US11149962B2
A steam cooker having a main body, a cavity provided inside the main body, a steam generator provided to generate steam, a supply pipe connecting the steam generator to the cavity to supply steam into the cavity, a discharge pipe arranged to discharge the steam inside the cavity to the outside of the cavity, a discharge nozzle coupled to an end of the discharge pipe, and a cooling fan provided between the cavity and the main body to cool the cavity, and wherein the discharge nozzle is disposed adjacent to the bottom of the cooling fan such that steam discharged through the discharge nozzle is guided downward between the cavity and the main body by the cooling fan. The steam cooker can prevent the condensation water from falling down on the lower part of the main body.
US11149960B2
A method and apparatus for recovering energy from exhaust air in a standard kitchen ventilation hood. One or more removeable energy recovery modules comprised of a plurality of heat pipes is mounted above the hot exhaust gases. Working fluid within the heat pipes transfers heat to the makeup air, warming it before it is returned to the kitchen.
US11149959B2
Provided is a cooking apparatus and method of controlling the cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking chamber; a heating portion installed in the cooking chamber; and a smoking agent accommodation portion separably mounted on the heating portion and capable of accommodating a smoking agent.
US11149958B2
An apparatus for heating food comprises a high capacity oven configured for receiving and cooking nine vertically spaced meal trays. The increased capacity oven maintains an outer vertical dimension in compliance with standard aircraft oven sizes while increasing the inner oven vertical dimension sufficiently to receive and sufficiently cook the nine meal trays. The increased capacity oven maintains a sufficient vertical spacing between each meal tray to enable sufficient airflow between the meal trays for timely meal cooking. Efficient placement of oven components in each of the areas above and below the oven internal cavity increases the internal vertical dimension of the oven internal cavity and the available vertical cooking space.
US11149947B2
The can combustion chamber includes a casing housing a plurality of cans. Each can includes a wall and a perforated cooling liner around the wall. Cooling liners of adjacent cans have staggered perforations.
US11149943B2
A tool for holding a torch having a fuel containing cylinder at one end and a flame directing nozzle at an opposite end. The tool has a base with first and second parts arranged in a cooperative stacked relationship relative to each other and defining a spherical socket therebetween. The second part of the base has an open top. A positioning receptacle is seated and rotatable within the spherical socket defined by the base. The receptacle has a spherical outer surface and a cylindrical blind cavity opening to the spherical outer surface of the receptacle so as to receive and releasably hold a lengthwise portion of the fuel containing cylinder therewithin. A manually operable, spring biased assembly is mounted in operable combination with first and second parts of the base and is operable in either a locked condition or an unlocked condition. In the locked condition, the spring biased assembly applies a first clamping force to the outer spherical surface of the receptacle to restrain the receptacle in a selected and adjusted position and against movement relative to the base and applies a reduced clamping force to the outer spherical surface of the receptacle when in an unlocked condition.
US11149939B2
An apparatus for an audio sound system may include a speaker unit that may include a speaker housing configured to be selectively, at least partially, illuminated. The speaker unit may further include an illumination source configured to at least partially illuminate the speaker housing.
US11149938B2
A luminaire includes a first light source positioned at a first level of a luminaire housing. The first light source generates a light output. The luminaire also includes a trim component positioned at a second level of the luminaire housing different from the first level, The trim component includes a visual feedback element that emits a visual feedback response. Further, the luminaire includes a control circuit positioned at the second level within the trim component. The control circuit controls operation of the visual feedback element.
US11149932B1
An illuminating pendant that includes a housing unit, one or more layers of translucent material connected to the housing unit, and control circuitry secured to the housing unit and electrically connected to one or more LEDs and to a power source. The control circuitry includes a receiver and a proximity detection device and detects a first signal location proximate to a first proximity beacon and illuminates one or more LEDs in a pattern associated with the first signal location. In one embodiment the illuminating pendant is affixed to a wearable band. In another embodiment, the illuminating pendant is magnetically secured to a user's clothing.
US11149926B2
A luminaire control device for use with a municipal light pole. The device is plugged into a standard dimming receptacle and includes a universal power supply for converting AC power received in any of the common municipal distribution voltages to a uniform DC output usable by small electronic components of an accompanying control system. The universal power supply and control system are configured to fit within the form factor required by applicable standards. The control system includes program logic to control the luminaire by sending control signals via the dimming receptacle. These signals may be sent using one, two, or more control channels as defined by the standard, and may control a single luminaire or multiple luminaires via the different channels. The device may further include a wireless transceiver to facilitate remote access and control of the light, allowing a municipal light pole to be retrofitted as an IoT device.
US11149923B2
A lighting fixture including a light source having an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs); a reflector having an input end adjacent the array of LEDs and an output end opposite the input end such that the light source emits light through the reflector from the input end through the output end; and a tandem lens array adjacent the output end of the reflector. The tandem lens array includes a first side that faces toward the array of LEDs and a second side that is opposite the first side, wherein the first side includes an array of lenses and the second side includes an array of lenses.
US11149921B2
An aircraft light collimation and redirection apparatus and method devised to reflect, refract, focus, and collimate light from a light source along particular steradians relative to an aircraft to maximize the perceived luminous intensity at all statutorily required angles of observation while minimizing the required luminous efficacy of the light source.
US11149920B2
The invention relates, inter alia, to a light fixture (10) for illuminating building surfaces (17) or partial building surfaces, comprising a housing (11), at least one light source, in particular an LED (12, 12a, 12b, 12c), and at least one collimating optics, in particular collimating optics (15, 15a, 15b, 15c) for collimating the light emitted by the light source. A particular feature is that at least three lens plates (18, 19) are provided in the light path behind the collimating optics, on each of which lens plates a plurality of lens elements (22a, 22b, 22c, 23a, 23b, 23c, 69a, 69b, 69c, 70a, 70b, 70c) is arranged, in particular grouped, wherein the relative spacings (32, 75) between one of the two outer lens plates, in each case, and the central lens plate, can be changed by means of at least one adjustment device (20), and wherein the light fixture provides different light distributions (37, 38, 39, 50a, 50b, 50c) in different mutual spacing positions of the lens plates.
US11149917B2
A light-emitting device includes a substrate; a lens array having a plurality of lens sections in a matrix pattern; and a plurality of semiconductor laser elements disposed on the substrate. Each of the semiconductor laser elements emits a respective laser beam, each laser beam having a beam shape with a greater width in a column direction than in a row direction on a light incident surface of each respective lens section. The lens sections have an inter-vertex distance in the row direction that is smaller than both (i) a maximum outer diameter of each of the lens sections, and (ii) an inter-vertex distance in the column direction. A curvature of the lens sections in the row direction is the same as a curvature of the lens sections in the column direction.
US11149913B2
A headlamp includes a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip for generating light. The first and second semiconductor chips each include several pixels. A first optics is arranged to direct light from the first semiconductor chip with a first magnification into a base region. Via a second optics, light of the second semiconductor chip is directed into a bright region with a second magnification. The second magnification is between 0.3 times and 0.7 times the first magnification inclusive, so that the bright region is smaller than the base region. The bright region is within the base region.
US11149911B2
The back plate has four lateral walls and a bottom plate. A back side of the bottom plate includes multiple sets of folding hooks. Each set corresponds a different installation platform. One of the multiple sets of folding hooks is folded to be used for hooking to a corresponding installation platform. The light source module has multiple LED modules disposed on the bottom plate. Each LED module has a LED device and a lens. The lens diffuses a light of the LED device to be evenly emitted from the lens and broadening an output angle of the light via the lens. The diffusion plate with a peripheral edge is fixed to the four lateral walls of the back plate. The driver cover is attached to an external side of one of the four walls of the back plate. The driver cover defines a container cavity for concealing the driver module.
US11149907B2
In a method for operating an adsorption device a laden gas stream is fed to an inlet of a sorption buffer device. In the device the laden gas stream passes through a sorbent for receiving a loading of sorbable substance along a sorption path from the inlet to an outlet. The sorbable substance passes from the gas stream to the sorbent, or vice versa, depending on the loading of the gas stream and the sorbent. During a phase of elevated loading, a region with an elevated loading of the sorbent extends from the inlet along the sorption path. During a phase of reduced loading, the region with the elevated loading of the sorbent is shifted in the direction toward the outlet. Length of the sorption path and quantity of the sorbent in the sorption buffer device are selected for accommodating at least three different regions of elevated loading.
US11149901B2
Tripod having a tripod head, a shaft, having telescopic shaft parts, attached to the tripod head via a locking mechanism, and at least three support legs mounted so as to be outwardly pivotably on the shaft. The support legs are connected to the tripod head via pulling members which can be wound up and unwound by a coil arranged rotatably on the tripod head and can be tensioned by a tensioning element. It is proposed that the coil is provided with a return spring acting in the winding direction of rotation of the coil, and a coupling mechanism is provided which can be transferred with an operating element from a rotation mode, in which the coil can be rotated in an unwinding direction of rotation and by the return spring in a winding direction of rotation, into a tensioning mode, in which the coil is locked with respect to the pulling members and the pulling members can be tensioned by the tensioning element.
US11149899B2
An assembly includes a series of support structures. Each of the support structures includes a base, a top plate having a continuous surface area, and a connector coupling the base to the top plate. The connector assumes a compressed position when under load from an object. The support structures that are in an extended position provide a lateral retention force to the object.
US11149891B2
The invention relates to a quick coupling, made up of a male element and a female element. The male element includes a cylindrical male body, defining a longitudinal cavity, a distal mouth, and a valve movable axially inside the cavity between a forward position in which the valve closes off the mouth and a withdrawn position in which the valve does not close off the mouth. The female element includes a cylindrical female body, defining a longitudinal cavity and a distal mouth, a push-piece, and a slide valve. The male body or the push-piece delimits a fluid passage channel connecting an inside of the cavity to the distal mouth, and the passage channel, emerging inside the cavity of the male element or the female element, fits inside a circle, the diameter of which is respectively larger or smaller than that of the first and second sealing gaskets.
US11149880B2
A composite tube includes a first layer including a thermoplastic polymer having a Tg of not greater than about 160° C. and a second layer adjacent to the first layer, the second layer including an extruded silicone material. Further included is a method of forming the composite tube which includes providing a first layer including a thermoplastic polymer having a Tg of not greater than about 160° C.; receiving, by an extrusion system, a silicone material; forming, by the extrusion system, a second layer including the silicone material adjacent to the first layer; and irradiating the silicone material with a radiation source to substantially cure the silicone material.
US11149879B2
A process for producing a thermoplastic composite pipe, where the process includes: a) providing a tubular liner having a wall containing a thermoplastic polymer A in the region of the outer surface; b) providing a tape containing reinforcing fibres in a matrix containing a thermoplastic polymer B, where polymer A and polymer B are different; c) applying a film or a composite which is produced in d) and is composed of a film and a tape provided in step b) to the tubular liner, with melting of the outer surface of the liner and of the contact surface of the film either beforehand, simultaneously or thereafter, d) applying the tape provided in b) to the outer surface of the film, with melting of the outer surface of the film applied and of the contact surface of the tape either beforehand, simultaneously or thereafter, where the surface of the film which is brought into contact with the liner contains a moulding compound containing polymer A to an extent of at least 30% by weight, and the opposite surface of the film contains a moulding compound containing polymer B to an extent of at least 30% by weight.
US11149874B1
A valve operator assembly may include a housing, a yoke, and one or more stoppers. The housing is mountable on a valve, and includes a body having a sidewall including a shaft bore, to receive a shaft rotatable within the housing, and a cover having a top member mountable on a top portion of the body and a side portion extending downwards adjacent to and partially overlapping the sidewall. The yoke is operably coupled by a yoke nut to the shaft to impart rotation to a valve stem of the valve when the shaft is rotated. The one or more stoppers are disposed within the housing to restrict the linear motion of the yoke nut.
US11149873B2
An on/off valve controls circulation of mediums in an upstream pipeline and a downstream pipeline of the on/off valve; a valve stem of the on/off valve is connected with an on/off actuating mechanism; the upstream pipeline of the on/off valve is connected with a pilot trigger mechanism through a communicating pipe, the pilot trigger mechanism is connected with the on/off actuating mechanism, and the pilot trigger mechanism triggers the on/off actuating mechanism. An isolation device is arranged on the communicating pipe and isolates the communicating pipe into an upstream portion and a downstream portion through a pressure sensing component. The pressure sensing component senses a medium pressure from the upstream pipeline and feed back the pressure to the pilot trigger mechanism, thereby causing an action of the pilot trigger mechanism. A non-viscous and incompressible fluid is filled between the downstream of the communicating pipe and the pilot trigger mechanism.
US11149869B2
Valve seats include a flexible arm portion configured to seal against a portion of a valve body of a valve. A ball valve may include such valve seats. Methods of forming a seal in a ball valve include forcing a first metal valve scat into sealing contact with a first end cap and a ball valve member with a first metal flexible arm member and forcing a second metal valve seat into sealing contact with a second end cap and the ball valve member with a second metal flexible arm member.
US11149866B2
A discharge valve is provided in a recirculation line through which gas discharged from a fuel cell stack recirculates to the stack. The discharge valve opens or closes a discharge line through which a fluid in the recirculation line is discharged. The discharge valve includes a valve body connected to the discharge line and a drive part disposed in the valve body to be movable vertically. A diaphragm is coupled to a lower end of the drive part and selectively opens or closes the discharge line based on the vertical movement. The drive part switches between a closed state in which the discharge line is closed by the diaphragm, a first opened state in which the discharge line is opened to a first opening degree, and a second opened state in which the discharge line is opened to a second opening degree greater than the first opening degree.
US11149865B2
A discharge valve includes: a valve main body that slidably contacts an inner peripheral wall of a tubular portion; and a primary passage that is formed at the valve main body and is located between the valve main body and the inner peripheral wall of the tubular portion. A stopper includes: a stopper main body that is formed separately from the tubular portion while the stopper main body is located on a side of the discharge valve that is opposite to the discharge valve seat; a movement limit surface that is configured to limit movement of the discharge valve in a direction away from the discharge valve seat; and a secondary passage that is formed at the stopper main body.
US11149861B2
Provided is a gate valve with a disk replacement structure. The gate valve is installed on a pipe, and comprises: a valve body having a blocking space formed therein, a pair of flange pipes formed to communicate with the blocking space, and a cover mounted on an upper side thereof to close the blocking space; a disk arranged in the blocking space to be lifted and provided with a mounting hole which is formed on an upper surface thereof and has a lifting nut therein; and an operating rod installed on the cover to lift the disk. An insertion hole is formed on the cover to penetrate the cover.
US11149857B2
A seal ring for a seal assembly includes a body and a seal flange. The body is generally cylindrical, extending along a longitudinal axis between a load end and a seal end. The seal flange is disposed adjacent the seal end of the body, projecting radially in a circumscribing manner from the body. The seal flange includes a sealing face having a sealing band for sealing contact with a mating seal ring. A layer of coating composition formulated to help increase the corrosion resistance of the seal ring is applied to at least the body. A mask is applied to the seal ring to cover at least a portion of the seal ring having the layer of coating composition applied thereto such that the sealing band remains exposed. The sealing band is polished by an isotropic finishing process. The mask is removed after the sealing band is isotropically polished.
US11149852B2
Securing a channel section 7 onto a pre-existing substrate 9 using screws 11 requires any water-impermeable layer on the substrate 9 to be compromised. In particular, water present on a head of a screw 11 may wick (i.e. via capillary action) along the thread of a screw, past the water-impermeable layer, and into the core of the substrate 9. The present invention provides a sealing device with a fluid inlet 6 for injecting fluid sealant therethrough to surround a screw 11, thereby preventing wicking of water along threads of the screw.
US11149844B2
A transmission ratio controller includes circuitry that includes a transmission ratio calculator calculating a request transmission ratio, a transmission ratio instructor transmitting a control signal, and an abnormality determiner. The request transmission ratio is calculated using a first transmission ratio map when a specified parameter satisfies a first condition, and a second transmission ratio map when the specified parameter satisfies a second condition. The internal combustion engine is in a first state when the specified parameter satisfies the first condition, and in a second state when the specified parameter satisfies the second condition. In the first state, the abnormality determiner calculates a hypothetical transmission ratio using the second transmission ratio map based on the second state. The abnormality determiner determines an abnormality based on a comparison of the hypothetical transmission ratio with at least one of the request transmission ratio, an instruction transmission ratio, or an actual transmission ratio.
US11149831B2
A lock-up device for a torque converter is disclosed. The lock-up device includes a clutch part, first and second rotary members, a plurality of elastic members and a stopper mechanism. The clutch part is provided between a front cover and a turbine, and transmits the torque inputted to the front cover to the turbine. The first rotary member is disposed between the clutch part and the turbine. The second rotary member is rotatable relative to the first rotary member. The elastic members elastically couple an outer peripheral part of the first rotary member and an outer peripheral part of the second rotary member in a rotational direction. The stopper mechanism is disposed axially between the elastic members and an outer peripheral part of a turbine shell. The stopper mechanism includes an engaging portion restricting an angular range of relative rotation between the first rotary member and the second rotary member.
US11149830B2
A torque converter for a hybrid module may include a hydraulic coupling arrangement, a front cover, an impeller shell, and an electric rotor. The hydraulic coupling arrangement may include an impeller and a turbine. The front cover may have a first rim extending in a first axial direction. The front cover may at least partially encase the hydraulic coupling arrangement. The impeller shell may be fixed to the front cover and may at least partially encase the hydraulic coupling arrangement. The impeller shell may have a second rim extending in a second axial direction, opposite the first axial direction, a circumferential ring at a distal end of the second rim, and at least one impeller blade. The electric rotor may be fixed to the impeller shell second rim and axially retained by the circumferential ring.
US11149826B1
The present disclosure relates to a planetary rolling micro-jacking device comprising a bottom plate, a rotating plate and a top plate mounted on a central shaft. There are at least three planetary thread rollers provided between the rotating and the top plates. The rotating and the top plates are provided with multiple annular tooth grooves. The annular tooth grooves of the rotating plate and the annular tooth grooves of the top plate engage with the thread of the planetary thread rollers. The planetary thread rollers roll between the rotating and the top plates, and rotate around the central shaft.
US11149825B1
An engine assembly includes a crankshaft, a control shaft, a drive gear fixed to the crankshaft, a carrier, a first planetary gear set, an actuator, and a second planetary gear set. The first planetary gear set includes a first sun gear fixed to ground, a first ring gear engaged with the drive gear, and a first planet gear rotatably mounted on the carrier and engaged with the first ring gear and the first sun gear. The second planetary gear set includes a second sun gear fixed to the actuator, a second ring gear coupled with the control shaft, and a second planet gear rotatably mounted on the carrier and engaged with the second ring gear and the second sun gear. The actuator is operable to rotate the second sun gear and thereby adjust a ratio of a rotational speed of the crankshaft to a rotational speed of the control shaft.
US11149824B2
An electric drive for a motor vehicle includes a housing, an output shaft, an electric engine, which has a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a planetary gear set arranged in the housing, which has a sun gear, a ring gear and a planetary carrier, which is non-rotatably connected to the output shaft, having a first switching element, by means of which the ring gear can be non-rotatably coupled to the rotor, and a second switching element, by means of which the ring gear can be non-rotatably coupled to the housing. The first switching element and the second switching element are coupled to each other via a first coupling element and thereby can be operated together by a single first actuator common to the first switching element and the second switching element.
US11149823B2
An electric drive axle including a first gear and an idler shaft having a second gear and a third gear disposed thereon, wherein the second gear cooperates with the first gear. A clutch assembly selectively couples a planetary gear system to one of the second gear and the third gear, wherein the planetary gear system is configured to produce a predetermined gear ratio between the second gear and the third gear.
US11149821B2
The present invention relates to a line gear mechanism with variable-angle transmission, which consists of a line gear pair having intersecting shafts which includes a driving line gear and a driven line gear. The driving line gear and the driven line gear are each composed of a wheel body and a line tooth. Contact curves of the driving line gear and the driven line gear mesh according to a pair of space conjugate curves. One or more line teeth are provided on the driving line gear. The line tooth on the driven line gear is a line tooth that has a property of variable-angle transmission. During transmission, the mechanism may adjust a transmission angle of the line gear pair having the intersecting shafts, thus causing meshing points to form on different contact curves while a transmission ratio remains unchanged and the transmission is stable.
US11149820B2
In an element of a power transfer belt to be wound around a primary pulley and a secondary pulley of a continuously variable transmission to transfer torque, the distance from a boundary line between a surface positioned on the outer peripheral side of the power transfer belt with respect to a rocking edge portion and the rocking edge portion to a saddle surface is determined from the slip amount due to micro slip which is relative slipping between the element and the primary pulley caused when the primary pulley pushes out the power transfer belt toward the secondary pulley, and the angular speed of the element and the angular speed of a ring in a range in which the power transfer belt is wound around the secondary pulley.
US11149817B2
A damper device includes a plurality of rotational elements, a plurality of elastic bodies, a rotary inertia mass damper and a housing that houses the plurality of rotational elements, the plurality of elastic bodies and the rotary inertia mass damper, the housing including a front cover. The rotary inertia mass damper is configured to include a planetary gear that includes a sun gear, a plurality of pinion gears, and a carrier that rotatably supports the plurality of pinion gears. The carrier is centered by either the sun gear or a member that rotates integrally with the sun gear by being radially supported by either the sun gear or the member that rotates integrally with the sun gear. In addition, the carrier is spline-engaged to the front cover when a lockup clutch is engaged.
US11149814B2
A cover system for a damper includes an outer tube and a piston rod extending from an end of the outer tube. The cover system also includes a dust tube disposed around a portion of the outer tube. The dust tube includes a first end located proximal to the end of the outer tube and a second end opposite to the first end. The dust tube at least partially encloses the piston rod. The cover system further includes a cap connected to the outer tube. The cap is adapted to at least partially cover the first end of the dust tube.
US11149810B2
A brake pad for a vehicle disc brake assembly has a backing plate, a shim, and an adhesive bond between the backing plate and the shim that retains the shim on the backing plate. The backing plate is configured to support a brake lining and has a recessed portion with transverse first and second surfaces. The first surface is a bottom surface of the recessed portion and the second surface is a perimeter surface that defines a perimeter of the bottom surface. The shim has a face surface that is also transverse to the bottom surface. The face surface is configured to engage with the perimeter surface to mechanically restrain the shim in the recessed portion from lateral displacement.
US11149808B2
An excitation operation brake includes a braking shaft, an armature that rotates integrally with the braking shaft, and a field core including a disc portion facing the armature. The disc portion includes an outer magnetic shielding portion and an inner magnetic shielding portion, which make a magnetic flux flowing through the disc portion bypass to the armature a plurality of times. The outer magnetic shielding portion includes a low-magnetic resistance path having a magnetic resistance smaller than the magnetic resistance of a magnetic path that bypasses to the armature.
US11149799B2
A power transmission device has a pressure member (5) pressing drive-side clutch plates and driven-side clutch plates against each other or releasing a press-contact force. A clutch spring (10) urges the pressure member (5) in a direction so that the clutch plates are pressed against each other. A separate receiving member (11) is attached to the pressure member (5). A back-torque limiting cam reduces press-contact force between the clutch plates when the rotation speed of an output member exceeds the rotation speed of an input member. A rotation restricting portion (8a) restricting rotation, relative to the clutch member (4), of the pressure member (5) that has moved due to activation of the push rod (9). A clearance t is maintained between the pair of cam surfaces that constitute the back-torque limiting cam.
US11149797B2
A constant velocity joint assembly includes an outer race having a first bore defined by an inner surface of the outer race. A ball cage has an outer surface and a second bore defined by an inner surface of the ball cage. The ball cage is axially received in the first bore of the outer race. At least one of the inner surface of the outer race or the inner surface the ball cage includes a first portion having a cylindrical contour and a second portion having a spherical contour.
US11149789B2
A slide rail includes a first rail, a second rail, and a third rail. The first rail is slidably coupled to the second rail. The second rail is slidably coupled to the third rail. The first rail includes a pulling tab. The second rail includes a first resilient piece and a first clearance slot. The third rail includes a positioning slot. One end of the first resilient piece is fixed to the second rail, and another end of the first resilient piece extends into the first clearance slot. When the first rail slides out, the pulling tab drives the first resilient piece and the second rail to slide out. When the first resilient piece is moved to the positioning slot, the first resilient piece resiliently bends and inserts into the positioning slot, and the first resilient piece is separated from the pulling tab.
US11149787B2
A thrust roller bearing includes a plurality of rollers and a cage including a plurality of cage pockets for housing the rollers. The rollers each include a cylindrical portion, an outer crowning portion, and an inner crowning portion. The cage pockets each include an outer surface, an inner surface facing a second end surface of the roller, and a pair of side surfaces facing an outer peripheral surface of the roller. The side surfaces each include a recessed surface that is not contactable with the roller, and flat surfaces that are provided on the outer side in the radial direction and on the inner side in the radial direction, respectively, and are contactable with the roller. A first dimension is larger than a second dimension.
US11149783B2
A tolerance absorbing spacer for controlling manufacturing dimensional tolerance variation in products made with multiple internal components, each requiring unique dimensional tolerance allowance. This component adjusts and compensates for the resulting overall cumulative component height variation within an assembly of components, sometimes referred to as “stack height” by compensating for the maximum to minimum range of possible assembly heights, compressing and yielding under applied external force until all excess internal clearance is removed, except for a small, and desirable remaining clearance. This component yields and becomes essentially fully plastic, to provide the necessary tolerance adjustment feature only after reaching a predetermined, minimum force which exceeds all applied forces the component could reasonably encounter in service use and below which, the tolerance absorbing spacer remains fully rigid.
US11149780B2
A method of covering a portion of a fastener, protruding from a surface, that comprises providing a cap comprising a wall, a base, an interior, at least partially delimited by the wall and the base, and pawls, located in the interior of the cap. The method further comprises coupling a tooth to the fastener, covering the portion of the fastener with the cap, and positively engaging the pawls with the tooth, such that the pawls are loaded in tension against the tooth.
US11149760B2
An improved pistonless cylinder, including both single acting and double acting configurations, based on an Aramid fiber reinforced elastomer tubular which is highly stiff in radial direction against radial expansion and elastic in axial extension, so as to form a completely sealed, extendable and retractable pressure chamber and to be able to perform as well as, or better than, most of the conventional hydraulic cylinders in terms of load bearing capacities, maximum stroke distances and service durability. This improved cylinder employs no piston, piston rod, sealing seals or oil based hydraulic fluid, and utilizes non-metal materials to construct the majority of the parts for its extendable and retractable pressure chamber; therefore, this new cylinder can achieve significant weight and fabrication cost reduction. In addition, this new pistonless cylinder uses ordinary liquids, e.g., fresh water or seawater, as its hydraulic fluid, and can work directly as a hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder interchangeably without a need for much, if any, modification.
US11149750B2
A silencing device includes: a flow path forming plate having a flow path forming surface for forming a wall surface of a flow path through which fluid flows; and a cavity defining portion for defining a cavity on the reverse surface side of the flow path forming plate, the reverse surface being located on the reverse side of the flow path forming surface. The flow path forming plate has formed therein a plurality of fine through-holes which are configured to provide communication between the flow path forming surface and the reverse surface and which has a diameter from 0.01 mm to 0.5 mm.
US11149749B2
An impeller that rotates about a central axis extending vertically includes a base portion and blades. The base portion spreads perpendicularly to the central axis. The blades are on an upper surface of the base portion at intervals in a circumferential direction. The base portion includes an irregular portion that is radially outward and in which irregularities are repeated in the circumferential direction. The irregular portion includes one or more first irregular regions and a second irregular region. The first irregular regions include first recesses with a same shape and first projections with a same shape, the first recesses and projections being alternately arranged one by one. The second irregular region is positioned between the first irregular regions and includes at least one among a second recess with a different shape from the first recesses and a second projection with a different shape from the first projections.
US11149747B2
A vertically-elongated member, which is preferably a support post used in a molten metal pump, includes a ceramic tube and tensioning structures to add a compressive load to the tube along its longitudinal axis. This makes the tube less prone to breakage. Another vertically-elongated member, such as a support post, includes one or more reinforcement members to help alleviate breakage. A device, such as a pump, used in a molten metal bath includes one or more of such vertical members.
US11149742B2
An axial-flow fan includes an impeller including plural blades fixed to an outer peripheral portion of the hub and each surrounded by an inner peripheral edge, an outer peripheral edge, a leading edge, and a trailing edge. The leading edge is forward-curved in a rotational direction with an angle increasing to outer periphery of the impeller and runs toward an outer periphery up to point A, the trailing edge is forward-curved in the rotational direction and runs toward the outer periphery up to point D, recedes in the rotational direction of the impeller as the trailing edge runs toward the outer periphery up to point A′ located closer to the outer periphery than point D is to the outer periphery, advances in the rotational direction of the impeller in a region between point A′ and point B′, and reflexed at point D and point A′.
US11149741B2
A gas turbine engine includes a fan having a plurality of fan blades configured to rotate about a central axis of the gas turbine engine. Each fan blade is configured to pivot about a pitch axis that extends radially away from the central axis to vary a pitch of the fan blade.
US11149739B1
An air-cooled heat exchanger has a plenum, an engine, and a fan assembly driven by the engine and configured to move air through the plenum. The fan assembly has a fan, a fan shaft connected to the fan, and a fan shaft bearing assembly that supports the fan shaft. The fan shaft bearing assembly has a fan shaft bearing and a vertical adjustment mechanism that selectively controls the vertical position of the fan shaft bearing. The air-cooled heat exchanger may optionally include a horizontal adjustment mechanism that selectively controls the horizontal position of the fan shaft bearing.
US11149735B2
An insert component for a scroll compressor comprises a polymer and at least one reinforcing or lubricating particle. The insert component comprises an annular body and an axial projection. The annular body defines a first centrally-disposed opening having has a central axis extending therethrough. The annular body has a first side comprising a first contact surface configured to engage a partition plate and a second side a second contact surface configured to engage a floating seal assembly. The first contact surface defines a slope between first and second radial locations. The axial projection extends from the annular body and can be received in a second centrally-disposed opening of the partition plate. The insert component can fluidly seal both a first interface between the first contact surface and the partition plate and a second interface between the second contact surface and a floating seal assembly during operation of the scroll compressor.
US11149734B2
Provided is a fluid machine configured such that liquid supplied to a working chamber from the outside of the fluid machine is dispersed extensively in the working chamber. This fluid machine is constituted of a screw rotor and a casing for accommodating the screw rotor and is provided with a liquid supply section for supplying liquid into a working chamber from the outside. The liquid supply section is configured so that liquid is dispersed in the longitudinal direction of the tooth groove of the screw rotor rather than in the width direction thereof.
US11149726B1
A pump system may include a pump, a driveshaft, driving equipment, and a vibration dampening assembly configured to reduce pump-imposed high frequency/low amplitude and low frequency/high amplitude torsional vibrations. The pump may have an input shaft connected to the driveshaft. The driving equipment may include an output shaft having an output flange connected to the driveshaft. The driving equipment may be configured to rotate the driveshaft to rotate the input shaft of the pump therewith. The vibration dampening assembly may include one or more flywheels operably connected to the input shaft and configured to rotate therewith.
US11149722B2
A variable displacement compressor capable of preventing delay in pressure release of a controlled pressure chamber, such as a crank chamber. A switching valve (350) disposed downstream of a control valve of a pressure supply passage includes a main valve body (352) and a sub valve body (400). The main valve body (352) includes an internal passage (352d) providing communication between a first valve hole (104e1) communicating with a pressure supply passage (145a) between the control valve and the switching valve (350), and a second valve hole (151a) communicating with a pressure supply passage (145b) between the switching valve (350) and the crank chamber. The main valve body (352) provides communication between the second valve hole (151a) and a pressure release hole (351a1) communicating with the suction chamber, when pressure Pm in the pressure supply passage (145a) is lower than pressure Pc in the crank chamber. The sub valve body (400) closes the internal passage (352d) of the main valve body (352), when pressure Pm is lower than pressure Pc. The sub valve body (400) is lighter than the main valve body (352), and thus, when pressure Pm decreases, the sub valve body (400) actuates before the main valve body (352), to close the internal passage (352d) of the main valve body (352).
US11149720B2
Actuators (artificial muscles) comprising twist-spun nanofiber twist-inserted polymer fibers generate tensile actuation when powered electrically, photonically, chemically, thermally, by absorption, or by other means. These artificial muscles utilize coiled polymer fibers and can be either neat or comprising a guest. In some embodiments, the coiled polymer fibers actuator can be incorporated into an article, such as a textile, braid, clothing, smart packaging, or a mechanical system, and the coiled polymer fiber in the coiled polymer fiber actuator can have a stroke amplification factor of 5 or greater.
US11149714B2
A method for optimizing auxiliary loads of a wind farm having a plurality of wind turbines includes tracking, via a farm-level controller of the wind farm, operational usage for one or more auxiliary components of at least one of the wind turbines in the wind farm as the operational usage for the one or more auxiliary components induces a load on the auxiliary component(s). The method also includes determining, via the farm-level controller, a power consumption of the load induced on the one or more auxiliary components based on the operational usage. Further, the method includes receiving, via the farm-level controller, at least one additional parameter of the wind farm. Moreover, the method includes implementing, via the farm-level controller, a control command for one or more of the one or more auxiliary components based on the power consumption and the at least one additional parameter.
US11149708B2
The subject matter is directed to a method of mounting flow-altering devices on wind turbine blades, the mounting device and the flow-altering device. The flow-altering devices having a base with an inner side for attaching to a blade, and an outer side with flow-altering device parts protruding from the base. The method provides for a mounting device with a mounting panel supporting one or more flow-altering devices; arranging the mounting panel on an area of application on the surface of the blade with an adhesive material between the inner side of the device and the surface of the blade, and with a seal between the mounting panel and the surface to form a cavity between the mounting panel and the surface of the blade; applying a negative pressure in the cavity; releasing the negative pressure; and removing the mounting panel.
US11149706B2
The disclosure relates to a hydraulic driving system and a driving method for barring. The driving system comprises: three or more main drive hydraulic cylinders, which are divided into two groups to provide pulling and pushing forces to a driven impeller, each main drive hydraulic cylinder including a cylinder body and a piston rod which divides the cylinder body into a rod cavity and a godless cavity, wherein an oil line for the rod cavity and an oil line for the godless cavity of each main drive hydraulic cylinder are controlled by one control valve module; and a control device, which controls the control valve module according to wind and/or load signals, to simultaneously convert flow directions of hydraulic oil in the oil line for the rod cavity and the oil line for the godless cavity of at least one of the three or more main drive hydraulic cylinders.
US11149692B2
A combustion section for a gas turbine engine including an inner casing comprising a first material defining an inner diameter of a pressure vessel and a first heat transfer coefficient. A second material is extended at least partially over an outer diameter of the first material. The second material is disposed radially between the first material and a combustor liner. The second material defines a second heat transfer coefficient less than the first heat transfer coefficient.
US11149687B2
A method of producing a cascade array and a cascade array is provided. The method includes: forming a plurality of strongbacks from a first thermoplastic material; forming a plurality of comb subassemblies, each said comb subassembly including one of the plurality of strongbacks and a plurality of vanes comprising a second thermoplastic material extending outwardly from the respective one of the plurality strongbacks; and attaching the plurality of comb subassemblies into a unitary structure to produce the cascade array.
US11149685B2
An assembly for the rear of a bypass turbomachine (10) comprises a primary nozzle (11) comprising a trailing edge defining a primary flow path portion and a secondary nozzle (110) defining a secondary flow path portion, defined about a longitudinal axis (X), said secondary nozzle being configured to eject a mixture of the flows coming from a secondary flow path (Vs) and from a primary flow path (Vp) of the turbomachine (10), the secondary nozzle being of convergent-divergent shape with a throat (112) corresponding to a minimum cross section of the nozzle (110), the secondary nozzle (110) comprising, at the throat (112), a periodic succession of lobes (116, 118) which are situated along the internal circumference of the secondary nozzle (110). The assembly also comprises a lobed mixer (130) at the downstream end of the primary nozzle (11), this having an alternation of hot lobes (134) extending inside the secondary flow path and of cold lobes (132) extending inside the primary flow path. The lobes of the nozzle (110) which are concave (118), which is to say radially towards the outside, and respectively which are convex (116), which is to say radically towards the inside, if the longitudinal offset is disregarded, radically face the respectively hot lobes (134) and cold lobes (132) of the mixer (130).
US11149684B2
A heat shield panel for use in a combustor of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. In various embodiments, the heat shield panel includes an inner base layer, an outer base layer, and a grommet having a flange disposed between the inner base layer and the outer base layer.
US11149682B2
A structure of a combustion chamber for an engine includes a crown surface of a piston, a combustion chamber ceiling surface, an injector and an ignition plug provided on the combustion chamber ceiling surface, and an intake opening and an exhaust opening opened in the combustion chamber ceiling surface. A side where the intake opening is opened is defined as an intake port side, and a side where the exhaust opening is opened is defined as an exhaust port side. An ignition portion of the ignition plug is disposed on the intake port side. The ignition plug is ignited at a timing after the piston passes a compression top dead center. The injector is disposed on the center portion, and is configured to inject fuel toward the exhaust port side. A cavity is provided on the crown surface. A reverse squish flow generation portion is provided in the combustion chamber.
US11149680B1
A weak tumble flow fast combustion system is provided. An intake throat and an exhaust throat are provided on a cylinder head, a section of an intake duct close to the intake throat is a tumble guide duct, an axis of the tumble guide duct is arranged obliquely with respect to the bottom surface of the cylinder head, and an upper side surface of the tumble guide duct is a flowing-down guide surface arranged obliquely with respect to the bottom surface of the cylinder head, a lower side surface of the tumble guide duct is an arc-shaped guide surface recessed toward the bottom surface of the cylinder head, an eccentric chamfer is provided at the lower end of the intake throat, and the eccentric direction of the eccentric chamfer is offset along the direction connecting the center of the intake throat to the exhaust throat.
US11149677B1
An engine optimization controller may determine values of a set of input parameters of an engine and process, using an engine model, the values to determine a plurality of sets of potential output parameters. The engine optimization controller may determine, based on the plurality of sets of potential output parameters, an engine optimization scheme, which may indicate a first number of cylinders, of one or more cylinders of the engine, to be active and to receive gas; a second number of cylinders, of the one or more cylinders, to be inactive and to receive gas, and/or a third number of cylinders, of the one or more cylinders, to be inactive and to not receive gas. The engine optimization controller may provide the engine configuration scheme to another controller to allow control of the one or more cylinders and one or more fuel injectors according to the engine configuration scheme.
US11149674B2
Disclosed is a method for the diagnosis of a digital valve in a fuel injection system. In the diagnosis, a diagnosis current is applied to the digital valve with an intensity and for a hold time that are predetermined by experiment on digital valves identified as being fault-free, this intensity and this time being recognized as being sufficient for an inflection on a curve of the closing current to be detected in the hold time. Measurements are taken at more than 3 kHz of the diagnosis current added to the induced current in the hold time. When an inflection on the current curve is detected in this hold time, it is concluded that the valve is working correctly. When no inflection on the curve is detected in this hold time, it is concluded that the valve is faulty.
US11149670B2
This exhaust purification system includes: a pump disposed in an exhaust-side purge passage to supply air or purge gas purged from a canister to a catalyst; a three-way valve disposed upstream of the pump in the exhaust-side purge passage and configured to switch the exhaust-side purge passage between a communicating state allowing the pump to communicate with the canister and an atmosphere open state allowing the pump to communicate with the atmosphere; a flow control valve disposed downstream of the pump and configured to control a flow rate of air to be supplied to the catalyst; and a controller configured to, when a request to regenerate the catalyst occurs, control a purge valve, the pump, the three-way valve, and the flow control valve to supply, to the catalyst, purge gas purged from the canister and air by a necessary amount to burn particulates trapped in the catalyst.
US11149665B2
The invention relates to a method of controlling engine derating of an internal combustion engine (10) being provided with a turbocharger (110) and a variable inlet guide vanes assembly (130) arranged upstream a compressor (120) of the turbocharger (110). The method comprises determining a current operational condition requiring engine derating, detecting a current operational condition of the compressor (120), and controlling the position of the variable inlet guide vanes assembly (130) based on the detected operational condition of the compressor (120).
US11149657B2
Provided is a throttle device including a total of two throttle units in two cylinders in an engine, each of the throttle units having a throttle shaft, throttle valves, and a motor driving and rotating the throttle shaft, in which a return spring provided in a first throttle unit and a return spring provided in a second throttle unit out of the two throttle units are components of the same type and have mutually different installation forms in the throttle units such that biasing torques at the same degree of opening of the throttle valves differ from each other, thereby enabling performances of responding to a change in rotation speed to be different from each other.
US11149649B2
An aspect includes a hybrid gas turbine engine system of a hybrid electric aircraft. The hybrid gas turbine engine system includes a gas turbine engine, an electric motor operable to perform an electric taxiing of the hybrid electric aircraft, and a controller. The controller is operable to prevent fuel flow to the gas turbine engine during at least a portion of the electric taxiing and monitor for a powered warm-up request during the electric taxiing. A powered warm-up state of the gas turbine engine is initiated based on detecting the powered warm-up request. The powered warm-up state adds heat to one or more components of the gas turbine engine prior to transitioning to a takeoff power state. The gas turbine engine transitions from the powered warm-up state to the takeoff power state after reaching a target temperature of the one or more components in the powered warm-up state.
US11149648B2
A method of controlling at least part of a start-up or re-light process of a gas turbine engine, the method comprising: controlling ignition within a combustion chamber of the gas turbine engine; controlling rotation of a low pressure compressor using a first electrical machine, and controlling rotation of a high pressure compressor using a second electrical machine, the combustion chamber downstream of the low pressure compressor and high pressure compressor; determining if an exit pressure of the high pressure compressor is equal to or greater than a self-sustaining threshold pressure; and in response to determining that the exit pressure of the high pressure compressor is equal to or greater than the self-sustaining threshold pressure, ceasing controlling rotation of the low pressure compressor using the first electrical machine, and/or the high pressure compressor using a second electrical machine.
US11149644B2
A heat exchange module is provided for a turbine engine. The heat exchange module includes a duct and a plurality of heat exchangers. The duct includes a flowpath defined radially between a plurality of concentric duct walls. The flowpath extends along an axial centerline through the duct between a first duct end and a second duct end. The heat exchangers are located within the flowpath, and arranged circumferentially around the centerline.
US11149641B2
A method of cooling a gas turbine engine case assembly includes moving a fan air valve that is operatively connected to a pre-cooler having a bypass inlet that is configured to receive bypass air that bypasses a gas turbine engine core to facilitate a provision of bypass air through a fan air valve inlet to the bypass inlet to a first open position, in response to a core compartment temperature being greater than a target core compartment temperature. The method further includes bleeding the bypass air through a bypass outlet of the pre-cooler into a core compartment.
US11149636B2
A process is provided for separating syngas fuel into a CO-rich stream for feeding to oxyfuel combustor means of CO2 turbine means and a H2-rich stream for feeding to air-fuel gas turbine means for generating power provides opportunity to realize operating and equipment advantages.
US11149631B2
A front end accessory drive system is disclosed. The system includes a hub configured to drivingly engage with a crankshaft and a gear transmission system. A one-way clutch includes a first bearing ring connected to an end of a plurality of planet pins of the gear transmission system, and a second bearing ring connected to a sun gear of the gear transmission system. A pump configured to direct hydraulic fluid through a hydraulic fluid circuit. A clutch pack is in fluid connection with the hydraulic fluid circuit. The clutch pack includes at least one clutch plate supported by the gear transmission system, such that a portion of the gear transmission system is grounded via frictional engagement of the at least one clutch plate in an actuated state of the clutch pack.
US11149630B2
A standby generator having an engine with oil drain tube that facilitates removal of engine oil from the standby generator is disclosed. The standby generator includes an enclosure comprising a plurality of sidewalls, with an opening formed in one of the sidewalls, and an engine positioned within the enclosure. The engine further includes an oil drain and an oil drain tube having a first end coupled to the oil drain and a second end that opens and closes to selectively drain oil from the engine, the oil drain tube being positionable so as to extend out through the opening. The opening in the one of the sidewalls is lower than the oil drain, such that the oil drain tube is positioned with a downward angle when extending from the oil drain and out of the enclosure through the opening.
US11149623B2
A pneumatic motor assembly that includes a pneumatic motor, which is driven by a compressed gas. The pneumatic motor assembly has a magnet assembly that magnetically couples the pneumatic motor assembly to an implement. After having being used to drive a pneumatic motor, the gas, which has expanded and become colder, cools the magnet assembly The pneumatic motor assembly can thus enable the use to the implement at temperatures at which the magnet assembly would otherwise reach or exceed the maximum operating temperature of the magnet assembly. A flow induction system that includes the pneumatic motor assembly. A method of operating a pneumatic motor assembly that also cools a magnet assembly that is part of the pneumatic motor assembly.
US11149617B2
In one aspect, a system is provided and includes an engine including an exhaust valve, an exhaust manifold downstream of the exhaust valve and a muffler downstream of the exhaust manifold. The system also includes a catalyst positioned downstream of the exhaust valve.
US11149612B2
A method for operating an exhaust gas post-treatment system of a diesel engine and associated exhaust gas post-treatment system are described. The system has two NOx sensors upstream and downstream of an SCR catalytic converter. The NOx sensor downstream of the SCR catalytic converter is used to divide the NOx information measured by the sensor upstream of the SCR catalytic converter into an NOx value and an NH3 value. Using this simple method, the SCR catalyst control and diagnosis can be carried out precisely and robustly.
US11149608B2
Disclosed is a method for selective catalytic reduction operating by desorbing ammonia from at least one storage cartridge in an exhaust line at the output of a motor vehicle engine, the cartridge being arranged in at least one bypass branch of a main line of the exhaust line. The exhaust gas flow rate in the bypass branch is controlled according to an estimated or measured temperature in the bypass branch and a desired amount of ammonia to be injected by desorption estimated in the exhaust line to provide a catalytic reduction of the nitrogen oxides present in the exhaust gas, a temperature of the cartridge being estimated according to the gas flow rate at the temperature estimated or measured during a given time interval and corresponding to an amount of desorbed ammonia equal to the desired amount of ammonia.
US11149602B2
A valve assembly for a vehicle exhaust system includes at least one pipe enclosing an exhaust gas flow path, the pipe defining a central axis, and at least one flexible flap positioned within the exhaust gas flowpath. The at least one flexible flap has one fixed edge held fixed to the pipe and extends to a distal edge that is free to bend in response to an increase in exhaust gas flow pressure to provide a variable restriction to flow through the pipe that varies in response to a pressure difference upstream and downstream of the at least one flexible flap.
US11149601B2
An oil separator for separating oil droplets and/or oil mist from gases, in particular from blow-by gases of an internal combustion engine is described.
US11149599B2
Systems and methods for internal exhaust gas recirculation (iEGR) in internal combustion engines may utilize secondary intake valve lift events during an exhaust valve main event in lost motion valve actuation systems. The secondary intake valve lift event may occur at the beginning or end of the exhaust valve main event. Favorable intake valve lift profiles are obtained with the use of a reset component, which may perform a hydraulic reset on the lost motion component in order to ensure that the intake valve secondary lift event occurs optimally near the beginning of an exhaust valve main event. The reset component may be triggered using motion from an exhaust valvetrain, for example, by a triggering component such as a reset pad, on an exhaust rocker. The reset component may also be triggered on the basis of the intake rocker arm position, in which case a reset pad that is fixed to the engine head or fixed relative to the intake rocker motion may be used.
US11149591B2
A heat reservoir including a housing, first reservoir elements for storing thermal energy, and an inlet port is provided. The first reservoir elements are arranged in the housing. The inlet port is coupled to the housing in such a way that a working fluid can flow into the housing through the inlet port. The inlet port is provided with an inlet orifice through which the working fluid can flow from the surroundings of the heat reservoir into the inlet port. The inlet port includes a diffusor portion the cross-section of which increases in the direction running from the inlet orifice to the housing.
US11149587B2
The combined radial-axial turboexpander (1) comprises a casing (3) and a shaft (5) arranged in the casing (3) for rotation therein. A radial impeller (25) and an axial expansion wheel (43) are mounted on the shaft (5). The axial expansion wheel (43) is arranged downstream of the radial impeller (25). A working fluid expands sequentially in the radial impeller and in the axial expansion wheel.
US11149584B2
Containment assemblies and methods for forming containment assemblies of gas turbine engines are provided. For example, a containment assembly comprises a containment case including a plurality of coated fibers. Each coated fiber comprises a fiber surrounded by a ceramic material such that the ceramic material coats the fiber. As another example, a containment assembly comprises an inner case and a containment case comprising a plurality of coated fibers. Each coated fiber comprises a fiber surrounded by a ceramic material such that the ceramic material coats the fiber. The containment case includes a greater proportion of the coated fibers at an inner surface of a layer of the containment case than at a location within the containment case that is radially outward from the inner surface. Methods for forming a containment assembly of a gas turbine engine are provided.
US11149583B2
A system and method for determining particulate accumulation in a gas turbine engine includes sensing the number, size, and type of particulate at a first position on the gas turbine engine and supplying first data representative thereof, where the first position located at a first side of a gas turbine engine component; sensing the number, size, and type of particulate at a second position on the gas turbine engine and supplying first data representative thereof, where the second position located at a second side of the gas turbine engine component and downstream of the first position; and processing the first data and the second data to determine the mass of the particulate accumulated on the gas turbine engine component.
US11149579B2
A turbine comprises a turbine housing defining a turbine inlet upstream of a turbine wheel and a turbine outlet downstream of the turbine wheel; and a wastegate valve assembly comprising at least one movable valve member mounted on a movable support member within a wastegate chamber which communicates with the turbine inlet upstream of the turbine, and has one or more chamber outlets which communicate with an outlet of the turbine. The valve member is permitted to articulate slightly about the support member, with the amount of articulation being limited by collisions between respective limit areas on a rear surface of a sealing portion of the valve member and a front surface of the support member. Each valve member is connected to the support member using a pin portion of the valve member which passes through a washer with a non-circular outer profile, and rotation of the washer is limited by contact surfaces of the support member.
US11149575B2
Flow path assemblies for gas turbine engines are provided. For example, a flow path assembly comprises an inner wall defining an inner boundary of a flow path and a plurality of pockets therein, and a unitary outer wall defining an outer boundary of the flow path. The unitary outer wall includes combustor and turbine portions that are integrally formed as a single unitary structure. The flow path assembly further comprises a plurality of nozzle airfoils that each have an inner end radially opposite an outer end and define an internal cavity for receipt of a flow of cooling fluid. The inner end of each nozzle airfoil is received in one of the plurality of inner wall pockets and defines an outlet for the flow of cooling fluid to flow from the internal cavity to the pocket, which forms a fluid curtain to discourage fluid leakage from the flow path.
US11149571B2
A ring for guiding variable-pitch blades and supporting an abradable coating for an aircraft turbomachine ring extends about an axis (X) and includes substantially radial orifices for mounting guiding sleeves intended each to receive a pivot of one of the blades. The ring may include a radially inner crown divided into sectors and supports the abradable coating. A radially outer annular ferrule may be divided into sectors and include the orifices for mounting the sleeves. In some embodiments, each ferrule sector is mounted about a crown sector by a circumferential sliding connection. The crown sector may include an immobilizer for rotationally immobilizing the sleeves of this ferrule sector about the axis.
US11149563B2
An assembly adapted for use in a gas turbine engine has a carrier component and a supported component. The assembly includes a mounting system for coupling the supported component to the carrier component. In an illustrative embodiment, the assembly is a turbine shroud segment for blocking gases from passing over turbine blades included in the gas turbine engine.
US11149558B2
An airfoil including a plurality of composite plies extending from a leading edge to a trailing edge and between a tip and a root. The airfoil further includes a frangible airfoil portion at the tip extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge and extending between the tip and a frangible line along a span including a first plurality of composite plies. Each of the first plurality of composite plies includes fibers oriented at least partially along a chordwise direction, a thickness direction, or both. The airfoil further includes a residual airfoil portion extending from the frangible line to the root along the span including a second plurality of composite plies. The second plurality of composite plies includes at least one composite ply with fibers oriented along the span. Further, the residual airfoil portion meets the frangible airfoil portion at the frangible line.
US11149552B2
A fan for a gas turbine engine is provided. The fan includes a rotor including at least one rotor stage having a rotatable disk defining a flowpath surface and an array of rotor airfoils extending outward from the flowpath surface; an array of splitter airfoils extending outward from the flowpath surface, wherein the splitter airfoils and the rotor airfoils are disposed in a sequential arrangement; and a shroud extending between the rotor airfoils and the splitter airfoils.
US11149550B2
A blade for use with a gas turbine engine includes an attachment and an airfoil. The airfoil further includes a suction side wall configured to be exposed to less pressure than the pressure side wall during operation of the gas turbine engine. The blade also includes a plurality of intersecting ribs transitioning from an airfoil cross sectional geometry to an attachment cross section geometry.
US11149549B2
A blade of a steam turbine includes a plurality of turbine blade rows which are fixed to a radially outer side of a rotor shaft rotating about an axis, and are arranged in an axial direction in which the axis extends, and a turbine vane row which is disposed to be adjacent to an upstream side of the turbine blade row in the axial direction for each of the plurality of turbine blade rows, the blade of a steam turbine including a blade body which is disposed in a steam main flow path which is formed around a rotary shaft such that main steam flows through the steam main flow path, the blade body having an airfoil cross section in which a concave positive-pressure surface and a convex negative-pressure surface are continuous to each other via a leading edge and a trailing edge.
US11149545B2
An apparatus for performing a well test operation includes a tubular member having a surge chamber and a valve that can control fluid flow from a well into the surge chamber during the well test operation. The apparatus can also include a flow control device, in addition to the valve, for further controlling fluid flow into the surge chamber from the well. Flow rate and pressure data can be measured during the well test operation and used to estimate reservoir properties. Various other systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US11149542B2
A method for controlling field equipment can include receiving information via an interface of a control system; analyzing the information by the control system with respect to tiered well construction activities; based on the analyzing, generating a workflow that includes at least a series of tiered well construction activities; and transmitting a signal from the control system to the field equipment to control the field equipment to perform at least one of the series of tiered well construction activities.
US11149541B2
An apparatus and method for pressure testing a tubing string of a fluid production well, the tubing string being provided with a progressing cavity pump at a downhole end, which apparatus and method can be used to help determine whether the tubing string has failed or the pump has failed. The apparatus comprises a plug member connected to the rod string assembly that includes the pump rotor, such that the rod string assembly can be lowered to seat the plug member in a seat member within the tubing string above the pump, thus sealing off and isolating the pump from the rest of the tubing string, allowing pressure testing of the tubing string above the pump.
US11149536B2
In some examples, a downhole torque measurement tool comprises a first surface of a structure and a second surface of the structure. The second surface is facing the first surface, and a shear stress sensor is positioned on the first surface. A flexible coupling is positioned between the shear stress sensor and the second surface, and the flexible coupling is coupled to the first and second surfaces.
US11149535B2
An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The ESP assembly comprises an electric motor, a centrifugal pump mechanically coupled to the electric motor, and a gas handling inverted shroud assembly.
US11149530B2
The present invention relates to the injection of water and gas, either simultaneously or alternately, into subsea wells in order to enhance production and the oil recovery level. Thus, the present invention provides a subsea system for pressurizing a subsea oil reservoir injecting at least one of water and gas, comprising (i) at least two subsea injection wells (4, 4′), each subsea injection well (4, 4′) being connected to a production unit (5) by means of a single subsea line (1, 2) which is connected to the respective subsea injection well (4, 4′) by a main injection mandrel (6, 6′), and (ii) at least one jumper (3), each jumper (3) hydraulically connecting two of the at least two adjacent subsea injection wells (4, 4′) through annular mandrels (7, 7′). The present invention further provides a subsea reservoir pressurization method associated with the above-described system.
US11149525B2
A device for limiting the flow of drilling fluid through a section of drill string includes a body with a hole in the periphery. Flow enters the device through one axial end, at least a portion of the flow exits through the other axial end. Some of the fluid flow can be diverted through the peripheral hole. A spring-biased axial piston may have an approximately constant force throughout its range of travel. The piston moves axially in response to the changing fluid flow rate to enable a constant amount of flow exiting the axial end of the tool to be achieved while diverting away excess flow through the side.
US11149522B2
A barrier plug assembly for sealing a subterranean wellbore arranged inside a tubing, the barrier plug assembly comprising: at least one frangible barrier element stacked on a carrier ring; a locking sleeve arranged above the carrier ring and located in a closed fluid chamber; a valve arranged on the closed fluid chamber and in pressure communication with the tubing, the valve configured or allowing or preventing pressure communication in between the tubing and the fluid chamber; a retaining device configured for locking the a carrier ring in place; a crushing element arranged a distance below the one frangible barrier element and configured for crushing the at least one frangible barrier element.
US11149521B2
A delayed opening sliding sleeve system includes a first sleeve that prevents initiating the dissolution or erosion of a dissolvable or erodible retainer. The first sleeve is opened by a pressure cycle to expose or otherwise initiate the dissolution of a retainer. The retainer holds a second sleeve in place. The second sleeve is held closed against subsequent pressure cycles until such time as the retainer is dissolved or otherwise removed. With the retainer removed the second sleeve may be opened allowing fluid communication between the exterior and the interior of the sleeve system.
US11149516B2
A sealing assembly for forming a seal within a subterranean well includes a sealing tool having a mandrel. Two or more seal members circumscribe the mandrel. The seal members are moveable between a retracted position and an extended position. A seal actuator can move the seal members between the retracted position and the extended position. A pressure communication port is located between adjacent of the two or more seal members, the pressure communication port extending from the central passage of the mandrel to an exterior of the sealing tool. A pressure communication valve is associated with the pressure communication port, the pressure communication valve operable to move between an open position where the pressure communication valve provides a path for flow of a fluid between the central passage and the exterior of the sealing tool between adjacent of the two or more seal members, and a closed position.
US11149513B2
An integrated multi-pressure fracking adapter apparatus comprising a cylindrical body for mounting on a wellhead casing head, having an exterior circumference, an interior circumference creating a cylindrical passage perpendicular to the radius, pipe and casing seals within the cylindrical passage, a high pressure mounting surface, a low pressure mounting surface, fasteners for securing to wellhead components, an external sealing surface, and a testing port whereby a user installs an integrated multi-pressure fracking adapter in between a lower pressure casing head and a high-pressure fracking valve assembly, injects packing material, verifies the seals functionality, and begins fracking with high pressure fracking fluids thereby reducing costs of high pressure equipment and manhours involved removing and replacing the low pressure rated well head components with high pressure well head components for fracking then restoring the original components.
US11149512B2
A subsea umbilical termination assembly comprising a base (1), said base (1) includes a core frame construction (2) with elongated sides (3, 4) onto which support plates (5, 6, 7) are mounted, wherein at least a pair of mounting rails (12, 13) are respectively secured to the core frame construction (2) along elongated sides (3, 4) and said mounting rails (12, 13) are provided with positioning elements (16, 17) to allow a modular support plate arrangement, which is fixed to the mounting rails (12, 13).
US11149507B2
An apparatus includes a non-rotating housing, a rotatable member rotatably supported in the non-rotating housing and a bearing adapter sleeve disposed externally to the non-rotating housing. The bearing adapter sleeve has an internal upset for limiting longitudinal movement of the non-rotating housing. The bearing adapter sleeve has a retaining ring affixed to a longitudinal end of the bearing adapter sleeve to limit longitudinal movement of the non-rotating housing.
US11149505B2
An example method for determining fluid flow in an open channel fluid conduit may include coupling a sensor assembly to an exterior surface of the open channel fluid conduit. Measurements may be received from the sensor assembly. The method may further include calculating a flow rate of a fluid within the open channel fluid conduit based, at least in part, on the received measurement.
US11149502B2
A drill pipe has a tubular body with a first end, a second end, an outer wall and an inner wall. A first connection end is connected to the first end of the tubular body and a second connection end is connected with the second end of the tubular body. The first connection end and the second connection end have an inner wall and an outer wall, the outer wall is substantially cylindrical in shape and the inner wall defines a central cavity. The first connection end and the second connection end are sized to allow for mating with a corresponding drill pipe. The outer wall of the tubular body is substantially cylindrical in shape. The inner wall of the tubular body defines a central cavity that is in fluid communication with the central cavity of the first connection end and the second connection end. The inner wall has at least one land and at least one groove. The at least one groove has at least one twist along the length of the tubular body.
US11149492B2
A method relates to the manufacture of a drum for a spring brake for an electromechanical actuator, the drum including a housing configured to house at least one helical spring, an input member and an output member. The housing has an internal friction surface configured to cooperate with at least one coil of the helical spring. The method includes at least one step of mechanical surface treatment of the inner surface of the housing of the drum, the mechanical surface treatment of the inner surface of the housing of the drum being a step of creating grooves on the inner surface of the housing.
US11149485B2
A cooking appliance may have side-by-side, outwardly-opening doors. The doors may be operatively coupled to each other such that they rotate together and also translate together into respective storage slots on either side of an appliance cavity. Translation into the storage slots may include guiding respective roller carriages of the doors along tracks in the storage slots.
US11149484B1
A door stop for a door includes a clamp that is securable over a first side edge of a door. The clamp has a guide. An arm has a receiving portion for receiving the guide to permit movement of the arm on the clamp between an open position and a closed position. A spring mechanism is operably coupled to the clamp and the arm, and urges the arm on the guide of the clamp toward the closed position. In the closed position, the arm prevents the door from engaging with a respective door jamb.
US11149478B2
The present invention provides a refrigerator, comprising a cabinet, a door and a hinge body. A guide block is provided on the door, a rotation shaft is provided on the hinge body, and rotation shaft grooves are provided on the guide block. With the structure of the hinge body, the gravity of the door and the friction force may be shared onto the first and second plate bodies of the hinge body, thereby reducing abrasion and prolonging the service life of the door of the refrigerator.
US11149475B2
A door device for a vehicle includes a latch drive device configured to unlatch a swing door by driving a latch mechanism, a door hold-open device configured to hold the swing door at an opened angle by applying a braking force to the swing door, a door open switch issuing an operation request of the latch drive device to open the swing door; a door stop switch issuing an operation request of the door hold-open device, and a grip portion including the door open switch and the door stop switch to issue the operation requests of the door open switch and the door stop switch in a state where an occupant of the vehicle holds the grip portion.
US11149460B2
A parking system is described. The system includes a parking tower. The parking tower includes at least two levels and a vertical passageway. A vehicle gripping system is provided. The vehicle gripping system includes a 5 vertical lift frame vertically movable in the passageway. The vehicle gripping system also includes a horizontal slide frame slidably coupled to the vertical lift frame and horizontally movable relative to the vertical lift frame and across each level. A sliding wheel gripper is slidably coupled to and extending downwards from the horizontal slide frame, for releasably gripping a vehicle 10 by gripping the wheels of the vehicle. The sliding wheel gripper is longitudinally slidable along the horizontal slide frame between a release position and a gripping position.
US11149459B2
A pool cleaning robot that may include a drive motor; an impeller; an impeller motor that is configured to rotate the impeller; wherein the impeller, once rotated at a first rotational direction, is configured to induce fluid to flow through the pool cleaning robot; a filter for filtering fluid that flows through the pool cleaning robot; and wherein the filter and the impeller are detachably coupled to one or more elements of the pool cleaning robot; and are configured to concurrently exit the pool cleaning robot while the impeller motor remains coupled to the one or more elements of the pool cleaning robot.
US11149456B2
An agitator system for a diving station that directs water flow from the perimeter of a pool onto a water surface of the pool, where the agitator system is connected to a pool perimeter assembly having a return conduit for receiving pressurized water, and the return conduit has at least one return outlet, includes a spray port and a fluid delivery system. The spray port is located on the pool perimeter assembly and is configured for directing a water spray onto the water surface of the pool. The fluid delivery structure is in downstream fluid communication from the return conduit and in upstream fluid communication with the spray port. A first portion of the pressurized water in the return conduit is communicated to the spray port via the fluid delivery structure, and a second portion of the pressurized water is delivered to the return outlet for dispersing to the pool.
US11149455B2
An adjustable support for a provided swimming machine includes a movable assembly and a fixed assembly for adjusting the height of the provided swimming machine. The movable assembly is fixedly mounted to the provided swimming machine. The fixed assembly is attached to a pool wall of a provided swimming pool and selectively coupled to the movable assembly. One of the movable assembly or the fixed assembly includes a plurality of engaging portions, and the other of the movable assembly or the fixed assembly includes a limiting member that mates with at least one of the plurality of engaging portions. The movable assembly is switchable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The limiting member fixedly engages at least one of the plurality of engaging portions in the locked position. The limiting member is disengaged from the at least one of the plurality of engaging portion in the unlocked position, thereby providing for the movable assembly to move vertically relative to the fixed assembly.
US11149450B2
Disclosed herein is a support base for use in shuttering formwork. The support base includes an angle section member and a plurality of clamping brackets. The clamping brackets further include clamping members engageable with the clamping brackets to define a clamping portion aligned with openings on the angle section member. Also disclosed herein is a method of supporting shuttering formwork which uses the support base.
US11149449B2
The disclosure provides for pool step forms and related methods for forming steps in a pool formed by wall panels. The step forms may include a wall panel insert configured for insertion between adjacent pool wall panels. The step forms may include one or more step form brace configured to couple with the wall panel insert and, thereby, the wall panels. The step forms may include riser forms that from riser portions of the stairs when the step forms and riser forms are coupled. The pool stair forms may be filled with filling material to form tread portions of the stairs. The pool stair forms may include liner support members coupled to the step form braces and/or the wall panels that facilitate the coupling of a liner to the stairs formed by the pool stair forms and filling material.
US11149438B2
The technology provides an improved louvered panel assembly having a louver panel with at least a first louver and a second louver and a pivot bar that extends therebetween. A control arm is secured between the pivot bar and an operator to rotate the louver panel between open and closed positions. The first and second louvers include a central receiver that receives a first bearing surface to rotate the louvers about a rotational axis extending therethrough. A leading projection extends from the first louver and is rotated downward as the first louver operates between open and a closed positions. A trailing projection extends from the second louver and is rotated upward as the second louver operates between open and a closed positions. An elongated track is positioned below the louver panel and is spaced from the louver panel by a flap structure having a sealing membrane.
US11149437B2
A system and method for fabricating canopies featuring extruded members coupled together with fasteners that are hidden and are retained by multiple tracks located in the extruded members. Prefabricated corners of extruded members allow fabricators to build the canopy on site by attaching straight members to form a canopy from the four prefabricated corners.
US11149432B2
An area separation wall (ASW) may include gypsum liner panels and structural elements located between adjacent ones of the gypsum liner panels. A sealing material may be located between the gypsum liner panels and the structural elements, and between adjacent ones of the structural elements. The sealing material may form seals therebetween, such that the ASW is substantially airtight when assembled. In addition, the ASW may include a fire rating of at least 2 hours in compliance with ANSI/UL 263.
US11149422B1
A sink including a vessel volume having an interior surface, where the vessel volume includes a base wall, a first side wall extending from the base wall to at least partially form a bowl, a second side wall extending from the base wall opposite the first side wall to at least partially form a cup, and a strainer plate extending from the second side wall opposite the base wall. The sink also including a first piece of sheet material at least partially defining the interior surface of the vessel volume, and a second piece of sheet material fused to the first piece of sheet material, where the second piece of sheet material at least partially defines the interior surface of the vessel volume.
US11149421B2
The present application provides an embedded sink, comprising a basin liner and a mounting panel; the basin liner comprises a bottom plate and a side plate, the bottom plate and the side plates are suitable to be connected to form a cavity having an upper opening, the basin liner is suitable for embedded installation in a cabinet, and the front side plate of the basin liner protrudes relative to the cabinet; the mounting panel is detachably connected to the front side plate of the basin liner, the mounting panel is suitable to cover the front side plate of the basin liner. The embedded sink of the present application can avoid destructive alterations of the embedded sink on the basis of improving the overall visual consistency of the cabinet.
US11149418B2
A valve assembly for a faucet including a valve cartridge having a valve stem and supported within a valve body, a handle operably coupled to the valve stem, a handle hub supported for rotation relative to the valve body, and a coupler operably coupling the valve stem with the handle hub.
US11149403B2
A work attachment is capable of performing work at a high place while restricting the driving force required to lift the work attachment from its fallen posture in a folded state. The work attachment includes a main boom, a first insert boom and a second insert boom to be selectively used, an intermediate boom, an arm, and a distal working device. The intermediate boom has bendable first and second joints. The second insert boom has a fixed shape. The first insert boom is bent to project upward at a middle joint in the fallen posture, thereby making the center of gravity of the work attachment closer to a boom rotation center axis.
US11149402B2
A building element for coupling with other building elements to erect a retaining wall. Exemplary building elements have receiving spaces for receiving increased weight of fill material to provide increased stability. Optionally, each building element can have an enlarged face profile that provides efficiency in the shipping and assembly process. Optionally, each building element can define alignment voids that receive portions of alignment posts for ensuring vertical alignment between adjacent building elements or portions of building elements.
US11149399B2
A track-type shotcrete integrated system includes: a proportioner working bin, a storage bin, a power bin, and load-bearing legs, wherein bottom sections of the load-bearing legs are equipped with a track chassis for moving, and the track chassis is electrically connected to a track controller; the storage bin contains a storage tank I and a storage tank II for storing different raw materials; a feed pump I is installed on a top of the storage tank I, and a feed pump II is installed on a top of the storage tank II; inlet pipes of the feed pump I and the feed pump II insert into the storage tank I and storage tank II respectively, and outlet pipes of the feed pump I and the feed pump II are connected to a feed pipe I and a feed pipe II respectively.
US11149395B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to cellular sheet pile retaining wall systems with unconnected tail walls, and associated methods of use and manufacture. In one embodiment, a retaining system includes a face wall having a plurality of interconnected face wall sheet piles. The individual face wall sheet piles have a first length and extend a first depth into soil, and the face wall sheet piles form an exterior surface facing an exterior environment. The system also includes a tail wall including a plurality of interconnected tail wall sheet piles extending from the face wall away from the exterior environment. The individual tail wall sheet piles have a second length greater than the first length, and the individual tail sheet wall piles extend a second depth into the soil that is greater than the first depth.
US11149393B2
A system for impeding shore erosion includes a sea-facing barrier wall penetrated by large holes that allow water with entrained sand to enter the apparatus. Smaller holes provided in a rear wall allow the water to drain into an underlying reservoir after the entrained sand has settled. An extension can be abutted to a top of the barrier wall to enhance sand collection during a storm. Water that flows over the barrier wall is caused to flow over a top of the extension, whereby water with entrained sand falls through openings in the extension top. Sand collected by the extension remains on the shore when the extension is removed. The apparatus can include plywood, metal, or plastic. Embodiments can be disassembled and/or folded for transport and storage. Internal reinforcing partition walls can extend between the barrier and rear walls. The apparatus can be further anchored by stakes.
US11149392B2
A water barrier is formed from a kit of parts comprising at least one substantially water-impermeable membrane and a plurality of water-permeable panels that, when connected together, form a structural frame including a first part for supporting the at least one water-impermeable membrane against horizontal water pressure and a second part substantially perpendicular to the first part. A support structure may connect the first part and the second part to resist deflection of the frame. In an alternative arrangement, the frame of the water barrier may also be assembled in an inverted-V configuration.
US11149387B2
A deck-slab waterproofing-membrane application brush for coating highway-bridge deck slabs with a waterproofing membrane, and a deck-slab waterproofing-membrane application apparatus for towing the brush to spread on waterproofing product are made available to enable the applying of deck-slab waterproofing membranes uniformly, safely, and efficiently to highway bridges. The deck-slab waterproofing-membrane application brush, for spreading on highway-bridge deck-slab waterproofing product, is characterized in that inside a furrow in a furrowed metal plate, numerous metallic bristles are aligned into rows in a packed, sheet-like form and fastened in a state in which the numerous metallic bristles are clamped.
US11149382B2
Hot melt sequins and methods of applying these sequins are disclosed. Sequins can be arranged in various patterns. Sequins can be arranged in dispersive patterns. Sequin patterns can be used to create gradients on the outside of an upper. The sequins can be used to attach two layers where the density of the sequins used to attach the layers can affect thermal properties, flexibility and relative motion between the layers.
US11149379B2
The present invention relates to a system iron. The system iron of the present invention includes a body including therein a steam generator for generating steam; an ironing plate disposed on the body so as to spray the steam generated by the steam generator to an outside; a height adjustment box, which is retracted into the body and extended outwards from the body so as to adjust a height of the ironing plate; a lock including a first bar, which projects outwards from the height adjustment box so as to limit the movement of the height adjustment box; a lock holder, which is connected to two side surfaces of an end of the lock so as to change the position of the first bar, thereby allowing the height adjustment box to be moved; and a height adjustment lever for moving the lock holder via a wire.
US11149364B2
In order to improve the design of a ribbon needle loom for applications in which the woven material (9) shall have a variable width, it is proposed to arrange the weft needle (10, 16) and also the knitting needle (10b, 16b) serving to knit the weft thread (14, 15) at the side directed away from the weft insertion onto a common, displaceable carrier (10c, 16c). As a further improvement, in order to be able to produce symmetrical woven material (9) with such a ribbon needle loom, a bilateral weft-insertion is proposed, wherein the two weft needles (10, 16) and the two knitting needles (10b, 16b) by means of which the respective weft thread (14, 15) is knitted at the side directed away from the weft insertion are each disposed on a common, displaceable carrier (10c, 16c). Advantageously, the carriers (10c, 16c) do not hinder each other upon displacement, but rather are arranged on top of each other.
US11149363B2
A glass cloth includes warp yarns and weft yarns formed by bundling in the range of 14 to 55 glass filaments having a diameter in the range of 3.0 to 4.2 μm, and has a weaving density of the warp yarns and the weft yarns of 86 to 140 yarns/25 mm, a thickness of 7.5 to 12.0 μm, a mass of 6.0 to 10.0 g per m2, and an average number of stages of 2.00 or more and less than 3.00, an average degree of opening, which is indicated as the geometric mean of the degree of opening of the warp yarns and the degree of opening of the weft yarns, in the range of 1.000 to 1.300, and a yarn width ratio, as the ratio of the yarn width of the warp yarns to that of the weft yarns, in the range of 0.720 to 0.960.
US11149360B2
A method for making nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric can include three-dimensional features that define a microzone comprising a first region and a second region. The first and second regions can have a difference in values for an intensive property. The nonwoven further has a plurality of apertures, wherein at least a portion of the aperture abuts at least one of the first region and the second region of the microzone.
US11149358B2
A vapor phase growth apparatus includes n (n is an integer of 2 or more) reactors; a primary gas supply path supplying a mixed gas to the reactors; n secondary gas supply paths connected to one of the reactors including a main secondary gas supply path and (n−1) auxiliary secondary gas supply paths; a first pressure gauge; a main flow rate controller provided in the main secondary gas supply path; (n−1) auxiliary flow rate controllers provided in the auxiliary secondary gas supply paths; a first control circuit instructing a first flow rate value; and a second control circuit calculating a second flow rate value being 1/n of a sum of a flow rate value measured by the main flow rate controller and flow rate values measured by the auxiliary flow rate controllers, and instructing the second flow rate value to the auxiliary flow rate controllers.
US11149356B2
A method of forming an elemental metal (e.g., a rare-earth element) includes forming a multicomponent solution comprising an ionic liquid, a secondary component, and a metal-containing compound. The multicomponent solution is contacted with at least a first electrode and a second electrode. A current is passed between the first electrode to the second electrode through the multicomponent solution. The metal-containing compound is reduced to deposit the elemental metal therefrom on the first electrode.
US11149344B2
A preparation device has a chamber, molten metal containers, a rotatable base in the chamber and having a deposition substrate, laser sets generating a dual-pulse laser, a base controller and a data collection control unit. The containers communicate with the chamber and each has a pulse pressurization apparatus pressing the molten metal into the chamber. The laser sets correspond to the containers such that beams of an emitted dual-pulse laser bombard the pulsed droplets, plasmas are generated and are sputtered and deposited on the substrate forming a multi-element alloy thin film. The unit collects base temperature and displacement information, and controls the pressurization frequency of the pulse pressurization apparatus, and the emission frequency and energy of the dual-pulse laser of the laser sets controlling the frequency and energy of the dual-pulse laser bombarding the corresponding pulsed droplets. The base controller controls the base temperature, rotation and movement.
US11149341B2
A mask plate and manufacturing method thereof, a mask assembly and a vapor deposition apparatus are provided. The mask plate includes a mask pattern region, and a peripheral region of the mask pattern region, the peripheral region including a recess structure, and a recess direction of the recess structure being parallel to a thickness direction of the mask plate. When the glass substrate is superposed on the mask plate, the force suffered by the glass substrate at the weld pad is reduced, and the probability of scratching the glass substrate is lowered.
US11149338B2
A method of providing a self-healing coating includes providing substrate, applying a layer of an aluminum-containing MAX phase material and another material to the substrate. The method includes exposing the layer to a temperature greater than 2000° F. to form alpha aluminum.
US11149337B1
A continuous galvanizing apparatus for rods and process therefor. The apparatus includes a liquid reservoir. A plurality of adjacent tubes each pass into, through, and out of the liquid reservoir. Each of the adjacent tubes has at least one opening within the liquid reservoir so the tubes are in fluid communication with the reservoir. A rod drive mechanism moves a plurality of adjacent rods into, through, and out of the plurality of adjacent tubes. A kettle is provided beneath both the liquid reservoir and beneath the tubes. At least one pump pumps liquid from the kettle to the liquid reservoir so that liquid is continuously cycled to the tubes.
US11149327B2
A method and a device for heating a sheet metal blank or a formed sheet metal component above the austenitization temperature for the purpose of quench hardening, wherein the dew point of the furnace atmosphere is set to −15° C. to 15° C., preferably to −10° C. to 10° C., in particular for the formation of a loosely adhering oxide skin, for controlling an oxide skin on the sheet metal or component coated with a metallic corrosion protection layer or an uncoated sheet metal or component.
US11149305B2
The present disclosure encompasses methods of error corrected sequencing (ECS) that enable detection of very rare mutations well below the error rate of convention next generation sequencing (NGS). Further, the methods disclosed herein enable multiplex targeting of genomic DNA.
US11149303B2
Provided are methods of depleting a target nucleic acid in a sample. The methods include contacting a target nucleic acid with two or more polymers that specifically hybridize to the target nucleic acid, and cleaving the hybridized regions of the target nucleic acid to deplete the target nucleic acid in the sample. Kits for practicing the subject methods are also provided.
US11149302B2
The present invention relates to an in vitro cell-free process for production of deoxyribonucleotides (DNAs) comprising at least one hairpin, corresponding DNA products and uses thereof, and oligonucleotides and kits useful in the process of the invention.
US11149292B2
The present invention relates to processes and intermediates useful in the preparation of (R)-2-(7-(4-cyclopentyl-3-(trifluoromethyl)benzyloxy)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocyclopenta[b]indol-3-yl)acetic acid of Formula (Ia) and salts thereof, an S1P1 receptor modulator that is useful in the treatment of S1P1 receptor-associated disorders, for example, diseases and disorders mediated by lymphocytes, transplant rejection, autoimmune diseases and disorders, inflammatory diseases and disorders (e.g., acute and chronic inflammatory conditions), cancer, and conditions characterized by an underlying defect in vascular integrity or that are associated with angiogenesis such as may be pathologic (e.g., as may occur in inflammation, tumor development and atherosclerosis).
US11149289B2
The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule encoding (I) a polypeptide having the activity of an endonuclease, which is (a) a nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide comprising or consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; (b) a nucleic acid molecule comprising or consisting of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (c) a nucleic acid molecule encoding an endonuclease, the amino acid sequence of which is at least 70% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; (d) a nucleic acid molecule comprising or consisting of a nucleotide sequence which is at least 50% identical to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (e) a nucleic acid molecule which is degenerate with respect to the nucleic acid molecule of (d); or (f) a nucleic acid molecule corresponding to the nucleic acid molecule of any one of (a) to (e) wherein T is replaced by U; (II) a fragment of the polypeptide of (I) having the activity of an endonuclease. Also, the present invention relates to a vector comprising the nucleic acid molecule and a protein encoded by said nucleic acid molecule. Further, the invention relates to a method of modifying the genome of a eukaryotic cell and a method of producing a non-human vertebrate or mammal.
US11149287B2
As disclosed herein, optimal native genomic loci have been identified in dicot plants, such as soybean plants, that represent best sites for targeted insertion of exogenous sequences.
US11149279B2
Disclosed is a gene therapy DNA vector VTvaf17 for genetic modification of animal and human cells having SEQ ID No. 1, and methods for its synthesis, involving constructing vectors containing a promoter region of human elongation factor EF1A, a polylinker with sites for restriction endonucleases, a transcription terminator, a polyadenylation sequence of human growth factor, a regulatory element of transposon Tn10 allowing for antibiotic-free positive selection, an origin of replication, and a kanamycin resistance gene. Escherichia coli strain SCS110-AF is also provided by the present invention. The method for creating the strain involves constructing a linear DNA fragment containing regulatory element of transposon Tn10, a levansucrase gene, sacB, a chloramphenicol resistance gene, and two homologous sequences. The E. coli cells are transformed by electroporation and clones surviving chloramphenicol are chosen. The invention further discloses Escherichia coli strain SCS110-AF/VTvaf17, which carries DNA vector VTvaf17, and methods for its synthesis.
US11149273B2
The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) targeting a Serum Amyloid A (SAA) gene, and methods of using the dsRNA to inhibit expression of SAA
US11149270B2
Platforms, systems and methods are provided for identifying engineered lanthipeptide display peptides expressed in vivo from biological organisms.
US11149269B2
Provided are modified Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity islands of a variety of types and origins. The pathogenicity island are characterized as having a polynucleotide comprising a bacterial pathogenicity island nucleotide sequence (a “B-PINS”) that contains one or more modifications (“modified B-PINS”), that include i) a deletion or disruption of at least one virulence determinant of the B-PINS; and ii) an insertion of at least one cargo sequence. The polynucleotide are capable of being packaged within a bacterium into a phage-like particle that comprises a bacteriophage capsid, tail and tail fiber proteins in the form of an antibacterial drone (“ABD”). The ABD is capable of infecting bacteria such that at least one cargo sequence is introduced into bacteria infected by the ABD. Pharmaceutical and other compositions the ABDs are also included. Bacteria that make the ABDs are provided, as are isolated and/or purified ABDs. Methods of killing or otherwise modifying bacteria using the ABDs are also provided.
US11149268B2
The present invention is based on the advantageous use of single-stranded oligonucleotides in the in vivo (within a cell) assembly of double-stranded oligonucleotides into a single double-stranded nucleic acid construct. The present invention relates to the use of at least a first and a second single-stranded oligonucleotide in the assembly within a cell of at least two double-stranded nucleic acid molecules into a single double-stranded nucleic acid construct of pre-determined sequence, wherein the first and second single-stranded oligonucleotide are essentially complementary to each other.
US11149262B2
A polypeptide having an amino acid sequence corresponding to a binding domain of a botulinum toxin is described. The polypeptide modulates expression of genes involved in, for example, collagen production and extra cellular matrix organization, and finds use, therefore in modulating skin quality attributes such as elasticity, firmness etc. Moreover, the polypeptide inhibits lipogenesis in specialized cells and finds use, therefore, in reducing skin oiliness, which is frequently observed in skin tissue afflicted with large pores and acne. Nucleic acids encoding the polypeptide, as well as vectors, host cells, and systems comprising the nucleic acids, are further described.
US11149261B2
The present invention relates to a method of cellulases enzymes production by Penicillium funiculosum MRJ-16 using minimum media components and/or low cost media components like cellulose or pretreated lignocellulosic biomass as carbon source and soya flour or defatted soya flour or de-oiled soya cake as nitrogen source. The present invention also provides a method for production of high titer of cellulases and hemicellulases enzymes using Penicillium funiculosum MRJ-16 using minimum media and/or low cost media components.
US11149256B2
Described herein are compositions and kits comprising recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) with tropisms showing increased specificity and efficiency of viral transduction in targeted cell-types, for e.g., the brain, and lung. The rAAV compositions described herein also have tropisms showing decreased specificity and decreased efficiency of viral transduction in an off-target cell type, for e.g., the liver. The rAAV compositions described herein encapsidate a transgene, such a therapeutic nucleic acid. Upon systemic delivery to a subject, the rAAV is capable of increased specificity and increased transduction of the transgene in a target cell-type, as compared to a parental or reference AAV.
US11149251B2
The present invention is directed to the use of microfluidics in the preparation of cells and compositions for therapeutic uses.
US11149244B2
The present invention relates to the application of a three-dimensional (3D) bioreactor for T-cell expansion for immunotherapy.
US11149240B2
The present invention relates to a rotary rod for 3D bio-printing, in which the rotary rod is arranged horizontally and is driven to rotate, the rotary rod has a hollow structure and provided with at least one hole in a surface thereof, such that during a 3D bio-printing process, a nutrition solution passes through the hollow structure and a portion of the nutrition solution exudes via at least one hole. The present invention further provides a 3D bio-printing platform for supplying nutrition, comprising the rotary rod and a nutrition supply system, and a method of printing a tubular tissue using the bio-printing platform. The present invention, which reduces the possibility of resulting in tissue collapse from the effect of gravity, provides a new method of 3D bio-printing a tubular tissue and supplying nutrition in a printing process, with a wide application prospect.
US11149239B2
This invention disclosed a method for preparing low-sugar vegetable and fruit enzyme product comprising obtaining a fruit or/and vegetable as a material; fermenting the material for at least three times sequentially, and producing an enzyme product, wherein the first fermentation is yeast fermentation, the second fermentation is acetic acid bacteria fermentation and the third fermentation is lactic acid bacteria fermentation; and the sugar content of the enzyme product is less than 5 wt %, especially, in a predetermined fermentation condition, the sugar content of the enzyme product is less than 2.5 wt %.
US11149238B2
A method of producing a solid soap containing at least one image embedded within the solid soap includes printing a printed image on a base layer of solid soap, applying molten soap to the printed base layer, and allowing the soap to harden so as to embed the image within the solid soap. The image can be a high-resolution image and can be printed on the base layer of solid soap using a flatbed printer. The soap can include a background layer against which the image is visible.
US11149236B2
A cleaning composition, which is self-adhering upon application to a hard surface, is provided. The cleaning composition includes an adhesion promoter, water and a sufficient amount of a basic agent, such that a mixture of the composition with deionized water has a pH of at least about 10. The adhesion promoter typically includes one or more organic compounds, each containing at least one hydrophilic group. The cleaning compositions may also include at least one surfactant selected from the group of: anionic, nonionic, cationic, amphoteric, and/or zwitterionic surfactants; where one or more of the surfactants may serve all or in part as the adhesion promoter.
US11149232B2
A phosphate-free automatic dishwashing composition including an amine and an enzyme.
US11149227B2
Provided are a lubricating oil composition containing a mineral oil (1) having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 2.5 mm2/s or more and 5 mm2/s or less, and a polymethacrylate (2) having a functional group containing an oxygen atom in the molecule while having a specific structural unit, which satisfies both high viscosity index and high shear stability, and a lubrication method and a transmission using the lubricating oil composition.
US11149225B1
An inventive incendiary device is provided. The incendiary device comprises a plurality of corrugated components which are substantially saturated with a waxy component. In one preferred embodiment, the plurality of corrugated components are arranged in a stacked configuration to form a firestarter log. The firestarter log can additionally include a support component longitudinally disposed therethrough. The firestarter log can further comprise an ignition component at least partially disposed thereupon. In some aspects, the firestarter log further comprises a groove, which can provide an air passageway, and in which the ignition component can be at least partially disposed.
US11149219B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a visbreaking system and method for upgrading heavy hydrocarbons. A heavy hydrocarbon feed is introduced to a furnace to produce a soaker feed stream. The soaker feed stream is introduced to a soaker to produce a soaker effluent stream. The soaker effluent stream is introduced to a fractionator to produce a visbreaker distillate stream and a visbreaker residue stream. The visbreaker residue stream and a water feed are introduced to a supercritical water reactor operated at supercritical conditions of water to produce an effluent stream. The effluent stream is introduced to a flash column to produce a gas phase stream including water and a liquid phase stream including water. A portion of the liquid phase stream and the heavy hydrocarbon feed is combined. Optionally, a portion of the gas phase stream and the heavy hydrocarbon feed is combined. Optionally, a portion of the gas phase stream is introduced to the fractionator.
US11149213B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a system and method for producing light olefins from a crude oil. A crude oil feed is introduced to a crude distillation unit to produce a distillate fraction and a residue fraction. The distillate fraction is introduced to a non-catalytic steam cracker to produce a light olefin fraction and a pyrolysis oil fraction. The residue fraction is introduced to a supercritical water reactor to produce an effluent stream. The effluent stream is introduced to a flash separator to produce a gas phase fraction and a liquid phase fraction. The gas phase fraction is introduced to a catalytic steam cracker to produce a light olefin fraction and a pyrolysis oil fraction. Optionally, the residue fraction is introduced to a vacuum distillation unit to produce a light vacuum gasoil fraction, a heavy vacuum gasoil fraction, and a vacuum residue fraction. The vacuum residue fraction is introduced to a solvent deasphalting unit to produce a deasphalted oil and a pitch fraction. The deasphalted oil fraction, optionally combined with the heavy vacuum gasoil fraction, can be introduced to the supercritical water reactor in lieu of the residue fraction.
US11149205B2
A triphase organic matter pyrolysis system includes multiple devices cooperating with each other. The feeding device delivers organic matters into the preheating device. The preheated organic matters are delivered into the pyrolysis and carbonization reaction device. The steam generating device produces a saturated steam which is delivered into the water ion generating device which heats the saturated steam into a superheated steam which is dissociated into water ions which are delivered into the pyrolysis and carbonization reaction device. The water ions cut, dissociates and carbonizes the organic matters to form carbon residues and gas-liquid wastes. The heat energy is recycled by the heat recycle device and is delivered into the preheating device. The gas-liquid wastes are processed by the gas-liquid separation device and the gas purifying device to form gas and liquid that are harmless.
US11149204B2
Provided is a liquid crystal alignment agent composition comprising a terminal modifier compound containing an amino group together with a polyimide containing an acid anhydride group at its terminus or a precursor polymer thereof, a method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, and a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display using the same.
US11149201B2
Provided is a silicon nitride layer etching composition, and more specifically, a silicon nitride layer etching composition including two different silicon-based compounds in an etching composition to be capable of selectively etching a silicon nitride layer relative to a silicon oxide layer with a remarkable etch selectivity ratio and providing remarkable effects of suppressing generation of precipitates and reducing the abnormal growth of other layers existing in the vicinity, including the silicon oxide layer when the silicon nitride layer etching composition is used for an etching process and a semiconductor manufacturing process.
US11149194B2
The present disclosure provides a composite particle that includes: a fluorescent semiconductor core/shell nanoparticle (preferably, nanocrystal); and a stabilizing homo- or copolymer combined with the core/shell nanoparticle, the stabilizing (co)polymer comprising styrene monomer units and functionalized with phosphine, arsine or stibine groups.
US11149192B1
The present disclosure provides for a photoredox-responsive material, processes of making the photoredox-responsive material, and methods of use thereof.
US11149191B2
A cross-linkable thermoplastic resin coating that is suitable for use in a coated proppant material used in sand control in oil and gas wells. The cross-linkable thermoplastic exhibits improved stability and low temperature and pressure strength compared to current thermosetting resin formulations.
US11149190B2
Treatment fluids for acid diversion during acid stimulation of a subterranean formation may include at least an acidizing fluid, a nanoparticle dispersion, and an activator. The treatment fluid may include from 40 weight percent to 70 weight percent acidizing fluid based on the total weight of the treatment fluid. The treatment fluid may include from 20 weight percent to 40 weight percent nanoparticle dispersion based on the total weight of the treatment fluid. The treatment fluid may include from 5 weight percent to 15 percent activator based on the total weight of the treatment fluid. Methods of treating a subterranean formation with the treatment fluids are also disclosed.
US11149185B2
The present invention is related to the obtaining and using of multifunctional foaming compositions with wettability modifying, corrosion inhibitory and inhibitory/dispersants mineral scale properties with high stability in environments of high temperature, high pressure and tolerance to high concentrations of divalent ions such as calcium, magnesium, strontium and barium. The multifunctional foaming compositions are obtained from the combination of supramolecular complexes resulting from interactions of alkyl amido propyl hydroxysultaines and/or alkyl amido propyl betaines and/or alkyl hydroxysultaines and/or alkyl betaines and anionic surfactant of type alkyl hydroxyl sodium sulfonate and alkenyl sulphonates of sodium, with cationic surfactants as tetra-alkyl ammonium halides and copolymers derivatives of itaconic acid/sodium vinyl sulfonate and/or terpolymers derived from itaconic acid/sodium vinyl sulphonate/aconitic acid. These multinational foaming compositions control the gas channeling and favorably change the wettability and increase the recovery factor of crude oil in naturally fractured reservoirs of carbonate type and heterogeneous lithology. In addition to this, the multifunctional foaming compositions of this invention exhibit anti-corrosive properties in typical environments of production tubing of crude oil and antifouling/dispersants of mineral salts as calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate, barium and strontium in the reservoir and in the production and injection pipelines.
US11149181B2
A convertible composition comprising a nanosilica drilling fluid, the nanosilica drilling fluid comprising an aqueous based drilling mud, where the aqueous based drilling mud comprises water, and an alkaline nanosilica dispersion, where the alkaline nanosilica dispersion comprises nanosilica; and a chemical activator, the chemical activator operable to hydrolyze in the presence of water to produce an acid, where a weight ratio of the alkaline nanosilica dispersion to the chemical activator is between 1 to 0.001 and 1 to 0.25.
US11149178B2
To provide an azeotrope-like composition which provides a working fluid for heat cycle with a small composition change, with a small temperature glide and with excellent cycle performance, and a working fluid for heat cycle employing the azeotrope-like composition, and a heat cycle system. An azeotropic or azeotrope-like composition consisting of 1-chloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and (E)-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene, and a working fluid for heat cycle comprising it.
US11149164B2
A sealing resin composition contains an epoxy resin (A), a curing agent (B) having at least one amino group in one molecule, and an inorganic filler (C), wherein the inorganic filler (C) contains a first inorganic filler (C1) having an average particle size from 0.1 μm to 20 μm and a second inorganic filler (C2) having an average particle size from 10 nm to 80 nm, and a value obtained by multiplying a specific surface area of the inorganic filler (C), by a proportion of a mass of the inorganic filler (C) in a solid mass of the sealing resin composition, is 4.0 mm2/g or more.
US11149163B2
The present invention provides a heat exchanger which is imparted with high deodorizing properties in terms of cigarettes. A heat exchanger which has a hydrophilic coating film on the surface of a substrate that is formed from aluminum, and wherein the hydrophilic coating film is formed using a hydrophilizing agent that contains 0.8-1.8% by mass of a vanadium compound in terms of elemental vanadium, while containing 90% by mass or more of a resin which contains 38-40% by mass of a polyvinyl alcohol having an ethylene chain, 22-24% by mass of a radically polymerizable monomer having a carboxylic acid, 15-17% by mass of a radically polymerizable monomer represented by general formula and 22-24% by mass of a polyethylene glycol.
US11149153B2
Described is a method of preparing a product comprising an amount of surface modified silver nanowires, the method comprising the following steps: preparing or providing a first surface agent compound having one or more functional groups selected from the group consisting of thiol and amine, for attaching the first surface agent compound to the surface of a silver nanowire, preparing or providing an amount of silver nanowires, attaching said first surface agent compound prepared or provided in step (a) to the surface of said silver nanowires prepared or provided in step (b), so that surface modified silver nanowires result, and optionally (d) adding one or more further constituents and/or conducting one or more further steps so that said product results. Also described are a corresponding product, corresponding uses and a method of coating the surface of an article.
US11149151B2
A one part, storage stable polymerizable formulation includes a monomeric or oligomeric ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound that is at least one of methacrylate esters of polyethylene glycols, 1,6-hexane diol, or polypropylene glycol, 1,3- and 1,4-butylene glycol trimethylol propane trimethacrylate, or ethoxylated bisphenol A dimethacrylate. A second polymerizable compound includes dicyclopentadiene modified oligomers. An organic solvent is present and provides storage stability and upon evaporation of the solvent, a rate of polymerization of the compound accelerates independent of addition of a second part. An alkyd is present that includes an unsaturated fatty acid. An optional additive of at least one of a transition metal cure accelerator, a filler, a plasticizer, a colorant, and a cure inhibitor is present. The formulation is at least 30 total weight percent solids. A process of forming a polymerized coating on an article is also provided.
US11149142B2
The present invention provides a thermoplastic resin composition having a gel content of 40% by mass or more, comprising: a rubber-containing polymer (A); and a phosphorus-based antioxidant (B) having an alkyl group having 8 or more carbon atoms, wherein a melt flow rate (M1) for a retention time of 4 minutes measured in accordance with JIS K7210 under conditions of a temperature of 280° C. and a load of 49 N is 20 [g/10 min] or more. Even with a high gel content, the thermoplastic resin composition is high in fluidity and thermal stability during molding and easy to handle, and can be stably produced.
US11149140B2
Provided is a vinyl chloride resin molded product that has a low peak top temperature of loss modulus E″ after a heat aging test in the case of being lined with a foamed polyurethane molded product. A vinyl chloride resin composition comprises: (a) a vinyl chloride resin; (b) a plasticizer; and (c) a copper oxide.
US11149133B2
A cellulose resin composition containing a cellulose resin (A) and a high refractive-index organic material (B), in which the cellulose resin (A) is a cellulose derivative obtained by substituting at least part of hydrogen atoms of hydroxy groups of a cellulose with an acyl group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms and a long-chain organic group having 7 or more carbon atoms, and the mass fraction (B/A) of the high refractive-index organic material (B) to the cellulose resin (A) falls within the range of 10/90 to 70/30.
US11149121B2
An object of the present invention is to produce composite resin particles in which the original physical properties of PTFE derived from fine powder are maintained, and the present invention provides a method for producing composite resin particles, wherein the method includes: a first step in which fine powder containing polytetrafluoroethylene obtained by emulsion polymerization is pulverized in the presence of a ketone-based solvent; a second step in which the pulverized fine powder and a carbon nanomaterial are dispersed in the ketone-based solvent to produce a composite resin particles dispersion; a third step in which the composite resin particles are produced by removing the ketone-based solvent from the composite resin particle dispersion; and wherein the fine powder is pulverized so as to have an average particle diameter of 50 μm or less, and a temperature of the ketone-based solvent used in the first step is set to 20° C. or less.
US11149110B2
Resins comprising nanoparticles formed from π-conjugated cross-linked polymers are disclosed, together with their methods of manufacture and their applications in light emitting devices.
US11149108B1
The present invention relates to formulations including a self-assembly monomer. In particular embodiments, the self-assembly monomer provides a thermoset having beneficial viscoelastic properties for printing methodologies. Methods of making and using such formulations are also provided.
US11149106B2
A two-component polyurethane composition containing at least 55% by weight of polybutadiene polyols based on the total amount of all polyols having an average molecular weight of at least 500 g/mol, and at least one latent hardener, where the ratio of the number of reactive groups in the latent hardener to the number of OH groups present is in the range from 0.02 to 0.4. The composition has a long open time, blister-free curing, a very low glass transition temperature, high elasticity and surprisingly high strength which is very constant over a wide temperature range. Furthermore, it has very good adhesion to metallic and nonmetallic substrates, causing barely any stress cracks on glassy thermoplastics.
US11149099B2
Provided are a novel catalyst component for producing an α-olefin (co)polymer, and a production method using the same. A metal complex is obtainable by contacting a compound represented by the general formula [I] or [II] with a transition metal compound containing a transition metal belonging to 9th to 11th group: wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 represent (i) hydrogen, (ii) a halogen, (iii) a linear alkyl or the like, or (iv) OR9 or the like; R5 and R6 represent a linear alkyl group or the like; any one of R1-R6 may have a heteroatom or a heteroatom containing group; E1 represents phosphorus, arsenic or antimony; X1 represents oxygen or sulfur; Z represents hydrogen or a leaving group.
US11149093B2
Disclosed is an antibody which binds to a symmetrically dimethylated arginine analyte that can be used to detect a symmetrically dimethylated arginine analyte in a sample, such as in a homogeneous enzyme immunoassay method.
US11149091B2
Described herein are methods for treating nephrotic syndrome using an anti-CD20 antibody. In one embodiment, that anti-CD20 antibody is Obinutuzumab.
US11149087B2
Methods and compositions for generating immune responses using adenovirus vectors that allow multiple vaccinations or in combination with other therapy and vaccinations in individuals with preexisting immunity to adenovirus are provided.
US11149086B2
The present invention relates to immunoglobulins that specifically bind Kv1.3 and more in particular to polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides; to methods for preparing such polypeptides; to compositions and in particular to pharmaceutical compositions that comprise such polypeptides, for prophylactic, therapeutic or diagnostic purposes. In particular, the immunoglobulins of the present invention inhibit the activity of Kv1.3.
US11149077B2
The present invention provides innovative proteins that bind to insulin-like growth factor-I receptor (IGF-IR), as well as other important proteins. The invention also provides innovative proteins in pharmaceutical preparations and derivatives of such proteins and the uses of same in diagnostic, research and therapeutic applications. The invention further provides cells comprising such proteins, polynucleotide encoding such proteins or fragments thereof, and vectors comprising the polynucleotides encoding the innovative proteins.
US11149072B2
The invention concerns a variant (double mutant form) of the survivin polypeptide; nucleic acid molecules encoding the survivin variant; antigen presenting cells (APCs) such as dendritic cells, or APC precursors, comprising the variant survivin polypeptide or encoding nucleic acid sequence; and methods for treating a malignancy, such as myeloma, or for inducing an immune response, utilizing a variant survivin polypeptide, nucleic acid molecule, or APC.
US11149063B2
Novel compounds and methods for the inhibition of biological barrier permeability and for the inhibition of peptide translocation across biological barriers are identified. Assays for determining modulators of biological barrier permeability and for peptide translocation across biological barriers are provided. Methods for treating diseases relating to aberrant biological barrier permeability and peptide translocation across biological barriers are provided. Such diseases include celiac disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, diabetes, cancer, inflammatory bowel diseases, asthma, COPD, excessive or undesirable immune response, gluten sensitivity, gluten allergy, food allergy, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, immune-mediated or type 1 diabetes mellitus, systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriasis, scleroderma and autoimmune thyroid diseases.
US11149060B2
The present invention provides a nanoparticle capable of binding specifically to a target protein in a solution and precipitating with the target protein out of the solution upon addition of the target protein to the solution. The precipitation may be reversed release the target protein from the nanoparticle, which may be reused for precipitating the target protein. Also provided are a method for purifying a target protein by affinity precipitation using the nanoparticle without chromatography and a method for preparing the nanoparticle.
US11149059B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensitive, multidimensional chromatography method for extraction, detection, and quantification of non-conjugated cytotoxic agents and associated linker molecules used in cysteine based antibody-drug-conjugate production.
US11149053B2
The present invention includes a method and kit for cDNA synthesis of a 3′UTR/poly(A) tail junction of cellular RNA comprising: obtaining RNA comprising a 3′UTR/poly(A) junction and a poly(a) tail; combining the RNA with three terminating nucleotides of modified-deoxyGTP, modified-deoxyCTP and modified-deoxyATP, dNTPs, and adaptor sequence-oligo-dT; performing reverse transcription of the RNA with a reverse transcriptase primed with the adaptor sequence-oligo-dT to form terminated cDNA fragments that are stochastically terminated upstream of the 3′UTR/poly(A) junction, but not within the poly(A) tail; isolating the terminated cDNA fragments; chemically ligating a functionalized 5′ adaptor to the terminated cDNA; and amplifying the chemically-ligated cDNA into an amplification product, wherein the cDNA is enriched for sequences at the 3′UTR/poly(A) tail junction without fragmentation or enzymatic ligation.
US11149052B2
The present disclosure relates to 2′3′-cyclic dinucleotides modified with a 2′- or 3′-phosphonoalkyl bond and derivatives thereof, that can modulate the activity of the STING adaptor protein.
US11149048B2
A method for preparing high-purity D-psicose, comprising the following steps: (1) centrifuging a fermentation broth of Bacillus subtilis, and then subjecting the bacteria to homogenization to obtain a mixed solution containing D-psicose 3-epimerase; (2) preparing a fructose solution, adding the mixed solution containing D-psicose 3-epimerase to the fructose solution, adjusting the pH, adding cobalt chloride thereto, and performing the reaction at a certain temperature; and feeding the fructose solution to the reaction solution, continuing the reaction, and stopping the reaction, obtaining a crude D-psicose solution; and (3) subjecting the crude D-psicose solution to decolorization, filtration, ion exchange, chromatographic separation, concentration, and then crystallization or drying, obtaining D-psicose.
US11149045B2
A raw material for vapor deposition for producing a platinum thin film or a platinum compound thin film by a vapor deposition method. The raw material for vapor deposition includes an organoplatinum compound represented by the following formula, in which a cyclopentene-amine ligand and an alkyl ligand are coordinated to divalent platinum. The organoplatinum compound of the present invention has moderate thermal stability and can respond flexibly to severe film formation conditions, including a wider film formation area, higher throughput, and the like. (In the formula, R1, R2, and R3 are each any one of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an amino group, an imino group, a cyano group, and an isocyano group, each having 4 or less carbon atoms, and R4 and R5 are each an alkyl group having 1 or more and 3 or less carbon atoms.)
US11149040B2
Compounds of Formula I, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, tautomers thereof, pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the tautomers, or mixtures thereof are agonists of the APJ Receptor and may have use in treating cardiovascular and other conditions. Compounds of Formula (I) have the following structure: where the definitions of the variables are provided herein.
US11149039B2
The invention relates to a novel process for preparing Spiro derivatives, in particular 7-methyl-2-[4-methyl-6-[4-(trifluoromethyl)-phenyl]pyrimidin-2-yl]-1,7-diazaspiro[4.4]nonan-6-one, and to novel intermediates for use in said process along with processes for preparing said intermediates.
US11149029B2
The present disclosure relates to salts of compounds of Formula (I) prepared as a xinafoate (1-hydroxy-2-naphthoate) salt (Formula (Ia)), pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising same and methods of using the same.
US11149021B2
An N-(azaaryl)cyclolactam-1-carboxamide derivative having a structure of formula (I), a preparation method therefor, and a use thereof are disclosed in the application. Each substituent are defined in the specification and claims. The series of compounds of the application can be widely applied in the preparation of drugs for treating cancer, tumor, autoimmune disease, metabolic disease or metastatic disease, particularly for treating ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, glioblastoma, multiple myeloma, metabolic disease, neurodegenerative disease, primary tumor site metastasis or osseous metastasis cancer, and are expected to be developed into a new generation of CSF-1R inhibitor drugs.
US11149019B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel phenylpyridine derivative represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same, and the compound according to the present disclosure can be usefully used for the prevention or treatment of autoimmune diseases or cancers.
US11149014B2
Compositions that include certain phenyl substituted cyclohexenyl compounds are administered to a subject in a method for treating obesity or an associated disease or disorder or in a method of reducing food consumption or body weight.
US11148999B2
The present invention provides, in part a novel class of nonoate compounds which exhibit nitric oxide releasing activity and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters and prodrugs. The compounds release nitric oxide upon activation by contact with plasma. The present invention also relates to the use of the disclosed compounds to deliver nitric oxide to treat disorders arising from nitric oxide dysregulation.
US11148997B2
Methods for making prodrugs of treprostinil and treprostinil derivatives are provided. Specifically, methods are provided herein for producing prostacyclin compounds comprising treprostinil covalently linked to a linear C5-C18 alkyl, branched C5-C18 alkyl, linear C2-C18 alkenyl, branched C3-C18 alkenyl, aryl, aryl-C1-C18 alkyl or an amino acid or a peptide (e.g., dipeptide, tripeptide, tetrapeptide). The linkage, in one embodiment, is via an amide or ester bond. Prostacyclin compounds provided herein can also include at least one hydrogen atom substituted with at least one deuterium atom. The compounds provided herein can be used to treat pulmonary hypertension (e.g., pulmonary arterial hypertension) and portopulmonary hypertension.
US11148995B2
A process for preparation of 4-aminoindane compounds of a first formula, salts and enantiomers thereof including: a) hydrogenating a 1,2-dihydroquinoline of a second formula to give a corresponding tetrahydroquinoline of a third formula; b) acylating the tetrahydroquinoline of the third formula with a carboxylic acid derivative of a fourth formula to obtain a corresponding acyl derivative compound of a fifth formula; c) rearranging the acyl derivative compound of the fifth formula under acidic conditions so as to give an acyl indane compound of a sixth formula or an addition salt thereof; and d) hydrolysing the acyl group of the acyl indane compound of the sixth formula so as to obtain the 4-aminoindane derivatives of the first formula.
US11148993B1
The present invention relates to a method for purifying polyunsaturated fatty acid using a continuous reactor, and the method comprises: (a) complexing step, (b) cleaning step, (c) extracting step, and (d) concentrating and drying step. The method of the present invention reacts a polyunsaturated fatty acid and a silver salt aqueous solution in a continuous reactor to form a complex of the polyunsaturated fatty acid and silver, and then cleans the complex with a first organic solvent to improve the purity of the complex; afterwards, a second organic solvent is used to extract the purified polyunsaturated fatty acid. The method of the present invention can continuously produce polyunsaturated fatty acids with high yield and high purity.
US11148992B2
Provided is a hydrogenation method of a phthalate compound. According to the present invention, in the hydrogenation reaction, generation of by-products is suppressed, and thus catalytic activity is improved and life-time is extended, thereby increasing efficiency of a commercial process and economic efficiency. Further, since the hydrogenation product prepared by the present invention has high purity and a low acid value, its quality as a plasticizer is excellent, thereby being applied to a variety of products.
US11148984B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing an aromatic compound from acetylene, which includes synthesizing an aromatic compound from an acetylene-containing reactant gas in the presence of a zeolite catalyst for the aromatization of acetylene, and subjecting the zeolite catalyst deactivated by the coke formed in the aromatization of acetylene, to plasma treatment at ambient temperature and pressure so as to selectively remove the external cokes and partial internal coke, thereby regenerating the zeolite catalyst; a method of regenerating the zeolite catalyst used in the aromatization of acetylene by plasma treatment; and a regenerated zeolite catalyst for the aromatization of acetylene, prepared thereof.
US11148982B2
Reaction products and methods for making and using the same are provided. In at least one specific embodiment, the fertilizer can include a nitrogen source comprising urea, ammonia, ammonium nitrate, or any combination thereof and a reaction product of formaldehyde, an ammonia source, and a nitrification inhibitor.
US11148978B2
A method for producing a silicon-carbide-based composite. In the production of a silicon-carbide-based composite comprising a carbon-fiber-reinforced/silicon carbide composite (a C/SiC composite) or a silicon-carbide-fiber-reinforced/silicon carbide composite (a SiC/SiC composite), a film boiling method is carried out, using an organosilicon polymer having a chlorine-free polysilane skeleton and/or a chlorine-free polycarbosilane skeleton. The organosilicon polymer is in a liquid form at room temperature. The molar ratio of Si and C in the matrix of the C/SiC composite or the SiC/SiC composite is Si:C=1:1.08 to 1:1.43.
US11148969B2
A patterned glass article that includes: a glass substrate comprising a thickness, a primary surface and a bulk composition at the midpoint of the thickness; and a patterned region defined by the primary surface and comprising a patterned region composition. The bulk composition comprises about 40 mol % to 80 mol % silica and the patterned region composition comprises at least about 40 mol % silica. Further, the patterned region comprises a first textured region and a second textured region, the second textured region characterized by a haze of at least 5% more than a haze of the first textured region.
US11148966B2
An apparatus for recovering the suspended particles from waste water comprising a tank (10) having an upper section (14) for receiving waste water, a lower chamber (16) and a base plate (18) separating the upper section (14) and the lower chamber (18). In one aspect the base plate is a filter screen that has a central opening (20) and a closure 28 therefore. The apparatus has a filter press plate (24) within the upper section (14) and is moveable between a non-filtering position spaced away from the base plate (18) and a filtering position in which the filter member (24) and base plate (18) are pressed together so as to separate water from the particles and compress the particles to form a substantially dewatered product that can then pass through the opening (20) into the lower chamber (16) for collection.
US11148960B2
A UV sterilization cup includes a cup body with a first opening thereof, a cup shielding covered on the first opening, a filter matched with the first opening, a UV sterilization member received in the cup shielding for sterilizing water and a waterproof transparent member received in the cup shielding for sealing the UV sterilization member. The UV sterilization member includes a UV PCB and a UV light source connected to the UV PCB. The UV PCB includes a UV generating circuit formed thereon to drive the UV light source to emit ultraviolet ray so as to sterilize water received in the cup body. The compact structure can achieve a reliable sterilization effect with 99.9% by setting the UV light source, and water fetched in outdoors can reach the standard of healthy drinking water that it is first filtered by the filter and then sterilized by the UV light source.
US11148955B2
A synthesis device may include a pressure vessel with an inlet and an outlet for fluid, a catalyst bed that is disposed within the pressure vessel, a plate heat exchanger that is disposed in a flow path of fluid between the inlet of the pressure vessel and the catalyst bed such that fluid flowing into the catalyst bed is heated by fluid flowing out of the catalyst bed. The plate heat exchanger may be disposed outside a reactor volume occupied by the catalyst bed in the pressure vessel. The catalyst bed may be one of a plurality of catalyst beds disposed axially over one another in the pressure vessel.
US11148953B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a zeolite composite material composed of a mixture of AFX and BEA zeolites, comprising at least the following steps: i) mixing in aqueous medium, in particular proportions, of an FAU zeolite having an SiO2/Al2O3 mole ratio of between 30 and 100 and a parameter Pze such that: 3250
US11148951B2
A silica-titania composite has a BET specific surface area, as determined by BET analysis of a water vapor adsorption isotherm, in the range of 250 m2/g to 500 m2/g and a contact angle with water of 100° or greater. In the water vapor adsorption isotherm, an adsorbed amount at relative pressure P/P0=0.1 is in a range of 65 cm3/g to 120 cm3/g, an adsorbed amount at relative pressure P/P0=0.5 is in a range of 150 cm3/g to 300 cm3/g, and an adsorbed amount at relative pressure P/P0=0.9 is in a range of 350 cm3/g to 500 cm3/g.
US11148950B2
A reinforced composite comprises: a reinforcement material comprising one or more of the following: a carbon fiber based reinforcing material; a fiberglass based reinforcing material; a metal based reinforcing material; or a ceramic based reinforcing material; and a carbon composite; wherein the carbon composite comprises carbon and a binder containing one or more of the following: SiO2; Si; B; B2O3; a metal; or an alloy of the metal; and wherein the metal is one or more of the following: aluminum; copper; titanium; nickel; tungsten; chromium; iron; manganese; zirconium; hafnium; vanadium; niobium; molybdenum; tin; bismuth; antimony; lead; cadmium; or selenium.
US11148946B2
A structure including a first layer of one or more molecular components having a first top anchor group, a first functional moiety and a first bottom anchor group. The first functional moiety connects the first top anchor group to the first bottom anchor group. The structure further includes a first conductive film of one or more nanoparticles disposed on the first layer of one or more molecular components. Each of at least a portion of the one or more nanoparticles bond with the first top anchor group of the one or more molecular components. Each of at least a portion of the one or more nanoparticles cross-link with at least one other of the nanoparticles. The first conductive film forms a first contact for the first layer of one or more molecular components.
US11148937B2
A method includes attaching an upper substrate to an upper surface of a sensor substrate, forming, on an upper surface of the upper substrate, a mask providing a first opening and a second opening communicating with the first opening, the second opening having a width that decreases with increase in a distance from the first opening, carrying out a sandblast process on the upper substrate exposed to an outside via the first opening and the second opening, allowing the sensor substrate to be exposed to the outside immediately below the first opening, and forming a slope on the upper substrate immediately below the second opening, and forming a first wiring member in contact with the exposed sensor substrate and a second wiring member being in contact with the slope and continuing to the first wiring member.
US11148936B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a metallization layer over the substrate, and a sensing structure over the metallization layer. The sensing structure includes an outgassing layer over the metallization layer, a patterned outgassing barrier in proximity to a top surface of the outgassing layer, the patterned outgassing barrier exposing a portion of the outgassing layer, and an electrode over the patterned outgassing barrier. The method for manufacturing the semiconductor device is also provided.
US11148934B2
Methods and systems for no-glue pocketed spring unit construction. Rows of pocketed springs modules, comprising more than two pocketed springs surrounding a central hole, can be automatically loaded onto an assembler; pocketed spring-surrounded openings can be automatically aligned with welding phalanges; and probe/anvil welding pairs can be inserted into modules in different rows of modules, closed around polymer pocket fabric, and activated to weld rows of modules together without glue; without a user manually loading rows of modules onto the assembler.
US11148919B1
Method and apparatus for a material handling attachment being generally rectangular having left and right tubular main frame members for receiving the corresponding left and right lifting forks of a forklift truck. The tubular main frame members are supported by front and rear cross members and a floor is formed of expanded metal placed on an upper surface of the material handling attachment. The material handling attachment has a downwardly extending pad eye lifting lug at each corner for attaching a downwardly extending first strap having connecting means on its ends for attachment to a second strap which directly carries a cargo load or which passes through the opening formed in a pallet so that the pallet having heavy cargo thereon can be easily lifted using the forklift truck. The material handling attachment allows the cargo load or pallet to be lifted directly off the ground and moved about so that it can then be lowered onto the bottom floor of a cargo vehicle so that a pallet passes over the walls of the cargo vehicle.
US11148915B2
A boom assembly for a pipelayer includes a boom member having a first end and a second end. The boom assembly includes a first boom block adapted to be removably coupled to the second end of the boom member. The boom assembly includes a second boom block adapted to be removably coupled to a chassis of the pipelayer. The boom assembly includes a first hook block adapted to be removably coupled to the second end of the boom member. The boom assembly includes a second hook block adapted to be operably coupled to the first hook block. The boom assembly also includes a first lifting connector disposed on the first boom block and a second lifting connector disposed on the first hook block. Each of the first lifting connector and the second lifting connector is adapted to removably receive a lifting strap therethrough.
US11148909B2
Provided is a passenger-conveyor step-chain monitoring system capable of monitoring elongation of a step chain without adding a special device. The passenger-conveyor step-chain monitoring system includes a monitoring unit configured to monitor elongation of a step chain attached to a step of a passenger conveyor based on a result of detecting the step by a sensor provided to detect an absence of the step. With this configuration, it is possible to monitor elongation of the step chain without adding a special device.
US11148898B2
An example stacking system comprises a stacking member movable between a first position in which the stacking member is configured to partially support a first stack of printed substrates, and a second position in which the stacking member is disengaged from the first stack. A receptacle positioned below the stacking member is configured to hold a second stack of printed substrates. A controller is configured to cause the stacking member to move between the first position and the second position when the first stack satisfies a criterion, thereby depositing the first stack into the receptacle on top of the second stack.
US11148897B2
An apparatus and a corresponding method involve storing value documents, in particular bank notes, to a storage device and to a value-document processing system. A stacker wheel is arranged to receive value documents and dispense them one after the other. A transport device is arranged to receive the value documents dispensed one after the other by the stacker wheel and to transport them in such a way that the value documents come to lie on top of each other in a shingled manner. A storage device for storing the value documents lying on top of each other in a shingled manner is provided.
US11148896B2
A supply device (3) for supplying substrate strips (10, 10′; 11, 11′) to a double-belt press (2) for pressing the substrate strips (10, 10′; 11, 11′) together includes unwinding stations (4, 5) each having an unwinding shaft (6, 7) for receiving a substrate strip roll (8, 9) and serving to unwind the substrate strips (10, 10′; 11, 11′) from the substrate strip roll (8, 9), at least one of the unwinding stations (4) having a force-measuring device with a measuring shaft (16, 17) around which one of the substrate strips (10, 10′; 11, 11′) can be wrapped, an auxiliary shaft (18, 19) being assigned to the measuring shaft, wherein the auxiliary shaft (18, 19) and the measuring shaft (16, 17) of the unwinding station (4) are moveable relative to each other between a guiding position for guiding the substrate strip (10, 10′; 11, 11′) from the roll of the substrate strip rolls (8, 9) through a gap between the measuring shaft (16, 17) and the auxiliary shaft (18, 19) and an operating position defining a pre-defined and/or pre-definable wrap angle (χ) of the substrate strip (10, 10′; 11, 11′) around the measuring shaft (16, 17) by an adjusting drive.
US11148884B2
A method for operating an order-picking system (100) is described, comprising: providing goods gathered in batches in a batch buffer (1), batch-wise sorting of the goods in a matrix sorter (2), the goods in the order-picking system (100) being conveyed by a multiplicity of transport units which have in each case a receiving unit for receiving the goods and the transport units in the matrix sorter (2) are conveyed at least in sections by a matrix conveyor (22), wherein a control unit (7′) dynamically controls the conveying speed of the matrix conveyor (22) in such a manner that the conveying speed is dependent on at least one parameter of the conveyed transport units and/or goods.
US11148883B2
An article carrier system has a plurality of storage shelves and an order management unit. In the storage shelves, articles are stored. The order management unit manages a plurality of orders for shipping orders, holds receptacle information including at least information regarding a quantity of articles stored in each receptacle of each of the storage shelves, determines to provide different conditions for orders for performing picking at different workplaces, as conditions for correlating between each order and the receptacle for performing the picking in accordance with each order, and determines a storage shelf to be carried to the workplace for performing the picking in association with each order, based on the determined conditions and receptacle information.
US11148880B1
A refuse vehicle includes a chassis, a body, a lock, a tailgate, an ejector, an actuator, and a processor. The body defines a receptacle for storing refuse. The lock is coupled to the body and is configured to releasably secure a movable tailgate. The receptacle contains the ejector. The ejector can transition from a first position that is spaced from the tailgate to a second position proximate the tailgate. The actuator is configured to transition the ejector from the first position to the second position. The processor is configured to selectively unlock the tailgate and transition the ejector from the first position to the second position in response to receiving a single input to thereby eject refuse from the receptacle without receiving multiple inputs.
US11148875B2
A container includes a housing and a cover film. The housing extends along a longitudinal axis and includes an outer surface. The container also includes a cover film that encloses the housing on one or more sides on the outer surface of the housing. The cover film includes a covering portion and a receiving portion. The receiving portion forms a receptacle that is adapted to receive an accessory.
US11148869B2
A water resistant tote box is provided. The tote box includes a base, longitudinally extending sidewalls, laterally extending end walls, and a two-piece lid. The base includes a concave lower surface that matches a convex upper surface of the lid, for preserving the structural integrity of the convex upper surface when stacking a like tote box thereon. The two-piece lid includes a pair of lid halves including a rear end hingedly attached to the sidewalls and a free end including interlocking flaps that are securable via a line of connection. Drain troughs disposed on the walls are in fluid communication with drain channels disposed on the lid, enabling moisture to flow off the top of the tote box. Drain gutters disposed on the lid halves are configured to direct moisture, permeating the line of connection, towards the walls. In this way, the tote box has a synergistic effect of resisting water by directing moisture away from the top of the tote box and preventing moisture from leaking into its interior.
US11148867B1
A dunnage assembly has a plurality of tubes and a locking bridge movably attached to the tubes. The locking bridge has radially sections extending through corresponding slots in the tubes and into the tube interior regions. A stop member movably positioned within each tube interior region and attached to the portion of the radially extending section located within the tube interior region. The locking bridge and stop members move together. As the locking bridge moves along the lengths of the tubes, the stop members move within the tube interior regions. The locking bridge may be locked at a desired location along the tube to position the stop members at a desired location within the tube interior regions. The adjustability of the stop members allows the tubes to receive rockets of various lengths and nose profiles. The locking bridge may be unlocked to re-position the stop members.
US11148863B2
A method and apparatus can be used for vacuum skin packaging of a product. The product can be arranged on a support comprising providing a film sheet above the support with the product being arranged between the support and the film sheet. The film sheet can be air tightly fixed to the support. The wall of the support can be perforated to form at least one through hole. At least a portion of air from within the support underneath the film sheet can be removed through the at least one hole. A packaged product is obtainable using the method and apparatus.
US11148859B2
Multi-piece child resistant safety caps for containers are disclosed. A feature of the safety caps is to provide releasable securement to a container. In some embodiments, the safety cap includes a casing with at least one downwardly projecting fin and an insert with at least one upwardly projecting protrusion.
US11148851B2
The present invention relates to a composite container comprising a bottom film layer and a top film layer at least partially adhered to the bottom film layer. The top film layer is scored to form at least one resealable flap and at least one pull tab which is not adhered to the bottom film layer. The bottom film layer comprises at least one cavity opening. A cardboard layer is adhered on its lower surface to the upper surface of the top film layer, wherein the cardboard layer has at least one cavity opening which is substantially aligned with the scoring of the top film layer resealable flap and the cardboard layer is perforated to define a perimeter of at least one pull tab which is substantially aligned with and adhered, on its underside, to the upper surface of the top film layer pull tab.
US11148849B2
A cardboard blank for folding a box has a length and a width, wherein in the length direction five adjacent sections of panels are present, each panel of the first, third and fifth section having a length (HB) corresponding to the height of the box to be folded, and each panel of the second and forth section having a length (LB) corresponding to the length of the box to be folded, in the width direction (W) three adjacent rows of panels are present, each panel of the second row having a width (WB) corresponding to the width of the box to be folded, and each panel of the first and the third row having a width (HB) corresponding to the height of the box to be folded, between adjacent panels in the length direction (L) crease lines are provided, between panels of the second, the third and the forth section which are adjacent to each other in the width direction (W), crease lines are provided, adjacent panels of the first section are separated from each other by incisions, in the fifth section only a panel in the second row is present, between the panels of the second and the forth section in the first and the third row, a respective joint panel is provided, each of which being divided in triangular sections by crease lines between diagonally opposing corners of the each joint panel, the outer triangle being cut away.
US11148839B2
The present disclosure provides a device for packaging drug portions, including a plurality of reservoir and dispensing stations, at least one conveyance and collecting apparatus, a packaging material feed, a packaging device, a folding and conveyance device included with the packaging device, a guide device including a receiving segment and a conveying segment, the conveying segment extending along the passage of the folding and conveyance device and guides drug portions into the tubular packaging material web, a first joining device arranged downstream of the folding and conveyance device, and a second joining device arranged downstream of the first joining device, which joins the tubular packaging material web at pre-specified intervals with respect to the direction of movement of the tubular packaging material, such that a continuous blister tube is created.
US11148838B2
The present invention relates to a method and a product dispenser comprising a tank for storing a flowable product and a conveyor for conveying storage containers along a longitudinal direction from an entry position to an exit position. The product dispenser further comprises a dosing mechanism extending in the longitudinal direction above the conveyor. The dosing mechanism comprises an inner cylindrical part and an outer cylindrical part enclosing and sealing against the inner cylindrical part. The inner cylindrical part defines a circumferential groove and a helically shaped groove extending between the entry position and the exit position. The outer cylindrical part defines an elongated opening extending in the longitudinal direction and an inlet opening for establishing a fluid path from the tank via the circumferential groove and the helically shaped groove to the elongated opening. The inner cylindrical part is rotatable for dispensing the flowable product into the storage containers.
US11148832B2
A system for vibration control of a cryocooler that cools an imager. The system includes a vibration sensor that is physically affixed to the cryocooler. The vibration sensor senses a physical vibration of the cryocooler and to generates a vibration signal therefrom. The system also includes cryocooler drive electronics operatively coupled to the vibration sensor and the cryocooler. The cryocooler drive electronics output a drive waveform that drives the cryocooler so as to reduce the vibration impact of the cryocooler. The harmonic content of the cryocooler drive waveform is controlled by the cryocooler drive electronics based on the vibration signal.
US11148825B2
Cargo aircraft having a cargo ramp and cargo door oppositely hinged relative to one another to allow access to the aircraft's cargo space may be provided with a flying boom mast that is physically mounted at the aft portion of the fuselage so as to configure such cargo aircraft for aerial refueling operations. The flying boom mast may therefore be operably associated with the aft portion of the fuselage and moveable between a stowed and deployed conditions relative to the aft portion of the fuselage, while a fuel supply line fluid-interconnects the flying boom mast with an on-board fuel supply of the aircraft so as to allow aerial refueling of a receiver aircraft when the flying boom mast is in the deployed condition thereof.
US11148822B2
A drive system for a rotorcraft includes at least one engine, the engine including a compressor section, and a turbine section positioned rearward from the compressor section. A main rotor input shaft extends from a rotor power turbine of the turbine section and is connectable to a main rotor assembly of the rotorcraft to transfer rotational energy from the rotor power turbine to the main rotor assembly. An auxiliary input shaft extends from an auxiliary power turbine of the turbine section and is connectible to an auxiliary rotor assembly of the rotorcraft to transfer rotational energy from the auxiliary power turbine to the auxiliary rotor assembly.
US11148818B2
An aspirator air vent valve may include an air vent valve body coupled with an aspirator body and a pipe fitting. The air vent valve body may include an air vent valve air channel defined by an inner wall of the air vent valve body and disposed between the aspirator body and the pipe fitting. The aspirator air vent valve may further include a vent passage defined by a first vent wall and a second vent wall and disposed between an outer wall and the inner wall of the air vent valve body, wherein the vent passage is in fluid communication with the air vent valve air channel. The aspirator air vent valve may further include a plunger coupled with the air vent valve body.
US11148808B2
A device for airlifting an object comprising a frame-like support structure. The support structure has an upper end region and a lower end region. The upper end region and the lower end region have at least partly corresponding shapes. The device further comprises a recess in which the object is arranged at least partly during airlifting.
US11148806B2
[Problem] To provide an aerial vehicle wherein the flight efficiency can be improved. [Solution] An aerial vehicle according to the present invention relates in particular to a aerial vehicle having a loading section whereon a payload and the like can be loaded. The aerial vehicle is capable of traveling at least forward and backward, is provided with lift generation sections, arm sections for holding the lift generation sections, a loading section disposed on the arm sections and positioned posterior to the center of gravity of the aerial vehicle, and a maintaining means for maintaining the aerial vehicle at least in the horizontal attitude, and the loading section has a first connection part for maintaining a loaded object at least in the horizontal attitude. On the basis of the above mentioned, the payload can be prevented from entering slipstream regions created by propellers, improving flight efficiency.
US11148805B2
An enclosure for a UAS includes a housing having a base and a plurality of sidewalls coupled to the base, a motive apparatus coupled to the housing, a platform coupled to the motive apparatus, and a plurality of lids pivotably coupled to the sidewalls and the platform. The platform and the plurality of lids move collectively under control of the motive apparatus (e.g., a linear actuator). Driving the motive apparatus in a first direction causes the platform to raise from a stowed position toward a deployed position and causes each of the plurality of lids to pivot from a closed position toward an open position. Conversely, driving the motive apparatus in a second direction opposite the first direction causes the platform to lower from the deployed position toward the stowed position and causes each of the plurality of lids to pivot from the open position toward the closed position.
US11148790B2
A vibration attenuation system for attenuating vibrations in a mast of an aircraft includes a weight attached to the mast but free to orbit about the mast. The weight can be comprised of one or more weight assemblies. Embodiments can include a single weight, or plural weight assemblies wherein each weight assembly can include a mechanical interconnecting mechanism so that each weight assembly receives feedback regarding the position and movement of one or more other weight assemblies. Each weight can be associated with a spring that urges the weight towards a neutral position. Rotation of the mast can cause the weight to orbit about the mast and self-excite such that the weight acts against the urging of the spring towards an attenuating position.
US11148789B2
A taxiing system for an aircraft is presented. The taxiing system comprises a hydraulic accumulator configured to receive an increase in hydraulic pressure from a hydraulic motor; a system inlet valve configured to provide hydraulic flow from a hydraulic system of the aircraft to the hydraulic motor; a flow control valve system comprising a plurality of valves configured to direct hydraulic flow between the hydraulic accumulator and the hydraulic motor; and the hydraulic motor connected to wheels of the aircraft and configured to drive or stop the wheels using movement of hydraulic flow in the taxiing system.
US11148784B2
A propeller system including a propeller including a central attachment member and a plurality of blade apparatuses, each including a blade body attached to the central attachment member and a magnetic coupling member attached to a radially outward end of the blade body. The propeller system further comprises a propeller frame configured to at least partially circumscribe the magnetic coupling member of each blade apparatus and a plurality of electromagnets positioned on the propeller frame and operable to generate magnetic fields to suspend the magnetic coupling members, laterally translate the magnetic coupling members, rotate the magnetic coupling members along the radial axis of the propeller system, thereby rotating the blade bodies.
US11148774B2
A rebalancing device for rebalancing of an underwater vehicle comprises at least one thruster and at least one storage space. The rebalancing device comprises control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to receive sensor data comprising information relating to a depth and an attitude of the underwater vehicle, and thruster data comprising information relating to thrust and orientation of thrust of the at least one thruster. The control circuitry is further configured to determine a difference between a centre of gravity, CoG, of the underwater vehicle and a centre of buoyancy, CoB, of the underwater vehicle based on the sensor data and the thruster data, and to determine a difference between a gravitational force acting on the underwater vehicle and a buoyancy of the underwater vehicle based on the sensor data and the thruster data.
US11148767B2
Disclosed is a floating photovoltaic system installed over a wide area on a surface of water. The floating photovoltaic system includes a rotary bracket for connecting individual units that is able to be used for a long period of time without frequent replacement or repair by, while connecting the individual units, actively accommodating a vertical displacement, a horizontal displacement, and a rotational displacement of one individual unit relative to another individual unit.
US11148766B2
Methods and apparatus for deploying an unmanned marine vehicle into water are disclosed. The unmanned marine vehicle includes a float and a glider connected by a tether. The float is selectively retained in a buoyant frame by a float clamp assembly. A glider retainer assembly is coupled to the buoyant frame and selectively retains the glider. The glider retainer assembly and the float clamp assembly execute a deployment sequence for deploying the unmanned marine vehicle from the apparatus. In some embodiments, the apparatus is self-propelled to permit remote operation and deployment of the unmanned marine vehicle.
US11148758B2
The present disclosure describes recreational watercraft that provide a ballast system and an open platform passenger deck. An example is an aluminum hull including a ballast system to regulate displacement by the recreational watercraft and an open platform passenger deck as an integral upper surface to the aluminum hull. Multiple sides, continuous from the aluminum hull, include a stern side, a bow side, a port side, and a starboard side that surround a perimeter of the open platform passenger deck. An inboard power plant is located within a stern portion of the aluminum hull to propel the recreational watercraft.
US11148757B2
There is provided an assembleable aquaboard made of fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP), including: a first plate having a first T-shaped slot on the top surface and a second T-shaped slot on the right side surface, a second plate having a third T-shaped slot on the top surface and a fourth T-shaped slot on the right side surface; a third plate having a fifth T-shaped slot on the top surface, a sixth T-shaped slot on the right side surface; a fourth plate having a seventh T-shaped slot on the top surface and an eighth T-shaped slot on the left side surface; a first T-shaped connector to connect the first and the third plates; a second T-shaped to connect the second and the fourth plates; and a first I-beam connector to connect the first plate, the second, the third plate and the fourth plate to form the assembleable aquaboard.
US11148756B2
The disclosure provides a bicycle front derailleur including a fixing component, a chain guiding component, a linkage assembly, a battery assembly, two terminals, a circuit board assembly and a driving module. Two opposite ends of the linkage assembly are respectively and pivotally disposed on the fixing component and the chain guiding component. The battery assembly includes a battery holder and a battery. The battery holder is disposed on the fixing component, and the battery holder has a battery slot. One terminal is disposed in the battery slot, and the battery is removably inserted into the battery slot and is electrically connected to the terminal. The circuit board assembly is disposed on the fixing component and electrically connected to the other terminal. The terminals are electrically connected to each other. The driving module is disposed on the fixing component and electrically connected to the circuit board assembly.
US11148750B2
A snow vehicle having a combined brake and clutch handle is herein disclosed. Further, the snow vehicle can include a controller for managing operation of the snow vehicle, including shifting and engine management regiments, which can be selected by the operator depending upon operator preferences. Additionally, the snow vehicle can include an engine cooling heat exchanger for cooling liquid which is circulated through the engine.
US11148748B2
A suspension assembly including a core member; and a skin member bonded on said core member. The skin member having a higher strength than the core member.
US11148741B2
Methods, systems, devices and apparatus for unlocking a bicycle light. The bicycle light includes a power socket configured to receive a charging device. The bicycle light includes a light having multiple states. The multiple states include a locked state, an unlocked state, a powered on state, and a powered off state. The light is configured to illuminate when the in the powered on state. The bicycle light includes a controller. The controller is coupled to the power socket and the light. The controller is configured to determine that the light is in the locked state. The controller is configured to detect electrical power from the power socket. The controller is configured to switch the light from the locked state to the unlocked state when the electrical power is detected.
US11148739B2
A holiday trailer may comprise a removable stand for rotating the trailer from a horizontal position to a vertical position for storing the trailer. The trailer may house a tent which is extendable in a longitudinal direction away from a body of the trailer. The trailer may comprise a work surface which is removably attached to the trailer.
US11148735B2
An underbed hitch mounting system is described. The mounting system may be utilized for towing vehicles wherein the mounting system may selectively accommodate either a fifth wheel hitch or a gooseneck hitch. The mounting system may include at least one rail capable of being connected to a vehicle frame, wherein the rail includes at least one socket. The socket may be engaged with a receiving member, wherein the receiving member may be engaged with a leg of a fifth wheel hitch. A mid rail may be connected to the rails and may include a hitch ball socket that is capable of engagement with a hitch.
US11148729B2
A lower structure of a vehicle includes front side frames, a vehicle body strength member, a floor panel, and a power supply unit, in which the front side frames are formed to have cross-sectional shapes that open upward at least at rear sections thereof, the power supply unit is disposed below a floor panel, the floor panel includes a pair of reinforcing panel portions which are respectively joined to the rear sections of the front side frames and cover the rear sections from above, and a floor panel main body portion which constitutes a portion other than the reinforcing panel portions, and the reinforcing panel portions are formed to have higher strength than the floor panel main body portion.
US11148727B2
To reduce the amount of intrusion into the vehicle interior at the time of a side collision and achieve weight reduction, a vehicle side body structure includes a pillar member that partitions a side part opening of a body into a front part and a rear part, and the pillar member includes an upper member made of high-tensile steel and a lower member joined to the upper member, made of high-tensile steel, and having a rigidity lower than the upper member. The upper member has a reinforcing member made of high-tensile steel with a tensile strength higher than the upper member and the lower member and the lower half of the reinforcing member are shaped to have a lower bending rigidity against bending toward the inside in the vehicle width direction, toward the lower end of the reinforcing member.
US11148726B2
A front pillar structure includes a front side pillar frame member and rear side pillar frame member that structure a front pillar, a transparent member, a first joining portion and a second joining portion. The transparent member spans between the front side pillar frame member and the rear side pillar frame member and also structures the front pillar. At the first joining portion, an upper end portion of the front side pillar frame member is joined to a roof side rail that is disposed at a vehicle width direction outer side of a roof panel. At the second joining portion, an upper end portion of the rear side pillar frame member is joined to a rail outer panel. The first joining portion and the second joining portion are formed at the vehicle rear side relative to a front end portion of the roof panel.
US11148725B2
A dimensionally stable B-pillar for an automotive vehicle including tailored material properties is provided. The B-pillar includes at least one localized soft zone surrounded by a hard zone. The hard zone typically has a yield strength of 950 MPa to 1700 MPa; a tensile strength of 1200 MPa to 2100 MPa; and an elongation of greater than 4%. The soft zones each have a yield strength of 340 MPa to 780 MPa; a tensile strength of 400 MPa to 980 MPa; and an elongation of greater than 10%. The microstructure of the hard zone is martensite, and the microstructure of the soft zones is tempered martensite, ferrite pearlite bainite, ferrite pearlite austenite, ferrite pearlite, ferrite bainite, cementite austenite, and/or cementite bainite. The soft zones of the B-pillar are manufactured with a slow cooling step, which can be conducted in air outside of the dies.
US11148714B2
A method for steering a machine while commanded to be in neutral, including: sensing that a transmission is in a neutral setting; applying one or more service brakes into a braking mode; ramping off a steering pump on a hydraulic steering system; sensing a steering command; releasing the one or more service brakes from the braking mode in response to sensing the steering command; and ramping on the steering pump on the hydraulic steering system.
US11148708B2
An electronic control device includes: a circuit board including a substrate and an electrolytic capacitor connected to the substrate; a heat sink including a recess that houses the electrolytic capacitor; and heat dissipation material provided in the recess. The electrolytic capacitor has an end surface facing a bottom surface of the recess, and the heat dissipation material is in contact with the end surface and the bottom surface.
US11148701B2
A steering wheel of a motor vehicle, with a hub arranged parallel to a longitudinal axis, and with a segment of a steering wheel rim comprising a rim portion. The rim portion is attached to the first spoke, which is attached to the hub, and the rim portion is attached to a second spoke, which is attached to the hub in a manner rotatable about a pivot axis running parallel to the longitudinal axis and offset in relation thereto. A steering device of a motor vehicle comprising a steering wheel.
US11148692B2
A system is provided that include at least one positioning system that can detect a location or position of a vehicle or a portion of a vehicle group that includes the vehicle, at least one sensor positioned on or associated with the vehicle that can generate sensor data of a determined parameter or condition, and a controller in communication with the sensor and the positioning system. The controller can determine that a hazard event has occurred based at least partially on sensor data, and can communicate a hazard event notification based at least in part on the location data and the sensor data to a remote server.
US11148682B2
Example steering assistance systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a controller receives inputs from one or more sensors mounted to a vehicle. The controller processes the inputs from the one or more sensors to determine whether a steering change is needed. Responsive to determining that a steering change is needed, the controller provides a steering change recommendation to a driver of the vehicle via a physical rotation of the vehicle steering wheel in a recommended direction.
US11148678B2
System and method for controlling operation of a vehicle in real-time with a supervisory control module. A fault detection module is configured to receive respective sensor data from one or more sensors in communication with the vehicle and generate fault data. The supervisory control module includes at least one fault-tolerant controller configured to respond to a plurality of faults. The supervisory control module is configured to receive the fault data. When at least one fault is detected from the plurality of faults, the supervisory control module is configured to employ the fault-tolerant controller to generate at least one selected command. The selected command is transmitted to one or more device controllers for delivery to at least one of the respective components of the vehicle. Operation of the vehicle is controlled based in part on the selected command.
US11148677B2
A control system of a vehicle comprises first and second traveling control units configured to perform first and second traveling control of the vehicle, respectively, first and third communication units for the first and second traveling control unit to communicate with an external world recognition apparatus group, respectively, and second and fourth communication units for the first and second traveling control unit to communicate with a actuator group, respectively. The first and second traveling control units include first and second monitoring units configured to monitor a communication state of the first and third communication unit and a communication state of the second and fourth communication unit, respectively. When the first or second monitoring unit detects functional deterioration of the vehicle based on the communication states during monitoring, the first and/or second traveling control unit performs substitution control.
US11148667B2
A method of autonomously maneuvering a tow vehicle towards a trailer positioned behind the tow vehicle is provided. The method includes receiving one or more images from a camera positioned on a back portion of the tow vehicle. The method also includes receiving, at the data processing hardware, a first user selection of a trailer representation within the one or more images. The method includes sending first instructions to a drive system causing the tow vehicle to autonomously maneuver towards the trailer associated with the first user selection of the trailer representation. The method also includes receiving a second user selection of a coupler representation within the one or more images. The coupler representation associated with a trailer coupler of the trailer. The method also includes sending second instructions to the drive system causing the tow vehicle to autonomously maneuver towards the trailer coupler associated with the second user selection.
US11148666B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle control apparatus least a partial automatic control over the travel of the host vehicle. A following variable generating unit (96) calculates a predicted position of an other vehicle at a predicted time point ahead of the present time point, sets a target position which is short of the predicted position by a target intervehicle distance, and determines a first following variable for causing the host vehicle to reach the target position at the predicted time point.
US11148662B2
A method for controlling a hydraulic servo steering system in a vehicle includes reading out a collision warning signal to establish that a collision assistance case exists, and in response to determining that the collision assistance case exists, providing a hydraulic fluid by a hydraulic pump of the servo steering system. Serving for steering assistance has an actual volumetric flow-rate that is greater than or equal to a minimum volumetric flow-rate. The method additionally includes increasing a pump speed if the actual volumetric flow-rate is less than the minimum volumetric flow-rate, the pump speed being dependent on an engine/motor speed of a drive engine/motor interacting with the hydraulic pump.
US11148658B2
A vehicle is personalized to perform at least one action (e.g., control of acceleration or navigation of the vehicle) based on configuration data for a user of the vehicle. For example, when a car is rented by a user that is a driver, the car recognizes the driver and sets itself up accordingly. In some cases, an application on a mobile device of a user communicates the settings to the car when the user rents and/or hails the car. In one example, the mobile device may carry preference settings that can be downloaded to a ride-sharing vehicle or a rented vehicle to adjust controls relevant to the role of the driver.
US11148651B2
A multiple-circuit, hydraulically open brake has two single-circuit pressure generators hydraulically connected in parallel between at least one fluid container and at least two wheel brakes and a modulation unit for individual brake pressure modulation in the at least two wheel brakes. A first pressure generator is assigned to a main system which has a first energy supply and a first evaluation and control unit, and a second single-circuit pressure generator is assigned to a secondary system, which has a second energy supply which is independent of the first energy supply, and a second evaluation and control unit. The second evaluation and control unit controls the second pressure generator. Components of the modulation unit are assigned to the main system so that the modulation unit and the first pressure generator are controlled by the first evaluation and control unit and supplied with energy by the first energy supply.
US11148648B2
A hydraulic assembly for generating brake pressure for a hydraulic brake system, comprising a housing which is produced from a cast blank, having at least one receiving cavity for receiving a connector piece which is connected to a fluid container and which can be plugged along a plug-in axis (S) into the receiving cavity. The cast blank has, in the receiving cavity, at least one substantially planar surface, the normal vector (N) of which is oriented at an oblique inclination angle (W) with respect to the plug-in axis (S).
US11148647B2
A method of operating an anti-lock braking system includes that real-time brake corner temperature data, real-time brake corner pressure data real-time brake corner torque data, and deceleration parameters of the vehicle are detected. The method also includes that an apparent friction at the brake corner is determined in response to at least the real-time brake corner temperature data, the real-time brake corner pressure data, the real-time brake corner torque data, and the deceleration parameters of the vehicle.
US11148642B2
A method and security system for preventing misuse of sensitive information entered by an authorized person, including an input interface; a camera a memory configured to store information; a processing circuitry connected to the input interface, the camera and the memory configured to cause security system to activate a first input session wherein the input interface is adapted to receive input of sensitive information by a first person in an operational vicinity of the input interface; detect, by the camera unit, a second face of a second person at a second distance from the input interface; and store a first security association data comprising information regarding the first input session and information about the second person in the memory for preventing misuse of sensitive information.
US11148636B2
A system for detecting seatbelt routing includes: a state module configured to, based on a series of images over a period of time from a camera of a vehicle facing a seat, determine and output a routing state of a seatbelt of the seat; and a remediation module configured to, based on the routing state of the seatbelt of the seat, selectively perform at least one remedial action.
US11148633B2
A vehicle airbag device including a curtain airbag inflated and deployed from a vehicle width direction outer side end portion of a ceiling toward a vehicle lower side by gas being supplied into the curtain airbag from an inflator actuated in a vehicle collision to generate the gas; and a front passenger seat airbag inflated and deployed in front of a front passenger seat by gas being supplied into the front passenger seat airbag from an inflator actuated in a vehicle collision to generate the gas, including a first side-wall and a vent hole. The first side-wall configures a vehicle width direction outer side location of the front passenger seat airbag, includes an abutting portion that abuts the curtain airbag when inflated and deployed, and is spaced apart from a front pillar garnish. The vent hole is provided in the first side-wall on the front pillar garnish side.
US11148631B2
A vehicle includes a front bulkhead. The vehicle includes an airbag inflatable from an uninflated position to an inflated position adjacent the bulkhead. The vehicle includes a track fixed relative to the bulkhead. The vehicle includes a slider fixed to the airbag and slidable along the track between a first position when the airbag is in the uninflated position and a second position when the airbag is in the inflated position.
US11148625B2
A vehicle front structure includes a grille stay located behind a bumper panel having a grille opening, and a stay cover disposed to cover a rear portion of the grille stay. The grill stay faces an upper portion of the bumper panel from behind. The grille stay includes a front portion and a rear portion, and the rear portion has a smaller cross sectional area than the front portion. The grill stay further includes a step portion at a boundary between the front portion and the rear portion. The stay cover includes a front end that is disposed to face a rear face of the step portion.
US11148623B2
A bumper cross-member for a vehicle having an outer shell and an inner shell connected to the outer shell and having a cut-out section which comprises at least one cut-out passing through the bumper cross-member in the x-direction. The bumper cross-member is divided in the z-direction thereof into at least three sections, of which a first and a second hollow chamber section are separated by a cut-out section located between them.
US11148621B2
A solar powered display assembly and systems and methods for the same are provided. A solar energy harvesting device is electrically connected to a display unit which is connected to an electrical grid. At least one structural member extends between a housing for the display unit and the solar energy harvesting device such that a bottom surface of the solar energy harvesting device is elevated above, and spaced apart from, a top surface of the housing such that shade is periodically cast on the display unit. The solar energy harvesting device has a first footprint, and the housing has a second footprint which is smaller than the first footprint.
US11148619B2
A wire harness including: a wire that includes a conductor and an insulating covering that covers an outer circumference of the conductor, and that includes an exposed portion at which the conductor is exposed from the insulating covering; and a waterproofing cover that integrally covers the exposed portion and an outer surface of the insulating covering with a resin material, wherein a covering length, which is a length of a region in which the waterproofing cover covers the insulating covering, is greater than or equal to a length at which a maximum thermal stress at an edge of the waterproofing cover that is in contact with the insulating covering is equal to an adhesive strength of the resin material with respect to the insulating covering.
US11148614B2
A vehicle headliner includes a two-piece headliner body made up of first and second headliner pieces that are secured together in a mechanical joint. Each of the first and second headliner pieces is comprised of a molded polymer substrate having first and second sides and a fabric on the first side. The molded polymer substrate is partially impregnated into the fabric such that the fabric is fused to the first side. The first piece defines an opening for receipt of a console. There is at least one bridge that spans across the opening and has a molded-in attachment feature for securing the console.
US11148604B2
A rack assembly configured to carry a load includes a frame unit, a support unit, and a securing unit. The support unit is coupled to the frame unit and is configured to support the load thereon. The securing unit is coupled to the frame unit, is configured to secure the load thereto, and includes a first base, a second base, a first leg, and a second leg. The second base has a length greater than a distance between first and second ends of the first base. The first leg interconnects the first end of the first base and the second base. The second leg interconnects the second end of the first base and the second base.
US11148600B2
A storage device for vehicle includes one member which can house an article on an inside; and another member attached to an outside of the one member in a state wherein at least one portion is superimposed. An essential portion includes a buffer material disposed inside the one member and can abut against the article to be housed therein, and the buffer material includes a portion sandwiched between the one member and the another member, and formed to extend from the buffer material.
US11148593B2
A construction machine safety management system includes an information generating unit that generates information representing a relationship between a detection result and predetermined related information, based on the detection result obtained by a detecting unit that detects entry of an obstacle into a predetermined area around a construction machine and the predetermined related information corresponding to the detection result.
US11148591B2
An apparatus for interior ambient mood lighting, the apparatus includes a wire harness; one or more pin terminals integral with the wire harness and to engage with and obtain power from a vehicle electrical control unit; and one or more lighting devices electrically connected to the wire harness and to receive power from the one or more pin terminals via wire; the wire harness and the one or more pin terminals is vehicle specific, thereby being able to engage with a specific vehicle make and model.
US11148589B2
A vehicle roof lighting unit for illuminating an interior compartment of the vehicle. The unit includes one or more direct light emitting elements, wherein each of the direct light emitting elements are configured to illuminate a portion of the interior compartment, and wherein the one or more direct light emitting elements are located on the exterior of the vehicle roof lighting unit. The unit also includes one or more indirect light emitting elements for providing general lighting for the entire interior compartment, wherein the one or more indirect light emitting elements are concealed from view and the light from the one or more indirect light emitting elements reflects off a curved reflective structure. The unit further includes a control panel, wherein the control panel is located on the exterior of the vehicle roof lighting unit.
US11148584B2
A vehicular lighting apparatus which is relatively small, low cost, superior in mountability to an automobile, and superior in recognizeability of an object illuminated by a head lamp. The apparatus includes: a composite lens element that is a light guide element constructed by molding a translucent resin substantially into a plate-like shape; a planar light-emitting unit that emits light; an optical system that transforms planar light from the light-emitting unit into linear light and that causes the linear transformed light to be incident on a rear side face of the light guide element; and a diffraction lens formed on the rear side face of the light guide element on which the linear transformed light is incident, and condensing the linear transformed light. The light condensed by the lens means is emitted from a front side face of the light guide element onto a road surface in front of the vehicle.
US11148582B2
A headlight assembly for an automobile illuminates a path of the automobile while executing a turn. The assembly includes at least one primary light source, a means of determining an orientation of the automobile, the means being configured to generate a first signal when the orientation is varied, a means of determining an orientation of a steering device of the automobile, the means being configured to generate a second signal when the orientation of the steering device is varied, and a control unit configured to receive and condition the first and the second signal to produce a conditioned signal; and at least two secondary light sources, wherein at least one of the at least two secondary light sources is actuated by the conditioned signal transmitted from the control unit. The invention also describes a method for illuminating a path of the automobile while executing a turn.
US11148574B2
Provided is a refrigerator for a vehicle. The refrigerator for the vehicle may include a cavity or a compartment accommodating a product, a machine room defined in a side of the cavity, a compressor provided at a front side of an internal section of the machine room to compress a refrigerant, a condensation module or assembly disposed at a rear side of the internal section of the machine room to condense the refrigerant, an evaporation module in which the refrigerant condensed in the condensation module is supplied and evaporated and which is disposed in the cavity, and a machine room cover covering the machine room to enable air to be suctioned from a rear side thereof.
US11148572B2
According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a drop down sleeper cabin for a motor vehicle, comprising: a sleeping surface, the sleeping section comprising an extendible surface covered with a mattress; and a cover panel, the cover panel having a moveable engagement system to lock the cover panel to the sleeping surface, wherein the sleeping surface is moveable from an upper position engaging the cover panel to a lower position disengaged from the cover pane and wherein the sleeper cabin provides a storage space when in the upper position and a human-sized sleeping area when in the lower position.
US11148562B2
A vehicle seat structure includes a vehicle seat including a seat cushion configured to support an occupant, an upper rail that is fixed to the vehicle seat and that moves in a seat front-rear direction together with the vehicle seat, and a lower rail that is fixed to a floor of a vehicle body and that engages with the upper rail and supports the upper rail so as to allow movement of the upper rail. The vehicle seat structure includes a lock mechanism configured to restrict movement of the upper rail with respect to the lower rail. The lock mechanism is configured such that at least part of the lock mechanism deforms when a force toward the seat front side arising due to inertia acts on the vehicle seat in a state in which the upper rail is engaged with a seat rear side portion of the lower rail.
US11148560B1
A bicycle seat recline adjusts the incline of a bicycle trailer seat back. The seat recline can comprise opposed gear racks engaged by gears at opposite ends of a cross member. The cross member is coupled to an upper portion of the seat back. Moving the cross member moves the gears in the gear racks and adjusts the angle of the seat back. The cross member is desirably selectively and simultaneously lockable to and releasable from any one of a plurality of positions along the gear rack. A lower portion of the seat back can pivot about a lower pivot axis. The gear racks can be arced to maintain a constant distance to the lower pivot axis as the cross member is moved and maintains a constant tension on the seat back. A plurality of seats with adjustable seat back reclines can be included in the bicycle trailer.
US11148555B2
A car seat system for automatically displacing the movable components of the car seat. The car seat including sensors and a computing module to detect the measurements of a child placed in the car seat. The car seat system determines the current position of the movable components and displaces the movable components automatically based on the child's measurements or a desired amount. The car seat system automatically learns child's behaviors when the child is placed in the car seat. The car seat system learns schedules utilized by the child, routes taken by the driver of the car, and other data over a period of time. The behavioral, scheduling, routing, and other data obtained is stored by the car seat system and utilized to enhance the safety and comfortability of the child during a car ride. The car seat system also determines thickness of clothing worn by the child while placed in the car seat and adjusts the shoulder belts to accommodate for the clothing while providing a snug fit of the shoulder belts that fall within safety recommendations. The car seat also auto reclines to a desired angle and also rotates about itself to face the door. The car seat system includes an auto-incident detection mode. In this mode, the system detects an incident, such as an accident, hard braking, or another hazard, and automatically displaces the features in the car seat to make the car seat secure during the crash minimizing the effect of the incident on the child. The car seat also includes pretensioners and motors to release, pull back, and lock the car seat belts.
US11148553B2
A fuel cell temperature control apparatus includes: a driver propensity determination processor that determines a driver's propensity while a vehicle travels; a temperature control factor decision processor that determines a temperature control factor based on an ambient temperature and the driver's propensity to control the temperature of the fuel cell; and a storage that stores driver propensity determination information determined by the driver propensity determination processor.
US11148551B2
A first dispenser receives a request to initiate charging service for charging an electric vehicle. The first dispenser determines an amount of power that is available for the charging service for charging the electric vehicle including determining an availability status of multiple power modules that are located in the first dispenser and a second dispenser. The first dispenser determines whether the available amount of power is enough to meet a requested or determined amount of power draw of the electric vehicle. If the available amount of power is not enough to meet the requested or determined amount of power draw of the electric vehicle, and if there is at least one of the power modules that is available, the first dispenser requests allocation of the available power module and charging service commences.
US11148547B2
A charging control device of a vehicle-mountable control system includes: a plurality of chargers corresponding to respective power feeding methods; a charging communication device configured to communicate with a charging facility external to a vehicle; and an integrated controller configured to communicate with each of the plurality of chargers and the charging communication device. The electric power of the charging facility is supplied to a vehicle-mounted battery through the charger corresponding to the power feeding method of the charging facility. The plurality of chargers, the charging communication device and the integrated controller are connected to one another through a first communication line used only for charging control. Of the plurality of chargers, the charging communication device and the integrated controller, only the integrated controller is connected to a second communication line to which a traveling controller is connected.
US11148539B2
A multi-functional cord that can be used in connection with one or more user devices specified by a user associated with the cord. The user may program the multi-functional cord to enable the multi-functional cord to operate in a particular manner when associated with a first user device and may preclude the multi-functional cord from operating when associated with a second user device. The multi-functional cord may also, or alternatively, be pre-programmed to work with a particular user device, such as, in a non-limiting example, when the multi-functional cord is sold with the user device. Certain aspects of the present disclosure provided may be implemented within electric vehicle charging systems and electric vehicle supply equipment comprising wired and wireless power and data interfaces.
US11148533B2
A vehicle activation system is configured so that when a switch is turned on, current is passed from a backup power supply circuit to a signal circuit and electric power is supplied from the backup power supply circuit to a power supply relay. The vehicle activation system includes an interruption circuit which is capable of interrupting the supply of electric power from the backup power supply circuit to the power supply relay.
US11148531B2
A vehicle includes a pair of power converters. The vehicle includes a socket having an array of power terminals arranged to accept outlets of different power terminal configurations to interconnect the pair therewith. The vehicle includes a panel having an outlet engaged with the socket. The panel includes a controller configured to communicate an electrical rating of the outlet via the socket to define a switching scheme for the pair. The communication is responsive to detecting panel and socket engagement.
US11148525B2
Systems, vehicles, and assemblies that include a prime mover, a transmission, and a coupler. The coupler couples the prime mover and the transmission. A preferred embodiment includes a system for forming a rigid body that includes a rotational prime mover and a transmission assembly. The transmission assembly transmits at least a portion of the rotational energy from the prime mover to a driven member at a frequency. The system includes a first and a second bridging member. Coupling the first bridging member to the second bridging member forms a symmetric bridge or coupler. The symmetric bridge is symmetric about a first plane of symmetry. Furthermore, coupling a first portion of the bridge to the rotational prime mover and coupling a second portion of the bridge to the transmission assembly forms the rigid body. The rigid body further includes the bridge.
US11148524B2
A cap includes a bottomed first cover portion, and a second cover portion provided on a receiving opening side of the first cover portion. The second cover portion includes an outside cover that covers a contact portion of a receptacle. The contact portion comes into contact with a distal end of a supply nozzle when the supply nozzle is connected with the receptacle. The outside cover has a tapered shape such that an outer diameter of the outside cover is decreased towards the first cover portion from one end of the cap where the receiving opening is provided. The outside cover has an internal dimension that allows the outside cover to be separated from an outer peripheral portion of the receptacle when the cap is attached to the receptacle.
US11148520B2
A battery tray and a vehicle include a frame structure including a plurality of frames sequentially connected end to end arranged to be connected to the vehicle, and a base plate structure including an inner base plate and a reinforcing beam, wherein the inner base plate is located on an inner side of the reinforcing beam and arranged for mounting a battery module. The battery tray further includes a reinforcing block, wherein the reinforcing block is connected to a corresponding frame and the reinforcing beam in a matching mode, so as to fixedly connect the reinforcing beam to the frame structure through the reinforcing block. In the battery tray, the strength of the battery tray can be enhanced and a total weight can be decreased only by using the reinforcing block to fixedly connect the reinforcing beam to the frame structure.
US11148518B2
An electric work vehicle includes front wheels and rear wheels for traveling, right and left machine body frames extending along a front/rear direction and an electric motor. The electric motor includes at least one of a front output shaft protruding forwards and a rear output shaft protruding rearwards. The electric motor is supported to front portions of the machine body frames to be located forwardly of the front wheels as seen in a side view.
US11148516B2
Provided are: a battery case structure for electric-powered vehicles wherein restrictions on the size or the like of a battery mountable on electric-powered vehicles are alleviated, and the attaching/detaching operability is improved; and an electric-powered vehicle. A battery case structure is equipped with: a cover member which is disposed below the center in the longitudinal direction of a main frame and rocks in the transverse direction of the vehicle; and a lower frame which is connected to the main frame, and is disposed in such a manner as to go around the bottom of the cover member. A battery is detachably inserted into the cover member through the detachable opening separated from the main frame. When the detachable opening is brought close to the main frame, the battery housed in the cover member is supported on the lower frame and housed between the lower frame and the main frame.
US11148513B2
A weather strip made of an elastic material includes an insert member having a plurality of through holes which is embedded in a corner portion of the weather strip. In the corner portion, a clip insertion hole in which a clip for attaching the corner portion to the automobile body is insertable is formed, and in the insert member, a clip hole is formed in a position corresponding to the clip insertion hole. In the outer peripheral portion of the clip hole, an additional hole communicating with the clip hole is formed, and the elastic materials of which the corner portion is made and that are situated on the obverse and reverse sides of the insert member are united together through the additional hole.
US11148509B2
An automated retractable sun shield system for a vehicle, comprising a sun shield, a deployment mechanism, a roller, a tension bar, and a controller. The sun shield includes a flexible material which blocks sunlight. The deployment mechanism operates to deploy and retract the sun shield. The sun shield wraps around the roller so that the sun shield is in a rolled configuration when the sun shield is retracted and stored. The tension bar guides the sun shield to match a shape of the tension bar when the sun shield is deployed. At least one element comprising the sun shield system is installed and concealed behind a dashboard valence panel of the vehicle. At least one element comprising the sun shield system is installed and concealed behind an interior trim covering a vertical support of the vehicle.
US11148505B2
A temperature control layer, for example for an interior trim of a vehicle or a vehicle part is disclosed. The temperature control layer includes an areal thermoelectrical temperature control arrangement with at least one thermoelectrical element and an air extraction arrangement with at least one air extraction duct. The at least one air extraction duct leads from an outside of the temperature control layer through the temperature control arrangement to an inside of the temperature control layer.
US11148500B2
A shock absorber for a vehicle may include a flow path provided in a rod valve to allow an oil film to be formed between a cylinder and the rod valve during relative movements of a strut rod and the cylinder, and the oil film is used to prevent friction from occurring between the cylinder and the rod valve during steering.
US11148499B2
A system for suspending an automobile using an air rear suspension is provided. The system may include an automobile having a body, a front axle, and a rear axle; a linkage bar connected to said body and to said rear axle, wherein said connections allow for relative movement between said body and said rear axle; a cantilever bar having a first cantilever end and a second cantilever end; a damper; and an air spring, wherein said cantilever bar is connected to each of said rear axle and said body at said first cantilever end, wherein said cantilever bar is connected to each of said damper and said air spring at said second cantilever end, wherein said damper and said air spring are each connected to said body, and wherein said linkage bar and said cantilever bar are each configured to move in response to movement of said rear axle relative to said body.
US11148494B2
The invention relates to a suspension system of a vehicle axle, comprising: —a leaf spring (11); —a rear attachment device (24) which is configured to be secured to a vehicle frame (2) and which receives a rear end portion (14) of the leaf spring (11) so as to allow said leaf spring rear end portion to slide longitudinally relative to the rear attachment device; wherein: —the leaf spring rear end portion (14) forms at least part of a loop curved around a transverse axis, the loop being longitudinally elongated and having an opening (29) located at least at the front of said loop; —the rear attachment device (24) comprises a fastener (26) extending substantially transversally and received in said loop; —and the suspension system further comprises retaining means (30) configured to prevent the fastener (26) from getting out of the loop through the opening (29).
US11148491B2
A drawbar bracket includes a first fastening plate, a second fastening plate, and a coupling member. The coupling member couples the first fastening plate to the second fastening plate. The first fastening plate includes a first plate body, a first fastening part, and a first curved part. The first curved part couples the first plate body to the first fastening part and has a curved shape. The second fastening plate includes a second plate body, a second fastening part, and a second curved part. The second curved part couples the second plate body to the second fastening part and has a curved shape.
US11148483B2
The present invention discloses a tire disassembly and assembly booster arm device installed on an upright of a tire disassembly and assembly machine. The tire disassembly and assembly booster arm device includes a first tire pressing arm and a second tire pressing arm. A first polished shaft and a second polished shaft are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the upright. An air cylinder hanging frame is installed on the top surface of the upright, and an air cylinder is suspended on the air cylinder hanging frame. One end of a piston rod of the air cylinder is connected to a sliding frame connecting frame. A first sliding frame is connected to the first polished shaft in a sliding mode. The front end of the first sliding frame is hinged to the first tire pressing arm, and the rear end of the first sliding frame is connected to one side of the sliding frame connecting frame. A second sliding frame is connected to the second polished shaft in a sliding mode. The front end of the second sliding frame is hinged to the second tire pressing arm, and the rear end of the second sliding frame is hinged to the other side of the sliding frame connecting frame. The tire disassembly and assembly booster arm device may drive the first tire pressing arm and the second tire pressing arm to descend at the same time, so that a tire is pressed to be separated from a hub, which has convenient operations, realizes an assisting mode of one cylinder with two arms, and has the advantages of simple structure, easy for disassembly and assembly, improves work efficiency, and reduces manufacturing and transportation cost.
US11148481B2
A portable roadside assistant device; a system which includes a tool designed to ease the process of removing and changing a tire for any user. The present invention is superior to other systems in that it effectively automatically loosens and tightens lug nuts to assist users in changing a flat tire.
US11148475B2
Tire (1) for an agricultural vehicle, and more particularly the tread (2) thereof, has improved traction in the field, while reducing the sensitivity of the lugs (3) to attack by stubble. Each lug (3) comprises first lug portion (31), having height H1, and second lug portion (32), having height H2 and having a mean angle of inclination A2 with respect to circumferential direction (XX′) of the tire. The first lug portion (31) is comprised of a radial superposition of N layers C1i (33), where i varies from 1 to N, each having a height H1i, each layer C1i having a mean angle of inclination A1i strictly less than the mean angle of inclination A2, and, when N is strictly greater than 1, the angle A1j relative to a layer C1j, where j varies from 1 to N−1, is strictly less than the angle A1j+1 relative to the layer C1j+1.
US11148472B2
A tyre includes a tread portion including a tread surface which is provided with grooves. At least one of the grooves includes a widening-width portion at least partially. The widening-width portion includes a first groove portion extending inwardly in a tyre radial direction from the tread surface, and a second groove portion located inwardly in the tyre radial direction of the first groove portion and having a groove width greater than that of the first groove portion.
US11148471B2
In a pneumatic tire are defined: a first imaginary line VL1 passing through a ground contact surface in a meridian cross section of a tread portion, a second imaginary line VL2 passing through a bottom portion of a shoulder main groove and parallel to VL1, an intersection point between VL2 and a surface of a shoulder land portion outward of a ground contact edge T in a lateral direction, and an equatorial plane CL. Given A as a distance in the lateral direction between an intersection point P and CL, B as a groove depth of the shoulder main groove, and C as a distance in the lateral direction between T and CL, 0.80≤(B+C)/A≤1.15 is satisfied and, given E as a distance in the lateral direction between the bottom portion of the shoulder main groove and P, 2.0≤E/B≤5.0 is satisfied.
US11148468B1
A non-pneumatic tire having a plurality of individual modules is mounted on a wheel having with a plurality of depressed module mounting slots to form a wheel and tire assembly. Each module has a body with an opening in the middle that separates the upper region from the lower region. The lower region has an attachment hole for attaching the module to the mounting slot. The lower region of the module and the mounting slot are shaped accordingly to fit each other. The module has two arms, each having an interlocking face disposed at their ends. A full set of interconnected modules forms a complete annular tire. The wheel includes a plurality of depressed mounting slots with a wheel attachment hole disposed around the rim where the modules can be mounted. The rim includes flanges that bound the mounting slot on both sides preventing the modules from sliding sideways.
US11148464B1
A patterned structure is provided, including a plurality of pattern groups. Each the pattern group has a plurality of patterned band regions. Each the patterned band region extends from a staring end to an ending end. Each the patterned band region has a plurality of pattern units. The pattern unit of one of the patterned band region partial overlaps the pattern unit of another patterned band region.
US11148459B2
The present invention is directed at a method for manufacturing a card-shaped data carrier, in which a material from nature, for example wood, is installed in a particularly advantageous manner. The invention is further directed at a correspondingly adapted apparatus for manufacturing the card-shaped data carrier as well as at the data carrier itself. Further, a computer program product is proposed, having control commands that implement the method and/or operate the proposed apparatus.
US11148458B2
A method for changing a geometry of an edge of a portable data carrier, wherein the geometry of the edge is changed in order to work on the edge and the outer side of the data carrier proceeding from a common side, without a spatial location of the data carrier being changed.
US11148455B2
A modular notebook system includes a cover having a plurality of surfaces. The system also includes a binding coupled to the plurality of surfaces via a flexible and/or foldable material. The binding forms a magnetic spine by having at least one magnetic pad configured to receive a magnetically attractive binding element.
US11148453B2
A stencil for use in stenciling complex symbols incorporates a stencil substrate employing a flexible material, having a plurality of symbols arranged thereon. A plurality of folding stiffeners are incorporated in the substrate, each stiffener being positioned to split symbols having stencil cutouts forming isolated elements within an interior of the symbol. The stiffeners are foldable about a vertex, to collapse into a raised position and bring together the split symbol, with the stiffeners supporting the isolated elements created by the cutouts and portions of the stencil cutouts forming the symbols that extend into coincident channels in the folding stiffeners, to bridge adjoining portions of said split characters.
US11148440B2
A printing device includes a first blade configured to move between an advanced position and a retracted position, a second blade for cutting recording paper together with the first blade, and a driving mechanism including a gear that drives the first blade, a protruding member that protrudes from a first surface of the gear, a covering member that covers at least a part of the protruding member and includes a passage route of the protruding member, and an optical sensor provided on the covering member and having a light emitting portion for emitting light in a direction intersecting the protruding member and a light receiving portion for receiving light, in which a width of the passage route is larger than a width of the protruding member, and is equal to or smaller than a distance between the light emitting portion and the light receiving portion.
US11148438B2
A medium drying device includes a transport roller pair as a transport unit that transports a medium and a heat roller pair as one heating unit that heats the medium transported by the transport roller pair and is provided in a transport direction of the medium, in which the medium is configured to be transported to a heating area by the heat roller pair a plurality of times.
US11148430B2
There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including a casing, a liquid consuming section, and a tank. The tank includes a box-shaped body having a light-transmitting property and having five walls and a partition wall; a film adhered to rear end portions of the walls; and a positioning section disposed at least on an outer surface of each of the upper and lower walls, or of each of the right and left walls. In a state that the liquid consuming apparatus is placed on a horizontal plane, the box-shaped body is positioned at a posture at which the positioning section is brought into contact with the casing to thereby allow the front wall to be exposed from a side surface of the casing which extends in a direction crossing the horizontal plane, and at which the rear end portions are located inside the casing.
US11148425B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head, a carriage, a liquid container, a housing, and a cover. The liquid ejecting head ejects liquid toward a medium transported in a transport direction. The carriage mounts the liquid ejecting head and moves in a main scanning direction intersecting the transport direction of the medium. The liquid container is mounted on the carriage. The liquid container has a containing chamber which contains the liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejecting head and a liquid inlet through which the liquid is poured from a replenishment container into the containing chamber. The housing houses the liquid ejecting head, the liquid container, and the carriage. The cover covers the housing. The housing includes a movement unit that causes the liquid inlet to be exposed to the outside when the movement unit is moved.
US11148417B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head to discharge liquid and control circuitry to generate a drive waveform including drive pulses applied to the head. The drive waveform includes a non-discharge pulse not to discharge the liquid and a discharge pulse to discharge the liquid. The non-discharge pulse and the discharge pulse are serial in time in the drive waveform. Td is in a range of Tc−0.2×Tc to Tc+0.45×Tc. Vp1 is in a range of −10% to +10% of Vpp1. Td represents a time interval between the non-discharge pulse and the discharge pulse. Tc represents a natural vibration period of a pressure chamber of the head. Vp1 represents a peak value of the non-discharge pulse. Vpp1 represents a peak value of the non-discharge pulse at which a droplet speed of liquid discharged by the discharge pulse takes a local minimum value.
US11148415B2
A print head control circuit includes a first propagation wiring for propagating a clock signal input to a first terminal, a second propagation wiring for propagating a signal which is input to a second terminal and indicates a diagnosis result of a temperature abnormality detection circuit, and a fourth propagation wiring for propagating a second voltage signal input to a fourth terminal. When the second propagation wiring and the fourth propagation wiring are electrically coupled to a print head, the second propagation wiring and the fourth propagation wiring are electrically coupled to each other via the second terminal and the fourth terminal. The first propagation wiring and the second propagation wiring are located to be aligned. The first propagation wiring and the fourth propagation wiring are located to be adjacent to each other in a direction in which the first propagation wiring and the second propagation wiring are aligned.
US11148410B2
A method and apparatus for screen printing facilitate the application of colors, patterns, and other indicia onto a curved printing substrate, such as a concave glass surface of an appliance. The apparatus includes a print head assembly that is typically supported by a frame and is movable relative to the frame and the printing substrate. The print head assembly includes biasing elements with movable end portions that support a wiper and apply varying levels of pressure to the wiper as it is moved along the curved surface or surfaces of the substrate during a printing process. The print head assembly and associated screen printing equipment may be automated or computer controlled so as to independently vary the pressure of the biasing elements and, thus, the pressure of different areas of the wiper along the substrate, to accommodate simple or complex curves in the substrate surface.
US11148399B2
A laminated glazing includes a first sheet of glass and a second sheet of glass which are bonded together via an adhesive interlayer, in which the second sheet of glass has a through-hole, wherein over the surface of the hole and a peripheral surface around same, a thin sheet of a thickness of between 0.01 and 0.5 mm, made from a material compatible with the manufacture and the mechanical stresses and the aging of the laminated glazing, is interposed between the adhesive interlayer and the second sheet of glass.
US11148391B2
An abrasive wipe includes a spunbond layer that forms a first outer surface of the wipe, a meltblown layer positioned over the spunbond layer so as to form an inner layer of the wipe and an abrasive layer positioned over the meltblown layer so as to form a second outer surface of the wipe. The spunbond layer, the meltblown layer and the abrasive layer are bonded together in a single bonding step, and, in an exemplary embodiment, the abrasive wipe has an MD tensile strength of at least 700 g/cm and a CD tensile strength of at least 500 g/cm.
US11148390B2
A multiple layer hollow cylinder is provided. An inner air-tight material is wrapped about at least a portion of a mandrel to form a plurality of first material loops. Each first material loop subsequent to an initial first material loop at least partially overlaps a previous first material loop. A resin-infused fabric material is wrapped over the inner air-tight material to form a plurality of second material loops. Each second material loop subsequent to an initial second material loop at least partially overlaps a previous second material loop. An outer air-tight transparent material is wrapped over the resin-infused fabric material to form a plurality of third material loops. Each third material loop subsequent to an initial third material loop at least partially overlaps a previous third material loop. Energy is directed about the outer air-tight transparent material to cure the resin-infused fabric material to form a hollow cylinder.
US11148387B2
A method for manufacturing an intermediate material for a soft packaging container according to the present invention includes: a first overlaying step P1 of laying a second raw film sheet 120 over a first raw film sheet 110; a confining portion forming step P2 of forming a filler confining portion 50 for confining a filler 59, the filler confining portion 50 being constituted by a non-joined region between the first raw film sheet 110 and the second raw sheet 12, by joining a portion of the first raw film sheet 110 and a portion of the second sheet 12 to each other; a folding step P4 of folding the first raw film sheet 110 and the second sheet 12 with the first raw film sheet 110 on an outer side, such that the filler confining portion 50 is present in a state where an inner portion thereof is continuous on two sides that are connected via at least one folding position; an accommodating portion forming step P5 of forming an accommodating portion 60 by joining a plurality of portions including at least one of the first raw film sheet 110 and the second sheet 12; and a cutting step P6 of forming an intermediate material A1 for a soft packaging container by cutting at least the first raw film sheet 110. This configuration makes it possible to more readily and reliably manufacture a soft packaging container that has a filler confining portion in more regions.
US11148382B2
A plane plate for a pressing tool of a press; wherein the plane plate for activating a punch of the press by way of at least one lifting cylinder is displaceable along an axial direction; wherein the plane plate has a link to the at least one lifting cylinder, at least one cylindrical guiding face which for contacting a guide column is parallel with the axial direction, and a centrally disposed receptacle for contacting the punch or a punch holder of the press; wherein the plane plate in at least a first cross section which between the receptacle and the guiding face runs parallel with the axial direction and along a radial direction that runs so as to be perpendicular to the axial direction has at least a first region in which a wall thickness of the plane plate is continuously variable.
US11148379B2
A process is provided for manufacturing a tire assemblage that includes a first woven or knitted fabric including first threadlike elements, a second woven or knitted fabric including second threadlike elements, and a bearing structure including bearing elements connecting the first and second woven or knitted fabric together. The process includes coating each first threadlike element with a layer of a first adhesive composition and coating each second threadlike element with a layer of a second adhesive composition, heat treating each coated first threadlike element and each coated second threadlike element to crosslink the first adhesive composition and the second adhesive composition, and assembling the bearing elements with each heat-treated and coated first and second threadlike element to form part or all of the tire assemblage.
US11148378B2
A method and a plant for managing the production cycle of a plant for building tyres for vehicle wheels, wherein the plant provides for a storage region for anchoring annular structures and a plurality of processing stations at least one of which is associated with a forming drum, includes feeding a plurality of anchoring annular structures to the storage region, picking up the anchoring annular structures from the storage region at a predetermined picking-up position that does not change on changing of the types of the anchoring annular structures, and feeding the picked-up anchoring annular structures to the processing station associated with the forming drum.
US11148370B2
A method of making a tube (60) includes forming at least one tube layer (101, 106, 108); and forming at least one film layer (102, 103, 104) on the at least one tube layer, wherein the at least a portion of the at least one film layer does not completely overlap the at least one tube layer.
US11148363B2
Plant (2) comprising at least one apparatus (1) for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material which can be consolidated by means of an energy source, which plant (2) comprises at least one module (6, 12-14) separably connected or connectable with the apparatus (1), wherein the at least one module (6, 12-14) is moveable in a loading direction (9) into the apparatus (1) and in an unloading direction (10) out of the apparatus (1), wherein the module (6, 12-14) is moved into a work position (11) along the loading direction (9) and out of the work position (11) along the unloading direction (10), wherein the loading direction (9) and the unloading direction (10) comprise at least one directional component extending in the same direction.
US11148361B2
Provided are method of producing a shaped fluoroelastomer articles. The methods include subjecting a composition comprising a fluoroelastomer to additive processing in an additive processing device. Also provided are articles obtained with the methods and 3D-printable compositions.
US11148360B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods for additive manufacturing (AM) that utilize breakable structures in the process of building objects, as well as novel breakable support structures to be used within these AM processes. A support structure includes a weakened portion and the object includes an outlet. The method includes breaking the removable support structure at the weakened portion into at least two parts.
US11148359B2
A method for the layered production of a component (10) from powdery material including loose powder particles, based on three-dimensional data of the component (10), including the method steps: the component (10) is segmented in a building direction (16) into N, N≥2 consecutive, cylindrical cross-sectional areas (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) made up of a two-dimensional cross-sectional surface and a layer thickness; N powder layers of the powdery material are applied to a building plane perpendicular to the building direction (16); the loose powder particles in the cross-sectional areas (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) of the component (10) are at least partially bonded to each other and to the underlying cross-sectional area and; loose powder particles arranged within one cross-sectional area or within multiple consecutive cross-sectional areas in the building direction (16) are at least partially removed from the component (10) during the layered production of the component (10).
US11148355B2
Provided are a three-dimensional shaped object production device and method capable of producing a predetermined three-dimensional shaped object by forming a ball at a leading end of a conductive wire through use of the conductive wire based on scanned data or designed data and aligning and stacking the balls. The three-dimensional shaped object production device includes: a plate (40), on which a three-dimensional shaped object is placeable; a ball forming section configured to form a ball (13) by applying high voltage between a leading end of a conductive wire (4) paid out from a leading end of a capillary (12) and a spark rod (19) and melting the leading end of the wire by discharge energy; a positioning device configured to position the plate and the ball forming section by moving the plate and the ball forming section relative to each other; and a bonding section configured to bond the ball formed at the leading end of the capillary to another ball (14) that has already been stacked on the plate, the forming of the ball by the ball forming section, the relative moving of the plate and the ball forming section by the positioning device, and the bonding of the ball formed at the leading end of the capillary to the another ball by the bonding section is repeated, to thereby produce a three-dimensional shaped object having a desired shape.
US11148354B2
A fabrication process and apparatus for producing three-dimensional objects by depositing a first polymer layer, printing a first ink layer on to the first polymer layer, depositing a second polymer layer on to the first ink layer, and printing a second ink layer on to the second polymer layer. The deposition and printing steps may be repeated until a three-dimensional object is formed. The inks used to form at least one of the first and second ink layers may include dyes or pigments so that the three-dimensional object may be a colored three-dimensional object.
US11148352B2
A pipe-forming apparatus with which a spiral pipe can be formed using a simple configuration without an inner periphery restriction body. A driving part (10) of a pipe-forming apparatus (3) presses a following strip portion (92) toward a pipe end portion (91e) of a preceding spiral pipe portion (91) obliquely with respect to a machine-height direction HD. A pipe end guide is constrained in a machine-width direction WD with respect to the pipe end portion, and slidably engaged in a propelling longitudinal direction LD. A pressing force for the following strip portion provides a fitting force between the following strip portion and the pipe end portion, and a propelling force for forward propulsion. A pipe is formed in a state where a part other than a partial part at which the pipe-forming apparatus is provided in a circumferential direction of the pipe end portion is released from the pipe-forming apparatus.
US11148346B2
A thermoforming machine is provided having at least one frame member and a thermal regulator. The thermal regulator is provided in heat transfer relation with one of the at least one frame member configured to control temperature of the one frame member to mitigate thermal deformation of the frame member. A method is also provided.
US11148344B1
In a method of forming a container from a thermoplastic material, a thermoplastic preform may be introduced into a blow cavity at a temperature greater than or equal to a glass transition temperature of a thermoplastic material and less than a melting temperature of the thermoplastic material. A fluid pressure may be introduced into a preform that may expand the preform radially outwardly to form a semi-finished container. An external surface of the semi-finished container may be engaged with a wall of the blow cavity. The wall of the blow cavity may be rapidly heated. Heat may be transferred to the external surface of the semi-finished container. A surface finish may be imparted from the wall of the blow cavity onto the external surface of the semi-finished container.
US11148340B2
A filtration device for extrusion processes, which comprises a material intake channel, which splits into a first intake channel and a second intake channel leading to a first filter chamber and a second filter chamber, the first and second filter chambers being provided in output with a first output channel and a second output channel, which in turn merge into a channel that is adapted to convey the material to an extrusion head.
US11148338B2
One aspect of the present disclosure relates to devices for sealing gaps in an extrusion assembly to provide for a consistent extrusion. In one embodiment, a barrel-shaped sealing device with a resilient protruding edge is used to prevent extrusion material from entering gaps between the piston and the inner surface of the barrel. The sealing device includes a fastener to releasably attach the sealing device to the piston. Sealing rings are inserted into a bottom gap formed between the bottom edge of the barrel and the bottom surface of the die.
US11148335B2
An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow of a fluid mold material comprising: a manifold, an actuator interconnected to a valve pin, a position sensor that senses position of the valve pin, a controller that controls movement of the actuator according to instructions that instruct the actuator to drive the valve pin upstream at one or more selected intermediate velocities in response to receipt by the controller of a signal from the position sensor that the valve pin is disposed in the one or more intermediate upstream gate open positions.
US11148324B2
A manual cutting machine includes a base plate. A front support and a rear support are fixedly arranged at two ends of the base plate. Sliding rods are mounted between the front support and the rear support. A slider is disposed around the sliding rods. A connecting block is hinged to the slider. A blade and a presser foot are connected to the bottom of the connecting rod. A push rod is connected to the top of the connecting block. The tail of the push rod is angled relative to the push rod. When the manual cutting machine is used for cutting and fracturing a board, motions of arms are reduced, and the motion range of an operator is narrowed, so that the operator can use the machine more easily and effortlessly. Meanwhile, oil can be added into an oil can to lubricate the slider in the using process.
US11148320B1
Methods, processes, systems, devices and apparatus are provided for additive manufacture resulting in the 3D printing of ceramic materials and components with a thickness greater than three millimeters (3 mm). A sulfur-free 3D printable formulation comprises a liquid inorganic polymer resin using Stereolithograpy (SLA) printers and Digital Light Processing (DLP) curing of the polymer resin via the chemical bonding of the materials rather than sintering. Thus, the process has shorter manufacturing intervals, significantly lower energy use and produces larger scale ceramic components having less linear shrinkage, less mass loss and high ceramic yield with no corrosive sulfur compounds present in the ceramic component.
US11148313B2
A food log slicing apparatus includes a base, a frame mounted on the base, a loaf tray, a drive assembly, a shear bar and a slicing station mounted on the frame. The loaf tray and the shear bar are divided into a plurality of side-by-side lanes, each of which are configured to receive multiple food logs stacked in a column. Each lane has a base wall on which a lowest one of the food logs rests which is angled relative to horizontal ground. The drive assembly moves the food logs from the loaf tray to the shear bar and into the slicing station. The slicing station has a driven blade which is parallel to a planar downstream face of the shear bar, and cuts all of the food logs as the blade passes through the food logs.
US11148312B2
A hand-held knockout driver includes a main housing having a handle portion, a motor positioned within the main housing, a pump assembly driven by the motor, and a secondary housing coupled to the main housing and defining a bore therein. The hand-held knockout driver also includes a working piston moveable within the bore from a rest position to an actuated position to define a piston throw distance therebetween. The hand-held knockout driver also includes a draw stud coupled to the working piston, a die coupled to the secondary housing, and a punch coupled to the draw stud opposite the working piston for movement therewith relative to the die. The die has a depth greater than the piston throw distance.
US11148297B2
A method of controlling a robotic arm in a surgical system comprises manually applying a force to a body of the robotic arm. Force information is received from a gesture force sensor on the robotic arm and a controller determines, using the force information, whether the force is a gesture force input. If the force is determined to be a gesture force input, the controller initiates a predetermined system function. The predetermined system function may be a change in operational state, movement between operational modes, or a movement from a first configuration of the arm's joints to a second, predetermined, configuration of the arms joints.
US11148287B1
The system can include a set of joints, a controller, and a model engine; and can optionally include a support structure and an end effector. Joints can include: a motor, a transmission mechanism, an input sensor, and an output sensor. The system can enable articulation of the plurality of joints.
US11148279B1
Systems and methods for providing a customized configuration for a controller of an exoskeleton device. A device can receive, via a user interface, feedback from a user indicative of a performance of the user during a movement event. The device can determine characteristics of the user for performing the movement event using a first exoskeleton boot and a second exoskeleton boot and identify properties of a route for the movement event. The device can determine using the characteristics of the user, the feedback and the properties of the route, control parameters for the first exoskeleton boot and the second exoskeleton boot to execute the movement event. The device can apply the control parameters to the first exoskeleton boot and the second exoskeleton boot for the user to operate the first exoskeleton boot and the second exoskeleton boot during the movement event.
US11148273B2
A rotary power tool comprises a drive mechanism including an electric motor and a transmission, a housing enclosing at least a portion of the drive mechanism, a spindle rotatable in response to receiving torque from the drive mechanism, a first ratchet coupled for co-rotation with the spindle, a second ratchet rotationally fixed to the housing, a sleeve bushing on an interior of the housing, and a bearing arranged between the spindle and the sleeve bushing and rotatably supporting the spindle. The bearing has an outer race. The spindle is movable relative to the housing in response to contact with a workpiece, causing the first and second ratchets to engage and the spindle to reciprocate while rotating. The outer race of the bearing moves along the sleeve bushing during reciprocation of the spindle when the first ratchet and second ratchet are engaged.
US11148272B2
A power tool (100) comprises a motor (110) operably driving a tool bit (119), a tool body (101) housing the motor (110), a handle (109) coupled to the tool body (101), and at least two battery mount parts (160A, 160B) defined on the handle (109) and/or the tool body (101). Each of the battery mount parts (160A, 160B) comprises a battery engaging part (161) configured to detachably engage with battery packs (170A, 170B) by sliding the battery packs (170A, 170B) relative to the battery engaging part (161) in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the tool bit (119).
US11148269B2
A stapler is provided, including: a main body, a striking mechanism, a staple straightening mechanism and a linkage mechanism. The main body includes an inner space and a staple outlet. The striking mechanism is disposed in the inner space and includes a striking member configured to strike a staple and a driving member by which the striking member is driven to move relative to the staple outlet. The staple straightening mechanism is disposed on the main body and includes an aperture corresponding to the staple outlet, at least one abutting member being movable within the aperture and a force accumulating assembly which is movable toward the aperture. The linkage mechanism is disposed in the inner space. The driving member and the force accumulating assembly are connected with the linkage mechanism and comovable with each other.
US11148264B2
A torque wrench is disclosed for use in rotating a range of different sized fasteners. The torque wrench may include an input end configured to receive a torsional input, and a gear train operatively driven to rotate by the torsional input. a driver connected to the gear train and a plurality of clamps disposed at least partially inside the driver. The clamps may be movable to radially engage a range of different sized fasteners by rotation of the driver in either of a clockwise direction or a counterclockwise direction. The torque wrench may further include a housing configured to enclose the gear train, the driver, and the clamps.
US11148262B2
A screwdriver device including a handle having an elongate channel extending partially therethrough of the handle and an axial blade member having a first distal end and a second distal end being configured and disposed for sliding through the elongate channel of the handle and a locking mechanism configured and disposed for releasably locking the axial blade member at a first operable position relative to the handle wherein the first distal end is exposed and the second distal end is disposed within the handle. The screwdriver device further includes a first tool head disposed on the first distal end of the blade member and a second tool head disposed on the second distal end of the blade member and an ejection mechanism configured and disposed within the handle to constantly urge the axial blade member out of the locking mechanism from the first operable position to a second inoperable position.
US11148256B2
A cutting wheel includes a body having a bond material. The bond material comprises at least about 31 vol % of a total volume of the body. Additionally, the body includes abrasive particles contained within the bond material. The abrasive particles include a first type of abrasive particle including black alumina with at least about 10 vol % of a total volume of the abrasive particles including black alumina. In some instances the cutting wheel can include a chop saw, while in other situations, the cutting wheel can include a cut-off wheel.
US11148253B2
The present invention relates to a method of treating a surface of a utensil as well as to a utensil having been treated by the method. A substrate is provided to form a component of the utensil. The substrate has a surface area to be treated. Through a shot peening process particles impact the substrate substantially evenly across the surface area, so as to dimple the substrate with depressions across the surface area, in order to reduce adhesion of matter on the treated surface area of the utensil.
US11148250B2
A method dresses one polishing cloth or two polishing pads simultaneously, in which a polishing cloth has been applied to a polishing plate, with at least one dresser (4), which is equipped with at least one dressing element (8), this at least one dressing element (8) being in contact with the at least one polishing cloth (11, 12) to be dressed, wherein the at least one polishing plate (21, 22) is rotated with a relative rotational speed and the at least one dresser (4) is rotated with a relative rotational speed and at least two different combinations of directions of rotation of the two pairs of polishing plates (21, 22) and pin wheels (31, 32) are executed during the simultaneous dressing of two polishing pads (11, 12) or during the dressing of one polishing cloth (11) of the polishing plate (21) and of the at least one dresser (4).
US11148248B2
A method for smoothing surface roughness within an internal passageway is disclosed. In various embodiments, the method comprises developing a first sphere progression through a length of the internal passageway, each sphere within the first sphere progression having a first sphere diameter greater than or equal to a diameter of the internal passageway; and developing a second sphere progression through the length of the internal passageway, each sphere within the second sphere progression having a second sphere diameter greater than the first sphere diameter, whereby the inner surface of the internal passageway is smoothed, first by the first sphere progression and then by the second sphere progression.
US11148240B2
A device for tightening a screw connection on a flange connection is provided with a tool carrier movable along the flange connection and provided with a traction drive. A tool is arranged on the tool carrier for tightening the screw connection and rotating the nut relative to the flange connection. A control unit is provided for moving the tool carrier in longitudinal direction of the tool carrier into a working position by traction drive control signals. In the working position, the tool is opposite the screw connection to be tightened. The control unit performs, by tool control signals, tightening of the screw connection and rotating of the nut. The control unit has a travel control module with travel controller for moving the tool carrier into the working position. The travel controller stops the traction drive after a predefined travel length has been reached that is a target variable.
US11148238B2
A method and apparatus for automated valve spring assembly includes a head assembly with a pair of elongated passageways that moveably support a pair of retainer keys for movement through the passageways. The head assembly including a moveable divider plate and a pair of jaws, a push member that closes off the passageways and that slides the retainer keys along opposite sides of the divider plate. The retainer keys contact surfaces of the jaws and rotate the jaws outwardly as the keys are moved by the pushrod. The retainer plate is then retracted, and the jaws shift inwardly and push or position the retainer keys on the valve stem where the retainer plate is configured to allow sequential engagement of the rings of the retainer keys to engage the valve stem.
US11148235B2
A method of refurbishing worn diaphragm rails for turbo machines. This method comprises machining the worn part of the diaphragm rails such that a clean and geometrically exact machined surface is achieved. Welding one or more layers on these machined surfaces builds up a cladding that overtops the nominal dimensions of new diaphragm. The method further comprises machining the cladding such that it has the nominal dimensions of a new diaphragm.
US11148232B2
The invention pertains to a laser machining system includes first deflection optics, second deflection optics, and a coupling device. The first deflection optics deflect a machining laser beam in two directions in space. The second deflection optics deflect a measuring beam in two directions in space independently of the machining laser beam. The coupling device is arranged in a beam path of the machining laser beam and couples the measuring beam into the beam path of the machining laser beam.
US11148224B2
A processing apparatus, which is provided with a processing space to place a workpiece therein and configured to process the workpiece placed in the processing space using a laser, includes a laser emitter, a processing position specifying device, a target emission condition computing device, an emission controller, a correction amount specifying device, a post-correction focal position computing device, and a post-correction emission condition computing device. The emission controller controls the laser emitter to emit the laser under a post-correction emission condition when a Z-axis correction amount is updated in the correction amount specifying device.
US11148222B2
The invention relates to tooling for holding parts in position to enable them to be friction welded together in order to construct a hollow structure, the tooling comprises: a framework made up of two frames for receiving the parts for welding together in their positions for forming the hollow structure, said parts comprising preformed parts and an intermediate section; shape-holder members for holding the hollow structure, associating backing thrust members and lateral grip members for gripping the outsides of the preformed parts; anvils suitable for being placed inside the set of preformed parts beside the section; and clamping means operable to take up a clamping position in which they cause opposing thrust to be applied against the anvil and the inside face of a preformed part, its part itself bears against the shape-holder members.
US11148218B2
A method for welding a steel pipe in a steel pipe structure and a joint is provided. The welding method includes: a measurement step of measuring a manufacturing error of the steel pipe, a calculation step of calculating the positions of the steel pipe and the joint where the manufacturing error measured in the measurement step is absorbed, and a welding step of welding the steel pipe and the joint at the positions of the steel pipe and the joint, the positions being calculated in the calculation step.
US11148211B2
A method for operating an electric core drilling machine, in particular a magnetic core drilling machine, comprising the steps: identification of a core drill bit detachably connected to the core drilling machine, by means of an information carrier associated with the core drill bit and an information receiver associated with the core drilling machine; detection of a load quantity of the core drill bit; determination of a wear value of the core drill bit on the basis of the value of the load quantity; issuance of an error value when the wear value exceeds a wear limit value; as well as issuance of a signal to indicate the necessity of replacing and/or repairing the core drill bit. In addition, the invention relates to a core drilling machine and a core drill bit for carrying out the method.
US11148209B2
A chuck including a chuck body that supports a plurality of jaws. An outer sleeve is axially fixed with respect to the chuck body. A nut is coupled to the outer sleeve, and the nut is movable axially and radially relative to the chuck body. The nut interacts with the jaws such that when the outer sleeve rotates, the nut moves axially and radially relative to the body.
US11148206B2
Mold lock is remediated by performing a layer-by-layer, two-dimensional analysis to identify unconstrained removal paths for any support structure or material within each two-dimensional layer, and then ensuring that aligned draw paths are present for all adjacent layers, all as more specifically described herein. Where locking conditions are identified, a sequence of modification rules are then applied, such as by breaking support structures into multiple, independently removable pieces. By addressing mold lock as a series of interrelated two-dimensional geometric problems, and reserving three-dimensional remediation strategies for more challenging, complex mold lock conditions, substantial advantages can accrue in terms of computational speed and efficiency.
US11148196B2
A method for additive production and a correspondingly produced component made of a powdery base material, includes the thermal pre-treatment of the base material at a first temperature of at least 800° C. under an inert gas atmosphere, wherein the first temperature and a duration of the pre-treatment are further selected such that no sintering process of the base material occurs, subsequent cooling of the base material, and additive construction of the component from the thermally pre-treated base material. A corresponding device is for the additive production.
US11148193B2
Systems and apparatus for continuously casting thin strip where one or more expansion rings are positioned within at least one of a pair of casting rolls, and automatically measuring a thickness of the cast strip close to the first side edge of the strip using at least one sensor. If the thickness measured is too thin, automatically decreasing the radial dimension of the expansion ring arranged in close proximity to the first side edge to cause the cylindrical tube to contract and increase the thickness of the cast strip during casting. If the thickness measured indicates that the thickness of the cast strip is too thick, automatically increasing the radial dimension of the expansion ring arranged in close proximity to the first side edge to cause the cylindrical tube to expand and reduce the thickness of the cast strip during casting.
US11148188B2
A tool for installing a blind fastener. The tool includes a retention member and a gripping member that defines a longitudinal axis and is moveable relative to the retention member along the longitudinal axis, the gripping member further defining a receiving cavity that is elongated along the longitudinal axis, an axial opening into the receiving cavity, and a radial opening into the receiving cavity. The tool also includes a contact element at least partially received in the radial opening and a locking collar moveable relative to the gripping member along the longitudinal axis between at least a first position and a second position. In the first position the locking collar engages the contact element and urges at least a portion of the contact element into the receiving cavity. In the second position the locking collar is disengaged from the contact element.
US11148182B2
A cooling device cooling an undersurface of a hot rolled steel sheet that is being transported on transport rolls after finish rolling of a hot rolling step includes: width divided cooling zones that are a plurality of cooling zones into which a whole cooling zone is divided in a sheet width direction; divided cooling sections that are a plurality of cooling zones into which each of the width divided cooling zones is divided in the rolling direction; a water nozzle spraying cooling water over each of undersurfaces of the divided cooling sections; a switching mechanism switching the cooling water between impinging and not impinging on the divided cooling sections; a width direction thermometer measuring a temperature distribution in the sheet width direction; and a controller controlling operation of the switching mechanism.
US11148175B2
A system includes an abrasion component containing an abrasion pad configured to clean a faying surface of a nutplate and a shaft attached to the abrasion pad and configured to rotate the shaft and the abrasion pad during cleaning of the nutplate, which includes abrading the faying surface with the abrasion pad. The system further includes a base configured to attach to a pressure applicator, and the pressure applicator, which is configured to attach to the base, hold the nutplate such that the faying surface is capable of contacting the abrasion pad during the cleaning of the nutplate, and apply pressure to the nutplate such that the nutplate contacts the abrasion pad during the cleaning of the nutplate. Furthermore, the abrasion component is configured to rotate the abrasion pad within at least one of the base and the pressure applicator during the cleaning of the nutplate.
US11148174B1
The present invention relates to a manual device for cleaning high voltage electrical insulators, where a swiveling handle controls multiple prongs which feature branching heads which connect to spongiform cleaning attachments and flexible rubber blade attachments, which extend into the regions between the insulator discs to wash and remove contamination, while allowing the device operator to remain electrically insulated from the discs being cleaned.
US11148164B2
A dispenser and methods for transferring liquids are disclosed. The dispenser may include a capillary tube with tip having an aperture, a piezoelectric actuator coupled to the capillary tube at a location. Actuation of the piezoelectric actuator causes a pressure wave to propagate along the capillary tube toward the tip such that radial motion at the location is transmitted as distally extending axial motion of the tip, thereby causing a droplet of a predetermined volume to be ejected from the aperture. In some embodiments, the capillary tube has a modulus of elasticity in a range which dampens acoustical noise from the actuation and provides single drop stability over a range of drop sizes.
US11148161B2
An effective implementation is shown for a height adjustment system for one or more spray guns used in a line striper.
US11148159B2
A laundry center may include a washing machine appliance, a dryer appliance, and a dispensing assembly. The dryer appliance may be vertically-aligned with the washing machine appliance. The dispensing assembly may be disposed between the washing machine appliance and the dryer appliance. The dispensing assembly may include a flexible hose and a dispensing nozzle. The flexible hose may extend between a water supply and a region above the washing machine appliance. The flexible hose may be movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The dispensing nozzle may be fluidly coupled to the flexible hose for selectively dispensing water from the water supply.
US11148157B2
A coating apparatus and method are disclosed for coating tablets with a film, in which the tables transit through a drilled first container where they are coated, then exit the first container and are removed from a rotating element provided on the periphery of a plurality of removal members that are spaced angularly apart from one another, in which each removal member removes a quantity of tablets, raises the removed tables as far as a certain height and then discharges the tablets into a chute that conveys the tablets into a second rotating drilled container, with delicate transfer of the coated tablets from one container to the next.
US11148144B2
A method, computer program product, and apparatus are provided for controlling components of a detection device. The device may detect turbidity of liquid with sensors such as a density sensor and/or nephelometric sensor. A light modulation pattern may reduce or eliminate interference in sensor readings. Readings may be performed during off cycles of an illumination light to reduce interference but to provide improved visibility of a tube. Dark and light sensor readings may be performed with an emitter respectively off or on to account for ambient light in subsequent readings. Readings from the density sensor and/or nephelometric sensor may be used to calculate McFarland values. The device may be zeroed based on an emitter level that results in a sensor reading satisfying a predetermined criterion.
US11148138B2
A digital microfluidics system with electrodes attached to a substrate and covered by a hydrophobic surface, and a control unit for manipulating liquid droplets by electrowetting; providing in close proximity to electrodes a magnetic conduit for directing a magnetic field of a backing magnet to the first hydrophobic surface; providing on the hydrophobic surface a liquid droplet that has magnetically responsive beads; moving by electrowetting the liquid droplet with the magnetically responsive beads until a part of which is placed atop of the magnetic conduit; actuating the backing magnet of the magnetic conduit and attracting/concentrating magnetically responsive beads; and while actuating the backing magnet, moving by electrowetting the liquid droplet with decreased number of magnetically responsive beads away from the specific magnetic conduit. Also disclosed are a method for suspending magnetically responsive beads in liquid portions or droplets in digital microfluidics and a disposable cartridge to carry out the methods.
US11148137B2
The application relates to a reservoir chip and a method for producing the same. The method includes: scanning a three-dimensional structure of a real oil reservoir core and reconstructing the three-dimensional structure, extracting pore size distribution characteristics, analyzing formation of a pore structure of the real oil reservoir core and accumulation morphology of rock particles, extracting the morphology of main large particles in the rock particles and establishing a large particle morphology database; distributing and projecting particles in a porous medium of the reservoir chip, to obtain a picture of the reservoir chip structure; importing the picture into a drawing software, and drawing import and export regions of the reservoir chip structure to obtain a design drawing of the reservoir chip; and making the design drawing etched on a substrate and bonded with a heat-resistant glass anode to obtain the reservoir chip.
US11148133B2
An electronic pipette comprising a piston actuated in a cylinder by a motor, a control system for carrying out pipette operations, and a user interface for operating the pipette, which user interface comprises a display, wherein the main menu of the user interface comprises a user defined shortcut to a specific pipetting application.
US11148132B2
The manual dosing device (1) comprises the main body (3) that can be screwed to the fluid discharge unit (4), the detent connection (10) being provided alongside the screw connection (6) for removably connecting the main body (3) to the fluid discharge unit (4), which detent connection is locked by connecting the main body (3) and the fluid discharge unit (4) together (cf. FIG. 5).
US11148129B2
An aftertreatment system comprises an aftertreatment component. An outlet sensor is positioned downstream of the aftertreatment component. A controller is communicatively coupled to the outlet sensor. The controller is configured to interpret an outlet signal from the outlet sensor. The outlet signal is indicative of a performance of the aftertreatment component. The controller determines if the aftertreatment component has deactivated. In response to determining that the aftertreatment component has deactivated, the controller provides a catalyst active material to at least a portion of the aftertreatment component. The catalyst active material coats at least the portion of the aftertreatment component so as to remanufacture the aftertreatment component.
US11148127B2
The present invention relates to a bisphosphine ligand compound, a chromium compound prepared using same, an ethylene oligomerization catalyst system containing the chromium compound, and an ethylene oligomer preparing method, wherein the bisphosphine ligand compound is suitable for mass production and commercial processes, allows extremely high activity to be compatible with excellent economical benefit, and increases selectivity for ethylene oligomerization reaction, thereby being able to be used to manufacture 1-hexene and/or 1-octene at high yield.
US11148116B2
Method and apparatus for synthesizing compounds by a low temperature plasma dual-electric field aided gas phase reaction are provided. The method utilizes two different electrode corona discharge fields in a plasma aided reactor to form a plasma dual-electric field, using electric energy to convert gas into gas molecules, atoms, ions and/or free radicals, and then reforming and reducing to obtain organic compounds such as aliphatic hydrocarbons, higher carbon ethers, higher carbon alcohols, higher carbon esters, lower carbon alcohols, and the like; also inorganic compounds such as N2, O2, H2SO4, NH3, and the like. The apparatus includes a reactor having a plasma region of two different corona discharge fields, wherein an alternating current corona discharge field or a positive corona discharge field is set in the first electric field, and a negative corona discharge field is set in the second electric field.
US11148109B2
A low-cost drug compounding system that can practically fit inside of a fume hood or the like is provided. The system can use a single pump operable in forward and reverse directions (or multiple pumps) to compound complex mixtures particularly including those requiring the creation of solutions from dry or powdered ingredients. A wireless link allows operation of the system remotely. In one embodiment, the system uses a disposable mixing tube set that can be discarded after mixing while still attached to the base ingredient containers used for the compounding thereby minimize the chance of personnel exposure.
US11148108B2
A paint multi-tool assembly includes a shaft that has a hooked end that is insertable into a power tool thereby facilitating the shaft to be rotated when the power tool is turned on. A first cylinder insertably receives the shaft thereby facilitating the first cylinder to be inserted into an open end of a paint roller. Thus, the power tool can rotate the paint roller for cleaning paint off of the paint roller. A plurality of fins is each coupled to and extends away from the first cylinder for stirring paint in the paint container. A second cylinder is coupled to each of the fins such that the second cylinder is spaced from the first cylinder. In this way the second cylinder can be inserted into the paint container or be inserted into the open end of the paint roller.
US11148106B2
A polymer dispersion system for use in a hydraulic fracturing operation is disclosed. The system comprises: (a) a first sub-system comprising an ingress and an egress; (b) a second sub-system comprising an ingress and an egress; (c) an eductor mixing device comprising a first inlet in fluid communication with the egress of the first sub-system, a second inlet in fluid communication with the egress of the second subsystem, and an egress; (d) a tank assembly comprising an ingress and an egress, the ingress of the tank assembly being in fluid communication with the egress of the eductor mixing device; and (e) a transfer sub-system comprising an ingress that is coupled to the egress of the tank assembly. The transfer sub-system comprises a first transfer pump and a second transfer pump. In addition, method for operating the polymer dispersion system is disclosed.
US11148102B2
Thin film composite membrane with nano-sized bubbles having enhanced membrane permeability, preparation methods and uses thereof are provided. The method of preparation of a thin film composite membrane, comprising: a) an aqueous solution containing at least an amine, and b) an organic solution containing at least a polyfunctional acyl halide, an additive or soluble gas being present in a) and/or b), or a nano-bubble generator or ultrasound are used to generate nano-bubbles in a) and/or b). Interfacial polymerization of a) and b) occurs at or near the surface of a porous support membrane. The advantage of creating nano-sized bubbles in the separating layer of membrane is that it can reduce membrane resistance without sacrificing the mechanical strength and stability of the membrane so as to improve its water permeability, salt rejection and antifouling. In addition, the process is simple to adopt while performance improvement of the membrane is remarkable.
US11148097B2
The present invention relates to a low-temperature membrane separation device and method for capturing carbon dioxide at a high concentration, in which a gas mixture is passed through a membrane unit to thus separate carbon dioxide. The membrane unit includes a membrane for capturing carbon dioxide and is connected to a feed gas line, a retentate gas line and a permeate gas line. The method includes a first separation step of passing the gas mixture through a first membrane unit and a second separation step of passing the permeation gas, which is discharged to the permeate gas line connected to the first membrane unit, through a second membrane unit. The second separation step is performed at a temperature that is lower than a temperature at which the first separation step is performed.
US11148092B2
Methods and systems for capture of CO2 from a hydrated gaseous stream are described. Systems can be utilized for direct air capture of CO2 and incorporate a low energy temperature-vacuum swing adsorption (TVSA) process. A TVSA process can include a multi-step CO2 capture bed regeneration process that includes depressurization of the bed, heating of the bed, venting and purging of the bed, and cooling of the bed. Multiple beds can be cycled between CO2 capture and regeneration, during which captured CO2 is recovered. Off-gas from a CO2 capture bed can be used in regenerating a parallel bed for increased efficiency.
US11148084B2
A sterilization kit for a liquid treatment apparatus may include a liquid inlet passage into which the raw liquid is introduced from the outside, a hot liquid module and a liquid outlet passage. The hot liquid module may include a hot liquid tank in which the raw liquid introduced through the liquid inlet passage is received, a heat generation unit heating the liquid received in the hot liquid tank, and a controller disposed to be spaced apart from the outside of the hot liquid tank to control the heat generation unit.
US11148081B2
A filter identification system is disclosed. The filter identification system may include an identification component disposed in a filter mount configured to hold a set of filters that includes a first filter and a second filter. The identification component may include a sensor system that may include a first sensor configured to provide a first output signal corresponding to a state of the first sensor, and a second sensor configured to provide a second output signal corresponding to a state of the second sensor. The sensor system may be configured to provide a single output signal that is based on the first output signal and the second output signal and indicates a combined state of the first sensor and the second sensor.
US11148078B2
The disclosure provides a filtering device comprising a housing, a blocking member and a screening member. The housing includes a body, an inlet end and an outlet end. The housing forms an accommodation space. The inlet end and the outlet end are respectively formed at two ends of the accommodating space. The inlet end is capable of receiving fluid. The blocking member is capable of splitting the fluid into a plurality of fluids and collecting the non-fluid composition of the secondary fluid having a first size. The screening member is disposed between the inlet end and the blocking member, and the screening member is configured to receive the secondary fluid to limit the non-fluid composition having a second size of the secondary fluid to the screening member. After the secondary fluid passes through the shield and the screening member, the secondary fluid is output from the outlet end.
US11148067B1
An unfolding springing apparatus comprises a base, an apparatus linkage comprising cranks and coupler links connected to the base, an unfolding spring, a drive motor, a transmission, and a prop mount. The apparatus linkage includes one or a plurality of opposed pairs of cranks, each pair of cranks being connected to each other at their respective ends by a pair of pivotally connected coupler links. The unfolding spring is operative to bias the apparatus linkage to unfold. The drive motor is operative to fold the apparatus and to reenergize the unfolding spring. The transmission includes a linear extension module. When engaged, the transmission transmits displacement of the drive motor to the apparatus linkage to fold the linkage. When disengaged, the transmission releases the apparatus linkage to be unfolded by the unfolding spring. The transmission includes a motorized clutch module.
US11148062B2
The present disclosure describes methods and systems directed towards implementing scene tagging. In particular, scene tagging is used to characterize user generated content associated with gameplay information associated with video games. Exemplary user generated content include video recordings or screenshots from within the video game that pertain to events that have occurred. Corresponding metadata would then be used to describe substantive aspects about the user-generated content such as details about where the recording or screenshot was taken, who was included in the user-generated content, and what objects are found in the user-generated content. The associated metadata would 1) allow users to search among various uploaded user generated content and 2) search within portions of those use-generated content for particular sub-sections of interest. Furthermore, the metadata associated with the user-generated content would allow viewers to experience the same events that were recorded.
US11148059B2
Generating and validating a subscription key based on subscription parameters associated with a jurisdiction file stored in a NVRAM, the subscription key having characters based on a subscription start date, a subscription term, a key generation date, and a cyclical redundancy check value. Parameters are extracted from the subscription key including the subscription start date, the subscription term, the key generation date, and the cyclical redundancy check value and are stored in a memory of the gaming machine. The key is checked by generating a local cyclical redundancy check value based on a MAC address of the gaming machine and one or more of the extracted parameters, and is validated when the local cyclical redundancy check value matches the cyclical redundancy check value extracted from the subscription key. The jurisdiction file may be updated during a RAM clear function during installation of the gaming machine.
US11148056B1
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.
US11148053B2
A game system comprising: at least one processor configured to: acquire a first parameter corresponding to a user object, the first parameter indicating an ability of the user object; acquire a second parameter corresponding to the user object, the second parameter being different from the first parameter; acquire a third parameter corresponding to an opponent object, the third parameter indicating an ability of the opponent object; acquire a fourth parameter corresponding to the user object, the fourth parameter being different from the first parameter; compare the second parameter and the fourth parameter; and execute a control for having an advantage on a game in which the user object competes with the opponent object based on the first parameter, the third parameter and a comparison result.
US11148051B2
A system has a media server enabled to serve interactive digital experiences, and to accept input for control of objects, a plurality of computerized appliances enabled to receive and display digital experiences, and having input mechanisms enabled to provide control input for objects, and an intermediary server executing software, and having access to a data repository. Data interaction between individual ones of the of the computerized appliances and the media server is accomplished through the intermediary server, and upon establishment of data interaction, the technical nature of the display and input apparatus of the particular computerized appliance is determined, data received at the intermediary server from the computerized appliance is modified to the specific format accepted by the media server, and data output from the media server is modified at the intermediary server for optimum display at the particular computerized appliance.
US11148048B2
There is provided a content presentation system, a content presentation device, and a wind presenting device which are suitable for content presentation by air blast. The content presentation system includes a control unit and a wind presenting device. The control unit generates a wind presentation drive signal on the basis of a predetermined trigger included in content. The wind presenting device includes a housing including an opening formed therein, a diaphragm supported by the housing, and a diaphragm drive mechanism that drives the diaphragm on the basis of the wind presentation drive signal, reduces a volume of a space formed by the housing and the diaphragm, and causes air in the space to blast from the opening.
US11148042B2
A method and a system of a geo-location quest game. For example, registering game participants to play a geo-location quest game within a game environment having a plurality of beacon devices which are capable of providing location information for registered game participants within the game environment. In further examples, presenting, on the beacon enabled user device, to the registered game participants, a description of a first task in the geo-location quest game and a request for first task completion information, the first task having a start and end location within the game environment. In another example, receiving the requested first task completion information from the registered game participants.
US11148037B2
A self-balancing board is provided, comprising a primary wheel assembly, a platform, at least one sensor, a controller, a first auxiliary wheel assembly, and a first brake element. The primary wheel assembly comprises a primary wheel and a motor driving the primary wheel. The platform is secured to the primary wheel assembly and has a foot deck. The at least one sensor senses the orientation of the platform. The controller receives data from the at least one sensor and controls the motor in response to the received data. The first auxiliary wheel assembly is secured to the platform distal the primary wheel assembly, and is elevated from contacting a flat surface upon which the primary wheel rests when the foot deck is parallel to the flat surface. The first brake element is manually movable relative to the first auxiliary wheel assembly to engage the first auxiliary wheel assembly to provide resistance to rotation of the first auxiliary wheel assembly.
US11148022B2
A golf flagstick device comprising a rigid support member combined with a plurality of jacks. The components are encapsulated by a material, such as a thermoplastic or thermosetting polymer, using an injection molding process. The jacks have one or more arms extending outward from a center portion. The arms are adapted to contact the inner wall of the mold's cavity to help hold the rigid support member in one place and away from the inner wall during the molding process. The flagstick includes a ferrule attached to a lower end which is adapted for placement into a putting cup and a tip fitting attached to an upper end which is adapted to be combined with a flag. The ferrule and/or tip fitting may be combined with the rigid support member before the injection molding process resulting in the ferrule and/or tip fitting being at least partially filled with and/or encapsulated by the material to help hold the components together without requiring a secondary attachment operation.
US11148018B2
A golf club head includes a loft no less than 40 degrees; a striking face; a virtual center plane that is vertical and perpendicular to a virtual striking face plane and includes a face center; a rear face; and a recess. The recess extends in a heel-to-toe direction along an upper sole surface and has a depth that varies in the heel-to-toe direction such that a first depth corresponds with a first location heel-ward of the face center and a second depth corresponds with a second location toe-ward of the face center, the first depth being no less than 10 mm and greater than the second depth by at least 5 mm. An insert is received in the recess. And a center of gravity of the golf club head is spaced no greater than 5.0 mm from the virtual center plane measured in the heel-to-toe direction.
US11148008B1
In one aspect, the invention provides a swim fin comprising a foldable fin blade and foot enclosure, and means for releasably securing the foot of a user within said foot enclosure when in use for swimming. When not in use for swimming, the fin is collapsed to demonstrate a substantially flat form and releasably interconnected with another such swim fin to form a loop structure that can be worn as a belt or bandolier, or stored flat and carried within a fanny pack. The combination swim fin belt apparatus allows a user to carry a pair of swim fins conveniently, comfortably and unobtrusively while engaging in activities that take place on or near the water. The fins are thus immediately available to be deployed for swimming, in particular when the user unexpectedly needs to swim long distances or in challenging conditions without the aid of water safety devices.
US11148007B2
The present disclosure generally relates to navigating, viewing, and sharing activity and workout data and interacting with workout and/or activity applications. In some examples, scrolling of activity data is based on the content being displayed. In some examples, friends' activity data may be viewed. In some examples, a notification and workout data for a friend's completed workout is received and displayed. In some example, the activity data received from friends is viewed and managed. In some examples, workout data for a multi-segment workout is displayed in a three-dimensional stack on a map. In some examples, a workout application operates in a limited mode until a touch input is received with a characteristic intensity that is greater than a threshold intensity.
US11148005B2
A motor-less leg-powered curved treadmill produced that allows people to walk, jog, run, and sprint without making any adjustments to the treadmill other than shifting the user's center of gravity forward and backwards. A closed loop treadmill belt running between front and rear pulley rollers is formed with a low friction running surface of transverse aluminum, wooden, plastic, rubber or carbon fiber slats attached to each other in a resilient fashion. Since an essential feature of treadmill is the concave shape of the running surface of belt in its respective upper portion, the treadmill configurations insure that this shape is maintained during actual use. These configurations prevent the concave upper running surface portion from being pulled taut into a flat shape between the front and rear pulley rollers.
US11148000B2
The disclosure provides an exercise device comprising a weighted head and handle to simulate swinging a sledgehammer without causing the damage typically resulting from a sledgehammer having a solid head or hammer portion attached to a handle. Some embodiments provide quick release connectors between the weighted head and the handle. Methods for producing and using the weighted head and handle are also disclosed.
US11147999B1
A reversible resistance exercise machine for reversing the direction of applied resistance against a movable platform of an exercising machine. The exercise machine has a frame, a carriage movably positioned upon the frame, and a plurality of biasing members. A plurality of first tension connectors are accessible near the first end of the carriage and are adapted for removably attaching selected biasing members near the first end of the carriage to resist motion of the carriage in the first direction. A plurality of second tension connectors are accessible near the second end of the carriage and are adapted for removably attaching selected biasing members near the second end of the carriage to resist motion of the carriage in the second direction. A user selectable amount of force may be applied to the carriage to resist movement in either of the first direction and the second direction.
US11147994B2
Firefighting system 2, comprising a pressure-resistant extinguishing agent container 4, at least one opening arranged in an outer wall of the extinguishing agent container 4, and a pipe 6 arranged in the opening. An enhanced operational readiness is achieved in that a flat heating means at least partly engages around the lateral surface of the pipe.
US11147991B2
Products for oxidative dyeing of keratin fibres include at least two preparations (A) and (B) prepared separately. The first preparation (A) includes, in a cosmetic carrier (A1) hydrogen peroxide and (A2) one or more fatty constituents in an amount of from about 0.1 to about 40 wt. % relative to the weight of preparation (A). The second preparation (B) includes, in a cosmetic carrier, (B1) at least one alkalizing agent and (B2) one or more fatty constituents in an amount of from about 0.1 to about 40 wt. % relative to the weight of preparation (B). Preparation (A) is prepared in a first container and preparation (B) is prepared in a second container, both of which containers include at least two layers. An inner layer of first and/or second containers includes a layer of a synthetic polymer (I). An outer layer of first and/or second containers includes a layer of metal.
US11147990B2
A multi-angular ultrasound device. Multi-angular ablation patterns are achieved by a catheter based ultrasound transducer having a plurality of transducer zones. A multi-chambered balloon is positioned on the catheter.
US11147989B2
A method includes detecting a potential setup error in a radiation treatment delivery session of a radiation treatment delivery system, wherein the setup error corresponds to a change in a current position of a treatment target relative to a prior position of the treatment target, and wherein the change includes a rotation relative to the prior position of the treatment target. The method further includes modifying, by a processing device, one or more planned leaf positions of a multileaf collimator (MLC) of a linear accelerator (LINAC) of the radiation treatment delivery system to compensate for the potential setup error corresponding to the rotation of the prior position of the treatment target.
US11147988B2
A dosage verification method for a radiotherapy device includes: acquiring reference optical field information about radioactive rays, wherein the reference optical field information includes the dosage distribution of a reference optical field; acquiring actual optical field information about the radioactive rays; comparing and analyzing the acquired actual optical field information about the radioactive rays and the acquired reference optical field information; and determining whether the actual optical field information is in a range of pre-set optical field information, wherein the pre-set optical field information is optical field information determined according to the reference optical field information.
US11147976B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, methods and systems that include implantable lead. The implantable lead may include an electrode arranged and a fixation element arranged about the lead body. The fixation element may extend circumferentially about the lead body.
US11147971B2
Systems, methods and devices for promoting recovery from a stroke induced loss of motor function in a subject. In certain aspects, the system includes at least one electrode, and an operations system in electrical communication with at least one electrode, wherein the at least one electrode is constructed and arranged to apply current across the brain of the subject and to record low frequency oscillations from a perilesional region of the subject. In certain aspects, provided is a method comprising placing at least one recording electrode in electrical communication in a perilesional region of the subject; placing at least one stimulation electrode in electrical communication with the brain of the subject; recording low frequency oscillations from the perilesional region of the subject; and delivering current stimulation to the brain of the subject.
US11147966B2
Methods and devices for improving pelvic floor dysfunction in a patient suffering therefrom by electrically modulating neural tissue in a minimally invasive fashion using an electrical micro stimulator are provided.
US11147960B2
A catheter (20), which can be part of an intravascular blood pump, possesses a kink sensor which extends over the total length of the catheter and comprises an optical fiber (28A). The optical fiber is attached to an evaluation device (100) which evaluates a preset light quantity transmitted through the optical fiber as to whether a part of the light quantity is coupled out of the optical fiber along the length of the optical fiber. This is interpreted as a kink event and displayed. The optical fiber preferably utilized for the kink sensor is the optical fiber of an optical pressure sensor.
US11147957B2
A catheter assembly and/or an introducer may include one or more features configured to guide a probe and/or a catheter distally through a septum. The catheter assembly may include a catheter adapter and the septum. The catheter adapter may include a distal end, a proximal end, and a lumen extending therebetween. In some embodiments, the septum may be disposed within the lumen. The septum may include a proximal surface that is tapered inwardly in a distal direction such that the proximal surface of the septum is configured to guide the probe and/or the catheter distally through the septum. The catheter assembly may be configured to receive an introducer, which may include an introducer element. A proximal end of the introducer element may include another proximal surface that is tapered inwardly in the distal direction such that the other proximal surface is configured to guide the probe or the catheter distally through the septum.
US11147953B2
An inflatable balloon is provided. The balloon includes a central lumen open at both ends of the balloon and connected to a gap formed in one sidewall of the balloon. This arrangement may provide the balloon with a generally C-shaped profile with the open central lumen within the balloon along a center axis thereof, such as to allow for perfusion. The balloon may also include an inflation port offset from a central axis and a shaft including an inflation lumen connected to the inflation port. A sheath may also be provided with a window through which the balloon may project in use.
US11147952B2
A medical device includes an inflatable balloon defining an interior surface and an exterior surface, and a coating including a therapeutic agent disposed on the exterior surface of the inflatable balloon. The coating has a release transition temperature within a range from about 25° C. to about 50° C. When the temperature of the coating is below the release transition temperature, the coating retains at least a portion of the therapeutic agent on the exterior of the inflatable balloon. When the temperature of the coating is above the release transition temperature, the coating releases at least a portion of the therapeutic agent from the exterior of the inflatable balloon.
US11147950B2
Disclosed is a module including: a base; a first drive member; and a second drive member. The second drive member is also mounted so as to be movable relative to the first drive member, in a degree of freedom other than rotational about the second axis, between a first and a second configuration. A motion transmission system transmits the driving movement generated by the drive motor to the second drive member in order to rotate the second drive member about the second axis between the first and second configurations.
US11147946B2
The present invention contemplates devices and methods to administer nutritional compositions and/or therapeutic drugs directly into a portal venous system. For example, total parenteral nutrition therapy may be administered directly into the hepatic portal venous system thus circumventing known side effects of conventional parenteral administration. Alternatively, hepatic diseases and disorders may be treated using locally administered therapeutic drugs. Devices capable of direct portal venous system administration include, but are not limited to, a direct portal access catheter or a transjugular access catheter.
US11147943B1
A vehicle nightlight assembly for soothing a child in a vehicle includes a light emitting unit is positionable on a car seat for a child in a vehicle. The light emitting unit emits light at an intensity of no greater than 20.0 lumens. In this way the light emitting unit can soothe a child in the car seat while simultaneously avoiding negatively affecting night vision of a driver of the vehicle. A magnet is coupled to the light emitting unit. A disk is provided and the disk is positionable against an opposite side of the child car seat with respect to the magnet. In this way the magnet magnetically engages the disk for removably retaining the light emitting unit on the child car seat.
US11147938B2
A ventilator that is small, lightweight, and portable, yet capable of being quickly adapted to operate in a plurality of different modes and configurations to deliver a variety of therapies to a patent. A porting system having a plurality of sensors structured to monitor a number of parameters with respect to the flow of gas, and a number of porting blocks is used to reconfigure the ventilator so that it operates as a single-limb or dual limb ventilator. In the single-limb configuration, an active or passive exhaust assembly can be provided proximate to the patient. The ventilator is capable of operate in a volume or pressure support mode, even in a single-limb configuration. In addition, a power control mechanism controls the supply of power to the ventilator from an AC power source, a lead acid battery, an internal rechargeable battery pack, and a detachable battery pack.
US11147935B2
An evacuation system for continuously removing gas from a body cavity of a patient during an endoscopic surgical procedure is disclosed, which includes an inlet flow path leading to a first trocar communicating with the body cavity through which an essentially continuous flow of gas is delivered to the body cavity, an outlet flow path leading from a second trocar communicating with the body cavity though which an essentially continuous flow of gas is removed from the body cavity, a pump communicating at least with the outlet flow path for removing an essentially continuous flow of gas from the surgical cavity, and a processor operatively associated with the pump for controlling at least the essentially continuous flow of gas from the body cavity.
US11147928B2
One embodiment is directed to a system for injecting, comprising a syringe body defining an interior medicine chamber; a stopper member configured to be inserted into the interior medicine chamber to contain medicine within the medicine chamber; a plunger member configured to be manually manipulated to insert the stopper member relative to the syringe body; a needle having proximal and distal ends, the proximal end comprising an anchoring geometry configured to be at least partially penetrated into the stopper member such that upon retraction of the stopper member, the needle is pulled proximally along with the stopper to be at least partially contained within the interior medicine chamber; and an energy-storing member operatively coupled between the stopper member and the syringe body, the energy-storing member configured to facilitate retraction of the stopper member relative to the syringe body.
US11147925B2
The invention provides a syringe for use in an ophthalmic injection. The syringe comprises a body, a stopper and a plunger. The body comprises an outlet at an outlet end and the stopper is arranged within the body such that a front surface of the stopper and the body define a variable volume chamber from which a fluid can be expelled though the outlet. The plunger comprises a plunger contact surface at a first end and a rod extends between the plunger contact surface and a rear portion. The plunger contact surface is arranged to contact the stopper but not couple thereto, such that the plunger can be used to force the stopper towards the outlet end of the body, reducing the volume of the variable volume chamber, but not to move the stopper away from the outlet end.
US11147922B2
This invention relates to a feedback predictive controller, systems comprising and methods employing the same. Preferably the feedback predictive controller and/or systems comprising the feedback predictive controller are part of an automatic insulin delivery system. The methods described herein can be used to control blood glucose concentration in a patient with diabetes. Preferably, the insulin delivery system is an artificial pancreas.
US11147915B2
A variety of location-based and/or proximity-based features related to diabetes management systems can be used to improve maintenance compliance and/or to provide important information to PWD designated assistance entities (e.g., family, friends, givers, HCPs, emergency medicine providers) under certain conditions. In some cases, a user's location can be tracked or determined to trigger and/or time alerts about upcoming maintenance tasks in a way that will increase the likelihood that the PWD will immediately perform the designated maintenance task. In some cases, methods, devices, and systems provided herein can use proximity to non-paired mobile computing devices to deliver data to PWD designated assistance entities.
US11147909B2
A diaphragm vacuum pump has a pump chamber, a vacuum diaphragm for generating an underpressure in the pump chamber, an electric motor (1) with a motor shaft, a gear and a connecting element. The gear converts a rotational movement of the motor shaft into a cyclical, approximately linear forward and rearward movement of the connecting element, as a result of which the connecting element effects a cyclical movement of the vacuum diaphragm. The rearward movement of the connecting element per cycle is effected by a first rotation angle of the motor shaft which, on account of the gear, is not of the same magnitude as a second rotation angle of the motor shaft, wherein the second rotation angle effects the forward movement of the connecting element per cycle. The diaphragm vacuum pump according to the invention can be designed such that it is small and quiet and yet provides optimal power.
US11147907B2
According to some embodiments, a system may treat blood outside the body of a patient. The system may include one or more pumps configured to pump blood in a fluid flow path at a collective rate over 4 liters per minute. The system may include one or more heat exchangers operable to heat at least a portion of the blood to a temperature of at least 42 degrees Celsius and to allow the blood to cool one or more degrees following heating. The system may include one or more albumin dialysis modules configured to perform albumin dialysis on at least a portion of the blood at least after the one or more heat exchangers allow the blood to cool one or more degrees.
US11147905B2
A pump apparatus and method for extracting breastmilk is disclosed. A pump head comprises a funnel-shaped breast shield portion and a neck portion leading to a collection container. A deformable elastic component is sealed within an opening formed in the neck portion and manipulated to engage the user's nipple to simulate the suckling of an infant. The deformable elastic component is configured to move into the interior volume of the neck portion under an applied positive pressure to compress the nipple and control nipple edema. The deformable elastic component is also configured to move away from the axial center of the neck portion under an applied negative pressure to create suction and extract breastmilk in a manner that closely replicates the suckling of an infant. The pump may also include another deformable elastic component to stimulate a Milk Ejection Reflex (MER).
US11147904B2
An implantable medical device including at least one double-walled microsphere containing an active agent, and a biodegradable polymer layer containing the at least one double-walled microsphere.
US11147899B2
The present invention provides an implant which includes: (a) an autologous engineered tissue; and (b) a vasculature, wherein the engineered tissue is a porous scaffold embedded with endothelial cell, a fibroblast, a myoblast, a mesenchymal cell, an adipocyte, or any combination thereof, wherein the vasculature feeds the cells. Further, the invention provides a method for treating a subject afflicted with a large soft tissue defect by implanting the implant of the invention.
US11147898B2
The invention relates, generally, to porous absorbent materials which are suitable for packing antrums or other cavities of the human or animal body. More particularly, it relates to hydrophilic biodegradable foams, which may be used e.g. in the form of a plug or tampon, for instance for controlling bleeding, wound closure, prevent tissue adhesion and/or support tissue regeneration. The invention provides an absorbent foam, suitable for packing antrums or other cavities of the human or animal body, comprising a biodegradable synthetic polymer, which polymer preferably comprises —C(O)—O— groups in the backbone of the polymer, for instance polyurethane and/or polyester units combined with polyethers.
US11147891B1
The invention relates to a personal, reusable straw and a case comprising a holder for the straw, where the case comprises elements to flush, wash, clean, sanitize, and/or dry the straw in the holder. A pump may pump fluid from a fluid reservoir to lead fluid into and/or around the straw. A fan may blow air to the straw for drying the outside and/or inside of the straw. A heating element may dry the straw. A UV or other light source may provide light which is directed to sanitize the outer and inner surfaces of the straw. A controller in the case may control these elements. The controller may include a wireless transceiver for communication with a mobile application to enable a user to control the elements manually and/or via a program.
US11147888B2
Methods for detecting resistance to sedation caused by antipsychotic drugs including methods for detecting psychotic disorders such as but not limited to schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder featuring administering to a patient a dose of an antipsychotic medication; and subjecting the patient to an evaluation at a time point following administration of the dose of the antipsychotic medication. The evaluation is adapted to determine a level of sedation resulting from the dose of the antipsychotic medication. A resulting level of sedation may be one of the following: completely sedated, significantly sedated, moderately sedated, not significantly sedated and completely alert. If the individual is not completely sedated or significantly sedated, or is completely alert, then the patient may have a likelihood of having a psychotic disorder such as schizophrenia.
US11147887B2
The invention relates to nucleic acid constructs and gene therapy vectors that comprise an ATP7B variant for use in the treatment of conditions associated with a deficiency or dysfunction of Copper-transporting ATPase 2, and particularly of Wilson's disease. An AAV vector devised according to the invention significantly reduced urine Cu excretion, and liver Cu content in Wilson's disease mice treated with the vector, while ceruloplasmin activity was significantly restored. On the other hand, the administration of the vector resulted in the normalization of serum transaminases' levels and of liver histology, together with a marked reduction of the inflammatory infiltrate.
US11147873B2
Disclosed is a method for the treatment of AD, wherein an immune stimulating pharmaceutical composition comprising an aluminium salt is administered to a patient having AD or having a risk to develop AD in an effective amount.
US11147867B2
Vaccines that elicit broadly protective anti-influenza antibodies. Some vaccines comprise nanoparticles that display HA trimers from influenza virus on their surface. The nanoparticles are fusion proteins comprising a monomeric subunit (e.g., ferritin) joined to the stem region of an influenza HA protein. The fusion proteins self-assemble to form the HA-displaying nanoparticles. The vaccines comprise only the stem region of an influenza HA protein joined to a trimerization domain. Also provided are fusion proteins, and nucleic acid molecules encoding such proteins, and assays using nanoparticles of the invention to detect anti-influenza antibodies.
US11147860B2
Liquid formulation containing botulinum toxin and stabilizing agent, and preparation method therefor
The present invention relates to a liquid formulation containing botulinum toxin and stabilizing agent, and preparation method therefor. A liquid formulation containing botulinum toxin and stabilizing agent according to the present invention can be easily stored and distributed. It was proved a significant effect on the stabilization of botulinum toxin under suitable conditions according to the temperature and pH of the human body. Thus, it is expected that the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention will greatly contribute to the safe and convenient medical use of botulinum toxin.
US11147845B2
Compositions and methods are described that provide controlled release of stabilized bacteria into the oral cavity on consumption of a food, candy, gum, or similar substance so as to promote colonization of oral surface by the bacteria. Bacteria are selected to treat an oral condition, such as oral disease, halitosis, and/or stained enamel on consumption of the food.
US11147841B2
The present invention relates to enhanced omega-3 formulations, and in particular to formulations comprising a phospholipid fraction and a triglyceride fraction in combinations with agents that provide a formulation with improved viscosity and dispersion characteristics.
US11147827B2
Provided herein are compounds and methods for gene silencing. The compound includes a RNA directly conjugated to an albumin-binding group. The method includes administering a compound comprising a RNA directly conjugated to an albumin-binding group to a subject in need thereof.
US11147811B2
The present invention relates to a comprising (A) an active ingredient which is hardly soluble in water, but soluble in a C1-4 lower alcohol that may contain 30 vol % or less water, (B) polyvinyl alcohol having a saponification rate of 55-99%, and (C) a non-ionic surfactant, wherein the (A) active ingredient has a mean particle size of 10-300 nm, and a process thereof.
US11147809B2
The present methods treat neurofibromatosis by a administering to a subject perillyl alcohol or iso-perillyl alcohol. The present methods also treat neurofibromatosis by administering to a subject a carbamate of perillyl alcohol, or a carbamate of iso-perillyl alcohol. The perillyl alcohol carbamate may comprise perillyl alcohol conjugated with rolipram or temozolomide.
US11147807B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a DUSP1 inhibitor. The pharmaceutical composition comprising the DUSP1 inhibitor according to the present invention can solve the problems of inhibitors that target the active site because it inhibits DUSP1 by an allosteric inhibitory mechanism, and is effective for preventing or treating diseases involving DUSP1 enzymes, for example, a cancer such as a liver cancer, a breast cancer and a pancreatic cancer, a hepatitis C, and a depression. In particular, the DUSP1 inhibitor according to the present invention is very effective in treating a depression because it directly acts on neuronal growth.
US11147806B2
Combination of a PD-1 antagonist and a VEGF-R/FGFR/RET tyrosine kinase inhibitor for treating cancer
The present disclosure describes combination therapies comprising an antagonist of Programmed Death 1 receptor (PD-1) and a multi-RTK inhibitor, and the use of the combination therapies for the treatment of cancer. The multi-RTK inhibitor may be represented by Formula (I): wherein R1 is C1-6 alkyl or C3-8 cycloalkyl, R2 is a hydrogen atom or C1-6 alkoxy, and R3 is a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom. A tumor therapeutic agent is disclosed that combines a compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof represented by Formula I and an anti-PD-1 antibody.
US11147802B2
Provided are a substituted oxadiazole chemical compound and composition containing said chemical compound and use thereof; said substituted oxadiazole chemical compound is the oxadiazole chemical compound as represented by formula (I), or its crystalline form, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, stereoisomer, hydrate, or solvent compound. The disclosed substituted oxadiazole chemical compound and composition containing said chemical compound are capable of inhibiting indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase; it also has better pharmacokinetic parameter attributes and is capable of improving the drug concentration of the chemical compound in an animal body, thus improving the therapeutic efficacy and safety of the drug.
US11147801B2
The present invention provides methods for treating a cancer in a subject and for inhibiting tumor growth, metastasis or a dihydrorotate oxygenase enzyme activity of a tumor or cancer cell. At least one trisubstituted benzotriazole derivative with the formula (I) is administered to the subject or is contacted with the cancer cell. Compounds of formula (I) have substituents R1, R2 and R3 which have the meanings given in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
US11147798B2
The present invention relates to a use for preventing, alleviating or treating a demyelinating disease by administering a pharmaceutical composition containing a carbamate compound of chemical formula 1.
US11147796B2
It is to provide an agent for preventing or improving hearing loss, which comprises a low molecular compound which can be produced relatively easily and inexpensively as an active ingredient. One or more compounds selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following formulas (I0), (II), and (III) and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compounds when R3 is OH are used as an agent for preventing or improving hearing loss.
US11147784B2
Methods and compositions for treating cancer and other disorders associated with undesired cellular proliferation are provided comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an amino acid mixture, wherein the amino acid mixture comprises glycine, optionally comprising at least a 2:1 molar ratio of glycine to serine.
US11147783B2
The present invention relates to the use of a therapeutically effective amount of cannabidiolic acid (CBDA) in the treatment of epilepsy. In one embodiment the CBDA is used in the treatment of generalised seizures, preferably tonic-clonic seizures. Preferably the CBDA used is in the form of a botanical drug substance in which the CBDA content is greater than 60%, and most preferably, it is a highly purified extract of cannabis such that the CBDA is present at greater than 95%, through 96% and 97% to most preferably, greater than 98% of the total extract (w/w) and the other components of the extract are characterised. In particular the cannabinoids tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or tetrahydrocannabinol acid (THCA) have been substantially removed. Alternatively, the CBDA may be synthetically produced.
US11147769B2
Provided is a composition for reducing hair loss and thickening hair and a preparation method thereof, and more particularly to a composition for preventing hair loss and thickening hair that includes beads composed of carrageenan, cellulose, agar, charcoal powder, acrylate copolymer, caffeine, amino acid, keratin, gellan gum, Ulva lactuca powder, menthol, salicylic acid, dexpanthenol, niacinamide, zinc pyrithione, biotin, etc.
US11147763B2
The disclosure provides biomedical devices comprising indicator agents sensitive to the environment of use, methods of using same to enhance adherence to a treatment or usage regimen, and systems for monitoring compliance of use of the biomedical device. The biomedical device may be an intravaginal ring comprised of biocompatible polymeric material having indicator agent incorporated therein capable of producing a detectable change in response to a stimulus within the vaginal environment.
US11147760B2
The invention relates to an oil-based cleansing product which contains abrasive particles as exfoliating substances. In one particular embodiment, salt and sugar crystals are used as exfoliating substances.
US11147756B2
The present disclosure relates to a cosmetic composition containing an oil mixture in a total amount of from about 40 to about 99% by weight, in relation to the total amount of the cosmetic composition, without taking into consideration any propellant possibly provided, wherein the oil mixture of at least two selected esters, at least one linear polydimethylsiloxane with a viscosity of from about 1 to less than about 20 cSt, also PPG-14 butyl ether, wherein cyclic polydimethylsiloxanes are contained in a total amount, in relation to the total amount of the cosmetic composition, of from 0 to about 0.4% by weight, and wherein PPG-14 butyl ether and linear polydimethylsiloxanes are contained in selected ratios by weight to one another.
US11147751B2
The present invention provides mouthwash or mouthrinse compositions comprising one or more structuring agents selected from: a colloidal gum, a cellulosic polymer, an acrylate polymer, or a clay or fine particulate, and an orally acceptable aqueous carrier. In some embodiments, the total concentration of the one or more structuring agents is less than 5%, by weight, of the composition.
US11147748B2
The present invention is directed to a composition of temporary crown materials, comprising a powder reagent and a liquid reagent; wherein the powder reagent comprises PMMA and an initiator, and the liquid reagent comprises MMA, a catalyst, and a plasticizer; wherein the plasticizer is a citrate ester compound. The composition of temporary crown materials of the present invention has high hardness, high toughness, high flexural strength and excellent biocompatibility.
US11147746B2
An example article may include a dental surface, a hydrophobic coating on the dental surface, and a restorative layer on the hydrophobic coating. An example technique may include applying, on a dental surface, a hydrophobic coating comprising an amphiphilic agent. The hydrophobic coating may provide a water contact angle of greater than or equal to about 50° on the dental surface. The example technique may include applying a restorative layer to the hydrophobic coating. An example kit may include a dental restorative composition and a hydrophobic coating composition. The hydrophobic coating composition may include an amphiphilic agent. The hydrophobic coating composition may be configured to provide a water contact angle of greater than or equal to about 50° on a dental surface.
US11147745B2
A system can automatically adjust flow rates/feeding regimen of a feeding pump feeding fluids/enteral nutrition to a patient. The system can, based upon a prescribed volume of nutrition or nutritional targets (such as and not limited to energy (calories), protein etc.) to be delivered and a prescribed delivery duration, adjust the pump flow rate/feeding regimen following unexpected delivery interruptions to achieve at or near to the prescribed total volume/nutritional targets to be delivered, despite the interruptions.
US11147743B2
A bottle assembly is provided including a bottle having an end portion with a first detent formation, and a collar having a second complementary detent formation. The collar is arranged to snap fit to the end portion by engagement of the detent formations by application of force only in a direction towards the bottle. In addition, a valve assembly for use with a drinking vessel is provided including a base member and a sealing member. The sealing member is moveable, dependent on a pressure difference across it, between a sealed position, wherein the sealing member is sealed against the base member, and an unsealed position, wherein the sealing member is unsealed from the base member. One or more channels are formed between the base member and the sealing member and are arranged to allow air to enter the drinking vessel when the sealing member is in the unsealed position.
US11147740B2
A syringe adapter is provided. The adapter includes a housing having a first end and a second end positioned opposite the first end. The first end of the housing has a connector configured to be secured to a syringe barrel. The adapter also includes a cannula positioned within the housing and a seal arrangement including a membrane or septum positioned within the housing and movable within the housing, the seal arrangement comprising a membrane. The assembly can also include a protective cap having a first open end and a second closed end. The protective cap can be connected to the housing via a snap fit and can be configured to receive the second end of the housing.
US11147735B2
A handheld device for applying mechanical vibration to a body portion of an individual to treat a dry eye condition of the individual, includes: a housing; a member having a first portion accommodated in the housing, and a second portion that is moveable relative to the housing, wherein the second portion is for placement outside the individual, and is configured to oscillate to apply the mechanical vibration to the body portion, the member having an elongated configuration; and a motor in the housing, the motor configured to oscillate the member at an oscillation frequency sufficient to induce tear production when the second portion of the member is applied towards a surface of the body portion.
US11147722B2
Improved skin-adhesive compositions for bonding a substrate, such as an absorbent article, to skin are disclosed. More particularly, the skin-adhesive composition has an improved, yet gentle, adhesion to the skin of a user, while maintaining strong, effective bonding to various inanimate, non-skin substrates. In one embodiment, the skin-adhesive composition can provide one or more skin benefit agents to the user. The skin-adhesive composition may applied to an absorbent article, such as a panty-liner, sanitary napkin, or an incontinence article, for directly adhering the article to the skin of a user.
US11147714B2
An apparatus for cleansing wounds in which irrigant fluid from a reservoir connected to a conformable wound dressing and wound exudate from the dressing are moved by a device (which may be a single pump or two pumps) for moving fluid through a flow path which passes through the dressing and a means for providing simultaneous aspiration and irrigation of the wound. The apparatus also comprises means to apply high frequency vibrational energy, e.g. ultrasound, to the wound bed. The former removes materials deleterious to wound healing, while distributing materials that are beneficial in promoting wound healing over the wound bed. The latter promotes healing. The dressing and a method of treatment using the apparatus.
US11147698B2
An endoprosthesis delivery system includes an expandable endoprosthesis including a side branch portal, a first primary sleeve releasably constraining a proximal portion of the expandable endoprosthesis to a collapsed configuration, a second primary sleeve in parallel with the first primary sleeve, the second primary sleeve releasably constraining a distal portion of the expandable endoprosthesis to the collapsed configuration, and a secondary sleeve within the first primary sleeve. Upon release of the first primary sleeve, the secondary sleeve releasably constrains the proximal portion of the expandable endoprosthesis to a partially expanded configuration allowing access to the side branch portal via the partially expanded proximal portion of the expandable endoprosthesis.
