires and which rope is lubricated with a lubricant. Another object is the use of the aforementioned lubricant for lubricating a steel rope. The lubricant comprises at least oil and powder substance, which powder substance comprises at least particles whose hardness is greater than 4 on the Mohs scale. A traction sheave elevator comprising such a wire rope as a suspension rope is disclosed, too.
US11136702B2
A system and method for tufting sculptured and multiple pile height patterned articles, including controlling placement of yarns fed to the needles of the tufting machine by a yarn feed mechanism to form varying patterns includes a backing support over which the backing is fed, and which lifts/and biases the backing to a raised position. As the backing material is fed through the tufting machine, a series of loopers or hooks engage and pick loops of yarns from the needles. The yarn feed mechanism will be controlled to create a tension in selected loops of yarns, to cause the backing material to be pulled against the bias or spring force applied by the backing support toward the needle plate of the tufting machine to create tufts of different pile heights.
US11136698B2
A weft knitting machine knitting structure with changeable yarn positions is provided. A facing yarn and a bottom yarn positioned below the facing yarn are fed during knitting, the weft knitting machine knitting structure comprises a plurality of sinkers and a plurality of needles, the plurality of needles are respectively arranged adjacent to one of the plurality of sinkers, and each of the plurality of sinkers is guided to perform a linear displacement movement. Each of the plurality of needles is provided with a hook and a latch for performing a closing action relative to the hook.
US11136687B2
Exemplary substrate locking system, device, apparatus and method for chemical and/or electrolytic surface treatment of a substrate in a process fluid can be provided. For example, it is possible to provide a first element, a second element and a locking unit. The first element and the second element can be configured to hold the substrate between each other. The locking unit can be configured to lock the first element and the second element with each other. The locking unit can comprise a magnet control device and a magnet. The magnet can be arranged at or near the first element and/or the second element. The magnet control device can be configured to control a magnetic force between the first element and the second element.
US11136683B2
A method is disclosed for manufacturing a cathode for electrolytic processes, the cathode comprising a conducting bar and a plate attached to the conducting bar, wherein the conducting bar has a conducting member attached thereto to increase the conductivity of the conducting bar.
US11136679B2
Photoelectrochemical cells for the oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid and/or 2,5-diformylfuran are provided. Also provided are methods of using the cells to carry out the electrochemical and photoelectrochemical oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid and/or 2,5-diformylfuran.
US11136667B2
A process for depositing a thin film material on a substrate is disclosed, comprising simultaneously directing a series of gas flows from the output face of a delivery head of a thin film deposition system toward the surface of a substrate, and wherein the series of gas flows comprises at least a first reactive gaseous material, an inert purge gas, and a second reactive gaseous material, wherein the first reactive gaseous material is capable of reacting with a substrate surface treated with the second reactive gaseous material, wherein one or more of the gas flows provides a pressure that at least contributes to the separation of the surface of the substrate from the face of the delivery head. A system capable of carrying out such a process is also disclosed.
US11136665B2
Embodiments of the invention contemplate a shadow ring that provides increased or decreased and more uniform deposition on the edge of a wafer. By removing material from the top and/or bottom surfaces of the shadow ring, increased edge deposition and bevel coverage can be realized. In one embodiment, the material on the bottom surface is reduced by providing a recessed slot on the bottom surface. By increasing the amount of material of the shadow ring, the edge deposition and bevel coverage is reduced. Another approach to adjusting the deposition at the edge of the wafer includes increasing or decreasing the inner diameter of the shadow ring. The material forming the shadow ring may also be varied to change the amount of deposition at the edge of the wafer.
US11136661B2
The present disclosure provides a mask plate frame. The mask plate frame includes two opposite rims, and a plurality of connectors detachably mounted to a first surface of each rim along a length direction of each rim. Each connector is used to mount a mask strip.
US11136656B2
A high strength steel comprises up to about 0.25 wt % C, up to about 2.0 wt % Si, up to about 2.0 wt % Cr, up to 14% Mn, and less than 0.5% Ni. It preferably has an Ms temperature less than 50° C. The high strength steel may have a tensile strength of at least 1000 MPa and total elongations of at least about 25% after hot rolling. It may have a tensile strength of at least 1200 MPa and total elongations of at least about 20% after hot rolling.
US11136644B2
A high-strength cold rolled steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a method for producing the same. The steel sheet having a microstructure including, in terms of volume fraction, 35% or less of ferrite, 1% or more and 10% or less of retained austenite, 2% or more and 12% or less of as-quenched martensite, and a total of 25% to 70% of bainite and tempered martensite. The microstructure has an average crystal grain diameter of the ferrite: 5.0 μm or less, an average crystal grain diameter of the retained austenite: 2.0 μm or less, an average crystal grain diameter of the as-quenched martensite: 3.0 μm or less, an average crystal grain diameter of the bainite and the tempered martensite phase: 4.0 μm or less, and an average intergrain distance of the as-quenched martensite of 1.0 μm or more.
