US11366984B1
Embodiments include a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for information processing. In an example embodiment, a method for information processing includes: acquiring, at a first device, a first feature associated with a target object; applying the first feature to a trained first model deployed at the first device to determine a first confidence coefficient, the first confidence coefficient being associated with probabilities that the first model determines the target object as a real object and as a false object; if the first confidence coefficient is lower than a first threshold confidence coefficient, sending a request for verifying the target object to a second device, the second device being deployed with a trained second model for verifying the target object, and the second model being more complex than the first model; and updating the first model based on a response to the request.
US11366980B2
A method of selecting data for privacy preserving machine learning comprises: storing training data from a first party, storing a machine learning model, and storing criteria from the first party or from another party. The method comprises filtering the training data to select a first part of the training data to be used to train the machine learning model and select a second part of the training data. The selecting is done by computing a measure, using the criteria, of the contribution of the data to the performance of the machine learning model.
US11366975B2
An apparatus (1) for inspecting an identity document (D) is disclosed, wherein the identity document, which includes an RFID tag and a printed code, is positioned on the apparatus in a reading area (3) where a linear image sensor, which is movable by a motor-driven command, performs a scan to read the code of the document, and in which an RFID device communicates with the RFID tag, authentication of the identity document being performed by comparing the information supplied by the linear image sensor and the information supplied by the RFID device.
US11366969B2
According to some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to develop or provide common sense auto-generated explanations (CAGE) for the reasoning used by an artificial intelligence, neural network, or deep learning model to make a prediction. In some embodiments, the systems and methods use supervised fine-tuning on a language model (LM) to generate such explanations. These explanations may then be used for downstream classification.
US11366968B2
A processor may generate a plurality of intermediate feature layers of an image using convolutional neural network (CNN) processing. For each intermediate feature layer, the processor may generate a plurality of text proposals using a region proposal network (RPN). Each text proposal may comprise a portion of the intermediate feature layer that is predicted to contain text. The processor may perform OCR processing on image data within a plurality of regions of the image to generate a text result for each region. Each region may comprise at least one of the text proposals. The processor may assemble the text results into a text string comprising the text results ordered according to a spatial order in which the plurality of regions appear within the image.
US11366948B2
A method includes generating a netlist for a circuit design and predicting, by applying a first machine learning model to the netlist, a first compile time for the circuit design. The method also includes predicting, by applying a second machine learning model to the netlist, a first place and route strategy based on the first compile time. The method further includes adjusting a logic of the circuit design in accordance with the first place and route strategy.
US11366936B2
A method of programming a device comprising acquiring configuration data, loading the configuration data onto a programmable device, processing at least a portion of the configuration data through a one way function to form processed configuration data, and configuring at least one configurable module of the programmable device using the processed configuration data from the processing step.
US11366924B2
A block chain-based data query method, performed by a server of a block chain system, is provided. In the method, a data identifier of first data to be queried is obtained according to a query request, the query request including a user identifier of a user that initiates the query request. Data permission information in a target block in a target block chain of the block chain system is obtained according to the data identifier. Based on the data permission information not including the user identifier, a query permission request is transmitted to at least one target server in the block chain system, the query permission request including the user identifier and the data identifier. Based on a received query permission response satisfying a target policy in the data permission information, the first data is obtained from a data storage system according to the data identifier.
US11366917B2
A XR device and a method for controlling the XR device are discussed. The method includes accessing to a public DB (Database), generating a private DB based on key information of the public DB, where the public DB includes public AR (Artificial Intelligence) information, and the private DB includes private AR information and a whitelist, and acquiring the public AR information or the private AR information.
US11366912B2
A consent and privacy preferences management environment (300) includes an application (302) and a Consent Management System (CMS) (304). The CMS (304) stores and processes consent information (306) of an end user (308). The application (302) obtains the consent information and uses the CMS (304) to manage choices of the end users (308) about certain activities, events, or other situations. Third parties (310) use the application (302) to submit requests for consent. The application (302) maps the request into fields of an API (314) for processing by the CMS (304) and receives a response from the CMS (304). The application then provides or denies consent regarding the end user (308) based on the response and filters or masks data based on organizational policies, end user consent, and the context. The data structure of the CMS (304) adapts to a wide variety of consent application environments.
US11366907B2
In order to analyze, efficiently and with high precision, the similarity in operation between software that is being examined and a known malware, this malware analysis device 40 is equipped with: an abstraction unit 41 for generating first abstraction information 410 obtained by abstracting first operation information 440 which indicates the result of an operation of sample software; an abstraction information storage unit 45 for storing second abstraction information 450 obtained by abstracting second operation information which indicates one or more operation results obtained for each piece of software that has been compared with the sample; a calculation unit 42 for calculating the similarity between the first abstraction information 410 and the second abstraction information 450; and a specifying unit 43 for specifying the compared software for which the similarity satisfies a criteria.
US11366904B2
A machine-implemented method for controlling a configuration data item in a storage-equipped device having at least two security domains, comprising receiving, by one of the security domains, a configuration data item; storing the configuration data item; providing a security indication for the configuration data item; and when an event indicates untrustworthiness of the data item, invalidating a configuration effect of the stored configuration data item. Further provided is a machine-implemented method for controlling a storage-equipped device as a node in a network of devices, comprising receiving information that a data source or type of a configuration data item is untrusted; analysing metadata for the data source and the configuration data item; populating a knowledge base with analysed metadata; and responsive to the analysed metadata, transmitting security information to the network of devices. A corresponding device and computer program product are also described.
US11366902B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for detecting malicious files based on file fragments. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, extracting data fragments from a file, for each extracted data fragment, determining a category selected from a list of categories that includes at least: trusted, malicious, and untrusted, when a number of data fragments categorized as being malicious is below a predetermined threshold, avoiding categorization of the file as malicious, and when a number of data fragments categorized as being malicious reaches or exceeds the predetermined threshold, determining whether at least one malicious file detection rule having criteria for detecting a malicious file is found, when at least one malicious file detection rule whose criteria is met is found, categorizing the file as a malicious file, and when no malicious file detection rule whose criteria is met is found, avoiding categorization of the file as a malicious file.
US11366899B2
A secure Integrated Circuit (IC) includes functional circuitry, and protection circuitry configured to protect the functional circuitry against fault-injection attacks. The protection circuitry includes a plurality of digital detection cells, and protection logic. The detection cells have respective inputs and outputs and are connected output-to-input in at least a chain. In response to a fault-injection attack, a given detection cell in the chain is configured to toggle an output that drives an input of a subsequent detection cell in the chain, thereby causing a pulse to propagate along the chain. The protection logic is configured to receive the pulse from the chain and initiate a responsive action.
US11366896B2
A system and method is provided for detecting anomalous events based on a dump of an address space of a software process in a memory of a computing device. An exemplary method includes detecting at least one event occurring in an operating system of the computing device during an execution of the software process, determining a context of the detected event, wherein the context comprises a dump of an address space of the software process containing code that was being executed at the moment of occurrence of the detected event, selecting a set of features of the dump for use in determining whether or not the event is anomalous, transforming the selected set of features of the dump into a convolution, determining a popularity of the convolution by polling a database, and determining that the detected event is an anomalous event if the determined popularity is below a threshold value.
US11366880B2
The invention comprises a playing memory management method, comprising: Step S1, creating a contiguous memory area: Step S2, dividing a contiguous first memory range from the memory area when digital rights management playing information is received; Step S3, setting, by a secure operating system, an access permission for the first memory range; Step S4, performing, by the secure operating system, a decoding operation in the first memory range until the decoding operation is completed; and Step S5, clearing, by the secure operating system, data in the first memory range, releasing the access permission for the first memory range, and releasing the first memory range. The present invention has the beneficial effects that the memory sharing is realized by creating one memory area, setting the access permission during use and clearing data and releasing the access permission after use, so that the manufacturing cost is reduced.
US11366875B2
Methods and devices, the method including receiving a matrix of a neural network model; classifying at least a portion of the matrix as a first section based on a first distribution pattern of non-zero elements of the portion of the matrix; and identifying memory addresses of the non-zero elements in the first section of the matrix for loading, according to a first order determined based on the first distribution pattern, the non-zero elements in the first section into one or more vector registers.
US11366870B1
The load level on a server system is regulated by determining time-to-live (TTL) values to provide to requesting devices that request a content resource from the server system, thereby affecting the frequency of subsequent requests. This dynamic determination of TTL values may provide resilience to system load, for example by using longer TTL values when the system is under greater load to reduce the rate at which subsequent requests are received. A dynamic TTL service may calculate a TTL value based on one or more factors, such as overall system load, resource load, hardware load, and/or software load.
US11366869B2
Systems and methods for cache optimization are disclosed. A request for a user interface is received from a first user device. The request includes a user key. An interface key corresponding to an interface template of the requested user interface is generated from the user key. The interface template of the requested user interface is loaded. The interface template includes one or more edge side include (ESI) identifiers in the interface template. An element key corresponding to a first ESI element associated with a first of the one or more ESI identifiers is generated from the user key. The first ESI element is loaded and positioned at a location within the interface template identified by the first of the one or more ESI identifiers. A complete user interface is provided to the first user device. The complete user interface includes the interface template having the first ESI element positioned therein.
US11366868B1
A method can include determining that a tab is stale, determining a first universal resource locator (URL) associated with the tab, determining that content presented by the stale tab corresponds to an object that is also presented by content associated with a second URL, determining, based on content associated with at least one of the first URL or the second URL, that a value of an attribute associated with the object has changed from the value of the attribute when the tab presented the object, and outputting a notification that the value of the attribute associated with the object has changed.
US11366859B2
A method includes receiving a first post from an electronic source including first content; determining a source identifier; determining an attribute for the source by broadcasting the first post to a first plurality of filter graph definitions configured to identify attributes of sources according to the respective filter graph definition; and storing in memory, as a source profile identified by the source identifier for the source, the attribute for the source; receiving a second post from the source including second content; determining a source identifier; using the source identifier, querying the memory to access the source profile; correlating the second post with attributes of the source stored in the source profile to produce a correlated second post; and broadcasting the correlated second post to a second plurality of filter graph definitions configured to identify posts with high value information according to the respective filter graph definition.
US11366856B2
A system for updating a target schema of a graph model and methods for making and using same. A schema change job can be run to update the target schema. Loaded source data in the graph model can be updated based on the updated target schema. The schema can be changed at vertex type level, edge type level and attribute level for a pre-defined target schema after source data has been loaded. The loaded source data can be updated to be consistent with the updated target schema without a need of being reloaded. The schema change job can be defined declaratively. The target schema can be versioned and stored to maintain a history of target schema update. Advantageously, schema update can be easy to implement. The time-consuming and expensive reloading process can be avoided. Target schema updating can have high flexibility and high performance.
US11366854B2
Disclosed are a multimedia poster generation method and a terminal. The method includes: receiving a poster generation instruction; acquiring a poster resource, the poster resource including a plurality of background files and a lyric file of a multimedia file, and the multimedia file being a multimedia file selected by a user; acquiring a background file to be shared that is selected by the user from the plurality of background files, and acquiring lyric information to be shared that is selected by the user from the lyric file; and generating a multimedia poster of the multimedia file according to the lyric information to be shared and the background file to be shared.
US11366846B2
A message service providing apparatus includes: a message interface unit for providing a message interface to a user terminal, processing a message transmitted and received through the message interface, and providing one or more expression items that can be included in the message to the user terminal through the message interface; and an active object database management unit for performing an active object database management process of each expression item to provide one or more expression items through an extended reality interface.
US11366845B2
A device may identify a first concept hierarchy of a first multimedia presentation and a second concept hierarchy of a second multimedia presentation. The device may determine a set of concepts associated with the first concept hierarchy and the second concept hierarchy and may determine a plurality of similarity scores associated with the set of concepts. The device may generate a new concept hierarchy based on the plurality of similarity scores, the first concept hierarchy, and the second concept hierarchy by: performing a first process to merge a concept with an additional concept; performing a second process to position a concept sequentially before or after an additional concept; performing a third process to position a concept and a different concept to sequentially follow an additional concept; and performing a fourth process to position a concept to sequentially follow an additional concept and a different concept.
US11366839B1
This disclosure relates to personalized and dynamic server-side searching techniques for encrypted data. Current so-called ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems (i.e., systems where the server has ‘zero-knowledge’ about the client data that it is storing) utilize servers that hold encrypted data without the decryption keys necessary to decrypt, index, and/or re-encrypt the data. As such, the servers are not able to perform any kind of meaningful server-side search process, as it would require access to the underlying decrypted data. Therefore, such prior art ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems provide a limited ability for a user to search through a large dataset of encrypted documents to find critical information. Disclosed herein are communications systems that offer the increased security and privacy of client-side encryption to content owners, while still providing for highly relevant server-side search-based results via the use of content correlation, predictive analysis, and augmented semantic tag clouds for the indexing of encrypted data.
US11366832B2
Methods and systems for managing cloud services are disclosed herein. According to various aspects of the disclosure, a number of users of cloud services can be organized in to a plurality of hierarchically organized groups. A feature associated with a cloud resource can then be enabled for a first group of users. An enablement value can then be calculated for a member of a second group of users and the feature can be enabled for that member of the second group of users based on the calculated enablement value.
US11366821B2
Methods, systems, and devices supporting epsilon (ε)-closure for frequent pattern (FP) analysis are described. Some database systems may analyze data sets to determine FPs. In some cases, the FP set may include a large number of semi-redundant patterns, resulting in significant memory or processing overhead. To reduce the redundancy of these patterns, the database system may implement pre-configured or dynamic threshold occurrence differences (e.g., ε values) to test against related patterns. For example, the database system may calculate the difference between the data objects covered by a sub-pattern and a super-pattern (e.g., where the super-pattern includes all the same data attributes of the sub-pattern, plus one additional attribute). This difference may be compared to a corresponding ε value, and if the difference is less than the ε value, the database system may remove one of the patterns (e.g., the sub-pattern) from the set of valid FPs to limit redundancy.
US11366820B2
A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user's navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups.
US11366816B2
Provided herein are various exemplary systems and methods for secure intelligent networked systems including a random combination generator, a master cloud server communicatively coupled to the random combination generator, the master cloud server having an interactive graphical user interface configured to receive user commands for generating a plurality of virtual machines, the master cloud server automatically identifying an idle virtual machine in the plurality of virtual machines and automatically utilizing the idle virtual machine, and a selected strategy server communicatively couple to the master cloud server, the master cloud server automatically generating decoy first digital data elements interspersed with selected first digital data elements and automatically transmitting the selected first digital data elements interspersed with the decoy first digital data elements to the selected strategy server.
US11366815B2
A query-set is used to obtain recommendation results from different recommendation algorithms available locally on a device. The same query-set is used to obtain recommendation results from a remote, well-established online recommendation system using an unknown recommendation algorithm. Distances are measured between the recommendation results from the online recommendation system and the recommendation results from each of the local recommendation algorithms. The local recommendation algorithm having generated recommendation results with a smallest distance to the recommendation results from the online recommendation system is selected for generation of recommendations based on a local recommendation algorithm.
US11366814B2
A method comprises receiving at a computing device, a search query, performing, by the computing device, a semantic analysis of the search query to identify one or more semantic concepts contained within the query, selecting, by the computing device, one or more corpora, or portions thereof, based on the identified semantic concepts, and performing, by the computing device, a search of the one or more corpora based on the search query.
US11366810B2
A database query message may be received at a database system via a network. The database query message may include one or more parameters for retrieving data from a database based on a designated database record insertion timestamp. A database query may be executed against the database system to retrieve one or more database records based on a database record insertion timestamp range determined based on the designated database record insertion timestamp and including a plurality of database record insertion timestamp values.
US11366803B2
A method for providing a relational DID (decentralized identifier) service is provided. The method includes steps of: if a specific entity's device broadcasts to a blockchain network a request for registration of relational information which represents a relation between a specific entity's DID and another entity's DID and is set by another entity and confirmed by a specific entity, a blockchain node in the blockchain network (i) verifying the request and registering the relational information in the blockchain network as corresponding to the specific entity's DID and said another entity's DID or (ii) transmitting the request to an identity contract registered in the blockchain network, to allow the identity contract to verify the request and to register the relational information in the blockchain network as corresponding to the specific entity's DID and said another entity's DID.
US11366800B2
A system and method to automate validating media redirection in a virtual media redirection testing process. A computing device is provided for performing the test. During the test, the computing device executes an automated script to obtain, from a media storage device, a media file to be redirected, and then calculate a first checksum value for the media file being obtained. The computing device then executes a redirection module to perform the virtual media redirection process for the media file, and copy the media file to a local path of the computing device. Once the media file is redirected, the automated script calculates a second checksum value for the media file at the local path of the computing device. Thus, the media file may be validated by matching the two checksum values, and the redirection process is determined to be successful when the checksum values match.
US11366797B2
A method performs large-scale data processing in a distributed and parallel processing environment. The method defines application-independent map and reduce operations, each invoking one or more library functions that automatically handle data partitioning, parallelization of computations, and fault tolerance. A user specifies a map operation, which calls one or more of the application-independent map operators to perform data read and write operations. A user also specifies a reduce operation, which calls one or more of the application-independent reduce operators to perform data read and write operations. The method executes application-independent map worker processes. Each map worker process executes the user-specified map operation to read designated portions of input files and store intermediate data values in intermediate data structures. The method also executes application-independent reduce worker processes. Each reduce worker process executes the user-specified reduce operation to read intermediate data values from the intermediate data structures and produce final output data.
US11366793B1
The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for a content management system that can be highly flexible to the needs of its subjects. The present technology permits any object to be shared by providing a robust and flexible access control list mechanism. The present technology utilizes a data structure that is highly efficient that both minimizes the amount of information that needs to be written into any database, but also allows for fast reads and writes of information from authoritative tables that are a source of truth for the content management system, while allowing for maintenance of indexes containing more refined data that allow for efficient retrieval of certain information that would normally need to be calculated when it is needed.
US11366792B2
Systems, methods, and media for generating analytical data from actions performed on one or more publishing servers. Methods may include capturing one or more audit trails by determining actions performed on the one or more publishing servers via one or more client devices, the one or more publishing servers adapted to publish informational content; generating analytical data from the one or more audit trails; and storing the generated analytical data in a database.
US11366786B2
In various embodiments, an organization may be required to comply with one or more legal or industry requirements related to the storage of personal data (e.g., which may, for example, include personally identifiable information) even when responding to and fulfilling Data Subject Access Requests. In particular, when responding to a DSAR, the system may compile one or more pieces of personal data for provision to a data subject. The system may store this compilation of personal data at least temporarily in order to provide access to the data to the data subject. As such, the system may be configured to implement one or more data retention rules in order to ensure compliance with any legal or industry requirements related to the temporary storage of the collected data while still fulfilling any requirements related to providing the data to data subjects that request it, deleting the data upon request, etc.
US11366783B1
An integrated circuit includes a plurality of configurable units, each configurable unit having two or more corresponding sections. The plurality of configurable units is arranged in a serial arrangement to form a chain of sections of the configurable units. A data bus is connected to the plurality of configurable units which communicates data at a clock rate. The chain of sections is to receive and write a series of tensors at the clock rate at a first end section of the chain of sections, and sequentially propagate the series of tensors through individual sections within the chain of sections at the clock rate. The chain of sections is to output the series of tensors at a second end section of the chain of sections. The chain of sections is to also output the series of tensors at an intermediate section of the chain of sections.
US11366769B1
Enabling peripheral device messaging via application portals in processor-based devices is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a processor-based device comprises a processing element (PE) including an application portal configured to logically operate as a message store, and that is exposed as an application portal address within an address space visible to a peripheral device that is communicatively coupled to the processor-based device. Upon receiving a message directed to the application portal address from the peripheral device, an application portal control circuit enqueues the message in the application portal. In some embodiments, the PE may further provide a dequeue instruction that may be executed as part of the application, and that results in a top element of the application portal being dequeued and transmitted to the application. Some embodiments may provide further mechanisms for sending success and/or failure notifications, and/or for informing the application that the message has been enqueued.
US11366765B1
In an approach to optimizing metadata management to boost overall system performance, a cache for a storage system is initialized. Responsive to receiving a cache hit from a host cache during a host I/O operation, a first metadata of a plurality of metadata is transferred to a storage cache, where the first metadata is associated with a user data from the host I/O operation, and further wherein the first metadata is deleted from the host cache. Responsive to determining that the storage cache is full, a second metadata of the plurality of metadata is destaged from the storage cache, where the second metadata is destaged by moving the second metadata to the host cache, and further wherein the second metadata is deleted from the storage cache.
US11366755B2
The controller that controls the industrial machine comprises a storage area that stores an operation program, a cache memory, a cache control unit, and an analysis unit, the analysis unit pre-reads a command subsequent to a command included in the operation program loaded in the cache memory, in a case where it is determined that an operation load on a CPU in a command included in the operation program is below a prescribed value, adds, to the command, a cache control command for loading of a subprogram into the cache memory in accordance with a predetermined condition, in a case where a subprogram call command is confirmed present, and makes a cache control request to the cache control unit, responsive to the added cache control command, and the cache control unit loads the subprogram in the cache memory, based on the cache control request.
US11366752B2
A memory module system with a global shared context. A memory module system can include a plurality of memory modules and at least one processor, which can implement the global shared context. The memory modules of the system can provide the global shared context at least in part by providing an address space shared between the modules and applications running on the modules. The address space sharing can be achieved by having logical addresses global to the modules, and each logical address can be associated with a certain physical address of a specific module.
US11366749B2
A storage system has a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, and a controller. The controller of the storage system can implement various mechanisms for improving random read performance. These mechanisms include improved read prediction cache management, using a pattern length for read prediction, and a time-based enhancement for read prediction. Each of these mechanisms can be used alone on in combination with some or all of the other mechanisms.
US11366748B1
The disclosure is directed to a method, system and a computer readable medium of fuzzy testing a software system, using a grey-box fuzzy testing framework that optimizes the vulnerability exposure process while addressing security testing challenges. The grey-box fuzzy testing framework, unlike white-box testing, provides a focused and efficient assessment of a software system without analyzing each line of code. The disclosed embodiments provide a robust security mechanism that accumulates information about the system without increasing testing complexity, enabling fast and efficient security testing. The disclosed embodiments use security vulnerability metrics designed to identify vulnerable components in the software systems and ensures thorough testing of these components by assigning weights. A mutation engine may perform small data type mutations at the input's high-level design. The grey-box approach addresses three testing challenges: the system's complexity and size by avoiding intensive code analysis, outsourcing by limiting the knowledge about the system, and input and output fluctuation by creating a massive number of inputs.
US11366744B2
Systems, methods and computer program products are described herein that can be used to help achieve a safe rollout of software in a production datacenter environment. In accordance with certain embodiments, cloud services requests from certain users of a cloud services system (e.g., users that are authorized to receive cloud services via computing devices running test versions of infrastructure software) are dynamically matched to clusters (groups of commonly-managed computing devices called nodes) that are capable of providing the requested services on nodes running test versions of infrastructure software. Within such clusters, the requested services are provided to the users on a subset of cluster nodes that run a test version of an infrastructure software component, while the remaining cluster nodes are not running the particular test version.
US11366740B2
There is provided a method for debugging errors in a shared memory. The method comprises executing instrumented machine code of a plurality of processes to generate a recorded execution of each of the plurality of processes for deterministic replay of the recorded execution. The method further comprises logging accesses to the shared memory by each of the plurality of processes in a shared memory log for debugging errors in the shared memory by analysing the recorded executions and the shared memory log. The shared memory log is accessible by each of the plurality of processes.
US11366731B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system installs on a controlling device user interface automation software provided by a customer care server separated from the controlling device; the controlling device communicates with the customer care server over a communication network. The system receives information from equipment of a customer care agent regarding a customer care issue associated with a communication device coupled to the controlling device by a communication link separate from the communication network. The method includes effecting, responsive to the information and without action by a user of the communication device, an input to the user interface via the communication link to initiate a resolution procedure for the customer care issue; the resolution procedure can include resetting network settings, enabling a network service, collecting information regarding the network settings, and/or providing new network settings. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11366726B2
A communication node (NODE) for connecting a fault-tolerant computer (FTC) to a real-time network (NET), wherein the node receives critical application data (HCAD1, HCAD2) from computation hosts (HOST) of the fault-tolerant computer, and the node is configured to forward the critical application data as node critical application data (NCAD) to the NET. The node includes at least a first end system (ES1), a second end system (ES2) and a switch (SW), and the switch includes at least a commander part (COM), a monitor part (MON) and a comperator part (COMP). The MON and the COMP may be integrated into an integrated part (MONC). The ES1 connects to the computation hosts or a subset thereof, and the ES2 connects to the computation hosts or a subset thereof. The ES1 connects to the COM, and the ES2 connects to the MON. The computation hosts or a subset thereof provide first host critical application data (HCAD1) to the ES1, and the computation hosts or a subset thereof provide second host critical application data (HCAD2) to the ES2. The ES1 is configured to forward the HCAD1 as first end system critical application data (ESCAD1) to the COM and the ES2 is configured to forward the HCAD2 as second end system critical application data (ESCAD2) to the MON. The COM is configured to forward the ESCAD1 as commander critical application data (CCAD) to the COMP at a pre-configured commander forwarding point in time (TCOM), and the MON is configured to forward the ESCAD2 as monitor critical application data (MCAD) to the COMP at a pre-configured monitor forwarding point in time (TMON). If the MON and the COMP are not integrated into an integrated part, then the COMP is configured to forward either the CCAD or the MCAD as node critical application data (NCAD), if and only if, the CCAD and the MCAD are identical and the COMP starts to receive the CCAD and the MCAD within an interval of configured length (SYNC-1). Alternatively, if the MON and the COMP are integrated into an integrated part (MONC), then the COM is configured to forward the ESCAD1 as NCAD to the NET. The switch includes an interception function (INTERCEPT) which is configured to (i) preempt an ongoing transmission of NCAD and/or (ii) prevent the transmission of NCAD, and the COMP is configured to activate the interception function if and only if the CCAD and the MCAD are not identical or the COMP does not start to receive the CCAD and the MCAD within SYNC-1.
US11366714B2
Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein that enhance the management of storage sub-systems with solid-state media. In various implementations, a method comprises collecting time series data indicative of an accumulation of bad blocks within dies on one or more solid-state drives. For one or more of the dies, the method includes identifying one or more behaviors of a die based at least on a portion of the time series data associated with the die and determining to retire the die based at least on one or more identified behaviors of the die. One or more of the dies on the one or more solid-state drives may then be retired accordingly.
US11366701B1
An apparatus can include a control board operatively coupled to a modular compute boards and to a resource boards by (1) a first connection associated with control information and not data, and (2) a second connection associated with data and not control information. The control board can determine a computation load and a physical resource requirement for a time period. The control board can send, to the modular compute board and via the first connection, a signal indicating an allocation of that modular compute board during the time period. The control board can send, from the control board to the resource board, a signal indicating an allocation of that resource board to the modular compute board such that that resource board allocates at least a portion of its resources during the time period based on at least one of the computation load or the physical resource requirement.
US11366694B1
A computer-implemented method and a computer program product for estimating attributes of running workloads on platforms in a system of multiple platforms as a service. A computer receives definitions of respective workloads and respective platforms that are eligible to run a set of the respective workloads. The computer maps the respective workloads and the respective platforms to attributes of running the respective workloads on the respective platforms. The computer estimates the attributes and storing the attributes in a matrix. The computer updates the attribute in the matrix, in response to a triggering event for modifying the matrix.
US11366693B2
A system for managing a deployment includes storage for storing an enhanced asset map of the deployment. The system further includes a deployment manager that obtains a deployment interface request for the deployment; in response to obtaining the deployment interface request: displays a visualization including at least one interactive element, the visualization is based on the deployment interface request and the enhanced asset map; obtains input associated with the at least one interactive element using a natural motion interface; and performs an action set, based on the input, to update an operation of the deployment.
US11366687B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for intelligently optimizing the utilization of clusters. The system is configured to continuously gather real-time hardware telemetric data associated with one or more entity systems via a hardware telemetric device, continuously convert the real-time hardware telemetric data into a first color coded representation, receive one or more tasks associated with one or more entity applications, queue the one or more tasks associated with the one or more entity applications, determine hardware requirements associated with the one or more tasks, determine one or more attributes associated with the one or more tasks, convert the hardware requirements and the one or more attributes of the one or more tasks into a second color coded representation, and allocate the one or more tasks to the one or more entity systems based on the first color coded representation and the second color coded representation.
US11366685B2
A processing system including a processor, a first memory, a state machine configured to transition between a plurality of states, and an access filter. The first memory stores instructions that are executable by the processor, where execution of the instructions causes the processor to initiate transactions with one or more hardware resources. The access filter may filter the transactions initiated by the processor by selectively denying access to the hardware resources based at least in part on a current state of the state machine. The access filter may also filter transactions initiated by one or more of the hardware resources based at least in part on the current state of the state machine.
US11366677B2
Computer-implemented methods, non-transitory, computer-readable media, and computer-implemented systems are provided for executing a smart contract in a blockchain network. The computer-implemented method includes: compiling, by a blockchain node in a blockchain network, code of a smart contract into machine code through Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation after deploying the smart contract, wherein the code of the smart contract comprises hotspot code marked by a hotspot identifier; storing, by the blockchain node, the hotspot code marked by the hotspot identifier; and when executing the smart contract, in response to determining that the machine code corresponding to the code of the smart contract is locally stored, executing, by the blockchain node, the machine code.
US11366665B2
Microcode combination of complex instructions is shown. A microprocessor includes an instruction queue, an instruction decoder, and a microcode controller. The instruction decoder is coupled to the instruction queue. The microcode controller is coupled to the instruction decoder and has a memory. The memory stores a combined microcode for M complex instructions arranged in a specific order, where M is an integer greater than 1. When the M complex instructions in the specific order have popped out of the first to M-th entries of the instruction queue, the instruction decoder operates the microcode controller to read the memory for the combined microcode with microcode reading trapping happened just once.
US11366653B2
An application code updating apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a processor to receive application deployment code defining an application to be deployed in a cloud-computing environment; determine, from the application deployment code, an identity of a cloud-based repository from which to retrieve the application; obtain, from a database, an authentication credential for the identified repository; generate, based on the authentication credential, an access token to provide access to the repository; and update the application deployment code to include the generated access token. A method and a machine-readable medium are also disclosed.
US11366651B2
A method for installing and using hardware specific plugins to a monitoring application includes installing, by use of a processor, a hardware specific plugin to a monitoring application that monitors health of a monitored computing system. The plugin corresponds to a hardware device of the monitored computing system monitored by the monitoring application. The plugin includes analytics rules corresponding to hardware parameters monitored within the hardware device and received by a server comprising the processor and running the monitoring application. The method includes receiving, by use of a processor, data corresponding to the hardware parameters of the hardware device, applying, by use of a processor, the analytics rules of the plugin to the received data of the monitored hardware parameters of the hardware device, and sending, by use of a processor, an alert in response to determining that the received data violates an analytics rule of the plugin.
US11366647B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects one or more local variables in source code, wherein the local variable(s) lack dependencies across iterations of a loop in the source code, automatically generate pipeline execution code for the local variable(s), and incorporate the pipeline execution code into an output of a compiler. In one example, the pipeline execution code includes an initialization of a pool of buffer storage for the local variable(s).
US11366642B1
A method for ensuring successful deployment of a plurality of design changes from development to user acceptance testing. The method may include exporting a development file from development to user acceptance testing, generating, based on the exporting, a plurality of skip files as an aggregated Extensible Markup Language export (XML-export) script, and opening, using an Extensible Markup Language table (XML-table) utility in Excel™ (Windows, Mac), the aggregated XML export script. The method may also include creating an aggregated XML schema based on the aggregated XML export script, retrieving a first code from the aggregated schema that identifies the action to which a member of the aggregated schema pertains, and retrieving a second code from the member of the aggregated schema that identifies a Rational Security Assessment Manager Identifier (RSAM ID) to which the member of the aggregated schema pertains. The method may use the first and second codes to determine an event handler name to which the member of the aggregated schema pertains.
US11366639B2
The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a quantum random number generation apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention including: a space-division semiconductor detector including a plurality of cells, each individually absorbing a plurality of emission particles emitted from a radioactive isotope; and a signal processor that generates a random number based on an absorption event at which the plurality of emission particles are absorbed into the plurality of cells, and thus new type of random number conversion method that combines a spatial randomness and existing temporal randomness of the emission particle can be provided, there is no restriction generated due to the dead time, the random number generation rate can be remarkably increased, and it is possible to generate of a pure random number at high speed, which is required by a computer, a network processor, or an IoT device.
US11366624B2
An example system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that are executable to cause the system to perform various functions. The functions include obtaining an image associated with a print job, and providing the image as input to a convolutional neural network. The convolutional neural network includes a residual network, upscaling layers, and classification layers configured to detect whether the image is an artificial image having a computer-generated image gradient. The functions also include determining, based on an output of the classification layers, that the image is an artificial image having a computer-generated image gradient. Further, the functions include, based on determining that the image is an artificial image having a computer-generated image gradient, providing the image to an upscaling module of a print pipeline for upscaling rather than using an output of the upscaling layers for the upscaling.
US11366617B2
Example methods are provided for unbalanced storage resource usage configuration for a distributed storage system in a virtualized computing environment. An example method may include obtaining usage data associated with multiple storage resources forming the distributed storage system. The multiple storage resources are supported by the multiple hosts. Based on the usage data, the method may further include determining a higher usage set and a lower usage set of one or more storage resources from the multiple storage resources and configuring the multiple hosts to use the multiple storage resources in an unbalanced manner by using the higher usage set of one or more storage resources at a higher usage level compared to the lower usage set of one or more storage resources.
US11366603B2
The invention provides a storage structure and an erase method thereof, capable of performing an erase operation on a plurality of memory blocks. The storage structure includes: a first storage body, a second storage body, a third storage body, and a controller. Memory blocks that are consecutively numbered are sequentially alternately stored in the first memory bank, the second memory bank, and the third memory bank, and the controller is configured to control each memory block to sequentially undergo a first process, a second process and a third process. The erase method includes: when a memory block Bi undergoes the third process, a memory block Bi+1 undergoes the second process, and a memory block Bi+2 undergoes the first process at the same time; where i ∈ [1, n−2]. Three adjacent blocks undergo the first process, the second process, and the third process simultaneously.
US11366598B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for dynamic lease assignments in a time-series database are disclosed. A time-series database determines an assignment of a lease for a tile representing spatial and temporal boundaries of time-series data. The lease is assigned to a first storage node of a plurality of storage nodes. The time-series database routes the elements of the time-series data within the spatial and temporal boundaries to the first storage node based at least in part on the assignment of the lease. The first storage node stores the elements of the time-series data into the tile in a database cluster. Write requests by the first storage node to the tile are validated by the database cluster based at least in part on the assignment of the lease.
US11366594B2
Techniques for in-band locking of extents containing multiple pages of shared non-volatile data storage are disclosed in which inter-node lock request messages indicate both an individual page for which a lock is requested and the multi-page extent that contains that page. A page lock or an extent lock is granted to the requesting node based on the time since the last access to the extent by the node to which the request was sent. A generation number may be maintained in each node and stored in the per-extent lock table entries and per-page lock table entries such that pages accessed by a node within an extent while the extent is in extent-locked access mode may subsequently be accessed by the node during a page-locked access mode for the extent occurring after the extent-locked access mode ends based on page locks created by the node during the extent-locked access mode.
US11366592B2
An asynchronous power loss (APL) event is detected at a memory device. A last written page is identified in the memory device in response to detecting the APL event. A count of zeros programmed in the last written page is determined. The count of zeros is compared to a threshold constraint to determine whether to perform a dummy write operation on the last written page.
US11366589B1
Logic (apparatus and/or software) is provided that separates read and restore operations. When a read is completed, the read data is stored in a restore buffer allowing other latency critical operations such as reads to be serviced before the restore. Deferring restore operations minimizes latency and burst bandwidth for reads and minimizes the performance impact of the non-critical restore operations.
US11366586B2
In a streaming application environment coupled to a remote device over a packet-switching network, correction events may be synthesized from input events received from the remote device and injected into a virtual streaming application to account for lost or delayed input events. In addition, trailing events may be reissued by a remote device in frames during which no new input events are generated.
US11366577B2
The technical solutions provide a method for presentation by a terminal device, and a terminal device, so as to reduce a memory burden of the terminal device, improve efficiency and an interaction capability, and facilitate use for a user. Specifically, a method for presentation by a terminal device is provided, where the method includes: when the mobile terminal is in a locked state, display, on the touch screen, the first interface, the first interface including an interface of a first application program (FAP), an interface of a second application program (SAP) and a first content determined by the mobile terminal based on a habit of using the mobile terminal by a user of the mobile terminal, the interface of the SAP occupying a second area on the touch screen, and the second area being part of the whole display area of the touch screen.
US11366576B2
In some embodiments, a multifunction device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface creates a plurality of workspace views. A respective workspace view is configured to contain content assigned by a user to the respective workspace view. The content includes application windows. The device displays a first workspace view in the plurality of workspace views on the display without displaying other workspace views in the plurality of workspace views and detects a first multifinger gesture on the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the first multifinger gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, the device replaces display of the first workspace view with concurrent display of the plurality of workspace views.
US11366572B2
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for generating a navigable user interface for a mobile shopping comparison application. In some embodiments, the method may include determining that a query request has indications of item specific attributes for comparison, identifying the most relevant item attributes corresponding to the item specific comparison, and presenting the attributes in conjunction with their corresponding items in a navigable user interface.
US11366571B2
A presented user interface may include one or more sliding bars. Initially, a first user interface of an application that includes a first set of visualizations is displayed. Each of the first set of visualization corresponds to a set of functions of the application. In response to a user indication that one of the first set of visualizations is selected, a second user interface is displayed. The second user interface includes a center visualization and one or more sliding bars. In particular, the center visualization corresponds to the selected one of the first set of visualization. At least one of the one or more sliding bars is displayed at a first edge of the second user interface, and each of the at least one of the one or more sliding bars corresponds to one of the first set of visualizations.
US11366570B2
The present disclosure provides methods, computer readable media, and a system comprising: a hierarchical data storage architecture comprising the following storage tiers: a first tier configured to store a data element associated with a first range of recall probability scores, and a second tier configured to store a data element associated with a second range of recall probability scores; a computing agent configured to perform the following: compute a recall probability score for the data element stored in the hierarchical data storage architecture, and affect a transfer of the data element between the first and second tier; and a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising at least one functional GUI element configured to: enable an end-user to input a desired balance between speed of data retrieval and cost of data storage, wherein the desired balance impacts the plurality of ranges of recall probability scores associated with the first and second tier.
US11366569B2
The disclosure relates to an interactive interface display method, apparatus, and storage medium. The method includes displaying an information display interface including a call entry of an intelligent interactive application; calling the intelligent interactive application when a trigger operation on the call entry is detected; displaying a first dynamic effect in which the call entry moves in the information display interface; and displaying an interactive interface of the intelligent interactive application after displaying the first dynamic effect in which the call entry moves in the information display interface.
US11366565B2
Computer-implemented method of positioning a set of objects on a user interface on a surface of a three-dimensional structure, each member of the set of the objects having a size in two dimensions. Objects are assigned to a respective one of a plurality of subsets of objects based on object characteristics. Each subset is assigned to a respective two-dimensional portion of predetermined size. For each subset having an unpositioned object, object occupancy in the portion is identified and unpositioned objects are allocated to a position within the portion on the basis of object dimension and unoccupied space. The two-dimensional portions are positioned based on a specification and each object position is mapped within the portions to a three-dimensional coordinate. Responsive to input, positioning of the plurality of two-dimensional portions is modified, and each allocated object position is mapped to a new three-dimensional coordinate within the modified portion positions.
US11366560B2
The present disclosure provides a touch substrate, a method for manufacturing the touch substrate and a touch display device. The touch substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes arranged at different layers on the base substrate, and a black matrix arranged at a peripheral region of the touch substrate. Orthogonal projections of the driving electrodes onto the base substrate overlap orthogonal projections of the sensing electrodes onto the base substrate at a plurality of first overlapping regions and a plurality of second overlapping regions, an orthogonal projection of the black matrix onto the base substrate overlaps each first overlapping region and does not overlap each second overlapping region, and an effective area of the first overlapping region is smaller than an effective area of the second overlapping region.
US11366558B2
Visibility of the metal mesh touch electrodes can be mitigated using one or more mitigation techniques. In some examples, the boundary between touch electrodes and/or the boundary between a touch electrode and a routing trace of another touch electrode and/or the boundary between two routing traces can be non-linear. In some examples, dummy cuts can be made within an area of a touch electrode region (e.g., while maintaining the same electrical potential for the touch electrode region). In some examples, notches can be made in the metal mesh. In some examples, the location of cuts and/or notches can be optimized to mitigate visibility of the metal mesh. In some examples, some or all of the visibility mitigations may be used in combination in a touch screen.
US11366557B2
An array substrate, including: a plurality of data lines, a plurality of touch lines, a plurality of touch electrodes, and a plurality of first switching devices. Each of the touch electrodes is electrically connected to at least one of the touch lines, each of the first switching devices is electrically connected to one of the data lines and one of the touch electrodes respectively, and each of the first switching devices is configured to selectively turn on or turn off the data line and the touch electrode which are connected.
US11366554B2
The application discloses a touch controller to determine a position where a user touches a touchscreen. The touchscreen includes a first transmitting electrode, a second transmitting electrode and a receiving electrode. The touch controller includes a signal generation module and a demodulation module. The signal generation module is configured to perform an in-phase code transmission at a first time so that the receiving electrode receives an in-phase code receiving signal correspondingly, and perform an inverting-phase code transmission at a second time so that the receiving electrode receives an inverting-phase code receiving signal correspondingly. The demodulation module is configured to determine the position where the user touches the touchscreen according to the in-phase code receiving signal corresponding to the first time and the inverting-phase code receiving signal corresponding to the second time.
US11366551B1
A touch module includes a circuit board, a light emitting element, a light guide plate, and a reflector plate. The light emitting element is electrically connected to the circuit board, and the light emitting element has an upper light emitting surface. The light guide plate is arranged above the circuit board. The reflector plate is arranged above the light guide plate. The reflector plate includes a first surface facing the light guide plate. The first surface is provided with a light-transmitting region, a light-shielding region, and a light-reflecting region. The light-reflecting region is arranged corresponding to the light emitting element. An area of the light-shielding region is greater than an area of the light-reflecting region. The area of the light-reflecting region is greater than an area of the upper light emitting surface of the light emitting element.
US11366546B2
A touch display apparatus is disclosed, which includes a display panel on which pixels and touch electrodes are disposed, a main power integrated circuit generating a common voltage signal applied to the touch electrodes and at least one gate voltage signal applied to the pixels, a touch power integrated circuit outputting a touch driving signal of a pulse type in accordance with a touch synchronization signal that defines a display driving period and a touch driving period, outputting a load free driving signal of the pulse type by using a gate low voltage signal of the at least one gate voltage signal, and outputting at least one pseudo touch driving signal corresponding to a pulse patterns of the touch driving signal and the load free driving signal and having reverse phase which is inverted, by using at least one gate high voltage signal of the at least one gate voltage signal, and a gate driving circuit supplying a gate pulse based on the at least one gate voltage signal to gate lines connected to the pixels for the display driving period, and supplying the load free driving signal to the gate lines for the touch driving period.
US11366544B2
A driver chip including a receiving structure, a shielding structure, and a touch control circuit is provided. The receiving structure can receive a touch sensing signal. The shielding structure can be disposed aside the receiving structure. The shielding structure can shield at least one parasitic capacitor coupled to the receiving structure. The touch control circuit can be connected to the receiving structure and configured to receive the touch sensing signal. An electronic device including a driver chip is also provided.
US11366542B2
First electrodes are formed on an insulation surface in such a manner that the adjacent first electrodes are connected in a first direction and are separated in a second direction intersecting the first direction. Second electrodes are formed on an insulation surface in such a manner that the adjacent second electrodes are connected in the second direction and are separated in the first direction. Third electrodes are formed in regions in which the third electrodes overlap with the first electrodes and do not overlap with the second electrodes in such a manner that the adjacent third electrodes are connected in the second direction and are separated in the first direction. A flexible insulation layer is formed between the first electrodes and the third electrodes. An area of each of the third electrodes is less than an area of each of the first electrodes.
US11366538B2
A display device includes a first substrate, a display structure, a sensing structure, a sensing signal transmission film, and an image signal transmission film. The first substrate includes a display region and a non-display region at least partially surrounding the display region. The non-display region includes a first portion and a second portion facing the first portion. The display structure is disposed in the display region. The sensing structure is disposed on the display structure. The sensing signal transmission film is electrically connected to the sensing structure. The image signal transmission film is electrically connected to the display structure. The sensing signal transmission film is disposed in the first portion of the non-display region. The image signal transmission film is disposed in the second portion of the non-display region.
US11366535B2
A touch display panel and a touch display device are provided, which include a display substrate and a touch panel. The touch panel includes a first touch zone corresponding to a regular display area of the display substrate and a second touch zone corresponding to an irregular display area of the display substrate. The first touch zone includes at least one first touch electrode, the second touch zone includes at least one second touch electrode, and at least a portion of the second touch electrode extends into the first touch zone. Thus, areas of the second touch electrode and the first touch electrode are equal or as similar as possible, thereby improving a touch sensitivity and accuracy and a uniformity of display of the touch display panel and the touch display device.
US11366532B2
One or more embodiments disclosed herein relate to an electronic device antenna structure, and may provide an electronic device that includes a pen housing including a first end part, a second end part, and inner space; a printed circuit board (PCB) located in the inner space; and an antenna structure. The antenna structure may include a first conductive part located between the pen housing and the first surface of the PCB; a second conductive part electrically connected to the first conductive; and a third conductive part electrically connected to the first conductive part. At least one part of the PCB may be arranged between the second conductive part and the third conductive part when the first surface of the PCB is viewed from an upper surface thereof. Additional other embodiments can be provided.
US11366525B2
Handwheel systems, including control consoles incorporating handwheels of the inventive subject matter, are described in this application. Handwheels described in this application can be used to control remotely located motors, especially those configured to control camera movements. To make it easier for camera operators to control remotely located motors using handwheels, those handwheels can be incorporated into a control console. Control consoles of the inventive subject matter can include several dials, toggle buttons, a display, and a variety of different inputs and outputs.
US11366517B2
Embodiments described herein relate to systems, devices, and methods for use in the implementation of a human-computer interface using high-speed, and efficient tracking of user interactions with a User Interface/User Experience that is strategically presented to the user. Embodiments described herein also relate to the implementation of a hardware agnostic human-computer interface that uses neural, oculomotor, and/or electromyography signals to mediate user manipulation of machines and devices.
US11366512B2
In some embodiments, a system comprising one or more processors configured to track a location of an input device within a physical environment via a three-dimensional (3D) tracking system, and modify a tracking parameter of the 3D tracking system while tracking the location of the input device based on the determined location of the input device within the physical environment. The input device may be coupled to a virtual reality display system and tracking the location of the location of the input device can be used for interacting with the virtual reality display system.
US11366505B2
Methods, systems, and devices for predictive power management are described. Correlations may be identified between a set of commands performed at the memory device and oscillating voltage patterns, or a resonance frequency, or both. Voltages may be monitored by the memory device and be compared to the identified voltage pattern to mitigate undesirable oscillating voltages and resonance frequency.
US11366502B2
Techniques are disclosed for early detection of fan failure in a computing device, such as a server. A management device located in the computing device or remote from the computing device can receive information about the fan duty and use the fan duty information to determine a safe fan speed below which future or imminent fan failure can be inferred. The management device can receive the current speed of the fan and compare it with the safe fan speed to determine if the fan is likely to fail, in which case the management device can direct the computing device to perform mitigation action and/or a maintenance warning can be sent. The maintenance warning can result in replacement of the failing or soon-to-fail fan.
US11366496B2
A flexible display device and a control method thereof are provided. In an embodiment, the flexible display device includes a display panel, and the display panel includes a first flexible region. In an embodiment, the he flexible display device further includes supporting structures, and a first supporting plate for supporting the supporting structures. In an embodiment, the he supporting structures can support the first flexible region according to the usage states of the first flexible region, such that the first flexible region can be effectively supported at different usage states, which improves the user experience and the service life of the first flexible region, thereby ensuring the performance stability of the flexible display device.
US11366488B1
An integrated circuit includes a first processing domain configured to run a first operating system and a second processing domain configured to run a second operating system that is different than the first operating system. The integrated circuit further includes a time stamp timer circuit in the first processing domain configured to provide a first time stamp value to the first processing domain and an adjusted second time stamp value to the second processing domain. The time stamp timer circuit includes a timer adjust circuit configured to synchronize the adjusted second time stamp value when a power up signal is received by the time stamp timer circuit from the second processing domain.
US11366487B2
A divider and buffer circuit uses a receive command to initiate a reset of buffer circuitry prior to restarting to avoid a metastable state. For example, the divider and buffer circuit includes a first buffer circuit, a second buffer circuit, and a reset circuit. The reset circuit receives a command and provide a pulse on a reset signal in response to the command. In response to the reset pulse, the first buffer circuit provides a first divided clock signal having a first logical value based on respective logical values of received complementary clock signals and the second buffer circuit provides a second divided clock signal having a second logical value based on the respective logical values of the complementary clock signals. The command is a CAS SYNC command, in some examples.
US11366486B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises a temperature sensor, a display, and a processor configured to operate by using a clock speed selected from among a plurality of clock speeds, wherein the processor may be configured to: execute a designated application by using one selected from among the plurality of clock speeds; check an external temperature by using the temperature sensor for at least some time during the execution of the designated application; when the external temperature falls to within a range of a first designated temperature, execute the designated application by using one selected from among the plurality of clock speeds according to a designated clock governor; and when the external temperature falls to within a range of a second designated temperature that is lower than the first designated temperature, execute the designated application by using one selected from among the plurality of clock speeds, except for some higher clock speeds, according to the designated clock governor. In addition, various other embodiments are possible.
US11366478B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for autonomous car-like ground vehicle guidance and trajectory tracking control. A multi-loop 3DOF trajectory linearization controller provides guidance to a vehicle having nonlinear rigid-body dynamics with nonlinear tire traction force, nonlinear drag forces and actuator dynamics. The controller may be based on a closed-loop PD-eigenvalue assignment and a singular perturbation (time-scale separation) theory for exponential stability, and controls the longitudinal velocity and steering angle simultaneously to follow a feasible guidance trajectory. A line-of-sight based pure-pursuit guidance controller may generate a 3DOF spatial trajectory that is provided to the 3DOF controller to enable target pursuit and path-following/trajectory-tracking. The resulting combination may provide a 3DOF motion control system with integrated simultaneous steering and speed control for automobile and car-like mobile robot target pursuit and trajectory-tracking.
US11366470B2
Autonomous vehicle fleet management systems are provided herein. An example method includes receiving, via a control module of a first electric vehicle, trip characteristics data associated with a second electric vehicle. The trip characteristics data includes information such as vehicle location, a trip destination, and a route plan associated with the second electric vehicle. The control module or a connected control server selects a charging station for recharging the first electric vehicle based at least in part on the trip characteristics data and at least one route optimization option associated with the first electric vehicle. The example method further includes determining a travel route to the charging station and navigating the first electric vehicle to the charging station along the travel route using an autonomous vehicle navigation system associated with the control module.
US11366466B1
The techniques disclosed herein enable predictive maintenance features in Hybrid Cloud systems. The system can analyze system data defining one or more operating conditions of an on-prem server and determine if one or more predetermined conditions are met. If a predetermined condition is met, the on-prem server can generate and transmit log data to a primary server. The primary server can generate one or more monitor rules having one or more updated predetermined conditions for detecting an anomaly at the on-prem server. Using the monitor rules, the on-prem server can detect and proactively resolve potential issues. The on-prem server can also transmit diagnostic data to the primary server for generating an updated monitor rule that is further tailored to the conditions of the on-prem server.
US11366464B2
A diagnosis unit (1) for detection, analysis, and data management of sensor data detected on an actuator (20), has at least one sensor (14, 15), a data processing unit (10), a data manager (11), and an interface unit (12). The at least one sensor (14, 15), the interface unit (12), and the data manager (11) are respectively, connected to the data processing unit (10), enabling data exchange. The diagnosis unit (1) is built into a module with the actuator (20).
US11366463B2
A method for assessing a control loop. In the method, the control loop is assigned one degree of fulfillment each with respect to at least three quality criteria. The surface area of a polygon having a geometry defined by the degrees of fulfillment is determined. An overall control quality of the control loop is evaluated on the basis of the surface area.
US11366454B2
In one example, a representation of a volume of a part to be printed by an additive manufacturing system is generated, where the representation depicts a plurality of voxels. A plurality of slices of the representation are generated. Each slice relates to a plurality of voxels within a first plane. A first process is performed in respect of a slice of the plurality of slices, wherein in the first process at least one voxel that has a predetermined colour and is located on a predetermined surface of the part is identified and a data file is updated to include data representative of the identified at least one voxel. The first process is repeated in respect of another slice. A three-dimensional preview of the part to be printed is generated based on the data file.
US11366451B2
Embodiments of this present disclosure may include a handle disposed on an outer surface of a housing of electrical circuitry. The handle may provide access to at least a portion of the electrical circuitry. The handle may include a status indicator that emits light in response to a control signal from control circuitry. The status indicator may be disposed around the handle. The control circuitry may detect a state of the electrical protection circuitry. The control circuitry may also transmit the control signal to the status indicator based on the state. The control signal may control one or more properties of the light emitted by the status indicator, and thus indicate to an operator the state of the electrical circuitry.
US11366450B2
Apparatus and method is disclosed for determining position of a robot relative to objects in a workspace which includes the use of a camera, scanner, or other suitable device in conjunction with object recognition. The camera, etc is used to receive information from which a point cloud can be developed about the scene that is viewed by the camera. The point cloud will be appreciated to be in a camera centric frame of reference. Information about a known datum is used and compared to the point cloud through object recognition. For example, a link from a robot could be the identified datum so that, when recognized, the coordinates of the point cloud can be converted to a robot centric frame of reference since the position of the datum would be known relative to the robot.
US11366447B2
A spatial accuracy correction apparatus performs a spatial accuracy correction of a positioner displacing a displacer to a predetermined set of spatial coordinates using a measurable length value measured by an interferometer and a measurable value of the set of spatial coordinates of the displacement body that is measured by the positioner. The measured length value and the measured value for each measurement point are acquired by displacing the displacement body to a plurality of measurement points in order, one or more repeated measurements are conducted for at least one of the plurality of measurement points being measured after conducting measurement of the measured length value and the measured value for each of the plurality of measurement points, and the plurality of points are measured again when a repeat error of the measured length value is equal to or greater than a threshold value.
US11366443B2
Fail operational that can guarantee stability of control while suppressing cost increase is difficult. A control controller according to the present invention stores information necessary for recovery in a normal travel mode in time series in a backup, and thus control software can be recovered from the backup in real time if a failure occurs in the system.
US11366442B2
The present disclosure relates to a diagnostic device for a field device from the field of automation technology, comprising a control unit, a sensor carrier, a stereo acoustic sensor, which is fastened to the sensor carrier, a first temperature sensor, which is fastened at a first position on the sensor carrier, and a second temperature sensor, which is fastened at a second position on the sensor carrier. The first position and the second position are remote from one another owing to a first spacing. The sensor carrier is suitable for being expanded such that the first spacing is changed.
US11366423B2
In one example, a detachable adapter to adapt a drive shaft on a printer to a drive mechanism on a toner cartridge and to transmit rotation of the drive shaft to the drive mechanism. The adapter includes a cylindrical part having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the first end configured to detachably receive and engage an end of the drive shaft so that the part will rotate with the drive shaft when the part is attached to the drive shaft, and a driver mounted to or integral with the second end and configured to drivingly connect the part to the drive mechanism on the toner cartridge when the part is attached to the drive shaft and the toner cartridge is installed in the printer.
US11366419B2
An image forming apparatus includes a connection mechanism in electrical contact with a contact. The connection mechanism includes a terminal member, a power supplying member, an insulating member, and a holding member. The terminal member makes contact with the contact. The power supplying member feeds electric power to the contact via the terminal member and urges the terminal member toward the contact. The insulating member covers the terminal member. The holding member holds the terminal member covered with the insulating member. The terminal member, at a tip end portion of it that projects from the holding member, makes contact with the contact. The insulating member covers at least an entire region, except a contact portion with the contact, of the terminal member that projects from the holding member.
US11366416B2
A light-emitting-device head includes a first light-emitting-device arrangement including light emitting devices arranged in lines extending in a first scanning direction; a second light-emitting-device arrangement including light emitting devices arranged in lines extending in a first scanning direction, the second light-emitting-device arrangement overlapping the first light-emitting-device arrangement in a second scanning direction at least in part; an optical device that forms an electrostatic latent image by focusing light emitted from the light emitting devices on a photoconductor and exposing the photoconductor to the light; and a switching unit that switches the light-emitting-device arrangement to be lit up between the first light-emitting-device arrangement and the second light-emitting-device arrangement at a switching position defined at any position in an overlapping portion where the first light-emitting-device arrangement and the second light-emitting-device arrangement overlap each other. The electrostatic latent image is composed of dots formed by a screening process performed with a screen having a predetermined screen angle. The switching unit defines the switching position such that when points in the electrostatic latent image that coincide with the switching position are connected to one another by a line, the line forms a zigzag shape while overlapping some of the dots, the zigzag shape including a line segment extending at the screen angle.
US11366409B2
To develop a conventional structure of a toner cartridge. Toner cartridge includes a container and an open/close member. The container includes an accommodating portion, a discharge opening and a cartridge side guide. the open/close member includes a closing portion and an engaging portion and is movable between a closing position and an opening position. When the toner cartridge is dismounted from a receiving apparatus, the engaging portion receives a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position toward the closing position, the engaging with a receiving apparatus side guide of the receiving apparatus.
US11366406B2
A toner level detector, includes: a toner cartridge storing toner and having one side provided with a light-permeable region; an agitator, which is rotatably disposed in the toner cartridge and agitates the toner; a reflective region disposed on an inner surface on the other side of the toner cartridge; a first cleaner disposed on one side of the agitator; a second cleaner disposed on the other side of the agitator; and a transceiver, which is disposed on a body outside the toner cartridge, and outputs an emitting signal to the reflective region through the light-permeable region, wherein the reflective region reflects the emitting signal to generate a reflective signal received by the transceiver through the reflective region, wherein the first cleaner, which is rotating, intermittently cleans the light-permeable region, which is fixed; and the second cleaner, which is rotating, intermittently cleans the reflective region, which is fixed.
US11366402B2
There is provided a process cartridge detachably attachable to a main body of an electrophotographic apparatus, the process cartridge including an electrophotographic photosensitive member and a charging member, wherein an outer surface of the charging member is composed of at least a matrix and at least a part of domains, a volume resistivity of the matrix is 1.0×105 times or more of a volume resistivity of the domain, an average value Sd of circle equivalent diameters of the domains observed on the outer surface of the charging member is in a predetermined range, the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a support, a photosensitive layer, and a protective layer in this order and when a surface roughness of the protective layer is measured, each of a protruding valley portion Rvk, a load length ratio Mr2, and Sd/Rvk is in a predetermined range.
US11366394B2
An extreme ultraviolet light generation system may include a chamber, a first partition wall having at least one opening which provides communication between a first space and a second space, an EUV light concentrating mirror located in the second space and configured to concentrate extreme ultraviolet light generated in a plasma generation region located in the first space, a first gas supply port formed at the chamber, and a gas exhaust port formed in the first partition wall, a distance between the center of the plasma generation region and an edge of the at least one opening being equal to or more than a stop distance LSTOP [mm] calculated by the following equation: LSTOP=272.8·EAVG0.4522·P−1 EAVG [eV] representing average kinetic energy of ions generated in the plasma generation region and P [Pa] representing a gas pressure inside the first partition wall.
US11366393B2
An optical arrangement of an imaging device for microlithography, particularly for using light in the extreme UV range, includes an optical element and a holding device for holding the optical element. The optical element includes an optical surface and defines a plane of main extension, in which the optical element defines a radial direction and a circumferential direction. The holding device includes a base element and more than three separate holding units. The holding units are connected to the base element and arranged in a manner distributed along the circumferential direction and spaced apart from one another. The holding units hold the optical element with respect to the base element. Each of the holding units establishes a clamping connection between the optical element and the base element. The clamping connection for each holding unit is separate from the clamping connections of the other holding units.
US11366382B2
The present invention refers to a method for performing an aerial image simulation of a photolithographic mask which comprises the following steps: (a) modifying an optical radiation distribution at a patterned surface of the photolithographic mask, depending on at least one first arrangement of pixels to be generated in the photolithographic mask; and (b) performing the aerial image simulation of the photolithographic mask by using the generated modified optical radiation distribution.
US11366370B1
One or more slit arc-shaped (vertex) illuminators (SAVI) have unique interactions when illuminating objects, especially convex or concave curves on spheroidal objects such as the human face creating proximity dependent enhanced dynamic illumination. When multiple SAVI are used, with adjoining vertices, adjustments made to the intensity of individual SAVI dramatically change the visual appearance of convex and concave radial curves shapes on the subject. In portrait photography, the illumination balance of opposing SAVIs offers novel controlled distortion that adjusts facial contours to achieve a desired effect, e.g., apparent thinning or other esthetic goals. When photographing different human skin types (light vs. dark tones) the arc geometry of the beams also manipulates the BDRF (Bidirectional reflectance distribution function) rendering evenly distributed illumination boundaries while also avoiding distortions (toroidal or curvature flattening) associated with other illumination shapes such as squares, rectangles, or circles.
US11366365B2
An array substrate of this application includes: a first common electrode, including a shield plate; a pixel electrode, insulated from the first common electrode and including a frame surrounded by an orthographic projection of the shield plate and a branch surrounded by the frame. The branch is connected to the frame. The frame includes a first side portion and a second side portion separated from each other. The first side portion is connected to the branch. The second side portion is located between the first side portion and the shield plate. Optionally, the first common electrode further includes a capacitor plate connected to the shield plate, and a storage capacitor is formed by the capacitor plate and the second side portion.
US11366358B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel and a switching panel disposed outside the display panel. The switching panel includes a first base, first and second electrodes disposed on the first base, a second base, third and fourth electrodes disposed on the second base, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first base and the second base. When the display apparatus is operated in a first anti-peep mode, the first electrode and the second electrode disposed on the first base have a first AC driving signal and a second AC driving signal respectively, and the third electrode and the fourth electrode disposed on the second base have DC reference signals respectively, wherein the first AC driving signal and the second AC driving signal are in synchronization.
US11366356B2
A surface light source device comprises: a plurality of light sources configured to emit light toward a light exit surface of the surface light source device; a holding member having an installation surface on which the light sources are installed; and a reflector having a plurality of openings that expose the light sources, respectively, the reflector being arranged to cover the installation surface of the holding member, the reflector including a first reflective sheet having an engagement piece at a peripheral portion of the first reflective sheet and a second reflective sheet adjacent to the first reflective sheet and having an engaged portion that is shiftably engaged with the engagement piece.
US11366350B2
The present application provides a liquid crystal display panel and an liquid crystal display device, which includes an array substrate, a color film substrate, liquid crystals, and a fingerprint identification module, the array substrate is disposed on one side facing the user; the liquid crystal is positioned between the array substrate and the color film substrate; the fingerprint identification module is formed on one side of the array substrate facing the liquid crystal; the fingerprint identification module includes a thin film transistor and a photodiode for convert light energy into electrical energy, the thin film transistor is electrically connected to an output end of the photodiode.
US11366338B2
Disclosed is a method for determining an optical system intended to equip a subject, the method including the steps of: —determining an index of sensitivity indicating, when the subject is placed in an environment including surfaces and/or borders forming globally a geometry of this environment; and landmarks associated with specific locations within the environment, how the subject relies on the global geometry and/or on the local landmarks of the environment to navigate within the environment; and—determining the optical system based on this index of sensitivity. The invention also relates to an ophthalmic lens and to an ophthalmic filter determined by such method.
US11366336B2
To realize a toric ophthalmic lens including an edge that makes it possible to design a lens contributing to secondary cataract prevention without deteriorating a degree of freedom of lens design. The toric ophthalmic lens is a toric ophthalmic lens in which, in a top view of an optical portion, a substantially flat portion having a substantially fixed edge thickness of the optical portion is provided to overlap a steep meridian of a toric surface of the optical portion.
US11366334B2
An optical unit with a shake correction function rotates a movable body around X, Y, and Z axes to perform a shake correction. The optical unit with a shake correction function includes a flexible printed board pulled out from the movable body in a +X direction and a board support part to support the flexible printed board at a position away from the movable body in an X-axis direction. The flexible printed board includes a first extending part pulled out from the movable body in the +X direction along an XY plane, a meandering part extending in a Y-axis direction while meandering in the X-axis direction after being curved in a Z-axis direction from an end of the first extending part in the Y-axis direction, and a second extending part extending in the +X direction along the XY plane in the +X direction of the meandering part.
US11366330B2
Multiuse devices and systems for warping images for viewing. as well as related methods. In one illustrative embodiment, such a system or device may include a body comprising a tube and a slot structure, configured for supporting a portable electronic device. The tube may include a first front viewing end and a second image source end, which are connected by a bore stretching the length of the tube. The inner surface of the bore may be formed as a reflective surface. The slot structure may include a shelf and a backing member that define the slot. In some illustrative embodiments, the system may include a mechanism for securing a mobile device in the slot to serve as an image source or as a video recording device.
US11366325B2
An audio component for a head-mounted display system includes a first port through which sound is projected to a user during operation in a first audio mode, a second port through which sound is projected to a user during operation in a second audio mode, an insulator positioned along an acoustic path between the first port and the second port, wherein the insulator is configured to inhibit sound projection along the acoustic path by isolating the first port from the second port, and an earpiece configured to engage the audio component to an ear of the a user, to deliver sound from the audio component to the user, and to reduce ambient noise from a surrounding environment during operation of the audio component in the second audio mode.
US11366312B2
There is provided a microscope device comprising a microscope objective (12), a first light source (18) for transmitted light illumination of the sample (16) with light within a first spectral range and a second light source (20) for transmitted light illumination of the sample with light within a second spectral range different from the first spectral range, a tube lens (22) for forming a sample-image from the light collected by the microscope objective, a first camera detector (32) for detecting light within the first spectral range, a second camera detector (34) for detecting light within the second spectral range, a dichroic beam splitter (24) in the image beam path (26) between the tube lens and the detectors, and an analyzer unit (44), The beam splitter reflects light within the first spectral range onto the first detector and transmits light within the second spectral range onto the second detector, and wherein the analyzer unit is configured to combine a first image of the sample recorded by the first camera and a second image of the sample recorded by the second camera so as to generate a total sample image with enhanced contrast.
US11366308B2
An optical scanner unit includes a mirror component, a vibration generator, an optical sensor, and a light shield portion. The mirror component includes a reflective portion for reflecting light. The vibration generator swings the mirror component around a specific swing axis when AC voltage is applied. The optical sensor includes a light emitter and a light receiver for receiving light emitted from the light emitter. The light shield portion is provided to the mirror component so as to swing along with the mirror component. The light shield portion blocks the light emitted from the light emitter. The light receiver further includes a first light receiver that is provided on one swing angle side from a center position of a swing angle range of the light shield portion, and a second light receiver that is provided on the other swing angle side from the center position of the swing angle range.
US11366305B2
An electronic visual food probe for viewing the interior of a body of food being cooked. The probe has a food-safe, heat resistant and elongated stem designed for insertion into the body of food. A thermally insulated cavity formed in one end of the stem has an opening that allows light into and out of the cavity. A light source illuminates the interior of the food exposed to the opening. An electronic image sensor receives the light reflected from the interior surfaces of the food proximate the opening and generates an elongated color image of the reflected light. An electronic display system receives the elongated color image from the image sensor and displays it on an electronic display for viewing.
US11366304B2
An optical module for endoscope includes an optical element, an optical fiber, a ferrule including a first principal surface, a second principal surface, and a side surface, an opening of an insertion hole being present on the first principal surface, the insertion hole having a bottom surface made of a transparent material, the optical fiber being inserted into the insertion hole, the optical element being bonded to the second principal surface, an opening of a groove connected to the insertion hole being present on the first principal surface, the grove having a bottom surface made of the transparent material, and transparent resin disposed in the insertion hole and the groove of the ferrule.
US11366302B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for measuring polarization properties and phase information, for example as can be used in microscopy applications. According to one example of the disclosed technology, an apparatus includes a light source, an interferometer configured to receive light generated by the light source and split the received light into two split beam outputs. The split beam outputs including combined, interfering light beams. Two light sensors, each including a polarization-sensitive focal plane array receive a respective one of the split beam outputs from the interferometer. Thus, some examples of the disclosed technology allows for simultaneous or concurrent measurement of properties of light including intensity, wavelength, polarization, and phase. The polarization-sensitive focal plane array includes a number of macropixels, each of which includes superpixels having different polarization filtering properties, each of which includes one or more pixels, which comprise filters for different colors.
US11366299B2
A method for illuminating a sample slice uses a light beam or a light sheet during single plane illumination microscopy (SPIM). The light beam or light sheet is deflected by an angle mirror having a first and second reflective surface reflecting a first and second portion of the light beam or light sheet, respectively, whereby the first and second portions of the light beam or light sheet spatially overlap one another after the deflecting. Alternatively, the light beam or light sheet is refracted by a refractive optical component comprising a first and second refractor surface refracting a first portion of the light beam or light sheet, respectively, whereby the first and second portions of the light beam or light sheet spatially overlap one another after the refracting.
US11366291B2
A camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; and a third lens having a positive refractive power, and satisfies: 0.65≤f1/f≤0.85; −0.90≤f2/f≤−0.60; 1.00≤f3/f≤1.20; −8.00≤(R5+R6)/(R5−R6)≤−2.50; 2.50≤d5/d4≤4.50; and 1.55≤n2≤1.70, where f, f1, f2, and f3 respectively denote focal lengths of the camera optical lens, the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens; R5 and R6 respectively denote central curvature radii of object side and image side surfaces of the third lens; d4 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the second lens to an object side surface of the third lens; d5 denotes an on-axis thickness of the third lens; and n2 denotes a refractive index of the second lens, thereby achieving good optical performance while meeting requirements of ultra-thinness and a wide angle.
US11366290B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a lens system, a finger identification apparatus and a terminal device, including a first lens, a second lens and a third lens arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side, where the first lens is a S-shaped meniscus negative optical power lens, the second lens is a biconvex positive optical power lens and a focal length of the first lens and a focal length of the second lens follow a first relationship so that a field of view (FOV) is greater than a first threshold.
US11366285B2
Universal electronic exchange system, especially for coupling to telescopes or similar, which includes an automated rotary device provided with a revolver-type rotary plate provided with a plurality of tubular members with holders for respective optical devices, an electric motor connected to the revolver-type rotary plate for transmission of a rotary movement thereto, an electronic unit for tubular-member selection, wherein the electronic unit is made and arranged to receive a selection signal indicative of a tubular member to be used, wherein the selection signal is used for controlling rotation and stopping of the revolver-type rotary plate, process a speed, angular path of rotation and stopping position of the tubular member to be used, and send a command signal to the electric motor of the revolver-type rotary plate for positioning and aligning the tubular member to be used with the optical axis.
US11366277B2
An optical fiber cable includes: an optical fiber; a sheath that accommodates the optical fiber; a tension member that extends from an end portion of the sheath; a housing disposed at an end portion of the tension member; and an anchor portion disposed on the tension member. The anchor portion increases a projected area of the tension member when viewed from a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber cable, the anchor portion is inside the housing, and the housing is filled with a filler that fixes the anchor potion to the housing.
US11366273B2
An assembly for assembling optical fiber with at least two pairs of MPO contacts. The optical contacts being of the multifiber push-on type. The assembly includes a socket including MPO contacts cooperating with a plug. The plug includes, through axial openings configured to receive the MPO contacts, a first positive-location element positioned in each axial opening of the plug and a second positive-location element positioned on each corresponding MPO contact. A holding element configured to hold the MPO contacts in the plug. The plug shape cooperates with the shape of the socket to ensure coupling thereof. The socket includes locking elements to lock the MPO contacts. Each MPO contact of the plug is locked with the corresponding MPO contact in the socket.
US11366256B2
A diffractive optical element capable of further reducing zero-order diffraction light includes a diffraction layer including: a high refractive index part in which a plurality of projections are arranged side by side in a cross-sectional shape; and a low refractive index part that has a lower refractive index than the high refractive index part and that includes a recess formed at least between the projections. The projections have a sawtooth shape or a shape that imitates a sawtooth shape by a multi-stage outline shape. An inclined plane that is inclined with respect to a sheet surface of the diffractive optical element, which has a sawtooth shape or a sawtooth shape imitated by a multi-stage outline shape, has a concave curved plane that is concave toward the projections.
US11366253B2
Methods, systems and devices for diffractive waveplate lens and mirror systems allowing electronically pointing and focusing light at different focal planes. The system can be incorporated into a variety of optical schemes for providing electrical control of transmission. In another embodiment, the system comprises diffractive waveplates of different functionality to provide a system for controlling not only focusing but other propagation properties of light including direction, phase profile, and intensity distribution. The diffractive waveplate lens and mirror systems are applicable to optical communication systems.
US11366245B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed for utility locating with tracking of movement over the ground or other surfaces using a dodecahedral antenna array and a stereo-optical ground tracker having two or more spaced apart cameras and an associated processing element to detect ground features in images from the cameras and determine tracking parameters based on the position of the detected ground features.
US11366242B2
Embodiments may be directed to marine geophysical surveying and associated methods. At least one embodiment may be directed to incorporation of a lock mechanism in a sensor streamer that interlocks the outer jacket with one or more of the spacers to prevent relative rotation between the outer jacket. An embodiment may provide a sensor streamer that includes an outer jacket, a plurality of spacers, and a locking mechanism. The outer jacket may be elongated in an axial direction and comprise an outer jacket surface and an inner jacket surface. The plurality of spacers may be positioned in the outer jacket at spaced apart locations in the axial direction, wherein each of the plurality of spacers comprises a spacer body having an outer spacer surface. The locking mechanism may interlock the outer jacket with at least one of the plurality of spacers.
US11366240B2
A radiation detector having a plurality of pixels is provided. A respective one of the plurality of pixels includes a thin film transistor on a base substrate; an inter-layer dielectric layer on a side of the thin film transistor away from the base substrate; a sensing electrode and a bias electrode on a side of the inter-layer dielectric layer away from the base substrate, wherein the sensing electrode extends through the inter-layer dielectric layer to electrically connect to the thin film transistor; a passivation layer on a side of the sensing electrode and the bias electrode away from the inter-layer dielectric layer, wherein the passivation layer includes a first portion and a second portion; and a radiation detection layer on a side of the passivation layer away from the base substrate. The first portion and the second portion form a substantially flat contacting surface.
US11366230B2
An optical device creates 3D images comprising a field of points, each point comprising horizontal, vertical, and distance metrics. The device comprises an illumination subsystem, comprising light sources, such as LEDs, a non-resonant beam steering element such as a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMs) mirror, beam-shaping optics, a beam director plate, and a diffuser. The device also comprises an imaging subsystem with one or more optical detector chips that measure time-of-flight (TOF). Devices may dynamically and sequentially images solid-angle sub-regions of interest, in an arbitrary order, out of a total FOV, using eye-safe illumination. The corresponding received image portions are stitched together. The beam steering element is non-resonant, allowing arbitrary and rapid changes to its pointing vector. Beam shaping optics generates rectangular solid-angle illumination. One detector chip integrates light from one sub-region while another chip is reads out image data.
US11366218B2
A vehicle sensor unit includes a millimeter wave radar device, an infrared sensor that is arranged at a position adjacent to the millimeter wave radar device, and a cover having a first cover portion and a second cover portion. The first cover portion is located in front of the millimeter wave radar device in a transmission direction of the millimeter waves to conceal the millimeter wave radar device and has millimeter wave transparency. The second cover portion is located in front of the infrared sensor in a transmission direction of the infrared light to conceal the infrared sensor and has infrared light transparency. The millimeter wave radar device and the infrared sensor are attached to the cover so that the whole vehicle sensor unit is configured as a single unit.
US11366216B2
Systems and methods of measuring distance between two wireless devices by combining phase shift and time-of-flight measurements. A first wireless devices sends a first packet to the second wireless device. After receiving the first packet, the second wireless device sending to the first wireless device a second packet. After sending the second packet, the second wireless device sends a first continuous wave signal to the first wireless device. After receiving the first continuous wave signal, the first wireless device sends to the second wireless device a second continuous wave signal. The first wireless device then calculates a time-of-flight measurement based on a time between the first wireless device sending the first packet and receiving the second packet, and calculates a second measurement based on a phase shift of the first continuous wave signal and the second continuous wave signal, and combines the two measurements.
US11366211B2
A radar system is provided that includes a radar transceiver integrated circuit (IC) configurable to transmit a first frame of chirps, and another radar transceiver IC configurable to transmit a second frame of chirps at a time delay ΔT, wherein ΔT=Tc/K, K≥2 and Tc is an elapsed time from a start of one chirp in the first frame and the second frame and a start of a next chirp in the first frame and the second frame, wherein the radar system is configured to determine a velocity of an object in a field of view of the radar system based on first digital intermediate frequency signals generated responsive to receiving reflected chirps of the first frame and second digital IF signals generated responsive to receiving reflected chirps of the time delayed second frame, wherein the maximum measurable velocity is increased by a factor of K.
US11366200B2
A set of signals are sampled at the LiDAR system and the set of signals are converted to a frequency domain to generate a set of sampled signals in the frequency domain. The set of signals are received consecutively over time. A set of first functions are created based on the set of sampled signals. The set of first functions are averaged to generate a second function. The second function represents a power spectrum density estimate of the set of signals. A peak value of the second function is detected to determine range and velocity information related to a target based on a corresponding frequency of the peak value of the second function.
US11366196B2
The radar device is provided with a transmission array antenna, phase shifters, a reception array antenna, a transmission control unit and a signal processing unit. The transmission control unit transmits transmission waves in either a directivity control mode or a MIMO mode. The directivity control mode controls directivity of the transmission array antenna by controlling the phase shifters. The MIMO mode transmits transmission waves so as not to interfere with each other from the selected at least two transmission antenna elements.
US11366195B1
An edge device includes a first antenna array and control circuitry that activates a sensing function to sense a surrounding area of the edge device. The control tracks a position of the first UE in motion from the edge device and further executes beamforming to direct a first beam of RF signal having a signal strength greater than a threshold to the first UE in motion, based on the track of the position of the first UE for high-performance communication.
US11366192B2
An MRI phantom for calibrated anisotropic imaging includes a plurality of separate sheathed taxons or integral taxons sharing common taxon walls, wherein each taxon has an inner diameter of less than 2 microns. The taxons form taxon filaments that are combined to form taxon ribbons. The taxons may have an average inner diameter of less than 1 micron, specifically about 0.8 microns with a packing density of about 1,000,000 per square millimeter. The filaments may include structural features such as an outer frame and crossing support ribs and may further include a visible alignment feature that allows for verifying orientation of an individual filament. The taxons may be formed as taxon fibers manufactured using a bi or tri-component textile/polymer manufacturing process. An anisotropic homogeneity phantom may include frame members that support fiber tracks extending in orthogonal directions, wherein each fiber track is formed of taxons.
US11366183B2
A magnetic sensor according to the invention has a magnetoresistive element having a multi-layer structure and a magnetically sensitive axis, and at least a soft magnetic body that is arranged near the magnetoresistive element. The soft magnetic body has a sloping line at least at a corner thereof, wherein the sloping line is tilted with respect to two sides of the soft magnetic body that extend to the corner, as viewed in a stacking direction of the magnetoresistive element.
US11366181B2
A component carrier with an integrated magnetic field sensor is disclosed. The component carrier includes a plurality of electrically conductive layer structures and/or electrically insulating layer structures; an excitation coil and sensor coils arranged on and/or in the layer structures; a first magnetic structure above the excitation coil and sensor coils; and a second magnetic structure below the excitation coil and sensor coils.
US11366180B2
A magnetic field sensor apparatus includes a sensor signal generator generating a sensor signal responsive to a magnetic field. A switching level provider provides during a power up mode a switching level based on a most recently updated valid one of a first and a second value of a default switching level. If an update triggering condition occurs, the not most recently updated one of the first and second values of the default switching level is updated and the most recently updated one of the first and second values of the default switching level is maintained unchanged until a next update triggering condition occurs, so that the first and second values of the default switching level are updated alternately on consecutive triggering conditions.
US11366171B2
A battery state estimation method includes: periodically measuring voltage and current of a battery in use to generate a voltage value and a current value; using an adaptive filter to generate a G parameter value for a G parameter and an H parameter value for an H parameter in real time from the voltage value and the current value, the G and H parameters indicating a present state of the battery; and using the G parameter value and the H parameter value to estimate the present state of the battery in real time. The G parameter is a parameter that represents sensitivity of the voltage to changes in the current of the battery, and the H parameter is a parameter that represents an effective potential determined by local equilibrium potential distribution and resistance distribution inside the battery.
US11366167B2
A system for managing a battery of a vehicle includes a battery, a main relay connected to the battery to transfer or block power of the battery to components in the vehicle, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the components in the vehicle to be in a power-off (IG OFF) state and turning off the main relay when receiving a vehicle power-off input, and to determine whether or not the battery is abnormal by calculating a parameter for determining a state of the battery and comparing the calculated parameter with a plurality of reference values that are preset.
US11366165B2
A DC monitoring system is configured to measure and analyze VFD (Variable Frequency Drive) operational characteristics. The VFD is configured to receive three-phase input power from a standardized source and to provide variable frequency three-phase output power to a three-phase motor. In some applications, the VFD and motor operate at a medium voltage. The VFD can include multiple inverter modules consisting of a DC section and switching section, also referred to as a multiple bus configuration. The DC monitoring system includes a measurement module coupled to each DC bus of the VFD, a data communication network, and a PQube monitoring device for transmitting data signals corresponding to voltage values of the VFD DC bus obtained in a medium voltage compartment to a low voltage compartment for processing and analysis. Processing of the data signals enables comparative and predictive analysis to determine early warning for possible capacitance failure in the VFD.
US11366164B2
A switch circuit includes a first circuit including a first switch and first output terminals, and a second circuit including a second switch and second output terminals. The first circuit and the second circuit are connected in series. The first circuit has a circuit configuration in which a combination of resistors in a signal path between the first output terminals of the first circuit differs depending on the electrical conduction state of the first switch. The second circuit has a circuit configuration in which a combination of resistors in a signal path between the second output terminals of the second circuit differs depending on the electrical conduction state of the second switch.
US11366154B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes functional logic therein that can be enabled by application of a predefined thermal cycle. The IC includes an enabling fuse operatively coupled to the functional logic, the functional logic being disabled unless enabled by activation of the enabling fuse. A set of thermal sensors are arranged in a physically distributed manner through at least a portion of the IC. A test control macro operatively couples to the set of thermal sensors and the enabling fuse for activating the enabling fuse to enable the functional logic in response to application of a thermal cycle that causes the set of thermal sensors to sequentially experience a thermal condition matching a thermal sequence enabling test. A related method and system for applying the predefined thermal cycle are also provided.
US11366149B2
The present disclosure relates to the determination of impedances in an electrical network. Methods and apparatuses for determining one or more impedances within a root and branch network are disclosed. The impedance of a common root part and the impedance of a branch of the electrical network may be determined based on the current in the common root part, the current in a branch of the electrical network and the voltage across the common root part and the branch. By determining the impedance of different parts of the electrical network in this way, the network may be monitored over time and the location of any faults or impending faults in the network may be identified more exactly without requiring invasive network probing and testing.
US11366148B2
The present disclosure refers to a method of measuring resistance of the resistive sensor (5), where the value of resistance of the resistive sensor (5) is determined from its series connection with actively controlled resistor network (3) with selectable value of resistance and with a periodic waveform voltage source (7), and further a device for measuring resistance of the resistive sensor (5) including a periodic waveform voltage source (7), actively controlled resistor network (3), and a resistive sensor (5), wherein the terminals of the periodic waveform voltage source (7) are connected to the first node (2) and the third node (6), terminals of actively controlled resistor network (3) are connected to the first node (2) and the second node (4), and terminals of the resistive sensor are connected to the second node (4) and the third node (6), thus forming a connection in a resistive voltage divider with an automatic selection of one resistor of the divider, and usage of this method for measuring time-varying resistance of the sensor.
US11366147B2
For motor stator resistance calculation, a method estimates an output voltage using a Direct Current (DC) bus voltage and a duty ratio for a motor drive at a first switching frequency and at least one second switching frequency. The method measures an output current at the first switching frequency and the at least one second switching frequency. The method calculates a first stator resistance for the first switching frequency and at least one second stator resistance for the at least one second switching frequency. The method estimates a stator resistance at a DC condition based on the first stator resistance and the at least one second stator resistance. The method sets a dynamic compensation based on a stator resistance error between the first switching frequency and the at least one second switching frequency.
US11366141B1
A current sensor includes a lead frame having a plurality of leads, at least two of which form a current conductor configured to carry a current that generates a magnetic field and a substrate having first and second opposing surfaces, the first surface proximate to said current conductor and the second surface distal from the current conductor. A first magnetic field transducer is disposed on the substrate and a first coil is disposed on the substrate adjacent to the first magnetic field transducer, wherein the first magnetic field transducer and the first coil are positioned on a first side of the current conductor. A second magnetic field transducer is disposed on the substrate and a second coil is disposed on the substrate adjacent to the second magnetic field transducer, wherein the second magnetic field transducer and the second coil are positioned on a second side of the current conductor.
US11366137B2
A temperature compensation method for a SAR sensor (3) of a terminal, and a terminal are disclosed. The terminal comprises: a temperature sensing unit (1), a processor (2), and an SAR sensor (3); the temperature sensing unit (1) is configured to send a first trigger signal to the processor (2) in response to detecting that a temperature change amount of the SAR sensor (3) exceeds a preset value; the processor (2) is configured to send a first temperature control signal to the SAR sensor (3) upon receiving the first trigger signal; and the SAR sensor (3) is configured to activate a second-order temperature compensation of the SAR sensor (3) according to the first temperature control signal, and the second-order temperature compensation compensates for baseline data of the SAR sensor (3) together with a first-order temperature compensation of the SAR sensor (3). Therefore, real-time tracking of the temperature change amount by the baseline data of the SAR sensor (3) can be ensured, and the problem in the terminal of false trigger of the SAR sensor (3) caused by drastic temperature change can be avoided.
US11366135B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for GNSS statistical speed calibration An example vehicle includes a wheel, a speed sensor for determining a first vehicle speed, an inertial sensor, and a processor. The processor may be configured for determining a second vehicle speed based on information from the inertial sensor and information from a satellite based system, determining that a difference between the first and second vehicle speeds is statistically significant, and responsively adjusting a value of the radius of the wheel.
US11366133B2
The sample plate has a principal plane in which a plurality of wells is arranged. The sample plate has a plurality of through-holes each allowing a sampling needle to pass through in a region of the principal plane where the wells are not provided, and positions of the wells and positions of the through-holes are designed such that when two pieces of the sample plates are arranged up and down with a predetermined positional relationship in a state in which respective principal planes are arranged in parallel each other, the through-holes of the sample plate arranged on an upper side is arranged at positions directly above respective wells of the sample plate arranged on a lower side.
US11366131B2
Embodiments are directed to transferring and opening reagent containers for use in a clinical analyzer in an in vitro diagnostics (IVD) environment. Contents of a reagent container may be automatically recorded, and the container is positioned and opened, making available its contents to a transfer probe. A set of mechanical fingers open and close relative to one another, to release and grip the reagent container on opposite sides thereof for transferring the container. Once the container is positioned, the mechanical fingers raise and are positioned above a seal concealing the contents of the reagent container. The fingers are configured to close together and travel in a downward trajectory to pierce the seal. The reagent container is originally presented as an un-opened package to prevent spillage and to control reagent life expectancy. According to an embodiment, a method of performing a cycle unload, transfer, and load, without operator intervention, is provided.
US11366126B2
Provided is an analysis apparatus having a control part having a preparatory action setting part for determination of whether the first and second controls are performed or the third and fourth controls are performed. The first control sets a sleep-planned part to a sleep state at a first time point when the state of non-use of the analysis apparatus has lasted for a predetermined time length, and then causes performance of a preparatory action by a first predetermined part; the second control resumes the operation of the analysis apparatus when a command signal to resume the operation is received; the third control places a sleep-planned part in a sleep state at a second time point when the state of non-use has lasted for a time length; and the fourth control causes a preparatory action of a second predetermined part to resume operation.
US11366120B2
The invention relates to the measurement and profiling of proteins including phosphoproteins from cells in particular the measurement and profiling of phosphoproteins involved in cancer.
US11366110B2
Described herein are systems and methods for detecting a target analyte in a sample with electrodes, comprising a linker and an antibody attached to the linker, and measuring an electrocatalytic signal changes generated by binding of an analyte in the sample to the antibody. Also disclosed herein are kits for electrochemical detection of protein analytes.
US11366102B2
A method of predicting the responsiveness of a patient to a pharmaceutical drug by measuring metabolites in a biological sample from the patient is disclosed. Specific drug metabolites in blood from breast cancer patients are analyzed using NMR spectroscopy whereby responsiveness of the human cancer patients before, during and after treatment with a cancer drug is assessed by measuring the change in clinical outcomes. Data obtained is used to identify particular NMR resonances that are strongly correlated with whether the patient is responsive or resistant to each drug. As such, models for predicting the responsiveness of a patient to each drug based on metabolites from the patient are provided.
US11366097B2
Cell imaging method, cell imaging apparatus, particle imaging method, and particle imaging apparatus
Disclosed is a cell imaging method including: forming a light sheet with respect to a flow cell; causing a measurement sample containing a plurality of cells to flow in the flow cell; and receiving lights generated from the plurality of cells passing through the light sheet, by an imaging device via an element configured to extend a depth of focus, and taking images of the plurality of cells by the imaging device.
US11366093B2
A disposable system, in some embodiments, includes a multi-channel or multi-chamber test cartridge device configured to operate with a testing system for evaluation of hemostasis in a subject by in vitro evaluation of a test sample from the subject. The disposable system, in some embodiments, is configured to interrogate the test sample to evaluate clot stiffness, strength, or other mechanical properties of the test sample to assess the function of various physiological processes occur during coagulation and/or dissolution of the resulting clot.
US11366092B2
An automatic fabric folding device has a rotating mechanism, an automatic folding mechanism and a crease generating mechanism. The automatic folding mechanism is located below the finger cylinder on one side of the rotating mechanism, and the finger cylinder on the other side of the automatic folding mechanism is fixed with a crease generating mechanism. The two rotating cylinders are central symmetrical with the rotating arm. This accurately controls the bending and folding of the fabric sample through the automatic control technology, and realizes the automatic detection of the fabric crease recovery process. By mechanical and numerical control technology, the parts to be measured are effectively prevented from interference by human factors, and the detection accuracy is improved.
US11366080B2
An eddy current flaw detection probe includes first coils, second coils, and a switching circuit configured to cause the first or the second coils in each unit U, the unit U being composed of adjacent four coils, to serve as excitation coils that generate eddy currents in an inspection target and cause the other coils in the unit U to serve as detection coils that detect a change in the eddy currents. The first coils each have one end thereof connected to a first common wiring, and the second coils each have one end thereof connected to a second common wiring. The switching circuit includes a first switching circuit connected to the other ends of the first coils and the second coils arranged in a first row, and a second switching circuit connected to the other ends of the first coils and the second coils arranged in a second row.
US11366076B2
In described examples, one or more devices include: apparatus including a lens element and a transducer to vibrate the lens element at an operating frequency when operating in an activated state; and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is arranged to measure an impedance of the apparatus, to determine an estimated temperature of the apparatus in response to the measured impedance, to compare the estimated temperature against a temperature threshold for delineating an operating temperature range of the apparatus, and to toggle an activation state of the transducer in response to comparing the estimated temperature against the temperature threshold.
US11366074B2
A novel method for cross-section sample preparation has a sample oriented normal to an SEM/GFIS or other imaging column via a stage, and is operated upon by an FIB to form the cross-section pre-lamella within the sample, followed by an approximate 90° rotation with no tilt of the stage for cut out by the FIB. Asymmetric trenches are milled to have a three-dimensional depth profile to ensure that the FIB has clear line of sight to a face of the resulting pre-lamella when the sample has been rotated. The three-dimensional depth profile further minimizes overall milling time required for the preparation of the pre-lamella.
US11366073B2
An apparatus (100) for analysing a sample (101) comprising a drill core sample or drill cuttings is provided. The apparatus comprises an X-ray geological structure data unit configured to scan the sample to obtain a data set indicating a volume of the sample, a fluorescence detector (109) configured to measure fluorescent radiation emanating from the sample (101) when irradiated by the X-ray beam, and a weighing unit (105) configured to weigh the sample. The apparatus further comprises a processing unit (104) configured to calculate a density of the sample (101) based on the data set obtained by the X-ray geological structure data unit, the fluorescent radiation measured by the fluorescence detectors, and the weight provided by the weighing unit.
US11366070B2
A pulsed light generation device includes: an optical coupler having four input/output ports including a first port, a second port, a third port and a fourth port; a connection optical path that connects the third port with the fourth port; and a phase modulation element disposed in the connection optical path. The optical coupler branches pulsed light input to the first port and outputs the branched input pulsed light as first-direction pulsed light and second-direction pulsed light to the third port and to the fourth port. The modulation element applies phase modulation to either one of the first-direction pulsed light and the second-direction pulsed light, thereby outputs output pulsed lights through the first port and the second port, wherein a waveform of one of the pulsed lights output through the first port is different from a waveform of the other of the output pulsed lights output through the second port.
US11366051B2
A device including a microfluidic channel structure formed on a substrate and including a first channel and a fluid actuator within the microfluidic channel structure. A sense region within the first channel is to receive a fluid flow of target biologic particles for counting in a single file pattern, with the sense region having a volume on a same order of magnitude as a volume of a single one of the target biologic particles.
US11366050B1
The invention is a novel and non-obvious design and implementation of an inductive sensor for quantifying magnetic particles. The invention parts way from the conventional methods of using wounded coils to a design that is compatible with an integrated circuit (IC) chip fabrication processes and/or printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing. The increased accuracy from these fabrication methods provides a significant improvement to sensor sensitivity. In addition, the design of the inductive sensor enables easy integration with lateral flow assay (LFA) technology. The sensor can be applied to detect and quantify molecules to provide information on health, hazard or safety.
US11366046B2
The viscosity of a fluid may be determined using a flow rate determination. The flow rate may be determined based on fluid presence determinations within a capillary channel. Also, a temperature of an environment surrounding a capillary channel may be determined and signals may be transmitted to a thermal element responsive to the determined temperature.
US11366045B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for analysis of a multi-layer adhesive film and provides the apparatus comprising a specimen tray unit; a blade unit; a liquid nitrogen supply unit; and a driving unit, and the method comprising a specimen fixing step; a specimen cooling step; a specimen pre-collection step; a specimen collection step; and a blade separation step.
US11366041B2
An engine misfire detection device such that an engine misfire state can be accurately detected is obtained. The engine misfire detection device includes an engine rotational speed change amount detector that detects an engine rotational speed change amount, an engine rotational speed change amount threshold setter that sets a threshold with respect to the rotational speed change amount, and a misfire detector that compares the rotational speed change amount and the threshold, carries out a misfire determination on the engine when the rotational speed change amount exceeds the threshold, and carries out a misfire detection, wherein the misfire detector prohibits the misfire determination when a switching between a differentially locked state and an unlocked state is carried out.
US11366040B2
Degradation degree of a bearing mechanism is diagnosed. A diagnosis apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires measurement data relating to vibrations corresponding to a rotation of a bearing mechanism including rolling elements between an outer ring and an inner ring; an extraction unit that extracts a feature amount from a result of performing a frequency analysis on the measurement data; an estimation unit that estimates a size of a scratch generated on the outer ring or the inner ring based on a predetermined relationship between a change of the feature amount and a size of a scratch generated on the outer ring or the inner ring, and based on the feature amount extracted by the extraction unit; and an output unit that outputs an estimation result of the estimation unit.
US11366033B2
A pressure sensor for being mounted in a vehicle door includes a housing, a pressure transducer, an elastomeric connector, and electrical conductors for facilitating an electrical connection to the pressure sensor. The pressure transducer is mounted in the housing adjacent the elastomeric connector. The housing is configured to exert a force that presses the pressure transducer against the elastomeric connector. The elastomeric connector comprises electrically conductive regions configured to be pressed against electrical contacts of the pressure transducer and the electrical conductors to establish and maintain an electrical connection between the pressure transducer and the electrical conductors.
US11366031B2
In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate body, an environmental sensor, a cap body and a volume of gas, wherein the environmental sensor and the volume of gas are arranged between the substrate body and the cap body in a vertical direction which is perpendicular to a main plane of extension of the substrate body, wherein at least one channel between the substrate body and the cap body connects the volume of gas with an environment of the semiconductor device such that the channel is permeable for gases, and wherein a thickness of the substrate body amounts to at least 80% of a thickness of the cap body and at most 120% of the thickness of the cap body.
US11366021B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure discloses a temperature detecting device, a temperature detecting system and a temperature detecting method. The temperature detecting device includes: a bearing support, a first end of the bearing support being fixed; a temperature detector, provided on a second end of the bearing support; a moving component, configured to be connected with the bearing support, wherein the second end of the bearing support is movable with respect to the first end under driving of the moving component.
US11366020B2
According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a sensor for detecting a temperature. The sensor comprises a switch circuit; a charge/discharge circuit connected to the switch circuit, and configured to be charged and discharged under control of the switch circuit; a sensing circuit connected to the charge/discharge circuit, and configured to cause a charge/discharge period of the charge/discharge circuit to change with a temperature of the sensing circuit; and an oscillation circuit connected to the switch circuit and the charge/discharge circuit, and configured to generate, under action of the charge/discharge circuit, an oscillation signal for controlling the switch circuit, wherein an oscillation frequency of the oscillation signal is dependent on the charge/discharge period and thus indicates the temperature of the sensing circuit. In addition, the embodiments of the present disclosure further provide an array substrate and display comprising the sensor, and a corresponding voltage adjustment method.
US11366018B1
The present disclosure relates to temperature detection equipment and in particular to a wireless detecting thermometer for barbecue, which comprises a host and a temperature probe, wherein the host is provided with a storage slot and a control circuit board integrated with a Bluetooth adapter, a central processing unit and a digital display; the temperature probe comprises a metal casing, a temperature-sensing resistor and a temperature measuring chip; the temperature measuring chip is connected to a Bluetooth transceiver signally communicated with the Bluetooth adapter in the host. A Bluetooth protocol is applied for data transmission to get rid of a data cable, so that the temperature probe can be put into an oven, thus to improve the convenience of the product. Besides, the temperature data and the power data are shown on the digital display, which is convenient to observe, and the temperature detection is convenient.
US11366015B1
A microelectromechanical infrared sensing device is provided, which includes a substrate, a sensing plate, a reflecting plate, a plurality of first supporting elements, a plurality of second supporting elements and a plurality of stoppers. The second supporting elements are connected to the sensing plate, such that the sensing plate is suspended above the substrate. The reflecting plate is disposed between the substrate and the sensing plate. The first supporting elements are connected to the reflecting plate, such that the reflecting plate is suspended between the substrate and the reflecting plate. When the reflecting plate moves toward the substrate and at least one of the stoppers contacts the substrate or the reflecting plate, the distance between the reflecting plate and the sensing plate increases.
US11366014B2
A spectrometer including at least one light-coupling element, a variable entrance slit, a dispersive element, a detector element and a control and evaluation unit. The object of providing a spectrometer having improved measuring characteristics is achieved in that the variable entrance slit is implemented by a first spatial modulation element including a plurality of pixels, wherein the individual pixels can be arranged independently of one another by the control and evaluation unit, wherein the individual pixels are arranged in order to implement the entrance slit during operation in such a manner that at least part of the light incident from the light-coupling element is passed on to the dispersive element.
US11366010B2
An ultraviolet light radiation sensing device to be wearable by a human being is provided, the device including a front part and a rear part, an ultraviolet light radiation sensor with associated microprocessor on a printed circuit board, a battery, and a wireless communication unit, e.g. for Bluetooth communication. If the front and rear part are made from a metal or metal alloy, and are interconnected by a middle member made from electrically insulating polymer material, the front and rear parts constitute antenna elements of the wireless communication unit. The device is intended to enable interaction with application data of a smartphone, a method being provided to establish recommended UV-dose and related exposure time by the sun onto the skin of the human being.
US11366006B2
A weighing sensor is provided for an electronic balance. A weighing unit of the weighing sensor has a load-receiving portion, a fixing portion, and parallel guiding members that connect the load-receiving and fixing portions A lever, with a first end connected to the load-receiving portion, is located between the parallel guiding members and the fixing portion. A lower portion of a photoelectric position limiting block is connected to the fixing portion, and an upper portion thereof has a limiting structure. A tail end portion of a second end of the lever is disposed in the limiting structure, limiting its deviation. The photoelectric position limiting block has a photoelectric position sensor and a stop structure for limiting deviation of the tail end portion.
US11366003B1
A method, apparatus and system are disclosed for the measuring directly in units of force or mass huge load of form 10 to 1000 tons or more. The system includes a unique load carrying member to which the huge load is applied and based on readings of three types of ultrasonic waves and the change in the dimensions of the load carrying member it is able to directly calculate the force in units of newtons or units of mass in kilograms of the applied load.
US11365992B2
Vortex sensor amplitude information may be used to validate that a vortex signal being measured corresponds to an actual fluid flow and is not noise. The estimated amplitude of a sinusoidal vortex signal is used as a secondary means to determine the fluid flow based on vortex sensor characteristics. The original amplitude of the sinusoidal vortex signal is determined from a clipped voltage amplitude sinusoidal signal. The estimated velocity of the fluid in a pipe based on the original amplitude of the sinusoidal vortex signal is compared to the measured velocity of the fluid based on vortex velocity frequency. If the two determined velocities do not reasonably agree, the measured vortex signal is not a valid flow signal and adaptive filters are adjusted to reduce the effects of noise.
US11365980B1
A system receives vehicle metric data from a gateway device connected to a vehicle. The vehicle gateway device gathers data related to operation of the vehicle and/or location data. The system receives data from multiple vehicles. The vehicle gateway device gathers vehicle metric data and correlates the metric data with location data. The system presents the correlated data in an interactive map graphical user interface.
US11365975B2
A system for visual awareness confirmation may include an image capture device, a global positioning system, a processor, and an input/output device. The image capture device may capture an image of an operating environment through which a vehicle is travelling. The GPS may determine an associated position of the vehicle and an orientation of the image capture device, and associate the position of the vehicle with the image captured by the image capture device. The processor may identify a feature of the operating environment and formulate a question related to the feature. The I/O device may present the question to an occupant of the vehicle and receive a response to the question from the occupant of the vehicle. The processor may cross-reference data associated with the feature and the response and update an object recognition database based on the cross-referencing.
US11365972B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a system comprises a grid cell neural network and an action selection neural network. The grid cell network is configured to: receive an input comprising data characterizing a velocity of the agent; process the input to generate a grid cell representation; and process the grid cell representation to generate an estimate of a position of the agent in the environment; the action selection neural network is configured to: receive an input comprising a grid cell representation and an observation characterizing a state of the environment; and process the input to generate an action selection network output.
US11365970B2
An angular velocity sensor includes: a substrate; a drive beam supported via a support member with a fixing part; a drive weight supported with the drive beam; a detection weight supported via a beam part including a detection beam with the drive weight; and a detection part in the detection beam generating an electric output corresponding to a displacement of the detection beam when an angular velocity is applied. When the angular velocity is applied while the drive weight and the detection weight vibrate and are driven by the drive beam, the detection beam is displaced in a direction intersecting the vibration direction. The angular velocity is detected based on a change of an output voltage of a detection piezoelectric film in accordance with a displacement of the detection beam.
US11365963B2
A state determination apparatus 100 determines the state of a structure 200. The state determination apparatus 100 includes a measurement unit 10 configured to measure a deflection amount and a surface displacement amount in each of a plurality of target regions that are preset on the structure 200, a feature value calculation unit 20 configured to calculate, for the respective target regions, feature values each indicating a relationship between the deflection amount and the surface displacement amount, using the measured deflection amount and surface displacement amount, a spatial distribution calculation unit 30 configured to calculate a spatial distribution of the feature values using the feature values calculated for each of the target regions, and a degradation state determination unit 40 configured to determine a degradation state of the structure 200 based on the spatial distribution of the feature value.
US11365957B2
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fuse system (22) for a munitions projectile, the system comprising: a first electro-optic transmitter (24); a first electro-optic receiver (30); the first electro-optic transmitter (24) being arranged to receive electrical power, and to use that received electrical power to transmit an optical signal (28) to the first electro-optic receiver (30); the first electro-optic receiver (30) being arranged to receive the optical signal (28), and to use that received optical signal (28) to transmit electrical power to an element (34) of the fuse system (22) connected to the first electro-optic receiver (30).
US11365950B1
An accessory mount having a plurality of uses and mounting provisions wherein an accessory may be operably removed and engaged with the accessory mount. The accessory mount may be worn on a belt or engaged with any end use article, such as a bow, a tree, a tree stand. The accessory mount shall have radial indexing provisions, allowing a receiver to rotate about the axis of the provisions.
US11365949B2
A safety archery glove is disclosed having a first flexible material disposed about a portion of the palm and a portion of the back of the glove, wherein the first flexible material has first coefficient of friction. A second semi-rigid material is disposed about a back side of the glove over the metacarpal region covering at least the first and second metacarpal area of the glove, wherein the second semi-rigid material has a second coefficient of friction. A third flexible material is disposed about the palm and underside of finger sections of the glove, said third flexible material having a third coefficient of friction, wherein the third coefficient of friction is less than the coefficient of friction of the first and second materials. The second semi-rigid material forms a back having at least four lateral sides disposed about a back side of the glove and is coupled to the first flexible material about three sides of the back cover.
US11365947B2
A system for improving firearm safety is provided. The system comprises a firearm with a trigger mechanism for firing and a trigger safety member proximate the trigger to prevent accidental firing. The system also comprises a locking assembly associated with the trigger mechanism and safety member comprising a transceiver that receives a message from a remote wireless device. The locking assembly further comprises a motor that activates based on processing of the message received by the transceiver. The locking assembly further comprises an eccentric that executes a first turning motion based on action of the motor.
US11365944B2
The present invention relates to a machine gun (1) comprising a carcass body (22) with an essentially tubular shape.
US11365943B2
A baffled ram accelerator system includes a ram accelerator tube with an inner surface and an outer surface and a plurality of baffles disposed on the inner surface. The plurality of baffles forms a sequential series of propellant chambers along the longitudinal axis of the ram accelerator tube. An accelerator gun is also disposed on an input end of the ram accelerator tube, and the accelerator gun is positioned to fire a projectile into the ram accelerator tube.
US11365937B2
A collector tube for a heat exchanger having at least one flat tube, may include a base and a cover arranged opposite the base. The base and the cover may define a longitudinal duct. The base may include at least one passage having an opening configured to accommodate the at least one flat tube of the heat exchanger. The opening may have at least one wide edge and at least one narrow edge. The longitudinal duct may have, in a cross section, a diameter that is smaller than the at least one wide edge of the opening. The at least one passage may include a collar extending away from the longitudinal duct.
US11365932B2
A transport refrigeration unit system (26) for cooling a trailer compartment (24) is provided. The transport refrigeration unit system (26) includes an engine for controlling a cooling rate capacity, the engine operable at a nominal high speed and a nominal low speed. Also included is a controller (50) in operative communication with the engine to control an engine speed of the engine. Further included is a user interface (52) in operative communication with the controller (50), the user interface (52) providing a high capacity cooling mode to a user, wherein initiation of the high capacity cooling mode includes the engine operating at a speed greater than the nominal high speed to result in a high capacity cooling rate.
US11365931B2
A vacuum adiabatic body includes: a first plate, a second plate, a sealing part sealing the first plate and the second plate to provide a third space, a supporting unit maintaining the third space, and a heat resistance unit for decreasing a heat transfer amount between the first plate and the second plate. The second plate may include a front part and a side part having a different extending direction from the front part, and the side part defines at least one portion of a wall for the third space.
US11365929B1
Enhancements to an air handler of an air conditioning system. The enhancements can include a scent dispersion system, a heat exchanger rinse system, and/or an air handler condensation drain pipe flush system. The scent dispersion system employs a pressure differential established within the air handler to draw a scent mist from a scent reservoir. The scent is disbursed throughout the structure by the air conditioning ventilation system. The heat exchanger rinse system dispenses a rinse fluid onto the heat exchanger. A cleaning composition can be injected into the rinse fluid to aid in the cleaning process. The flush system automatically configures a check valve upstream of the flush injection point. A flush fluid flows through the drain pipe applying a pressure to dislodge a blockage therein. A chemical composition can be added into the flush fluid to assist in the dislodging process.
US11365927B1
A cooler with a hinging lid is comprised of a top deck having an opening and a unitary hinging lid to cover the opening; insulated sidewalls; and a bottom that together define an enclosed insulated inner volume for storage of objects. The inner volume can be accessed by opening the hinging lid. The hinging lid can be selectively opened, segment by segment, to access the inner volume while minimizing the exchange of air between the inner volume and the air surrounding the cooler. The hinging lid is comprised of a pull flap tab, an interior layer of reflective insulating material, at least one layer of support insulation material and a waterproof outer surface layer. The support insulation material of the hinging lid is divided into at least two discrete segments comprising a first segment and a second segment and can be articulated as a hinge between the segments.
US11365922B2
A temperature control device for controlling a temperature of a temperature adjustment target part is provided. A communication module of the temperature control device is configured to store target temperature information of each of the temperature adjustment target parts included in a communication frame periodically received via a field network in a predetermined position of a memory, and an arithmetic operation module of the temperature control device receives the target temperature information of each of the temperature adjustment target parts, receives refrigerant temperature information from each of temperature sensors corresponding to each of the temperature adjustment target parts, and calculates each of control parameter for adjusting an opening degree of each corresponding control valve so that each temperature of the temperature adjustment target parts becomes a target temperature indicated by the received target temperature information based on the received target temperature information and the received refrigerant temperature information.
US11365920B2
A heat exchanger, such as for example, a condenser coil constructed as a fin and microchannel tube is fluidly connected with a volume constructed and configured to store refrigerant in certain operations, such as for example during a pump down operation. The volume is fluidly connected to a fluid port of the heat exchanger, where the fluid port is an inlet (in the cooling mode) to the heat exchanger, such as the high side condensing section of the heat exchanger. The volume receives refrigerant exiting the heat exchanger from the fluid port in a mode other than a cooling mode, e.g., a pump down operation.
US11365917B2
A flow disturbance apparatus includes: a refrigerant pipe having a flow space in which refrigerant flows; and at least one disturbance member disposed inside the refrigerant pipe that is vibrated by the flow of refrigerant in the refrigerant pipe to disturb the refrigerant flowing in the refrigerant pipe.
US11365916B2
A refrigeration system, includes a compressor, a condenser (200), a throttle flow path (100), and an evaporator (300) connected in sequence. A non-adjustable main throttle element (110,120) is disposed in the throttle flow path. A bypass flow path (500) is connected to the throttle flow path respectively at the upstream and downstream of the main throttle element, and provided with an adjustable auxiliary throttle element (510) thereon. A liquid level sensor is disposed upstream or downstream of the throttle flow path, and configured to detect the liquid level. A controller is configured to control the opening of the auxiliary throttle element according to a liquid level signal from the liquid level sensor.
US11365915B2
An ejector and a refrigeration system. The ejector includes: a high-pressure fluid passage extending from a high-pressure fluid inlet to a mixing chamber; a suction fluid passage extending from a suction fluid inlet to the mixing chamber, a first valve being disposed in the suction fluid passage; the mixing chamber, which includes a mixed fluid outlet; and a thermal bulb arranged in the suction fluid passage downstream of the first valve; wherein an elastic diaphragm is disposed in the suction fluid passage, the suction fluid passage is on a first side of the elastic diaphragm, and a closed cavity is on a second side of the elastic diaphragm; the thermal bulb is in communication with the closed cavity, and the thermal bulb and the closed cavity are filled with fluid.
US11365910B2
Disclosed is a cooling module having a first fluid circuit with a cold generator, the components of the first fluid circuit being arranged in an insulated housing. At least one component of the first fluid circuit is coupled to at least one section of a second fluid circuit, which section runs in the housing, wherein said housing includes connections for the at least one second fluid circuit, and a negative pressure prevails in the housing.
US11365903B2
An extremely low cost solar concentrator made of membranes or films is inflated into a Compound Parabolic Concentrator (CPC) a non-image concentrator. The portion of the inflatable concentrator, which is shaped into a CPC concentrator, is formed with reflective membranes or films, and the portions of the inflatable concentrator on the top of CPC and on the bottom of the concentrator are made of clear membranes or films. The incident light including parallel rays of light and diffuse light, as long as falling into the half acceptance angle of the CPC, will be concentrated to the bottom exit aperture of the CPC. Therefore, this type concentrator reduces the requirement to the accuracy of tracking for concentration. In addition, this type of concentrator demonstrates more tolerance to shape distortion for concentration than imaging system.
US11365896B2
The disclosed apparatus make possible the maintenance, repair, alteration, and upgrade of walls and wall mounted facilitates within hospitals and cleanrooms while occupying a minimum area. In one embodiment the apparatus is a six-sided box with an open side, a transparent side, and a side with two hand ports. To operate, the apparatus is placed, from the open side, against the wall or the wall facility that needs repair or upgrade. Afterwards the air inside the apparatus is vacuumed to lower the air pressure with respect to the surrounding pressure before the hands of a repairman enters the apparatus through the two hand ports. Repair can start at this time while the apparatus maintains a negative inside air pressure and while no particles of contaminants can escape the apparatus. The vacuumed air may be released back into the room or hallway after it is filtered.
US11365892B2
Disclosed is a heat exchanger to reduce height and manufacturing cost. A heat exchanger includes a first heat exchanger provided in the form of a plate; and a second heat exchanger provided in the form of a plate and arranged to be inclined to the first heat exchanger, wherein a corner of at least one of an end of the first heat exchanger and an end of the second heat exchanger is positioned to face a plane of the other of the end of the first heat exchanger and the end of the second heat exchanger.
US11365887B2
The cooking appliance according to the disclosure includes a main body having at least one heat source, a valve that includes a valve shaft, and adjusts an amount of fuel supplied to the at least one heat source according to an opening degree or a closing degree of the valve, and a knob apparatus that is coupled with the valve shaft and is installed on the main body. The knob apparatus includes a knob holder mounted on the main body, a knob that is rotatively supported by the knob holder, and an interference member that varies a rotating force by which the knob is rotatable while being supported by the knob holder and while the knob is at a predetermined location.
US11365885B2
Provided is a gas turbine combustor that achieves simplified structure and reduced axial length of the entire device. The combustor includes: a combustion liner forming a combustion chamber; a fuel injector provided at a top portion of the combustion liner; and a housing chamber located upstream of the combustion chamber and housing the fuel injector. The fuel injector includes a fuel supply tube penetrating through the housing chamber and configured to supply fuel to the combustion chamber, and a guide member provided on outer side of a downstream portion of the fuel supply tube for allowing air to pass therethrough. The fuel supply tube has, in the downstream portion, a fuel injection hole for injecting fuel to the air passing through the guide member, so as to mix the fuel with the air. The guide member supplies the air and the fuel to the combustion chamber.
US11365880B2
Embodiments of the present invention include high-temperature staged recirculating burners and radiant tube burner assemblies that provide high efficiency, low NOx and CO emissions, and uniform temperature characteristics. One such staged recirculating burner includes a combustion tube having inside and outside helical fins forming opposing spiral pathways for combustion gases and products of combustion, a combustion nozzle coupled to the combustion tube, a gas tube running axially into the combustion tube, and a staging gas nozzle coupled to the gas tube, where the staging gas nozzle includes radial exit holes into the combustion tube and an axial gas staging tube extending into the combustion nozzle to stage combustion.
US11365877B2
A lighting fixture is provided. The lighting fixture may include one or more circuit boards having a plurality of LED light sources. The lighting fixture may further include one or more lens assemblies coupleable to the one or more circuit boards. The one or more lens assemblies may include a frame defining a plurality of openings. The one or more lens assemblies may further include a plurality of lenses molded to the frame. The plurality of lenses may be molded to the frame such that each of the plurality of lenses is at least partially positioned within a corresponding opening of the plurality of openings defined by the frame.
US11365868B2
An illumination device includes a housing, having an opening, a substrate, a light source, and a light guide. The opening extends through the housing from a first side to a second side of the housing, and includes a first space and a second space. The light guide is disposed across the first space and the second space. The housing has a wall surface that faces the second space and contacts the light guide, a guide rib that extends in a second direction, and a fitting wall that extends in a third direction. The light guide has a first contact surface that contacts the wall surface so as to position the light guide in a first direction, and a guide groove that is fitted to the guide rib so as to position the light guide in the third direction while guiding movement of the light guide in the second direction.
US11365866B2
Systems are disclosed for providing ultraviolet (UV) energy to items on a processing surface. The system includes a lamp positioned over the processing surface to provide UV energy to the processing surface and a reflector cell positioned to cause UV energy emitted from the lamp in a direction away from the processing surface to be reflected toward the processing surface. The system includes the reflector cell having a reflector cap positioned above the lamp and a shroud extending downwardly from the reflector cap toward the conveyor wherein the shroud has a vertical dimension, a longitudinal dimension, and a horizontal dimension along the direction of the conveyor such that the horizontal dimension and the longitudinal dimension define a treatment area on the conveyor. The lamp is configured to deliver energy to the treatment area such that the delivered energy to the processing surface is substantially uniform over the treatment area.
US11365865B1
A moon Lamp is disclosed, which includes a base, a support seat and a lampshade assembly disposed above the support seat. A drive assembly for driving the support seat to rotate is provided in the base, a first groove is defined in an upper part of the base, and a first through hole is defined in a center of the first groove. The support seat includes a rotating shaft, a mount and a support bracket. The main control board and the lamp bead are arranged inside the spherical lampshade through a rotary connection between the support seat and the drive assembly of the base, and the drive assembly drives the support seat to move so as to drive the lampshade assembly to move, so that the moon Lamp presents different lighting effects and increases its use scenes.
US11365864B2
The present invention relates to a rear lamp which has a 3D light distribution effect so as to represent a sense of depth by the infinity mirror effect and, more specifically, to a rear lamp configured to produce a movable light distribution image.
US11365862B2
A lamp for an automobile and an automobile including the lamp. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a lamp for an automobile includes: a light source that generates and emits light; and a micro lens array (MLA) module which is provided in front of the light source and on which the light is incident. The MLA module includes: an entrance lens array; an exit lens array; and a shield provided between the entrance lens array and the exit lens array. The shield includes a protrusion area forming an upper periphery of the shield and protruding upward and a recess area recessed downward from the protrusion area. Minute protrusions each having a shape lifted upward are provided in some of the plurality of protrusion areas or the plurality of recess areas.
US11365859B2
The invention relates to a motor vehicle headlight (1) comprising a light module having a plurality of light sources (110, 120, 130) and a plurality of primary optics (210, 220, 230), wherein the light sources (110, 120, 130) each have a light-emitting surface (111, 121, 131) and are arranged on a common circuit board (50). The circuit board (50) has a circuit board reference point and a light reference plane, wherein the light reference plane is defined by at least three light reference points, and the circuit board reference point lies in the light reference plane. The primary optics (210, 220, 230) each have a light-incoupling surface (211, 221, 231) and a light-outcoupling surface (212, 222, 232), and are held in position by a common holder (60). The holder (60) has a holder reference point and an optics reference plane, which is defined by at least three optics reference points (21, 22, 23) and in which the holder reference point also lies. At least three spacer means (41, 42) are arranged between the circuit board (50) and the holder (60) at the respective light reference points and optics reference points.
US11365858B2
Disclosed are a lighting module, a vehicle lamp and a vehicle. The lighting module includes a plurality of high-beam light sources, a plurality of low-beam light sources, a high-beam optical element and a low-beam optical element. The high-beam optical element includes a plurality of high-beam light guide bodies, which are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of high-beam light sources. The low-beam optical element includes at least one low-beam light guide body, the plurality of low-beam light sources are disposed at a rear end of the at least one low-beam light guide body, and a front end of the at least one low-beam light guide body forms a continuous low-beam light emitting surface. The low-beam optical element and the high-beam optical element are disposed one above the other, an upper boundary of the high-beam light emitting surface.
US11365857B2
A daylight redirecting window film formed by a flexible multi-layer film laminate with a total thickness of less than one millimeter and configured to be applied to an indoor-facing window surface of a building facade. The window film includes a pair of outer film substrates flanking a light redirecting core layer. The core layer includes a parallel array of channels defining total internal reflection (TIR) surfaces and linear optically transmissive structures protruding transversely thought the core layer and bonded to the outer film substrates. A light output surface of the outer film substrate which is disposed on an indoor-facing side of the laminate includes a two-dimensional pattern of light scattering microstructures which are configured to spread light at least in a plane that is perpendicular to the channels. The TIR surfaces intercept and reflect a portion of sunlight propagating through the core layer such that the window film redirects that portion of incident sunlight towards a plurality of divergent directions, forming relatively high bend angles.
US11365853B2
A luminaire having a substantially two-piece housing with a first portion and a second portion, for example a cover and a base. The cover receives one or more control components. The base receives a light emitter assembly and the control component assembly is operatively connected to the lighter emitter assembly to control the light output therefrom. A lens assembly can be connected to the bottom of the base. Different mounting components can be connected to cover to connect the luminaire 10 to a support.
US11365847B2
Provided herein are LED warning lights and related methods for detecting oncoming traffic around corners, including in a warehouse. The warning lights have: a LED light module and an external motion sensor operably connected to the LED light module. The device is self-contained with respect to power, communication and alerts in that no other components are required, so that the warning lights are portable and readily positioned as desired and are immediately operable.
US11365845B1
A mounting pad system for securing equipment, such as an HVAC outdoor unit or a standby generator, is provided in the form of a lightweight fillable pad member having a plurality of receivers located on a top surface of the pad member. The receivers are associated with attachment points located on the equipment and are used to secure the equipment to the pad. The pad member contains a filling port on its top surface and is configured as a molded hollow shell containing a gelling material which, when mixed with water, provides support to reduce deflection of the pad member caused by the equipment secured to the pad, prevents damage to the pad that would otherwise be caused by the expansion of internal contents upon freezing and prevents leakage of internal contents of the fillable pad in the event of an unintended breach in the hollow shell. The pad member is provided with at least one through-hole that acts as a supporting structure.
US11365844B1
A bucket caddy stably holds a bucket or container above a horizontal support surface or ground for easier access to the contents of the bucket or container. The bucket caddy has a retainer with slots into which at least three legs are movably joined. The legs each have a shelf surface and a hook (U-shaped or crimped) or upstanding wall disposed at their proximal ends. When splayed apart, the shelf surfaces point radially inwardly toward the retainer with their top surfaces in a common plane onto which the bottom of the bucket may be positioned. The hooks receive straps or elastic bands, each of which has a fastener at its opposite end adapted to join a portion of a rim of the bucket. Length-adjustable means are associated with straps that are not elastic. Alternatively, belts or screws provide three point connection between the legs and the sidewall of the bucket. After the bucket or container is separated from the caddy, the legs rotate so that their central axes are parallel or substantially parallel to one another in a storage configuration. A hook and loop fastener tape wraps around the legs in the storage configuration.
US11365833B2
The invention relates to a press seal system (1,2) for inserting into an opening (3) and sealing said opening (3) against a line (20), wherein the press seal system comprises an elastomer body (1) for being tensioned in said opening (3) and a seal member (2) which is decoupled from the deformation of said elastomer body (1), namely said seal member (2) being deformable radially more easily than said elastomer body (1), at least when said elastomer body (1) is tensioned, so that said seal member (2) can be sealed against said line (20) even when said elastomer body (1) has already been tensioned.
US11365829B2
An example assembly includes: a valve body having a cavity therein, wherein the valve body comprises internal threads formed in a first-handed direction and an external feature; a knob having an internal feature configured to engage with the external feature of the valve body to allow the internal feature of the knob to move past the external feature of the valve body in a linear direction when assembling the knob on the valve body; and a needle disposed in the cavity of the valve body and having external threads formed in the first-handed direction and engaging with the internal threads of the valve body, the needle being coupled to the knob such that rotation of the knob and the needle results in linear movement of the needle within the valve body due to engagement of the external threads of the needle with the internal threads of the valve body.
US11365818B2
A shower control valve with a reasonable arrangement includes a main body, a control member and a holding member. The main body includes a water inlet channel and a water outlet channel. The control member is movably arranged at one end of the main body and used to control on-off between the water inlet channel and the water outlet channel. The holding member includes a connecting part fixedly connected to the other end of the main body, and a hooking part for hooking a shower head. The connecting part and the hooking part are staggered along the radial direction of the main body to form a give-way space, which prevents interference with other parts during the plugging and unplugging process of the shower, and provides a simple structure and strong practicability.
US11365811B2
A tapping armature for liquid containers, in particular for being connected to the outlet neck or outlet opening of a transport and storage container, having an armature housing in which a valve body for opening and closing a flow cross-section of an outlet tube is pivotable with the help of a valve shaft, the valve body including a valve seal arranged, at least partially, at a peripheral edge of the valve body, such that, in a shut-off position of the valve body, a valve gap formed between the valve body and an internal wall of the outlet tube is sealed in a radial sealing plane by the valve seal, wherein at least one inner side of the valve body that faces a liquid volume for shut-off is covered by the valve seal such that a liquid contact face arranged on the inner side is realised by the valve seal.
US11365810B1
A bearing isolator capable of operating under flooded conditions is disclosed. The bearing isolator can include a stator, a rotor, a unitizing element and a sealing element, the stator and rotor form a cavity in which the unitizing element is disposed, and features of the unitizing element with features of the stator and rotor to ensure the stator and rotor stay together while still maintaining a gap between the two components to avoid metal on metal contact. The sealing element resides against a surface of the stator and includes a radially-inward extending lip seal that rides against a running surface of the rotor for improved sealing.
US11365808B2
A downhole tool body includes an outer surface having at least one O-ring gland. The at least one O-ring gland includes a first contour having a first radius greater than about 0.035″ (R0.89 mm) and a second contour having a second radius greater than about 0.035″ (R0.89 mm). A backup ring is arranged in the O-ring gland. The backup ring includes a gland contour having a radius that is complimentary to the first radius.
US11365805B2
A vehicle includes a transmission having a variator and a sub-transmission mechanism, a controller serving as a shift control unit adapted to, as shift of the transmission, shift the sub-transmission mechanism and the variator so that a through speed ratio becomes a target speed ratio, and an engine serving as a torque increasing portion adapted to increase a torque inputted to the transmission in association with the shift of the transmission. The controller has a torque setting unit adapted to make a magnitude of an inclination larger as an increase amount of the engine rotation speed in association with the shift of the transmission is larger.
US11365795B2
A locking differential assembly includes a differential case, a first output shaft and a second output shaft. A first side gear is non-rotatably coupled to the first output shaft and a second side gear is non-rotatably coupled to the second output shaft. A differential pin is also included, the differential pin having differential gears. The differential gears are rotatably supported by the differential case and drivingly engaged with the first and second side gears to allow differential rotation thereof. A lock mechanism is actuated when a first torque force is applied to a drive cam and a driven cam. Finally, an electromagnetic coil actuates a brake plate, wherein the brake plate comes into frictional with a brake disc. Furthermore, the electromagnetic coil is discontinuous around the circumference of the brake disc.
US11365792B2
A power split transmission structure has at least three interfaces to direct driving power from a drive to at least one output in order to supply the driving power to connected consumers. It comprises at least two variator paths which each comprise a summation gearbox communicating with an electric or hydraulic machine via a mechanical and a non-mechanical path in order to modify torque, speed or both of the driving power. A control device regulates the summation gearbox of each of the variator paths. A power electronics system or hydraulic control device is connected to the electric or hydraulic machine of each of the variator paths. The transmission structure directs the driving power via the variator paths such that the electric or hydraulic machine of each variator path is operable in a generator or motor mode in order to compensate for a power shortfall or a power oversupply at at least one outlet of the transmission structure.
US11365784B2
An eccentric oscillation type speed reducer includes: an external gear which meshes with the internal gear; an eccentric body shaft which oscillates the external gear; and an input shaft bearing which supports the eccentric body shaft. The casing and the external gear are made of resin, and the input shaft bearing is made of metal.
US11365783B2
Disclosed is a transverse segment for a drive belt with a stack of rings and with a number of the transverse segments, which transverse segment includes a base part and two pillar parts that respectively extend from a respective axial side of the base part in radial outward direction, defining a central opening of the transverse segment between them, and that are each provided with a hook portion extending over a part of the central opening in the general direction of the respectively opposite pillar part. A width dimension of one of the pillar parts of the transverse segment is less than a width dimension of the respective other pillar part.
US11365781B2
A method of manufacturing a shock absorber includes inserting a floating piston into a tube, disposing oil into the tube, and inserting a piston-rod assembly into the tube. The piston-rod assembly has a piston coupled to a rod. The method includes inserting a rod guide assembly into the tube. The rod guide assembly includes a sintered metal rod guide having a seat and a seal disposed in the seat. The rod extends through the seal. The method also includes deforming a wall of the tube into engagement with the sintered metal rod guide to provide a piston-cylinder assembly and inhibit axial movement of the rod guide assembly relative to the tube. The method further includes pressurizing the piston-cylinder assembly and forming a flange portion of the tube over an upper surface of the sintered metal rod guide.
US11365778B2
A rotary device includes a rotatable member and a limiting member. The rotatable member includes a positioning mechanism, the positioning mechanism includes a stopping member and a positioning member. When the rotatable member rotates along a first rotation direction to make the limiting member abut against the positioning member, the positioning member is pushed by the limiting member to move away from the stopping portion and rotate relative to the stopping member, so that the positioning member to passes through the limiting member. When the rotatable member rotates along a second rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction to make the limiting member abut against the positioning member, the positioning member is pushed by the limiting member to move close to the stopping portion, so that the positioning member is stopped between the limiting member and the stopping portion, to position the rotatable member.
US11365774B2
A brake-system damping device includes a first chamber, to which hydraulic pressure is to be applied, a second chamber, in which there is a compressible medium, and a first separating element for separating the first chamber from the second chamber. The brake-system damping device includes a third chamber, in which there is a compressible medium, and a second separating element for separating the second chamber from the third chamber. The second chamber is connected, for medium conduction, to the third chamber by means of a passage formed in the second separating element. A closure element is to be moved with the first separating element, by means of which closure element the passage is to be closed as soon as the hydraulic pressure has reached predefined pressure value in the first chamber.
US11365773B2
A multi-disc brake includes an annular brake coil holder with a wound brake coil, an armature plate with a disc support to which a multiplicity of armature plate discs is fastened. A compression spring brings about a linear spacing of the brake coil holder from the armature plate made of a ferromagnetic material in a braking position of the multi-disc brake and, when current is applied to the brake coil, a released position of the multi-disc brake can be created by attracting the armature plate in the direction of the brake coil holder. The braking effect results from the interaction of the armature plate discs with drive shaft discs on a drive shaft. The brake coil holder area of the brake coil holder and the cross-sectional area of the brake coil are substantially of rectangular single-legged design, and when installing the multi-disc brake, part of the wall of the drive support surrounds the brake coil on two sides and the brake coil holder on one side.
US11365772B2
A hydraulic control device with a pressure control valve that has a control piston and a modulating piston which can move relative to one another. The control piston and the modulating piston are pushed apart from one another by at least one spring. At one end face of the modulating piston there is arranged a pressure chamber in such a manner that when the pressure chamber is filled, the modulating piston is caused to move in the direction toward the control piston. The pressure chamber can be filled by a first volume flow Q1 of a pressure medium. A venting line, with at least one further throttle, is connected to the pressure chamber. A second volume flow Q2 can be discharged, via the venting line, from the pressure chamber. The hydraulic control device can be utilized in a marine transmission.
US11365767B2
A clutch includes a drive disc, a driven disc, and a friction plate unit capable of engaging or disengaging the drive disc with or from the driven disc, the friction plate unit including a first friction plate assembly and a second friction plate assembly, the clutch further including a pressing unit configured to engage or disengage the drive disc with or from the driven disc selectively by the first friction plate assembly alone or by a combination of the first friction plate assembly and the second friction plate assembly. Such an arrangement enables the clutch to select an appropriate number of friction plates as required for engagement, solving the problem that in existing multi-plate clutches, it is impossible to select an appropriate number of friction plates to participate in work to make the clutches obtain optimal performance according to different working conditions of the automobile.
US11365764B2
A rolling bearing unit includes: an inner ring member having a recess on a first side in an axial direction along a rotation axis, which is recessed toward a second side in the axial direction; an outer ring member on an outer peripheral side of the inner ring member; a rolling body between the inner ring member and the outer ring member; a non-contact transmitter using electric field coupling capable of transmitting at least one of an electric power or a signal and including a stationary-side transmission part including a stationary-side electrode and a rotary-side transmission part including a rotary-side electrode facing the stationary-side electrode; and a covering member supported by the first side of the outer ring member in the axial direction, covering the first side of the inner ring member in the axial direction, and fixing the stationary-side transmission part to the first side in the axial direction.
US11365761B2
Bearing unit provided with at least one ring of rolling bodies and, for retaining the rolling bodies, at least one retaining cage which has a cage bar, a plurality of circumferentially spaced cage arms that extend from one side of the cage bar, and a plurality of partially spherical cavities for retaining the rolling bodies; contact points between the rolling bodies and the cage being positioned in the vicinity of a polar region of each rolling body. The minimum number of contact surfaces for containing the rolling bodies in the direction of rotation of the bearing and ensuring contact only in the polar region is equal to two for each rolling body, namely one upper contact surface and one lower contact surface.
US11365760B1
A washer for protecting a flange. The washer is capable of withstanding high compression loads, protecting a flange plate from galvanic corrosion, and maintaining torque load when a flange joint is exposed to extreme heat. The washer has two primary components—an inner ring and an outer ring—that are preferably made of materials having dielectric properties, particularly with respect to electrical insulation. The inner ring and outer ring are preferably fit together using an interference fit.
US11365754B2
A fastener assembly includes a plunger, a grommet, and a lever arm. The plunger may include a head, a tip portion, and a longitudinal centerline axis. The grommet may be configured to receive the tip portion of the plunger. The tip portion of the plunger may be axially movable relative to the grommet between a latched state and an unlatched state. The lever arm may be coupled to the plunger between the head and the tip portion. The lever arm extends from the plunger at an angle relative to the longitudinal centerline axis, with the lever arm being actuatable to switch the fastener assembly from the latched state to the unlatched state, according to various embodiments.
US11365753B2
A fastener assembly is configured to be securely coupled with one or more components. The fastener assembly includes a body including a flange, and a gasket that is secured to the flange. The body is configured to securely couple to a clip. The body includes one or more features that are configured to cooperate with one or more reciprocal features of the clip to increase retention strength.
US11365747B2
A fan includes a hub and a blade assembly. The hub has a central portion and an extension portion. The extension portion is extended outwardly from a peripheral edge of the central portion. The blade assembly includes a plurality of blades. Each blade has a leading edge, each of the leading edges is an end point of each blade that is most close to the central portion. The blades are disposed around the hub. At least a part of the leading edges of the blades are connected to the extension portion, and distances between a center of the central portion and the leading edges of at least two blades are different. Therefore, the factors of fan and the quality of voice could be enhanced, and the multi-frequencies noise could be avoided during operation.
US11365746B2
An impeller for use in an aquarium filter pump includes a shaft and a plurality of impeller blades radially extending from the shaft. Each of the impeller blades includes opposite blade faces. A depression is in each of the blade faces and aids in pushing the water. The depression can be a variety of shapes and can have its deepest portion along one of the edges of the blade.
US11365743B2
A temperature destratification assembly can include an outer housing. An impeller can be positioned within the outer housing between the inlet and outlet of the outer housing. The impeller can have an impeller hub and a plurality of impeller blades extending radially outward from the impeller hub. The assembly can include an impeller motor configured to rotate the impeller blades about an axis of rotation. A stator can be positioned within the outer housing between the impeller and the outlet of the outer housing. The stator can include a plurality of vanes. The stator vanes can include an upstream edge at the upstream end of the stator, a first surface extending from the upstream edge to the downstream edge of the vane, and a second surface opposite the first surface and extending from the upstream edge to the downstream edge of vane. A plurality of the vanes can have a downstream edge at the outlet of the outer housing.
US11365739B2
A management and control method for at least one operation parameter of a pressurization system operated by an electric motor, the method comprising the steps of: detection of an operating pressure value at a delivery duct of the pressurization system, by means of a single pressure sensor; estimation of a hydraulic flow rate and a hydraulic head by means of an algorithm which is implemented in a control software based on the operating pressure value detected by means of the single pressure sensor; estimation of a motor rotation speed of the pressurization system based on the operating pressure value and on the number of blades of the impeller of said pressurization system as a result of said estimation; and processing of an on/off signal of the pressurization system. Also disclosed is a pressurization system, comprising a pressure value and a control electronic unit adapted to perform said method.
US11365729B2
An overflow valve is built into a metering head for a metering pump used with aggressive media and under high pressure. The overflow valve follows the suction valve or expands it, and directly lowers a critical pressure that occurs in the metering head, using an overflow line. In this way, the safety of the arrangement is improved, and at the same time, less construction space is used up by the additional valve.
US11365727B2
A failure diagnosing device configured to diagnose failure of a swash plate pump includes: a history acquiring portion configured to acquire actual history data, the actual history data indicating a time-lapse change of the suction flow rate or suction pressure in a predetermined period of time; and a failure detecting portion configured to detect generation of an abnormality between a piston and a shoe based on the actual history data acquired by the history acquiring portion.
US11365720B1
A Device to Enhance Radiant Transfer of Heat from the Earth to Outer Space comprising a collector of energy from a renewable energy source, a storage device for the collected electrical energy in a rechargeable battery, a radiant energy emitter plate consisting of an enclosure with supports, radiant energy emitter plate, plate heating elements, insulating elements for reduction of heat loss via conduction from the enclosure and insulating elements for reduction of heat loss via convection from the enclosure, temperature sensor, and a controller device for regulating the connection and flow of gathered energy from the collector to the storage device to the radiant energy emitter plate.
US11365719B2
A method for forecasting power production of at least one wind turbine, the wind turbine forming part of a wind farm arranged at a site. Global weather forecast data is received at a central data centre. A site specific forecast is then generated at the central data centre, based on the global weather forecast data. The site specific forecast from the central data centre is sent to a local data centre, e.g. arranged at the site of the wind farm. Site specific data is received at the local data centre and comprises site specific weather data and/or site specific wind turbine data measured at the site. The site specific forecast is then updated at the local data centre, using the site specific data. Finally, a power production forecast of the at least one wind turbine is generated based on the updated site specific forecast.
US11365718B2
Embodiments are generally directed to techniques for operating a wind turbine of a wind power plant. An associated method comprises determining, using one or more sensors of the wind turbine, a first power production level of the wind turbine; determining, during an unconstrained operation of the wind turbine, one or more available power correction factors using the first power production level; determining, using one or more wind power parameters applied to a predefined model for estimating an available power of the wind turbine, an estimated available power value; adjusting the estimated available power value using the one or more available power correction factors to produce the available power value; and controlling, using the available power value, the wind turbine to produce a second power production level.
US11365714B2
A method for mounting or dismounting a wind turbine component of an energy generating unit in a multirotor wind turbine is disclosed. The multirotor wind turbine comprises a tower configured to support one or more load carrying structures each arranged for supporting at least two energy generating units arranged at or near its ends and at opposite sides of the tower. The method comprises securing the load carrying structure against up and down tilting movements before positioning or dispositioning the wind turbine component at an end of the load carrying structure thereby reducing the loadings arising from the unbalance caused by the positioning or dispositioning the wind turbine component. The securing may be realized by compression bars, tethering, or the use of a counterweight.
US11365712B2
A controller for a dedicated exhaust gas recirculation (D-EGR) engine is disclosed. The controller may receive a plurality of cylinder pressure signals, each of which is associated with a respective cylinder in a plurality of cylinders of the D-EGR engine. The plurality of cylinders includes at least one donor cylinder and a set of non-donor cylinders. The controller may receive a crankshaft angle signal associated with a crankshaft of the D-EGR engine. The controller may selectively adjust ignition timing of a cylinder, of the plurality of cylinders, based on the crankshaft angle signal and a cylinder pressure signal, of the plurality of cylinder pressure signals, associated with the cylinder; or a fuel rate of the at least one donor cylinder based on the crankshaft angle signal and a set of cylinder pressure signals, of the plurality of cylinder pressure signals, associated with the set of non-donor cylinders.
US11365703B2
An air-cooled internal combustion engine including a crankshaft rotating about a crankshaft axis, a first cylinder having a first cylinder head, a second cylinder having a second cylinder head, and a blower assembly. The blower assembly includes a blower housing, a first fan, and a second fan. The first fan is positioned proximate the first cylinder and the second fan is positioned proximate the second cylinder.
US11365696B2
A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to input an operating-condition parameter indicating an operating condition of a device into a learning model to calculate a control parameter indicating a control condition for causing the device to perform a desired operation corresponding to the operating-condition parameter; correct the control parameter so as to achieve the control condition, based on a feedback value depending on an operation evaluating value; control the device in accordance with the control parameter when a predetermined accuracy condition concerning accuracy of control of the device performed in accordance with the control parameter is satisfied, and controls the device in accordance with the corrected control parameter when the predetermined accuracy condition is not satisfied.
US11365695B1
Methods and systems are provided for providing secondary air to an exhaust system during catalyst warm-up. In one example, a method may include, during a cold start condition, operating an engine with a number of cylinders deactivated and a remaining number of cylinders active, and adjusting a first air charge within a deactivated cylinder of the number of cylinders relative to relative to a second air charge within an active cylinder of the remaining number of cylinders. In this way, an amount of secondary air provided to the exhaust system of the engine may be more robustly controlled, thus decreasing cooling of the exhaust system during the cold start condition that may otherwise occur due to excess secondary air.
US11365693B1
Methods and systems are provided for providing secondary air to an exhaust system during catalyst warm-up. In one example, a method may include, responsive to a cold start of an engine: operating the engine with a number of unfired cylinders and a remaining number of fired cylinders each engine cycle, and adjusting exhaust mixing by adjusting an exhaust valve parameter of at least one unfired cylinder of the number of unfired cylinders. In this way, the unfired cylinders may provide the secondary air as well as increased mixing of the secondary air with burned exhaust gas from fired cylinders, thus increasing exotherm production in the exhaust system to increase a temperature of the catalyst.
US11365692B2
A fuel metering circuit for a turbomachine includes: a meter; a pump; a control valve configured to return an excess flow of fuel delivered to the meter towards the pump on the basis of a fuel pressure differential at the terminals of the meter; a diaphragm; and a volumetric flow meter. The diaphragm and the volumetric flow meter are mounted parallel to the meter, downstream of the control valve, in order to determine a density of the fuel flowing in the metering circuit.
US11365686B2
Electrical power generation system for an aircraft, including: a gas turbine having a high-pressure shaft and outputting a gas flow to actuate a free turbine, a polyphase permanent magnet generator coupled to the gas turbine and able to output a first alternating voltage for supplying through first conversion means a primary power supply network of the aircraft, the free turbine and the permanent magnet generator being mounted on the same drive shaft concentric with the high-pressure shaft of the gas turbine, a starter mounted on the high-pressure shaft able to ensure the starting of the gas turbine, the starter being a permanent magnet starter/generator able to output a second alternating voltage for supplying a secondary power supply network of the aircraft and auxiliary equipment of the gas turbine and the first conversion means include two first AC/DC converters controlled from a management unit.
US11365684B2
A method of controlling at least part of a start-up or re-light process of a gas turbine engine, the method comprising: determining when a flame in a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine is extinguished, during a start-up process or re-light process or during operation; purging the combustion chamber by controlling rotation of a low pressure compressor using a first electrical machine, and controlling rotation of a high pressure compressor using a second electrical machine, the combustion chamber downstream of the low pressure compressor and high pressure compressor; and controlling rotation of the low pressure compressor using the first electrical machine, and controlling rotation of the high pressure compressor using the second electrical machine to restart the start-up process or perform the re-light process.
US11365674B2
A two cycle-opposed piston, two cycle, homogenous charge compression ignition engine with cylinder sets, each cylinder set having a first cylinder with an intake port; a second cylinder coaxially aligned with the first cylinder and having an exhaust port; a first piston engaged within the first cylinder; a second piston engaged within the second cylinder; a combustion chamber formed between the first piston and the second piston; a first cam mechanically engaged with the first piston; a mechanical device to convert reciprocating motion to rotational motion connected to the second piston; and a charge pump connected to the intake port by an intake passage.
US11365671B2
A cooling device for a vehicle is provided, which includes a first coolant channel through which a first coolant for cooling an engine flows, a second coolant channel through which a second coolant for cooling a motor drive flows, and an oil channel through which oil for lubricating inside a transmission flows. The oil channel includes a first heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the first coolant and the oil, a second heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the second coolant and the oil, and a valve configured to adjust a first flow rate of the oil circulating through the first heat exchanger and a second flow rate of the oil circulating through the second heat exchanger.
US11365656B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system comprising an oil filter adapter constructed to be installed between an engine of a motorcycle and an oil filter of the motorcycle. The oil filter adapter defines an oil inlet aperture and an oil outlet aperture. The system comprises a heat exchanger, which defines an oil inlet port and an oil outlet port.
US11365653B2
A power generation device and method using organic working fluid for circulation without pump and valve are invented, the principle is able to be called flash jet natural cycle. The flash injection tube, the magnetic sphere motion tube and the storage tank are connected to form the main loop. The finned tube and the storage tank are connected to form the cooling loop. The working fluid is heated in the flash injection tube by low-temperature heat source, and is cooled in the finned tube by air or water. The gravity and flash force jointly drive the flash jet natural cycle. The lower magnetic ball acts as a one-way valve for supplying liquid to the flash injection tube. The upper magnetic ball acts as a valve and a rotor driven by the flash force and gravity to move linearly and produce electricity.
US11365651B2
An auxiliary power unit that can reduce a flow loss of gas includes: a compressor, a combustion chamber, a turbine, a turbine outlet, and a bypass duct, wherein the turbine outlet comprises an exhaust diffuser and a guide portion, wherein the bypass duct connects the compressor with the guide portion, wherein the guide portion is a channel for an air or gas and is extended radially from an outer circumferential surface of the exhaust diffuser and communicates with an inside of the exhaust diffuser via an opening, and wherein the exhaust diffuser has a first portion adjacent to a front end of the opening and a second portion adjacent to a rear end of the opening, and a radius of the second portion is larger than a radius of the first portion so that there is formed a step difference between the first portion and the second portion.
US11365648B2
A fan drive gear system for a turbofan engine is disclosed and includes a gear assembly and a front center body. The front center body is an annular case that supports the gear assembly. The front center body includes a passage portion that defines a portion of a core flow path, a forward flange configured for attachment to a first case structure forward of the front center body, and a gutter portion disposed on a radially inner side of the front center body for collecting lubricant exhausted from the geared assembly.
US11365644B2
A blade outer air seal assembly includes a support structure. A blade outer air seal has a plurality of seal segments that extend circumferentially about an axis and mounted in the support structure via a carrier. The carrier has a plurality of carrier segments that extend circumferentially about the axis. At least one of the seal segments have a base portion that extends between a first circumferential side and a second circumferential side and from a first axial side to a second axial side. A first wall axially spaced from a second wall. The first and second walls extend from the base portion to a first outer portion to form a first passage. The first wall has at least one slot engaged with a first carrier hook on one of the plurality of carrier segments. At least one of the carrier segments have a carrier window engaged with a support structure hook on the support structure.
US11365642B2
A gas turbine engine support system includes a vane arc segment, a vane support arc segment piece configured to engage the vane arc segment, and a seal disposed radially between the vane arc segment and the vane support arc segment piece. The seal includes first and second seal sections. The first seal section has a floor wall and first and second side walls that project from the floor wall. The first and second side walls converge to define a disjointed corner. The second seal section nests with the first seal section and seals the disjointed corner.
US11365638B2
A turbine blade tip includes a squealer tip wall having a forward surface that is continuous with an outer surface of an airfoil pressure sidewall. A plurality of cooling channels are provided spaced apart along a contour of the squealer tip wall. Each cooling channel includes: an inlet configured for receiving a coolant from airfoil internal cavity; an upstream section including a closed channel extending from the inlet to the forward surface of the squealer tip wall; and a downstream section including an open channel formed by a slot on the forward surface of the squealer tip wall. The slot extends radially outward in a downstream direction so as to guide the coolant along the forward surface toward a radially outermost tip of the squealer tip wall.
US11365633B2
A boundary layer ingestion fan system for location aft of the fuselage of an aircraft includes a nacelle (501) defining a duct (502), and a fan (503) located therewithin. The fan comprises a hub which rotates around a rotational axis (A-A) and a plurality of blades attached thereto. Each blade has a span (r) from a root at the hub defining a 0 percent span position (r=0) to a tip defining a 100 percent span position (r=1) and a plurality of span positions therebetween (r∈[0, 1]), a leading edge and a trailing edge defining, for each span position, a chord therebetween having a chord length (c), and a blade thickness (t) defined for each span position thereof. For each blade, a ratio of thickness at the 0 percent span position (thub) to chord length is 0.1 or greater.
US11365632B2
A blade includes an airfoil section extending between leading and trailing edges, first and second opposed sides each joining the leading and trailing edges, and an inner end and a free end. The blade also includes an abrasive tip at the free end of the airfoil section. The abrasive tip includes particles disposed in a matrix material. The matrix material is a polymeric material that has a glass transition temperature greater than or equal to about 225 degrees C. (437 degrees F.). A gas turbine engine and a method of fabricating a blade are also disclosed.
US11365631B2
A turbine rotor blade according to at least one embodiment to be connected to a rotational shaft so as to be rotatable around an axis includes a hub having a hub surface inclined with respect to the axis in a cross-section along the axis; and a plurality of rotor blades disposed on the hub surface. In a throat portion where a blade-to-blade distance between two adjacent rotor blades is smallest, a value (Lt/r) obtained by dividing the blade-to-blade Lt at a given radial position by a distance r from the axis to the radial position is maximum at a position where a dimensionless span length is in a range of 0.2 to 0.65, assuming that the dimensionless span length is 0 at a position of a root end portion on a hub side and is 1 at a position of a tip end portion opposite to the hub side.
US11365628B1
Embodiments described herein relate to material-removal systems as well as cutting tools and cutting tool assemblies that may be used in the material-removal systems. More specifically, for example, the material-removal systems, and particularly the cutting tools, may engage and fail target material. In some instances, the material-removal systems may be used in mining operations.
US11365625B2
A method for determining mud properties may comprise taking multi-frequency measurement data with a downhole tool, selecting an injector electrode from the one or more injector electrodes for the multi-frequency measurement data, selecting data from the multi-frequency measurement data with low resistivity or a large standoff, creating a forward model based at least partially on the selected data by making initial guesses of model parameters for one or more mud properties, performing a cost function minimization with the forward model, identifying from the cost function minimization if a misfit is above or below a threshold, and identifying the one or more mud properties based at least in part on the cost function minimization. A system may comprise a downhole tool including a mandrel, one or more arms, one or more pads, and one or more injector electrodes. The system may further include an information handling system.
US11365619B2
A downhole tool for preventing pump blockage includes an outer conduit defining an outer flow path, an inner conduit located within the outer conduit defining an inner flow path and a space between the inner conduit and the outer conduit. The inner conduit includes one or more angled passageways to allow one-way debris flow. A pressure regulated valve is coupled to the upper end of the outer conduit and configured to open to expand an adjustable width angled passageway defined by the pressure regulated valve. An upper end of the inner conduit is configured to allow fluid bypass of the angled passageways of the inner conduit when the angled passageways are blocked with debris.
US11365617B1
Systems and methods for controlling fracturing operations include monitoring pressure within a monitor well poroelastically couplable to an active well. In response to pressure changes observed in the monitor well, operational parameters of the fracturing operation are modified to, among other things, encourage or inhibit fracture initiation and propagation. For example, modifications to properties of the fracturing fluid, modification to pumping parameters, rate cycling, and diversion operations may each be undertaken in response to observed pressure changes within the monitor well. Single-well applications are also provided in which pressure measurements are obtained from an isolated section of a well poroelastically couplable to an uphole section of the same well. The pressure measurements are subsequently used to control fracturing operations of the uphole section.
US11365608B2
A method of moving a string assembly within a wellbore is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method comprises moving the string assembly within the wellbore; obtaining surface data regarding at least one parameter associated with moving the string assembly within the wellbore over a range of depths; modeling the at least one parameter over the range of depths for a plurality of assumed friction factors to obtain modeled data for each assumed friction factor; calculating a derivative of the surface data over the range of depths; calculating a derivative of the modeled data over the range of depths; comparing the derivative of the surface data to the derivative of the modeled data; determining one or more local friction factors for the range of depths based on the comparison; and adjusting at least one string assembly operating parameter based on the one or more local friction factors.
US11365607B2
A method for reviving a well may include deploying a tube between a casing and a wellbore tubular of the well. The tube may extend from a surface through a port at a wellhead of the well to a section of the well at a depth above a packer. The method may include pumping down, through the tube, non-corrosive material into the section of the well. The well may be blocked below the packer by well blockage. The method may include destroying the well blockage by dissolving the well blockage using the non-corrosive material. The method may include pumping up, through the wellhead, the well blockage dissolved in the non-corrosive material.
US11365603B2
Downhole flow control valves include a valve assembly, driven gear, drive gear, and motor. The valve assembly includes an outer sleeve and inner sleeve. The outer sleeve has openings and a fixed guide. The inner sleeve is disposed within the outer sleeve and includes an outer surface and an axially abutting surface defining a stair-stepped pathway. The fixed guide abuts against the axially abutting surface. The abutment of the fixed guide against the axially abutting surface of the inner sleeve causes the inner sleeve to translate axially between an open position and a closed position relative to the outer sleeve when rotated through operation of the motor, drive gear and driven gear. Systems for controlling fluid flow from lateral branches of a multilateral wellbore include at least a plurality of the downhole flow control valves and a downhole electrical power source for generating electrical power to operate the motor.
US11365602B2
A Programmable plug system for accessing and isolating formations during hydraulic fracturing, consisting of a Programmable Plug and plurality of Sliding Sleeve Valves installed in the casing string of a wellbore, wherein Programmable Plug travels, downwards or upwards through the casing and Sliding Sleeve Valves, wherein during its travel the Programmable Plug detects and counts each sleeve using on-board sensors, electronics and software and wherein the Programmable Plug utilizes detected information to locate, activate and engage itself into the Sliding Sleeve Valves, one at a time, from the top or from the bottom, without locking in, according to programmed sequence (to open, close or bypass) stored in the on-board memory. When engaged to the Sliding Sleeve Valve from the top, the Programmable Plug opens the Sliding Sleeve Valve by applying the pump pressure from the surface, thus providing access to the zone adjacent to the Sliding Sleeve Valve while sealing and isolating the zones below the Sliding Sleeve Valve. Applying pressure in opposite direction, or pulling on by the wire line or slick line winch connected to the Programmable Plug causes the Programmable Plug to disengage itself and travel up the casing string towards next Sliding Sleeve Valve where setting, actuation, and opening is repeated for that Sliding Sleeve Valve. To close open Sliding Sleeve Valve, Programmable plug engages Sliding Sleeve from the bottom side and pushed up by well pressure from the bottom or pulled upwards by the slick line or wire line winch, thus closes the Sliding Sleeve Valve.
US11365588B2
A drill bit includes a bit body defining a rotational axis, a plurality of blades on the bit body, a plurality of cutting elements on the plurality of blades, each cutting element defining a sweep profile about the rotational axis, a first depth of cut controller (DOCC) movably secured to one of the plurality of blades and movable in response to contact by a formation when drilling, and a second DOCC movably secured to the one of the plurality of blades, the second DOCC coupled to the first DOCC such that movement of the first DOCC changes a height of the second DOCC relative to a height of the first DOCC.
US11365583B2
Disclosed is a roller blind allowing an upper position limit and a lower position limit to be set by the damper of the roller blind. The damper allows the upper position limit and the lower position limit to be set and includes an inner tube, a first sliding base, a first position-limiting base, and a second position-limiting base. When a blind fabric is driven by a linkage assembly, the first sliding base is driven by the linkage assembly and ends up pushed against the first position-limiting base or the second position-limiting base to stop the linkage assembly from driving the blind fabric. The blind fabric can therefore be limited in position whether it is raised or lowered.
US11365582B1
A frame assembly, for use in window and door applications configured to retain a panel, comprising a frame with a cover assembly and a support assembly having a track assembly, and a sill assembly and a header assembly both interconnected to a securing surface. The cover assembly is interconnected to the support assembly. The sill assembly comprises a roller member disposed in supporting relation to the track assembly, and the header assembly is disposed in supporting relation to the support assembly so that the frame is movable relative to both the header assembly and the sill assembly. At least a portion of the frame comprises a predetermined thickness and a predetermined width. The predetermined thickness is substantially less than the predetermined width so that both cooperatively and concurrently enhance viewing through the panel and the frame's stability.
US11365579B2
An automatic door opening and closing system includes a distance measuring device measuring a distance between an external surface of a swing door of a vehicle and an object lying on a circumference of the swing door, a door lock device locking the swing door, a drive device opening and closing the swing door, a door opening operation input device receiving an operation to cancel the locking of the swing door and to open the swing door, and a control device controlling the door lock device and the drive device based on the distance measured in response to receiving the operation. The distance measuring device includes a plurality of distance sensors placed dispersively over the swing door, a measurement target by the distant measuring device including a whole of the external surface of the swing door.
US11365573B2
A double-screen rotary shaft structure includes two synchronous spiral channels disposed on the link shafts. Asynchronous assembly is slidably pivotally fitted on the two link shafts. Two bosses are disposed on the synchronous assembly and respectively inlaid in the spiral channels of the link shafts. Two connection members are respectively securely connected with the two link shafts. Two link assemblies are respectively pivotally fitted on the link shafts to synchronously move with the synchronous assembly. Two slide members are attached to lower sides of the connection members and formed with oblique slots. A guide slide connection member is disposed in each oblique slot and connected with the link assembly. The middle sections of two links are pivotally disposed on the connection members. Each link has a driving end pivotally connected with the link assembly and a driven end to drive the slide member.
US11365571B2
An operation input device includes a substrate formed of an insulator, a plurality of detecting electrodes provided on a surface of the substrate, and a controller, wherein the controller detects capacitance generated between each of the detecting electrodes and an operation body when the operation body is positioned in proximity to the substrate, and determines that a gesture operation by the operation body is performed when a duration from when the capacitance becomes a first threshold or greater to when the capacitance becomes a second threshold or greater is a predetermined value or greater, or when a length in which the operation body is moved from when the capacitance becomes the first threshold or greater to when the capacitance becomes the second threshold or greater is a predetermined value or greater, the first threshold being a threshold for the capacitance, and the second threshold being greater than the first threshold.
US11365556B1
A pole support system provides temporary support to a utility pole and comprises: a bracing element positioned adjacent to, and elongated in the direction of elongation of, the utility pole and securable to the utility pole; a ballast support frame comprising a base, positionable at a location spaced horizontally apart from the utility pole; mass positionable on, and removable from, the base of the ballast support frame; and a support system comprising one or more arms extending between the bracing element and the ballast support frame.
US11365553B2
A system for limiting the flow from a dispensing valve when a dispensing cartridge is replaced with the system including a dispenser cartridge with a cam and a water socket with a flow limiter therein that is activeable in response to the position of the dispenser cartridge in the dispensing valve and operable in response to an upstream fluid pressure in the dispensing valve.
US11365548B1
A lower edge finish for a drywall includes a channel with first and second sidewalls, the channel sized to receive a drywall sheet. A base underneath the channel can support drywall sheet above a floor and has a recess below the channel that extends from the first sidewall toward the second sidewall and has a curved furrow upward toward the channel. A paint guard includes a sheet and an edge that is thicker than the sheet. The edge has a lip that is of a shape complementary to the furrow, so the lip can be passed into the recess and the lip becomes lodged in the furrow to retain the edge between the floor and the base, and the sheet extends away from the stud wall to protect the floor from drippings from the drywall sheet.
US11365546B2
A set of panels includes first and second panels, and a mechanical locking device for assembly by vertical relative displacement of the panels. A locking strip extends from a first edge of the first panel in a direction parallel to first and second panel surfaces of the first panel. The locking strip includes a locking strip edge, and first and second locking strip surfaces respectively extending in directions substantially corresponding to those of the first and second panel surfaces. The locking strip includes a locking element cooperating with a locking groove at a second edge of the second panel for locking in a direction parallel to the first panel surface. Opposite edges respectively include cooperating tongue and tongue groove for vertical locking. The first and second edges respectively include first and second engaging positioning elements to decrease vertical movement of the panels in the locked position.
US11365544B2
The present invention concerns a reinforcing element for producing concrete components, a concrete component and corresponding production methods. The reinforcing element comprises a plurality of fibers and a plurality of holding elements which are connected to each other by the fibers so that the fibers can be stressed in their longitudinal direction by means of the holding elements. The fibers are fixed to the holding elements such that the fibers in the stressed state enter the holding elements in a substantially linear manner. This enables both a high degree of pretension and an efficient, reliable and thus cost-effective production of the concrete components.
US11365542B2
A twin sheet core structure made up of two sheets of plastic that have been thermoformed to define arrays of cavities having floors opening to surfaces defined by orthogonally intersecting ribs wherein the sheets are fused together to form a single structure with hollow areas between sheets.
US11365541B2
A ceiling façade system includes: a ceiling tile including an interior panel defining a first edge extending along a first side of the ceiling tile and a second edge extending along a second side of the ceiling tile opposite the first edge, a heating element, and an insulator layer arranged over the heating element opposite the interior panel; a first receiver extending along and configured to support the first side of the ceiling tile on a linear lighting track arranged on a ceiling structure and configured to locate the first edge of the interior panel adjacent and partially concealing the linear lighting track; and a second receiver extending along and configured to support the second side of the ceiling tile on a linear seam track arranged on the ceiling structure, the linear seam track laterally offset from the linear lighting track.
US11365538B2
Disclosed herein is a free-standing cesspool and a cesspool liner that may be used to retrofit existing cesspools in order to provide additional storage and/or processing for raw sewage before the sewage leaches out of the cesspool.
US11365534B2
Hydraulic devices used to control timing, direction, and velocity of fluid flow are disclosed. The hydraulic device includes a flush valve. The flush valve includes one or more venturi that assist in moving the fluid through flush valve. A manifold includes a housing defining a piston cavity and a piston. The piston is moveable within the piston cavity by a piston actuator between a first position and a second position. A manifold inlet defined by the housing is configured to receive a first fluid from a supply line and is in fluid communication with the piston cavity. A manifold outlet is defined by the housing and is in fluid communication with the piston cavity in. In the first position, the piston prevents fluid communication between the manifold inlet and the manifold outlet through the piston cavity. In the second position, the manifold inlet is in fluid communication with the manifold outlet such that the first fluid can flow from the supply line to the manifold outlet through the piston cavity.
US11365527B2
A surroundings monitoring apparatus includes a sensor configured to acquire detection information about a position of a predetermined monitoring target located in an area surrounding a work machine, and a processor configured to output an alarm or restrict an operation of the work machine in response to detecting that: the monitoring target is in a sensor range in which the sensor can acquire the detection information; the monitoring target is in a predetermined range equal to or less than a predetermined distance from the work machine; and the monitoring target is in a first range in a height direction of the work machine.
US11365524B1
The present specification discloses an anchored hole cover for a bore hole cored from a paved surface that includes a cover plate configured to cover the bore hole and support vehicular traffic. An anchoring mechanism is attached to the cover plate and extends down into the bore hole. The anchoring mechanism is configured to be actuated by a user torque input that is transmitted through a linkage system to cause an anchoring mechanism to selectively engage or disengage the wall of the bore hole. When the anchoring mechanism is engaged with the wall, the anchored hole cover is prevented from being unintentionally extracted from the hole. The anchored hole cover effectively provides a temporary cover for a bore hole in a road, parking lot, or other paved surfaces that supports vehicular traffic, that prevents extraction due to vibrations of passing traffic, thus preventing damage to cars and their occupants.
US11365522B2
A grading system for connection to a vehicle having vertically movable arms, the grading system including a grading blade assembly having a frame having a first pivot extending upward, a second pivot extending forward, a blade connected to the frame via the first pivot and the second pivot, a blade yaw actuator and a blade roll actuator, wherein the frame is configured to have the first pivot extend substantially vertically and the second pivot extend substantially longitudinally when the grading blade assembly is connected to the vehicle and the blade and vehicle are in a level position on a ground surface and the vertically movable arms of the vehicle are in a first raised position above a lowest most position.
US11365517B2
A method for manufacturing a multi-layered paperboard is disclosed, which includes at least two fibrous layers, in which method at least one layer of the multi-layered paperboard is treated by applying an aqueous solution of a first strength component in dissolved form including anionic strength polymer and/or amphoteric strength polymer composition on a surface of layer, and an aqueous solution of a cationic second strength component in dissolved form is added to a fibre stock from which at least one of the fibrous layers joined together is formed.
US11365511B2
In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to a steam pressing appliance that includes a handle connected to a steam release nozzle. The steam release nozzle includes a heating body with an instant vaporization chamber and an electrical resistor regulated by a thermostat in order to keep the temperature of the vaporization chamber around a set-point temperature. The appliance also includes an electric pump to inject liquid into the vaporization chamber. The pump is controlled by a drive circuit that receives information from the thermostat on whether power is being supplied to the electrical resistor. The drive circuit modifies the operating conditions of the pump in accordance with whether or not current is supplied through the electrical resistor, operating in a first flow mode when current flows through the electrical resistor and operating in a second flow mode when no current flows through the electrical resistor.
US11365508B2
Disclosed is a washing machine capable of improving the efficiency of washing and product quality by improving a pivoting structure of a door assembly having a door and an auxiliary washing unit forming an auxiliary washing space. Also, the door and the auxiliary washing unit may be coupled by a locking part so that a user can open and close the door assembly conveniently when manual washing is not needed. When manual washing is needed, the user may release a locked state of the locking part to move the door and the auxiliary washing unit separately.
US11365493B2
A method for making a copolymer-wrapped nanotube coaxial fiber. The method includes supplying a first dope to a spinning nozzle; supplying a second dope to the spinning nozzle; spinning the first and second dopes as a coaxial fiber into a first wet bath; and placing the coaxial fiber into a second wet bath, which is different from the first bath. The coaxial fiber has a core including parts of the first dope and a sheath including parts of the second dope. Solvent molecules of the second wet bath penetrate the sheath and remove an acid from the core.
US11365490B2
A method of manufacturing a thermal cutting element for a surgical instrument includes manufacturing a substrate, coating at least a portion of the substrate via Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO), and disposing a heating element on at least a portion of the PEO-coated substrate. The method may further include attaching the thermal cutting element to a jaw member of a surgical instrument.
US11365488B2
Methods for providing laminated coatings on metal articles using electroplating methods such as barrel plating, vibratory plating, rocker plating or other non-rack methods that involve movement of articles to be plated in a containment apparatus, as well as articles made from such processes. Embodiments of such processes involve mass-transfer modulation to provide compositionally modulated coatings.
US11365486B2
Electrolytic copper foil, electrode comprising the same, and lithium ion battery comprising the same
Provided are an electrolytic copper foil, an electrode comprising the same, and a lithium ion battery comprising the same. The electrolytic copper foil has a drum side and a deposited side opposing to the drum side, wherein a nanoindentation hardness of the drum side is equal to or larger than 0.5 GPa and equal to or smaller than 3.5 GPa; and a lightness of the drum side is equal to or larger than 25 and equal to or smaller than 75.
US11365475B2
Methods of cleaning a PVD chamber component, for example, process kit components are disclosed. The method comprises at least one of directing a jet of pressurized fluid at a surface of the PVD chamber component, directing pressurized carbon dioxide at the surface of the PVD chamber component, placing the PVD chamber component in a liquid and producing ultrasonic waves in the liquid to further remove contaminants from the surface of the PVD chamber component, using a plasma to clean the surface of the PVD chamber component, subjecting the PVD chamber component to a thermal cycle by heating up to a peak temperature of at least 50° C. and subsequently cooling down to room, placing the PVD chamber component in a process chamber, reducing the pressure in the process chamber below atmospheric pressure and purging the process chamber with a gas, surface conditioning the surface of the PVD chamber component, and drying the surface of the PVD chamber component by directing a gas on the surface of the PVD chamber component.
US11365464B2
A method of producing a magnetic powder and a magnetic powder is provided. The method of producing a magnetic powder according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: producing an iron powder by a reduction reaction of iron oxide, producing a magnetic powder using a molded body obtained by press molding a mixture including the iron powder, a rare earth oxide, boron, and calcium at a pressure of 22 MPa or more, and coating a surface of the magnetic powder with ammonium fluoride.
US11365463B2
The disclosure concerns methods for making a composition comprising a light metal and an intermetallic comprising the light metal and a light rare earth element. The composition also may include a plurality of nanoparticles comprising an oxide of the light metal. The method includes directly reducing a light rare earth element precursor compound in a melt of the light metal, thereby forming the light rare earth element and nanoparticles of the light metal oxide.
US11365462B2
A mesoporous organic material which makes it possible to extract, using the liquid-solid extraction technique, the uranium(VI) contained in an aqueous medium including phosphoric acid, with high efficiency and high selectivity for the iron that the medium can likewise contain. The material is likely to be obtained by cross-linking polymerisation of a monomer of formula (I) below, wherein: R1, R2 and R3 are, independently from one another, H, a C1 to C12 saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched hydrocarbon group, or a polymerisable group, with the condition that at least one of R1, R2 and R3 is a polymerisable group; R4 and R5 are, independently from one another, H or a C1 to C8 saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched hydrocarbon group; the cross-linking polymerisation being carried out in the presence of a cross-linking agent and one or more pore-forming agents.
US11365461B2
A dross processing assembly includes a stirring station at which dross in a first dross recovery vessel is stirred and a pressing station at which previously stirred dross in a second dross recovery vessel is pressed simultaneously with the stirring of the dross in the first dross recovery vessel. The stirring station and the pressing station may be commonly housed in an enclosure. A conveyor system may advance dross recovery vessels through the dross processing assembly for continuous dross processing.
US11365458B2
A post-heating treatment device includes a detecting device for a height variation of a surface of the rail at every, predetermined pitch along a length direction of the rail, a control unit for defining a position of the rail to be a starting point of the welded section when the height variation detected by the detecting device at every predetermined pitch exceeds a predetermined threshold for the number of a predetermined times consecutively and defining a position of the rail to be an end point of the welded section when the height variation detected by the detecting device at every predetermined pitch is below the predetermined threshold for the number of the predetermined times consecutively, and a heating unit for heat treatment based on a position of the welded section detected by the detecting device. A post-heating treatment method using the post-heating treatment device is provided.
US11365456B2
A method of preparing hydrophobicizing leather treatment compositions includes the steps of a) free-radically initiated copolymerization of i) at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or its derivatives, and ii) at least one (meth)acrylate of a primary saturated C8 to C22 alcohol, b) mixing the reaction mixture obtained after step a) with water, c) salting at least some of the carboxyl groups of the reaction mixture obtained after step b) with a base, and d) shearing the reaction mixture obtained after step c) to an average particle size of 0.05-10 μm, wherein step a) is carried out in oil as reaction medium and wherein the atmosphere in step a) contains less than 0.1% by volume of an oxidizing gas.
US11365453B2
Methods, devices, compositions and kits are provided for analysis of the microbiome or individual components thereof in an individual. The methods find use in a determination of infection, in analysis of the microbiome structure, in determining the immunocompetence of an individual, and the like. In some embodiments of the invention, the individual is treated with an therapeutic regimen, e.g. drugs, diet, radiation therapy, and the like.
US11365452B2
The present invention relates to markers being capable of predicting or diagnosing the risk of metabolic syndrome or metabolic syndrome-related diseases and their use. More particularly, the present invention relates to a composition, a kit and a method for predicting or diagnosing the risk of metabolic syndrome or metabolic syndrome-related diseases by detecting Neisseria spp., Granulicatella spp., and/or Peptococcus spp. in a test sample.
US11365447B2
Technology provided herein relates in part to methods, processes and apparatuses for non-invasive assessment of genetic variations. In particular the invention relates to methods and kits for detecting aneuploidy of a fetal chromosome by determining the amounts of differentially methylated regions in each of chromosomes 13, 18 and 21 in circulating cell-free nucleic acid from a human pregnant female.
US11365442B2
The present invention provides assays and assay systems for use in spatially encoded biological assays. The invention provides an assay system comprising an assay capable of high levels of multiplexing where reagents are provided to a biological sample in defined spatial patterns; instrumentation capable of controlled delivery of reagents according to the spatial patterns; and a decoding scheme providing a readout that is digital in nature.
US11365440B2
This disclosure provides, among other things, a method for processing a membrane comprising rolling circle amplification (RCA) products. In some embodiments, this method may comprise: (a) obtaining a porous capillary membrane that comprises fluorescently labeled RCA products that are in or on the membrane; (b) depositing a curable polymer onto the membrane; and (c) curing the curable polymer to encapsulate the RCA products in a solid. In some embodiments, the curable polymer may be a silicone and may be transparent in its solid form. A kit for performing the method and a composition made by the method are also provided.
US11365437B2
The present invention provides, among other things, methods of quantitating mRNA capping efficiency, particularly for mRNA synthesized in vitro. In some embodiments, the methods comprise chromatographic methods of quantifying capping efficiency and methylation status of the caps.
US11365432B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing an adipate ester or thioester. The invention further relates to a method for preparing adipic acid from said ester or thioester. Further the invention provides a number of methods for preparing an intermediate for said ester or thioester. Further the invention relates to a method for preparing 6-amino caproic acid (6-ACA), a method for preparing 5-formyl valeric acid (5-FVA), and a method for preparing caprolactam. Further, the invention relates to a host cell for use in a method according to the invention.
US11365425B2
Provided are a resistant protein for use in herbicide dicamba, encoding gene and application thereof, the gene comprising: (a) a nucleotide sequence of an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2; or (b) a nucleotide sequence which is complementary to the nucleotide sequence as defined by (a) under stringent conditions; or (c) a nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1.
US11365420B2
There is provided a plant of domesticated Triticeae species able to produce a grain with a modified (i.e. decreased or increased) level of B-type granules within the endosperm relative to the unmodified form of the grain. The level of B-type granules can be assessed by number or content by weight or volume. Whilst the level of B-type granule within the grain can be increased or decreased, optionally the grain contains substantially no B-type granules. The plant can contain a wheat Flo6 gene which is genetically modified. The plant of domesticated Triticeae species can be common wheat, barley, rye, durum wheat, spelt wheat, triticale, einkorn wheat or oat. Grain produced the plants, and flour and compositions of matter formed from the grain are also provided.
US11365419B2
A host cell includes an inactivated gene. The inactivated gene may be a gene including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 34, a gene including a nucleotide sequence of a nucleic acid hybridizing under a stringent condition to a nucleic acid consisting of a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 34, a gene comprising a nucleotide sequence having a sequence identity of 85% or more to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 34, or a gene encoding an amino acid sequence having a sequence identity of 85% or more to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 33.
US11365418B2
The present invention relates to the dual, independent cistron expression system in a single vector for the production of protein of interest proteins and peptides expressed as insoluble inclusion bodies formed in the bacteria E. coli. The present invention also provides the process for the expression of protein of interest using said bicistronic vector.
US11365416B2
The present embodiments provide methods, compounds, and compositions useful for inhibiting EZH2 expression, which may be useful for treating, preventing, or ameliorating a cancer associated with EZH2.
US11365412B2
Inhibitors of miRNA-128 capable of promoting cardiomyocyte mitotic cell proliferation and methods effective for regeneration of heart tissue.
US11365410B2
Methods of making and monitoring metabolites in cells are provided.
US11365408B2
The disclosure provides DNA library preparation methods that do not require a purification between adapter ligation and PCR amplification. Adaptors are added to DNA fragments to form oligonucleotide extension products and the oligonucleotide extension products are amplified without stopping or interruption for a cleanup step. Excess materials, such as enzymes, adaptors, or co-factors, from the adaptor addition step do not interfere with the amplification step and the amplification step proceeds without regards to the presence of reagents from the ligation step. In preferred embodiments, the ligation and amplification step make use of a common priming sequence e.g., in the form of one of the adaptor oligos.
US11365401B2
The disclosure relates to an oligosaccharyltransferase polypeptides and their use in the synthesis of glycoconjugates in bacterial cells; vaccines and immunogenic compositions comprising said glycoconjugates and their use in the prevention and/or treatment of bacterial infection. Bacterial expression system comprising said oligosaccharyltransferase polypeptides are also disclosed.
US11365399B2
A recombinant protein, including: (a) alpha subunit of an FAD-GDH; and (b) a minimal cytochrome c peptide is provided. Additionally, an electrode coupled to a recombinant protein, the recombinant protein made of: (a) a cofactor of a redox enzyme; (b) a redox enzyme; (c) a linker moiety configured to link any one of: the cofactor or the enzyme to an electron transfer (ET) domain; and (d) an ET domain, is also provided. Methods for: (a) transferring an electron to an electrode, by coupling the recombinant protein an electrode; and (b) quantifying the amount of an analyte e.g., glucose are also provided.
US11365397B2
Methods of screening rinse-off personal care compositions can include the use of explant skin in combination with measurements for moisture and/or cell proliferation.
US11365377B2
The invention relates to a liquid laundry detergent composition suitable for cleaning textiles. In addition to at least one surfactant the detergent according to the invention comprises at least one water-soluble metasilicate, at least one water-soluble bicarbonate, at least one water-soluble glutamate and at least one polymeric rheology modifier in an aqueous medium. These components form a detergent framework allowing to reduce the amount of surfactant(s) compared to conventional liquid detergents, which is advantageous for economic, safety and environmental reasons, as less surfactants are consumed and subsequently disposed into wastewater to achieve the similar washing/cleaning performance.
US11365374B2
Composition for the removal of biofilms present on a substrate, characterized in that it comprises at least one detergent component comprising a sequestrant and also a wetting agent and a dispersant and at least one enzymatic component containing at least one protease, at least one laccase and at least one polysaccharidase, method of implementation thereof and uses thereof.
US11365372B1
A human odor eliminating composition is described having as ingredients silver water, zeolite, activated carbon and ozone and optionally sodium bicarbonate. The composition can be used as a concentrate or diluted with water for various applications, such as a spray, wipes, or liquid use. The composition can also be a dry powder. It can be used as an additive in soaps, detergents, hand sanitizers, and even on hunting equipment such as tents, gun cases, bags and more.
US11365371B2
The proposed cluster of inventions relates to chemical industry, in particular to compositions of and additives in detergents designed for household, professional or personal use, to be used at home or industrially. The essence of this cluster of inventions lays in the use of polysaccharide microgels as an additive or the base in detergents, in particular as an antiresorption agent, thickener, or an agent for reducing surface tension at the interphase boundary, including also composition of detergents with polysaccharide microgels. The technological result of the application of these inventions is reduction of the quantity of surfactants in the detergent, while its detergency is no affected, which raises their ecological value and safety for the final users.
US11365362B2
A device and process for the conversion of aromatic compounds, includes/uses: a unit for the separation of the xylenes suitable for treating a cut comprising xylenes and ethylbenzene and producing an extract comprising para-xylene and a raffinate; an isomerization unit suitable for treating the raffinate and producing an isomerate enriched in para-xylene which is sent to a fractionation train; a pyrolysis unit suitable for treating biomass, producing a pyrolysis effluent feeding, at least partially, the feedstock, and producing a pyrolysis gas comprising CO and H2; a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction section suitable for treating, at least in part, the pyrolysis gas, producing a synthesis effluent sent, at least in part, to the pyrolysis unit.
US11365358B2
An integrated process for conversion of a hydrocarbon stream comprising light naphtha to enhanced value products. The process includes passing the hydrocarbon stream through a first reactor, the first reactor being a catalytic bed reactor with a dual-function catalyst to simultaneously reform light naphtha to BTEX and crack light naphtha to ethane, propane, and butanes. Further, the process includes passing an effluent of the first reactor to a gas-liquid separating unit to generate a liquid stream and a gas stream, and passing the gas stream to a gas separator unit to remove hydrogen gas and methane and generate an enhanced gas stream. The process further includes passing the enhanced gas stream through a second reactor, the second reactor being a pyrolysis unit operated at steam cracking conditions to convert ethane, propane, and butanes in the enhanced gas stream to light. An associated system for performing the process is also provided wherein the integrated process does not include passage of a process stream to a separate and independent hydrocracking unit to crack light alkanes in the hydrocarbon stream to smaller alkanes.
US11365356B2
A process for forming a deaerated oil sand slurry is provided comprising: providing a first vessel having an overhead space and a bottom space; delivering oil sand and a low vapor pressure hydrocarbon liquid into the overhead space and mixing the oil sand and hydrocarbon liquid to release air trapped in the oil sand and form the deaerated slurry; optionally adding an inert gas stream to the overhead space to displace the air released from the oil sand; and collecting the deaerated slurry in the bottom space to form a slurry layer to prevent gas exchange between the first vessel and downstream extraction equipment.
US11365351B2
The invention provides a composition and method for improving the selectivity of nitride etching versus oxide etching and can be used with conventional phosphoric acid wet etch compositions. The invention describes additives that serve to inhibit silicon, oxides, and related compounds regrowth (i.e., redeposition) on the silicon oxide surface. In certain embodiments, the invention provides certain amino-substituted aryl compounds which are bound to a tri-alkoxy silane.
US11365349B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing luminescent nanoparticles wherein particle size of the nanoparticles is controlled. The method of the present invention includes admixing two or more rare earth metal salts in a first solvent and an organic oil to form a reaction mixture, and subjecting the reaction mixture to an inert gas so that flow rate of the inert gas is at least 2-5 L/h and pressure in the reaction vessel is at least 50 Pa over atmospheric pressure, preferably 50-80 Pa over atmospheric pressure.
US11365345B2
A method is described for strengthening a carbonate formation rock within a subterranean formation. The method involves contacting the rock with a composition of Ca(OH)2 nanoparticles in an organic solvent, which results in a treated rock having a Young's modulus that is increased by at least 10%. The composition may optionally comprise a CO2 source.
US11365343B1
A solid scale inhibitor for use in fracking operations to inhibit scale build up, includes a powdered composition having a salt component and an acid component; the powdered composition is 100% dissolvable; and the acid component increases the dissolution rate associated with the salt component, thereby preventing the salt component from contributing to scaling formation in one or more production lines within a fracking operation. While both the salt and the acid in the present invention inhibit scale formation on their own, the acid (HEDP in the preferred embodiment) dissolves quickly, while the salt (HA in the preferred embodiment) dissolves very slowly; by combining the two, the dissolution rate of the acid is slowed and the dissolution rate of the salt is increased. Thus providing for an effective long term solid scale inhibitor.
US11365319B2
The present invention provides a glitter pigment, including: a glass flake; a titanium oxide layer formed over the glass flake; and fine gold particles deposited on the titanium oxide layer, wherein the fine gold particles include fine gold particles P2 having a particle diameter of 20 nm or more and less than 50 nm, and in a square region 2 μm on a side on a surface of the titanium oxide layer on which the fine gold particles are deposited, the number of the fine gold particles P2 is 9 or more and less than 100 and an average of distances between the fine gold particles P2 is 130 nm or more and less than 500 nm, each of the distances being a distance from one of the fine gold particles P2 to another fine gold particle P2 nearest to the one.
US11365318B2
The present technology relates to an anti-stripping agent for an asphalt mixture, which includes a refined slowly-cooled slag obtained by processing slag, generated in ironmaking and steelmaking processes, using a specific method, and to a method for preparing the same, an asphalt mixture including the same, and a method for preparing the asphalt mixture. The refined slowly-cooled slag may include 55 to 65 mass % of CaO, 5 to 10 mass % of SiO2, 1 to 5 mass % of Al2O3, and 1 to 5 mass % of MgO.
US11365315B2
Described herein are polyamide polymer blends including a sulfonated polyamide polymer, an aromatic polyamide polymer and a reinforcing filler. Optionally, the polyamide polymer blend includes an additive. It was surprisingly discovered that blends including a sulfonated polyamide polymer in addition to an aromatic polyamide polymer had increased mechanical performance, relative to corresponding polyamide polymer blends having a non-sulfonated polyamide polymer. Furthermore, it was also surprisingly discovered that, when the sulfonated polyamide polymer included a sodium counter-ion, the mechanical performance of the polyamide polymer blend was further enhanced, relative to corresponding polyamide polymer blends having a sulfonated polyamide polymer including a lithium counter-ion in place of a sodium counter-ion. Due, at least in part, to the increased mechanical performance, the polyamide polymer blends can be desirably incorporated into structural components, which generally benefit from higher mechanical performance.
US11365311B2
A flexible transparent material is provided. The flexible transparent material includes a thermoplastic and a plurality of micelles dispersed in the thermoplastic. Each micelle includes a plurality of cross-linked rubber particles and a swelling liquid. The weight ratio of the thermoplastic to the total weight of the cross-linked rubber particles is from 1:5 to 4:5. The weight ratio of the swelling liquid to the total weight of the cross-linked rubber particles is from 1:5 to 2:1.
US11365299B2
To provide a laminate excellent in alkali resistance and interlaminar strength at high temperature, and a process for producing the laminate. A process for producing a laminate, comprising producing a non-crosslinked laminate having a layer of a first composition containing a copolymer having fluorine atoms and a layer of a second composition containing a non-fluorinated elastic polymer, and crosslinking the first composition and the second composition to produce a laminate having a first layer formed of a crosslinked product of the first composition and a second layer formed of a crosslinked product of the second composition, wherein when the first composition and the second composition contains a common crosslinking aid, the absolute value of the crosslinking rate difference between the first composition and the second composition is at most 0.30.
US11365293B2
This invention belongs to the technical field of composite materials, and discloses a xylan-based dual network nanocomposite hydrogel, preparation method thereof and use therefor. The method comprises (1) adding graphite oxide powder into deionized water, ultrasonically dispersing to obtain a GO aqueous dispersion; (2) adding xylan into deionized water, heating and stirring to obtain a xylan solution; (3) adding a water-soluble calcium salt, a reaction monomer and the xylan solution into the GO aqueous dispersion, and stirring and dispersing uniformly under an ice-bath condition, then adding an initiator, a crosslinking agent and an accelerator, stirring and mixing uniformly to obtain a mixed solution; and 4) drying and reacting the mixed solution (in the step (3) to obtain a xylan-based dual network nanocomposite hydrogel. The composite hydrogel obtained by this invention has high mechanical property, is biodegradable and biocompatible, and can be used in the field of biomedicine, such as tissue engineering, drug sustained release, cell culture scaffold and cartilage tissue, etc.
US11365284B2
Ways of preparing a partially crystalline polycarbonate powder are provided that include dissolving an amorphous polycarbonate in a polar aprotic solvent to form a first solution of solubilized polycarbonate at a first temperature. The first solution is then cooled to a second temperature, the second temperature being lower than the first temperature, where a portion of the solubilized polycarbonate precipitates from the first solution to form a second solution including the partially crystalline polycarbonate powder. Certain partially crystalline polycarbonate powders resulting from such methods are particularly useful in additive manufacturing processes, including powder bed fusion processes.
US11365272B2
A multi-copolymer, methods for producing the same and using thereof in wastewater treatment application are provided. The method includes pre-mixing by mass 10-30 parts by mass of alkenyl succinic anhydrides, 10-30 parts of vinylbenzyltrimethylammonium chloride, and 10-30 parts of dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate with water to form a first mixture; reacting the first mixture comprising passing thereof through inert gases to provide reflux protection, and adding by mass 10-30 parts of vinyl acetate and 10-30 parts of acrylamide to form a second mixture, followed by heating the second mixture and adding an initiator therein to initiate the reaction. The present invention is simple, at low cost, safe, non-toxic, environmentally friendly, easy to operate, with a better water purification efficiency than that of conventional macromolecule flocculants, multi-functional, good product stability, strong adsorption bridging ability, less dosage requirement for the water treatment agent, and results in a sturdy sludge cake and easily separated flocs.
US11365271B2
A method for producing a vinyl polymer by suspension-polymerizing a vinyl compound in the presence of a dispersion stabilizer, wherein the dispersion stabilizer contains a polyvinyl alcohol and a composition containing a modified polyvinyl alcohol and a compound; the modified polyvinyl alcohol contains double bonds derived from an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof in side chains; the compound is a compound having two or more hydroxy groups bonded to a conjugated double bond; the modified polyvinyl alcohol has a saponification degree and a viscosity-average polymerization degree different from those of the polyvinyl alcohol; a content of the compound in the composition is 0.001 parts by mass or more and less than 5 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the modified polyvinyl alcohol; and a mass ratio of the composition to the polyvinyl alcohol is 50/50 to 90/10.
US11365260B2
An agonistic 4-1BB monoclonal antibody or an antigen binding fragment thereof, comprising a heavy chain variable region and a light chain variable region, the heavy chain variable region comprising: a CDR1 region having an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, a CDR2 region having an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, and a CDR3 region having an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 3, the light chain variable region comprising: a CDR1 region having an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 4, a CDR2 region having an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 5, and a CDR3 region having an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 6. The monoclonal antibody is targeted towards h4-1BB, and specifically binds to h4-1BB to activate T cells for treatment of a variety of cancers.
US11365255B2
The present invention provides a human PD-1 antibody, an antigen-binding fragment thereof, and medical use thereof, and further provides a chimeric antibody and humanized antibodies comprising a complementarity-determining region (CDR) of the antibody, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the human PD-1 antibody and the antigen-binding fragment thereof, and use of the antibody in preparing medicines for treating diseases or disorders.
US11365244B2
Monoclonal anti-PHF-tau antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof are described. Also described are nucleic acids encoding the antibodies, compositions comprising the antibodies, methods of producing the antibodies and using the antibodies for treating or preventing conditions such as tauopathies.
US11365241B2
The present disclosure relates to stable aqueous solutions comprising a high concentration of an anti-C5 antibody (e.g., ravulizumab) and methods for preparing the solutions. The disclosure also provides methods for treating or preventing complement-associated disorders, such as paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), using the solutions. Also featured were therapeutic kits containing one or more of the solutions and a means for administering the solutions to a patient in need such a treatment.
US11365238B2
Neutralizing antibodies through recombinant protein expression were identified by mining antibody repertoires by high-throughput second generation sequencing. Sequencing across the majority of light and heavy chain variable regions of chicken immunoglobulins was performed at two immunological time points: a non-immune (naive) state and a post-hyperimmunization state. The mRNA was extracted from unsorted and unselected PBMC populations and identification of antigen-specific antibody sequences leveraged the significant disparity of abundance of an individual B cell clone in non-immune and immunized states. Through bioinformatic analysis, candidate amino acid sequences for variable heavy chain and light chains were identified. Recombinant polypeptides with the binding domains having the identified amino acid sequences for variable heavy chain and light chains were expressed and screened using immunoassays to confirm antigen-specificity.
US11365237B2
The present invention relates to fusion proteins comprising (a) an extracellular domain containing a polypeptide derived from PD-1 or CD40L at its N-terminus; (b) a transmembrane domain; and (c) an intracellular domain containing a polypeptide derived from 4-1BB or CD28 at its C-terminus. Also, fusion proteins with CD28 at the N-terminus and CD40L at the C-terminus are envisaged. The present invention also relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding such fusion proteins, vectors containing such nucleic acid molecules, and host cells containing such vectors. The present invention further relates to methods for producing such host cells. Finally, the present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such fusion proteins, nucleic acid molecules, vectors, and/or host cells, particularly for treating diseases or disorders associated with PD-1/PD-L2 or CD40 binding and/or PD-L1/PD-L2 or CD40 expression such as cancer and chronic viral infection.
US11365235B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11365233B2
Provided herein are activatable cytokine constructs that include: (a) a first monomer construct comprising a first mature cytokine protein (CP1), a first cleavable moiety (CM1), and a first dimerization domain (DD1), wherein the CM1 is positioned between the CP1 and the DD1; and (b) a second monomer construct comprising a second mature cytokine protein (CP2), a second cleavable moiety (CM2), and a second dimerization domain (DD2), where the CM2 is positioned between the CP2 and the DD2, where: the CM1 and the CM2 function as a substrate for a protease; the DD1 and the DD2 bind each other; and where the ACC is characterized by a reduction in at least one activity of the CP1 and/or CP2 as compared to a control level of the at least one activity of the CP1 and/or CP2.
US11365224B2
Three-dimensional, living, self-regenerative structures of predetermined geometry comprising solidified print material comprising a biofilm of Bacillus subtilis comprise a TasA-R protein, wherein R is a recombinant, heterologous functional group, wherein the TasA-R provides a preferably tunable physiochemical property like viscosity, reactivity, affinity as a function of the R group.
US11365218B2
Disclosed are a bifunctional peptide having the capability to reduce inflammation and the capability to facilitate differentiation of stem cells into chondrocytes and the use thereof. Advantageously, the bifunctional peptide is useful for the prevention or treatment of arthritis accompanied by inflammation and damage of cartilage tissue due to excellent effects of reducing inflammation and facilitating differentiation of stem cells into chondrocytes, can be easily applied to various surgical regenerative treatments including orthopedic treatments, and can shorten the treatment period.
US11365216B2
The proposed methods of treatment pertain to medicine, in particular pharmacology, and concerns the application of a nasal medicinal composition containing hexapeptide tyrosyl-D-alanyl-glycyl-phenylalanyl-leucyl-arginine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt for the treatment of acute respiratory viral infections (ARVIs), in particular those caused by the influenza virus.
US11365212B2
The present disclosure relates to analogs of N-acetyl glucosamine fluorinated at 4- and/or 6-position(s) and derivatives of xylose at anomeric position for the treatment of a neurological disease, inflammation, cancer and a central nervous system injury.
US11365206B2
The disclosure includes compounds of Formula (A): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, and R12, j, k, m, n, Y, W, W1, W2, W3, V, L, Z1, Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4, are defined herein. Also disclosed is a method for treating a neoplastic disease, an autoimmune disease, or a neurodegenerative disease with these compounds.
US11365203B2
Provided are a fluorescent dye and a preparation process and use thereof. The fluorescent dye is able to emit a long wavelength, is sensitive and specific to viscosity, and is used for a wide range of purposes, such as viscosity testing, fluorescent labeling, quantification or detection of proteins, enzymes or nucleic acids. In addition, it can be used as a fluorescent-activated probe.
US11365201B2
The present invention relates to novel chlorotonil derivatives of formula (I) and the use thereof for the treatment or prophylaxis of bacterial infections and malaria.
US11365199B2
The present invention relates to pyrazole compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, useful as positive allosteric modulators of follicle stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR).
US11365190B2
Disclosed are compounds having the formula: wherein q, r, s, A, B, C, RA1, RA2, RB1, RB2, RC1, RC2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R14, R15, R16, and R17, are as defined herein, or a tautomer thereof, or a salt, particularly a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, thereof.
US11365185B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutical salt thereof, use, methods for its preparation are described.
US11365183B2
The present invention provides compounds (n-3 PUFA derivatives) of formula (I): that modulate conditions associated with cardiac damage, especially cardiac arrhythmias.
US11365181B2
p-phenylenediamine derivatives as potassium channel regulators and preparation methods and medical applications thereof. A compound represented by general formula A or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. A preparation method of the compound and a use of the same as a potassium channel opener.
US11365176B2
The disclosure relates generally novel sulfur containing glycerol mono-ester derivatives and methods useful for treating gram positive, gram negative, fungal and envelope viral infections in a patient.
US11365175B2
Aromatic amides are described, having general formula (I): suitably substituted and having a high fungicidal activity, together with their use for controlling phytopathogenic fungi of important agricultural crops.
US11365174B2
An effective therapeutic agent for the M2 channel comprising sulfonylamide or oxabicyclo structures effective for treating amantadine-resistant influenza A infections, and methods of treating amantadine-resistant influenza A infections through administration of the same.
US11365168B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing 5-aryl pentanols from 2-aryl-4-hydroxytetrahydropyrans as starting materials.
US11365165B2
An organic base modified composite catalyst for producing ethylene by hydrogenation of carbon monoxide is a composite catalyst and formed by compounding component I and component II in a mechanical mixing mode. The active ingredient of the component I is a metal oxide; the component II is an organic base modified zeolite of MOR topology; and a weight ratio of the active ingredients in the component I to the component II is 0.1-20, and preferably 0.3-8. The reaction process has an extremely high product yield and selectivity. The selectivity of C2-C3 olefins is as high as 78-87%; the selectivity of hydrocarbon products with more than 4 C atoms is less than 10%; the selectivity of a methane side product is extremely low (<9%); and meanwhile, the selectivity of the ethylene is 75-82%.
US11365160B2
An improved solvent system for the formulation and application of N-alkyl thiophosphoric triamide urease inhibitors. These formulations provide safety and performance benefits relative to existing alternatives and enable storage, transport and subsequent coating or blending with urea based or organic based fertilizers. These formulations are comprised primarily of environmentally friendly aprotic and protic solvents (particularly dimethyl sulfoxide and alcohols/polyols) to stabilize the urease inhibitor.
US11365149B2
A chemically strengthened glass having a thickness t of 2 mm or less, having a compressive stress value (CS90) at a portion of 90 μm deep from a glass surface being 25 MPa or more, and satisfying a number of fragments generated within a size of 25 mm×25 mm being 20 or less in a fracture test according to an indenter indentation test under a condition of holding a load ranging from 5 kgf to 10 kgf for 15 seconds with a pyramidal diamond indenter having an indenter angle of a facing angle of 60°.
US11365148B2
A glass-ceramic article includes 50 mol. % to 80 mol. % SiO2; 10 mol. % to 25 mol. % Al2O3; 5 mol. % to 20 mol. % MgO; 0 mol. % to 10 mol. % Li2O; and 1 mol. % to 3 mol. % of a nucleating agent. The nucleating agent is selected from the group consisting of ZrO2, TiO2, SnO2, HfO2, Ta2O5, Nb2O5, Y2O3, and combinations thereof. The nucleating agent may comprise greater than or equal to 50% ZrO2 and less than 50% of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of TiO2, SnO2, HfO2, Ta2O5, Nb2O5, Y2O3, and combinations thereof. The glass-ceramic article may have a molar ratio of MgO to Li2O of greater than or equal to 1:1. The glass-ceramic article may satisfy the relationship 0.85≤(MgO (mol %)+Li2O (mol %))/Al2O3 (mol %)≤1.2. The glass-ceramic article may comprise a crystalline phase comprising hexagonal stuffed β-quartz and glass.
US11365147B2
An optical component with improved degradation resistance is provided. The optical component includes an optical material and a coating. The optical material has a native surface that is susceptible to degradation processes. The coating is a layer of an inorganic material and is applied so as to be substantially contiguous so that there are no continuous paths between fluid surrounding the optical component and the optical material.
US11365143B2
Disclosed are a cow excreta treatment apparatus and method. According to an aspect of the present embodiment, in a cow excreta treatment apparatus which treats cow excreta wastewater, provided is an aerobic reaction chamber for improving the aggregation and sedimentation characteristics of fine solids, the aerobic reaction chamber comprising: an air blow pipe for supplying air; a vertical membrane for preventing the outflow of raw water; and a discharge pipe for discharging air and treated water and removing bubbles generated in the aerobic reaction chamber.
US11365140B2
A decision support system and method can be used to control a water treatment or distribution system. The decision support system collects data from multiple water system operators and analyses the data for a selected water system according to one or more rules or algorithms. The system returns data, optionally including alerts or predictions, to the system operator. Optionally, the decision support system uses machine learning applied to (i) historical data from a selected water system and/or (ii) data from other water systems to modify the rules or algorithms used to analyze current data from a selected water system. In some embodiments, the data collected includes microbial population data such as ATP data, optionally including derivatives of microbial population data; microbial speciation information; or, metagenomic data.
US11365137B2
Electro oxidation membrane evaporator 1 comprises sweep air handler 60; fluid tank 20 defining a fluid container; fluid contactor/separator 30; oxidation cell 40; and scrubber 80. Electro oxidation membrane evaporator 1 may allow higher percent water recovery from wastewater prior to delivering brine to a brine water recovery system and can allow O2 from air such as cabin air to continuously diffuse into the wastewater as O2 is consumed to generate oxidants, helping to eliminate the low oxidant environment at the end of the cycle that causes pH to remain high, and low pH prevents precipitates from forming for longer so more water can be evaporated from the wastewater.
US11365136B2
The present invention relates to an electrode for electrochlorination processes, optionally operable under polarity reversal conditions, comprising an active layer provided with a doped Ru—Ti catalytic composition.
US11365126B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing an aerogel blanket having improved processability by reducing manufacturing time and cost, the method including the steps of mixing a precursor material, an acid catalyst and a hydrous alcohol to prepare a sol, depositing a substrate in the sol, and reacting with a gaseous silazane-based compound to form a gel and to perform aging and surface modification reaction simultaneously to form a wet gel blanket, and drying the wet gel blanket to manufacture an aerogel blanket.
US11365125B2
Provided is a supercritical drying method for a silica wet gel blanket, and a method for producing a silica aerogel blanket including the same, the supercritical drying method being capable of improving drying efficiency. The supercritical drying method improves the efficiency of a supercritical drying step by reducing carbon dioxide usage without additional equipment investment and energy input, thereby drying a silica wet gel blanket in a more economical manner.
US11365122B2
Provided herein are graphene nanoribbons with high structural uniformity and low levels of impurities and methods of synthesis thereof. Also provided herein are graphene nanoplatelets of superior structural uniformity and low levels of impurities and methods of synthesis thereof. Further provided herein are mixtures of graphene nanoribbons and graphene nanoplatelets of good structural uniformity and low levels of impurities and methods of synthesis thereof. The method includes, for example, the steps of depositing catalyst on a constantly moving substrate, forming carbon nanotubes on the substrate, separating carbon nanotubes from the substrate, collecting the carbon nanotubes from the surface where the substrate moves continuously and sequentially through the depositing, forming, separating and collecting steps. Further processing steps convert the synthesized carbon nanotubes to graphene nanoribbons, graphene nanoplatelets and mixtures thereof.
US11365109B2
The present invention relates to a water dispensing device control method, which includes: a step of allowing a call word in a sound shape uttered from a user to be input into a microphone; a step of identifying the input call word in a sound identifying module and outputting guiding sound of identifying the call word through a speaker; a step of allowing the desired discharge water amount in the sound shape uttered from the user to be input into the microphone; a step of identifying the input desired water discharge amount in the sound identifying module and outputting guiding sound of identifying the water discharge amount through the speaker; a step of allowing a user to input a water discharge order; a step of allowing water discharge to be implemented while a water discharge valve is opened; and a step of allowing the water discharge to be finished while the water discharge valve is closed when the water discharge flow rate detected in a flow rate sensor reaches the input desired water discharge amount.
US11365103B2
A modular fork assembly for a pallet truck includes a discrete elongate body, a discrete load wheel module, and a discrete fork tip that may be detachably connected by the same or different types of interlocking mechanisms that are adapted to inhibit sheer forces. The load wheel module includes a frame and a load wheel assembly that includes a load wheel that is operatively connected to the frame.
US11365084B2
An apparatus for lifting, maneuvering, winding or unwinding reels comprising a pair of devices having an elongated retractable frame having a first end and a second end which are adjustable relative to one another; a first crossbar having two opposite ends, the first crossbar being mounted to a first end of the elongated retractable frame; a second crossbar having two opposite ends, the second crossbar being mounted to a second end of the elongated retractable frame; a first roller carrier mounted on the first crossbar; a second roller carrier mounted on the second crossbar, parallel to the first roller carrier, wherein the roller rotates axially about the roller carrier; and a means for adjusting the first and second end of the elongated retractable frame relative to one another so that the first and second ends of the elongated retractable frame are moved closer together and further apart.
US11365080B2
In some examples, a gimbaled monoclamp can include a housing including a first opening, a second opening, and a pivot point, a clamp disposed at least partially in the housing and including a first pad and a second pad to extend through the first opening and the second opening, respectively, and a pin extending through an opening in the clamp into the pivot point to couple the clamp to the housing in a gimbaled manner.
US11365076B2
To provide a configuration for allowing a user to easily take out a sheet stopped on a conveying belt. Regulating guides are disposed on both sides of a conveying belt in a sheet width direction Y and can guide both end edges in the sheet width direction of a sheet S being conveyed while being nipped by the conveying belt and the balls. A take-out port is provided on a side close to the regulating guide in the sheet width direction and serves as an opening for taking out the sheet stopped on the conveying belt. The regulating guide on a side away from the take-out port moves in the sheet width direction Y toward the take-out port when the sheet is stopped on the conveying belt.
US11365060B2
A conveyor module includes an elongate frame to which a looped conveyor track is mounted. The frame includes first and second end housings which include end pulleys for the conveyor track. The frame also includes a drive housing located at a mid-portion thereof which houses the drive motor for the conveyor track. The conveyor module is a discrete independently driven unit with an upper portion (running surface) of the conveyor track in a planar orientation for conveying items thereon in use. The conveyor module can include additional smart features. A warehouse floor arrangement uses a plurality of side by side conveyor modules being identical and grouped into banks.
US11365058B2
A spiral conveyor system may include a drum and a conveyor belt traveling helically about the drum from an entrance end to an exit end of the drum, and a rib associated with the drum, wherein the rib extends radially from a surface of the drum. A length of the rib extends along the length of the drum from a first end of the rib to a terminus of the rib proximate the entrance end of the drum. In addition, a height of the rib above of the surface of the drum varies along the length of the rib. Further, the rib includes at least one drive face, wherein the conveyor belt includes at least one belt surface configured to engage the at least one drive face, and wherein the drum includes a smooth ribless portion between the terminus of the rib and the entrance end of the drum.
US11365056B2
A conveying device including a frame, a transportation channel, and a branch conveying mechanism, the transportation channel and the branch conveying mechanism are driven by their respective driving units, and the transportation channel is provided with a number of rows of regular rollers, or at least a conveyor belt, or a combination of regular rollers and a conveyor belt, the branch conveying mechanism includes at least one group of irregular rollers, when the irregular roller rotates, the highest point of a top of the roller is higher than an upper surface of an adjacent transportation channel during the rotation, and the lowest place of a top horizontal plane of the roller is lower than the upper surface of the adjacent transportation channel; when the irregular roller does not rotate, the top of the roller substantially stops at the lowest place of the top horizontal plane of the roller during rotation; the transportation channel and the branch conveying mechanism are provided alternately.
US11365054B2
A sheet carrier stand apparatus for carrying and supporting sheet material includes a handle including a handle frame and a grip portion. An extension body is coupled to the handle and has an extension proximal end coupled to the handle frame, an extension distal end, an extension inner side, and an extension outer side. A kickstand is coupled to the extension body. The kickstand has a kickstand proximal end pivotably coupled to the extension outer side and a kickstand distal end lying adjacent the extension distal end with the kickstand in a folded position. The kickstand pivots away from the extension body to an extended position. A cradle has a back lip coupled to the extension inner side adjacent the extension distal end, a cradle bottom perpendicularly extending from the back lip, and a front lip perpendicularly extending from the cradle bottom.
US11365049B2
A system and method for storage and retrieval are provided. The system includes a multi-level storage structure, and mobile robots configured to pick, transport and place one or more tote, container, or object. This system and method can be used in order-fulfillment applications in which one or more workstations accommodate a picker that transports one or more eaches from a tote on one of the autonomous mobile robots to a put location, and an input/output interface induct material into the system and discharge fulfilled orders from the system. The mobile robots are further configured to move from level to level in the multi-level storage structure via inclined or vertical tracks without requiring a vertical lift or vertical conveyor.
US11365047B1
A system may include a closure actuation assembly to actuate a bin closure apparatus on a storage bin apparatus, and the assembly may include a gate movement structure to move a gate of the closure assembly. The gate movement structure may include a movement rod for engaging the gate. The actuation assembly may further include a support structure which in turn includes a support beam for mounting on the bin elevating structure, a securing element provided on the support beam for securing the support beam, and a support plate mounted on the support beam and having an adjustment slot for passing the movement rod therethrough. The support structure may include a support slide mounted on the support plate and having a support aperture to receive the movement rod passing through the adjustment slot. The position of the support slide over the adjustment slot may be adjustable.
US11365039B2
The invention relates to a carrying device for beverage cans which allows the manual carrying of beverage cans grouped together in the form of a “pack”, which device comprises a body devoid of side walls, having on its surface at least one opening defining a contour with proportions which allow the tight passage therethrough of a beverage can, the contour of said opening having a plurality of tabs that can be folded or bent in relation to the body itself and extending into the same opening, said tabs having a distribution according to at least one sequence, said sequence comprising two contiguous tabs followed by a gap followed by another tab followed by another gap.
US11365038B2
A packaging material having a contact surface formed of a thermoplastic resin that is adapted for contacting a viscous content. The contact surface is a mirror surface having a roughness Sa of not more than 100 nm and a water contact angle of not less than 60° C. at 20° C.
US11365037B2
Described is a multi-part device for keeping consumables such as dietary supplements in separate, non-contaminatable, individually accessible container compartments. The device of the invention can also be used for storage of other items, as well. The top of the device is removable, has several interconnected lids that are attached and retained to the container portion of the device by a rotable cap, the position of which selects which lid, if any, can be opened by a user. The compartment lids separate the contents stored in the various compartments so as to keep the contents of each compartment from being contaminated by items or materials placed in other compartments or from the environment. The safe can be locked shut by rotating the cap to predetermined positions.
US11365036B2
A closure assembly for a container comprising a pressurised tank and a plug member, the pressurised tank has an interior volume and a cylindrical wall including an annular boss member at its open end. The plug member has an annular channel arranged at a first side of the plug member adapted to sealingly engage with the boss member. The channel has at least one orifice extending from the floor or outer side wall of the channel to a nozzle at the second side of the plug member. The orifice is sealed from the interior volume of the tank when the channel is sealingly engaged with the boss member in a first position, but is in fluid communication with the interior volume of the tank when at least part of the channel is no longer engaged with the boss member in a second position.
US11365033B2
A dispensing system for use with a portable container for the storage, transport, and dispensation of fluids, especially liquids. The dispensing system includes an annular collar affixable to such a portable container. The collar is matable with a twist-top having a straw thereon. Once mated, corresponding structures on the collar and twist-stop prevent or inhibit separation. The twist-top can be twisted open to a position in which corresponding interior structures of the twist-top and collar form a fluid channel allowing liquid in the container to flow past sealing elements such as a gasket, and to egress to a contoured surface for sipping hot liquids by a human. The twist-top can be twisted close to reseal and inhibit fluid egress. Alternatively, a rotatable flip straw in the twist-top can be opened to drink cold liquids from the container while the twist-top is sealed in closed position.
US11365031B2
The device for packaging and dispensing a product comprises a container (1) intended to contain in a sterile manner the product to be packaged and dispensed in the form of calibrated doses or drops by means of a dispensing accessory equipped with a mouthpiece (4) of the type having a flexible part (5), said accessory forming a dosing chamber (7) for the dispensing of the calibrated drop. An outer wall (8) of the mouthpiece delimits a space (18) equipped with one or more openings (19), the end of said mouthpiece (4) including a central channel (13) allowing the dispensing of the calibrated drop, associated with one or more lateral channels (11) leading into the space (18). A cover (14) equipped with an inner skirt (15), in the mounted state, creates an overpressure so as to eliminate any residual drop (10) which can subsist in the mouthpiece (4) at the end. Application to the dispensing of doses of sterile products, particularly of drops in ophthalmology.
US11365025B2
A pallet cover and transport container includes a container body having a top end, a plurality of side walls, and an interior space. The bottom end of the container is open to the interior space and includes complementary dimensions to a shipping pallet. A first plurality of grooves are disposed along the bottom end of the side walls at locations complementary to the side channels of the shipping pallet. Connectors are disposed along the side walls to removably secure the container to a pallet. The connectors including a sliding shaft having an aperture for receiving a lock. A second plurality of grooves are disposed along the closed top end of the container body to allow the container to be used while inverted and transported by a forklift.
US11365020B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for defect prevention for flexible container sealing systems. In one embodiment, an example flexible container sealing system may include a first camera configured to image an item disposed in a flexible container, a laser system configured to detect presence of items, a cutting assembly configured to cut a material that forms the flexible container, a sealing assembly configured to seal one or more ends of the flexible container, and a computer system configured to determine, using the first camera, a height of the item disposed in the flexible container.
US11365016B2
A plasma propulsion system with no internal electrodes is described. Gas is flowed into an insulated axisymmetric plasma liner. A radio frequency antenna generates an inductive or helicon plasma discharge within the liner. The plasma is accelerated through a converging/diverging magnetic field out of the liner, generating thrust.
US11365015B2
Disclosed is a holding device having a support base for holding an electric device and a driving member for driving the support base. Upon mounting the electronic device on the holding device, the holding device has at least two stable states, and the holding device stores a preset time duration for transitioning from the first stable state to the second stable state. The holding device further includes a control circuit, which, in response to a time during which the holding device transitions from the first stable state to the second stable state exceeds the preset time duration, controls the driving member to stop or reduce a power output.
US11365011B2
The method of controlling an autonomous anti-icing apparatus includes: a first step of collecting and storing ice formation environment data; a second step of calculating a calculated value of an aerodynamic parameter based on the ice formation environment data and the ice formation prediction data in real time to determine whether ice formation is present on a surface of the structure and calculating a degree of ice formation through the calculated value of the aerodynamic parameter; and a third step of allowing a calculation control unit to send a temperature control signal, which includes a heating period signal, to a power supply so that an electric heating part is heated when the ice formation is determined by comparing the degree of ice formation with a preset value.
US11365009B2
A spring clutch arm assembly includes a moveable arm comprising a retracted configuration and a deployed configuration, a fixed shaft, and a spring portion comprising a moving portion with a distal end and a coil portion wrapped around the fixed shaft. The moveable arm may include a moveable member. The distal end may be attached to the moveable member. The moveable arm may be held in the deployed configuration by the spring portion.
US11365003B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle, a tether assembly selectively coupled to the unmanned aerial vehicle, a processor, and a memory. The memory contains instructions thereon, which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to disconnect the tether assembly from the unmanned aerial vehicle.
US11364996B2
A boundary layer ingestion fan system for location aft of the fuselage of an aircraft is shown. It comprises a nacelle (501) defining a duct (502), and a fan (503) located within the duct. The fan comprises a hub arranged to rotate around a rotational axis (A-A) and a plurality of blades attached to the hub. Each blade has a span (r) from a root at the hub defining a 0 percent span position (r=0) to a tip defining a 100 percent span position (r=1) and a plurality of span positions therebetween (r ∈ [0, 1]), and a stagger angle at the 0 percent span position (ζhub) relative to the rotational axis of 40 degrees or greater.
US11364991B2
An aircraft propulsion system comprises first and second co-axial propulsors, one of the first and second propulsor being positioned forward of the other propulsor. A first electric motor is configured to drive the first propulsor, and a second electric motor is configured to drive the second propulsor. The first electric motor comprising a rotor radially inwardly of the stator, and the second electric motor comprises a rotor radially outwardly of the stator. The stator of the first electric motor is mounted to the stator of the second electric motor.
US11364986B2
A blade for a kayak paddle with a shaft can include a body extending from the shaft to a blade tip. The body has a cross-sectional profile separated at a chord line into a top section with an upper surface and a bottom section with a lower surface. The paddle can also include a shoulder section smoothly transitioning between the shaft and the blade body. The top section of the cross-sectional profile can be thicker than the bottom section and the upper surface exhibits more curvature than the lower surface, thereby increasing fluid flow speed over the upper surface to generate a lift force when the body is moved through water.
US11364983B2
A water mat for a boat and a boat. The boat may be a pontoon boat. The water mat may include a cut-out. The cut-out may be formed in a forward side of the water mat, with the forward side of the water mat is connected to the stern of the boat such that the outboard motor is positioned in the cut-out of the water mat. A flexible connecting sheet, that is configured to connect the water mat with the boat, may be attached to a connection side of the water mat and extend along the connection side of the water mat.
US11364978B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide an underwater ship attachment that is used to divert air, debris, and pressure fluctuations. More specifically, the present invention discloses an anti-cavitation device (such as a diverter device) for flat-bottom boats. The air diverter has been developed to regain, enhance, and protect the operational function of propulsive and steering equipment among displacement and semi displacement hulls. As with protect items such as bottom mounted depth sounder transducers, intakes for engine or general cooling, sea chests, keel coolers, zincs, and all other underwater mounted items susceptible to air ingestion, air disturbance malfunction or debris impact.
US11364977B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a boat driver awareness system that alerts other boaters that there are swimmers, skiers, divers, rope or other hazards are in the water, thereby telling them to be aware and take extra caution in the area. When boating, especially on smaller or busy lakes/areas, this system will alert all other boaters that there are people/swimmers in the water and they can respond by keeping out of the area.
US11364975B2
The mooring connector has a hollow body or shell and a central core. The hollow body or shell is formed from an engineering polymer, e.g. polyamide, and is generally cylindrical and has two shell parts. The hollow body has an outer surface and an inner surface. The outer surface has a central groove portion or rope running surface and two outer groove portions or rope running surfaces. The two outer groove portions or rope running surfaces are tapered, such that the outer groove portions are not equally spaced from the central groove portion around the entire circumference of the hollow body or shell. The central core is a solid body that is formed from a metallic material, for example steel. The central core is generally cylindrical and has a shape that is configured to correspond to the shape of the recess of the hollow body or shell. The central core has a central portion and arms that extend from the central portion to outer flanges. The diameter of the central core at the outer flanges and the central portion is greater than the diameter of the central core at the arms. This is to ensure that the central core has the required strength in the areas of the mooring connector that supports a rope, in use.
US11364973B2
A hybrid vehicle includes: an engine; an electric motor; a transmission; a main clutch; a primary gear configured to transmit rotational power from the engine to the main clutch; a pump including a driven shaft to which rotational power is input from the engine and the electric motor; a first one-way clutch configured to transmit power from the engine to the pump; and a second one-way clutch configured to transmit power from the electric motor to the pump. The first one-way clutch and the second one-way clutch are disposed around the input shaft and located between the primary gear and a gear train of the transmission.
US11364968B2
A pressure modulator for an anti-lock braking system of a bicycle. The pressure modulator includes a cylinder, and a piston having a through opening for hydraulic fluid, the piston being situated inside the cylinder and subdividing the cylinder into a first accumulator chamber and a second accumulator chamber, the first and second accumulator chambers being connectable to each other via the through opening. The pressure modulator further includes a valve system, which includes a closing element and an actuating device for the closing element, the closing element being situated in the through opening, and the actuating device being situated at a bottom of the cylinder, and an actuator for moving the piston.
US11364966B2
A tricycle that allows riding in adequate conditions over any type of terrain is disclosed, the tricycle having a structural frame onto which a seat and several pedals are incorporated, equipped with a rolling assembly made up of one rear wheel and two parallel front wheels, with the front wheels incorporated into two mounting forks equipped with several respective stems projecting upwards.
US11364965B2
A saddle riding vehicle airbag device can be disposed compactly and the airbag can be deployed vertically upward. In the saddle riding vehicle airbag device provided with a retainer that is provided in front of a seat for a rider, an inflator and an airbag that is housed in the retainer, is inflated by means of a gas discharged from the inflator and is deployed in front of the rider, in which the retainer is provided with an L-shaped airbag passage that causes the airbag to deploy upward in a left-right direction, and, in a deployed state, the airbag is formed bilaterally asymmetrical with respect to a left-right center line of the airbag.
US11364964B2
A motorcycle accessory mounting system for conveniently riding with beverages and a cellphone includes a cellphone mount apparatus and a beverage mount apparatus. The cellphone mount apparatus comprises a cellphone clamp to selectively engage a handlebar of a motorcycle. A cellphone holder back is coupled to a cellphone rod. A pair of cellphone holder sides is coupled to the cellphone holder back and to selectively engage a cellphone. The beverage mount apparatus comprises a beverage clamp to selectively engage the handlebar. A beverage holder is coupled to a beverage rod and has a cup bottom, a cup sidewall coupled to the cup bottom, and an open cup top side. The beverage holder serves as a cup holder to receive a cup conforming to the cup sidewall. A lid and a straw are engageable with the open cup top side.
US11364963B2
There is described a bicycle seat post assembly in which the travel distance of the seat post can be adjusted. The seat post assembly includes an outer tube that is configured to telescopically receive an inner tube. The inner tube is axially slidable relative to the outer tube between a retracted position and an extended position, the extended position being determined by an extension assembly in which an inner contact member engages an outer contact member, thereby setting the upper limit of axial extension of the inner tube. The extension of the inner tube can be limited to an intermediate position that lies between the retracted and extended positions by an insertable shim that is positionable between the inner and outer contact members.
US11364960B2
A vehicle comprises a chassis, a seat, a motor, an endless drive track, and a rear suspension assembly supporting the endless drive track. The rear suspension assembly includes a left slide and right slide rail, at least one rear suspension arm being operatively pivotally connected to one of the slide rails and the chassis, with at least one coupling block being connected thereto. A rear stopper is connected to one of the slide rails, the rear stopper being disposed within a range of motion of the at least one coupling block in a first position and being disposed out of the range of motion of the at least one coupling block in a second position. The vehicle includes a control cable and an actuator, the rear stopper moving between the first and second positions when moving the actuator between first and second actuator positions.
US11364956B2
This disclosure relates to a motor vehicle floor assembly with recesses for electrical lines and electrical modules, and a corresponding method. An example assembly includes a floor with a surface, a channel at a first depth relative to the surface, and a pocket at a second depth relative to the surface. The second depth is greater than the first depth.
US11364953B2
The vehicle control system includes, a path generation unit that generates a target path for parking a vehicle at a parkable target parking space in a destination area including a parking area, a travel control unit that causes the vehicle to travel so as to follow the target path, and a control device that controls the path generation unit and the travel control unit to automatically park the vehicle at the target parking space. The path generation unit includes a search path generation unit that generates a search path for searching for a target parking space as a target path based on vehicle peripheral information including an image of the periphery of the vehicle without using map data in the destination area.
US11364950B2
The present application discloses a steering control system, a method and a crane. The steering control system includes: one or more first angle sensors, one or more second angle sensors, and a steering controller; each of the first angle sensors collects an actual steering angle of a wheel corresponding to a mechanical steering axle as a first steering angle; each of the second angle sensors an actual steering angle of a wheel corresponding to an electrically controlled steering axle as a second steering angle; the steering controller obtains a theoretical steering angle of the wheel corresponding to the electrically controlled steering axle in a corresponding travel mode according to the first steering angle, and compares the second steering angle with the theoretical steering angle, to control the wheel corresponding to the electrically controlled steering axle to steer according to a difference therebetween.
US11364948B2
There is provided an electric power steering device, including: a reverse steering detection unit configured to determine start of reverse steering when a magnitude of a rotational speed of a motor is equal to or smaller than a set speed, a rotational acceleration of the motor is in a direction of causing the rotational speed of the motor to become 0, and a magnitude of the rotational acceleration of the motor is equal to or larger than a set acceleration; and a current command control unit configured to output a current command for the motor based on the steering torque or the rotational speed of the motor, in which the current command control unit is configured to increase a transfer gain from input to output by the current command control unit when the reverse steering detection unit determines start of the reverse steering.
US11364946B1
The invention relates to adding jacks to hand-operated dollys which allows a heavy household item to be lifted and moved around, as needed. The system includes two separate dollys facing each other. In use, the double dollys face each other. Each dolly includes a jack support plate atop movable wheels that are several inches in diameter. A jack is provided to lift the item to be moved off the ground. Each dolly also includes a dolly frame with a ledge which raises the height of the item being lifted, in accordance with movement of the jack. The double dolly includes straps connect the dollys, with the item to be moved secured between the two dollys. This stabilizes the item being lifted and moved.
US11364945B2
The invention relates to a new manual cash cassette trolley (1), which is driven manually by the employee/security guard, said manual trolley (1) having a formal structure that greatly facilitates the displacement of the cash cassette, overcoming obstacles that usually cause inconvenience and demand physical strength and attention from the user who handles the cassette container boxes; said manual cash cassette trolley (1) having stoppers (7), spindles (4) on the internal faces of the extensions (6) and a smaller caster (5a) on each of its external faces; among the larger casters (5) positioned inferiorly and the smaller casters (5a) positioned centrally or intermediately, the other portion (2a) of said structure is positioned horizontally and orthogonal to the main vertical portion (2), which is “U” shaped and receives bilateral plates (8); the horizontal portion (2a) of the structure also receives bilateral tubular elements (9) in the form of right triangles; and the external and shorter section (10) of said horizontal portion (2a) of said structure of said cash manual trolley (1) features a handle element (11).
US11364932B2
A method for transmitting sensing information of an autonomous vehicle for remote driving in automated vehicle & highway systems includes: receiving information on a driving route of the autonomous vehicle from a server; acquiring sensing information of a surrounding environment; setting priority values of sensors for transmission of the sensing information on the basis of a driving direction determined by the information on the driving route; setting a value for a degree of danger of a sensed object on the basis of the sensing information; and setting a transmission period of the sensing information on the basis of the value for the degree of danger. Accordingly, sensing information required for a driving situation can be efficiently transmitted. Further, one or more an autonomous vehicle, a user terminal and a server of the present invention can be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to 5G service, and the like.
US11364930B2
A vehicle control system includes a display and a display controller configured to cause the display to display an image related to a state of a vehicle and perform control for switching display details to be displayed on the display when a predetermined event has occurred in the vehicle before driving assistance of the vehicle is started.
US11364919B2
A driving behavior evaluation device includes a memory and a processor. In a case in which a speed of a target vehicle exceeds a regulation speed and an amount of deviation of the speed of the target vehicle with respect to an average speed of vehicles around the target vehicle is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the processor is configured to set an evaluation of driving behavior of the target vehicle to a lower value than in a case in which the speed of the target vehicle exceeds the regulation speed and the amount of deviation is less than the threshold value.
US11364918B2
A notifying device predicts the position of a vehicle, on a road through which the vehicle is predicted to pass, after a lapse of the time taken for the driver to fall into an abnormal state. When the predicted position of the vehicle is included in a communication impossible area, the notifying device notifies, at the position of a point where an indication that the driver is going to fall into the abnormal state is detected, a call center terminal that the indication that the driver is going to fall into the abnormal state is detected from the driver.
US11364913B2
A method, autonomous vehicle and system for operating an autonomous vehicle. A sensor obtains data of an agent. A processor determines a measure of complexity of the environment in which the autonomous vehicle is operating from the sensor data, selects a control scheme for operating the autonomous vehicle based on the determined complexity, and operates the autonomous vehicle using the selected control scheme.
US11364910B1
In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving ambient sound; determining if the ambient sound includes a siren; in accordance with determining that the ambient sound includes a siren, determining a first location associated with the siren; receiving a camera image; determining if the camera image includes a flashing light; in accordance with determining that the camera image includes a flashing light, determining a second location associated with the flashing light; 3D data; determining if the 3D data includes an object; in accordance with determining that the 3D data includes an object, determining a third location associated with the object; determining a presence of an emergency vehicle based on the siren, detected flashing light and detected object; determining an estimated location of the emergency vehicle based on the first, second and third locations; and initiating an action related to the vehicle based on the determined presence and location.
US11364905B2
A method and control system for assessing a potential for collision between a body part of a vehicle and a roadway. The method includes predicting a trajectory path of the vehicle along the roadway, monitoring elevations of the roadway along the trajectory path, and analyzing, at a point along the trajectory path of the roadway, whether the body part of the vehicle will collide with the roadway based upon the estimated elevation of the body part on the vehicle at the point along the trajectory path and the estimated elevation of the roadway at the point along the trajectory path.
US11364903B2
A collision avoidance apparatus for use with an automated guided vehicle (AGV) includes: an object detection sensor assembly; a controller in electronic communication with the sensor assembly; the object detection sensor assembly configured to generate a detection signal to define a sensing region and receive a reflected detection signal; the controller configured to: process the reflected signal to detect presence of an object based on a parameter of the reflected signal, define a boundary within the sensing region, dynamically adjust the size and/or shape of the boundary, and determine if the detected object is located within the boundary.
US11364896B2
An information processing device configured to control a traveling unit which is coupled to a resting unit including equipment on which a user takes a rest and carries the resting unit, the traveling unit being movable even while not coupled to the resting unit, the information processing device includes a control unit configured to: select a first parking lot in which the resting unit is to be arranged from among vacant parking lots within a predetermined area including a current position of a terminal owned by the user who desires to take the rest; transmit, to the terminal, information on movement from the current position of the terminal to the first parking lot; and transmit, to a first traveling unit, a command to carry a first resting unit to the first parking lot and arrange the first resting unit in the first parking lot.
US11364886B2
A method for determining the overall-deceleration values is attainable by actuation of wheel brakes, of a utility vehicle or of a vehicle combination with several axles. For the purpose of implementing a deceleration request in the course of partial brake applications, a braking-force distribution with braking forces distributed unequally to brake units with the wheel brakes of one or more axles is undertaken. In each instance one of the brake units is selected and a larger braking force is imposed via this selected brake unit than via the other brake units. A current deceleration of the utility vehicle or of the vehicle combination is measured or ascertained and is assigned as partial-deceleration value to the respectively selected brake unit and stored and the attainable overall-deceleration values are determined as the sum of the partial-deceleration values of all the brake units.
US11364884B2
A method for active brake selection, in accordance with various embodiments is disclosed. The method comprises detecting an outbound taxiing event for an aircraft. The method further comprises determining whether an inboard or outboard brake has less wear than a respective inboard or outboard brake on a respective landing gear. The method may further comprise selecting an inboard or outboard brake to use during the outbound taxiing event.
US11364881B2
An organ type electronic brake pedal apparatus having a high-load spring module and a hysteresis module is capable of tuning a pedal effort, a stroke and a hysteresis operation force, desired differently for each vehicle model, by changing a component of the high-load spring module or hysteresis module. In particular, the organ type electronic brake pedal apparatus includes: a pedal housing to be fixedly installed on a floor below a driver seat of a vehicle; a pedal pad pivotably coupled to the pedal housing to be operated by a driver of the vehicle; a high-load spring module including a first end and a second end pivotably coupled to the pedal housing and the pedal pad, respectively; and a hysteresis module to connect the pedal housing and the pedal pad and generate hysteresis when the pedal pad is operated by the driver.
US11364875B2
The present invention is directed to a method for preventing a relay attack between a mobile phone and a starting device of an automobile, which allows to prevent stealing a vehicle. According to the invention, very specific movement profiles of an authorized driver or user are recognized and thereby it is prevented that an unauthorized user starts the vehicle and then steals it, in various application scenarios. This is based, among other things, on the underlying hardware components' sensor technology used. Further, the invention relates to an analogously arranged system arrangement and to a computer program product with control commands which implement the method or operate the system arrangement.
US11364874B2
A control system of a marine vessel includes a portable device and a receiving device. The portable device transmits a switch control signal to the receiving device based on an input operation. The control system of the marine vessel performs an authentication control process based on an authentication signal from the portable device, and controls opening or closing of a current path based on the switch control signal from the portable device.
US11364873B2
A control device for a vehicle seat belt, includes: a retraction unit that is configured to retract a seat belt through use of a driving force of a motor and to stop retracting the seat belt when the motor is stopped from being driven; an acceleration measurement unit that is configured to measure an acceleration of a vehicle; a state detection unit that is configured to detect whether or not the vehicle is in a stable state while running; and a control unit that is configured to stop driving the motor when the acceleration measured by the acceleration measurement unit during driving of the motor has remained lower than a first set acceleration for at least a first set time and the vehicle has remained in the stable state detected by the state detection unit for at least a second set time.
US11364869B1
A vehicle safety seat system comprises: i) a vehicle seat configured to move to a substantially reclining position, the vehicle seat comprising a seat back and a seat bottom; and ii) a first support arm associated with the seat back, the first support arm including a first airbag on a lower surface of the first support arm, the first support arm holding the first airbag in a position above the thorax of a passenger reclining in the vehicle seat. The first airbag inflates in the event of a collision and provides protection between the first support arm and the thorax of the passenger.
US11364864B2
A system includes a vehicle body which further includes a front beam. The system also includes an energy absorber that may be coupled to the front-end beam of the vehicle body. In an example, the energy absorber includes a first edge and a second edge that may be opposite to the first edge along a first direction. The energy absorber also includes a first exterior surface that extends between the first edge and the second edges of the energy absorber. Further, the first exterior surface includes a plurality of openings therein. The system also includes a grille having a first edge and a second edge which may be opposite to the first edge of the grille. In one example, the second edge of the grille may be coupled to the first edge of the energy absorber. The grille includes a plurality of extensions that may extend from the second edge in such a way that the plurality of extensions are positioned in the plurality of openings in the energy absorber.
US11364863B2
Disclosed is a device for distributing crash energy within a vehicle. The device includes a member insertable into an end of a bumper beam of a vehicle, where a first portion of the inserted member occupies an unsupported end of the bumper beam. A second portion of the inserted member is fixedly attached to the bumper beam and to a left frame rail or a right frame rail of the vehicle, and a third portion of the inserted member occupies a portion of the bumper beam between the left frame rail and the right frame rail.
US11364857B2
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle user interface system allowing for plug and play customizations of vehicle electronics. These customizations are permitted by the use of vehicle electronics modules that can be moved as desired without requiring additional programming from the user to map a desired function to a specific switch of the vehicle electronics system.
US11364856B2
A pinch-grip mount holds a mobile device with respect to a support surface and has a pair of arms movably extending from opposite sides of a base. A pair of rollers is carried by distal ends of the pair of arms. The distal ends of the pair of arms pivot about a joint between wider and narrow positions. A pair of opposing pads is carried by distal ends of the pair of arms and have an exterior contact surface. The pair of opposing pads comprise a tacky material with the exterior contact surface being a tacky surface.
US11364854B2
A trim element having a functional element that includes a first outer surface and a second outer surface, opposite the first outer surface along a thickness direction of the functional element, the first outer surface having at least one display or control device relative to at least one function of the vehicle. The second outer surface includes a holder device for a nomadic electronic apparatus on the second outer surface.
US11364848B2
An item holding structure in which at least one convex part and/or a plurality of concave parts are provided in an upper end part of a side wall part on a vehicle interior side in a recess-shaped part provided in an interior material of a door of a vehicle and operable by a passenger when opening and closing the door, wherein the interior material of the door has a hollow part that recesses so as to project in an outer side of a vehicle width direction under the recess-shaped part, and the item held by the convex part and/or concave part can be accommodated in the recessed part.
US11364839B2
A vehicular control system includes a control and a plurality of sensors that include at least a camera and a 3D point-cloud LIDAR sensor. The control is operable to process captured image data to determine presence of another vehicle and to process captured 3D point-cloud LIDAR data to determine presence of the other vehicle. The control, responsive at least in part to processing of captured image data and captured 3D point-cloud LIDAR data, determines presence of the other vehicle when the other vehicle is (i) in the field of view of the camera and/or (ii) in the field of sensing of the 3D point-cloud LIDAR sensor, and responsive to determination of the other vehicle, the control at least in part controls at least one vehicle function of the equipped vehicle.
US11364828B2
A seat assembly includes a cushioned component having a lattice matrix, wherein the lattice matrix includes a first portion defined by a first pattern of interconnected links which defines a first set of cells, and a second portion defined by a second pattern of interconnected links which defines a second set of cells. The first portion of the lattice matrix includes a density profile that is different than a density profile of the second portion of the lattice matrix. An air bladder is disposed within a core portion of the lattice matrix and includes a non-porous outer casing surrounding an interior cavity. The outer casing of the air bladder and the lattice matrix are integrated components comprised of a common material to define a monolithic structure created using an additive manufacturing process.
US11364826B2
A sealed boat seat suspension including a plurality of sealed rails. The sealed boat seat suspension also includes a boat seat attachment component which is coupled to the plurality of sealed rails. The sealed boat seat suspension also includes a boat seat attachment component which is movable with respect to at least a portion of the plurality of sealed rails. The sealed boat seat suspension also includes a suspension component which is coupled to the boat seat attachment component such that the suspension component provides at least some control of movement of the boat seat attachment component with respect to at least a portion of the plurality of sealed rails.
US11364823B2
Provided is a vehicle-seat apparatus including: a front link whose upper end portion is connected to a front portion of a seat cushion; a sliding member connected to a lower end portion of the front link; a sliding guidance member installed on a bottom surface of the accommodation space to extend backward and forward and thus to guide linear backward and forward movements of the sliding member; an L-shaped main link whose front end portion is connected to a body of the front link and whose rear upper end portion is connected to a lower end portion of a seat back; a fixation bracket installed on an upper end portion of a rear wall of the accommodation space; and a rear support link whose front upper end portion is connected to a rear portion of the seat cushion, and whose rear lower end portion is connected to the fixation bracket.
US11364822B1
Child restraint system in a vehicle with features to support and ensconse the head and shoulders of an occupant during lateral impact to the vehicle.
US11364812B2
A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle is applied to a hybrid vehicle capable of running in EV mode and configured to allow external charging. The control apparatus comprises a controller configured to acquire an external charging time at which charging of the battery by electrical power supplied from outside the vehicle becomes possible with the hybrid vehicle staying at a predetermined charging site and execute generation control to control electrical power generation by the electric motor using an internal combustion engine on the basis of a remaining time defined as the length of time from the current time to the time of the next external charging time, when an SOC value becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined lower threshold. The control apparatus as above can reduce the degree of dependence on the internal combustion engine as much as possible.
US11364799B2
Provided is a torque control device for a four-wheel-drive vehicle that can stably output a minimum torque required to start or drive the vehicle to the auxiliary wheel side under a road surface condition that main driving wheels are stuck in the idling state or under a road surface condition equivalent thereto. When front wheels Wf1, Wf2 are judged to be stuck in the idling state, a current rear torque TrCMD is raised step by step. And, when a brake operates in the state in which the four wheels are at stop after raising the command torque TrCMD step by step, the command rear torque TrCMD is released. And, the command rear torque TrCMD is raised step by step when the command rear torque TrCMD continues to be released for a second threshold time.
US11364787B2
A hybrid drive train includes a first electric motor, a nested power splitting planetary gear set having a first carrier element and a second carrier element, an inner sun gear coupled with the first electric motor and an outer sun gear coupled with an output shaft. A first selectable one-way clutch controls the first and the second carrier element, and switches between operation as a one way clutch and operation as a brake. A second selectable one-way clutch controls a ring gear of the nested planetary gear set, and switches between operation as a one way clutch and operation as a brake. The extra outer planetary gear set improves towing capacity at higher speeds without substantially increasing the axial length of the power split device.
US11364783B2
A hybrid driving apparatus includes an internal combustion engine, a motive power transmission mechanism transmitting a driving force to main driving wheels, a main driving electric motor generating a driving force of the main driving wheels, an accumulator, sub-driving electric motors generating driving forces of sub-driving wheels, and a control apparatus executing an electric motor traveling mode and an internal combustion engine traveling mode. The sub-driving electric motor is provided to each of the sub-driving wheels, the control apparatus causes only the main driving electric motor to generate the driving force in the electric motor traveling mode and causes the main driving electric motor and the sub-driving electric motors to generate the driving forces in acceleration of the vehicle at a predetermined vehicle speed or higher, and although the engine generates the driving force, it does not cause the motors to generate driving forces in the traveling mode.
US11364776B2
A cable drive system having a cable drum housing, a cable drum unit mounted therein for rotation by a drive motor, a first control cable and a second control cable. The first and second control cables are each windably held on the cable drum unit for the purpose of driving the protection device. The first control cable is guided out of a first housing part of the cable drum housing along a first direction, and the second control cable is guided out of a separate, second housing part of the cable drum housing along a second direction. Different mounting positions of the first housing part are provided in which the first housing part is in different rotational positions relative to the second housing part, with the result that the first guidance direction has a different orientation than the second guidance direction in the different mounting positions.
US11364772B2
An air conditioning unit, including: a chamber; a fan, in the chamber, for effecting an entry air entering the chamber and an exit air exiting the chamber; and an evaporative unit, in the chamber, for conditioning the entry air; wherein the fan, together with at least part of the chamber, creates a pressure zone, without ejecting air directly to, or without drawing air directly from, the evaporative unit, such that air moves through the evaporative unit substantially through a pressure effect.
US11364764B2
A suspension system for a dual-axle wheels assembly, including a sub-frame, a first arm connected to the sub-frame and rotatable with respect to the sub-frame about a first axis, a first connector connected to the first arm and having a first connector axis about which a first wheel rotates when connected to the first connector, the first connector axis is parallel to the first axis, a second arm connected to the sub-frame and rotatable with respect to the sub-frame about a second axis that is parallel to the first axis, a second connector connected to the second arm and having a second connector axis about which a second wheel rotates when connected to the second connector, the second connector axis is parallel to the second axis, and a motion restrainer comprising a spring and a damper and interconnecting the first arm and the second ram.
US11364763B2
The ECU of the stabilizer control apparatus determines, based on a high frequency component of a wheel acceleration and a low frequency component of a wheel speed difference, whether a road surface state is a rough road state or a smooth road state. When the road surface state is determined to be the rough road state, the ECU sets a turning determination threshold to a rough road threshold. When the road surface state is determined to be the smooth road state, the ECU sets the threshold to a smooth road threshold. When a turning determination parameter is greater than the threshold, the ECU sets each of first, second, and third cylinders to a lock state to increase rigidity of stabilizers. When the turning determination parameter is smaller than the turning determination threshold, the ECU sets each of the cylinders to a free state to decrease the rigidity of the stabilizers.
US11364754B2
The present invention relates to a device and method for securing a non motorized trailer from unauthorized movement by attaching a keyed tongue bar to an authorized vehicle and attaching a paired tongue receiver to the non motorized trailer. If a vehicle does not have attached thereto the keyed tongue, the vehicle, i.e. unauthorized vehicle, will not be able to be attached to and move the trailer. The keyed tongue bar and paired tongue receiver have an abstract-shaped end and matched abstract-shaped opening, respectively.
US11364753B1
A coupler for connecting a trailer to a ball hitch. The coupler has a body that provides a cavity for a downwardly facing ball hitch receiver. Spaced apart first and second sidewalls have therein first, second, and third apertures, and the first, second and third apertures in the first sidewall are aligned with the first, second, and third apertures in the second sidewall. A latch handle having a base with ear portions having downwardly facing surfaces is pivotally connected to the body using a pivot shaft pin. The body includes a latch slot, in which a spring biased ball latch, sized and shaped for engagement with a ball hitch is connected to the latch handle by a latch bar. A safety pin is provided, which can be inserted through the third apertures in each of the first and second sidewalls. When inserted, the latch handle is secured in an uplock condition, so that downward closing motion of the latch handle is arrested by the downward facing surfaces at the ear portions of the latch handle. Alternately, the safety pin can be used to secure the latch handle in a downlock, closed condition.
US11364752B2
A towing hook arranged on a mining machine, with a first end having a bent portion to allow a towing tool to be connected and a second end having a cylindrical rod. An intermediate part is located between the first and the second end. The towing hook is arranged to be mounted in a through hole in a frame of a machine in order for the first and second ends to be positioned on different sides of the machine frame. The intermediate part is mounted partly in the through hole of the frame, and wherein the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical rod is generally parallel with a longitudinal axis defined through the towing hook representing the force transmitting direction when connecting the towing tool to the bent portion.
US11364745B2
A pneumatic tire includes, in a tread portion, main grooves extending in a circumferential direction; ribs defined by the main grooves; at least one rib comprising sipes extending in a lateral direction; the sipes comprising a chamfered sipe with a chamfer portion provided on at least one edge, and a non-chamfered sipe with no chamfer portion provided on an edge; the chamfered sipe comprising one end portion terminating in the at least one rib and another end portion communicating with one of the main grooves located on either side of the at least one rib; a plurality of the chamfered sipes communicating with one of the main grooves located on either side of the at least one rib being alternately disposed in the circumferential direction; and the non-chamfered sipe being disposed close to the chamfered sipe on at least one side in the circumferential direction.
US11364744B2
A tire has a lug, a plurality of first recessed regions that extend from a first major groove, and a plurality of second recessed regions that extend from a second major groove. A central region of the lug protrudes relative to either end of the lug. The plurality of first and second recessed regions are arranged in alternating fashion along a tire circumferential direction. The respective recessed regions each has a planar base that extends in a width direction of the each recessed region. The planar base is horizontal, or is inclined in such fashion that a height thereof increases so as to extend further toward an exterior in a tire radial direction as one proceeds toward a center of the each recessed region. Width of the planar base increases as one proceeds from the center in the width direction of the lug to an end of the lug.
US11364741B2
A device is provided for changing a wheel of a vehicle comprising a carriage assembly including two platform elements running longitudinally with one another and substantially parallel. First and second swingarms are connected to respective platform elements. The swingarms are rotatably positionable at a desired height above the carriage. A lift mechanism selectively raises or lowers the carriage during use. A tow bar allows the carriage to be pushed or pulled on wheels mounted to the carriage. A method of the invention includes mounting the wheel on the platform elements, raising free ends of the swingarms to a desired height so a knock out bar may be placed through a hub of the wheel, operating the lift mechanism to raise the wheel to a desired height, and aligning the wheel with the vehicle so the wheel may be secured to the vehicle.
US11364735B2
A security document may include a laserizable first layer including a grayscale image formed by laserizing; a color pattern that is in alignment with the grayscale image; and a second layer arranged between the first layer and the pattern, such that the first layer is above the second layer, and the pattern is below the second layer. The second layer may be more opaque than the first layer, such that when observing the security document from the top, the grayscale image appears to be colored by the color pattern only when the bottom of the security document is being illuminated.
US11364733B2
An ink ribbon feeding mechanism includes a cartridge mounting section, a first paying out rotor which is inserted into a first paying out core when a cartridge is being mounted in the cartridge mounting section, and a plurality of rotor side engaging portions which are provided on the first paying out rotor and which engage with a plurality of core side engaging portions when the first paying out rotor rotates. The rotor side engaging portion has an butting portion. When the cartridge is being mounted in the cartridge mounting section, the core side engaging portion butts against the butting portion, one or the other of the first paying out core and the first paying out rotor rotates, the rotor side engaging portion is inserted into the core side insertion recessed portion. A plurality of the butting portions are provided in positions different from each other in a cartridge mounting direction.
US11364732B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid ejection device to which an additional head can be attached and which suppresses a reduction in print quality. The liquid ejection device includes a main scanning drive portion that transports, in a main scanning direction, a carriage on which are mounted a base printing head that ejects ink for base printing onto a print medium, and a color printing head that ejects at least two colors of ink, from yellow, magenta, cyan, and black, onto the print medium, the base printing head and the color printing head being separated from each other in the sub-scanning direction. Between the base printing head and the color printing head on the carriage, the liquid ejection device includes an additional head attachment portion to which the additional head can be added.
US11364726B2
An example fluid dispensing system includes a printhead assembly comprising a printhead to dispense a given fluid in a printing process; and a first memory storing an identifier of the given fluid. The example fluid dispensing system further includes an accessory to interact with the printhead in a cleaning process or a storage process. The example fluid dispensing system further includes a second memory that is located with the accessory. The example fluid dispensing system further includes a read-write device to: read the identifier of the given fluid from the first memory; read the second memory; and, when the second memory does not store a fluid identifier, write the identifier of the given fluid to the second memory.
US11364722B2
Example implementations relate to print substance donor containers. For example, a system comprising a receiving container with a receiving receptacle port and a donor container comprising a outlet probe to transport print substance material from the donor container to the receiving container in response to the outlet probe coupling with the receiving receptacle port of the receiving container.
US11364721B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, at least one print liquid supply interconnected is described. Each print liquid supply interconnect includes a housing movable relative to a printer and tethered via a feed hose to the printer. The housing includes at least one needle to be inserted in a print liquid supply to allow print liquid to move between the print liquid supply and an ejection device and two keyed slots disposed on either side of a first needle to gate insertion to a print liquid supply with protrusions that match the two keyed slots. The housing also includes a guide feature adjacent the first needle extending between a first keyed slot and the first needle and an electrical interface to establish a data transmission path between the print liquid supply and the ejection device, the electrical interface disposed between the first needle and a second keyed slot.
US11364719B2
A print component includes a plurality of data pads, a clock pad to receive an intermittent clock signal, and a plurality of actuator groups each corresponding to a different liquid type and to a different one of the data pads. Each actuator group includes a plurality of configuration functions, an array of fluid actuators, and an array of memory elements including a first portion corresponding to the plurality of configuration functions and a second portion corresponding to the array of fluid actuators. Each time the intermittent clock signal is present on the clock pad, the array of memory elements to serially load a segment of data bits from the corresponding data pad, including loading a first portion of data bits into the first portion of memory elements, and loading a second portion of data bits into the second portion of memory elements.
US11364715B2
A laminate includes a polycarbonate substrate and an ultraviolet hard coat film disposed on the polycarbonate substrate. The ultraviolet hard coat film may include a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) layer, an adhesive interposed between the PET layer and the polycarbonate substrate, and an exterior hard coat disposed on the PET layer opposite the polycarbonate substrate. The exterior hard coat may include UV stabilizers. The laminate may include additional ultraviolet hard coat films stacked on the ultraviolet hard coat film. The laminate may be thermoformed into the shape of a curved vehicle windshield.
US11364712B2
The present invention relates to a hard coating film and an image display apparatus comprising same, the hard coating film having a hard coating layer formed on at least one surface of a polyimide-based substrate, the hard coating layer comprising the cured product of a hard coating composition, wherein the hard coating composition comprises a solvent for swelling a polyimide-based resin, and the hard coating film is configured such that when the reflectivity thereof is measured in the range of 400 nm to 800 nm, the maximum amplitude difference in the oscillations of the reflectivity is controlled at 0.5% or less, and thus can prevent an interference pattern.
US11364707B2
To solve the problem about the difference in temperature increasing rate between an overlapped part and a one-sheet part so as to further improve the corrosion resistance of plating after hot stamping. An overlapped blank for hot stamping includes: a first steel sheet; and at least one second steel sheet connected to a surface of the first steel sheet via a welding point and smaller in area than the first steel sheet, wherein: the first steel sheet is a plated steel sheet having an aluminum-based plated layer on both faces of the first steel sheet, and the second steel sheet is a plated steel sheet having an aluminum-based plated layer on both faces of the second steel sheet; a coating weight of the aluminum-based plated layer on the first steel sheet is W1 (g/m2) in terms of an average coating weight on both the faces; a coating weight of the aluminum-based plated layer on a surface on a side not in contact with the first steel sheet in the second steel sheet is W2 (g/m2); and each of the W1 and the W2 is within a range of 20 g/m2 or more and 120 g/m2 or less, and satisfies relationships of Expression (1) and Expression (2).
US11364702B2
A straw forming machine includes a feeding device, a pressing device, a sticking device, a conveyor device, and a cutting device. The paper material is stretched from the feeding device to the pressing device which curls the paper material. When the paper material is delivered to the sticking device, the two sides of the paper material are pressed by the sticking device to form the paper pipe, and the press roll of the sticking device rolls and sticks the two abutting portions of the paper pipe. Then, the paper pipe is delivered by the conveyor device to the cutting device which cuts the paper pipe to form drinking straws.
