US11181127B2
The present invention allows the number of components to be reduced and assembly work to be easily performed. A cylinder drive manifold device that constitutes a cylinder drive apparatus is provided with a block-shaped manifold in which a plurality of holes are formed for circulating a fluid used for driving a plurality of fluid pressure cylinders. The manifold is configured such that a plurality of switching valves for supplying a fluid alternately to a first cylinder chamber and a second cylinder chamber of each of the fluid pressure cylinders are attachable. A plurality of check valves and a plurality of throttle valves are incorporated into the plurality of holes of the manifold.
US11181126B2
System and methods for a DC powered hydraulic system capable of providing control over pressurized hydraulic fluid delivered to directional valves without the need for a PTO and/or a proportional valve. The hydraulic system controls the output from a battery to a direct current hydraulic pump.
US11181119B2
An impeller includes a base plate, a hub protruding from the base plate, and a number of blades connected to the base plate and extending from a lateral surface of the hub toward an edge of the base plate. Opposite sides of each of the blades are a working surface and a non-working surface. The base plate is divided into a plurality of sub-plates by the plurality of blades. Each of the sub-plates is located between two adjacent blades and connected to the non-working surface of one of the two adjacent blades and the working surface of the other one of the two adjacent blades. A distance from an edge of each of the sub-plates to a center of rotation of the impeller is varied.
US11181116B2
Motor housings and shrouds are detailed. Inlets of the shrouds may be included on any or all portions of their peripheries (as well as on rears of shrouds if desired). Air hence need not necessarily be drawn wholly linearly into the shrouds, permitting the shrouds to abut, or at least be closely proximate, other objects without materially diminishing air flow into the shrouds. Moreover, plates within the shrouds may be positioned so as to create torturous paths through which the air must travel. Channeling air through these torturous paths helps reduce noise as the air moves to the fans.
US11181110B2
A screw compressor for a utility vehicle includes a housing. The housing is filled with oil. At least one pair of compressor screws are mounted in the housing and serve to compress air supplied to the screw compressor. In the assembled state, a heat exchanger is directly placed onto and installed on the housing, by which heat exchanger the temperature of the oil contained in the housing can be controlled.
US11181104B2
A fluid pump for pumping a fluid from an inlet toward an outlet comprises a pump body, a pump diaphragm, and a valve seat. The pump body has a first opening and a second opening. The pump diaphragm is attached to the pump body and forms a pump chamber between the pump body and the pump diaphragm. The pump chamber is fluidly connected to the inlet by the first opening and to the outlet by the second opening. The valve seat is disposed inside the pump chamber and around the second opening. The valve seat protrudes with an undeformed height from the second opening into the pump chamber in a direction toward the pump diaphragm. The valve seat has an elastic body and a gasket with a sealing surface. The pump diaphragm is deflectable and is adapted to open and close a fluidic pathway of the outlet by moving into and out of contact with the valve seat.
US11181103B2
Described is a multi-stage pump having at least two stages. The multi-stage pump includes a first pump stage and a second pump stage each having a chamber of different diameter and volume. The multi-stage pump also includes a plunger having first and second plunger sections. The first plunger section has a first plunger diameter, a first end configured for coupling to a drive mechanism, and a second end opposite to the first end. The second plunger section has a second plunger diameter that is less than the first plunger diameter, a third end in contact with the second end of the first plunger, and a fourth end opposite the third end. Movement of the plunger produces a displacement volume for the first chamber that is different than a displacement volume produced for the second chamber. The multi-stage pump can be configured in different operational modes to provide different flow rates.
US11181095B2
A spar cap for a wind turbine blade of a wind turbine, the spar cap including at least one elongated beam is provided. The spar cap includes at least one electrically isolating material cover and at least one electrically conductive material cover, wherein an entire circumference of the beam is enclosed by at least one electrically isolating material cover and the entire circumference of the at least one electrically isolating material cover is enclosed by at least one electrically conductive material cover, whereby the electrically conductive material cover has at least one electrical interface for electrically connecting it to a down conductor of the wind turbine blade.
US11181087B1
A method and system for operating a vehicle that includes feedback of operating status of an engine starting system is described. In one example, the method inhibits automatic engine pull-down in response to feedback from an engine starting system that does not meet expectations. The system and method may provide diagnostics for the engine starting system.
US11181076B2
According to one contemplated embodiment of the rocket engine invention, water is first pumped from a water tank through a rocket nozzle cooling heat exchanger wherein it is evaporated into said superheated steam. A generator supplies electricity to an electrolyzer that electrolyzes superheated steam into gaseous hydrogen and gaseous oxygen. The gaseous hydrogen and gaseous oxygen is employed for forming an annular curtain of secondary combustion in a divergent rocket engine. The secondary combustion gas surrounds a central thrust of combustion gas produced in an upstream combustion chamber by a primary injection of hydrogen/oxygen supplied from a liquid hydrogen tank and liquid oxygen tank. The rocket liquid hydrogen tank and liquid oxygen tank are pressurized by gaseous hydrogen and gaseous oxygen generated by the electrolyzer.
US11181066B2
An injection controller includes a control IC outputting an energization instruction signal to apply a peak current to a fuel injection valve (i.e., an instruction TQ), and a current monitor unit detecting an electric current flowing in the fuel injection valve. The control IC corrects an output OFF time of the energization instruction signal based on a difference between (i) an integrated current of an ideal current profile which serves as a target current before reaching the peak current and (ii) an integrated current of an energization current in the fuel injection valve detected by the current monitor unit (i.e., an effective TQ).
US11181064B2
An injection control device controls the opening and closing of a fuel injection valve by performing peak current drive and constant current drive and controls injection of fuel from the fuel injection valve to an internal combustion engine. The injection control device includes a preheat current energization control unit configured to, when a temperature of a solenoid coil of the fuel injection valve prior to starting the internal combustion engine is lower than a predetermined temperature, energize the fuel injection valve with a preheat current having an output density that causes the temperature of the solenoid coil to increase, the preheat current being within a range that maintains the fuel injection valve in a valve closed state, and when the temperature of the solenoid valve increases to or above the predetermined temperature, stop the energization of the fuel injection valve with the preheat current.
US11181054B2
An intake-air temperature controlling device for an engine is provided, which includes an engine body, an intake passage, an air intake part, an intake air temperature adjuster configured to adjust air temperature taken in through the air intake part to the passage, and a controller. An operating range in which the CI combustion is performed has a lean operating range in which A/F of mixture gas formed inside the cylinder, or G/F that is a relationship between the total weight G of gas inside the cylinder and a weight F of fuel fed to the cylinder is relatively low, and a rich operating range in which the A/F or G/F is relatively high. When the engine is in the lean operating range, the controller outputs a control signal to the intake air temperature adjuster so that the air temperature is increased, as compared in the rich operating range.
US11181047B2
A gas turbine fuel supply system includes a fuel supply flow passage that includes a fuel gas heater which heats fuel and supplies the fuel heated by the fuel gas heater to a first nozzle and a second nozzle, a bypass flow passage that supplies the fuel to the first nozzle without passing through the fuel supply flow passage, and a bypass fuel flow rate adjusting valve that adjusts a flow rate of the fuel flowing in the bypass flow passage.
US11181046B1
A gas turbine engine in which a long length-to-diameter (L/D) flexible shaft is used to connect two high speed shafts in order to tolerate misalignment. In order to reduce the overall system length, a smaller diameter flexible shaft is contained within but not in contact with a larger diameter primary turbomachinery shaft such that the smaller flexible shaft adjoins to the primary shaft aft of the primary shaft bearing. This design reduces a length of the overall system and reduces additional cost associated with a flex bellows or spline.
US11181026B1
The present disclosure describes methods for operating an EAS including a close coupled SCR unit, a downstream SCR unit, a diesel oxidation catalyst unit (DOC) and a diesel particulate filter (DPF). The methods utilize the close coupled SCR unit to manage NOx emissions from the EAS during regeneration of a diesel particulate filter (DPF).
US11181020B2
An internal combustion engine may be used to compress natural gas for vehicle fuel. The engine may contain a plurality of gas compression cylinders, at least one standard combustion cylinder to drive the compression cylinders, and a common crankshaft in a crankcase coupling the compression cylinders and the at least one standard combustion cylinder. Some combustible gas being compressed may leak past the piston rings of the compression cylinders into the engine crankcase posing a safety concern. This invention eliminates this concern by actively flushing the crankcase at a higher rate than normal.
US11181018B1
A Type II valvetrain and engine brake arrangement includes a brake housing defining a hydraulic circuit and a follower piston chamber and a brake piston chamber. A follower piston in the follower piston chamber is configured to follow a rotating brake cam lobe. A brake piston in the brake piston chamber is in pressure responsive relation with the follower piston to move. A finger follower is disposed so that a brake rod coupled to the brake piston engages the finger follower at least when the brake piston is in an activated position. When the brake piston is the activated position, the finger follower pivots from a first end about a pivot as the finger follower follows a valve cam lobe to effect lifting and seating of a cylinder valve. When the brake piston is activated, the finger follower, at least in part, pivots from the first end about the pivot and the brake rod lifts the cylinder valve and released compression from the engine cylinder.
US11181012B2
A valve actuation system for actuating at least one engine valve comprises a first half-rocker arm configured to receive main valve actuation motions from a main valve actuation motion source and a second rocker arm configured to actuate the at least one engine valve. A collapsing mechanism is also provided and configured relative to the first half-rocker arm and the second rocker arm, in a first collapsing mechanism state, to convey the main valve actuation motions from the first half-rocker arm to the second rocker arm and, in a second collapsing mechanism state, to prevent conveyance of the main valve actuation motions from the first half-rocker arm to the second rocker arm. The collapsing mechanism may be disposed in the first half-rocker arm or the second rocker arm, where the rocker arm not including the collapsing mechanism is provided with a collapsing mechanism contact surface.
US11181010B2
The aircraft engine can have an air-oil separator having an air-oil mixture inlet, an oil outlet, an air outlet, and a pressure relief path provided fluidly in parallel with the air-oil separator, between the air-oil mixture inlet and the air outlet, the pressure relief path can have a pressure relief valve for evacuating air-oil mixture to the exhaust duct in the event of excess pressure in the auxiliary gearbox.
US11180999B2
A method of producing a ceramic matrix composite component. The method includes positioning a first plurality of ceramic matrix composite plies on top of one another, disposing a filler pack on the first plurality of ceramic matrix composite plies, and positioning a second plurality of ceramic matrix composite plies on top of the filler pack. One of the first plurality of ceramic composite plies or the second plurality of ceramic composite plies includes a bend angle, to define an interstice between the plurality of ceramic matrix composite plies with the filler pack disposed in the interstice. The filler pack includes one or more sacrificial fibers disposed therein, that subsequent to removal provide a functional feature, such as a cooling manifold in the filler pack. The method further includes forming one or more channels coupled to the one or more functional features for the flow of a cooling fluid therethrough. A ceramic matrix composite is also disclosed.
US11180992B2
Methods and systems of monitoring and controlling a longwall mining system. One system includes a shearer including a cutter drum and a sensor mounted to the shearer. The system also includes an electronic controller including a processor and a memory, the electronic controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. The electronic controller is configured to receive vibration data from the sensor and determine a current vibration level experienced by a cutter drum of the shearer based on the vibration data. The electronic controller is also configured to compare the current vibration level to a vibration threshold. The electronic controller is also configured to detect an impact event associated with the cutter drum of the shearer based on the comparison and generate an impact event indication associated with the impact event.
US11180982B2
Methods and systems for determining risk of pipe deformation in a hydraulic fracturing operation include receiving a plurality of parameters pertaining to the well operation from a plurality of wells, developing a relationship between the plurality of parameters and a risk of pipe deformation, receiving the plurality of parameters pertaining to the well operation from a predetermined well, and determining the risk of pipe deformation in the predetermined well based on the plurality of parameters. The method further includes taking corrective action to prevent the pipe from deformation, such as improving the cementing conditions of the casing, performing cement bond evaluation, choosing safe locations for hydraulic fracturing or skipping zones of high risk or managing around pipe deformation by deploying flow-through bridge plugs, or dissolvable bridge plugs, or any other type of isolation method that does not require well intervention to remove the barrier or altogether re-drill a new well.
US11180981B2
A method is described for automated post-geosteering including receiving a pilot well log and a lateral well log with an initial lateral well path; performing automated post-geosteering to generate a corrected well path image; and displaying the corrected well path image on a graphical display. The method may be executed by a computer system.
US11180973B2
A circulation test tool and method of performing a circulation test in a wellbore during single-trip casing cutting and removal. An anchor mechanism (20), a mechanical-set retrievable packer (22) and a cutting mechanism (18) allow gripping and cutting of casing (14) with the mechanical set-retrievable packer (22) being set after the cut to carry out the circulation test. The well is kept under control during the cut by application of tension on the drill string to set the packer (22) at any time. The arrangement provides full annulus flow pass at the packer during cutting. Embodiments describe additional features of a drill to dress a cement plug or a settable bridge plug.
US11180969B2
A tubing hanger assembly includes a body, a lockdown feature which is located on the body, a load nut which is threadedly connected to the body and which includes a downward facing load shoulder, and a torsion spring member which includes a first end that is connected to the tubing hanger and a second end that is connected to the load nut. In operation, the torsion spring member rotates the load nut to thereby move the load nut axially relative to the body. In this manner, the axial distance between the load shoulder and the lockdown feature is adjustable.
US11180961B1
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a superabrasive compact including one or more superabrasive cutting portions or segments, rotary drill bits including one or more superabrasive compacts, and related methods (e.g., methods of fabricating and/or operating the superabrasive compacts). For example, the superabrasive compact may include polycrystalline diamond that may form at least a portion of a working surface of the superabrasive compact.
US11180960B2
A reamer for drill string pullback of a horizontal directional drill includes a shaft portion defining a central axis and a first end configured for attachment with a drill string of the horizontal directional drill. A plurality of vanes extend radially from an outer periphery of the shaft, each of the plurality of vanes defining an outer peripheral tooth base surface. On each of the plurality of vanes, a plurality of cutter teeth are individually and removably secured along the outer peripheral tooth base surface thereof, each one of the plurality of cutter teeth including a body and a PDC insert manufactured separately from the body and joined therewith. Each cutter tooth of the plurality is coupled to the respective one of the plurality of vanes by a removable fastener extending at least partially through the cutter tooth and at least partially through the one of the plurality of vanes.
US11180955B1
The can holder comprises a can support for attaching to a vertical or horizontal support without tools. The can support comprises a top plate having a can surrounding hole, a can floor portion spaced from the top plate by a vertical spacer, a vertical attach portion and a horizontal attach portion. The horizontal attach portion may comprise a back leg forming a U-shaped channel generally parallel to a top plate back edge and between the back leg and the vertical spacer for attachment to a horizontal structure such as a joist or ladder rung. The vertical attach portion may comprise a U-shaped channel cut out of the top plate and a projecting tab on the can floor portion for attachment to a vertical structure such as a building stud or ladder rung. Slots and holes in top plate are adapted to hold tools.
US11180952B2
A covering for an architecture opening has a horizontal movable rail supported by cords, with a variety of configurations which allow the movable rail to be moved up and down while concealing the cords.
US11180951B2
An improved bottom rail for an architectural-structure covering is disclosed. The bottom rail includes one or more channels. In use, a first channel may receive a bottom edge of the covering while a weight channel receives a weighted, longitudinal rod therein. Additionally, and/or alternatively, the bottom rail may include pucks for retaining the weighted, longitudinal rod within the weight channel. In use, the pucks are rotatable from a first unlocked position to a second locked position. In the first position, the pucks are slidably positionable along an outer surface of the longitudinal rod. In the second position, the pucks contact the longitudinal rod to thereby exert an additional downward force onto the longitudinal rod so that the longitudinal rod is retained within the weight channel.
US11180943B2
A vehicle door system includes a vehicle door and electrically-powered linear and rotary actuators. The vehicle door system also includes a pinch sensor. Upon receiving an open door command, a controller actuates the linear actuator and then actuates the rotary actuator to open the door. The controller also actuates the linear actuator to prevent closing of the door if the pinch-sensor detects an object in a door opening. The controller actuates the rotary actuator to close the door upon receiving a close door command.
US11180942B1
A window vent stop is disclosed having a housing with a peripheral flange defining an opening, and a body depending from the peripheral flange. A stop block is mounted within the body of the housing for movement between an open position wherein a portion of the stop block protrudes above the peripheral flange and a closed position. A spring leg is located on a bottom end of the housing and flexes toward the housing when under compression, providing compressive force along a line parallel to a longitudinal axis of the housing when the window vent stop is inserted into an opening in a window sash. By applying force to further compress the spring leg, the vent stop can be readily removed from the window sash without damage.
US11180940B2
A roller with a plastic injection tube to coat the steel shaft wherein the plastic coated shaft eliminates the metal-to-metal contact that creates the noise. Closing the gap between the metal roller shaft and hinge barrel will eliminate the metal-to-metal contact resulting in a very quiet, rolling garage door. Further disclosed is an improved roller wheel having a tire made of material selected from the group consisting of urethane and urethane (PER) on which the roller will roll within a garage door track to significantly reduce the noise of the roller as it rolls inside the garage door tracks as the garage door is raised and lowered. The improved wheel include two plastic wheel sections with a gap therebetween with the tire made of urethane (PER) molded between the two sections and also extending through openings within the two wheel sections to retain the two wheel sections together.
US11180938B2
An object is to provide a hinge which can attach a supporting part for supporting rotatably a holder part easily to the holder part holding the door. A hinge comprises a holder part for holding a door (front-side body receiving a left-and-right adjustment segment and back-side body), a supporting part for supporting rotatably the holder part (resin bush inserted in a rotation shaft), and a connection part (resin catcher) for connecting the holder part to the supporting part, and the resin catcher comprises an attachment part (recesses) for attaching to the holder part and a pawl for gripping elastically the supporting part.
US11180935B2
A vehicle door lock apparatus (1) includes a latch housing (9), a latch mechanism (8), an actuating housing (7), and an actuating mechanism (6). The actuating housing (7) includes a first housing (70) made of resin joined to a second housing (80) made of resin, thereby forming a housing chamber (7A). The first housing (70) includes at least one projection (75P, 75Q, 75R, and 75S) that extends toward the second housing (80) from a proximal end (75A) to a distal end (75B). The second housing 80 includes at least one receptacle (85P, 85Q, 85R, and 85S) having a contact part (85A) welded to the distal end (75B).
US11180929B2
A lock includes an electrically powered locking mechanism operable between locked and unlocked positions, a power supply, and a controller for operating the locking mechanism between locked and unlocked positions. The controller regulates the amount of electric power supplied to the electrically powered locking mechanism and determines temperature in the vicinity of the locking mechanism, and is capable of supplying first and second levels of electric power to the electrically powered locking mechanism in accordance with the temperature in the vicinity of the locking mechanism. If the temperature in the vicinity of the locking mechanism is within a predetermined temperature range, a first level of electric power is supplied to the electrically powered locking mechanism to operate between locked and unlocked positions. If the temperature is below the predetermined temperature range, a second, lower level of electric power is supplied to the electrically powered locking mechanism.
US11180924B1
For leveling tile, a tile leveler includes a base, three full joint spacers, and a partial joint spacer. The base includes a base window that is free of obstruction in first axis. The three full joint spacers extend from the base in a proximal direction relative to the first axis and extend from the base in a distal direction relative to the first axis. The partial joint spacer extends from the base in the proximal direction along the first axis and does not extend from the base in the distal direction along the first axis.
US11180923B2
A tile spacing device and accompanying system and method are disclosed for spacing a plurality of tiles having a contour. In one embodiment of the tile spacing device, the tile spacing device includes a U-shaped band having a body with two branches extending parallel therefrom and an opening therebetween. An arm having a lateral end extends proximally from one of the branches into the opening. Two interlocking connectors are respectively positioned on the body at the opening and on the arm. In one embodiment of the system, two tile spacing devices complimentarily releasably mate when the tile spacing devices are opposing and perpendicularly displaced to interlock the interlocking connectors.
US11180921B2
A modular block toy and kit that includes a male cubic unit piece having a plurality of faces with a male node extending from each respective face of the plurality of faces, and a female piece having a plurality of faces and corners formed by three intersecting faces, the female piece having a female component formed on a respective face of each of the plurality of faces that is sized and shaped to receive a respective male node enabling connection using any side of the female piece and any side of the male piece, and in which all sides of the female and male pieces with the snapping and interlock design are identical, enabling the pieces to be snapped together using any side of the female or male piece to achieve build out indefinitely in any direction.
US11180911B1
An improved and innovative three composites seal for connect the discharge of a toilet to the drainpipe of a drainage system to provide a desirable seal is made. A toilet seal flange assembly for sealing a plumbing fixture discharge and a waste drainpipe outlet is described. The toilet seal flange assembly includes a flange member which has an inwardly extending flexible concave lip; a compressible member with an internal support ring and, a rigid member affixed to one compressible member.
US11180910B2
A toilet assembly includes a flush engine having a bowl defining a sump and a trapway extending from the sump. A bowl insert is configured to be located in the bowl and a shroud is configured to be positioned over the flush engine to conceal at least a portion of the flush engine.
US11180899B2
A debris grapple bucket attachment for securement with the loader of a compact tractor, generally used in conjunction with the front end loader of a tractor, the attachment comprising a grapple incorporating a grapple bucket for use in combination with a front rake like member, with the grapple bucket having sidewalls, a formed back wall, all structurally integrated together, with the rake like member being secured with an electrically operated industrial linear actuator, to provide for pivoting of the rake like member from an open to a closed position as when urging debris onto its grapple bucket, and to retain the same, for removal.
US11180895B2
A safety net, in particular for catching heavy loads, preferably dynamic impact bodies, in particular rocks, is formed at least to a large extent by mutually engaging net elements, and a maximum overall extension of the safety net parallel to a main extension direction of the safety net is substantially greater in an exterior region of the safety net, which in particular includes at least one outermost row of net elements, than a minimum overall extension of the safety net parallel to the main extension direction in an interior region of the safety net which differs from the exterior region.
US11180894B2
An elastic gel includes a solid component and a liquid component. The solid component is a polyurethane polymer matrix. The liquid component is a plasticizer. The liquid component includes one or more vegetable oils or chemical derivatives of vegetable oils or a mixture thereof and is comprised in cells of the polyurethane polymer matrix.
US11180893B2
A rail fastening device comprises a clip (10) having a base (11) and a nose (12) for engaging a rail flange (F). The base (11) comprises circular aperture (14) in which a circular cam (13) is rotatably mounted, the cam (13) being provided with an eccentric aperture (24) for receiving a ground anchor (25), the cam aperture (24) being radially offset from the rotational centre of the cam (13) to define a cam lobe (15). The cam (13) may comprise a ramped circumferential shoulder (18) to engage a complementary shoulder (21) inside the base aperture (14) such that any rotation of the cam (13) under the applied load of the rail causes the cam (13) to move axially of the base aperture (14) thereby tightening the engagement of the anchor (25) on the cam (13) and preventing movement of the clip (10). The degree of rotation of the cam (13) may be limited so that it can only turn in the tightening direction under load.
US11180892B2
A web of toilet tissue that includes a shaped line of weakness, wherein the toilet tissue exhibits a LWP Factor of greater than about 7, and a Geometric Mean Peak Elongation of greater than about 15%, as measured according to the Dry Tensile Strength Test Method.
US11180886B2
A drum washing machine includes a tub; a drum rotatably arranged in the tub; an agitator rotatably arranged in the drum and having a water spray hole; a drive in transmission connection with the drum via a main shaft which transmits a torque of the driver to the drum; a planetary gear assembly in transmission connection with the main shaft and the agitator and transmitting a torque of the main shaft to the agitator; and a water supply device in communication with one of the tub and a water source as well as the agitator respectively, supplying water in the tub or the water source to the agitator, and spraying the water into the drum through the water spray hole.
US11180883B2
A washing machine is disclosed. The present washing machine comprises: a motor for driving a spin-dry tub such that a maximum rotational speed of the spin-dry tub has a preset value during spin-drying; and a processor for acquiring dry clothes weight and wet clothes weight of laundry put into the spin-dry tub, determining whether the washing machine is overloaded in the spin-drying on the basis of the acquired dry clothes weight and wet clothes weight, and controlling driving of the motor such that the maximum rotational speed of the motor is a value less than the preset value during the spin-drying, if the washing machine is determined to be overloaded.
US11180881B2
Suturing device provided with casing and depression formed in the same for receiving suturing target
In a suturing device, a casing has an elongated shape extending in a longitudinal direction. A needle is positioned in the casing, is configured to hold a first thread-like member, and has a tip end reciprocally moving along a path extending between a first position and a second position positioned backward than the first position in the longitudinal direction. A depression is formed in a peripheral wall of the casing, is positioned between the first and second positions in the longitudinal direction, and is configured to expose the needle to an outside of the casing. The shuttle includes a holding portion configured to hold a second thread-like member. The shuttle is configured to move within the casing at a third position between the first position and the depression in the longitudinal direction to change relative position between the second thread-like member and a loop formed in the first thread-like member.
US11180880B2
A protective cover is made from a piece of cloth cut from a textile web that is initially held at first and second points by respective first and second devices in the vicinity of a corner near respective first and second outer edges forming the corner. The first point is then moved parallel to a plane and above of the piece of cloth to the second point at the second outer edge under entrainment of a corresponding region of the piece of cloth to form a cloth flap shaped as a right triangle having a hypotenuse extending between the points, a first leg forming an extension of the second outer edge of the piece of cloth, and a second leg. The cloth flap is then seamed along the second leg and then cut along a line of the seam. Thereafter the cover thus formed is released at the points.
US11180876B2
A thermally bonded filtration media that can be used in high temperature conditions in the absence of any loss of fiber through thermal effects or mechanical impact on the fiber components is disclosed. The filter media can be manufactured and used in a filter unit or structure, can be placed in a stream of removable fluid, and can remove a particulate load from the mobile stream at an increased temperature range. The combination of bi-component fiber, other filter media fiber, and other filtration additives provides an improved filtration media having unique properties in high temperature, high performance applications.
US11180865B2
It is an object to provide a method for producing a diamond substrate effective for reducing various defects including dislocation defects and a foundation substrate used for the same. This object is achieved by a foundation substrate for forming a diamond film by a chemical vapor deposition method, wherein an off angle is provided to the surface of the foundation substrate with respect to a predetermined crystal plane orientation.
US11180857B2
A method for producing a porous member, whereby a member having smaller microgaps can be produced, and additionally, the outermost surface alone can be made porous and a porous layer can be formed on the surface while maintaining the characteristics of portions in which no porous layer is formed, is provided.
US11180852B2
The present invention is in the field of processes for the generation of thin inorganic films on substrates, in particular atomic layer deposition processes. The present invention relates to a process for the generation of inorganic films comprising depositing the compound of general formula (I) onto a solid substrate (I), wherein M is Mn, Ni or Co, X is a ligand which coordinates M, n is 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, R1 is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a halogen, or a silyl group, R2 is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, or a silyl group, p and q are 1 or 2, wherein p+q=3, and m is 1, 2, or 3.
US11180845B2
A device for laser-induced marking of an article having a marking surface comprising a non-flat portion to be marked, the device comprising: a first laser unit for emitting and scanning first laser light over a first transfer area; a first foil unit for providing a first laser transfer foil at the first transfer area; a carrier for providing the article at the first transfer area, the article having a marking surface comprising a non-flat surface area; a first hard adaptor that is transparent for the first laser light, the first hard adapter having a first contacting surface that is essentially a negative of the non-flat surface area of the marking surface; and a contacting unit for bringing the first laser transfer foil in contact with the marking surface by causing the first contacting surface to move one of the first laser transfer foil and the marking surface towards one another.
US11180841B2
A soft magnetic material comprises a plurality of iron-containing particles and an insulating layer on the iron-containing particles, the insulating layer comprising an oxide. The soft magnetic material is an aggregate of permeable micro-domains separated by insulation boundaries.
US11180837B2
A hot stamped article of high strength steel sheet excellent in bending deformability having a predetermined chemical composition, having an area rate of 90% or more of the microstructures of the steel sheet comprised of one or more of lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite, and having a ratio of the length of grain boundaries with a rotational angle about a rotational axis of the <011> direction of the crystal grains of the lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite of 15° or more with respect to the length of grain boundaries with a rotational angle of 5° to 75° of 80% or more.
US11180833B2
There is provided a Cr-based two-phase alloy including two phases of a ferrite phase and an austenite phase that are mixed with each other. A chemical composition of the Cr-based two-phase alloy consists of a main component, an auxiliary component, impurities, a first optional auxiliary component, and a second optional auxiliary component. The main component consists of 33-61 mass % Cr, 18-40 mass % Ni and 10-33 mass % Fe, and a total content of the Ni and the Fe is 37-65 mass %. The auxiliary component consists of 0.1-2 mass % Mn, 0.1-1 mass % Si, 0.005-0.05 mass % Al, and 0.02-0.3 mass % Sn. The impurities include 0.04 mass % or less of P, 0.01 mass % or less of S, 0.03 mass % or less of C, 0.04 mass % or less of N, and 0.05 mass % or less of O.
US11180830B2
The invention relates to gamma, gamma'-cobalt-based alloys for additive manufacturing methods or soldering, welding, powder and component. By using a cobalt-based alloy based on Co-7W-7 Al-23Ni-2Ti-2Ta-12Cr-0.0IB-0.IC-(0-0.1Si), an alloy that is especially well-suited for additive manufacturing methods or high-temperature soldering is proposed.
US11180827B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing ferrovanadium alloys based on aluminothermic self-propagating gradient reduction and slag washing refining. The method includes the steps of (1) performing aluminothermic self-propagating gradient reduction; (2) performing heat preserving and smelting to obtain an upper layer alumina-based slag and a lower layer alloy melt; (3) jetting refining slags into the lower layer alloy melt, and performing stirring and slag washing refining; and (4) cooling the refined high-temperature melt to room temperature, and removing an upper layer smelting slag to obtain the ferrovanadium alloys.
US11180826B2
The present invention provides an additive for tin stripping, comprising 0.1 to 20 wt % of copper corrosion inhibitor and 0.1 to 20 wt % of nickel corrosion inhibitor; wherein said weight percentage is based on the total weight of said additive. The present additive can be used with nitric acid conventionally used for metal-stripping for not only reducing the usage of nitric acid but also improving the efficiency of tin stripping. The present invention also provides a method for Tin recycle and a reaction tank for metal recycle. Both of them are favorable for satisfying the needs of metal recycle (especially, tin recycle) in the field.
US11180825B2
A process for the depression of iron sulphides and other disposable elements in the mineral concentration by flotation and electrochemical reactor. The proposed invention represents a method based on the action of electrodes on the mineral, which can replace, compliment or minimise the consumption of chemical reagents, as well as improving the effect thereof.
US11180824B2
A hot stamped article excellent in strength having a predetermined composition, having an average crystal grain size of prior austenite of 3 μm or less, containing at least one of lower bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite in an area rate of 90% or more, and having a grain boundary solid solution ratio Z, defined by Z=(mass % of one or both of Nb and Mo at the grain boundaries)/(mass % of one or more of Nb and Mo at time of dissolution) of 0.3 or more.
US11180822B2
Disclosed is provided a low yield ratio and superhigh-strength hot-rolled Q&P steel and a method for manufacturing the same, having the following chemical composition in weight percentage: C: 0.2-0.3%, Si: 1.0-2.0%, Mn: 1.5-2.5%, P: ≤0.015%, S: ≤0.005%, Al: 0.5-1.0%, N: ≤0.006%, Nb: 0.02-0.06%, Ti: ≤0.03%, O: ≤0.003%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The manufacture method comprises a stepped cooling process to finally obtain the steel with a three-phase structure containing a certain volume fraction of proeutectoid ferrite; martensite; and residual austenite, and having an excellent comprehensive performance with a yield strength of ≥600 MPa, a tensile strength of ≥1300 MPa, a good elongation, and a low yield ratio. The obtained Q&P steel also shows an excellent match of high plasticity suitable for easy deformabilities and wear-resistances.
US11180817B2
Provided is a water-based quenching liquid composition which is slow in a cooling rate and is able to suppress quenching crack. The water-based quenching liquid composition is one containing water (A), a linear polyalkylene glycol compound (B), and a branched polyhydric alcohol alkylene oxide adduct (C), wherein the linear polyalkylene glycol compound (B) has a mass average molecular weight of 10,000 or more, and the branched polyhydric alcohol alkylene oxide adduct (C) is a mixed adduct of alkylene oxides having 2 to 3 carbon atoms and has a mass average molecular weight of 10,000 or more.
US11180812B2
The present invention is directed to methods of diagnosing, prognosing, and monitoring cancer in a subject. These methods involves selecting a subject having cancer, and obtaining, from the selected subject, a sample containing exosomal DNA. The presence or absence of one or more mutations in BRAF and/or EGFR is detected in the exosomal DNA sample from the subject, and a diagnosis and/or prognosis of the cancer is given based on the detection of the one or more mutations in BRAF and/or EGFR. The present invention further relates to methods of treating a subject having cancer and/or monitoring a subject response to therapy based on the detection of one or more mutations in BRAF and/or EGFR in the exosomal DNA sample.
US11180810B2
This disclosure provides kits and methods for determining whether a subject is suffering from a liver disease, and/or whether the subject will be a responsive to a therapy for a liver disease. The disclosed methods comprise determining the miR profile of exosomes isolated from a body fluid of the subject.
US11180797B2
An object is to provide a component for molecular Computing and a method of molecular Computing. A component for molecular Computing, the component comprising: a microsphere including pores, at least some of which are open on a surface of the microsphere, and a plurality of modules grafted on the microsphere wherein each of the modules is a continuous séquence of nucleic acid base. A method of molecular Computing with a component comprising a microsphere including pores, at least some of which are open on a surface of the microsphere, and a plurality of modules grafted on the microsphere wherein each of the modules is a DNA strand, the method comprising steps of: designing the modules to create a molecular program! attaching the modules to the microsphere! bringing the microsphere into contact with a solution containing a mixture of enzymes! and incubating the microsphere with the modules at a constant température so that DNA production and exchange happen locally between the grafted modules according to the molecular program.
US11180786B2
The present invention provides an improved process of treating crop kernels to provide a starch product of high quality suitable for conversion of starch into mono- and oligosaccharides, ethanol, sweeteners. The present invention also provides polypeptides having GH10 xylanase activity, polypeptides having GH62 arabinofuranosidase activity and the uses thereof.
US11180780B2
A non-naturally occurring microbial organism includes a microbial organism having a 1,3-butanediol (1,3-BDO) pathway having at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a 1,3-BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce 1,3-BDO. The pathway includes an enzyme selected from a 2-amino-4-ketopentanoate (AKP) thiolase, an AKP dehydrogenase, a 2-amino-4-hydroxypentanoate aminotransferase, a 2-amino-4-hydroxypentanoate oxidoreductase (deaminating), a 2-oxo-4-hydroxypentanoate decarboxylase, a 3-hydroxybutyraldehyde reductase, an AKP aminotransferase, an AKP oxidoreductase (deaminating), a 2,4-dioxopentanoate decarboxylase, a 3-oxobutyraldehyde reductase (ketone reducing), a 3-oxobutyraldehyde reductase (aldehyde reducing), a 4-hydroxy-2-butanone reductase, an AKP decarboxylase, a 4-aminobutan-2-one aminotransferase, a 4-aminobutan-2-one oxidoreductase (deaminating), a 4-aminobutan-2-one ammonia-lyase, a butenone hydratase, an AKP ammonia-lyase, an acetylacrylate decarboxylase, an acetoacetyl-CoA reductase (CoA-dependent, aldehyde forming), an acetoacetyl-CoA reductase (CoA-dependent, alcohol forming), an acetoacetyl-CoA reductase (ketone reducing), a 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA reductase (aldehyde forming), a 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA reductase (alcohol forming), a 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydratase, and a crotonase. A method for producing 1,3-BDO, includes culturing such microbial organisms under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce 1,3-BDO.
US11180768B2
The invention provides DNA molecules and constructs, including their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants and plant cells. Transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, seeds, and commodity products comprising the DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable polynucleotides are also provided, as are methods of their use.
US11180762B2
Described herein are methods and compositions relating to the treatment of cancer, e.g., breast cancer, using, e.g., aptamer-siRNA chimera molecules.
US11180749B2
A method for separating a target allele from a mixture of nucleic acids by (a) providing a mixture of nucleic acids in fluidic contact with a stabilized ternary complex that is attached to a solid support, wherein the stabilized ternary complex includes a polymerase, primed nucleic acid template, and next correct nucleotide, wherein the template has a target allele, wherein the next correct nucleotide is a cognate nucleotide for the target allele, and wherein the stabilized ternary complex is attached to the solid support via a linkage between the polymerase and the solid support or via a linkage between the next correct nucleotide and the solid support; and (b) separating the solid support from the mixture of nucleic acids, thereby separating the target allele from the mixture of nucleic acids.
US11180747B2
The present disclosure relates to engineered penicillin G acylase (PGA) enzymes having improved properties, polynucleotides encoding such enzymes, compositions including the enzymes, and methods of using the enzymes.
US11180740B2
Reaction compositions are disclosed herein comprising at least water, alpha-glucose-1-phosphate (alpha-G1P), an acceptor molecule, and a beta-1,3-glucan phosphorylase enzyme. These reactions can synthesize oligosaccharides and polysaccharides with beta-1,3 glycosidic linkages. Further disclosed are methods of isolating beta-1,3-glucan.
US11180737B2
Compositions and methods to prepare influenza virus-like particles (VLPs) are provided.
US11180735B2
Functional in vitro assays are provided for determining patient specific responsiveness to immunotherapy agents within a clinically actionable time frame.
US11180732B2
Disclosed is a cell-derived extracellular matrix (ECM) derived in vitro from cells isolated from amniotic fluid, and methods of use for the isolation, maintenance, and proliferation of adherent cells including stem cells, as well as for the differentiation of stem cells.
US11180719B2
The invention relates to the use of a non-aqueous composition comprising an organic solvent and at least one particular siloxane-type additive for treating substrates comprising patterns having line-space dimensions of 50 nm or below and aspect ratios of 4 or more as well as a method for manufacturing integrated circuit devices, optical devices, micromachines and mechanical precision devices, the said method comprising the steps of (1) providing a substrate having patterned material layers having line-space dimensions of 50 nm, aspect ratios of greater or equal 4, or a combination thereof, (2) contacting the substrate at least once with a non-aqueous composition, and (3) removing the non-aqueous composition from the contact with the substrate, wherein the non-aqueous composition comprising an organic solvent and at least one of such siloxane-type additives.
US11180715B2
The present invention relates to a sprayable cleaning composition. More specifically, the present invention relates to a sprayable cleaning composition including a surfactant system, a non-ionic surfactant and a specific glycol ether solvent, wherein the surfactant system and the glycol ether solvent are in a weight ratio of from 5:1 to 1:5. The composition is substantially non-irritating and/or non-stinging when sprayed from a spray dispenser.
US11180709B2
Disclosed are functional fluids such as automotive engine transmission fluids, clutch fluids, gearbox fluids, electric motor fluids, and/or battery packing cooling fluids comprising a low-viscosity, low-volatility Polyalpha-olefin base stock, and processes for lubricating and/or cooling an engine transmission, an electric motor, and/or a battery packing using such functional fluids.
US11180708B2
Disclosed is a method for using cold rolling magnetic filtration waste, comprising using the cold rolling magnetic filtration waste as a fluxing agent for a high-ash-fusion coal so as to achieve the technical requirements of a high melting point coal in dry coal powder gasification and liquid slagging. The cold rolling magnetic filtration waste contains solid particulates with very fine particles (iron-containing particles mainly produced by friction), and the surface thereof has a cold rolling oil attached thereto, and same reacts with other aluminosilicates in coal ash at a high temperature to produce low temperature eutectic compounds such as fayalite (Fe2SiO4) and hercynite (Fe2Al2O4). The fluxing agent has characteristics such as having fine particles, being free of inorganic mineral substances, having an effective ingredient in a high content, operation thereof being simple, and being free of pollution.
US11180707B2
A system and method for duplicating a flammable gas (SDFG) that utilizes a specially engineered liquid in combination with a purpose-built container to duplicate the flammable gas is disclosed. There are three methods for the production of an engineered liquid for use in the system. In less than one hour, a single unit of any flammable or hydrocarbon gas will yield up to at least double the quantity of the same gas back.
US11180705B2
A method comprising the steps of feeding condensate to a splitter unit; directing the resulting naphtha product to a naphtha hydrotreater and the resulting diesel product to a diesel hydrotreater; directing ULSD product from the diesel hydrotreater to ULSD storage and naphtha product from the diesel hydrotreater to the naphtha hydrotreater; directing treated naphtha product from the naphtha hydrotreater to a naphtha splitter; isomerizing the light naphtha product and reforming the heavy naphtha product; sending the isomerate and the reformate to a gasoline separator; directing the products to storage.
US11180699B1
A system for producing primarily diesel with some heavy fuel from plastic feedstock is described. The feedstock is received into a pyrolizer. There are two zones in the pyrolizer—one where the temperature is elevated during conveyance, and a second where the temperature is maintained. A distillation vessel receives fuel oils from the pyrolizer and agitates the oils at high temperature. A hydrogenation vessel then mixes the fuel liquid with H2 at a high pressure while recirculating to and from an expansion vessel to create converted fuel oil. A diesel distillation tank receives the converted fuel oil and creates diesel gas, which is then condensed to form a usable diesel product. Any remaining fuel oil is sent the heavy fuel oil tank.
US11180697B2
Described herein is an etching solution suitable for the selective removal of polysilicon over silicon oxide from a microelectronic device, which comprises: water; at least one of a quaternary ammonium hydroxide compound; optionally at least one alkanolamine compound; a water-miscible solvent; at least one nitrogen containing compound selected from the group consisting of a C4-12 alkylamine, a polyalkylenimine, a polyamine, a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound, a nitrogen-containing aromatic compound, or a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic and aromatic compound; and optionally, a surfactant.
US11180696B2
This disclosure concerns a method of making a ligand for Quantum Dot functionalization, a method of making a functionalized Quantum Dot (QD) with a ligand, and a method of making a transparent luminescent quantum dot thiol-yne nanocomposite with tailorable optical, thermal, and mechanical properties. The prepolymer solution and functionalized Quantum Dot can be used in additive manufacturing.
US11180683B1
An ignition-suppressing tape for sealing cut edges of polymer panels, the tape having a backing strip and a sealant strip that is disposed on a portion of a surface of the backing strip, and a pressure sensitive adhesive is disposed on other portions of the same surface of the backing strip.
US11180681B2
Described herein is an actinically curable adhesive composition, suitable for sealing flexible packaging, that includes an inert urethane polymer and an ethylenically unsaturated monomer component selected from at least one monofunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer, at least one multifunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and a combination thereof, wherein the ethylenically unsaturated monomer component disperses the inert urethane polymer. The compositions are suitable for forming flexible packaging materials for foods and other materials, particularly sensitive materials. Also described are flexible packaging materials and a method for preparing an actinically curable adhesive composition.
US11180680B2
This composition contains (A) 100 parts of an organopolysiloxane having two groups represented by general formula (1) (R1 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1-20 carbon atoms, R2 represents an oxygen atom or the like, R3 represents an acryloyloxyalkyl group or the like, p represents a number satisfying 0≤p≤10, and “a” represents a number satisfying 1≤a≤3) per molecule, (B) 1-500 parts of a monofunctional (meth)acrylate compound not containing a siloxane structure, (C) 1-5,000 parts of an organopolysiloxane resin containing (a) an R43SiO1/2 unit (in the formula, R4 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1-10 carbon atoms) and (b) a SiO4/2 unit, where the molar ratio of the unit (a) to the unit (b) is in the range of 0.6 to 1.2:1, (D) 1-100 parts of fine powder silica, and (E) 0.01-20 parts of an optical polymerization initiator. The compound has good shape retention properties and curability for irradiation with ultraviolet light, and provides a cured product which has excellent adhesion suitable for a temporary fixing material.
US11180676B2
The present disclosure relates to a glass cleaning agent, a self-cleaning glass, and preparation methods thereof. The cleaning agent for a glass includes, by weight percentage, 40% to 65% of silicone monomer, 10% to 20% of a first silane coupling agent, 5% to 15% of a second silane coupling agent, 0.1% to 2% of organic tin catalyst, and 5% to 20% of crosslinking agent. The first silane coupling agent is at least one selected from the group consisting of γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane and N-(β-aminoethyl)-γ-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane. The second silane coupling agent is γ-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane.
US11180673B2
A conductive structure is provided. The conductive ink composition includes a silver complex formed by mixing a silver carboxylate, at least one dissolving agent that dissolves the silver carboxylate, and a catalyst. The catalyst includes an amine that decarboxylates the silver carboxylate to make the conductive ink composition. The catalyst decarboxylates the silver carboxylate at a temperature of 100° C. or less. An ink composition comprising a metallic salt with a sterically bulky counter ion and a ligand is also provided. An ink composition for milking a conductive structure, comprising a reducible metal complex formed by mixing: a reducing agent, wherein the reducing agent is dissolved in a dissolving agent; and at least one metal salt or metal complex comprising a Group 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12 metal, wherein the reducing agent reduces the metal to form the conductive structures farther provided.
US11180667B2
Disclosed is a matte golf ball paint composition that provides a solution to the problem with a golf ball having a difficulty of taking on the original color of the cover due to scattering of the color incurred during the injection molding of the ball, thus helping deliver the original color of the cover; a matte golf ball that not only takes on the original color of the cover but also provides a combination of improved driving distance, spin, and control; and a method for manufacturing a matte golf ball with excellent weather resistance, water resistance, yellowing resistance, and abrasion resistance.
US11180663B2
A thickness-detecting bond primer is disclosed. In various embodiments, the thickness-detecting bond primer includes a solvent configured for application to a metallic surface; and a dye dispersed within the solvent, the dye having a concentration within a range of about 0.001 weight percent to about 5.0 weight percent of the thickness-detecting bond primer.
US11180655B2
The present invention relates to a polymer alloy comprising a sulphur-containing aromatic polymer and at least one thermoplastic vulcanizate which has an improved dispersibility, to a process for the preparation thereof and to articles comprising the same.
US11180650B2
A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention comprises: a base resin comprising a rubber modified vinyl-based graft copolymer, a large-diameter rubbery polymer having an average particle size of approximately 3,000-8,000 nm, and an aromatic vinyl-based copolymer resin; and zinc oxide having an average particle size of approximately 0.5-3 μm and a specific surface area BET of approximately 1-10 m2/g. The thermoplastic resin composition has an excellent low gloss property, antibacterial property and the like.
US11180648B2
The invention pertains to a fluoropolymer composition based on a combination of a thermoplastic fluoropolymer and a fluorinated thermoplastic elastomer, possessing improved impact resistance and outstanding flammability behaviour, to a method of making the same, and to a method of manufacturing shaped parts using the same, and to a method of manufacturing a mobile electronic device using said parts.
US11180647B2
The present invention provides a polyvinyl chloride-based rigid molded product containing 10 to 40 parts by weight of calcium carbonate having an average primary particle size of 0.01 to 0.3 μm per 100 parts by weight of a polyvinyl chloride-based resin having an average polymerization degree of 500 to 1,500, wherein a variation coefficient of the number of calcium carbonate particles in partitioning analysis of a cross section of the molded product is 15% or less, and a method for manufacturing the same.
US11180639B2
The present invention provides a process for making a silica masterbatch that contains hydrophobated silica, solution-made rubber and emulsion-made rubber. Hydrophobated silica is mixed into a latex emulsion. Solution-rubber crumb in an aqueous suspension is mixed into the latex emulsion, which is coagulated, and a crumb is recovered, further homogenized, dried and baled to yield the silica masterbatch. A well-dispersed mixture of hydrophobated silica and emulsion-made rubber is added into a steam distillation step of a solution-rubber process from which a silica masterbatch is recovered. The emulsion-made rubber can be omitted to make a silica masterbatch of solution rubber and silica without emulsion rubber. The silica masterbatch has physical properties similar to those found in a comparable dry-mixed composition, but the silica masterbatch can be incorporated more easily and less expensively into tires and other rubber products than the dry-mixed composition.
US11180638B2
A resin-reinforcing filler of the present invention includes: plate-like, spherical, or fibrous filler substrates; and a coating covering at least a portion of a surface of each of the substrates. The coating contains nanofibers having an average fiber width of 1 nm to 900 nm.
US11180636B2
The present invention is directed to a functionalized polymerization initiator, comprising the reaction product of an alkyl lithium compound and a compound of formula 1 wherein R1=alkyl (C1-C8), aryl, substituted aryl, or —SiR3 where R3 are independently C1-C8 alkyl, preferably —SiMe3 where Me is methyl, or —Si(CH3)2C(CH3)3; R2=C1-C8 alkyl, aryl, or substituted aryl, or —SiR3, preferably —CH3; and n=0-3. The invention is further directed to a method of making the functionalized inititiator, and a method of making a functionalized elastomer using the inititator.
US11180634B2
The present invention provides a rubber composition for a tire, the rubber composition containing: a diene rubber; silica; and a heterocyclic compound (where, the heterocyclic compound does not have a silicon atom) having a hydrocarbon group having from 3 to 30 carbons and at least one type of heterocycle selected from the group consisting of a piperazine ring, a morpholine ring, and a thiomorpholine ring; an average glass transition temperature of the diene rubber being −50° C. or higher; a content of the silica being from 80 to 200 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber; and a content of the heterocyclic compound being from 0.5 to 20% by mass with respect to the content of the silica. Such rubber composition has excellent processability, exhibits excellent wet grip performance and has low rolling resistance when the rubber composition is formed into a tire.
US11180625B2
Porous polymeric materials having a very high content of thermally conductive and/or electrically conductive fillers. Process for the preparation of the porous composite material including at least one binder-forming polymeric phase and one or more fillers, this process including the stages of hot mixing, by the molten route, the polymeric phase, the fillers and a sacrificial polymeric phase, so as to obtain a mixture, of shaping the mixture and of removing the sacrificial polymeric phase.
US11180619B2
A polymer composition with a polymer of ethylene with a comonomer with silane group(s) containing units and an additive that is an organic compound with at least one amine moiety that has a gel content less than 10 wt % after 7 days at ambient conditions and a gel content of at least 15 wt % gel content after 14 days at 100° C. The film can be used in a laminate.
US11180616B2
Methods of making blended, isoporous, asymmetric (graded) films (e.g. ultrafiltration membranes) comprising two or more chemically distinct block copolymers and blended, isoporous, asymmetric (graded) films (e.g. ultrafiltration membranes) comprising two or more chemically distinct block copolymers. The generation of blended membranes by mixing two chemically distinct block copolymers in the casting solution demonstrates a pathway to advanced asymmetric block copolymer derived films, which can be used as ultrafiltration membranes, in which different pore surface chemistries and associated functionalities can be integrated into a single membrane via standard membrane fabrication, i.e. without requiring laborious post-fabrication modification steps. The block copolymers may be diblock, triblock and/or multiblock mixes and some block copolymers in the mix may be functionally modified. Triblock copolymers comprising a reactive group (e.g., sulfhydryl group) terminated block and films comprising the triblock copolymers.
US11180614B2
A compound represented by the formula (1) is described, which has a linear polysiloxane structure at the end, a polymerizable group at the other end, and a polyether group or a hydrophilic group as a side chain bounded to a linking group which is represented by -(L1)a-CH-L2- in the formula (1) and exists between the polysiloxane structure and the terminal polymerizable group. The compound has excellent compatibility with a hydrophilic monomer, and the surface wettability of hydrogel obtained from the compound as a monomer is improved. Methods are also described for preparing the polysiloxane monomer compound, a polymer having a repeating unit derived from the polymerization at the (meth)acryl group of the polysiloxane monomer compound, and an ophthalmic device containing the polymer.
US11180601B2
The present disclosure is drawn to polyurethane dispersions. In one example, a polyurethane dispersion can include a polyurethane with a polymeric ionic side chain and a polymeric non-ionic side chain. The polyurethane can be formed of polymerized monomers including a diisocyanate, a first polymeric diol, and a second polymeric diol. The first polymeric diol can include a first polymer chain replacing a hydrogen atom of a thiol group of a 1-thioglycerol molecule. The first polymer chain can include a block of a polymerized ionic group-containing vinyl monomer. The second polymeric diol can include a second polymer chain replacing a hydrogen atom of a thiol group of a 1-thioglycerol molecule. The second polymer chain can include a block of a polymerized non-ionic vinyl monomer, and the second polymer chain can be devoid of ionic groups.
US11180600B2
A two-part curable urethane composition comprising a main agent (A) and a curing agent (B), wherein the main agent (A) contains a urethane prepolymer (a), an isocyanurate-modified polyisocyanate compound (b), and a silane coupling agent (c) at a specified ratio by mass; and the curing agent (B) contains a polyether polyol (d), a polyether polyol having 4 or more hydroxy groups (e), and an amine catalyst (f) at a specified ratio by mass.
US11180599B2
The present invention relates to a reaction mixture including one or more polyfunctional isocyanates such that the average isocyanate functionality of the mixture is greater than 2.1, and a catalyst composition including at least one trimerization catalyst and at least one epoxide group; and curing the reaction mixture to give a cured polymer composition made up of the reaction product of isocyanates with themselves.
US11180592B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing of partially fluorinated polymers, notably vinylidene fluoride (VDF)-based polymers, in emulsion polymerization, and to a polymer obtained from said method.
US11180591B2
Provided is a process of making a collection of polymeric beads, wherein the beads comprise (i) 75 to 99.7% by weight, based on the weight of the bead, polymerized units of monofunctional vinyl monomer, and (ii) 0.3 to 25% by weight, based on the weight of the bead, polymerized units of multifunctional vinyl monomer; wherein the process comprises (a) providing an aqueous suspension of monomer droplets comprising initiator, multifunctional vinyl monomer, and monofunctional vinyl monomer; (b) initiating polymerization of the monomer in the monomer droplets; (c) while the polymerization of the monomer in the monomer droplets is occurring, adding a monomer feed solution to the suspension.
US11180584B2
To provide a method for producing a styrene resin having a syndiotactic structure, including performing addition polymerization of one or more of a vinyl aromatic monomer in the presence of a catalyst containing a half metallocene transition metal compound (A) having at least one kind selected from metals of groups 3 to 5 of the periodic table and lanthanoid transition metals as a central metal, a compound (B) represented by the general formula (1), and a compound (C) selected from at least one kind of an oxygen-containing compound (c1) and a compound (c2) capable of forming an ionic complex through reaction with a transition metal compound, the styrene resin produced having a transition metal content derived from the half metallocene transition metal compound (A) of 1.5 to 12 ppm by mass.
US11180583B2
The present invention relates to a polyalphaolefin having a uniform structure and a method of preparing the same, and more particularly to a method of preparing polyalphaolefin having a uniform comb-like structure by minimizing the formation of short chain branches, which deteriorate the properties of lubricant base oil, using a homogeneous single-active-site metallocene catalyst, an organometallic compound cocatalyst and an organoboron compound promoter.
US11180579B2
An active energy ray-curable composition is disclosed including: an anionically polymerizable compound represented by (1): wherein EWG represents an electron-withdrawing group, X represents a single bond or an oxygen atom (—O—), R represents an n-valent organic group, and n represents an integer of 1 to 6; when n is an integer of 2 to 6, the respective EWG and the respective X may be the same or different; and when n is 1, EWG and R may be bonded; and a compound (photobase generator) represented by (2): wherein ring A represents an aromatic ring that may be substituted or a heteroaromatic ring that may be substituted; R1 and R2 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R1 and R2 may be bonded to each other to form a ring together with an adjacent nitrogen atom; and the ring may be substituted.
US11180577B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards methods for rating polymerization processes based upon a first cracking index value and a second cracking index value.
US11180571B2
The present invention generally relates to antibodies that bind to STEAP-1, including bispecific antigen binding molecules e.g. for activating T cells. In addition, the present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding such antibodies, and vectors and host cells comprising such polynucleotides. The invention further relates to methods for producing the antibodies, and to methods of using them in the treatment of disease.
US11180552B2
Humanized antibodies, including masked antibodies that specifically bind to CD47 are provided. Methods for using anti-CD47 antibodies, including masked antibodies, to modulate activity of (e.g., inhibit proliferation of) a CD47-expressing cell, as well as for the treatment of one or more diseases or disorders (e.g., cancer) associated with CD47-expressing cells, are provided.
US11180549B2
Anti-IL-6 antibodies and antirheumatics are useful to treat and suppress IL-6 related conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
US11180548B2
One nonexclusive aspect provides molecules further improved from antibodies that can bind to antigens in an ion concentration-dependent manner. An alternative nonexclusive aspect provides safe and more advantageous Fc region variants that have decreased binding to pre-existing ADA. An alternative nonexclusive aspect provides novel IL-8 antibodies that are superior as pharmaceuticals.
US11180544B2
A method of producing an antibody fragment for a target antigen includes administering an immunizing mixture containing the target antigen to a cartilaginous fish for at least two times; collecting a blood sample from the cartilaginous fish; extracting RNAs from the blood sample; subjecting said RNAs to reverse transcription to obtain a complementary DNA, and optionally amplifying the cDNA to obtain a mixture of amplified cDNAs followed by purification. Also covered are methods of producing an antibody fragment from a shark; antibody fragments obtained from the method; a kit comprising antibody fragments; and methods of determining the presence and/or amount of a target antigen in a sample.
US11180539B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition or food or drink composition comprising an active ingredient that suppresses functional expression of Oscar protein. Another object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition or food composition for preventing or treating kidney disease. A further object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition or food or drink composition that suppresses functional expression of Oscar in a living organism in order to suppress functional expression of FGF23. A still further object of the present invention is to provide a method for evaluating an effect, in the body, of an active ingredient that suppresses functional expression of Oscar protein. The above objects are achieved by at least one member selected from the group consisting of antagonists of the Oscar protein; genome editing systems that target Oscar gene; at least one RNA molecule selected from the group consisting of siRNA, shRNA, and miRNA that target Oscar mRNA, or vectors capable of expressing the RNA molecule; and antibodies that specifically bind to the Oscar protein and suppress function of the Oscar.
US11180514B2
Systems and methods for mechanosynthesis are disclosed, including those that avoid the need for a bootstrap process, avoid the need to build tips via mechanosynthesis, avoid the need for charging tips with feedstock during a build sequence, avoid the need to dispose of reaction byproducts, which reduce the design complexity of new tips, and/or which reduce or avoid the need for multiple positional means and/or tip switching.
US11180495B2
This application describes a nitrogen heteroaryl derivative having CSF1R inhibitory activity, and a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. Compounds in the present invention has a structure represented by formula (I) as below, and the definition on substituents is as stated in the description and the claims. The compounds in the this application can be widely applied to preparation of drugs for treating cancer, tumor, autoimmune disease, metabolic disease, or metastatic disease, in particular ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, glioblastoma, multiple myeloma, metabolic disease, neurodegenerative disease, metastasis of primary tumor sites, or osseous metastatic cancer, and a new generation of CSF1R inhibitor drugs is expected to be developed.
US11180488B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (Ia) or (Ib) or a stereoisomer, tautomer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein X1, X2, X3, and X4 are each independently CR6 or N; provided that no more than two of X1, X2, X3, or X4 are N; L is C1-4 alkylene substituted with 0 to 4 R7; R1 is (—CH2)aR9; a is an integer of 0 or 1; R2 is each independently halo, cyano, hydroxyl, amino, C1-6 alkyl, C3-6 cycloalkyl, C4-6 heterocyclyl, alkylamino, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxy, alkoxyalkyl, haloalkoxyallcyl, or haloalkoxy; n is an integer of 0, 1, or 2; R3 is hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 deuterated alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, haloalkoxyalkyl, alkoxy, or haloalkoxy, and the alkyl, by itself or as part of other moiety, is optionally substituted with deuterium partially or fully; R4 is C1-10 alkyl, C1-10 deuterated alkyl, C1-10 haloalkyl, C1-10 alkenyl, C3-8 cycloalkyl, 6 to 10-membered aryl, 3 to 8-membered heterocyclyl, —(C1-6 alkylene)-(C3-8 cycloalkyl), —(C1-6 alkylene)-(6 to 10-membered aryl), —(C1-6 alkylene)-(3 to 8-membered heterocyclyl), or —(C1-6 alkylene)-(5 to 6-membered heteroaryl); wherein each of the alkyl, alkylene, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heterocyclyl, and heteroaryl, by itself or as part of other moiety, is independently substituted with 0 to 3 R8; or alternatively, R3 and R4, taken together with the N atom to which they are attached, form a 4 to 9-membered heterocyclic ring moiety which is substituted with 0 to 3 R; R5 and R6 are each independently hydrogen, halo, cyano, hydroxyl, amino, C1-6 alkyl, alkylamino, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, haloalkoxyalkyl, alkoxy, or haloalkoxy; R7 is halo, oxo, cyano, hydroxyl, amino, C1-6 alkyl, C3-6 cycloalkyl, C4-6 heterocyclyl, alkylamino, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, haloalkoxyalkyl, alkoxy, or haloalkoxy; R8 are each independently deuterium, halo, hydroxyl, amino, cyano, C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 deuterated alkyl, C2-6 alkenyl, C2-6 alkynyl, alkylamino, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, haloalkoxyalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, phenyl, or 5 to 6-membered heteroaryl; or alternatively, two R8, taken together with the atoms to which they are attached, form a 3 to 6-membered carbocyclic ring or a 3 to 6-membered heterocyclic ring each of which is independently substituted with 0 to 3 R12; R9 is selected from —CN, —C(O)OR10, —C(O)NR11aR11b, —CO—NH—CO—Re, —CO—NH—SO2—Re, —CO—NH—SO—Re, —SO2—OH, —SO2—NH—CO—Re, —P(O)(OH)2, tetrazol-5-yl, —CH2—CO—NH—CO—Re, —CH2—CO—NH—SO2—Re, CH2—CO—NH—SO—Re, —CH2—SO2—OH, —CH2—SO2—NH—CO—Re, —CH2—P(O)(OH)2, tetrazol-5-ylmethylene; Re is C1-6 alkyl, C3-6 cycloalkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, or haloalkoxyalkyl; R10 is hydrogen or C1-10 alkyl; and R11a and R11b are each independently hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, C3-6 cycloalkyl, C4-6 heterocyclyl, alkylamino, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, haloalkoxyalkyl, alkoxy, or haloalkoxy; and R12 is halo, cyano, hydroxyl, amino, C1-6alkyl, alkylamino, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, haloalkoxyalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, phenyl, or 5 to 6-membered heteroaryl. These compounds are selective LPA receptor inhibitors.
US11180487B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical agents of formula (I) useful for therapy and/or prophylaxis in a mammal, and in particular to inhibitors of NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK—also known as MAP3K14) useful for treating diseases such as cancer, inflammatory disorders, metabolic disorders and autoimmune disorders. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and to the use of such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions for the prevention or treatment of diseases such as cancer, inflammatory disorders, metabolic disorders including obesity and diabetes, and autoimmune disorders.
US11180483B2
Amine substituted reverse pyrimidine compounds and forms thereof that inhibit the function and reduce the level of B-cell specific Moloney murine leukemia virus integration site 1 (Bmi-1) protein and methods for their use to inhibit Bmi-1 function and reduce the level of Bmi-1 to treat a cancer mediated by Bmi-1 are described herein.
US11180481B2
The present invention relates to oligooxopiperazines for modulating the p53-Mdm2 interaction. Exemplary oligooxopiperazines include those of Formula IA, Formula IB, and Formula IC below (wherein the various substituents are as defined herein). Methods of using the oligooxopiperazines are also disclosed.
US11180473B2
Provided are compounds that target plexin domain containing 2 (PLXDC2). The compounds can be used to treat conditions such as inflammatory or immune-mediated diseases, diabetes, infectious diseases, and cancers. The compounds can be used to treat such specific conditions as systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune encephalitis, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, psoriasis, and inflammatory bowel disease, among other conditions.
US11180466B2
The invention relates to a compound of general formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, Q, m and n are as defined herein. The compounds are inhibitors of Bcl-3 and are useful for the treatment of cancer, particularly metastatic cancer.
US11180465B2
The invention relates to 1,5-benzothiazepine and 1,2,5-benzothiadiazepine derivatives of formula (I). These compounds are bile acid modulators having apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (ASBT) and/or liver bile acid transport (LBAT) inhibitory activity. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and to the use of these compounds in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, fatty acid metabolism and glucose utilization disorders, gastrointestinal diseases and liver diseases.
US11180463B2
The present invention pertains to field of pharmaceutical chemicals, and relates to thiazole inner salt compounds, preparation methods and uses thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to a compound of Formula I, hydrates or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compound of Formula I of the present invention is a potent cross-linking protein cleavage agent, has a stable structure, good physical and chemical properties, and good pharmacological activities, and is suitable for large scale production to obtain samples with stable, controllable and reliable quality, thereby being suitable for pharmaceutical development.
US11180460B2
The present invention describes new amino pyrimidine derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which appear to interact with Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk). Accordingly, the novel amino pyrimidines may be effective in the treatment of autoimmune disorders, inflammatory diseases, allergic diseases, airway diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), transplant rejection, cancers e.g. of hematopoietic origin or solid tumors.
US11180458B2
Cytotoxic compounds containing a phenyl core, amide link(s), an imidazolinone or a propenamide moiety. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions incorporating the cytotoxic compounds and methods for treating cancer. These compounds are cytotoxic against breast, prostate, and leukemia cancer cell lines via dual inhibition of Src kinases and tubulin.
US11180454B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of migalastat of formula (I) and intermediates useful in the synthesis thereof. The process comprises the double reductive amination reaction of a compound of formula (VI).
US11180448B2
A compound of the formula (I) ALK—SO2—O—O—SO2OX, wherein ALK is a branched or unbranched alkyl group, especially a methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, isopropyl, isobutyl group, or a higher alkyl group, and X=hydrogen, zinc, Aluminium, an alkali or alkaline earth metal.
US11180445B2
The present invention discloses a method for recycling urea in the process of separating and purifying unsaturated substances through a urea adduction method. The method comprises the following steps: liposoluble substances containing target unsaturated components are used as raw materials, and subjected to urea adduction, crystallization and filtration to produce a filtrate, from which the specific unsaturated components are obtained; the urea adduct is dissolved in a polar solvent, and after the adducted adducts are layered and released, adding a certain solvent to the urea solution to adjust the polarity, then cooling for crystallization, and recycling the urea. The method can realize complete release of the adducted components and recycling and reuse of urea, and the process is simple, the recovery rate is high, and the adduction effect is not influenced when recycling urea for reuse, and the production cost of the urea adduct is reduced, thus alleviating the adverse impact of urea discharges on the environment.
US11180439B2
A method of reducing impurities in a catalyst for the production of purified terephthalic acid includes forming purified terephthalic acid by hydrogenating crude terephthalic acid with a catalyst in a reactor; separating the purified terephthalic acid from the catalyst and reactivating the catalyst by washing with a caustic solution; and flushing the catalyst contaminated with impurities with a non-caustic liquid at a flushing temperature of greater than or equal to 50° C.
US11180436B2
A method for purifying by-product ethylene glycol of polyester in converting plasticizer includes: inputting a reaction liquid waste stream including ethylene glycol and 2-ethylhexanol into an ethylene glycol dehydration tower; inputting a hot water stream into the ethylene glycol dehydration tower to mix with the reaction liquid waste stream and to remove the 2-ethylhexanol from the reaction liquid waste stream; dehydrating the ethylene glycol via the ethylene glycol dehydration tower to collect a crude ethylene glycol stream including dehydrated ethylene glycol from a tower bottom of the ethylene glycol dehydration tower and to collect an organic liquid waste stream including the 2-ethylhexanol from a tower top of the ethylene glycol dehydration tower; and inputting the crude ethylene glycol stream into an ethylene glycol distillation tower to collect a ethylene glycol solution from a tower top of the ethylene glycol distillation tower.
US11180429B2
Disclosed is a method of coating fertilizer particles with a coating, the method comprising providing fertilizer particles in a coating unit, one or more steps of applying a coating layer by applying one or more coating components to the fertilizer particles in the coating unit, and at least, partially curing or hardening the coating layer, wherein said curing or hardening involves a chemical reaction of said one or more coating components, discharging the coated fertilizer particles from the coating unit, optionally after a final cure or hardening step, wherein the coating unit comprises a stationary frame and at least two movable elements.
US11180426B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a particulate composition containing methionine, methionylmethionine, potassium in the form of potassium salt and ammonium sulphate, and use thereof.
US11180421B2
In some examples, techniques of repairing and/or reinforcing oxide-oxide ceramic matrix composite (CMC) materials using a metallic material. In one example, a method including applying a metallic material at an edge of an oxide-oxide CMC substrate; and heating the metallic material to diffuse the metal material into the oxide-oxide CMC substrate at the edge. In another example, a method including applying a metallic material onto a damaged area of the oxide-oxide CMC; applying a reinforcing phase material onto the damaged area of the oxide-oxide CMC; and heating the metallic material to diffuse the metallic material into the oxide-oxide CMC and attach the reinforcing phase material to the damaged area of the oxide-oxide CMC.
US11180409B2
Provided is a wavelength conversion member that can be readily adjusted in chromaticity and can be increased in productivity and a production method for the wavelength conversion member. A wavelength conversion member 1 having a first principal surface 1a and a second principal surface 1b opposed to each other includes a glass matrix 2 and phosphor particles 3 disposed in the glass matrix 2, wherein concentrations of the phosphor particles 3 in the first principal surface 1a and in the second principal surface 1b are higher than concentrations of the phosphor particles 3 in surface layer bottom planes 1c and 1d located 20 μm inward from the first principal surface 1a and 20 μm inward from the second principal surface 1b, respectively.
US11180407B2
A glass substrate contains, as a glass matrix composition as represented by mole percentage based on oxides, SiO2: 58-75%, Al2O3: 4.5-16%, B2O3: 0-6%, MgO: 0-6%, CaO: 0-6%, SrO: 5-20%, BaO: 5-20%, and MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO: 15-40%. The glass substrate has an alkali metal oxide content of 0-0.1% as represented by mole percentage based on oxides. The glass substrate has an average coefficient of thermal expansion α of 56-90 (×10−7/° C.) at 50° C.-350° C.
US11180403B2
Provided is a glass product manufacturing apparatus. The glass product manufacturing apparatus includes a furnace including a gas heating zone and an electric heating zone, a first heat exchange module configured to recover heat from the furnace, and a pump configured to drive flow of a heat transfer medium fluid passing through the first heat exchange module, wherein at least a part of the first heat exchange module is thermally coupled with at least a part of an external surface of the electric heating zone. The glass product manufacturing apparatus may reduce defect rate while exhibiting high energy efficiency.
US11180402B1
Mobile water filtration enables on-site recycling of wastewater for reuse in mechanical decoking operations of fired-heaters, furnaces, boilers, or systems prone to build up of deposits, residue, or scale and enables on-site disposal of wastewater in a safe and environmentally conscious manner. In batch operations, a coagulant, a flocculant, and a plurality of cascaded filters of increasingly fine pitch may be used to treat wastewater and remove particulate matter, such as, for example, coke, for reuse or safe disposal. In continuous operations, a plurality of cascaded filters of increasingly fine pitch may be used. A control system may be used to automate the operation of a mobile water filtration system for use with a decoking system, such that it does not require human intervention exception for maintenance operations related to filters. The filtered water may be disposed of on-site, eliminating the need for further treatment or transport off site.
US11180391B2
Organic waste is polished to remove floatable contaminants prior to being biologically treated. In one application, pressed organic waste is polished before being sent to a wet anaerobic digester, optionally to be co-digested with wastewater treatment plant sludge. The organic waste is polished by flinging globs of the organic waste against a screen while flowing air across the flinging globs. The polishing can be performed in a device having a rotor with discrete paddles inside of a cylindrical screen.
US11180386B1
A process and apparatus for enhanced boron removal from water. The process includes the steps of reacting potassium carbonate or ammonium carbonate with calcium borate in a stream of feed water to form a stream having calcium carbonate and potassium borate salt or ammonium borate salt. The stream having calcium carbonate and potassium borate or ammonium borate is introduced to an ion exchange vessel containing resin having methylglucamine in salt form with potassium carbonate or sodium carbonate to form borate and potassium sulfate or sodium sulfate. The resin in the ion exchange vessel is periodically regenerated.
US11180385B2
The present invention relates generally to stable percarboxylic acid compositions comprising, inter alia, at least two stabilizing agents, and various uses for water treatments, including water treatments in connection with oil- and gas-field operations. The present invention also relates to slick water compositions and gel based compositions that comprise stable percarboxylic acid compositions and the use thereof in oil- and gas-field operations.
US11180381B2
A water treatment device, preferably a device used for treating waters intended for a domestic and/or industrial use, includes a filtration apparatus and an ionization apparatus accommodated together in a container.
US11180379B2
A grey water treatment system includes a first tank configured to receive grey water via a grey water supply conduit and that comprises an overflow, a second tank configured to store grey water, and at least one transfer conduit configured to at least transfer grey water between the first tank and the second tank. A control is configured to maintain a water level in said first tank sufficiently close to the overflow to allow floating contaminants to pass over the overflow. A method of treating grey water includes: receiving grey water in a first tank of a grey water treatment system; transferring grey water via at least one transfer conduit between the first tank and a second tank of said treatment system; and controlling a water level in said first tank sufficiently close to an overflow of said first tank to allow floating contaminants to pass over the overflow.
US11180358B1
A portable, battery-operated beverage dispenser is presented herein. The portable beverage dispenser includes a housing defining a plurality of fluid compartments each independently fluidically interconnected to a nozzle via a plurality of fluid distribution tubes. Each of the plurality of fluid compartments are further connected to a pump which selectively distributes air into the fluid compartments via corresponding tubes. Each of the different fluids disposed within each of the different fluid compartments can thus be selectively dispensed into a cup in any desired amount or combination, as desired.
US11180356B2
In a filling machine, a circulation line connects a filling element to a filling tank at a location for drawing beverage from the filling tank and at a location for adding beverage to the filling tank. A controller connects to a measuring system that itself connects to either or both the filling tank and the circulation line. Based in part on measurements from the measuring system, the controller controls addition of beverage components at a dosage section along the circulation line.
US11180355B1
The scissor jack cover may be a protective cover for an individual scissor jack. The individual scissor jack may be coupled to the underside of a vehicle. While residing inside of a cavity within the scissor jack cover, the individual scissor jack may be protected from water, road salt, dirt, and other contaminants which may make the individual scissor jack difficult to operate. The vehicle may employ a plurality of scissor jacks to level and stabilize the vehicle when the vehicle is stationary. Multiple instances of the scissor jack cover may be deployed to protect each of the plurality of scissor jacks dispersed beneath the vehicle. As a non-limiting example, the vehicle may be a toy hauler trailer, a recreational vehicle, a travel trailer, a motor home, or other conveyance.
US11180344B2
Elevator systems including an elevator car having a first elevator car door and an openable ceiling, the openable ceiling comprising a ceiling frame and an openable panel, the openable panel moveable from an open position to a closed position relative to the ceiling frame, an imaging device mounted to the openable panel and configured to capture image data of a detection zone that includes at least an opening formed by the first elevator car door when the openable panel is in the closed position, and a display located within the elevator car to display an image associated with the image data received from the imaging device. The openable panel is openable to create an access way that permits access from an interior of the elevator car to a top exterior of the elevator car.
US11180340B2
The present invention is an apparatus, system and method for providing pay-out head utilized in unwrapping elongated materials with adjustable pintle flanges that allows for keeping a coil pack stay concentric on the head during the unwrapping.
US11180339B2
A conveying unit 2including conveyor belts 7, a stopper 3positioning a sheet S at a folding position P on a conveying path 2, a knife-type folding unit 4, an anti-bounce roller unit 16having rollers 25a, 25b, and a motor 22 are provided. The rollers can be moved back and forth. A roller rotational speed monitoring unit 31 and a roller position setting unit 32 operatively connected to the motor are further provided. In setting mode, the rollers are moved from an upstream or a downstream of a tail end of the sheet positioned at the folding position P toward the tail end at a constant speed and stopped when the rotational speed of the rollers changes.
US11180332B2
A medium conveying apparatus includes a first roller, a second roller located to face the first roller, to hold and convey a medium with the first roller, a drive shaft to rotate the second roller, a motor to rotate the drive shaft, and a joint to connect the second roller and the drive shaft. The joint is configured to keep connecting the second roller and the drive shaft when the second roller moves in a vertical direction. The drive shaft is located at an intermediate position between a first position where the second roller is in contact with the first roller and a second position where the second roller separates most from the first roller in the vertical direction. A distance between the second position and the intermediate position is greater than a radius on cross section of the second roller in the vertical direction.
US11180331B2
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet conveyance roller, a retard roller to contact the conveyance roller and separate sheets one by one, a drive input shaft, a retard shaft, and a joint to connect the retard shaft with the drive input shaft and transmit rotary drive force of the drive input shaft to the retard shaft. A first angle formed between a line passing through a first engagement position and the drive input shaft and a line passing through a second engagement position and the retard shaft center is within a range of 80 degrees or greater and 100 degrees or smaller, and a second angle formed between a line passing through the drive input shaft and a first pin axis and a line passing through the retard shaft and a second pin axis is within a range of 50 degrees or greater and 70 degrees or smaller.
US11180329B2
A dispensing device for dispensing lids from a stack of nested lids, including a magazine containing a stack; a denesting unit arranged at a bottom of the magazine to detach lids from the stack bottom; and denesting rollers each of which has a lower shelf, a first upper shelf above a bottom shelf, and a second upper shelf above the first upper shelf. Some of the rollers comprise a first separator, and other denesting rollers comprise at least a second separator. The rollers are rotatable between a rest position in which the stack rests on the lower shelves; a single release position in which the first separators engage the stack to detach the last item from the stack bottom; and said rest position and a multiple release position in which the second separators engage the stack to detach at least the last two items from the stack bottom.
US11180322B2
A conveying device (100) for the clock-integration of transport units (1, 1.1-1.4), includes a plurality of transport units, an indexing conveyor (2) for the clocked conveyance of the transport units, the indexing conveyor having a plurality of carriers (21, 21.1), which are respectively detachably connectable to a transport unit, at least one conveyor section (3), and a diverter (4), via which the conveyor section is connected at a clock-integration point (E) to the indexing conveyor and which is configured to clock-integrate the transport units at the clock-integration point into the indexing conveyor.
US11180312B2
Beverage cartridges, and methods of assembly, are disclosed that include a housing, a filter extending across an interior of the housing dividing the housing into an upper portion and a lower portion, a beverage ingredient disposed within the upper portion of the housing, and a supplement ingredient disposed within the lower portion of the housing. With this configuration, beverage cartridges as provided herein can be used to prepare a mixed beverage containing the beverage ingredient as well as the supplement ingredient.
US11180283B1
A lifting tool support apparatus for use to lift an air cargo pallet is provided. The lifting tool support apparatus includes a main support plate, a key member coupled to the bottom end of the main support plate, and a pair of lock handles slidably mounted to the main support plate. Each lock handle has a lock plate designed to engage with the track on the air cargo pallet. The pair of lock handles slidably adjusts to a first position to permit the pair of lock plates to engage with the track, thereby locking the apparatus to the air cargo pallet. The pair of lock handles slidably adjusts to a second position to permit the pair of lock plates to disengage from the track, thereby unlocking the apparatus from the air cargo pallet.
US11180279B1
A collapsible, reusable shipping box has an initial flat configuration, a box configuration and a mailer configuration. In the mailer configuration, the mailer can be returned.
US11180274B2
An elongated object label applicator has a driver operably connected to a wrapping mechanism. The wrapping mechanism has a plurality of guide rollers spaced about a central portion. A belt is tensioned around the guide rollers and across an opening in the central portion through which an object to labeled is received. The belt is deflectable against an elastic force such that the belt can be recessed with the central portion by a force provided by the object to be labeled. The wrapping mechanism is driven by the driver to rotate the guide rollers about an axis of rotation of the wrapping mechanism passing through the central portion. The wrapping mechanism orbits the object to be labeled located within the central portion.
US11180273B2
An exemplary bag frame includes a framework to be inserted into and hold open a paper grocery bag which is then used as a trash/waste, sorting, collecting or storage receptacle. The bag frame includes four spaced apart vertical legs and that are configured to be inserted within the four corner edges of the paper bag. A planar upper rim connects the upper ends of the four legs and covers the upper edge of the paper bag. The bag frame resembles a small table with an almost completely open top. The vertical legs in the top rim are coupled in a snap-fit manner for easy assembly and disassembly.
US11180271B2
Mattresses are stacked, with support surfaces being substantially in contact, to produce a mattress stack (201). A press (501) applies pressure in the direction of said mattress stack, such that said pressure is normal to the support surfaces and consistent with pressure applied by a reclining body, thereby resulting in reversible compression to form a compressed mattress stack. Restraining elements (601) restrains the mattress stack and the process may be repeated to increase the size of the stack.
US11180268B2
The present invention relates to a layered packaging film for fresh produce. The film provides a water vapour transmission rate of at least 30 g m−2 per day, and includes a polymer layer with a sealing temperature of 205° C. or less. The present invention also provides a comprising fresh produce enclosed by a packaging film, wherein the packaging film is sealed by an elongate seal extending along the underside of the package, and wherein the elongate seal has a sealing strength such that when the packaging film is lifted from the upper side of the fresh produce package the seal breaks permitting the packaging film to be removed from the fresh produce in a single lifting action.
US11180266B2
A packaging device, particularly for packaging trays containing food products or technical materials in a controlled atmosphere and by means of a film of plastic material, comprising an upper chamber and a lower chamber, which can be fastened by mutually superimposing them and are each provided internally with a plurality of heat-sealing and/or cutting and/or die-cutting elements arranged concentrically, the lower chamber being provided centrally with a plurality of supporting elements for a tray.
US11180258B2
A seat track fitting assembly can include a seat track having a channel sized and shaped to removably, coupleably receive a seat track fitting, which seat track fitting can include a central flange having a lug aperture which is sized and shaped to be coupleable to a payload component, and at least a pair of shear pads, with each one of the shear pads protruding outwardly from opposing sides of the central flange and including a shear flange, and a tensile flange, wherein the tensile flange and the shear flange are integrally formed with the central flange. Related methods are also provided.
US11180255B2
An aircraft seat with a voltage supply port associated only with the aircraft seat and/or a data port associated only with the aircraft seat, a voltage supply unit, associated with the aircraft seat and including a voltage input and a voltage output, each of which is connected to another of the voltage supply ports, a switching circuit associated only with the aircraft seat and hooked up between the voltage output and the voltage supply port and/or between the data port and a data network, with which each of the voltage supply port or each of the data port can be activated or deactivated. A control unit is associated only with the aircraft seat and connected to the switching circuit, and a near-field communication reading device connected to the control unit and associated only with the aircraft seat for wireless reception of signals from an external near-field communication sending device, wherein the reading device can receive signals from a predetermined group of predetermined near-field communication signals, and the reading device and control unit adapted for the control unit to activate at least one of the voltage supply ports and/or at least one of the data ports only upon reception of one of the signals by the switching circuit in dependence on the received signal.
US11180254B2
A variety of seats and seating arrangements are disclosed for use in transport vehicles such as airliners. The seats can have specific features and/or be arranged at specific angles adjacent to each other to combine high capacity with passenger comfort and safety.
US11180243B2
An aircraft propulsion system utilizes a rotary engine to drive a centrifugal fan providing a thrust vector that is generally orthogonal to an axis of rotation of the rotary engine and the fan. The aircraft propulsion system may be mounted, for example, in the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft with the rotary engine and the centrifugal fan rotating about an axis of rotation that is generally parallel to a yaw axis of the aircraft.
US11180237B2
A method of making an aircraft acoustic structural panel (10) begins with preforming a core honeycomb laminate (12) having preformed foam (3) bonded inside cells (14) thereof by a distinct adhesive (2). The preformed honeycomb laminate (12) is then stacked between opposite top and bottom structural outer laminates (16,18). The stacked honeycomb laminate (12) and outer structural laminates (16,18) are then compressed together under heat and pressure into a unitary structural panel (10) having the core honeycomb laminate (12) integrally bonded between outer skins (20,22). The outer laminates (16,18) may include imperforate acoustic septums (4) bounding the core honeycomb laminate (12) followed by an outer honeycomb (5) and structural fiber layers (6,7,8) defining the outer skins (20,22).
US11180236B1
An apparatus comprising a spherical vessel, where the spherical vessel further includes a wall, where the wall is formed from one or more layers of material and a gas, where the gas may be lighter-than-air and is enclosed by the wall.
US11180230B2
An inflator including in combination an inflator body having at one end an input for receiving the neck of a gas cartridge, a manifold assembly intended to be fluidly connected to an inflatable, a combination automatic and manual actuator assembly including a spring-loaded actuator including a pierce pin for fracturing a frangible seal of the gas cartridge, a bobbin with a dissolvable pill that retains the spring-loaded actuator in a cocked position and a hood connected onto the end of the inflator body, said hood including an inwardly-extending tab that engages the actuator to securely retain the hood onto the end of the inflator body by means of the inwardly-extending tab being grasped by the forked end of the actuator.
US11180223B1
A roller mount for seats is used in connection with a boat and a seat. First and second base slides are mounted spaced apart on a base plate. The base slides have longitudinal rack gears. First and second top slides are mounted for linear movement on the base slides in a longitudinal direction, on a plurality of rollers. A top plate is mounted on the top slides to support the seat. First and second detent plates have longitudinal top rack gears, for selective releasable engagement with the base rack gears to preclude movement of the top slides. First and second locking bars extend longitudinally adjacent the base rack gears. The top rack gears include locking slots extending longitudinally for engagement with the locking bars, to guide the top rack gears into engagement with the base rack gears. The base rack gears and the top rack gears have teeth extending upward and inward at an angle with the base plane. The downward vector force created by the angle will eliminate backlash between the locking bar and the locking slot.
US11180221B2
A mooring ball system comprising: a mooring ball; a collar attached to the top of the mooring ball; an extendible, retractable, and lockable mast attached to the collar, and extending from the top of the mooring ball; a hook attached near or at the top of the mast; a chain attached to the mooring ball; a mooring line attached to the chain; a loop located at one end of the mooring line; and where the loop is configured to removeably attach to the hook, and where the loop is further configured to be removed from the hook and attached to a watercraft. A mooring apparatus comprising: a collar configured to attach to the top of a mooring ball; an extendible, retractable, and lockable mast configured to attach to the collar, and configured to extend from the top of the mooring ball; and a hook attached near or at the top of the mast.
US11180217B2
A multiple bicycle sprocket assembly is basically provided that is capable of creating a gear ratio in a wide range. The multiple bicycle sprocket assembly includes a first sprocket and a second sprocket. The first sprocket includes a first tooth number that is less than or equal to ten. The second sprocket includes a second tooth number that is more than or equal to forty-four.
US11180210B2
A device for individualizing a bicycle seat comprises a plurality of individually moving parts collectively having the shape of at least the top surface of a generic bicycle seat, the individually moving parts being movable relative to one another in the x-, y- and z-directions to adjust the generic bicycle seat to an adjusted final position that suits the individual comfort tastes of the user of said individualized bicycle seat; and a plurality of sensors connected to the plurality of individually moving parts to detect all adjustments made to the generic bicycle seat to achieve the adjusted final position. Information from the sensors can be downloaded to a computer to form a 3D data file that can be 3D-printed to an individualized bicycle seat. The invention also relates to a method of using the device, the individualized bicycle seat produced, and to a bicycle containing the individualized bicycle seat.
US11180209B2
A bicycle storage assembly includes a vertically oriented track. A carriage is movable on the track from a loading position to a storage position, the storage position being elevated above the loading position. The carriage holds a tire and wheel assembly of the bicycle above the other in a storage, elevated position. In a first aspect the carriage comprising a pair of clamping members being devoid of any element that extends over an inside circumferential surface of a rim of the front or rear tire and wheel assembly in the storage position. A second aspect has nested enclosures to reduce storage space. A third aspect includes a movable member coupled to the carriage. The movable member inhibits removal of the bicycle in the storage position.
US11180208B2
A mobile carrier apparatus comprises a chassis, a drive mechanism supported by the chassis and arranged to drive a plurality of wheels, a body supported by the chassis and an internal volume defined within the body, and an opening in the body that provides access to the internal volume, a rim formed within the opening and including a support surface configured to receive and support a removable payload above the chassis. A payload can be provided that is configured for use with a mobile carrier.
US11180205B2
A humanoid robot includes: a body portion; a head portion; a left arm and a right arm that have ends connected to the left and right at an upper portion of the body portion; a left foot and a right foot that have ends connected to the left and right at a lower portion of the body portion; and a left running unit and a right running unit provided to the other ends of the left foot and the right foot. The left running unit has a left drive wheel on a front side of an advancing direction and a left follower wheel on a rear side in the advancing direction, the right running unit has a right drive wheel on a front side of the advancing direction, and a right follower wheel on a rear side in the advancing direction.
US11180201B2
Disclosed herein is a truck, a deck gate for truck, and a method for manufacturing thereof. According to the present invention, the deck gate for truck has excellent impact strength, low plastic deformation rate, excellent molding property and thermal resistance, and reduces weight. Also, the deck gate for truck according to the present invention reduces weight of about 23% in comparison with a conventional steel and wood type deck gate for truck.
US11180196B2
A structural panel joining part for a vehicle having an underbody hold-down panel, a floor panel, a dash panel, and a cowl side panel includes an underbody coupling first portion configured to couple to at least one of the underbody hold-down panel and the floor panel, a dash panel coupling second portion configured to couple to the dash panel, and a cowl side coupling third portion configured to couple to the cowl side panel. The structural panel joining part maintains structural integrity between the underbody hold-down panel, the floor panel, the dash panel, and the cowl side panel to provide structural reinforcement during small overlap rigid barrier impacts to facilitate reducing structural intrusion into an occupant compartment of the vehicle.
US11180173B2
The present application describes a monoblock container, with wheels, consisting of two compartments intended, for example, for product storage and transportation. The monoblock container is formed in one piece, which is divided in two compartments of distinct dimensions, favouring the segmentation of products to be stored/transported among said compartments.
US11180157B2
A monitoring apparatus used in a vehicle is provided to communicate with an electronic control apparatus that controls a driving force of the vehicle by executing any one of a plurality of predetermined different controls. The monitoring apparatus receives a vehicle specification from the electronic control apparatus, and determines whether the received vehicle specification is appropriate, to provide a determination result. The monitoring apparatus further sets whether at least one of the predetermined different controls is permitted or not permitted to be executed by the electronic control apparatus in response to the determination result.
US11180151B2
An apparatus for controlling a lane change of a vehicle includes: a sensor to sense an external vehicle, an input device to receive a lane change command from a driver of the vehicle, and a control circuit to be electrically connected with the sensor and the input device. The control circuit may receive the lane change command using the input device, calculate a minimum operation speed for lane change control, and determine whether to accelerate the vehicle based on a distance between a preceding vehicle which is traveling on the same lane as the vehicle and the vehicle, when a driving speed of the vehicle is lower than the minimum operation speed when receiving the lane change command.
US11180145B2
In response to a request to drive an autonomous driving vehicle to reach target acceleration from a current speed of the autonomous driving vehicle (ADV), a lookup operation is performed in a selected command calibration table based on the target acceleration and the current speed of the ADV. The lookup operation is performed in the command calibration table to locate an entry that matches the current speed and the target acceleration. Each command calibration table includes a number of entries, where each entry maps a particular speed and a particular control command issued, to a particular acceleration obtained from the vehicle in response to the control command. A control command is obtained from the matching entry of the selected command calibration table. The obtained control command is issued to the ADV to control the ADV, without calculating the same command at real-time.
US11180142B2
A driving support ECU performs a following-travel steering control. The driving support ECU selects an other vehicle which is present on a traveling course of the own vehicle as a target candidate vehicle. When a specific condition is satisfied, the driving support ECU determines a preceding vehicle traveling on a traveling trajectory which has been generated up to a present time point as a following-travel steering target vehicle. When the specific condition is not satisfied, the driving support ECU determines the target candidate vehicle which has been selected in the present calculation timing as the following-travel steering target vehicle.
US11180138B2
An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.
US11180133B2
A hybrid-vehicle system includes an internal combustion engine configured to deliver a first rotational torque to a crankshaft. The first rotational torque is a maximum torque deliverable by the internal combustion engine. The hybrid-vehicle system also includes a transmission selectively rotatably coupled to the crankshaft, and an assembly including an electric machine rotatably coupled to the transmission and configured to deliver a second rotational torque directly to the transmission. The assembly also includes a one-way clutch configured to rotationally couple the crankshaft and the transmission. The assembly further includes a friction clutch moveable between an engaged state where the crankshaft and the transmission are rotationally coupled, and a disengaged state where the crankshaft and the transmission are rotationally decoupled. In the engaged state, the friction clutch is limited to delivering 85% or less of the first rotational torque to the transmission.
US11180126B2
A master cylinder device includes a reservoir tank, a master cylinder, a piston, and a pair of cup seals. The master cylinder includes a cylinder body having a cylinder chamber and a master port. The piston is inserted into the cylinder chamber, and has a relief port that communicates with the master port. The cup seals are provided on an inner circumference of the cylinder chamber, being positioned in front and rear of the master port, and seals a space between the inner circumference of the cylinder chamber and an outer circumference of the piston. The relief port is closed by the front cup seal, as the piston moves forward, to generate brake fluid pressure in a brake fluid in a hydraulic chamber. The relief port is tilted from a front side to a rear side, from the outer circumference toward an inner circumference of the piston.
US11180125B2
A vehicle includes an axle, an electric machine, a first wheel, a second wheel, a first friction brake, a second friction brake, and a controller. The controller is programmed to, in response to and during an anti-locking braking event, generate first and second signals indicative of a braking torque demand at the first and second wheels, respectively, based on a difference between a desired wheel slip ratio and an actual wheel slip ratio of the first and second wheels, respectively, adjust a regenerative braking torque of the electric machine based on a product of the first signal and a regenerative braking weighting coefficient, adjust a first friction braking torque based on a product of the first signal and a friction braking weighting coefficient, and adjust a second friction braking torque based on the second signal and dynamics of the first and second output shafts.
US11180124B2
A controller and a control method to a vehicle, the controller and the control method executing brake control in which primary information is selectively supplemented by secondary information that is information on an assumed state related to connection and disconnection of a clutch. The controller includes a determination section that determines whether an actual state and the assumed state, which are related to the connection and the disconnection of the clutch, match each other in accordance with a temporal change in the secondary information; and a brake control section that executes the brake control by using the primary information but not the secondary information in the case where the determination section determines that the actual state and the assumed state do not match each other.
US11180123B2
This vehicle control system is provided with an input monitoring unit and a determination time changing unit. When a state in which first target data is not input to a second control unit continues for a first determination time or longer, the input monitoring unit determines the first target data to be in a non-input state. When a state in which second target data is not input to the second control unit continues for a second determination time or longer, the input monitoring unit determines the second target data to be in a non-input state. When the first target data is determined to be in a non-input state, the determination time changing unit shortens the second determination time.
US11180121B2
A terminal tractor includes a cabin and a parking brake system including a parking brake handle located in the cabin for activating a wheel brake. The parking brake handle has a lowered position where the wheel brake is disengaged and a raised position where the wheel brake is engaged. A parking brake setting device is located in the cabin that is configured to be located beneath a head of the parking brake handle with the parking brake handle in the raised position.
US11180109B2
A locking device for a movable part of a vehicle, in particular for a bonnet of a vehicle, having a locking mechanism which can be mounted on the body side and intended for receiving a lock holder arranged on the movable part, and also having a raising mechanism which can be brought into contact with the lock holder and intended for moving the movable part into at least one protection position, wherein the raising mechanism has at least a first overload protector, with the result that, in a load situation, the movable part is movable from the protection position into an impact position.
US11180107B2
An actuator assembly that includes an actuator device. The actuator device includes a tubular housing with a first end and a second end, the tubular housing defining a storage chamber containing a pyrotechnic material to produce gas. At least one electrical connection is coupled to the first end, the electrical connection in reaction initiating communication with the pyrotechnic material. An actuator housing that partially encompasses the tubular housing, wherein an outer surface of the actuator housing comprises a hexagon shaped portion that extends along a longitudinal direction of the actuator housing. An assembly housing at least partially encompasses the actuator device, wherein an inner surface of the assembly housing comprises an engaging surface portion that extends along a longitudinal direction of the assembly housing that corresponds to and slidably engages with the hexagon shaped portion of the actuator housing.
US11180103B2
An inflatable airbag system can be configured to be mounted to a frontal region of a vehicle. The inflatable airbag system includes a housing configured to be mounted on a steering wheel of a vehicle and an inflator assembly at least partially disposed within the housing. The inflatable airbag system includes an airbag that receives inflation gas from the inflator assembly to expand and deploy out of the housing from a packaged configuration to a deployed configuration to provide occupant crash protection during a collision event, the airbag defining an inflatable chamber. A diffuser is disposed within the inflatable chamber and is in fluid communication with the inflator assembly. An occupant-facing panel of the diffuser comprises an aperture disposed in the center of the occupant-facing panel of the diffuser.
US11180078B2
A safety sign device is for a vehicle. The safety sign device includes a first sign having proximal and distal end, a first hinge being coupled to the proximal end of the first sign, the first hinge being coupled to a side of the vehicle, and a second sign being coupled to the side of the vehicle and being substantially parallel to the side of the vehicle. The first hinge is configured to extend and retract the first sign between a retracted position and an extended position. The first and second signs may be transverse to each other in the extended position, and may be flat against the side of the vehicle in the retracted position. The safety sign device includes a first flexible arm coupled to the first hinge and having an elongate housing, and visual indicators carried by the elongate housing.
US11180076B2
A lighting element includes a circuit board including at least one illuminator, a housing having an optical element in register with the at least one illuminator on the circuit board and the housing including a peripheral wall enveloping a periphery of the circuit board, a heat sink in alignment with the housing.
US11180070B1
A cargo restraint system includes a body, a first connecting end and a second connecting end on opposing sides of the body, wherein the first and second connecting ends are coupled to a securing member which is used to restrain the cargo. One or more load sensors are coupled to the first connecting end and/or the second connecting end. A controller is coupled to the one or more load sensors. The controller is configured to receive tension information from the one or more load sensors. The controller includes a transmitter capable of transmitting the tension information to a remote device. The controller may include a database to store the information.
US11180069B2
A system and method for automated loading of delivery vehicles using automated guided vehicles is described. In an example implementation, a loading coordination engine may determine a delivery destination of a first item based on item data associated with the first item, assign the first item to a location in a delivery vehicle, and generate a task list including an instruction to an automated guided vehicle to position the first item in the delivery vehicle based on the assigned location in the delivery vehicle. In some instances, the automated guided vehicle may navigate to a loading area to retrieve the first item from the loading area, navigate to a point proximate to the assigned location in the delivery vehicle, and place the first item at the assigned location based on the task list.
US11180068B2
An illustrative embodiment of a vehicle having a cargo area and a cab area is provided, wherein the cargo area may include a conveyor assembly. The conveyor assembly may include a conveyor assembly section and a pivotable conveyor assembly section. The conveyor assembly section includes at least one conveyor shelf panel which includes a support surface. The pivotable conveyor assembly section may include a bracket that supports a pivotable conveyor panel.
US11180063B2
Apparatus (10) for a vehicle seat, the apparatus (10) comprising a first supporting means (12) and a second supporting means (14), the first supporting means (12) comprising a storage means (16) and the second supporting means (14) being a headrest comprising a cover (18) for covering the storage means (16), the headrest being arranged to have a deployed condition and a retracted condition, wherein in the deployed condition the storage means (16) in the first supporting means (12) is at least partially uncovered, and in the retracted condition the storage means (16) in the first supporting means (12) is covered by the cover (18).
US11180060B2
A kinetic seat assembly that rotates based on a force applied on an occupant seated therein is provided. The kinetic seat assembly includes a primary seat cushion frame, a primary seat back frame, a secondary seat cushion frame pivotally connected to the primary seat cushion frame, and a secondary seat back frame pivotally connected to the primary seat back frame. The kinetic seat assembly further includes a front pivot mechanism for damping movement between the primary seat cushion frame and the secondary seat cushion frame in a kinetic seat vertical direction, and an upper pivot mechanism for damping movement between the primary seat back frame and the secondary seat back frame in a kinetic seat longitudinal direction.
US11180055B2
A lift mechanism for a vehicle seating assembly comprises a gear assembly that includes a first gear and a second gear. A mounting bracket is fixedly coupled to a vehicle and shares a common axis with the first gear, wherein the first and second gears are positionable in a fixedly coupled arrangement at an initial location relative to the mounting bracket or at a final location relative to the mounting bracket, such that, when the first and second gears are in the fixedly coupled arrangement at the initial location relative to the mounting bracket, the seating assembly is in a sitting position, and when the first and second gears are in the fixedly coupled arrangement at the final location relative to the mounting bracket, the seating assembly is in a standing position.
US11180051B2
A vehicle includes a controller and a display. The controller is configured to calculate a capacity retention (a degree of deterioration) based on measurement data of a main battery. The controller estimates an upper limit value and a lower limit value of an error (range) of the calculated capacity retention. The controller calculates a capacity retention range including the upper limit value Wu and the lower limit value. The controller has the display show the calculated capacity retention range.
US11180049B2
A method and system for mobile charging and exchange includes a vehicle having a vehicle storage space and a selectively removable charging bin mounted into the vehicle storage space. The selectively removable charging bin has one or more form fitted receptacle slots for receiving a battery device and each receptacle slot has a connection therein to a power source of the vehicle. A processor is operatively connected for computer communication to the vehicle and a user device using a server over a network. The processor receives an exchange request from the user device and calculates an exchange cost for the exchange request. The processor manages access to the vehicle storage space according to the exchange request and the exchange cost to allow removal of the battery device from the receptacle slot and insertion of a used user battery device into the receptacle slot.
US11180047B2
A method for testing a charging process of an electrically powered motor vehicle having an on-board power system, wherein said on-board power system includes at least one charge connection for connecting the on-board power system to a charging station and is connected to at least one electric power storage device, wherein an adapter having at least one discharge connection is additionally connected to the on-board power system for testing the charging process, wherein electric power for testing the charging process is conducted via the at least one charge connection into the on-board power system, wherein a primary portion of said electric power is discharged again from the on-board power system via the at least one discharge connection of the adapter.
US11180043B2
A charging cable for an electric car includes an insulating body, a connecting line, and a plug-type connector with contact pins and contact openings. The plug-type connector detachably connects the insulating body to the connecting line via the contact pins and contact openings. Also described is a corresponding charging station.
US11180037B2
A rotatable LIDAR device including contactless electrical couplings is disclosed. An example rotatable LIDAR device includes a vehicle electrical coupling including (i) a first conductive ring, (ii) a second conductive ring, and (iii) a first coil. The example rotatable LIDAR device further includes a LIDAR electrical coupling including (i) a third conductive ring, (ii) a fourth conductive ring, and (iii) a second coil. The example rotatable LIDAR device still further includes a rotatable LIDAR electrically coupled to the LIDAR electrical coupling. The first conductive ring and the third conductive ring form a first capacitor configured to transmit communications to the rotatable LIDAR, the second conductive ring and the fourth conductive ring form a second capacitor configured to transmit communications from the rotatable LIDAR, and the first coil and the second coil form a transformer configured to provide power to the rotatable LIDAR.
US11180028B2
The notification system of a vehicle of the present disclosure includes a communication device, a millimeter wave radar device, an imaging device, an ACCECU, and a notification device. The imaging device is configured to acquire surrounding information of the vehicle. The ACCECU is configured to set priority of a plurality of items of notification information based on the surrounding information of the vehicle. The notification device is configured to notify a notification target person of the plurality of items of notification information based on the priority set by the ACCECU.
US11180026B2
A circuit device includes an image processing circuit and a comparison circuit. The image processing circuit performs a first mapping process and a first rotation process on an input image to generate an image for a head up display. The image processing circuit performs, on an image, a second mapping process that is a reverse mapping process of the first mapping process and a second rotation process that is a reverse rotation process of the first rotation process to generate an image. The comparison circuit performs a comparison between the image and the image and outputs a result of the comparison as information for detecting an error in the image.
US11180019B2
An electric bicycle includes a motor that includes a stator and a rotor and that is driven by a battery, a reduction gear, an output shaft configured to output power of the motor, a sprocket fixed to the output shaft, a housing, and a water jacket configured to cool the motor. The water jacket includes a flange section protruding outward in a radial direction of the stator, the flange section being formed in the water jacket at a side opposite to the reduction gear in a vehicle width direction.
US11180015B2
Provided is a torque rod (1, 101, 202, 301) configured to be connected between a vehicle body (2) and an engine (3) to restrict a movement of the engine relative to the vehicle body. The torque rod includes a rod main body (11, 211, 307), and a bushing assembly provided at one end (14) of the rod main body. The bushing assembly includes a mounting bracket (21, 203, 303) configured to be mounted to the vehicle body or the engine via a bolt (22) passed therethrough in an axial direction, a magneto-elastic member (31, 204, 322) made of magneto-elastic material axially interposed between the one end of the rod main body and the mounting bracket, and a coil (32, 205, 323) configured to apply a magnetic flux to the magneto-elastic member.
US11180011B2
The truck bed cover locking device includes a side rail, a latch structure and a latch locking component. The latch structure is detachably mounted on the side rail. The latch structure includes a limiting surface. The latch locking component is provided on a truck bed cover. The latch locking component includes a plunger capable of at least partially moving to a position below the limiting surface. The limiting surface extends toward the plunger, and an extending length of the limiting surface is not less than the length of the plunger moving to a position below the limiting surface. The latch structure is detachably provided on the side rail, and fits with the latch locking component on the truck bed cover, thereby tightly locking the truck bed cover on the side rail, and protecting the side rail from damage.
US11180001B2
An air vent is provided for directly introducing air into a passenger compartment of a vehicle. The air vent has at least one outlet opening and at least one deflecting surface which is arranged in the region of the outlet opening, which runs radially outwards with respect to a flow direction of the air flowing in the direction of the deflecting surface, and by which the air flowing in the direction of the deflecting surface can be deflected radially outwards using the Coanda affect. An intuitively controllable and inexpensively producible air vent is achieved in that the shape and arrangement of the deflecting surface is adapted to a flow speed of the air flowing in the direction of the deflecting surface such that it is equally probable that the air flowing in the direction of the deflecting surface is deflected radially outwards by the deflecting surface or it is not.
US11179999B2
A heat pump system includes a compressor that compresses and discharges a refrigerant, a decompressor that decompresses the refrigerant, an outdoor unit that exchanges heat between the refrigerant and an outside air, an evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant, a condenser that condenses the refrigerant, an internal heat exchanger, an accumulator that separates the refrigerant into a gas refrigerant and a liquid refrigerant, and a flow pathway changing portion. The internal heat exchanger includes a high-pressure passage through which a high-pressure refrigerant flows, and a low-pressure passage through which a low-pressure refrigerant flows, the internal heat exchanger exchanging heat between the refrigerant flowing through the high-pressure passage and the refrigerant flowing through the low-pressure passage. The flow pathway changing portion that switches between a cooling pathway and a heating pathway. According to this heat pump system, a cooling capacity and a heating capacity can be improved.
US11179989B2
The present invention discloses a vertical take-off and landing triphibian flight vehicle, which can travel in land, water and air. The triphibian vehicle is based on the structure of an ordinary electric automobile. Its airscrew module is stored in the front and rear spaces of the triphibian vehicle body. The triphibian vehicle has land mode, air mode, water mode. These three modes are achieved by the positional changes of the airscrew module. The triphibian vehicle does not require the runway, which can take off and landing vertically. Its self-powered power supply provides the unlimited power to the triphibian vehicle itself, eliminating the need for charging, and no mileage restrictions.
US11179969B2
A wheel for a vehicle (e.g., a construction vehicle, an all-terrain vehicle, or other off-road vehicle) or other device, in which the wheel includes a non-pneumatic tire that may be designed to enhance its use and performance, including to be able to be used longer and/or in more challenging conditions, such as by being more resistant to cracking or other damage which could lead to premature failure (e.g., due to manufacturing artifacts and/or rocks and other hazards that can cut, chip, or tear during use). The non-pneumatic tire includes an annular beam configured to deflect at a contact patch of the non-pneumatic tire and an annular support extending radially inwardly from the annular beam and configured to support loading by tension. An elastomeric material of at least one of the annular beam and the annular support may have selected properties, including greater crack propagation resistance when subject to tensile stress.
US11179961B2
A set of sheet dividers comprises a first plurality of sheet dividers, each divider comprising a sheet with a tab extending therefrom at a different location along the same side as all other dividers in the first plurality and to a first extent from the opposite side of the sheet, and a second plurality of sheet dividers, each divider comprising a sheet with a tab extending therefrom at a different location along the same side as all other dividers in the second plurality and to a second extent from the opposite side of the sheet that is greater than the first extent.
US11179950B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge device, circuitry, and a curing device. The liquid discharge device is configured to discharge a liquid having a curing degree variable by a stimulation amount while relatively moving to a recording medium. The circuitry is configured to acquire surface roughness information indicating glossiness of a formed object formed on the recording medium and set a stimulation amount for the liquid based on the surface roughness information. The curing device is configured to stimulate the liquid discharged by the liquid discharge device based on the stimulation amount set by the circuitry to cure the liquid. The circuitry is configured to set, based on the surface roughness information, the stimulation amount for each region stimulated by the curing device in a same plane of the formed object.
US11179929B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire physical property information on physical properties of a recording medium and on physical properties of ink to be ejected onto the recording medium and setting information on a setting of a device configured to eject the ink onto the recording medium, the ink including a first ink and a second ink; derive a feature quantity relating to characteristics of the ink by estimating behavior of a first ink to be ejected onto the recording medium and of a second ink to be ejected to a position adjacent to the first ink ejected, using the physical property information and the information on a setting to derive a feature quantity relating to characteristics of the recording medium; and output the feature quantity.
US11179928B2
Some embodiments relate to printing system is described that has an intermediate transfer member (ITM) in the form of a seamed endless belt for transporting an ink image from an image forming station, at which an ink image is deposited on ITM, to an impression station, where the ink image is transferred onto a printing substrate. Two drive members are provided for movement in synchronism with one another. Rotation of the drive members during installation of a new ITM serves to thread the strip through the printing system by pulling the strip from its leading end. Alternatively or additionally, indirect printing system comprising the ITM and an image forming station at which droplets of ink are applied to the ITM to form ink images thereon is disclosed. One or more blowing mechanisms (e.g. associated with the image forming station) are disclosed herein.
US11179927B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods of constructing a structure and related non-transitory computer readable medium. In an embodiment, the method includes (a) defining a vertical first slice and a second vertical slice of the structure. A lateral cross-section of the structure within the first vertical slice is different than the lateral cross-section of the structure for the second vertical slice. In addition, the method includes (b) depositing a plurality of first vertically stacked layers of an extrudable building material with a printing assembly to form the first vertical slice. Further, the method includes depositing a plurality of second vertically stacked layers of the extrudable building material atop the first vertical slice with the printing assembly to form the second vertical slice.
US11179921B1
A paper packaging material having a paper layer with a polyethylene coating on one surface, a biodegradable resin grid on the opposite surface to enhance its strength while maintaining reduced weight and a thermo-sealing resin, which eliminates the use of glues in the packaging process. The vegetal resin is made out of vegetable wax, acrylic styrene copolymer, demineralized water, water based silicone and natural fungicide.
US11179920B2
The present invention provides a multilayer packaging film characterized by an improved sealability even through contamination with excellent shrinkability good optics and strength without using internal layers of stiff resins and cross-linking, to flexible containers made therefrom, such as bags, pouches and the like, useful for packaging articles, in particular food items.
US11179914B2
A polyimide laminated film includes a porous polyimide layer that has a porosity of from 30% to 90% and pores having a spherical shape and a non-porous polyimide layer that has a porosity of 5% or less.
US11179909B2
A method for removing liquid from a slurry includes: (i) feeding the slurry into the inlet of a press; (ii) removing liquid from the slurry as the slurry advances through a deliquifying section of the press, thereby producing a pressate stream; (iii) forming a plug of material as the slurry is advanced through a plug formation section of the press; (iv) advancing the plug of material to a discharge section of the press; and (v) removing additional liquid from the plug of material by operating the press so that the pressure in the discharge section of the press is greater than the pressure of the pressate stream by at least 2 psi. The present invention also relates to a method for controlling discharge consistency from a press, without provision of discharge restrictors, by varying the pressure differential between a discharge section of the press and a pressate stream.
US11179906B2
A set of molding elements suitable for being inserted into a mold for molding a tire comprises a main strip (1) and at least one secondary strip (2), the secondary strip (2) comprising a first secondary strip portion (3) and a second secondary strip portion (4), the second secondary strip portion (4) extending the first secondary strip portion and the first (3) and second (4) secondary strip portions extending on either side of the main strip (1) and the set of molding elements comprising members to assemble the secondary strip (2) with the main strip (1).
US11179903B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a fiber composite member. The method involves the step of producing a fiber layer by depositing at least two fiber webs in a plane adjacent to each other and along a circular guiding arc. The fiber webs are deposited on curved deposition paths that intersect the circular guiding arc with the same predetermined angle, and are formed in the form of portions of circular involutes.
US11179902B2
A bladder mandrel package, used to manufacture a composite structure, includes a mandrel and a wrap ply, surrounding the mandrel to form a wrapped mandrel. The bladder mandrel package also includes a first radius filler, coupled to the wrap ply at a first radius of the wrapped mandrel, and a second radius filler coupled to the wrap ply at a second radius of the wrapped mandrel. The mandrel, the wrap ply, the first radius filler, and the second radius filler are consolidated to from the bladder mandrel package.
US11179899B2
The present invention is a lightweight archery arrow having an arrow shaft with internal bracing, an arrow tip, and a nock. The arrow shaft with internal bracing is a cylindrical tube having a plurality of ribs formed along the length of the cylindrical tube. The ribs increase the bending stiffness of the cylindrical tube without adding additional thickness and weight. Due to the increased bending stiffness of the cylindrical tube provided by the ribs the wall thickness of the cylindrical tube may be reduced while still maintaining the bending stiffness comparable to that of an arrow shaft having a thicker wall. The decrease in wall thickness and the reduction of material reduces the weight of the arrow shaft providing an arrow shaft with an exterior diameter and bending stiffness comparable to that of a standard arrow shaft, but being lighter in weight.
US11179892B2
A method produces a three-dimensional body (3) in a stereolithographic process. According to the method, a photosensitive material (9) is cured by radiation, measuring radiation is coupled into a reference layer (80) and, as a result of internal reflection, remains predominantly within the reference layer (80), and the measuring radiation is detected space-resolved and time-resolved by a sensor (5).
US11179884B2
Systems and methods are provided for incremental 3D printing, wherein wireframes are generated and printed (scheduled for print) during the design process. In another aspect, systems and methods are provided for printing arbitrary meshes. A 3D printer system is described having, for example, five degree-of-freedom (5DOF). The 5DOF printer may be used to perform any of the methods described herein and combinations of the methods.
US11179876B2
A transfer apparatus includes a rolled web mold installation part for installing a rolled web mold around which the mold is wound, a transfer roller for winding the mold fed out from the rolled web mold, a winding roll for winding up the mold, a winding roll installation part for installing the winding roll therein, and a mold installation assisting part for guiding the mold fed out from the rolled web mold up to the winding roll while suppressing an occurrence of wrinkles in the mold fed out from the rolled web mold.
US11179873B2
Extractor systems for extracting a flexible article of manufacture from a mold include an extraction roller, at least one track configured to support the extraction roller, and a trolley configured to carry the extraction roller from a first side of the mold toward a second, opposite side of the mold. Molding systems include a mold and an extractor system. Methods of extracting a flexible article of manufacture from a mold include separating a first platen and a second platen, positioning an extraction roller between the separated first and second platens, engaging the article of manufacture with a row of teeth positioned along the extraction roller, and rotating the extraction roller to wrap the article of manufacture about the extraction roller.
US11179868B2
Systems for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament from polymer, where the systems are configured for: (1) melting polymer (e.g., derived from post-consumer PET bottles) to create a first single stream of polymer melt; (2) separating the first single stream of polymer melt into multiple streams of polymer melt; (3) exposing the multiple streams of polymer melt to a pressure of between about 0 millibars and about 5 millibars; (4) allowing the multiple streams of polymer melt to fall into a receiving section of a melt processing unit; (5) recombining the multiple streams of polymer melt into a second single stream of polymer melt; and (6) providing the second single stream of polymer melt to one or more spinning machines that are configured to form the second single stream of polymer melt into bulked continuous carpet filament.
US11179867B2
A device for preparation of a composite for on-site pipeline reinforcement includes: a temperature control stirring unit, an infiltration unit, and a vacuum unit, which are communicated in sequence, the infiltration unit includes a spindle, reinforced fiber cloth, a flow-guiding net, and a vacuum bag film sleeved outside the spindle, the reinforced fiber cloth and the flow-guiding net, the spindle is stopped by two baffles, an adhesive feeding joint and an adhesive discharging joint are disposed at two ends of the spindle, respectively, each of the adhesive feeding joint and the adhesive discharging joint includes an inner joint and an outer joint, an outer wall of the inner joint and an outer side of the baffle are covered by a flow-leading net, and the flow-guiding net covered on the outer side of the baffle extends from an edge of the baffle into the adhesive storing compartment of the baffle.
US11179846B2
Methods and systems for enhancing robot's ability to collaborate with human operators by constructing models of objects and processes which are manipulatable by a robot (situation models) and sharing such models with operators. Sharing situation models allows robot to explain its actions to operators in the format they can readily understand. Reciprocally, operators can formulate their instructions to the robot in the format that is both easy to produce for the human and straightforward to interpret in the machine. In this way, the disclosed method and system for constructing situation models in the robot facilitate both adaptation of human operators to robots and adaptation of robots to human operators, thus enhancing collaboration between them.
US11179833B2
A tightening device includes: a sensor for detecting an elongation of a bolt; a socket for rotating the bolt; and a biasing member for biasing the sensor against a head of the bolt. The sensor and the socket are provided separately and independently of each other.
US11179830B2
An adapter assembly configured to install a roof rack accessory to a vehicle is provided. The roof rack accessory may include a vehicle attachment assembly having a fastener and a locking mechanism. In particular, the adapter assembly may comprise a wrench, an adapter, and a driving sleeve. The adapter engaging with the wrench includes an adapter body that includes first and second engagement portions and a driving post that engages the fastener of the vehicle attachment assembly. The driving sleeve may be engageable with the adapter, wherein the locking mechanism of the vehicle attachment assembly is engaged with the driving sleeve while the fastener of the vehicle attachment assembly is engaged with the adapter.
US11179824B2
An electric working machine according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a terminal block electrically connected to a battery pack. The terminal block includes a positive electrode connecting terminal and a negative electrode connecting terminal. The positive electrode connecting terminal includes a plate-shaped positive electrode side connection plate portion that comes in contact with a positive electrode terminal of the battery pack, and the negative electrode connecting terminal includes a plate-shaped negative electrode side connection plate portion that comes in contact with a negative electrode terminal of the battery pack. At least one of the positive electrode side connection plate portion and the negative electrode side connection plate portion is provided with a heat radiation plate portion in a thermal conductive manner.
US11179810B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods for machine-cutting workpieces in plate form or bar form and also to a machine tool, with a laser machining device, and a workpiece support, by which a workpiece to be machined in the laser machining device is received, and with a workpiece moving device, by which the workpiece to be machined is held and moved in relation to the laser machining device, wherein with a machining head a laser beam is directed onto the workpiece to be machined and a clearance or recess is introduced into the workpiece and the clearance is machined with a flow drill and widened to a final size of a borehole.
US11179809B2
A manufacturing method of a glass substrate having holes includes irradiating a plurality of hole formation target positions of a dummy glass substrate with a laser under a first condition, to form a plurality of holes in the dummy glass substrate; heating the dummy glass substrate under a second condition; measuring, for each of the hole formation target positions, a deviation between the hole formation target position and a position of the hole after the heating formed by irradiating the hole formation target position of the dummy glass substrate; irradiating irradiation target positions of a glass substrate, having substantially same shape, dimension and composition as the dummy glass substrate, with a laser under the first condition, to form a plurality of holes, the irradiation target positions of the glass substrate with the laser being determined taking into account the deviation; and heating the glass substrate under the second condition.
US11179808B1
A method is disclosed for additive manufacturing a three-dimensional object layer-by-layer including depositing a layer of material on a bed surface or a previously deposited layer of the object to form the object layer-by-layer; providing energy to the material after each layer is deposited with the energy being provided by an energy source that forms an energized beam directed at the material; altering a property of a gas surrounding the material and through which the energized beam extends to alter a property of the object constructed from the material; melting the material with the energized beam to form a melted pool of liquefied material; and allowing the material to solidify to bond the material to a previous layer of material of the object.
US11179804B2
A laser machining nozzle includes: a nozzle body coupled to a machining head; and a flow path formed through the nozzle body in a longitudinal axis of the nozzle body to allow a machining-assist gas to be injected toward a workpiece therethrough while a laser beam is emitted toward the workpiece, wherein the flow path comprises a first flow path formed in a flow direction of the machining-assist gas and generating a supersonic flow of the machining-assist gas; a second flow path connected to the first flow path in the flow direction of the machining-assist gas and expanding a volume of the machining-assist gas having passed through the first flow path; and a flow path boundary defining a boundary between the first flow path and the second flow path.
US11179802B2
A laser machining apparatus includes: a laser oscillator that emits laser light having a plurality of wavelengths; a transmission diffractive optical element that allows the laser light to pass therethrough; a machining lens that concentrates the laser light that has passed through the transmission diffractive optical element; a distance adjustment mechanism that changes a distance between the transmission diffractive optical element and the machining lens; and an angle adjustment mechanism that changes an angle of the transmission diffractive optical element to switch between a state in which the laser light is dispersed by the transmission diffractive optical element and then enters the machining lens and a state in which the laser light enters the machining lens without being dispersed by the transmission diffractive optical element.
US11179799B2
A clamp member, for a double-acting friction stir spot welding device, is provided for the double-acting friction stir spot welding device to perform friction stir spot welding of a workpiece by using a rotary tool, and presses a surface of the workpiece while the workpiece is supported. The rotary tool has a pin member and a shoulder member. The clamp member includes an end face that comes into surface contact with the surface of the workpiece to press the surface and a protruding portion protruding from the end face in an axial direction and extending around an axis. The protruding portion is configured to press the workpiece, the clamp member surrounding an outer periphery of the shoulder member.
US11179792B2
A torch for connection to an electric arc welding system having a wire feeder, a power source and a weld process controller for the power source. The torch being connected to the front end of a welding gun, which gun has a rear end with a first unique component of a connector. The welding system has a second component of the connector matching the first component. The gun has a communication channel extending from the torch to the first component for transmitting data to the welding system through the connector. The torch has a memory with an identification code outputted on the communication channel to the first component and the system has a decoder circuit connected to the second component and responsive to a selected identification code.
US11179790B2
Provided is an electrode capable of increasing a degree of freedom in machining shape with a simple structure, an electrochemical machining apparatus using the electrode, an electrochemical machining method, and a product machined by the method. An electrode 4 has a core tube 41 formed of a material by which a second hole 101b having a direction or a curvature different from that of a first hole 101a having a predetermined curvature can be formed continuously from the first hole 101a and a coating 42 fixed to an outer periphery of the core tube 41.
US11179789B2
A dirty fluid tank of a machining fluid supply tank has a capacity smaller than a machining tank and is arranged lower than the machining tank. An intermediate tank has a capacity smaller than the dirty fluid tank, selectively communicates with the dirty fluid tank. A clear fluid tank has a capacity smaller than the intermediate tank, is arranged above the dirty fluid tank and the intermediate tank. The sum of capacities of the dirty fluid tank and the intermediate tank is larger than the capacity of the machining tank. A pipe includes a drain pipeline of the machining tank, a first pipeline for purifying the electric discharge machining fluid and sending the electric discharge machining fluid to the clear fluid tank, and a second pipeline for sending the electric discharge machining fluid from the clear fluid tank to the machining tank.
US11179779B2
A flexible porous metal foil sheet made of a metal porous material which use a solid solution alloy, a metal element of a face-centered cubic structure or a metal element of a body-centered cubic structure as the matrix phase, wherein the thickness of the sheet is greater than 200 μm and less than or equal to 1500 μm, the average aperture is 0.05˜100 μm, and the porosity is 15%˜70%. The method for making the flexible porous metal foil comprises: (1) making viscous suspension or muddy paste of raw material powder that will form the metal porous material using a dispersing agent and a binding agent; (2) injecting the suspension or paste into a mold for making membrane, and drying the suspension or paste to form a homogeneous membrane; (3) pressing the membrane to improve the stacking density of the powder particles; and (4) sintering the pressed membrane to obtain the flexible porous metal foil. The flexible porous metal foil has more uniform aperture distribution, and better flatness of the foil.
US11179767B2
“Lost” cores for use high pressure die casting, the cores preferably having a water-soluble synthetic ceramic aggregate having an appropriate strength and tolerance for various casting pressures and temperatures, an inorganic binder having sodium silicate, an additive having particulate amorphous silicon dioxide, and a refractory coating, wherein the cores have the capacity to be removed from a casting by dissolution with water.
US11179766B2
The present invention provides a pull riveting system including two or more pull-rivets and a riveting device, the pull-rivet including a rivet mandrel; the riveting device including two or more rivet gun heads, each provided with a rivet gun hole; wherein each of the pull-rivets is provided with a first label; each rivet gun head is provided with a second label; when one pull-rivet is matched with one rivet gun head, the rivet mandrel of this pull-rivet is applicable to the rivet gun hole of the rivet gun head, and the first label of the pull-rivet is the same as or corresponds to the second label of the rivet gun head. The present invention has the advantageous effects that labels easily identified with naked eyes are arranged on the rivet gun head and the pull-rivet, such that the pull-rivet and the rivet gun head which are matched with each other form a simple correspondence, so that the user may rapidly identify the pull-rivet specification and the rivet gun head matched with the pull-rivet, effectively reducing the waste of the pull-rivets, lowering the damage risk to the rivet gun, and effectively improving the work efficiency.
US11179755B2
A ventilation system is disclosed comprising a main duct (101) connected to at least one motorized fan (105), and further connected to at least one workplace (Wa; Wb; Wc) via a local duct arrangement (102a; 102b; 102c). The local duct arrangement comprises an asymmetrical bend duct section (106). A first and a second pressure sensor (120,122) are arranged on different positions on the outside of the bend duct section and in communication with the interior thereof. The pressure sensors are configured to communicate with a control computer (200) configured to determine a pressure difference between the positions of the sensors and to control the speed of the fan. Further, a method of operating a ventilation system is disclosed and also an asymmetric bend duct section and the use thereof.
US11179752B2
The present invention discloses a roller-type wheel flange surface powder removing device, that includes a corresponding roller brush that is replaced according to the size of a wheel to be processed. A manipulator places the wheel at corresponding positions of limit discs, output ends of cylinders extend to drive pressure blocks to press the wheel, and a sliding seat and a mechanism thereon reciprocate along with a rack within the travel range of guide pillars. While a second motor starts working, a first motor drives a second gear to rotate, and a first gear transmits the rotation speed to the roller brush through a support shaft according to a certain transmission ratio. The roller brush is driven by a third gear 23 and a rack 24 while rotating with the support shaft. The roller brush reciprocates to clean the surface of the wheel.
US11179750B2
For tamping a track, tamping tines are squeezed towards one another in pairs by a squeezing cylinder. A vibration is superimposed on a linear lift motion of a squeezing piston movable in the squeezing cylinder. The vibration is generated by a vibration piston which is arranged in the squeezing cylinder and which is movable independently of the squeezing piston.
US11179744B2
An inner plate assembly for arrangement between top and bottom plates of an applicator for applying fluid-based chemicals to traveling sheets of textile substrates includes a plurality of interlocking plate segments. Each interlocking plate segment includes an outer frame segment and one or more baffle member segments supported by the outer frame segment. Each interlocking plate segment further includes a first interlocking structure disposed at a first end thereof and a second interlocking structure at a second, opposite end thereof to facilitate end-to-end interlocking arrangement of the plurality of interlocking plate segments.
US11179742B2
A method and system for powder coating non electrically conductive elements, preferably brake pads. A pre-treatment station is upstream of an electrostatic powder coating deposition station and a baking station for melting and polymerizing the powder coating in order to form a coating layer on a surface to be coated. The pre-treatment station causes the elements to be coated to conduct electrically by uniformly wetting said elements by means of creating poorly mineralized water covalent bonds on at least one surface to be coated, in an amount aimed at producing a measurable weight increase in the non electrically conductive elements, which then causes them to conduct electrically. The water adsorbed and/or deposited is subsequently eliminated within the baking station.
US11179738B2
A viscous damped deflector in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure includes at least one sloped spiral rim extending from a lower surface of a top of the viscous damping chamber that rotates with the rotating distributor of the damped deflector, such that viscous fluid in the chamber is pumped to the center of the chamber as the distributor rotates.
US11179734B2
The present disclosure is directed to a shower assembly in which a handheld shower is removably coupled to a showerhead, where the showerhead has a holder configured to retain the handheld shower. The handheld shower can be inserted into the holder in different ways, while the handheld shower can be removed by first pivoting the handheld shower within the recess followed by extraction from the recess.
US11179728B2
An adjustable toggle assembly adapted for use on an item of crushing equipment having a frame and a jaw, said adjustable toggle assembly. The assembly includes a wedge having a generally tapered configuration, a first wear bar configured to contact the wedge, and a second wear bar configured to contact the wedge. The assembly also has a first cover plate and a second cover plate. The assembly further includes a means for moving the wedge relative to the first wear bar and the second wear bar. The assembly still further includes a first toggle seat that is connected to the frame and a second toggle seat that is connected to the jaw. The means for moving the wedge relative to the first wear bar and the second wear bar is adapted to move the wedge between a contracted position and an expanded position.
US11179708B2
Compositions comprising metal organic frameworks and related methods and uses are generally provided, including use in selective carbonylation of heterocyclic compounds.
US11179707B2
A composite material comprises a macroporous silicate-based material at least partially substituted with at least one microporous zeolite, wherein the microporous zeolite is functionalised with either copper, iron or both copper and iron, and wherein the composite material is in the form of particles. The composite material can be obtained using a method comprising the steps of: (i) providing a mixture comprising a silicate-containing scaffold having a macroporous structure, an aluminium source and an organic template; (ii) hydrothermally treating the mixture to form a microporous zeolite-containing structure substantially retaining the macroporous structure of the silicate-containing scaffold; (iii) incorporating copper, iron or both copper and iron into the zeolite. The silicate-containing scaffold can be a diatomaceous earth.
US11179706B2
A lean NOx trap catalyst and its use in an emission treatment system for internal combustion engines is disclosed. The lean NOx trap catalyst comprises a first layer for storing nitrogen oxides (NOx) under lean exhaust gas conditions and releasing and/or reducing stored NOx during rich exhaust gas conditions, and a second layer, said second layer comprising a first zone for oxidizing carbon monoxide (CO) and/or hydrocarbons (HC), and a second zone for oxidizing nitric oxide (NO), and a substrate having an inlet end and an outlet end.
US11179704B2
The present disclosure provides perovskite catalytic materials and catalysts comprising platinum-group metals and perovskites. These catalysts may be used as oxygen storage materials with automotive applications, such as three-way catalysts. They are also useful for water or CO2 reduction, or thermochemical energy storage.
US11179702B2
An oxidation catalyst for the oxidation of styrene to benzaldehyde and acetophenone, the oxidation catalyst comprising: a porous support; and an active phase comprising an oxygen activation metal comprising cobalt (Co), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), molybdenum (Mo), or a combination thereof. A method of forming the oxidation catalyst, a method of forming an oxidation product comprising benzaldehyde and acetophenone by contacting the oxidation catalyst with styrene and air in an oxidation reactor, and a system and method for reducing the fouling in a process for the production of styrene by introducing an additive stream comprising at least a portion of the oxidation product into a stream comprising styrene and byproduct divinyl benzene (DVB) are also disclosed.
US11179689B1
A calcium reaction control method and device, which can adjust the input amount of carbon dioxide gas inputted into the calcium reactor according to the measurement of the concentration of carbonate ions in the solution to be tested, and input the calcium reaction water from the calcium reactor into the water tank to provide the required carbonate ion concentration in the water tank. By means of the present invention, the amount of carbon dioxide input and the amount of calcium reaction water can be controlled, which can improve the control accuracy and ease of use.
US11179683B2
The present disclosure provides a microbubble generation device and equipment, wherein the microbubble generation device comprises: a microbubble generation mechanism having a housing and a core tube provided to pass therethrough, wherein at least one filter plate is provided on a peripheral sidewall of the housing, and an annular space is formed between the housing and the core tube; a flow rate control mechanism provided in the annular space, and connected to the core tube that is communicated with the annular space through the flow rate control mechanism, wherein a blocking ball is provided in the flow rate control mechanism and capable of blocking the flow rate control mechanism in a state that a pressure of gas injected into the flow rate control mechanism decreases; and a pressure balancing mechanism provided outside the housing and having a pressure balancing tube and a fluid check valve connected thereto. The present disclosure can withstand a huge pressure difference during a movement within a wellbore from a ground surface to an oil reservoir and take preventive measures for the failure. The gas injection process of the present disclosure not only meets the microbubble volume requirement, but also provides safe control measures.
US11179680B2
A centrifugal filtration device is provided. The centrifugal filtration device has filtration membrane that filtrates liquid; cartridge that supports filtration membrane and that forms liquid chamber together with filtration membrane, wherein liquid chamber holds the liquid therein; and rotating member that rotates around rotation center and that supports cartridge such that filtration membrane is positioned outward of liquid chamber with respect to rotation center. Rotating member has a path that is connected to liquid chamber, and at least a part of a liquid contact part of the path that is in contact with the liquid is formed of titanium or a titanium alloy.
US11179670B2
An environmental control system includes an air conditioning subsystem; a mix manifold downstream of the air conditioning subsystem and upstream of an environment to be conditioned; and a contaminant removal subsystem downstream of the environment to be conditioned. The contaminant removal subsystem includes a first gas-liquid contactor-separator. The first gas-liquid contactor-separator includes a first rotating porous bed that provides a heat/mass transfer surface for contact between a contaminated air from the environment and a liquid absorbent.
US11179658B2
A filter device comprises a filter housing having a filter housing cup and a filter housing cover. An insert insertable into the filter housing comprises an eccentrically arranged and axially projecting first positioning element configured to engage a positioning contour on a side of the filter housing cup. A guide ramp is provided on the filter housing cup and interacts with a guide device arranged on the insert. The guide ramp is formed of at least one ring segment and extends continuously over at most 270°, and the guide device has a second positioning element. At least one web is arranged on the insert and forms the second positioning element, and the at least one web comprises at least two webs with different axial longitudinal extents arranged one of on the lower end plate of the insert and directly on the insert.
US11179656B2
A system is provided for covering a launder channel of a clarifier tank, the launder channel having a tank wall and launder channel wall. The system comprises a mounting section connected to the launder channel wall, a hinge, and an openable cover panel, movable between a closed and open position. The mounting section includes an angled resting structure for supporting the cover panel, when in the open position, away from the mounting section.
US11179655B2
Method for the simulated moving bed (SMB) separation of a feedstock (F), in which: at least one zone (1, 2, 3, 4) contains fewer than three beds, if the stream (D, E, F, R) delimiting said zone and situated upstream of said zone is injected or withdrawn at the plate Pi via the bypass line Li/i+1, then the stream delimiting said zone and situated downstream of said zone is injected/withdrawn at the plate Pj via the bypass line Lj/j+1, and if the stream delimiting said zone and situated downstream of said zone is injected or withdrawn at the plate Pi via the bypass line Li−1/i, then the stream delimiting said zone and situated upstream of said zone is injected/withdrawn at the plate Pj via the bypass line Lj−1/j.
US11179651B2
A model toy includes: a tray support configured to support a supported portion of a tray including first and second opposite placement portions; a housing supporting the tray support rotatably around a first axis and having an opening; a door supported rotatably around a second axis and provided at the opening. The door includes a main body and a regulated portion which are provided at symmetrical positions with respect to the second axis. When the tray support is in an intermediate angle range between a first angle posture and a second angle posture reversed from the first angle posture, at least part of the tray support is located closer to the regulated portion than that in the first and second angle postures such that the tray support regulates an opening operation of the door and supports the door in a closed state.
US11179645B2
A portable interactive game unit including a housing at least partially enclosing a power supply, a feedback generator for providing at least one of an auditory feedback signal, a tactile feedback signal and a visual feedback signal, a controller including at least a processor and a memory for storing at least a representation of a game scenario, and a wireless inter-device communication module for communicating with another game unit, wherein in operation the processor calculates at least one game parameter based on a signal of the wireless inter-device communication module using the representation of the game scenario and a performance dependent parameter.
US11179644B2
Disclosed are issue tracking systems, troubleshooting techniques, and user interfaces for troubleshooting, which are associated with a user of a software application triggering the recording of a session. During the session, the user may narrate suggestions or problems for the application while they interact with the application in real-time, and a recording engine of the application may record various types of session data, such as the user's interaction, the user's narration, telemetry data, call stack data, and so forth. The session data is automatically submitted to an issue tracking system to process and associate with a support ticket. The issue tracking system may provide a user interface enabling a developer to review a support ticket and any associated session data to quickly determine the relevant portion of the application data (e.g., underlying program code) that needs to be modified. The issue tracking system may also process session data to identify related tickets or recurring issues.
US11179630B2
A computer system that includes at least two game devices is provided. A first game device is used by a user to play a game and a second game device is used to receive state data regarding playing the game on the first game device. The state data is continuously applied to a game that is executed on the second game device to allow for the user to seamlessly transition to playing the game on the second game device.
US11179627B2
A gaming method includes the steps of: providing a gaming application to a player, the application enabling the player to engage in a game in which a winner is determined based on the winner's location; defining the physical coordinates of a game-winning space; determining the position of the player by determining the position of a telecommunication device in the physical possession of the player; and providing an award to the player when the position of the player is determined to be within the game-winning space.
US11179616B2
Training accessories and methods for improving athletic techniques, such as, for example, tackling form for football. A display can be coupled to a piece of athletic equipment, such as a tackling dummy, and the display depicts a symbol at a time at which a player is or is about to interact with the equipment or perform a movement or action. An input is provided of the player's identification of the depicted symbol and compared to the symbol that was actually depicted. The player's correct identification of the depicted symbol can indicate that the player performed the movement or action, or the interaction with the equipment, with appropriate form. A player's failure to correctly identify the depicted symbol can indicate to a coach that the player may need further instruction on proper technique or form with which the movement or action, or the interaction with the equipment, should be performed.
US11179615B1
An exercise machine rail system for improved exerciser mounting and dismounting, improved functional ergonomics, and reduced risk of exerciser injury when using an exercise machine. The exercise machine rail system generally includes either two rails in close relationship which are linked together via connectors or a singular rail. Bias members are disclosed as either extending along either outer side of the rails, internally to the rail, or underneath the rail. Due to the narrow nature of the rails used by the present invention, an exerciser is able to mount and dismount the exercise machine easily and efficiently.
US11179604B2
A golf ball with a core comprising polybutadiene and graphene is disclosed herein. The golf ball has a single core comprising polybutadiene and graphene. Alternatively, the golf ball has a dual core with an inner core comprising polybutadiene and graphene. Alternatively, the golf ball has a dual core with an outer core comprising polybutadiene and graphene.
US11179601B2
An exercise feedback system monitors the performance of athletes wearing a garment with sensors while exercising. The sensors generate physiological data such as muscle activation data, heart rate data, or data describing the athlete's movement. The system extracts features from the physiological data and compares the features with reference exercise data to determine metrics of performance and biofeedback. Based on the physiological data, the system may also modify exercise training programs for the athlete. The exercise feedback system can display the biofeedback using visuals or audio, as well as modified exercise training programs, via the athlete's client device in real time while the athlete is exercising. By reviewing the biofeedback, the athlete may correct the athlete's exercise form to properly use the target muscles for the exercise, or change the certain workouts to personalize the training program.
US11179600B2
A method for calculating the position of an athlete, referred to as target, on a sports field, including estimating an approximate position of the target using a radio-based positioning system, the system including tracking sensors attached to several athletes on the sports field and antennas installed around the sports field, defining a search space around the approximate position, detecting an athlete in the search space using an optical-based positioning system, the system including cameras installed above and/or around the sports field and image recognition device, determining an accurate position of the detected athlete, attributing the accurate position to the target.
US11179594B2
An adjustable dumbbell device includes a handle bar, a housing attached to one end of the handle bar, one or more weight elements engageable into the housing, and a catch is slidably received and engaged in the housing and extendible out of the housing to engage with either the weight elements and to anchor either of the weight elements to the housing and the handle bar and for micro adjusting the weight of the dumbbell assembly. The housing includes a guide channel for slidably receiving the catch. The housing includes a chamber communicating with the guide channel of the housing for receiving and engaging with the weight elements.
US11179591B1
A weight sled that allows both linear and non-linear movements such that resistance training can be performed in the frontal, sagittal, and combined frontal/sagittal planes, and which allows easy movement for transportation, storage, and retrieval from storage. The weight sled uses one or more swiveling, pivoting, or omni-directional wheels that allow all or a portion of the sled to be moved laterally. The addition of wheel configurations allowing of lateral movement of all of, or a portion of, the weight sled greatly expands the utility of weight sleds because movement in any direction can be trained, whether in the sagittal body plane (forward/backward movements), the frontal body plane (lateral movements), or a combination of the two. Additionally, the plurality of wheel configurations allows for a variety of storage arrangements.
US11179586B2
A concertina smoke or fire barrier comprising a curtain having a plurality of concertina-fold curtain webs and a plurality of concertina flanges. The flanges extend from a stitching joint between each adjacent pair of curtain webs. Normally closed door opening in the curtain, the door opening being provided by a slit extending through several of curtain webs and their flanges. Cuts in the flanges adjacent to the slit allow flange portions between the slit and the cuts to be stitched against their webs. A strip of curtain web material is stitched to the curtain webs on one side of the slit for covering it when the door opening is closed. Hook and loop fastening tape is located on both sides of the slit, one piece of the tape being stitched to the strip and another complementary piece being stitched to the curtain webs to the other side of the slit.
US11179581B2
Stimulating cell activity within a tissue is performed by an ultrasound array transducer having a plurality of transducer elements and a controller that actuates a plurality of transducer elements to emit focused acoustic energy to a plurality of focal zone locations in a scan direction at a focal zone scan rate. The actuation of the plurality of transducer elements to emit focused acoustic energy to the plurality of focal zone locations in the scan direction at the focal zone scan rate is repeated for a plurality of sweep cycles at a sweep rate which stimulates cells for optimal tissue growth.
US11179580B2
Systems and methods for non-invasive fat reduction can include targeting a region of interest below a surface of skin, which contains fat and delivering ultrasound energy to the region of interest. The ultrasound energy generates a thermal lesion with said ultrasound energy on a fat cell. The lesion can create an opening in the surface of the fat cell, which allows the draining of a fluid out of the fat cell and through the opening. In addition, by applying ultrasound energy to fat cells to increase the temperature to between 43 degrees and 49 degrees, cell apoptosis can be realized, thereby resulting in reduction of fat.
US11179579B2
An image-guided radiation therapy apparatus comprises: a high-energy ray source configured for radiation therapy of an object; and a KV ray source, a first and second PET detectors, and a CT detector for KV CT and PET imaging for guiding the radiation therapy. The KV ray source is placed on, or at an inner or outer side of the first PET detector; the second PET detector and the CT detector are configured to receive the KV ray to perform KV CT imaging; the PET detectors are further configured to receive gamma ray emitted by the object to perform PET imaging.
US11179577B2
Systems and methods are provided for designing and/or modifying a radiation therapy bolus for the reduction of hot spots. A digital bolus model may be modified based on the identification of a peak in the outer surface of the digital bolus model, where the peak satisfies search criteria associated with the generation of a hot spot through scattering from the peak. The digital bolus model is modified within a region surrounding the peak to smooth the peak and thereby reduce the intensity of the hot spot. The modified digital bolus model may be employed to fabricate a bolus for use in radiation therapy. The search criteria may be evaluated according to a proximity between a location measure associated with the peak and a location measure associated with the hot spot, optionally when the location measures are projected in a reference plane that resides perpendicular to the beam axis.
US11179570B2
In at least one example, a medical device is provided. The medical device includes at least one therapy electrode, at least one acoustic sensor, and at least one processor coupled with the at least one therapy electrode and the at least one acoustic sensor. The at least one processor is configured to deliver at least one pacing pulse via the at least one therapy electrode and to analyze processed acoustic data to determine whether the at least one pacing pulse resulted in capture.
US11179569B2
An example of a system and method for protecting a patient diagnosed of cancer from cardiac injury resulting from a chemotherapy treating the cancer. A sequence of cardioprotective pacing sessions may be initiated based on timing of the chemotherapy. Cardiac pacing pulses may be delivered to the patient during each session of the cardioprotective pacing sessions according to a cardioprotective pacing mode for controlling delivery of the cardiac pacing pulses to effect cardioprotection against potential myocardial injury resulting from the chemotherapy. The cardioprotective pacing mode may specifying alternating non-pacing and pacing periods.
US11179566B2
A method, comprising, fitting an electrical stimulating device to the recipient, the electrical stimulating device including electrodes implanted in the recipient, the electrical stimulating device being a multipolar electrical stimulating device, wherein the fitting includes simultaneously applying multipolar stimulation to the recipient via the electrodes based on at least two different stimulation channels of the electrical stimulating device.
US11179565B2
The invention provides a non-invasive skin treatment device (100) comprising an r.f. treatment electrode (10); a return electrode (40); an r.f. generator (20) configured and arranged such that, during treatment, an r.f. treatment signal is applied between the r.f. treatment electrode (10) and the return electrode (40) for heating an inner region (15) of skin; an impedance measurement circuit (35) configured and arranged to measure, before treatment of the inner region, an initial skin impedance (Zo) between the r.f. treatment electrode (10) and the return electrode (40); and a treatment settings determiner (30) configured and arranged to determine, before treatment of the inner region (15), treatment settings associated with the r.f. treatment signal depending on the initial skin impedance (Zo) and on a dimension of the r.f. treatment electrode (10) in the contact plane, the treatment settings comprising at least one of a treatment duration (TD) associated with a desired treatment result, and an r.f. electrical parameter associated with the r.f. treatment signal. The skin treatment device (100) further comprises a controller (25) configured and arranged to consecutively activate the impedance measurement circuit (35) and the treatment settings determiner (30) before treatment of the inner region (15), configure the r.f. generator (20) to provide the r.f. treatment signal according to the treatment settings, and activate the r.f. generator (20) to apply the r.f. treatment signal to the inner region (15) for the treatment duration (TD). The invention is based on the insight obtained from multiple measurements made during the creation of microscopic thermal lesions in an inner region of skin by applying r.f. measurement and treatment signals. By analyzing the histological and heating results, a relationship was obtained between the initial impedance (Zo), the dimension of the r.f. treatment electrode (10), and the treatment settings required to obtain a particular skin treatment result. This relationship has been found to be relatively constant for different subjects, different treatment locations on the body and different skin moisture contents. The invention makes it possible to preset or predetermine, i.e. in advance, the treatment duration (TD) and/or the r.f. electrical parameters associated with the r.f. treatment signal accurately enough to avoid undesired skin damage during the treatment. The device can be simpler, as it is no longer essential to continuously monitor the impedance during treatment to determine the onset of undesired skin damage, such as ablation, which is the safety feature known from conventional devices.
US11179563B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a system and method of determining muscle efficiency and inefficiency in a patient or subject and being able to quantitatively determine measurements that communicate between practitioners the condition, the health, and the efficiency state of any muscle. The efficiency of a muscle is defined by the ability of the brain to bridge a proper communication to the muscle by sending normal action potentials; the bridge is often compromised during injury, improper training, or from poor habits of bodily movement. The standardization of these efficiencies allows for the isolation of particular areas of the muscles that are inefficient and efficient. Further, with varied application of electrical pulses, a bridge that mimics the natural action potential is provided and can enhance muscle efficiency in a way that achieves higher levels of success in bodily healing and physical training than in any prior art. The current invention uses multiple, select sets of electrical currents at sound wave frequencies with specific forms of movements. The application of electrical currents can also be synchronized with extensions and contractions of muscles to stimulate the expedited bridging of brain to muscle and increase the efficiency of muscles. The current invention discloses a system to deliver these electrical currents and offers the capabilities to standardize these techniques to reconnect the brain to these muscles to an efficient level.
US11179560B2
Energy is transmitted noninvasively to a patient using electrode-based stimulation devices or magnetic stimulation devices that are designed to non-invasively stimulate nerves selectively. The devices produce impulses that are used to treat atrial fibrillation, by stimulating a vagus nerve of a patient. The devices are also used to forecast the imminent onset of atrial fibrillation and then avert it by stimulating a vagus nerve.
US11179556B2
A system for providing vascular access in a patient's body may comprise at least one hemostatic valve (610) and at least one clamp (210) to be used with a vascular graft (110). The vascular graft (110) comprises a tubular body having a proximal end (110A) and a distal end (110B), the proximal end (110A) being configured to be attached to a vessel in a patient's body. The at least one valve (610) is configured to be attached to the distal end (110B) of the graft's tubular body and comprises a housing (616) including a flexible membrane (611) that allows a medical device (810) to be inserted through the membrane (611) into said vascular graft (110). The valve (610) further comprises an introducer sheath (615) configured to be inserted into the distal end (110B) of the graft's tubular body. The at least one clamp (210) is configured to be disposed around the graft's tubular body and has a first configuration that allows insertion of the valve's introducer sheath (615) into the distal end (110B) of the graft's tubular body and a second configuration that allows clamping of the graft (110) against the valve's introducer sheath (615), when inserted in the graft's tubular body.
US11179544B2
Embodiments of the invention include a single lumen catheter for delivering high pressure contrast injection for TAVR procedures. The catheter comprises a main lumen for delivering contrast media extending from the proximal end to the distal pigtail end, a distal end hole for delivering contrast media, one or more side holes proximate of the end hole along the catheter shaft on the distal angled portion, a distal angled section that is angled from the main catheter lumen axis, a distal pigtail configuration that is angled from the axis of the distal section, and a distal pigtail loop. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US11179543B2
Systems and methods of implanting a vascular access technologies and declotting vascular access technologies, such as vascular access assemblies that facilitate hemodialysis, are provided. The methods can include disposing a first tubular conduit within a patient to access a vascular access assembly within the heart of the patient. The first tubular conduit can be coupled to the vascular access assembly such that the first tubular conduit can be decoupled from the vascular access assembly to evacuate a clot within the vascular access assembly, and then recouple the first tubular conduit to the vascular access assembly.
US11179542B2
An implantable prosthesis is provided for repairing a fistula, such as an anal fistula. The prosthesis or fistula repair device may include a body with a shape configured for placement in the fistula. The prosthesis may also include an anchor or base that is located at one or both ends of the body to facilitate anchoring the prosthesis in position. The prosthesis may include one or more channels to create one or more pathways for drainage and/or irrigation of the fistula. The channel may have a relatively uniform dimension along its length or a tapered shape that increases along its length. The prosthesis may have an adjustable length for accommodating fistula tracts of varying lengths. The prosthesis may include elongated body segments that provide a wicking or capillary function to facilitate drainage of the fistula tract.
US11179541B2
The invention discloses methods and systems for modulation of the central nervous system and more particularly for modulation of brain oscillatory activity and the brain networks that give rise to it. The methods involve using one or more non-invasive stimuli, either alone or in combination, to increase, decrease, or otherwise modulate neural oscillations, the rhythmic and/or repetitive electrical activity generated spontaneously and in response to stimuli by neural tissue in the central nervous system. Various embodiments concern methods and devices for detecting sub-optimal or pathological neural oscillatory patterns, developing treatment protocols to modify the neural oscillations in a desired manner, introducing a non-invasive stimulus or stimuli through one or more sensory pathways to treat the conditions, and for adjusting the treatment protocol to optimize the therapeutic effect of the stimulus or stimuli.
US11179534B2
A patient interface for delivery of a supply of pressurised air or breathable gas to an entrance of a patient's airways comprising: a cushion member that includes a retaining structure and a seal-forming structure permanently connected to the retaining structure; a frame member attachable to the retaining structure; and a positioning and stabilising structure attachable to the frame member.
US11179531B2
Systems for use in assisted respiration can permit insertion of one or more elongated medical instruments into the proximal and/or distal airway of a patient during administration of assisted respiration, which may, in some instances, proceed with a patient awake or only minimally sedated. In some systems, a bite block is coupled with a mask and is movable relative to the mask such that the system is capable of accommodating differing patient anatomies.
US11179521B2
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.
US11179516B2
A medical fluid delivery machine includes a pump interface having an actuation area for delivering positive or negative pressure to a medical fluid handling device; a pressure sensor positioned to measure pressure within the actuation area; a valve positioned to selectively vent the actuation area to atmosphere; and a control unit in signal communication with the pressure sensor and control communication with the valve, the control unit performing a sequence during pumping, wherein (i) application of positive pressure or negative pressure to the actuation area is stopped, the valve is switched to vent the actuation area to atmosphere, then switched to close the actuation area to atmosphere, and at least one pressure signal reading is taken via the pressure sensor, and (ii) a determination is made whether positive pressure or negative pressure to the chamber should be resumed based on the at least one pressure signal reading.
US11179502B2
Provided herein are methods of making a biomimetic hydrogel scaffold comprising a polycation and a polyanion. Also provided are anisotropic biomimetic hydrogel scaffold compositions suitable for use in tissue growth, including bone, muscle, and nerve growth an optionally comprising a carbon allotrope such as graphene. Also provided are methods of producing tissue comprising growing tissue on the biomimetic hydrogel scaffold comprising a polycation and a polyanion.
US11179501B2
The disclosure relates to compounds and compositions for bone formation, fracture treatment, bone grafting, bone fusion, cartilage maintenance and repair and methods related thereto. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to compositions comprising one or more compound(s) disclosed herein, such as clotrimazole, honokiol, magnolol, tacrolimus, pimecrolimus, sirolimus, everolimus, temsirolimus, spironolactone, fluticasone, fluticasone propionate, fluticasone furoate, linezolid, telmisartan, chlorambucil, retinol, isotretinoin, acitretin, etretinate, retinoic acid (tretinoin), teniposide, mitomycin C, cytarabine, decitabine, vinblastine, vincristine, vindesine, vinorelbine, valrubicin, doxorubicin, daunorubicin, epirubicin, idarubicin, mitoxantrone, pixantrone, plicamycin, pazopanib, topotecan, camptothecin, irinotecan, sunitinib, derivatives, or salt thereof, for use in bone growth processes. In a typical embodiment, a bone graft composition is implanted in a subject at a site of desired bone growth or enhancement.
US11179498B2
Medical devices having engineered mechanically functional cartilage from adult human mesenchymal stem cells and method for making same.
US11179497B2
Disclosed herein are improved surgical techniques for repairing bone defects in a sternum during a sternotomy procedure and implants adapted for such techniques. In an exemplary embodiment, provided is a fusion strip made of an osteoconductive material and of a dimension that is especially adapted for improved repair of sternal bone defects.
US11179487B2
An ice maker includes an ice making unit comprising an evaporator connected to a refrigeration system, an ice holding bin, a sump, a pump, a drain valve, an ozonated water source, and a controller. The controller activates the ozonated water source supplying a first volume of ozonated water to the sump, thereafter activates the pump to circulate the first volume of ozonated water from the sump to the ice making unit, once a predetermined sterilization time has been reached, the controller turns off the pump and drains the first volume of ozonated water from the sump. The controller initiates an ice making mode, and activates the ozonated water source to supply a second volume of ozonated water to the sump, thereafter activates the pump to circulate the second volume of ozonated water from the sump to the ice making unit forming ozonated ice on the evaporator, and initiates an ice harvest mode to remove the ozonated ice from the evaporator and delivers it to the ice holding bin.
US11179478B2
The present invention relates to the use of at least one tetra functional non-ionic amphiphilic block copolymer as a vehicle for capped or uncapped mRNA for intracellular delivery for gene therapy.
US11179472B2
Disclosed herein are molecules and pharmaceutical compositions that induce an insertion, deletion, duplication, or alteration in an incorrectly spliced mRNA transcript to induce exon skipping or exon inclusion. Also described herein include methods for treating a disease or disorder that comprises a molecule or a pharmaceutical composition that induces an insertion, deletion, duplication, or alteration in an incorrectly spliced mRNA transcript to induce exon skipping or exon inclusion.
US11179471B2
Provided is a peptide represented by the following formula (I): R1-IWLTALX5FLGX6X1AAX7X2X3AX8QX4LSX9L-R2 (I) wherein X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, X8, X9, R1, and R2 are as defined in the specification.
US11179467B2
Disclosed are an exenatide modifier for connecting the exenatide to a fatty chain with a carboxy in the terminus thereof by means of a hydrophilic connecting arm, and a use thereof in preparing drugs serving as a GLP-1 receptor agonist; a use in preparing drugs for preventing and/or treating diseases and/or symptoms associated with a low GLP-1 receptor activity; a use in preparing drugs for diseases and/or symptoms associated with glycometabolism; a use in preparing drugs for diabetes; a use in preparing drugs for fatty liver disease, and a use in preparing drugs for losing weight.
US11179463B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical formulations of a pharmaceutically active antigen binding protein, for example a monoclonal antibody. Such formulations comprise, in addition to the antigen binding protein, a buffering agent and a tonicity agent.
US11179462B2
The invention relates to the fields of vaccines and vaccine adjuvants, and generally relates to polynucleotide adjuvants, polynucleotide vaccines and vaccine compositions. More specifically, the invention relates to said polynucleotides and vaccine compositions for use in inducing or enhancing a prophylactic or therapeutic immune response in a mammalian subject. Furthermore, it relates to said polynucleotides and vaccine compositions for use in the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of an infectious disease, such as in the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of leishmaniasis.
US11179457B2
The present invention relates to killed/inactivated and/or recombinant Senecavirus A immunogenic compositions and vaccines, and methods of preventing or treating animals in need of with such an immunogenic compositions and vaccines.
US11179456B2
The invention relates to a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide comprising a plurality of conserved peptide sequences, or variants thereof, wherein the conserved sequences are conserved across one or more HPV genotypes 16, 18, 31, 52, 53, and 58; and wherein the polypeptide comprises a conserved peptide sequence of each of the HPV proteins E1, E2, E4, E5, E6, and E7; and associated vaccines, viral vectors, treatment and prophylaxis.
US11179450B2
A long-chain peptide antigen includes a plurality of epitopes. An interepitope sequence located between two of the plurality of epitopes contains four to ten consecutive tyrosines. The long-chain peptide antigen may be administered to a patient together with a hydrophobized polysaccharide, such as cholesterol-modified pullulan, and/or an adjuvant, such as CpG oligo DNA.
US11179447B2
The present invention relates to microbial lysozyme, compositions comprising such and uses thereof.
US11179437B2
A method of treating a condition associated with aberrant protein degradation is disclosed. The method comprises administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of an agent, which reduces the amount of CSN Acidic Protein (CSNAP) which is incorporated into the COP9 signalosome complex (CSN) of the cell.
US11179436B2
In an aspect, the invention relates to compositions and methods for permeabilizing membranes of cells. In an aspect, the invention relates to compositions and methods for killing cells. In an aspect, the invention relates to compositions and methods of permeabilizing the membranes of cancer cells or microbial cells.
US11179424B2
An agent of the present invention comprising poultry feet or a processed product thereof, preferably a hydrolysate of an extract of poultry feet, promotes hyaluronic acid production, thereby exhibiting excellent effects of preventing or treating a joint disorder, improving skin dryness, wrinkles or skin tension, moisturizing the skin, etc. The agent is thus useful as a medicament, a quasi-drug, a cosmetic product, a food product or an animal feed.
US11179423B2
Methods of enhancing fertility of a female subject by increasing the number of oogonia present in the ovary of the female subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include methods of in vivo expansion of oogonia as well as methods of ex vivo expansion of oogonia.
US11179419B2
The present disclosure provides methods for re-stimulating TIL populations that lead to improved phenotype and increased metabolic health of the TILs and provides methods of assaying for TIL populations to determine suitability for more efficacious infusion after re-stimulation.
US11179418B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11179416B2
The present disclosure relates to manganese dioxide nanoparticles and their use in treatment of oxidative stress and conditions related to or characterized by oxidative stress, including osteoarthritis.
US11179412B2
A method of treating a patient having an elevated inflammatory response, such as an elevated Type I interferon response, is provided. The method can be used to treat sepsis. The method comprises administering to a patient having an elevated inflammatory response, an inhibitor of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK inhibitors) or expression of ALK, in an amount effective to treat the elevated inflammatory response.
US11179411B2
An object of the present invention is to provide ASO that can effectively suppress a formation of RNA foci spontaneously occurring in neurons having SCA36 mutation, without inducing the cleavage of NOP56 pre-mRNA. The present invention provides an oligonucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence in which one or more nucleotide sequences represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 are consecutively connected and is complementary to pre-mRNA of NOP56 gene, wherein a structure formed by the hybridization of the oligonucleotide to the pre-mRNA is resistant to RNaseH.
US11179406B2
Disclosed are methods of reducing the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in an infant, toddler, or child using nutritional compositions including human milk oligosaccharides. The nutritional compositions including the human milk oligosaccharides are effective in reducing inflammation and the incidence of inflammatory diseases.
US11179401B2
The present invention relates to a method for maintaining normoglycemia in a mammal in need thereof, preferably a critically ill patient suffering from acute stress, and to a method for preventing or limiting renal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) in a mammal, preferably in a critically ill patient suffering from acute stress.
US11179395B2
Provided herein are methods for treating melanoma in a subject.
US11179392B2
The present invention provides a solid pharmaceutical formulation of PARP inhibitors and its use thereof, and more specifically a solid dispersion powder including 5-fluoro-1-(4-fluoro-3-(4-(pyrimidin-2-yl)piperazine-1-carbonyl)benzyl)quinazoline-2,4(1H,3H)-dione and polymers, wherein the content of polymers is from about 50 wt % to about 80 wt %, and wherein less than 10 wt % of 5-fluoro-1-(4-fluoro-3-(4-(pyrimidin-2-yl)piperazine-1-carbonyl)benzyl)quinazoline-2,4(1H,3H)-dione is in crystalline form. The present invention also provides a method for preparing the solid dispersion powder, a pharmaceutical composition including the solid dispersion powder and the use of the pharmaceutical composition for treating diseases caused by PARP activity abnormalities.
US11179387B2
There is provided a therapeutic agent for Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia for combined use of (S)-7-(2-methoxy-3,5-dimethylpyridin-4-yl)-1-(tetrahydrofuran-3-yl)-1H-pyrazolo[4,3-c]quinoline-4(5H)-one represented by formula (1): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and donepezil represented by formula (II): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11179383B2
The present disclosure provides a compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as described herein. The present disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I), processes for preparing compounds of Formula (I), and therapeutic methods for treating inflammatory disease.
US11179375B2
Provided herein are drug products with low dose pioglitazone for use in the treatment (e.g., delay of onset) of cognitive impairment of the Alzheimer's type. Methods of manufacture thereof are also provided. Further provided are methods of treatment for Alzheimer's disease including administering a drug product with low dose pioglitazone. The methods may include determining whether the subject is at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease based upon the subject's age and TOMM40 523 genotype.
US11179361B2
Methods of quantifying a N2-(1-carboxyethyl)-2′-deoxyguanosine (CEdG) levels in biological samples and comparing those levels to known normal levels can diagnose a number of metabolic disorders or complications associated therewith, including diabetes, its associated complications, and cancer. Methods can also determine whether therapies for disorders are effective by measuring CEdG levels before and after treatment. Measurement of CEdG levels is achieved by using liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.
US11179356B2
Methods of weight management for a subject are provided. Generally the methods comprise: administering an effective amount to the small intestine and/or large intestine of the subject of at least one agent that increases oxygen tension and/or redox potential and/or pH in the colon of the subject to thereby manage the weight of the subject. Also provided are compositions comprising at least one agent that increases oxygen tension and/or redox potential and/or pH, wherein the composition is formulated for delivery of an effective amount of the at least one agent to the small intestine and/or large intestine of a subject following oral administration of the composition to the subject.
US11179354B2
In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to methods of treating or preventing nephrogenic diabetes insipidus comprising administering an effective amount of a compound of Formula (I) or derivatives thereof, as described herein, to a subject in need thereof. In certain embodiments, the subject has been diagnosed with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
US11179330B2
The present invention provides an oral transmucosal film or patch for delivering doxepin through the buccal mucosa or sublingual mucosa. The film or patch is a bilayer structure containing a mucoadhesive layer with amorphous doxepin and soluble backing layer without doxepin. The film or patch has satisfactory bioavailability and improved palatability. The mucoadhesive layer comprises 0.5-25% (w/w) of doxepin, 50-96% of one or more film-forming agents, 1-30% (w/w) of one or more adhesives, and 0.05-5% (w/v) of one or more stabilizers. The backing layer comprises 80-100% (w/w) of one or more film-forming agents. Preferred adhesives include povidone, carbomer, and polycarbophil. Preferred stabilizers include butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), citric acid, and ascorbic acid.
US11179325B2
The present invention provides combination therapies for treating a metabolic disorder, such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, and related comorbidities (e.g., NASH or NAFLD)) in an individual undergoing treatment with a gastrointestinal implant. The combination therapies described herein include methods for treating an individual with a gastrointestinal implant with a metabolic agent, a bariatric procedure, and/or a microbiota modulator.
US11179319B2
The present specification relates to a method for extracting a plant by using a skin serum that can be used for skin care. This method can further increase the process efficiency and extract active ingredients more effectively than conventional extraction methods using a solvent. Thus, the method can increase customer satisfaction and promote the development of relevant industries.
US11179312B2
The invention relates to aqueous compositions for hair treatment, comprising polyorganosiloxanes A) or organic compounds B) having certain functional groups, in particular aldehyde and unsaturated dicarboxylic acid moieties, hair treatment or hair care compositions comprising the aqueous compositions, a process for the treatment of hair which comprises the steps of providing the aqueous compositions and applying said aqueous compositions to the hair, and the use of the aqueous compositions for the treatment of hair.
US11179305B2
A method of reducing oxidative damage of skin is described. The method can include applying to oxidant damaged skin a topical composition that includes encapsulated resveratrol, oligopeptide-1, and niacinamide, wherein the combination of encapsulated resveratrol, oligopeptide-1, and niacinamide reduces oxidative damage in the skin, and wherein the oligopeptide-1 comprises the sequence of caprooyl-Gly-His-Lys-Lys.
US11179301B2
A skin cleansing composition includes surfactant, glycerin, perfume, and water, where at least a portion of the composition is in a lamellar phase.
US11179299B2
A system for providing an oral care agent includes a first layer containing the oral care agent and a second layer. The first layer can be applied directly to teeth. The second layer can subsequently be applied onto the first layer to inhibit leakage of the oral care agent outwards into the mouth.
US11179294B2
A particulate plug for removing a preservative from a solution, suspension, or emulsion comprising a drug is presented. The plug comprises microparticles of a hydrophobic polymer/fatty acid blend. The microparticles of hydrophobic polymer/fatty acid blend selectively absorb preservative allowing the drug to remain in solution for delivery.
US11179293B2
A patient support system with chest compression system and harness assembly with sensor system. The harness assembly secures shoulders and hips of the patient on a patient support surface during transport. A chest compression system is integrated into the harness assembly in a manner that provides chest compressions to the patient while the patient is secured on the patient support surface. The tension of the harness assembly is selectively adjusted and/or a fluid bladder may be selectively expanded. A controller is in communication with the chest compression system and controls operation of the chest compression system. The sensor system is integrated into the harness assembly and in communication with the controller. The chest compression system may be removable from the harness assembly via an adapter. The chest compression system may be integrated into the patient support apparatus to secure the patient to the patient support surface while providing chest compressions.
US11179287B1
Methods, apparatus, and systems for reducing transmission of aerosol droplets in a medical or dental procedure are described. One protective shield system includes a base plate, a shield having at least one transparent section, and a pipe or conduit comprising a plurality of holes thereon. The shield is configured to be removably attached to the base plate to allow attachment of the shield to the base plate prior to the medical or dental procedure and removal of the shield from the base plate after the medical or dental procedure. The pipe or conduit is positioned adjacent to an inner surface of the shield and on at least part of a perimeter of the shield. The pipe includes an end that is configured to connect to a suction system to enable removal of the aerosolized particles from below the shield during the medical or dental procedure.
US11179283B2
A patient support apparatus includes a frame supported relative to a floor, the frame configured to support a deck for supporting a patient thereon, and a lift assembly for raising or lowering the frame relative to the floor. The lift assembly includes lifting legs coupled to the frame and an actuator with a body and an extendible member. The body and the extendible member define a stroke length extending along a stroke axis, with the actuator mounted in the lifting assembly between two levers.
US11179282B2
An auxiliary loading device of a stretcher including a winch having a support frame rotatably supporting a spool, a tow strap wound on the spool and having a tow hook attachable to the stretcher, and a motor connected and configured to rotate the spool in a first direction for winding the tow strap on the spool and in a second direction for unwinding the tow strap from the spool. A sensor is connected to the winch to detect a value of a parameter indicative of a tension of a unwound section of the tow strap including the tow hook, and an electronic control unit operatively connected to the sensor unit and the motor of the winch to stop rotation of the spool when operated to rotate in the second direction if the value of the parameter indicative of the tension is less than or equal to a reference value.
US11179278B2
An absorbent article includes a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, and at least one elastically elongatable panel joined to the chassis. The elastically elongatable panel includes an ultrasonically bonded stretch laminate. The stretch laminate has at least one cover layer; and an elastomeric film having two surfaces and a skin on at least one of the surfaces. The stretch laminate has a first zone that is not elastically extensible along a stretch direction and a second zone that is elastically extensible along the stretch direction; and at least a portion of the skin of the elastomeric film is located in the first zone and wherein said portion of the skin has a plurality of wrinkles and the wrinkles have furrows.
US11179273B2
A sound attenuation system can include a first end that can include a shaft and a flange, the flange can be coupled to the shaft, and a second end that can include a filter stem and a cap. The filter stem can have a hole. The cap can have a first position in which the cap occludes the hole and can have a second position in which the cap is clear of the hole.
US11179266B2
Devices to secure the hand of a patient to a limb positioning device while evenly distributing the applied traction load across the patient's hand and wrist are disclosed. The hand is placed in the open position into a soft mitten, while an anatomically-shaped plate is attached to the mitten for supporting the palm of the hand in the open position. Straps are then secured around the patient's wrist and hand. Finally, the entire device is overwrapped an elastic bandage and secured to the limb positioning device. When traction is applied, the shape of the plate, the construction of the mitten, and the straps combine to allow low-contact pressure across the patient's hand and wrist.
US11179265B2
A therapeutic orthopedic device is described. The orthopedic device serves to restrain and limit movement of a human arm and shoulder. The device comprises a torso pillow, a padded forearm support attached to the pillow and a shoulder strap that traverses the clavicle region of the opposite shoulder. The pillow is positioned to rest against the torso of a user and the strap is positioned over the opposite shoulder. The forearm support acts as a shelf upon which the user's forearm may rest in a natural position. Flexible straps extend from the forearm support, over the user's forearm, and engage with the pillow to secure the forearm.
US11179259B2
An orthotic support comprises a shoulder section for encapsulating a first shoulder of a wearer, a glove section for conforming to at least a portion of the wearer's hand, and a sleeve section for conforming to the wearer's arm, the sleeve section connecting the shoulder section to the glove section. A resilient reinforcement extends from the glove section to the shoulder section, and at least a portion of the reinforcement extends in a spiral around the sleeve section, so that the reinforcement is configured to apply a rotational force to the wearer's arm, when worn, to urge a portion of the wearer's arm to rotate in a predetermined direction. The orthotic support may be usable to treat or prevent shoulder dislocation or subluxation, arm over-pronation or over-supination, wrist flexion or elbow flexion. An orthotic support may comprise a reinforcement with a first branch extending over an anterior portion of the sleeve section, and a second branch extending over a posterior portion of the sleeve section, so that the reinforcement is configured to urge the wearer's upper arm towards a rest position.
US11179244B2
An interbody device may include a main body and an arm movably connected thereto. The device may have a first end, a second end opposite the first end in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the device, a first side, a second side opposite the first side in a direction of a first transverse axis of the device, a third side, and a fourth side opposite the third side in a direction of a second transverse axis of the device. An overall distance between the first side and the second side may increase along at least a majority of a length of the device in a direction from the first end toward the second end, and an overall distance between the third side and the fourth side may increase along at least a majority of the length in a direction from the second end toward the first end.
US11179237B2
A valvular sleeve for valvular prostheses including a tubular body extending between an inflow end and an outflow end, the tubular body including a sheet member folded at the outflow end, whereby the tubular body includes an inner tubular portion and an outer tubular portion surrounding the inner tubular portion.
US11179235B2
Graft materials and devices for surgical breast procedures, as well as methods of making graft devices, are described.
US11179231B2
An oral irrigator handle for receiving an oral hygiene agent is described. The handle may be connected to a countertop oral irrigator or may be a portion of a handheld oral irrigator. The handle includes a chamber for receiving the oral hygiene agent, where the chamber body positioned within the fluid path of the handle. Fluid flowing into the handle, flows into the chamber, allowing the fluid to intermix with the agent, and then flows from the chamber to a tip connected to the handle.
US11179229B2
A dental floss type tooth cleaning device that is configured to clean tooth gap in oral cavity is disclosed. The invention is mainly configured to allow the user, who is preparing to use dental floss to clean tooth gap, to quickly wind the dental floss which follows a floss groove and is tightened and fixed. The dental floss can be dismantled quickly and disposed after use, so as to achieve a recyclable effect.
US11179226B2
An orthodontic bracket is described and which includes an archwire slot for receiving and cooperating with an archwire having a given shape, and wherein the bracket body has multiple forms each having an immovable anterior facing surface which lies in a given plane, and wherein the various forms of the bracket body can be rendered operable to express first, second or third order movement to a patient's tooth undergoing a clinician directed orthodontic treatment.
US11179222B2
A repositionable, lockable support arm assembly for surgical and other tools includes a base arm having a lower end and an upper end, a distal arm having a proximal end and a distal end, and a central joint, typically a rotational joint, directly or indirectly linking the upper end of the base arm to the proximal end of the distal arm. A lower joint, typically a spherical joint, is positioned at the lower end of the base arm, and an upper joint, also typically a spherical joint, is located at the distal end of the distal arm. A locking mechanism is coupled to the base arm at a location above the lower joint and is configured to simultaneously deliver locking forces to the lower joint, to the rotational joint, and to the upper joint. The kicking mechanism usually includes a powered, bilateral force generator for actuating the locking mechanism.
US11179215B2
Some embodiments described herein relate to an arm cart operable to transport a robotic arm to and/or from a surgical table. The robotic arm can be coupled to the arm cart via a connector. The connector can be slideably mounted to the arm cart such that the connector and the robotic arm, collectively, can move relative to the arm cart. For example, when the arm cart is adjacent to the surgical table, the connector and the robotic arm can be movable to provide final, fine adjustments to align the robotic arm with a coupling portion of the surgical table.
US11179214B2
A powered user interface for a robotic surgical system includes a handle on a linkage having a plurality of joints, a base, and actuators. The interface operates in accordance with a first mode of operation in which a plurality of its actuators are operated to constrain predetermined ones of the joints to permit motion of the handle in only 4DOF with respect to the base, and a second mode of operation in which the actuators permit motion of the handle in at least 6DOF with respect to the base.
US11179202B2
A method is described for planning intracorporeal positioning of a puncture needle to be introduced percutaneously into a patient on the basis of a puncture plan, said method comprising the following steps: a) arranging a needle guide means in a spatially fixed manner on the patient; b) generating and storing a series of cross-sectional images, each containing spatially resolved image information of the patient and of the needle guide means attached in a spatially fixed manner to the patient in a first coordinate system, using an imaging diagnostic method; c) selecting and visually displaying at least one cross-sectional image or a numerically generated cross-sectional image from the series of stored cross-sectional images; d) superimposing a virtual, positionally variable linear trajectory on the basis of the selected cross-sectional image; e) positioning the virtual linear trajectory on the basis of the puncture plan to obtain a target linear trajectory, in which the virtual linear trajectory traverses the needle guide means; f) numerically determining spatial coordinates of two separate spatial points, or traverse points, within the first coordinate system, at which traverse points the target linear trajectory traverses the needle guide means; g) transforming the spatial coordinates relating to the needle guide means and to the traverse points to a second coordinate system; and h) visually displaying the needle guide means within the second coordinate system in such a manner that the traverse points are shown visibly marked on the needle guide means.
US11179195B2
Methods for treating polycystic kidney disease with therapeutic renal neuromodulation and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology is directed to methods that at least partially inhibit sympathetic neural activity in nerves proximate a renal artery of a kidney of a patient. One or more measurable physiological parameter corresponding to the polycystic kidney disease can thereby be reduced. Moreover, central sympathetic drive in the patient can be reduced in a manner that treats the patient for the polycystic kidney disease. Renal sympathetic nerve activity can be modulated along the afferent and/or efferent pathway. The modulation can be achieved, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a neuromodulation assembly, e.g., a neuromodulation assembly configured to cryotherapeutically cool the renal nerve or to deliver an energy field to the renal nerve.
US11179191B2
An electrosurgical instrument includes a housing, an elongated shaft, and an end-effector assembly. The proximal end of the shaft is operably associated with the housing. The end-effector assembly is operably coupled to the distal end of the shaft and includes first and second jaw members. Each of the first and second jaw members includes a sealing plate and a bipolar electrode. Either one or both of the first and second jaw members is movable from a position in spaced relation relative to the other jaw member to at least one subsequent position wherein the sealing plates cooperate to grasp tissue therebetween. The electrosurgical instrument includes a semiconductor switch operably coupled to at least one of the sealing plates and at least one of the bipolar electrodes. The semiconductor switch is configured to enable user selection between energizing the at least one sealing plate or the at least one bipolar electrode.
US11179190B2
An electrosurgical device comprising: (a) a stylet including: (i) a first jaw; (ii) a second jaw that is movable relative to the first jaw from a first position where the first jaw and the second jaw are open to a second position where the first jaw and the second jaw move towards each other to grasp tissue therebetween; and (iii) one or more jaw support rods connected to the first jaw, the second jaw, or both; and (b) a housing connected to the stylet and the stylet extending from the housing, the housing including: (i) an operable mechanism including: (1) a fourth link; (2) a second link; (3) a first link being connected to the fourth link via a first pivot and being rotatable relative to the first pivot, and connected to the second link at a second pivot so that movement of the first link moves the second link relative to the fourth link; and (4) a third link being connected to the second link at a third pivot so that movement of the second link moves the third link, and the fourth link being connected to the third link at a fourth pivot, the third link moving about the fourth pivot to move the one or more jaw supports so that the first jaw and the second jaw are moved between the first position and the second position; and wherein the fourth link is the housing and the first link is a clamp lever that extends outside of the housing and is actuated by a user.
US11179189B2
A monopolar electrosurgical instrument and electrosurgical system for treating biological tissue by a plasma. The instrument includes a tubular line for conducting a gas to the treatment location, wherein the line consists of electrically insulating material and has a distal opening for the exit of the gas in the direction of the tissue to be treated, and an electrode arranged in the region of the distal opening in the line, wherein the electrode is connectable to an electrosurgical generator to ignite a plasma discharge in the gas. Improving the ignition behavior, the inner surface of the line has an enhanced electrical conductivity in the distal opening. Furthermore, a method for producing an electrosurgical instrument for providing a line made of nonconductive material, an electrode, and enhancing the conductivity of an inner surface of the line in the region of the opening, for enhancing the conductivity in the line.
US11179180B2
A bone fixation system includes a plate body that defines an interior surface that defines at least one hole defining a central axis. The internal surface defines plate threads within the hole. The system includes a bone screw having a shaft extending from head along a central axis, wherein the head has an exterior surface that defines threads that are configured to threadedly engage the plate threads. The plate threads and head threads each have a cross-sectional profile in a respective reference plane extending along the respective central axis. The cross-sectional profiles each comprise roots, crests, and flanks extending therebetween. The roots, crests, and flanks collectively deviate from a reference cross-sectional profile that is V-shaped in the respective reference plane and defines crest reference points at apices at a first side thereof and root reference points at apices at a second side thereof opposite the first side. Such deviation causes a thread height measured from the crests to the roots to be less than a reference height measured from the crest reference points to the root reference points, such that a ratio of the thread height of the head threads to the reference height of the head threads is from 0.50:1 to 0.80:1, and a ratio of the thread height of the plate threads to the reference height of the plate threads is from 0.50:1 to 1.00:1.
US11179173B2
In one embodiment, a surgical instrument comprises an articulable waveguide. The articulable waveguide may be configured to transmit ultrasonic energy therealong. The articulable waveguide comprises a proximal drive section, an end effector and a first flexible. The proximal drive section is configured to couple to an ultrasonic transducer. The end effector is located at a distal portion of the articulable waveguide. The first flexible section comprises a flex bias and be positioned between the proximal drive section and the end effector. The surgical instrument further comprises a first tine extending longitudinally relative to the articulable waveguide.
US11179156B2
In some implementations, a radially self-expanding endograft prosthesis is provided that includes (i) distal flange that is self-expanding and configured to flip generally perpendicularly with respect to a body of the prosthesis to help seat the prosthesis against a tissue wall, (ii) a distal segment extending proximally from the distal flange that has sufficient stiffness to maintain a puncture open that is formed through a vessel wall (iii) a compliant middle segment extending proximally from the distal segment, the middle segment being more compliant than the distal segment, and having independently movable undulating strut rings attached to a tubular fabric, the combined structure providing flexibility and compliance to allow for full patency while flexed, the segment being configured to accommodate up to a 90 degree bend, (iv) a proximal segment having a plurality of adjacent undulating strut rings that are connected to each other.
US11179155B2
An anvil for a surgical stapler. In at least one form, the anvil includes an elongate anvil body portion that has an upper portion and a staple forming undersurface. An anvil mounting portion is adjacent to the elongate anvil body and is configured to movably support the anvil on a portion of the surgical stapler. An anvil cap is configured to be mechanically interlocked to the upper portion of the elongate anvil body. At least one weld is provided between the anvil cap and the upper portion of the elongate anvil body portion.
US11179138B2
Exemplary embodiments provide systems and methods for portable medical ultrasound imaging. Preferred embodiments utilize a tablet touchscreen display operative to control imaging and display operations without the need for using traditional keyboards or controls. Certain embodiments provide ultrasound imaging system in which the scan head includes a beamformer circuit that performs far field sub array beamfonning or includes a sparse array selecting circuit that actuates selected elements. Exemplary embodiments also provide an ultrasound engine circuit board including one or more multi-chip modules, and a portable medical ultrasound imaging system including an ultrasound engine circuit board with one or more multi-chip modules. Exemplary embodiments also provide methods for using a hierarchical two-stage or three-stage beamforming system, three dimensional ultrasound images which can be generated in real-time.
US11179132B2
An x-ray imaging apparatus and associated methods are provided to process projection data from an offset detector during a helical scan, including view completion. The detector may be offset in the channel and/or axial direction. Projection data measured from a current view is combined with projection data measured from at least one conjugate view to reconstruct a target image. A two-dimensional aperture weighting scheme is used to address data redundancy.
US11179129B2
An apparatus for creating a radiation treatment plan for execution by a radiation treatment machine, includes: a waypoint module configured to obtain imaging waypoint data representing imaging waypoints, the imaging waypoints at least partially defining one or more positions for obtaining images of a patient during a treatment session; a treatment trajectory module configured to obtain treatment data at least partially defining a beam-on direction; a treatment plan generator configured to create the radiation treatment plan based at least in part on the imaging waypoint data and the treatment data.
US11179126B2
A radiation source of a mammography apparatus includes plural first radiation tubes and one second radiation tube. The first radiation tubes are used for tomosynthesis imaging. In contrast, the second radiation tube is used for pre-imaging which is performed before the tomosynthesis imaging in order to set the irradiation conditions of radiation in the tomosynthesis imaging. The first radiation tubes are provided at plural positions where the focuses of the radiation are set so as to be arranged in a linear shape or an arc shape at equal intervals. The second radiation tube is provided at a position that is offset from the plural positions where the first radiation tubes are provided to a rear side which is a side opposite to the irradiation side of the radiation.
US11179121B2
When a wire rope (55) is broken, the wire rope (55) will sag from the state in which the wire rope is tensioned with a predetermined tension. At this time, a pin (71) is pressed toward a movable support (42) by a biasing force of a spring (73), and the tip of the pin (71) is brought into contact with the surface of the movable support (42). When the support arm (43) is ascended or descended with respect to the movable support (42) and the pin (71) is arranged at a position facing the hole (65) formed in the movable support (42), the tip of the pin (71) is entered into the hole (65), so that the pin (71) and the hole (65) are engaged with each other. Thereby, the support arm (43) is fixed with respect to the movable support (42).
US11179119B2
This X-ray fluoroscopic imaging apparatus includes a first arm, a second arm, and a controller. The controller is configured to move a second base to move the second arm to a position where the second arm does not interfere with the first arm when the first arm and the second arm interfere with each other and change the angle of the second arm so that the angle of the second arm becomes a predetermined imaging angle to arrange the first arm and the second arm at positions where the first arm and the second arm do not interfere with each other to perform imaging.
US11179116B2
Methods, devices, systems, and apparatus for controlling pulse pileup are provided. In one aspect, a method of controlling pulse pileup includes: obtaining scan protocol parameters of a computed tomography (CT) device, the scan protocol parameters including an exposure voltage, an exposure duration for each revolution of a scanning of an object, and a number of views for each revolution, determining an angle of a radioactive source for an i-th view based on the number of views and an initial position of the radioactive source, obtaining an optimal exposure current for the i-th view under the exposure voltage by minimizing an output value of an objective function for the i-th view, and determining a current view based on the exposure duration for each revolution and a current exposure moment to perform the scanning on the object with the optimal exposure current for the current view.
US11179113B2
A presentation method for presenting a time period to measure a blood glucose level, the presentation method includes: acquiring first information, the first information including a measurement result in which a glucose level of a user is measured with a time interval using a first measurement device and a measurement time at which the measurement result was acquired; determining, based on a comparison result obtained by comparing the first information with a predetermined threshold of the glucose level and a preset period, the time period for the user to measure the blood glucose level by using a second measurement device; and presenting the time period at a display.
US11179112B2
The local conduction velocity of a cardiac activation wavefront can be computed by collecting a plurality of electrophysiology (“EP”) data points using a multi-electrode catheter, with each EP data point including both position data and local activation time (“LAT”) data. For any EP data point, a neighborhood of EP data points, including the selected EP data point and at least two additional EP data points, can be defined. Planes of position and LATs can then be defined using the positions and LATs, respectively, of the EP data points within the neighborhood. A conduction velocity can be computed from an intersection of the planes of positions and LATs. The resultant plurality of conduction velocities can be output as a graphical representation (e.g., an electrophysiology map), for example by displaying vector icons arranged in a uniform grid over a three-dimensional cardiac model.
US11179103B2
Disclosed is a wearable step counter system comprising a garment for a wearer's legs, a capacitive electrode and a microcontroller, said garment comprising a textile fabric portion, said capacitive electrode comprising an electrically conductive yarn woven into said textile fabric portion, said textile fabric portion being arranged on said garment for providing a parasitic capacitive coupling between said capacitive electrode and a wearer's leg, said microcontroller being electrically connected to said capacitive electrode for evaluating said parasitic capacitive coupling so that the relative movement between the wearer's legs is detected by the microcontroller.
US11179097B2
Tactile sensing devices, systems, and methods to image a target tissue location are disclosed. When force is applied to the tactile sensing device, voltage data is detected and visualized on a screen, indicating the target tissue location.
US11179091B2
A neural stimulus comprises at least three stimulus components, each comprising at least one of a temporal stimulus phase and a spatial stimulus pole. A first stimulus component delivers a first charge which is unequal to a third charge delivered by a third stimulus component, and the first charge and third charge are selected so as to give rise to reduced artefact at recording electrodes. In turn this may be exploited to independently control a correlation delay of a vector detector and an artefact vector to be non-parallel or orthogonal.
US11179090B2
Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a control method and device based on brain signal, and a human-machine interaction device, which periodically acquire EEG signals and cerebral oxygen signals within a target period, generate an electroencephalogram (EEG) wave curve representing changes of the EEG signals and a cerebral oxygen wave curve representing changes of the cerebral oxygen signals respectively within the target period, determine whether the EEG wave curve and the cerebral oxygen wave curve satisfy a condition for controlling a controlled device to perform a target operation, and control the controlled device to perform the target operation when the EEG wave curve and the cerebral oxygen wave curve satisfy the condition.
US11179085B2
A technical solution is described for implementing a computer-executed signal processing algorithm to search for time domain segments of a recorded electroencephalogram (EEG) that are highly correlated, either positively or negatively, to one or more, individual, synthetically generated, single-period single-frequency (SPSF) sinusoids. The SPSFs are motivated by the combined concepts of individual Striatal Beat Frequencies (SBF) used to model cortical neuron activity, Frequency Domain Reflectometry used to study Voltage Standing Wave Ratios (VSWR), Geophysics Seismograms, and ghosting effects of multipath passing through periodic sinusoids. This computationally intense approach is only recently realizable through the advent of high performance computing. The SPSF approach, since it is not constrained to the error-laden one-window-fits-all approach of the Time-Frequency Spectrogram, offer's a more detailed basis to assess, and truer visualization of, the health of brain's electrical activities. This approach is a push-back against the Uncertainty Principal.
US11179082B2
A driving assistance device (1) includes: a somatic nervous system activity detector (11) detecting a somatic nervous system activity, which is a physical activity, of a driver in association with steering of a vehicle; an autonomic nervous system activity detector (12) detecting an autonomic nervous system activity, which is a mental activity, of the driver in association with the steering of the vehicle; a somatic nervous system activity controller (perception amount controller (2)) which is operable to control the somatic nervous system activity; an autonomic nervous system activity controller (sound effect generator (3)) which is operable to control the autonomic nervous system activity; and a psychosomatic state controller (balance controller (14)). The psychosomatic state controller causes the somatic nervous system activity controller and the autonomic nervous system activity controller to operate such that the two activities shift to the same side with respect to increase and decrease.
US11179078B2
Embodiments of the invention provide compositions useful in analyte sensors as well as methods for making and using such compositions and sensors. In typical embodiments of the invention, the sensor is a glucose sensor comprising an analyte modulating membrane formed from a polymer composition having carbonate and aromatic isocyanate chains, a composition observed to provide such membranes with improved material properties such as enhanced thermal and hydrolytic stability.
US11179068B2
Devices associated with on-body analyte sensor units are disclosed. These devices include any of packaging and/or loading systems, applicators and elements of the on-body sensor units themselves. Also, various approaches to connecting electrochemical analyte sensors to and/or within associated on-body analyte sensor units are disclosed. The connector approaches variously involve the use of unique sensor and ancillary element arrangements to facilitate assembly of separate electronics assemblies and sensor elements that are kept apart until the end user brings them together.
US11179065B2
Systems, methods and software products determine an overall motion and/or flexibility envelope for an individual. Movement and position data of the individual is captured and processed to generate an overall motion and/or flexibility envelope for the individual defining overall motion and/or flexibility of the individual. The systems include a flexibility server with memory and a processor adapted to receive movement and position data of the individual, a motion and/or flexibility analyzer, implemented as machine readable instructions stored in the memory and executed by the digital processor, capable of processing the movement and position data to generate an overall motion and/or flexibility envelope for the individual defining overall motion and/or flexibility of the individual.
US11179062B2
Orthopedic systems and methods are provided for use in preparing joints for implants. Specifically, hip preparation systems and methods are disclosed which can include a surgical orientation device. The hip preparation systems and methods can be used, for example, to orient the hip during the procedure, determine the orientation of an anatomical plane or planes, and orient a prosthetic component or components.
US11179053B2
A graphical user interface (GUI) including: (a) a group definition module adapted to accept a user input defining groups; (b) a data receiver operable to receive a plurality of individual measurement input datum indicative of status of a substrate; (c) a grouping module configured to assign each of said individual measurement input datum to one of said groups to produce grouped data; and (d) an output module adapted to output the grouped data.
US11179052B2
Example embodiments associated with characterizing a sample using NMR fingerprinting are described. One example NMR apparatus includes an NMR logic that repetitively and variably samples a (k, t, E) space associated with an object to acquire a set of NMR signals that are associated with different points in the (k, t, E) space. Sampling is performed with t and/or E varying in a non-constant way. The NMR apparatus may also include a signal logic that produces an NMR signal evolution from the NMR signals and a characterization logic that characterizes a tissue in the object as a result of comparing acquired signals to reference signals. Example embodiments facilitate distinguishing diseased tissue from healthy tissue based on tissue component fractions identified using the NMR fingerprinting.
US11179050B2
Most automatic cuff blood pressure (BP) measurement devices are based on oscillometry. These devices estimate BP from the envelopes of the cuff pressure oscillations using fixed ratios. The values of the fixed ratios represent population averages, so the devices may be accurate only in subjects with normal BP levels. A patient-specific oscillometric BP measurement method was developed. The idea was to represent the cuff pressure oscillation envelopes with a physiologic model and then estimate the patient-specific parameters of the model, which includes BP levels, by optimally fitting it to the envelopes.
US11179047B2
A system and method is presented for cuff-less blood pressure measurement in a mobile device. A key aspect of this disclosure is the discovery of a new location for blood pressure measurement at the fingertip of a subject and that reflectance-mode photoplethysmography can be used to help make this measurement. Through experiments in human subjects, it was discovered that it is indeed possible to measure systemic blood pressure by having a subject press the fingertip against a reflectance-mode photo-plethysmography-force sensor unit under visual guidance and then compute blood pressure from the resulting variable-amplitude blood volume oscillations and applied pressure via an oscillometric algorithm.
US11179040B2
An attachable monitoring device includes a battery unit, a flexible printed circuit board and a physical condition sensor and an adhesive. The battery unit includes a top surface, a bottom surface and a plurality of side surfaces connecting the top surface and the bottom surface. The flexible printed circuit board is bent to cover the top surface, the bottom surface and one of the side surfaces and electrically connected to the battery unit. The flexible printed circuit board includes a printed antenna printed on a first outer surface of the flexible printed circuit board. The physical condition sensor is disposed on a second outer surface of the flexible printed circuit board opposite to the first outer surface. The physical condition sensor includes a sensing region for contacting a user to detecting a physical-condition signal of the user. The adhesive is disposed on the flexible printed circuit board for being attached to the user.
US11179034B2
An ophthalmic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a fixation system, a data acquisition device, analyzing circuitry, and controlling circuitry. The fixation system projects fixation light onto a subject's eye. The data acquisition device acquires data by applying optical coherence tomography scanning to the subject's eye onto which the fixation light is being projected. The analyzing circuitry analyzes the data to specify the position of a predetermined site of the subject's eye. The controlling circuitry controls at least one of the fixation system and the data acquisition device based on the positional relationship between the position of the predetermined site specified by the analyzing circuitry and a scan area by the data acquisition device.
US11179020B2
A domestic appliance, for example a washing machine, comprises a body having an access opening to a process chamber arranged inside the body, a door which is movably attached to the body and which closes the access opening in a closed position, a door-closing mechanism for holding the door closed in its closed position and a door-opening mechanism arranged on the body or on the door, having a push slider, which is movable between a retracted position and a deployed position, and a drive unit for driving the push slider. A transfer of the push slider out of the retracted position into the deployed position effects opening of the closed door, the push slider acts in a pressure-exerting manner on the door or on the body and thereby overcomes a holding-closed action of the door-closing mechanism and opens the closed door.
US11179013B2
The fluid damper device (10) has the rotor (30) which is inserted to the bottomed cylindrical case (20) and the cover (60) which is fixed to the opening portion (29) of the case (20). The welding protrusions (80) which are to be welded to the cover (60) are formed on the inside circumferential surface of the case (20) and spaced out in the circumferential direction. On the other side (L2) in the axial (L) direction of the welding range (X), within which the welding protrusions (80) and the cover are welded together, the first outflow prevention portion (91L, 91R) is formed. On the other side (L2) of the first outflow prevention portion (91L, 91R) in the axial (L) direction, the arc-shaped step surface (76) which functions as the outflow regulation portion (95) is provided to regulate the resin protruded and prevented it from reaching the position of the R-ring (49).
US11179007B2
Disclosed is a vacuum compartment structure for a cup lid and a manufacturing method thereof. The vacuum compartment structure for a cup lid includes a stainless steel cylinder body and a compartment upper cover. The compartment upper cover is covered on the cylinder body and has an inwardly recessed shape, and the compartment upper cover and the cylinder body are fixedly connected and sealed by laser welding. The compartment upper cover and the cylinder body form a vacuum chamber, which has a getter therein. The compartment upper cover is arranged with a plastic upper cover layer, an outer surface of the cylinder body is wrapped with a plastic lower cover layer, and the plastic upper cover layer is combined with the plastic lower cover layer to fasten and wrap the compartment upper cover and the cylinder body.
US11179005B2
A mechanism for raising and lowering a cooking surface within a recessed combustion chamber is provided.
US11179001B2
In order to heat a bag filled, for example, with a food product to a predeterminable temperature, the entire cassette (1) has been heated in the past. The invention relates to a cassette (1) made of plastic, wherein in each of the cassette shells (2, 3) a receiving recess (10) is formed, in each of which a respective heat-conducting plate (11) is arranged securely in position. A heating element (20) is applied to the heat-conducting plate (11) and the heat-conducting plate (11) is retained in an insulated manner on the respective cassette shell (2, 3) such that a thermal insulating air gap remains between the heat-conducting plate (11) or the heating element (20) and the cassette shell (2, 3).
US11179000B2
A cooking apparatus includes a cooking container, a heater, a driving unit, and a heat insulating member. The cooking container is configured to store food. The heater is configured to heat the cooking container. The driving unit includes a power generator configured to generate power for rotating the cooking container and a driving shaft extending in one direction and rotated by the power generator. The heat insulating member is provided between the cooking container and the power generator to prevent heat generated by the heater from being transferred to the power generator.
US11178998B2
A beverage discharge disposition comprising a discharge casing (1) configured so that can be provided in the front region of a beverage preparation machine (20), including the option of supplying milk and frothed milk, whereby said discharge casing (1) presents a milk circulation disposition (2) that is characterized in that presents a simple and compact construction adapted so that can be attached in removable manner to an attached part of said discharge casing (1) and to provide an ergonomic use of said beverage preparation machine (20). Also, a beverage preparation machine (20) presenting an optimized beverage discharge disposition according to the present invention.
US11178997B2
A machine (1) for dispensing an ice beverage in the form of a pourable homogenous mixture of ground ice, liquid and flavour ingredients such as fruit, vegetables, fruit juice, milk, yoghurt or the like. The machine (1) includes a blending unit (3) for blending the constituents of the ice beverage, and an ice dispensing unit (5) for supplying ice to the blending unit (3). The ice dispensing unit (5) includes a portion control device for measuring a predetermined quantity of ice required for blending. The blending unit (3) includes a bendable spout (41) for selectively releasing blended constituents from the blending unit (3). The ice dispensing unit (5) is advantageously able to dispense accurate portions of ice and does not require connection to an external water line or access to a floor drain. The blending unit (3) is advantageously able to produce and pour an ice beverage without requiring a blending container (43) of the unit (3) to be tilted, turned upside down and shaken.
US11178994B2
A capsule for preparing beverages, in particular coffee, is described, comprising a containing body having a first portion, the containing body defining an internal volume adapted to contain a substance to be infused, the first portion being composed of: a first perimeter edge; a first central portion onto which at least one external pressing force is applied; a first crown portion collapsible towards inside the containing body under the action of the pressing force exerted at least on the first central portion and/or on the first crown portion, the first crown portion being interposed between the first perimeter edge and the first central portion, the first crown portion being connected on its perimeter to the first perimeter edge by interposing a first bending line and being connected to the first central portion by interposing a second bending line.
US11178973B2
A furniture spring system, configured to provide a seating surface. The furniture spring system comprising a lid comprising a frame. The frame comprising two opposing frame members and a retention member associated with at least one of the two opposing frame members, a slat extending between the two opposing frame members, the slat comprising an elongate body having a first end and a second end and a catch disposed at the first end or second end, wherein the catch engages the retention member to retain the slat to the frame and the catch is configured to slide back-and-forth relative to the retention member as a portion of the elongate body between the first end and the second end elastically flexes downward and upward in response to forces intermittently pushing downward on the slat during use.
US11178968B2
A furniture assembly comprises two or more drawers and a plurality of pouches disposed at a rear lower portion of the furniture assembly. The plurality of pouches are filled with water, sand, or dirt. The water may contain a plurality drops of bleach. A minimum weight of the plurality of pouches is determined from torque balance of forces and weights. In one example, the plurality of pouches are disposed at a rear portion of a lower drawer. A rear wall of the plurality of pouches directly contacts a rear wall of the lower drawer. A top surface of each of the plurality of pouches and a top surface of a rear wall of the lower drawer are coplanar.
US11178967B2
An articulated storage apparatus has a mounting plate having openings for fasteners to mount to a stable stationary surface, a first arm extending from the mounting plate, a second arm coupled at a first end to the first arm at an end away from the carrier plate by a first vertically-oriented rotation mechanism driven by a first electric motor, a carrier plate having openings for fasteners to mount to a storage container, a third arm extending from the carrier plate coupled at an end away from the carrier plate to the second arm at a second end opposite the first end by a second vertically-oriented rotation mechanism driven by a second electric motor, and a control system having independent drivers for the first and the second electric motors, with inputs for independently rotating the electric motors in opposite directions.
US11178963B2
The present invention relates to a book holder capable of holding books having various thicknesses and, specifically, to a book holder capable of holding a thick book open, as is, without folding the pages thereof.
US11178961B2
A toothbrush device having a body defining a cavity and an input port disposed on the body in fluid communication with the cavity. The input port permits brushing by-products to pass through the input port and into the cavity while restricting passage of the brushing by-products outward from the cavity. In one form, the toothbrush device includes an elongated handle with a reservoir having at least a portion disposed within the handle. The reservoir is sized to hold a predetermined amount of oral care product, and a mouthpiece is in fluid communication with the reservoir to discharge the oral care product from the reservoir.
US11178959B1
A support pole system for supporting articles above the ground or earth includes a support pole formed from at least two elongated pole sections that are movably coupled together so that the pole sections can be moved relative to one another between collapsed and extended positions to shorten and lengthen the support pole. An article head piece is coupled to an upper end of the support pole for attaching articles to the support pole. A base assembly couples to the lower end of the support pole and has a stake configured for insertion into the ground or earth for supporting the support pole in an upright position. The stake has projecting members that engage the ground or earth when the stake is inserted therein to prevent rotation of the stake about the longitudinal axis of the stake. A cross member is positioned at an upper end of the stake to form a footrest to facilitate insertion of the stake into the ground or earth.
US11178950B2
A handbag, backpack or luggage with an incoming call reminding function, comprising: an incoming call reminding device equipped inside a handle of the handbag and used for sensing an incoming call signal of a mobile phone nearby and reminding by vibrating. The incoming call reminding device having a battery, mainboard, vibration motor and a cable, wherein the vibration motor receives the signal transmitted by the mainboard and vibrates to alert when the mobile phone has an incoming call. There may be at least one cavity (which may be in an inner padding material) and holds the incoming call reminding device inside of a handle or backpack strap. The vibration motor, mainboard and battery may be placed separately and substantially in a line, to keep in a narrow space inside of the handle or strap.
US11178947B2
The disclosure includes a wallet comprising an open-sided shell, a flexible member coupled to the open-sided shell, and an elastic band coupled to the flexible member. The flexible member may comprise an internal surface and an external surface located opposite the internal surface. In some embodiments, the open-sided shell is coupled to the internal surface. The wallet may be configured to move between open, closed, and clamshell positions. In the clamshell position, the elastic band may be configured to wrap around an external surface of the flexible member, thereby holding the wallet shut.
US11178943B2
A metallic watch strap, including a first metallic strap half and a second metallic strap half. The first metallic strap half extending along a longitudinal direction and having an upper side and a lower side. The second metallic strap half having a folding clasp with a first fastening structure equipped to be fastened to the first strap half and with a second fastening structure equipped to be fastened to the second strap half. The first fastening structure has a slide, which, in a first state, is displaceable relative to the first strap half in a guided manner, and including a fixation element, which, in a second state, abuts on the first strap half. The first strap half has fixation indentations and the fixation element has at least one fixation projection fitting into the fixation indentations. In the second state, the fixation projection engages into one of the fixation indentations.
US11178941B2
A fastener tape includes a mounting part for mounting a fastener element and a sewing part for sewing a fabric. The mutually adjoining sides of the mounting part and sewing part are integrally connected to each other. Another side of the mounting part which is spaced distantly from the sewing part provides a fastener element mounting side for mounting the fastener element. The sewing part is constituted of a plain weave texture.
US11178940B2
A slider for a slide fastener useable with a slider with an automatic stop function to secure a tab to enable automatic engagement and prevent swinging of the tab, regardless of the type of tab, when the tab is tilted to an engaged portion side. An engaging portion is formed in an attachment hole of the tab. An engaged portion is formed in the slider body or the tab attachment part. When the tab is tilted to be almost parallel to an upper blade on the engaged portion side of the tab attachment part, due to a biasing force of the spring member, the lock pin moves the shaft portion of the tab downward and to an opposite side of a tilted direction, and a tip portion of the engaging portion of the tab is pulled into to be engaged with the engaged portion side of the tab attachment part.
US11178938B2
A method of producing a customized shoe last for individual fitting and shaping of the inner surface of the shoe includes production of a shoe last based on a precise shape and size of the digital foot model. The actual physical shape of the foot is converted into a foot model using 3D scanning. The digital foot model is divided into parts required for insertion and functioning of a mechanism, and simulation of the bend in the metatarsophalangeal and ankle joints. The parts of the foot obtained by dividing the digital model are then manufactured. An extendable mechanism to move the parts of the shoe last against each other in three axes of coordinates is developed, based the produced parts, an individual shoe last is manufactured in the form of a physical foot model, configured for personal fitting and shaping of an inner surface of the shoe.
US11178932B2
Sports boot including a shell and a liner, the shell extending upward so as to at least partially surround the lower leg of a user and including at least one tightening device configured to tighten the lower leg of the user. The tightening device includes the following: a first strap portion attached to the shell using a first anchoring mechanism; a second strap portion; mechanism configured to pair the first strap portion with the second strap portion; adjusting mechanism configured to adjust the length of the first strap portion or the length of the second strap portion; and a second anchoring mechanism configured to optionally connect the second strap portion to the shell.
US11178931B2
A protective helmet including a visor attached to the external sides of the helmet shell. The shell includes substantially flat mount surfaces on each side which correspond with substantially flat portions on the respective ends of the visor. A fastener hole on the shell aligns with an access hole on the visor so that the two elements can be releasably fastened. The access hole provides space for a fastener to protrude out from the surface of the shell, allowing the visor to sit flush against the shell when fastened together. The helmet may include chin straps which are attached to the inner surface of the shell. The helmet may also include a catch strip on the front of the visor which protrudes from the visor such that it can prevent a cloth helmet cover (sometimes used in games such as Roller Derby) from easily sliding off the helmet.
US11178930B2
An improved design for a helmet to reduce injuries caused by helmet-to-helmet collisions. Certain embodiments include novel quick release features that permit the detachment of a facemask from a helmet in 30 seconds or less so as to attend to an injured player in a rapid fashion. Other aspects relate to impact energy absorbing constructions employing an inner layer, an outer layer spaced apart from the inner padding layer, at least one layer that includes an array of polygonal structures, and at least one layer having a shock-absorbing elastomer, a visco-elastic polymer, an impact dispersing gel, or shape memory material. Still other embodiments include a wireless device with a sensor module coupled to the football helmet generating sensor data in response to an impact to the football helmet.
US11178928B2
A bill cap or baseball cap has a crown and a bill as conventional. Additional, the bill cap has an elastic panel affixed at an edge thereof to front and left side edges of the bill. The elastic panel is capable of being flipped between an upward position in which the panel extends upwardly from the bill, and a downward position in which the panel extends downwardly from the bill. In the downward position the panel provides additional shading for the eyes of the wearer and/or privacy for the wearer when viewed from the side, thus providing additional anonymity for the wearer such as from paparazzi.
US11178927B2
A collapsible artificial tree is provided. The collapsible artificial tree includes one or more branch assemblies extending from an elongated trunk, wherein each branch assembly can transition between an extended configuration and a retracted configuration. Each branch assembly includes a scissor arm having a plurality of beam members pivotally linked to one another, wherein the scissor arm is connected to a first and second collar. The first collar and second collar are disposed in a stacked orientation along the trunk, wherein the second collar is slidably engaged with the trunk. As the second collar slides towards the first collar, the branch assembly extends outward from the trunk to the extended configuration. In the retracted configuration, the plurality of beam members is oriented generally vertical to the elongated trunk. These configurations provide for compact storage when not in use and mimicking of a tree structure when in the extended configuration.
US11178922B1
A wearable illumination device, including a main body to be disposed on a body of a user, a plurality of lights disposed on and within at least a portion of the main body to illuminate a surrounding area, the plurality of lights including a plurality of flashing portions disposed on and within at least a portion of the main body to illuminate the surrounding area, such that the plurality of flashing portions flash, and a power source disposed on at least a portion of the main body to provide power to the plurality of lights.
US11178916B2
A baby sleep sack that effectively secures an infant in a safe position on their bed is implemented to prevent the baby from sleeping on his side or stomach and encourage the baby to sleep on his back, thereby decreasing the chances of suffocation and SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) while sleeping. The sleep sack, which may be comprised of cotton and/or other cloth material, has openings at the waist from which straps having respective connectors extend. The openings may be slits in the sleep sack's fabric through which the flat straps are able to extend. The sleep sack's straps may be attached to the sleep sack by stitching against the interior surface of the sleep sack. In typical implementations, the connectors may be positioned at the end of the respective straps and mate with corresponding connectors on an external strap to encourage safe-sleeping habits.
US11178915B2
A swaddle transition device is provided. The device may include a transition wrap that has one or more fabric layers. The device may also include one or more sleeves to cover the limbs of a baby wearing the transition wrap. Further, the device may include a fastener unit to open the transition wrap. The transition wrap has a design configuration to limit the startle reflex movement of the baby.
US11178911B2
A control device of an aerosol inhaler including a load heating an aerosol generation source, in which a temperature and an electric resistance value of the load are correlated. The control device includes: a voltage sensor configured to output a voltage value applied to the load; a known resistor which is connected in series to the load; and a control circuit configured to acquire the temperature of the load based on output of the voltage sensor. The control circuit is configured such that a resolution of the temperature of the load acquired based on the output of the voltage sensor is 10 [° C.] or less.
US11178907B2
There is provided a smoking article having an aerosol generating substrate and a mouthpiece. The mouthpiece includes a cavity at least partially filled with a particulate material, such as activated carbon,and contains at least one breakable capsule of a liquid flavourant at least partially surrounded by the particulate material, such that the force required to break the capsule within the mouthpiece to release the liquid flavourant is less than three times the inherent burst strength of the capsule.
US11178895B2
Provided is a use of a Macaranga tanarius preparation or extract for manufacturing a composition for enhancing immunity of an insect, particularly a bee. Also provided is a method for enhancing immunity of an insect, particularly a bee. The method comprises administering an effective amount of a composition of the present invention to the insect.
US11178893B1
A method of manufacturing and packaging frozen ice pops of cannabis juice purée involves collecting raw cannabis material. Next, raw cannabis material is blended with water, fruit juice, or vegetable juice and a sweetening or flavoring agent to form cannabis juice purée. Decarboxylated or non-decarboxylated high concentrate cannabis extract or decarboxylated cannabis infusion is optionally added to the purée. Next, the purée is poured into a tube shaped plastic container. Next, the container is frozen to obtain a packaged frozen ice pop of cannabis juice purée. The cannabis ice pop is provided singularly or in a package having additional cannabis ice pops. A dispensary can store the ice pops until distribution. The package includes labeling describing amounts and types of cannabinoids in the cannabis ice pops. In one example, the cannabis ice pop is non-psychoactive and includes no decarboxylated cannabinoids. In another example, the cannabis ice pop includes decarboxylated cannabinoids.
US11178892B2
The present invention, in an embodiment, is a product having an outer shell with at least one first legume and an inner portion with at least one second legume. In an embodiment, the at least one first legume is different from the at least one second legume and the outer shell includes at least a first layer and a second layer where the first layer is different from the second layer. In an embodiment, the product is a ready-to-eat food and the outer shell is crispy.
US11178888B2
A production system for improving yield of bayberry juice includes a steam generator, a main body, a feed hopper, an extraction device, a cooling liquid tank and a collection container. A method for improving yield of bayberry juice includes the following steps. Bayberries are selected, soaked, cleaned, squeezed, distilled and condensed. The bayberries are distilled and condensed after ordinary squeezing, which improves the yield of bayberry juice and avoiding the waste of nutrients in the bayberry.
US11178887B2
A laver snack includes laver on the lower side forming a bottom; the edible adhesive applied to the laver on the lower side; the additive including hemp seed powder adhered to the edible adhesive; the laver on the upper side covering the above additives, forming a top; and hemp oil applied to the laver on the upper side.
US11178886B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing a filled bakery product, the method comprising: providing a filling composition comprising at least one powdered food ingredient and a fat blend comprising from 15 to 67 wt. % of a temper hard fat and from 85 to 33 wt. % of a liquid oil, tempering the filling composition to form a tempered filling composition, depositing the tempered filling composition on to at least one surface of a bakery product to form a filled bakery product, wherein the surface of the bakery product has a temperature of less than 36° C., and actively cooling the deposited filling composition, wherein in the step of depositing the tempered filling composition, the tempered filling composition is deposited at a deposition temperature of from 20 to 33° C. and, in the step of actively cooling the deposited filling composition, the deposited filling composition is cooled to a temperature of at least 4° C. below the deposition temperature, wherein the temper hard fat has a solid fat content of at least 60 wt. % at 20° C., wherein the liquid oil has a solid fat content of less than 15 wt. % at 20° C., and wherein the fat blend has a saturated fatty acid residue content of from 16 to 42 wt. % and a polyunsaturated fatty acid residue content of less than 40 wt. %, based on the total weight of fatty acid residues of the fat blend.
US11178883B2
A system for dehydrating raw produce without introducing excess heat to the produce, including a first chamber for holding warm, moist air, a second chamber connected in fluidic communication with the first chamber for cooling and drying warm, moist air received from the first chamber, and a filter operationally connected between the first and second chambers for removing suspended particulates from warm, moist air flowing therethrough with a drain operationally connected to the second chamber for removing water therefrom. A third chamber is connected in fluidic communication with the second chamber for receiving cool, dry air therefrom and for receiving raw produce for drying, and a wind current generator operationally connected to the second chamber to urge cool, dry air therefrom and into the third chamber.
US11178879B2
A vehicle-based, automated pizza-making system including a two-piece pizza pan conveyed between pizza-making components on a series of pan drive rails. The two-piece pizza pan can include a base and a removable ring for containing the unfinished pizza and toppings. The rails can include timing belts for conveying the two-piece pizza pan through the system with improved positional control and accuracy.
US11178877B2
The present invention relates to a method of treating seed, comprising applying at least one plant treatment agent to said seed; and applying a dry formulation comprising/consisting of spores of P. bilaii and talc powder to said seed. The invention furthermore relates to a formulation for use in seed treatment comprising spores of P. bilaii and talc powder, seed treated with such formulation and methods of improving applicability and quality of P. bilaii spores and methods of improving plant growth, plant health or plant vigor.
US11178865B2
An animal dispersing system includes a laser diode light source to produce a resultant beam of light within a wavelength region of 400-700 nanometers, and a rotatable reflective member and lens configured in the housing. The rotatable reflective member is rotatingly coupled to an actuator, wherein the at least one laser diode light source is mounted coaxially to an axis of the rotatable reflective member. The animal dispersion system also includes a controller to cyclically turn the actuator on and off for adjusting a speed and direction of the beam of light, and cyclically turn on the at least one laser diode light source for adjusting a pattern generated by the beam of light, such that the speed, direction, and the pattern is generated to disperse animals from a physical area.
US11178859B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for increasing resistance to PCV2 infection in pigs. The increased resistance may be the result of siRNA or genetic modification through CRISPR or a vectored virus targeting SNPs that are resistant to PCV2 infection.
US11178849B2
A pet bed is disclosed that includes a bolster and removable mattress portion. The bolster may be formed from a foam cushion, a fiber-filled cushion, a lower bolster cover, and an upper bolster cover. The upper bolster cover may comprise an upper and lower outer member such that the lower outer member connects to the lower bolster cover and separates the foam cushion from the fiber-filled cushion. The upper outer member of the upper bolster cover may cover the foam cushion.
US11178841B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01077386. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01077386. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01077386 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01077386 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11178839B1
A soybean cultivar designated 97250443 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 97250443, to the plants of soybean cultivar 97250443, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 97250443, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 97250443. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 97250443. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 97250443, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 97250443 with another soybean cultivar.
US11178837B1
A soybean cultivar designated 92230102 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 92230102, to the plants of soybean cultivar 92230102, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 92230102, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 92230102. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 92230102. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 92230102, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 92230102 with another soybean cultivar.
US11178831B2
A system (10) may include sensor equipment (30) including one or more sensors (140, 142) disposed on a parcel of land, watering equipment (20) disposed on the parcel and configured to selectively apply water to the parcel, and a gateway (40) configured to provide for communication with the sensor equipment (30) and the watering equipment (20). The watering equipment (20) may include a watering pump (120), the watering pump (120) being operably coupled to a water source (100) and a water line (110) to alternately couple the water source (100) to and isolate the water source (100) from the water line (110), and processing circuitry (160). The processing circuitry (160) may be configured to determine an operational mode of the watering pump (120) and direct the watering pump (120) to operate in accordance with the operational mode.
US11178827B1
A synthetic growing media, such as for a hydroponic growing system, includes a plastic body having multiple legs pointing in different directions. One or more of the legs has a bulbous tip. A synthetic growing medium comprising an aggregate of synthetic growing media and hydroponic system for plant cultivation are also disclosed.
US11178822B2
An apparatus and a method for forming and wrapping a bale in a bale forming chamber into wrapping material includes a wrapping material conveying device that conveys a web of wrapping material towards a wrapping material inlet. A severing device severs the web at a severing location. The wrapping material conveying device moves the web towards the inlet, forms a leading segment of the web, and keeps the leading segment in an intermediate web providing position between the wrapping material inlet and the severing location without moving the leading segment. For starting the wrapping procedure, the web is conveyed towards the inlet.
US11178821B2
A reel for use in an agricultural header has an axis of rotation and comprises a bat and a finger. The bat is mounted to rotate around the axis of rotation to gather crop, and has a non-circular cross-sectional profile. The finger is mounted to the bat to rotate with the bat around the axis of rotation to gather crop. The finger comprises a tine and a clamshell mount to which the tine is coupled and that surrounds the bat to mount the finger to the bat against rotation about the bat.
US11178817B2
Weed seeds are destroyed in the chaff from a combine harvester by repeated high speed impacts caused by a rotor mounted in one of a pair of side by side housings which accelerate the discarded seeds in a direction centrifugally away from the rotor onto a stator including angularly adjustable stator surfaces around the axis. Thus the discarded seeds rebound back and forth between the rotor and the stator to provide a plurality of impacts. The seeds are carried axially of the rotor by a controlled airstream so that they move to an axial discharge location where a discharge fan is mounted. The angle of the discharge around the rotor axis can be changed to direct the seeds to the side of the combine away from a straw chopper, towards the guide fins of the tailboard of the chopper, or into the housing of the straw chopper.
US11184995B2
A platform includes a housing with a front side, a rear side opposite the front side, a right side adjacent to both the front side and the rear side, and a left side opposite the right side and adjacent to both the front side and the rear side, wherein airflow in the platform is between the front side and the rear side or between the front side and the front side; one or more modules in the housing each including a plurality of cages supporting removable interface cards, wherein the airflow includes an air path that is over the one or more modules between a bottom portion of the one or more modules and a top portion of the one or more modules; and at least one dust cap in one of the plurality of cages, wherein the dust cap includes an air filter medium enabling airflow at an intermediate point of the air path.
US11184991B2
A server rack with a plurality of compute nodes is positioned in a facility that includes a spine and the server rack includes a middle of rack (MOR) switch located near the middle of the server rack, vertically speaking. The MOR switch includes a plurality of ports that are connected via passive cables to the compute nodes provided in the server rack. In an embodiment the passive cables are configured to function at 56. Gbps using non-return to zero (NRZ) encoding and each cable may be about or less than 1.5 meters long. An electrical to optical panel (EOP) can be positioned adjacent a top of the server rack and the EOP includes connections to the MOR switch and to the spine, thus the EOP helps connect the MOR switch to the spine.
US11184989B2
The present invention relates to a cover for an electronic device. The cover is attachable to an electronic device and includes a first plate having an opening, the first plate configured to cover a first part of a rear surface of the electronic device, a second plate disposed adjacent to the first plate and configured to cover a second part of the rear surface of the electronic device, a third plate disposed adjacent to the second plate and configured to cover a third part of the rear surface of the electronic device, a pen storage part coupled to the opening of the first plate, an outer skin configured to wrap one surface of each of the first plate, the second plate, and the third plate, and a hinge configured to rotatably couple the second plate and the third plate, wherein the first plate is rotatable within a first designated angle range with respect to the second plate via the outer skin, wherein the third plate is rotatable within a second designated angle range with respect to the second plate via the hinge, and wherein the first plate is formed of a first material, and the pen storage part is formed of a second material having a hardness different from a hardness of the first material.
US11184987B1
Certain embodiments of the disclosure relate to a device and a method for increasing the efficiency of an antenna of an electronic device that includes a rollable display. The electronic device may include: a processor; a first housing, in which the processor is disposed, including a first conductive portion; a second housing configured to slide in a first direction from the first housing and including a second conductive portion; a rollable display, at least a portion of which is exposed in a slide-out manner according to movement of the second housing; and a variable element disposed in the second housing and is electrically connected to the second conductive portion. The processor may adjust an electrical characteristic of the variable element in response to sliding of the second housing. The disclosure may further include various other embodiments.
US11184983B2
A method of manufacturing a component carrier, wherein the method comprises mounting a known-good component on or spaced with regard to a first known-good component carrier block, thereafter forming an electrically conductive connection structure on and/or in and/or spaced with regard to the first component carrier block, and embedding the component between the first component carrier block and a second known-good component carrier block.
US11184972B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure related to automated static control. A set of static sensor data may be obtained from two or more static sensors. The set of static sensor data may be analyzed to determine whether a static condition exists. In response to a determination that a static condition exists, a set of mobile static unit data may be collected from one or more mobile static units. The set of mobile static unit data may be analyzed to select a mobile static unit of the one or more mobile static units. An action may be transmitted to the selected mobile static unit, and the selected mobile static unit may be deployed to mitigate the static condition.
US11184967B2
In one embodiment, a light emitting system comprises an angularly varying light emitting device (AVLED) comprising one or more light sources, the AVLED operable to individually adjust light flux output from the one or more light sources into different angular bins in the environment; and a light sensor positioned to receive light from the environment, wherein light from the angularly varying light emitting device is cycled to emit light flux into different angular bins at different time periods, the light sensor is synchronized to capture first information related to light from the light flux reflected from the environment at the different time periods, and the angularly varying light emitting device adjusts the light flux output in different angular bins based on analysis of the first information received by the light sensor. The light sensor may be an imager and the AVLED may comprise a micro-LED array.
US11184956B2
The invention relates to a dental furnace, in particular a high-temperature dental furnace for oxide ceramics such as zirconium dioxide having sintering temperatures of between 1300 and 1850° C., comprising a heating element (10) which is intended to give off heating energy to the firing chamber. It is provided that the heating element (10) comprises at least two heating element sections (48, 50) adjoining one another at a transition area (34) which is not current-carrying and/or which extends away laterally, that the transition area (34) is supported on a position, in particular on the free end, spaced apart from the electrical connections (16, 18) on the dental furnace and carries at least the two adjoining parts of heating element sections (48, 50).
US11184942B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a WTRU to operate using multiple schedulers. The WTRU may exchange data with the network over more than one data path, such that each data path may use a radio interface connected to a different network node and each node may be associated with an independent scheduler. For example, a WTRU may establish a RRC connection between the WTRU and a network. The RRC connection may establish a first radio interface between the WTRU and a first serving site of the network and a second radio interface between the WTRU and a second serving site of the network. The RRC connection may be established between the WTRU and the MeNB and a control function may be established between the WTRU and the SCeNB. The WTRU may receive data from the network over the first radio interface or the second radio interface.
US11184937B2
A network comprising a first base station (BS) and a second BS is configured to execute instructions of the first BS connecting to a communication device via a primary cell (PCell) of the first BS with a first SRB; the second BS as a secondary node (SN) connecting to the communication device via a primary secondary cell (PSCell) with a second signalling radio bearer (SRB) while the first BS as a master node (MN) connects to the communication device; and the second BS transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) message to the communication device, wherein the RRC message configures a secondary cell (SCell) to the communication device for a carrier aggregation (CA) and comprises a random access (RA) channel (RACH) configuration, the RACH configuration configures at least one RACH resource and the RRC message configures an association configuration.
US11184934B2
Various examples and schemes pertaining to an AT-command for an always-on PDU session in mobile communications are described. A processor of an apparatus implemented as a user equipment (UE) establishes a protocol data unit (PDU) session between a modem of the apparatus and a network node of a wireless network in response to a trigger by an application executed on the processor. The processor forwards a query from the application to the modem for an indication provided by the network node on whether the established PDU session is an always-on PDU session. The processor then receives the indication provided by the network node from the modem.
US11184930B2
A Narrowband-Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) device may select between multiple carrier resources (of an anchor carrier and/or non-anchor carriers) to perform a Narrowband Physical Random Access Channel (NPRACH) procedure. The NB-IoT device may determine, based on a reference signal from an enhanced NodeB (eNB), a coverage level for the NB-IoT device and receive carrier configuration information, from the eNB, that indicates the carriers (e.g., an anchor carrier and one or more non-anchor carriers) that are available for NPRACH procedure. The NB-IoT device may select a carrier resource from among the carriers based on factors, such as the coverage level of the NB-IoT device and the Reference Signals Received Power (RSRP) thresholds and Repetition levels of the carrier resources. The NB-IoT device may use the selected carrier resource to initiate the NPRACH procedure.
US11184928B2
A method includes: receiving, by a first access device, a random access message sent by user equipment; and sending, by the first access device, first system information to the user equipment based on the random access message, where the first system information includes cell reselection information related to the first access device. According to the present invention, cell reselection information can be transferred in a random access procedure.
US11184913B2
Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a base station and corresponding method for scheduling a downlink broadcast transmission using PDSCH. The base station is also configured to provide an OFDM PDSCH to a wireless terminal, which monitors ePDCCH for receiving downlink control data. Thus, by applying such a symbol, a wireless terminal that monitors ePDCCH and a wireless terminal that monitors PDCCH may receive the same downlink broadcast transmission on PDSCH. Example embodiments are also directed towards a wireless terminal for receiving such downlink broadcast transmissions.
US11184905B2
Wireless communication between a base station and at least one user equipment comprises the following. Each user equipment periodically measures channel quality of communication with the base station and transmits a channel quality indicator to the base station. The base station schedules communication with the at least one user equipment based upon the periodically transmitted channel quality indicators.
US11184902B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a configuration indicating a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state switching pattern and a TCI state switching period to a user equipment (UE). The UE may perform TCI state switching according to the TCI state switching pattern and period, and the UE may receive a downlink transmission according to the TCI state switching pattern. The UE may receive a downlink control information (DCI) including an indication of a TCI state for a subsequent TTI. The UE may receive the downlink signal in accordance with both the TCI state switching pattern and the indication in the DCI. The UE may receive a configuration message indicating a first DCI state, receive a DCI indicating a second TCI state for a subsequent TTI, switch to the second TCI state, and receive a downlink signal using the second TCI state.
US11184900B1
A system for mitigating interference and improving performance of wireless devices within a sector is in a cellular network is described. The cellular network provides a first and second radio access technology (RAT). The system includes an access node having a processor performing multiple operations. The operations include determining that interference associated with the first RAT within the sector exceeds a threshold interference value and comparing a performance metric of the wireless devices to a predetermined value to determine if the performance metric is below the predetermined value. Upon determination that the performance metric is below the predetermined value and the interference exceeds a threshold value, the processor dynamically limits a number of wireless devices operating using the first RAT within the sector.
US11184895B2
Embodiments of the present application provide an information transmission method, a network device, and a terminal device, which can improve downlink receiving performance. A network device sends indication information to a terminal device, where the indication information indicates a beam corresponding to a downlink transmission channel determined by the network device from multiple pieces of configuration information, the beam corresponding to the downlink transmission channel is used to transmit the downlink transmission channel, and each piece of the multiple pieces of configuration information includes at least one of: information of at least one transmitting beam, information of a receiving beam corresponding to the at least one transmitting beam, and resource mapping information, where the resource mapping information indicates a resource available or unavailable for downlink transmission of the at least one transmitting beam; the network device transmits the downlink transmission channel through the beam corresponding to the downlink transmission channel.
US11184894B2
A first base station receives, from a second base station, one or more first parameters identifying a first plurality of subframes as a listen-before-talk (LBT) subframe of the second base station. The first base station selects a second plurality of subframes as an LBT subframes based on the one or more first parameters. The first base station transmits, to a wireless device, at least one radio resource control message comprising one or more second parameters identifying the second plurality of subframes as LBT subframes. In response to an LBT procedure indicating a clear channel, a burst is transmitted to the wireless device. The burst is configured to begin in a subframe identified as an LBT subframe.
US11184891B2
A method and an apparatus for indicating time domain resource information are provided, wherein the method includes the following acts: conveying, based on preset subcarrier spacing information, time domain resource indication information of a data channel in a mobile communication system adopting multiple subcarrier spacings. The preset subcarrier spacing information may include one of the multiple subcarrier spacings, or may be based on a rule of the multiple subcarrier spacings. In the present disclosure, a mechanism for indicating time domain resource information of a data channel based on preset subcarrier spacing information is provided for systems adopting multiple subcarrier spacings, such as 5G NR.
US11184885B2
This application relates to information transmission by: determining, based on a quantity of bits of first information, a manner of generating second information, where the manner of generating the second information includes a first generation manner and a second generation manner, and in the first generation manner, a quantity of bits obtained after channel coding is determined based on a quantity of resource elements that carry the first information and that are on a first symbol of two symbols of a first physical uplink control channel; in the second generation manner, a quantity of bits obtained after channel coding is determined based on a quantity of resource elements that carry the first information and that are on two symbols of a second physical uplink control channel; and generating, in the manner of generating the second information, the second information carried on the two symbols. In the information transmission method in embodiments of this application, a reusing capability of a user and transmission performance can be improved.
US11184884B2
The present invention relates to methods and arrangements that make it possible to control the delay for the UEs to access the EUL resources in the Enhanced Uplink in CELL_FACH state procedure, independently from the delay for the UEs to access ordinary UL resources in the RACH procedure. This is achieved by a solution where the timing of entering (or re-entering) a transmission procedure for Enhanced Uplink in CELL_FACH state is controlled with the help of a transmission control parameter defined specifically for this transmission procedure, instead of using the same parameter as for the RACH procedure.
US11184882B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling. Transmits K radio signals and a first bit block in K time-frequency resource groups. The first signaling is used for determining a first time-frequency resource group. The first time-frequency resource group is reserved to transmission of a first bit block; time-domain resources occupied by the first time-frequency resource group are overlapping with time-domain resources occupied by at least one of the K time-frequency resource groups, and any two of the K time-frequency resource groups are orthogonal in time domain; the first bit block is transmitted in only K1 time-frequency resource group(s) among the K time-frequency resource groups; the first signaling corresponds to a first type or a second type is used for determining the K1 time-frequency resource group(s) from the K time-frequency resource groups.
US11184881B2
Disclosed is a 5G (5th generation) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G (4th generation) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). The present disclosure is for allocating and indicating resources in a wireless communication system, and an operation method of a base station comprises the steps of: allocating a first resource for a first service; allocating a second resource for a second service in consideration of the first resource; and transmitting resource allocation information on the second resource and data of the second service, wherein the second resource is discontinuously allocated, at a frequency axis, in a logical or physical manner, and the resource allocation information indicates the second resource by using at least one starting location and at least one length.
US11184880B2
The invention provides a method of providing feedback from a plurality of base stations of a single frequency network to a user equipment device to indicate if a data transmission has been received successfully, wherein a positive acknowledgement of successful receipt is transmitted using a first feedback resource and a negative acknowledgement of unsuccessful receipt is transmitted using a second feedback resource, the first and second feedback resources being mutually orthogonal.
US11184878B2
A signal transmission method is provided. The method includes: determining a target device, and transmitting a 5G signal to the target device, where the 5G signal includes a synchronization block, and the synchronization block is used to carry a PBCH, a PSS, an SSS and a DMRS, and the DMRS and the SSS are used as references for a demodulation result of the PBCH. By further setting the DMRS in the synchronization block, both the SSS and the DMRS are used as the references for the demodulation result of the PBCH, thereby ensuring that an adjusted phase of the demodulation result is as same as possible to a phase of the synchronization block before modulation of a transmission device, which greatly eliminates influence of factors such as the Doppler effect on the phase of the synchronization block during a signal transmission process.
US11184877B2
One or more techniques for beamformed paging are disclosed. A transmission/reception point (TRP) may transmit a paging inquiry signal using beam sweeping in a paging inquiry (PI) block with a different time, frequency resource set and/or sequence configuration associated with the same paging occasion (PO), for example, to randomize and/or distribute WTRUs into different monitoring groups. A WTRU may transmit an uplink paging inquiry response indicating a downlink beam for a paging data transmission and/or a WTRU ID. A downlink control and/or a data channel transmission may be triggered by a paging inquiry response transmission. Paging downlink control information may be transmitted in a WTRU-specific control channel, which may contain CRC bits masked by a temporary paging identity, e.g., based on a WTRU ID that may be reported in a paging inquiry response transmission. A WTRU paging procedure may be based on a paging inquiry signal and/or response transmission.
US11184872B2
A wireless communication system is provided allowing a base station to indicate RTT compensation for UEs to adjust their local time clocks to correct propagation delay timing errors and synchronize with the global clock of a base station. A base station sends a downlink transmission including timing information to a UE and receives an uplink transmission from the UE after the downlink transmission. The base station determines a RTT compensation associated with the timing information based on a RTT between the downlink transmission and the uplink transmission. The base station then transmits the RTT compensation to the UE. UEs are thus allowed to synchronize at a high precision with the time clock of the base station. UEs may be configured with different resolutions or granularities in timing correction so that certain UEs can achieve high precision timing correction while other UEs can adjust their time clocks with less precision.
US11184871B2
Systems and methods for time coordinating a plurality of RF data collection devices at disparate locations are provided. Such systems and methods can include synchronizing a local time of a first RF data collection device to an initial value of a common time source, generating a timestamp log file documenting a propensity of the local time to deviate from the common time source, collecting and recording a first plurality of RF data from an RF network, and using the timestamp log file to normalize the first plurality of RF data for comparison with a second plurality RF data recorded by a second RF data collection device.
US11184869B2
An intermediary base station supporting mobile terminal (MT) functionality and/or a user equipment (UE) may receive a time alignment (TA) command and associated timer value from one or more distributed units (DUs) and/or a central unit (CU) of a parent base station. The TA command and timer value may be based on an experienced or potential timer expiration associated with a TA of a communication link. The TA command may specify an updated TA value and a timer reset for scheduling communications on the communication link. In some examples, the TA command may be in response to a TA command request provided by the MT or UE on allocated resources or configurations indicated by the parent base station. In other cases, the TA command may be in response to a random access procedure on allocated resources or configurations indicated by the parent base station.
US11184868B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure discloses a method for access to NB IoT, comprising the following steps of: detecting a NPSS and a NSSS to realize downlink synchronization; detecting a NPBCH to acquire MIB-NB information; and acquiring SIB1-NB according to the MIB-NB information, wherein at least one of the NPSS, the NSSS, the MIB-NB and the SIB1-NB is transmitted on a non-anchor carrier.
US11184867B2
Disclosed aspects relate to methods and apparatus for coexistent radio frequency (RF) systems in a wireless device. Control of a wireless device includes detecting when a turn on signal is issued to a first radio system, and then controlling the second radio system to either modify the operation of receiver circuitry in the second radio system to protect components within that system, or modify transmit circuitry to stop transmissions for protecting components within one radio system potentially affected by transmission from the other radio system in the wireless device. Disclosed also is monitoring of transmission states of the radio systems based on reading messages between the first and second radio systems and issuing a notification message based thereon such that one of the radio systems may suspend monitoring of a transmit channel for permission to transmit in order to reduce power consumption due to such monitoring of the channel.
US11184864B2
A method for wireless communication, a terminal device, a network device and a network node are provided, which may implement reasonable configuration or scheduling of a terminal device by a network node or device. The method includes that: a terminal device calculates at least one PHR to be reported to a first network node according to a transmission channel on a first uplink between the terminal device and the first network node, the first network node and a second network node serving the terminal device; and the terminal device reports the calculated at least one PHR to the first network node through the first uplink.
US11184861B2
A power control method, apparatus and system for short transmission time interval transmission, and a storage medium are provided, relating to the field of communication, so as to avoid introducing a new transient period definition with respect to the transmission with a short TTI, and ensure the power measurement to be completed according to the time template defined in the existing 3GPP 36.101 protocol. The present disclosure includes: determining a first target transmission power corresponding to a to-be-processed object in a subframe, in a case that the subframe includes a plurality of short transmission time interval TTI transmissions; and transmitting the short TTI transmission within the to-be-processed object according to the first target transmission power corresponding to the to-be-processed object.
US11184859B2
There is provided mechanisms for transmitting uplink reference signals. A method is performed by a terminal device. The method comprises obtaining, from a network node, a configuration of transmission of the uplink reference signals. The configuration comprises an indication of a first frequency interval in which the uplink reference signals are to be transmitted. The method comprises distributing transmission power available for transmitting the uplink reference signals over the first frequency interval based on channel information for the first frequency interval. The method comprises transmitting the uplink reference signals in accordance with the distributed transmission power.
US11184853B2
Presented are a method and device for transmitting a wakeup packet in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, the transmission device configures a first wakeup packet having a first data rate by using a first sync field, and a second wakeup packet having a second data rate by using a second sync field. The transmission device transmits the first and second wakeup packets to a receiving device. Here, an OOK scheme is applied to the first and second wakeup packets to configure the first and second wakeup packets as an ON signal or an OFF signal. The first sync field includes a first sequence, and the second sync field includes a second sequence which is a complementary sequence to the first sequence. The number of coefficient 1 and coefficient 0 included in the first sequence is the same. The first and second sequences have a 32 bit length, and each bit of the first and second sequences has a duration of 2 μs.
US11184851B2
Techniques are disclosed for reducing power consumption on a power sensitive wireless device, such as for example a digital wireless camera operating on a battery. According to some techniques, power can be reduced when a portable device is in close proximity to the power sensitive wireless device, such as when a person is home and the recording of video on a digital wireless security camera can be disarmed. Some techniques include filtering mechanisms, which reduce unnecessary information being transmitted to the wireless network circuit of the power sensitive wireless device. Other techniques include modifying or adapting IEEE 802.11 standards to achieve power reducing results such as for example reducing the number of times to wake up to receive the beacons. Also, improved synchronization techniques are implemented such as for example improved synchronization accuracy allows reducing the duration of the wake time for receiving the beacons.
US11184847B2
A method and an apparatus for allocating a flexible transmission slot in a wireless local area network (LAN) system are disclosed. A flexible transmission slot allocation method of an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system according to an exemplary embodiment includes transmitting a beacon including a traffic indication map (TIM) bit to a station, receiving a power save poll (PS-Poll) from the station in a slot implicitly allocated by the TIM bit, and transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK) including transmission slot allocation information on downlink data to the station.
US11184845B2
For example, an apparatus configured to cause a first Wake-Up Radio (WUR) wireless communication station (STA) to exchange a request frame and a response frame with a second WUR STA to set up a plurality of WUR parameters of a WUR mode at which the first WUR STA is to transmit one or more WUR wake-up frames configured for reception by a Wake-Up Receiver (WURx) of the second WUR STA, wherein the request frame is from the second WUR STA to the first WUR STA, and the response frame is from the first WUR STA to the second WUR STA in response to the request frame; to transmit an unsolicited update frame to the second WUR STA to update one or more WUR parameters of the plurality of WUR parameters; and to receive an Acknowledgement (Ack) frame from the second WUR STA to acknowledge the unsolicited update frame.
US11184840B2
A mobile device can receive information blocks from one or more base stations, which can be emitted by the base stations within a particular radio band. The mobile device can identify base stations in an exclusivity state. The mobile device can establish a communication link with one of the base stations in the exclusivity state. In some cases, the mobile device can establish a communication link with the base stations that is in an exclusivity state and that matches a cell identifier stored on the mobile device.
US11184837B2
Frame collisions are prevented in a communication system in which wireless communication is performed in accordance with the IEEE 802.11 standard. A communication unit receives terminal list information including respective addresses of wireless terminals belonging to a predetermined network. In a case where a frame the destination of which is an address included in the transmitted terminal list information is received, a control unit sets a period to prohibit data transmission until communication in the predetermined networks is completed, and in a case where a frame the destination of which is another address not included in the terminal list information is received, the control unit sets a period to prohibit data communication until communication in a network to which the other address belongs is completed.
US11184834B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling access of a remote UE to a base station, using a relay UE. Particularly, the method comprises receiving access control information through a second terminal, and determining, on the basis of the access control information, whether to perform an access control check for user data according to whether the user data is data to which an access control scheme allowed in an indirect connection mode is applied, wherein the access control information includes information on an access control scheme which is allowed or not allowed in an indirect connection mode.
US11184833B2
A first device connected to a network via a first connection may perform a method that involves determining a need for improved communication between the first device and the network, receiving a message from a second device that includes an indication of at least one performance parameter of a second connection between the second device and the network, establishing a peer-to-peer connection between the first device and the second device based at least in part on the indication, and communicating with the network via a communications channel that includes the peer-to-peer connection and the second connection.
US11184822B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The device includes: first wireless communication circuitry for a 5G network, second wireless communication circuitry for a 4G network or a WiFi network, at least one processor. The processor implements the method, including: establishing a video call with an external electronic device on the 4G network or the WiFi network, identify a resolution of the video call, setting a reference value for executing a first handover to the 5G network to be less than a default value, maintain the reference value, when the identified resolution is less than the predetermined threshold resolution, and perform the first handover from the 4G network or the WiFi network to the 5G network, when a RSSI intensity of a signal from the 5G network.
US11184819B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for avoiding out of order uplink data reception upon data radio bearer (DRB) release or quality of service (QoS) flow addition. An exemplary method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE), includes obtaining an indication that a first data radio bearer (DRB) is released or handed over to a second DRB, wherein a first mapping maps a first quality of service (QoS) flow to the first DRB; obtaining a second mapping that maps the first QoS flow to a second DRB; editing service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) headers of uplink protocol data units (PDUs) in an uplink transmission buffer associated with the first DRB, based on a difference between a first configuration of the first DRB and a second configuration of the second DRB; and transmitting the uplink PDUs via the second DRB.
US11184815B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method of setting a handover parameter includes receiving, from a serving evolved NodeB (eNB), cell type information indicating eNB types of the serving eNB and eNBs adjacent to the serving eNB, and mobility information of the UE, detecting types of the serving eNB and a target eNB based on the cell type information, and setting a Time-To-Trigger (TTT) applied, the mobility information of the UE, and a received signal strength for the serving eNB.
