US11280351B2
A blower includes a first fan, a second fan axially below the first fan, and a tubular housing accommodating the first fan and the second fan. The housing includes an upper tubular portion accommodating the first fan, a lower tubular portion accommodating the second fan, a first fan support at an axially lower end portion of the upper tubular portion to support the first fan, and a second fan support at an axially upper end portion of the lower tubular portion to support the second fan. The housing is separable into a first structure including the first upper tubular divided body, the first lower tubular divided body, and the first fan support, and a second structure including the second upper tubular divided body, the second lower tubular divided body, and the second fan support.
US11280348B2
A heat exchange assembly and a heat exchange device. The heat exchange assembly includes a heat exchanger and a fan; the heat exchanger and the fan are spaced apart, and the heat exchanger is located in an air intake direction or an air outgoing direction of the fan; the fan includes an air opening; a shortest distance H between the air opening of the fan facing the heat exchanger and the heat exchanger and a diameter D of an impeller of the fan should meet 2H/D>1.05. A problem in the prior art of increased air intake resistance caused by an improperly arranged distance between the heat exchanger and the fan is solved.
US11280346B2
A method and apparatus for a centrifugal pump according to which an annular retainer is positioned around a first end portion of a pump shaft, an open end portion of a compression cylinder is positioned around the first end portion of the pump shaft so that the pump shaft extends within an internal cavity of the compression cylinder, the compression cylinder is moved towards an annular groove formed in the first end portion of the pump shaft, and the annular retainer is sprung into the annular groove. In some embodiments, springing the annular retainer into the annular groove constrains one or more impellers and one or more annular spacers between the annular retainer and another annular retainer connected to the pump shaft.
US11280335B2
A seal assembly for sealing a pump shaft in a rotary piston pump configured for conveying pump-conveyed fluid comprises a sealing-fluid pump device having a pump inlet and a pump outlet. A blocking chamber is connected to the pump outlet and is disposed so as to neighbor the pump chamber of the rotary piston pump and is sealed in relation to the pump chamber by means of a first shaft seal that encloses the pump shaft. The blocking chamber by way of the pump outlet is impinged with a fluid pressure resulting from the fluid pressure differential that is generated by the sealing-fluid pump device, whereby said fluid pressure interacts with the first seal assembly to seal the pump chamber in relation to the egress of pump-conveyed fluid from the pump chamber along the pump shaft.
US11280334B2
A fluid delivery system having at least one fluid storage device and a pump with at least one fluid driver with a flow-through shaft that has a through-passage. The pump includes a casing, and at least one fluid driver having a prime mover and at least one fluid displacement member. A shaft of the prime mover and/or a shaft of the fluid displacement member and/or a common shaft of the prime mover/fluid displacement member (depending on the configuration of the pump) is a flow-through shaft with a through-passage configuration that allows fluid communication between at least one port of the pump and the at least one fluid storage device.
US11280326B2
A pump fluid end having a reciprocating element a discharge valve assembly, a suction valve assembly, and a suction valve stops. The reciprocating element is disposed at least partially within a reciprocating element bore of the pump fluid end. The suction valve assembly is coupled with a front end of the reciprocating element. The suction valve stop is positioned within the reciprocating element bore such that the suction valve stop contacts and applies a closing force to the suction valve assembly when the suction valve assembly is stuck open at the end of a discharge stroke of the reciprocating element.
US11280323B2
A geothermal energy system utilizes supercritical CO2 turbine and a radial outflow reaction turbine, a Catherine Wheel having wheel arms, that spins around an axle to produce power. A fin portion extends from the radial portion at an offset angle, to an exhaust end. A first working fluid, such as supercritical carbon dioxide flows through an arm conduit within the wheel arm and a second working fluid, such as a hydrocarbon mixes with the first working fluid and both flow through a turbine. The turbine may be configured within the wheel arm conduit or mounted prior to the Catherine Wheel or any other radial outflow reaction turbine, or variable phase turbines available, and it turns as the combined working fluids expand and vaporize. The second working fluid may be condensed and recirculated while the first working fluid is expelled back into a geothermal reservoir.
US11280315B2
A measurement system is provided for a wind turbine having a plurality of rotor blades mounted to a spinner at the front of a nacelle and arranged to rotate in a rotor plane. The measurement system includes a measuring device for determining a pressure at a number of pressure measurement points. The pressure measurement points are arranged in front of the rotor plane, an analysis module for generating a control signal on the basis of the pressure measurements, and output means for issuing the control signal to a controller of the wind turbine.
US11280314B2
A pultruded fibrous composite strip for wind turbine spar caps, a spar cap having such a strip, and a wind turbine blade having such spar cap. The strip has longitudinally extending unidirectional fibers and an elongate body having first and second edge regions separated in the longitudinal direction of the strip by an intermediate region. The intermediate region has first and second mutually opposed longitudinally extending and parallelly disposed planar surfaces. The strip's thickness is measurable perpendicular to the planar surfaces and the width is measurable parallel to the planar surfaces and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the strip. In the strip, the first and/or the second edge regions, starting from the intermediate region and extending longitudinally, simultaneously tapers along the width and the thickness of the strip.
US11280309B2
An energy conversion system may comprise a connector defining a first chamber and a second chamber. An ignition compound may be located in the first chamber. The ignition compound may comprise a material that produces a conductive combustion product. A first electrode may be coupled to the connector and located in the second chamber. A second electrode may be coupled to the connector and located in the second chamber. The second electrode may be electrically isolated from the first electrode.
US11280307B2
An engine drive system comprises a processor and a control module coupled to the processor. The control module receives a signal from a crank sensor system, the signal being indicative of at least one of a speed and load of a crankshaft. Based on the signal received from the crank sensor system, the control module determines whether a load on the crankshaft is greater than a threshold value. Based on the determination, the control module controls an electrical machine coupled to the crankshaft to rotate the electrical machine in one of a forward direction and a reverse direction.
US11280306B1
A fuel injector includes an injector housing, a check control valve assembly within the injector housing, a direct-operated check, a valve biaser supported on the injector housing, and a dry-running protection valve trapped between the valve biaser and the injector housing. The dry-running protection valve limits expelling drained actuation fluid from the fuel injector to enable filling a low-pressure volume therein in advance of filling a low pressure drain line common to a plurality of fuel injectors in an internal combustion engine system.
US11280301B2
An intake device of an engine comprises an intercooler, an intake passage including a downstream-side intake passage, and an EGR passage recirculating exhaust gas to the downstream-side intake passage. An intake-air supply opening having an opening area smaller than an area of a downstream-side face of an intercooler core is provided at a downstream side wall of a chamber. The downstream-side intake passage includes an extension passage portion extending upwardly along the downstream side wall. The intake-air supply opening includes an upper edge portion which separates the intake air flowing from an inside wall face of the extension passage portion and forms flowing main streams of the intake air inside the extension passage portion. EGR introduction ports are arranged at positions capable of supplying the EGR gas toward the flowing main streams.
US11280293B2
An internal combustion engine includes a hollow cylinder, a piston within the hollow cylinder, and a cylinder head. A base valve assembly at a base of the hollow cylinder permits or restricts fluid flow from an intake manifold into a sub-chamber below the piston. The piston includes at least one intake port connecting a combustion chamber above the piston with the sub-chamber, and a transfer valve that opens and closes the at least one intake port. When the transfer valve opens the at least one intake port, fluid is permitted to flow from the sub-chamber to the combustion chamber. The internal combustion engine operates according to a four-stroke piston cycle, wherein multiple intake stages are provided. The intake stages may include intake of air into the sub-chamber during a compression stroke, transfer of air from the sub-chamber to the combustion chamber during a power stroke, intake of air-fuel mixture into the sub-chamber during an exhaust stroke, and transfer of air-fuel mixture from the sub-chamber to the combustion chamber during an intake stroke.
US11280292B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an engine component, in particular a piston for an internal combustion engine, wherein an aluminum alloy is cast in the gravity die casting process and wherein the aluminum alloy has 7 to <14.5 wt % silicon, >1.2 to ≤4 wt % nickel, >3.7 to <10 wt % copper, <1 wt % cobalt, 0.1 to 1.5 wt % magnesium, 0.1 to ≤0.7 wt % iron, 0.1 to ≤0.7 wt % manganese, >0.1 to <0.5 wt % zirconium, ≥0.1 to ≤0.3 wt % vanadium, 0.05 to 0.5 wt % titanium, and 0.004 to ≤0.05 wt % phosphorus as alloying elements and aluminum and unavoidable contaminants as the remainder. The aluminum alloy can optionally comprise beryllium, wherein the calcium content is limited to a low level. The invention further relates to an engine component, in particular a piston for an internal combustion engine, wherein the engine component is composed at least partially of an aluminum alloy, and to the use of an aluminum alloy to produce an engine component, in particular a piston of an internal combustion engine.
US11280291B2
A cylinder liner for an internal combustion engine is formed of cylindrical liner body having an interior cavity with a cylindrical inner surface, a sensor embedded in the cylindrical liner body and being configured for sensing a physical condition on the cylindrical inner surface, and a transmitter connected to the cylindrical liner body at a position remote from the sensor. A connecting wire connects the transmitter to the sensor, and is embedded in in the cylindrical liner body. The sensor is located in an upper portion of the cylindrical liner body and the transmitter is located directly below the sensor, such that the wire runs vertically. The transmitter can send information obtained by the sensor to a remote processor for calculating various operating states of the liner.
US11280279B2
An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle includes a combustion chamber with a gas exchange valve which is movable between an open position and a first closed position. The gas exchange valve is movable on its path from the open position in a direction of the first closed position into an intermediate position located between the open position and the first closed position and is holdable in the intermediate position at least during a part of a compression cycle of the combustion chamber following the open position of the gas exchange valve and is movable into a second closed position following the intermediate position. The part comprises more than a half of the compression cycle and less than a whole of the compression cycle. The gas exchange valve is an inlet valve via which the combustion chamber is supplyable at least with air.
US11280277B1
The systems and methods are generally directed to engine combustion modeling of an engine having a combustion chamber. In one embodiment, a method includes determining the thermodynamic state of the engine combustion chamber based on received engine parameters. The laminar flame speeds of the combustible mixture are determined based on tabulated measurement results or from correlations available in the literature. The dynamics of the turbulent flame brush thickness are calculated using a 1D nonlinear ordinary differential equation. The mass fraction burned ratio is found by tracking the motion of a presumed truncated spherical flame front as it propagates through the combustion chamber using the mass continuity equation. One or more engine control calibration efficiency factors are then determined based on the resultant mass fraction burned ratio. One or more efficiency factors control at least one aspect of the engine.
US11280264B2
An acoustic insulation system for an internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle includes: an acoustic insulation cover configured to cover the internal combustion engine with a gap interposed between the acoustic insulation cover and the internal combustion engine. The acoustic insulation cover includes a cover front portion that faces forward of the vehicle. The cover front portion includes: a plurality of inlets for introducing the outside air into the interior of the acoustic insulation cover; and a plurality of inlet flaps configured to respectively open and close the plurality of inlets. The acoustic insulation system further includes a control device configured to control the opening and closing of the plurality of inlet flaps.
US11280252B2
A control valve for use in a heat exchange circuit of an engine of an automobile includes a housing and a connection pipe. The housing includes a communication port structured for introduction or discharge of fluid. The connection pipe is fastened to the communication port of the housing with a fastening member. The housing is made of resin. Each of the connection pipe and the fastening member is made of material, such as metal, less in linear expansion coefficient than the housing.
US11280251B2
Processing circuitry of an in-vehicle cooling system regulates the flow rate of the coolant passing through a radiator, thereby regulating the coolant temperature to a target coolant temperature. The processing circuitry sets the target coolant temperature to a specified standard target coolant temperature when the engine is not operating in a specified temperature increase permitting range, and sets the target coolant temperature to a high target coolant temperature, which is higher than the standard target coolant temperature, when the engine is operating in the temperature increase permitting range. The processing circuitry changes the target coolant temperature in the temperature increase permitting range to a temperature lower than the high target coolant temperature and higher than or equal to the standard target coolant temperature, when the hydraulic oil temperature is higher than or equal to a specified temperature increase suppressing temperature.
US11280250B2
Method of controlling cooling water temperature of an engine in which the lower limit value of engine rotation speed is set according to outside air temperature and vehicle speed. When the vehicle starts traveling, a temperature raising-state lower limit rotation speed is set to raise the cooling water temperature to a third threshold value. After the cooling water temperature is raised to the third threshold value, the lower limit value is not set. If the cooling water temperature drops to a second threshold value, a maintaining-state lower limit rotation speed lower than the temperature raising-state lower limit rotation speed is set to raise the cooling water temperature. If the cooling water temperature does not rise but drops to a first threshold value, a temperature re-raising-state lower limit rotation speed lower than the temperature raising-state lower limit rotation speed and higher than the maintaining-state lower limit rotation speed is set.
US11280244B2
A honeycomb structure includes: an outer peripheral wall; and partition walls disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells extending from one end face to the other end face to form a flow path for a fluid. The partition walls and the outer peripheral wall include ceramics containing at least silicon. A content of silicon in the ceramics is 30% by mass or more. A concentration of at least one dopant in the silicon is from 1016 to 5×1020/cm3.
US11280235B2
A muffler structure contains: a body, a first cover unit, and a second cover unit. The body includes an accommodation tube, fiber cotton, and a first mesh portion. The accommodation tube has an accommodating space and an internal fence. The first cover unit includes a manifold connection portion, a first polygonal cap, a hollowly tubular mesh having multiple orifices, a second mesh portion, and a stainless steel mesh. The second cover unit is fixed on a rear end of the accommodation tube of the body opposite to the first cover unit, and the second cover unit includes a second polygonal cap and a silencer. The second polygonal cap is covered on the accommodation tube of the body, and the second polygonal cap has a receiving portion defined in a free end thereof and configured to accommodate the silencer.
US11280227B2
A method for adaptation of a detected camshaft position of a camshaft in an internal combustion engine with: Detection of an ACTUAL gas signal in a gas space that is associated with the camshaft and is associated with a detected camshaft position; Processing of the gas signal to produce an ACTUAL gas criterion; Modeling of multiple simulated gas criteria, each of which is associated with a target camshaft position; Determination of a simulated gas criterion with the least deviation from the ACTUAL gas criterion; Determination of an ACTUAL camshaft position that corresponds to the simulated gas criterion with the least deviation from the ACTUAL gas criterion; Determination of a camshaft position correction value from the difference between the ACTUAL camshaft position determined and the detected camshaft position; Determination of corrected camshaft positions by correcting the detected camshaft positions with the camshaft position correction value.
US11280225B2
A waste heat utilization device for a vehicle, said waste heat utilization device being provided with a Rankine cycle system and comprising: a motor-generator that is connected to an expander and is structured so as to be able to rotate integrally with the expander; a clutch device that is provided between the expander and a power transmission system of the vehicle; and a clutch control unit that is structured so as to control switching of the clutch device between a connected state and a disconnected state.
US11280223B2
A bolt fastening structure has an upper flange and a lower flange of a casing to which inner pressure is applied, the upper flange and the lower flange defining an abutting interface therebetween; a bolt hole formed through the abutting interface; and a counterbored portion formed asymmetric about a bolt hole center. The abutting interface includes a first region extending from a bolt hole inner side edge to an upper and lower flanges inner edge and being a region where the upper flange and the lower flange are in surface-to-surface contact with each other; and a partial contact region extending from a bolt hole outer side edge to an upper and lower flanges outer edge and being a region where the upper flange and the lower flange are partially in surface-to-surface contact with each other. In the partial contact region, the upper flange and the lower flange are in surface-to-surface contact with each other in a second region, and the first region is larger than the second region.
US11280221B2
A disclosed lubrication system for a turbofan engine includes a pump for driving lubricant through a lubrication circuit, at least one sensor generating a signal indicative of an engine operating condition and at least one valve for controlling a flow of lubricant through the lubrication circuit. A controller controls operation of the valve to vary the flow of lubricant based on the engine operating condition to maintain lubricant flow within predefined operating limits.
US11280219B2
A rotor support system for a gas turbine engine includes a rotatable drum rotor and a non-rotatable support casing. The rotor support system includes a bearing assembly configured for positioning between the rotatable drum rotor and the non-rotatable support casing. The bearing assembly includes, at least, a stationary support frame and a rotatable race. Further, the rotatable race is configured to engage the rotatable drum rotor at separate and discrete locations that are circumferentially spaced apart around the rotatable drum rotor.
US11280213B2
A system and method for determining leakage in a fluid supply line assembly are provided. The system includes a source of pressurized fluid, a pressurized fluid load, and a fluid supply line coupled to the source and the load. The leak detection system also includes a source isolation valve configured to control a flow of fluid into the fluid supply line from the source, a load isolation valve configured to control a flow of fluid from the fluid supply line to the pressurized fluid load, and a processor communicatively coupled to a memory device. The memory device includes instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to close the load isolation valve and open the source isolation valve to supply pressurized fluid to the fluid supply line, and after a predetermined interval, determine a leakage of pressurized fluid from the fluid supply line.
US11280212B2
The present invention relates to a guide vane cascade for a turbomachine, which has guide vanes that are mounted adjustably about an axis of rotation, so as to change an inflow angle each time, wherein a first guide vane and a second guide vane arranged on the pressure side thereof, referred to a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, are arranged with an axial offset, namely, the axis of rotation of the second guide vane is offset axially toward the back, wherein the first guide vane and the second guide vane are provided such that, in an adjusted state, they form together a tandem configuration in a radially outer region but together they delimit a divergent channel in a radially inner region.
US11280210B2
A rotor (10) for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft engine, having a rotor base body (12), on which at least one sealing fin (14), which is disposed on a base (16), is provided for cooperating with an associated sealing element (20) of the turbomachine; relative to an axial direction of the rotor (10), the base (16) having a base portion (16a) disposed upstream of the sealing fin (14) and a base portion (16b) disposed downstream thereof, for supporting masks during the coating of sealing fins; the upstream base portion (16a) and the downstream base portion (16b) having different radial distances (A1, A2) to a radially outer sealing tip (18) of the sealing fin (14). Also, a turbomachine having at least one such rotor (10).
US11280209B2
A hydrostatic advanced low leakage seal configured to be disposed between relatively rotatable components. The seal includes a base. The seal also includes a shoe extending circumferentially. The seal further includes a first beam operatively coupling the shoe to the base, the first beam having a first thickness. The seal yet further includes a second beam operatively coupling the shoe to the base, the second beam having at least a portion thereof with a second thickness that is less than the first thickness.
US11280204B2
The invention relates to a straightening assembly for an air flow of a turbomachine, comprising two respectively coaxial radially inner and outer shrouds (30), between which extend the vanes (32) made of composite material attached, at a first end portion (42) thereof, to the radially inner shroud and at a second end portion (44) thereof, to the radially outer shroud (30), with the vanes (32) comprising a useful portion extending between the two end portions (42, 44). According to the invention, for each vane (32) in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the radially inner and outer shrouds (30), a straight line passing through a junction between said first and second end portions (42, 44) and the useful portion forms, with a radius of the radially inner shroud passing through the junction between said first end portion and the useful portion of said vane (32), an angle α such that 0°<α≤90°.
US11280193B2
According to embodiments described in the specification, an exemplary method is disclosed for hydraulically hoisting potash (or other evaporite ore) ‘fines’ material from an underground mine. The method includes mining an ore deposit using a boring machine to generate Run-of-Mine (ROM) material at a mine face, conveying the generated ROM material to an underground ore screening plant, screening the ROM material relative to a threshold size wherein the threshold size is a feed size of one or more flotation cells at a surface processing plant, mixing ‘fines’ material, comprising ROM material that is below the threshold size, with a saturated brine to create a slurry mixture wherein the saturated brine prevents the ‘fines’ material from dissolving into the slurry mixture, and pumping the slurry mixture to a surface location via one of a shaft and a borehole to the surface product separation plant.
US11280186B2
Methods for determining the hardness and/or ductility of a material by compression of the material are provided as a first aspect of the invention. Typically, compression is performed on multiple sides of a geologic material sample in a contemporaneous manner. Devices and systems for performing such methods also are provided. These methods, devices, and systems can be combined with additional methods, devices, and systems of the invention that provide for the analysis of compounds contained in such samples, which can indicate the presence of valuable materials, such as petroleum-associated hydrocarbons. Alternatively, these additional methods, devices, and systems can also stand independently of the methods, devices, and systems for analyzing ductility and/or hardness of materials.
US11280184B2
A method of electrically logging a section of a wellbore includes circulating an oil-based wellbore fluid comprising a conductive carbon material therein, the oil-based wellbore fluid having a conductivity of at most 0.01 S/m when measured at 20 kHz, within the wellbore while drilling the wellbore with a drill bit on a drill string; applying electrical current from a logging tool on the drill string above the drill bit; and collecting an electrical log of the portion of the wellbore that has had electrical current applied thereto.
US11280181B2
A method for testing an integrity of a primary barrier arranged in a well includes arranging a first sealing device above the primary barrier in a position axially spaced from the primary barrier in the well, which establishes a test chamber confined by the first sealing device and the primary barrier. The method further includes arranging a second sealing device above the first sealing device in a position axially spaced from the first sealing device in the well, which establishes a further test chamber between the first sealing device and the second sealing device. The method also includes reducing a pressure of the test chamber to a predetermined test pressure, monitoring the pressure of the test chamber and a pressure of the further test chamber after the pressure reduction, and verifying the integrity of the primary barrier if no pressure increases or decreases are detected in the test chamber after the applied pressure reduction.
US11280176B2
A wellbore trajectory survey includes an ordered plurality of survey points, each of which has a measured depth, an inclination, and a geographic location. The wellbore trajectory survey is ordered on measured depth. A minimum lateral measured depth (min_LMD) as a measured depth of a first point in the ordered plurality of survey points for which the inclination exceeds an inclination threshold angle is identified. A maximum lateral measured depth (max_LMD) as a measured depth of a last point in the ordered plurality of survey points for which the inclination exceeds the inclination threshold angle is identified. The processor determines from the wellbore trajectory survey that the wellbore at measured depths between the min_LMD and the max_LMD exhibits porpoising into and out of a formation.
US11280173B1
A system or method for drilling includes autonomously controlling a rotary or percussive drilling process as it transitions through multiple materials with very different dynamics. The method determines a drilling medium based on real-time measurements and comparison to prior drilling data, and identifies the material type, drilling region, and approximately optimal setpoint based on data from at least one operating condition. The controller uses these setpoints initially to execute an optimal search to maximize performance by minimizing mechanical specific energy. Near-bit depth-of-cut estimations are performed using a machine learning prediction deployed in an embedded processor to provide high-speed ROP estimates. The sensing capability is coupled with a near-bit clutching mechanism to support drilling dysfunction mitigation.
US11280165B2
Methods for using shut-in pressures to determine uncertainties in a hydraulic fracturing process in a shale reservoir are described. Data commonly collected during multistage fracturing is used to calculate propped fracture height and induced stresses, as well as other variables, in the presence of horizontal stress anisotropy. These variables can then be incorporated into reservoir simulations to improve the fracturing monitoring, forecast hydrocarbon recoveries, or modify fracturing plans.
US11280163B2
An apparatus for use in a wellbore includes a downhole tool, a fuel cell, a pressure applicator, and a desiccant. The wellbore has a wellbore fluid at hydrostatic pressure. The downhole tool is conveyed into the wellbore with a conveyance device. The fuel cell is associated with the downhole tool and receives a flow of an oxidant and a flow of hydrogen. The pressure applicator applies at least a portion of the hydrostatic pressure of the wellbore fluid to the fuel cell to increase a pressure applied to the fuel cell. The desiccant receives a fluid byproduct produced by the fuel cell.
US11280151B2
An apparatus, system, and method are provided for injecting carrier sleeves into a wellbore. The injection system is capable of individually indexing a selected sleeve from a sleeve magazine into an injector bore and axially aligning the sleeve with the bore with a retaining device. The retaining device prevents a subsequent sleeve from being indexed into the bore from the magazine. The selected sleeve can be restricted from free fall using a staging mechanism, which can subsequently be opened to permit the selected sleeve to fall into a staging bore. The staging bore is then fluidly isolated from the injector bore and the wellbore, pressure in the staging bore is equalized with the wellbore, and then opened to the wellbore for injecting the sleeve into the wellbore. The sleeve can be axially aligned and radially centered with the injector bore using a tapered portion in the bore or the staging mechanism.
US11280137B2
A system for performing a subterranean operation, where the system may include a substructure of a rig configured to move from a first position to a second position, a first platform overlying and coupled to the substructure, a second platform overlying and coupled to the substructure, with the first platform configured to move independently from and relative to the substructure and the second platform, and with the second platform configured to move independently from and relative to the substructure and the first platform.
US11280134B2
A ground drilling device comprising a housing, a lengthwise movable drilling head tip arranged in the housing, and a bearing for supporting the drilling head tip in the housing during its lengthwise movement.
US11280129B2
A window with multiple elements which are suitable for installation in a building exterior wall as part of designing and/or retrofitting building facades is disclosed. The building structure comprises one or more movable members movably attached to a frame member where the frame member is secured in a wall opening. The building structure may further comprise a sash member attached to the one or more movable members. The connection of these members may be such that an enclosure is created when the building structure is in an extended or open position.
US11280124B2
Locking hinge apparatus for aircraft doors are disclosed. An example locking hinge apparatus includes a hinge base to couple to a frame of an aircraft. A hinge gooseneck is to pivotally couple a door to the hinge base. The hinge gooseneck is to allow the door to move between a closed position and an open position relative to the frame. A lever is pivotally coupled to the hinge base. The lever is to pivot relative to the hinge base between a first rotational direction and a second rotational direction opposite the first rotational direction. The lever includes a lock to engage a portion of the hinge gooseneck to prevent rotational movement of the door relative to the frame when the door is in the open position. A biasing element is to urge the lever in the first rotational direction.
US11280117B2
A door handle system for actuation of a moveable part of a vehicle particularly a door or a hatchback door or suchlike, comprises: a carrier which can be assembled at the inner side of the movable part; a door handle which can be assembled at the outer side of the moveable part by the carrier, wherein the door handle comprises two ends over its longitudinal extension at which connection means are intended respectively for the assembly at the carrier; a fastening element which serves for the assembly of the door handle by at least a connection means at the carrier, wherein the fastening element comprises at least one release position and a fixing position; and an adjustment element which serves for an adjustment of the fastening element between the release position and the fixing position.
US11280108B1
A water diverting ground platform includes a base plate having an interlocking edge, a plurality of tent stake apertures and a plurality of intersecting channels upon a first face. The device is configured to provide a water diverting platform for a structure such as a tent secured upon the top of the device. The interlocking nature of each platform permits a user to create as large a foundation as required by the tent of a user.
US11280103B2
A novel power generation type electromagnetic damping tuned mass damper comprises a connecting plate, a supporting guide rail fixed to the connecting plate, an mass block, a mounting assembly fixed to the mass block and a power generation type electromagnetic damping mechanism mounted on the mounting assembly. The power generation type electromagnetic damping mechanism comprises a power generation type electromagnetic damping assembly mounted on the mounting assembly, a roller rotatably mounted on the mounting assembly, a driving wheel mounted on the roller, a driven wheel mounted at an output end of the power generation type electromagnetic damping assembly and a conveyor belt sleeved on the driving wheel and the driven wheel; the roller is mounted on the supporting guide rail in a rolling manner, and the rotating centers of the roller and the driving wheel are the same and the roller and the driving wheel rotate synchronously.
US11280101B2
A brush for cleaning a pool includes an at least partially hollow body for receiving a hose, wherein the hose includes a plurality of rings being rotatably disposed around the hose. The brush also includes a plurality of bristles that project from the at least partially hollow body and a means for coupling the brush to at least one of the plurality of rings which facilitates rotation around the hose along with the at least one of the plurality of rings to which it is coupled.
US11280094B2
A stair cage is a stair assistance apparatus having a rail attached to the wall on each side of a staircase, and two horizontal rails spaced horizontally apart but joined by cross bars and having wheels rotatably attached to the ends of the cross bars and engaged in tracks within the horizontal rails so that the cross bars are able to move up and down the stairway. A brake system having a brake assembly in the wheels and squeeze brake handles on the cross bars so that the user can control the descent or hold position on the ascent.
US11280085B2
The disclosed interlocking panel systems are portable, self-supporting, and modular. They may function as guards around the sides, rear, and a surface of a workspace and can be disassembled by one person and transported to a sink for cleaning or another location for use or storage. They may also function as structural panels for constructing an enclosure, such as a building.
US11280082B1
The present invention is an assembly of parts and a new utility to repair the detached or damaged screen or mesh of a foundation ventilator. The repair kit consists of a novel repair frame, a mesh or barrier, and an attachment means to attach the mesh or barrier to the frame after the frame has been installed into a ventilator. The open repair frame is made of corrosion resistant malleable material, and has a plurality of bendable tabs cut into the perimeter of the frame that can be crimped against the edges of a foundation ventilator in need of repair thereby holding the repair frame in place effecting a permanent repair once secured and a new barrier such as a mesh attached with any suitable attachment means.
US11280072B2
Improved fluid supply assemblies for fluid systems are provided. In exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure provides for improved fluid supply assemblies and related features, systems and methods of use. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for advantageous faucet assemblies (e.g., electrically or mechanically actuated faucet assemblies) having an integrated anti-scald device and having an integrated temperature mixing valve. The present disclosure provides for a faucet assembly having an integrated temperature mixing valve, and/or having an integrated anti-scald device configured to stop the inlet flow of hot water in the event the mixed outlet water temperature exceeds a user-selected set point. Advantageous faucet assemblies of the present disclosure can prevent scalding as defined by ASSE 1070. Improved, convenient and effective systems and methods for utilizing improved faucet assemblies in fluid systems are provided.
US11280070B2
A retractable hose structure of a pull-out faucet contains: a body, a supply pipe, a flexible hose, and a spring. The body includes a locking portion. The supply pipe is hollow and includes a defining portion, an opening, and a screw element. The flexible hose is slidably received in the supply pipe and includes a slide portion and a water supply head. The water supply head is locked with the opening and is pulled outward with the flexible hose. The spring is accommodated in the supply pipe and is fitted on the flexible hose, and at least one non-metallic insulation layer is defined between the spring and the supply pipe. When pulling the water supply head outward, the spring is actuated by the flexible hose to retract. When releasing the water supply head, the spring drives the water supply head to move back to an original position.
US11280069B2
A spout for a tub. The spout includes a spout shell having opposite first and second sides. The spout further includes an inlet portion extending from the first side. The spout further includes an outlet portion extending from the second side. The outlet portion includes an outlet bore that is in fluid communication with the inlet portion. The spout further includes a plastic engine configured with waterway connection geometry and one or more locking lips, where the plastic engine is installed in the spout shell through the annular inlet portion and is secured in place by the one or more locking lips prior to reaching the annular outlet portion.
US11280066B2
A hydraulic drive system of construction machine including: turning motor; turning operation device that outputs turning operation signal corresponding to inclination angle of operating lever; turning direction switching valve including spool and driver, driver receiving command current and driving spool, turning direction switching valve increasing amount of hydraulic liquid supplied to turning motor and amount of hydraulic liquid discharged from turning motor with increase in command current; controller that feeds command current to turning direction switching valve, wherein command current increases in accordance with increase in turning operation signal; and pressure sensor that detects outflow pressure of turning motor. Where turning operation signal decreases, when outflow pressure of turning motor, which is detected by pressure sensor, is higher than threshold and is increasing, controller feeds command current to turning direction switching valve, wherein a moving speed of spool is kept to be less than or equal to limiting value.
US11280065B2
An improved arrangement for multi-position attachment points for hydraulic implement coupling. Hydraulic hoses associated with an implement attachment assembly may be removably coupled to a lift arm when in a non-operating configuration, and removably coupled to the attachment assembly when in an operating configuration.
US11280062B2
A display device has a display screen that displays a real image captured by an image capture device mounted in a construction machine which includes working equipment, and a combined image obtained by overlapping an object image indicating a virtual viewpoint image of an object around the construction machine viewed from a virtual viewpoint of an outside of the construction machine and a construction machine image indicating a virtual viewpoint image of the construction machine viewed from the virtual viewpoint, wherein the display device displays the combined image simultaneously with the real image in a partial region of the real image displayed in the display screen.
US11280057B2
A system and method for attaching implements to skid steer machines having different implement mounting configurations. The implements include or are separately provided with a securement frame defining a mini skid steer pocket engageable with a mini skid steer mount and a larger standard skid steer pocket engageable with a standard skid steer mount. The mini pocket is located between the implement and the standard pocket. A passage opening extends through the standard pocket where through the mini pocket is accessible. For attaching the implement to a mini skid steer, the mini skid steer mount is inserted through the passage opening and engages the mini skid steer pocket while the standard skid steer pocket remains unused. For attaching the implement to a standard skid steer, the standard skid steer mount is inserted directly into and engages the standard skid steer pocket while the mini skid steer pocket remains unused.
US11280056B2
Multi-oriented segmental wall blocks, soil reinforcing system, and methods related thereto are disclosed. The wall block may be a concrete masonry block used for constructing retaining walls. The wall block may include a front face; a rear cavity opposing the front 5 face and formed by an inner rear face, an outer rear face on three sides of the inner rear face and spaced apart therefrom, and a shelf defined therein by the inner rear face and the outer rear face; a troughed top face residing between the front face and the outer rear face; a flat bottom face opposing the troughed top face; a first side face residing between the front face and the outer rear face, and between the troughed top face and the flat bottom face; a second side face opposing the first side face; a trough running along the length of the troughed top face.
US11280054B2
A compactor includes a compactor structure and at least one roller unit rotatably supported on the compactor structure about a roller axis of rotation. A roller heater is deployed in assignment with at least one roller unit. The roller heater is a liquid fuel-operated heating device with a burner region, a fuel pump for supplying liquid fuel from a fuel tank to the burner region and a combustion air blower for supplying combustion air to the burner region.
US11280053B2
A magnetic marker to be laid in or on a road to achieve driving support control such as lane departure warning for warning departure of a vehicle from a lane and so forth, is a magnetic marker in which an RFID tag having an antenna for transmitting or receiving electric waves for wireless communication is retained in a magnet forming a magnetism generation source. The magnetic marker further includes a protective cover which prevents proximity of water to the antenna of the RFID tag and isolates the antenna from water. Thus, more information can be stably provided to a vehicle side.
US11280044B2
A washing machine includes a tub and a drum. The tub includes a first case and a second case welded to each other; a first coupling surface extending along a circumference of the first case and facing the second case; a second coupling surface extending along a circumference of the second case and coupled to the first coupling surface; and a coupling protrusion that protrudes from the first coupling surface toward the second coupling surface and that includes a protruding end portion welded to the second coupling surface. The coupling protrusion includes: a main coupling protrusion that extends along the first coupling surface; and an auxiliary coupling protrusion that is disposed radially outward of the main coupling protrusion and spaced apart from the main coupling protrusion and that defines a discharge opening configured to discharge washing water entered between the main coupling protrusion and the auxiliary coupling protrusion.
US11280043B2
Additive dispensing, as provided herein, may include opening a water supply valve for a first index according to a predetermined fill index and directing a wash additive from an additive dispenser to a water supply conduit during an additive segment. The method may also include blocking the wash additive from the additive dispenser to the water supply conduit during a non-additive segment, detecting a fluid level within a wash tub following the first index, and comparing the detected fluid level to a target fluid level. The method may further include opening the water supply valve for a second index based on comparing the detected fluid level within the wash tub to the target fluid level, directing the wash additive from the additive dispenser to the water supply conduit during an additive segment, and blocking the wash additive from the additive dispenser to the water supply conduit during a non-additive segment.
US11280040B2
In a washing machine of the present disclosure, a drive shaft rotating a pulsator and a dehydration shaft rotating a washing tub are connected to each other or disconnected from each other while a clutch operated by a solenoid is lifted, a current is intermittently applied to the solenoid while the clutch is lowered, and thus, a lowering speed of the clutch can be reduced.
US11280038B2
The present invention relates to an laundry treating apparatus comprising: a tub providing a space for storing water; a drum rotatably provided inside the tub and providing a space for storing clothes; a detergent box provided outside of the tub and providing a space for storing detergent, and receiving water from only the tub; tub penetrating holes provided while penetrating the inner peripheral surface of the tub; and a connecting part of which one side communicates with the tub penetrating holes and the other side communicates with the detergent box so as to allow at least a portion of the water moving in a direction of the inner peripheral surface of the tub by a centrifugal force generated during rotation of the drum, to flow into the detergent box, and mix the same with the detergent and discharge the same back to the inner peripheral surface of the tub.
US11280029B2
A method optimizes production of a rotor spinning machine having a plurality of identical spinning units, with each spinning unit having a spinning rotor driven by a rotor drive at a rotor speed to produce yarn at a delivery speed. A permissible range with a minimum delivery speed and a maximum delivery speed for the delivery speed of the spinning units is specified. Operation of the spinning units is started with a starting delivery speed within the permissible range. Current production capacity of the spinning units or the rotor spinning machine is continuously calculated. Current delivery speed of the yarn is regulated as a function of the current production capacity in such a manner that a maximum production capacity is achieved. A rotor spinning machine in accordance with method is also provided.
US11280022B2
An example electroplating method comprises feeding fresh electrolyte solution into a bath reservoir via a first inlet of the bath reservoir, and bleeding used electrolyte solution out of the bath reservoir via first outlet of the bath reservoir. Recycled electrolyte solution is received into the bath reservoir via a second inlet of the bath reservoir, and electrolyte solution is discharged from the bath reservoir via a second outlet of the bath reservoir. By-products generated by a plating cell are extracted using an extraction column. A first particle filter is disposed in a fluid pathway between the second outlet of the bath reservoir and the inlet of the plating cell, and a second particle filter is disposed in a fluid pathway between the outlet of the extraction column and the second inlet of the bath reservoir. Flow control means are disposed between the plating cell and the bath reservoir and selectively return a portion of the electrolyte solution to the bath reservoir without passing the returned portion through the first or second filter.
US11280020B2
According to an embodiment, a substrate holder holds a rectangular substrate and performs electrolytic plating on the substrate. The substrate holder includes a first holding member and a second holding member clamping the substrate between the first holding member and it and having a contact which contacts a peripheral part of the substrate and supplies an electric current to the substrate. The second holding member includes an opening defining a region where an electric field is formed and, at a position farther from the substrate than the opening, a shielding part protruding closer to an inner side than the opening and shielding the peripheral part of a surface of the substrate. The shielding part has a frame shape having a predetermined shielding width in the peripheral part of the substrate, and has, at a corner part thereof, a discontinuous part having a smaller shielding width than surroundings.
US11280019B2
One embodiment relates to a substrate carrier for use in electroplating a plurality of substrates. The substrate carrier comprises a non-conductive carrier body on which the substrates are to be held. Electrically-conductive lines are embedded within the carrier body, and a plurality of contact clips are coupled to the electrically-conductive lines embedded within the carrier body. The contact clips hold the substrates in place and electrically couple the substrates to the electrically-conductive lines. The non-conductive carrier body is continuous so as to be impermeable to flow of electroplating solution through the non-conductive carrier body. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
US11280013B2
A method to extract and refine metal products from metal-bearing ores, including a method to extract and refine titanium products. Titanium products can be extracted from titanium-bearing ores with TiO2 and impurity levels unsuitable for conventional methods.
US11280010B2
A membrane module and method of making are provided, including a mold therefor. Exemplarily, the module, which comprises a membrane around which is formed a frame, is adapted for use with an electrochemical apparatus. The membrane comprises a fabric made from a synthetic fiber such as nylon, where the nylon is woven into ripstop nylon fabric. The frame, which comprises, exemplarily, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) or polypropylene, includes a wedge-shaped portion to facilitate collection of evolved gases and which provides support to the membrane as well as support to internal electrodes. The mold is adapted to suspend and secure the membrane during formation of the module and to provide a module which secures the membrane within the frame after formation of the module.
US11280008B2
An electrochemical electrode comprising a tin-based catalyst, method of making, and method of use are provided. Catalyst particles are prepared which comprise tin deposits of about 0.1 nm to about 10 nm deposited onto carbon support. Preparing an ink comprising the catalyst particles and a binder enable an electrode to be prepared comprising the catalyst particles bound to an electrode substrate. The electrode may then be used in an apparatus and process to reduce carbon dioxide to products such as formate and formic acid at Faradaic Efficiencies up to 95 percent.
US11279994B2
A method for manufacturing a weldable steel component having a chemical composition including, by weight: 0.40%≤C≤0.45%; 0.75%≤Si≤1.50%; 0.3%≤Mn≤3%; 0%≤Ni≤5%; 1.11%≤Cr≤4%; 0%≤Cu≤1%; 0.410%≤Mo≤1.5%; 0.410%≤Mo+W/2≤1.5%; 0.038%≤Nb≤0.3%; 0.0005%≤B≤0.010%; 0.006%≤N≤0.025%; Al≤0.9%; Si+Al≤2.0%, optionally at least one element selected among V, Nb, Ta, S and Ca, in contents less than 0.3%, and among Ti and Zr in contents not more than 0.5%, the rest being iron and impurities resulting from the preparation, the aluminium, boron, titanium and nitrogen contents, expressed in thousandths of %, of said composition further satisfying the following relationship: B≥⅓×K+0.5, (1) with K=Min (I*; J*), I*=Max (0; 1), and J*=Max (0; J), I=Min(N; N−0.29(Ti−5)), J=Min(N; 0.5(N−0.52 Al+√{square root over ((N−0.52 Al)2+283)})), and whereof the structure is bainitic, martensitic or martensitic/bainitic and additionally comprises 3 to 20% of residual austenite.
US11279993B2
A nickel-containing steel plate according to an aspect of the present invention has a chemical composition within a predetermined range, in which an average coarse grain size of prior austenite which is defined as a simple average value of maximum values of equivalent circle diameters of prior austenite grains in each of ten visual fields having an area of 200 μm2, measured at a ¼t position of the steel plate in a section formed by a rolling direction of the steel plate and a thickness direction of the steel plate is 20 μm or less, and a tensile strength is 690 MPa to 900 MPa.
US11279990B2
An aluminum alloy contains 0.7% to 1.8% of silicon, 0.5% to 2.1% of copper, 0.4% to 1.8% of manganese, 0.6% to 1.6% of magnesium, and 0.1% to 0.7% of zinc in terms of mass ratio and the balance aluminum with inevitable impurities.
US11279984B2
A cold rolled steel sheet, the steel containing, in weight percentage, 0.19%≤carbon≤0.24%, 1.9%≤manganese≤2.2%, 1.4%≤silicon≤1.6%, 0.01%≤aluminum≤0.06%, 0.2%≤chromium≤0.5%, phosphorus≤0.02%, sulfur≤0.003%, the balance including iron and unavoidable impurities, the steel sheet having a microstructure containing 5% to 15% of tempered martensite, 10% to 15% of residual austenite, the balance containing bainite, bainite content being at least 70%, is described. Also described is a manufacturing method and with use of such grade for making vehicle parts.
US11279980B2
Disclosed herein are methods for identifying a genetic susceptibility to colon cancer in as subject, the method comprising determining the mRNA expression level of one or more of FSCN1, ZIC2, ZIC5, CRYBA2, MUC6, TRNP1 and SEMG1 in a colon tissue sample in the subject, where a ratio of the sample expression level of one or more genes in the panel to a reference expression level of one or more genes in the panel indicates cancer or and increased susceptibility of cancer. Disclosed herein are diagnostic devices comprising one or more biomarkers, wherein the biomarkers are FSCN1, ZIC2, ZIC5, CRYBA2, MUC6, TRNP1 and SEMG1; and a gene expression panel consisting of primers or probes for detecting FSCN1, ZIC2, ZIC5, CRYBA2, MUC6, TRNP1 and SEMG1 in a sample, and methods for assessing risk of developing colon cancer in a subject.
US11279977B2
Materials and methods for identifying carriers of genetic determinants of spinal muscular atrophy are disclosed. In particular, polymorphisms in linkage disequilibrium are associated as markers of spinal muscular atrophy alleles detectable by various techniques, including multiplex ligation-dependent probe analysis, sequence analysis, and RFLP detection. The materials and methods of the disclosure are particularly useful in identifying silent (2+0) carriers of spinal muscular atrophy in which two copies of the SMN1 gene are located on a single human chromosome 5 and no copies of the gene are located on the chromosome 5 homolog.
US11279974B2
Disclosed is an in situ method for detecting spatial proximity relationships between nucleic acid sequences, such as DNA, in a cell. The method includes: providing a sample of one or more cells comprising nucleic acids; fragmenting the nucleic acids present in the cells that leaves 5′ overhanging ends; filling in the overhanging ends with at least one labeled nucleotide; joining the filled in end of the fragmented nucleic acids that are in close physical proximity to create one or more end joined nucleic acid fragments having a junction; isolating the one or more end joined nucleic acid fragments using the labeled nucleotide; and determining the sequence at the junction of the one or more end joined nucleic acid fragments.
US11279972B2
The present disclosure describes a method of adapter ligation to the ends of fragmented double-stranded DNA molecules.
US11279960B2
A method produces xylo-oligosaccharides from a biomass containing xylan and cellulose, which method is convenient and has a high yield of xylo-oligosaccharides because of inhibition of degradation of xylo-oligosaccharides into xylose. In the method of producing xylo-oligosaccharides, a biomass containing xylan and cellulose is hydrolyzed with a cellulase composition having at least activities of xylanase, cellobiohydrolase and β-glucosidase and substantially free of β-xylosidase activity during hydrolysis.
US11279956B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for rapid production of chemicals in genetically engineered microorganisms in a large scale. Also provided herein is a high-throughput metabolic engineering platform enabling the rapid optimization of microbial production strains. The platform, which bridges a gap between current in vivo and in vitro bio-production approaches, relies on dynamic minimization of the active metabolic network.
US11279951B2
The invention is directed to a replication-deficient adenoviral vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a human atonal homolog-1 (Hath1) protein operably linked to a human glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) promoter. The invention also is directed to a composition and method utilizing the adenoviral vector to generate sensory cells in the inner ear of a human.
US11279946B2
Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in any of SEQ ID NO:1-40, 42, 43, 45-48, 50, 51, 52, 54, 56, 58-64, 66, or 67, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in any of SEQ ID NO:69-106, as well as variants and fragments thereof.
US11279943B2
Provided is a technique for highly expressing a target protein in a plant cell by using a glycosylation domain, a recombinant vector comprising a gene encoding a fusion protein of a glycosylation domain and a target protein, a recombinant cell, a transformed plant, and a method of producing a target protein using these.
US11279931B2
Provided are a therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent for a lung disease and a method for screening for the therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent. Provided are a therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent for a lung disease comprising an Arid5A inhibitor as an active ingredient and a method for screening for the therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent.
US11279930B2
Novel oligonucleotides that are fully chemically stabilized are provided. Methods of using oligonucleotides that are fully chemically stabilized are also provided.
US11279924B2
A method of preparing a conditionally active polypeptide from a parent polypeptide, comprising steps of evolving a DNA encoding the parent polypeptide by increasing a net charge of the parent polypeptide using one or more techniques selected from increasing a total number of codons of charged amino acid residues in the DNA and decreasing a total number of codons of uncharged amino acid residues in the DNA to create mutant DNAs; expressing the mutant DNAs to obtain mutant polypeptides; and selecting the conditionally active polypeptide from the mutant polypeptides which exhibits a decrease in activity in a first assay at a first value of a condition compared to the same activity in a second assay at a second value of the same condition. The conditionally active polypeptide, pharmaceutical compositions containing same, nanoparticle and drug conjugates thereof and uses thereof are also provided.
US11279923B2
The present invention relates to methods for purifying RNA by chromatography under high salt conditions, e.g. by hydrophobic interaction chromatography.
US11279915B2
Provided herein are, inter alia, methods, compositions, and kits for producing adipocyte populations such as beige adipocyte populations. Also included are methods and compositions for increasing the level of adipocyte populations (e.g., beige adipocyte populations) in a subject, as well as methods and compositions for treating subjects who are overweight, obese, or who have diabetes.
US11279910B2
There is provided an apparatus comprising a receptacle to receive a sample. A sample dispenser dispenses the sample into the receptacle and an image capture device captures an image of the sample in the receptacle. Processing circuitry processes the image to determine whether the receptacle contains zero cells, exactly one cell, or more than one cell. In response to the processor determining that the receptacle contains zero cells, the processing circuitry causes the sample dispenser to dispense a further sample into the receptacle.
US11279891B2
Systems and methods for direct crude oil upgrading to hydrogen and chemicals including separating an inlet hydrocarbon stream into a light fraction and a heavy fraction comprising diesel boiling point temperature range material; producing from the light fraction syngas comprising H2 and CO; reacting the CO produced; producing from the heavy fraction and separating CO2, polymer grade ethylene, polymer grade propylene, C4 compounds, cracking products, light cycle oils, and heavy cycle oils; collecting and purifying the CO2 produced from the heavy fraction; processing the C4 compounds to produce olefinic oligomerate and paraffinic raffinate; separating the cracking products; oligomerizing a light cut naphtha stream; hydrotreating an aromatic stream; hydrocracking the light cycle oils to produce a monoaromatics product stream; gasifying the heavy cycle oils; reacting the CO produced from gasifying the heavy cycle oils; collecting and purifying the CO2; and processing and separating produced aromatic compounds into benzene and paraxylene.
US11279887B2
A treatment composition for reducing viscosity, pour point, and precipitate content of a hydrocarbon fluid at temperatures below 90° F., preferably 34° F. to 90° F. The treatment composition includes one or more mixed fatty acid methyl esters, an aromatic mixture consisting essentially of C9 to C15 aromatic compounds, and a main solvent consisting essentially of low odor kerosene, low odor diesel, or a mixture of low odor diesel or low odor kerosene. The treatment composition solubilizes hydrocarbon deposits for removal. The treatment composition also solubilizes paraffins and asphaltenes in a hydrocarbon fluid to prevent or mitigate the formation of hydrocarbon deposits.
US11279884B2
Reverse flow reactor (RFR) apparatuses exhibiting asymmetric feed profiles and improved flow distribution during heating mode and/or pyrolysis mode operation, and methods of using same to transform a hydrocarbon feed into a pyrolysed hydrocarbon product are disclosed. The RFR apparatus includes an RFR body with a reaction zone having at least one bed. The RFR body has a central vertical axis and is flanked by first and second void spaces. The method utilizes at least two oxygen-containing feeds, a combustion fuel feed, a purge feed, and a hydrocarbon pyrolysis feed. The RFR apparatus can cycle between an exothermic heating mode (heated to ≥700° C. while maintaining a pressure drop across the reaction zone of ≤100 kPag), a purge mode (purging oxygen using <6 bed volumes of purge gas while maintaining a pressure drop of ≤35 kPag), and an endothermic pyrolysis mode (feeding pyrolysis hydrocarbons through the reaction zone to form pyrolysis products, while maintaining a pressure drop across the reaction zone of ≤70 kPag).
US11279883B2
The invention relates to a method of heating and cooling a feed mixture in a continuous high pressure process for transforming carbonaceous materials into liquid hydrocarbon products in a high pressure processing system adapted for processing a feed mixture at a temperature of at least 340° C. and a pressure of at least 150 bar, the high pressure processing system comprising a first and a second heat exchanger having a heat transfer fluid comprising at least 90% water, preferably at least 99% water circulating in the external part of the first and the second heat exchanger, the first heat exchanger comprising a cold internal input side and a hot internal output side, the second heat exchanger comprising a hot internal input side and a cold internal output side, the system further comprising a high pressure water heater and a high pressure water cooler between the first and the second heat exchanger, where the pressurized feed mixture is heated by feeding the feed mixture to the cold internal side of the first heat exchanger, heating and pressurizing the heat transfer fluid to a pressure of at least 240 bar and a temperature of at least 400° C. at the input to the hot external side of the first heat exchanger, where the cooled heat transfer fluid from the first heat exchanger having a temperature in the range 150 to 300° C. is further cooled to a temperature of 60 to 150° C. in the high pressure water cooler prior to entering the cold external side of the second heat exchanger, where the pressurized, heated and converted feed mixture is cooled to a temperature in the range 60 to 200° C. by feeding it to the internal side of the second heat exchanger, and where the partly heated heat transfer fluid is further heated in the high pressure water heater before entering the first heat exchanger.
US11279877B2
The present invention is a method for improving soil, wherein a lignin decomposition product having an aldehyde yield by alkaline nitrobenzene oxidation of 5% by mass or more, a weight average molecular weight of 300 or more and 100,000 or less, and a contact angle with water is 15° or more is supplied to soil.
US11279867B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for degrading polymer systems. These compositions and methods can be used to effectively degrade a range of polymers commonly used in oil and gas operations, including polymers with carbon-carbon backbones such as polyacrylamides. Further, these compositions and methods can simultaneously degrade other organic molecules and pollutants associated with oil and gas operations. The compositions and methods described herein employ reactants that are more environmentally-friendly than conventional methods and components used in, for example, polymer breaking processes.
US11279866B2
Methods for fracturing a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore are provided, the method comprising the step of injecting a well treatment fluid into the well bore at a pressure and flow rate sufficient to fracture the subterranean formation, wherein the well treatment fluid comprises one or more iron-containing compounds and one or more booster compounds. The methods can be used to reduce viscosity and to facilitate the decomposition of acrylamide-containing polymers.
US11279863B2
Compositions and methods for use in subterranean treatment fluids involving thermoassociative polymers are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include providing a treatment fluid that includes an aqueous base fluid, one or more thermoassociative polymers that include a water soluble polymeric backbone having one or more hydrophobic moieties attached to the polymer backbone, wherein the thermoassociative polymer exhibits thermoassociation at a first temperature Tassoc, and one or more tuning additives that changes the temperature at which at least one of the thermoassociative polymers exhibits thermoassociation from Tassoc to a second temperature Tassoc′; and introducing the treatment fluid into a portion of a subterranean formation.
US11279858B2
A three-dimensional sticker is disclosed that includes a body. The body has the following components: a main sheet constructed from a thermoformable plastic layer, and a flexible/stretchable ink layer adhered the main sheet. Additionally, the body may employ an adhesive layer comprising a repositionable adhesive adhered to the main sheet and a thermoformable release liner detachably adhered to the adhesive layer. A thermoformable foam layer may reside between the main sheet and the removable adhesive layer. The body is thermoformed into a three-dimensional shape with an anchor region and an elevated region. The anchor region is substantially planar and defines an anchor plane, and the elevated region is outside of the anchor plane. The adhesive layer and release liner may be present in the anchor region and elevated region.
US11279852B2
Described herein are chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry compositions, such as CMP slurry compositions for polishing an indium tin oxide (ITO) layer, along with methods of fabricating a semiconductor device using such a CMP slurry composition. The CMP slurry composition can include a polishing particle, a dispersing agent, an auxiliary oxidizing agent, and a sugar alcohol compound.
US11279845B2
A basecoat coating composition includes an aromatic polyurethane pre-polymer having isocyanate terminal end groups, a first solvent and optionally a second VOC-exempt solvent, in which the total composition formulation has a VOC content of less than 97 g/L. A topcoat coating composition includes an aliphatic polyurethane pre-polymer having isocyanate terminal end groups, a first solvent and optionally a second VOC-exempt solvent, in which the total composition formulation has a VOC content of less than or equal to 95 g/L. The total composition formulations of the basecoat and/or topcoat may have a VOC content of less than 50 g/L. A membrane system may include an optional primer coating, and the above described basecoat and topcoat coating compositions.
US11279843B2
A coating slip including at least one pigment, water and: between 30% and 90% by weight of dextrin (A) of at least one dextrin having a weight-average molecular weight MA of less than 500 kDa; between 10% and 70% by weight of dextrin (B) of at least one dextrin having a weight-average molecular weight MB; the weight amounts of dextrins being relative to the total amount of the mixture of dextrins (A) and (B) in the composition, characterized in that MB is greater than MA+50 kDa. Also, a process for coating paper including a step of coating with this slip, and also to the paper obtained at the end of this process.
US11279842B2
Aqueous particle-free fluids can be used in inkjet printing methods including continuous inkjet printing processes. Each of these fluids has a dynamic viscosity of less than or equal to 5 centipoise (5 mPa-sec) at 25° C., and each consists essentially of: a composition consisting of one or more compounds represented by the following Structure (I): HO—CH2—CH2—R (I) wherein R is a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted phenoxy group, in a total amount of at least 0.5 weight % and up to and including 2 weight %, based on the total weight of the aqueous inkjet ink composition. Such aqueous particle-free fluids can be used as replenishment or printhead maintenance fluids. Two or more of such aqueous particle-free fluids can be packaged, sold, and use as part of fluid sets.
US11279841B2
A fluid set can include an ink composition having a pH from pH 7 to pH 10 and a crosslinker composition having a basic pH from pH 8 to pH 10. The ink composition can include from 60 wt % to 90 wt % water, from 5 wt % to 30 wt % organic co-solvent, from 1 wt % to 6 wt % pigment, and a latex polymer including an aromatic (meth)acrylate moiety. The crosslinker composition can include from 70 wt % to 95 wt % water, from 1 wt % to 25 wt % organic co-solvent, and from 1 wt % to 10 wt % polycarbodiimide.
US11279839B2
A magenta dye-based ink composition and a method for improving the print qualities of a magenta dye-based ink composition. The magenta dye-based ink composition includes one or more red dye(s) and a minor but effective amount of black dye. A weight ratio of red dye(s) to black dye in the ink composition ranges from about 20:1 to about 100:1.
US11279837B2
A composition comprising a colored synthetic gel useful for the preparation of waterborne multicolor paints.
US11279832B2
This invention is directed to a polymerizable, cold-curing (meth)acrylate system for floor coating.
US11279825B2
In the composition according to the embodiment, the composition of oligomers that constitute the chains in a urethane-based prepolymer may be adjusted to control the physical properties thereof such as gelation time. Thus, since the micropore characteristics, polishing rate, and pad cut rate of a polishing pad obtained by curing the composition according to the embodiment may be controlled, it is possible to efficiently manufacture high-quality semiconductor devices using the polishing pad.
US11279821B2
A selectively hydrogenated block copolymer of general formula S-E-S, (S-E1)nX, or mixtures thereof is disclosed, where n has a value of 2-6, and X is a coupling agent residue. Before hydrogenation, S is a polystyrene block having a molecular weight of 4,400-5,600 g/mol, and E and E1 are polydiene blocks having molecular weights of 18,000-36,000 g/mol and 9,000 to 18,000 g/mol, respectively, selected from polybutadiene, polyisoprene and mixtures thereof, and having a total vinyl content of 60-85 mol %. After hydrogenation, the block copolymer has 0-10 percent of styrene double bonds reduced and at least 80 percent of conjugated diene double bonds reduced. The block copolymer has a solution viscosity of less than 80 centipoise (cP); a polystyrene content of 25-40 wt. % and up to 50 wt. % of diblock units of general formula S-E or S-E1.
US11279819B2
In some embodiments disclosed herein are polyethylene composition including a first polyethylene which is an ethylene copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 70,000 to 250,000 and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of <2.3, a second polyethylene which is an ethylene copolymer or homopolymer having a weight average molecular weight of less than 75,000 and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of <2.3, a third polyethylene which is an ethylene copolymer or homopolymer having a weight average molecular weight of less than 75,000 and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of <2.3, and a fourth polyethylene which is an ethylene copolymer or homopolymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 100,000 to 250,000 and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of >2.3, where the first polyethylene has more short chain branching than the second polyethylene or the third polyethylene. The polyethylene composition may have a soluble fraction in a CEF analysis of at least 7.5 weight percent. Film made from the polyethylene composition may have a machine direction 1% secant modulus of 200 MPa (at a film thickness of about 1 mil) and an oxygen transmission rate (OTR) of ≥550 cm3 per 100 inch per day (at a film thickness of about 1 mil). Film made from the polyethylene composition retains much of its dart impact performance on downgauging from a thickness of 1 mil to a thickness of 0.75 mil.
US11279818B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a rubber composition having excellent processability, a heterocycle-modified glycerin fatty acid ester, and a production method for the heterocycle-modified glycerin fatty acid ester. The present invention includes: a rubber composition containing a rubber, silica, and a heterocycle-modified glycerin fatty acid ester, in which an epoxy group is modified with a heterocyclic compound having a heterocycle having at least one H—N< bond, where the heterocycle is at least one selected from the group consisting of a piperazine ring, a morpholine ring, and a thiomorpholine ring, and the heterocycle may have a substituent; the heterocycle-modified glycerin fatty acid ester; and a production method therefor.
US11279813B2
A plasticized PVC composition free of phthalate and having low color is disclosed. The composition comprises a morpholide plasticizer prepared from a fatty acid selected from a tall oil fatty acid, a tall oil fatty acid monomer derived therefrom, and mixtures thereof. The fatty acid has a total carbon footprint of <95% of the total carbon footprint of a fatty acid obtained from a vegetable oil. The morpholide is prepared from the reaction of a tall oil fatty acid with morpholine in the presence of a catalyst.
US11279809B2
The invention relates to flame-proofed polyurethane hard foam material or polyurethane/polyisocyanurate hard foam material (designated below individually or jointly also as “PUR/PIR hard foam material”) comprising phosphinates (also hypophosphite), and to a method for producing PUR/PIR hard foam materials through the implementation of a reaction mixture containing A1 an isocyanate-reactive component, A2 propellant, A3 catalyst, A4 optionally additive, A5 flame-proofing agent, B an isocyanate component, characterised in that the flame-proofing agent A5 contains a phosphine according to the formula (I)M[(R)2PO2]n, where R=in each case stands for H, C1- to C4-(hydroxy-)alkyl group or benzyl group, M=an element of the main groups 1 to 3, wherein hydrogen is excepted, and n=the number of the main group of M, and the proportion of the phosphine according to the formula (I) is 0.1 to 15 wt %, based on the total mass of components A1 to A5.
US11279808B2
Provided is a thermoplastic resin composition which provides a molded body having excellent thermal conductivity and excellent mechanical characteristics. A thermoplastic resin composition which contains (A) a thermoplastic resin, (B) pitch carbon fibers and (C) graphite, and wherein: the content of the graphite (C) is from 1% by mass to 20% by mass (inclusive) relative to 100% by mass of the thermoplastic resin composition; and a molded body, which is obtained by molding this thermoplastic resin composition and has a thickness of 1 mm, has a thermal conductivity of 10 W/mK or more as determined by a hot wire method.
US11279804B2
Branched SiOC-linked polyethersiloxanes have the following formula (I) where R1 is an alkyl radical having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a phenyl radical, but preferably 90% of the radicals R1 are methyl radicals; b has a value of from 1 to 10; a has a value of from 1 to 200, preferably 10 to 100, a value of from 3 to 70 when b is ≥1 and ≤4, or a value of from 3 to 30 when b is >4; and R2 denotes identical or different polyether radicals, but at least one radical R2 is a structural element radical of formula (II): where p=at least 2, preferably p=2-6, particularly preferably p=3.
US11279801B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to a silane-functionalized polyalkyleneimine (PAI) clay stabilizer for treatment of subterranean formations. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation. The method can include placing in the subterranean formation a silane-functionalized PAI clay stabilizer.
US11279799B2
Provided are a polyester resin having high heat resistance and degree of crystallinity, a preparation method thereof, and a resin molded article formed therefrom, the resin molded article having superior heat resistance and mechanical strength and maintaining high transparency.
US11279793B2
A molecularly resilient and high-energy transferrable material and method of reinforcing and strengthening substrates with the same. The material includes aliphatic polyurea moieties coated on the surface of a pre-curing or curing epoxy, that may or may not compose a fiber reinforced epoxy (F/E) layer, constituting an isophorone diisocyanate amine (IDA) epoxy-surface modification (reaction) to form an interfacial epoxy-polyurea hybridized-matrix (IEPM) material between the epoxy (that may reside on an F/E layer) and a cured polyurea layer. Through its unique set of molecular vibrational properties, which are designed into the IEPM by controlling the thermodynamic IDA reaction, the chemically bonded and molecularly resilient (regenerative) IEPM material incorporates significant fracture toughness, loss modulus (material damping), and reduced elastic modulus into structural substrates and high-tenacity fibers to which it is adhered.
US11279789B2
Provided are a hydrogenated block copolymer capable of giving a resin composition having good moldability and sufficient mechanical strength and excellent in flexibility, kink resistance and transparency and also excellent in pressure sensitive adhesiveness, adhesiveness and weather resistance, and a resin composition containing the hydrogenated block copolymer, as well as a pressure sensitive adhesive, an adhesive, a molded article, a liquid-packaging container, a medical tool, a medical tube, a corner member for weather seal, and a weather seal that are produced using these. Specifically, the hydrogenated block copolymer is a hydrogenated block copolymer prepared by hydrogenating a block copolymer that contains at least a polymer block (A) consisting mainly of a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound, and a polymer block (B) consisting mainly of a structural unit derived from isoprene, a structural unit derived from butadiene, or a structural unit derived from a mixture of isoprene and butadiene, wherein the content of the polymer block (A) is 1% by mass or more and less than 5% by mass relative to the total amount of the hydrogenated block copolymer, the total content of the 1,2-bond and the 3,4-bond of the polymer block (B) is 30 to 85 mol %, the hydrogenation rate of the polymer block (B) is 80 mol % or more, and the weight average molecular weight of the hydrogenated block copolymer is 150,000 to 800,000.
US11279787B2
Provided is a process for forming a polymer composition, wherein the process comprises (a) providing a slurry in an aqueous medium, wherein the slurry comprises (i) pellets comprising a polyolefin block copolymer, wherein the block copolymer comprises a crystalline block and an amorphous block, (ii) one or more vinyl monomers, (iii) one or more initiator, wherein the slurry comprises, by weight based on the total weight of the slurry, 0 to 0.01% of all surfactants, and 0 to 0.01% of all water-soluble polymers; and (b) polymerizing the one or more vinyl monomers.
US11279781B2
Catalyst system for producing ethylene copolymers in a high temperature solution process, the catalyst system comprising: (i) a metallocene complex of formula (I) wherein M is Hf or a mixture with Zr, provided that more than 50% by moles of the complex of Formula I has M=Hf; X is a sigma ligand; R are the same or different from each other and can be saturated linear or branched C1-C10 alkyl, C6-C10 aryl, C4-C10 heteroaryl, C6-C20 alkylaryl or C6-C20 arylalkyl groups, which can optionally contain up to 2 heteroatoms or silicon atoms; R1 is a C6-C10 aryl or C6-C20 alkylaryl group optionally containing up to 2 heteroatoms or silicon atoms or a C4-C10 heteroaryl group; R2 is a C4-C20 cycloalkyl group, optionally carrying alkyl substituents in beta-positions, of formula (II) in which R′ can be the same or can be different from each other and can be hydrogen or is defined as R and n is 1 to 17; and (ii) a boron containing cocatalyst.
US11279779B2
Novel polyethylene copolymers having a relatively high comonomer partitioning tendency are disclosed as are methods for their preparation. The comonomer partitioning tendency is the tendency for a copolymer to have comonomer in the higher molecular weight chains. Novel metrics for describing the comonomer partitioning tendency are also disclosed.
US11279765B2
Agents that inhibit CX3CL1 in endothelial cells to reduce or inhibit immunosuppression mechanisms that are co-opted by cancer cells to evade host immune system, and that reduce immunosuppression in context of therapies that target VEGF-dependent signaling, and methods of use thereof.
US11279764B2
The present invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to EGFRvIII (Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Variant III). The invention further provides bispecific antibodies that bind to EGFRvIII and another antigen (e.g., CD3) as well as antibody conjugates (e.g., antibody-drug-conjugates). The invention further relates to antibody encoding nucleic acids, and methods of obtaining such antibodies (monospecific and bispecific) and antibody conjugates. The invention further relates to therapeutic methods for use of these antibodies and antibody conjugates for the treatment of EGFRvIII-mediated pathologies, including cancer such as glioblastoma.
US11279762B2
The invention provides anti-idiotypic antibodies against anti-PD-L1 antibodies and methods of using the same.
US11279756B2
The present invention relates to a binding molecule capable of specifically binding to Lrig-1 protein, which is located on the surface of a regulatory T cell. The binding molecule provided in the present invention can activate the function of regulatory T cells to effectively prevent, ameliorate, or treat diseases caused by excessive activation or expression of various immune cells and inflammatory cells, for example, immune-related diseases such as autoimmune disease, graft-versus-host disease, organ transplant rejection, asthma, atopy, acute or chronic inflammatory disease, etc. In addition, the binding molecule, preferably the antibody, specific for the Lrig-1 protein according to the present invention has advantages of more effectively targeting the Lrig-1 protein as compared with antibodies against Lrig-1 which are previously commercially available, and also possessing very good binding capacity thereto.
US11279752B2
Provided herein are recombinant masking proteins and recombinant ligand proteins useful in treating cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and cardiovascular disease. The recombinant masking proteins provided herein may, inter alia, be used as non-covalent masks of antagonists of, for example, cellular growth factors (e.g., TNF) or cell surface proteins (e.g., CTLA-4).
US11279751B2
Fibronectin type III (10Fn3) binding domains having novel designs that are associated with reduced immunogenicity are provided. The application describes alternative 10Fn3 binding domains in which certain immunogenic regions are not modified when producing a binder in order to maintain recognition as a self antigen by the host organism. The application also describes 10Fn3 binding domains in which HLA anchor regions have been destroyed thereby reducing the immunogenic contribution of the adjoining region. Also provided are 10Fn3 domains having novel combinations of modified regions that can bind to a desired target with high affinity.
US11279748B2
Provided herein are recombinant animal-free food compositions comprising egg-white proteins such as ovalbumin, ovotransferrin and lysozyme and methods of making such food compositions.
US11279734B2
The present invention provides novel peptides (e.g., peptides, macrocyclic peptides, mini-proteins) that modulate protein-protein interactions or salts thereof, and methods of making and using the inventive peptides. In some embodiments, the peptides are high affinity inhibitors (e.g., KD of at most 100 nM, at most 10 nM, at most 1 nM) of a protein-protein interaction. In certain embodiments, these peptides interfere with p53-MDM2 binding interactions (e.g., by binding to MDM2 (GenBank® Gene ID: 4193)). In some embodiments, the peptides interfere with the dimerization of the C-terminal domain of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) capsid protein (C-CA), comprising residues 146-231 of the HIV capsid protein (e.g., by binding to the C-terminal domain of the HIV capsid protein (C-CA), thereby inhibiting the dimeric interface of HIV capsid protein, thereby inhibiting viral assembly). These inventive peptides were rapidly generated and identified using novel methods described herein comprising combinatorial peptide synthesis and/or solution affinity selection.
US11279726B2
Provided are a newly developed norbornene-based amphiphilic compound, a method for preparing the same, and a method for extracting, solubilizing, stabilizing, crystallizing or analyzing a membrane protein using the same. In addition, the compound may effectively extract membrane proteins having various structures and characteristics, compared to a conventional compound, from cell membranes, and may be stably stored in an aqueous solution for a long period of time, and therefore may be used in their functional analysis and structural analysis. The structural and functional analyses of membrane proteins are the most noticeable field in biology and chemistry today due to a close relationship to the development of new drugs.
US11279721B2
Manganese (II) complex, preparation method thereof, and use thereof in organic light emitting diodes
The invention relates to a manganese (II) complex, its preparation method and use. The structure of the complex is (R1R2R3R4A)2[MnX4], wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are identical or different, independently selected from alkyl, aryl, or heteroaryl; said alkyl, aryl, or heteroaryl can be optionally substituted with a substituent, and the substituent is preferably alkyl, aryl or heteroaryl; A is N, P, or As; X is optionally F, Cl, Br, or I. The present invention also relates to an organic light emitting diode, its preparation method and use, wherein the manganese (II) complex of the invention is used as a dopant in the light-emitting layer. The prepared organic light emitting diode exhibits high electrical-to-optical conversion efficiency which can be used for flat-panel displays and illuminations.
US11279706B2
Provided herein are compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, methods of preparing the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions in treating conditions associated with voltage-gated sodium channel function where the compounds are 11,13-modified saxitoxins according to Formula (I): where R1, X1, and X2 are as described herein.
US11279703B2
The present invention relates to fused pyrimidine compounds, particularly pyrrolopyrimidine and thienopyrimidine compounds and derivatives thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of inhibiting BRD4 and/or JAK2, as well as methods of treating various diseases and conditions, such as cancer and leukemia, with such compounds. Bromodomain binding and JAK activity are included.
US11279699B2
Disclosed are a compound as a selective JAK inhibitor, and an isomer, a solvate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: the definitions of (A), R, R1 and n are described in detail in the specification. In addition, also disclosed are a medicament including the compound and salts thereof as an active ingredient, and the use thereof in the preparation of a medicament for treating JAK-related target diseases, such as immune system diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and tumors.
US11279697B2
An aromatic derivative as represented by formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a pharmaceutical composition comprising same, a preparation method therefor, and uses of the aromatic derivative and the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or the pharmaceutical composition comprising same in preparing a therapeutic agent, specifically an FGFR4 tyrosine kinase inhibitor, and in preparing a medicament for treating and/or preventing neoplastic and inflammatory diseases. The substituents of formula (I) are same as defined in the description.
US11279688B2
Described herein are compounds that inhibit wild-type RET and its resistant mutants, pharmaceutical compositions including such compounds, and methods of using such compounds and compositions.
US11279687B2
The present invention relates to compounds and compositions for the inhibition of NAMPT, their synthesis, applications and antidotes. An embodiment of the invention is the provision of a compound of Formula IIIA.
US11279684B2
The invention relates to imidazoquinoline derivatives and to pharmaceutical compositions containing the imidazoquinoline derivatives. The imidazoquinoline derivatives of the invention are useful as toll-like receptor agonists, in particular agonists of TLR7, and promote induction of certain cytokines.
US11279678B2
Disclosed is a 5-fluorouracil derivative having the molecular structure shown in general formula VI, in which Ra and Rb groups are an alkoxy group or a fluorine-substituted alkoxy group having 1, 2, 3, or 4 carbon atoms, and are mono-, bis-, tri-, tetra- or penta-substituted on a phenyl group; a linking group L1 is an alkyl or alkenyl group having 1, 2, 3, or 4 carbon atoms, a linking group L2 is oxygen, or an alkyl or alkoxy group having 1, 2, 3, or 4 carbon atoms, or an amino acid, or an alkyl group having 1, 2, 3, or 4 carbon atoms containing an amino moiety, or a furyl group, and an X group is O or —NH—. Further disclosed is a method for preparing such a derivative and a use of the same in the treatment of cancer, tumor diseases, and diseases caused by abnormal neovascularization in a human or non-human mammal, and a medicament or a composition containing the 5-fluorouracil derivative.
US11279669B2
The present disclosure is directed synthetic methods for the preparation of 4-valyloxybutyric acid. The synthetic methods described herein employ a diverse array of protecting group strategies and reaction conditions. Additionally, the present disclosure is directed to compounds useful as synthetic intermediates in the preparation of 4-valyloxybutyric acid.
US11279668B2
The present invention relates to an improved asymmetric synthesis of alpha-(diarylmethyl) alkyl amines (hereafter referred to as the compound (1)) or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt and derivatives. The process comprises an unusual substrate specific regioselective lithiation of alpha-diarylmethanes. followed by its highly diastereoselective addition to N-tert-butanesulfinylimines resulting in the selective formation of chiral alpha-(diarylmethyl) alkyl amines 4 and chiral amine 5; which on subsequently removing the sulfinyl group provides corresponding alpha-(diarylmethyl) alkyl amines (1) or relative chiral amines (1″).
US11279659B2
A fire-resistant two-component mortar system, which includes a component A and a component B, which is in an aqueous-phase for initiating a curing process. Component A includes water, aluminous cement, a mineral filler, a plasticizer, and a blocking agent selected from phosphoric acid, metaphosphoric acid, phosphorous acid, and a phosphonic acid. Component B includes an initiator, a retarder, a mineral filler, and water,
US11279657B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to an optical window including an infrared light transmissive optical material. The optical material includes a first ceramic phase including a first ceramic material and a first dopant distributed therein. The optical material further includes a second ceramic phase homogenously intermixed with the first ceramic phase and comprising a second ceramic material and a second dopant distributed therein. The first dopant increases the refractive index of the first ceramic material and the second dopant decreases the refractive index of the second ceramic material. The first dopant and the second dopant are present in an amount such that a difference in a refractive index of the first ceramic phase and of the second ceramic phase is in a range of from about 0.001 to about 0.2.
US11279653B2
An object is to enable sealing of a peripheral portion of a glass panel with less effort and time. A first metal introduction device 5A is moved from one first corner A at which two sides intersect each other of a pair of rectangular glass plates, toward another end of a first side Vab of the two sides, while performing filling with a metal material. Before the metal material filling the first corner A is solidified, a second metal introduction device 5B is moved from the first corner A toward another end of another second side Vad, while performing filling with a metal material. After the first side Vab and the second side Vad are filled with the metal material, both glass plates are rotated by 180 degrees, and the first metal introduction device 5A is moved toward another end of a fourth side Vcd of two sides intersecting each other at a second corner C diagonal to the first corner A, while performing filling with a metal material. Before the metal material filling the second corner C is solidified, the second metal introduction device 5B is moved from the second corner C toward another end of another third side Vbc, while performing filling with a metal material.
US11279635B2
An electrolyzed water generating apparatus 1 includes: an electrolysis tank D containing a first electrode chamber Da having a cathode 6a, a second electrode chamber Db having anode 6b, and a separating membrane Sp separating the first electrode chamber Da and the second electrode chamber Db from each other; a first water inlet path 4a supplying the first electrode chamber Da with raw water from outside; a first water outlet path 7a carrying to outside hydrogen-containing electrolyzed water generated by electrolysis in the first electrode chamber Da; and a charge amount adjuster 10 for adjusting, during the electrolysis, an amount of electrical charge to be provided to the hydrogen-containing electrolyzed water. The charge amount adjuster 10 adjusts the amount of electrical charge per unit quantity of the generated hydrogen-containing electrolyzed water through control of an electrolytic current or an electrolytic voltage.
US11279631B2
A method for purifying an aqueous mixture is provided. The method can include at least partially crystallizing an aqueous mixture derived from a hydrocarbon process to provide a crystallized aqueous mixture. The aqueous mixture can comprise water and one or more contaminants to be separated from the water. The crystallized aqueous mixture can be separated into a contaminant-rich fraction and a water-rich fraction. Water can be recovered from the water-rich fraction and the one or more contaminants can be recovered from the contaminant-rich fraction.
US11279626B2
Provided is a method of extracting a metal ion, which comprises contacting a compound of formula (R2SiO)n with a source of the metal ion, whereby the compound and the metal ion form a complex, wherein each R is independently C1-10alkyl, and n is 3-10.
US11279624B2
A method for producing forsterite microparticles having a primary particle size of 1, to 50 nm, as determined through electron microscopy. The method includes spray-drying, in an atmosphere of 50° C. or higher and lower than 300° C., a solution containing a water-soluble magnesium salt and colloidal silica at a mole ratio of magnesium atoms to silicon atoms (Mg/Si) of 2; and subsequently, firing the spray-dried product in air at 800 to 1,000° C.
US11279615B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) structure and method of forming the MEMS device, including forming a first metallization structure over a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) wafer, where the first metallization structure includes a first sacrificial oxide layer and a first metal contact pad. A second metallization structure is formed over a MEMS wafer, where the second metallization structure includes a second sacrificial oxide layer and a second metal contact pad. The first metallization structure and second metallization structure are then bonded together. After the first metallization structure and second metallization structure are bonded together, patterning and etching the MEMS wafer to form a MEMS element over the second sacrificial oxide layer. After the MEMS element is formed, removing the first sacrificial oxide layer and second sacrificial oxide layer to allow the MEMS element to move freely about an axis.
US11279607B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to conduits, devices, systems and methods, which may include a hollow element including an inner surface and an outer surface which allows for a passage of one or more of one or more fluid elements and one or more gaseous elements, a constraining element with one or more openings and one or more non-open elements, one or more blocking elements configured to stop the passage of the at least one of the one or more fluid elements and the one or more gaseous elements when the one or more blocking elements are in a first position relative to the one or more openings, and a movement device configured to move the one or more blocking elements to a second position relative to the one or more openings which allows for the passage of the one or more fluid elements and the one gaseous elements through the one or more openings in the constraining element.
US11279591B2
A multicar elevator system includes a group of individually drivable elevator cars and two shafts coupled to each other with at least two transfer channels. The system further includes a control unit configured to operate the system in either of two operating modes, wherein in the first mode the group of elevator cars is arranged to travel to a first vertical direction in the first shaft and to another vertical direction in the second shaft through the transfer channels. In the second mode, a first sub-group of elevator cars are parked in one of the shafts and at least one elevator car belonging to a second sub-group of elevator cars is arranged to travel in the both vertical directions in the other shaft upon a call.
US11279590B2
A system and method for non-contact measurement of remaining spooled material. The system comprises at least one optical signal source configured to illuminate spooled material with an optical beam having an optical beam width that illuminates the material remaining in the spool. The optical beam width and spacing are such that spooled material is illuminated by each optical signal source. The system includes drive circuitry configured to drive the at least one optical signal source using pulses. The system further includes at least one optical signal receiver configured to receive light reflected from each of said light pulses. The system still further includes a processor configured to: establish a number and drive strength of the pulses; and cause measurements to be performed of the remaining spooled material.
US11279587B2
A staple unit is secured to a second movable body that is provided on a first movable body so as to be swayed. The first movable body is moved linearly in a width direction of a bundle of sheets. The second movable body includes a first engagement member and a second engagement member, and the movement of the first engagement member and the second engagement member in accordance with the linear movement of the first movable body is guided by a parallel groove, a first sway groove, and a second sway groove of a posture control unit. The first engagement member is in constant contact with the first sway groove while the first engagement member moves in the first sway groove, and the second engagement member is in constant contact with the second sway groove while the second engagement member moves in the second sway groove.
US11279580B2
A sheet suction device includes a bearing member configured to bear a sheet on a circumferential surface of the bearing member and rotate, a plurality of suction holes in a bearing region in the circumferential surface of the bearing member, a suction device connected to the plurality of suction holes, the suction device configured to suck the sheet through the plurality of suction holes, and a rotary valve between the bearing member and the suction device. The rotary valve includes: a first member communicating with the suction device, and a second member contacting the first member, the second member communicating with the plurality of suction holes. The first member includes a first groove on a side surface in a circumferential direction of the first member, the first groove communicating with the suction device.
US11279579B2
Provided are: a sheet feed device that is capable of suppressing the occurrence of a sheet feeding fault by changing the pressing contact force of a retard roller against a feed roller; and an image formation device equipped with the same. This sheet feed unit (50) is provided with: a pickup roller (29); a feed roller (31); a retard roller (32); a holding member (40) that holds the retard roller (32); a first biasing member (42) that biases the holding member (40); and a pressing contact force changing mechanism (60) that changes the pressing contact force of the retard roller (32) against the feed roller (31). The pressing contact force changing mechanism (60) has: a rotary shaft (61) disposed parallel to the axial direction of the retard roller (32); a cam member (70) that rotates with the rotary shaft (61); and a movable member (80) that contacts the cam member (70), moves in the axial direction in conjunction with the rotation of the cam member (70), and changes the biasing force generated by the first biasing member (42).
US11279573B2
A sheet holder includes a regulator, a rotary body, a detection target, a rotational position detector, and a biasing body. The regulator moves in directions to approach and separate from an end portion of a sheet. The rotary body has a contact portion and rotates according to movement of the regulator. The detection target is attached to the rotary body, has a contact target portion, and rotates together with the rotary body by contacting of the contact portion of the rotary body with the contact target portion of the detection target in a rotational direction of the rotary body. The rotational position detector detects a rotational position of the detection target. The biasing body applies a biasing force between the rotary body and the detection target to maintain a contact state of the contact portion of the rotary body and the contact target portion of the detection target.
US11279563B2
A plate element is disclosed that is capable of use in a wire conveyor belt assembly having multiple spaced rods. The plate element may include a plate body having a planar base surface, one or more engagement elements to engage one or more of the spaced rods, and an interface element that extends away from the planar base surface to form a raised interface surface.
US11279551B2
A packing unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes an outdoor unit with heavy objects that are provided on a bottom plate of a housing of the outdoor unit. On the packing unit, the outdoor unit is placed. The packing unit includes: a support base that has a cuboid framework structure made by combining a plurality of wood pieces, and supports the outdoor unit; a long wood piece that has a long plate shape, and that forms part of an upper surface portion of the support base and faces the bottom plate, the long wood piece having end portions, one of the end portions being fixed to the support base, the other being a free end that is movable in a vertical direction; and a support wood piece that is provided on an upper surface portion of the end portion on a free end side of the long wood piece.
US11279550B2
There is disclosed a dispenser 10 for dispensing product objects, comprising: a main chamber 20 for storing product objects; and a portion dispensing mechanism for dispensing a portion comprising a plurality of project objects 40. The portion dispensing mechanism comprises a gate arrangement 36 and a collection chamber 24 which are configured for relative linear movement between a loading configuration and a dispensing configuration. In the loading configuration a plurality of product objects 40 within the main chamber 20 collect within the collection chamber 24 and the gate arrangement 36 prevents product objects 40 from being dispensed from the collection chamber 24. In the dispensing configuration the gate arrangement 36 prevents product objects within the main chamber 20 from entering the collection chamber 24 and a plurality of product objects are dispensed from the collection chamber.
US11279532B2
A product includes a container, a photosensitive material carried by the container and responsive to ultraviolet light, and a UV protector carried by the container to protect the photosensitive material from exposure to UV light. A method of producing a food or beverage container includes applying a photochromic material to a food or beverage container that is responsive to ultraviolet (UV) light so as to darken upon exposure thereto, and protecting at least a portion of the photochromic material from exposure to UV light.
US11279530B2
A child-resistant closure for a container includes an inner cap retained in an outer cap, the outer cap being rotatable with respect to the inner cap; the inner cap having a gripping surface on a circumferential sidewall; the outer cap having a circumferential lateral wall defining at least one elongate cutout that exposes the gripping surface, the cutouts providing adequate contact area between a typical thumb and/or fingers of an adult and the exposed gripping surface to allow removal of the closure from a container, and inadequate contact area between a typical thumb, finger and/or hand of a child to allow removal of the closure.
US11279509B2
A fill-packaging method for plural rows, a fill-packaging machine for plural rows and a fill-packaged body include a wide-width cylindrical body forming process for continuously longitudinal-sealing a plastic film longitudinally unreeled in the longitudinal direction to continuously form a single wide-width cylindrical body, a sealing and cutting process for continuously heat-sealing one or more widthwise positions of the wide-width cylindrical body to form longitudinally border sealed portions and continuously cutting the longitudinally border sealed portions in the longitudinal direction to cut out the wide-width cylindrical body into a plurality of narrow-width cylindrical body rows independently arranged in parallel, and a bag-making process for continuously manufacturing packaged bodies by applying horizontal sealing to each of the narrow-width cylindrical body rows separated and run independently in the longitudinal direction at predetermined intervals while filling a packing material therein.
US11279501B2
Systems and methods are described for a satellite control system that exhibits improved stability and increased efficiency by implementing a non-linear dynamic inversion inner-loop control algorithm coupled with an eigen vector outer-loop control algorithm. Thus, the attitude determination and control system (ADACS) may operate using commands to rotate directly about an eigen vector. Additionally, the outer-loop control system includes a feed-forward control element to enhance pointing accuracy when tracking moving targets.
US11279500B2
A device intended to be installed in an aircraft, the device being adapted for functioning in a first so-called “on the ground” operating mode or a second so-called “in flight” operating mode, the device includes a radio module compliant with a low power wide area network standard adapted for sending messages comprising data issuing from a sensor and supplied by an energy storage element, the device being adapted for: (1) in the first operating mode: before the sending of each message, charging the energy storage element with a predefined energy, and (2) in the second operating mode: for each message to be sent, choosing a transmission power, determining, according to this transmission power, an energy necessary for the sending of the message by the radio module, and before the sending of the message, charging the energy storage element with the necessary energy determined.
US11279491B2
An apparatus for aircraft anti-icing includes a nozzle body, a nozzle extending from the nozzle body, an eductor shroud at least partially surrounding the nozzle, the eductor shroud configured to focus a first flow of ambient air towards a first flow of hot gas exiting the first nozzle.
US11279490B2
Auxiliary power systems, aircraft including the same, and related methods. An auxiliary power system comprises an auxiliary power unit (APU) controller and an APU with an air intake, a powerhead, and a load compressor stage. The load compressor stage includes a flow regulator assembly, a load compressor, and a bleed air temperature (BAT) sensor for generating a BAT signal. The APU controller regulates a flow rate of a load compressor airflow through the load compressor based on the BAT signal. A method of utilizing an auxiliary power system includes compressing a load compressor airflow to generate a bleed air flow, measuring the BAT with a BAT sensor, generating a BAT signal based on the BAT, transmitting the BAT signal to an APU controller, generating a flow regulator command with the APU controller, transmitting the flow regulator command to a flow regulator assembly, and controlling a flow regulator assembly.
US11279487B2
Systems and methods for loading a cargo aircraft are described. The system includes at least one rail disposed in an interior cargo bay of a cargo aircraft that extends at an angle relative to an interior bottom contact surface of a forward portion of the interior cargo bay, through a kinked portion and an aft portion of the interior cargo bay. Payload-receiving fixtures are described that can be used in conjunction with the rail system, allowing for large cargo, such as wind turbine blades, to be transported by aircraft. Methods of loading a cargo aircraft can include advancing the large payload into the interior cargo bay of the aircraft such that at least one of the payload-receiving fixtures rises relative to a plane defined by the interior bottom contact surface of the forward portion of the interior cargo bay. Various systems, methods, components, and related tooling are also provided.
US11279484B2
An aircraft for unmanned firefighting may include a water tank fillable via a scoop operation during flight of the aircraft, and configured to be emptied by a release operation at a target of interest, a communications module configured to employ wireless communication via a ground link and/or a satellite link to provide real time or near real time communication with a remote configuration or monitoring facility, an imaging module configured to obtain image data at the target of interest for identifying updated target information, and a navigation module configured to enable remote or autonomous operation of the aircraft during the scoop operation and the release operation.
US11279478B2
An aircraft that is convertible between a helicopter mode and an airplane mode. The aircraft includes a fuselage with a longitudinal axis and a vertical axis and distributed propulsion array that surrounds the vertical axis when the aircraft is operating the helicopter mode and surrounds the longitudinal axis when the aircraft is operating in the airplane mode.
US11279472B2
Systems and methods for wide set retracting landing gear of a cargo aircraft. One embodiment is an aircraft that includes a fuselage including a nose, and a pair of main landing gears comprising a pair of main posts disposed across the fuselage, each main post having a main wheel and configured to pivot forward toward the nose to retract the main wheel. The aircraft also includes a pair of nose landing gears comprising a pair of nose posts disposed across the fuselage, each nose post having a nose wheel and configured to pivot inboard to retract the nose wheel.
US11279471B2
Systems and methods for bipedal nose landing gear of an aircraft. One embodiment is a nose landing gear of an aircraft. The nose landing gear includes a shock strut coupled to an axle with a nose wheel, and a folding side brace extending from the shock strut inboard toward a belly of the aircraft and configured to stabilize the shock strut. The nose landing gear also includes a trunnion configured to pivot the shock strut forward toward a nose and inboard toward the belly of the aircraft to retract the nose wheel.
US11279467B2
An aircraft control system has a flight specification acquisition sensor for acquiring flight specifications of an aircraft and outputting the respective numerical values, and a plurality of flight computers, each having the same control software and performing airframe control based on the flight specification numerical values, thereby constituting a redundant system of flight control functions. Further, the control system includes a noise generator for the plurality of flight computers, which generates a plurality of noises different from each other, and the plurality of noises are individually superimposed on the numerical value of one flight specification output from the flight specification acquisition sensor to generate a plurality of new flight specification numerical values different from each other which are then output to the plurality of flight computers. This configuration ensures redundancy of the aircraft control software against potential bugs using the same control software.
US11279459B2
According to embodiments described in the specification, a hover attachment includes a housing operable to receive a mobile device having a processor, a memory, and a display, at least one sensor operable to detect a position parameter of the mobile device relative to an object under tracking, and a regulator operable to maintain, responsive to the detecting, the mobile device in a hover relation to the object under tracking, wherein the display of the mobile device is a situational display. An exemplary method includes providing a situational display interface on a display of a mobile device mounted in a hover attachment, detecting a movement of an object under tracking in hover relation to the mobile device, and when the detected movement is associated with a position change function, controlling the hover attachment to maintain the hover relation between the mobile device and the object under tracking.
US11279456B2
An accessory sleeve that fits over an oar combination is disclosed herein. The sleeve is configured with a ruler or a tape measure printed on a surface thereof. Further, the sleeve comprises neoprene that yields proper feel and grip while stretching slightly so that the sleeve can be easily applied and removed, if necessary. The ruler is supported underneath by a nylon strip that prevents shrinking initially and any stretching during the useful life of the sleeve.
US11279443B2
An electric component for a human powered vehicle, comprises a transmitter, a receiver, at least one operating member, and a controller. The transmitter is configured to wirelessly transmit wireless signals to an additional electric component. The receiver is configured to wirelessly receive an acknowledgement signal from the additional electric component. The controller is configured to control the transmitter to consecutively transmit one of the wireless signals as a first control signal in response to an operation of the at least one operating member until the receiver receives the acknowledgement signal. The controller is configured to control the transmitter to transmit another of the wireless signals as a second control signal when a first predetermined time period has passed since a time point from when the operation of the at least one operating member is started until when the transmitter starts transmitting the first control signal.
US11279442B2
A sprocket support body is rotatably mounted on a hub axle of a bicycle rear hub assembly. The sprocket support body comprises at least ten external spline teeth configured to engage with a bicycle rear sprocket assembly. Each of the at least ten external spline teeth has an external-spline driving surface and an external-spline non-driving surface.
US11279440B2
A drive apparatus for an electric bicycle with an electric motor, an energy storage unit for supplying the electric motor with electrical energy, and a carrier at which the energy storage unit is releasably held, wherein a first plug connector is provided at the energy storage unit and a second plug connector is provided at the carrier which plug connector is connected to the first plug connector to connect the energy storage unit to the electric motor. The first plug connector is mounted in a pivotable manner at the carrier about a first pivot axis.
US11279437B2
A shift operating device includes a frame body, a cable spool assembly, a first elastic component, an upshift lever, a driving pawl, a positioning pawl, a movable component, and a downshift lever. The cable spool assembly is disposed on the frame body. The first elastic component can force the cable spool assembly to rotate along a first direction. The upshift lever can rotate the cable spool assembly along a second direction by the driving pawl. The positioning pawl is disposed on the frame body and engaged with the cable spool assembly. The movable component is linearly and movably disposed on the frame body and in contact with the positioning pawl. The downshift lever is disposed on the frame body and in contact with the movable component. When the downshift lever is pivoted, the downshift lever forces the movable component to detach the positioning pawl from the cable spool assembly.
US11279428B2
A saddle riding vehicle includes a swing arm swingably supported on a vehicle body, a rear wheel supported by the swing arm, and a rear fender covering the rear wheel from an upper side, the rear fender being supported rotatably. In the saddle riding vehicle, the rear fender is supported by the swing arm, and the rear fender is supported rotatably in a vehicle width direction by a rotating section.
US11279423B2
A vehicle configuration wherein the center of mass of the vehicle is approximately superimposed upon the passenger and driver centers of mass when seated within the vehicle. An occupant's center of mass can be approximated using a standard center of mass position approximation, or a combination of any number of standard center of mass position approximations. The vehicle's center of mass can be approximately superimposed upon the occupant's center of mass in at least the longitudinal and vertical directions.
US11279421B1
A pickup full of gear doesn't have to be a jumbled mess. A modular, lightweight load-carrying system is custom engineered to fit directly to each make and model of pickups using the existing OEM mounting points in the bed. The rack systems allow pickup operators to keep gear organized, easily accessible, and secure.
US11279418B2
A vehicle-use resin module including a strength member made of synthetic resin and including a mounting hole, and an attachment member attached to the mounting hole and configured to be subjected to an external force. The attachment member includes an outer fitting having a tubular part arranged in the mounting hole in an inserted state. The outer fitting includes an outer circumferential projection projecting to a radially outer side of the tubular part. The strength member is an insertion-molded component having a structure in which the outer circumferential projection of the outer fitting is embedded so as to be inserted inside a circumferential wall of the mounting hole. A surface of the tubular part of the outer fitting and a surface of the outer circumferential projection are each directly fixed to the strength member with an adhesive.
US11279413B1
A sleeper panel is provided for use with each of the passenger and driver sides of a sleeper cab. The entire upper ends of the sleeper panels have a top flange which is secured to the underside of the sleeper cab. Structure is provided to maintain the curved portions of the sleeper panel in their desired radius of curvature. A cab panel is also described which is ideally suited for use on a truck cab so as to be positioned forwardly of the sleeper panels thereby providing an esthetic appearance to the vehicle.
US11279408B2
The amount of absorbed energy at the time of load input is improved with high mass efficiency. A hollow member includes: a hollow metal member having a bending induction portion in a portion in a longitudinal direction; and a resin material which is made of a resin having a Young's modulus of 20 MPa or more and is disposed in the bending induction portion in close contact with the metal member.
US11279404B2
A steering apparatus for a two-track vehicle may include a steering handle, in the case of whose rotary actuation the steerable vehicle wheels can be turned by a wheel steering angle, and a control device to electrically actuate a steering actuator for setting the wheel steering angle was a function of driving operational parameters and independently of the steering handle and a clutch that provides a releasable mechanical steering connection between the steering handle and the steerable vehicle wheels. An automatic avoidance manoeuvre may be carried out in the case of a risk of collision, in which the control device fully releases the clutch, and the control device actuates the steering actuator such that the vehicle briefly leaves its driving lane and is then brought back into the driving lane. The control device also actuates a braking of the steering handle during the collision avoidance manoeuvre.
US11279402B2
A method for steering a gantry crane having wheel assemblies includes the steps of: initiating movement of the gantry crane; and rotating the wheel assemblies wherein the front wheel assemblies rotate in a first rotational direction and the rear wheel assemblies rotate in a second rotational direction. The first rotational direction is opposite to the second rotational direction. First side wheel assemblies rotate at a first rotational speed and second side wheel assemblies rotate at a second rotational speed, such that the gantry crane moves from a linear path to an arcuate path with a turning radius decreasing to substantially zero for rotation about a central axis.
US11279401B2
The steer-by-wire system includes a steering device, a reaction force device, and a controller. The steering device turns wheels of a vehicle. The reaction force device applies a steering reaction force to a steering wheel. The controller is configured to control the steering reaction force by drive control of the reaction force device in response to an operation of the steering wheel. The controller is further configured to: obtain a signal including a component due to a reaction force which acts on the wheels from a road surface; extract a signal being greater than or equal to a predetermined frequency from the signal including the component due to the reaction force; and calculate a control amount of the reaction force device based on the extracted signal equal to or greater than the predetermined frequency.
US11279398B2
A magnetic detection device includes a substrate including a penetration part, a magnetic detection part supported on the substrate to overlap the penetration part, a pair of magnetic guiding parts arranged to sandwich the penetration part and the magnetic detection part, the pair of magnetic guiding parts being configured to guide a magnetic flux from a magnetic generation part to the magnetic detection part, and a soft magnetic member at least partially provided inside the penetration part.
US11279396B2
A steering column includes an upper jacket. The steering column also includes a lower jacket that the upper jacket is telescopingly coupled to. The steering column further includes an energy absorbing strap directly coupled to the upper jacket with at least one mechanical fastener.
US11279395B2
A steering column having an adjustment limit stop device comprising a body receiving, in a deformable bearing, the sleeve carrying the steering wheel and a mechanism for clamping a shaft with a lever carrying a clamping device compressing the deformable bearing. The steering column comprises a stop device provided with a stop edge carried by the sleeve and with which a lock cooperates that limits the adjustment travel of the sleeve while being retracted after the adjustments of the column have been clamped, allowing the sleeve to travel, in the event of an impact on the steering wheel, in order to absorb the energy.
US11279387B2
The present invention relates generally to a train direction detection device and a method of determining the direction of travel. The train direction detection device analyzes the characteristics, such as impedance, of an electrical circuit implemented on a railroad to determine the direction of approach of a train. The invention is adapted to integrate with occupancy or grade crossing circuits commonly used by railroads at grade crossings.
US11279378B1
Systems and methods of visualizing predicted driving risk are provided herein. Vehicle sensor data associated with a vehicle operator may be analyzed. Based on the analysis of the vehicle sensor data, one or more vehicle operation risks associated with the vehicle operator may be predicted. Each vehicle operation risk may be associated with a portion of a vehicle associated with the vehicle operator. Additionally, each vehicle operation risk may be assigned a priority level, e.g., based on predicted likelihood of occurrence, predicted danger to the vehicle operator, predicted damage to the vehicle, etc. A display overview of the vehicle may be presented to the vehicle operator. In the display overview of the vehicle portions of the vehicle associated with each of the predicted vehicle operation risks may be highlighted. The portions may be highlighted differently (using different colors, heavier/lighter shading, etc.) based on the priority level of their associated risks.
US11279355B2
A traveling control apparatus is configured to control automated driving traveling of a vehicle based on a set automated driving level. The traveling control apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling scene information that specifies a traveling scene of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to perform offset control to offset a traveling position of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction to increase a distance to another vehicle traveling side by side with the vehicle. The control unit performs the offset control by setting one of a first mode and a second mode based on at least one of the traveling scene information and the automated driving level.
US11279352B2
A vehicle control device comprises: a region recognition unit that recognizes a specific region present in a progression direction of a host vehicle, for example a crossing or an intersection, and identifies the type of the specific region; a space presence determination unit that determines whether or not there is a space through which the host vehicle can enter outside of exits of the specific region; and a vehicle control unit that controls the host vehicle according to the presence of the space. Furthermore, the space presence determination unit switches the method for determining the presence of the space in accordance with the type of the specific region.
US11279350B2
A method of adaptive trajectory generation for a vehicle is provided. A computer device of the vehicle may update a current trajectory for the vehicle when some predetermined conditions that are related to an obstacle positioned within a predetermined distance of the vehicle are satisfied.
US11279346B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining whether a vehicle should continue through an intersection. For example, the one or more of the vehicle's computers may identify a time when the traffic signal light will turn from yellow to red. The one or more computers may also estimate a location of a vehicle at the time when the traffic signal light will turn from yellow to red. A starting point of the intersection may be identified. Based on whether the estimated location of the vehicle is at least a threshold distance past the starting point at the time when the traffic signal light will turn from yellow to red, the computers can determine whether the vehicle should continue through the intersection.
US11279341B2
A control apparatus of a hybrid leaning vehicle includes: a travel mode request section that requests one travel mode selected from a plurality of travel modes including a first travel mode in which an engine is operated with a clutch disengaged and a second travel mode in which the engine is operated with the clutch engaged; and a travel mode setting section. When the travel mode request section requests the second travel mode during travel in the first travel mode, the travel mode setting section, upon determining that a shock accepting condition is satisfied, sets the second travel mode as the travel mode to be executed and, upon determining that the shock accepting condition is not satisfied, prohibits the second travel mode from being set as the travel mode to be executed.
US11279338B2
A control device for a hybrid vehicle includes an engine operating point control unit that shifts an engine operating point to an engine operating point on an optimal fuel-efficiency operating line outside a predetermined noise generation region in which combustion sounds of an engine become noise when the engine operating point is in the noise generation region. Accordingly, when the engine operating point is in the noise generation region, the engine operating point control unit shifts the engine operating point to an engine operating point on the optimal fuel-efficiency operating line outside the noise generation region. As a result, since the engine operating point is not separated from the optimal fuel-efficiency operating line even when the engine operating point departs from the noise generation region, it is possible to curb a decrease in fuel efficiency.
US11279331B2
A braking control device includes an actuator, a controller, a steering angle sensor, and a yaw rate sensor. The controller calculates a reference turning amount, an actual turning amount, an understeer index, sets to a non-adjustment region in which the increase slope is not decreased when the understeer index is smaller than or equal to a first threshold value, sets to an adjustment region in which the increase slope is decreased when the understeer index is greater than or equal to a second threshold value greater than the first threshold value, and sets to a transition region in which the increase slope is decreased when the understeer index is transitioned from the non-adjustment region and the increase slope is not decreased when the understeer index is transitioned from the adjustment region when the understeer index is greater than the first threshold value and smaller than the second threshold value.
US11279328B2
A passenger side driving instructor brake controller can include a telescoping shaft including a first end and a second end, and a brake lever connector disposed at the first end of a telescoping shaft and adapted to be secured to a brake lever of a motor vehicle disposed within a driver-side front floorboard area of the motor vehicle. A tubular main body bent near its mid-section, the tubular main body configured to adjustably accept the second end of the telescoping shaft therein and secure the telescoping shaft with locking hardware at a fixed position within the tubular main body to enable the main body to traverse over a main console of the motor vehicle where the tubular main body is bent at its mid-section and also to extend into a passenger compartment area of the motor vehicle wherein the tubular main body can terminate at a handle area.
US11279318B2
A seat belt pretensioner of a vehicle include: a displacement generator to generate a linear displacement in a seat frame; and a webbing guide that receives the linear displacement generated by the displacement generator and pulls a webbing. In particular, the webbing extends from a retractor fixed to the seat frame to the outside of the seat.
US11279314B2
A method for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle having a side structure and a cabin with a seat for the occupant includes providing an airbag in a stored condition offset from a centerline of the seat. The airbag has a first portion and a second portion fluidly connected with one another. The first portion is inflated and deployed to a position lateral of the occupant. The second portion is inflated and deployed from the first portion to a position in front of the occupant.
US11279312B2
In a vehicle seat (1) comprising a seat cushion (2) and a seatback (3), the seatback comprises a seatback frame (20) including a right and a left side member (24) extending vertically, a side airbag unit (30) attached to one of the side members, a flexible seatback pad (21) provided with a pad side slit (44) to permit an airbag to be deployed opposite to the side airbag unit, a skin member (22) having a skin side slit (51) in a part thereof corresponding to the pad side slit, and a retaining sheet (60) connected to a part of a back side of the seatback pad opposing the side member, and to the side member so as to fixedly secure a position of the seatback pad relative to the side member.
US11279311B2
A restraint system for helping to protect an occupant (60) of a vehicle (20) includes a first inflator (74) for providing inflation fluid at a first fluid pressure and a second inflator (76) for providing inflation fluid at a second fluid pressure greater than the first fluid pressure. An airbag (70) includes a stored condition within a roof (32) and is inflatable to a deployed condition extending into a cabin (40) and aligned with a seat (50) for the occupant (60). The airbag (70) includes a first portion (98) defining a first chamber (100) fluidly connected to the first inflator (74) and a second portion (102) defining a second chamber (104) fluidly connected to the second inflator (76) and fluidly isolated from the first chamber (100). The first portion (98) moves relative to the second portion (102) in response to occupant (60) penetration into the airbag (70).
US11279310B1
An apparatus for connecting a curtain airbag to a vehicle includes a fabric mounting portion formed from or connected to the curtain airbag. The fabric mounting portion has a fastener retainer for retaining a fastener in the mounting portion during installation of the curtain airbag in the vehicle. The fastener retainer is formed from the mounting portion fabric and defined by one or more slots that extend through the mounting portion fabric, leaving the fastener retainer connected to the remainder of the mounting portion by one or more tabs. The mounting portion also has a retainer opening extending through the fastener retainer and sized to form an interference fit with the fastener so that the fastener retainer holds the fastener. The one or more tabs in combination with the one or more slots permits the fastener retainer to move relative to the remainder of the mounting portion.
US11279300B1
A seating assembly includes a seat base operably coupled with a seatback. A panel assembly includes a first panel coupled with the seatback and a second panel hingedly coupled with the first panel. The second panel includes a connector assembly having a housing and a support slidably coupled with the housing. The second panel is movable between a first position and a second position. The second panel is vertically aligned with the first panel in the first position and is substantially coplanar with the first panel in the second position.
US11279296B2
Described herein is a cargo carrier system comprising a cargo carrier and a mounting base configured to attach to a vehicle trailer hitch. The cargo carrier can have wheels and can removably attach to the mounting base. The cargo carrier can easily be removed from the mounting base and pivoted to the ground. The mounting base can be pivoted vertically when not in use.
US11279288B2
A vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head having a mirror reflective element with a transflective mirror reflector. A video display device is disposed rearward of the mirror reflective element and has a display screen that occupies at least 85 percent of a reflective region of the transflective mirror reflector that is visible to a driver of the vehicle when viewing the mirror reflective element. The video display device is operable to display video images captured by a rearward viewing camera of the vehicle. When the video display device is operated to display video images, light emitted by the video display device passes through the transflective mirror reflector of the mirror reflective element for viewing of displayed video images by the driver of the vehicle viewing the mirror reflective element. Light emitted by the video display device may exit the mirror reflective element as circularly polarized light.
US11279285B2
A manually foldable rearview device includes a head for holding at least one reflective element comprising at least one of a rearview mirror, a camera, and a display, a foot for attaching the head to a vehicle, a bearing bush connected rigidly to the foot and engaging the head for support and rotation of the head, the bearing bush including head and foot parts and a sliding disk which is connected axially displaceably to the bearing bush but not rotatably relative to the bearing bush by a suitable fixing, and a pretensioned spiral spring arranged around the bearing bush and pressing the head onto the foot.
US11279283B2
Camera control systems and methods for providing a dynamic view of the environment outside of a vehicle are presented. One or more cameras are configured to capture at least one view of the environment outside of the vehicle. Control circuitry detects at least one of the speed of the vehicle and the pitch angle of the vehicle (e.g., by using a speedometer and inclinometer). The control circuitry selects a view angle based on the at least one of the speed of the vehicle and the pitch angle of the vehicle. The control circuitry then displays, based on an output of the at least one camera, a view of the environment outside of the vehicle from the selected view angle on a display of the vehicle.
US11279282B2
Methods and systems for aligning a vehicle with a trailer. One system includes an image sensor configured to collect a plurality of images. The system also includes an electronic processor configured to receive the plurality of images from the image sensor. The electronic processor is also configured to determine a three-dimensional model of an area surrounding the vehicle using the plurality of images. The electronic processor is also configured to control the vehicle to automatically perform a vehicle maneuver to align the vehicle with the trailer based on the three-dimensional model of the area surrounding the vehicle. The electronic processor is also configured to determine when the vehicle is aligned with the trailer and stop the vehicle from automatically performing the vehicle maneuver when the vehicle is aligned with the trailer.
US11279278B2
A pedestrian warning device, comprising a warning device body having a cavity and an open end portion, and a sound-generating device mounted inside the cavity, wherein the pedestrian warning device further comprises a grille cover arranged on the end portion of the warning device body; the grille cover comprises at least two grille layers spaced at intervals from the inside to the outside, each of the grille layers comprising a plurality of crossbeams, the crossbeams being arranged at intervals so as to form gaps to enable gas to flow between adjacent crossbeams, and wherein a width of the gaps is not greater than a width of the crossbeams, and the crossbeams of adjacent grille layers are interleaved with each other. The grille cover can protect internal component of the pedestrian warning device and will not affect the performance of the pedestrian warning device.
US11279277B2
An illumination device for a motor vehicle for displaying a linear light including a plurality of optical waveguides, an illuminating element having a plurality of light sources for coupling light into a respective first end face of the plurality of optical waveguides, and an emitting part for generating a linear light distribution, the optical waveguides being arranged with a respective second end face, which is different from the first end face, through the emitting part relative to one another along precisely one line.
US11279273B1
A smart cover for a vehicle seat is provided that is able to detect biometric data of the user occupying the vehicle seat. A vehicle seat comprising the cover is also provided. The vehicle seat cover comprises one or more yarn sensors and one or more yarn supercapacitors. The yarn supercapacitors are being electrically connected to the yarn sensors for powering them. Accordingly, an arrangement for the detection of biometric data of the user occupying the vehicle seat is provided with the arrangement being integrated in the cover of the seat. As a result, the provision of the biometric data detection arrangement does not adversely affect the production time and complexity nor the overall weight of the cover of the vehicle seat.
US11279271B2
The invention relates to a vehicle seat having a suspension unit for cushioning the rolling and vertical suspension movements of the vehicle seat, wherein the vehicle seat has a vehicle seat upper part and a vehicle seat lower part, wherein the vehicle seat upper part and the vehicle seat upper part are connected by means of the suspension unit so that the vehicle seat upper part and the vehicle seat lower part are movable relative to one another, wherein the suspension unit comprises a scissor arrangement having a first scissor arm and a second scissor arm, characterised in that the suspension unit is rotatably connected about a first axis of rotation to the vehicle seat lower part and comprises a spring element support and a first spring element, the first spring element being connected on the one hand to the vehicle seat lower part and on the other hand to the spring element support which is rotatably connected about a second axis of rotation to the first scissor arm and rotatably connected about a third axis of rotation to the second scissor arm, and the first spring element being preferably arranged at a first angle to a vehicle seat width direction and at a second angle to a vehicle seat height direction.
US11279269B1
A seat for a vehicle includes a seat back and a seat bottom extending from the seat back along a seat-bottom axis. A track is fixed relative to the seat bottom and is elongated along the seat-bottom axis. A slider is slidably engaged with the track along the seat-bottom axis. A link is pivotally engaged with the slider. An armrest is pivotally engaged with the link. A pyrotechnic actuator connected to the slider. In the event of a sensed vehicle impact, the pyrotechnic actuator pulls the slider to move the armrest to a raised position.
US11279255B2
The disclosure is directed at an apparatus for an active converter dolly for use in a tractor-trailer configuration. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a system to connect a first trailer towed behind a towing vehicle to a second trailer. The apparatus further includes a kinetic energy recovery device for translating the mechanical motions or actions of the dolly into electricity or electrical energy so that this energy can be used to charge a battery or to power other functionality for either the dolly or the tractor-trailer. The active dolly may also operate to assist in shunting the tractor-trailer. The active dolly is operable in a number of modes to increase vehicle performance and efficiency.
US11279254B2
When a prescribed operation is performed during execution of AC charging, an ECU of a vehicle performs a charging stop process. The ECU determines whether or not a resume condition is satisfied during the charging stop process. When the resume condition is satisfied and when a charging connector is connected to an inlet, the ECU brings a locking device to a locked state and resumes the AC charging. When the resume condition is not satisfied or when the charging connector is not connected to the inlet, the ECU does not resume the AC charging.
US11279247B2
A power converter for an electric vehicle include a connection interface for coupling an external battery to a first bus. The power converter includes a first set of switching devices configured to transfer power between a charge port and the first bus, and a second set of switching devices configured to transfer power between the first bus and a second bus coupled to a traction battery. The power converter includes a controller programmed to control a voltage level of the first bus to different nominal operating voltages based in different operating modes.
US11279246B2
The present disclosure relates to a charging gun conduit structure, including a main post erected on the ground, a first conduit rotatably attached to a top portion of the main post, an L-shaped second conduit with one end rotatably attached to an end of the first conduit and the other end extended toward the ground, a third conduit with one end attached to the second conduit through an extendable corrugated pipe, a fourth conduit with one end rotatably attached to the other end of the third conduit, a charging gun with one end connected to the other end of the fourth conduit through an elastic connection unit allowing a bending within a predetermined range at an arbitrary direction, and a plurality of charging cables with one or more signal lines disposed to be unconstrained inside the first through fourth conduits to allow easy rotation and extension of the conduit structure.
US11279243B1
Connection and control concepts for battery packs in a high voltage battery assembly are provided. Parallel, modular configurations permit improved safety, voltage balancing, and redundancy, improving operation and reliability of an associated high voltage electrical vehicle such as a heavy-duty truck.
US11279237B2
There is provided a vehicle comprising a motor for driving; a power storage device configured to transmit electric power to and from the motor; a solar system configured to generate electric power from sunlight and to perform solar charging that supplies the generated electric power to the power storage device; and a charging relay turned on and off to connect and disconnect the solar system with and from the power storage device. When a short circuit fault occurring on a solar system side of the charging relay is detected in an on state of the charging relay in a current trip, the vehicle turns off the charging relay and keeps the charging relay off at least in the current trip. This configuration enables the vehicle to be driven even in the case where a short circuit fault occurs in the solar system or the like.
US11279233B2
An apparatus comprising an interface, a memory and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive sensor data samples during operation of a vehicle. The memory may be configured to store the sensor data samples over a number of points in time. The processor may be configured to analyze the sensor data samples stored in the memory to detect a pattern. The processor may be configured to manage an application of brakes of the vehicle in response to the pattern.
US11279232B2
A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle including first and second display units disposed at different positions therein, can include a communication unit configured to communicate with the first and second display units; and a controller configured to in response to an occurrence of a preset condition, make a selection of at least one of the first display unit and the second display unit, and display a first execution screen of an application on the first display unit or a second execution screen of the application on the second display unit according to the selection, or change the first execution screen displayed on the first display unit or the second execution screen displayed on the second display unit according to the selection.
US11279212B2
A pickup truck bed cover includes foldable horizontal sections retained on a mounting frame by left and right latches attached under the sections. The latches mounting plates, left and right locks, and left and right operating mechanisms. The operating mechanisms are connected to the locks to pull the locks into disengagement with the mounting frame allowing the sections to be folded. Connecting members connect the operating mechanisms. When a handle of one of the operating mechanism is being twisted, both the left and right locking blocks are simultaneously retract to disengage with the mounting frame. When the handle is released, the left and right locks extend to engage the mounting frame. The rotation of the handles may be coupled to the locks by sliding cylinders having spiral surfaces engaged by inside protrusions in the handles. Springs inside the handles bias the sliding cylinders apart to engage the locks.
US11279206B1
A heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system may effectively provide and/or substantially maintain adjacent thermal zones that have different temperatures and/or humidities from one another. The HVAC system may include a duct network including zonal ducts each having a zonal duct exit configured to create aerodynamic profiles that result in a thermal zone. A thermal zone may be characterized by a volume having a temperature and/or humidity which may differ from an adjacent thermal zone, such that a temperature and/or humidity gradient exists at a thermal zone boundary between adjacent thermal zones, and such that diffusion of the temperature and/or humidity between the adjacent thermal zones is aerodynamically inhibited, or otherwise minimized.
US11279204B2
The vehicle includes an air conditioner, a temperature sensor configured to measure an indoor temperature of the vehicle, a camera configured to obtain an image data of a passenger, and a bio-signal sensor configured to measure a bio-signal of the passenger. A controller is configured to control, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, the air conditioner to change a type of wind blowing at predetermined time intervals, to obtain emotion information corresponding to the changed type of wind based on at least one of the image data or the bio-signal, and to blow a type of wind for which a degree of positiveness of emotion information is equal to or greater than a threshold level.
US11279202B2
An arrangement for sealing functional unit interfaces includes a functional unit, an interface, and a sealing element. The interface has a first main surface, a second main surface, and an opening. The second main surface has a clamping section enclosing the opening. The functional unit has a front face with a counter-clamping section opposite the clamping section. The sealing element has a sealing body and a support element at least partially arranged within the sealing body. The sealing body has a first section clamped between the clamping section and the counter-clamping section. The opening is closed by a second section of sealing body, which is at least partially arranged between the opening and the front face. The support element is partially arranged in the first section and partially in the second section of the sealing body. The support element and the sealing body consist of different materials.
US11279200B2
Motor vehicle wheelset anti-roll device with actuating means operated by a hydraulic control circuit
An anti-roll device comprises a bar coupled to two links, a hydraulic control circuit (CC) and actuating means (MAC) comprising a casing (CR) defining the chamber (CH) subdivided into a first (P1) and a second (P2) part by a piston (PI), and comprising first (ES1) and second (ES2) inlets-outlets communicating with the first (P1) and second (P2) parts and an intermediate inlet-outlet (ES1) communicating with the first part (P1) or with the second part (P2) depending on the position of the piston (PI). These actuating means (MAC) adopt a disengaged state or block state in whatever position of the piston (PI), according to the accessibility status of the first (ES1) and second (ES2) inlets-outlets and of the intermediate inlet-outlet (ES1). The control circuit (CC) controls the accessibility statuses according to the commands received.
US11279199B2
A vehicle damper is described. The vehicle damper includes: a cylinder; a piston within the cylinder; a working fluid within the cylinder; a reservoir in fluid communication with the cylinder via the working fluid, the reservoir operable to receive the working fluid from the cylinder in a compression stroke; a valve in a flow path between the cylinder and the reservoir; and a remotely-operable valve having a position allowing the working fluid to significantly by-pass the valve.
US11279178B2
A tread portion has a circumferential groove extending continuously and circumferentially. The circumferential groove has a groove bottom and a pair of groove walls radially extending from the groove bottom to a tread surface. The groove bottom includes groove bottom protruding portions protruding radially outwardly from a groove bottom reference surface parallel to the tread surface at a deepest position of a groove depth of the circumferential groove. Each of the groove bottom protruding portions is formed to be symmetrical about a center line of the circumferential groove in a plan view of the tread portion and has a first groove bottom surface extending radially. The first groove bottom surface includes a first surface portion on one side of the center line and a second surface portion on the other side. An angle between the first surface portion and the second surface portion is from 20° to 170°.
US11279177B2
A tire having a tread portion with: zigzag shoulder main grooves having a trapezoidal wave form comprising first and second circumferential segments and first and second oblique segments; and shoulder axial grooves extending from the shoulder main grooves beyond the tread edges. The shoulder axial grooves are respectively smoothly continued to the first oblique segments or the second oblique segments so as to form composite shoulder axial grooves whose groove widths are smoothly increased toward the axially outside of the tire.
US11279175B2
A post-cure inflation machine for processing a tire may include a tire holder shaft. The tire holder shaft may include a chuck to secure the tire to the tire holder shaft. A hollow passage may be defined in the tire holder shaft. A spray nozzle may be connected to a spray shaft that is telescopically disposed in the hollow passage of the tire holder shaft. The spray nozzle may extend to spray an air barrier material onto the tire.
US11279160B2
There is provided a printing apparatus including: a head including M of heating elements arranged in a first direction; a memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to: measure first particular values indicating characteristics of N of heating elements and save the first particular values in the memory; measure second particular values indicating characteristics of the N of heating elements and save the second particular values in the memory; determine difference values between the first particular values and the second particular values; determine a characteristic value based on the difference values; and detect replacement of the head when the controller has determined that the characteristic value exceeds a predefined threshold value.
US11279149B2
A liquid discharging apparatus includes a transporting belt having an endless shape stretched over a plurality of rollers and configured to rotate while supporting a medium, to transport the medium in a transport direction, a liquid discharging unit configured to discharge a liquid onto the medium, and a flat plate portion for supporting the transporting belt from a side of a contact face with the roller. the flat plate portion includes an edge extending from one end of the transporting belt to the other end of the transporting belt along an extending direction intersecting the transport direction, the edge being formed by a transporting belt support face for supporting the transporting belt and a face facing upstream in a rotation direction of the transporting belt when transporting the medium in the transport direction. the edge is disposed to abut against the transporting belt along the extending direction.
US11279147B2
A decurling device includes: a first transporter including a transport roller, the first transporter that sandwiches a transported sheet and transports the transported sheet further downstream; and a second transporter including an endless belt that is in contact with the transport roller. The transport roller has an elasticity that, when the belt is pressed against the transport roller, allows the belt to bite into the transport roller by a bite amount corresponding to a pressing force, the second transporter includes an abutting member disposed inside the belt, the abutting member includes an upstream protrusion, an downstream protrusion, the upstream protrusion and the downstream protrusion being provided at positions away from each other at an upstream portion and a downstream portion in a sheet transport direction.
US11279145B2
A thermal print head includes a substrate; a protrusion formed on an obverse surface of the substrate and extending in a main scanning direction; heat generating parts disposed on a top surface of the protrusion and arranged along the main scanning direction; and columnar heat storage members embedded in the protrusion and disposed in a given area having a width in a sub-scanning direction and being elongated in the main scanning direction. Each of the columnar heat storage members is elongated in a thickness direction of the substrate and has an upper end and a lower end, with the upper end being disposed at the same level of the top surface of the protrusion.
US11279144B2
A method for introducing a reflective and/or diffractive metallic variable and/or non-variable image to a substrate by use of thermal transfer printing includes simultaneously transferring a defined portion of each of a protective coating layer, a metal layer, and an adhesive layer from a carrier film of a transfer ribbon to the substrate by applying heat to the transfer ribbon. The defined portions of the metal layer and the protective coating layer are adhered to the substrate using the adhesive layer. Subsequent to transferring the protective coating layer, the metal layer, and the adhesive layer, durability is provided to the metal layer by cross-linking the protective coating layer that is over the metal layer by exposing the protective coating layer to a radiation source after the defined portions of the protective coating layer, the metal layer, and the adhesive layer are transferred from the carrier film.
US11279143B2
A printer includes, a printing portion configured to print on a print medium, a ribbon roll up shaft configured to roll up an ink ribbon used in the printing portion, a ribbon supply shaft provided movably between a first position and a second position with respect to the ribbon roll up shaft, the ribbon supply shaft configured to hold the ink ribbon to be supplied to the printing portion, and a ribbon supply shaft lock mechanism to be brought into a lock state where rotation of the ribbon supply shaft is regulated when the ribbon supply shaft is placed at the first position, and into a non-lock state where the rotation of the ribbon supply shaft is permitted when the ribbon supply shaft is placed at the second position.
US11279141B2
A liquid discharging apparatus includes a print head unit including a nozzle array with a plurality of nozzles in a sub-scanning direction, each nozzle being configured to discharge liquid onto a print medium. The liquid discharging apparatus includes a moving unit configured to move the print head unit in a scanning direction perpendicular to the sub-scanning direction with respect to the print medium, while causing discharge of the liquid onto the print medium. The moving unit is configured to move, without discharge of liquid, the print medium or the print head unit in the sub-scanning direction. The liquid discharging apparatus includes a line-pitch setting unit configured to set a line pitch by which the print head unit moves, per scan with respect to the sub-scanning direction.
US11279128B2
An image forming apparatus includes a print head, a main control unit, a head control unit, and a head unit power supply to generate a voltage to be supplied to the head control unit. The main control unit checks whether the main control unit is normally started up. The head control unit includes an operation checker to check whether the head control unit normally operates if the main control unit is normally started up and the head control unit is supplied with a check voltage, a head power supply generator to generate a voltage to be supplied to the print head if the head control unit normally operates, and a status detector to detect a status of the print head based on the voltage supplied to the print head, and control the voltage to be supplied to the head control unit depending on the status detected by the status detector.
US11279125B2
A controller determines an original conveyance distance; determines whether a particular code image is to be recorded on a recording medium; when the particular code image is to be recorded, determines, based on the image data and on identification information of a defective ejection port, whether the first region is to be formed with liquid ejected from the defective ejection port assuming that the medium is conveyed by the original conveyance distance; when the first region is to be formed with liquid ejected from the defective ejection port, determines a shortened conveyance distance such that the defective ejection port is located at a position corresponding to a second region with respect to the conveyance direction; performs shortened conveyance processing of controlling the conveyor to convey the medium in the conveyance direction by the shortened conveyance distance; and controls the carriage and the head to record the image on the medium.
US11279094B2
A heat-sealing apparatus for forming a composite heat seal structure, includes a belt conveying, heating and press bonding portion configured to convey and heat a heat seal material to form a band-shaped peelable seal, and a die roll press bonding portion configured to add a linear peelable seal to the band-shaped peelable seal in a longitudinal direction of the band-shaped peelable seal for forming the composite heat seal structure.
US11279076B2
A thermoformable sheet transfer system is provided having at least one frame, and upstream conveyor, a sheet cutter, and a downstream sheet manipulator. The upstream conveyor is configured to deliver a series of shots of formed articles in a thermoformed sheet from an exit end of an article forming station. The sheet cutter is carried by the at least one frame provided proximate the conveyor downstream of the article forming station and is configured to cut a leading edge of the formed articles and sheet sufficiently formed to index within dies of an article trim press. The downstream sheet manipulator is carried by the at least one frame and is configured to transport the leading edge and the sufficiently formed articles and sheet for delivery in sequential shots from downstream an article forming station to upstream an article trim station. A method is also provided.
US11279075B2
A system and method of sterilization for medical instruments within a hydrogen peroxide sterilization process is provided. A medical instrument is housed in a sterilization tray, wherein the sterilization tray is formed from polypropylene and a glass material. The medical instrument and sterilization tray are subjected to a hydrogen peroxide sterilant.
US11279069B2
The manufacturing method of a motor core includes attaching an ID code to a stack of blanked members in which a magnet insertion hole to fill with a resin material is formed, the ID code containing information in accordance with a type of the stack, reading the information from the ID code which is attached to the stack, and setting a mold condition based on the information read from the ID code. The mold condition includes at least one type of condition including: the resin material to be injected to the magnet insertion hole, an injection amount of the resin material, and a discharge position of the resin material. A mold device is controlled to inject the resin material to the magnet insertion hole in accordance with the mold condition.
US11279067B2
A resin molded article is equipped with a laminated body in which a core material layer, a cushion layer, and a skin layer are included and laminated. In this configuration, a lowermost layer and a peripheral edge portion of the laminated body are covered by a resin covering layer, and only the upper surface of the skin layer is exposed and serves as a design surface. Moreover, the peripheral edge portion of the laminated body is embedded in an interior part of the resin covering layer.
US11279064B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for foam injection molding, in which a problem in quality caused by spreading of a minute releasing distance according to conditions of an injection machine is improved by minutely releasing a first moving mold from a fixed mold using a minute releasing member for foaming and minutely releasing a second moving mold from the first moving mold using a minute releasing member for spreading of the injection machine.
US11279063B2
Provided is a method of preparing a biodegradable film, which comprises the steps of coating a soluble supporting solution on a substrate, coating a prepolymer solution, pre-drying, crosslinking, and separating. With the technical means, the method can separate the biodegradable film from the substrate smoothly, thereby ensuring the film integrity of the produced biodegradable film.
US11279062B2
A system including: a container for holding a photosensitive medium adapted to change states upon exposure to a light source; an optical imaging system, configured to move above the container holding the photosensitive medium, and having the light source; and a control system configured to: slice a digital model of a three-dimensional object into a slice having a cross section; generate a build cross section by filling a two-dimensional image with one or more copies of the cross section; add to the build cross section a conformal lattice to fill space in the build cross section around the one or more copies of the cross section; and control movement of the optical imaging system above the container to cure a portion of the photosensitive medium corresponding to the build cross section to produce a layer of a three-dimensional object.
US11279057B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for removing material from a surface of a carrier. The apparatus comprises a buckling mechanism that comprises a gripper configured to engage the material. When engaged with the material, the gripper is movable relative to the surface of the carrier to move the material relative to the surface of the carrier and to form a buckle in the material. The apparatus also comprises a separation mechanism that is coupled to the buckling mechanism and comprises a wedge that is movable relative to the surface of the carrier to be insertable into the buckle formed in the material.
US11279055B2
The invention discloses a device (1) for releasing glasses (2) from the bodies (3) of vehicles where the device (1) comprises a frame (4), at least one suction pad (5), one guide pulley (6) fitted with two guide grooves (7) for guiding a cutting wire (8), or two guide pulleys (6) with a common central line, and two winding pulleys (9). The winding pulleys are fitted with winding grooves (10) for winding the cutting wire (8) and a spacing element or a spacing pulley (11) keeping the cutting wire (8) at a safe distance from the suction pad (5). During releasing the glass (2) the cutting angle (α) of the cutting wire (8) does not exceed the value of 90°. Each end of the cutting wire (8) is wound onto the winding pulleys (9) due to the guide grooves (7) wherein a safe distance from the suction pad (5) is ensured to eliminate their damage.
US11279052B2
A hair cutting appliance, a blade set for a hair cutting appliance, and to a stationary blade for the blade set. The stationary blade includes a first wall portion arranged to serve as a skin facing wall when in operation, a second wall portion at least partially offset from the first wall portion, such that the first wall portion and the second wall portion define therebetween a guide slot arranged to receive a movable cutter blade in a defined mating manner, and at least one toothed leading edge having a plurality of teeth jointly formed by the first wall portion and the second wall portion. The stationary blade is an integrally formed metal-plastic composite stationary blade. Also discussed is a blade set including an integrated foil shaving region, along with a method for manufacturing a respective blade.
US11279040B2
According to aspects of the present disclosure, a change detection method for ROBOT process automation (RPA) performed by a computer device includes obtaining object information of a target object from first working environment information at a first time, and determining a comparison object detected in second working environment information at a second time as an object corresponding to the target object based on the obtained object information of the target information. Thus, even if an error occurs due to a change in a working environment, an RPA apparatus can operate normally by correcting the error by itself without the need for a user to recreate a new bot or modify the existing bot. Also, even if the position or shape of an object referred to by RPA in a screen is changed, the RPA apparatus can accurately find an object to manipulate based on surrounding information and perform RPA normally.
US11279039B2
Systems and methods monitor a workspace for safety purposes using sensors distributed about the workspace. The sensors are registered with respect to each other, and this registration is monitored over time. Occluded space as well as occupied space is identified, and this mapping is frequently updated.
US11279036B2
A teleoperation system includes a robot comprising an actuator configured to move at least a portion of the robot, and a remote computing device comprising: one or more processors, one or more sensors communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, a non-transitory memory component communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, and machine readable instructions stored in the non-transitory memory component. The remote computing device obtains information about a user proximate to the remote computing device, identifies the user based on the obtained information, obtains an action of a user, retrieves an individual profile for the user based on the identified user, determines an intended instruction related to a task based on the action of the user related to the task and the individual profile for the user, and instructs the robot to implement the task with the actuator based on the intended instruction.
US11279034B2
In order to detect when a kinematic linkage leaves workspaces and/or enters safe spaces, using little computing power, and therefore doing so more quickly, at least a part of the kinematic linkage is modeled with a number of kinematic objects, and a monitoring space is specified. The number of kinematic objects is modeled in less than two dimensions D<2. For each modeled kinematic object, a geometric variable of a monitoring space is modified by a distance. Each distance is derived from at least one geometric parameter of the modeled kinematic object. The position of each of the number of kinematic objects is checked in relation to the modified monitoring spaces.
US11279032B2
A method includes positioning a robot in a plurality of postures in a substrate processing system relative to a fixed location in the substrate processing system and generating sensor data identifying a fixed location relative to the robot in the plurality of postures. The method further includes determining, based on the sensor data, a plurality of error values corresponding to one or more components of the substrate processing system and causing, based on the plurality of error values, performance of one or more corrective actions associated with the one or more components of the substrate processing system.
US11279029B2
An articulated-arm robot and a method for machining a workpiece by means of the articulated-arm robot includes a base; a working head holder; several lever arms, which are arranged between the base and the working head holder, the lever arms being coupled to one another by means of revolute joints; a working head which is arranged on the working head holder, the working head comprising a working spindle which is arranged in a spindle housing and is mounted in the spindle housing at least at a first bearing point and a second bearing point. At least one sensor for sensing a radial force is formed at each of the first bearing point and the second bearing point. At least one sensor for sensing an axial force is formed at least one of the two bearing points.
US11279021B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a robot is provided. In this robot, direct teaching can be performed while updating a position command on the basis of an applied external force. In the method and apparatus, a proximity region is set inside a boundary of an operation-allowed range of the robot, the proximity region being indicative of a proximity of the boundary. Stored is an external force applied when a monitoring point provided in the robot reaches the proximity region as a reference external force. And performed is comparing the reference external force with a current external force when a current position of the monitoring point is in the proximity region, to thereby determine a direction that facilitates movement away from the proximity region.
US11279019B2
A magnetic base for an electric machine tool, in particular for a magnetic core drilling machine, having a body in which is accommodated at least one first permanent magnet, the magnetic force of which combines with the magnetic force of at least one second permanent magnet to form a resultant holding force, wherein the at least one second permanent magnet is supported in the body such that it can rotate about a rotation axis through an angle of rotation between a first position in which the resultant holding force of the magnetic base is maximized and a second position in which the resultant holding force of the magnetic base is minimized, and having a controller for rotating the second permanent magnet between the first position and the second position.
US11279016B2
A system includes first and second power tools that each have a percussion mechanism, a motor, and a transmission. The transmission includes a striking mechanism and is configured to transfer a driving motion of the motor to an insert tool held in a tool holder. The transmission has a guide tube that is identical in some regions along a working axis and accommodates a striker. The guide tube is rotatably coupled to the motor by a first transmission unit. The striker is driven to linearly oscillate by a piston of a second transmission unit. A ratio between a diameter of the tool holder and a diameter of the guide tube is 1.8 times greater in the first power tool than in the second power tool. A striking energy of the second power tool is mechanically reduced compared to a striking energy of the first power tool.
US11279003B1
Systems, devices, and methods for providing different types of sharpeners for knives with a removable angle gauge to determine which knife sharpener to use for individual knives. The sharpener can include three angle sizes of honing ceramic dual wheel sharpeners, three angle sizes of edge shaving diamond coated dual wheel sharpeners, and three angle sizes of new edge blade tungsten rod sharpeners. One angle size can cover approximately 13 degrees to approximately 15 degrees, and include 14 degrees. An angle size can cover approximately 16 degrees to approximately 18 degrees and include 17 degrees. And a third angle size can cover approximately 19 degrees to approximately 21 degrees and include 20 degrees. The removable angle gauge can be a generally rectangular plate with a plurality of grooves, that cover an approximately 13 degree groove, an approximately 14 degree groove, an approximately 15 degree groove, an approximately 16 degree groove, an approximately 17 degree groove, an approximately 18 degree groove, an approximately 19 degree groove, an approximately 20 degree groove, and an approximately 21 degree groove.
US11279001B2
A method of monitoring a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) apparatus including an arm configured to swing a polishing component includes performing a CMP process; learning at least two positions of the polishing component during a normal swing motion of the polish component by an optical acceptor and a processing unit to determine a plurality of expected positions of the polish component; analyzing at least one real position of the polishing component at predetermined time points during the CMP process by the optical acceptor and the processing unit; inspecting whether an abnormal event occurs based on the analyzed real position of the polishing component and the expected positions by the processing unit during the CMP process; and determining whether to send an alarm and stop the CMP process based on the inspecting result.
US11278997B2
A machine system includes a transport control section which controls transport of a workpiece based on a transport deceleration line provided upstream of an operation limit line of a machine in a direction of travel of the workpiece and a transport acceleration line provided upstream of the transport deceleration line, wherein the transport control section reduces a transport speed of the workpiece when the workpiece passes through the transport deceleration line in an incomplete operation state and increases the transport speed of the workpiece after the operation on the workpiece present between the operation limit line and the transport acceleration line has completed.
US11278996B2
A rotary union for use along an incompressible fluid path between a rotating machine component and a non-rotating machine component includes a non-rotating seal carrier including a non-rotating seal element, which together with the non-rotating seal carrier define a net hydraulic surface on an internal side and a net pneumatic surface on an external side. Contact of an incompressible fluid under pressure with the net hydraulic surface creates a closing force, and contact of a compressible fluid under pressure with the net pneumatic surface creates an opening force.
US11278993B2
A piston and a method for producing a piston which can be secured to a piston sliding unit is provided. The piston sliding unit can be moved along its longitudinal axis in a cylinder. The piston includes a disc-shaped base body, wherein the piston is suitable and intended to seal two regions of the cylinder filled with a medium against one another. The method includes the following steps: a) producing the piston by pressing a material into a piston mold; b) smoothing the surface of the piston and/or pressing at least one flow path into the piston, by an embossing tool, which has a raised and rotationally symmetrical structure.
US11278986B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for repairing holes in weld seams created by bobbin friction stir welding tools. A hole may be created when a welding tool or, more specifically, a pin of the tool is removed or otherwise extracted from a weld seam created by the tool. The method may involve inserting a plug (e.g., a rivet) into the hole, reshaping the plug in the hole (e.g., riveting) thereby securing the plug in the component, and creating another weld seam through the plug thereby consuming the plug. In some embodiments, the hole may be reshaped prior to inserting the plug. For example, the hole may be drilled out and/or a countersink may be created on one or both ends of the hole. Furthermore, the plug may extend outside of the hole prior to its reshaping and, in some embodiments, even after reshaping.
US11278975B2
A saw blade includes a body and a cutting portion coupled to an edge of the body. The cutting portion includes a plurality of cutting teeth. The plurality of cutting teeth includes a first tooth form with an abrasive grit and a second tooth form without an abrasive grit.
US11278967B2
A surface-coated cutting tool has a hard coating layer including an upper layer α, an adhesion layer β, and a lower layer γ. The upper layer α is formed of an α-Al2O3 layer formed under low temperature conditions. The adhesion layer β includes a TiCN layer having a thickness of 0.5 μm or more in an outermost layer and contains 0.5 to 3 μm to a maximum depth of 0.5 μm toward the inside in a layer thickness direction of the TiCN layer from the interface between the TiCN layer and the upper layer α. The lower layer γ is formed of (Ti1-XAlX)(CYN1-Y) of a single phase of a NaCl type face-centered cubic structure, in which an average content ratio Xavg of Al and an average content ratio Yavg of C in this composition formula satisfy 0.60≤Xavg≤0.95 and 0≤Yavg≤0.005.
US11278963B2
Examples for refining the microstructure of metallic materials used for additive manufacturing are described herein. An example can involve generating a first layer of an integral object by heating a metallic material to a molten state such that the metallic material includes a solid-liquid interface. The example can further involve applying an electromagnetic field or vibrations to the metallic material of the first layer. In some instances, the electromagnetic fields or vibrations perturb the first layer of metallic material causing nucleation sites to form at the solid-liquid interface of the metallic material in the molten state. The example also includes generating a second layer coupled to the first layer of the integral object. Generating the second layer increases a number of nucleation sites at the solid-liquid interface of the metallic material in the molten state. Each nucleation site can grows a crystal at a spatially-random orientation.
US11278960B1
Processes for tailoring the macroscopic shape, metallic composition, mechanical properties, and pore structure of nanoporous metal foams prepared through combustion synthesis via direct write 3D printing of metal energetic ligand precursor inks made with water and an organic thickening agent are disclosed. Such processes enable production of never before obtainable metal structures with hierarchical porosity, tailorable from the millimeter size regime to the nanometer size regime. Structures produced by these processes have numerous applications including, but not limited to, catalysts, heat exchangers, low density structural materials, biomedical implants, hydrogen storage medium, fuel cells, and batteries.
US11278955B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an electrically conductive paste having excellent bonding strength when bonded to an electronic substrate and the like, a laminated body, and a method for bonding a Cu substrate or Cu electrode to an electrical conductor. An electrically conductive paste comprising: a flake-like silver powder A having a particle size in the range of 1 μm or more and 15 μm or less and having a median diameter D50 of 2 μm or more and 5 μm or less; a silver powder B having a particle size in the range of 25 μm or more and 100 μm or less and having a median diameter D50 of 30 μm or more and 40 μm or less; a silver powder C having a particle size in the range of 10 nm or more and 190 nm or less and having a median diameter D50 of 50 nm or more and 150 nm or less; and a solvent, wherein the content of the silver powder C is more than 5.0 parts by mass and less than 90.0 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass in total of the flake-like silver powder A, the silver powder B, and the silver powder C.
US11278954B2
A casting device of a large non-ferrous metal thin-walled structural component. A liquid outlet of the casting device is communicated with a casting sand box. The casting device comprises an L-shaped liquid storage cylinder, a pressure supplying cylinder, and a crystallization treater. Protective gas with the first gas pressure can be inflated into the top of the L-shaped liquid storage cylinder. The pressure supplying cylinder and the L-shaped liquid storage cylinder are integrally connected to form a U-shaped tube connector. Protective gas with the second gas pressure can be inflated into the top of the pressure supplying cylinder. A liquid inlet of the crystallization treater is communicated with the pressure supplying cylinder while a liquid outlet is communicated with the pouring system and the mold cavity. The crystallization treater is provided with a grain refining mechanism.
US11278952B2
A toolpack for a can bodymaker with a vertically oriented, reciprocating, elongated ram assembly is provided. The toolpack includes a tool pack housing assembly, a number of die spacers, a number of dies, and a compression device. The tool pack housing assembly defines a passage and includes an inner surface, an upper sidewall, a lower sidewall, a first lateral sidewall, a second lateral sidewall, a rear sidewall, and a door. The tool pack housing assembly passage extends generally vertically. Each die spacer structured to support a die and defining a central passage. Each die including a body defining a central passage. The die spacers and dies are disposed in said tool pack housing assembly. The compression device is disposed at said tool pack housing assembly lower sidewall and is structured to axially bias said number of die spacers.
US11278951B2
A pendular handling system for handling parts in a press line may have two articulated robots arranged on opposite sides with respect to the central vertical plane of the press line, each robot having at least four rotational axes in series between a robot base and a robot wrist, and each robot being mounted with the first axis horizontal and perpendicular to the press line flow direction, a first arm of each robot can swing in a vertical plane in the press line flow direction.
US11278946B2
A multi-axis roll-forming method includes simultaneously (a) spinning, about a rotation axis, a spin platter having placed thereon a ring encircling the rotation axis, (b) pressing at least one first roller against outward-facing surface of a first portion of the ring to press the first portion against an outward-facing surface of the spin platter, and (c) forcing a second roller against an outward-facing surface of a second portion of the ring to bend toward the rotation axis the second portion, so as to form a lip extending toward the rotation axis, wherein the step of forcing includes (i) pivoting the second roller against the second portion, and (ii) translating the second roller along the second portion toward the rotation axis.
US11278944B2
A nanobioremediation method is for soil in a high-concentration polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-contaminated site. The method includes adding a carbon nanomaterial and a base fertilizer to soil in a high-concentration PAH-contaminated site, evenly broadcast sowing alfalfa seeds to the contaminated soil, and keeping the soil moisture content at 60% of the field moisture capacity, and when the alfalfa grows to the flowering or maturity stage, harvesting and removing the plants from the contaminated soil.
US11278936B2
The sorting installation (1) of the invention includes sorting outlets (2) aligned along a sorting conveyor (3), each outlet being provided with a recess (4) for receiving a tray (5) in which sorted mailpieces (6) are stored. The installation also includes a tray conveyor (8) that extends in a certain conveying direction (F2) under the sorting outlets for the purpose of transporting trays filled with sorted mailpieces from the sorting outlets to a feed inlet (7) of the sorting conveyor. The installation further includes a shuttle robot (9) suitable for traveling on the floor (S1) in autonomous manner along the sorting outlets, the robot including handling means (12) suitable for extracting a tray from a recess of a sorting outlet and for placing it lengthwise on the tray conveyor.
US11278933B2
An apparatus includes an outer bearing member defining a cavity and an inner bearing member disposed within the cavity. The inner bearing member includes a spherical surface and a rod attachment opening defined in the spherical surface. The apparatus also includes an elastomeric material disposed within the cavity adjacent to the spherical surface.
US11278929B2
A device for dispensing a flowable medium, includes a housing having a cavity for receiving the flowable medium, a rod mounted in a bearing section of the housing, wherein the rod is movable by means of an actuator between a first end position and a second end position in an axial direction, a dispensing opening, opening into the cavity, for dispensing the flowable medium, wherein the rod has a sealing section, wherein the sealing section closes the dispensing opening in the first end position and is arranged at a distance from the dispensing opening in the second end position, a bellows seal for sealing off the bearing section from the cavity, wherein the rod passes through the bellows seal, wherein the bellows seal is mounted in a sealed manner on the rod and in a sealed manner on the housing, wherein a first section of the bellows seal is connected to the rod in a manner fixed relative to the rod, and a second section of the bellows seal is connected to the housing in a manner fixed relative to the housing, wherein the bellows seal has at least one compensating section for compensating an axial compression or extension of the bellows seal, wherein the compensating section projects radially relative to adjoining regions of the bellows seal, and having at least one channel, opening into the cavity, through which the flowable medium can flow into the cavity, wherein a projection of a center line of a channel section of the at least one channel, said channel section opening into the cavity, onto a projection plane formed perpendicularly to the axial direction forms a circle tangent of a circle formed concentrically with the rod.
US11278926B2
Provided is an apparatus for coating a girth weld and a cutback region surrounding said girth weld, said apparatus having lateral travel at least equal to the length of the cutback region and circumferential rotational travel around the pipe. The apparatus can provide a multiple component coating accurately and safely, without the need for solvent flushing of the apparatus.
US11278922B2
A portable dispensing system for dispensing a solution of a fluid and a solid product includes a fluid line, a dispenser, and a cartridge. The fluid line includes a first and second fluid line ends and a fluid source connection at the first fluid line end. The dispenser is at the second fluid line end. The dispenser includes a body and a fluid outlet. The cartridge houses the solid product and includes a fluid inlet and a solution outlet. The cartridge is removably connected at the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet of the dispenser. The cartridge is configured to receive fluid from the fluid outlet of the dispenser such that fluid contacts the solid product housed in the cartridge and dissolves at least a portion of the solid product forming the solution. The cartridge is also configured to output the solution at the solution outlet.
US11278916B2
Apparatuses for converting a non-ionized gas stream into an ionized gas stream are disclosed. Disclosed apparatus include an ionizing wire electrode at least partially disposed within and stationary relative to a channel. A frame has plural support elements for supporting the ionizing wire. The frame is configured to make full rotations around the channel in a first rotation direction while applying tension to the ionizing wire. The support elements are configured to physically remove material from the ionizing wire while the support elements are moved along the wire by the frame rotation.
US11278910B2
A system includes a food dispenser, a cooking surface, and an arm assembly. The arm assembly is configured to receive a food product from the food dispenser and transport the food product to the cooking surface. The arm assembly includes an arm portion, an actuator, a cylinder, and a piston. The actuator drives rotation of the arm portion about a first rotational axis. The cylinder is attached to the arm portion and is rotatable relative to the arm portion about a second rotational axis. The piston is axially movable within the cylinder. The piston includes multiple stages. At least one of the stages is movable axially relative to another of the stages between a first position and a second position.
US11278882B2
In an example implementation, a method of dispensing fluid from a fluid dispensing device, includes receiving a dispense head at a receiving station, and receiving a notification that a supply slot in the dispense head has been filled with fluid. The method includes vibrating the dispense head to move fluid through a microfluidic channel from the supply slot into an ejection chamber of the dispense head, and providing a dispense signal to cause an ejection mechanism disposed within the chamber to eject an amount of the fluid from the dispense head.
US11278874B2
A process for the preparation of an extra-framework metal-containing aluminosilicate zeolite involves the steps of: (a) forming a reactant mixture A comprising (i) an aqueous slurry of an aluminosilicate zeolite in a H+-form, and (ii) a metal containing compound or free metal, wherein the mixture does not comprise ammonia, ammonium hydroxide or an ammonium salt, and (b) reacting the metal containing compound or free metal with the aluminosilicate zeolite in a H+-form in reactant mixture A and forming a product mixture B, a reaction mixture comprising the extra-framework metal-containing aluminosilicate zeolite. The metal comprises one or more of copper, iron, manganese, nickel and palladium. The step of reacting the metal with the aluminosilicate zeolite in a H+-form is performed in a single exchange. The extra-framework metal-containing aluminosilicate zeolite can then be used directly in forming a washcoat that can be applied to a support.
US11278867B2
A method of preparing a superabsorbent polymer sheet by polymerization of monomers in the presence of an encapsulated foaming agent and an inorganic foaming agent is provided. According to the method of preparing the superabsorbent polymer sheet of the present invention, a porous and flexible superabsorbent polymer sheet having an excellent initial absorption rate may be prepared.
US11278859B2
A miniaturized, automated method for controlled printing of large arrays of nano- to femtoliter droplets by actively transporting mother droplets over hydrophilic-in-hydrophobic (“HIH”) micropatches. The technology uses single or double-plate devices where mother droplets can be actuated and HIH micropatches on one or both plates of the device where the droplets are printed. Due to the selective wettability of the hydrophilic micropatches in a hydrophobic matrix, large nano- to femtoliter droplet arrays are created when mother droplets are transported over the arrays. The parent droplets are moved by various droplet actuation principles. Also, a method using two plates placed one top another while being separated by a spacer. One plate is dedicated to confirming and guiding parent droplets by using hydrophilic patches in a hydrophobic matrix, while the other plate contains HIH arrays for printing of the droplets. When the parent droplet guidance plate is rotated over the plate dedicated to printing of nano- to femtoliter droplets, the droplets are dispensed inside the HIH array utilizing their selective wettability. The methods allow the parent droplets to move over the HIH arrays many times, providing advantages for performing bio-assays or miniaturized materials synthesis in nano- to femtoliter sized droplets. With controlled evaporation of the dispensed droplets of solution, large arrays of printed material can be generated in seconds. The methods provide a nano- to femtoliter droplet printing technique for a wide variety of applications, e.g., protein- or cell-based bio-assays or printing of crystalline structures, suspensions of nanoparticles or microelectronic components.
US11278858B2
A microcapsule, method, and article of manufacture are disclosed. The microcapsule includes an outer shell, a molecular sensitizer, a molecular annihilator, and an inner shell separating the molecular sensitizer from the molecular annihilator. The method includes forming microcapsules, each microcapsule having an outer shell, a molecular sensitizer, a molecular annihilator, and an inner shell separating the molecular sensitizer from the molecular annihilator. The article of manufacture includes at least one of the microcapsules.
US11278856B2
A lutein microcapsule formulation and preparation method thereof, the formulation comprising the following ingredients: lutein crystals, a water-soluble emulsifier, an oil-soluble antioxidant, a wall material, a filler, a water-soluble antioxidant, and purified water. The preparation method comprises: dissolving the lutein crystals and the oil-soluble antioxidant in the water-soluble emulsifier to obtain an oil phase; adding the wall material, the water-soluble antioxidant, and the filler to the purified water to obtain a water phase; adding the oil phase to the water phase, grinding to obtain a particle size of the liquid emulsion of less than 100 nm, and granulating.
US11278852B2
Provided according to an aspect of the invention may be an apparatus for manufacturing cosmetic, which includes a housing which forms an outer appearance; an internal phase container which is provided in the housing, and which stores internal phase fluid excluding surfactant; an external phase container which is provided in the housing, and which stores external phase fluid excluding surfactant; a channel unit which generates emulsion by mixing the internal phase fluid provided from the internal phase container and the external fluid provided from the external phase container; and an operative unit which provides external force required to form and discharge emulsion at the channel unit by manipulation of a user.
US11278848B2
A separation membrane structure has partition walls including a honeycomb shaped porous ceramic body provided with a large number of pores, and cells to become through channels of a fluid are formed by the partition walls. The cells include separation cells and slit cells. In the separation cells, the intermediate layer is disposed on the surface of a substrate, and a separation layer is further formed. The intermediate layer has a structure where aggregate particles are bonded to one another by an inorganic bonding material having a thermal expansion coefficient equal to or higher than that of the aggregate particles.
US11278847B2
A reverse osmosis membrane is disclosed that has a hydrogel disposed on its surface, wherein the hydrogel is formed from a crosslinked polyvinylpyrrolidone or a copolymer of vinyl pyrrolidone. The hydrogel-coated membrane resists fouling by feed water contaminants. The permeate flux rate and salt rejection of the underlying membrane are not negatively affected by the hydrogel coating.
US11278839B1
Provided is an air purification apparatus and method. The apparatus comprises a body having a cavity, an air intake, and an air exhaust. A water reservoir, disposed within the cavity contains a fluid and is in fluid communication with the air intake. A first chamber is disposed within the cavity and is in fluid communication with the water reservoir and the air exhaust. A solar power assembly attaches to the body, the solar power assembly has one or more solar panels. The air purification apparatus has a battery in electrical communication with the one or more solar panels.
US11278837B2
A backpack dust collector includes a housing. The housing includes: a suction port; a dust collecting chamber connected to the suction port and configured to accommodate a dust collecting bag; a motor chamber connected to the dust collecting chamber and accommodating a fan and a motor; an exhaust port through which air from the motor chamber is discharged; first and second battery openings; and first and second battery receiving portions respectively corresponding to the first and second battery openings. At least part of the first battery opening is formed on a left side surface of the housing, and at least part of the second battery opening is formed on a right side surface of the housing.
US11278832B2
An air filter including a filter support that supports polymeric sorbent particles. The polymeric sorbent particles are the reaction product of a hydrolyzed divinylbenzene/maleic anhydride precursor polymeric material with a nitrogen-containing compound, with the nitrogen-containing compound being ionically attached to the hydrolyzed divinylbenzene/maleic anhydride.
US11278831B2
The disclosure provides a filter element assembly and a water purifier. The filter element assembly includes a filter bottle, an interface mechanism and a connector. The interface mechanism is provided on the filter bottle; the connector is connected to the interface mechanism to form a water passage to communicate with the filter bottle; a blocking member is movably provided on a mechanism body and has a first position for closing the water passage and a second position for opening the water passage; a magnetic member is provided on the mechanism body and produces a magnetic force to the blocking member, for driving the blocking member to move towards the first position; the connector is inserted into the water passage to push the blocking member to the second position.
US11278825B2
A press assembly and a method for producing plant-based milk may include coupling a tubular filter to a receptacle, the tubular filter having an open first end, a porous wall, and a closed second end. Plant-based raw materials are placed into the filter. The raw materials are pressed toward the closed second end of the filter using a standalone plunger having one or more wiper blades conforming to an inner periphery of the tubular filter, such that liquids of the raw materials pass through the porous wall of the tubular filter and into the receptacle. After the pressing operation, residual solids may be easily removed from inside the filter. This may be accomplished by removing a stopper from the bottom end, and expelling the solids by extending the one or more wiper blades through the opening.
US11278821B2
A modular block toy and kit that includes a male cubic unit piece having a plurality of faces with a male node extending from each respective face of the plurality of faces, and a female piece having a plurality of faces and corners formed by three intersecting faces, the female piece having a female component formed on a respective face of each of the plurality of faces that is sized and shaped to receive a respective male node enabling connection using any side of the female piece and any side of the male piece, and in which all sides of the female pieces and the male cubic unit pieces with a snapping and interlock design are identical, enabling the pieces to be snapped together using any side of the female or male piece to achieve build out indefinitely in any direction.
US11278817B2
Some embodiments include a fantasy sports game. In some embodiments, an expected performance value may be determined that may affect the outcomes of a fantasy game. In some embodiments, player location may affect available opponents for a game. Groups may play against one another in a fantasy competition. Various examples of fantasy gaming options are given.
US11278810B1
Methods and systems are provided for placing or moving a virtual menu (e.g., virtual object) to an adjusted virtual position within a virtual reality scene based on the ability of a user. The method includes capturing, by a computing system, head mounted display (HMD) gameplay by a user of a video game being executed on the computing system. The HMD presents virtual reality scene to the user. The method includes monitoring, by the computing system, physical actions of the user while the user is wearing the HMD and interacting with the virtual reality scene during the gameplay. The method includes identifying, by the computing system, an attempt by the user to make an input at a virtual object in the virtual reality scene based on the physical actions. The method includes generating, by the computing system, a movement of the virtual object from an initial virtual position in the virtual reality scene to an adjusted virtual position in the virtual reality scene. The movement has a virtual distance and a virtual direction that is predicted for the user based a model of interactivity of the user to enable said input with the virtual object. In this way, a virtual menu (e.g., virtual object) is dynamically placed or moved to a virtual position in the virtual reality scene that can be accessible by the user.
US11278801B2
The present disclosure relates to processing operations configured to manage provisioning of a video game during presentation of a preview of a video game (e.g., video game trailer). Video game previews may be presented through a graphical user interface of an online gaming delivery service. While a video game preview is being presented to a user, a provisioning determination may be made to determine whether to automatically initiate provisioning of a video game (e.g., in the background of the video game preview). For any non-limiting provisioning determination described herein, a state of the provisioning may be determined and graphical indicators of that state information may be presented to a user while the video game preview is being presented. Further examples describe processing related to contextual customization of game previews as well as GUI menus that are used to present game previews.
US11278800B2
A recording medium and server provide a game that improves the interest in and taste of a battle event and increases the interest in and real enjoyment of the entire game. The recording medium provides a game including a predetermined battle event comprising at least one battle. In a battle event of this game, game contents are displayed in a first field, and a player selects therefrom a game content to be used for a battle with an enemy character. The first field is replenished with another game content alternative to the selected game content as needed so that the player can further select an additional game content therefrom.
US11278795B2
A game system that is a non-limiting example information processing system comprises a main body apparatus, and this main body apparatus is provided with a left controller and a right controller in a attachable and detachable manner. Each of the left controller and the right controller comprises a plurality of operation buttons and an analog stick. In a first operation mode, action of a player character is controlled according to an operation of a player. In a second operation mode, a sub-character appears, and action of the sub-character is automatically controlled except for a case where the sub-character attacks an enemy character according to depression of a ZL-button. In a third operation mode, movement of the player character and movement of the sub-character are respectively controlled according to an operation of the player.
US11278792B2
A handheld touch apparatus for providing a variety of tactile sensations to the fingers and thumb of a hand of a user. The touch apparatus includes a cubic body having an outer surface defined by a plurality of faces that are planar and orthogonal to one another and joined together by radiused edges that meet together to form rounded corners. The cubic body is sized for holding within the palm of the user's hand and for being supported, rotated and manipulated by the fingers and thumb of the same hand. The touch apparatus further includes tactile features extending from the faces of the cubic body and that are selectively movable relative to their associated faces. The tactile features are contained within the volume of an imaginary sphere defined by the rounded corners and isolated from the tactile features on adjacent faces by the radiused edges of the cubic body.
US11278790B1
A flipper drain device of a pinball machine is provided, including a fixed rack and a drain and ball-striking assembly. The fixed rack is mounted in the pinball machine and includes guide rods. The drain and ball-striking assembly is mounted to the guide rods, such that the drain and ball-striking assembly is leftward/rightward movable but not rotatable on the guide rods. The drain and ball-striking assembly has a drain opening and a flipper provided at each of a left part and right part thereof. The drain and ball-striking assembly includes an operation table, which is provided with an operation member. The operation member controls the drain and ball-striking assembly to selectively move leftward/rightward. The operation table is provided with an operation button on each of a left part and a right part thereof for respectively controlling the flippers of the drain and ball-striking assembly to rotate.
US11278783B1
The human form punching bag comprises a punching bag and a noise maker. The punching bag may be suspended from above and used for exercise or self-defense training. The human form punching bag may have a torso portion, a right leg portion, and a left leg portion in a humanoid form and may be adapted to be punched or kicked by a user. The intersection of the torso portion, the right leg portion, and the left leg portion may define a groin area. The noise maker may be retained under a flap in the groin area of the punching bag such that a kick administered to the groin area may produce audible feedback.
US11278782B2
Technologies are described for aquatic resistance training. An aquatic resistance line may be deployed across the surface of a swimming pool. An aquatic resistance device may be deployed to ride along the resistance line when pulled by a swimmer. The aquatic resistance device comprises offset compression tensioners, each with a wedge-like geometry and a channel for the resistance line. The housing of the aquatic resistance device positions adjacent pairs of the offset compression tensioners into alternating orientation to one another. A mechanical compressor within the aquatic resistance device can force the offset compression tensioners against one another along the axis of the resistance line causing the alternating wedge-like geometries of the offset compression tensioners to force the offset compression tensioners off-axis from one another orthogonal to the aquatic resistance line into a configuration operable to adjustably grip the aquatic resistance line thus providing a resistive training load to the swimmer.
US11278768B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball traveling a great flight distance and having a good shot feeling on long iron shots. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a core, at least one intermediate layer covering the core and a cover covering the intermediate layer, wherein the core is formed from a core rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber containing a polybutadiene, (b) an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms and/or a metal salt thereof as a co-crosslinking agent, (c) a crosslinking initiator, and (d) a terpene-based resin, and a material hardness (Hm) of the intermediate layer is higher than a material hardness (Hc) of the cover, and the material hardness (Hc) of the cover is 50 or more in Shore D hardness.
US11278762B2
A facial exercise apparatus for facial muscle and bone resistance training and method of use. The facial exercise apparatus includes one or more flexor arms and a mouthpiece stabilizer, each connected to a flexor head connector. The flexor arm(s) extend upward, downward, left or right from the flexor head connector, have contours to place the patient's lips, and provide a resistance force outward from the flexor head connector. In use, a patient places and bites down upon the mouthpiece stabilizer, places a portion of their lips along a contoured portion of one or more of the flexor arms, and pushes their lips toward the center of the flexor head connector against the resistance of the flexor arm(s). When done at regular intervals and increasing resistances, the apparatus can strengthen a patient's facial muscles and bone and reduce the cosmetic appearance of wrinkles on their face.
US11278760B1
An exercise device allows a user to move the mass of weights in various directions while mitigating the downward force of gravity on the weights. A telescoping pole includes a platform that supports weight plates in place during exercise, and may be assembled at different lengths depending upon the height of the user. A handle may be coupled to the telescoping pole to hold the weights on the platform and provide varying grips. The telescoping pole may be inserted into and moveably engaged with a base portion that holds a lower portion of the exercise device at a static position within the base while the handle is moved in varying directions.
US11278754B2
The invention concerns a dry alarm valve station of a fire extinguishing installation. According to the invention it is proposed that the dry alarm valve station includes an alarm valve, an alarm line connected to the alarm valve, an alarm alert device, preferably with an alarm pressure switch, which is connected to the alarm line and is configured to trigger an alarm signal when there is a predetermined fluid pressure in the alarm line, and a pressure-operated valve which is interposed between the alarm alert device and the alarm valve, is controlled by a control chamber, and is configured to block the alarm line as long as there is the predetermined control pressure in the control chamber and to open it when the pressure falls below the predetermined control pressure in the control chamber.
US11278748B2
Provision of a material, which has activity of inhibiting endothelin-converting enzyme and is effective for skin whitening or antihypertension. An endothelin-converting enzyme inhibitor comprising, as an active ingredient, at least one selected from the group consisting of Hiptage candicans, Piper sarmentosum, Solanum stramonifolium, Anaxagorea luzonensis, Smilax corbularia, Ardisia elliptica, Erythrina suberosa, Dactyloctenium aegyptium, Hopea ferrea and extracts thereof.
US11278742B2
The invention relates to a system (1) for image based guidance of treatment delivery to a patient. The system is adapted to determine spatial parameters defining a position and orientation of an ultrasound probe (8) on the basis of a reference image which has been used for preparing a treatment plan. This can provide a certain degree of automation in arranging the ultrasound probe, in order to decrease user dependence and improve the usability for relatively untrained operators. Moreover, since the reference image is also used for generating the treatment plan, i.e. since the same image is used for generating the treatment plan and for determining the position and orientation of the ultrasound probe, it is not necessarily required to acquire an additional image. This can allow for a reduced radiation dose applied to the parts of the patient not being the target to be treated.
US11278741B2
The invention provides for a magnetic resonance antenna assembly (100) comprising one or more antenna elements (106), wherein the magnetic resonance antenna assembly further comprises multiple electronic dosimeters (108, 110, 204, 604) operable for measuring a cumulative radiation dose (470) of ionizing radiation (442) received by the magnetic resonance antenna assembly.
US11278737B2
Systems and methods for the automatic generation and optimization of radiation therapy treatment plans, and systems and methods for the automatic generation and optimization of an adapted plan in an adaptive radiation therapy workflow.
US11278736B2
Brachytherapy radioisotope carrier systems and methodology for providing real-time customized brachytherapy treatment to subjects with tumors difficult to control using conventional radiation therapy techniques. The invention generally relates to devices, methods and kits for providing customized radionuclide treatments, to help cure, slow progression or regrowth, or ameliorate the symptoms associated with tumors.
US11278733B2
This magnetic emission device includes an antenna and further includes a device configured to select one of a plurality of predefined portions of the antenna and to connect the selected portion to a current-generating device in order both to cause the current to pass through the selected portion of the antenna so as to radiate a magnetic field, and to prevent the current from passing outside of the selected portion of the antenna.
US11278724B2
Limited-number-of-use neuromodulator apparatuses that may be comfortably worn on the skin of a user to non-invasively apply transdermal electrical stimulation (TES). The apparatuses described herein may be include a flexible/bendable substrate and an elastomeric cover (e.g., formed of an elastomeric fabric). These apparatuses may be simplified, to run autonomously. These apparatuses may also include improved power management features.
US11278715B2
A lead assembly for networked implants may contain a controller, an implantable tissue contact system connected to the controller and including a plurality of leads, and a breakout connector connected to each of the plurality of leads, and further connected to a shared communication path. A physiological interface system may contain a controller and an implantable tissue contact system. Methods of treating a subject and monitoring a subject include transmitting signals between a controller and an implantable tissue contact system.
US11278713B2
Disclosed are a neural electrode and a method of manufacturing the electrode, more particularly, a neural electrode includes a porous nanostructure; and an iridium oxide layer formed on the porous nanostructure and a method of manufacturing the neural electrode, improving an electrode efficiency by increasing a charge injection limit capacity and the like.
US11278711B2
A fluid pump device changeable in diameter is provided. The device has a pump housing which is changeable in diameter and with a rotor which is changeable in diameter. The device has at least one delivery element for fluid, as well as a drive shaft on which the rotor is rotatably mounted. A bearing arrangement is arranged on the drive shaft or its extension, at the distal end of the drive shaft behind the rotor seen from the proximal end of the drive shaft. The bearing arrangement has struts, which elastically brace between a hub of the bearing arrangement and the pump housing.
US11278706B2
An apparatus and method of manufacture includes a helical wire coil and a core wire. The core wire has a first wire portion and a second wire portion. The first wire portion of the core wire extends through the helical wire coil. The second wire portion of the core wire is intertwined with the first helical wire coil to fixedly secure the core wire relative to the first helical wire coil. The core wire is formed from a first material that is non-extensible. The core wire is fixedly secured relative to a distal portion of the helical wire coil such that the core wire inhibits longitudinal elongation of the helical wire coil along a longitudinal coil axis.
US11278698B2
The present disclosure pertains to a system configured to amplify the pressure and/or flow rate of a pressurized flow of breathable gas by entraining oxygen gas and/or ambient air with an air amplifier and a venturi valve at or near a blending gas source, distally (e.g., remotely) from an interface appliance of a subject interface (e.g., away from the face of the subject) to reduce noise from the system heard by the subject. The system is configured to provide this pressure support and/or ventilation with oxygen therapy. The system is configured to deliver ventilatory and/or pressure support with oxygen therapy while decreasing output requirements of the blending gas source and/or pressure generator.
US11278692B2
A patient interface includes a frame assembly (16100) including connectors operatively attachable to headgear, a cushion assembly (16175) including a shell (161800) and a seal-forming structure (16200) structured to form a seal with the patient's nose and/or mouth, and an air delivery connector (16600). The cushion assembly and air delivery connector are structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of each other. A static face seal and separate static diametric seal between the shell (161800) and frame (16100). A dynamic face seal and separate dynamic diametric seal between the air delivery connector (16600) and frame (16100). Separate claims (FIG. 6) to a frame assembly (16100) with upper headgear connector arms (16134) including at least one slot (6146) (claim 17) or flexible portions (claim 22) to form hinges structured and arranged to conform to varying facial profiles.
US11278690B2
A facemask includes a facemask body, a plurality of electrical contacts and a control circuit. The facemask body has an end including an opening and a skin contact perimeter extending along a periphery of the opening, with the skin contact perimeter configured to sealingly engage with a user's face. Each electrical contact is disposed at a respective region of the skin contact perimeter, and each electrical contact is configured to sense when the respective region of the skin contact perimeter is sealingly engaged with a user's face. The control circuit is disposed on the facemask body, and the control circuit is configured to receive a signal from each electrical contact when the respective region of the skin contact perimeter is sealingly engaged with a user's face and to initiate output of an audible stimulus and/or a visual stimulus in response to receiving a concurrent signal from all of the plurality of electrical contacts.
US11278689B2
A system for humidifying respiratory gases has a humidification apparatus, a humidification chamber, a heating apparatus and a sensor. The sensor is configured to determine a characteristic of the gases flow and communicate this to a controller which controls the power supplied to the heating apparatus with respect to information regarding the characteristic of the gases flow. A structure partially encloses the humidification chamber and allows energy loss through a wall of the humidification chamber. The humidification chamber may have features to promote heat loss through the wall of the chamber.
US11278688B2
An inhaling device for heavy metal salts and a method of use thereof for medical treatment is provided. The device has a housing defining an interior volume. A mouthpiece is disposed at a terminal end of the housing. A slot is also disposed in the housing, wherein the slot is configured to receive a removably securable cartridge. The cartridge includes at least one heavy metal salt in a solution. Upon securement of the cartridge into the housing, the mouthpiece is in fluid communication with the solution. A battery powered heating element is disposed in the interior volume of the housing, wherein the heating element is in thermal communication with the cartridge when the cartridge is secured within the housing. In use, a user can heat the solution via the heating element and inhale the solution via the mouthpiece.
US11278677B2
A data collection device for attachment to an injection device, such as an injector pen, includes a sensor arrangement to detect movement of a movable component of the injection device relative to the data collection device during delivery of a medicament by the injection device, and a processor arrangement configured to, based on said detected movement, determine a medicament dosage administered by the injection device. The processor arrangement may monitor the time that has elapsed since the medicament dosage was administered, and control a display to show the mediacament dosage and elapsed time to provide a memory aid to the user. In an example embodiment, the sensor arrangement includes an optical encoder and the movable component includes a plurality of light barrier formations. The movable component may be a number sleeve that provides a visual indication of a dose programmed into the injection device.
US11278670B2
A method that includes receiving, in a medication delivery module, a command to start a medication delivery from a first control module coupled to the medication delivery module, is provided. The command to start the medication delivery is based on clinical information received at the first control module. The method includes recording, in a memory of the medication delivery module, an update of the medication delivery, receiving an indication that the medication delivery module was decoupled from the first control module, and receiving an indication that the medication delivery module has become coupled with a second control module. The method also includes communicating, in response, with the second control module, to update the clinical information. A system and a non-transitory, computer readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided.
US11278666B2
A medication infusion device includes a medication container containing liquid medication; an infusion needle; and a reciprocating pump having a pump chamber. The liquid medication is withdrawn from the medication container into the pump chamber during suction operation of the reciprocating pump, and the liquid medication is dispensed out of the pump chamber through the infusion needle during dispensing operation of the reciprocating pump. There are also mechanisms preventing liquid from flowing through the infusion needle during suction operation of the reciprocating pump and preventing liquid from flowing back into the medication container during dispensing operation of the reciprocating pump. The medication infusion device may further include a microcontroller to control medication infusion volume and rate.
US11278663B2
A connector retains a medicine reservoir in a housing. The connector snaps onto the reservoir, the connector and reservoir are inserted into an aperture in the housing, and the connector snaps into the aperture in the housing. The connector may have a tubing and needle fixed in it to insert into the reservoir. The connector does not require a particular orientation when snapped into the housing and some embodiments may rotate freely. When snapped into the housing, the connector provides an auditory cue. For removal of the connector and reservoir, the exposed portion of the connector is compressed from the side. The configuration of the connector solves several problems associated with threaded connectors or other similar connectors.
US11278662B2
Described herein are devices for delivering at least two different medications without requiring disconnections and reconnections of medication syringes. In some embodiments, the devices can accommodate at least two syringes simultaneously. In some embodiments, the device can be torqued while delivering the at least two different medications without loosening the outlet port from an intravenous line the device is hooked up to.
US11278644B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method of preparing an osteogenic bone graft. The method includes introducing an anticoagulant compound into a volume of cellular material including a mononuclear cell population from the intramedullary canal of a long bone; collecting an effluent including the volume of cellular material containing the anticoagulant compound at a collection point; separating a concentrated cell fraction from the effluent, the concentrated cell fraction including the mononuclear cell population and the anticoagulant compound; and preparing an osteogenic bone graft from the concentrated cell fraction.
US11278636B2
An ozone disinfecting system includes a water holding tank configured to hold water for use by the ozone disinfecting system. An ozone generator machine is configured to convert the water into an ozone cleaner agent. An ozone holding tank is configured to hold the ozone cleaner agent created by the ozone generator machine. A drain is configured to drain fluid from the ozone holding tank to the water holding tank. A pump is configured to cycle the fluid from the water holding tank to the ozone generator machine and into the ozone holding tank. A controller is configured to control the pump, the ozone generator machine, and the drain. Wherein, the controller controls the pump, the ozone generator machine and the drain to create the ozone cleaner agent from the water and cycle it between the water holding tank and the ozone holding tank at a specified cycle time.
US11278628B2
This disclosure is directed to antibody-drug conjugates. More specifically, this disclosure is directed to compositions comprising (i) antibody-drug conjugates comprising benzodiazepines, and (ii) a small hydrophobic molecule, methods of treatment using the compositions, and methods of formulating the compositions. Furthermore, this disclosure is directed to methods of reducing reversible self-association in antibodies and in antibody-drug conjugates.
US11278622B2
This disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising ceftolozane, pharmaceutical compositions comprising ceftolozane and tazobactam, methods of preparing those compositions, and related methods and uses of these compositions.
US11278616B2
The present invention provides an immunity induction-promoting composition which has a track record of use as a medicine or medicinal additive and is capable of safely and effectively inducing cellular immune response, and a vaccine pharmaceutical composition containing the immunity induction-promoting composition. The present invention relates to an immunity induction-promoting composition containing an immunity induction promoter whose active ingredient is an antimicrobial drug.
US11278610B2
The invention relates to microbial host cells engineered to produce glycoconjugate vaccines by stable integration of an acceptor protein and an oligosaccharyltransferase into the host's genome, wherein expression of the oligosaccharyltransferase is regulated.
US11278606B2
Methods for preparing antigen-loaded dendritic cells (DCs) for treatment of cancer in a subject are provided, using an electroporation apparatus having an electroporation chamber including an upper electrode, a lower electrode and a path defined in the electroporation chamber. The electroporation apparatus includes a first input allowing passage of DCs into the electroporation chamber and a first output allowing passage of antigen-loaded DCs from the electroporation chamber. The first input and the first output are separated by an offset distance. Methods of treating cancer by administering antigen-loaded DCs are also provided.
US11278595B2
This invention relates to novel compositions comprising analogs of naturally occurring polypeptides, wherein the analog comprises an α-amino acid and at least one β-amino acid. Administration of the compositions may be used for effecting treatment or prevention of a plurality of disease states caused by dysfunctional biochemical or biological pathways. The compositions and methods of this invention are particularly useful to identify novel therapeutic modulators of in-vivo receptor activity with extended half-lives and relevant bioactivity as compared to the naturally translated polypeptides upon which the analogs are derived.
US11278592B2
A method of treating a subject having a cancer comprising administering a tumor suppressor therapy, such as a TUSC2 therapy, in conjunction with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. Kits and reagents for use in cancer therapy are also provided.
US11278578B2
Combinations of probiotic compositions are described which are beneficial for human hosts in reducing gas and bloating, stomach acidity, and constipation also capable of boosting the immune capacity. The compositions comprise blends including B. coagulans, B. subtilis, and B. clausii in combination with magnesium stearate, magnesium hydroxide, and simethicone. The combination probiotic compositions of the present invention behave in a synergistic manner in their nature of action both in-vitro and in-vivo. The combination probiotic compositions of the present invention are also very stable for comparatively greater amounts of time period.
US11278573B2
Compositions and methods are provided for repairing damaged avascular zones, including intervertebral disc, in a patient in need thereof.
US11278567B2
Methods for modifying neuronal functional activity and/or treating a neurological disorder by using agents that raise neuronal intracellular concentration of magnesium are disclosed. Also provided herein are methods of determining the amenability of an individual to treatment for a neurological disorder, by measuring changes in intracellular magnesium concentration.
US11278561B2
The present invention relates to a combination treatment for hematological cancers. More specifically; a combination of a telomerase inhibitor and a Bcl-2 inhibitor are useful in treating hematological cancers, including AML. In certain embodiments, the telomerase inhibitor is imetelstat or imetelstat sodium and the Bcl-2 inhibitor is ABT-199.
US11278560B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for modifying a predetermined nucleic acid sequence. A programmable nucleoprotein molecular complex containing a polypeptide moiety and a specificity conferring nucleic acid (SCNA) which assembles in-vivo, in a target cell, and is capable of interacting with the predetermined target nucleic acid sequence is provided. The programmable nucleoprotein molecular complex is capable of specifically modifying and/or editing a target site within the target nucleic acid sequence and/or modifying the function of the target nucleic acid sequence.
US11278558B2
The invention relates to a method and composition for modulating the microbiota in the gastro-intestinal tracts of non-infant humans, particularly for increasing the abundance of Bifidobacterium longum and/or Bifidobacterium bifidum in the gut microbiota of non-infant humans.
US11278552B2
An antitumor pharmaceutical combination includes (i) a compound ABX196 and (ii) at least one chemotherapeutic agent and/or at least one immunotherapeutic agent, for use in the treatment of cancer.
US11278537B2
Provided are methods for treatment of Fabry disease in patients having HEK assay amenable mutations in α-galactosidase A. Certain methods comprise administering migalastat or a salt thereof every other day, such as administering about 150 mg of migalastat hydrochloride every other day.
US11278532B2
Uses and methods that include an effective amount of Compound (A), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, are described herein for treating breast cancer in a subject in need thereof, wherein the breast cancer has at least one point mutation within the Estrogen Receptor 1 (ESR1) that encodes Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα).
US11278527B2
Stress responses involve corticotropin releasing factor (CRF), the two cognate receptors (CRF1 and CRF2) and the CRF-binding protein (CRFBP). Utilizing a novel cell-based assay, a C-terminal CRFBP fragment [CRFBP(10 kD)] was found to potentiates CRF-intracellular Ca2+ release, demonstrating that CRFBP possesses excitatory roles in addition to the inhibitory role established by the N-terminal fragment of CRFBP [CRFBP(27 kD)]. This interaction was CRF2-specific, as CRF1 responses were not potentiated by CRFBP(10 kD). As there were currently no small molecule ligands available that selectively interact with either CRFBP or CRF2, a cell-based assay was miniaturized, wherein CRFBP(10 kD) was fused as a chimera with CRF2α, that allowed us to a perform a high-throughput screen (HTS) of approximately 350,000 small molecules. This resulted in the identification of negative allosteric modulators (NAMs) of the CRFBP(10 kD)-CRF2 complex that blunt CRF-induced potentiation of N-Methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor (NMDAR)-mediated synaptic transmission in dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA). These results provide the first evidence of specific roles for CRF2 and CRFBP in the modulation of neuronal activity and suggest that NMDARs in the VTA may be a target for the treatment of stress and substance abuse disorders such as alcohol use disorder.
US11278525B1
A SIRT6 activating molecule as shown in Tables 1-3 and 9, or a compound according to a pharmacophore as described herein.
US11278515B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition or a health functional food composition for improving sleep or preventing or treating sleep disorders comprising beta-lapachone as an active ingredient. Beta-lapachone decreases the sleep latency and increases the total sleeping time, and thus the composition comprising the beta-lapachone can effectively improve sleep and prevent and treat sleep disorders.
US11278512B2
Presented herein are compositions comprising L-serine, or a precursor, derivative or conjugate thereof, and a non-toxic metal, such as zinc. Compositions disclosed herein can be used for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, or related symptoms thereof.
US11278500B2
An abuse resistant oral pharmaceutical composition, comprising: a barrier layer, comprising a first polymer; a diffusion layer, comprising a second polymer, substantially covering the barrier layer, wherein the diffusion layer is bonded to the barrier layer and comprises a drug that is substantially homogeneously distributed within the second polymer and diffuses from the diffusion layer within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract; and optionally an expansion layer comprising an expandable polymer, wherein the expansion layer is substantially covered by the barrier layer. Methods of making the same and methods of using the same are also provided.
US11278491B2
The invention relates to intravaginal devices, in particular rings, comprising progesterone in a particular polymorphic purity, methods for making such devices and therapeutic uses of said devices. In particular, the intravaginal devices comprise a high amount of progesterone polymorph I and are useful in the treatment of infertility in a female subject.
US11278490B2
The subject invention provides materials and methods for improving facial skin, hair and scalp health using cosmetic yeast-based masks. In a specific embodiment, the subject invention provides a yeast-based mask for application to the face, which can improve the health and appearance of thereof. In another specific embodiment, the subject invention provides a yeast-based mask for application to the hair and scalp, which can aid in preventing hair loss, as well as improve the health and appearance of the hair and scalp. Methods of using the yeast-based masks are also provided.
US11278485B2
The present invention provides a novel topical moisturizing preparation containing as an active ingredient at least one selected from pentosan polysulfate; pharmaceutically acceptable salts of pentosan polysulfate; and pharmaceutically acceptable solvates thereof. The topical moisturizing preparation of the present invention, which contains a substance free of animal-derived components as an active ingredient, can be produced as a topical moisturizing preparation free of animal-derived components, as needed.
US11278482B2
The present invention relates to a process for dyeing keratin fibers, in particular human keratin fibers such as the hair, using a) one or more blue, violet or green dyes and b) one or more disulfide, thiol or protected-thiol fluorescent dyes. The present invention also relates to a cosmetic composition comprising the dyes defined above, and also to a multi-compartment device containing said dyes. The present invention also relates to the use of said dyes for dyeing light keratin fibers, notably human keratin fibers such as the hair, in chestnut-brown, dark chestnut-brown, brown, brown with a tint, or even black, without using an additional dye other than those defined above.
US11278480B2
The present invention relates to an antimicrobial composition at the pH of the skin. Particularly, it relates to an antimicrobial composition comprising water soluble vinyl polymer, a carboxylic acid having pKa greater than 4.5; and an anionic surfactant, wherein the composition has pH in the range 4.5 to 6.5. The compositions provides synergistic antimicrobial effect in relatively shorter contact time. The invention further relates to a method of disinfecting a surface using the composition.
US11278466B2
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a control method for a massage machine and a massage element of a massage machine which can provide pressing and rubbing kneading to a person to be treated. A control method for a massage machine contains a controlling process for individually controlling operations of a kneading motor 331 for operating a pair of massage elements 321, 322, width adjustment motors 341, 342 for adjusting a width between the pair of massage elements 321, 322, a strength-and-weakness motor 351 for adjusting strength of the pair of massage elements 321, 322 and an up-and-down motor 361 for adjusting movement of the pair of massage elements 321, 322 in an up-and-down direction.
US11278446B2
The present invention provides an elongated active thermo-regulated neonatal transportable incubator (ANTI), having a main longitudinal axis with a proximal end and an opposite distal end comprising adjacent to at least one of the ends a temperature regulating vent (TRV). The TRV is configured to stream air from one end towards the opposite end substantially along the axis, and the ANTI is configured, by means of size and shape, to accommodate the neonate in parallel to the axis. Further the ANTI can be configured by means of size shape and material to at least partially inserted into an MRD having an open bore in its longitudinal axis, further accommodating the neonate parallel to the MRD bore. An incubator with a temperature regulating vent located outside the incubator and its base.
US11278435B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for supplying increased power to an augmentation device without increasing battery size. For example, the load may be a motor that provides augmentation power to a joint of a prosthetic ankle, and which is generally powered by a battery. A reconfigurable electrical circuit may connect a supercapacitor in series with the battery to boost the power from the battery at times when a pulse of increased power is demanded. For instance, states of one or more switches of the electrical circuit may be changed in order to briefly disconnect the motor from the circuit just prior to a powered plantarflexion phase of a gait cycle of the ankle, and then to reconnect the motor to a reconfigured circuit to provide a power boost. The circuit may also be reconfigured to allow the battery to recharge the supercapacitor during periods of nominal power demand.
US11278432B2
Underactuated prosthetic hand including base body; first and second prosthetic fingers each hinged to the base body; first control cable; actuator to move the first control cable; and for each pair of fingers second control cable having control ends associated with the first and second fingers; and transmission block to allow first control cable to control second control cable; transmission block includes guide integral with base body and defining sliding axis; movable element sliding along guide; first pulley for sliding first control cable hinged to movable element and second pulley for sliding second control cable hinged to the movable element so actuator, when moving first cable, determines moveable element translational movement to displace second control cable and the fingers; and elastic means opposing moveable element translational movement so the moveable element translational movement opposes elastic means allowing them to facilitate return to moveable element initial position.
US11278418B2
A reverse shoulder orthopaedic implant includes a glenosphere component having a lateral bearing surface configured to articulate with a humeral cup of a humeral prosthesis. A metaglene component includes a platform configured to receive glenosphere component.
US11278408B2
A prosthesis for implantation at a native semilunar valve includes a prosthetic distal valve, which includes a pliant material configured to collapse inwardly towards a longitudinal axis of the prosthesis during diastole, and to open outwardly during systole, and a distal fixation member configured to be positioned in a downstream artery of the subject. The apparatus also includes a proximal fixation member coupled to the distal fixation member, and configured to be positioned at least partially on a ventricular side of the native semilunar valve. The proximal fixation member is shaped so as to define a lattice that is shaped so as to define an intermediary portion that is coupled to the pliant material of the valve and diverges outwardly from the longitudinal axis, and a distal portion that is distal to the intermediary portion and diverges outwardly from the intermediary portion of the lattice. Other embodiments are also described.
US11278406B2
The invention relates to catheter system for introducing an expandable heart valve stent (150) into the body of a patient, the catheter system comprising: a catheter tip (10) having a seat portion for accommodating the stent (150) in its collapsed state and a stent holder (15) for releasably fixing the stent (150), wherein the seat portion is constituted by a first sleeve-shaped member (11) and a second sleeve-shaped member (21), said sleeve-shaped members (11, 21) being moveable relative to each other and relative to the stent holder (15), and a catheter shaft (30) for connecting the catheter tip (10) to a handle (70). The catheter shaft (30) comprising: first force transmitting means (31) connected to the first sleeve-shaped member (11), second force transmitting means (41) connected to the second sleeve-shaped member (21) and a distal end section connectable to second operating means (81) of the handle (70), and guiding means (51) having a passageway extending there between, wherein the first and second force transmitting means (31, 41) are at least partly received within the passageway such as to be moveable relative to the guiding means (51), and wherein the proximal end of the guiding means (51) terminates distal to the catheter tip (10).
US11278393B2
An accommodating intraocular lens implant includes an anterior floating lens unit, a posterior lens unit, an anterior rim complex disposed such that the anterior floating lens unit is movable toward and away from the anterior rim complex. A plurality of levers are in jointed connection with: the anterior floating lens unit at respective first longitudinal sites along the levers, the anterior rim complex at respective second longitudinal sites along the levers, and the posterior lens unit at respective third longitudinal sites along the levers. The respective second longitudinal sites are longitudinally between the respective first and the respective third longitudinal sites. The levers are arranged (a) such that the third longitudinal sites serve as respective fulcrums for the plurality of levers, and (b) to move the anterior floating lens unit toward and away from the anterior rim complex, in the anterior-posterior direction. Other embodiments are also described.
US11278390B2
A stent graft includes a luminal graft component defining at least one fenestration. At least one ligature traverses the fenestration and at least partially defines an opening within the fenestration that secures a branch prosthesis. The stent graft is implanted in a patient to thereby treat an arterial aneurysm, such as an aortic aneurysm in a region of the aorta that includes at least one arterial branch, including juxtarenal and short-neck aortic aneurysms.
US11278388B2
A catheter device is disclosed comprising; an elongate sheath (503) with a lumen and a distal end for positioning at a heart valve (6), an embolic protection device (200) for temporarily positioning in the aortic arch for deflection of embolic debris from the ascending aorta to the descending aorta, said embolic protection device is connectable to a transluminal delivery unit (130) extending proximally from a connection point (131), and having: a frame with a periphery, a blood permeable unit within said periphery for preventing embolic particles from passing therethrough with a blood flow downstream an aortic valve into side vessels of said aortic arch to the brain of a patient, and at least one tissue apposition sustaining unit (300, 350) extending from said catheter, into said aortic arch, and being attached to said embolic protection device at a sustaining point (502), for application of a stabilization force offset to said connection point at said embolic protection device, such as at said periphery, and for providing said stabilization force towards an inner wall of said aortic arch, away from said heart, and in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal extension of said periphery, when said catheter device is positioned in said aortic arch, such that tissue apposition of said periphery to an inner wall of said aortic arch is supported by said force for improving stability and peripheral sealing. In addition related methods are disclosed.
US11278384B2
Oral hygiene monitoring system is disclosed to track motion and orientation of an oral hygiene device. The control system may process data output from a motion sensor to determine position and orientation of an oral hygiene device with respect to a user's mouth. In some examples, the system may use machine learning techniques to identify position and orientation, brush stroke type, and other specific actions.
US11278375B2
Embodiments relate to an aligner breakage solution. A method includes obtaining a digital design of a polymeric aligner for a dental arch of a patient. The polymeric aligner is shaped to apply forces to teeth of the dental arch. The method also includes performing an analysis on the digital design of the polymeric aligner using at least one of a) a trained machine learning model, b) a numerical simulation, c) a geometry evaluator or d) a rules engine. The method may also include determining, based on the analysis, whether the digital design of the polymeric aligner includes probable points of damage, wherein for a probable point of damage there is a threshold probability that breakage, deformation, or warpage will occur. The method may also include, responsive to determining that the digital design of the polymeric aligner comprises probable points of damage, performing corrective actions based on the probable points of damage.
US11278371B1
A surgical table apparatus for a patient on a flat surface includes a platform including a main base. The main base includes a first end; a second end; a top surface; a bottom surface; two side surfaces extending from the first end to the second end, and extending from the top surface to the bottom surface; wherein a width of the main base at the first end is less than a width of the main base at the second end. The surgical table apparatus also includes at least two side surgical table wings, each side surgical table wing configured to be connected to respective ones of the two side surfaces of the main body. The first end is configured to be positioned at a groin area of the patient and the at least two side surgical table wings are configured extend over legs of a patient to define an extended surface.
US11278358B2
In an embodiment, a system attaches a patient reference array of a computer-assisted surgery system to a patient. The system includes a fixation post having a shaft having proximal and distal ends that are offset from. A threaded fastener is coupled to the shaft at the distal end that rotates relative to the shaft so as to engage internal threads of a pedicle screw, thereby causing the distal end of the shaft to translate in the anchor seat and urge the pedicle screw to transition from an unlocked configuration to a locked configuration. The attachment assembly has an arm that supports the patient reference array, and a coupler supported by the arm. The coupler has a fixation body that defines a recess that receives at least a portion of the fixation post, and an actuator that secures the attachment assembly to the fixation post.
US11278357B2
Robotic systems for determining an angular degree of freedom of a medical device in luminal networks
Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for navigation-assisted medical devices. Some aspects relate to correlating features of depth information generated based on captured images of an anatomical luminal network with virtual features of depth information generated based on virtual images of a virtual representation of the anatomical luminal network in order to automatically determine aspects of a roll of a medical device within the luminal network.
US11278350B2
A method, including performing an initial ablation of a tissue using an electrode in a probe distal end to apply a first power to the tissue, and measuring a change of temperature of the distal end while applying the first power. The method also includes estimating a thickness of the tissue in response to the measured change of temperature, and in response to the estimated thickness, computing at least one of a second power required and a time period for ablation, to complete ablation of the tissue. The method further includes performing a subsequent ablation of the tissue using the computed at least one of the second power and the time period for ablation.
US11278342B2
Medical devices utilizing shape memory alloys and associated methods are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed toward a treatment element configured to be positioned within a body lumen and coupled to an energy source. At least a portion of the treatment element may be made of a shape memory alloy, and wherein application of thermal energy to the treatment element from the energy source transforms the treatment element from the martensitic state to the austenitic state in which the treatment element is configured to cut, ablate, resect, and/or cauterize tissue.
US11278338B2
A device including a first plate configured to interface with a first bone structure of a joint; a second plate configured to interface with a second bone structure of the joint opposite the first bone structure; and at least one mechanical actuation mechanism disposed between the first plate and the second plate and configured to apply a distraction force along an axis between the first plate and the second plate so as to urge the first plate and the second plate away from one another, wherein the device is configured so as to have a range of motion ranging from a minimum distance between the first plate and the second plate to a maximum distance between the first plate and the second plate, and wherein the mechanical actuation mechanism is configured such that the distraction force is substantially constant distraction force across the range of motion.
US11278335B2
A compression screw for applying compression at a bone joint. The compression screw includes an axial screw body extending from a distal end to a proximal end with the distal end including a series of bone engaging threads configured to be self-drilling and self-tapping and the proximal end including a head which defines a radially extending shoulder. At least one proximal rotary cutting structure is defined proximally of the bone engaging threads. The at least one proximal rotary cutting structure is configured to be self-drilling such that a proximal portion of the axial screw body cuts into and advances within a bone of the bone joint as the axial screw body is advanced. A method of inserting the compression screw is also provided.
US11278328B2
An instrument set for connecting vertebral bodies, comprising a screw which can be screwed into a pedicle, a head piece which can be connected polyaxially to the screw for coupling to a rod system and which has a sleeve-shaped tulip having an opening for insertion of the screw head in an insertion direction, and a tool, is developed. The head piece has a saddle in the tulip, with a receiving region for receiving the screw head in a first end region that faces the opening and a coupling region that can be coupled to the tool in a second end region opposite the receiving region. The saddle can be moved between a released position and a locked position. In the locked position, the screw head cannot be disengaged from the receiving region, and the saddle can be fixed in a released position.
US11278319B2
Medical devices, assemblies and methods for guarding sharp tips of medical needles are disclosed herein. Some embodiments include an expandable device configured to be at least partially disposed within the needle lumen. The device may include an expandable distal portion that is designed to shift between a first configuration in which the expandable distal portion has an outer diameter that is the same as or less than the inner diameter of the needle lumen and a second configuration in which the expandable distal portion has an outer diameter that is greater than the inner diameter of the needle lumen. An elongated inner member may be used to shift the expandable distal portion from the first configuration to the second configuration.
US11278316B2
A collar for a surgical access device includes an annular body laterally attachable to a cannula of the surgical access device. A spring is coupled to the annular body and movable between an uncompressed state and a compressed state. The spring is configured to manipulate the annular body between a first condition and a second condition to selectively fix the annular body at predetermined locations along the cannula or to laterally remove the annular body from the cannula while the cannula is supported within a patient's body.
US11278313B2
An apparatus and methods for transeptal punctures provide audible feedback to an operator or clinician with information to identify an intended needle or instrument pathway. Despite improved safety and simplification of the TSP itself, the apparatus enables the operator to optimize a crossing angle for various procedures, including PV isolation, valve repair, and appendage closure.
US11278298B2
A decompression device and method for removing marrow and other fluid from an intramedullary canal. The decompression device includes a cannula having a channel that allows fatty marrow to pass therethrough. A first port extends from the device and is in operable connection to a vacuum source that creates suction for removing fluid from the intramedullary canal. In some embodiments, one or more fenestrations are disposed along the second end of the cannula to expedite the removal of the fluid. In operation, the cannula is inserted into the intramedullary canal of a femur. Once fatty marrow is removed from the intramedullary canal, the cannula is removed and a reaming device is inserted into the femur. In this way, the fatty marrow is removed prior to the reaming procedure in order to prevent these fluids from traveling to the lungs causing blockage that leads to severe cardiorespiratory and vascular dysfunction.
US11278296B2
A surgical system includes a surgical tool and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to provide a plurality of virtual haptic interaction points where each virtual haptic interaction point is associated with a portion of the surgical tool such that movement of the surgical tool corresponds to movement of the plurality of virtual haptic interaction points, establish a haptic object that defines a working boundary for the surgical tool, and constrain at least one of the portions of the surgical tool based on a relationship between at least one of the plurality of virtual haptic interaction points and the haptic object.
US11278295B1
The presently disclosed subject matter is generally directed to a device that can be used as a tourniquet cuff for effective blood draws and IV insertion. The disclosed device assists skilled medical professionals in locating a vessel and inserting an intravenous tube, catheter, and/or blood drawing needle therein. Particularly, the device includes a cuff that wraps around at least a portion of a patient limb (e.g., an arm). The cuff is secured on the patient's limb with a plurality of straps that are tightened and secured about the circumference of the cuff. When the device is configured on the limb of a patient, the patient's blood vessels immediately engorge with blood. In this way, the vessels can be clearly visualized by or felt by a medical professional. As a result, blood can easily and efficiently be drawn and/or an IV successfully inserted without multiple attempts at finding the vessel.
US11278293B2
Disclosed herein are improved methods and apparatuses for providing hemostasis within a cavity defined by an internal surface of a bleeding tissue space. A catheter comprising a proximal end and a distal end may be advanced into the cavity through a proximal opening of the tissue space into the cavity. A distal balloon coupled to the catheter may be positioned adjacent a distal opening of the tissue space, and expanded to seal the distal opening. A hemostatic agent may be applied from the catheter to the internal surface of the tissue space to inhibit bleeding of the tissue space. The hemostatic agent may be applied without occluding the proximal opening, the distal opening, and a path extending therebetween with the hemostatic agent.
US11278285B2
A surgical stapler includes a first elongate member having a distal portion that supports an anvil surface, and a second elongate member having a distal portion configured to receive a staple cartridge. The stapler further includes a pin rotatably coupled with the first elongate member, and a clamp member movably coupled with the second elongate member. The clamp member is operable to releasably capture the pin to thereby clamp the first elongate member against the second elongate member. The pin is configured to rotate relative to the first elongate member in response to being captured by the clamp member.
US11278277B2
Devices and methods for stabilizing bone. The devices and methods may provide a more balanced proximal and distal compression when stabilizing bone. An exemplary device may comprise a staple member including a bridge connecting a first leg to a second leg. The device also may comprise a resilient arm elongated between a fixed end and a free end, and projecting from the first leg and/or from an end region of the bridge adjoining the first leg. At least a portion of the resilient arm intermediate the fixed and free ends may be inwardly adjacent and spaced from an upper region of the first leg.
US11278276B2
Disclosed is a medical thread insertion instrument including: a medical thread having an outer surface thereof on which barbs are formed; a needle part having a cavity therein so that the medical thread is able to be inserted, the needle part including a needle having a predetermined length (L1); and a tube part having a cavity therein so that the needle is able to be inserted, the tube part being inserted into an inner side of the skin and including a tube having a length (L2) shorter than the length (L1) of the needle.
US11278275B2
A machine for winding sutures into a suture tray package comprises a base platform, a plurality of package nests, a first workstation for placing an empty tray onto one of the package nests, a further workstation for feeding a needle with an attached suture in the tray and parking said needle in the tray, a winding station for winding the suture into a winding channel of the tray, a lid placement station for placing a lid onto one of the package nests, a lid attachment station for attaching the lid to the tray, and an offloading station for removing said trays from the package nests. The further workstation comprises two tweezer grippers, at least one of said tweezer grippers having a V- or U-shaped notch, said V- or U-shaped notch being located at the inside of the notched tweezer gripper facing the second tweezer gripper.
US11278273B2
A suture securing instrument can include a cylindrical body that has an inner circumferential surface, and a securing portion configured to secure a suture. The securing portion can include an outer circumferential surface supported by the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical body by moving along a longitudinal axis relative to the cylindrical body, and a holding portion configured to hold the suture between the cylindrical body and the securing portion. The holding portion can also include a groove for the suture.
US11278272B2
A suture assembly may include a needle having a cylindrical body with a sharp point on at least one end, a lumen extending transverse to a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical body, and a recess in communication with an opening to the lumen. A suture extends through the lumen and is secured within the recess of the needle by a sleeve extending over the needle.
US11278256B2
The present invention relates to the field of medical imaging in the absence of contrast agents. In one form, the invention relates to the field of imaging vessels, particularly blood vessels such as the pulmonary vasculature and is suitable for use as a technique for detecting pulmonary embolism (PE), such as acute PE. Embodiments of the present invention provide improved image processing techniques having the capability to extract and use image data to overcome the need for contrast agents to distinguish between different types of tissue. Furthermore, it has also been realised that the image data accessed by the improved image processing can be used to identify irregularities in vessels.
US11278255B2
A method is for producing a CT image data set via a detection unit with a photon-counting X-ray detector and configured to convert detected X-rays into measurement signals resolved at least into a first and a second energy range and, via an X-ray source unit, configured to emit X-rays having a first energy spectrum and having a different second energy spectrum. The method includes adapting the first and the second energy ranges, at least one limiting energy of each energy range being adapted; emitting X-rays of the first and second energy spectrum; detecting the emitted X-rays, at least one measurement signal being generated as a function of each respective energy range and the respective energy spectrum; producing the spectral CT image data set based upon the generated first and second measurement signals with the assistance of a spectral image processing technique; and outputting the spectral CT image data set.
US11278254B2
A multi-spectral tomography imaging system includes one or more source devices configured to direct beams of radiation in multiple spectra to a region of interest (ROI), and one or more detectors configured to receive the beams of radiation. The system includes a processor configured to cause movement in at least one of the components such that a first beam of radiation with a first spectrum is directed to the ROI for less than 360 degrees of movement of the ROI. The processor is also configured to process data detected by the one or more detectors, where the data results at least in part from the first beam of radiation with the first spectrum that is directed to the ROI for less than the 360 degrees of movement of the ROI. The processor is further configured to generate an image of the ROI based on the processed data.
US11278250B2
Systems and methods for obtaining simultaneous X-ray-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images are provided. A magnetic resonance X-ray CT (MRX) system can combine X-ray imaging and MRI in a cost-effective and relatively simple solution for improved imaging. During imaging of a subject, the X-ray source and X-ray detector can be simultaneously rotated around the subject, and the means for generating a magnetic field can also be rotated around the subject. The means for generating a magnetic field can be a plurality of permanent magnets.
US11278248B2
A catheter system includes a catheter body, an imaging sensor, a drive motor, a current sensor, a display, and a controller. The catheter body includes a drive shaft. The imaging sensor is fixed relative to the distal end of the driveshaft and is configured to rotate therewith. The drive motor is configured to rotate the drive shaft. The current sensor is configured to measure an amount of current drawn by the drive motor as the drive shaft is rotated. The display is configured to display one or more images obtained by the imaging sensor as the imaging sensor is rotated. The controller is configured to adjust a rotational orientation of the one or more images displayed by the display based upon the measured current.
US11278244B2
Systems and methods are provided for detecting changes or fluctuations in an analyte concentration signal that are abnormal, e.g., exceed a predetermined threshold, current trend of analyte concentration measurements, etc. Signals indicative of an analyte concentration in a host may be received from an analyte sensor. The signals may be monitored, and a determination can be made as to whether there is a change in the signal. Upon detecting such a change, the change can be compensated for such that a representation of the signal indicates the analyte concentration. Optionally, the cause of the detected changes or fluctuations can also be determined and information regarding the detected changes or fluctuations can be recorded and analyzed for subsequent optimization of the systems and methods as well for transmitting alerts, notifications, etc. to a user to take corrective action.
US11278243B2
A repositionable surface electrode for patient monitoring includes an active electrode layer having a top surface and a bottom surface and a leadwire connected to the active electrode layer. A first substrate has a top side, a bottom side, and a hole there through. The first substrate is positioned below the bottom surface of the active electrode layer such that the hole is aligned with the active electrode layer. An electrode gel channel is configured to conduct potentials from the patient's skin to the active electrode layer, the electrode gel channel extending through the hole in the first substrate. A silicone layer on the bottom side of the first substrate, avoiding the hole and the electrode channel, is configured to adhere the surface electrode to the patient's skin and to be removed from the patient's skin without becoming saturated with skin cells such that the electrode repositionable on the patient.
US11278240B2
The present invention is a Miniature Vein Enhancer that includes a Miniature Projection Head. The Miniature Projection Head may be operated in one of three modes, AFM, DBM, and RTM. The Miniature Projection Head of the present invention projects an image of the veins of a patient, which aids the practitioner in pinpointing a vein for an intravenous drip, blood test, and the like. The Miniature projection head may have a cavity for a power source or it may have a power source located in a body portion of the Miniature Vein Enhancer. The Miniature Vein Enhancer may be attached to one of several improved needle protectors, or the Miniature Vein Enhancer may be attached to a body similar to a flashlight for hand held use. The Miniature Vein Enhancer of the present invention may also be attached to a magnifying glass, a flat panel display, and the like.
US11278235B2
A prosthetic device includes a frame defining an output axis, a cantilever beam spring attached to the frame, a moment arm attached to the spring, and a rigid output arm coupled to the frame and rotatable about the output axis. A connector assembly is configured to apply a moment to the cantilever beam spring via the moment arm while applying a torque about the output axis via the output arm. An ankle-foot device includes foot and ankle members connected for two-degree of freedom movement relative to one another, allowing for rotation about an ankle axis and rotation about a subtalar axis. Two linear actuators, each coupled to corresponding series elastic element, link the foot and ankle members. Driving the actuators in the same direction causes rotation about the ankle axis and driving the actuators in opposing directions causes rotation about the subtalar axis. A processor receives sensory information from a sensor and drives the actuators to control an equilibrium position of the series elastic elements. A rotary actuator for a prosthetic device includes a housing frame, a motor mounted within the housing frame, and a cycloidal drive coupled to the motor within the housing frame. A torsion shaft can extend through the actuator to an output and provide a series elastic element.
US11278231B2
Methods of generating a graphical representation of cardiac information on a display screen are provided. The method comprises: electronically creating or acquiring an anatomical model of the heart including multiple cardiac locations; electronically determining a data set of source information corresponding to cardiac activity at the multiple cardiac locations; electronically rendering the data set of source information in relation to the multiple cardiac locations on the display screen. Systems and devices for providing a graphical representation of cardiac information are also provided.
US11278229B2
The present invention provides an electrode headset grid adapted to fit on a head of a human subject, the grid comprising a plurality of conductive regions, electrically isolated from each other, wherein the conductive regions are configured to contact at least one electrode, and wherein the configuration of the conductive regions is configured to define an operating electrode unit. There is further provided an integrated system for brain electric stimulation and EEG monitoring, the system comprising the electrode headset grid and a plurality of electrodes. The invention further provides use of the electrode headset grid in an integrated non-invasive brain electrical stimulation and monitoring procedure.
US11278227B2
Provided is a biometric information measurement method. The method includes providing a bio-material including at least one of cells and tissues, contacting a first electrode and a second electrode with the bio-material and applying a first electrical signal and a second electrical signal to the bio-material, sensing a third electrical signal from the bio-material, and analyzing an oxygen concentration in the bio-material from the third electrical signal.
US11278223B2
Briefly, a carbon working electrode is described that has a plastic substrate of polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, or polylactic acid, and may be formed into an elongated wire. The carbon material coats the plastic substrate, and may be, for example, graphene, diamagnetic graphite, pyrolytic graphite, pyrolytic carbon, carbon black, carbon paste, or carbon ink, which is aqueously dispersed in an elastomeric material such as polyurethane, silicone, acrylates or acrylics. Optionally, selected additives may be added to the carbon compound prior to it being layered onto the plastic substrate. These additives may, for example, improve electrical conductivity or sensitivity, or act as a catalyst for target analyte molecules.
US11278216B2
A method and wireless sensor device for determining step count is disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving sensor data. The method includes detecting if there is activity of the body based on the sensor data. If there is activity, the method also includes classifying the activity and determining step count based on classification of the activity.
US11278215B2
An acoustic system can track gas emissions by exploiting the nostril-accessible nasal pathways of an animal. Actuators and microphones used in the apparatus can be similar to those currently found in cell phones, which in turn make the acoustic apparatus small and rugged. The nostril geometry can be mapped using sound waves, similar to the mapping done by an acoustic rhinometer. Where acoustic rhinometers assume a constant speed of sound to measure changes in geometry, acoustic approaches as disclosed herein can assume constant geometry to measure changes in the speed of sound. Approaches disclosed here are particularly useful with any gas, such as (for example) methane, hydrogen, helium, etc. that has a speed of sound higher than other typical gaseous components of exhaled air, such as nitrogen, carbon-dioxide, oxygen, etc.
US11278213B2
A medical data processing apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry. The memory stores a learned model including an input layer to which first MR data and second MR data having the same imaging target as the first MR data and an imaging parameter different from the first MR data are inputted, an output layer from which third MR data is output with a missing portion of the first MR data restored, and at least one intermediate layer arranged between the input layer and the output layer. The processing circuitry generates third MR data relating to the subject, from the first MR data serving as a process target and relating to the subject and the second MR data relating to the subject and acquired by an imaging parameter different from the first MR data serving as the process target, in accordance with the learned model.
US11278210B2
The pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section in which two element rows consisting of a plurality of pressure detecting elements arranged in a direction B are arranged in a direction A perpendicular to the direction B, and an air bag pressing the sensor section to a body surface in a state that the direction B intersects a direction in which an artery below the body surface of a living body. An arrangement interval between the two element rows in the direction A is 5 mm or more and 15 mm or less.
US11278209B2
Device and method for the geometric determination of electrical dipole densities on the cardiac wall
Disclosed are devices, systems, and methods for determining the dipole densities on heart walls. In particular, a triangularization of the heart wall is performed in which the dipole density of each of multiple regions correlate to the potential measured at various located within the associated chamber of the heart. To create a database of dipole densities, mapping information recorded by multiple electrodes located on one or more catheters and anatomical information is used. In addition, skin electrodes may be implemented. Additionally, one or more ultrasound elements are provided, such as on a clamp assembly or integral to a mapping electrode, to produce real time images of device components and surrounding structures.
US11278205B2
A device and method for guided insertion of microelectrodes into tissue, the device involving a flexible optical fiber for optical coherence tomography imaging, a metal layer coating the optical fiber for recording electrical signals and an outer insulation layer coating the metal layer along the optical fiber length, and the method involving inserting an optical fiber coated with a metal layer and further coated with an insulation layer into a tissue, collecting intraoperative image data through the optical fiber by optical coherence tomography, receiving the image data on a computer and displaying the image on a monitor, using the image data to determine a location in the tissue, receiving an electrical nerve signal through the metal layer, and measuring the electrical nerve signal on an electro-physiological recording system.
US11278202B2
Systems and methods for vibration-based communication disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes: a motion sensor configured to detect vibrations from a remote device; a processor coupled to the motion sensor and configured to: receive signals from the motion sensor; and activate a network connection based on signals from the motion sensor.
US11278197B1
The combination cheek retractor/mouth mirror attachment for a dental tool is a single unit that has three main portions. The attachment includes a main body portion (cheek retractor), a mirror portion, and a connector portion for attaching a dental tool, such as a probe or dental explorer. The main body portion is an arcuate body defining a border or frame having parallel arcuate upper and lower arms, the ends of the arms being joined by short, parallel legs, the corners being rounded. The mirror portion is an arcuate, single-face plane mirror fixed within the frame of the cheek retractor by gluing, welding, or the like. The connector portion is a split ring annular collar or band extending from the cheek retractor and having parallel tabs with aligned holes receiving a fastener for clamping the attachment to the neck of a dental tool, such as an explorer or probe.
US11278195B2
An illumination optical system includes a diffusion element that diffuses illumination light entering from a light source, the diffusion element emitting the illumination light. The diffusion element is formed by dispersing fine particles of at least one kind in a homogeneous medium that is made of a material different from the fine particles, and the diffusion element satisfies a specific conditional expressions.
US11278194B2
A medical device, configured for insertion into a body, may include an elongate member extending from a proximal end to a distal end, where the distal end may be configured to be positioned inside the body. The medical device may also include an imaging device positioned at the distal end. The medical device may further include a plurality of light sources positioned at the distal end, wherein a characteristic of light delivered through a first light source may be controlled independent of the characteristic of light delivered through a second light source.
US11278188B2
Example embodiments relate to devices, systems, and methods for performing a diagnostic and/or therapeutic action. The system may comprise an elongated main body having a first end. The system may further comprise an anchor assembly attached to the main body near the first end of the main body. The anchor assembly may comprise a first expandable member. The first expandable member may be configurable to expand radially away from the main body. The anchor assembly may further comprise a second expandable member provided between the first expandable member and the first end of the main body. The second expandable member may be configurable to expand radially away from the main body. The anchor assembly may be operable to secure the main body with respect to an interior wall forming the cavity of the patient.
US11278182B2
A system for visualizing an anatomical target includes a scope for internal imaging having a field of view less than a region to be imaged. A planning module is configured to receive video from the scope such that field of view images of the scope are stitched together to generate a composite image of the region to be imaged. An image guidance module is configured to move the scope along the anatomical target during a procedure such that an image generated in the field of view of the scope is displayed as live video overlaid on a field of the composite image.
US11278178B2
The present invention relates to a dishwasher and a manufacturing method thereof. The dishwasher according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a water guide extending upward from a sump and supplying washing water to an upper nozzle and a top nozzle, and the upper pipe and the top pipe are separately provided to the water guide, so pressure of the washing water applied to the upper pipe and the top pipe can be reduced.
US11278176B2
A method of operating an autonomous cleaning robot includes receiving, at a handheld computing device, a first input representing a first set of cleaning schedule parameters for a first cleaning schedule for the autonomous cleaning robot, the first cleaning schedule corresponding to a first area. The method includes presenting, on a display of the handheld computing device, the first cleaning schedule. The method includes receiving, at the handheld computing device, a second input representing a second set of cleaning schedule parameters for a second cleaning schedule for the autonomous cleaning robot, the second cleaning schedule corresponding to a second area different from the first area. The method includes presenting, on the display, the first and second cleaning schedules, and initiating a transmission to the autonomous cleaning robot, based on the first or second cleaning schedules, the transmission including data for causing the robot to initiate a cleaning mission.
US11278174B2
A cleaner and a method for controlling the same. The cleaner includes a brush module comprising a brush configured to scatter foreign substances on a floor, and a brush motor configured to rotate the brush. The cleaner includes a suction module configured to suction the foreign substances; a sensor configured to detect a load applied to the brush; and a controller configured to control suction force of the suction module based on the load detected by the sensor.
US11278173B2
An autonomous floor-cleaning robot comprising a housing infrastructure including a chassis, a power subsystem, a motive subsystem to propel the robot for cleaning operations, a command and control subsystem to control the robot to effect cleaning operations, and a self-adjusting cleaning head subsystem that includes a deck mounted in pivotal combination with the chassis, a brush assembly to sweep up particulates during cleaning operations, a vacuum assembly to ingest particulates during cleaning operations, and a deck adjusting subassembly mounted in combination with the motive subsystem for the brush assembly, the deck, and the chassis that is automatically operative in response to an increase in brush torque in said brush assembly to pivot the deck with respect to said chassis. The robot includes a side brush assembly to entrain particulates outside the periphery of the housing infrastructure and to direct such particulates towards the self-adjusting cleaning head system.
US11278142B2
To provide a hanger which can be manufactured inexpensively, and which can be fitted to clothing with one hand and one touch. A hanger 2 is provided with: an operating portion 30 provided with a hook 31, a branching portion 32 which is disposed at a base of the hook 31 and which is divided into a fork to the front side and the rear side in a front view, knobs 34 each having an insertion hole 33A in a central part thereof and disposed at lower ends of the branching portion 32, and a pair of projecting portions 35 provided on opposing surfaces of the knobs.
US11278137B2
Glass decanters and protective shells for glass decanters are described herein. An example apparatus includes a glass decanter and a protective shell including a first shell portion and a second shell portion couplable with the first shell portion. When the first and second shell portions are coupled, the first and second shell portions form a cavity in which the decanter is to be disposed and which completely encases the decanter.
US11278136B2
The present invention relates to head and neck pillows configured to provide proper support and advantageous positions of the head and neck for reducing spinal stress, maximizing air flow via the respiratory pathway and promoting healthy restorative sleep in a user. The head and neck pillow comprises an open head positioning support area, neck support areas when the user is resting in supine position. The invention further discloses a first side and a second side of the head and neck pillow comprising support areas for the side of the head and neck as well as curved transition surfaces for smooth transitioning of the head and neck of the user from supine or prone to side resting positions. In an embodiment, the invention discloses a head and neck pillow with an open head positioning area, a neck support area and a handle positioned adjacent to the open head positioning area.
US11278130B2
An apparatus for the display of small format beverage containers is disclosed. According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a front door that allows access to beverage containers; front panels; a left panel and a right panel; a loading opening; back panels; bottom panels; and an internal channel having a curved ramp that stores beverage containers.
US11278127B2
A mattress comprising a first layer comprising at least one channel extending laterally from a first side of the layer to an opposite side of the layer, and a plurality of foam spheres or hemispheres disposed in each channel. A mattress assembly comprising the mattress and a mattress foundation.
US11278123B2
A bed structure includes a bedstead formed by bedstead units. The bedstead units are symmetrically arranged with respect to the central axis of the bedstead. The bedstead unit includes a first bedstead unit and a second bedstead unit. The first bedstead unit is hinged to the second bedstead unit. A motor is provided between the first bedstead unit and the second bedstead unit. The bedstead units at both sides of the central axis of the bedstead are hinged by a fixing rod. Each of two ends of the fixing rod is provided with a clamping member. The bedstead unit is provided with a matching member connected to the clamping member. The clamping member and the matching member are hinged by a fastener. In this arrangement, the electric bed can be folded.
US11278117B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a cabinet that comprises a cover, a base, a rotatable rod coupled to the base, a gun prong coupled to the rotatable rod, a prong magnet coupled to the gun prong, and a base magnet. Wherein, when the cover is opened to a predetermined position, the rotatable rod rotates to expose an Article placed on the gun prong. The rotation of the rotatable rod can be caused by repulsion between the prong magnet and the base magnet.
US11278112B2
An overbed table top includes a monolithic portion and a laminate portion. The monolithic portion has a top surface, a bottom surface, and an edge surface. The bottom surface includes an open cavity where a peripheral region of the bottom surface circumscribes the open cavity. The monolithic portion is an antimicrobial material. The laminate portion is disposed in the open cavity and is coupled to the monolithic portion. The laminate portion includes an exposed layer of a moisture impervious material coupled to a hidden layer of a wood-based material that can support fasteners used to attach the overbed table top to a frame.
US11278105B2
Disclosed is a combination bag and baby carrier that couple together via a harness. The bag and carrier removably couple to the harness with clips and snaps, for example, to allow the use of the bag and carrier at the same time but also to allow the bag to be removed and the user to rest while holding their baby in the carrier. In an embodiment, a sling carrier can be used and is coupled to the harness to hold the baby in a sling-type arrangement.
US11278102B2
Cases can be used to house sets of artificial lashes in a specified arrangement. For example, lash fusions may be placed within multiple predefined indentations in the shape of an eyelid. Applicators can be used to resiliently grasp all of the lash fusions in a set of lash extensions, and then simultaneously apply the entire set of lash extensions directly to the underside of the natural lashes. An applicator includes opposed arms that are connected to one another at an inner end designed to be gripped by an individual. The applicator can also include an outer end having a concave shape that is contoured to be substantially flush with the convex shape of the lash line and the predefined indentations of a case that includes the set of lash extensions.
US11278097B2
Carrying devices, such as shoulder bags, have a carrying body defining an interior storage compartment having an access opening thereto and a pair of shoulder straps. Each individual strap of the pair of shoulder straps has a first textile layer fixedly attached to a second textile layer with a magnet enclosed therebetween at a position proximate or at a central transverse plane. The polarity of the magnet in a first individual strap and the polarity of the magnet in a second individual strap are oriented with the same polarity facing a top surface thereof, thereby the first strap is magnetically attractable to the second strap with a bottom surface of the first strap in direct contact with a top surface of the second strap or with a bottom surface of the second strap in direct contact with a top surface of the first strap.
US11278085B2
A wristband with a pocket for safekeeping small items is provided. Also provided herein is a wristband with a watch connector attached to each end of the wristband, as well as an accessory for wearing on the wrist that includes such a wristband.
US11278083B2
The present invention relates to a midsole material composition, a method for producing the midsole material and a shoe sole. The midsole material composition comprises an elastomer, a thermoplastic polymer, a suitable crosslinker and a catalyst, such that the midsole material of the present invention can be fabricated by subjecting the midsole material composition to a phase-inversion crosslinking reaction and a foaming process. The aforementioned thermoplastic polymer, which is a recyclable material, is inverted into a continuous phase after the phase-inversion crosslinking reaction, thereby enhancing a recycling property of the midsole material and improving a reusability of the shoe sole.
US11278080B2
A ballet pointe shoe may include a toe box with a malleable bumper attached to a bottom portion of a front wall of the toe box. In some embodiments, the toe box may be part of a monolithic foot-supporting structure which may also include a shank body extending longitudinally rearward from a base of the toe box. In some embodiments, the shank may be penetrated by a longitudinal tunnel which has a mouth on the shank body and some embodiments may include a removable shank insert which can be inserted into the tunnel by way of the mouth and removed from the tunnel by way of the mouth.
US11278078B2
A protection helmet includes a rigid body having a shaped front edge, a visor with an upper edge, and a pair of handling devices anchored to the body so as to enable its movement between a lowered position, in which its upper edge is in proximity of the front edge of the body, and a lifted position, in which the upper edge is above the front edge and is facing towards the back portion of the body. Each handling device includes a first connection member connected to the visor, a first movable pin associated with the connection member, a first shaped seat designed to slidingly house the movable pin, and a fixed pivot associated to the first connection member. Each handling device also includes a second connection member distinct from the first connection member and having ends respectively hinged to the first connection member and to the fixed pivot.
US11278077B2
Provided is a head protection device with multiple face shields, where the head protection device is configured to be able to provide a flow of air to a user of the head protection device. The air flow may be provided by an external air providing device.
US11278074B2
The present invention relates to methods of fitting for pre-fabricated compression garments via digital imaging of a wearer body part and measurement of body part circumferences and, optionally, lengths therefrom. The present invention also relates to methods of generating a shape description derived from digital imaging of a patient body part or body area of interest and use of such shape description. Such shape description includes geometric information from which measurement information can optionally be derived. Included herein are methods for diagnosing and monitoring edema and other conditions in patients using shape descriptions acquired from a patient in need of such diagnosis and monitoring. The invention also includes use of the generated shape descriptions to make compression garments specifically configured for a patient's body part or body area. Compression garments generated from the generated shape descriptions are also included herein.
US11278065B2
An integrated cooling and hydration vest, incorporating a vest like structure made from liquid impervious material, the vest having at least one chamber formed therein, the chamber being structured into an upper section and a bottom section, a divider provided between the upper and bottom sections, at least one aperture provided through the divider to allow frozen material deposited within the upper section as it melts to gravitate into the bottom section during usage, and a syphoning device operative being associated with said chamber to allow the user to extract the melted liquid from the bottom section for consumption during usage.
US11278063B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include an athletic skirt that comprises a top end configured to be worn about the waist of a wearer and at least one panel of material extending downward from the top end of the skirt. A weighted material is coupled to a lower portion of the panel of material comprising the skirt.
US11278053B2
An apparatus for smoking combustible material can include a glass tube having an axis and open ends. The apparatus can have a rod axially coupled to the glass tube. In addition, a grommet formed from an elastic material can be included. Examples of the grommet can have a tube end to axially receive the glass tube in an interior of the grommet. A shoulder can be located in the interior of the grommet to abut one of the open ends of the glass tube. The grommet can further include a rod end to receive and frictionally engage a portion of the rod and permit relative motion between the rod and the grommet. In addition, the grommet can have an external annular recess located between the tube end and the rod end.
US11278050B2
A method for reducing the content of nitrosamines in a tobacco material is provided herein, the method involving the steps of contacting a tobacco material with a treatment solution so as to form a treatment composition containing, in addition to the tobacco material, an acid, a complexing agent, a solvent, and, optionally, a salt, at a pH of about 5.5 or less, to obtain a tobacco material having a tobacco-specific nitrosamine content that is lower than the initial tobacco-specific nitrosamine content. The method can optionally include further processing of the tobacco material. Smoking articles and other tobacco products incorporating such treated tobacco materials are also provided.
US11278049B2
A portioned moist tobacco product with a super-hydrated membrane coating and method of manufacturing is disclosed. The super-hydrated membrane coating is formed by ionic cross-linking using two polymers. The soluble component of the super-hydrated membrane coating dissolves upon placement in the mouth, while the insoluble component maintains the tobacco within the coating for the duration of the use of the product. The moist tobacco product is soft and flexible so as to fit comfortably in an oral cavity when placed therein.
US11278042B2
A method and a system for producing a change in a medium. The method places in a vicinity of the medium an energy modulation agent. The method applies an initiation energy to the medium. The initiation energy interacts with the energy modulation agent to directly or indirectly produce the change in the medium. The energy modulation agent has a normal predominant emission of radiation in a first wavelength range outside of a second wavelength range (WR2) known to produce the change, but under exposure to the applied initiation energy produces the change. The system includes an initiation energy source configured to apply an initiation energy to the medium to activate the energy modulation agent.
US11278040B2
A heat exchanger includes an inner tube extending longitudinally along a central axis and having an inner surface bounding a product chamber and an outer surface having a plurality of channels disposed at circumferentially spaced intervals in alternating relationship with a plurality of fins about the circumference of the outer surface of the inner tube; and a longitudinally extending outer tube disposed coaxially about and circumscribing the inner tube in radially spaced relationship, the outer tube having an inner surface contacting the plurality of fins of the inner cylinder, the outer surface being welded to the fins at a plurality of weld locations.
US11278028B2
The present invention is directed to pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and azadirachtin and methods of controlling pests including insects and mites by application of pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and azadirachtin.
US11278027B2
Use of the molecule with the following formula (I) for its fungicidal and/or bactericidal activity on fungi, oomycetes and/or pathogenic bacteria of plants and crop seeds.
US11278009B2
Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for stimulating a desired response, such as ovulation and egg laying, fertility, hunger, growth, mood and sexual maturity in birds or ayes, by controlling the pulsing of two or more different wavelength bands, duty cycle, and frequency of photon bursts within a photon signal to a bird, where the photon modulation and duty cycle is based upon the specific needs of the bird.
US11278007B2
Systems and methods are described for selecting a sound type of interest from a first (e.g., master/global) machine learning library comprising information derived from reference audio stream data acquired from a plurality of farm animal operation reference sound monitoring events, including from a first farm animal operation monitoring event of a first farm animal operation, wherein the sound type of interest is associated with a condition state of interest of a first collection of farm animals. Further, information associated with the selected sound type of interest can be included a second machine learning library, wherein the second machine learning library is operational on an edge computing device located in proximity to a second farm animal operation. Audio stream data can be acquired from the second farm animal operation in a second farm animal operation monitoring event, and processed using the second machine learning library information to determine whether the sound type of interest is present in the acquired audio stream data, thereby generating information associated with the presence or absence of the condition during the second farm animal operation monitoring event.
US11278004B2
Animal transmitters are provided that can include: a transducer configured to transmit a signal; process circuitry coupled to the transducer; and an energy harvesting element coupled to the process circuitry. Animals having a transmitter coupled thereto are also provided with the transmitter including an energy harvesting element in operational alignment with the animal's musculoskeletal system. Methods for transmitting the location of an animal are also provided with the methods including: coupling a transmitter powered by an energy harvesting element to the animal; and monitoring the transmissions of the transmitter.
US11277997B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01077853. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01077853. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01077853 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01077853 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11277992B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011095. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011095, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011095 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011095.
US11277988B2
Inbred corn line, designated KW7P1484, are disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line KW7P1484, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line KW7P1484 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line KW7P1484 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line KW7P1484 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other corn lines derived from inbred corn line KW7P1484.
US11277985B2
The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Buckskin and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce plants of the invention with themselves or another lettuce plant. The invention also provides lettuce plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom.
US11277976B2
A greenwall cladding system for the growth of organisms such as plants and fungi on the side of structures, such as internal and external walls of buildings, is provided. Methods for the production of organisms on a greenwall cladding system, such as plants and fungi are also provided herein.
US11277972B2
A pruning device comprises a pair of cooperating blades that are pivoted together and handle parts movable to and from each other for a user to operate the cooperating blades. A saw blade part is attachable to and detachable from the device by a user. When the saw blade part is attached to the device the handle parts and cooperating blades are retained in a substantially fixed position relative to each other. When the saw blade part is detached from the device the handle parts and cooperating blades are movable relative to each other.
US11277967B2
A harvesting platform is connected to a combine for movement with the combine over the ground surface. The harvesting platform includes a cutter bar that cuts a crop being harvested, and a reel that presses the crop against the cutter bar during harvesting. The cutter bar moves between a cutter bar harvesting position and a cutter bar transport position, and the reel moves between a reel harvesting position and a reel transport position. A controller receives a first signal from a user via a user interface, sends a second signal to the cutter bar to move the cutter bar between the cutter bar harvesting position and the cutter bar transport position in response to the first signal, and send a third signal to the reel to move the reel between the reel harvesting position and the reel transport position in response to the first signal.
US11277966B2
Systems and methods for calibrating a machine for operating with an implement that is selectively coupleable to the machine. Both the implement and the machine have memories storing calibration data for machine-implement combinations. The machine and the implement are operated based on a calibration value stored to the machine memory corresponding to an identification of the specific implement that is coupled to the machine. If a calibration value for the specific implement is not already in the machine memory, the machine determines a calibration value for the implement based on other calibration data stored by the machine memory and/or the implement memory. In some embodiments, the calibration data stored by the machine and by the implement is synchronized when the implement is selectively coupled to the machine.
US11277952B2
A weed remover for removing weeds comprising a tube comprising a main portion and a bottom portion at a distal end which is insertable into soil to capture a core sample thereof. The tube is formed of a static portion and of a moving portion which complements the static portion to form the tube, wherein the tube comprises an inner diameter smaller at the distal end than in the main portion. At the distal end, the moving portion extends over an angular range from about 90° to about 150° and the static portion extends over a complementary angular range to form a contour. The bottom portion is formed of a succession of projections and recesses around the contour to form a cutting edge.
US11284545B2
An electric power substation includes a circuit breaker, an electromagnetic pulse mitigation module coupled to the circuit breaker and comprising a continuous conductive enclosure that is impervious to radiated or coupled electromagnetic energy, an input/output device housed within the electromagnetic pulse mitigation module, and a control house communicably coupled to the circuit breaker via a primary communication line and housing one or more primary relay panels.
US11284541B2
An apparatus, such as a power routing apparatus, includes an enclosure having first and second compartments having respective first and second opposing walls. A cooling structure is disposed between the first and second compartments and has a coolant passage defined therein configured to support a coolant flow in a direction parallel to the first and second opposing walls. First and second semiconductor switches (e.g., static switches) are disposed on the first and second walls on opposite sides of the coolant passage and are configured to be cooled by the coolant flow.
US11284540B2
A first thermal management approach involves an air flow through cooling mechanism with multiple airflow channels for dissipating heat generated in a PCA. The air flow direction through at least one of the channels is different from the air flow direction through at least another of the channels. Alternatively or additionally, the airflow inlet of at least one channel is off-axis with respect to the airflow outlet. A second thermal management approach involves the fabrication of a PCB with enhanced durability by mitigating via cracking or PTH fatigue. At least one PCB layer is composed of a base material formed from a 3D woven fiberglass fabric, and conductive material deposited onto the base material surface. A conductive PTH extends through the base material of multiple PCB layers, where the CTE of the base material along the z-axis direction substantially matches the CTE of the conductive material along the x-axis direction.
US11284539B2
A loading assembly includes a base plate configured to support a circuit board placed thereon, a pressing plate configured to press an electrical member on the circuit board, and a first connection assembly connecting the pressing plate to the base plate and pressing the electrical member on the circuit board through the pressing plate. The first connection assembly includes a first nut fixed on the base plate, a first bolt passing through the pressing plate and screwed to the first nut, and a first spring sleeved on the first bolt and compressed between a head of the first bolt and the pressing plate. A first locking part is formed on the first bolt. The first locking part is pressed against an end face of the first nut when the first bolt is screwed to an installation position to prevent the first bolt from being rotated relative to the first nut.
US11284538B2
A composite heat dissipation member and an electronic device comprising the composite heat dissipation member. The composite head dissipation member may include a first heat dissipation sheet disposed to be overlapped with an antenna module, and a second heat dissipation sheet disposed adjacent to the first heat dissipation sheet without an overlap with the first heat dissipation sheet, thermally connected to the first heat dissipation sheet, and having a higher thermal conductivity than the first heat dissipation sheet.
US11284522B2
An electronic assembly includes a plurality of circuit boards each comprising engagement grooves spaced around an outer wall. The assembly includes a plurality of spacers with alignment elements. The alignment elements comprise a first tab and a first tab receiver extending in a first axial direction. The alignment elements further comprising a second tab extending in a second axial direction opposite the first and a second tab receiver extending in the second axial direction. A first spacer is disposed between a first circuit board and a second circuit board. The first tab of the first spacer is disposed within a first engagement groove of the first circuit board. The second circuit board is disposed between the first spacer and a second spacer. A second tab of the first spacer is received in a second engagement groove of the second circuit board and a first tab receiver of the second spacer.
US11284519B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing (S) an electronic board (1) comprising the following steps: forming (S1, S4) a cavity (20) in the conductive skin layer (C1) and in an underlying insulating layer (10), so that at least part of a solder pad (4) is exposed, filling (S5) the cavity (20) with a solder paste (24), placing (S6) an SMD (3) opposite the cavity (20), soldering the SMD (3) on the electronic board (1).
US11284514B2
A conductive member 1 for a touch panel includes a plurality of first electrodes 11 extending in a first direction and arranged in parallel in a second direction intersecting the first direction, in which the plurality of first electrodes are constituted by a first mesh conductive film MF1 constituted by a plurality of fine metal wires Ma, and include a plurality of first main electrodes each having a defined electrode width Wa and at least one first sub-electrode having an electrode width Wb smaller than the electrode width Wa of the first main electrode, and in which over an entire region of the first sub-electrode, a mesh pitch Pb of the first mesh conductive film MF1 constituting the first sub-electrode in the second direction is smaller than a mesh pitch Pa of the first mesh conductive film MF1 constituting the first main electrode in the second direction.
US11284513B2
Various embodiments of the disclosure disclose a device including a main printed circuit board in which a band stop filter that interrupts at least some signals corresponding to a signal received from or transmitted to an antenna module is formed in via group patterns, and an antenna module connected to the main printed circuit board, and a printed circuit board. Various embodiments are possible.
US11284509B2
Disclosed is a stretchable substrate including: a via configured to provide an electrical connection between one surface and the other surface of the stretchable substrate; and a buffer shell positioned between the via and the stretchable substrate and having a Young's modulus value that is greater than a Young's modulus value of the stretchable substrate and smaller than a Young's modulus value of the via.
US11284508B2
A semi-flex component carrier includes a stack having at least one electrically insulating layer structure and/or at least one electrically conductive layer structure. The stack defines at least one rigid portion and at least one semi-flexible portion. The at least one electrically insulating layer structure forms at least part of the semi-flexible portion and includes a material having an elongation of larger than 3% and a Young modulus of less than 5 GPa.
US11284500B2
Embodiments of this disclosure describe an electrode biasing scheme that enables maintaining a nearly constant sheath voltage and thus creating a mono-energetic IEDF at the surface of the substrate that consequently enables a precise control over the shape of IEDF and the profile of the features formed in the surface of the substrate.
US11284485B2
A lighting control system for controlling a cumulative light emitted by a lighting fixture having a plurality of LED light sources may comprise a plurality of LED drivers adapted to be coupled to a respective one of the LED light sources and configured to control an intensity of the respective LED light source, and a controller configured to transmit a single digital message for controlling the cumulative light emitted by the lighting fixture. Each of the plurality of LED drivers is configured to adjust the intensity of the respective LED light source to a preset intensity in response to the single digital message transmitted by the controller.
US11284483B2
A display unit of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of pixels configured to emit emission light different from one another; and an insulating film provided between the plurality of pixels and having a reflective surface with respect to the emission light, in which an angle of the reflective surface of the insulating film is set for each of the pixels.
US11284477B2
Described herein are methods and apparatus for implementing discontinuous reception (DRX) states in user equipments (UE) in order to conserve battery power. In particular, methods and apparatus for signaling the UE to transition between different DRX states using L1 signaling such as over the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) are described.
US11284474B1
An access point (AP) device generates a probe response medium access control layer (MAC) frame for client stations that are not associated with the a wireless local area network (WLAN) managed by the AP device. The AP device generates one or more other MAC frames for one or more client stations that are associated with the WLAN. The AP device allocates a plurality of resource units (RUs) for a multi-user physical layer protocol data unit (MU PPDU), the plurality of RUs including i) a broadcast RU corresponding to a station identifier set to a value specifying unassociated stations, and ii) one or more other RUs. The AP device generates the MU PPDU to include i) the probe response MAC frame in the broadcast RU, and ii) the one or more other MAC frames in the one or more other RUs, and transmits the MU PPDU.
US11284472B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a connection release message, the connection release message including a resource indicator indicating that a set of resources are to be used for grant-free uplink transmissions by the UE while operating in a disconnected state. The UE may transition from a connected state to a disconnected state based at least in part on the connection release message. The UE may perform, while operating in the disconnected state, the grant-free uplink transmissions using the set of resources.
US11284469B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method, performed by a User Equipment (UE) 120, for handling discontinous reception (DRX) operation. The method comprises applying a delay for at least one action performed as a response to data and/or signaling received by the UE during a predefined first time period after the UE 120 has entered an active state. Embodiments herein further relate to a method, performed by a network node 110, for handling discontinous reception (DRX) operation. The method comprises sending a configuration message to a User Equipment (UE) 120, which message comprises information regarding actions to be delayed by the UE 120.
US11284466B2
Method, base unit and remote unit are disclosed for performing a resume request procedure. A method comprising: receiving a resume request from a remote unit in an inactive state; sending a message to a last serving base unit; and in response to receiving a response from the last serving base unit, sending a configuration message to the remote unit to maintain the remote unit in the inactive state.
US11284463B2
Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to automatically resetting interrupted connections associated with a core network and/or an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network, in order to successfully establish a dedicated tunnel through the core network and the IMS network. An example method includes transmitting, to the core network, a first request for services associated with a minimum Quality of Service (QoS) level and determining that a wait time has expired without having received a response confirming that a dedicated tunnel corresponding to the QoS level has been established. Next, the method can include transmitting, to the core network, a second request to reset a connection associated with the core network and the IMS network.
US11284461B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling a packet transmission for a split bearer to reduce latency in a wireless communication system are provided. A method by a third node for controlling a packet transmission for a split bearer connected to a first node and a second node in a wireless communication system includes obtaining information related to a buffer state of each of the first node and the second node, determining a packet arrival time at a terminal through each of the first node and the second node based on the information related to the buffer state of each of the nodes, selecting one of the first node and the second node based on a comparison of the packet arrival time corresponding to the first node with the packet arrival time corresponding to the second node, and transmitting a packet to the terminal through the selected node.
US11284457B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for managing packet data network (PDN) connectivity for a device. A device may receive one or more parameters specifying whether PDN connectivity to a local gateway is allowed for the device at one or more access points. The one or more parameters can be specific for the device and/or for one or more access point names. The device can determine whether to initiate a PDN connection to the local gateway from at least one of the one or more access points based at least in part on the one or more parameters.
US11284451B2
A wireless device determines that a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) duration of an uplink grant of a bundle of a configured uplink grant overlaps with a transmission of a message A (MsgA) payload of a two-step random-access procedure of a cell. Based on the determining, the wireless device ignores the uplink grant by not transmitting via a first PUSCH resource of the uplink grant.
US11284448B2
This disclosure relates to performing bandwidth part activation in a cellular communication system. A wireless device may attach to a network via a cell that includes multiple bandwidth parts. The wireless device may receive an indication activating a non-default bandwidth part for the wireless device. A bandwidth part activation timer may be initiated based at least in part on activation of the non-default bandwidth part. At expiration of the bandwidth part activation timer, the wireless device may deactivate the non-default bandwidth part and activate a default bandwidth part if there is not a procedure to perform an uplink data transfer in progress. If there is a procedure to perform an uplink data transfer in progress at expiration of the bandwidth part activation timer, the procedure may be completed via the non-default BWP even after expiration of the bandwidth part activation timer.
US11284447B2
Described are methods, systems and devices for group-based system information (SI) communication to reduce reservations of preambles or RACH resources are the number of SI increase. In some embodiments, SI messages into divided into SI groups, preamble/RACH resources are only reserved for each of the groups, and SI request windows are implemented. In an example, an SI request window precedes each set of SI windows corresponding to a group of SI messages, and an SI request is transmitted only in an SI request window. The disclosed implementation may increase the efficacy of supporting a greater number of users, which may be ubiquitous in 5G implementations.
US11284441B2
A user equipment (UE) for random access operation in a wireless communication system. The UE comprises at least one transceiver configured to receive, from a base station (BS), RACH configuration information including an RACH structure corresponding to a first beam identification (ID), beam sweeping operation and mapping between downlink signals and RACH chunks and/or RACH preamble subsets. The UE comprises at least one processor configured to determine an RACH preamble based on the RACH structure configuration received from the BS. The UE comprises the transceiver further configured to transmit, to the BS, the RACH preamble over a first beam associated with the first beam ID and receive, from the BS, an RACH response corresponding to the RACH preamble over a second beam, wherein the first beam is different than the second beam.
US11284430B2
A method of determining an ambiguous period, a terminal and a network-side device are provided. The method includes: determining, by a terminal, the ambiguous period, where the ambiguous period corresponds to a processing time for a PDCCH, or the ambiguous period corresponds to a processing time for an MAC CE; and determining by the terminal, according to a control message which is received, whether to send an uplink signal at a current time, where a difference between a receiving time of the control message and the current time is greater than or equal to the ambiguous period.
US11284405B2
Described is a method of reducing uplink inter-cell interference in a cellular communications network. The method comprises identifying in a cell any user equipments (UEs) which are susceptible to interference (ISUs) from another UE, particularly another UE in a neighboring cell. The method includes identifying in said cell any UEs causing interference (ICUs) to at least one neighboring cell and, more particularly, causing interference to a UE in a neighboring cell. The identified ISUs and ICUs are combined into a priority list for frequency resource reservation or allocation in said cell. The method may include limiting the identification of ISUs and ICUs to a selected number of UEs within the cell.
US11284403B2
Apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for assignment of secondary millimeter wave channels. An apparatus of a station (STA) is disclosed that includes processing circuitry configured to decode a basic service set (BSS) operating channels field and a primary channel field from an access point (AP) or personal basic service set control point (PCP), wherein the BSS operating channels field is a bitmap that indicates which 2.16 GHz channels of a plurality of 2.16 GHz channels are permitted to be used for transmissions in the BSS, and wherein the primary channel field indicates a 2.16 GHz channel of the plurality of 2.16 GHz channels that is a primary channel of the BSS. The processing circuitry may be further configured to determine the primary channel, a secondary channel, a secondary1 channel, and a secondary2 channel based on the BSS operating channels field and the primary channel field.
US11284400B2
A wireless device transmits a preamble via a random access channel of a first uplink bandwidth part of a cell. a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) is determined based on: at least one configuration parameter of the first uplink bandwidth part; and at least one configuration parameter of the random access channel. A downlink control channel is monitored for a downlink control information addressed to the RA-RNTI. The downlink control information indicating a radio resource of a random access response corresponding to the preamble is received. The random access response is received via the radio resource.
US11284393B2
Disclosed are a radio resource configuration method, a radio resource power configuration method, a node, and a storage medium. The method includes: sub-bands are configured within a channel bandwidth, and any one of multiple sub-bands having a smallest sub-carrier interval is configured at an outmost position of a transmission bandwidth configuration.
US11284389B2
A frame structure configuration method, a frame structure obtaining method, a base station and UE are provided. The frame structure configuration method includes transmitting at least two cell-specific frame structure configurations concatenated in a time domain to the UE. Different periodicities of cell-specific uplink and/or downlink resources that are concatenated in a time domain are supported, and/or different configurations for the uplink and/or downlink resources within periodicities concatenated in the time domain are supported. In some embodiments, the base station transmits at least two cell-specific frame structure configurations concatenated in a time domain to the UE, where two periodicities of cell-specific uplink and/or downlink resources that are concatenated in a time domain have different durations, and/or, the uplink and/or downlink resources within the two periodicities concatenated in the time domain have different configurations.
US11284386B2
The present specification provides a method for receiving control resource set (CORESET) configuration information by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving the CORESET configuration information from a network, wherein the CORESET configuration information is information related to resource allocation of a CORESET; monitoring control information on the CORESET on the basis of the received CORESET configuration information; and receiving data information from the network on the basis of the monitored control information, wherein a reference point for the resource allocation of the CORESET includes a start point of each sub-band.
