US11244215B2
The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for printing a document having pages with different margins. The method includes receiving a document having a plurality of pages for printing, wherein the document having a combination of pages to be printed in first pre-determined sheets and second pre-determined sheets. A margin value for each page of the document is automatically identified. Based on the identification, one or more pages having margin value greater than a pre-defined margin value is automatically identified. The one or more pages with greater margin value are marked to be printed in the first pre-determined sheets and the remaining pages are marked to be printed in the second pre-determined sheets. Finally, information is sent to a printer to print the one or more pages having a greater margin value in the first pre-determined sheets and to print the remaining pages in the second pre-determined sheets.
US11244207B2
The present disclosure relates to a tag-based font recognition system that utilizes a multi-learning framework to develop and improve tag-based font recognition using deep learning neural networks. In particular, the tag-based font recognition system jointly trains a font tag recognition neural network with an implicit font classification attention model to generate font tag probability vectors that are enhanced by implicit font classification information. Indeed, the font recognition system weights the hidden layers of the font tag recognition neural network with implicit font information to improve the accuracy and predictability of the font tag recognition neural network, which results in improved retrieval of fonts in response to a font tag query. Accordingly, using the enhanced tag probability vectors, the tag-based font recognition system can accurately identify and recommend one or more fonts in response to a font tag query.
US11244206B2
A method may include obtaining a base facial image, and obtaining a first set of base facial features within the base facial image, the first set of base facial features associated with a first facial AU to be detected in an analysis facial image. The method may also include obtaining a second set of base facial features within the base facial image, the second set of facial features associated with a second facial AU to be detected. The method may include obtaining the analysis facial image, and applying a first image normalization to the analysis facial image using the first set of base facial features to facilitate prediction of a probability of the first facial AU. The method may include applying a second image normalization to the analysis facial image using the second set of base facial features to facilitate prediction of a probability of the second facial AU.
US11244202B2
A computer implemented system for generating one or more data structures is described, the one or more data structures representing an unseen composition based on a first category and a second category observed individually in a training data set. During training of a generator, a proposed framework utilizes at least one of the following discriminators—three pixel-centric discriminators, namely, frame discriminator, gradient discriminator, video discriminator; and one object-centric relational discriminator. The three pixel-centric discriminators ensure spatial and temporal consistency across the frames, and the relational discriminator leverages spatio-temporal scene graphs to reason over the object layouts in videos ensuring the right interactions among objects.
US11244199B2
A user identity determining method includes: acquiring target multidimensional feature information of a target user, wherein the target multidimensional feature information includes at least two types of feature information in at least one of biometric feature information or non-biometric feature information; comparing the target multidimensional feature information with multidimensional feature information of a plurality of designated users, respectively, to obtain a comparison result; and determining an identity of the target user based on the comparison result.
US11244192B2
An image judging system includes a server and a mobile terminal performing communication therewith. The server includes a position calculating unit that calculates positions of an image of interest and a first landmark image corresponding thereto of a judging target image in whole image data obtained on the basis of a judging target image. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit displaying the image data and the guide mark together; and an imaging unit capturing an image of the judging target image, thereby generating image data, and generating image data related to the judging target image. The server or the mobile terminal includes a guide information generating unit calculating a position of a guide mark on the basis of a position of the detected first landmark image in the image data and a positional relationship between the image of interest and the first landmark image in the whole image data.
US11244190B1
Images in bitonal formats often include watermarks, stamps, or other patterns and artifacts. These patterned artifacts may be represented as a series of geometric points, dots, and/or dashes in the general shape of the original pattern. These patterned artifacts make other processes such as optical character recognition (OCR) difficult or impossible when items or pixels of interest are also found within the pattern of such artifact(s). Current patterned artifact removal solutions use methods of erosion to minimize the unwanted patterned artifact. However, such methods also erode the pixels/items of interest which, in turn, cause failures in other processes, such as OCR, that are desired to be carried out on or with the image.
US11244180B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a deep learning model used for driving behavior recognition and training apparatus and method thereof. In recognition, the model performs feature extraction by using a plurality of consecutive input images captured from a driving angle of view of a vehicle, and performs temporal and spatial fusion on extracted features by using a recursive neural network. In training, as images captured from a driving angle of view of a vehicle are acquired, the model may be trained. Hence, the model may accurately recognize various classes of driving behaviors.
US11244160B2
Various embodiments associated with a composite image are described. In one embodiment, a handheld device comprises a launch component configured to cause a launch of a projectile. The projectile is configured to capture a plurality of images. Individual images of the plurality of images are of different segments of an area. The system also comprises an image stitch component configured to stitch the plurality of images into a composite image. The composite image is of a higher resolution than a resolution of individual images of the plurality of images.
US11244156B1
Techniques for improved text normalization are provided. Signatures are generated for a first word and a second word using a locality-sensitive hashing technique. A graph is constructed based on the first and second signatures, by creating a first node in the graph for the first word, creating a second node in the graph for the second word, and creating an edge in the graph connecting the first and second nodes upon determining that the first and second signatures match. A mapping from the first word to the second word is then generated based on the graph.
US11244155B2
An information processing system includes a processor configured to analyze an obtained document, the processor being configured to: obtain plural documents where information to be shared by plural participants is recorded; calculate a degree of similarity in details in units of blocks between different documents, the blocks being blocks of sentences included in the documents; determine an execution order of executing work of sharing details of each of the blocks on the basis of the degree of similarity; and allocate work time for performing the work of sharing details of each of the blocks on the basis of a number of characters in each of the blocks.
US11244154B2
Disclosed are a target tracking method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: detecting a to-be-processed image to obtain a hand detection result; in response to the hand detection result including a bounding box of hand, determining a hand in the bounding box with a hand pose conforming to a hand pose in a target gesture as a target hand; and tracking the target hand in a video stream according to the target hand in the to-be-processed image, where images in the video stream and the to-be-processed image are obtained by capturing a same target area, and the images in the video stream are captured after the to-be-processed image is captured.
US11244152B1
The present system may be deployed in various scenarios to provide proof of liveness (also referred to herein as “liveness verification”) of an image without interaction of the subject of the image. The liveness verification process generally comprises imperative analysis and dynamic analysis of the image, after which liveness of the image may be determined.
US11244148B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automated detection of unauthorized access to device screens using machine learning facial recognition techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes automatically detecting, using one or more machine learning facial recognition techniques, at least a portion of at least one face within a given proximity of a user device; automatically performing a comparison, using one or more machine learning facial recognition techniques, of the detected portion of the at least one face with facial images attributed to a set of trusted individuals; and automatically performing security-related actions with respect to the user device upon determining, based at least in part on the comparison, that the detected portion of the at least one face exhibits at least a threshold level of distinctiveness relative to each of the facial images attributed to the set of trusted individuals.
US11244145B2
An information processing apparatus includes an estimating unit that estimates a normal on at least a part of a face of an object in a real space on the basis of polarization information corresponding to a detection result of each of a plurality of beams of polarized light acquired by a polarization sensor and having different polarization directions and a control unit that controls output of notification information for guiding a change in a position in the real space according to an estimation result of the normal.
US11244130B2
An interim charging system includes a docking station and a case for a mobile device. The case is magnetically secured to the docking station. The docking station includes a power source and a charger that charges the mobile device in the case.
US11244129B2
A vehicular system (1) detects a magnetic marker (10) laid in a road and wirelessly communicates with a wireless tag (15) attached to the magnetic marker (10). The system includes a measuring unit (2) which detects the magnetic marker (10) by sensing magnetism, a tag reader (34) which executes a communication process with the wireless tag (15), and a control unit (32) which sets a communication start point as a start point of the communication process by the tag reader (34). The control unit (32) sets, as a communication start point, a time after a lapse of specified time with reference to a time point of detection at which the measuring unit (2) detects the magnetic marker (10). Upon reading information from the wireless tag (15), the tag reader (34) terminates communication, thereby shortening a communication time.
US11244119B1
A multi-modal lie detection method and apparatus, and a device to improve an accuracy of an automatic lie detection are provided. The multi-modal lie detection method includes inputting original data of three modalities, namely a to-be-detected audio, a to-be-detected video and a to-be-detected text; performing a feature extraction on input contents to obtain deep features of the three modalities; explicitly depicting first-order, second-order and third-order interactive relationships of the deep features of the three modalities to obtain an integrated multi-modal feature of each word; performing a context modeling on the integrated multi-modal feature of the each word to obtain a final feature of the each word; and pooling the final feature of the each word to obtain global features, and then obtaining a lie classification result by a fully-connected layer.
US11244116B2
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for automatically bootstrapping a domain-specific vocabulary from at least one source document using one or more computers, by: (a) encoding one or more passages in the source document to identify one or more relevant words therein, wherein the encoding assigns an importance to the relevant words using an attention mechanism (AM) on top of a recurrent neural network (RNN); (b) expanding the relevant words using word embedding distance, ontology information, or multi-part analogies; and (c) mapping the expanded words to concepts for inclusion into the domain-specific vocabulary, wherein concept disambiguation is performed to ensure that incorrect concepts are not included into the domain-specific vocabulary.
US11244114B2
A computing device displays a data visualization interface and receives user selection of a data source and a natural language command directed to the data source. The device forms a first intermediate expression according to a context-free grammar and a semantic model of data fields in the data source. In accordance with a determination that the first intermediate expression omits sufficient information for generating a data visualization, the device infers the omitted information associated with the data source using one or more inferencing rules based on syntactic and semantic constraints imposed by the context-free grammar. The device forms an updated intermediate expression, and translates the updated intermediate expression into database queries. It executes the database queries to retrieve data sets from the data source, then generates and displays a data visualization of the retrieved data sets.
US11244113B2
Mechanisms for evaluating an evidential statement in a corpus of evidence are provided. A first evidential statement for which corroboration is sought is received and a corpus of evidence data is processed to determine a measure of corroboration of the first evidential statement by other evidence data in the corpus of evidence data. An indication of trustworthiness of the first evidential statement is generated based on the measure of corroboration of the first evidential statement by the other evidence data in the corpus of evidence data. A representation of the indication of the trustworthiness of the first evidential statement is output in association with the first evidential statement.
US11244106B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to task template generation and social task discovery. In examples, a task template catalog comprises task templates, which may be automatically generated and/or user-submitted, among other examples. Task templates can be reviewed, shared, and curated within the task template catalog. A user may browse the task catalog or search the task catalog for task templates. Once the user selects a task template, a task is generated based on the task template and added to the user's task list. In some examples, aspects of a task template may be customized. For example, a task may comprise parametric or conditional subtasks, thereby enabling a user to further tailor the task template to his or her needs. Thus, the task catalog provides a starting point from which the user can author a task in a task management application.
US11244105B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for editing a collaborative spreadsheets hosted on a server. Multiple users may edit the spreadsheet, resulting in situations of intersecting or conflicting edits. A change provided by one user may intersect the cells affected by a change provided by another user. In these cases, one user's change is transformed against the other user's change. In this manner, the conflict is resolved and both changes can be applied to the spreadsheet. Each user device may perform these transforms, and the server may also perform these transforms. This can result in transmission of a reduced volume of data over a network between the devices and the server, in comparison with other methods.
US11244103B2
One variation of a method for serving interactive advertisement content includes, at a visual element rendered within a window of a computing device: loading an interactive advertisement, including a digital advertisement and a mask overlaid the digital advertisement, into the visual element, the mask including a base layer and an aperture defining a second opacity less than a first opacity of the base layer; in response to a scroll event that moves the visual element a first position within the window, rendering the interactive advertisement within the visual element; and, in response to a scroll event that moves the visual element to a second position within the window, transforming the mask according to a sequence of transformations at a rate proportional to a scroll rate of the scroll event, the sequence of transformations corresponding to a sequence of vertical positions of the visual element within the window.
US11244099B1
Aspects of the present disclosure address systems and methods for performing a machine-learning based clustering of dock sinks during clock tree synthesis. An integrated circuit design comprising a clock net that includes a plurality of clock sinks is accessed. A set of clusters are generated by clustering the set of clock objects of the clock net. A machine-learning model is used to assess whether each cluster satisfies one or more design rule constraints. Based on determining each cluster in the set of dusters is assessed by the machine-learning model to satisfy the one or more design rule constraints, a timing analysis is performed to determine whether each cluster in the set of clusters satisfies the target timing constraints. A clustering solution for the clock net is generated based on the set of clusters in response to determining each cluster satisfies the one or more design rule constraints.
US11244088B2
A system for generating a customized response finite element model for a crash test dummy and the system is configured to implement a method of creating the customized response finite element model for the crash test dummy including the steps of selecting a plurality of finite element factors associated with a crash test dummy, selecting a performance parameter associated with the crash test dummy, and identifying a certification test value associated with the selected performance parameter. The method also includes the steps of determining a performance parameter value as a function of the plurality of finite element factors, determining an optimized factor value for each of the finite element factors to minimize a difference between the performance parameter value and the certification test value, and generating a customized response finite element model for the crash test dummy using the determined optimized value of each of the finite element factors.
US11244085B2
Systems and methods for data-driven recommendations during infrastructure project design. Input data, which may comprise technical data and stakeholder data, is passed to a design module. Based on that data, the design module recommends a design for the infrastructure project and recommends components to be used in the design. The design is then passed to a fleet selection module for identifying logistical needs of the design; to a cost estimation module for predicting the cost of the design; to a deterioration-forecaster module for predicting the rate of deterioration of the design components; and a scheduling module for scheduling construction tasks while accounting for logistical needs. The user is then presented with a project design and that design's logistical requirements, projected costs, likely maintenance requirements, and scheduling needs. The user may modify the design and the system may recommend additional modifications.
US11244081B2
A method and electronic device are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes at least one connector, at least one switch electrically connected to the at least one connector, a sensor, a memory, and a processor electrically connected to the at least one connector, the at least one switch, the sensor, and the memory. The processor implements the method, including detecting insertion of an external device into the at least one connector based on an electrical signal input through the at least one connector, receiving biometric information using the sensor after detecting the insertion of the external device, and controlling a switch electrically connected to the connector to be connected to the connector into which the external device is inserted when the received biometric information matches biometric information stored in the memory.
US11244074B2
Systems and methods may be provided for masking data on public networks, such as social networking sites. At a publishing node, the system may monitor data input fields in a webpage that are processed by an internet browser. The system may intercept data, such as text, images, and video input at the data input fields, prior to the data being posted online on a public service provider's website. The publishing node may control which users are permitted access to the posted data by defining a policy associated with the data input field. The posted data may be transformed or tokenized to ensure that it is inaccessible to a user (or group of users) unless that user/group is granted access to the decoding key under the policy. In this way, data security and data control may be provided to a publishing user node. Data that has already been posted may be destroyed, for example, by deleting the decryption key or a token.
US11244073B2
Provided is a method for anonymising data stocks, including the steps of determining a combination of generalization stages for quasi-identifiers of a data stock at a central node; transmitting the combination of generalization stages to a plurality of sub-nodes; and a parallel performing of an anonymisation of the data stock on the basis of the combination of generalization stages by the sub-nodes.
US11244067B1
Security credentials associated with a first account maintained by a database system are authenticated. Based on authenticating the security credentials, a user interface element is provided to enable sharing of customer data associated with the first account with an application. A request to share customer data with the application is received. Based on the request, third-party data that is accessible by the first account is identified. The third-party data corresponds to a second account maintained by the database system. The second account corresponds to a third-party data provider. The application is enabled to access cloud data associated with the first account based on the request. The cloud data comprises the customer data and the third-party data.
US11244062B2
A content management system for collecting files from one or more authenticated submitters in a collection folder. A collector, who generates the collection folder, can invite one or more submitters to submit one or more files to the collection folder. The one or more submitters have limited rights to the collection folder. The limited rights can include uploading rights and prohibiting a submitter from viewing files that other submitters associated with the collection folder submitted. Thus, the collection folder is able to store files from the one or more submitters, but prevent them from viewing other's submissions.
US11244059B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving medical data of a user, creating metadata of the medical data which includes a unique identifier of the user and a searchable description of the medical data which describes one or more attributes included in the medical data but does not expose the medical data, encrypting the medical data to generate encrypted medical data, generating a data block having stored therein the created metadata of the medical data and the encrypted medical data, and storing the generated data block within a distributed ledger such that the generated data block is hash-linked to a previous data block on the distributed ledger.
US11244057B2
An apparatus, method and computer program product for repairing security vulnerabilities of an application running on a mobile device. The method comprises: monitoring, by a hardware processor running a mobile device application, an application program interface (API) request associated with a data access operation, the data access operation associated with a security vulnerability. The method determines one or more private values provided by the data access operation and tracks, for each determined private value, a use of the private value by the mobile device application. Further, the method determines from the tracked usage, whether a private value has been transformed in a manner associated with the security vulnerability. For each private value that has been transformed, using the processor to modify the private value deemed a security vulnerability prior to an access by the mobile device application.
US11244047B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a processor and a memory; a network interface to communicatively couple to a backup client; a storage to receive backup data from the client, including a plurality of versions and an associated reputation for each version, the associated reputation to indicate a probability that the version is valid; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: receive from the backup client a request to store a new version of the backup data; determine that the client has exceeded a backup threshold; identify a backup version having a lowest reputation for validity; and expunge the backup version having the lowest reputation for validity.
US11244045B2
Systems and methods for security incident response management are disclosed. A method includes receiving a cyber event; identifying a playbook of tasks, where the playbook constitutes a response to the cyber event, and where a task of the tasks is assignable to a user group; receiving, from a user of the user group, a completion of the task; receiving a proof of completion of the task; and generating an compliance report including the task and the proof of completion.
US11244044B1
According to one embodiment, a malware detection software being loaded into non-transitory computer readable medium for execution by a processor. The malware detection software comprises exploit detection logic, rule-matching logic, reporting logic and user interface logic. The exploit detection logic is configured to execute certain event logic with respect to a loaded module. The rule-matching logic includes detection logic that is configured to determine whether an access source is attempting to access a protected region and determine whether the access source is from a dynamically allocated memory. The reporting logic includes alert generating logic that is configured to generate an alert while the user interface logic is configured to notify a user or a network administrator of a potential cybersecurity attack.
US11244034B1
Techniques for performing identity and access management for an equipment-specific human machine interface (HMI) are provided. One technique includes detecting via a HMI application configured to control an equipment a request from a user agent to access a configuration of the equipment. In response to the detection, the request is re-directed from a first authentication mechanism used by the HMI application to control access to the equipment to a second authentication mechanism provided by an identity provider. After re-directing the request to the identity provider, it is determined that the user agent has been successfully authenticated using the second authentication mechanism. An access grant then is then provided, via the HMI application, to the user agent in response to the request to access the configuration of the equipment.
US11244031B2
Technology is disclosed herein for license aggregation in a license data structure. In at least one implementation, program instructions stored on one or more computer readable storage media, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to at least, responsive to a launch of an application, create a license file request comprising a plurality of user identifications (IDs) and send the license file request to a licensing service. The processing system is further directed to obtain a single license file for the application from the licensing service, the license file comprising a user license defining features of the application to be enabled based on licenses pertaining to the plurality of user IDs. The processing system is further directed to enable the plurality of features of the application based on the user license, and initiate presentation of the application in accordance with the enabled plurality of features.
US11244015B1
Systems and methods for recommending content to an online service user are presented. In response to a request from a user, a set of n-grams of the request are generated, with each n-gram comprising one or more terms from the request and each n-gram of the set of n-grams being unique. Embedding vectors projecting the n-grams into a content item embedding space are generated, and the embedding vectors are combined into a representative embedding vector for the request. The nearest content items are identified according to a distance measure between a projection of the representative embedding vector and embedding vectors of content items of a corpus of content items in the content item embedding space. At least some of the nearest content items are returned as recommended content in response to the request from the user.
US11244009B2
Automatic keyphrase labeling and machine learning training may include a processor extracting a plurality of keywords from at least one search query that resulted in a selection of a document appearing in a search result. For each of the plurality of keywords, the processor may determine a probability that the keyword describes the document. The processor may generate one or more keyphrases by performing processing including selecting each of the plurality of keywords having a probability greater than a predetermined threshold value for insertion into at least one of the one or more keyphrases and assembling the one or more keyphrases from the selected plurality of keywords. The processor may label the document with the keyphrase.
US11244007B2
The invention relates to a method for automatically adapting a search configuration of a search engine of a search service based on repeatedly occurring events. The method comprises monitoring configuration changes applied to the search configuration, detecting events using time series and determining associations between the configuration changes applied and events detected. For the events, a likelihood of an occurrence of the respective event within a predefined time frame is calculated and, if the likelihood exceeds a predefined threshold, the search configuration is automatically adapted in anticipation of the respective event according to configuration changes associated with the event.
US11244004B2
A system creates a graph of nodes connected by edges, the nodes including: i) a first node associated with a first value and a count of the first value, and ii) a second node associated with a second value and a count of the second value, the edges including an edge that connects the first and second nodes and is associated with a count of instances of the first value being stored with the second value. The system includes each node and each associated with clique count less than clique threshold in keys sets and deletes each node and each edge associated with clique count less than clique threshold. The system identifies triplet nodes connected by triplet edges. If estimated clique count for triplet values represented by triplet nodes is less than clique threshold, the system includes triplet values in keys set and identify triplet of nodes as analyzed.
US11244002B1
System and method are provided for searching, writing, editing, and publishing waveform shape information. A wave page generator configured for generating a wave page in a book of wave pages, wherein each page comprises a plurality of cells and each cell contains a shape and identified by a location code value mapping to and from a shape code value, wherein a shape is defined by a shape code value and a location code value and a location of a cell is defined by a location code value and a shape code value. The wave page generator is further configured for identifying a cell by a book code value, a page code value, a row code value, and a column code value and illustrating a shape selected by a customer. A wave page control module provides display parameters selectable by the customer.
US11244000B2
An information processing apparatus includes a document information acquisition section that acquires document information with which a document type of a document is associated, a document type information acquisition section that acquires document type information, in which a reference range of a document referenced in a case of creating index data is set, for each document type of a document, and a creation section that creates the index data of the document with reference to a range of the document corresponding to the reference range set in the document type information associated with the document type of the document.
US11243987B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a set of records from a set of inputs, with each record containing an entity key, a partition key, and one or more attribute-value pairs. Next, the system sorts and indexes the records by the entity key for each partitioned input. The system then processes a query of the records by matching entity key values to the sorted and indexed records for each input partition in the query. Next, the system merges the subset of records with the same entity key values into records, with each merged record containing an entity key field and a single field that includes a list of attribute-value pairs from the subset. Finally, the system outputs the merged records in response to the query.
US11243967B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing search results. A database server can include both a database and a search engine. The database server can receive, from a software service server, storage metadata indicating a plurality of tables of the database and fields of each of the plurality of tables. The database can generate a metadata search index, including tables and fields populated based on the storage metadata, and store it on the database. The database server may receive a search request including one or more search terms from a query-building application of a remote computer. The search engine can determine search statements based on the search request and execute the search statements on a view of the stored metadata search index to obtain index search results. Metadata search results based on the index search results can be provided to the query-building application.
US11243964B2
Systems and methods for query decomposition for scalability of continuous query processing are disclosed. In some examples, it is determined whether a query is fully stateful. If it is, the query may be divided into two functions, an aggregate function and a global function. The aggregate functions may be distributed across multiple distributed nodes and executed in parallel. The global function may then receive the results from the distributed nodes and join the results to achieve the fully stateful result.
US11243949B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for query execution across multiple graphs. In an example, a graph or isolated collection may be split into multiple subparts, such that each subpart may store information of the isolated collection. Cross-collection reference resources may be used to reference resources that are stored by other isolated collection subparts. A breadth-first search of an isolated collection subpart may be performed in order to identify matches or potential matches in an isolated collection subpart. In an example, a potential match may comprise a cross-collection reference resource, which may reference a resource in another isolated collection subpart. Once query execution has completed in the isolated collection subpart, query execution may be paused and transferred to another isolated collection subpart that comprises a resource referenced by a cross-collection resource reference. Accordingly, query execution may resume in the subsequent isolated collection subpart.
US11243948B2
Embodiments described herein provide a mechanism that translates a natural language question to a database query format that may be applied to a data table to generate an answer to the natural language question. The system may identify key terms from a natural language question and classify the key terms as variable names or operation names. The natural language question is than translated into a format of question template containing variable names and operation names. In this way, the system may map the template question to a database query which can be applied to operate on a relational database to identify a cell value that represents an answer to the natural language question.
US11243942B2
Methods and systems described herein may include processing a change data capture stream in parallel and optimizing the write operations contained in the change data capture stream such that the write operations may be written to a change table in parallel. Processing the change data capture stream may include decoding the transaction data contained in the change data capture stream in parallel. After the transaction data in the change data capture stream has been decoded, the transaction data may be analyzed to identify write operations that write to the same row. Write operations that write to the same row may be merged into a single write operation. The merging of write operations may be performed until each write operation writes to a different row. The write operations may then be written to the change table in parallel.
US11243927B2
A method for retrieving data objects based on a spatial-temporal database includes modeling a to-be-managed object in consideration of temporal and spatial statuses of the to-be-managed object; setting specific attributes of the to-be-managed object that are expressed in a natural language according to resultant management models of the managed object; and performing retrieval based on types of the management models of the managed objects and a spatial and/or temporal attribute that is expressed in the natural language and defined by the models so as to determine the operational status of the to-be-managed object. Since data information about monitoring and management of production is described over three temporal periods that are associated to historical data, real-time data and plan data, a user can know spatial-temporal operational statuses of the to-be-managed object by performing retrieval using a spatial-temporal metalanguage, making data management simple and saving storage in computers.
US11243920B2
A distributed database system may include storage layer. The storage layer may partition data and store the partitioned data in a distributed database. The system may further include access layer. The access layer may receive a transaction, identify target data corresponding to the transaction, and generate a lock request to lock the target data included in the partitioned data. The system may further include lock service layer. The lock service layer may identify, based on the lock request, a lock status for the target data according to a lock record for the target data. The lock service layer may lock, in response to the lock status being in an unlocked state, the target data. The lock service layer may block, in response to the lock status being in a locked state, the lock request and store the lock request in a queue.
US11243917B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request for trust information of an off-chain data source from a client, detecting that the trust information of the off-chain data source is not stored in a distributed ledger shared among a plurality of peer nodes, retrieving reliability data recursively identified and retrieved from a plurality of external sources having different reliability information of the off-chain data source, determining a reliability value based on a combination of the retrieved reliability data from the plurality of external sources, and transmitting the determined reliability value to the client.
US11243915B2
A current file is obtained in the data. It is determined whether a similar historical file exists based on a sampled data block from at least one predetermined location in the current file. In response to non-existence of the similar historical file, the current file and corresponding metadata are stored on a file basis. In response to existence of the similar historical file, a deduplication operation is applied on the current file on a block basis.
US11243914B2
A computing device is provided, including a display configured to display a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI may include a table including a plurality of fields arranged in a plurality of primary rows. The GUI may further include a secondary row display selector associated with a primary row. The computing device may further include a user input device. The computing device may further include a processor configured to receive, from the user input device, a first user input selecting the secondary row display selector. In response to the first user input, the processor may output one or more secondary rows associated with the primary row for display in the GUI. The one or more secondary rows may be displayed in the table adjacent to the primary row. The plurality of primary rows and the one or more secondary rows may be displayed in a visually distinguishable manner.
US11243912B2
A method that includes responsive to a request to access a file stored in a memory of a computing device, identifying a context in which the access to the file is being requested; identifying one or more computer files that at least partially match the context; generating, for a display, a list of stored files selectable by a user, the list of stored files including the identified one or more computer files at least partially matching the context; and generating, for the display, a list of user contacts selectable by the user, the list of user contacts including one or more user contacts identified as having communicated the user that include the identified one or more computer files at least partially matching the context.
US11243909B2
Methods and systems are provided for improving a journaling file system by reducing journaling overhead utilizing a remapping interface to log-structured cloud block devices such that blocks in a journaling transaction are atomically mapped to their final disk locations with minimum overhead. With log-structured cloud block devices, all blocks may be stored in logfiles and indexed for access. By modifying the index of the destination block to point to the corresponding journal block, the additional write may be avoided, and a journal block may effectively be remapped from its original LBA to its destination LBA without any actual data movement, thereby reducing the file system journaling overhead.
US11243907B2
Systems and methods for recognizing and depositing digital files. Receive an unidentified file. Identify a target client and at least one account associated with the unidentified file. Segment the unidentified file into one or more document images. For each document image: scan the image and extract content, label the image based on its content, select an account of the target client, and deposit the labeled image in the selected account.
US11243904B2
A method and apparatus for scheduling instructions of a shader program for a graphics processing unit (GPU) with a fixed number of registers. The method and apparatus include computing, via a processing unit (PU), a liveness-based register usage across all basic blocks in the shader program, computing, via the PU, the range of numbers of waves of a plurality of registers for the shader program, assessing the impact of available post-register allocation optimizations, computing, via the PU, the scoring data based on number of waves of the plurality of registers, and computing, via the PU, the number of waves for execution for the plurality of registers.
US11243903B2
Configuration states for a computing device and/or associated peripherals (“profiles”) are stored in one or more non-volatile logic (“NVL”) arrays. Using the non-volatile sub-system for the computing device, triggers for reconfiguration of the respective device or peripherals are provided to an NVL array controller, which controls provision of the new profile(s) for the respective device or peripherals over a dedicated bus to a configuration register that stores the active profiles for the device and associated peripherals.
US11243901B2
According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is proposed a solution for supporting communications for an FPGA device. In an implementation, the FPGA device includes an application module and protocol stack modules. The protocol stack modules are operable to access target devices based on different communication protocols via a physical interface. The FPGA device further includes a universal access module operable to receive, from the application module, first data and a first identity of a first target device, the first target device acting as a destination of the first data, and transmit, based on the first identity and predetermined first routing information, the first data to a first protocol stack module accessible to the first target device via the physical interface. By introducing the universal access module, it is possible to provide unified and direct communications for the application module.
US11243895B2
The present disclosure provides a data pre-processing method and device and related computer device and storage medium. By storing the target output data corresponding to the target operation into the first memory close to the processor and reducing the time of reading the target output data, the occupation time of I/O read operations during the operation process can be reduced, and the speed and efficiency of the processor can be improved.
US11243892B2
A request for data from a cache (TLB or data/instruction cache) specifies a partition identifier allocated to a software execution environment associated with the request. Allocation of data to the cache is controlled based on a set of configuration information selected based on the partition identifier specified by the request. For a TLB, this allows different allocation policies to be used for requests associated with different software execution environments. In one example, the cache allocation is controlled based on an allocation threshold specified by the selected set of configuration information, which limits the maximum number of cache entries allowed to be allocated with data associated with the corresponding partition identifier.
US11243887B2
In accordance with one implementation, a method for mitigating cache transfer time entails reading data into memory from at least two consecutive elliptical data tracks in a main store region of data storage and writing the data read from the at least two consecutive elliptical data tracks to a spiral data track within a cache storage region.
US11243875B1
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for testing the capability of a mobile device to run a particular feature of an application. Each feature may include a package of code, a call, a state, and a condition; each condition correlated with a specific state. The call is a query that includes instructions to evaluate whether the application will run successfully if a particular feature is running. If the call fails, the feature condition remains Off, resulting in a rollback of the feature. If the call succeeds, the feature condition is changed to On. The system may include an experimentation framework on each mobile device for registering features, executing calls, logging results, and maintaining states and conditions.
US11243870B2
A method displays a user interface (UI) that includes a flow diagram having a plurality of nodes, receives user specification of a validation rule for a first node of the plurality of nodes in the flow diagram, and determines that an intermediate data set violates the validation rule. In response to determining that the first intermediate data set violates the validation rule, the method identifies errors corresponding to rows in the intermediate data set, and displays an error resolution UI that provides information about the errors. The error resolution UI includes a data flow trace region providing lineage of the errors in the flow. When a user selects an error in the data flow trace region, the data flow trace region is updated to provide the lineage of the selected error, including an updated graphic depiction for the respective error at each visually represented node.
US11243846B2
Embodiments for replicating data in a disaggregated computing system. A memory pool is allocated, where the memory pool includes allocated memory elements at a first site and allocated memory elements at a second site. The allocated memory elements are mapped at the first site to the allocated memory elements at the second site. A replication operation is initiated to mirror data stored within the allocated memory elements at the first site to the allocated memory elements at the second site. The allocated memory elements at the first site are directly connected through an independent networking connection to the allocated memory elements at the second site such that the replication operation is processed exclusively through compute resources at the first site.
US11243840B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more methods, processes, and/or systems may modify a configuration of an information handling system (IHS) to prevent access of a first non-volatile memory medium, associated with the IHS, that stores a recovery operating system; may boot the information handling system from a second non-volatile memory medium of the IHS; may determine that at least one issue associated with a boot sequence has occurred; may modify the configuration of the IHS to provide access of the first non-volatile memory medium; may modify the configuration of the IHS to boot the information handling system from the first non-volatile memory medium; may restart the IHS; and may boot the recovery operating system from the first non-volatile memory medium.
US11243835B1
Aspects of the invention include constructing a knowledge graph by writing a plurality of data structures to connect correlated log messages in a system log. Detecting an anomalous log message based on the knowledge graph, wherein the anomalous log message is connected to a plurality of candidate root cause error log messages. Determining respective sequences from each of the plurality of candidate root cause error log messages to the anomalous log message. Calculating a deviation score for each respective sequence based on a deviation of an expected sequence for each candidate root cause error log message and the determined sequence. Determining a root cause log error message based on the calculated deviation scores.
US11243823B2
The invention provides a system capable of remotely controlling electronic apparatus to execute program. The system comprises a cloud management platform and at least one electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus comprises a data storage device and a program execution management device. The data storage device comprises a plurality of flash memories and a controller. The program execution management device comprises a microprocessor having a network communication function. When the cloud management platform wants the electronic device to execute a specific operation or collect a specific information, it will send a specific operation instruction to the program execution management device. The microprocessor of the program execution management device wants that the controller of the data storage device executes a corresponding operation program according to the specific operation instruction to generate an execution message related to the specific operation, and then transmits the execution message to the cloud management platform.
US11243820B1
The subject technology performs a locking operation on a first set of keys by a first statement of a first transaction. The subject technology determines that a conflict occurred between the first statement and a second transaction. The subject technology determines that the second transaction has yet to complete after a predetermined period of time. The subject technology performs a deadlock detection process where the subject technology stores a key and value in a table indicating the first transaction and the second transaction, detects, based at least in part on a graph traversal of the table starting from the first transaction, a cycle between the first transaction and the second transaction, and determines that the first transaction is a youngest transaction in the detected cycle. The subject technology ceases execution of the first transaction in response to the first transaction being a youngest transaction in a detected cycle.
US11243815B2
Methods, nontransitory computer readable media, and systems are disclosed for servicing a job queue. Each job has node resource requirements. Composite job memory and processor requirements is determined from these requirements. Nodes that satisfy these requirements are identified by obtaining, for each class of a plurality of node classes: an availability score, a number of processers, and a memory capability. A request for nodes of a class is made when a demand score for the class satisfies the class availability score. An acknowledgement and updated availability score is received upon request acceptance. A declination is received upon request rejection. The submitting and receiving is performing multiple times, if needed, until each class has been considered for a request or sufficient acknowledgements are received to satisfy the composite requirements of the jobs. Each node in the cluster draws jobs from the queue subject to the collective requirements of the drawn jobs.
US11243811B1
The subject technology requests information related to usage history metadata from a metadata database. The subject technology receives the requested information from the metadata database, the requested information comprising information related to user demand. The subject technology predicts a size value indicating an amount of computing resources to request for executing a set of queries based on the usage history metadata. The subject technology determines, during a prefetch window of time within a first period of time, a current size of freepool of computing resources. The subject technology, in response to the current size of the freepool of computing resources being smaller than the predicted size value, sends a request for additional computing resources to include in the freepool of computing resources.
US11243808B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a first queue being registered a newly generated task, and a second queue being registered a thread in an executable state among threads assigned to the task. The processor performs a process including: judging execution priority of a second task registered in the first queue and of a second thread registered in the second queue when execution of a first task by a first thread ends, retrieving, if it is judged that the second thread is to be executed first, the second thread from the second queue and executing a task, to which the second thread is assigned, by the second thread, and retrieving, if it is judged that the second task is to be executed first, the second task from the first queue and executing the second task by the first thread.
US11243799B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of virtual machines, a hypervisor coupled to the plurality of virtual machines, and a graphical processing unit (GPU) coupled to the hypervisor. The plurality of virtual machines are allocated a plurality of time slices. The hypervisor initiates a world switch to a first virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines. The GPU makes a determination as to whether to adjust the time slice associated with the first virtual machine based on an assessment of time slice adjustment parameters related to an execution time of at least one of the plurality of virtual machines.
US11243793B2
In some examples, a system installs an agent on a computing node that includes a virtual machine (VM), obtains information of the VM and send the information to a cloud controller that is able to manage a cloud, and manages, in response to control of the cloud controller, the VM using the agent.
US11243789B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for introducing a user to functions of various applications through interactions with an assistant agent. The assistant agent can correspond to an assistant application that can provide a user interface with multiple selectable elements, each of which can correspond to a separate application. When a user selects one of the selectable elements, a function of an application can be demonstrated to the user, in order that the user might become more familiar with functions of the application. In some implementations, a portion of the selectable element can be selected to cause information about the application to be presented to the user. This allows the user to have the option to try out or learn about an application before investing computational resources through downloading and installing the entire application.
US11243787B2
A system for integrating a telephone system and a computing system includes an interactive voice response (IVR) platform configured to: obtain a command based on an audio input from a user, determine a web application that corresponds to the command, determine a goal in the web application associated with the command, and obtain information indicating a shortest user interface path to the goal. The system includes a cobrowse client configured to receive a document object model (DOM) of a current state of the web application from a cobrowse session. The IVR platform is configured to, based on the DOM, determine a next user interface action along the shortest user interface path and generate a voice prompt for the user based on the next user interface action. The cobrowse client is configured to receive an updated DOM in response to execution by the user of the next user interface action.
US11243779B2
Disclosed is a method and system for managing execution of processes on a cluster of processing devices by a supervising device. The method comprises receiving memory consumption information from each of a processing devices executing a plurality of processes. The method further comprises receiving information related to swapping of a new process from at least one processing device of the processing devices while memory available on the at least one processing device is insufficient to execute the new process. The method further comprises terminating either the new process being swapped or a process executing on the at least one processing device. The method further comprises instructing another processing device having sufficient memory available for execution of the new process being swapped or the process executing on the at least one processing device, whichever is terminated on the at least one processing device.
US11243778B1
The present disclosure relates to instruction dispatch mechanisms for superscalar processors having a plurality of functional units for executing operations simultaneously. Each particular functional unit of the plurality of functional units may be configured to output a capability vector indicating a set of operations that the particular functional unit is currently available to perform. As instructions are received in an issue queue, the functional unit to execute the instruction is selected by comparing capabilities required by the instruction to the asserted capabilities of each of the functional units. A functional unit may reset or de-assert a particular functionality while performing an operation and then re-assert the capability when the instruction is completed. A result of the operation may be stored in a skid buffer for at least as long as the chain execution time in order to avoid resource hazards are a write port of the vector register file.
US11243777B2
Described is a content management system (CMS) where a primary CMS is arranged to provide a command pipeline along with associated timing information while an alternative CMS is arranged to replay the commands from the command pipeline in an order based on the associated timing information to synchronize the alternative CMS to the primary CMS.
US11243776B2
Certain example embodiments automatically generate complex event processing (CEP) events and query definitions for real-time decomposition of resource usage data. Component models specifying measureable characteristics related to an aggregate reading and state(s) into which respective components are enterable are defined. For components that can have plural states, the models further specify valid state transitions, including predecessor and/or successor states. Plausible and composite state definitions are generatable from the component models. The former defines when a CEP engine is to trigger a corresponding plausible state event to signify that a corresponding state is potentially active. The latter corresponds to a representation of two or more component states that potentially are concurrently active. The CEP engine is configured to trigger events based on the aggregate reading and the generated plausible and composite state event definitions. The CEP engine can establish individualized component states from the aggregate reading based on triggered events.
US11243772B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for training load value predictors, comprising: determining if a prediction has been made by one or more of a plurality of load value predictors; determining a misprediction has been made by one or more load value predictors of the plurality of load value predictors; training each of the one or more load value predictors that made the misprediction; and resetting a confidence value associated with each of the one or more load value predictors that made the misprediction.
US11243762B1
A tool for providing a version controller bulletin. The tool retrieves metadata from a plurality of version controller repositories in a development environment. The tool creates one or more snapshots for the metadata over a pre-determined period of time, wherein the pre-determined period of time includes a start time and an end time. The tool determines a metadata difference between non-code related issue clusters of the one or more snapshots. The tool determines a confidence to conflict value and a line of code range for code related issue clusters of the one or more snapshots, wherein the confidence to conflict value represents a probability of a merge conflict. The tool provides respective heat maps for code related issue clusters and non-code related issue clusters. The tool outputs to a version controller bulletin, the metadata difference, the confidence to conflict value, respective heat maps, and the line of code range.
US11243752B2
Described herein are techniques for generating a stitched shader program. The techniques include identifying a set of shader programs to include in the stitched shader program, wherein the set includes at least one multiversion shader program that includes a first version of instructions and a second version of instructions, wherein the first version of instructions uses a first number of resources that is different than a second number of resources used by the second version of instructions. The techniques also include combining the set of shader programs to form the stitched shader program. The techniques further include determining a number of resources for the stitched shader program. The techniques also include based on the determined number of resources, modifying the instructions corresponding to the multiversion shader program to, when executed, execute either the first version of instructions, or the second version of instructions.
US11243749B1
The present invention generally relates to the field of automated and flexible information extraction for assisted and streamlined development of computer code. The invention provides for accommodating coding representations of reusable utilities in a technology agnostic pattern so that, based on a specified coding stack, the technology agnostic embeddings can be decoded and deployed into developers' integrated development environment. The present invention includes a technologic agnostic digital wallet for developers capable of storing reusable components either from open source repositories or user-defined functions in an embedded pattern in a centralized storage platform such as cloud or hosted virtual desktop.
US11243747B2
Application personalization techniques and systems are described that leverage an embedded machine learning module to preserve a user's privacy while still supporting rich personalization with improved accuracy and efficiency of use of computational resources over conventional techniques and systems. The machine learning module, for instance, may be embedded as part of an application to execute within a context of the application to learn user preferences to train a model using machine learning. This model is then used within the context of execution of the application to personalize the application, such as control access to digital content, make recommendations, control which items of digital marketing content are exposed to a user via the application, and so on.
US11243743B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for an operation to be performed; determining that the operation is associated with a machine-learning algorithm, and in response, route the operation to a computing circuit; performing, at the computing circuit, the operation, including: determining a linear domain product of a first log-domain number and a second log-domain number associated with the operation based on a summation of the first log-domain number and the second log-domain number and output a third log-domain number approximating the linear domain product of the first log-domain number and the second log-domain number; converting the third log-domain number to a first linear-domain number; summing the first linear-domain number and a second linear-domain number associated with the operation, and output a third linear-domain number as the summed result.
US11243737B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for remote collaboration, the method includes: receiving mouse operation information of a user in the master computer which is captured and transmitted by the master computer; detecting a position of the mouse cursor on the master split screen in accordance with the mouse operation information, then when the cursor arrives at a boundary of the master split screen and continues to move in a direction away from the master split screen, detecting a current split screen connecting to the boundary, and displaying the cursor on the current split screen; and receiving interaction information transmitted by the master computer, and transferring the interaction information to a current slave computer corresponding to the current split screen, so as to cause the current slave computer to execute the interaction information, where the interaction information is the information which is obtained and intercepted by the master computer when the master computer detects interaction initiated by the user with the master computer. The present disclosure can realize the collaboration function in wireless screen transmission based on the display of multiple sources on the same screen, thus rendering the operations convenient.
US11243733B2
Systems and methods for providing access to co-located operations data for one or more electronic display assemblies for a number of different clients are provided. Client identifiers are assigned to operations data received at one or more databases from sensors at the electronic display assemblies. In some embodiments, portions of the operations data from a certain electronic display assembly are assigned different client identifiers. In other embodiments, all operations data from a given electronic display assembly are assigned the same client identifier. The operations data is electronically partitioned by assigned client identifier. Upon request, operations data is retrieved for a given client identifier and transmitted to a requesting client device.
US11243731B2
An information processing apparatus includes a generation unit, an adding unit, and an association unit. The generation unit generates, in a case where additional processing needs to be performed on input information in a workflow, unique information for uniquely identifying the information. The adding unit adds the unique information generated by the generation unit to identification information for identifying the information to generate new identification information of the information. The association unit associates the new identification information generated by the adding unit with the information.
US11243730B2
An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an operation for a group printing job including plural printing jobs, and an instructing unit that gives an instruction to an image forming apparatus performing printing processing based on the printing job, in accordance with the operation.
US11243729B2
An image recording system includes a plurality of image recording apparatuses. In a case where a certain image recording apparatus of the image recording apparatuses has a failure nozzle proportion of failure nozzles of all the nozzles of the recording head smaller than or equal to a threshold, image recording is performed on the certain image recording apparatus based on a recording instruction. In a case where the certain image recording apparatus has a failure nozzle proportion exceeding the threshold, a recording instruction is transmitted to a different image recording apparatus having a failure nozzle proportion smaller than that of the certain image recording apparatus, and image recording is performed on the different image recording apparatus based on the recording instruction.
US11243728B2
A printing process management apparatus includes a first display controller that controls a display to display, in association with printing information, a first graphical object in which plural step-representing graphical objects corresponding to plural processing steps for the printing information are arrayed in a sequence identical to a sequence of the processing steps, a second display controller that acquires status information indicating a processing status of the printing information in each of the processing steps and controls the display to display a first step-representing graphical object corresponding to a first processing step whose status information indicates that processing is in progress while changing a format of the first step-representing graphical object to a format different from formats of other step-representing graphical objects, and a third display controller that controls the display to display information indicating details of the processing performed in the first processing step while juxtaposing the information with the first graphical object.
US11243724B2
The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for printing an address directly on an output medium. The method is implemented at a multi-function device. The method includes providing a user interface for displaying an address print option; based on receiving a selection of the address print option, displaying, by a controller, an address form requiring address details on the user interface, wherein the user provides the address details via the user interface; receiving, by the controller, the address details to be printed on the output medium; and printing, by a printing engine, the address details on the output medium based on receiving a selection of a type of the output medium. The method enables the user to print the address on the output medium without requiring an external device.
US11243720B2
In an image forming device, in a case where a storage medium is connected to an input output interface, and a storage medium stores import instruction information including a plurality of setting values, a controller imports a target value from the storage medium to a memory. The plurality of setting values is associated with respective ones of a plurality of pieces of device-specific information. The target value is a setting value selected from the plurality of setting values and is associated with a piece of device-specific information unique to the image forming device. Each of the plurality of setting values associated with respective ones of a plurality of pieces of device-specific information is for setting a prescribed parameter of a corresponding device. After the target value is imported, the controller operates according to the target value set for the prescribed parameter.
US11243713B2
A memory system includes at least one memory device, including plural planes, each capable of storing data; and a controller coupled with the at least one memory device via plural channels and plural ways and suitable for transmitting data to the at least one memory device for a read operation or a write operation in response to a transmission order. The plural planes can include plural blocks respectively. The plural blocks can include multi-level cells respectively. The controller can include a mapping circuitry for determining the transmission order of the data based on a first order of the plural channels, a second order of the plural planes, a third order of the plural ways and a fourth order of bits stored in the multi-level cells.
US11243708B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for providing track format information when mirroring updated tracks from a primary storage system to a secondary storage system. The primary storage system determines a track to mirror to the secondary storage system and determines whether there is track format information for the track to mirror. The track format information indicates a format and layout of data in the track, indicated in track metadata for the track. The primary storage system sends the track format information to the secondary storage system, in response to determining there is the track format information and mirrors the track to mirror to the secondary storage system. The secondary storage system uses the track format information for the track in the secondary cache when processing a read or write request to the mirrored track.
US11243705B2
A method and system for policy class based data migration. Specifically, the method and system disclosed herein entail dynamically changing policy classes with which any given data migration may be associated while the given data migration is transpiring. In transitioning between policy classes, different levels of resources, available to different policy classes, respectively, may be allocated to supporting the given data migration.
US11243699B2
Systems and methods are disclosed comprising receiving a request for a descriptor of a storage system, sending the descriptor to the host including an indication that a component of the storage device is in a restricted operation mode, wherein the host device utilizes the indication to determine a boot mode of the host device.
US11243693B2
A program writing method in which a program is written into a flash ROM that a microcomputer includes therein includes: a generating step for generating a version representative value indicating a version of a source directory from predetermined types of files included in the source directory; an additionally writing step for additionally writing the version representative value into a source file included in the source directory; and a program writing step for writing a program corresponding to the source directory generated by compiling the source file into which the version representative value has been additionally written into the flash ROM.
US11243689B2
The present disclosure is directed to positioning animated images within a dynamic keyboard interface. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive, from a user device on which an application is executed, data indicating a context of: the application, and/or a dynamic keyboard interface provided in association with the application; identify, based at least in part on the data indicating the context, a plurality of different animated images, including an animated image comprising an advertisement, for presentation by the dynamic keyboard interface; communicate, to the user device, data indicating the plurality of different animated images; receive, from the user device, data indicating a selection of the animated image comprising the advertisement; and determine, based at least in part on the data indicating the selection and the data indicating the context, a position within the dynamic keyboard interface for presenting the animated image comprising the advertisement.
US11243668B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling presentation of multimedia data belong to the field of Internet technologies. The method includes: presenting multimedia data, and displaying an interaction interface corresponding to the multimedia data; acquiring verification information input by a user through the interaction interface; and skipping, if the verification information is correct, presentation of the multimedia data. The apparatus includes: a presentation module, a display module, an acquisition module, and a control module.
US11243640B2
An expansion device couples to a capacitive mat disposed on a desktop surface and communicates power and data through the capacitive mat to perform functions in support of an information handling system. For example, the expansion device powers an inductive charger to charge a peripheral device, accepts end user touch inputs with a capacitive touch sensor, presents visual information at an integrated display in response to pixel values provided by the information handling system though the capacitive mat.
US11243636B1
A method for operating an electronic device includes: having a touch sensitive display configured to be rolled into or unrolled out of a first retainment structure along a first direction. The first retainment structure includes a conductive material disposed within the first retainment structure. The method includes unrolling or rolling the touch sensitive display to an unrolled position along the first direction; determining that the touch sensitive display is detecting contact at a plurality of mutual sensing locations using a mutual sensing process; determining that the touch sensitive display is detecting contact at a plurality self-sensing locations using a self-sensing process; determining a plurality of multi-mutual sensing locations based on multi-mutual sensing values obtained from a multi-mutual sensing process; and determining the unrolled position along the first direction based on the plurality of mutual sensing locations, the plurality self-sensing locations, and the plurality of multi-mutual sensing locations.
US11243626B2
A display system circuitry capable of saving power consumption includes a display panel and a driver circuitry. In particular, the display panel includes a plurality of source electrodes with a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate electrodes further includes a gate driver which is directly incorporated into a thin film transistor array to form Gate on Array (GOA) electrode, a source electrode transmitting a plurality of data driving signals, a gate electrode transmitting gate driving signals, a VCOM electrode transmitting voltage driving signals, a display electrode transmitting displaying driving signals. The driver circuitry includes a display driver IC which includes a source driver operably configured to drive the source electrode and gate control to control gate driver output, and a touch driver IC configured to generate the touch scan signal from a touch sensor.
US11243618B1
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for an advanced computer input device with a rotational degree of freedom (zrot) in addition to two translation degrees of freedom (x and y), in an easy and intuitive fashion. A plurality of independent position sensors may be arranged on a lower surface of the computer input device, each determining a direction and velocity of motion of the input device when in use. The detected directions and velocities may be compared to determine whether a rotational motion of the input device has been applied as opposed to (or in addition to) a translation.
US11243604B2
Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is performed based on a power step by setting a plurality of power levels corresponding to a plurality of available frequencies of a clock signal for an operation of a processor, setting a plurality of power steps corresponding to the plurality of available frequencies, and controlling a conversion between the plurality of power levels based on a utilization of the processor and the plurality of power steps. Performance and power consumption of a processor are controlled efficiently by performing power level conversion based on the power step.
US11243600B2
Disclosed are an HMC controller and a controlling method on a CPU side and an HMC side for a low power mode, and a recording medium related thereto. The CPU side HMC controller includes a plurality of link units, each of which includes a link master for storing request packets of a CPU in a request buffer and transmitting the request packets to an HMC side HMC controller in the order that they are stored; and a link slave for storing the request packets received from the HMC side HMC controller in a response buffer and transmitting the request packets to the CPU in the order that they are stored.
US11243597B2
Techniques are disclosed performing a power logging in a computer system at a sub-process level. An exemplary method includes an operating system of the computer system determining process information indicative of which sub-portions of one or more processes are running on the computer system at different points in time, as well as may determining power information for the computer system at different points in time. The operating system may the create, from the process information and the power information, a power log indicative of power usage of sub-portions of processes at a plurality of points in time. The power logging may extend to both core and non-core resources of the system. For non-core resources, the power usage may be estimated in some cases based on the type of non-core resource being called as well as parameters passed to the non-core resource.
US11243595B2
The present disclosure is applicable to the technical field of loudspeaker and provides a method and apparatus for reducing continuous-wakeup delay of Bluetooth loudspeaker and a Bluetooth loudspeaker. The method for reducing continuous-wakeup delay of Bluetooth loudspeaker includes: resetting a wakeup flag bit to wait for a next wakeup when receiving a stop-recording instruction which is sent by a terminal equipment through a Bluetooth serial port communication protocol; and executing a wakeup-interruption operation again after a preset wakeup keyword is received. According to the present disclosure, time delay under a continuous-wakeup mode can be greatly reduced and a response speed of continuous-wakeup can be improved.
US11243587B2
A data processing device according to one or more embodiment is disclosed. The data processing device may include a first power-on reset circuit that generates a first power-on reset signal depending on power source voltage, and a processor that activates based on a first power-on reset signal generated by the first power-on reset circuit and that runs software. The processor determines if the normal first power-on reset signal is used to cause the processor to activate and run the software.
US11243582B2
An information handling system housing vents air at a grid of openings formed in a wall with a member extending outward from each intersection of the grid to define air channels. Each member terminates with a polished planar surface that reflects light against a flat underlying material. Variable angles of the polished planar surface relative to the plane of the wall creates a presentation of isolated reflections against the flat background that vary based upon a viewing angle of the housing wall.
US11243578B2
A portable information handling system supports a flexible OLED display film over housing portions rotationally coupled by a hinge by folding the OLED display film over the hinge. Hinge brackets that couple to the housing portions each have a gear member with a semicircular shape gear inner circumference that engages a gear subassembly of the hinge main body. Hinge bracket rotation translates through the gear subassembly for synchronized housing rotation. The hinge main body has first and second semicircular portions with a smooth surface defined to accept the outer circumference smooth surface of the gear member semicircular shape at first and second rotation axes about which the hinge brackets pivot so that the display film has space to fold in the closed position.
US11243570B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods that enable users to customize operation of a touch-sensitive secondary display. An example method includes displaying, at the touch-sensitive secondary display, a system-level affordance for controlling a system-level feature and an affordance for causing display of representations of user-defined workspaces. Receiving a first input at the affordance for causing display of the representations the user-defined workspaces. In response to receiving the first input, displaying, at the touch-sensitive secondary display, a selectable user interface object corresponding to a first window from a first application and a second window from a second application. Receiving a selection, and in response to receiving the second input corresponding to selection of the selectable user interface object corresponding to the first window from the first application and the second window from the second application, displaying the first window from the first application and the second window from the second application.
US11243565B2
An electronic device includes an input assembly and an output assembly, to be respectively used for data input and data output, a support assembly, to at least support the input assembly or the output assembly and to enable either of the input assembly or the output assembly to stand on a base, and a connector mechanism, to connect the input assembly and/or the output assembly to the support assembly, and to enable the input assembly and/or the output assembly to rotate relative the support assembly in various dimensions. The electronic device according to embodiments of the present disclosure is rotatable in multiple dimensions to meet user's needs in variable position adjustments.
US11243562B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device comprising a biometric sensor disposed in a display, and the electronic device comprises: a transparent cover; a display module located under the transparent cover, wherein the display module comprises a display layer in which pixels are formed and one or more additional layers formed under the display layer, and an opening is formed in at least a partial region of at least one layer among the one or more layers; a first printed circuit board having a biometric sensor module, which is disposed under the display module and makes contact with the opening; and a second printed circuit board electrically connected to the first printed circuit board and the display module, wherein a pressure sensor module can be disposed in the surrounding region of the biometric sensor module under the display module in the second printed circuit board. In addition, other embodiments are possible.
US11243558B2
An ultrasonic flow measurement system may include a signal generator configured to generate a first excitation signal for a first ultrasonic transducer and a second excitation signal for a second, different ultrasonic transducer. The system may further include a phase differentiator configured to generate a differential phase angle signal indicative of a difference in phase angle between first and second receive signals received from the first and second transducers which is indicative of flow rate.
US11243553B1
A circuit configured to perform low-dropout regulation of an output voltage includes a first buffer, a second buffer, controller circuitry, and switching circuitry. The first buffer includes a first driving element configured to provide a first current into a first output node based on the output voltage. The first bias circuitry is configured to bias the first current. The second buffer includes a second driving element configured to provide a second current into a second output node based on a voltage at the first output node. The second bias circuitry is configured to bias the second current. The controller circuitry is configured to generate a control signal based on a current at the pass device and switching circuitry configured to electrically couple the first output node to the control node of the pass device based on the control signal.
US11243544B2
An occupant assist apparatus (12) has: a receiving device (121) for receiving an occupant information relating to an occupant of a vehicle; an estimating device (122) for estimating, on the basis of the occupant information, at least one of a desire of the occupant to urinate and a desire of the occupant to defecate in a future than a timing when the occupant information is received; and an executing device (123) for executing an occupant assist on the basis of a result of an estimation by the estimating device.
US11243543B2
A vehicle control apparatus is provided, comprising: a state switching unit that switches a state of a vehicle between a first state in which the vehicle accepts a driving manipulation and a second state in which the vehicle does not accept a driving manipulation; a distance acquiring unit that acquires a distance between the vehicle and an charging facility; and a switching control unit that causes the state switching unit to switch the state of the vehicle to the first state if the vehicle is in the second state and the distance between the vehicle and the charging facility is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold.
US11243534B2
An information processing device (20) includes a route acquisition unit (202) and an automatic driving section determination unit (204). The route acquisition unit (202) acquires route information indicating a moving route of a mobile body. The automatic driving section determination unit (204) acquires adaptation coefficients for a plurality of sections included in the moving route indicated by the route information, with reference to an adaptation coefficient storage unit (206) that stores automatic driving adaptation coefficients set for the respective sections. Further, the automatic driving section determination unit (204) determines the automatic driving sections of the mobile body in the moving route, based on the acquired adaptation coefficients.
US11243529B2
A motor vehicle self-driving method comprises obtaining a first positioning mode and a first driving route; obtaining second vehicle information of a second motor vehicle, where the second vehicle information includes a second positioning mode and a second driving route; determining whether the first driving route overlaps with the second driving route; when the first driving route overlaps with the second driving route, comparing positioning precision of the first positioning mode with positioning precision of the second positioning mode; determining a positioning mode with higher positioning precision in the first positioning mode and the second positioning mode as a target positioning mode; determining a target driving parameter based on the target positioning mode; and controlling the first motor vehicle and the second motor vehicle to drive based on the target driving parameter.
US11243517B2
A communication unit (S1, S2) for industrial automation for use in a communication system (10) of series-connected communication units (M, S1, S2). The communication unit includes a first input (E1), a first output (A1), and an internal clock generator (TG) which is adapted to provide an internal clock signal as system clock for clocking the communication unit (S1, S2), and wherein the communication unit (S1, S2) is configured to receive, via the input (E1), a serial input data stream with payload data. The communication unit (S1, S2) has a timer (ZG) for providing a time value, the timer (ZG) being adapted to provide the time value based on an input symbol clock included in the input data stream.
US11243514B2
The invention enables commissioning of field devices within a control system by implementing the steps of (i) detecting a connection event comprising a field device interfacing with an I/O port that is communicably coupled with the server, (ii) retrieving from a memory of the field device that is interfacing with the I/O port, a first field device identifier corresponding to the field device, (iii) retrieving from a non-transient memory database communicably coupled with the server, field device configuration data associated with the I/O port, wherein, the set of field device attributes includes a second field device identifier, and at least a segment of the second field device identifier is different from a corresponding segment of the first field device identifier, (iv) generating one of a translated first field device identifier and a translated second field device identifier, based on predefined translation data, (v) comparing the translated first field device identifier with the second field device identifier, or comparing the first field device identifier with the translated second field device identifier, (vi) generating a connection check output decision based on an output of the comparison, and (vii) optionally, initiate a connection check output event based on the connection check output decision.
US11243508B2
The invention relates to a method for analyzing an abnormal event in an industrial automation and control system, IACS, comprising the following steps: identifying the abnormal event; detecting a root cause of the abnormal event; and generating a notification if the root cause is not a user activity and, if the root cause is a user activity, evaluating the possible impact on the IACS caused by the abnormal event, and generating a notification if the evaluation of the possible impact does not match a predefined list of allowable behavior. The present invention also relates to a corresponding system and corresponding computer program product comprising one or more computer readable media having computer executable instructions for performing the steps of the method.
US11243504B2
An input/output (I/O) device for a distributed modular I/O system includes a base adapted to be connected to an associated support structure. A terminal block is connected to the base and includes a plurality of wiring connections adapted to be connected to field wiring of an associated controlled system. The I/O device further includes first and second I/O modules each including a plurality of removable single-channel I/O submodules that are each releasably connected to the base and each configured for a select I/O operation for input and output of data relative to the associated controlled system. One or more pairs of the single-channel I/O submodules can be configured to be redundant within or between the first and second I/O modules. Each of the single-channel I/O submodules is operatively connected to wiring connections of the terminal block through the base. The I/O device further includes first and second network switches connected to the base. The first and second network switches are adapted to be respectively connected to first and second backplane circuits. The I/O device further includes first and second system modules connected to the base and each respectively connected to both of the first and second network switches. The first and second system modules are also each respectively operatively connected to all of the removable single-channel I/O submodules of both of the first and second I/O modules such that the first and second system modules control communication of I/O data between the first and second network switches and the single-channel I/O submodules.
US11243496B2
An annular rotating bezel system includes a rotating bezel, a toothed ring having a toothing provided with a plurality of teeth regularly distributed over an edge of the toothed ring, and a spring ring which extends in a plane in which it is capable of deforming elastically along a radius. The spring ring cooperates elastically with the toothed ring. The spring ring includes at least two lugs, each lug being configured to be elastically and radially engaged with the toothing of the toothed ring in at least one position of the bezel. At least two lugs are offset from each other by an offset angle, the or each offset angle between two successive lugs having a value different from an integer sub-multiple of 360 degrees, such that, in each position of the bezel, only one lug is elastically and radially engaged with the toothing of the toothed ring.
US11243491B1
A fixing device includes a device body, a fixing unit, a pair of decurling units, and an open/close unit. The fixing unit is disposed on the device body to perform a fixing operation on a recording medium, and includes a removal assistance unit to assist removal of the recording medium. The pair of decurling units are disposed on the device body to correct a curl of the recording medium by holding the recording medium therebetween. The open/close unit is openably and closeably disposed on the device body to separate, when opened, the removal assistance unit from the fixing unit and one of the decurling units from the other decurling unit.
US11243490B2
A printer includes an image forming unit to form a toner image on an image receptor by using a toner containing fluorescent additives for generating light in a predefined wavelength band in response to light in an invisible wavelength band, transfer the toner image to a print medium, and fix the toner image on the print medium, a photodetector including a light emitting unit configured to irradiate light in an invisible wavelength band to the toner image accommodated in one of the image receptor and the print medium, and a light receiving unit to detect reflected light from the toner image, and a controller to control a printing operation of the image forming unit, based on a detection signal from the light receiving unit.
US11243486B2
Disclosed is a heat source for radiating heat onto an intermediate printing material transfer element of a printing apparatus. The heat source can include a plurality of heat generating segments disposed along an axis, the plurality of heat generating segments including a first heat generating segment, a second heat generating segment and a third heat generating segment. The second heat generating segment is disposed between the first heat generating segment and the third heat generating segment. The second heat generating segment has a length shorter than a length of the first heat generating segment and shorter than a length of the third heat generating segment. Also disclosed is a printing system that includes the disclosed heat source. Also disclosed is a method of selecting a heat radiating pattern of a heat source.
US11243483B2
A developing apparatus includes a sleeve for carrying a developer including toner and magnetic carrier, the sleeve having a plurality of grooves extending in a longitudinal direction; a magnet provided inside the sleeve, a non-magnetic regulating member, provided spaced from the sleeve, wherein an amount M/S (mg/mm2) of the developer carried on a unit area of the sleeve after passing by the regulating member, a gap SB (mm) between a free end of the regulating member and the sleeve, a density G (mg/mm3) of the developer, and a groove ratio α which is a ratio of the grooves in the surface of the sleeve satisfy, 0.1≤M/S (mg/mm2)≤0.5, 0.2≤SB (mm), and m/S (mg/mm2)×¼≤α×{SB (mm)+D (mm)}×G (mg/mm3)
US11243480B2
A lithography system for generating grating structures is provided having a multiple column imaging system located on a bridge capable of moving in a cross-scan direction, a mask having a grating pattern with a fixed spatial frequency located in an object plane of the imaging system, a multiple line alignment mark aligned to the grating pattern and having a fixed spatial frequency, a platen configured to hold and scan a substrate, a scanning system configured to move the platen over a distance greater than a desired length of the grating pattern on the substrate, a longitudinal encoder scale attached to the platen and oriented in a scan direction and at least two encoder scales attached to the platen and arrayed in the cross-scan direction wherein the scales contain periodically spaced alignment marks having a fixed spatial frequency.
US11243470B2
An optical system delivers illuminating radiation and collects radiation after interaction with a target structure on a substrate. A measurement intensity profile is used to calculate a measurement of the property of the structure. The optical system may include a solid immersion lens. In a method, the optical system is controlled to obtain a first intensity profile using a first illumination profile and a second intensity profile using a second illumination profile. The profiles are used to derive a correction for mitigating the effect of, e.g., ghost reflections. Using, e.g., half-moon illumination profiles in different orientations, the method can measure ghost reflections even where a solid immersion lens would cause total internal reflection. The optical system may include a contaminant detection system to control a movement based on received scattered detection radiation. The optical system may include an optical component having a dielectric coating to enhance evanescent wave interaction.
US11243454B2
An automatic focus apparatus for a camera module includes a voice coil motor and a driving unit. The voice coil motor includes a frame, a moving member with a lens, and a magnetic member. The magnetic member is positioned at a side wall of the moving member, the driving unit is positioned at a side plate of the frame. A magnetic field is generated by the driving unit and the magnetic member, the magnetic field drives the moving member with the lens to move, to achieve automatic focus.
US11243448B2
An astigmatism compensation optical assembly includes a first liquid crystal layer disposed between opposing substrates. The astigmatism compensation optical assembly also includes a first electrode pattern disposed on at least one substrate. The first electrode pattern includes a set of parallel conductors each having a length proportional to the longest dimension of the clear aperture of the liquid crystal lens, and the parallel conductors are configured to generate a voltage distribution within the liquid crystal layer that results in the liquid crystal layer exhibiting cylindrical focal power.
US11243444B2
A display device includes a display panel, a timing controller, a first source driver, and a second source driver. The display panel includes a first pixel, a second pixel and a plurality of data lines included in a pixel column. A first data line is connected to the first pixel, and a second data line is connected to the second pixel. The timing controller generates a pattern inversion control signal by detecting a predetermined image pattern from input data. The first source driver is connected to the first and third data lines, and replaces a first channel data corresponding to the first data line with a third channel data corresponding to the third data line in response to the pattern inversion control signal. Similarly, the second source driver replaces a second channel data corresponding to the second data line with a fourth channel data corresponding to the fourth data line.
US11243441B2
A display panel having a display area and a peripheral area is provided. The display panel includes a first display substrate; a second display substrate facing the first display substrate; a sealant layer in the peripheral area and between the first display substrate and the second display substrate, configured to seal the first display substrate and the second display substrate together to form a cell; and an elastic support layer in the peripheral area and between the first display substrate and the second display substrate. The elastic support layer encircled by the sealant layer and spaced apart from the sealant layer. The elastic support layer substantially surrounds the display area. The elastic support layer is configured to be in direct contact with the first display substrate and in direct contact with the second display substrate.
US11243438B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes in the following order: a first substrate including pixel electrodes; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules; and a second substrate including a counter electrode, the liquid crystal display panel including pixels each including at least four alignment regions of a first alignment region, a second alignment region, a third alignment region, and a fourth alignment region, the four alignment regions providing different tilt azimuths to the liquid crystal molecules, the first alignment region, the second alignment region, the third alignment region, and the fourth alignment region being arranged in the given order in a longitudinal direction of each pixel, the first alignment region and the second alignment region providing tilt azimuths approximately 180° different from each other to the liquid crystal molecules or the third alignment region and the fourth alignment region providing tilt azimuths approximately 180° different from each other to the liquid crystal molecules.
US11243435B2
A display device according to the present disclosure includes: a color conversion panel; and a display panel overlapping the color conversion panel, wherein the color conversion panel includes a color conversion layer including a nano-crystalline semiconductor and a transmission layer, the display panel includes a first display panel including a first substrate and a thin film transistor disposed on the first substrate, a second display panel including a second substrate and overlapping the first display panel. The first substrate and the second substrate have different thicknesses.
US11243432B2
The present disclosure relates to a backlight frame including a backplane; a plastic frame comprising: a planar portion configured to carry a panel, and a plastic frame assembly portion on the side away from the panel, the plastic frame assembly portion being configured to fix the plastic frame to the backplane; a retaining wall substantially perpendicular to the planar portion, the retaining wall comprising a side facing the panel and a side away from the panel; and a plurality of soft adhesive strips substantially parallel to each other on the planar portion, the soft adhesive strips being on the side facing the panel and in contact with the panel.
US11243427B2
A display apparatus includes: a display device configured to output a first image; an optical coupler configured to: combine the first image received through a first path from the display device with a second image received through a second path that is different from the first path, output, through an exit surface of the optical coupler, a first light corresponding to the first image in a first polarization and a second light corresponding to the second image in a second polarization; and a polarization selection optical system arranged on the exit surface of the optical coupler and configured to have different refractive power with respect to the first light of the first polarization and the second light of the second polarization.
US11243426B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first arrangement layer and a second arrangement layer. The first layer includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel are arranged periodically in one direction. The second layer is opposed to the first layer, and the second layer includes a first element, a second element, and a third element which are arranged periodically to correspond to the first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel, respectively, and separate emission light to light of wavelength corresponding to a first color, light of wavelength corresponding to a second color, and light of wavelength corresponding to a third color to be emitted on the first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel, respectively.
US11243424B2
A display device includes a plurality of gate lines; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of thin film transistors each connected to one of the gate lines and one of the data lines; a plurality of pixels each including a first electrode and a second electrode insulated from the first electrode and connected to one of the thin film transistors, the pixels arranged in a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns; and a plurality of sensing lines connected to the first electrodes. The gate lines include front gate lines and rear gate lines arranged at a front and a rear of each of the respective pixel rows, and a rear gate line of a front pixel row and a front gate line of a rear pixel row are arranged between adjacent pixel rows, and two pixel columns are arranged between adjacent data lines.
US11243397B2
An optical assembly includes a partial reflector that is optically coupled with a first polarization volume holographic element. The partial reflector is capable of receiving first light having a first circular polarization and transmitting a portion of the first light having a first circular polarization. The first polarization volume holographic element is configured to receive the first portion of the first light and reflect the first portion of the first light as second light having the first circular polarization. The partial reflector is capable of receiving the second light and reflecting a first portion of the second light as third light having a second circular polarization opposite to the first polarization. The first polarization volume holographic element is configured to receive the third light having the second circular polarization and transmit the third light having the second circular polarization.
US11243393B2
A treatment device for treating a lens included in an operational device, is disclosed. The Device may include a first segmented electrode, comprising at least two segments electrically isolated from one another, located in proximity to a first surface of the lens, wherein the first surface is to be treated by the treatment device; at least one second electrode; a distributor electrically associated with the first segmented electrode and with the at least one second electrode, and configured to distribute RF energy from a single RF generator to each of the segments of the segmented electrode separately; an RF generator for separately providing RF energy to the segments of the at least one first electrode and the at least one second electrode in an amount sufficient to generate plasma on at least a portion of the first surface of the lens, and a controller functionally associated with the distributor.
US11243389B2
A method is used for optical scanning of at least one object region placed on a transparent specimen holder. The method is as follows: for each sample lateral position of plural predefined sample lateral positions performing a focus determination by: performing laser reflection and using a first camera taking plural first images to determine a reference distance between the specimen holder and an objective lens; performing transmission flash illumination and using a second camera taking plural second images to define a focus distance taking into account the reference distance; after completing the focus determination, determining a focus distance topology across the object region based on the focus distances determined for ail sample lateral positions; and laterally moving the specimen holder and acquiring third images while focusing according to the focus distance topology.
US11243385B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a rear unit having a plurality of lens units, a distance between adjacent lens units changing during zooming. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11243381B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 2.00≤f1/f≤7.50; and −20.00≤R11/d11≤−10.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11243377B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: an aperture; a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 0.80≤f1/f≤0.90; 70.00≤f3/f≤120.00; and −450.00≤(R5+R6)/(R5−R6)≤−430.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; f3 denotes a focal length of the third lens; R5 denotes a curvature radius of an object side surface of the third lens; and R6 denotes a curvature radius of an image side surface of the third lens.
US11243375B2
An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes a lens unit including an image sensor, and configured to be rotatable about a tilt rotation axis, a rotating unit configured to be rotatable about a pan rotation axis, a non-rotating unit to which the rotating unit is rotatably attached, and a flexible printed circuit configured to connect the lens unit with the non-rotating unit. The flexible printed circuit includes an arc-shaped first portion coaxial with the pan rotation axis in a plane perpendicular to the pan rotation axis, and an arc-shaped second portion coaxial with the tilt rotation axis in a plane perpendicular to the tilt rotation axis. The first portion is bent around an axis orthogonal to the pan rotation axis.
US11243373B2
A lens barrel includes: a first ring; a second ring that switches between a first position and a second position by sliding in an optical axis direction; a plurality of biasing mechanisms that are provided on one of the first ring and the second ring, and providing adjustable biasing force in a radial direction; and a locking portion provided on the other of the first ring and the second ring on which the plurality of biasing mechanisms are not provided. The plurality of biasing mechanisms each include an elastic component having a contact portion and a biasing component that biases the elastic component. The first ring and the second ring are integrally rotatable when the contact portion contacts the locking portion which opposes the contact portion when the second ring is at the second position.
US11243359B2
A fiber optic connector and cable assembly includes a cable and a fiber optic connector. The connector has a main connector body, a ferrule, a spring for biasing the ferrule, and a spring push for retaining the spring within the main connector body. A crimp band is provided for securing the fiber optic cable to the fiber optic connector. The crimp band includes a first portion securing a cable strength member. The crimp band also includes a second portion crimped down on a jacket of the cable. The crimp band further includes an inner surface having gripping structures for gripping the strength member and/or the jacket.
US11243352B2
A photonic integrated circuit comprises an input interface adapted for receiving an optical input signal and splitting it into two distinct polarization modes and furthermore adapted for rotating the polarization of one of the modes for providing the splitted signals in a common polarization mode. The PIC also comprises a combiner adapted for combining the first mode signal and the second mode signal into a combined signal and a decohering means adapted for transforming at least one of the first mode signal and the second mode signal such that the first mode signal and the second mode signal are received by the combiner in a mutually incoherent state. A processing component for receiving and processing said combined signal is also comprised.
US11243351B2
A photonic system may include a PIC and an interposer. The PIC may include a first SiN waveguide. The interposer may include second and third SiN waveguides substantially vertically aligned with the first SiN waveguide in an overlap region of a first waveguide stack that may include the first, second, and third waveguides in the first waveguide stack. Within the overlap region, the second SiN waveguide may include vertical tapering that increases a thickness of the second SiN waveguide from an initial thickness to an increased thickness toward the first SiN waveguide. The first waveguide stack may further include a non-overlap region in which the interposer does not overlap the PIC. The non-overlap region may include the second and third SiN waveguides. Within the non-overlap region, the second SiN waveguide may maintain the increased thickness and the second and third SiN waveguides may include a first lateral bend.
US11243347B2
Disclosed herein are optical integration technologies, designs, systems and methods directed toward Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and other interferometric optical sensor, ranging, and imaging systems wherein such systems, methods and structures employ tunable optical sources, coherent detection and other structures on a single or multichip monolithic integration. In contrast to contemporary, prior-art OCT systems and structures that employ simple, miniature optical bench technology using small optical components positioned on a substrate, systems and methods according to the present disclosure employ one or more photonic integrated circuits (PICs), use swept-source techniques, and employ a widely tunable optical source(s). In another embodiment the system uses an optical photonic phased array. The phase array can be a static phased array to eliminate or augment the lens that couples light to and from a sample of interest or can be static and use a spectrally dispersive antenna and a tunable source to perform angular sweeping. The phased array can be active in 1 or 2 dimensions so as to scan the light beam in angle. The phased array can also adjust focus. The phased array can implement an optical waveform that will extend depth of field focus for imaging. The phase array can also be a separate standalone element that is fed by one or more optical fibers. The phased array can be for scanning a biomedical specimen used in conjunction with a swept-source OCT system, can be used in a free-space coherent optical communication system for beam pointing or tracking, used in LIDAR applications, or many other beam control or beam steering applications.
US11243345B2
A light source assembly includes a plurality of light source modules. Each of the light source modules includes a base, a light emitting unit and a light guide member. The light guide member has an accommodating space. The light emitting unit and the light guide member are disposed on the base and the light emitting unit is located in the accommodating space. At least one of the base and the light guide member has a first connecting structure and a second connecting structure. The first connecting structure of one of the light source modules is connected to the second connecting structure of another one of the light source modules, such that the light source modules are connected to each other to form the light source assembly.
US11243343B2
Display performance can be improved by reducing light leak in an oblique direction at the time of black display while increasing front brightness. Provided is a backlight unit including: a light collimating member in which a lens array is formed on one surface of a transparent substrate and a plurality of truncated cones are arranged on another surface of the transparent substrate; a light guide plate; and a light source, in which the truncated cone on the light collimating member has a shape in which a width decreases away from the transparent substrate in a height direction, a position of each of lenses of the lens array deviates from a position of the truncated cone corresponding to the lens to move away from the light source in a direction that connects a center of the lens and the light source most adjacent to the lens, an optical axis of the lens is arranged to pass through a slope of the truncated cone corresponding to the lens, the light guide plate and a surface of the truncated cone opposite to the transparent substrate are in contact with each other, and the shape of the truncated cone of the light collimating member satisfies specific expressions.
US11243335B2
Optical film, and optical barrier film, color conversion film and backlight unit each using the same
An optical film comprises a first transparent film substrate, a matte layer arranged on the first transparent film substrate and having irregularities, the matte layer having a coefficient of static friction of not larger than 0.3 and a maximum height roughness Rz of not less than 0.05 μm to not larger than 8 μm.
US11243327B2
The invention provides a system and method for characterising at least part of a material comprising: a source of incident X-rays (4, 28) configured to irradiate at least part of the material; one or more detectors (300,302,312,1701,1704,1600,1607,1608,1604) adapted to detect radiation emanating from within or passing through the material as a result of the irradiation by the incident radiation (1700) and thereby produce a detection signal (313); and one or more digital processors (304-311,2000-2009) configured to process the detection signal (313) to characterise at least part of the material; wherein the one or more detectors (300,302,312,1701, 1704,1600,1607,1608,1604) and one or more digital processors (304-311,2000-2009) are configured to characterise at least part of the material by performing energy resolved photon counting X-ray transmission spectroscopy analysis.
US11243324B2
The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods to evaluate formation resistivity. In one embodiment, a method to evaluate formation resistivity proximate a wellbore is provided. The methods includes receiving data indicative of resistivity measurements of a formation proximate a wellbore at different distances within a range of distances from the wellbore. The method also includes analyzing the data to determine approximate formation resistivity of the formation at different distances from the wellbore. The method further includes generating at least one curve, each indicative of an approximate formation resistivity of the formation at the different distances from the wellbore, overlaying the at least one curve on a graph indicative of the formation resistivity of the formation within the range of distances from the wellbore, and providing the at least one curve overlaid on the graph for display on a device.
US11243321B2
One embodiment includes receiving distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) data for responses associated with seismic excitations in an area of interest. The area of interest includes a sea surface, the water column, a seafloor, and a subseafloor. The seismic excitations are generated by at least one seismic source in the area of interest. The responses are detected by at least one fiber optic sensing apparatus configured for DAS that is in the water column, on the seafloor, in a wellbore drilled through the seafloor and into the subseafloor, or any combination thereof. The embodiment includes determining a function of speed of sound in water using the DAS data, and correcting a digital seismic image associated with the area of interest using the function of speed of sound in water to generate a corrected digital seismic image.
US11243319B2
Methods for separating the unknown contributions of two or more sources from a commonly acquired set of wavefield signals based on varying parameters at the firing time, location and/or depth of the individual sources in a lateral 2D plane.
US11243312B2
A device for generating one or more images of a source distribution of a gamma radiation field in the near and far field can include a detector system that includes several synchronized detectors for detecting radiation, system electronics that registers coincidence events, a data acquisition system that stores the measurement data of the coincidence events, and an analysis unit that performs an image reconstruction, which reconstructs one or more images of the source distribution of the radiation field.
US11243309B2
A ranging system includes a terminal device, a ranging apparatus, and an angle sensor disposed in the terminal device or in the ranging apparatus. The ranging apparatus includes a measuring wheel, a rotating shaft disposed on the measuring wheel, and an electronic counter connected to the rotating shaft and configured to obtain distance information, in real time, of a route which the measuring wheel has already traveled. The angle sensor is configured to obtain angle information in real time. The terminal device and the ranging apparatus are configured to transmit data between each other. The terminal device is configured to generate a traveling trajectory diagram of the measuring wheel, in real time, based on the distance information from the electronic counter and the angle information from the angle sensor, and perform optimization processing on the traveling trajectory to generate an optimized trajectory diagram.
US11243300B2
In a method for operating a fingerprint sensor including a plurality of ultrasonic transducers and a presence sensor, the presence sensor proximate the fingerprint sensor is activated, where the presence sensor is for detecting interaction between an object and the fingerprint sensor. Subsequent to detecting interaction between an object and the fingerprint sensor at the presence sensor, a subset of ultrasonic transducers of the fingerprint sensor is activated, the subset of ultrasonic transducers for determining whether the object is a human finger, where the subset of ultrasonic transducers is proximate the presence sensor such that the subset of ultrasonic transducers and the presence sensor can concurrently interact with the object.
US11243292B2
A method for calibrating a radar sensor of a vehicle includes fixing the vehicle in place on a transport; moving the vehicle along a route past a reflector for radar waves using the transport; irradiating the reflector with radar waves and receiving reflected radar waves using the radar sensor while the vehicle is moved along the route; determining a position and/or an alignment of the radar sensor relative to the reflector multiple times based on the reflected radar waves; and spatially calibrating the radar sensor based on the ascertained positions and alignments relative to the reflector by ascertaining a position and/or an alignment of the radar sensor relative to the vehicle.
US11243291B2
Disclosed according to various embodiments are a method for performing an observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA)-related operation by a terminal in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. Disclosed are a method for performing an OTDOA-related operation by a terminal, and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a first positioning signal from a first base station; receiving a second positioning signal from a second base station; measuring a first phase difference between reference signals included in the first positioning signal, and a second phase difference between reference signals included in the second positioning signal; and feeding back, to the first base station, positioning information including the difference value between the first phase difference and the second phase difference.
US11243283B1
An asymmetric electromagnet system, method, and method of producing an asymmetric electromagnet system, wherein the asymmetric electromagnet system is for generating an imaging magnetic field in an imaging region with an imaging isocentre, the imaging region being asymmetrically positioned within a gradient coil bore inside a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system during imaging, the electromagnet assembly comprising: an asymmetric gradient coil configured to generate a gradient field in the asymmetrically positioned imaging region, at least one gradient axis having the gradient field with a constant offset component such that the position at which the gradient field passes through zero is offset with respect to the imaging isocentre of the asymmetrically positioned imaging region.
US11243282B2
Various methods and systems are provided for a current trap. In one example, the current trap has a spiral core made of a nonconductive material, a coiled wire having a plurality of turns wound around the spiral core, and one or more tuning capacitors physically attached to the spiral core and electrically connected to the coiled wire to form a resonance circuitry with the coiled wire.
US11243279B2
A radio frequency (RF) antenna element with a (de)tuning system, with the RF antenna element having a resonant electrically conductive loop and a (de)tuning system including a photosensitive switching element to (de)tune the resonant electrically conductive loop. The (de)tuning system comprises an injection optical source optically coupled to the photosensitive switching element.
US11243273B2
Magnetic field components are measured at multiple longitudinal positions and used to calculate estimated longitudinal position and length of a transversely localized electric current segment flowing across a gap between conductive bodies. The apparatus can be used with a remelting furnace. The electrode and ingot act as the conductive bodies, and arcs, discharges, or slag currents are the current segments spanning the gap. Actuators for movable sensors can be coupled to the sensors in a servomechanism arrangement to move the sensors along with the moving gap. An actuator for moving one of the conductive bodies can be coupled to sensors in a servomechanism arrangement to maintain the gap distance within a selected range as the gap moves.
US11243267B2
Disclosed is a ground-wall insulation aging monitoring and locating method for a converter transformer. A neutral lead of three-phase windings on a valve side of a converter transformer is adjusted, an insulation leakage current of a certain phase winding on the valve side before aging is measured, a common-mode component and a differential-mode component in the insulation leakage current before aging are extracted, and a common-mode equivalent capacitance and a differential-mode equivalent capacitance before aging are calculated; a common-mode equivalent capacitance and a differential-mode equivalent capacitance after aging are calculated in the same way.
US11243263B2
A method for predicting time-to-failure and remaining-life of an electrical power system asset includes analyzing characteristics of the power system asset over a specified time interval; based on the analysis, associating the power system asset with a pool of similar power system assets having similar historical performance characteristics; and based on the association, calculating time-to-failure and remaining-life probability factors for the power system asset. A computer program product is also provided for carrying out the method, and the method may further include a mechanism whereby the computer program learns ways to modify and enhance the analysis of the performance characteristics to provide for higher confidence levels in time-to-failure and remaining-life probability calculations.
US11243256B2
A system and a method of diagnosing a state of a low-voltage battery, in which, in order to diagnose the state of a low-voltage battery (12V aux battery) provided at a low-voltage side, a daisy chain circuit unit receives a voltage from the low-voltage battery and outputs one or more result signals, and an isolator unit, which electrically insulates a high-voltage side and the low-voltage side, converts the outputted one or more result signals and provides the converted signals to a control unit, thereby diagnosing a state of the low-voltage battery at the low-voltage side by using the control unit provided at the high-voltage side.
US11243251B2
A test apparatus for testing electrical parameters of a target chip includes: a function generator; a switch matrix module; a plurality of source measurement units (SMUs); at least one of the SMUs is configured to provide power supply for the target chip; at least one of the SMUs is coupled to the switch matrix module; and at least two of said SMUs are test SMUs coupled to ports of the target chip and the function generator.
US11243244B2
A method of testing a semiconductor device having a DC line configured to carry either a DC signal or a DC voltage and a circuit electrically connected to the DC line includes: during a first part of a test sequence, enabling a switch device so as to electrically connect a capacitor to the DC line via the switch device and applying a test signal to the circuit while the capacitor is electrically connected to the DC line; and during a second part of the test sequence, disabling the switch device so as to electrically disconnect the capacitor from the DC line via the switch device, injecting an AC signal onto the DC line after the capacitor is electrically disconnected from the DC line, and measuring a response of the circuit to the AC signal.
US11243241B2
A noise detection circuit includes an open and close switch connected onto a signal line for transmitting a detection signal of an extraneous noise, and the open and close switch is configured so as to be in an off state during a time period when the switching of the conduction state of a solid state switch is performed by a control circuit, whereas the open and close switch is configured so as to be in an on state during a time period when the switching of the conduction state of the solid state switch is not performed. As a result, an extraneous noise occurring irregularly can be detected.
US11243239B2
A probe for measuring an electrical field includes at least three antennas, each antenna being adapted to receive a RF signal. The at least three antennas are arranged in accordance with three axes oriented perpendicularly to each other. A detection circuit is provided for each antenna, connected to the corresponding antenna for detecting an RF signal. A processing circuit is operationally connected to an output of each detection circuit for processing the detected signals and outputting a measurement result. A measurement correction mechanism is provided for correcting the measurement result based on a frequency of said electrical field and an angular position of the probe relative to said electrical field.
US11243191B2
An online HPLC dissolution test system includes a dissolution tester and a liquid chromatograph. An autosampler of the liquid chromatograph includes at least one flow vial, a sampling needle and an injection port. The flow vial is connected to the dissolution tester via a pipe and is for storing a sample solution supplied from the dissolution tester therein. The sampling needle is for collecting the sample solution by sucking from the flow vial. The injection port is for injecting the sample solution from the sampling needle into the analysis channel. The controller of the liquid chromatograph includes an immediate analyzing execution part configured to cause the autosampler to execute immediate analyzing operation for sucking the sample solution in the flow vial with the sampling needle and directly injecting the sample solution into the injection port when the sample solution is supplied from the dissolution tester to the flow vial.
US11243190B2
A photo acoustic non-destructive measurement apparatus and method for quantitatively measuring texture of a liquid. The apparatus includes a laser generating tool, an acoustic capturing device, and a data processing unit. The laser generating tool directs a laser towards a surface of a liquid contained in a container and creates pressure waves that propagate through the air and produce an acoustic signal. The acoustic capturing device records and forwards the signal to a data processing unit. The data processing unit further comprises a digital signal processing module that processes the received acoustic signal. A statistical processing module further filters the acoustic signal from the data processing unit and generates a quantitative acoustic model for texture attributes such as hardness and fracturability. The quantitative model is correlated with a qualitative texture measurement from a descriptive expert panel. Textures of liquids are quantitatively measured with the quantitative acoustic model.
US11243178B2
A method for measuring electron mobility according to the present invention, which is performed by an apparatus comprising a chamber forming a sealed space, an electron gun provided in the chamber, and a metal sample disposed opposite to the electron gun in the sealed space, comprises: an electron irradiation step of irradiating the metal sample with electrons by the electron gun; a sample current measurement step of applying a voltage to the metal sample to measure a sample current obtained in the metal sample according to the applied voltage; a secondary electron current calculation step of calculating a secondary electron current through the measured sample current; and an effective incident current definition step of defining the sum of the measured sample current and the calculated secondary electron current as an effective incident current.
US11243177B2
A diatomite product and method of using such is disclosed. The diatomite product may comprise sodium flux-calcined diatomite, wherein the diatomite product has a crystalline silica content of less than about 1 wt %, and the diatomite product has a permeability between 0.8 darcy and about 30 darcy. In some embodiments, the diatomite product may be in particulate or powdered form. This disclosure also concerns flux-calcined silica products containing low or non-detectable levels of crystalline silica. Some of these products can be further characterized by high permeabilities and a measurable content of opal-C, a hydrated form of silicon dioxide.
US11243172B2
The disclosed devices can ascertain attributes of sample materials. For example, a portable device can include a chamber that forms a reference environment for a camera device to capture an image of a sample material in an interior of the chamber. The portable device can include an opening to the interior of the chamber and a stage configured to position the sample material on a surface area and at a distance from the camera device. As such, the camera device can capture the image of the sample material at a resolution that enables ascertaining an attribute of the sample material based on a detectable physical characteristic of the sample material. The detectable physical characteristic of the sample material includes a color, size, shape, or texture.
US11243171B2
A plurality of illumination elements obliquely irradiating an inspection target region in irradiation directions different from each other and equiangularly spaced around an image capturing part in a state where each of a low-angle, intermediate-angle, and high-angle illumination parts has a different irradiation angle are sequentially turned on and off. An image of the image captured region is captured every time each of the plurality of illumination elements is turned on. A determination image generation part specifies an inspection-excluded region based on at least one of maximum luminance image data and minimum luminance image data of three types of captured image data each corresponding to an irradiation angle of each illumination part and generates determination image data for the image captured region other than the inspection-excluded region. A defect determination part determines existence of a defect based on the determination image data.
US11243167B2
Methods and systems for detecting the presence of irregularities in milk, and for assessing a health state of a lactating mammal, are provided. A sample of milk is illuminated with a light beam. Scattering data resulting from an interaction between the light beam and the sample of milk is collected. The scattering data is processed to detect the presence or absence of light scattered at a predetermined angle relative to a normal orientation, for instance to determine at least one characteristic of the sample of milk. Based on the presence or absence of light, the presence of irregularities in the sample of milk can be determined, for instance to assess the health state of the lactating mammal based on the at least one characteristic of the sample of milk.
US11243162B2
A method and an interferometric device for spectroscopically or spectrometrically examining a sample, comprising: a) generating a laser beam having a wavelength, b) splitting the laser beam into a measurement beam and a reference beam, c) interacting the sample with the measurement beam, d) interacting a reference with the reference beam, e) overlaying the measurement beam and the reference beam, f) detecting a first output beam, g) detecting a second output beam, h) forming a differential signal between the first output signal and the second output signal, i) controlling the differential signal to a predefined target value, j) determining a refractive index of the sample from the adjustment of the phase difference between the measurement beam and the reference beam, k) repeating steps a) to j) for additional wavelengths of the laser beam.
US11243157B2
One aspect relates to a soot sensor for detecting electrically conductive and/or polarizable particles, including a substrate, an electrode layer that is formed on the substrate and that includes at least two spatially separated electrodes that engage into each other. At least one cover layer is formed on the side of the electrode layer facing away from the substrate. Multiple openings are formed in the cover layer, the openings at least partially exposing a surface of one electrode of the at least two electrodes.
US11243156B2
Aspects of the invention include determining, by a first AFM tip, a first snap-off force of a solid surface immersed in a first fluid, determining, by a second AFM tip, a second snap-off force, determining, by a third AFM tip, a third snap-off force, determining, by the first AFM tip, a fourth snap-off force of a droplet of the first fluid immersed in the second fluid on the solid surface, determining, by the second AFM tip, a fifth snap-off force, determining, by the third AFM tip, a sixth snap-off force, determining a first capillary force for first AFM tip and first droplet based on first snap-off force and fourth snap-off force, determining a second capillary force for second AFM tip and first droplet and a third capillary force for third AFM tip and first droplet, and determining interfacial tension between first fluid and second fluid based on the capillary forces.
US11243153B2
A hose to be evaluated is installed on a fixing frame in a preset shape, and a strain gauge and markers are attached to a surface of the hose. During a course of application of predetermined internal pressure to the hose, strain data is acquired using the strain gauge and an image of an external shape of the hose is captured using a camera device to acquire image data. Based on the strain data and the image data acquired, a change in the shape of the hose between a plurality of time points at identical internal pressure is determined. Such hose fatigue resistance evaluation system can determine changes in the degree of deformation of a hose over time due to repeated application of internal pressure.
US11243143B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to controlling an inner effective torque or an effective torque of a drive unit via a unit controlling unit. In some embodiments, the control method may include providing desired values for the inner effective torque or the effective torque and determining actual values for the inner effective torque or the effective torque during operation of the drive unit on a test stand, and in that actuating dynamics of the drive unit are taken into account in the control by means of a transfer function by correcting the desired values of the control with the transfer function or in that for controlling the inner effective torque or the effective torque of the drive unit, a feed forward control of a manipulated variable of the drive unit is used.
US11243141B2
In this invention, a novel technique is introduced to measure chromatic dispersion (CD) in optical fibers. This technique is based on a relatively low-frequency optoelectronic oscillation (OEO) to provide fast, precise and low-cost method for CD measurement that can be implemented easily in commercial instruments. The proposed setup is implemented to measure the CD in normal single mode fibers with lengths of 40 km, 10 km, 1 km. Moreover, it is implemented to measure CD in 400 in of nonzero dispersion shifted fiber to test the system ability to resolve small chromatic delays. The proposed setup can resolve delays less than 0.1 ps/nm (which can be further improved by increasing the oscillation frequency) and measure CD with precision as low as 0.005 ps/nm.km as low as 20 seconds over a wavelength range from 1500 to 1630 nm. Further improvements may be possible by slightly better system design.
US11243133B2
A diagnostic apparatus for a fluidic actuator, in particular a fluidic valve drive, which has an actuator element displaceable into different positions (x1, x2, xp1, xp2), wherein the diagnostic apparatus is configured to provide a first break-away pressure measured value (pi1) for a first position of the actuator element. The diagnostic apparatus is further configured to determine, based on the first break-away pressure measured value (pi1) and break-away pressure reference information (pri) stored in the diagnostic apparatus, a first break-away pressure prediction value (pp1) for a first prediction position (xp1) of the actuator element, the first prediction position being different from the first position (x1).
US11243132B2
A pressure sensor includes a sensor element, an inner frame configured to receive at least a portion of the sensor element, and a housing configured to receive the inner frame therein. The inner frame is formed of a metal material and includes a printed circuit board assembly to be electrically connected to the sensor element. The housing is formed of a resin material.
US11243129B2
An electronic device includes at least one sensor configured to collect sensing data, a memory configured to store the sensing data, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire first sensing data through the at least one sensor and determine a falling pattern of the electronic device based on the first sensing data, acquire second sensing data through the at least one sensor and determine a collision pattern according to falling of the electronic device based on the second sensing data, determine the type of object with which the electronic device collides based on the falling pattern and the collision pattern, and perform a preset function based on the type of the object.
US11243128B2
A sensor includes a permanent magnet mounted on a shaft, a magnetic yoke, a magnetism collecting ring, a circuit board, and a sensor housing through which the shaft is inserted. The sensor housing has a box-shaped accommodating chamber accommodating at least the circuit board via an opening that opens in a direction crossing an axial direction of the shaft. A reinforcing member connecting two wall surfaces of the accommodating chamber that face each other in the axial direction of the shaft is provided in the accommodating chamber.
US11243125B2
Described herein is a ruggedized microelectromechanical (“MEMS”) force sensor including both piezoresistive and piezoelectric sensing elements and integrated with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (“CMOS”) circuitry on the same chip. The sensor employs piezoresistive strain gauges for static force and piezoelectric strain gauges for dynamic changes in force. Both piezoresistive and piezoelectric sensing elements are electrically connected to integrated circuits provided on the same substrate as the sensing elements. The integrated circuits can be configured to amplify, digitize, calibrate, store, and/or communicate force values electrical terminals to external circuitry.
US11243124B2
A heat flux measurement system includes a first wire, a first heat flux sensor singly provided in the middle of the first wire, a second wire including a first end connected to the first wire at a position closer to a first end of the first wire than the first heat flux sensor in which the second wire is formed of the same material as that of the first wire, a second heat flux sensor singly provided in the middle of the second wire, a first detection unit detecting a voltage between opposite ends of the first wire, and a second detection unit detecting a voltage between the first end of the first wire and a second end of the second wire.
US11243123B2
A temperature calibrator for calibrating temperature function devices has an outer and an inner housing as well as a calibrator block. The calibrator block is radially spaced from the inner housing to form a flow space. The flow space is in communication with the environment at the upper end and at the lower end to generate a flow. A fan having a fan wheel that can be driven by a motor is connected to the flow space. The fan wheel is formed from a heat-resistant material; and the fan forms a predominantly closed surface in a plan view.
US11243109B2
An ultrasonic flow meter is disclosed, including a switching unit for switching electrical transmission signals between a signal generator and at least two ultrasonic transducers and for switching electrical reception signal between the transducers and a receiver circuit, wherein the switching unit is coupled to an output terminal of an operational amplifier of the signal generator and to an inverting input terminal of an operational amplifier of the receiver circuit. Furthermore, a method for characterizing an ultrasonic transducer is disclosed, including the step of determining directly from one or more supply current signals for an active component of a signal generator one or more quantities useful for characterizing the transducer. Furthermore, a method for determining the time delay of an ultrasonic signal in a flow path of an ultrasonic flow meter is disclosed, including the step of comparing physically transmitted, delayed and received signals with simulated non-delayed signals.
US11243106B2
A physical quantity measurement device that measures a physical quantity of a fluid includes a bypass flow channel through which a fluid flows, a physical quantity detection unit for detecting a physical quantity of the fluid in the bypass flow channel, a detection unit having a detection terminal electrically connected to the physical quantity detection unit, a housing having a flow channel forming portion having an insulating property and forming a bypass flow channel and a terminal accommodating portion having an insulating property and accommodating a detection terminal, and a ground portion connecting the flow channel forming portion to a ground. A volume resistivity of the flow channel forming portion is included in the range of 1.0×1011 (1.0×10 to the 11th power) Ωcm to 1.0×1014 (1.0×10 to the 14th power) Ωcm.
US11243104B2
Disclosed is a flow meter comprising at least two measuring sensors spaced apart from each other, preferably ultrasonic sensors, whose measuring signals are reflected by a deposition-resistant reflector.
US11243094B2
A detecting device obtains a first body motion signal from a body motion sensor while a person walks with a predetermined stride, the body motion sensor being attached to a body of the person and configured to detect a body motion of the person, obtains a reference-walk-waveform from a memory, the reference-walk-waveform being generated from a second body motion signal obtained from the body motion sensor while the person walks with the predetermined stride with the body motion sensor attached to an initially attached position, compares the obtained reference-walk-waveform with a waveform of the obtained first body motion signal to determine whether an attached position of the body motion sensor is shifted from the initially attached position, and outputs a determination result.
US11243083B2
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing route generation with augmented reality. A crowd or event is analyzed and escape routes are intelligently distributed by attendee profile type or ability. Augmented Reality (AR) projections are used representing different subsets of an event population to convey the profile-specific escape routes for people to follow. The AR behavior is changed as an event situation changes.
US11243081B2
A navigation system for a dynamic platform includes an inertial navigation system (INS) unit for measuring, in real-time, linear accelerations and angular velocities of the dynamic platform, and determining, using dead reckoning, initial estimates of current poses of the dynamic platform based on a previous pose of the dynamic platform and the linear accelerations and angular velocities of the dynamic platform. The navigation system further includes an exteroceptive sensor for acquiring sequential images of an environment in which the dynamic platform is traveling, a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) unit for estimating visual odometer (VO) pose changes of the dynamic platform using the sequential images, and a sensor fusion engine for determining estimates of current poses of the dynamic platform based at least in part on the initial estimates of current poses determined by the INS unit and the VO pose changes estimated by the local sub-map tracker.
US11243077B2
A vibrating structure gyroscope includes a permanent magnet, a structure arranged in a magnetic field of the permanent magnet and arranged to vibrate under stimulation from at least one primary drive electrode and a drive system that includes: one primary drive electrode arranged at least one primary sense electrode arranged to sense motion in the vibrating structure and a drive control loop controlling the primary drive electrode dependent on the primary sense electrode. The structure also includes a compensation unit arranged to receive a signal from the drive system representative of a gain in the drive control loop and arranged to output a scale factor correction based on that signal. As the magnet degrades (e.g. naturally over time as the material ages), the magnetic field weakens. To compensate for this, the primary drive control loop will automatically increase the gain.
US11243074B2
A system and method for aligning a target to a vehicle for calibration of a sensor equipped on the vehicle includes multiple non-contact wheel alignment sensors configured for use in determining the orientation of tire and wheel assemblies of the vehicle. A target adjustment frame includes a target mount moveably mounted on a base frame, and includes multiple actuators configured to selectively move the target mount relative to the base frame, where the base frame is in a known orientation to the non-contact wheel alignment sensors. A computer system selectively actuates the actuators to position a target relative to the vehicle, with the target mount being moveable about a plurality of axes based on the determination of the orientation of the vehicle relative to the target adjustment frame to position the target relative to a sensor of the vehicle whereby the sensor is able to be calibrated using the target.
US11243073B2
An orientation characteristic measurement system includes an irradiation optical system, a detection optical system, a light detector, a rotation mechanism changing an angle (ϕ) between a surface of the sample and an optical axis (L2) of the detection optical system, and a computer, and the computer includes a rotation mechanism control unit controlling the rotation mechanism, a distribution acquisition unit normalizing an angle-dependent distribution of light intensity to acquire an angle-dependent distribution of light intensity, an area specifying unit specifying light intensity in a maximum area on the basis of the angle-dependent distribution of the light intensity, and a parameter calculation unit calculating the orientation parameter (S) on the basis of a linear relationship determined using the film thickness and refractive index of the sample and the light intensity in the maximum area.
US11243065B2
Provided is a rotation angle detection device configured to detect a rotation angle of a magnetic field generation source, based on a magnetic field in at least two directions detected by a magnetic field detection device. The rotation angle detection device includes a correction value calculation unit configured to calculate a correction value of the rotation angle; an angle output unit configured to output an angle output signal indicative of the rotation angle of the magnetic field generation source, based on a magnetic field detection signal to be output from the magnetic field detection device and the correction value; and a filter unit capable of selecting a first filter characteristic, which is to be used for outputting the angle output signal, and a second filter characteristic, which is to be used for calculating the correction value and is different from the first filter characteristic.
US11243062B2
A position measurement method includes, acquiring a sensing position of a distal end of a reference tool, measuring and acquiring a position of a machined surface, The method further includes measuring a position of a reference block disposed on a side of the tool sensor and calculating a relative position of the reference block to the sensing position from the sensing position and the position of the reference block, mounting the position measurement sensor to the main spindle and measuring a position of the reference block, calculating a length direction correction value of the position measurement sensor from the position of the reference block measured in the mounting of the position measurement sensor and the relative position, and measuring the object by the position measurement sensor and correcting a measurement position of the object.
US11243060B2
The present invention provides a primer insert for use in a polymeric ammunition cartridge includes a top surface opposite a bottom surface and a extraction flange that extends circumferentially about an outer edge of the top surface; a coupling element that extends from the bottom surface, wherein the substantially cylindrical coupling element is adapted to receive a polymer overmolding; a primer recess in the top surface that extends toward the bottom surface, wherein the primer recess comprises a recess bottom and a circular recess side wall; a primer flash aperture through the recess bottom that extends through the bottom surface, wherein the primer flash aperture is adapted to receive a polymer overmolding to form a flash hole; and a groove in the primer recess positioned around the primer flash aperture adapted to receive a polymer overmolding, wherein the groove extends at least partially over the bottom surface and at least partially over the circular recess side wall and the groove is adapted to receive polymer over the bottom surface and at least partially over the circular recess side wall.
US11243054B2
Implementations of conductive energy weapons (CEWs) may include a shock generating circuit configured to couple to a power source, two electrodes operatively coupled to the shock generating circuit, and a safety circuit operatively coupled to the shock generating circuit. The shock generating circuit may be configured to generate a first pulse train and deliver the first pulse train to a target, and may be configured to generate at least a second pulse train and deliver the at least second pulse train to a target. The safety circuit may be configured to prevent the CEW from applying pulse trains to the target after a predetermined number of pulse trains. The first pulse train may include two or more pulses having waveforms substantially identical with each other, each of the waveforms of the two or more pulses having both a positive voltage segment and a negative voltage segment.
US11243044B2
A toy projectile launcher pistol having a handle with an internal projectile storage area; at least one pair of inwardly biased resilient flaps; an air piston assembly having a barrel and a plunger element; a sliding handle coupled to the barrel, the sliding handle and barrel being movable between a forward position and a backward position; a compression spring that biases the plunger element against a rear wall in the toy projectile launcher pistol; and a latching assembly that couples the plunger element to a trigger assembly when the sliding handle is moved to the backward position, and the trigger assembly, upon toggling, releasing the coupling of the latching assembly between the plunger element and the trigger assembly.
US11243040B2
A firearm suppressor with a recoil booster may be provided. In one example, the suppressor may include a housing, a back end member coupled to the housing, and a recoil booster coupled to the back end member. The recoil booster may be configured to couple to a firearm. The recoil booster may include a coil spring, a rear cap coupled to the back end member, and a piston configured to slide relative to the rear cap. The rear cap may include a main body at least partially disposed within the back end member and including a first bearing surface to receive a first end of the spring and a flange extending forward from the main body and maintained within an inner circumference of the spring. The piston may include a second bearing surface configured to receive a second end of the spring. Additional embodiments and related methods are provided.
US11243035B1
An example grip safety interlock can include a lower receiver with a trigger assembly, a safety selector having a detent channel, a grip having an internal recess, an extended detent pin having a detent point and an interference abutment surface, a grip safety lever having an interference ledge, and a lever bias spring positioned within the grip, extending between the grip and the grip safety lever. The grip safety lever can be positioned to pivot within the internal recess of the grip, and the extended detent pin can extend within the grip such that the detent point contacts the detent channel of the safety selector. The lever bias spring can push the grip safety lever to a first pivot position such that the interference ledge of the grip safety lever abuts the interference abutment surface of the extended detent pin to prevent movement and rotation of the safety selector.
US11243034B2
A cold plate structure, wherein a thermally active region includes fins metal injection molded in a single piece with a fin base sufficiently thin so that the active region mechanically conforms to the heat generating device that the cold plate cools. The fin base is formed as a common structure with a bottom wall of the cold plate, reducing thermal resistance between the device and the fins and also enhancing mechanical flexibility. Another cold plate structure can include multiple thermally active regions, with flexible outer walls and a reduced thickness between active regions, allowing for position variation between multiple heat generation devices that are cooled by the common cold plate. A common base having multiple physically separate active regions can be metal injection molded in a single step, or bases of multiple active regions can be formed individually and joined later to form a common single cold plate structure.
US11243032B2
Heat sink devices that use a phase change material (PCM) as a heat sink material, and methods of using such devices in thermal management applications. Such a heat sink device includes a base wall, a top wall spaced apart from the base wall, and an internal structure in intimate thermal and physical contact with the base wall and the top wall. The internal structure includes multiple compartments defined and separated by fins that extend between the base and top walls. At least one PCM is within the compartments and the fins serve as thermal enhancement structures to augment the surface area to volume ratio of the heat sink device.
US11243025B2
A refrigerator includes: a cabinet; a drawer door assembly including a front panel door part and a drawer part that defines an accommodation space; a rail that movably configured to connect the drawer door assembly to the cabinet and enable the drawer door assembly to insert into and withdraw from the cabinet; a driving device located at the front panel door part and configured to provide power; and an elevation device located in the drawer part and configured to be coupled to the driving device and elevate a portion of the drawer part relative to the front panel door part. The driving device includes: a motor assembly configured to provide driving force; a screw assembly configured to perform an elevation operation based on the driving force; and a lever that connects the screw assembly to the elevation device and that is configured to rotate based on the elevation operation.
US11243024B2
The present disclosure provides a refrigerator with a lifting shelf, including a lifting shelf, a shelf driving mechanism, and a shelf stroke detection device. The shelf driving mechanism includes: a driving motor and a gear transmission mechanism, where the gear transmission mechanism includes at least one group of transmission gears, the driving motor outputs a torque through a driving output shaft, and a first pulley is disposed on the driving output shaft; a guide rail slidably connected to a support piece on the guide rail, wherein the lifting shelf is fixedly connected with the support piece; and a traction cable, where the traction cable is wound around the first pulley, and the other end of the traction cable is fixedly connected with the support piece.
US11243021B2
A refrigerator includes an insulated cabinet structure and a cooling system. A door assembly includes a perimeter structure that is movably mounted to the insulated cabinet structure and an outer door that is movably mounted to the perimeter structure whereby the outer door can be moved between open and closed positions relative to the perimeter structure when the perimeter structure is in its closed position The outer door may comprise a vacuum insulated structure including porous core material disposed in a cavity of the outer door.
US11242998B2
A radiation grill unit (1) comprises (i) a food support unit (100) with bars (110), (ii) a radiation unit (200) that includes a reflector (210) (with reflector opening (223)) hosting an IR radiation heater (220), wherein the radiation unit (200) is configured to provide IR radiation (201) in a direction of the food support unit (100), and (iii) a radiation grill unit cavity (3) configured to host a drip tray (300). The drip tray is configured in the radiation grill unit cavity below a lower part edge of the reflector and out of a line of sight of direct IR radiation from the IR radiation heater. The drip tray further comprises a drip tray face and at least one drip tray reservoir configured at a side edge of the drip tray in a location that does not receive direct IR radiation, and configured to store a lipid comprising liquid.
US11242997B2
A portable propane fuel heater assembly for heating a room with propane fuel includes a fuel tank that contains liquid propane. A supply hose is fluidly coupled to the fuel tank for receiving gaseous propane from the liquid propane. A heater is provided and the heater is positionable in a room in a building. The supply hose is fluidly coupled to the heater thereby facilitating the heater to receive the gaseous propane that gaseous propane from the liquid propane. In this way the heater can burn the gaseous propane for heating the room in the building. Additionally, the heater has an exhaust duct for venting combustion gases outwardly from the heater.
US11242984B2
The present disclosure relates to an electroluminescent lighting device having high aperture ratio. The present disclosure provides an electroluminescent light device comprising: a substrate including an emission area and a non-emission area surrounding the emission area; a power line disposed in the emission area and defining an open area; a buffer layer covering the power line; an emission element disposed in the open area on the buffer layer; a link electrode overlapping the power line on the buffer layer, and having a first end connected to the emission element and a second end connected to the power line; a passivation layer deposited within a width of the power line covering the link electrode; an emission layer covering the emission area; and a cathode layer covering the emission area on the emission layer.
US11242982B2
A lighting unit and rail type lighting device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a body part having a body plate and a first guide part disposed on the top of the body plate in a lengthwise direction of the body plate, a magnet material accommodation part disposed at an upper portion of the body part to accommodate a magnet material magnetically coupled with a rail unit; and a body-coupling part that is slide-coupled to each of both ends of the body part along the first guide part.
US11242979B2
An aurora borealis simulation device and an aurora generating method are provided, which relates to the technical field of light simulators and includes: a simulation device main body and an aurora simulation component. A projection window is provided on the simulation device main body. The aurora simulation component comprises: a light-emitting unit; a fixing frame fixedly mounted on an inner wall of the simulation device main body; a radiator arranged on the fixing frame and assembled corresponding to the light-emitting unit; a first light-transmitting component of which one part is provided on the fixing frame and the other part extends toward a side of the projection window and is located between the projection window and the light-emitting unit, and a second light-transmitting component fixedly mounted on the simulation device main body and located within the projection window.
US11242973B2
The invention relates to a motor vehicle lighting device that includes a first module with at least one first pixelated electroluminescent light source where the first module can produce a first pixelated partial high beam (HB1) having a first resolution and a first horizontal angular amplitude; and includes a second module with a second pixelated electroluminescent light source where the second module can produce a second pixelated partial high beam (HB2) having an angular amplitude smaller than that of the first pixelated partial high beam (HB1) and a resolution greater than that of the first pixelated partial high beam (HB2); the pixelated electroluminescent light sources preferably being monolithic.
US11242965B2
A lighting system configured for daylight emulation. The system includes a plurality of light sources for generating a daylight-emulating output light spectrum. The system also includes a controller for dynamically controlling at least one of the intensity, directionality and color temperature to emulate sun position for at least one of a geography and time of day. The system further includes a networking facility that facilitates data communication with at least one external resource.
US11242954B2
A nozzle-type steam trap including a venturi nozzle, an orifice nozzle, or a tunnel structure resistance nozzle minimizes the outflow of steam even when a pressure difference between a drain-water inlet and a drain-water outlet of each nozzle fluctuates, the steam trap being compatible with any usage environments and enabling maintenance and inspection to be easily performed. The nozzle-type steam trap including the venturi nozzle, the orifice nozzle, or the tunnel structure resistance nozzle includes a means for sealing the nozzle by using a drain water. The nozzle-type steam trap further includes a plurality of steam inflow ports and drain-water outflow ports and includes a closure means for determining, for a selected one of the steam inflow ports and a selected one of the drain-water outflow ports, passages of steam and drain water. More preferably, the steam trap includes a swirl flow formation means in the vicinity of the nozzle.
US11242949B1
Techniques for implementing and/or operating a system that includes a flexible pipe, which is formed into a pipe coil, and a pipe heating apparatus. The pipe heating apparatus includes a bore device to be moved to a target position within the pipe bore of the flexible pipe to facilitate isolating a segment of the flexible pipe from a remainder of the flexible pipe, one or more heating conduits connected to the bore device such that the one or more heating conduits are disposed in an upstream region of the pipe bore behind the bore device, and one or more heat sources to be connected to the bore device via the one or more heating conduits to enable the one or more heating conduits to heat the segment of the flexible pipe to facilitate unwinding the segment of the flexible pipe from the pipe coil.
US11242946B2
The invention relates to a device for passing pipes or cables through an opening in a building. Said device comprises a sleeve-like housing that has an axial passage channel that is open at its opposite ends; bristles that are mounted on the walls of the passage channel in such a way that they are opposite each other and that are extended inwards in such a way that they mesh with one another in order to close the passage channel; and flexible strips of material that are mounted in the passage channel and that are coated with an intumescent material.
US11242933B2
A valve seat is provided for use in a rotary valve for use in highly corrosive and abrasive applications. The valve seat includes a seat body adapted to selectively engage a portion of the floating ball element. The valve seat also includes a sealing element disposed in a first groove formed in the seat body and adapted to prevent fluid flow between the seat body and the valve body. The valve seat further includes a first bearing disposed in a second groove formed in the seat body, and a second bearing disposed in a third groove formed in the seat body, wherein the second and third grooves are formed immediately adjacent the first groove such that the first and second bearings are disposed immediately adjacent the sealing element.
US11242931B2
A sealing ring assembly for connection of an exhaust gas cooler to a coolant line may include a carrier ring composed of a plastic, a sealing ring composed of a sealing material connected to the carrier ring; and a heat protection element connected to the carrier ring and surrounding the carrier ring on a radial outer side defining an air gap therebetween.
US11242924B2
Provided herein is an axle assembly, including: a carrier housing defining an interior cavity; a pinion shaft rotatably supported in the carrier housing by at least one bearing; a lubricant channel disposed in the carrier housing, the lubricant channel having a first end in fluid communication with the at least one bearing and a second end in fluid communication with the interior cavity; and a lubricant controller at least partially disposed in the lubricant channel, wherein the lubricant controller includes a lubricant capture portion.
US11242913B2
A gear is provided that has excellent continuous moldability for practical use, and both high slidability and high durability. The provided gear is a molded resin constructed of a resin composition comprising a thermoplastic resin (A) and cellulose nanofibers (B) with an average fiber diameter of 1000 nm or smaller, and having a number average molecular weight of the thermoplastic resin (A) in the range of 10,000 to 150,000, wherein a sliding surface of the gear with another gear teeth has an arithmetic mean surface roughness Sa of 3.0 μm or lower.
US11242908B2
Disclosed is a self-centering viscous damper with pre-pressed ring springs. The self-centering viscous damper with pre-pressed ring springs comprises a first inner cylinder, a second inner cylinder, a third inner cylinder, an outer cylinder, a first end cover, a second end cover, a piston, a piston rod, a ring spring, a first connector, a second connector, a first linking nut, a second linking nut, a first outer cover, a second outer cover, a first end and a second end. Due to the interaction between the inner and outer cylinders, the ring springs are further pressed whether a damper is tensioned or pressed. The ring springs have been applied with pre-pressure which overcomes a frictional force and a restoring force when the ring springs are in an initial equilibrium position.
US11242906B2
Disclosed is a variable damping force shock absorber including a tube cylinder having an inner tube filled with a fluid and an outer tube, a valve housing coupled to a piston rod in the inner tube and having a connection flow path formed therein, a first piston valve coupled to the outside of the valve housing to partition the inner tube into a compression chamber and a rebound chamber, and a second piston valve provided inside the valve housing, wherein the valve housing includes a magnet provided at an upper portion thereof and connected to the piston rod, and a plunger disposed between the magnet and the second piston valve at a lower portion thereof to selectively open and close the connection flow path by a magnetic field of the magnet, and wherein the fluid passes only through the first piston valve when the plunger closes the connection flow path, and the fluid passes through the first piston valve and the second piston valve when the plunger opens the connection flow path.
US11242903B2
A brake dust cover is installed in a brake system including a rotor disposed on an inner diameter side of a rim of a wheel and a caliper interposing and holding the rotor with brake pads and includes a main body, an extension, and an opening. The main body is disposed adjacent to the rotor on an inside of the rotor in a vehicle width direction, that is disposed so as to overlap at least a part of the rotor when viewed from an axle direction, and that is disposed such that an outer circumferential edge portion thereof is separated from an inner circumferential surface of the rim. The extension extends from a part of the outer circumferential edge portion of the main body to an outer diameter side. The opening is formed in the main body, and air in a wheelhouse is introduced toward the rotor through the opening.
US11242901B2
A pad support spring includes a U-shaped portion comprising an outer peripheral surface portion, an inner peripheral surface portion and a linking surface portion. The U-shaped portion is configured to include: a pad holding portion; a cutout portion provided by cutting out a part from the linking surface portion toward the inner peripheral surface portion; a tongue piece portion which in an unassembled state has a base end formed by the cutout portion on the outer peripheral surface portion side of the pad holding portion and a distal end which projects out from an opposing surface of the inner peripheral surface portion, and which in an assembled state deforms elastically to press a brake pad in conjunction with the U-shaped portion; and a first slit portion provided by cutting out part of a first linking part.
US11242891B2
A radial bearing assembly is provided. The radial bearing assembly includes polycrystalline diamond elements, each having an engagement surface in sliding engagement with an opposing engagement surface. The opposing engagement surface includes a diamond reactive material. The radial bearing assembly may be deployed in a variety of components and applications, including in rotor and stator assemblies. Also provided are methods of use of the radial bearing assembly, as well as methods of designing the radial bearing assembly.
US11242888B2
A drive shaft coupling for connecting a rotating tube cleaning shaft to a tube cleaning machine wherein high pressure fluid is pumped through the coupling, wherein the coupling is sealed to contain the high pressure fluid, and wherein a machine driven rotary flexible shaft passes through the coupling.
US11242885B2
A multi-patch threaded fastener includes a shank having a threaded portion and two or more polymer patches disposed on the shank. The two or more polymer patches are configured to wedge against a mating threaded component to promote contact between non-patched threaded portions of the shank and the mating threaded component to resist removal from the mating threaded component. A method of making the multi-patch threaded fastener includes positioning two or more nozzles for dispensing a patch material at locations corresponding to desired patch locations on the shank, conveying the shank past two or more nozzles, and dispensing the patch material from each nozzle onto the shank to form the two or more polymer patches on the shank.
US11242879B2
A clip with a head and a shank extending along a longitudinal axis from the head in which ribs are provided, each rib extending from a base of the respective rib on the shank to an end of the respective rib radially spaced from the base of the respective rib, a rib is connected in sections directly to the head, a rib has an elastic arm which protrudes from the respective rib, a rib has a side extending between the rib base and the rib end, wherein the elastic arm of this rib protrudes from this side of the rib, an elastic arm having first and second sections, the first section being connected at one end to the rib and at its other end to the second section, the second section extending in a different direction from the first section, the first section is connected directly to the head.
US11242870B2
Disclosure herein are hydraulic systems and method of use thereof. The hydraulic systems can include a hydraulic cylinder and a manifold. The hydraulic cylinder can have a first end and a second end. The hydraulic cylinder can include a first port, a second port, and a third port. The first port can be located proximate the first end. The second port cane be located proximate the second end. The third port can be located in between the first port and the second port. The manifold can include a first valve and a second valve. The first valve can be in fluid communication with the first port and the third port. The second valve can be in fluid communication with the second port and the third port.
US11242849B1
A valve member for a valve assembly includes a body. The valve member also includes a first sealing assembly, coupled to the body at a first end, the first sealing assembly forming at least a portion of a first end strike face. The valve member further includes a second sealing assembly, coupled to the body at a second end opposite the first end, the second sealing assembly forming at least a portion of a second end strike face. The valve member also includes a guide leg assembly coupled to the body at the first end.
US11242840B2
An ocean water power-generator for generation of renewable energy.
US11242826B2
An intake manifold is provided and includes a runner that is connected between a plenum and a cylinder head to allow air introduced into the plenum to enter the cylinder head. A dent is formed at the runner such that the dent extends along a channel of the runner while having an inner surface with a protruding shape. The runner has, at an end thereof, an inner surface formed to be flat without being formed with the dent. The inner surface of the runner is connected to the cylinder head.
US11242815B2
The error diagnosis device has: an input unit that receives detected values for pressure inside the common rail; a calculation unit that, if the detected values are less than a target common rail pressure, calculates the pressure differences and the fuel pump discharge amounts; and a determination unit that determines whether or not a set time has lapsed in a state in which the pressure differences are at least a first threshold value and less than a second threshold value and the discharge amounts are at least a third threshold value and less than a fourth threshold value. The determination unit determines that an error has occurred in the high-pressure pump if the set time has lapsed and determines that an error has occurred in the flowrate adjustment valve if the set time has not lapsed.
US11242814B2
A learned neural network learned in weights using an engine load, an engine speed, and an intake pressure inside the engine intake passage downstream of the throttle valve (19) as input parameters of the neural network and using leakage of blow-by gas from a blow-by gas feed path (20) as a truth label is stored. At the time of operation of the vehicle, the learned neural network is used to detect the abnormality of leakage of blow-by gas from the blow-by gas feed path (20) from the above input parameters.
US11242813B2
Transmission shocks and idling defects such as engine racing and rough idling due to aging of a throttle opening area are prevented from occurring. An internal combustion engine control apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine that has an air flow rate sensor for measuring a rate of air represented as an actual air rate, the air flowing into a cylinder, and a throttle valve for adjusting the rate of air, includes a throttle valve controlling section for controlling a throttle opening of the throttle valve to reach a preset throttle opening set depending on a target air rate for realizing a demand torque, and a throttle opening correcting section for correcting the preset throttle opening on the basis of the target air rate upon fuel cutoff that stops a fuel from being supplied to the internal combustion engine and of an actual air rate measured by the air flow rate sensor.
US11242805B2
A turbofan engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan including an array of fan blades rotatable about an engine axis, a compressor including a first compressor section and a second compressor section, the second compressor section including a second compressor section inlet with a compressor inlet annulus area, a fan duct including a fan duct annulus area outboard of the second compressor section inlet, and a turbine having a first turbine section driving the first compressor section, a second turbine section driving the fan through an epicyclic gearbox, the second turbine section including blades and vanes, and wherein the second turbine section defines a maximum gas path radius and the fan blades define a maximum radius, and a ratio of the maximum gas path radius to the maximum radius of the fan blades is less than 0.6.
US11242801B2
Systems and methods for preventing fuel leakage in a gas turbine engine are provided. A fuel accumulation system includes a control valve section fluidly coupled to a fuel manifold passage and an accumulator valve section fluidly coupled at a first side to the control valve section. The control valve section is configured to control expansion of a fluid flowing in the fuel manifold passage. The accumulator valve section is configured to receive fluid expanded in the fuel manifold passage via the control valve section.
US11242795B2
An engine cylinder block includes a control valve and stratified layers defining a network internal to the cylinder block. The network includes a main feed line in fluid communication with the control valve, and branched and winding arterial channels extending from the main feed line with diameters that taper to define nozzles configured to spray coolant on sides of pistons carried within the cylinder block.
US11242794B2
A connector system for attaching diffusers to automotive vehicle exhaust systems which, in accordance with the characteristics thereof, provides a connector system in a specific structure of the mechanical type and based in an outlet nozzle with a groove flange, a tongue flange making the interface outlet nozzle-diffuser, an outlet connector with a tongue flange making the interface to the automotive vehicle exhaust system, a groove flange making the interface outlet connector-diffuser, and fixing clamps for the pairs of tongue-groove flanges, in order to provide complete optimization procedures to press fit and fasten the diffusers and their parts such as outlet nozzles and outlet connectors to automotive sports vehicle exhaust systems, coupled with a 360-degree double rotating system of their parts.
US11242793B2
A muffler assembly unit for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, especially in a vehicle, includes a muffler (42) with a muffler housing (10). The muffler housing (10) is elongated along a longitudinal axis of the housing. A housing jacket (40) encloses the muffler housing (10). At least one air guiding bulge (34) is provided on the housing jacket (40).
US11242788B2
A vehicle exhaust system includes a mixer assembly for a vehicle exhaust system. The mixer assembly includes a mixer housing that defines an internal cavity and which includes at least one injection opening. A manifold is positioned within the internal cavity at the injection opening. A primary injector is configured to inject fluid through the injection opening and into the internal cavity, and at least one secondary injector, which is separate from the primary injector, is configured to inject fluid into the internal cavity when operating temperatures fall below a predetermined level.
US11242786B2
The present disclosure relates to ECU for an exhaust purging system comprises: a NOx catalyst provided in an exhaust passage; and a second composite sensor detecting an air-fuel ratio in a downstream of the NOx catalyst, the ECU, which performs a routine of a purge control, calculates the sum of values of the reductant that have been supplied to the NOx catalyst since the start of the routine of the purge control, determines whether the sum is greater than or equal to an end determination threshold, determines whether the air-fuel ratio is less than or equal to a predetermined value, and ends the routine of the purge control in response to an earlier one of a first affirmative determination that the sum is greater than or equal to the end determination threshold and a second affirmative determination that the air-fuel ratio is less than or equal to the predetermined value.
US11242780B2
An actuator for a separator for separating contaminants from a fluid stream which includes entrained contaminants. The actuator is arranged to move along an actuator axis to adjust an open cross-sectional area of at least one aperture of the separator, and comprises a flexible diaphragm, and a support assembly for the flexible diaphragm. The support assembly is movable along the actuator axis carrying the flexible diaphragm and has an upper support member mounted on a lower support member. A portion of the flexible diaphragm is located between the upper and lower support members. The lower support member comprises an axially extending support portion coupled to a radially extending support portion. The upper support member comprises a diaphragm anti-inversion feature coupled to a radially extending support portion. The diaphragm anti-inversion feature extends such that it axially overlaps at least part of the axially extending support portion of the lower support member.
US11242779B1
An engine oil lubrication system includes an oil flow control baffle disposed in the sump of the oil pan. The baffle may be detachably mountable in the sump of the oil pan. The baffle may be configured to prevent oil returning to the sump from the engine from short-circuiting and flowing directly to the oil pump intake. The baffle creates a circuitous flow path which forces mixing of the returning oil before being drawn into the oil pump intake nozzle via increasing resonance time of the oil in the sump to enhance cooling. The present disclosure further provides a modular engine mounting system which extends the number of engines and vehicle chassis which can utilize a single oil pan to mount to the chassis. Interchangeable mounting flanges are provided having different bolting patterns compatible with the different chassis.
US11242771B2
A gas turbine rotor includes: a first rotor in a shaft shape extending by a predetermined length in an axial direction, and provided with an insertion hole at an end of the first rotor; a second rotor in a shaft shape extending by a predetermined length in the axial direction, and provided with an insertion part extending by a predetermined length at an end of the second rotor and corresponding to the insertion hole such that the insertion part is inserted into the insertion hole; and a connecting member mounted between the insertion hole and the insertion part to connect the first rotor and the second rotor together, and made of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient different from a thermal expansion coefficient of both the first rotor and the second rotor.
US11242756B2
A coating is applied to a base material. The coating comprises a viscoelastic layer having a surface in which cavities are formed; and a constraint layer. The viscoelastic layer is disposed on the base material, and the constraint layer is disposed on, and partially bonded, at an interface, to the viscoelastic layer over the surface in which the cavities are formed. The cavities are filled with particles configured for vibration and frictional interaction at the partially bonded interface between the partially bonded viscoelastic layer and the constraint layer. A turbine blade having an airfoil with the subject coating is also provided.
US11242755B2
Provided is a blade for an axial flow turbomachine, including: a blade profile section; an endwall having a flow path wall surface disposed at least on a hub side of the blade profile section and adapted to demarcate a part of an annular flow path of a working fluid; and a fillet disposed at the boundary between the blade profile section and the flow path wall surface. The fillet is externally shaped so as to have an arc-shaped curved surface having a radius of R as viewed in a cross-section orthogonal to the flow path wall surface and the blade surface of the blade profile section. A narrow portion existing on the flow path wall surface is configured such that the distance d between the outer edge of a projection of the blade profile section onto the flow path wall surface and the outer edge of the flow path wall surface is smaller than the maximum value of the radius R of the fillet. The upper end of the fillet is positioned lower in the narrow portion than that in a region other than the narrow portion, and the lower end of the arc-shaped curved surface coincides with the flow path wall surface along the entire circumference of the blade profile section.
US11242741B2
Management of fatigue life includes partitioning a drilling interval into sections, and calculating a stress value for each section. From the stress value, an equivalent alternative stress amplitude is calculated for each location, and a fatigue life consumption value in each section is computed. The fatigue life consumption value across the sections is aggregated to obtain an aggregated fatigue life consumption value, which is presented.
US11242740B2
A method of logging a wellbore casing and an adjacent formation comprises moving a measurement tool inside a borehole of the casing, wherein the casing is filled with air. Concurrently with moving the measurement tool inside the borehole, the method comprises emitting radioactive energy at an initial energy level from a radiation source of the measurement tool, wherein the radioactive energy is directed toward a wall of the casing and along a travel path from the radiation source to one or more detectors of the measurement tool, measuring energy loss of the radioactive energy at the one or more detectors relative to the initial energy level, and detecting a cement property outside of the casing based on the measured energy loss.
US11242719B2
A subterranean coring assembly can include a body having at least one wall that forms a cavity, wherein the cavity has a top end and a bottom end. The subterranean coring assembly can also include a first flow regulating device movably disposed within the cavity, where the first flow regulating device is configured to move from a first default position to a first position within the cavity based on first flow characteristics of fluid that flows into the top end of the cavity toward the bottom end of the cavity.
US11242713B2
The assembly includes a first arcuate tube attached to a ladder. A second arcuate tube is slidably disposed in the first arcuate tube. A lock subassembly is disposed on the first arcuate tube for limiting movement of the second arcuate tube relative to the first arcuate tube. A step lever extends along the first arcuate tube and is coupled with the lock subassembly. A first flange and a second flange each extend radially from the first arcuate tube. An actuating member defines a cam surface abutting the second flange. A bar extends through the flanges and attaches to the actuating member. The step lever attaches to the actuating member to move the actuating member and cause the cam surface to slightly deform the first arcuate tube about the second arcuate tube and engage the second arcuate tube. A foot is pivotably disposed at each end of the second arcuate tube.
US11242709B1
In an extruded window frame, engineered foam patches are attached to the window frame for delivery to the job site. In combination with a sealant bead that is applied at the job site to the perimeter of the nail fin on the window frame, the foam patches serve as weep holes. Moisture reaching the interior of the rough framed opening of the building after installation of the windows is channeled between the sealant bead and the inside of the window frame. The foam patches, applied as a spaced-apart pair to the inside surface of the nail fin are in physical contact with the sealant bead to receive channeled rainwater, which can flow by gravity to the bottom of the window frame and exit the window. The foam patches block entry of insects.
US11242708B1
A door cover system includes a removable and washable cover body having a first side edge extending to a second side edge; a top edge extending to a bottom edge; and a front surface and a back surface; a decorative pattern on the front surface of the cover body; and at least one fastener; the cover body is to cover a least a portion of a door and the fastener is to secure the cover body onto the door, and the decorative pattern may comprise but is not limited to a solid color, graphics, pictures, logos, holiday themes or any combination thereof.
US11242703B2
The disclosed concept pertains generally to electrical switching apparatus, such as circuit breakers, and more particularly, to enclosures for electrical switching apparatus and the components of the enclosures, such as latching doors and latching mechanisms.
US11242696B2
A transportable corral includes a plurality of fence panels that are hinged to each other in an end to end manner, manually releasable fence panel latches that are mounted to the fence panels and are arranged to engage and latch together adjacent fence panels so that the plurality of fence panels are able to be folded into a compact fence panel set to facilitate transport. Retractable wheel assemblies that are mounted to the fence panels to facilitate movement of a fence panel set or to facilitate the movement of an individual fence panel.
US11242695B2
A land-based drilling rig includes a first substructure and a second substructure, the second substructure being positioned generally parallel to the first substructure. The land-based drilling rig also includes a drill rig floor coupled to the first and second substructures, the drill rig floor including a V-door. The side of the drill rig floor has the V-door defining a V-door side of the drill rig floor, where the V-door side of the drill rig floor is parallel to the first substructure. The first and second substructures pivotably support the drill rig floor. The land-based drilling rig also includes a mast, the mast mechanically coupled to one or more of the first substructure, the second substructure, and the drill rig floor. The mast is pivotably coupled to one or more of the first substructure, the second substructure, and the drill rig floor by a mast pivot point. The mast includes a V-door side, the V-door side of the mast parallel to the first or second substructure. In addition, the land-based drilling rig includes a mast hydraulic lift cylinder coupled to the mast at a mast lift point and a choke manifold, the choke manifold positioned on the drill rig floor.
US11242688B2
A device for levelling tiles includes a traction member having a base which can be inserted below two or more of the tiles which are adjacent at mutual edges, and a C-shaped element extending from the base, the free ends of its wings being associated with the base. The device further includes a wedge having a surface with a serrated profile for interaction with the traction member at an edge of the core of the C-shaped element. The wedge is insertable inside the C-shaped element of the traction member between the wings thereof.
US11242682B2
A modular panel assembly for use with, e.g., a shower enclosure. The modular panel assembly includes a plurality of panels, each panel having a first side surface and a second side surface. The modular panel assembly also include a plurality of channel members, wherein each channel member is configured to be coupled to an edge portion of one or more panels. Additionally, a plurality of brackets are provided, wherein each bracket is configured to hold both the first side surface and the second side surface of two or more of the plurality of panels and an end portion of one or more of the plurality of channel members.
US11242680B2
A construction method for building a post frame building by first constructing the roof near ground level. The roof assembly can have a removeable safety net system and be coupled to a plurality of support members, such as columns having a hinge connection to the roof assembly. Upon the roof system being lifted, the hinged columns can fold under the roof system and then be coupled to one or more anchor points established in the ground. The roof system can be raised into position at a pre-determined height using a lifting apparatus, such as a hydraulic lift.
US11242669B2
Methods and systems for operating an industrial machine. One system includes a controller that includes an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to calculate an eccentricity of a center of gravity of the industrial machine with respect to a center of a bearing propelling the industrial machine and calculate a ground pressure associated with the bearing based on the eccentricity of the center of gravity. The electronic processor is also configured to set a maximum torque applied by an actuator included in the industrial machine to a value less than an available maximum torque based on the eccentricity of the center of gravity and the ground pressure.
US11242667B2
Provided is a work vehicle including a cabin and a loader work device. The work vehicle includes: a vehicle main body; a main body rear; front and rear wheels; a bucket; a lifting arm connected to the bucket to lift the bucket; a boom support connected to the lifting arm; a rear link having one end coupled to a first boom support hinge part of the boom support and an opposite end coupled to a rear hinge part of the main body rear; a boom cylinder having one end coupled to a second boom support hinge part of the boom support to rotate the boom support; and a rotation link having one end coupled to a third boom support hinge part of the boom support and an opposite end coupled to a front hinge part of the vehicle main body.
US11242662B2
Seawalls and methods for making seawalls are disclosed. A seawall may include a concrete footing, with a first plurality of anchorages disposed in the concrete footing. A plurality of precast concrete tee beams may include single-tee beams and/or double-tee beams. Flanges of the tee beams may be positioned to form seaward and landward faces of the wall, and stems of the tee beams may be coupled to the footing between the seaward and landward faces. A second plurality of anchorages may be disposed at tops of the stems. Elongate steel components extend through the stems, and are tensioned between the first plurality of anchorages and the second plurality of anchorages. Interior fill may be disposed between the seaward and landward faces. One or more wave deflectors may be disposed above the tee beams.
US11242661B2
The disclosed technology includes a device for collecting animal waste. The device can comprise a collection portion, an inner shaft, and a rotating blade assembly configured to rotate a blade to collect the waste into the collection portion. The inner shaft can be affixed to the collection portion such that the waste collector can remain upright without the assistance of the user. Furthermore, the collection portion can be configured to retain collected waste until the waste is emptied. The blade can be modified to collect different types of waste on various surfaces.
US11242655B2
Provided is a paper treatment agent in which a polyhydric alcohol as a moisturizer has been mixed, and with which paper that has a favorable texture when pressed strongly against the skin as in the case of blowing the nose or the like, suppresses the moisture absorption and moisture desorption even under the environment of high humidity or low humidity, and retains the sense of use, the moist feeling, and the softness can be obtained.
US11242652B2
A sheet having dead-fold properties, wherein said sheet comprises cellulose fibers whereof at least 75%, preferably at least 90%, or more preferably at least 95% of said cellulose fibers have a fiber length of less than 1 mm, and wherein the tensile strength ratio (MD/CD) of the film is above 1.4, preferably higher than 1.6 and most preferably higher than 1.8.
US11242647B2
Disclosed herein is a clothes treating apparatus having a movable nozzle for spraying air jets to the garment hung on one or more hangers. The clothes treating apparatus includes a main body having a garment container, a door hinged with the main body to be rotated in front of the garment container and having a display on the front side of the door, a nozzle unit having a nozzle configured to spray air to a garment contained in the garment container, a nozzle transportation unit configured to reciprocate the nozzle unit, and a hose supplying air from a fan located on the bottom of the main body to the nozzle unit, wherein a direction of transportation of the nozzle unit intersects the direction of gravity.
US11242644B2
A laundry treatment machine door assembly having a front frame and a cap element outwardly assembled to the front frame. The front frame and the cap element both comprise an irregularity which defines a handle for the door assembly.
US11242643B2
An electronic apparatus includes a main body including a nut portion; a plurality of level-adjustable foots placed at a lower side of the main body, configured to support the main body, adjustable in height to level the main body, and including a bolt portion inserted in and screw-coupled to the nut portion; and an elastic member configured to elastically press one of the bolt portion and the main body toward the main body or the level-adjustable foot to make a first thread of the bolt portion and a second thread of the nut portion corresponding to the first thread be in contact with each other.
US11242627B2
A water injection apparatus for a water jet loom, includes a weft insertion nozzle for weft insertion of a weft yarn by injection water, a weft insertion pump pumping water into the weft insertion nozzle, a water storage tank storing water introduced into the weft insertion pump, and a suction pipe passing water from the water storage tank into the weft insertion pump. The water injection apparatus includes an auxiliary water supply unit that is provided separately from the weft insertion pump and can supply water to the suction pipe. At least when the weft insertion pump sucks water, the auxiliary water supply unit supplies water to the suction pipe.
US11242626B2
A ribbon needle weaving loom including an electromechanic actuator for driving the weft thread insertion needle. A control device is provided and the actuator is configured—in co-operation with the control unit—in such manner as to allow preselection of the end position of the weft thread insertion needle at weft-insertion and of the position with retracted weft-insertion needle, and/or the starting time point of the motion of the weft-insertion needle and/or—the instantaneous speed of the motion of the weft-insertion needle, at least within a certain range. The electromechanic actuator is configured as rotary actuator or a linear actuator.
US11242624B2
A compressed growing medium or mulch fiber opener comprising at least one set of adjacent rotating members, the rotating members having a surface and including at least one wire wound around at least a portion of the surface, wherein the wire includes a plurality of projections engaging compressed or partially opened growing medium or mulch fiber, and wherein a distance between the adjacent rotating members is sufficiently small to create at least one pinch point between the adjacent rotating members, the adjacent rotating members separating the fibers as the fibers pass through the at least one pinch point so that the density of the fiber is lowered by at least 50-95%.
US11242621B2
The adhesive thread drawing processes include the steps of feeding, mixing and stirring, first drying, hot melt extrusion, first cooling, stretch extension, second cooling, winding-strands-into-roll, and second drying. The threads made by the processes are woven into fabric which has a certain level of stickiness so as to be attached onto objects without using glue and adhesive, and the fabric is flat and neat when it is attached to an object.
US11242605B1
In a system and method for separating metals from a substance comprising them, a system may comprise a constant current power supply and a furnace having a chamber for containing the substance. The furnace may comprise an insulating outer section, a chamber wall, and two electrodes.
US11242603B2
Various embodiments include an electrolysis method comprising: applying a pulsed voltage or a pulsed current between an anode and a cathode; repeatedly measuring a respective current OCP at the cathode in a zero-current state relative to a reference system; and controlling the pulsed voltage or the pulsed current so a working potential of the cathode in the current-carrying state with respect to the reference system has a defined progression relative to the respective current OCP. The defined progression includes a first phase at a cathodic level and a second phase at an anodic level.
US11242595B1
A method of forming metal nanostructures is a low temperature closed space vacuum deposition method. The method includes disposing a source material in an enclosed space at low evaporation temperatures to controllably form nanostructures of different dimensionalities on a substrate. The nanostructures have dimensionalities determined by a chosen evaporation temperature. An apparatus is also provided for performing the method.
US11242593B2
Provided is a steel for nitrocarburizing that can ensure hardened case depth by suppressing precipitation of Cr, V, and Nb in a part of the surface layer very close to the surface. The provided steel comprises: a specific chemical composition satisfying 9.5≤([Cr]/52+[V]/50.9+[Nb]/92.9+M)×103≤18.5, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; and a steel microstructure in which an area ratio of bainite phase with respect to the entire microstructure is more than 50%.
US11242585B2
An iron-based superalloy for high temperature 700° C. with coherent precipitation of cuboidal B2 nanoparticles, belongs to the field of heat-resistant stainless steel, including Fe, Cr, Ni, Al, Mo, W, Zr, B elements. C, Si, Mn, S, P, O, N are impurity elements. The weight percent (wt. %) of its alloy composition is Cr: 10.0˜12.0, Ni: 13.0˜15.0, Al: 6.0˜7.0, Mo: 2.0˜3.0, W: 0.3˜0.7, Zr: 0.03˜0.05, B: 0.004˜0.007, C≤0.02, Si≤0.20, Mn≤0.20, S≤0.01, P≤0.02, O≤0.005, N≤0.02, Fe: balance; and the atomic percent ratio of Zr/B is 1:1, the atomic percent ratio of Cr/(Mo+W) is 8:1, and the atomic percent ratio of Mo/W is 8:1. The coherent precipitation of cuboidal B2 nanoparticles in ferritic matrix through the alloy composition design.
US11242584B2
The present disclosure relates to a corrosion resistant duplex stainless steel (ferritic austenitic alloy), which is suitable for use in a plant for the production of urea and uses thereof. The disclosure also relates to objects made of the duplex stainless steel. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a method for the production of urea and to a plant for the production of urea having one or more parts made from the duplex stainless steel, and to a method of modifying an existing plant for the production of urea.
US11242579B2
A method to manufacture a hot-rolled high-strength steel sheet or strip with tensile strength of 570 MPa or higher, or preferably 780 MPa or higher, or even more preferably 980 MPa or higher, with an excellent combination of tensile elongation, SFF, and PEF strength.
US11242576B2
An optimized Gamma-prime (γ′) strengthened austenitic transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) steel comprises a composition designed and processed such that the optimized γ′ strengthened austenitic TRIP steel meets property objectives comprising a yield strength of 896 MPa (130 ksi), and an austenite stability designed to have Msσ(sh)=−40° C., wherein Msσ(sh) is a temperature for shear, and wherein the property objectives are design specifications of the optimized γ′ strengthened austenitic TRIP steel. The optimized γ′ strengthened austenitic TRIP steel is Blastalloy TRIP 130.
US11242575B2
A blast furnace control system may include a hardware processor that generates a deep learning based predictive model for forecasting hot metal temperature, where the actual measured HMT data is only available sparsely, and for example, measured at irregular interval of time. HMT data points may be imputed by interpolating the HMT measurement data. HMT gradients are computed and a model is generated to learn a relationship between state variables and the HTM gradients. HMT may be forecasted for a time point, in which no measured HMT data is available. The forecasted HMT may be transmitted to a controller coupled to a blast furnace, to trigger a control action to control a manufacturing process occurring in the blast furnace.
US11242570B2
The present invention is directed to methods for reducing cross-reactivity between species employed in multiplexed immunoassays.
US11242568B2
The present subject matter provides, inter alia, a method of diagnosing invasive ductal cancer or detecting invasive ductal cancer risk in a subject who has ductal carcinoma in situ, a method of treating breast cancer in a subject detected to have invasive ductal cancer or determined to be at risk of invasive ductal cancer, compositions for detecting invasive presence or potential in ductal carcinoma in situ in a subject, and kits including reagents and composition for detecting invasive presence or potential in ductal carcinoma in situ in a subject.
US11242564B2
The present invention relates to a method for predicting the survival time of a patient suffering from a solid cancer comprising i) determining in a tumor sample obtained from the patient the gene expression level of at least 7 genes selected from the group consisting of CCR2, CD3D, CD3E, CD3G, CD8A, CXCL10, CXCL11, GZMA, GZMB, GZMK, GZMM, IL15, IRF1, PRF1, STAT1, CD69, ICOS, CXCR3, STAT4, CCL2, and TBX21, ii) comparing every expression level determined at step i) with their predetermined reference value and iii) providing a good prognosis when all expression levels determined at step i) are higher than their predetermined reference values, or providing a bad prognosis when all expression levels determined at step i) are lower than their predetermined reference values or providing an intermediate prognosis when at least one expression level determined value is higher than its predetermined value. The method is also particularly suitable for predicting the responsiveness of the patient to a treatment.
US11242563B2
This application provides methods to differentiate between subjects with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing (TD) or developmentally delayed (DD) subjects using miRNA and/or microbiome levels detected in saliva samples and patient information. The method can be used to monitor the progress of ASD and guide its treatment. RNA-seq, qPCR, or other methods determine counts and abundance of miRNA or microbiomes. MicroRNA and/or microbiome sequencing data are refined by normalization to expression levels or abundance of time-invariant miRNAs and/or microbial RN As to control for time of sample collection or to compensate for circadian fluctuations in these levels. Multivariate logistic regression and nonlinear classification techniques are further used to select a panel of miRNAs and microbiomes that accurately differentiate between subjects with ASD, DD, and TD in subjects with an unknown ASD status. These panels of miRNAs and microbiomes may be developed into a RNA assay kit.
US11242559B2
An amount of mitochondrial DNA molecules relative to an amount of nuclear DNA molecules is determined in a biological sample, and the relative amount is used for various purposes, e.g., screening, detection, prognostication or monitoring of various physiological and pathological conditions. As examples, an amount of mitochondrial DNA can be used to estimate a concentration of DNA of a tissue type, such as a fetal DNA concentration, tumor DNA concentration, or a concentration of DNA in the biological sample derived from a non-hematopoietic tissue source. Sequencing techniques can be used to determine a mitochondrial DNA concentration in a sample for an accurate detection of a level of cancer. A level of an auto-immune disease is also determined using a relative amount of mitochondrial DNA molecules compared nuclear DNA molecules.
US11242556B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for the detection of rare mutations and copy number variations in cell free polynucleotides. Generally, the systems and methods comprise sample preparation, or the extraction and isolation of cell free polynucleotide sequences from a bodily fluid; subsequent sequencing of cell free polynucleotides by techniques known in the art; and application of bioinformatics tools to detect rare mutations and copy number variations as compared to a reference. The systems and methods also may contain a database or collection of different rare mutations or copy number variation profiles of different diseases, to be used as additional references in aiding detection of rare mutations, copy number variation profiling or general genetic profiling of a disease.
US11242552B2
A nucleic acid integrated detection method and detection reagent tube are provided, separating a lysis solution, a cleaning solution and a reaction solution in a detection reagent tube by providing a plurality of separation plugs in an over-under arrangement and disposing a hydrophobic layer in liquid or solid phase on each separation plug; adding a sample into the lysis solution; extracting nucleic acid in the sample using magnetic nanobeads; and then driving the magnetic nanobeads carrying the nucleic acid to sequentially pass through each hydrophobic layer along a magnetic bead channel and into the cleaning solution and the reaction solution to realize a cleaning and amplification for the nucleic acid, and finally, detecting the nucleic acid of the sample by an external device using an optical detection method, thus realizing a plurality of steps of nucleic acid extraction, cleaning and amplification reactions in the same detection reagent tube.
US11242535B2
The invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences, specifically introns that act as enhancers of gene expression, the promoter and terminator sequences endogenously associated with these introns. Presence of these intronic enhancer sequences in proximity to promoter sequences leads to enhancement of gene expression. Methods of finding such new intronic enhancer sequences and using them to generate transgenic plants are also described.
US11242534B1
Transgenic INHT31 soybean plants comprising modifications of the MON89788 soybean locus which provide for facile excision of the modified MON89788 transgenic locus or portions thereof, methods of making such plants, and use of such plants to facilitate breeding are disclosed.
US11242532B2
Disclosed herein are three-dimensional cage molecules, wherein the cage molecule is composed of RNA. Also disclosed is a composition including the three-dimensional cage molecule, as well as a pharmaceutical composition containing the three-dimensional cage molecule. Also disclosed herein are methods of administering a cage molecule, composition, or formulation thereof to a subject in need thereof.
US11242525B2
CRISPR/CAS-related compositions and methods for treatment of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) are disclosed.
US11242518B2
Provided are methods for isolating biomolecules, such as nucleic acids and proteins, from a sample using a silica-containing surface and/or a high salt, low pH buffer.
US11242514B2
The invention relates to an endocellulase catalytic domain comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a functionally equivalent variant of said catalytic domain that substantially maintains or improves its catalytic activity. The invention also relates to a polypeptide, a nucleic acid, an expression cassette, a vector or a host cell. Additionally, the invention relates to the use of an endocellulase catalytic domain or the polypeptide of the invention for hydrolysing cellulose, producing bioethanol or as a detergent. The invention also relates to a method for hydrolysing cellulose and for producing bioethanol.
US11242506B2
An apparatus for separating cells from microcarriers comprises a chamber having a body and a base. The chamber is configured to receive a mixture comprising cells and microcarriers. The apparatus further comprises a filtration element disposed within the chamber and coupled to the body. The filtration element is configured to filter microcarriers from the mixture. The apparatus further comprises an adjustment mechanism coupled to the chamber. The adjustment mechanism is configured for selective extension and retraction of at least a portion of the body of the chamber to move the filtration element relative to the base of the chamber.
US11242503B2
A method for dissociating cell aggregates in an agitated reactor. The method comprises providing a cell culture comprising cell aggregates in the agitated reactor, contacting the cell aggregates with a dissociation reagent, generating a dissociation force in the agitated reactor and exposing the contacted cell aggregates to the generated dissociation force under conditions sufficient to dissociate the contacted cell aggregates. The method may be used in a process for passaging cells and/or generating dissociated differentiated cells from stem and/or progenitor cells.
US11242498B2
A lubricant composition is described. The novel lubricant composition has superior thermal stability, and can reduce the need to replenish the lubricant. The lubricant composition includes at least a soap component, a thickener component, an oil component, and a spherical polyolefin component (optionally Microthene). The spherical polyolefin component includes polyolefin microparticles.
US11242493B1
A hydrocarbon material may be processed by a method that includes separating the hydrocarbon material into at least a lesser boiling point fraction, a medium boiling point fraction, and a greater boiling point fraction. The method may further include steam cracking at least a portion of the lesser boiling point fraction, catalytically cracking at least a portion of the medium boiling point fraction, and hydrocracking at least a portion of the greater boiling point fraction.
US11242488B1
A device for determining an expansion pressure and an expansion displacement generated by coking coal based on self-regulation of a spring includes a pyrolysis reactor, which is provided in a high temperature carbonization furnace. Two porous pressing plates are provided at both sides of a coal sample, and two metal filter plates are provided at both sides of the sample. Upper and lower openings of the reactor are sealed respectively with a connecting flange. The pressing plate above the sample is connected to a mounting baffle of a detection mechanism through a lightweight connecting rod and a spring. The detection mechanism is provided with a displacement sensor and a pressure sensor. This application further provides a detection method using the above device.
US11242484B2
A luminescent material can include a rare earth halide having a chemical formula of RE(1-A-B-C)HTADETBSETCXz, wherein RE is a rare earth element, HT is an element or an interstitial site that provides a hole trap, DET is a dopant that provides a relatively deep electron trap, SET is a dopant that provides a relatively shallow electron trap, X is one or more halides, each of A, B, and C has a value greater at least 0.00001 and at most 0.09, and Z has a value in a range of 2 to 4. In an embodiment, a ratio of B:C is selected so that luminescent material has good linearity performance. In another embodiment, the ratio of B:C can be in a range of 10:1 to 100:1.
US11242481B2
Provided is a thin wavelength conversion film in which a phosphor can be uniformly dispersed and deterioration of the phosphor caused by oxygen can also be prevented; and a backlight unit including the wavelength conversion film. The wavelength conversion film includes a wavelength conversion layer and a substrate, in which the wavelength conversion layer includes a binder and particles including a phosphor, an oxygen permeability coefficient of the binder is 0.01 (cc·mm)/(m2·atm) or lower, an oxygen permeability coefficient of the matrix is 10 to 1000 (cc·mm)/(m2·day·atm), and a content of the particles in the wavelength conversion layer is 3 to 30 vol %.
US11242475B2
Provided are an adhesive resin composition having high adhesiveness and high strength in acid resistance, and a laminate including the same. Provided is an adhesive resin composition including an acid-modified polyolefin resin component (A) having a weight average molecular weight of 30,000 or more and 150,000 or less, a resin component (B) having an epoxy group in a molecule, a resin component (C) having an amino group at a molecular end, and a solvent (S), in which a content of the resin component (B) is 1 part by mass or more and 30 parts by mass or less based on 100 parts by mass of the acid-modified polyolefin resin component (A), and a content of the resin component (C) is 0.5 parts by mass or more and 15 parts by mass or less based on 100 parts by mass of the acid-modified polyolefin resin component (A).
US11242469B2
The aim is to provide an adhesive tape that effectively protects an electronic construction from permeants, especially water, and that at the same time has good gap-filling qualities. To solve this problem an adhesive tape is proposed that has in the following order:—a carrier layer without barrier effect at least towards water and with a WVTR of at least 1 g/(m2*d) (38° C., 90% relative humidity, 50 μm layer thickness); —a layer comprising at least one getter material capable of sorbing at least water; —a water barrier ply; and—a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive, where the carrier layer bears an outward-facing release layer and/or the layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive is lined with a release liner which has a release layer lying on the layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive.
US11242463B2
A self-stratifying anticorrosive coating is described herein, including a zinc-rich epoxy, a curing agent chosen from the group consisting of amines, thiols, phenols, and carboxylic anhydrides, a binding agent chosen from the group consisting of aminoalkyl dialkoxysilane, dimethoxysilane, and aminoalkyl trialkoxysilane, a graphitic material, a solvent, a water scavenger, and a moisture-cured siloxane.
US11242448B2
Provided is a rubber composition for tires having low tan δ at approximately 60° C. and excellent fracture energy at approximately 25° C. Included is a rubber composition for tires, containing a rubber component including an isoprene-based rubber, the rubber composition having a correlation length Ξb of 55 nm or less as determined by fitting the following Equations 1 to 6 to a scattering intensity curve I(q) obtained by X-ray scattering analysis or neutron scattering analysis: I ( q ) = A 1 + q 2 ξ 2 + B ( 1 + q 2 Ξ b 2 ) 2 + C ( 1 + q 2 Ξ c 2 ) 2 ( Equation 1 ) ξ < Ξ b < Ξ c ( Equation 2 ) A = 8 π N a σ 2 ξ 3 ( Equation 3 ) B = 4 π N b σ 2 Ξ b 2 ( Equation 4 ) C = 4 π N c σ 2 Ξ c 2 ( Equation 5 ) q = 4 π sin θ 2 λ ( Equation 6 ) A , B , C , ξ , Ξ b , Ξ c : fitting parameter q : scattering vector N a : number per unit volume ( number / cm 3 ) of scatterers having a correlation length ξ N b : number per unit volume ( number / cm 3 ) of scatterers having a correlation length Ξ b N c : number per unit volume ( number / cm 3 ) of scatterers having a correlation length Ξ c σ : electron density difference ( electron · ( cm - 3 ) ) between scatterers and the surrounding matrix , or scattering length density difference ( cm - 2 ) between scatterers and the surrounding deuterated solvent θ : scattering angle λ : wavelength of X rays or neutrons .
US11242447B2
A rubber compound for making a pneumatic tyre structural component comprising a cross-linkable unsaturated-chain polymer base, a reinforcing filler, a thermosetting resin and a vulcanization system. The thermosetting resin comprises functionalized lignin with —OR groups wherein R is an alkyne group with a number of carbon atoms of between (3) and (18).
US11242439B2
A foam duct has a superior cushioning property. The foam duct includes a tube portion; while the tube portion has a cell deformation ratio in a circumferential direction of 0.3 or lower, and a cell anisotropy of 0.6 to 1.6.
US11242435B2
An elastomeric article having a rubber component comprising polyisoprene and an aldehyde aniline condensate, the elastomeric article having less than 1 ppm diisopropyl xanthogen polysulfide residue.
US11242432B2
The invention provides: imidazole and imidazolium compounds of formulas (I) and (II): polymers containing a plurality of imidazolium-containing repeating units of formula (III′): and membranes and devices comprising the polymers. Also provided are methods of making the inventive compounds and polymers.
US11242430B2
A crosslinking composition includes a compound having at least two functional groups that are each independently represented by Chemical Structure (I): X is an oxygen, sulfur, or nitrogen; R1 is an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an alkylaryl group; R2, R3, and R4 are each independently an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylaryl group, or a hydrogen; R5 is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylaryl group, or a hydrogen; z is 0 when X is oxygen or sulfur and z is 1 when X is nitrogen; and when a double bond is formed between a carbon atom bonded to R3 and an adjacent nitrogen, m is 0, and when a single bond is formed between the carbon atom bonded to R3 and the adjacent nitrogen, m is 1.
US11242428B2
Hydroxyaldimines of formula (I), their reaction products, in particular products of their reaction with polyisocyanates, and compositions including isocyanate groups and containing such reaction products. The hydroxyaldimine permits compositions which have good storage stability, a long open time, low odour, rapid, bubble-free curing and good mechanical properties, and which are not susceptible to plasticizer migration and have a particularly low content of monomeric diisocyanates. In particular, it permits reactive hot-melt adhesives with a particularly good workability.
US11242427B2
An adhesive composition is disclosed. The adhesive composition comprises an epoxy-containing component; rubber particles having a core-shell structure; and a curing component comprising a mixture of an amine-containing compound substantially free of hydroxyl functional groups and a polymeric phenol-containing compound, wherein the amine-containing compound comprises primary and/or secondary amino groups, and wherein the curing component chemically reacts with the epoxy-containing component upon activation from an external energy source. Also disclosed are methods of preparing the adhesive composition and for forming a bonded substrate with the adhesive composition. Further disclosed are curing components for an adhesive composition and methods of making the curing components.
US11242423B2
The present invention relates to a surface sizing composition comprising a metal salt, wherein the metal has at least 3 valence electrons, and an aqueous polymer dispersion, wherein the aqueous polymer dispersion is an aqueous polymer dispersion (A) obtainable by free radical emulsion copolymerizing a first ethylenically unsaturated monomer blend comprising (a) 0 to 75% by weight of at least one optionally substituted styrene, (b) 15 to 100% by weight of at least one C1-C4-alkyl (meth)acrylate, and (c) 0 to 10% by weight of other ethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable monomers, wherein the sum (a)+(b)+(c) is 100%, in the presence of a water-soluble redox system comprising a first free radical initiator for the free radical emulsion copolymerization and an aqueous prepolymer composition (B) obtainable by free radical emulsion copolymerizing in a polymerization solvent comprising C1-6-carboxylic acid and C1-6-carboxylic acid anhydride, a second ethylenically unsaturated monomer blend comprising (i) 5 to 50% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated quaternary amine selected from quaternary salt of N,N,N-tri(C1-4-alkyl)amino C1-4-alkyl(meth)acrylate with a mineral acid or an organic acid and/or quaternary salt of N,N,N-tri(C1-4-alkyl)amino C1-4-alkyl(meth)acrylamide with a mineral acid or an organic acid, (ii) 0 to 40%, preferably 0%, by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated tertiary amine selected from N,N-di(C1-4-alkyl)amino C1-4-alkyl(meth)acrylate and/or N,N-di(C1-4-alkyl)amino C1-4-alkyl(meth)acrylamide, (iii) 10 to 95% by weight of at least one optionally substituted styrene, (iv) 0 to 50% by weight of at least one C1-C4-alkyl (meth)acrylate, and (v) 0 to 10% by weight of other ethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable monomers, wherein the sum (i)+(ii)+(iii)+(iv)+(v) is 100%, in the presence of a second free radical initiator, and adding water to the obtained polymer dispersion to obtain the aqueous prepolymer composition. The present invention further relates to production thereof and use on cellulosic materials.
US11242422B2
The invention provides a process to form an olefin-based polymer, said process comprising polymerizing at least one olefin in the presence of at least one catalyst system comprising the reaction product of the following: A) at least one cocatalyst; and B) a procatalyst comprising a metal-ligand complex of Formula (I), as described herein:
US11242420B2
A method for producing a fluorosulfonyl group-containing compound to obtain a compound represented by the following formula 5 from a compound represented by the following formula 1 as a starting material and a method for producing a fluorosulfonyl group-containing monomer in which the fluorosulfonyl group-containing compound is used: wherein R1 and R2 are a C1-3 alkylene group, and RF1 and RF2 are a C1-3 perfluoroalkylene group.
US11242413B2
A method for the control of a plant (10) for the production in continuous of a polymer, wherein the plant (10) comprises at least one reactor (11) fed with at least a first monomer and a second monomer, a first stripper (12), a second stripper (17), a third stripper (18), at least one recycling vat (13) of the fine products, measurement equipment (14) and a control system comprising distributed control devices (15) controllable by at least one electronic processing and control unit (16) based on a plurality of control variables, the control method comprising the following steps: collecting data comprising recipe parameters, laboratory analysis results and predefined coefficients stored in a database (40); collecting the data measured by the measurement equipment (14); determining, by means of a first calculation module (20) a production potentiality value of the at least one reactor (11); determining, by means of a second calculation module (21) the polymer concentration in the at least one reactor (11), in the first stripper (12) and in the at least one recycling vat of the fine products (13); determining, by means of a third calculation module (22) the flow-rate of oil for feeding the second stripper (17); determining, by means of a fourth calculation module (23), the flow-rate of the chain terminator (TERM) for feeding the at least one reactor (11), controlling the plant (10) on the basis of the plurality of control variables.
US11242410B1
The invention is directed to a simple and economical method for producing nanocrystalline cellulose from microcrystalline cellulose by contacting frozen concentrated sulfuric acid with microcrystalline cellulose, diluting the mixture in water and hair-shaped ice to hydrolyze the microcrystalline cellulose, and separating the NCC. Another aspect of the invention pertains to an apparatus for conducting this method which includes an acid resistant hydrolysis container having a cooling jacket containing a hollow stirrer each of which may be filled with liquid nitrogen.
US11242408B2
The present invention concerns an ex vivo method for the monitoring of apoptosis which is based on the detection of free gamma-glutamyl-L-epsilon-Lysine (GGEL) in a biological sample of a subject with a monoclonal antibody specific to GGEL. The invention also relates to the monoclonal antibody specific to GGEL, as well as to diagnostic kits containing such a ligand.
US11242405B2
Antigen binding proteins specific for an HLA-A2 restricted Ras peptide are disclosed. The antigen binding proteins encompass antibodies in a variety of forms, including full-length antibodies, substantially intact antibodies, Fab fragments, F(ab′)2 fragments, and single chain Fv fragments. Fusion proteins, such as scFv fusions with immunoglobulin or T-cell receptor domains, and bispecific antibodies incorporating the specificity of the antigen binding region for each peptide are also contemplated by the disclosure. Furthermore, immunoconjugates may include antibodies to which is linked a radioisotope, fluorescent or other detectable marker, cytotoxin, or other molecule are also encompassed by the disclosure. Among other things, immunoconjugates can be used for delivery of an agent to elicit a therapeutic effect or to facilitate an immune effector function.
US11242403B2
Presented herein, in certain embodiments, are compositions comprising binding agents that specifically bind to syndecan-1 and uses thereof.
US11242398B2
This application provides, inter alia, antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof, targeting OX40 expressed on injured tissues associated with multiple diseases. These OX40 antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, have a high affinity for OX40 and function as OX40 agonists or as OX40/OX40L antagonists. The antibodies and antigen-binding fragments are useful for treatment of human diseases, infections, and other conditions.
US11242395B2
The present disclosure provides antibodies that bind to human CD137 or antigen binding fragments thereof, nucleic acid encoding the same, therapeutic compositions thereof, and their use to enhance T-cell function to upregulate cell-mediated immune responses and for the treatment of T cell dysfunctional disorders, such as tumor immunity, and for the treatment of cancer.
US11242386B2
A chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) that binds to CEACAM6, an epitope or fragment thereof, or a variant thereof.
US11242369B1
Described herein are proteins comprising an ankyrin repeat domain having an N-terminal capping module with improved properties, as well as corresponding protein libraries, pharmaceutical compositions and nucleic acids encoding such proteins. In other aspects, the disclosure relates to methods using such proteins, corresponding protein libraries or pharmaceutical compositions.
US11242368B2
Methods and compositions for rapidly replacing cMyBP-C in sarcomeres featuring the creation of Spy-C mice, which are mice genetically engineered to express cMyBP-C with a protease recognition site and SpyTag peptide introduced into the cMyBP-C gene. In permeabilized myocytes from the Spy-C mice, the cMyBP-C protein can be cleaved at the protease recognition site, and the N-Terminus of cMyBP-C can be removed while the C-terminus remains anchored to the thick filament. A new peptide featuring the SpyCatcher sequence can be covalently bonded to the remaining portion of cMyBP-C, thereby creating a modified cMyBP-C protein. The methods and compositions of the present invention allow for the reconstitution of full-length cMyBP-C at the precise position of native cMyBP-C in the sarcomere and allow for a variety of modifications to be introduced to cMyBP-C in situ.
US11242365B2
The present invention provides FOXM1-derived epitope peptides having the ability to induce cytotoxic T cells. The present invention further provides polynucleotides encoding the peptides, antigen-presenting cells presenting the peptides, and cytotoxic T cells targeting the peptides, as well as methods of inducing the antigen-presenting cells or CTLs. The present invention also provides compositions and pharmaceutical compositions containing them as an active ingredient. Further, the present invention provides methods of treating and/or preventing cancer, and/or preventing postoperative recurrence thereof, using the peptides, polynucleotides, antigen-presenting cells, cytotoxic T cells or pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention. Methods of inducing an immune response against cancer are also provided.
US11242356B2
The present invention relates to novel modified macrocyclic compounds with improved tolerability of general formula (I) as described and defined herein, and methods for their preparation, their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of disorders, in particular of hyper-proliferative disorders and/or virally induced infectious diseases and/or of cardiovascular diseases. The invention further relates to intermediate compounds useful in the preparation of said compounds of general formula (I).
US11242351B2
The present application relates to compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates and/or prodrugs thereof, to compositions comprising these compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates and/or prodrugs thereof, and various uses in the treatment of diseases, disorders or conditions that are treatable by inhibiting interactions with BCL6 BTB, such as cancer.
US11242344B2
The present disclosure relates to bifunctional compounds, which can be used as modulators of targeted ubiquitination. In particular, the present disclosure is directed to compounds which contain on one end a VHL ligand moiety, which binds to the VHL E3 ubiquitin ligase, and on the other end a moiety that binds a target protein such that degradation of the target protein/polypeptide is effectuated. Also disclosed are VHL ligands.
US11242330B1
Provided herein are methods for converting CBD to a product mixture comprising Δ8-THC, Δ9-THC, or a combination thereof. The methods provided herein may comprise one or more of (1) a contacting step wherein a starting material comprising CBD, a carboxylic acid catalyst, and optionally a solvent are added to a reaction vessel, thereby forming a reaction mixture; (2) a conversion step wherein at least a portion of the CBD is converted to THC, thereby forming a product mixture; and (3) optionally, a separation step wherein at least a portion of the carboxylic acid catalyst is removed from the product mixture. In preferred embodiments, the methods utilize a carboxylic acid that is commonly used as a food additive and is generally recognized as safe for human consumption. The methods provided herein do not require the use of catalysts or other reagents that are hazardous to human health.
US11242328B1
Provided herein are methods for converting CBD to a product mixture comprising Δ8-THC, Δ9-THC, or a combination thereof. The methods provided herein may comprise one or more of (1) a contacting step wherein a starting material comprising CBD, a catalyst comprising an iron (III) salt, and optionally a solvent are added to a reaction vessel, thereby forming a reaction mixture; (2) a conversion step wherein at least a portion of the CBD is converted to THC, thereby forming a product mixture; and (3) optionally, a separation step wherein at least a portion of the catalyst is removed from the product mixture. Advantageously, the methods utilize a catalyst comprising iron (III) sulfate, which is commonly used as a food additive and is generally recognized as safe for human consumption, and do not require the use of catalysts or other reagents that are hazardous to human health.
US11242326B2
Abnormally long r(CUG)n repeat expansion is believed to be the major cause of Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) because it binds to muscleblind-like 1 (MBNL 1) protein which regulates RNA splicing, leading to the mis-splicing of more than 100 pre-mRNAs. The rational design of oligomers with alternating bisamidine and melamine structure resulted in good binding affinity to the RNA target because of a multivalent effect. The oligomers also showed excellent activity in disrupting nuclear foci, reversing the mis-splicing of IR minigene, and sabotaging the toxic RNA biosynthesis. Excellent activity in Drosophila based DM1 models was also observed for the oligomers, rescuing the climbing ability of the flies upon oral treatment.
US11242322B2
Methods for producing triflazoles or related derivatives thereof, and the resulting products are provided. For example, triflazoles can be prepared by reaction of trifluoromethanesulfonyl fluoride with an azole or azolate salt. Yields up to 78% are obtained. Triflazoles can be prepared by the reaction of a trifluoromethanesulfonyl fluoride with an N-silylazole in the presence of a basic catalyst. Yields up to 97% are obtained.
US11242317B2
Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention comprise EBNA1 inhibitors useful for the treatment of diseases caused by EBNA1 activity such as cancer, infectious mononucleosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention also comprise EBNA1 inhibitors useful for the treatment of diseases caused by latent Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infection. Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention also comprise EBNA1 inhibitors useful for the treatment of diseases caused by lytic Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infection.
US11242316B2
A method for manufacturing 2-hydroxy-4-(methylthio)butyric acid (HMTBA) from 2-hydroxy-4-methylthio-butyronitrile (HMTBN), where HMTBN is hydrolyzed into HMTBA in the presence of a mineral acid in an aqueous medium, the medium is neutralized by addition of a base, a first phase including at least HMTBA and salts and a second phase containing salts are separated, the method including the separation of the HMTBA from the salts of the first phase, by subjecting the latter to a chromatography.
US11242297B2
Embodiments of processes and multiple-stage catalyst systems for producing propylene comprising introducing a hydrocarbon stream comprising 2-butene to an isomerization catalyst zone to isomerize the 2-butene to 1-butene, passing the 2-butene and 1-butene to a metathesis catalyst zone to cross-metathesize the 2-butene and 1-butene into a metathesis product stream comprising propylene and C4-C6 olefins, and cracking the metathesis product stream in a catalyst cracking zone to produce propylene. The isomerization catalyst zone comprises a silica-alumina catalyst with a ratio by weight of alumina to silica from 1:99 to 20:80. The metathesis catalyst comprises a mesoporous silica catalyst support impregnated with metal oxide. The catalyst cracking zone comprises a mordenite framework inverted (MFI) structured silica catalyst.
US11242295B2
The present invention provides a particle and a composition for e.g., hypergolic ignition of rocket propellant. The disclosed particle and the composition comprise an energetic fuel additive and an ignition agent wherein the ignition agent is deposited on a surface of the particle.
US11242286B2
The invention comprises a composition comprising hyaloclastite having a volume-based mean particle size of less than or equal to 40 μm. The invention also comprises a cementitious material comprising a hydraulic cement and hyaloclastite, wherein the hyaloclastite has a volume-based mean particle size of less than or equal to approximately 40 μm. The invention further comprises a cementitious-based material comprising aggregate, a cementitious material comprising a hydraulic cement and hyaloclastite, wherein the hyaloclastite has a volume-based mean particle size of less than or equal to approximately 40 μm and water sufficient to hydrate the cementitious material. A method of using the composition of the present invention is also disclosed.
US11242284B2
A microfabrication method is provided with which it is possible to easily form a fine periodic structure on a surface of any substrate. A glass precursor is applied to a substrate, and the glass precursor is irradiated with short-pulse laser light. By the irradiation with short-pulse laser light, the glass precursor is activated to undergo a thermal reaction, and a fine periodic structure can be easily formed on the surface. Furthermore, by oxidizing the substrate on which the fine periodic structure has been formed, the hue of the surface can be improved while maintaining the fine periodic structure.
US11242283B2
An article of transparent and brittle material, such as glass, glass ceramic, ceramic or crystals. The article includes at least one exchange layer and at least one bulk layer. The at least one exchange layer includes at least one kind of cation ionI with an increased proportion compared to the at least one bulk layer and at least one kind of cation ionR with a reduced proportion compared to the at least one bulk layer. The article is in particularly used as a display cover for flexible displays or flexible protective foils, for example in smartphones or tablets or TV sets. The article can also be used as a substrate for an electronic component such as an OLED or LED.
US11242281B2
The invention relates to a glass substrate for chemical strengthening where a surface is coated by magnetron sputtering with a temporary thin film that reduces the extent of ion exchange upon chemical strengthening and where the temporary thin film can be removed after the chemical strengthening by treatment with an etchant solution. Other embodiments relate to a method for making a chemically strengthened glass substrate with controlled curvature comprising: providing a substrate with opposed surfaces that are durable to a given etchant solution, forming a temporary thin film upon at least part of a surface of the glass substrate, chemically strengthening the glass substrate bearing the temporary thin film, and removing the temporary thin film after said chemical strengthening with said etchant solution. The thickness of the temporary thin film is chosen such that a controlled curvature is obtained upon chemical strengthening.
US11242272B2
A continuous flow wastewater treatment system is disclosed. The system can include a main processing circuit comprising an anoxic entry zone and an aerobic exit zone. The system can include a granule-producing sidestream incubator. The sidestream incubator can include an inlet that receives a first portion of return activated sludge (RAS) processed by the aerobic exit zone, a sidestream anoxic zone, and a sidestream anaerobic zone that cooperate to process the first portion of RAS. The sidestream incubator can include an outlet that delivers the processed first portion of RAS to the anoxic entry zone. The sidestream incubator can include a RAS bypass pathway that bypasses the granule-producing sidestream incubator to deliver a second portion of RAS processed by the aerobic exit zone to the anoxic entry zone. In some embodiments, the RAS and/or other fermentate can be step-fed into the sidestream incubator.
US11242267B1
A fluid treatment apparatus includes a ferrite assembly, a driver, and an oscillator circuit. The ferrite assembly is arranged in use to be capable of surrounding a conduit containing fluid to be acted on. The driver is arranged to generate a pulsed current to which the ferrite assembly is subjected whereby the driver is electromagnetically coupled to the ferrite assembly. The oscillator circuit is electromagnetically coupled to the ferrite assembly, and in response to the pulse generated by the driver, causes an oscillating signal to be generated which gives rise to an electromagnetic field which acts on the fluid in the conduit.
US11242263B2
Bandgap-tunable perovskite compositions are provided having the formula CsPb(AxBy)3, wherein A and B are each a halogen. The mixed halide perovskite composition has a morphology which suppresses phase segregation to stabilize a tuned bandgap of the mixed halide perovskite composition. For example, the perovskite may be in the form of nanocrystals embedded in a non-perovskite matrix, which, for example, may have the formula Cs4Pb(AxBy)6, wherein A and B are each a halogen. Solar cells and light-emitting diodes comprising the mixed perovskite compositions are also provided.
US11242258B1
A method for manufacturing porous silicon can include reducing unpurified silica in the presence of a reducing agent to prepare a porous silicon material. The method of manufacture can optionally include purifying a silica, exposing the silica to reaction modifiers, purifying the mixture of the silica and reaction modifiers, comminuting the silica, purifying the silicon, coating the silicon, post-processing the silicon, and/or any suitable steps.
US11242248B2
Methods, kits, cartridges, and compounds related to generating chlorine dioxide by exposing ClO2− to at least one of an iron porphyrin catalyst or an iron porphyrazine catalyst are described.
US11242242B2
A microfluidic MEMS device is formed by a plurality of ejection cells each having a fluid chamber; an actuator chamber; a membrane having a first surface facing the actuator chamber and a second surface facing the fluid chamber; a piezoelectric actuator on the first surface of the membrane; and a passivation layer on the piezoelectric actuator. The membrane has an elongated area defining a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction. The passivation layer has a plurality of holes. The holes extend throughout the thickness of the passivation layer and, in a plan view, have an elongated shape with a greater dimension parallel to the longitudinal direction of the membrane and a smaller dimension parallel to the transverse direction.
US11242235B2
A gripping assembly for a capping head for applying caps on containers, as well as a capping head, are provided. The gripping assembly comprises a hollow body longitudinally extending along a vertical axis and internally defining a seat delimited at its lower end by an inlet mouth for the introduction of a cap. An ejector member is housed inside the hollow body such that the ejector member is free to slide axially. The gripping assembly further comprises a suspension member made of magnetic material or magnetizable material, and the ejector member carries a first magnetic element that interacts with the suspension member to determine a suspension condition of the ejector member. The magnetic interaction between the first magnetic element and the suspension member is such that the suspension condition is determined only when the ejector member is brought in close proximity of or, in contact with, the suspension member.
US11242233B2
A method is provided for alerting a person near a vehicle when said vehicle performs a movement. The vehicle is equipped with at least two speakers configured to emit sound alarms in opposite directions and each speaker that is oriented in the direction of the movement emits a first sound alarm, while each other speaker emits no sound or a second sound alarm that is different from the first sound alarm.
US11242231B1
An apparatus for conveying delivered items into a building envelope translocates deliveries from a designated receiving area exterior to a building envelope via secure passage onto a deposit area locatable interior to the building envelope. Deposit of an item upon the receiving area signals presence of the delivery. The apparatus is operable automatically via command instantiated in circuit and/or over network in response to the signal.
US11242230B2
A mine explosion-isolating hoisting device with a built-in type permanent magnet motor includes a spindle fixed on the ground; a permanent magnet motor stator fixed on the spindle; a drum rotating relative to the spindle, the drum surrounding the spindle circumferentially; and a permanent magnet motor external rotor fixed by a spoke plate and rotating relative to the spindle; the drum is connected to the permanent magnet motor external rotor via an isolating disc; and a radial distance between an outer circumferential surface of the permanent magnet motor external rotor and an inner wall of the drum is greater than a preset value.
US11242229B2
An arrangement of a gantry lifting device for handling containers, in particular ISO containers, having a sensor device for the navigation of the gantry lifting device and having a clearance profile which is formed such that the gantry lifting device can move across a container, and of a row of spaced-apart marking elements such that the gantry lifting device can be moved along the row of marking elements by means of raster navigation, where the row of marking elements can be read by the sensor device of the gantry lifting device. The sensor device, in an operating position, is arranged outside the clearance profile on the gantry lifting device so as, in the operating position, to read the row of marking elements for the navigation of the gantry lifting device, where the row of marking elements is arranged next to the clearance profile of the gantry lifting device.
US11242226B2
Embodiments include techniques for operating an elevator safety control system and method. The techniques include charging one or more portions of an elevator system, the elevator system includes an elevator door and elevator frame, and monitoring a charge on the one or more portions of the elevator system. In addition, the techniques include detecting a change in the charge on the one or more portions of the elevator system, and responsive to the detection, controlling an operation of the elevator door.
US11242224B2
Provided is an elevator door device including: a rail that is disposed above an entrance; an opening and closing part of the entrance; and a locking mechanism that locks the opening and closing part. The locking mechanism includes: an engaging part including an engaging body that changes its position between a releasing position and an engaging position in association with the opening and closing of the opening and closing part; and an engaged part including an engaged body engaged with the engaging body at the engaging position. The engaged part is disposed in an area between the rail and the entrance, and overlaps with the rail as seen in plan view in the area. The opening and closing part has such a shape as to be able to open and close without abutting on the engaged part.
US11242223B2
A safety gear system for an elevator has a main static mass, an auxiliary static mass and a dynamically changing mass, wherein the dynamically changing mass changes in accordance with the travel of the main static mass. The safety gear system includes at least one first safety gear which is configured to brake the auxiliary static mass by a constant braking force, and at least one second safety gear which is configured to brake the main static mass and the dynamically changing mass by an adjustable brake force which is adjustable in accordance with the change of the dynamically changing mass.
US11242217B1
Techniques for implementing and/or operating a system that includes a pipe drum, which has a drum shaft and a drum body that enables a pipe segment to be spooled on the pipe drum, and pipe deployment equipment. The pipe deployment equipment includes a brake disc, which has a shaft socket that is keyed to matingly interlock with the drum shaft to facilitate tying rotation of the pipe drum with rotation of the brake disc, and a spooling assembly that includes a motor shaft, in which the spooling assembly ties rotation of the motor shaft with the rotation of the brake disc to enable the pipe deployment equipment to actively rotate the brake disc in a first direction to facilitate spooling the pipe segment off of the pipe drum, to actively rotate the brake disc in a second direction to facilitate spooling the pipe segment onto the pipe drum, or both.
US11242213B2
A sheet feeding device includes a feeder, a contact member, a movement restricting member, a moving mechanism, and control circuitry. The feeder is configured to feed a sheet. A leading end of the sheet in a feeding direction is to contact the contact member. The movement restricting member is configured to lock the contact member to restrict movement of the contact member from a contact position where the contact member contacts the sheet. The moving mechanism is configured to move the movement restricting member between a locking position and a lock releasing position. The contact member is configured to take the contact position by gravity or a biasing force of a biasing part. The control circuitry is configured to control the moving mechanism to move the movement restricting member to the lock releasing position and then to the locking position when a feeding operation of the sheet is finished.
US11242211B2
A single robot of a two-lane bin packing system has an end of arm tool (EOAT) that interfaces with two infeed lines and two bins on an ongoing basis so that the robot can pick a group of bags from a first bag group staging area on the first infeed line while a group of bags is being formed in a second bag group staging area by the second infeed line. In addition, by interfacing with two separate bins, one bin can be filled while another, full bin is being replaced with an empty bin. The EOAT thus operates constantly. The bag groups can be formed in layers by discharging bags on a reciprocating shuttle of a pick table assembly.
US11242210B1
A conveyor belt cleaner system comprising a platen positioned transversely of the conveyor belt; a steam chamber transversely disposed over a first portion of the conveyor belt, the steam chamber including a tubular steam header; a vacuum chamber adjacent the steam chamber and disposed over a second portion of the conveyor belt, the vacuum chamber having an outlet connectable to a source of vacuum; a first wiper in wiping contact with the conveyor belt defining an entrance to the steam chamber; a second wiper having a discontinuous wiping surface defining a septum between the vacuum and steam chambers; a third wiper defining an exit from the vacuum chamber; and apparatus including a rotatable bolt cooperative with the steam header to vary the width of steam application from the steam header onto the conveyor belt in accordance with a width of conveyor belt presented to the conveyor belt cleaner system.
US11242195B2
A capsule for the preparation of a beverage in a beverage preparation device having a flange partially made of paper and partially made of polymer so as to improve the inside tightness of the capsule, such as to prevent air enters inside the capsule via folds and creases, is disclosed. Methods of producing and using the capsule are also disclosed.
US11242193B2
A housing unit for cigars with the main compartment having a cuboid shape. The cigar box has a rear wall having a height equal to a front wall, a bottom floor, a left-side wall having a height equal to a right-side wall and a two-part lid located on a top of the main compartment. The two-part lid has a rectangular portion hingably connected to a second rectangular portion with a first hinge that hingably connects the first rectangular portion with the second rectangular portion so that the first rectangular portion rotates about 180 degrees with respect to the second rectangular portion. The cigar box also has a second hinge that rotatably connects a rear of the second rectangular portion to a top of the rear wall such that the second rectangular portion rotates about 225 degrees with respect to the rear wall.
US11242190B2
A device for dispensing pressurized air and/or tire sealant from a pressurized can. The device comprising a cap body, a depressor button with a lock clip, and a hose positioned within the cap body attached to the pressurized can. The lock clip locks the depressor button in the compressed position for ease during use, while a shield element keeps the depressor button in the non-compressed position for safety during non-use. The hose provides an extension to attach to a tire stem valve, while being stored and attached to the cap body of the device.
US11242165B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wrapping machine that includes an improved cut, clamp, and seam system configured to, after film drawn from a film roll has been wrapped around an object, cut the film from the film roll, hold the now-leading end of the film of the film roll, and attach the now-trailing end of the film wrapped around the object to part of the film wrapped around the object.
US11242163B2
An evaporator includes a housing with a first end and a longitudinally opposite second end, a hydrophobic membrane arranged within the housing fluidly coupling the first end of the housing to the second end of the housing, and a hydrophilic surface. The hydrophilic surface is arranged within the housing between the first end and the second end of the housing and is spaced apart from the hydrophobic membrane to draw liquid water away from the hydrophobic hollow fiber membrane. Spacesuits and environmental control methods are also described.
US11242161B1
A method and apparatus provides cube-shaped satellite primary structures, each comprised of six identical, or nearly identical, rectangular truss panels and internal struts. The struts, all adjustable in length, connect, and are directed between all cube opposite corners and all cube opposite panel centers. All struts meet at the cube center where they attach rigidly to either a block called the “nucleus fitting” or to a hollow sphere. Each strut attaches to either a ball-socket corner fitting located at the interior corner of the cube, or to a ball-socket panel center fitting located at the panel center interior to the cube.
US11242159B2
A turbomachine assembly for an aircraft comprising a nacelle with a nacelle structure, cowls attached to the structure to create an aerodynamic surface, an articulated cowl, comprising four edges, in the upper portion of the nacelle, an articulation at a first edge of the articulated cowl attached between the articulated cowl and the nacelle structure allowing the articulated cowl to move between a closed and an open position, a locking system at a second edge of the articulated cowl, opposite the first edge. The locking system comprises a handle actuable from the exterior of the nacelle, between a first position and a second position, a locking device movable between a locking position and an unlocking position, and a transmission system that moves the locking device from the locking position to the unlocking position when the handle passes from the first position to the second position, and vice versa.
US11242152B2
A method of determining ice accretion on a surface of an aircraft can include supplying a known power to a heating element formed in a patch, wherein the patch includes a temperature sensor. A controller module can compare a sensed thermal signature with a threshold signature and determine the presence of ice accretion on the aircraft.
US11242143B2
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for unmanned aerial vehicle beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight operations. In an embodiment, a flight planning system of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can identify handoff zones along a UAV flight corridor for transferring control of the UAV between ground control stations. The start of the handoff zones can be determined prior to a flight or while the UAV is in flight. For handoff zones determined prior to flight, the flight planning system can identify suitable locations to place a ground control station (GCS). The handoff zone can be based on a threshold visual line of sight range between a controlling GCS and the UAV. For determining handoff zones while in flight, the UAV can monitor RF signals from each GCS participating in the handoff to determine the start of a handoff period.
US11242137B2
A mechanical lock for a vehicle assembly such as an aircraft landing gear assembly. The lock is either pivotally mounted and substantially mass balanced, or part of an aircraft landing gear assembly and arranged to be mechanically operated from the ground by a mechanical actuation device.
US11242123B2
A system for reliquefying a boil off gas generated in a storage tank includes a first compressor compressing a partial amount (hereinafter, referred to as ‘fluid a’) of boil off gas discharged from the storage tank, a second compressor compressing another partial amount (hereinafter, referred to as ‘fluid b’) of boil off gas discharged from the storage tank, a second expanding unit expanding a partial amount (hereinafter, referred to as ‘fluid c’) of a flow formed as the fluid a and the fluid b join, a heat-exchanger cooling another partial amount (hereinafter, referred to as ‘fluid d’) of the flow formed as the fluid a and the fluid b join, and a first expanding unit expanding the fluid d cooled by the heat-exchanger, wherein the heat-exchanger heat-exchanges the fluid d with the fluid c as a coolant expanded by the second expanding unit to cool the fluid d.
US11242120B1
Embodiments of the invention relate to marine retrofitted illuminated dash panel cover having a light controller and one or more light sources that is installed and retrofitted onto an existing boat dash panel, where the light source and light cover panel are aftermarket retrofitted components to the existing boat dash panel.
US11242119B2
The invention presented is a transformable floating dock system comprising a stationary floating dock section with a pair of movable floating dock sections operatively attached to each end of the stationary dock. The transformable floating dock system can be moved into different configurations by rotating the movable sections around each other and around each end of the stationary dock to form different configurations of the dock system. The configurations can be transformed without entering the water or moving the stationary dock system.
US11242103B2
A foot rest assembly for use with a motorcycle has a mounting block having a central portion, and first and second winged portions extending at an angle from each opposite end of the central portion, with each winged portion having a cylindrical housing provided at its outward end, and with each cylindrical housing having a bore extending therethrough and at least one threaded opening provided in the cylindrical housing. The assembly also includes first and second foot rests, each foot rest having a vertical bar that has a bottom end, with the vertical bar extending and being bent by about ninety degrees to a horizontal section. The vertical bar of each foot rest is inserted into a corresponding one of the bores of the cylindrical housings, and a threaded bolt is screwed into the at least one threaded opening to secure each vertical bar inside each corresponding bore.
US11242097B1
An audio system for installation in the tailgate of a pickup truck. A rugged, weather-resistant audio system is installed in a fold-down section of a multi-part tailgate. The system may operate independently of the sound system in the vehicle; the truck does not need to be running for the system to function. A low current draw allows the system to play for hours. The system may include a control that automatically powers off the system when the tailgate is returned to the closed position. The system may incorporate a USB port for device charging and flash memory playback, along with full Bluetooth streaming compatibility.
US11242096B2
A steering apparatus of a vehicle includes a plurality of coupling portions formed in a rack housing of a gear box and coupled to mounting portions of a vehicle body; and a nut member having a support surface and installed in each of the mounting portions of the vehicle body. In particular, each of the plurality of coupling portions has a seating surface formed as a curved surface with a predetermined curvature, and the seating surfaces are respectively seated on the support surface of the nut member installed in each of the mounting portions of the vehicle body such that the rack housing of the gear box is fixed to the vehicle body by a bolt which passes through each of the plurality of coupling portions to be engaged with the nut member of each of the mounting portions.
US11242087B2
A synchronization signal generating portion of a transmitter microcomputer generates a synchronization signal that is synchronized with a drive timing of the own microcomputer and also causes to synchronize the drive timing of microcomputers, and transmits to a receiver microcomputer. A timing corrector of the receiver microcomputer is capable of correcting the drive timing of the own microcomputer so as to synchronize with the received synchronization signal, and includes a timing determiner which determines whether the received synchronization signal is normal or abnormal. The receiver microcomputer permits the timing correction if the synchronization signal is determined to be normal in the timing determination, and prohibits timing correction and drives the motor asynchronously with the transmitter microcomputer if the synchronization signal is determined to be abnormal.
US11242086B2
A vehicle steering device includes a turning shaft held in a housing so as to be movable in the axial direction, a ball screw transmitting drive force produced by an electric motor to the turning shaft, a bearing supporting a nut, which is a component of the ball screw, so as to be rotatable relative to the housing, and annular elastic members that support side faces of the bearing in the axial direction of the turning shaft across the entire circumference, and are formed of an elastic material. The elastic members include respective first elastic portions having a first load characteristic that gently increases the ratio of compression load per a unit compression amount deforming in the axial direction of the turning shaft, and respective second elastic portions having a second load characteristic that keenly increases the ratio in comparison with the first load characteristic.
US11242081B1
A vehicle system includes one or more sensors, a steering wheel including a rim having a diameter, the steering wheel including an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the diameter of at least a portion of the rim, and a controller configured to determine whether a deviation factor between a target path and an actual path based on the one or more sensors exceeds a threshold deviation, send to the adjusting mechanism an instruction for adjusting the rim of the steering wheel to a first state in response to determining that the deviation factor exceeds the threshold deviation, and send to the adjusting mechanism an instruction for adjusting the rim of the steering wheel to a second state in response to determining that the deviation factor does not exceed the threshold deviation.
US11242072B2
A method is described for maintaining a gaseous composition within a tube (that is part of tubular transportation system for transporting passengers or cargos via a capsule), where the tube is arranged along a predetermined route. The method comprises: (a) pumping the tube to a pressure that is below atmospheric pressure until the tube is substantially evacuated; (b) identifying a predetermined power value; (c) identifying a first percentage, x, of hydrogen based on the predetermined power value identified in (b) and a leak rate associated with the tube; (d) maintaining within each tube in the plurality of substantially evacuated tubes, a gaseous composition comprising a mixture of a first percentage, x, of hydrogen and a second percentage, (100-x), of air.
US11242067B2
The present application relates to a vehicle comprising a vehicle control system, the vehicle control system being configured to operate the vehicle in an autonomous mode and in a manual mode, the vehicle control system comprising: a first selector switch for switching between said autonomous mode and said manual mode; a second selector switch for switching between said autonomous mode and said manual mode; and an interlock circuit configured to deactivate propulsion of the machine when the first and the second selector switch are switched to different modes.
US11242063B2
In a method and a device for operating a first vehicle, a method includes receiving a signal from an external processing unit for influencing a first surroundings sensor system of the first vehicle, influencing the first surroundings sensor system dependent on the received signal, receiving surroundings data values detected by at least one second surroundings sensor system of a second vehicle and that at least partially represent surroundings of the first vehicle, and operating the first vehicle dependent on the influence of the first surroundings sensor system and the received surroundings data values.
US11242055B2
A vehicle control system includes an acquirer that acquires environmental information including information of a reference speed preset on a scheduled route on which an own-vehicle travels and a travel controller that performs speed control and steering control of the own-vehicle on the basis of the environmental information acquired by the acquirer. The travel controller performs the speed control with the reference speed as a target speed of the own-vehicle if a control index value regarding the steering control is equal to or less than an upper limit value when the own-vehicle travels on the scheduled route at the reference speed and performs the speed control with a speed at which the control index value regarding the steering control is equal to or less than the upper limit value as the target speed of the own-vehicle if the control index value exceeds the upper limit value.
US11242052B2
An object detection system for a saddle-type vehicle is provided. The system comprises an object detection unit configured to detect an object, wherein the object detection unit is provided on a handlebar which is rotatable to a body of the vehicle; an inclination detection unit configured to detect an inclination of a saddle-type vehicle; a steering angle detection unit configured to detect a steering angle of the handlebar to the body; and a position specification unit configure to specify a position of the object detected by the object detection unit, and correcting the position so that the inclination detected by the inclination detection unit is upright and the steering angle of the handlebar detected by the steering angle detection unit is directed straight.
US11242051B1
Methods and systems for communicating between autonomous vehicles are described herein. Such communication may be performed for signaling, collision avoidance, path coordination, and/or autonomous control. A first autonomous vehicle may receive a communication from a second autonomous vehicle travelling on the same road as the first autonomous vehicle, where the communication includes an indication of a maneuver which will be performed by the second autonomous vehicle. The first autonomous vehicle may then analyze the communication to identify a first maneuver for the first autonomous vehicle in response to the second maneuver performed by the second autonomous vehicle. Thus, the first autonomous vehicle may move in accordance with the first maneuver.
US11242048B2
In a parking assistance method of a parking control device which executes parking control with respect to a free parking space surroundings a host vehicle, a first frame line of free parking space in a direction orthogonal to a vehicle width direction and a second frame line which forms a pair with the first frame line are detected, and a parking target is set on a straight line connecting between a point on the first frame line and a point on the second frame line, for example, the parking target is set on the straight line connecting between an end on the first frame line and an end on the second frame line, and parking control is executed so that a position of wheels of the host vehicle is matched with the parking target.
US11242047B2
A method for operating a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle being automatically accelerated and decelerated as a function of an instantaneous position and a predefinable target location, so that it comes to a standstill at the target location, including the following steps: a) accelerating the motor vehicle, in particular from a standstill, to a predefined setpoint velocity; b) up to a predefined first distance of the motor vehicle to the target location, decelerating the motor vehicle to a predefined rolling velocity; c) starting at a predefined second distance of the motor vehicle to the target location, decelerating the motor vehicle to a standstill, the second distance to the target location being smaller than the first distance.
US11242046B2
A control system for a hybrid vehicle configured to prevent a reduction in the purifying performance of the catalyst in a predetermined operating mode. An operating mode of the hybrid vehicle can be selected from a first hybrid vehicle mode, a second hybrid vehicle mode, and a fixed mode. A controller that is configured to restrict a shifting operation between the first hybrid vehicle mode and the second hybrid vehicle mode via the fixed mode, when the purifying device is being warmed or the purifying device has to be warmed.
US11242044B2
A system for supplementing a fixed fuel source for an engine includes a motor-generator set connected to a mechanical load device and a controller. The motor-generator set includes a motor and a generator. The engine is configured to provide a first torque from a fixed fuel source from an independent variable flow input. The fixed fuel source is independent of the engine and set external to the engine. The mechanical load device is driven by the engine and configured to require a second torque defined by an independent flow device. The controller is configured to compare the first torque and the second torque, provide a first control signal to the motor to provide power to the engine when the second torque exceeds the first torque and provide a second control signal to the generator to draw power from the engine when the first torque exceeds the second torque.
US11242042B2
A control system and method control release of a braking device from a wheel or disc. Release of the braking device is slowed or stopped based on a speed at which the braking device is released. The braking device may include a return limiting device through which a rod is configured to move. The return limiting device permits the rod to slide within the return limiting device while the brake pad holder releases from the wheel or disc no faster than a designated speed, but engages and restricts movement of the rod within the return limiting device while the brake pad holder releases from the wheel or disc faster than the designated speed.
US11242030B2
A seatbelt pretensioning retractor assembly for use in a vehicle is provided. The seatbelt pretensioning retractor assembly includes a housing adapted for being mounted to a frame and having an interior cavity, a pretensioner tube having an arcuate and curved shape, a sprocket rotatably mounted to the housing and fixedly coupled to a spindle, a driving element as a pretensioner rod disposed within the tube and a guide plate having a guide portion and a rod guide. The pretensioner rod extends in a longitudinal direction from a proximal end portion to a distal end portion. In addition, the pretensioner rod forms a recessed portion or a recessed section to facilitate engaging with the sprocket during pretensioning.
US11242029B2
A seat belt device includes a buckle provided on a side portion of a seat for a vehicle, and configured such that a tongue plate is inserted into the buckle; a buckle force limiter mechanism connected to the buckle via a connecting member having an elongate shape, the buckle force limiter mechanism being configured to allow the buckle to move in a pulling direction when a tensile load equal to or larger than a predetermined tensile load is applied to the buckle; and a case covering the connecting member from an inner side in a seat width direction, the case having a corner at an upper end portion of the case, the corner facing the connecting member, and the corner having an arc shape.
US11242021B2
A vehicle includes a body, a rear bumper, and a sweeper assembly is provided. The body has a forward end, a rear end, and a cavity provided therein extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction. The cavity has an opening at the rear end of the body. The rear bumper has an upper surface and is provided at the rear end of the body of the vehicle. The sweeper assembly includes a push plate movable between a retracted position and an extended position. The push plate is stored within the cavity of the body when in the retracted position and extends over the upper surface of the rear bumper when in the extended position to clear debris off the upper surface of the rear bumper.
US11242014B2
The present invention relates to a cable spacer arrangement mountable to a cable of a vehicle; said cable spacer arrangement comprising a cable spacer comprising a circumferentially arranged cable fixing portion having an inner surface arranged to face the cable when mounted thereto, and an outer surface arranged on an opposite side of the cable fixing portion relative to the inner surface; a plurality of circumferentially arranged cable spacing elements, each cable spacing element extending from the cable fixing portion in an at least partially radial direction therefrom, wherein a portion of the cable spacing element is arranged to abut an inner surface of a tube in which the cable is to be positioned, wherein the cable fixing portion further comprises first and second end portions in the circumferential direction such that the cable fixing portion is non-continuous in the circumferential direction thereof.
US11242004B2
A method of generating images for display includes equipping a vehicle with a vehicular vision system that includes a rearward viewing camera, an ECU and a display. The camera captures image data as the vehicle moves forward or rearward. The ECU includes an image processor that processes multiple frames of captured image data. The ECU generates, for each frame of image data captured by the camera, a left side image portion and a right side image portion. The ECU combines the left side image portions of multiple frames of captured image data and the right side image portions of multiple frames of captured image data. The combined left side image portions and the combined right side image portions are displayed at the display for viewing by the vehicle driver during a parking maneuver of the vehicle.
US11241997B2
A roof rack lighting assembly for a vehicle includes a base member configured to secure to the vehicle. The roof rack lighting assembly also includes a slider member slidably coupled to the base member and selectively moveable between a first slider position and a second slider position. A light assembly is pivotally coupled to the slider member and selectively moveable between a first light position and a second light position.
US11241992B2
The present invention comprises a self-contained mobile living space that mimics the amenities of an entire residential property in order to affordably house individuals, particularly in urban environments. All living necessities are fused into one micro-living platform, independent of access to existing structures, land space, electricity, or sewage hookups, allowing landowners to rent out space with limited effort. The wheeled foundation allows the assembly to circumvent some of the existing urban building codes. In preferred embodiments, the various elements are configured in such a way that separate areas for sleeping, leisure, bathing, cooking, and gardening can be had atop a single compact space, with the use of exterior space maximized to heighten the sense of spatial availability for the occupant. The invention provides a new alternative for affordable urban housing, exploiting available residential land without the expense, permitting, or effort associated with permanent construction on a non-portable foundation.
US11241984B2
An adjustable suspended seat apparatus having a tuned frequency-tailored damping through stratified seat structure is described. The damping seat structure includes: a first material of a plurality of materials having a first characteristic to provide a first damping effect in a first layer. A second material of the plurality of materials based on a second characteristic to provide a second damping effect in a second layer, the first material or the second material having an adjustable damping characteristic. The suspended seat apparatus includes a seat base configured to have the seat coupled thereto; a suspension system coupled to the seat base, the suspension system comprising: an adjustment feature configured to adjust operation of the suspension system; and a chassis mount coupled to the suspension system, the chassis mount configured to be coupled to a vehicle.
US11241983B2
A child restraint system for securely carrying an infant in a vehicle, said child restraint system comprising a rigid shell that is concave of an inner side and which may be attached to a seat of a vehicle, to provide a unitary element that serves as both seat and back for supporting the infant, and a harness for holding the infant within the concave side of the shell; the unitary element comprising two parts that are hinged together so that the shell folds along a center line running through the rigid shell, each part comprising at least two panels, such that each panel is attachable to adjacent panels to form the rigid shell, or disconnectable from the adjacent panels so that the child restraint system is compactable into a substantially flattened configuration for storage.
US11241982B2
The disclosure provides an infant vehicle seat that is capable of independent movement. The infant vehicle seat may include a base including a shell enclosing a seating area and an infant restraint harness. The infant vehicle seat may include four legs, each pivotably mounted to the base and including a joint between an upper segment and a lower segment. The infant vehicle seat may include a first actuator for each leg coupled with the base and the respective upper segment and configured to pivot the leg with respect to the base. The infant vehicle seat may include a second actuator for each leg coupled with the upper segment and the lower segment and configured to bend and extend the leg. The infant vehicle seat may include a control system configured to translate an input command into a series of control signals for each of the first actuators and second actuators.
US11241978B2
Seat assemblies are provided which include a seat base structure, a seat cushion supported by the seat base structure and at least a lateral outboard seat lip positioned relative to the seat cushion so as to assist a passenger during seat entry and exit. The lateral outboard seat lip is preferably attached relative to the seat cushion for manual movements between an extended position wherein the outboard seat lip extends outwardly thereby increasing effective surface area of the seat cushion and a deflected position wherein the outboard seat lip extends upwardly or downwardly relative to the seat cushion so as to thereby decrease the effective surface area of the seat cushion.
US11241969B2
Example methods, apparatus, systems, and machine-readable mediums for unmanned aerial vehicle drive testing and mapping of carrier signals are disclosed. An example method may include determining that an unmanned aerial vehicle is travelling on a flight route at an altitude for determination of network performance of a cellular network. The method may further include determining, using an antenna, signal diagnostics of the cellular network during travel of the unmanned aerial vehicle on the flight route. The method may conclude with transmitting the signal diagnostics of the cellular network to a service provider.
US11241960B2
A HUD apparatus, that can achieve favorable AR display by reducing display shift between a real and virtual image, includes: an image input unit that receives an image from a camera and extracts a predetermined object; an information acquiring unit that acquires object information containing the object's position and distance information containing the object's distance in space; an AR image creating unit that creates an AR image for superimposing on the object; a display position converter uses the acquired information to correct a position of an AR display area that is a range where the AR image is displayable in a visual recognition area and a display position of the AR image inside the AR display area; an AR display that controls superimposing of the AR image on the visual recognition area from data after the correction; and a display that displays the AR image on the visual recognition area.
US11241959B2
A resin molded product that is applied to a vehicle display device has a surface on which a plurality of fine irregularities having surface roughness of equal to or larger than 1.0 μm and equal to or smaller than 10.0 μm and an array pitch of equal to or larger than 3.0 μm and equal to or smaller than 18.0 μm are molded. In other words, the resin molded product has the surface on which the fine irregularities causing a gloss value at an incident angle of 85° to be equal to or lower than 2 are molded. This configuration provides an effect that the resin molded product and the vehicle display device can lower gloss of the surface.
US11241958B2
A smart governor system that intercepts and adjusts throttle commands when certain criteria are met based on vehicle operations and a user-selected transmission mode. The governor, when engaged, reduces a throttle command in order limit engine and/or ground speed.
US11241957B2
An accelerator device includes a housing, a rotary shaft, and an operating member. The operating member is configured to move in an opening direction and a closing direction. The operating member includes a first contact portion arranged at a first distance from the rotary shaft and a second contact portion arranged at a second distance from the rotary shaft. When the first contact portion has an initial shape and the operating member is located at the accelerator idle position, the second contact portion is arranged at a predetermined distance from the inner wall. When the first contact portion is deformed more than a predetermined volume from the initial shape and the operating member is located at the accelerator idle position, the second contact portion is in contact with the inner wall.
US11241948B2
A vehicle body rear part structure for a vehicle includes a side frame, a subframe disposed below the side frame, and a vehicle body frame member disposed on a middle side in the vehicle body front-rear direction with respect to the subframe. The vehicle body frame member includes: a vertical frame offset outwardly in the vehicle width direction with respect to the subframe; and a lateral frame extending inwardly in the vehicle width direction from the vertical frame. A connecting portion is provided on the subframe. The connecting portion includes: an inclined portion extending while being inclined outwardly in the vehicle width direction, to face the vertical frame; and a widening portion widening inwardly in the vehicle width direction up to a position where the connecting portion linearly extends in the vehicle body front-rear direction from the inclined portion, to face the lateral frame.
US11241940B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle thermal management system which comprises multiple means of thermal management for electronic components (electronic units) for an autonomous vehicle and allows for efficient interworking between the multiple means. The vehicle thermal management system, which is a system for cooling electronic components required for the autonomous driving of a vehicle, is configured to cool electronic components by applying at least two systems among a first system for cooling the electronic components through the cooling structure thereof, a second system for cooling the electronic components by using a refrigerant cycle for air-conditioning a vehicle interior, and a third system for cooling the electronic components by using a separate refrigerant or a coolant cycle.
US11241933B2
Provided is a layout structure of refrigerant piping near a heat accumulator in a vehicle, which is connected to the heat accumulator and can reduce cooling of the refrigerant piping near the heat accumulator due to blowing of wind that comes with running of the vehicle, thereby suppressing heat dissipation of the refrigerant flowing into and out of the heat accumulator. The heat accumulator mounted in a front portion of the vehicle is arranged to extend in a direction substantially orthogonal to a front-rear direction of the vehicle, and has refrigerant inflow part and outflow part at an end. The refrigerant piping includes inflow piping connected to the inflow part and outflow piping connected to the outflow part. The inflow piping and outflow piping are arranged to extend along a length direction of the heat accumulator in a state of being close to a back surface of the heat accumulator.
US11241929B2
A method for assembling an agricultural vehicle including the initial step of providing the agricultural vehicle including a frame, a hydraulic manifold, and a cab suspension system. The cab suspension system includes an anti-roll bar, a pair of support brackets configured for securing the anti-roll bar to the frame, and a pair of intermediary placement brackets configured for temporarily supporting the anti-roll bar in a final assembly position. The method includes the further steps of attaching the intermediary placement brackets onto the frame, positioning the anti-roll bar on the intermediary placement brackets to position the anti-roll bar in the final assembly position, assembling the hydraulic manifold onto the frame, and connecting the support brackets to the frame and the anti-roll bar.
US11241928B2
The present disclosure provides a hybrid suspension arm for a vehicle, having excellent durability. A hybrid suspension arm for a vehicle according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a suspension arm body which is made of metal material and comprises a top plate part and two sidewall parts extending downward from the top plate part to be open downward; and an insert molding which is made of plastic material and is formed by being insert-molded in the suspension arm body, wherein a thickness of at least a portion in the portion of the insert molding that comes in contact with the top plate part and the sidewall parts is in the range of 2 mm to 3 mm.
US11241926B2
A suspension apparatus supports a wheel of a vehicle which includes an in-wheel motor held by a carrier. A motor rotation axis of an output shaft of the in-wheel motor is located at a position identical in an up and down direction to or above a wheel rotation axis of the wheel. The suspension apparatus includes suspension arms coupled to the carrier holding the in-wheel motor. The suspension arms include first suspension arms each extending substantially in a widthwise direction of the vehicle. Each of the first suspension arms is coupled to a corresponding one of portions of the carrier which are located below the motor rotation axis. A first upper arm of the first suspension arms is coupled to a portion of the carrier which is located on an inner side of the in-wheel motor in the vehicle.
US11241925B2
“Battery operated flying car with enclosed motors for human transportation” is machine that can carry humans and looks like a real flying car. The current problem with implementing this is resolved by using ducted motors with grilles around it. By covering top and bottom of car with grilles we are able to negate effect of completely covered motors. By providing grilles around motors we ensure safety of humans around it, this not only avoids direct contact but also provides continuous air flow into motors to push out from the other side. Loss of efficiency due to covered grilles are countered by use of two additional front and two rear motors. Vertically mounted front motors push air into bottom motors which significantly improves the lift capacity of the flying car. Vertically mounted rear motor pumps air out of the car and thus aids in forward movement of the flying car.
US11241919B2
A pneumatic tire is provided in which each of sipes has a leading-side edge and a trailing-side edge. A chamfered portion that is shorter than a sipe length of the sipe is formed on each of the leading-side edge and the trailing-side edge. The sipe includes, at sections facing the chamfered portions, non-chamfered regions in which other chamfered portions are not present. Both end portions of the sipe are terminated inside a rib. A maximum depth x (mm) of the sipe 11 and a maximum depth y (mm) of the chamfered portion 12 satisfy a relationship x×0.1≤y≤x×0.3+1.0. A sipe width of the sipe is constant in a region between an end portion of the chamfered portion positioned on an inner side in the tire radial direction and a groove bottom of the sipe.
US11241916B2
A plurality of main grooves extending from a tread center region including a tire equator to ground contact ends so as to be inclined with respect to a tire width direction are provided on a tread section at intervals in a tire circumferential direction. Sub-grooves extending in a direction crossing the tire width direction with a narrower groove width than the main grooves in the tread center region are provided. Tie bars connecting blocks separated by the sub-grooves are provided inside the sub-grooves.
US11241912B2
A tire having a tread comprising at least two radially superposed portions which comprise a radially external portion intended to come into contact with ground during rolling, the radially external portion being made of a first rubber composition, and a radially internal portion made of a second rubber composition; wherein the first rubber composition is based on at least an elastomer matrix; and a reinforcing filler comprising between 40 and 200 phr of a reinforcing inorganic filler; wherein the second rubber composition is based on at least: an elastomer matrix comprising 20 to 70 phr of a first diene elastomer bearing at least one SiOR function, R being a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon radical, 20 to 70 phr of a second diene elastomer which is polyisoprene, and comprising no third diene elastomer or at most 20 phr; a reinforcing filler comprising a reinforcing inorganic filler.
US11241904B2
A retractable pen including a first barrel, an ink cartridge, a second barrel, a clamping component and a spring; a main body of the ink cartridge, the spring and the clamping component are all located inside the first barrel and the second barrel, the spring is wound on a portion, close to the nib, of the ink cartridge, and the nib in a portion of the ink cartridge can be extended and exposed out of the first barrel; a mounting portion, muff-coupled to the first barrel, is arranged on the clamping component, and the clamping component is rotatable with respect to the first barrel; when the first barrel is muff-coupled to the second barrel, a polygonal neck is formed on a surface where an outer surface of the clamping component comes into contact with the second barrel.
US11241895B2
The paper cutting device includes: a lower frame configured such that a platen roller and a thermal head are disposed on the top surface thereof and provide a paper movement path and a drive unit is contained therein; an upper frame configured to form the paper movement path in association with the lower frame, and to open the paper movement path; a fixed cutter configured to be disposed on the upper frame, and to cut the roll paper; a movable cutter configured to be disposed on the lower frame, to cut the roll paper, and to allow the roll paper to move; and a jam control unit configured to detect a jam of the roll paper, and to detect the opening of the paper movement path and lower the movable cutter.
US11241893B2
A heating device includes a first member having a first sheet holding face, and a second member having a second sheet holding face and disposed facing the first sheet holding face of the first member. The first and second sheet holding faces are configured to hold a sheet between the first and second sheet holding faces. The sheet has a resin surface on at least one face of the sheet. The heating device is configured to heat the sheet while the first and second sheet holding faces hold the sheet on which liquid is applied. At least one of the first and second sheet holding faces is configured to contact the resin surface of the sheet. The at least one of the first and second sheet holding faces has an uneven surface with a plurality of convex or concave portions.
US11241890B2
A method and a direct-printing machine for printing on containers of different types of materials in a direct-printing process, wherein containers of a first type of material are conveyed by means of a conveyor and printed on, in several layers, with a plurality of printing units by means of direct-printing heads with a first basic ink compatible with the first type of material (102) and, on top of the first basic ink, with at least one colored ink. The first basic ink may be exchanged for a second basic ink, which is compatible with the second type of material, when a change to containers of a second type of material takes place, and the containers of the second type of material may then be printed on, in several layers, with the second basic ink (105) and, on top of the second basic ink, with the at least one colored ink.
US11241886B2
An inkjet recording device includes: an inkjet head that includes a nozzle for discharging ink on a recording material, and forms an image by discharging the ink from the nozzle on the recording material based on image data; and a hardware processor that performs image processing of the image data, wherein the hardware processor calculates a difference in ink adhesion amount between a target region and an adjacent target region adjacent to the target region in the image data, determines whether the difference in the ink adhesion amount exceeds a threshold based on a calculation result of the hardware processor, and performs a responding process for occurrence of a wrinkle on the recording material based on a determination result of the hardware processor.
US11241883B2
There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including a discharge head including nozzles and actuators; a liquid detecting sensor; and a controller. The controller is configured to: cause the actuators to perform a discharge operation; calculate a discharge amount of the liquid discharged from each of the nozzles; determine the discharge amount of the liquid; and cause a first actuator corresponding to a first nozzle, whose discharge amount is less than a first predetermined amount, and a second actuator corresponding to a second nozzle, whose discharge amount is not less than the first predetermined amount and less than a second predetermined amount, to perform a flushing, without causing a third actuator corresponding to a third nozzle, whose discharge amount is not less than the second predetermined amount, to perform the flushing.
US11241878B2
Provided is an ink jet printer including: an electromagnetic wave generator that includes an electromagnetic wave generation section, a high-frequency voltage generation section generating a voltage applied to the electromagnetic wave generation section, and a transmission line coupling the electromagnetic wave generation section and the high-frequency voltage generation section to each other in which the electromagnetic wave generation section includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first conductor that couples the first electrode and the transmission line to each other, and a second conductor that couples the second electrode and the transmission line to each other, a minimum separation distance between the first conductor and the second conductor is 1/10 or less of a wavelength of an output electromagnetic wave, and the first conductor includes a coil, and the coil is disposed at a position closer to the first electrode than the transmission line; a carriage that reciprocates in a width direction of a recording medium; and an ink jet head, in which a thin ink film of the ink discharged from the ink jet head and attached to the recording medium is dried by the electromagnetic wave generator.
US11241872B2
A sheet-shaped electrode conveyance device (A) for conveying the sheet-shaped electrodes (1) to the stacking station is covered by the sealing walls (50). The inside of the sealing walls (50) is divided along the conveyance route of the sheet-shaped electrode (1) by the partitions (57, 58, 59, and 60) into the inside space regions (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, and Z5). Dry air is supplied to the inside space regions (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5). If there is an abnormal sheet-shaped electrode (1) inside any of the inside space regions (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5), the conveyor plates (20) other than the conveyor plate (20) carrying the abnormal sheet-shaped electrode (1) are retracted to the inside space regions other than the inside space region where the abnormal sheet-shaped electrode (1) is present.
US11241870B2
A membrane bearing device, a membrane attaching apparatus and a method for attaching a membrane are provided in embodiments of the disclosure. The membrane bearing device includes: a base plate, comprising a first bearing surface configured to bear a membrane; and a roller, which is rotatably mounted onto the base plate, and is configured to transfer and attach the membrane from the first bearing surface to a substrate onto which the membrane is to be attached, by rolling on the membrane.
US11241863B2
Provided is a glass film-resin composite body which makes it possible to obtain a long-length (e.g., 500 m or more-long) glass roll. The glass roll with resin film comprises a glass film, and a resin film laminated to at least one surface of the glass film through an adhesive, wherein a creep amount a of the adhesive is 50 μm or less, as measured after applying a tensile shear load per unit area of the adhesive of 5 g/mm2, to the resin film for 48 hours, in a state in which the glass film is fixed in 23° C. and 50% RH.
US11241854B2
A recycling method includes the steps of compacting recyclable material into a fixed bale, and weighing the recyclable material, using load cells, independently of the compacting forces. Compacting equipment for performing the method includes balers with load cells and anchors, with the load cells weighing the baler and the recyclable material in the baler, and with the anchors anchoring the baler in place without interfering with the weighing.
US11241851B2
A composite stiffener for a stiffener reinforced panel is disclosed. The stiffener has a longitudinal direction and a run-out region which terminates at an end of the stiffener. The stiffener also has a constant section region inboard of the run-out region in the longitudinal direction and having a constant cross section transverse to the longitudinal direction with a crown between adjacent foot portions. The run-out region has a changing cross section transverse to the longitudinal direction with a crown between adjacent foot portions and the crown reduces in height towards the end of the stiffener forming a ramp. The composite stiffener includes a number of blankets of non-crimp fabric layers.
US11241850B2
A plant for building tyres of at least two different models for vehicle wheels, includes at least a tyre building line, which in turn, includes: a plurality of work stations arranged according to a sequential series, each work station being adapted for building at least one structural component of each tyre and assembling at least one elementary component; at least one handling device for the tyres being processed on the respective forming supports associated to each work station; and at least one transfer device adapted for transferring the tyre being processed on its forming support from any first work station of the sequential series to any other second work station not adjacent thereto of the sequential series, so that the tyre being processed on its forming support only passes in the first and second work stations.
US11241847B2
A method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade shell part is described. Fibre mats and a root end insert are laid up in a mould part in a layup procedure by use of an automated layup system. The fibre mats are laid up by use of a buffer so that the fibre mats may continuously be laid up on the mould surface, also during a cutting procedure. The root end insert is prepared in advance and mounted on a mounting plate. The root end insert is lowered onto the mould by use of the mounting plate and a lowering mechanism. After the wind turbine blade shell has been moulded, the mounting plate is removed.
US11241843B2
An animal toy is provided constructed from a latex or natural rubber material and formed into a ball. The ball is formed of an aggregate of particulate material that are bound together to form a substantially non-hollow construction. Pieces of latex are joined together to form balls, and the balls may be pressed together and constructed by hand or, alternatively, pressed into molds. By constructing the balls by hand, no two balls, even balls of similar size, are identical. Each ball has irregular outer surface that forms a variety of resilient protuberances that provide beneficial oral hygiene effects when chewed or rubbed against the teeth.
US11241832B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a back panel to absorb energy and an energy emitter to supply energy onto a build material layer. The energy emitter may include an energy emitting element and an outer tube. In addition, a reflective element may be provided on a portion of the outer tube facing the back panel to direct energy away from the back panel. The apparatus may also include a transparent panel, in which energy from the energy emitter may be emitted through the transparent panel and onto the build material layer.
US11241828B2
The present disclosure relates a method of 3-dimensional printing a printed part. The method comprises printing an inkjet dopant composition at selected locations on a layer of build material comprising polymer particles. The inkjet dopant composition comprises a dopant dispersed or dissolved in a liquid carrier. Polymer particles at selected areas of the layer of build material are then fused to form a fused polymer layer comprising the dopant. The selected areas of the layer of build material include areas of the layer of build material that have not been printed with the inkjet dopant composition.
US11241826B2
Methods for manufacturing articles of footwear are provided. In various aspects, the methods comprise utilizing additive manufacturing methods with foam particles. In some aspects, the additive manufacturing methods comprise increasing the temperature of a plurality of foam particles with actinic radiation under conditions effective to fuse a portion of the plurality of foam particles comprising one or more thermoplastic elastomers. Increasing the temperature of the foam particles can be carried out for one or multiple iterations. The disclosed methods can be used to manufacturer articles with sub-regions that exhibit differing degrees of fusion between the foam particles, thereby resulting in sub-regions with different properties such as density, resilience, and/or flexural modulus. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US11241822B2
Provided herein is a resin product useful for the production of three-dimensional objects by additive manufacturing, and methods using the same. The resin may include a reactive blocked prepolymer comprising a prepolymer blocked with reactive blocking groups; a polyol; a photoinitiator; and at least one organometallic catalyst. A packaged product useful for the production of three-dimensional objects by additive manufacturing, the product comprising a single container having a single chamber and a resin in the chamber with all components mixed together, is also provided.
US11241821B2
A method of manufacturing a laminar object includes discharging an active energy ray curable ink A, irradiating the active energy ray curable ink A with active energy rays, discharging an active energy ray curable ink B, and irradiating the active energy ray curable ink B with the active energy rays, wherein the amount of the active energy rays per pass is greater in the irradiating of the active energy ray curable ink A than that in the irradiating of the active energy ray curable ink B, wherein a surface roughness Sq1 of solid printed matter having a thickness of 40 μm obtained in the discharging and the irradiating of the active energy ray curable ink A is 1.5 times or more than a surface roughness Sq2 of solid printed matter having a thickness of 40 μm obtained in the discharging and irradiating of the active energy ray curable ink B.
US11241820B2
A machine (4) and a method therefore, for laying cables helically on the outside surface of a unit pipe element (2) for transporting fluids, the machine having a rotary frame (14) for centering about an axis of symmetry (X-X) of the unit pipe element, the frame supporting a plurality of winding elements designed to receive cables, each being situated in a respective plane that is longitudinal relative to the unit pipe element and the planes being spaced apart from one another around the axis of symmetry of the unit pipe element, means for adjusting the angle of inclination of each winding element relative to the longitudinal plane in which it is situated, a linear travel stepper motor for moving the frame along the unit pipe element, and a rotary travel stepper motor for causing the frame to turn about that axis of symmetry of the unit pipe element.
US11241818B2
Provided are: a pipe-shaped integrally molded article which is formed by molding a polyphenylene sulfide resin composition, and which has, at one or more portions thereof, at least one selected from different-shape sections, bent sections, and different-diameter sections, the pipe-shaped integrally molded article being characterized in that the total length L (mm) thereof is 1000 or more, and the ratio (L/D) of the total length L (mm) to the outer diameter D (mm) of the pipe-shaped integrally molded article is 20 or more: and a production method for the pipe-shaped integrally molded article. According to the present invention, it is possible to efficiently provide a pipe-shaped integrally molded article having a desired large length and including a three-dimensionally complicated shape, by using a PPS resin composition having excellent heat resistance and chemical resistance.
US11241790B2
Provided is an autonomous moving body configured to move along a planned movement path to execute a given task, including: an external sensor configured to recognize another autonomous moving body given another task and an operation state of the another autonomous moving body; an overtaking determination unit configured to determine, when it is recognized by the external sensor that the another autonomous moving body moves along the movement path, whether to overtake the another autonomous moving body; and a movement control unit configured to control a moving unit based on the determination of the overtaking determination unit.
US11241788B2
Methods of positioning a gripper to pick or place a specimen container from a sample rack. One method includes providing a robot including the gripper, the gripper moveable in a coordinate system by the robot and including gripper fingers, providing a sample rack including receptacles containing specimen containers, providing data, obtained by imaging, regarding the specimen containers in the sample rack, and dynamically orienting the gripper based upon the data. The data may include population and/or configuration data and the dynamic orientation may include gripper finger opening distance, gripper finger rotational position, and/or gripper offset distance. Gripper positioning apparatus for carrying out the method are disclosed, as are other aspects.
US11241773B2
A tool and method of securing a clamp is provided. The tool includes a first handle having a first jaw portion on one end. An arm is pivotally coupled to the first handle, the having a second jaw portion on one end. A second handle is adjacent the first handle. A force adjustment mechanism is rotatably coupled between the arm and the second handle. The force adjustment mechanism has a biasing member operably coupled between the arm and an adjustment member, the force adjustment mechanism further having at least one bearing member disposed between the arm and the adjustment member. The second handle is arranged to rotate relative to the arm based at least in part on a force applied on the second handle by the biasing member via the at least one bearing member.
US11241772B1
A vehicle O2 sensor wrench attachment is made integral with a safety latch for an air hammer rod. The safety latch comprises a jaw assembly that has a swivel tooth that is manually moved from an open position to allow insertion of the air hammer rod into the mouth. For a working mode using the air hammer to hit the jaw assembly, the tooth is moved to a locked mode. A ball and spring assembly ensures the air hammer rod, having a transverse rod, stays in the locked mode during operation.
US11241759B2
Provided is a teaching device including a grouping unit which divides machining points into machining point groups so that a machining head can sequentially machine each machining point for a machining time and so that a non-machining time can be minimized, a machining path determination unit which determines a machining path on which an in-group movement time of a robot is shortest for each machining point group, a teaching process adjustment unit which adjusts a machining order of the machining points and an operation order of the machining point groups so as to minimize a distance between groups and which optimizes the grouping so as to minimize a total movement time for completing machining, and a teaching data output unit which outputs, as teaching data, machining execution positions on the machining path obtained as a result of processing of the teaching process adjustment.
US11241758B2
Laser cutting systems and methods are described herein. One or more systems include a laser generating component, an optical component, a fixture for holding a support with a part positioned on the support, and a control mechanism for adjusting at least one of the laser generating component, the optical component, and the fixture such that a ratio of a laser energy applied to the part and a part material thickness is maintained within a predetermined acceptable range at each point along a cut path to cut through the part while maintaining the integrity of the support. Other systems and methods are disclosed herein.
US11241749B2
An electrical discharge machining method includes selectively immersing only a portion of a workpiece in an electrical discharge machining liquid such that a machining object portion included in the portion of the workpiece is opposed to an electrode immersed in the electrical discharge machining liquid and applying an electrical discharge machining to the machining object portion by applying a voltage between the electrode and the workpiece in a state where the portion of the workpiece is selectively immersed in the electrical discharge machining liquid.
US11241747B2
An undersized indexable cutting insert being devoid of a through bore and has exactly three main cutting edges. The cutting insert has an inscribed circle which tangentially contacts only and all main cutting edges, and has an inscribed circle diameter of under 3.8 millimeters.
US11241746B2
A power tool is provided which includes a housing assembly; a motor assembly disposed in the housing assembly and having an output shaft; a trigger assembly coupled to the housing assembly and configured for use in actuating the motor assembly; a spindle; and a transmission assembly transmitting rotary power between the motor assembly and the spindle. The transmission assembly comprises a star compound gear train.
US11241739B2
The present invention provides a preparation method for gold nanoparticles based on functionalized ionic liquid. The method comprises synthesizing a functionalized ionic liquid, 3-(12-bromo-dodecyl)-1-(3-pyrrole propyl)-imidazole bromide, as a stabilizer for synthesizing gold nanoparticles, adjusting the concentration of the ionic liquid and the dosage of the reducing agent, thereby successfully preparing the icosahedral gold nanoparticles, and characterizing the morphology thereof by TEM, XRD and SEM. In the present invention, the method employed for preparing the stabilizer is simple, non-toxic, harmless and pollution-free, moreover the preparation of gold nanoparticles by aqueous phase has the advantages of mild conditions, short reaction time, simple operation, green and pollution-free, and belongs to the environment-friendly preparation.
US11241736B2
The present invention relates to a powder mixture for iron-based powder metallurgy which is obtained by mixing an iron-based powder and at least one kind of powders selected from the group consisting of a Ca—Al—Si-based composite oxide powder and a Ca—Mg—Si-based composite oxide powder, in which with a peak height of a main phase exhibiting the highest peak intensity by X-ray diffraction as 100, the composite oxide powder has a relative height of 40% or less, with respect to the main phase, of a peak height of a second phase having the second highest peak intensity.
US11241734B2
Provided is a double-station cleaning system comprising a cleaning machine, wherein workpieces are placed into the feeding frames, the feeding frames are placed into trays, the bracket assembly is pushed to drive the trays to move along the guide rail assembly, the feeding frame in one of the trays is conveyed to a feeding inlet of the cleaning machine, the feeding frame is pushed to move along two rows of nylon wheels and linear guide rails inside the cleaning machine, and the feeding frame and the workpieces in the feeding frame are pushed into the cleaning machine so as to be cleaned. The double stations work alternately, so that the work time is saved, and the work efficiency is increased.
US11241732B2
A method of casting a casting product having tubular flow passages includes: attaching a cast-in pipe insert, having outer and inner fixing members to which both ends of pipes are coupled, respectively, to a fixed mold; assembling a movable mold with the fixed mold; injecting a molten metal into a cavity defined inside the fixed and movable molds; ejecting a casting product from the assembled molds after injecting the molten metal; and removing the outer and inner fixing members from the casting product.
US11241731B2
A hot metal supply injection method includes generating a negative pressure in a cylindrical container by a negative pressure generation device, and causing molten metal to be sucked into the cylindrical container from a retention furnace, while keeping an opening portion of the cylindrical container immersed in the molten metal, arranging the opening portion of the cylindrical container in a gate of a cavity while holding the negative pressure by closing up the opening portion of the cylindrical container after moving an inner plunger tip to a tip side of the cylindrical container, and moving the inner plunger tip to a rear end side of the cylindrical container, then moving an outer plunger tip, together with the inner plunger tip, to the tip side of the cylindrical container, and filling the interior of the cavity with the molten metal through injection via the gate.
US11241727B2
A machine for machining, such as cutting and/or forming, planar workpieces has an upper tool and a lower tool that are movable toward each other to machine a workpiece arranged therebetween. The upper tool includes at least one cutting tool having at least one cutting edge and a clamping shaft. The lower tool includes a main body having a support surface for the workpiece. The support surface has an opening associated with an inner counter cutting edge. The lower tool has a positioning axis and at least one outer counter cutting edge provided outside of the opening and associated with the support surface. The outer counter cutting edge is aligned with an outer face of the support surface. A distance of the outer counter cutting edge from the position axis and a distance of the inner counter cutting edge from the position axis deviate from each other.
US11241725B2
The present invention discloses a method for rolling a metal composite plate/strip, comprising the following steps: 1) selecting a metal base plate and a metal cladding plate, cleaning the surfaces of the base plate and the cladding plate to be composited until the metal matrixes are exposed; 2) sequentially laminating the base plate and the cladding plate to obtain a composite plate slab; 3) rolling the composite plate slab through a composite rough rolling mill having a corrugated roll to obtain a composite plate having a corrugated mating surface on its composite surface; and 4) flattening the composite plate having a complete corrugated cladding plate by a composite finish rolling mill to a desirable thickness to obtain a composite plate/strip.
US11241719B2
A lens and/or a view screen of an electronic device having at least one case can be cleaned by wiping the view screen with a cleaning component wherein the cleaning component is configured to selectively couple to the at least one case or some other substrate using a magnetic attractive force. The cleaning devices may have secondary applications such as securing fly fishing lures, activating or deactivating a device having a magnetic switch, or preventing sunglasses from sinking. They may also be manufactured without a cleaning component for use with the secondary applications.
US11241708B2
A device for lacquer transfer includes a frame, transfer roller with circumferential lateral wall, nozzle for dispensing lacquer, and hardening unit, the hardening unit formed as a UV-light unit for hardening the lacquer in a contactless way by emitting UV-light, and is within an interior space defined by the transfer roller. The lateral wall of the transfer roller is transparent for UV-light, and the hardening unit is arranged such that UV-light is emitted towards the work surface upon which the lateral wall of the transfer roller rolls, to harden the lacquer after it being transferred to the work surface. Using the device, lacquer transfer can occur from the transfer roller to the work surface more reliably. The device includes a light shield between the hardening unit and outside contact surface with at least a portion of the outside contact surface provided with lacquer is shielded from UV-light emitted from the hardening unit.
US11241680B2
The invention is directed to ruthenium-based metathesis catalysts of the Grubbs-Hoveyda type. The new 2-aryloxy-substituted ruthenium catalysts described herein reveal rapid initiation behavior. Further, the corresponding styrene-based precursor compounds are disclosed. The catalysts are prepared in a cross-metathesis reaction starting from styrene-based precursors which can be prepared in a cost-effective manner. The new Grubbs-Hoveyda type catalysts are suitable to catalyze ring-closing metathesis (RCM), cross metathesis (CM) and ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). Low catalyst loadings are necessary to convert a wide range of substrates including more complex and critical substrates via metathesis reactions at low to moderate temperatures in high yields within short reaction times.
US11241670B2
An insoluble thin hydroxide shell is synthesized on the surface of nanoscale zero-valent iron (NZVI), using a rate-controlled deprotonation method. The hydroxide coated NZVI remains suspended in aqueous phase better than the prior art and can be used to remove groundwater contaminants.
US11241667B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing a solid comprising the mixture of a set of compounds comprising at least one Cu2(OH)2CO3 powder, one metal oxide powder selected from the group of metals consisting of copper, zinc, iron, manganese and mixtures thereof, and at least one binder as well as the use of the solid prepared by means of this method.
US11241659B2
Provided is a method for preparing a gas separation membrane, the method including forming a porous layer by coating a hydrophilic polymer solution on a porous substrate; and forming an active layer by coating a composition for forming an active layer including a polymer of Chemical Formula 1 on the porous layer, wherein in Chemical Formula 1, n is the number of a repeating unit, and is an integer of 500 to 3,000, and R1 to R5 are the same as or different from each other, and each independently is hydrogen, an alkyl group, or —(C═O)R6, and R6 is an alkyl group, wherein the polymer of Chemical Formula 1 is included in an amount from 1% by weight to 5% by weight based on the composition for forming an active layer, and a gas separation membrane prepared using the same.
US11241655B2
A draw solute for a forward osmosis process, the draw solute comprising: a thermally responsive ionic compound having at least one of: a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) and an upper critical solution temperature (UCST), the draw solute being regeneratable from a diluted aqueous draw solution after forward osmosis via one of: liquid-liquid phase separation and solid-liquid phase separation, the draw solute being regeneratable when the diluted aqueous draw solution is at a temperature selected from one of: above the LCST and below the UCST.
US11241650B2
The present disclosure relates to a purge system for a vapor compression system including an emission canister. The emission canister includes a load cell disposed in an interior of the emission canister, a base supported by the load cell, and an adsorbent material disposed on the base. The adsorbent material is configured to adsorb a refrigerant flowing through the emission canister, and the load cell is configured to monitor a weight of the adsorbent material and the refrigerant within the emission canister.
US11241648B2
An apparatus and a method for cleaning a stream. The apparatus having at least one hot filtration device, which includes a filter vessel and at least one filter candle located inside the filter vessel, an inlet of medium in an upper part of the filter vessel for supplying the medium including particles to the filter vessel, an outlet of the medium in the bottom part for discharged the medium from the filter vessel, a moving bed including the medium which is arranged in the vessel so that the filter candle is inside the moving bed, at least one feed inlet for supplying the stream to the filter vessel, and at least one gas outlet for supplying a purified gas out from the filter vessel.
US11241635B2
The present disclosure according to at least one embodiment relates to, in the learning process of a child using smart toys, a method and system for providing an interactive service by using a smart toy, which provide more accurate classified emotional state of the child based on at least one or more sensed data items of an optical image, a thermal image, and voice data of the child, as well as adaptively provide a flexible and versatile interactive service according to classified emotions.
US11241634B2
The disclosure relates to a figurine having magnetically attachable components and accessories that can be assembled and manipulated in various configurations to alter the appearance of the figurine as desired. The figurine includes a core having a plurality of magnetic joints coupled along various surfaces of the core. Each of the components of the figurine (such as the head, hands, and feet) includes a complementary magnetic joint designed to magnetically interact with the magnetic joints on the core to couple the components to the core, and to accommodate movement of the components relative to the core.
US11241632B2
An amusement ride, particularly a roller coaster, comprising a guide track, a number of first vehicles that can move along said guide track and comprise a first person receiving arrangement, a number of second vehicles that can move along the guide track and comprise a second person receiving arrangement differing from said first person receiving arrangement, an in-coupling device, by means of which the first vehicles and/or the second vehicles can be coupled into the guide track, and a launch section by means of which said in-coupled first and second vehicles can be accelerated.
US11241625B2
This application discloses a positioning information prompting method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The positioning information prompting method includes: obtaining a first position of a first virtual character controlled by an application client in a virtual scene; detecting, in a sound source detection range corresponding to the first position, a sound signal generated in the virtual scene; and displaying positioning information of a sound source of the sound signal in the application client, in a case that the sound signal is detected in the sound source detection range, the positioning information comprising a position mark for marking, in the virtual scene, a second position of the sound source relative to the first virtual character.
US11241617B2
Videogame controllers with smart trigger stops may include: a housing including a trigger, the trigger movable along a path of travel; a sensor configured to detect the position of the trigger and to generate a signal representing trigger position; a processor configured to interpret signals generated by the sensor and cause an output signal to be transmitted to a gaming console; a trigger-stop that is movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, the trigger-stop in the disengaged position allowing the trigger to move along the entire path of travel, the trigger-stop in the engaged position blocking the trigger from moving along the entire path of travel; and a switch coupled with the housing and the trigger-stop, wherein movement of the trigger-stop from the disengaged position to the engaged position flips the switch and causes the processor to map received signals to generated signals in a different manner.
US11241611B2
A game platform and process of setting up and scoring individual game pins on the game platform is provided. The platform and process has utility to mitigate the negative impact of recurring manual setup of individual game pins on a game surface prior to beginning or continuing play such as the misalignment of individual game pins potentially creating an unfair advantage or disadvantage to those playing the game. The platform and process also has utility to increase the efficiency and uniformity of game setup and game play. The platform affords automatic identification of a misaligned game pin and notifies a player of the need to realign the game pin. The platform has further utility to automatically score the game and generate additional game information in real-time.
US11241602B2
An exercise weight positioning device allows a barbell portion of the exercise weight to be positioned in a recessed portion of the positioning device. The positioning device is tapered toward the recessed portion. Additionally, the positioning device is rotatable around an axis. This feature allows the positioning device to rotate when the barbell moves laterally in relation to the positioning device.
US11241600B2
A suppression unit includes a nozzle, an actuator piston, a casing, and a biasing device. The nozzle has an exterior surface, an interior bore extending along a longitudinal axis, and a plurality of discharge orifices passing from the interior bore to the exterior surface. The actuator piston includes an interior channel in fluid communication with the interior bore, the nozzle separably attached to the actuator piston. The actuator piston and the nozzle are disposed within the casing and the biasing device is compressible between the actuator piston and the casing. The discharge orifices are protected by the casing in a biased passive condition of the nozzle, and the discharge orifices are moved longitudinally out of the casing in an active condition of the nozzle.
US11241595B2
The present invention relates to a personal respiratory protection device, in particular, such a device comprising a respirator body having a periphery, a filter media, forming at least part of the respirator body, and a gasket, the gasket being located at the periphery and extending along at least a portion of its length.
US11241587B2
Apparatus for illuminating comprises one or more fibers, the one or more fibers including fiber portions meeting at an apex and a bottom location to form a three dimensional cage; a detector attached to each of the fiber portions for receiving light and transmitting light along each of the fiber portions, respectively; and an illumination member situated within the cage. A method for illuminating a hollow member includes the steps of inserting one or more fibers into the hollow member, wherein one or more fibers include fiber portions that meet at a location to form a three-dimensional cage; permitting light to emit from within the three-dimensional cage and towards the fiber portions; receiving light at distinct locations on each of said fibers; and allowing each of the fibers to transmit the light received on each of the fiber portions out of the hollow member.
US11241586B2
Devices, systems, and methods for a treating dementia or Alzheimer's disease in a subject in need thereof. In one example, combined auditory and visual stimuli having a frequency of about 20 Hz to about 60 Hz, and more specifically about 40 Hz, are non-invasively delivered to the subject to induce synchronized gamma oscillations in at least one brain region of the subject. In particular, pursuant to various treatment and exposure protocols, combined auditory and visual stimulation (as opposed to auditory or visual stimulation alone) promotes a microglia response in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). More generally, combined auditory and visual stimulation induces an extended microglia clustering response in the auditory cortex, the visual cortex, and the mPFC.
US11241585B2
A medical device assembly is provided for removable insertion into a catheter with a lumen. The medical device assembly comprises an electromagnetic radiation (EMR) source for providing non-ultraviolet, therapeutic EMR having an intensity sufficient to inactivate one or more infectious agents and/or to stimulate healthy cell growth causing a healing effect, and a removable EMR conduction system at least partially insertable into and removable from the lumen of the catheter. The EMR conduction system has at least one optical element providing axial propagation of the therapeutic EMR through an insertable elongate body. The elongate body may have an exterior surface between a coupling end and a distal end tip that has at least one modified portion permitting the radial emission of therapeutic EMR from the elongate body proximate the modified portion. Such modified portion may be gradient along the exterior surface.
US11241573B2
Improved systems are disclosed for providing advantages during stimulation of peripheral nerves using transcutaneous, percutaneous, and implantable stimulators. Percutaneous stimulation is improved by accessories that guide the angel and depth of injection to allow for easy and controlled needle injection. Transcutaneous stimulation is improved using pressure to improve nerve recruitment. Systems and methods are disclosed for providing nerve stimulation of a patient to treat medical disorders and conditions within a single user or multiple user environments such as assisted living centers.
US11241569B2
A method and apparatus for long-term assisting the left ventricle of a heart to pump blood is disclosed which includes at least one transluminally deliverable pump and a transluminally deliverable support structure which secures the at least one pump within the aorta for long-term use.
US11241565B2
A medical device comprising an implantable subcutaneous access port having a septum penetrable by a needle; the septum having a cavity located between an outer wall and an inner wall, the cavity containing a flowable media comprising a plurality of displaceable particles arranged to move in response to the needle being inserted through the outer wall and into the cavity and reposition around the needle.
US11241563B2
An array of differing microneedles can be accurately achieved including a film having first and second, outwardly facing major surfaces. The first, outwardly facing major surface has a plurality of stratum corneum piercing microneedles extending therefrom, and the plurality of microneedles includes a plurality of first microneedles having a first benefit agent and a plurality of second microneedles having a second benefit agent.
US11241560B2
A system for endoscopic surgery within a body lumen of a patient including a flexible catheter having an expandable balloon at a distal portion and an access opening. The expandable balloon is expandable from a collapsed insertion configuration to an expanded configuration to provide an expanded chamber on a first side of the catheter. The access opening provides a window to access target tissue. The catheter includes a lumen dimensioned to receive an endoscopic instrument therethrough such that a distal end of the endoscopic instrument is positionable within the expanded chamber and angled laterally within the expanded chamber to access the target tissue through the window.
US11241544B2
The invention relates to a medical injection device having polymeric housing. The housing comprises a moulded outer housing element and a moulded ring-shaped unitary element. The ring-shaped unitary element carries a pointer and a thread segment in predetermined and correlated positions. The pointer points to indicia on a scale drum and the thread segments guides the scale drum. The outer housing element is moulded over the unitary element to form one single component.
US11241529B2
A filling member (43) in a medicament delivery device (1), the filling member (43) includes a first conduit (12) that fluidly communicates with a reservoir (4) and a second conduit (14) that fluidly communicates with a pump (3) and with the first conduit (12), wherein the filling member (43) provides two-way medicament flow that enters the reservoir (4) via the first conduit (12), exits the reservoir (4) into the first conduit (12) and the second conduit (14), and exits the second conduit (14) to the pump (3). The reservoir (4) includes a reservoir tube (44A) having one end that is formed with the reservoir (4), and the reservoir tube (44A) having another end that is press fit to the filling member (43) to establish fluid communication with the reservoir (4).
US11241503B2
The present invention is directed to oxadiazole linkers and use thereof, more specifically to the compounds represented by formula I, II, and III, and their use in the preparation of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). The ADCs obtained from said oxadiazole linkers have high homogeneity and stability, and could be used effectively for the treatment of various diseases including tumors. The definition of the groups in formula I, II, and III is the same as that in the description.
US11241498B2
Stable lyophilized therapeutic protein compositions and their methods of manufacture are provided. Specifically, the use of water as a solid cake plasticizer and protein stabilizer is described. Also, the inclusion of a multicomponent stabilizer comprising a larger molecular entity and a smaller molecular entity is described. Also, the inclusion of post-drying annealing under certain conditions improves protein stability. Proteins are predicted to remain stable over 24 months at 25° C.
US11241493B2
The present invention is directed to a nucleic acid suitable for use in treatment or prophylaxis of an infection with a coronavirus, preferably with a Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, or a disorder related to such an infection, preferably COVID-19. The present invention is also directed to compositions, polypeptides, and vaccines. The compositions and vaccines preferably comprise at least one of said nucleic acid sequences, preferably nucleic acid sequences in association a lipid nanoparticle (LNP). The invention is also directed to first and second medical uses of the nucleic acid, the composition, the polypeptide, the combination, the vaccine, and the kit, and to methods of treating or preventing a coronavirus infection, preferably a Coronavirus infection.
US11241488B2
The application relates to methods for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of autoimmune and/or inflammatory disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), lupus nephritis, IgA nephropathy, other types of glomerulonephritis.
