US11372632B2
A method for generating target codes for one or more network functions for execution in a network is provided. The method comprises: receiving, at a processor, a network function definition; receiving, at the processor, one or more templates comprising preprogrammed codes in a preset format; compiling, at the processor, the network function definition and the one or more templates by providing key terms from the network function definition to the one or more templates; and generating the target codes.
US11372631B2
A method for generating an updated graph based on a base graph includes identifying differences between a base graph and each of a source and a target graph. The specification of each graph defines nodes representing data processing components defining operations for processing data, and links representing flow of data. The identifying includes: comparing specifications of base and source graphs to identify a first set of differences between the base and source graph, and comparing specifications of base and target graphs to identify a second set of differences between the base and the target graph. The method includes characterizing a correspondence between the differences in the first set and the differences in the second set, determining a set of combined differences based on the correspondence and the first and second sets of differences, and generating the updated graph based on the base graph and the set of combined differences.
US11372624B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining a content theme that includes a set of visual components and accessing control panels of a design system. The control panels are configured to provide control functions for adjusting attributes of the components. The control panels receive a selection of a first component that is linked to at least a second component in the set of visual components. An attribute of the first component is adjusted in response to detecting user interaction with a control panel. The user interaction causes adjustment of an attribute of a second component based on the adjusting of the attribute of the first component because of the second component being linked to the first component. Graphical content is created for output at a display based on the adjusted attributes of the first and second components.
US11372621B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to floating-point circuitry configured to perform a corner check instruction for a floating-point power operation. In some embodiments, the power operation is performed by executing multiple instructions, including one or more instructions specify to generate an initial power result of a first input raised to the power of a second input as 2(second input*log2(first input)). In some embodiments, the corner check instruction operates on the first and second inputs and outputs output a corrected power result based on detection of a corner condition for the first and second inputs. Corner check circuitry may share circuits with other datapaths. In various embodiments, the disclosed techniques may reduce code size and power consumption for the power operation.
US11372619B2
The present specification relates to a smart controlling device capable of utilizing machine learning for voice recognition and a method of controlling therefor. The smart controlling device according to the present invention includes a receiver configured to receive an input including a command trigger, and a controller configured to detect one or more external display devices, select a display device of the detected one or more external display devices, cause a power status of the selected display device to be changed to a first state, and cause a response data corresponding to a first command data received after the command trigger to be output on a display of the selected display device.
US11372618B2
An intercom system provides audio communication between multiple users wearing head-mounted devices (HMDs). In an embodiment, the intercom system determines a first location of a first HMD of a first user. The intercom system determines a second location of a second HMD of a second user. The intercom system receives audio of the first user from a microphone of the first HMD. The intercom system determines a volume level of the audio at the second location using at least the first location and the second location. The intercom system transmits the audio to the second HMD responsive to determining that the volume level is less than a threshold volume. The intercom system may also selectively transmit audio based on gaze direction of a user. Additionally, the intercom system may generate a transcript of audio input by users.
US11372617B2
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) determining, by a playback device, a first loudness level of a first portion of first media content from a first source while the playback device presents the first media content, with the first portion having a first length; (ii) switching, by the playback device, from presenting the first media content from the first source to presenting second media content from a second source; (iii) based on the switching, determining, by the playback device, second loudness levels of second portions of the first media content while the playback device presents the second media content, with the second portions having a second length that is shorter than the first length; and (iv) while the playback device presents the second media content, adjusting, by the playback device, a volume of the playback device based on one or more of the second loudness levels.
US11372615B2
An imaging apparatus includes: a first display; a second display; a speaker configured to output a sound effect in response to a predetermined operation; and a controller configured to control an output of the sound effect from the speaker. The controller is operable to: in a case of the first display set as operable, cause the speaker to output a sound effect having a first frequency characteristic in response to the predetermined operation; and in a case of the second display set as operable, cause the speaker to output a sound effect having a second frequency characteristic in response to the predetermined operation, the second frequency characteristic being different from the first frequency characteristic.
US11372612B2
An example method for controlling a display device includes displaying an execution screen of an application which is divided into a plurality of regions; extracting source information related to a region, from among the plurality of regions, to be transmitted to a peripheral device; and transmitting the extracted source information to the peripheral device. Accordingly, the display device can more efficiently provide multi-UI services between a plurality of peripheral devices.
US11372608B2
A machine includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to receive a message and a message parameter indicative of a characteristic of the message, where the message includes a photograph or a video. A determination is made that the message parameter corresponds to a selected gallery, where the selected gallery includes a sequence of photographs or videos. The message is posted to the selected gallery in response to the determination. The selected gallery is supplied in response to a request.
US11372599B1
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: in accordance with log information on printing performed on a document by a printer, subtract a number of billing units responsive to printing of the document from a number of billing units held by the printer; and if the printer having printed a document as a print target produced by a producer and corresponding to a substitute document prints the substitute document in accordance with the log information and correspondence information indicating a correspondence relation between the document as the print target and the substitute document substituting for the document, not subtract a number of billing units responsive to printing of the substitute document from the number of billing units held by the printer.
US11372587B2
A memory device and a method for reducing read disturb errors of the memory device are provided. The memory device includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in series and organized into a plurality of blocks, a plurality of word lines respectively coupled to corresponding memory cells, and a controller coupled to the word lines for performing page read operations on the pages in respective blocks through corresponding word lines, in which each of the blocks comprises a plurality of pages of two or more types. The controller accumulates a page read count of the pages of each type in respective blocks, and arranges data to be stored according to the page read count and a latency factor corresponding to the pages of each type in each of the blocks.
US11372581B2
An information processing apparatus includes a control unit to execute a program, a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and an output unit. The first storage unit stores a first program to be executed by the control unit. The second storage unit stores a second program to be executed by the control unit. The output unit receives, from the control unit, a read command for reading the second program from the second storage unit. The output unit output, to the second storage unit, a corresponding command corresponding to the received read command and corresponding to an operation mode having been set to the output unit. Before transmitting, to the output unit, the read command for reading the second program from the second storage unit, the control unit sets the operation mode of the output unit according to the first program stored in the first storage unit.
US11372571B2
A data storage and retrieval system for a computer memory including a memory slice formed of segments and adapted to contain one or more documents and a checkpoint adapted to persist the memory slice. The checkpoint includes a document vector containing a document pointer corresponding to a document. The document pointer including a segment identifier identifying a logical segment of the memory slice and an offset value defining a relative memory location of the first document within the identified segment. There are checkpoint memory blocks, each storing a copy of a corresponding segment of the memory slice. The segment identifier of the document pointer identifies a checkpoint memory block and the offset value of the document pointer defines a relative location of the document within the checkpoint memory block.
US11372570B1
Provided is an edge storage having a central processing unit (CPU). The edge storage is connected to another storage device capable of deduplicating and managing a data of a file in units of a predetermined chunk via a network, in which, when a data of a newly created file or an updated file is transferred to the other storage device, the CPU determines whether to transmit a difference portion to a core storage or to transmit a finger print of a difference chunk to the core storage, based on a size of the difference portion and a size of the finger print of the difference chunk which is a chunk including the difference portion and transmits the difference portion or the finger print to the core storage according to a determination result.
US11372569B2
A method and system including at least one application, wherein a data storage is associated with each application; a de-duplication module; a de-duplication processor in communication with the de-duplication module and operative to execute processor-executable process steps to cause the system to: receive a data storage for each of the at least one application, wherein a first data storage and a second data storage include a same record or the one data storage includes two or more of the same record; separate the records into a key portion and a data portion; assign an internal key to each record, wherein the internal key is stored in both the key portion and the data portion for that record; calculate a golden record including golden record values; assign a golden record internal key to the golden record; replace each internal key in the key portion with the golden record internal key; and remove the data portion of each data record where the internal key in the data portion is different from the internal key in the key portion. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11372558B2
The present invention provides a circuitry including a processor, a one-time programmable memory and an access control circuit. The one-time programmable memory includes a first area and a first access control data, wherein the first access control data is used to indicate whether the first area can be written or read by the processor. When the processor writes or reads the first area through the access control circuit, the access control circuit determines whether to write or read the first area according to the first access control data, and the access control circuit determines what kind of data for sending back to the processor.
US11372555B2
A method and system may reconstruct data in a smart storage array where upon detection of data inconsistency, an application of the system is notified and affected data strips are rebuilt. When an initiator detects stripe corruption, the initiator may report the strip corruption to storage. The storage may lock the strip for I/O operations. Initiators may determine recovery scenarios for rebuilding the data strips and send the scenarios to storage. At storage, initiator replies may be collected, and a rebuild option with the highest votes may be automatically determined for a reconstruction operation. Once the reconstruction operation is completed, the rebuilt stripe may be unlocked and data operations may recommence.
US11372544B2
A technique manages bandwidth allocated among input/output operations, such as reads and writes, to storage devices coupled to storage nodes of a cluster. The technique balances the writes in a manner that reduces latency of reads, while allowing the writes to complete in a desired amount of time. The writes include write types, such as client writes, data migration writes, block transfer writes, and recycling writes, which are defined by differing characteristics and relative priorities. To ensure timely completion of the write types, the technique provides periodic time intervals over which the writes may be balanced and allocated sufficient bandwidth to access the storage devices. The time intervals may include shuffle intervals within a larger distribution interval. In addition, the technique throttles certain write types at the storage device level to maintain consistent read performance. Throttling is based on a credit system that allocates bandwidth as “credits” based on write type.
US11372541B2
Techniques for adjusting a posture of an operating system mode for a touch-enabled computing device based on combinations of user preferences and user input modality signals. Various adjustments to the posture of the operating system mode do not impact whether particular user interface elements are present but rather alter characteristics with which these particular user interface elements are rendered. Posture adjustments to an operating system mode occur based on combinations user input modality signals and user preferences not to enter another mode in which particular user interface elements are no longer displayed within a task bar along a peripheral edge. An object of designing an operating system mode to have multiple different postures with common user interface elements displayed in the task bar while adjusting the characteristics thereof is to preserve the user familiarity across postures while optimizing graphical layouts to accommodate for a current user input modality.
US11372534B2
A method and system for acquiring, processing, storing, and displaying x-ray mammograms Mp tomosynthesis images Tr representative of breast slices, and x-ray tomosynthesis projection images Tp taken at different angles to a breast, where the Tr images are reconstructed from Tp images.
US11372530B2
One or more screens may be displayed on a touch screen of a wireless mobile device to solicit commissioning information from the user, including uploading a photograph of a room. The photograph may be displayed on the touch screen along with a set of icons corresponding to devices in the room. Individual icons may be moved onto the photograph to locations corresponding to the actual devices. The icons can be used to configure and operate the corresponding devices.
US11372526B2
A method for generating visual representations of financial interests includes: receiving an input data set including one or more data structures storing data fields and data values representative of financial interests; extracting, from the input data, one or more extracted features from the funds, the extracted features collectively indicative of a distance between different funds; generating one or more clusters of funds, based on the extracted features of the funds; determining, based on identified differences between one or more funds relative to at least one other fund in a corresponding cluster of funds, one or more fund anomalies based on the one or more extracted features; generating one or more adjustment recommendations based on the one or more fund anomalies, the one or more adjustment recommendations representing control instruction sets for automatically modifying characteristics of the corresponding fund.
US11372521B2
Systems and methods for interaction of satellite and Internet protocol features in content delivery systems are presented. Using such systems and methods, the delivery of some content to the same product by Satellite delivery, other content by IP delivery, and still other content by both Satellite and IP delivery can enhance the utility of both the content and the product for an end user and can further optimize the costs and quality of service associated with delivering the content. A method of providing content and data to a combined satellite and IP network receiver is presented, including broadcasting via satellite content and data to the receiver, and sending via an IP based communications network content and data to the receiver, where the content and data provided over the Satellite broadcast enables capabilities of the receiver needed to consume content received by IP delivery, and the content and data provided via IP delivery enables capabilities of the receiver needed to consume content received from the satellite broadcast.
US11372519B2
A method, system, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to perform multiple actions based on a reality captured image. An adjustable splitter splits a viewport into viewing panes with the ability to freely adjust the splitter angle. A sphere represents a view of a scene from a viewpoint and used to render an interactive preview of the view without moving to the viewpoint. A series of 2D images may be used to simulate the navigation of a 3D model in an expedited manner. A 3D mesh error scroll bar is used navigate unsorted errors resulting from mesh creation. An interactive gradient map can be used to select a points based on a range of values for non-geometric parameters. An irregularly shaped mesh selection boundary can be directly modified by stretching. An elevation slice of a 3D model can be defined and isolated for viewing/manipulation.
US11372514B1
Systems and methods are provided for identifying and rendering content relevant to a user's current mental state and context. In an aspect, a system includes a state component that determines a state of a user during a current session of the user with the media system based on navigation of the media system by the user during the current session, media items provided by the media system that are played for watching by the user during the current session, and a manner via which the user interacts with or reacts to the played media items. In an aspect, the state of the user includes a mood of the user. A selection component then selects a media item provided by the media provider based on the state of the user, and a rendering component effectuates rendering of the media item to the user during the current session.
US11372510B2
A touchscreen display includes one or more conductive layers that is implemented for a touch sensor and a common portion. The touch screen display may include as few as one conductive layer that is partitioned for both the touch sensor and the common portion in some examples. A first conductor of the touch sensor is composed of first segments(s) that are electrically connected, and a second conductor of the touch sensor is composed of a second segments(s) that are electrically connected. Also, the common portion includes a third conductor. Drive-sense circuits (DSCs) are respectively implemented to service the conductors and to generate digital signals representative of electrical characteristics of signals provided to those conductors. Processing module(s) is/are configured to execute operational instructions to process the digital signals to facilitate operation of the touchscreen display including to detect presence, interaction, and/or gestures, etc. of a user with the touchscreen display.
US11372509B2
A method for making a touch panel, the method includes the following steps. Two touch panel units are made. The two touch panel units are spaced apart from each other. Making each of the two touch panel units includes the following steps. A carbon nanotube material and a substrate are provided. A carbon nanotube floccule structure is made by flocculating the carbon nanotube material. A conductive layer on the substrate is obtained by applying the carbon nanotube floccule structure on the substrate. Two electrodes on opposite ends of the substrate formed to obtain an electrode plate.
US11372504B2
A touch panel and a touch device comprising the touch panel. The touch panel comprises a substrate; a display function stack on a side of the substrate; and a touch layer on a side of the display function stack away from the substrate. The touch layer and the display function stack are electrically connected to a flexible circuit board via a substrate wiring layer.
US11372498B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device for supporting a user input and a control method of the electronic device, and the disclosed electronic device may: identify occurrence of a first event; display a first user interface, provided by a first application program, on a display according to the occurrence of the first event; receiving, through the first user interface, a user input including an indicator indicating a category; and when the user input is received, display, on the display, a category corresponding to the user input among at least one category provided by a second application program. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11372496B2
A display device includes a display panel, an input sensor disposed on the display panel, and an upper layer structure disposed on the input sensor. The upper layer structure includes a dielectric constant control layer which controls a sensing sensitivity of the input sensor.
US11372487B2
A display device with an integrated touch screen including a display panel including electrodes divided into a plurality of block type groups and a plurality of data lines; a display driver IC configured to apply a common voltage to the electrodes when a driving mode of the panel is a display driving mode, sequentially apply a touch scan signal to each block type group when the driving mode of the panel is a touch driving mode, and apply a data signal to the data lines associated with a corresponding block type group when the touch scan signal is applied to the corresponding block type group; and a touch IC configured to generate the touch scan signal and apply the touch scan signal to the display driver IC.
US11372485B2
A mouse, including a mouse body and a wheel module, is provided. The wheel module includes a first wheel, a second wheel and an axle connecting assembly. The first wheel has a first axle portion, the second wheel has a second axle portion, and the first wheel and the second wheel are respectively rotatably disposed on the mouse body along a same axis of rotation by the first axle portion and the second axle portion. The axle connecting assembly is connected to and in between the first axle portion and the second axle portion, and the first axle portion and the second axle portion rotate relative to each other by the axle connecting assembly.
US11372483B2
Methods and devices for a display apparatus. In one aspect, a display apparatus includes a display device including a transparent layer, a display integrated circuit layer including one or more display control circuits, and a shielding layer between the transparent layer and the display integrated circuit layer, a near-infrared (NIR) light source and a visible light source, and a detector device including a detector integrated circuit layer including one or more detector control circuits, where a surface of the detector device contacts a surface of the display device, and a photodetector electrically coupled to at least one detector control circuit and including a detection region positioned to receive NIR light propagating from a front side of the display device to a back side of the display device along a path, where the shielding layer includes a filter region positioned in the path.
US11372472B2
A system on chip (SoC) includes an internal read-only memory (ROM) configured to store a first boot loader; a first internal static random access memory (SRAM) configured to receive a second boot loader output from a booting device, store the second boot loader, and perform a booting sequence according to control of the first boot loader; a second internal SRAM configured to receive a third boot loader output from the booting device, store the third boot loader, and perform a wake-up sequence according to control of the first boot loader; and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) controller configured to load an operating system (OS) from the booting device into a DRAM according to control of the second boot loader.
US11372469B2
A multiple graphics processing unit (GPU) based parallel graphics system comprising multiple graphics processing pipelines with multiple GPUs supporting a parallel graphics rendering process having an object division mode of operation. Each GPU comprises video memory, a geometry processing subsystem and a pixel processing subsystem. According to the principles of the present invention, pixel (color and z depth) data buffered in the video memory of each GPU is communicated to the video memory of a primary GPU, and the video memory and the pixel processing subsystem in the primary GPU are used to carry out the image recomposition process, without the need for dedicated or specialized apparatus.
US11372468B2
A power supply architecture for USB Type-C controllers is described herein. In an example embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) controller comprises a VCONN pin, a power rail coupled to internal circuits of the IC controller, and a VCONN switch coupled between the VCONN pin and the power rail. The VCONN switch comprises: a drain-extended n-type field effect transistor (DENFET) coupled between the VCONN pin and the power rail; a pump switch coupled to a gate of the DENFET; a resistor coupled between the VCONN pin and the gate of the DENFET; and a diode clamp coupled between the gate of the DENFET and ground.
US11372466B1
A power saving method for a peripheral device in a wireless operation mode is provided. The power saving method at least includes the steps of allowing the peripheral device to enter an idle mode and judging whether the peripheral device receives a startup trigger event. In the idle mode, the light source in an operation region of the peripheral device is in an on state or a high-brightness state. If the peripheral device receives the startup trigger event, the peripheral device is switched from the idle mode to a power saving mode. In the power saving mode, the light source in the operation region of the peripheral device is in an off state or a low-brightness state. The peripheral device in the power saving mode consumes less electric power than the peripheral device in the idle mode.
US11372457B1
A touchpad module includes a base plate, a touch member, a switch, an elastic element, a first supporting element and a second supporting element. The base plate includes a triggering part. The touch member is located over the base plate. The switch is disposed on the touch member and aligned with the triggering part. The elastic element is located under the base plate. The elastic element includes a fixed part, a first swingable part and a second swingable part. The fixed part is fixed on the base plate. The first swingable part includes a first contact structure. The second swingable part includes a second contact structure. When an external force is exerted on the touch member, the touch member is swung toward the base plate relative to the first supporting element, and the second swingable part is swung away from the base plate.
US11372454B2
A display apparatus includes a flexible display panel including a first non-folding area, a second non-folding area, and a folding area disposed between the first non-folding area and the second non-folding area, and a support structure that supports the flexible display panel. The support structure includes a first support portion, a second support portion, a hinge shaft portion disposed between the first support portion and the second support portion and having a semi-cylindrical shape, a first hinge portion, a second hinge portion, a first sliding portion slidable with respect to the first support portion and the hinge shaft portion, and a second sliding portion slidable with respect to the second support portion and the hinge shaft portion.
US11372445B2
An electronic device display assembly includes a base that includes a first disk which is rotatably coupled to a second disk and the first disk can be positioned on a support surface. A pair of clips is each coupled to the second disk and each of the clips engages an electronic device for displaying the electronic device in an upright orientation. A rotation unit is integrated into the base and the rotation unit engages the second disk. Additionally, the rotation unit rotates the second disk when the rotation unit is turned on to enhance the visual appeal of the electronic device. A speaker is integrated into the base to emit audible sounds outwardly therefrom.
US11372444B2
An in-vehicle infotainment IVI apparatus, a terminal device, and a vehicle are provided. The IVI apparatus includes a management module. The management module is configured to: obtain component information of each of at least one IVI component, where the component information includes an internet protocol address; and send the component information of each component to the terminal device, so that the terminal device communicates with the at least one IVI component based on the information about each IVI component. According to the IVI apparatus, the terminal device, and the vehicle, the IVI component can be controlled by using the terminal device.
US11372441B2
A method of distributing clock signals includes receiving a plurality of clock signals into a corresponding plurality of processing blocks; determining frequency offset data between a first clock signal of the plurality of clock signals and each of the other clock signals of the plurality of clock signals; periodically determining phase offset data between the first clock signal and the other clock signals; and transmitting the first clock signal, the frequency offset data, and the phase offset data on a pulse-width modulated clock signal. The method includes receiving a modulated clock signal, the modulated clock signal include a carrier clock signal, a frequency offset data, and a phase offset data on a pulse-width modulated clock signal; and recovering a plurality of clock signals based on the first clock signal, the frequency offset data, and the phase offset data.
US11372440B2
A joystick with a first casing that has a piece of a sensor/effector pair. A second section is attached to the first casing, where at least one of the first and second casings form a void within the first and second casings. A puck with a cylindrical shape is disposed within the void, where the puck has a piece of the sensor/effector pair. A shaft is connected to the puck, with a distal end free to move, thereby rotating the puck. The shaft passes through a void between the first and second casings, and as the shaft is moved and the puck rotates, an interaction between the pieces of the sensor/effector pair produces a signal indicating a degree of movement of the shaft.
US11372433B2
A user-friendly programmable thermostat is described that includes a body having a central electronic display surrounded by a ring that can be rotated and pressed inwardly to provide user input in a simple and elegant fashion. The current temperature and setpoint temperature are graphically displayed as prominent tick marks over a range of background tick marks on the electronic display. Different colors can be displayed to indicate currently active HVAC functions, and different intensities of colors can be displayed to indicate an amount of heating or cooling required to reach a target temperature. The setpoint temperature for the device can be altered by user rotation of the rotatable ring, and the programmed schedule can be displayed to the user and altered by the user by virtue of rotations and inward pressings of the ring. Initial device set up and installation, the viewing of device operation, the editing of various settings, and the viewing of historical energy usage information are made simple and elegant by virtue of the described form factor, display modalities, and user input modalities of the device.
US11372429B2
Disclosed is a configuration of an autonomous vehicle for autonomously following a moving subject based on a radius of a virtual sphere surrounding the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle may be an unmanned ground vehicle or an unmanned aerial vehicle, which autonomously follows the subject (e.g., a device, a live entity, or any object) based on the virtual sphere. The radius of the virtual sphere may be dynamically configured according to a velocity of the autonomous vehicle or configurations of a camera coupled to the autonomous vehicle. Accordingly, the autonomous vehicle can follow the subject along a smooth trajectory, and capture images of abrupt movements of the subject in a cinematically pleasing manner.
US11372425B2
Autonomous vehicles are capable of executing missions that abide by on-street rules or regulations, while also being able to seamlessly transition to and from “zones,” including off-street zones, with their our set(s) of rules or regulations. An on-board memory stores roadgraph information. An on-board computer is operative to execute commanded driving missions using the roadgraph information, including missions with one or more zones, each zone being defined by a sub-roadgraph with its own set of zone-specific driving rules and parameters. A mission may be coordinated with one or more payload operations, including zone with “free drive paths” as in a warehouse facility with loading and unloading zones to pick up payloads and place them down, or zone staging or entry points to one or more points of payload acquisition or placement. The vehicle may be a warehousing vehicle such as a forklift.
US11372421B2
A navigation system for an automated guided vehicle comprises a set of marking elements which are to be arranged in grid form on the floor and in which navigation information is encoded; a sensor device to be arranged at the automated guided vehicle for reading navigation data from the marking elements; and an evaluation device connected to the sensor device for generating control signals for the automated guided vehicle with reference to read navigation data. Each of the marking elements has at least two graphical code patterns that are each designed as one-dimensional code patterns and comprise a code applied along a scanning direction, with the scanning directions of the at least two graphical code patterns being aligned offset from one another by an angular offset.
US11372418B2
A robot according to an embodiment may include at least one driving motor for providing a driving force for driving of the robot, a position detector including at least one sensor or receiver for detecting a position of the robot, a pressure detector including at least one sensor for detecting whether a user who in on board the robot gets off the robot and a processor for detecting the position of the robot through the position detector, recognizing that the user has arrived at the destination when it is detected that the user gets off the robot and recognize that the user has not arrived at the destination when it is not detected that the user gets off the robot.
US11372412B1
A system and method for steering a vessel includes correction by calibration with respect to displacement between a tilt direction of a joystick and a moving direction of the vessel. When receiving a command to start the calibration, a controller performs a calibration for right and left propulsion devices such that a tilt direction of a joystick is matched with a moving direction of a vessel. When performing a subsequent calibration, the controller additionally performs the calibration for the right and left propulsion devices to which the calibration has been previously applied.
US11372408B1
A robot has a component that is oriented relative to a chassis of the robot. For example, a display screen is mounted to the robot using a pan and tilt arrangement. During operation, trajectory data indicative of a trajectory is determined that specifies where the robot is intended to travel as it moves through an environment. This trajectory data is used to dynamically orient the component. For example, as the robot moves through the environment, the display screen would be oriented such that it appears to be “facing” a point in space that is associated with a point on the trajectory.
US11372404B2
A method performed by an apparatus is described. The method includes receiving remote data. The method also includes adapting model processing based on the remote data. The method further includes determining a driving decision based on the adapted model processing. In some examples, adapting model processing may include selecting a model, adjusting model scheduling, and/or adjusting a frame computation frequency.
US11372402B2
An autonomous grain cart includes a width less than or equal to a distance from an end of the header of an agricultural vehicle to a lateral side of the agricultural vehicle, wherein the end and the lateral side are on a same longitudinal side of a lateral centerline of the agricultural vehicle, wherein the autonomous grain cart is configured to receive grain from the agricultural vehicle. The autonomous grain cart also includes a controller, comprising a processor and a memory. The autonomous grain cart further includes a drive system communicatively coupled to the controller, wherein the controller is configured to instruct the drive system to propel the autonomous grain cart. The autonomous grain cart also includes a steering system communicatively coupled to the controller, wherein the controller is configured to instruct the steering system to steer the autonomous grain cart.
US11372401B2
A vehicle control apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an operation screen including a contact sensor and remotely issues an instruction to move a vehicle, wherein output of the instruction to move the vehicle is started based on a reciprocating operation on the operation screen in a case in which the reciprocating operation has satisfied a predetermined condition, and the predetermined condition includes a condition related to at least one of a cumulative distance and a count of a stroke of the reciprocating operation.
US11372400B1
Unmanned vehicles may be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode. Unmanned vehicles may accomplish tasks by breaking out into sub-drones, re-grouping itself, changing form, or re-orienting its sensors.
US11372387B2
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments include initiating operation of network application logic by receiving an instruction related to a presentation of a selected media content configured to be consumed by a target consumer. The various embodiments further include, determining whether the selected media content includes content-type metadata that identifies the selected media content as a predetermined type of content, and initiating operation of network application logic configured to control a network-connected electronic device in response to determining the selected media content includes the content-type metadata that identifies the selected media content as the predetermined type of content.
US11372384B2
A method for adjusting a multi-dimensional operating space of a wind turbine includes receiving, via a central multi-dimensional operating space controller, a plurality of signals from a plurality of requestors of modified operating space. Each of the plurality of signals includes a data structure having requested set points for a plurality of dimensions in the operating space. The method also includes tracking, via the central multi-dimensional operating space controller, current set points for the plurality of dimensions in the operating space. Further, the method includes dynamically determining, via the central multi-dimensional operating space controller, an output signal based on the requested set points, the output signal comprising one or more changes for the current set points for the plurality of dimensions in the operating space. Moreover, the method includes controlling the wind turbine based on the output signal so as to provide a modified multi-dimensional operating space.
US11372378B2
An apparatus for automatically tuning a fluid temperature PID (proportional-integral-differential) controller is provided. The apparatus for automatically tuning a fluid temperature PID controller includes: a setter configured to calculate an initial value of a gain of a controller configured to control a fluid temperature by deriving a physical property of the fluid temperature, and a tuner configured to tune the initial value of the gain of the controller using an artificial intelligence neural network algorithm according to a control target.
US11372376B2
A method for cook time synchronization includes synchronizing a cook time in one of a plurality of cooking appliances to a user selected remaining cook time from one of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances. The method also includes: (1) transmitting, to the one of the plurality of cooking appliances, a remaining cook time from each of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances over a network; and/or (2) requesting, at the one of the plurality of cooking appliances, the remaining cook time from each of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances over the network in response to a user input at the one of the plurality of cooking appliances.
US11372375B2
A portable device, and related method, that allows the values of one or more parameters characterising the operation of a mechanical watch to be measured. The device is provided with a contact microphone including a contact piece and a piezoelectric element. The contact piece is brought into physical contact with the case of a watch during a measurement period. The device further includes a power source, such as a rechargeable or replaceable battery, a microprocessor, a memory, and a screen for displaying the values measured, preferably a touch-sensitive screen. Preferably, the dimensions of the device are of a same order of magnitude as the case of a wristwatch. The device may have the shape of a horological eyeglass.
US11372371B2
A wheel train device including a dial plate having a display area provided between a central portion and an outer peripheral portion, a wheel train section having a pointer wheel to which a pointer that moves above the display area is attached, a supporting member which supports the wheel train section in an area corresponding to the display area, and a plurality of shaft attachment holes which are provided in a plurality of positions of the supporting member and to which the pointer wheel is selectively attached in one of the plurality of positions.
US11372370B2
Timepiece wheel set with a unidirectional wheel rotating in only one direction in cooperation with a ratchet wheel, which is movable inside a ratchet wheel chamber, comprising a click that rotates integrally with this wheel, which forms a one-piece component comprising at least one spring-arm, at the end of which, on a first side, a beak cooperates directly with the toothing of a ratchet wheel in an operating position in which this spring-arm is free, and on a second side, a first hook can cooperate with a second hook of complementary shape, comprised in this one-piece click, in a rest position in which this spring-arm is in an extended position, the elasticity thereof allowing this first hook to be hooked or unhooked with respect to this second hook by the action of an operator, by maximum elongation of this spring-arm and/or by the tilting of this end.
US11372366B2
An image-forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a drawer movable in a first direction relative to the main casing; a process cartridge detachably mountable on the drawer; and a toner cartridge detachably mountable on the drawer. The drawer is movable between: an inner position where the drawer is accommodated in the main casing; and an outer position where a part of the drawer is located outside the main casing. The process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in a second direction crossing the first direction when the process cartridge is mounted on the drawer; and a developing device configured to supply toner to the photosensitive drum. The toner cartridge is configured to store the toner.
US11372360B2
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: a registration roller; a motor configured to drive the roller; and a controller configured to control the motor. The roller is disposed at a first position on a conveyance path of paper on which an image is to be formed, and sends out the paper toward a second position on the conveyance path. The second position is downstream from the first position on the conveyance path and is an image transfer position on the paper. The controller controls the motor by using both speed control and position control when the leading end of the paper is at a position from the first position to the second position, and controls the motor by using only the speed control when the leading end of the paper reaches the second position.
US11372358B1
An image forming apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to emit a laser beam reflected by a polygon mirror, the polygon mirror rotated by a polygon motor, form an image based on a latent image carried on a photoconductor by the laser beam, store an execution frequency of an image quality self-check of the image formed and a rotation duration of the polygon motor during a standby operation period of image formation, accept a change in the execution frequency, change the rotation duration based on the change in the execution frequency, execute the image quality self-check based on the execution frequency, and continuously rotate the polygon motor during the standby operation period based on the rotation duration stored.
US11372356B2
Provided is an operation method of an image forming apparatus, the operation method including according to a color registration pattern that is a standard for determining an overlapping degree of respective color images of a plurality of colors to form a color image, transferring respective developers with the plurality of colors onto an intermediate transfer body; obtaining patch data of patches of the plurality of colors transferred according to the color registration pattern onto the intermediate transfer body. The patch data is compared with reference patch data corresponding to the color registration pattern, and based on a result of the comparing, noise data corresponding to noise is detected from the patch data. Standard patch data is obtained by removing the noise data from the patch data, and performing color registration based on the standard patch data.
US11372354B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit which forms a first image on a first recording medium with a first material that is not thermally decolorizable; a second image forming unit which forms a second image on a second recording medium with a second material that is thermally decolorizable; a fixing device which is on a common carrying path shared by the first recording medium and the second recording medium and fixes the first image to the first recording medium; and a controller which controls the fixing device so that a temperature of the fixing device is lower than a decolorizing temperature of the second material when the second recording medium reaches the fixing device.
US11372352B2
A transfer device includes a transfer roller, a power source and a switch device. The transfer roller may transfer an image formed on an image carrier to a transfer medium in an imaging apparatus. The transfer roller includes a rotation shaft including a conductive material, and a ion conductive member disposed around the rotation shaft. The power source may generate a transfer voltage. The switch device may selectively connect, during rotation of the transfer roller, a power-feed path from the power source to the transfer roller, among a plurality of power-feed paths based on whether the image is being transferred or not being transferred, to thereby reverse the direction of an electric field applied by the transfer voltage to the ion conductive member.
US11372343B2
A method of aligning a substrate within an apparatus. The method includes determining a substrate grid based on measurements of a plurality of targets, each at different locations on a substrate. The determining includes repetitions of updating the substrate grid after each measurement of a target, and using the updated grid to align a measurement of a subsequent target.
US11372341B2
A method for temperature control of a component that is transferable between a first system and a second system includes: ascertaining a temperature drift of a temperature of the component that is to be expected after transfer of the component from the first system into the second system; and modifying a temperature prevailing in the first system and/or a temperature prevailing in the second system such that the temperature drift that is actually occurring after transfer of the component from the first system into the second system is reduced with respect to the expected temperature drift.
US11372338B2
A method for determining a preferred control strategy relating to control of a manufacturing process for manufacturing an integrated circuit. The method includes: obtaining process data associated with a design of said integrated circuit; and obtaining a plurality of candidate control strategies configured to control the manufacturing process based on the process data, each candidate control strategy including an associated cost metric based on an associated requirement to implement the candidate control strategy. A quality metric related to an expected performance of the manufacturing process is determined for each candidate control strategies, and a preferred control strategy is selected based on the determined quality metrics and associated cost metrics for each candidate control strategy.
US11372335B2
An optical arrangement for EUV lithography, including: at least one component (23) having a main body (32) with at least one surface region (30) which is exposed to activated hydrogen (H+, H*) during operation of the optical arrangement. The main body (32) contains at least one material which forms at least one volatile hydride upon contact of the surface region (30) with the activated hydrogen (H+, H*). At the surface region, noble metal ions (38) are implanted into the main body (32) in order to prevent the formation of the volatile hydride.
US11372333B2
A target supply device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a tank in which a target substance in a liquid form is housed, a vibration element configured to generate a droplet of the target substance by providing, through a vibration propagation path, vibration to the target substance output through the nozzle, a first temperature adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a temperature of a refrigerant to be supplied to the vibration propagation path component to a first temperature, a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the vibration propagation path, a second temperature adjustment mechanism configured to adjust, to a second temperature, the temperature of the vibration propagation path to which the refrigerant is supplied, and a control unit configured to control the second temperature adjustment mechanism based on an output from the temperature sensor.
US11372332B2
A patterned photo resist layer (for example an EUV photo resist layer), which may exhibit line width roughness (LWR) and line edge roughness (LER) or scum is treated with a plasma treatment before subsequent etching processes. The plasma treatment reduces LWR, LER, and/or photo resist scum. In one exemplary embodiment, the plasma treatment may include a plasma formed using a gas having a boron and halogen compound. In one embodiment, the gas compound may be a boron and chlorine compound, for example boron trichloride (BCl3) gas. In another embodiment, the gas compound may be a boron and fluorine compound, for example BxFy gases. The plasma treatment process may modify the photoresist surface to improve LWR, LER, and scum effects by removing roughness from the photo resist surface and removing photo resist residues which may case scumming.
US11372329B2
A resist composition including a polymeric compound having a structural unit in which a compound represented by formula (a0-1) has a polymerizable group within the W1 portion converted into a main chain, and a compound represented by formula (b1-1) in which W1 represents a polymerizable group-containing group; Ct represents a tertiary carbon atom, and the α-position of Ct is a carbon atom which constitutes a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond; R11 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or a chain hydrocarbon group; R12 and R13 are mutually bonded to form a 5-membered aliphatic monocyclic group, or a condensed polycyclic hydrocarbon group containing a 5-membered aliphatic monocyclic ring; Rb11 represents a cyclic group; Rb10, Rb20 and Rb30 each independently represents a substituent; nb1 represents an integer of 0 to 4; nb2 represents an integer of 0 to 5; nb3 represents an integer of 0 to 5; and X− represents a counteranion.
US11372325B2
This application discloses a mask and a manufacture method thereof, including: a full shielding area, made of a light shielding material; a semi-transparent area, where there is at least one semi-transparent area and the semi-transparent area allows transmission of partial light, and a main body of the semi-transparent area is made of semi-transparent films, and full shielding structures are arranged in the semi-transparent films.
US11372321B2
A first illumination light source emits a first illumination light ray which is a first polarized light. Either one of an s-polarized light and a p-polarized light, which are linearly polarized light, is the first polarized light and the other is a second polarized light. A second illumination light source emits a second illumination light ray. A dichroic mirror includes a specific polarization reflection area and a transmission area. The specific polarization reflection area reflects the first polarized light and transmits the second polarized light and the second illumination light ray. The transmission area transmits the first and second illumination light rays. A phase difference plate converts linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light. A polarization conversion element transmits either the first or second polarized light, shifts an optical axis of the other, and aligns the first and second illumination light rays to the first or second polarized light.
US11372302B2
A display panel is provided with a display region and a non-display region, and includes a plurality of sub-pixels, located in the display region; a plurality of fingerprint recognition units, located in the display region; and ambient-light sensing units, including at least one first light-sensing unit. At least a part of the plurality of fingerprint recognition units is multiplexed as the at least one first light-sensing unit.
US11372299B2
A display panel includes a first substrate; a scan line and a data line disposed on the first substrate and extending in a first direction and a second direction, respectively, wherein the data line intersects the scan line; a polysilicon layer disposed on the first substrate. In a top view, the polysilicon layer includes: a first channel region overlapping a portion of the scan line; a second channel region overlapping another portion of the scan line; a non-channel region not overlapping the scan line and connected between the first channel region and the second channel region; a long region extended in the second direction; wherein a portion of the non-channel region extends in the first direction, the portion has a first width in the second direction, the long region has a second width in the first direction, and the first width is greater than the second width.
US11372297B2
A display panel including a pixel array substrate, an opposite substrate, and a display media is provided. The pixel array substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixel units, and a gate driving circuit. The gate driving circuit including a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of second signal lines, a plurality of dummy signal lines, and a plurality of contact structures is disposed in a peripheral region of the substrate. Each of the second signal lines is electrically connected to one corresponding first signal line. Each of the dummy signal lines is electrically connected to one corresponding second signal line via one corresponding contact structure. Each of the first signal lines is electrically connected to the corresponding second signal line via one corresponding contact structure.
US11372290B2
An optical device includes a first outer substrate; a second outer substrate disposed opposite to the first outer substrate; and an active liquid crystal film or a polarizer, wherein the active liquid crystal film or the polarizer is encapsulated by an encapsulating agent between the first and second outer substrates and wherein a shrinkable film adjacent to any one of the first and second outer substrates is further included. The optical device is capable of varying transmittance. The optical device can be used for various applications such as an eyewear, for example, sunglasses or AR (augmented reality) or VR (virtual reality) eyewears, an outer wall of a building or a sunroof for a vehicle.
US11372288B2
The present specification provides a multi-layer liquid crystal film including: a substrate; a first alignment film comprising an alignment material and an acrylate in which a weight ratio of the alignment material to the acrylate is 3:1 to 5:1; a first liquid crystal film provided on the first alignment film; a second alignment film provided on the first liquid crystal film; and a second liquid crystal film provided on the second alignment film, and a method for manufacturing a polarizing plate, the method including: laminating the multi-layer liquid crystal film to a polarizer and peeling off the substrate.
US11372277B2
A first organic insulating film is arranged on a first substrate in a circumference area outside an active area. A mounting portion is located in the circumference area for mounting a signal source. A second organic insulating film is formed on a second substrate in the circumference area so as to face the first substrate. The second substrate exposes the mounting portion. A seal material is arranged between the first organic insulating film and the second organic insulating film to attach the first substrate and the second substrate. A resin layer is arranged between the first organic insulating film and the second organic insulating film in the circumference area, and formed in a rectangular frame shape including four linear ends. An end along the mounting portion is formed broadly than other ends.
US11372275B2
A method of manufacturing a display panel is provided. The method includes: providing a liquid crystal motherboard which includes: a first motherboard, a second motherboard, and a plurality of liquid crystal regions; coating a sealant on a peripheral region of each of the liquid crystal regions of the first motherboard; assembling the second motherboard with the first motherboard and arranging liquid crystal in each of the liquid crystal regions to obtain the liquid crystal motherboard. The coating the sealant on the peripheral region of each of the liquid crystal regions of the first motherboard includes: coating a first sealant on a peripheral region of the central liquid crystal region, and coating a second sealant on a peripheral region of each of the first liquid crystal regions, the first sealant is provided with a first supporting structure, the second sealant is provided with a second supporting structure.
US11372268B2
There is provided a display unit that is able to provide an indoor environment comfortable to a user. This display unit includes a frame member and a flexible display. The frame member is disposed, in a structure including a daylighting section that lets light through, around the daylighting section and includes a winder including a rotary shaft. The flexible display includes a dimming layer and a display device layer including a light-emitting layer disposed on the dimming layer, and is windable with rotation of the rotary shaft provided in the winder of the frame member and drawable from the winder.
US11372266B1
The multi-focal eyewear is a set of eyeglasses. The multi-focal eyewear is a prescription medical device used to correct and improve the vision of a patient. The multi-focal eyewear comprises an eyeglasses frame, a dexter lens, and a sinister lens. The dexter lens and the sinister lens mount in the eyeglasses frame. The dexter lens corrects the vision in the dexter eye of the patient. The sinister lens corrects the vision in the sinister eye of the patient. The dexter lens is a multi-focal lens. The sinister lens is a multi-focal lens.
US11372262B2
A temple assembly for a pair of spectacles, including a spectacle temple body, a guide member, a first temple core, a second temple core, a first pivot; and a second pivot; the second temple core is elastically connected with the spectacle temple body, the guide member is sleeved on a periphery of the first temple core, and the first temple core includes a first connecting end and a second connecting end disposed opposite to each other, the second connecting end is pivotally connected to the second temple core via the second pivot, the first connecting end is pivotally connected to a pile head of a rim or an end hinge of a spectacle temple via the first pivot; the first pivot and the second pivot are disposed perpendicular to each other; and the guide member is elastically abutted the spectacle temple body.
US11372259B2
An optical unit having a shake correction function may include a movable body including an optical module; a fixed body that supports the movable body in a swingable manner; a swing drive mechanism that includes a magnet and a coil forming a magnet-coil pair, with a counterpart of the magnet-coil pair being fixed to the movable body and another counterpart to the fixed body, and swings the movable body relative to the fixed body; a magnetic detection sensor that detects a magnetic field of the magnet; and a magnetic member that returns the movable body to an original position by a magnetic attraction force with the magnet. The magnetic detection sensor overlaps the magnetic member as viewed in a direction orthogonal to a thickness direction of the magnetic member.
US11372258B2
There is provided a lens piece and a lens assembly as well as an imaging device including the same. The lens assembly includes the lens piece and a lens barrel. The lens piece has a wing extending transversely from a lens sidewall. The lens barrel carries the lens piece, and includes a reservoir corresponding to the wing of the lens piece for containing adhesive.
US11372257B2
A see-through display device includes an optical coupler that couples first light input from a first direction and second light input from a second direction that is different from the first direction, the optical coupler transferring coupled light including the first light and the second light to an observer, and a shading member disposed in front of the optical coupler, the shading member transferring the second light to the optical coupler by reducing a light amount of the second light. The see-through display device limits a reflection phenomenon occurring between the optical coupler and the shading member.
US11372248B2
A device for providing a 1D line of an image is disclosed. The device includes a wavelength-tunable light source for providing image light having the angular distribution encoded in optical spectrum. The device further includes a thin slab waveguide having an out-coupler in form of a diffraction grating for out-coupling the image light at an angle dependent on wavelength. The image may be formed by scanning a collimated beam propagating in the slab waveguide when using tunable monochromatic light sources, or by forming the 1D singular distribution of brightness at a same time when using a tunable-spectrum light sources. The device may be used in a near-eye display for forming a 2D image in angular domain.
US11372245B2
A waveguide apparatus for conveying a virtual image has first and second parallel planar surfaces. A first in-coupling diffractive optic on the first planar surface directs a first subset of image-bearing light beams into the waveguide and a second in-coupling diffractive optic on second planar surface directs a second subset of the image-bearing light beams into the waveguide. The first and second in-coupling diffractive optics are offset with respect to each other along the first and second parallel planar surfaces to independently direct the respective first and second subsets of the image-bearing light beams into the waveguide.
US11372241B2
The sample imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit that images a sample by using an achromatic lens in which longitudinal chromatic aberration is corrected in a wavelength range of chemiluminescent light of the sample; an excitation light source (the first epi-illumination light source and/or the second epi-illumination light source) that irradiates the sample with excitation light for causing the sample to emit fluorescent light; and an imaging control unit that adjusts a focal length of the achromatic lens in each imaging in a case of imaging the single sample a plurality of times by changing a wavelength range of the fluorescent light emitted by the sample, and performs imaging in a wavelength order of the fluorescent light used for the imaging.
US11372237B2
A projector includes a light outputting apparatus that outputs video light, a projection system that enlarges and projects the video light, and an optical device disposed between the light outputting apparatus and the projection system. The optical device includes a movable section including a glass plate (optical section) having a light incident surface on which the video light is incident, a shaft section that swingably supports the movable section around a first swing axis, and an actuator that causes the movable section to swing. The cross-sectional shape of the shaft section viewed in the direction along the first swing axis is a shape having a plurality of recesses recessed inward.
US11372232B2
The present disclosure provides a light valve, a display device and a display method. The light valve includes: at least one fixation member fixed onto a substrate; and at least one movable member capable of moving relative to the fixation member to switch the light valve between a first state where the light valve is provided with a slit through which a light beam passes and a second state where the light valve prevents the light beam from passing therethrough.
US11372220B2
Provided is a camera lens of a catadioptric optical system, consisting of two lens assemblies and one lens group and having a small height, a narrow angle, and good optical characteristics. The camera lens includes: a first lens assembly including an object side surface having a first refractive surface and a second reflective surface in a peripheral region and a central region thereof, and an image side surface having a second refractive surface, a fifth refractive surface and a sixth refractive surface that are sequentially arranged from a peripheral region to a central region thereof; a second lens assembly including an object side surface having a third refractive surface and a fourth refractive surface that are sequentially arranged from a peripheral region to a central region thereof, and an image side surface having a first reflective surface; and a third lens group having a refractive power.
US11372216B2
An imaging optical lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has negative refractive power. The second lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element has negative refractive power. The sixth lens element has positive refractive power. The imaging optical lens system has a total of six lens elements.
US11372211B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: −5.00≤f1/f2≤−2.00; and −20.00≤(R1+R2)/(R1−R2)≤−1.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11372203B2
An optical imaging lens system includes five lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power can have an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof.
US11372202B2
Provided is a supporting element having an object-side mechanical surface, an image-side mechanical surface, an inner-side connecting surface having a first and a second plane inner walls extending from at least one of the object-side and the image-side mechanical surfaces, and an outer-side connecting surface having a first and a second outer cutting surfaces respectively adjacent to the first and the second plane inner walls. The supporting element satisfies the following conditional expression. 4≤R/SD≤30. R represents half of a distance between the first and the second outer cutting surfaces. SD represents a smaller one of a first and a second distances, the former being the minimum distance between the first outer cutting surface and the first plane inner wall, the latter being the minimum distance between the second outer cutting surface and the second plane inner wall. A portable optical imaging lens is also provided.
US11372201B2
An optical system consists of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during focusing. The second lens unit moves during the focusing. The following conditional expression is satisfied: −0.20
US11372196B2
An imaging device and a focusing control method are provided. The imaging device includes: an imaging element, having pixels including phase-difference detecting pixels and imaging a subject through an imaging optical system including a focus lens; and a focusing controller, selectively performing focusing control using a phase difference AF method or focusing control using a contrast AF method in a mode in which focusing control for focusing on a main subject by driving the focus lens is continuously performed multiple times. The focusing controller performs the focusing control using the contrast AF method in a case where a state in which a degree of reliability of the focusing control using the phase difference AF method is equal to or less than a threshold value persists N times (N=2 or more), while the focusing control using the phase difference AF method is continuously performed.
US11372194B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention a rotor including a lens and formed with a first driving unit, a stator formed with a second driving unit driving the rotor in response to electromagnetic interaction with the first driving unit, and a base on which the stator is fixed, wherein the rotor is brought into contact with the base, in a case the lens is in a UP posture, and the rotor is distanced from the base, in a case the lens is in a DOWN posture.
US11372187B2
A non-metallic layer stranded optical cable with a reversal point capable of being positioned and a detection method thereof, which solves the problems of determining a reversal point of a cable core and performing an operation of drawing out an optical fiber from the optical cable. The present invention relates to a non-metallic layer stranded optical cable, and the key points of the technical solution thereof includes a cable core and a metal film provided at each reversal point of the cable core, and an outer sheath is provided on the cable core.
US11372183B2
Disclosed is a fire resistant, all dielectric fiber optic cable with high fiber count. The cable comprises a core including a central strength member and buffer tubes containing fibers, arranged around the central strength member. A first mica layer is arranged around the core. A glass yarn layer surrounds the first mica layer and is in direct contact therewith. A inner sheath surrounds the glass yarn layer. A second mica layer surrounds the inner sheath. An outer sheath surrounds the second mica layer. The buffer tubes contain a water-blocking filling material comprising a silicone gel, wherein said silicone gel has a drop point of at least 200° C.
US11372177B2
In an example, an optoelectronic module may include a housing enclosing at least one optical transmitter or receiver and a slider configured to move with respect to the housing. The slider may include at least one protrusion configured to engage a cage sized and shaped to receive the housing. The optoelectronic module may include a bail rotatably coupled to the housing, and the bail may be configured to actuate the slider when the bail is rotated. The optoelectronic module may include a retainer configured to engage with the housing and the bail to retain the bail in a fixed position with respect to the housing.
US11372176B2
An implantable optical sensor comprises a photonic integrated circuit comprising a substrate 2 and an optical microstructure 3 integrated with the substrate 2. The optical microstructure is positioned to form an exposed optical interaction area 4 on a part of a surface 5 of the substrate 2. A cover cap 6 is sealed onto a part of the substrate 2 adjacent to the optical interaction area 4 and by wafer-to-wafer bonding technology or another wafer-level hermetic packaging technique. At least one active component 8 is positioned in a sealed cavity 9 which is formed between the surface 5 and the cover cap 6. The substrate 2 comprises at least one optical feedthrough 10, which is an embedded waveguide extending from the sealed cavity 9 to the optical interaction area 4.
US11372170B2
An optical connector system includes: a first optical connector that includes a first shutter; and a second optical connector to be connected to the first optical connector. The first shutter opens by inclining toward the second optical connector when the first shutter comes into contact with the second optical connector.
US11372157B2
Photonic integrated circuits utilizing interferometric effects, such as wavelength multiplexers/demultiplexers, include a free-space coupling region having two core layers that have thermo-optic coefficients of opposite sign. The two core layers are configured to provide athermal or nearly-athermal operation. Described examples include integrated array waveguide grating devices and integrated echelle grating devices. Example material systems include LNOI and SOI.
US11372155B2
An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber; a primary resin layer coating an outer periphery of the glass fiber; and a secondary resin layer coating an outer periphery of the primary resin layer, and a pH of the primary resin layer is greater than a pH of the secondary resin layer.
US11372152B2
A backlight module includes a frame, a first optical film and a fixing assembly. The frame has a near-display panel side and a far-display panel side in a direction perpendicular to a plane enclosed by the frame. The frame includes a frame portion and an extending portion disposed on an inside of the frame portion. The frame portion has at least one film fixing groove, a cross section of the film fixing groove has a stepped shape in a direction perpendicular to a plane enclosed by the frame portion and perpendicular to an edge of the frame portion where the film fixing groove is located. The film fixing groove has a first support surface and a second support surface, and the second support surface is farther away from the near-display panel side than the first support surface.
US11372151B2
Embodiments are directed to an electronic device having an illuminated body that defines a virtual or dynamic trackpad. The electronic device includes a translucent layer defining a keyboard region and a dynamic input region along an external surface. A keyboard may be. positioned within the keyboard region and including a key surface and a switch element (e.g., to detect a keypress). A light control layer positioned below the translucent layer and within the dynamic input region may have a group of illuminable features. The electronic device may also include a group of light-emitting elements positioned below the optical diffuser. One or more of the light control layer or the group of light-emitting elements may be configured to illuminate the dynamic input region to display a visible boundary of an active input area. At least one of a size or a position of the visible boundary may be dynamically variable.
US11372150B2
A backlight module and a displaying device. The backlight module comprises a backplane, a reflector plate and a light guide plate that are disposed in sequence, a light strip disposed on a first side of the light guide plate, and a plurality of positioning assemblies disposed at two ends of the first side of the light guide plate respectively, wherein each light guide assembly comprises a positioning element disposed on the backplane and a guide surface disposed at a corner of the first side of the light guide plate. The positioning assemblies are disposed on the first side, where the light strip is located, of the light guide plate, such that the light guide plate will be driven to move away from support members under a reactive force of the positioning elements when expanding.
US11372146B2
A method and a device for real-time attitude angle measurement based on the field of view effect of the birefringent crystal are provided. The device includes a high-speed polarization measurement module and an object attitude adjustment module connected to each other. The high-speed polarization measurement module includes a polarizer unit and a real-time polarization analyzer unit, respectively located on two opposite sides of the object attitude adjustment module. The object attitude adjustment module includes an attitude angle controller, a roll angle adjustment unit, a pitch angle adjustment unit, a yaw angle adjustment unit, and a height adjustment unit respectively connected to the attitude angle controller, and a birefringent crystal. The method includes an algorithm for real-time extraction of object attitude angle according to optical parameters measured by the high-speed polarization measurement module, and a method for compensating attitude angle measurement errors.
US11372114B2
A system for estimating a receiver position with high integrity can include a remote server comprising: a reference station observation monitor configured to: receive a set of reference station observations associated with a set of reference stations, detect a predetermined event, and mitigate an effect of the predetermined event; a modeling engine configured to generate corrections; a reliability engine configured to validate the corrections; and a positioning engine comprising: an observation monitor configured to: receive a set of satellite observations from a set of global navigation satellites corresponding to at least one satellite constellation; detect a predetermined event; and mitigate an effect of the predetermined event; a carrier phase determination module configured to determine a carrier phase ambiguity of the set of satellite observations; and a position filter configured to estimate a position of the receiver.
US11372110B2
An image display apparatus 10 comprises image capturing units 11L, 11R, display units 12L, 12R, and adjusting units 14, 16 that adjust a position at which to display a captured image 30 on the display units. The adjusting units 14, 16 have a plurality of adjustment modes in which the position can be adjusted. The plurality of adjustment modes include a first mode (self-aiming mode) in which it is possible to adjust the position by an operation on only a first switch 14, and a second mode (service center aiming mode) in which it is possible to adjust the position by a simultaneous operation on the first switch and a second switch 15.
US11372108B2
A laser sensing system includes an emitter configured to emit a laser, and a controller. The intensity of the laser is based upon power provided to the laser sensing system. The controller is configured to control the power provided to the laser sensing system, obtain feedback parameters indicative in part of molecular content of the atmosphere, and control the power provided to the laser sensing system based upon the feedback parameters.
US11372107B2
Triangulation photoelectric proximity sensor (1) having a first light emitter (2) for emitting transmitted light into a detection zone (3), a transmitting optical system (4), in particular a lens, being arranged upstream of the light emitter (2), a first light receiver (6) having an array of receiving elements (5) for receiving light from the detection zone (3), which is remitted by an object (7) to be detected, the receiving elements (5) generating respective received signals, a receiving optical system (8) arranged in the beam path between detection zone (3) and first light receiver (6) for generating a light spot from the remitted light on the first light receiver (6), wherein the position of the light spot in the triangulation direction on the first light receiver (6) results in dependence on the distance of the object (7), and a control and evaluation unit (9) for generating a detection signal from the received signals on the basis of the position of the light spot on the first light receiver (6), wherein a further second light transmitter (2) is provided as a reference light transmitter (12) for safety-oriented self-testing.
US11372103B2
A method includes receiving first electrical signals from a first single-element transducer (1121) and second electrical signals from a second single-element transducer (1122). The transducers are disposed on a shaft (110), which has a longitudinal axis (200), of an ultrasound imaging probe (102) with transducing sides disposed transverse to and facing away from the longitudinal axis. The transducers are angularly offset from each other on the shaft by a non-zero angle. The transducers are operated at first and second different cutoff frequencies. The shaft concurrently translates and rotates while the transducers receive the first and second ultrasound signals. The method further includes delay and sum beamforming, with first and second beamformers (1201, 1202), the first and second electrical signals, respectively via different processing chains (7121, 7122), employing an adaptive synthetic aperture technique, producing first and second images. The method further includes combining the first and second images, creating a final image, and displaying the final image.
US11372098B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, a device, and a medium for determining an angle of yaw, relating to a field of automatic driving. The method includes: obtaining, during a vehicle being driving straightly on a straight road, data of each obstacle in an environment located by the vehicle, the data of each obstacle being detected by a millimeter wave radar sensor located in the vehicle, at least one metal obstacle being provided on the straight road; recognizing the metal obstacle based on the data of each obstacle, and obtaining a metal obstacle line by fitting positions of the metal obstacle at different time points; and determining an angle between the metal obstacle line and a direction of a vehicle body as an angle of yaw between the millimeter wave radar sensor and the vehicle body.
US11372086B2
Embodiments described herein can address these and other issues by using radar machine learning to address the radio frequency (RF) to perform object identification, including facial recognition. In particular, embodiments may obtain IQ samples by transmitting and receiving a plurality of data packets with a respective plurality of transmitter antenna elements and receiver antenna elements. I/Q samples indicative of a channel impulse responses of an identification region obtained from the transmission and reception of the plurality of data packets may then be used to identify, with an autoencoder, a physical object in the identification region.
US11372078B2
A wireless communication device for a road side zone includes a wireless communication circuit that forms beams in plural different directions in a time division scheme in an area which includes plural routes. The wireless communication device for a road side zone includes a recording circuit that records time transition in the direction of the beam used by the wireless communication circuit, which forms the beams in the plural different directions in a time division scheme, for wireless communication with a second wireless communication device provided to a mobile apparatus which moves on any of the plural routes.
US11372077B2
A wireless animal location system is provided that identifies a location of a pet roaming within an environment using a single base unit. The wireless animal location system tracks and manages animal behavior in the environment using information of pet location.
US11372075B2
Provided are a positioning method, apparatus and system, a layout method for a positioning system and a storage medium. A plurality of labels is laid with preset positioning precision in an area to be positioned, where each label among the plurality of labels carries label information, where the label information corresponds to position information of a position of the each label. A position acquisition device reads first label information on a label at a distance not greater than the preset positioning precision from the position acquisition device; and the position acquisition device determines first position information of the position acquisition device according to the first label information.
US11372070B2
According to one embodiment, a data processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires input data relating to a processing target including a plurality of data segments corresponding respectively to a plurality of imaging contrasts determined by a first pulse sequence. The processing circuitry generates output data relating to the processing target by applying a trained model to input data relating to the processing target. The processing circuitry outputs output data relating to the processing target.
US11372069B2
A method for target identification for a deep brain stimulation procedure includes acquiring a set of magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) data for a region of interest in a subject using a MRI system, comparing the set of MRF data to an MRF dictionary to determine at least one parameter for the MRF data for the region of interest, generating a quantitative map of the at least one parameter, segmenting a target area of the region of interest based on the MRF data, generating at least one trajectory for placement of at least one electrode in the target area of the region of interest based on the segmentation of the target area and displaying the quantitative map and the at least one trajectory on a display.
US11372048B2
The invention provides a diagnostic device including: an input/output unit that receives an input of a current value indicating a value of a current of an electric motor measured by a sensor; a frequency analysis unit that converts the current value measured by the sensor into a frequency intensity; a deterioration mode decomposition unit that uses a state mode model indicating a change situation of a frequency intensity in a part constituting the electric motor to calculate an activity level indicating a time series change of a deterioration intensity for each state mode model from the frequency intensity; and an abnormality determination unit that determines a deterioration and an abnormality of each part using the activity level.
US11372038B2
A system and methods for monitoring an impact of geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) or an E3 component of electromagnetic pulses (EMP-E3), involving a transducer generating a transduced signal in response to a magnetic field of a current carrying element of a transmission line. The transduced signal reflects harmonic characteristics of the current carrying element, and is amplified and filtered, then digitally converted. Excessive impact is detected when a threshold condition is met with respect to a total harmonic distortion (THD) and/or a change in THD. The THD can be calculated from amplitudes of harmonic components of interest. The amplitudes can be calculated in various ways, including Fourier transforming the digital signal to locate peaks in the resulting spectral lines, or using a phase sensitive detection algorithm in which the digital signal is multiplied by a phase swept reference signal and then integrated.
US11372035B2
A measurement system for matching and/or transmission measurements with respect to a device under test comprising an interface is provided. Said measurement system comprises at least one signal generator comprising at least one signal generator signal path, and at least one receiver comprising at least two receiver signal paths. In this context, a signal of a first signal generator signal path of the at least one signal generator signal path and/or a signal of a first receiver signal path of the at least two receiver signal paths is adaptively phase-shifted and/or amplitude-modified with respect to a signal of a second receiver signal path of the at least two receiver signal paths.
US11372031B2
A high voltage power supply apparatus includes: a comparator, a transformer, a rectifier, and a detector. The comparator is to control output of a basic voltage. A high voltage based on the basic voltage is used to perform an image forming job in an image forming apparatus. The transformer is to output an alternating current voltage of a second side of the transformer by amplifying an alternating current voltage of a first side of the transformer, the amplifying being based on a resonance phenomenon induced from the basic voltage. The rectifier is to output the high voltage by rectifying the alternating current voltage of the second side. The detector is to sense a voltage applied to the comparator and a voltage applied to the transformer, and is to output operational state information of the high voltage power supply apparatus based on the sensed voltages.
US11372019B2
An optomechanical device optomechanical device for stabilizing an optomechanical resonator comprising a circuit configured to generate a first optical signal and a second optical signal, modulate the first optical signal, modulate the second optical signal, and combine the first optical signal and the second optical signal into a combined optical signal to direct the combined optical signal into an assembly. An inner sidewall of a first beam structure of the assembly has a first inner spatial frequency correspond to a second inner spatial frequency of an inner sidewall of a second beam structure of the assembly and an outer sidewall of the first beam structure has a first outer spatial frequency correspond to a second outer spatial frequency of an outer sidewall of the second beam structure.
US11372015B2
A sample injector is configured to determine an amount of movement of a piston for injecting a sample into an analyzer based on a preset amount of the sample to be injected into the analyzer and information of a first identification code about an internal volume read by an optical sensor.
US11372005B2
The present application relates to methods of treating HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) and/or focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) using endothelin-1 (ET-1) antagonists. The application further relates to a composition for the treatment of HIVAN and/or FSGS. A kit for detecting the presence of ET-1 or ET-1-associated biomarker in a biological sample is also disclosed.
US11372004B2
Methods of using biomarkers in determining the efficacy of a treatment for an organic acidemia in a subject are disclosed herein. Methods of using biomarkers in determining the efficacy of a liver-directed treatment for an organic acidemia in a subject are likewise disclosed herein.
US11372003B2
Biomarkers are provided that are predictive of a subject's responsiveness to a therapy comprising a JAK inhibitor. The biomarkers, compositions, and methods described herein are useful in selecting appropriate treatment modalities for a subject having, suspected of having, or at risk of developing Graft-Versus-Host Disease.
US11372000B2
The present disclosure relates to an antibody that specifically binds a mutated NT-proBNP having i) a mutation substituting arginine at position 46 with histidine or ii) a mutation substituting glutamic acid at position 43 with aspartic acid. Moreover, the present disclosure relates to a mutated NT-proBNP or fragment thereof. Further, envisaged by the present disclosure are kits containing the antibody of the present disclosure, or the mutated NT-proBNP of the present disclosure. The present disclosure also concerns a method for diagnosing heart failure.
US11371999B2
The description relates to a method and kits for determining the total carbonylation level on a polypeptide.
US11371997B2
A sample, which is a mixture of glycans, is fluorescently labeled (S2). The sample is subsequently separated by microchip electrophoresis under a buffer solution with no lectin added as well as under multiple kinds of buffer solutions with different lectins respectively added, and the separated components are fluorescently detected (S3). A high-concentration gel which can produce a molecular-sieving effect is used as the buffer solution. Multiple electropherograms are created from the detection results (S4). A glycan having a lectin specifically attached is delayed during its migration in the buffer solution, so that a peak corresponding to this glycan will effectively disappear. Accordingly, based on the kinds of lectins and the presence/absence of a peak on each of the electropherograms, the structure of each glycan in the sample is estimated and the glycan is identified (S5).
US11371987B2
The present invention intends to provide an immunochromatographic test piece that makes it possible to achieve both highly sensitive detection of a substance to be detected and a simple test piece structure, which are usually difficult to be made compatible with each other. The immunochromatographic test piece is an immunochromatographic test piece comprising a membrane on which a capture substance being a ligand that bonds to a substance to be detected is immobilized, wherein insoluble carrier particles to which a ligand that bonds to the substance to be detected is bound are used and accumulated by being captured with the capture substance immobilized on the membrane, the membrane is irradiated with light to detect light emitted from a portion where the insoluble carrier particles are accumulated or light emitted from a portion surrounding and other than the portion where the insoluble carrier particles are accumulated, thereby measuring the substance to be detected, and a light-reflecting material is provided on a side of the membrane opposite to a side irradiated with light.
US11371978B1
A system for measuring a concentration of lead in water includes a variable electrode having a mixture of lead ionophore II, carbon nanotubes, and a first binder. A reference electrode includes a mixture of carbon nanotubes and a second binder. A meter is electrically connected in series with the variable and reference electrodes, and the meter generates a signal reflective of the concentration of lead in the water when the variable and reference electrodes are immersed in the water. A method for measuring a concentration of lead in water may include preparing a variable electrode having lead ionophore II and a reference electrode having carbon nanotubes. The method may further include electrically connecting a meter with the variable and reference electrodes, immersing the variable and reference electrodes in the water, and generating a signal from the meter reflective of the concentration of lead in the water.
US11371975B2
A gas sensor includes a sensor element, an inner protective cover having one or more element chamber inlets and including a first member and a second member, and an outer protective cover having one or more outer inlets. A first gas chamber between the outer protective cover and the inner protective cover has a first space and a second space. A cross-sectional area Cs that is a flow channel cross-sectional area in the second space when the measurement-object gas passes from an outside of the second member toward an inside of the second member just above the second member is greater than or equal to 14.0 mm2, and a cross-sectional area Ds that is a cross-sectional area perpendicular to a circumferential direction of the inner protective cover in the second space is greater than or equal to 0.5 mm2 and less than or equal to 6.4 mm2.
US11371965B2
Creation and use of a digital twin instance (DTI) for a physical instance of the part. The DTI may be created by a model inversion process such that model parameters are iterated until a convergence criterion related to a physical resonance inspection result and a digital resonance inspection result is satisfied. The DTI may then be used in relation to part evaluation including through simulated use of the part. The physical instance of the part may be evaluated by way of the DTI or the DTI may be used to generate maintenance schedules specific to the physical instance of the part.
US11371947B2
Visualizing a contaminant is provided. A contaminant of a plurality of different contaminants included in a contaminant knowledgebase is identified based on analysis of contaminant-relevant data received from one or more sensors of a plurality of different sensor arrays regarding an enclosed physical space. A concentration and a type of the contaminant is identified based on the contaminant-relevant data and information included in the contaminant knowledgebase. A location of the contaminant is identified within the enclosed physical space based on location of the one or more sensors that obtained the contaminant-relevant data and a digital twin of the enclosed physical space. A visualization of the contaminant is projected at an area proximate to the location of the contaminant using a holographic image indicating the concentration and the type of the contaminant within the enclosed physical space.
US11371944B2
Embodiments of the present invention encompass systems and methods for detecting the presence of a test pad on a test strip. Exemplary techniques involve receiving a test strip having at least one test pad, where individual test pads have a pad width with ink disposed on two ink zones at two opposing sides of the width of the pad, illuminating the at least one test pad with a light source, detecting reflected signals from the test pad, generating an image comprising of pixels of the two ink zones based on the reflected signals, detecting the presence of each of the ink zones by comparing the number of consecutive pixels against a predetermined threshold, and determining the presence of the test pad on the test strip if two ink zones are detected within the pad width.
US11371940B2
A system for conducting real-time chemical analysis of deposits is provided. The system includes an electromagnetic radiation source positioned on a downhole tool that emits electromagnetic radiation to a surrounding downhole environment within a field of view of interest. The system also includes a multivariate optical element positioned on the downhole tool that has optical filters configured to receive reflected radiation from the field of view of interest and generate respective filtered radiation signals. Each of the optical filters has a different transmission function that corresponds to a respective chemical species of interest. The system also includes an image sensor positioned on the downhole tool that detects each of the respective filtered radiation signals from the multivariate optical element. The image sensor provides image information of the field of view of interest that indicates a presence of at least one chemical species of interest located in the surrounding downhole environment.
US11371936B2
A multiwavelength-light-radiating apparatus (1) includes: a light source (11) that radiates continuous light (Lc); a diffracting part (12) that diffracts the continuous light (Lc) into numerous monochromatic lights (Lm), whose wavelengths differ from one another, and emits the numerous monochromatic lights (Lm); numerous optical waveguides (2) that respectively transmit the numerous monochromatic lights (Lm) emitted from the diffracting part (12) from incident ends (21) to output ends (22) where the numerous monochromatic lights (Lm) are respectively emitted; and a sample-placement part (3) that holds numerous samples such that the output ends (22) of the numerous optical waveguides (2) respectively oppose the samples. The numerous monochromatic irradiation lights, whose wavelengths differ from one another, are arranged to be radiated simultaneously onto the numerous samples, one light per sample.
US11371935B2
Provided is a polymer resin orientation evaluation method including: setting an axis intersecting a front surface of an object to be inspected as an inspection axis, and acquiring an optical characteristic value of the object to be inspected with respect to a plurality of polarization directions of a terahertz wave around the inspection axis; and evaluating orientation of a polymer resin that constitutes the object to be inspected on the basis of a variation amount of the optical characteristic value with respect to change of the polarization direction.
US11371928B2
A sensor arrangement characterizes particles. The arrangement has an emitter with a laser source that generates a laser beam; a mode converter that generates a field distribution of the laser beam, which at each position has a different combination of a local intensity and a local polarization direction of the laser beam; and focusing optics that focus the field distribution of the laser beam onto at least one measurement region, through which the particles pass, in a focal plane. A receiver is also provided with analyzer optics configured to determine polarization-dependent intensity signals of the field distribution of the laser beam in the at least one measurement region; and an evaluator configured to characterize the particles, including the particle position, the particle velocity, the particle acceleration, or the particle size, using the polarization-dependent intensity signals.
US11371927B2
A method for optically examining a plurality of microscopic samples. The samples are channeled one after the other by means of a flow into at least one flow channel in which the samples advance along a flow direction. The samples are illuminated, and light emitted from the samples is detected and analyzed. A device for carrying out the method in which samples are illuminated in that at least one light sheet with a light sheet plane is directed onto the at least one flow channel, wherein the light sheet is oriented so as to intersect the at least one flow channel in an intersection region, and the normal of the light sheet plane forms an angle differing from null together with the flow direction in the intersection region. The light emitted from the sample is registered by an imaging optical detection unit, and the focal plane of said optical detection unit lies in the intersection region.
US11371923B2
An error compensation system and method may include applying a mechanical load to a reference sample to obtain a load measurement signal from the load sensor and a displacement measurement signal from the displacement sensor, calculating a transfer function to create a load filter and a displacement filter to be applied to the load measurement signal and the displacement measurement signal, respectively, applying the load filter to the load measurement signal to calculate a load compensation value, and applying the displacement filter to the displacement measurement signal to calculate a displacement compensation value, and determining the compensated value by comparing the load compensation value with the displacement compensation value, wherein the compensated value is determined prior to testing a specimen so that the compensated value is used to automatically correct a measured deflection of the specimen to arrive at an actual specimen deflection.
US11371917B2
The present disclosure teaches an apparatus and a method for providing one or more substance liquids to a microfluidic channel network. The microfluidic apparatus includes valves for switching the one or more substance liquids to a microfluidic channel network. The apparatus can be used to generate a sequence of the one or more substance liquids as individual droplets in an immiscible separation liquid wherein individual ones of the sequence of droplets are located between the separation liquid.
US11371909B2
A lifespan diagnosis device for a motion guidance device including: a stress calculating means which calculates stresses during movement for each of virtual segments, the stresses during movement being stresses that occur in each segment during a movement of the moving member; a counting means which counts, for each of the segments, on the basis of the amount of displacement, the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement which repetitively occur with waving during a movement of the moving member along the track; and a diagnostic means which calculates, for each of the segments, a lifespan exhaustion ratio on the basis of magnitudes of the stresses during movement and the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement, and which diagnoses the lifespan of the motion guidance device on the basis of the calculated lifespan exhaustion ratios of the respective segments.
US11371908B2
The invention discloses a coupled free vibration wind tunnel testing device with adjustable frequency ratio of torsional-vertical vibration, belonging to the technical field of bridge wind tunnel testing device. The device includes rigid testing model, lightweight rigid rods, lightweight rigid circular hubs, thin strings, linear tensile springs, carbon fiber ropes, and lightweight small hubs. The invention adjusts the torsional stiffness of the system by conveniently changing the diameter of the small hub, the diameter and length of the carbon fiber rope, etc. The device has the advantages of simple structure, convenient installation and avoiding the previous tedious work. It can achieve a variety of torsional-vertical vibration frequency ratio testing conditions by using only one diameter large hub. It can not only greatly save the time of replacing the large hub, but also facilitate the realization of higher torsional-vertical vibration frequency ratio testing conditions which are difficult to achieve by the previous methods.
US11371905B2
Methods and systems for detecting leakage in a permeability measurement system. The method includes connecting a plurality of flow lines to a first dimension of a core sample assembly, connecting one or more flow lines to a second dimension of the core sample assembly, placing the core sample assembly with the connections in a measurement cell such that the flow lines are accessible from outside of the measurement cell, connecting one or more gas sensors to one end of each of the flow lines, connecting an inlet of the measurement cell to a gas tank, setting fluid pressure inside the measurement cell to a predetermined value, and detecting a leakage in the core sample assembly by the one or more gas sensors coupled to the flow lines.
US11371897B2
A device for measuring liquid sloshing force of a ship transporting liquid. The device includes a first cuboidal frame; a second cuboidal frame; a rotating mechanism; a dynamometer; and a liquid tank disposed in the second cuboidal frame. The second cuboidal frame is pivotally connected to the first cuboidal frame via the rotating mechanism. The first cuboidal frame includes a first horizontal plane frame, a second horizontal plane frame, a plurality of upright tubes connecting the first horizontal plane frame and the second horizontal plane frame, and an X-shaped support rod disposed between the first horizontal plane frame and the second horizontal plane frame. The second cuboidal frame includes a third horizontal plane frame including two longitudinal beams and two transverse beams, a longitudinal U-shaped bar disposed between the two transverse beams, and a plurality of transverse U-shaped bars disposed between the two longitudinal beams.
US11371881B2
A photoelectric detection circuit, a photoelectric detection device and an electronic device. The photoelectric detection circuit includes a first detection sub-circuit configured to be exposed to the environment of light to be detected and having an equivalent resistance that varies with the variation of illumination intensity of the light to be detected in the environment; and a second detection sub-circuit configured to be in a state of fixed illumination intensity and having an equivalent resistance that is constant due to the fixed illumination intensity. The first detection sub-circuit is connected in series with the second detection sub-circuit via a first node N1 and the signal output lead Vout is electrically connected with the first node N1 to output detected electrical signals.
US11371874B2
A method and an apparatus for measuring mass based on torque equilibrium, including a main blade for supporting and balancing a lever and parts arranged on the lever; a displacement measuring device for measuring a position of the lever; an electromagnetic torquer for balancing the apparatus after a balance weight is coarsely loaded during measuring; a product tooling on which a product to be measured is arranged and fixedly connected. The product tooling is fixed on a slider which freely slides along a guide rail; a locking block is provided to lock the product after the product slides in place; the guide rail is fixed on the level; a laser displacement sensor is provided to measure a displacement of the product along the guide rail; a lifting mechanism is provided to lift the lever and parts arranged on the lever to separate from the main blade.
US11371861B2
A system determines a set of POIs that are visible from a location. The system stores a visibility map for each POI. A visibility map includes data about locations or regions from which the associated POI is visible. The data may include information about how visible the POI is from different locations. The system divides a region into road bins (e.g., geofences a route passes through). Each road bin is associated with a set of POIs that are visible from locations within the road bin. When the system receives a request from a user device for information about visible POIs, the system determines a road bin that corresponds to the location of the user device, identifies POIs associated with the road bin, and transmits information about the set of POIs to the user device.
US11371854B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for processing transit time of a navigation path, a device and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining turning signs of target intersections in the navigation path in a current region as requested by a user and a request time period in which the user requests for navigation; determining time spent by the user in passing through the target intersections, according to the request time period, turning signs of the target intersections, a preset turning probability database and preset waiting time for respective turns; determining the transit time for the user to pass through the navigation path, according to the time spent by the user in passing through road segments in the navigation path and time spent in passing through the target intersections in the navigation path. The technical solution of the present disclosure can be employed to overcome drawbacks in the prior art, more accurately determine the time spent in passing through the target intersections in the navigation path, and thereby more accurately determine the transit time of the navigation path.
US11371850B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a shortest path engine for warehouse management are described. In one embodiment, a method determines a shortest path between a first location and a second location. The method includes receiving a request for a shortest path between a first location and a second location and accessing a first data structure. The first data structure maps the first location to a first reference point and the second location to a second reference point. A shortest path between the first reference point and the second reference point is determined and the determined shortest path is returned.
US11371840B2
A radio altimeter includes an electronically scanned array antenna. Orthogonal sweeps by the electronically scanned array antenna are used to identify a highest point in a region beneath the aircraft without the need for strong reflection. The electronically scanned array antenna may be reconfigured to scan a subregion including the highest point with a higher frequency beam and/or integrate multiple sweeps over time for a more accurate measurement.
US11371839B2
A method of performing visualized measurement on thickness distribution of a paint film and an apparatus therefor. A measurement target region is heated by a heating unit that applies a light beam while moving relative to the measurement target region of a measurement target structure. A sensing unit moving together with the heating unit generates a plurality of thermal images related to a phenomenon in which thermal energy is propagated in the measurement target region by scanning and photographing the heated measurement target region. The thermal images in a dynamic state are converted into time-spatial-integrated thermal images in a static state by performing coordinate transformation according to a time-spatial-integrated coordinate transformation algorithm. A thickness of the paint film is calculated by using a Fourier thermal conduction equation. A noise caused by an external heat source is removed by subtracting a pre-heating time-spatial-integrated thermal image from the converted time-spatial-integrated thermal image.
US11371836B2
A device is proposed for the contactless three-dimensional inspection of a circular, mechanical component (20) with toothing having a main axis of rotation, comprising: means for scanning the teeth, comprising at least one first pair of laser measurement modules (12A, 12B) and means for the rotational driving (11), about the main axis, of said component relative to the laser measurement modules; means for rebuilding a virtual three-dimensional representation of the component using data coming from said scanning means; means of dimensional inspection using the three-dimensional representation; each pair of modules comprising a first module oriented towards a first face of a tooth and a second module oriented towards a second face of a tooth; the modules being oriented relative to the component so that during a rotation of the component, the scanning means scan the first and second faces of each tooth throughout their thickness and depth.
US11371834B2
A measuring device includes a measuring unit that measures the morphology of a convex portion, and a position fixing unit that includes an opening in which the convex portion is to be disposed and a fixing member which includes the opening at a center thereof and against which the periphery of the convex portion is to be pressed. The size of the opening of the position fixing unit is capable of being changed.
US11371831B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the thickness and refractive index of a layer (6) on a substrate (26). The layer (6) having a layer boundary surface (30) facing the substrate (26) and a layer top side (28) facing away from the substrate (26). In said method, the following steps are performed; imaging the layer (6), by confocal microscopy, along an optical axis (8), determining a point spread function resolved along the optical axis (8) al the layer boundary surface (30) and the layer lop side (28), determining an apparent thickness of the layer at a lateral point of the layer from the distance between two maxima of the point spread function, determining the widening of a maximum that the point spread function has at the layer boundary surface (30) relative to the width of the same maximum that the point spread function has at the layer top side (28), at the lateral point, and determining the thickness and refractive index of the layer (6) at the lateral point from the apparent thickness and the widening.
US11371823B1
A wireless radio-frequency identification (RFID) strain sensor including: a substrate; an antenna on the substrate; and an integrated circuit on the substrate and electrically connected to the antenna. At least one of the substrate and the antenna includes a magnetoelastic material.
US11371819B1
A packaging arrangement for 30 mm×173 mm ammunition rounds. The packaging arrangement has a heavy duty standoff device of defined height, which standoff device mounts a very high strength support plate and a heavy duty restraining plate. The support plate has through holes (of diameter slightly less than the rounds defined maximum diameter) to hold the rounds of in an upside down position and from sliding/moving. The height of the standoff device keeps the rounds from being able to touch the bottom of the metal box. The restraining plate has multiple recessed areas sized to accommodate the back ends of the said rounds. The packaging arrangement is lowered into a metal box with handles for carriage purposes. On top, there are Homosite filler pads, and the box accommodates a top lid.
US11371809B1
A method for addressing tactical situations via tactical devices may include (i) observing, via a device associated with an operator, a tactical situation involving the operator, (ii) retrieving, from a set of data about the operator, at least one attribute of the operator that is relevant to the tactical situation, (iii) gathering at least one attribute of the environment of the tactical situation from at least one sensor device monitoring the environment, and (iv) calculating a success probability for a by the operator the addresses the tactical situation based on the at least one attribute of the operator that is relevant to the tactical situation and the at least one attribute of the environment of the tactical situation. Various other systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US11371803B2
In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein a molded panel configured for mounting on a rail of a weapon, the molded panel having a slot that will allowing a cavity to be opened into the panel for allowing a friction fit insert to be inserted into the slot, The friction insert causes the molded panel to be locked onto a rail while the friction fit is inserted into the cavity.
US11371799B2
An example simulated weapon includes a delayed trigger and a pellet ejector. The delayed trigger includes a chamber and a piston slidable between armed and triggering positions. A spring biases the piston towards the triggering position. A locking member releasably locks the piston in the armed position. Release of the piston by the locking member causes the spring to move the piston from the armed position to the triggering position. The pellet ejector is coupled to the delay trigger to be triggered by the delay trigger in the triggering position. The pellet ejector includes a pressure chamber to receive a pressurized fluid and a pellet chamber to receive pellets. A valve is disposed between the pressure chamber and the pellet chamber communicates pressure from the pressure chamber to the pellet chamber. A barrel that extends through the pressure chamber is connected to the pellet chamber to eject the pellets.
US11371797B2
A dual-purpose type gas-valve structure especially related to a gas-gun gas-valve used for controlling the igniting and releasing of gas. It is specially designed with the horizontal and vertical gas entrance types coexisting structure to facilitate selecting different types to insert and connect the high-pressure steel cylinder depending on the gun type. It mainly consists of a box-body set with several connected horizontal and vertical channels inside; wherein a group of vertically intersecting channels located below can respectively insert into the high-pressure steel cylinder from the horizontal entrance and the vertical entrance from outside; wherein the lower-layer horizontal channel located at the upper f-type channel belongs to the high-pressure gas control room and the touch-press port, and the gas can be thereby released to the vertical channel and strongly ejected out through the upper-layer horizontal channel to instantaneously propel and launch out the bullet of the connecting barrel.
US11371793B2
A support pod that supports a weapon in a firing position includes a support tube telescopingly joined with a leg having a longitudinal axis. A lock portion defines grooves downwardly angled relative to the longitudinal axis. A guide portion defines recesses downwardly angled relative to the axis. The recesses can be distal and separate from the grooves, and both optionally are downwardly spiraling. The leg is operable in a locked mode, in which a lock element is in a groove, and a guide element is in a corresponding recess, to set a first overall length of the support. The leg can operate in an adjustment mode in which the lock and guide element can transition out from the groove and recess, and can move to other respective grooves and recesses chosen by a user to set the pod at another overall length. A related method of use is provided.
US11371792B1
A gun control unit for a M134 minigun firearm including an armature and a stator comprising at least one hardware processor; and one or more software modules that are configured to, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, independently control the armature; independently control the stator.
US11371785B2
A cooling system for a cold spray nozzle or a thermal spray barrel and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The cooling system includes a sleeve with cooling fins that encapsulate a spray nozzle or barrel to enable heat transfer from the nozzle or barrel to the fins and then to the external ambient environment. The sleeve may optionally include one or more channels with cooling tubes to enable enhanced cooling with a cooling medium flowing through the tubes and across the fins.
US11371784B2
A heat dissipation unit and a heat dissipation device using same are disclosed. The heat dissipation device includes a base and one or more heat dissipation units. The base has a first side and an opposite second side; and the heat dissipation units respectively include at least one radiation fin correspondingly provided on the first side of the base. The radiation fin is formed by correspondingly closing a first plate member and a second plate member to each other, such that a plurality of independent flow channels is defined between the closed first and second plate member. The independent flow channels communicate with each other. And, the independent flow channels respectively have an amount of working fluid filled therein.
US11371781B2
A plate package for a heat exchanger device includes a plurality of heat exchanger plates of a first type and a plurality of heat exchanger plates of a second type. At least the heat exchanger plates of the first type include, along at least a section of the opposing side portions, a draining channel flange. The draining channel flanges are oriented in one and the same direction such that a draining channel flange of a first heat exchanger plate of the first type abuts or overlaps a draining channel flange of a subsequent heat exchanger plate. The draining channel flanges form outer walls to the outer draining portions thereby transforming the outer draining portions into draining channels. A method of using such plate package in a heat exchanger device and also a heat exchanger device as such are also disclosed.
US11371780B2
A counterflow heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between a first fluid flow at a first pressure and a second fluid flow at a second pressure includes a first fluid inlet, a first fluid outlet fluidly coupled to the first fluid inlet via a core section, a second fluid inlet, and a second fluid outlet fluidly coupled to the second fluid inlet via the core section. The core section includes a plurality of first fluid passages configured to convey the first fluid flow from the first fluid inlet toward the first fluid outlet, and a plurality of second fluid passages configured to convey the second fluid flow from the second fluid inlet toward the second fluid outlet such that the first fluid flow exchanges thermal energy with the second fluid flow at the core section. Each first fluid passage of the plurality of first fluid passages has a circular cross-section.
US11371777B1
A device and method for drying fine particulate. A parallel flow rotary drum dryer is used to dry the particulate material. There is a combustion chamber for the burner, located upstream of the dryer inlet, and the burner flame is limited to the combustion chamber so the fine particulate material does not come into direct contact with the burner flame. The output from the dryer passes through a knock-out box including a baffle system with a plurality of narrow gaps to create a pressure drop to slow down the gas flow and enable the entrained fine mesh dry particulate to drop out through a bottom outlet before the effluent gas is sent to the dust collection/air filtration system.
US11371773B2
A temperature control bottle assembly for heating and cooling drinks includes a base control apparatus and at least one conductive bottle apparatus. The base control apparatus comprises a cylindrical housing having a pair of semicircular depressions extending towards a bottom side defining a left half, a right half, and a divider wall extending therebetween. A heat exchange is coupled within an inner cavity and comprises a CPU, a heating element disposed beneath the right half, and a cooling filament disposed beneath the left half. A power supply and a plurality of controls are in operational communication with the heat exchange. The conductive bottle apparatus comprises a bottle and a thermally conductive bottom plate coupled to the bottle. The bottom plate has a pair of semicircular protrusions corresponding to, and selectively engageable with, the pair of depressions of the housing to control the temperature of the bottle contents.
US11371772B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet including an inner case, and a drawer assembly installed in the inner case. The drawer assembly includes a basket which forms a receiving space and can be pulled in and out of the inner case, a supporter assembly connected to the basket to guide an insertion or withdrawal of the basket, and a cover connected to the supporter assembly to cover or uncover the receiving space. The cover may be movable in a direction opposite to a movement of the basket when the basket is inserted or withdrawn. The basket includes a protrusion configured to engage with or disengage from a notch of a connection member to facilitate or prevent transmission of a movement force of the basket to the cover.
US11371771B2
The present disclosure refers to a household refrigeration appliance and, more specifically, to a household refrigeration appliance with a multifunctional shelf. A multifunctional shelf arrangement is provided, including: a shelf comprising a frame that is physically associated to the walls of an internal box by shelf rails; the frame comprising lateral, front and rear portions, as well as at least one accessory physically associated to the shelf by accessory rails defining at least one track for displacement of the accessory. Specifically, in accordance with this disclosure, the frame comprises a plurality of receiving structures and the accessory rails comprise fitting projections which engage directly with the receiving structures of the frame, so that the attachment rails are removably fitted with the receiving structures.
US11371760B2
In a refrigeration cycle apparatus according to the present invention, a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture is used. The refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a decompressor, a second heat exchanger, a third heat exchanger, and a blower. The blower blows air to the second heat exchanger and the third heat exchanger. The non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture circulates in a first circulation direction through the compressor, the first heat exchanger, the decompressor, the second heat exchanger, and the third heat exchanger. The second heat exchanger is greater in flow path resistance than the third heat exchanger. The blower forms a parallel flow with the non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture that flows through the second heat exchanger and the third heat exchanger.
US11371750B2
Disclosed herein are WIFI and could enabled temperature control systems. The temperature control systems are configured to receive user temperature settings and preferences, and control a water heater based on the user temperature settings and preferences. The temperature control systems include two or more sampling rates for enabling a higher efficiency of operation compared to conventional water heaters.
US11371745B2
Provided is a fin for register that can firmly fix a mounting member to a fin body. A horizontal fin includes a plate-shaped fin body and a mounting member mounted to a downstream side edge part of the fin body. The mounting member has a curved shape to cover the downstream side edge part of the fin body. The downstream side edge part includes a first recessed part at a tip part on a front side in a longitudinal direction. The first recessed part is formed by recessing the tip part of the downstream side edge part. The downstream side edge part and the mounting member are fixed to each other by an adhesive filled in the first recessed part.
US11371743B2
An air conditioning system capable of reducing noise incidental to gas-liquid two-phase transfer is provided. The air conditioning system (100) performs a refrigeration cycle in a refrigerant circuit (RC) including an outdoor unit (10), a plurality of indoor units (40), and a liquid-side connection pipe (LC) connecting the outdoor unit (10) and the indoor units (40). The air conditioning system (100) includes a second outdoor control valve (17, electric valve) decompressing the refrigerant flowing in the refrigerant circuit (RC) in accordance with an opening degree, an operating-capacity variation detection portion (74, detection portion) detecting change of the number of operating units in accordance with device information, and a device control portion (75, control portion) controlling a state of the second outdoor control valve (17). The device control portion (75) executes first control (feed-forward control) when the change of the number of operating units is detected by the operating-capacity variation detection portion (74), and adjusts the opening degree of the second outdoor control valve (17) to suppress a rise of pressure of the refrigerant flowing into the operating unit.
US11371727B2
The installation means for a device for treating, in particular humidifying and/or cleaning, a net fluid, in particular a gas, by means of a working fluid, in particular a liquid, and particularly for cooling water vapor by means of spray water and/or drip water, is provided with at least one installation package (10) of several square, waved mat elements (12) being arranged in an overlying or adjoining manner Adjacent mat elements (12) are mechanically connected to each other by pin-hole-arrangements in which pins (42) protruding from the one mat element (12) and each comprising a free end are inserted in receiving openings (34) formed in the other mat element (12). The receiving openings (34) each comprise an opening edge (36) from which a flexible clamping tongue (38) protrudes into the receiving opening (34). Each receiving opening (34) comprises an area size limited by the free end of the at least one clamping tongue (38) and the region of the opening edge (36) opposite to said end, or by the free ends of several, in particular two or three clamping tongues (38), wherein the area size (40) being smaller than the cross-section of the pin (42) in the state of the pin (42) in which the pin (42) is received by the receiving opening (34), and in which the at least one clamping tongue (38) is bend with its free end to the free end of the pin and abuts against the pin (42).
US11371721B2
A thermostatic radiator valve (TRV) assembly or automatic temperature balanced actuator (ABA) assembly controls a manifold assembly through a push pin bearing mechanism. The push pin bearing mechanism comprises a push pin that moves in a linear direction responsive to rotational movement of a motor gear that is coupled through a helical gear. Rotational movement of the push pin is prevented by a ball bearing assembly. Movement of the push pin is transferred to a manifold pin, which in turn, controls the manifold assembly. Because the push pin moves in a linear rather than a rotational fashion, erosion of the mated manifold pin is substantially reduced with respect to transitional approaches.
US11371712B2
Pellet grills and associated methods of operation are disclosed. An example pellet grill includes a burn pot configured to combust pellet fuel received within the burn pot. The pellet grill further includes an auger configured to deliver the pellet fuel to the burn pot. The pellet grill further includes an auger motor operatively coupled to the auger. The pellet grill further includes one or more processors configured to determine whether a shutdown sequence of the pellet grill has been initiated. The one or more processors are further configured, in response to determining that the shutdown sequence has been initiated, to command the auger motor to reverse a direction of rotation of the auger. The reversal is to cause pellet fuel which the auger has not yet delivered to the burn pot to be purged in a direction away from the burn pot.
US11371703B2
A gas turbine engine component assembly comprising: a first component having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, wherein the first component includes a cooling hole extending from the second surface to the first surface; a second component having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface of the first component and the second surface of the second component defining a cooling channel therebetween; and a lateral flow injection feature integrally formed in the first component and fluidly connecting a flow path located proximate to the second surface of first component to the cooling channel, the lateral flow injection feature being configured to direct airflow from the airflow path through a passageway and into the cooling channel at least partially in a lateral direction parallel to the second surface of the second component such that a cross flow is generated in the cooling channel.
US11371701B1
A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a forward liner segment and an aft liner segment positioned downstream from the forward liner segment relative to a direction of flow through the combustor. The forward and aft liner segments at least partially define a combustion chamber. Furthermore, the combustor includes a dilution slot frame positioned between the forward and aft liner segments along a longitudinal centerline of the gas turbine engine. Moreover, the dilution slot frame defines a plurality of dilution slots spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction of the gas turbine engine such that the plurality of dilution slots provides an annular ring of dilution air to the combustion chamber.
US11371696B2
A system and method for configuring a boiler combustion model are provided. The system for configuring the boiler combustion model may include a model generator configured to generate the boiler combustion model using, as input/output data, data obtained based on measured data, analysis data, and controller information, a model simulator configured to simulate the generated boiler combustion model and output simulated results, and a model modifier configured to evaluate the boiler combustion model based on the simulated results and generate modification information for modifying the boiler combustion model based on the generated boiler combustion model and corresponding evaluated results.
US11371695B2
Provided is a boiler for heating fluid by a heat generation unit including heat generation bodies in a container, the boiler being able to moderately heat fluid according to various situations while heat generated by the heat generation bodies can be efficiently utilized. A boiler for heating fluid by using heat generated by heat generation bodies includes the heat generation bodies and a container having the heat generation bodies inside and configured such that the inside of the container is filled with gas with higher specific heat than that of air. The boiler includes a controller configured to control a heat generation amount of the heat generation body under a situation where the gas has been supplied into the container.
US11371691B2
A waterproof decorative lamp includes an illuminating body having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and an outer wall extending between the first end and the second end, a plurality of wires connected to the first end of the illuminating body, an isolation fixing column clamped between the plurality of wires, and a housing coupled to the isolation fixing column, the housing having an inner wall defining an inner cavity. The housing is installed from the second end of the illuminating body, the housing sheaths a periphery of the isolation fixing column and a periphery of first end of the illuminating body close to the wires, the second end of the illuminating body is exposed from the housing, the inner wall of the housing abuts against the outer wall of the illuminating body, and the wires are clamped between the isolation fixing column and the inner wall.
US11371690B2
An elongated lighting module having an asymmetric illumination source formed from at least two rows of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that extend along the long axis of the module and are independently controllable. The illumination source is rectangular and oriented so that the rows of LEDs extend along the long axis of the module. The lighting modules are powered via a wiring harness that extends down a support pole to a power supply having LED drivers to control the power to the modules. The power supply is divided between a core enclosure housing the LED drivers and a master enclosure that commands and controls the core enclosure. Multiple core enclosures may be used to power multiple luminaires under the control of a single master enclosure.
US11371686B2
A lighting device is presented for highlighting a first product over a second product placed in a first and a second section respectively of a store fixture, display or shelf to draw a shopper's attention to the first product, the lighting device comprising: a first and a segment, adjacent to each other, arranged for providing a first light output for illuminating the first product and a second light output for illuminating the second product respectively, a controller arranged for changing an operational mode of the lighting device from a normal lighting mode to a highlighting mode based on a signal indicating presence of a field; wherein in both the normal lighting mode and the highlighting mode, the first segment and the second segment provide illumination, and wherein in the highlighting mode, the first segment highlights the first product over the second product.
US11371673B2
An outer lens for a lighting fixture for a vehicle includes a first region formed of a first material and a second region formed of a second material adjacent to the first region. The first material transmits light in a visible light range. The second material has a first wavelength range with transmittance equal to or less than a first transmittance. A second wavelength range has a transmittance equal to or more than a second light transmittance. A third wavelength range is between the first wavelength range and the second wavelength range. The first wavelength range includes a visible light at an S wavelength or a shorter wavelength. The second wavelength range includes a wavelength range from an M wavelength to an L wavelength. The third wavelength range increases from the S wavelength to the M wavelength. The first wavelength range includes the emission wavelength.
US11371670B2
A lamp for an automobile includes a micro lens array (MLA). The MLA module includes: a light-incident lens part which is provided with a plurality of lenses and to which the light output by the light source is incident; and a light-emitting lens part which faces the light-incident lens part, which is provided with a plurality of lenses on a first surface opposite to a second surface facing the light-incident lens part, and which receives the light incident to the light-incident lens part and discharges the light external to the MLA module. Some of the plurality of lenses provided in the light-emitting lens part are convex lenses, and the others of the plurality of lenses provided in the light-emitting lens part are concave lenses.
US11371665B2
The light device includes a shell housing, a container located in the shell housing, and a light source assembly disposed inside the container. The light source assembly is configured to emit light of a first quality and a second quality different from the first quality. The light device also includes a plug disposed on the shell housing, and the plug is electrically connected to the light source assembly. A window is arranged on the shell housing for allowing light emitted from the light source assembly to pass through. A switch is disposed on the shell housing, and the switch is configured to enable the light source assembly to emit light of the first quality or the second quality.
US11371660B2
The present disclosure provides systems for generating tunable white light. The systems include a plurality of LED strings that generate light with color points that fall within red, blue, green, and cyan color ranges, with each LED string being driven with a separately controllable drive current in order to tune the generated light output. Methods of generating white light by combining light generated by red, blue, green, and cyan color channels. Methods of generating white light points at substantially the same 1931 CIE chromaticity diagram color coordinates having different EML.
US11371657B2
The invention is related to a tank system for storing a high pressure gas. The invention provides a system for storing a gas, the system comprising at least two tanks, a first tank and a last tank, the first tank comprising an inlet port connected to a system inlet, the last tank comprising an outlet port connected to a system outlet, each tank being provided with an on tank valve comprising an inlet port, an outlet port, and a communication line leading into the tank, each on tank valve comprising a communication line between the inlet port and the outlet port of the on tank valve, the outlet port of the on tank valve of the first tank being connected to the inlet port of the on tank valve of the last tank, the at least two tanks being serially connected.
US11371652B1
The mounting system and device secures a container, such as a lockable container to a pole. A housing restricts access to the fasteners and other attachments that secure the container to the pole. A unitary fastener, such as a U-bolt, secures the housing to the pole. The two ends of the unitary fastener enter a first section of a rear wall and a second section of the rear wall to attach to the housing at an interior attachment surface. A curvature in the rear wall separates the first section and the second section of the rear wall. The curvature of the rear wall contacts the pole. The housing, the guard plate, and the container cover the fasteners to reduce access to the fasteners.
US11371648B1
A positioning structure for tripod stand for quickly releasing a clamping state, comprising a main tube, upper, middle and lower binding sleeves and three support rods. The binding sleeves are sleeved on the main tube to rotate freely. The middle binding sleeve comprises a sliding slot provided with an upper clamping column, a lower clamping column and a spring. The upper and lower clamping columns are connected with upper and lower pressing keys protruding out of the middle binding sleeve. When the pressing keys are pressed, the spring is compressed and the clamping columns no longer protrude from the upper and lower sides of the middle binding sleeve. The clamping state can be released and the support rods of the binding sleeves can be freely rotated by pressing the binding keys, so that the three support rods can be rotated to a storage position or an unfolding position.
US11371642B2
A pig has a body of resiliently compressible material extending along a central longitudinal axis. At least one strain gauge is embedded in the material of the body. The or each strain gauge extends transversely with respect to the central longitudinal axis and is arranged to deflect and elongate longitudinally with longitudinal deflection of a forward end of the body.
US11371641B2
There is presented a cable management apparatus for deployment within a pipe, where the pipe houses at least a portion of an umbilical cable. The cable management apparatus comprises a first engagement portion for engaging with an interior surface of the pipe, a second engagement portion for engaging with the umbilical cable, a first end and a second end. The cable management apparatus is configured such that, in use, the umbilical cable extends outwardly and away along the pipe, in substantially opposite directions from the first and second ends. The cable management apparatus is further configured to assist the moving of the umbilical cable along a lengthwise portion of the pipe using at least the first engagement portion and/or the second engagement portion.
US11371634B2
A method for coupling a tube to a tube fitting includes radially outwardly expanding a tubular compression collar from a constricted state to an expanded state, the compression collar having a throughway extending there through and being made of a resiliently flexible material. An end of the tube is inserted within the throughway of the expanded compression collar, the tube bounding a passageway. A tube fitting is inserted within the passageway of the tube. The compression collar is allowed to resiliently rebound back towards the constricted state so that the compression collar pushes the tube against the tube fitting.
US11371633B2
A swivel joint includes a first pipe section and a second pipe section. The pipe sections may define a flow path via which fluid passes through the swivel joint. One or more surfaces proximate a junction of the first pipe section and the second pipe section may be selectively coated to resist wear from erosion, corrosion, and or abrasion.
US11371628B2
A pipe support system includes a pipe base, a threaded bolt having a head, a deck supported above the pipe base, and a cap removably resting on the upper surface of the deck. Methods for installing the pipe support system include determining a height of a joint of pipe or pipe component above a ground surface; selecting a length of the pipe base in accordance with the height of the joint of pipe or pipe component above the ground surface; slidably placing the bolt into an inner diameter of the pipe base until a flanged housing is landed onto a top of the pipe base; rotating the head of the bolt relative to the pipe base in order to provide micro-adjustments to the height of the deck relative to the pipe base; and placing the joint of pipe or other pipe component onto the cap, thereby supporting the pipe component above the surface.
US11371621B2
A fluid regulator includes an actuator assembly disposed in a valve body. A sleeve includes a cylindrical wall, a first plate, and a second plate. Each of the first plate and the second plate is disposed in a cavity of the sleeve. A stem extends through the sleeve and is axially aligned with a longitudinal axis of the body, and includes a passage extending partially through the stem. The actuator assembly includes first and second pistons. First, second, third, and fourth chambers are separately disposed between the sleeve, the first or second plate, or the first or second piston. The first and third chambers are in fluid communication, and the second and fourth chambers are in fluid communication via the passage of the stem. The actuator assembly actuates a control element in response to a fluid pressure receivable in the first, second, third, and/or fourth chambers.
US11371613B2
The invention relates to a ring seal which comprises a main body capable of implementing a seal by static contact relative to a first cylindrical element, and a first circumferential lip capable of engaging by friction with a cylindrical surface of a second cylindrical element, said cylindrical elements being substantially coaxial and mounted so as to pivot relative to one another. The main body comprises a front surface configured to be in axial contact with a front surface of the first cylindrical element, the main body comprising a second circumferential lip radially opposite the first circumferential lip and capable of being in radial contact with a cylindrical surface of the first cylindrical element.
US11371611B2
There is provided a seal member for a bearing comprising a molded rubber article and a core metal, wherein the molded rubber article is produced by vulcanization-molding a rubber composition comprising 100 parts by mass of a rubber (A) containing an acrylic acid ester as a main component, 1 to 30 parts by mass of a carbon material (B), and 10 to 100 parts by mass of a carbon black (C) having a DBP oil absorption of 20 mL/100 g or more and less than 150 mL/100 g; the carbon material (B) is a carbon nanotube (B1) or a carbon black (B2) having a DBP oil absorption of 150 mL/100 g or more and 1000 mL/100 g or less; and a volume resistivity of the molded rubber article is 1×106 Ω·cm or less.
US11371609B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a piston comprising a piston head, a connecting rod coupled to the piston head, a stabilizer bar, a retaining ring, and a stabilizer bar collar. The stabilizer bar collar defines one or more apertures. The one or more apertures are constructed to receive the stabilizer bar. The piston is constructed to reduce energy losses in an engine comprising the piston.
US11371607B2
The present invention relates to a locking device (1) of a parking brake, comprising a ratchet wheel (10) movable about an axis of rotation (X), at least two pawls (20) which can engage in the ratchet wheel (10) to fix it, an actuating device (50) and a coupling element (30), wherein the coupling element (30) couples the at least two pawls (20) to the actuating device (50), and wherein the coupling element (30) is movable by the actuating device (50) into a first position (A), in which the at least two pawls (20) allow rotation of the ratchet wheel (10) in a first direction of rotation and a second direction of rotation, and a second position (B), in which the at least two pawls (20) can engage in the ratchet wheel (10) and allow rotation in only the first direction of rotation. The present invention also relates to a parking brake with a locking device (1).
US11371606B2
The invention relates to an arrangement for reading off predetermined positions of a gear lever (11). A sensor arrangement (1) with a first sensor component (10) moves with the gear lever (11) and a plurality of second sensor components (S21-S25) interacts with the first sensor component (10), wherein in each of the predetermined positions of the gear lever (11), the first sensor component (10) interacts with at least one second sensor component (S21-S25). A position determination unit (30) compares the current sensor output values with stored sensor output values in a table (40). When a faulty condition is detected in one of the sensor components (S21-S25), the stored sensor output values for the faulty sensor component are updated with the faulty output value of the faulty sensor component in the table (40) of expected sensor output values.
US11371601B2
The present invention provides a lubrication device for coating a lubricant onto the outer circumferential surface of a bearing. A lubrication device comprises a housing and a lubrication member that is accommodated within the housing. A bearing crosses and passes through the lubrication member so that an outer circumferential surface of the bearing comes into contact with an inner surface of the lubrication member, and due to this configuration, it becomes possible for the lubricant to be coated onto the outer circumferential surface of the bearing.
US11371598B2
A pulley device for a tensioner roller or winding roller of a transmission element, having a pulley, a bearing, and an annular protective flange. The flange provides a first radial portion of small diameter, the first radial portion bearing against a fixed inner ring of the bearing, a second radial portion of large diameter, and a substantially axial intermediate portion connecting the first and second radial portions. The intermediate portion forms a circumferential trough, the bottom of which is offset radially towards the inside of the pulley device compared with the outer edge of the fixed inner ring.
US11371597B2
A pulley device for a belt tensioner or winder roller having a bearing, a pulley mounted to the bearing, a protection flange and a screw. The protection flange includes an axial portion that is able to pass from an undeformed first configuration for positioning the flange on the bearing to a deformed second configuration for axial and radial retention of the flange.
US11371595B2
A torque converter comprising a front cover, an impeller having an impeller shell connected to the front cover, a turbine having a turbine shell, and a lock-up clutch configured to selectively couple the turbine shell to the impeller shell for torque transmission therebetween is disclosed. In embodiments, the lock-up clutch comprises a flange connected to the turbine shell that extends radially outward therefrom, a piston disposed axially between the front cover and the turbine, and a piston actuation plate connected to the piston. The piston may be connected to the front cover and configured to actuate the piston actuation plate to press the flange against the impeller shell to connect the turbine shell to the impeller shell for torque transmission therebetween.
US11371592B2
A continuously variable transmission including an input pulley having a first subassembly supported upon a first rotatably driven shaft and an output pulley having a second subassembly supported upon a second rotatable shaft. Each subassembly includes a plurality of left link elements extending from segmented pulley segments to a first shaft supported rotating element, along with a plurality of right link elements extending from the segmented pulley segments to a second shaft supported rotated element for positioning the segmented pulley segments in an outwardly circumferentially arrayed fashion about each of the first and second shafts. Axial displacement of a first and second pairs of said first and second shaft supporting elements in each of the input and output pulley subassemblies inversely varying a collective diameter formed by said arrangements of segmented pulley segments in order to maintain a constant circumference of a belt supported about the segmented pulley segments for each of the input and output pulleys.
US11371589B2
An electric powertrain includes a first electric motor that has an uninterrupted connection with a drive shaft of a vehicle. The electric powertrain further includes a second electric motor that has an interruptible connection with the drive shaft. In one form, this interruptible connection includes a clutch. The electric powertrain further includes a first gear train in the form of a first planetary gear and a second gear train in the form of a second planetary gear. The clutch in one variation includes a positive clutch in the form of a dog clutch. The dog clutch has a clutch suspension configured to deflect a clutch collar when gearing is misaligned during shifting.
US11371586B2
A pericyclic gear reducer may include a middle planet ring gear coupled between a driver ring gear and a driven wheel utilizing a first prismatic joint on a first side of the middle planet ring gear and a second prismatic joint on a second side of the middle planet ring gear. The pericyclic gear reducer may further include an input shaft rotatably coupled to the driver ring gear and the driver ring gear configured to transfer the rotational movement of the input shaft to the middle planet ring gear. The pericyclic gear reducer may further include an output sun gear coupled to the middle planet ring gear. The output sun gear further rotatably coupled to a central output shaft.
US11371584B2
A waste management device and a modular power system for such are disclosed. The waste management device may be a compactor or a shredder. The waste management device includes a cylindrical component for handling the waste, and a modular power system arranged to transmit power from one/more motors to the cylindrical component. The modular power system includes an internal gear wheel, a frame and one or more motors attached to the frame. Driving gear wheels of the motors are operably connected to the internal gear wheel such that power of the one or more motors is transmitted from the driving gear wheel(s) to the internal gear wheel.
US11371578B2
In a vibration dampening device (10, 110) in an embodiment, a restriction passage (24) includes a first communication portion (26) that is open to a main liquid chamber (14), a second communication portion (27) that is open to an auxiliary liquid chamber (15), and a main body flow path (25) that causes the communication portions to communicate with each other, the first communication portion (26) includes a plurality of pores (31) penetrating a first barrier (28) having a surface (28a) facing the main liquid chamber (14), and a protrusion (40, 140) which protrudes toward the main liquid chamber (14) or the auxiliary liquid chamber (15) is formed over an entire circumference of an opening circumferential edge portion of the pore (31) in the surface (28a).
US11371572B2
A disc brake (1) for vehicles, in particular for commercial vehicles, includes a brake disc, at least two brake linings (3, 3a), and an adjusting spindle (4) axially adjustable toward the brake linings (3, 3a) for setting an air play (L) between the brake linings (3, 3a) and the brake disc (2). The adjusting spindle (4) has a pressure plate (4a) on a side facing the brake linings (3, 3a), and a pressure piece (9) arranged on the adjusting spindle (4) on a side axially opposite from the brake linings (3, 3a). The pressure piece (9) has an anti-rotation safeguard (10; 10a) for blocking a rotation (R) of the adjusting spindle (4), and the anti-rotation safeguard (10; 10a) axially engages the adjusting spindle (4).
US11371568B2
A driving force transmission device includes an input rotation member and output rotation member, a multiple-disc clutch, a pressing mechanism, and a control device that includes a current supply circuit. The control device is configured to compute a torque command value based on a state of a vehicle, the torque command value being a driving force that needs to be transmitted by the multiple-disc clutch, to compute a current command value, to correct the current command value, and to control the current supply circuit such that an electric current depending on the current command value is supplied to the pressing mechanism. The control device is configured to perform the correction so as to increase or decrease the current command value by a correction amount depending on a change rate of the torque command value.
US11371567B2
A disconnect apparatus including a first clutch member and a second clutch member in selective engagement with the first clutch member. The disconnect apparatus also includes a cam mechanism and a sensor assembly. The cam mechanism includes an axially movable first cam member and an axially fixed second cam member, wherein the sensor assembly generates a pulse pattern which is utilized to determine a position of the first cam member, and thereby a state of the disconnect apparatus.
US11371561B2
A transmission housing (1) comprising a shaft (2) housed at least partially inside the housing (1) and, mounted on said shaft (2), at least one rotary element (3) and a rolling bearing (4), the rolling bearing (4) comprising an inner ring (5) and an outer ring (6) that are coaxial, separated from each other by rolling members (7). The housing (1) further comprises a blind or through tubular body (8) mounted on the shaft (2) and interposed at least partially between the shaft (2) and the rotary element (3), the rotary element (3) being mounted rotatably secured to the tubular body (8), and the tubular body (8) being kept rotatably secured to the shaft (2) by the inner ring (5), referred to as the constriction ring, of the rolling bearing (4), force-fitted onto said tubular body (8).
US11371559B2
A rolling component has a surface. The rolling component includes a fiber flow and a non-metallic inclusion. In a region from the surface of the rolling component to a first depth, a gap between the non-metallic inclusion and a member forming the rolling component is filled. The first depth is 50 μm or more. The surface and the fiber flow form an angle of 15° or more.
US11371557B2
A tank support assembly for a vehicle includes a vehicle structure and a storage tank assembly. The storage tank assembly is held in place relative to the vehicle structure via a magnetic support system. The magnetic support system includes tank magnets affixed to the storage tank assembly and structure magnets affixed to the vehicle structure. The tank magnets interact with the structure magnets to passively provide repulsive magnetic forces that constrain movement of the storage tank assembly relative to the vehicle structure without the tank magnets mechanically engaging the structure magnets.
US11371552B2
A hydrodynamic bearing in the form of a flex pad bearing includes configurations structured to change a bearing characteristic. One form of the bearing includes a nonlinear back wall that includes a circular arc and a transition, where the back wall extends radially outward of a ligament. The bearing can include an opening for the deposit of a weighted mass, wherein the opening can threadingly receive a threaded weighted mass. In one form a sidewall that includes the back wall segment can have an average outer radius which determines a thickness of the flex pads.
US11371550B2
The present invention provides a rotary engine comprising: a housing provided with three lobe accommodation parts; a rotor which is provided with two lobes continuously accommodated in the lobe accommodation parts, has an intake storage part communicating with an intake port provided on the front surface-side, and has an exhaust storage part communicating with an exhaust port provided on the rear surface-side; an intake-side housing cover provided with an intake hole communicating with the intake storage part; an exhaust-side housing cover provided with an exhaust hole communicating with the exhaust storage part; and a crankshaft, wherein the flow of an exhaust gas into a stroke chamber during an intake stroke is reduced by preventing the exhaust storage part, at a portion of a section in which the exhaust port is open, from communicating with the exhaust hole during the intake stroke.
US11371540B2
A latch includes a ferrule defining a hollow interior region and a ferrule opening that opens into the hollow interior region. A washer is positioned adjacent an end of the ferrule. The washer defines a washer opening. A stud has an elongated body extending along a stud axis, and the stud is positioned to extend through the ferrule opening and keyed to the washer opening such that the stud rotates about the stud axis along with the washer. A lever is pivotably connected to the stud. Rotation of the lever about the pivot axis causes translation of the stud along the stud axis with respect to the ferrule between a latched position, in which an end of the stud protrudes beyond a connection end of the ferrule, and an unlatched position, in which the end of the stud is contained within the interior region defined by the ferrule.
US11371530B2
A fan includes a fan impeller. The fan impeller includes an inner frame, an outer frame and a disturbing structure. The inner frame rotates along a rotation axis. The outer frame is disposed around the inner frame. The blades are disposed between the inner frame and the outer frame and arranged radially. The disturbing structure has a plurality of protrusion columns disposed on the outer frame, and the protrusion columns are arranged surrounding the blades. The protrusion columns are provided to generate vortexes in the flow field for disturbing the flow as to reduce noise, and the wind pressure can be increased to obtain better operating characteristics.
US11371527B2
A compressor rotor disk for a gas turbine includes a circumferential surface; and a plurality of dovetail slots formed along the circumferential surface, each dovetail slot comprising a cutout portion formed by removing a portion of a radially outer convex surface of the dovetail slot. The compressor rotor disk can reduce stresses generated in the compressor rotor disk by centrifugal force, by reducing the centrifugal force of the compressor rotor disk through the formation of the cutout portion at the radially outer portion of the compressor rotor disk, thereby enhancing the durability and reliability of the compressor rotor disk.
US11371521B2
A turbomachine face seal includes a turbine wheel with a cylindrical shaft extending from the turbine wheel, defining an axis of rotation. The shaft may include a heat throttle, such as a piston ring and groove assembly, or a shaft weld pocket having an annular heat choke groove. Circumscribing the shaft is a casing and a seal ring having a groove with a seal element. To cool the seal element, a pressurized oil jet is directed toward the casing, and impinges against the casing. The oil jet may be angled or parallel with the axis of rotation. The casing may be configured to trap oil from the oil jet to cool the seal element.
US11371519B2
Water pump with an impeller driven by an electrical machine comprising a housing cap and a volute with an input and an output and a boot hosting a stator and a rotor of the electrical machine and an electronic board mounted at the side apart from the impeller and covered by the cap housing, characterized in that the stator stack is over molded with a first plastic material and at least the stator stack, the wires and pins are over molded with a second plastic material to form a cylindrical ring boot and a heat sink that seals a cylindrical opening of the boot.
US11371513B2
An integrated gas compressor is disclosed herein. The integrated gas compressor includes an integrated motor with a stator, centrifugal impellers, and a shaft assembly with a rotor and conical transition. The integrated motor can produce an electromotive force that is imparted by the stator to rotate the rotor and components coupled to the rotor, such as the conical transition and the centrifugal impellers. At least one of the rotor and conical transition have a cavity.
US11371505B2
A scroll compressor includes a compressor housing, an orbiting scroll member, a non-orbiting scroll member, an economizer injection inlet, and a discharge outlet. The orbiting scroll member and the non-orbiting scroll member are disposed within the compressor housing. The orbiting scroll member and the non-orbiting scroll member are intermeshed thereby forming a compression chamber within the compressor housing. The non-orbiting scroll includes a plurality of compression inlet ports. An economizer injection inlet is formed through the compressor housing and in fluid communication with the compression chamber via the compression inlet ports. The economizer injection inlet is disposed between the non-orbiting scroll member and the compressor housing. The discharge outlet is in fluid communication with the compression chamber.
US11371504B2
A scroll compressor is disclosed. The scroll compressor includes an shell, a fixed scroll, a housing and an orbiting scroll. The fixed scroll and the housing are disposed in the shell and fixed relative to each other. An outer peripheral surface of the housing and an inner peripheral surface of the shell are fitted to each other. The orbiting scroll is disposed between the fixed scroll and the housing. The fixed scroll is formed therein with a first injection passage, the housing is formed therein with a second injection passage, a port of the first injection passage and a port of the second injection passage face each other, so that the first injection passage and the second injection passage communicate with each other. The scroll compressor further includes an injection tube assembly, the injection tube assembly is disposed in the shell. The injection tube assembly includes: a tube, and a first tube joint and a second tube joint respectively disposed at two ends of the tube, the first tube joint passes through the shell to communicate with the outside, and the second tube joint is inserted and fitted in the second injection passage.
US11371503B2
A drilling motor system for drilling a subterranean well includes a stator tube, the stator tube being an elongated tubular member with a central stator bore. A stator elastomer layer is located within the central stator bore, lining a wall of the central stator bore. The stator elastomer layer has an elastomer bore that includes a plurality of stator lobes extending in a helical pattern along an axial length of the central bore. A rotor is located within the elastomer bore, the rotor being an elongated member that includes a plurality of rotor lobes extending in a helical pattern along an axial length of the rotor. The stator elastomer layer includes a failure detection system, the failure detection system operable to identify a region of damaged stator elastomer layer.
US11371502B2
A progressive cavity pump includes a sealed drive between the rotor and universal joint. The universal joint includes a socket configured to receive a drive shaft of the rotor. A cover, such as a locking nut, is disposed over the connection between the rotor and universal joint. Seals are retained in place by the locking nut to prevent abrasive materials from entering into the interface between the rotor and the universal joint.
US11371500B2
Provided is a floating ring type mechanical seal in which a floating ring is pinched and held between a rotary ring provided in a rotary shaft and a stationary ring provided in a seal casing to be movable in an axial direction while being urged toward the rotary ring so that a relative rotation of the floating ring with respect to the stationary ring is inhibited. The rotary ring is made of a sintered compact of SiC or cemented carbide. A diamond film is formed on a sealing surface sliding on the floating ring in the rotary ring. A diamond film continuous to the diamond film of the sealing surface is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the rotary ring and a rear surface, which is a surface opposite to the sealing surface, in the rotary ring.
US11371493B2
The device comprises a chamber (1) provided with an inlet (2) and an outlet (3); a piston (4) inside the chamber (1), the movement of which causes the exit of the substance; and a motor (5) with an output shaft (6) that drives the motion of said piston (4) when it receives a signal from a sensor; and transmission means that transmit the drive movement from the motor (5) to said piston (4); characterised in that said transmission means comprise: a worm gear (7) rotationally attached to the output shaft (6) of the motor (5); a first transmission element (8) connected to said piston (4); and a second transmission element (9) connected to said worm gear (7) and to said first transmission element (8). The device enables small dimensions compared to conventional devices.
US11371490B2
An offshore power generation structure comprising a submerged portion having a first deck portion comprising an integral multi-stage evaporator system, a second deck portion comprising an integral multi-stage condensing system, a third deck portion housing power generation equipment, cold water pipe; and a cold water pipe connection.
US11371486B2
The invention relates to an assembly for monitoring and/or controlling a wind turbine. The assembly includes a first strain sensor for measuring a first blade bending moment of a rotor blade of a wind turbine in a first spatial direction; a second strain sensor for measuring a second blade bending moment of a rotor blade of a wind turbine in a second spatial direction, which differs from the first spatial direction; an arrangement for determining constant components of forces and moments of the rotor blades provided in the wind turbine; and a controller for combining the first blade bending moment, the second blade bending moment and the constant components.
US11371484B2
Wind turbine farms are presented including: a number of steerable wind turbines each having a turbine diameter, where the number of steerable wind turbines is grouped pairwise into a number of monopole wind tower pairs, where each monopole wind tower pair is placed in a fixed pair placement and oriented in one of a number of fixed pair orientations, where each one of the number of fixed pair orientations corresponds with one of a number of prevailing wind directions, and where the number of monopole wind tower pairs is placed in a number of fixed pair positions.
US11371483B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a shell of a wind turbine blade having improved leading edge erosion protection, wherein the method includes the steps of: (a) providing a preform of the shell, (b) providing a protective cover for protection of the shell, (c) arranging the protective cover at a portion of a leading edge of the shell, so that an erosion protected shell is obtained, and (d) casting the erosion protected shell, so that the shell of the wind turbine blade having the improved erosion protection is obtained. Also provided is a method of manufacturing the wind turbine blade and to a shell, a wind turbine blade and a wind turbine.
US11371465B2
The cylinder head 3 includes: a lower deck; a wall portion including an upper deck and a lower deck; an upper deck that is provided above the lower deck so as to face the lower deck and that defines a cooling water flow space between the lower deck and the upper deck; and a wall portion that is formed between the lower deck and the upper deck and includes a valve-hole forming wall 40 forming an intake valve hole and an exhaust valve hole which are opened into a lower surface of the lower deck. The lower deck includes: a cooling water introduction hole that passes through the lower deck in a vertical direction so as to extend in a circumferential direction of a virtual circle VC surrounding a valve-hole forming wall in a plan view; and a rib that projects from an upper surface of the lower deck.
US11371463B1
A system and method for an electronic control unit adapter used to supplement existing electronic control units for enhanced or additional IO integration, the electronic control unit adapter designed to be updated easily by the end user in order to add functionality as it is developed thus prolonging the viability of an electronic control unit or vehicle, the electronic control unit adapter usable in conjunction with a vehicle or other vessel using an internal combustion engine or similar technology.
US11371461B2
An internal combustion engine includes an engine block including a cylinder, a piston positioned within the cylinder and configured to reciprocate in the cylinder, an electronic throttle control system including a motor and a throttle plate, an air flow sensor configured to detect an air mass flow rate, a fuel system for supplying a controlled amount of fuel to the cylinder including a fuel injector, and an engine control unit coupled to the fuel system and the electronic throttle control system. The engine control unit is configured to determine engine speed data including a current engine speed, a previous engine speed, and a desired engine speed, control a fuel injection duration based on the engine speed data, determine air-fuel ratio data comprising a current air-fuel ratio and a desired air-fuel ratio, and control a throttle plate position based on the air-fuel ratio data.
US11371441B2
A fluid delivery device is provided that includes a sleeve and a tube. The sleeve extends axially along an axis between a sleeve first end and a sleeve second end. The sleeve extends radially from a sleeve inner side to a sleeve outer side. The sleeve extends circumferentially around the axis thereby forming an internal bore at least partially formed by a bore surface at the sleeve inner side. The internal bore extends axially along the axis through sleeve between the sleeve first end and the sleeve second end. The tube is connected to the sleeve and projects out from the sleeve outer side to a tube distal end. The tube is configured with a delivery device fluid passage fluidly coupled with the internal bore. The delivery device fluid passage extends radially through the tube to a fluid passage outlet at the tube distal end.
US11371440B2
Gearboxes for aircraft gas turbine engines, in particular arrangements for journal bearings such gearboxes, and related methods of operating such gearboxes and gas turbine engines. A gearbox for an aircraft gas turbine engine includes: a sun gear; a plurality of planet gears surrounding and engaged with the sun gear; and a ring gear surrounding and engaged with the plurality of planet gears, each of the plurality of planet gears being rotatably mounted around a pin of a planet gear carrier with a journal bearing having an internal sliding surface on the planet gear and an external sliding surface on the pin.
US11371437B2
A tool for inserting into a cavity is provided. The tool includes a plurality of segments moveably coupled to one another, each segment moveable relative to an adjacent segment between a bent position and a coupled position, the plurality of segments including a first segment, the first segment including: a core formed of a first material; and a shell formed of a second material and comprising or defining a guide feature, a drive feature, a line guide, or a combination thereof; wherein the first material defines a greater stiffness than the second material.
US11371429B2
Disclosed is an improved method and system of operating the semi-closed cycle, which both reduces parasitic loads for oxygen generation and for gas clean up, while also reducing, capital cost of the gas clean up plant (reduced drying requirement) and of the oxygen plant (enabling membranes vs. mole sieves). The invention is applicable to piston or turbine engines, and results in a near fully non-emissive power system via the Semi-Closed Cycle (SCC), in a manner which both captures carbon in the form of carbon dioxide, CO2, and in a manner which improves the efficiency and cost effectiveness of prior disclosures. The captured carbon is of a purity and pressure directly suitable for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), sequestration, or industrial use.
US11371428B2
A combustion engine (10) comprises a radial compressor (16) in flow communication via a flow passage (22) with a compressor-combustor array (20) radially outward of the radial compressor (16), both rotatable around a central axis (12). The compressor-combustor (20) comprises an array of rotor blades (26). The walls of the blades (26) define a plurality of chambers (28, 30). Each chamber (28, 30) has a flow inlet (32) to receive fluid from the radial compressor (16), and a flow outlet to exhaust fluid radially outwards from the compressor-combustor (20). The plurality of chambers (28, 30) comprises a first pilot combustion chamber (28a) and a second pilot combustion chamber (28b). The first pilot combustion chamber (28a) is provided with a first fuel injector (40a), and the second pilot combustion chamber (28b) is provided with a second fuel injector (40a). The first fuel injector (40a) is in flow communication with a first fuel reservoir (70a), and the second fuel injector (40b) is in flow communication with a second fuel reservoir (70b). The first fuel reservoir (70a) and the second fuel reservoir (70b) are each in fluid communication with a flow regulator (100), the flow regulator (100, 200, 300) operable to vary fuel flow delivery rate to the first reservoir (70a) and vary fuel flow delivery rate to the second reservoir (70b). The differential regulation of fuel flow between pilot combustion chambers results in different levels of thrust being generated downstream of the combustion chambers. In this way the engine is operable to produce vectored thrust.
US11371425B2
Systems and methods for cleaning deposits from a component of an assembled, on-wing gas turbine engine are provided. Accordingly, the method includes operably coupling a delivery assembly to an annular inlet of a core gas turbine engine. A portion of cleaning fluid is atomized with the delivery assembly to develop a cleaning mist having a plurality of atomized droplets. The atomized droplets are suspended within any path of the core gas turbine engine from the annular inlet to an axial position downstream of a compressor of the core gas turbine engine. A portion of the cleaning mist is impacted or precipitated onto the component so as to wet the component, and a portion of the deposits on the component is dissolved by the cleaning mist.
US11371422B2
A method for controlling and/or regulating an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas turbocharger being protected against an exceeding of a maximum rotational speed, an actual boost pressure being compared with a setpoint boost pressure. The risk of a maximum rotational speed of the exhaust gas turbocharger being exceeded is prevented in that a manipulated variable assigned to the exhaust gas turbocharger is compared with a manipulated variable limit characteristic and is limited, if necessary, the manipulated variable limit characteristic having a time-limited, first portion and a chronologically subsequent, second portion following a change in the setpoint boost pressure, the first portion ending after a predetermined target time, the second portion of the manipulated variable limit characteristic being reduced with respect to the first portion in such a way that the maximum rotational speed of the exhaust gas turbocharger is not reached.
US11371419B2
Methods and systems are provided for a pre-chamber. In one example, a pre-chamber comprises a plurality of slots fluidly coupling it to a primary combustion chamber. The plurality of slots comprising a plurality of corresponding flaps configured to direct gases through the plurality of slots.
US11371416B2
A control valve includes: a port, which is shaped in a tubular form; a valve element; and a metal seal, which contacts the valve element. A gap is formed between a tubular portion of the metal seal and the port in a perpendicular direction that is perpendicular to an axial direction of a flow passage of the port. Thereby, when the valve element is displaced in the perpendicular direction, the valve element urges the metal seal to displace the metal seal in the perpendicular direction in the state where the metal seal contacts the valve element.
US11371411B2
A method for operating a motor vehicle having an exhaust gas aftertreatment device involves an on-board electronic computing device receiving consumption information characterizing consumption of a reducing agent by the exhaust gas aftertreatment device and tank information characterizing a filling level of a reducing agent tank. Tank information is evaluated together with the consumption information with regard to a divergence, and upon determination of the divergence between the tank information and the consumption information, error information is stored in a blockchain characterizing the motor vehicle, and an action of the motor vehicle is triggered.
US11371410B2
A pressure compensator for regulating the pressure in a bubble of liquid entirely enclosed in a forming volume of ice, atop which is a volume of gas, and which is contained in a reservoir closed by walls. The compensator includes a plunger formed of a head atop a body. The faces of the body of the plunger have a taper which is positive or zero in an essentially vertical, top to bottom direction.
US11371407B2
An after treatment method is disclosed. The after treatment method may include: operating an engine at a lean air/fuel ratio; calculating an amount of NH3 stored in an SCR catalyst; calculating an amount of NOx which will flow into the SCR catalyst; determining whether conversion to a rich air/fuel ratio is desired; calculating, when the conversion to the rich air/fuel ratio is desired, a rich duration for which the rich air/fuel ratio is maintained and a target air/fuel ratio; and operating the engine at the target air/fuel ratio for the rich duration.
US11371406B2
Proposed are a low-temperature de-NOx catalyst for treating exhaust gas from a stationary source and a method of manufacturing the same. The low-temperature de-NOx catalyst can promote the reduction reaction of nitrogen oxide even at a low temperature despite supporting vanadium in a small amount, can increase resistance to sulfur poisoning, and can be easily manufactured in a manner that does not deteriorate nitrogen oxide removal efficiency even after long-term operation because it prevents secondary environmental pollution due to the treated gas and has superior abrasion resistance, thereby contributing to commercialization.
US11371404B2
An engine muffler apparatus for reducing noise and pollution from small gas engines such as those on landscaping tools includes an outer housing having a central neck extension with a principal aperture extending through to an outer housing cavity. The neck extension is selectively engageable with an exhaust of a small gas engine. The outer housing cavity has a plurality of vent apertures. An intake extension tube and a medial tube are coupled to the outer housing cavity. The medial tube has a medial cavity. A first filtering medium is coupled within the medial cavity and filters pollutants passing therethrough. A second filtering medium is coupled within the outer housing cavity outside of the medial tube and dampens sound waves passing through the apparatus from the exhaust.
US11371402B2
A valve assembly for an exhaust system of a vehicle. The valve assembly includes a first housing, a second housing, a valve flap and a spring. The first housing defines an inlet, an outlet, and an exhaust gas passageway in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet. The second housing is attached to the first housing and defines a compartment. The valve flap is rotatable between a first position restricting exhaust gas flow through the exhaust gas passageway, and a second position whereat exhaust gas flow through the exhaust gas passageway is allowed. The spring is disposed in the compartment and out of the exhaust gas passageway. The spring engages the valve flap to bias the valve flap toward the first position.
US11371401B2
An exhaust muffler includes first and second pipes which extend through a casing, and which are disposed so that a downstream end of the first pipe faces an upstream end of the second pipe, wherein the downstream end of the first pipe and the upstream end of the second pipe are disposed so as to be spaced from each other in an axial direction, one end part of a support member having a circular cross section that has a smaller diameter than those of the first and the second pipes is fixed to one of a first lid member covering an opening at the downstream end of the first pipe and a second lid member covering an opening at the upstream end of the second pipe, and the other end part of the support member is slidably fitted to the other of the first and the second lid members.
US11371393B2
An arrangement for converting thermal energy from lost heat of an internal combustion engine into mechanical energy includes a working circuit for a working medium. An expansion engine is disposed in the working circuit. A heat exchanger is mounted upstream of the expansion engine in a flow direction of the working medium where the working circuit extends through the heat exchange. The heat exchanger includes an exhaust gas recirculation heat exchanger having a cold part and a warm part, an exhaust gas heat exchanger, and a phase transition cooling in the internal combustion engine. The heat exchanger is formed by serial connection in a sequence of the cold part of the exhaust gas recirculation heat exchanger, the exhaust gas heat exchanger, the phase transition cooling in the internal combustion engine, and the warm part of the exhaust gas recirculation heat exchanger.
US11371392B1
A system for reheating a power generation system including a boiler having a waterwall and a steam drum with an input fluidly coupled to the waterwall and an auxiliary heat source to provide heated fluid. The system also includes a first flow control valve connected to the auxiliary heat source and the boiler to control a flow of heated fluid from the auxiliary heat source to the waterwall; a first isolation valve disposed at a waterwall, to isolate circulation of heated fluid from the steam drum to the waterwall; and a sensor to monitor at least one operating characteristic in the boiler. The system also includes a controller to control at least one of the flow control valve, the isolation valve, and the auxiliary heat source to control the amount of heated fluid supplied to the waterwall when the boiler is not generating steam.
US11371391B2
The invention concerns a device for assembling a turbine engine, intended to centre a shaft of a second module relative to a longitudinal axis (X) of a trunnion for a first module, the shaft having to be inserted along said longitudinal axis (X) via one end of the trunnion, wherein it includes a holding ring configured to be fixed around trunnion by tightening in such a way as to have a central axis of holding ring coincide with the longitudinal axis of the trunnion, and a means of measurement, supported by holding ring and configured to measure the position of an outer surface of the shaft along a radial direction relative to the central axis of the ring on a transverse plane (P) offset from holding ring, in such a way as to be located in front of the end of the trunnion when the device is installed on the trunnion. The invention also concerns the assembly formed by the device and a calibration model, along with an assembly procedure that uses same.
US11371387B2
The invention concerns a cooling device (21) extending circumferentially around a turbo machine housing, such as a turbine housing, having at least one cooling module (30a, 30b, 30c) comprising a tube holder (31, 32) having at least one plate, preferably a radially inner plate (31) and a radially outer plate (32) fixed to each other, the tube holder (31, 32) defining at least two axially spaced housings (34a), each housing (34a) receiving a tube (23) and a sleeve (38) mounted around each tube (23), each tube (23) extending circumferentially around the housing, each cooling module (30a, 30b, 30c) having first fastening means capable of firmly holding its tube holder (31, 32) with respect to the housing, the fixing means comprising at least one spacer (41) having a radially inner end intended to bear against the housing and a radially outer end bearing on the single or on one of the sheets of the tube support (31, 32).
US11371384B2
A turbine engine including a fan shaft driven by a turbine shaft with a rotational speed reduction device. A decoupling element is interposed between the reduction device and the fan shaft which operates to decouple the reduction device and the fan shaft. The reduction device is coupled to the fan shaft by a coupling having trapezoidal teeth of the curvic type which are used during the said decoupling operation. The decoupling element is configured to decouple the reduction device and the fan shaft in response to a predetermined resistive torque, referred to as the decoupling torque, which acts between the fan shaft and the reduction device.
US11371383B2
A system and a method for inspecting components of a turbojet engine using RFID tags and an associated interrogator device. The inspection system includes at least one RFID tag associated with a component of the turbojet engine and an interrogator device arranged so as to be able to communicate with the RFID tag, the interrogator device being equipped with an RFID antenna arranged so as to be able to be inserted into a nacelle compartment of the turbojet engine through an inspection opening intended for the passage of an endoscope probe.
US11371374B2
A gas turbine engine component includes a first member, a second member rotatable relative to the first member about an axis, and a seal assembly that includes a seal supported by the first member and a seal runner that rotates with the second member relative to the seal. The seal runner includes at least one internal passage to direct cooling fluid flow through the seal runner. A restriction is associated with the at least one internal passage to restrict flow through the at least one internal passage in response to an engine condition.
US11371373B2
A seal housing may comprise an aft flange, an outer diameter (OD) ring and a stopper. The stopper may extend radially inward from a radially inner surface of OD ring. The stopper may be configured to interface with a monobloc carbon seal. The stopper may comprise a circumferential stopping portion and an axial stopping portion. There may be a plurality of the stopper.
US11371372B2
A gas turbine engine includes a platform that has a gas path side, a non-gas path side, a first mate face, and a second mate face. The second mate face has a beveled edge sloping towards the first mate face. The gas turbine engine also includes a coverplate that includes a first bend, a flat portion substantially parallel to the first mate face and a first wing substantially parallel to the second mate face.
US11371371B1
A vane arc segment includes an airfoil and a spar that has a spar platform adjacent a first fairing platform of the airfoil fairing and a spar leg that extends through a hollow airfoil section of the airfoil fairing. An end portion of the spar leg has a spar clevis mount. There is a support platform adjacent the second fairing platform that has first and second through-holes. The spar clevis mount protrudes from the support platform. There is a spar pin that extends through the spar clevis mount and locks the support platform to the spar leg. A baffle extends through the spar platform, through the hollow airfoil section, and through the second through-hole of the support platform. The baffle is secured in a joint to the support platform and thereby limits rotation of the support platform about the spar pin.
US11371369B2
A turbine for a turbo-machine is proposed in which, at a gas inlet for a turbine wheel, vanes extend from a nozzle ring though slots in a shroud. The nozzle ring and shroud are relatively rotatable about a rotational axis of the turbine by at least 0.1 degrees. In use, the nozzle ring and shroud are relatively rotated to bring one side of the vane into close contact with one surface of the slot, to inhibit leakage of gas between the vane and the slot surface. For this purpose the respective surfaces of the nozzle and slot can be configured to closely conform to each other. If there is differential thermal expansion of the shroud and nozzle ring, the nozzle ring and shroud can relatively rotate, to withdraw the vane from the edge of the slot to relieve the pressure between them.
US11371365B2
A composite blade is formed by laying up composite layers in which reinforced fibers are impregnated with resin. The composite layers are laid up in a blade thickness direction that is a direction connecting a suction side and a pressure side of the composite blade. The composite blade includes a thick part that has a surface layer area from a surface of the thick part to a predetermined depth in the blade thickness direction and a deep layer area at a depth larger than the predetermined depth from the surface in the blade thickness direction. A median value in a predetermined range of thicknesses of each composite layer in the surface layer area is smaller than a median value in a predetermined range of thicknesses of each composite layer in the deep layer area.
US11371359B2
A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine has: an airfoil extending along a span from a base to a tip and along a chord from a leading edge to a trailing edge, the airfoil having a pressure side and a suction side, a tip pocket at the tip of the airfoil, the tip pocket at least partially surrounded by a peripheral tip wall defining a portion of the pressure and suction sides; at least one internal cooling passage in the airfoil and having at least one outlet communicating with the tip pocket; and a reinforcing bump located on the pressure side of the airfoil and protruding from a baseline surface of the peripheral tip wall to a bump end located into the tip pocket, the reinforcing bump overlapping a location where a curvature of a concave portion of the pressure side of the airfoil is maximal.
US11371349B2
A blade repair apparatus is provided and includes a deposition head which is movable relative to base materials and configured to execute a repair operation that includes a deposition of additional materials onto the base materials during deposition head movements, a temperature control system including a temperature regulating assembly coupled with the deposition head in a trailing position and a controller. The controller is operably coupled to the deposition head and the temperature control system. The controller is configured to control the deposition head movements and depositional operations of the deposition head. The controller is configured to control the temperature control system such that the temperature regulating assembly controls temperatures of at least the base materials and the additional materials during at least the deposition head movements and the depositional operations.
US11371341B2
A logging tool is positioned downhole in a wellbore, where the logging tool communicates with a computer on the Earth's surface over an analog signal path. Tool data is received from a sensor associated with the logging tool and encoded into a symbol signal. The symbol signal is transmitted to a receiver system via the analog signal path. The receiver system has one or more filters to filter the symbol signal. The one or more filters includes an equalizer filter indicative of an analog signal path response of the analog signal path. The filtered symbol signal is decoded into second tool data. The second tool data is encoded into second symbols and based on the second symbols, an updated analog signal path response of the analog signal path is generated to update the equalizer filter.
US11371336B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating reservoir productivity values that maximize reservoir productivity of a refined well design corresponding to a reservoir productivity parameter. A computer-implemented method may use a computer system that includes non-transient electronic storage, a graphical user interface, and one or more physical computer processors. The computer-implemented method may include: obtaining multiple limited production parameter values, obtaining multiple refined well designs, obtaining a productivity algorithm that predicts a reservoir productivity based on a production parameter and a well design, and generating multiple refined reservoir productivity values as a function of position in the subsurface volume of interest by applying the multiple refined well designs and the multiple limited production parameter values to the productivity algorithm.
US11371332B2
A first sand accumulator may include a housing and an insert within the housing. The insert includes axially aligned outer and inner sleeves. In a first position, the outer and inner sleeves both have large flow ports that align to form a continuous flow path for fluid to flow through the sand accumulator such that a vortex flow forms in the sand accumulator. A second sand accumulator may include a housing disposed in line with a wellbore tubular and an insert disposed inside the housing such that insert forms a continuous end-to-end seal with a section of the wellbore tubular. An inlet section of the insert has an inlet port configured to permit fluid flow such that a vortex flow forms in the inlet section. A method of using a sand accumulator includes introducing process fluid entrained with sand to the sand accumulator.
US11371330B2
Systems and methods presented herein enable coordinated pumping operations. An example system may include a treatment fluid system configured to pump a treatment fluid into a wellbore, a pump-down system configured to pump a pump-down fluid into the wellbore to convey a perforating tool, a fluid valve system configured to selectively fluidly connect and disconnect the treatment fluid system and the pump-down system to and from the wellbore, and a controller communicatively connected to the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system. The controller may be configured to monitor operational status of the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system, and control operations of the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system based at least in part on the operational status of the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system.
US11371328B1
The invention discloses an integrated method for nitrogen-assisted carbon dioxide fracturing and development of shale oil reservoirs, comprising the following steps: fracture the target shale reservoir with nitrogen-assisted carbon dioxide; after fracturing, firstly inject carbon dioxide gas into the target shale oil reservoir, and then inject nitrogen gas to push the carbon dioxide gas into the further location of the oil reservoir; shut in the well in the target shale oil reservoir; after shut-in, open the well to implement depletion production; after the first cycle of production, the slug volume of the injected gas and the shut-in time are 1.5 times of those in the previous cycle in the subsequent production, and Steps 5 to 7 are repeated for each cycle. The present invention maximizes the recovery efficiency of shale oil reservoirs; in this way, carbon dioxide gas can be used most efficiently, making the development of shale reservoir more economical and efficient; the integrated fracturing and development design enables the field operation to be streamlined and standardized, and thus different departments to cooperate each other closer.
US11371326B2
A motorized pump system includes a switched reluctance motor with a motor rotor and a motor stator, and a pump surrounding the switched reluctance motor. The motor rotor is positioned radially inward or outward of the motor stator, and the pump includes a pump rotor integrated with the motor rotor. The pump rotor includes at least one impeller connected to the motor rotor.
US11371319B2
An example system includes a moveable platform having an uphole end and a downhole end. The platform includes a drive arrangement for moving the platform in one or more directions along an interior wall of a casing string in a wellbore. The platform includes scraping arrangement for removing debris from the interior wall of the casing string. The platform includes a debris catching arrangement downhole of the scraping arrangement for collecting some or all of the debris removed. The platform may include a coating arrangement to deliver and apply a substance to at least a part of the wall of the casing string. The coating arrangement may include a reservoir holding one or more liquid substances and a valve to regulate flow of the one or more liquid substances. The liquid substance may include epoxy resin.
US11371318B2
A system for use with a subterranean well can include a system controller with a computer, a power supply and at least one current sensor, multiple downhole well tools, each of the downhole well tools including a motor and a member displaceable by the motor; and an umbilical connected between the system controller and the downhole well tools, at least one conductor of the umbilical being connected to the motor of each of the downhole well tools. A downhole well tool example can include an actuator assembly configured to displace a member of the downhole well tool, the actuator assembly including a motor, a load yoke displaceable by the motor, and an elongated position indicator bar having at least one profile formed thereon. Friction between the load yoke and the position indicator bar varies as the load yoke displaces relative to the position indicator bar.
US11371308B2
A connection between a downhole tool string and axially extending coiled tubing 102 includes a compression ring 120 that in use grips the coiled tubing sufficiently to enable a slip ring to be set and provides a satisfactory seal with the coiled tubing 102. The compression ring 120 is preferably of a relatively malleable metal and includes a skirt 142 of reduced thickness to be preferentially compressible and which in use is compressed against the coiled tubing 102.
US11371306B2
The disclosure relates to a carriage apparatus for carrying a tool string down a wellbore in a wireline logging, and an orientation apparatus and hole finder device for a wireline logging tool string. In some embodiments the carriage includes a protection structure which extends longitudinally around a wheel of the apparatus to thereby prevent a side of the wheel from contacting a wall of the wellbore. In some embodiments an orientation apparatus and hole finder are arranged so that the orientation apparatus orientates the hole finder device in the wellbore so that a tip of a nose section of the hole finder is elevated above a low side of the wellbore by a height and offset from and above a longitudinal axis of the tool string.
US11371302B2
A method of managing bottom hole assembly vibrations while drilling a wellbore including obtaining data regarding drilling parameters related to one or more drilling operations, determining if the bottom hole assembly has vibration levels outside of the range of normal operation parameters, modifying the drilling mud formulation to alter at least one of its physical properties and rheological properties to keep or maintain the vibration levels of the bottom hole assembly within the range of normal operation parameters, and mitigating the vibrations.
US11371291B2
A drilling rig includes a rig floor, first and second support structures, a mast, a lower drilling machine, a continuous drilling unit, an upper drilling machine, and an upper mast assembly. The rig floor includes a V-door defining a V-door axis extending perpendicularly from the side of the rig floor that includes the V-door. The first and second support structures define a traverse corridor having a traverse corridor axis, wherein the traverse corridor axis is perpendicular to the V-door axis. The drilling rig may be used for continuous drilling of a wellbore.
US11371281B2
A design for a universal telescoping swing gate can be sized to obscure a wide range of openings while accommodating a multitude of installation options to make the gate versatile under many conditions. The swing gate can have a frame with a pivot member rotatable about a mounting seat between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The frame can have first and second telescoping members adjustable along an extension axis between a collapsed state and a fully extended state for changing the frame length so the gate can be quickly furnished to different sized openings. The gate can be spring loaded to bias the frame to a nominally closed position to reduce the chance for human error among workers. The gate can also be sized to have the structural rigidity to comply with OSHA requirements for handrails and guardrails around a walking-working surface.
US11371280B2
A modular window assembly including a base frame, an interior frame cover, and an exterior frame cover. The base frame has a first complementary fastener located on an exterior face and a second complementary fastener located on an interior face. Each of the interior and exterior frame covers have a complementary fastener configured to releasably mate with the first and second complementary fasteners of the interior face and exterior face, respectively.
US11371275B2
The disclosure provides a method for controlling a drive arrangement for a flap of a vehicle by a control arrangement, wherein in a measuring routine a measured movement value is measured by a movement measuring system. It is proposed that in an estimation routine an estimated movement value is estimated, in a movement routine the estimated movement value is determined via the estimation routine and the flap is adjusted according to a set movement value, in a correction routine the estimated movement value is determined from the estimation routine and an estimation error is determined and from the estimated movement value and according to a correction specification the set of model parameters is corrected based on the estimation error and supplied to the estimation routine and in the correction routine the correction of the set of model parameters is performed for a part section of the motorized movement cycle.
US11371261B2
A locking system and a method for using the same are provided. The locking system including a solenoid actuated locking mechanism. The locking mechanism having an armature coupled to a first end of a bell crank and a locking pin coupled to a second end of the bell crank. The activation of the solenoid linearly drives the armature in a first direction along a first axis and the locking pin in a first direction along a second axis where the first axis is generally perpendicular to the second axis.
US11371257B1
A fence lift system and method of use comprises a plurality of post members; a plurality of panel members and a plurality of lift members. The post members are laterally spaced, and the panel members are secured between the post members. Each lift member is secured to a post member and attached to a panel member and configured to raise and lower the panel member.
US11371251B1
A climate shelter has a cover defining a valence and a moisture diverter proximate to a horizontal support. A side panel is releasably secured to the cover under the valence. The side panel includes a slot passage interior relative to the valence. The moisture diverter has an opening, a plurality of downwardly converging passage walls, and a moisture chute extending downwardly and outwardly relative to the walls. At least a portion of the moisture chute extends outwardly through the slot passage. Moisture contacting the cover enters the opening and is directed downwardly and outwardly by the walls into the moisture chute, and then outwardly for discharge exterior to a side panel. A portion of the discharge chute is disposed between the side panel and the valence.
US11371250B2
A support for installing facing materials such as ceramic tiles on a substrate, such as, floors, walls and ceilings. The support plate has a plurality of spaced apart raised portions and recesses in the plate material, and a plurality of openings extending through the top surface and bottom surface of the plate material. The openings exposing a mat layer attached to the bottom of the support plate. Support plates of the invention are used for tile installations between a substrate and tile. Thin-set mortar that is used to secure the tile to the support plate flows into the recesses and into the openings forming a continuous bond between the mortar, openings and mat layer to provide a strong bond between the support plate, mortar and the tiles.
US11371246B2
An automatic downspout assembly includes an intake pipe that is fluidly coupled to a downspout of a gutter on a building to receive precipitation from the downspout. A spout is rotatably coupled to and extends laterally away from the intake pipe and the spout is in fluid communication with the intake pipe to receive the precipitation. A stand is positionable beneath the intake pipe when the intake pipe is fluidly coupled to the downspout to support the intake pipe above a support surface. A tipping pipe is fluidly coupled to the spout to receive precipitation from the spout. The tipping pipe is biased into a home position and the tipping pipe can be urged into a tipped position when the tipping pipe fills with precipitation. In this way the tipping pipe directs the precipitation onto ground.
US11371243B2
A panel is disclosed for use in construction. The panel comprises opposing surfaces that extend between first and second opposite ends. The panel also comprises a plurality of parallel (e.g. sawtooth) ridges. The ridges are provided on at least one of the opposing surfaces. The ridges extend along and adjacent to a first of the opposite ends of the panel for at least a part length thereof. The ridges are arranged to engage with and move past corresponding ridges of an adjacent panel when the panels move relative to each other in opposite directions. The ridges are further arranged so as to interfere with the ridges of the adjacent panel to resist relative movement in a reverse of the opposite direction.
US11371242B2
Improvements in machine walls to construct a building or house is disclosed. Adjacent side of the wall sections are tapered and dovetailed that lock-in-place. The dovetails are spaced to reduce the height that one section must be lifted to engage in an adjoining wall section. The footers/base plate will also have integrated earthquake or hurricane hold-downs in the footer/base plate that aligns and can be secured from the foundation to the wall sections. The connection of the wall section to the foundation to have counter flashing at the concrete insert and the wall-to-wall sections can be self-flashed. The wall sections can have GPS locators for positioning the wall sections. Plumbing and electrical conduit creating circuits that can be integrated into the walls and are connected sealed or bonded together.
US11371237B2
An illustrative example method of making a concrete expansion joint insert includes establishing an insert body having two ends, two longitudinal edges between the ends, and two side surfaces between the longitudinal edges and the ends. A sealant is secured to one of the longitudinal edges so that the insert and the sealant can be simultaneously inserted into an expansion joints.
US11371234B2
A grit removal unit including a cylindrical grit removal chamber above a grit storage chamber, with an opening to the grit storage chamber through the grit removal chamber bottom. At least one layer plate is an inverted truncated cone around the center axis which is spaced from the grit removal chamber vertical wall to allow fluid flow therebetween. Concentric inverted truncated cone lamella plates are supported in the grit removal chamber above the layered plates, with the lamella plates radially spaced from one another relative to the center axis. An influent opening in the grit removal chamber vertical wall below the layered plates allows fluid and grit into the grit removal chamber, and an effluent opening in the grit removal chamber vertical wall above the lamella plates allows fluid to exit the grit removal chamber.
US11371231B2
The present invention relates to a toilet flushing device using a toilet cover. More specifically, the present invention comprises: a sliding means disposed at the front side of a water tank and configured to slide forward/backward by magnetic force to allow a drain valve to operate as soon as a toilet cover is closed; and an operation lever disposed at the rear side of the sliding means so as to open or close the drain valve, wherein the drain valve is operated to flush water by a structure in which the sliding means and the operation lever operate in cooperation in response to an operation of the toilet cover after use of the toilet. Therefore, the present invention can induce the habit of covering the toilet by the toilet cover after using the toilet and thus enhance a sanitary culture.
US11371229B2
There are provided a flush water tank apparatus capable of accurately setting the amount of flush water to be discharged while opening a discharge valve by a discharge valve hydraulic drive unit. A flush water tank apparatus includes a valve controller, where, in a case where a first amount of flush water is selected, the valve controller causes the timing control mechanism to be engaged with the discharge valve and causes the timing control mechanism to operate such that engagement is released after a lapse of a first period of time, and in a case where a second amount of flush water is selected, the valve controller causes the timing control mechanism to be engaged with the discharge valve and causes the timing control mechanism to operate such that engagement is released after lapse of a second period of time shorter than the first period of time.
US11371223B2
The present fastener securely couples a first body to a second body, where the fastener includes an elongate arcuate body curved along a longitudinal axis and having a cross-sectional area taken planar normal to the longitudinal axis, the elongate arcuate body includes a first portion separated along the longitudinal axis from a second portion with the cross-sectional area of the elongate body increasing from the first portion to the second portion. The fastener further includes a retaining portion configured to selectively secure the elongate arcuate body in the inserted configuration. In use, the present fastener is configured to be inserted into a passage delineated between a first body and a second body which are overlapping at least in part, to selectively lock the first body and the second body in the coupled configuration.
US11371212B2
In a work machine including a solenoid valve that generates a pilot pressure to drive a directional control valve with use of the delivery pressure of a pilot pump as a source pressure, a shut-off valve that shuts off a hydraulic operating fluid from the pilot pump to the solenoid valve, a first sensor that senses the amount of operation of an operation lever, and a second sensor that senses a state amount relating to operation of the solenoid valve, whether or not an abnormality of the second sensor exists is determined on the basis of a sensing signal of the second sensor. When it is determined that the second sensor is abnormal, on the basis of a sensing signal of the first sensor, an opening command is made to the shut-off valve if operation of the operation lever is sensed, and a closing command is made to the shut-off valve if the neutral state of the operation lever is sensed.
US11371210B2
A method may include receiving, with a controller, at least one signal from a communication device associated with a hauling machine. The signal may include position information indicating a position of the hauling machine along a travel path the hauling machine is assigned to traverse extending between a material transfer site to a dump site, a payload capacity of the hauling machine, and an estimated volume of a material loaded into the hauling machine based on the payload capacity of the hauling machine. The method may also include defining, with the controller, a degree of completion of a material transport based on the position information.
US11371209B2
A propulsion control system includes a travel motor configured to be actuated to drive the track assembly in the forward and reverse travel directions; a propulsion control device actuated in first and second input directions; and a propulsion switching mechanism. In a first propulsion direction mode, when the control device is actuated in the first input direction, the travel motor is actuated to drive in the forward travel direction, and when the control device is actuated in the second input direction, the travel motor is actuated to drive in the reverse travel direction. In a second propulsion direction mode, when the control device is actuated in the first input direction, the travel motor is actuated to drive in the reverse travel direction, and when the control device is actuated in the second input direction, the travel motor is actuated to drive in the forward travel direction.
US11371204B2
A ring-shaped cofferdam and temporary pit excavation structure using tapered square pipes includes a plurality of tapered square pipes a trapezoidal cross-section, in which the plurality of tapered square pipes each have a coupling protrusion or a coupling groove formed in a longitudinal direction on a first side, the plurality of tapered square pipes each have a coupling protrusion or a coupling groove formed in the longitudinal direction on a second side, the plurality of tapered square pipes are assembled by coupling the coupling protrusions and the coupling grooves, a long side of two parallel sides of the trapezoid is disposed outside, and a short side is disposed inside.
US11371196B2
A surface compactor machine includes a cylindrical drum defining a cylindrical space in an interior portion of the cylindrical drum and having a central axis of rotation, and a counterweight in the cylindrical space. The compactor further includes a non-driven support wheel affixed to the counterweight and in contact with an underlying portion of an interior surface of the cylindrical drum beneath the counterweight. A drive motor is provided in the cylindrical space, and a drive wheel is mechanically rotatable by the drive motor. The drive wheel contacts an inner surface of the cylindrical drum such that rotation of the drive wheel by the drive motor urges the cylindrical drum to rotate about the central axis of rotation.
US11371194B2
An underlayment layer is configured to support an artificial turf assembly. The underlayment layer comprises a core with a top side and a bottom side. The top side has a plurality of spaced apart, upwardly oriented projections that define channels suitable for fluid flow along the top side of the core when the underlayment layer is positioned beneath an overlying artificial turf assembly.
US11371193B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a road pavement comprising pipes of a device for a heat exchanger, comprising the following steps: a) digging a course to create grooves extending in a same direction and strips connecting the grooves, then b) laying the pipe having a crushing strength higher than 2 000N per linear metre of pipe at 100° C. into the grooves created in step a); and then c) filling the empty space left free by the pipe in the grooves with an asphalt mix having a working temperature lower than 160° C., based on: a hydrocarbon binder, at least 90% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the asphalt mix, of an aggregate fraction the elements of which have dimensions less than 10 mm, and comprising from 30% to 60% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the aggregate fraction, of sand, d) applying a surface course for a road pavement.
US11371191B2
Disclosed are multi-ply tissue products comprising a non-crosslinked binder that are durable and dispersible. The products generally have a Slosh time less than 2 minutes, such as less than about 60 seconds, such as less than about 45 seconds. Surprisingly, the foregoing Slosh times are achieved despite the tissue products having relatively high cross-machine direction (CD) wet tensile strength, such as greater than about 100 g/3″. Typically, increasing wet tensile strength, particularly wet CD tensile strength, negatively effects dispersability and increases Slosh time. Despite this trend, the present invention surprisingly provides a tissue product having a relatively high degree of wet strength and good dispersability.
US11371188B2
The present invention relates to multi-layer fiber products and a method of manufacturing these kinds of products. The present product comprises a first layer consists mainly of natural fibers and a second, heat-sealing layer located on top of the first layer. The heat-sealing layer consists mainly of synthetic thermoplastic fibers or particles. According to the present method, the heat-sealing layer is brought onto the first layer already during the web forming process, the first and the second layers being formed and joined together in a foam forming process. With the present invention, it is possible to decrease the amount of plastic materials in packaging materials having heat-sealing properties.
US11371186B2
The invention relates to a method for treating biomass (2). In a step (S10), biomass (2) and an impregnation liquid are fed into a first reactor unit (10) such that the biomass (2) is impregnated with the impregnation liquid while the biomass (2) is transferred through the first reactor unit (10) by a conveyor means (11). In another step (S20), the impregnated biomass (2a) is transferred from the first reactor unit (10) to a separation unit (25), wherein at least a part of the impregnation liquid is separated from the impregnated biomass (2a) within the separation unit. In a step (S30), the separated impregnation liquid is discharged from the separation unit (25), such that a first part (26a) of the impregnation liquid is recirculated back to the first reactor unit (10). The invention further relates to a system for treating biomass (2).
US11371184B2
A method to facilitate recycling waste material, including waste paper and organic material, comprises the steps of receiving a plurality of plastic-wrapped compressed bales of the waste material at a waste material recycling location from a remote baling location, thereafter introducing the plurality of plastic-wrapped compressed bales into a re-pulping device at the waste material recycling location to form a treated waste material including substantially re-pulped waste paper, and thereafter discharging the treated waste material from the re-pulping device.
US11371183B2
A clothes care apparatus including a main body including a clothes care room, a support device arranged inside the clothes care room and configured to support clothes, and a steam generating device configured to supply steam into the clothes care room, wherein the support device includes a first support member, and a second support member and a third support member that are arranged in a first direction with respect to the first support member, the first support member and each of the second support member and the third support member are separated by a first separation distance, the second support member and the third support member are separated by a second separation distance in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction, wherein each of the first separation distances, and the second separation distance are variable to, when the clothes are supported on the support device and steam is supplied by the steam generating device, prevent wrinkles.
US11371181B2
A dryer appliance or ventilation assembly, as provided herein, may include an impeller, a housing, a front duct, and a sealing gasket. The impeller may be rotatable about an axial direction to urge a flow of air. The housing may enclose the impeller within a cabinet. The housing may define an entrance upstream of the impeller to permit air into the housing. The front duct may include an attachment collar defining a duct outlet. The attachment collar may be received within the entrance. The sealing gasket may be radially positioned between the attachment collar and the entrance.
US11371176B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, a water tub provided inside the cabinet, and a detergent box to supply detergent to the water tub. The detergent box includes a housing connected to communicate with the water tub, a drawer having a plurality of detergent storage spaces and received in the housing to be drawn out, and a distribution unit to distributively supply wash water into the plurality of detergent storage spaces. The housing may include a through portion communicating with the water tub, a horizontal partition protruding above the through portion and disposed in a left and right direction, and a wash water guide unit to guide the wash water so that a plurality of wash water movement paths is defined at a front region of the horizontal partition. Accordingly, detergent residue at an inner front region of the housing can be suppressed.
US11371166B2
Provided herein are high-throughput sequencing methods to study the diversity and functionality of lymphocyte receptor chains and pairing of the same. Specifically, the methods provided herein are used to identify with confidence one or more lymphocyte receptor chain pairs in a sample, for example one or more functional chain pairs.
US11371164B2
Provided is a large diameter InP single crystal substrate having a diameter of 75 mm or more, which can achieve a high electrical activation rate of Zn over a main surface of the substrate even in a highly doped region having a Zn concentration of 5×1018 cm−3 or more; and a method for producing the same. An InP single crystal ingot is cooled such that a temperature difference of 200° C. is decreased for 2 to 7.5 minutes, while rotating the InP single crystal ingot at a rotation speed of 10 rpm or less, and the cooled InP single crystal ingot is cut into a thin plate, thereby allowing production of the InP single crystal substrate having an electrical activation rate of Zn of more than 85% over the main surface of the substrate even in a highly doped region having a Zn concentration of 5×1018 cm−3 or more.
US11371156B2
A chromium-based coating including chromium (Cr), carbon (C) and iron (Fe), Cr being electroplated from a trivalent Cr bath. The coating is further includes nickel (Ni) electroplated from the Cr bath having at least 20 mg l−1 Ni cations, in that C is at least partially in the form of at least one chromium carbide compound, in that the coating has been heat-treated at a temperature of 400-1,200° C., and in that the hardness of the coating is at least 1,500 HV on a Vickers microhardness scale as measured according to standard SFS-EN ISO 4516. A method for producing a coating and to a coated object is also disclosed.
US11371155B2
A method which can perform a soft pre-wetting treatment of a substrate, such as a wafer, with use of a pre-wetting liquid in a smaller amount. This method includes: holding a substrate between a first holding member and a second holding member, with the surface of the substrate being exposed through an opening of the second holding member, and pressing a sealing ridge of the substrate holder against a peripheral portion of the substrate; pressing a sealing block against the substrate holder; forming a vacuum in an external space; performing a seal inspection to check a sealed state provided by the sealing ridge based on a change in pressure in the external space; and performing a pre-wetting treatment by supplying a pre-wetting liquid to the external space while evacuating air from the external space to bring the pre-wetting liquid into contact with the exposed surface of the substrate.
US11371148B2
A method includes receiving one or more parameters associated with a plurality of metal plates. The method further includes determining, based on the one or more parameters, a plurality of predicted deformation values associated with the plurality of metal plates. Each of the plurality of predicted deformation values correspond to a corresponding metal plate of the plurality of metal plates. The method further includes causing, based on the plurality of predicted deformation values, the plurality of metal plates to be diffusion bonded to produce a bonded metal plate structure.
US11371140B2
A method for producing a GaN crystal that includes: (i) a seed crystal preparation step of preparing a GaN seed crystal having one or more facets selected from a {10-10} facet and a {10-1-1} facet; and (ii) a growth step of growing GaN from vapor phase on a surface comprising the one or more facets of the GaN seed crystal using GaCl3 and NH3 as raw materials.
US11371138B2
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes which use a ruthenium precursor of formula R1R2Ru(0), wherein R1 is an aryl group-containing ligand, and R2 is a diene group-containing ligand and a reducing gas a described. The CVD can include oxygen after an initial deposition period using the ruthenium precursor and reducing gas. The method can provide selective Ru deposition on conductive materials while minimizing deposition on non-conductive or less conductive materials. Further, the subsequent use of oxygen can significantly improve deposition rate while minimizing or eliminating oxidative damage of the substrate material. The method can be used to form Ru-containing layers on integrated circuits and other microelectronic devices.
US11371133B2
A microstructure may be provided by forming a metal layer such as a molybdenum layer over a substrate. An aluminum nitride layer is formed on a top surface of the metal layer. A surface portion of the aluminum nitride layer is converted into a continuous aluminum oxide-containing layer by oxidation. A dielectric spacer layer may be formed over the continuous aluminum oxide-containing layer. Contact via cavities extending through the dielectric spacer layer, the continuous aluminum oxide-containing layer, and the aluminum nitride layer and down to a respective portion of the at least one metal layer may be formed using etch processes that contain a wet etch step while suppressing formation of an undercut in the aluminum nitride layer. Contact via structures may be formed in the contact via cavities. The microstructure may include a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device containing a piezoelectric transducer.
US11371126B2
This nickel-containing steel for low temperature includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.030% to 0.070%; Si: 0.03% to 0.30%; Mn: 0.10% to 0.80%; Ni: 12.5% to 17.4%; Mo: 0.03% to 0.60%; Al: 0.010% to 0.060%; N: 0.0015% to 0.0060%; and O: 0.0007% to 0.0030%, in which a metallographic structure contains 2.0% to 30.0% of an austenite phase by volume fraction %, in a thickness middle portion of a section parallel to a rolling direction and a thickness direction, an average grain size of prior austenite grains is 3.0 μm to 20.0 μm, and an average aspect ratio of the prior austenite grains is 3.1 to 10.0.
US11371124B2
An Fe-based soft magnetic alloy is provided. The Fe-based soft magnetic alloy can be represented by empirical formula FeaBbCcCud, and in the empirical formula, a, b, c and d are atomic percent (at %) of the corresponding element and are respectively 78.5≤a≤86, 13.5≤b+c≤21 and 0.5≤d≤1.5. The alloy has a high saturated magnetic flux density, excellent high frequency characteristics and low coercivity, and thus greatly facilitates the development of use as high performance/high efficiency small/lightweight parts. Since manufacturing costs are very low and the components contained in an alloy are easily controlled in an alloy manufacturing process, thereby enabling mass production of the alloy, the present invention can be widely applied as magnetic parts of electric and electronic devices such as a high power laser, a high frequency power supply, a high-speed pulse generator, an SMPS, a high-pass filter, a low-loss high frequency transformer, a fast switch and wireless charging.
US11371116B2
According to the present invention there is provided a method for the extraction of lithium from one or more lithium-containing ores such as spodumene, the inventive method comprising the steps of: milling said ore/s to a predetermined average particle size; optionally calcining the milled ore; further optionally performing a secondary milling step; providing an aqueous suspension of the one or more lithium-containing ores at a predetermined solids concentration; subjecting the one or more lithium-containing ores to an aqueous extraction medium defined by a predetermined partial pressure of CO2, a predetermined extraction temperature, over a predetermined time; and obtaining technical grade lithium carbonate/lithium bicarbonate therefrom. Optional concentration and/or precipitation/purification steps may follow.
US11371111B2
Disclosed are a non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the mass percentage of the chemical components thereof are: C: 0-0.005%; Si: 2.1-3.2%, Mn: 0.2-1.0%, P: 0-0.2%, Al: 0.2-1.6%, N: 0-0.005%, Ti: 0-0.005%, Cu: 0-0.2%, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities; and at the same time, (the S content for forming MnS+the S content for forming CuxS)/the S content in the steel is required to be less than or equal to 0.2. The process for manufacturing the non-oriented electrical steel sheet of the present invention is simple and convenient, the chemical components of the steel are easy to control, the manufacturing process is stable, and the technical requirements are easy to realize.
US11371101B2
This disclosure relates to new assay methods for analysis of RNA, e.g., from circulating tumor cells (CTCs), tumor-specific exosomes, or tumor-specific cell-free RNA, in a subject's blood sample to determine an expression level of one or more lineage markers in the blood sample, wherein the expression level of a specific one or more lineage markers is predictive of progression-free survival and overall survival for a specific anti-cancer treatment regimen in that subject.
US11371095B2
The invention relates to a high-throughput method for characterizing the genome-wide activity of editing nucleases in vitro.
US11371087B2
The present disclosure provides methods, compositions, and systems employing blocked primers. Aspects of the disclosure include providing a blocked primer reaction mixture that includes a blocked primer and a template nucleic acid component from a single cell; unblocking the blocked primer to produce an active primer reaction mixture and subjecting the activated primer reaction mixture to primer extension conditions, such as nucleic acid amplification conditions.
US11371085B2
In certain aspects, the invention disclosed herein relates to the isothermal amplification of probe linkage products to generate specific amplified signals. In some aspects, the invention provides methods, reagents, and kits for carrying out such amplification via the isothermal chain reaction (ICR).
US11371084B2
Methods and systems described herein involve using long cell-free DNA fragments to analyze a biological sample from a pregnant subject. The status of methylated CpG sites and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is often used to analyze DNA fragments of a biological sample. A CpG site and a SNP are typically separated from the nearest CpG site or SNP by hundreds or thousands of base pairs. Finding two or more consecutive CpG sites or SNPs on most cell-free DNA fragments is improbable or impossible. Cell-free DNA fragments longer than 600 bp may include multiple CpG sites and/or SNPs. The presence of multiple CpG sites and/or SNPs on long cell-free DNA fragments may allow for analysis than with short cell-free DNA fragments alone. The long cell-free DNA fragments can be used to identify a tissue of origin and/or to provide information on a fetus in a pregnant female.
US11371081B2
Methods for detecting the presence of a pathogen infection are described. In particular, this document provides a method of detecting target nucleic acids, such as pathogen-specific RNA, in a biological sample obtained from a subject, where the method comprises using one or more toehold switch sensors and an isothermal amplification step to detect the target nucleic acid. Methods specific for detecting and identify the presence of a virus such as Zika virus are also provided.
US11371079B2
Time-resolved nucleic acids include a long-lifetime FRET donor with an emission lifetime of at least one millisecond (such as a terbium complex), configured as a donor in a first FRET process, and at least one fluorescent dye with an emission lifetime of less than 100 nanoseconds configured as an acceptor in the FRET process. They can be configured as photonic wires, hybridization probes or beacons, and/or systems for computing logical operations.
US11371076B2
Disclosed herein include systems, methods, compositions, and kits for PCR normalization. In some embodiments, after barcoding copies of a higher abundance target (e.g., a cDNA species), the barcoded copies are amplified using a pair of forward primers comprising one or more mismatches and a reverse primer. The amplified copies can be further linearly amplified using a forward primer comprising the sequence of one of the pair of forward primers, and a reverse primer.
US11371074B2
Disclosed are a method and a system for determining genome copy number variation, which relates to the technical field of bioinformatics. The method and the system have clinical feasibility, and can precisely detect a micro-deletion/micro-duplication area of 0.5 M under the situation of using data of about 50 M.
US11371073B2
Provided are compositions, kits, and methods for the accurate detection of Listeria. In certain aspects and embodiments, the compositions, kits, and methods may provide improvements in relation to specificity, sensitivity, and speed of detection.
US11371071B2
A structure for culturing cells includes growth medium regions on a surface of the structure. Each of the growth medium regions includes a growth medium surface configured to receive and promote growth in a cell that is being cultured. The structure includes a non-growth medium. The non-growth medium includes a non-growth medium surface configured to receive the cell that is being cultured.
US11371067B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of using transaminase polypeptides in the synthesis of chiral amines from prochiral ketones.
US11371063B2
The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms containing butadiene or 2,4-pentadienoate pathways comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a butadiene or 2,4-pentadienoate pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce butadiene or 2,4-pentadienoate. The organism can further contain a hydrogen synthesis pathway. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce butadiene or 2,4-pentadienoate by culturing a non-naturally occurring microbial organism containing butadiene or 2,4-pentadienoate pathways as described herein under conditions and for a sufficient period of time to produce butadiene or 2,4-pentadienoate. Hydrogen can be produced together with the production of butadiene or 2,4-pentadienoate.
US11371058B2
The present invention discloses a maize parthenogenetic haploid-inducing gene ZmPLA1E and application thereof. The present invention utilizes the method of exchanged individual plant progeny tests for the first time, and successfully proves that the ZmPLA1E gene can generate and significantly increase the parthenogenetic haploid induction ability in the process of self-crossing or hybridizing as a male parent with other maize materials after the ZmPLA1E gene is mutated in the coding region. The haploid-inducing gene ZmPLA1E of the present invention is important for the cultivation of high-frequency parthenogenetic haploid inducing lines and the application of haploid technology.
US11371056B2
In the present invention, HPPD polypeptides and plants containing them showing a full tolerance against one or more HPPD inhibitor herbicides belonging to various chemical classes are described. A set of mutant HPPD polypeptides have been designed which have either no or only a significantly reduced affinity to HPPD inhibitor herbicides and, at the same time, the rate of dissociation of the HPPD inhibitors of the mutant HPPD polypeptide is increased to such an extent that the HPPD inhibitors no longer act as slow-binding or slow, tight-binding inhibitors but, instead of this, have become fully reversible inhibitors. In particular, isolated polynucleotides encoding mutant HPPD polypeptides conferring tolerance to HPPD inhibitor herbicides belonging to various chemical classes are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed.
US11371052B2
Methods and compositions are described for producing a phytase in transgenic maize plants and then incorporating parts of the transgenic maize plants in animal feed. The feed phytase enzyme displays activity across a broad pH range, and tolerance to temperatures that are often encountered during the process of preparing animal feeds. Methods of producing an animal feed that incorporate the transgenic maize plants, parts thereof or plant derived phytases, as well as methods of promoting the release of inorganic phosphate from a phytic acid in an animal, producing an animal meat, or reducing the ratio of intake of an animal feed per weight of the animal meat by feeding an animal with the animal feed incorporating transgenic maize plants are provided.
US11371046B2
The invention provides a non-naturally occurring microbial biocatalyst including a microbial organism having a 4-hydroxybutanoic acid (4-HB) biosynthetic pathway having at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding 4-hydroxybutanoate dehydrogenase, succinyl-CoA synthetase, CoA-dependent succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase, or α-ketoglutarate decarboxylase, wherein the exogenous nucleic acid is expressed in sufficient amounts to produce monomeric 4-hydroxybutanoic acid (4-HB). Also provided is a non-naturally occurring microbial biocatalyst including a microbial organism having 4-hydroxybutanoic acid (4-HB) and 1,4-butanediol (BDO) biosynthetic pathways, the pathways include at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding 4-hydroxybutanoate dehydrogenase, succinyl-CoA synthetase, CoA-dependent succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase, 4-hydroxybutyrate:CoA transferase, 4-butyrate kinase, phosphotransbutyrylase, α-ketoglutarate decarboxylase, aldehyde dehydrogenase, alcohol dehydrogenase or an aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase, wherein the exogenous nucleic acid is expressed in sufficient amounts to produce 1,4-butanediol (BDO). Additionally provided are methods for the production of 4-HB and BDO.
US11371043B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising (i) a compound promoting the expression and/or the activity of one or more long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) selected from SEQ ID NOs 12, 8 to 11 and 13; and/or (ii)a compound inhibiting the expression and/or the activity of one or more lncRNAs selected from SEQ ID NOs 1 to 7, 27 and 28. The present invention also relates to a compound (i) promoting the expression and/or the activity of one or more lncRNAs selected from SEQ ID NOs 12, 8 to 11 and 13; and/or (ii) inhibiting the expression and/or the activity of one or more lncRNAs selected from SEQ ID NOs 1 to 7, 27 and 28 for use in treating or preventing cardiac hypertrophy.
US11371042B2
The present invention relates inter alia to expression vector production as well as application to the production of host cells for protein repertoire expression and high-throughput screening. The invention also relates to primers useful for PCR amplification of nucleotide sequences encoding human antibody variable domains.
US11371038B2
A method of altering the functional state of any nucleic acid enabling its selective and specific recognition and subsequent selective manipulation and a universal principle for increasing the specificity and selectivity of molecular target recognition at the level of nucleic acids are described. The principle of the specific and selective recognition of nucleic acids is based on simultaneous recognition of two or more sequences of the target nucleic acid, whereas these have to be spaced from each other by a certain defined distance. Such method of nucleic acid recognition through specific recognition of well-defined sequences of the nucleic acid that are spaced from each other by a defined distance, minimizes the probability of stable binding of the interfering construct to inadvertent nucleic acids, thereby dramatically increasing the selectivity of recognition of the targeted nucleic acid. Specific recognition of defined sequences of a nucleic acid localized at a certain defined distance from each other is achieved by simultaneous complementary interference of short sequence-specific oligonucleotides being mutually interconnected by size-specific linking moiety.
US11371037B1
This invention is directed to pancreatic enzymes that have been charged with zinc ions, or zinc-charged pancreatic enzymes. Charging the pancreatic enzymes with zinc ions activate the pancreatic enzyme's anticancer and anti-inflammation properties and make the enzymes capable of being administered orally. It is observed that the zinc-charged pancreatic enzymes are able to induce apoptosis in various cancer cells without affecting the normal cells. The zinc-charged pancreatic enzymes have also been observed inducing apoptosis in trophoblasts and reducing inflammation in general. This invention is further directed to a method of preparing zinc-charged pancreatic enzymes. This invention is further directed to a method of treating cancer and inflammation using the zinc-charged pancreatic enzymes.
US11371027B2
Provided is a method for replicating a mirror nucleic acid, comprising: reacting a mirror nucleic acid template, a mirror nucleic acid primer and mirror dNTPs/rNTPs in the presence of a mirror nucleic acid polymerase, so as to obtain the mirror nucleic acid.
US11371024B2
Described herein are RSV polynucleotide sequences that make use of multiple codons that are containing silent nucleotide substitutions engineered in multiple locations in the genome, wherein the substitutions introduce a numerous synonymous codons into the genome. Due to the large number of defects involved, the attenuated viruses disclosed herein provide a means of producing attenuated, live vaccines against RSV.
US11371022B2
The invention relates to a method of creating a human blood-brain barrier (BBB) model from the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), wherein the BBB exhibits sustained transendothelial electrical resistances (TEER) over 2000 Ω·cm2 for at least 3 days after seeding.
US11371012B2
Disclosed are compositions, methods, and systems for propagating microorganisms for fermentation.
US11371011B2
Disclosed are recombinant host cells comprising a promoter-effective nucleic acid molecule operably coupled to a nucleic acid molecule that encodes a plant effector protein or polypeptide that induces an active plant response including, among others, growth enhancement, disease resistance, pest or insect resistance, and stress resistance. Use of these recombinant host cells for modulating plant biochemical signaling, imparting disease resistance to plants, enhancing plant growth, imparting tolerance to biotic stress, imparting tolerance and resistance to abiotic stress, imparting desiccation resistance to cuttings removed from ornamental plants, imparting post-harvest disease or post-harvest desiccation resistance to a fruit or vegetable, or enhancing the longevity of fruit or vegetable ripeness are also disclosed.
US11371006B2
The invention relates to a comparison unit (130) configured for determining if a first pH measuring device of a first tank (104; 106) is affected by a pH-measuring problem, the comparison unit being configured for: —receiving a first CO2 concentration and a first pH value, the first CO2 concentration being a CO2 concentration of a first gas volume above a medium in a first tank, the first CO2 concentration and the first pH value being measured at a first time when the medium in the first tank is in pH-CO2 equilibrium state with the first gas volume and before said equilibrium state is modified by the metabolism of a cell culture in the first tank, the first pH value being a measured value provided by a first pH measuring device operatively coupled to the first tank (102); —receiving a second CO2 concentration and a second pH value, the second CO2 concentration being a CO2 concentration of a second gas volume above a medium in a second tank, the second CO2 concentration and the second pH value being measured at a second time when the medium in the second tank is in pH-CO2 equilibrium state with the second gas volume and before said equilibrium state is modified by the metabolism of a cell culture, the second pH value being a measured value provided by a second pH measuring device; —comparing the first and second pH values and CO2 concentrations for determining if comparing (206), by the comparison unit, the first and second pH values and comparing the first and second CO2 concentrations for determining if the first pH measuring device is affected by the pH-measuring problem.
US11371004B2
A microelectrode for electroporating an individual cell or embryo that includes a substrate with an electrically insulated surface, a first electrode adjacent to the electrically insulated surface of the substrate, a second electrode adjacent to the electrically insulated surface of the substrate and separated from the first electrode a predetermined distance so as to form a channel, and a liquid medium situated within the channel. The liquid medium is capable of fluidic transport of the cell or embryo through or into the channel and capable of supporting an electric field. The first and second electrodes include surfaces substantially orthogonal to the electrically insulated surface of the substrate with an edge length that is less than or equal to a diameter of the cell or embryo. The predetermined distance may be 50% to 200% of the diameter of the cell or embryo.
US11371003B2
Photoreceptor scaffolds and scaffold systems including the photoreceptor scaffolds are described herein. The scaffolds and scaffold systems can be used for transplantation of organized photoreceptor tissue, with or without RPE, which may improve grafted cell survival, integration, and functional visual rescue. Particularly, the photoreceptor scaffold is structured from a biocompatible film, patterned with an array of unique through-holes having a curvilinear cell receiver and at least one cell guide channel.
US11370999B2
A formulation having at least one of a product stabilization solvent, a sequestrant or chelating agent, and an alkalinity agent capable of use in a cleaning operation at a reduced temperature. Optionally, the formulation may additionally comprise any one or more of a degreaser emulsifier solvent, a surfactant, a hydrotrope, a stabilizer, a biocide, and a buffer. An additive formulation of the invention, as defined herein, comprises these stated types of compounds and is combined with an alkalinity agent at the time of the formulations use in a reduced temperature dairy equipment cleaning operation. A full formulation of the invention, as defined herein, additionally comprises an alkalinity agent in addition to the other named compounds. In many cases, the full formulations are used in a reduced temperature dairy equipment cleaning operation without being combined with an additional alkalinity agent. The reduced temperature of the dairy equipment cleaning operation using the formulation of the invention may be less than about 50° C. or, alternatively, less than about 40° C.
US11370993B2
An aqueous rinse aid solution for use in a dishwashing machine wherein the solution is substantially free of poloxamer type surfactants and wherein the solution produces water sheeting and spot-free dishware drying, the solution consists of food additives permitted for direct addition to food for human consumption and water.
US11370990B2
The invention relates to a process for recovering sterols and a fraction rich in fatty acids and resin acids from tall oil pitch, said process comprising a) saponifying the tall oil pitch with an alkali to hydrolyse esters included in the pitch to free alcohols and organic acids in salt form, b) acidulating the saponified pitch with a mineral acid to convert the organic acids in salt form into free organic acids and to form an organic phase and an aqueous phase; wherein mineral acid is provided in an amount to produce an aqueous phase with a pH value of at most 3.8, c) separating the aqueous phase with a pH value of at most 3.8 from the organic phase, d) evaporation fractionating the organic phase in a thin film evaporator to obtain a distillate rich in fatty acids and resin acids and a bottom fraction rich in sterols, e) evaporation fractionating the bottom fraction to obtain a distillate rich in sterols, and f) subjecting the sterols in the sterol-rich distillate to crystallisation purification, wherein the process excludes a step of adding alkali between step c) and step d).
US11370982B2
A feedstock delivery system transfers a carbonaceous material, such as municipal solid waste, into a product gas generation system. The feedstock delivery system includes a splitter for splitting bulk carbonaceous material into a plurality of carbonaceous material streams. Each stream is processed using a weighing system for gauging the quantity of carbonaceous material, a densification system for forming plugs of carbonaceous material, a de-densification system for breaking up the plugs of carbonaceous material, and a gas and carbonaceous material mixing system for forming a carbonaceous material and gas mixture. A pressure of the mixing gas is reduced prior to mixing with the carbonaceous material, and the carbonaceous material to gas weight ratio is monitored. A transport assembly conveys the carbonaceous material and gas mixture to a first reactor where at least the carbonaceous material within the mixture is subject to thermochemical reactions to form the product gas.
US11370978B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for integrating pressurized hydrocracking of heavy oil and coke gasification. A coupled reactor having a cracking section and a gasification section is used in the method: a heavy oil feedstock and a hydrogenation catalyst are fed into a cracking section, to generate light oil-gas and coke; the coke is carried by the coke powder into the gasification section, to generate syngas; a regenerated coke powder is returned to the cracking section; the syngas enters the cracking section and merges with light oil-gas, and enters a gas-solid separator, to separate out first-stage solid particles and second-stage particles in sequence, and a purified oil-gas product is collected; oil-gas fractionation of the purified oil-gas product is performed, and a light oil product and a syngas product are collected. Yield and quality of the light oil can be improved by the method.
US11370976B2
Process for hydrogenating at least one aromatic or polyaromatic compound contained in a hydrocarbon feedstock having a final boiling point of less than or equal to 650° C., said process being performed in the gas phase or in the liquid phase at a temperature of between 30 and 350° C., at a pressure of between 0.1 and 20 MPa, at a hydrogen/(aromatic compounds to be hydrogenated) mole ratio of between 0.1 and 10 and at an hourly space velocity (HSV) of between 0.05 and 50 h−1, in the presence of a catalyst comprising an active phase comprising nickel, said active phase not comprising any group VIB metal, and a support comprising an amorphous mesoporous alumina having a connectivity (Z) of greater than 2.7, the connectivity being determined from the nitrogen adsorption/desorption isotherms.
US11370970B2
Provided are an optically anisotropic film which has excellent moisture-heat resistance and can have a reduction in the thickness, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device. The optically anisotropic film is obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition, in which the polymerizable liquid crystal composition contains a polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Formula (1): L1-SP1-(E3-A1)m-E1-G1-D1-Ar1-D2-G2-E2-(A2-E4)n-SP2-L2 and a polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Formula (2): L1-SP1-(E3-A1)m-E1-G1-D1-Ar2-D2-G2-E2-(A2-E4)n-SP2-L2, and the optically anisotropic film satisfies Formula (3): Re(450)/Re(550)<1 or Formula (4): Rth(450)/Rth(550)<1, and has a degree of alignment as measured by Raman spectroscopy of 0.4 or more.
US11370969B2
A liquid-crystalline medium containing one or more compounds of formula IA, and the use thereof in an active-matrix display, in particular in a VA, IPS, U-IPS, FFS, UB-FFS, SA-VA, SA-FFS, PS-VA, PS-OCB, PS-IPS, PS-FFS, PS-UB-FFS, PS-posi-VA, PS-TN, polymer stabilised SA-VA or polymer stabilised SA-FFS display.
US11370960B2
A method for fracturing a subterranean formation, the method comprising injecting a fracturing fluid into a wellbore through the subterranean formation, thereby creating a fracture network in the subterranean formation, the fracturing fluid comprising a proppant and a plurality of polymer fibers having a deflection temperature ranging from about 70° C. to about 150° C. dispersed in a carrier fluid.
US11370955B2
A method to control a heat transfer profile in a defined space, the method comprising the steps of introducing a thermally insulating packer fluid into the defined space such that the thermally insulating packer fluid forms a gelled solid and reduces a rate of heat transfer through the defined space as compared to a prior rate of heat transfer through the defined space before introducing the thermally insulating packer fluid, where the thermally insulating packer fluid comprises an acidic nanosilica dispersion and a polyamine.
US11370934B2
Coating compositions, coated articles including the coating compositions, and methods of making the coating compositions and coated articles are provided. In some aspects, the coating compositions are applied to a substrate having nitric oxide-releasing properties. The coating compositions can include copolymers having crosslinking agents that can be activated with mild UV light (about 345 nm to 365 nm) to avoid damaging the substrate while creating strong covalent bonds to the substrate. The copolymers can include hydrophilic repeat units, and in particular zwitterionic repeat units such as repeat units containing phosphorylcholine groups. In some aspects, the coating compositions are applied to a surface of a polymer substrate, wherein the polymer substrate had nitric oxide releasing properties. The coating compositions and the coated articles can have antifouling, antithrombotic, and/or antibacterial properties.
US11370928B2
In one aspect, inks for use with a three-dimensional (3D) printing system are described herein. In some embodiments, an ink described herein comprises 20-60 wt. % oligomeric curable material; 10-50 wt. % cyclocarbonate (meth)acrylate monomer; and 0.1-5 wt. % photoinitiator, based on the total weight of the ink. Additionally, in some cases, the ink further comprises one or more additional curable materials differing from the oligomeric curable material and the cyclocarbonate (meth)acrylate monomer. An ink described herein, in some embodiments, also comprises one or more additional component that are non-curable.
US11370915B2
The present invention relates to a polyarylene sulfide resin composition having good processability and showing excellent properties due to its more improved miscibility with other polymer materials or fillers, and a formed article. Such polyarylene sulfide resin composition includes a polyarylene sulfide including a disulfide repeating unit in the repeating units of the main chain; and at least one component selected from the group consisting of a thermoplastic resin, a thermoplastic elastomer, and a filler.
US11370913B2
A thermoplastic elastomer composition having: at least one elastomer component selected from the group made of elastomeric polymers (A) each of which has a side chain containing a hydrogen-bond cross-linkable moiety having a carbonyl-containing group and/or a nitrogen-containing heterocycle and has a glass-transition point of 25° C. or below, and elastomeric polymers (B) each of which contains a hydrogen-bond cross-linkable moiety and a covalent-bond cross-linking moiety in a side chain and has a glass-transition point of 25° C. or below; an organically modified clay, a content ratio of which is 20 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the elastomer component; and a polymer (Z) which is a polymer other than the elastomeric polymers (A) and (B), and an SP value of which is 9.0 or more and is greater by 0.5 or more than an SP value of the elastomer component.
US11370911B2
Disclosed herein are thermoplastic composition comprising (a) about 15 wt % to about 95 wt % polymer component comprising: (i) either about 20 wt % to about 85 wt % poly(p-phenylene oxide) and about 10 wt % to about 65 wt % flow promoter or about 70 wt % to 100 wt % polypropylene, said polypropylene being homopolymer and/or copolymer; and (ii) greater than about 0 wt % to about 30 wt % impact modifier; (b) about 2 wt % to about 50 wt % of a laser activatable additive having a core-shell structure, wherein the core comprises an inorganic filler and the shell comprises a laser activatable component; and (c) about 3 wt % to about 70 wt % inorganic fillers.
US11370909B2
The present invention discloses a biodegradable polyester composition, wherein the biodegradable polyester composition comprises the following components in parts by weight: i) 58 to 80 parts by weight of an aliphatic-aromatic copolyester; ii) 20 to 32 parts by weight of starch; and iii) 0 to 10 parts by weight of a processing agent. The present invention unexpectedly found by research that by using an aliphatic-aromatic copolyester in which an amount of aromatic carboxylic acid accounts for a total amount of diacid is 44 mol % to 48 mol % as a matrix resin, where the aliphatic-aromatic copolyester has a crystallization peak width D of 5° C. to 16° C., and by using starch of which a particle size D (50) is 2 μm to 12 μm as the other phase, and meanwhile by adding a specific amount of a processing agent, the polyester composition prepared has excellent transversal and longitudinal tear strengths, and the polyester composition has a biodegradation rate of 90% or more during the 12-week degradation test, satisfying the industrial compost.
US11370895B2
Systems and methods are provided that involve a subcritical water reaction to recycle the cellulose and polyester components of waste cotton and cotton/polyester blend textiles that would otherwise be discarded or disposed of. Specifically, the disclosed methods provide for treatment of the waste textiles to produce advanced materials including cellulose and terephthalic acid (TPA) with a low environmental impact. The cellulose and TPA that are produced are of a high quality allowing for production of regenerated cellulose and regenerated polyethylene terephthalate (PET) suitable for fiber spinning and textile applications.
US11370892B2
The present invention provides a polymer film on array (PFA) material and a preparation method thereof. The PFA material includes a polymer film on array (PFA) resin, a polysiloxane resin dispersion liquid, and a solvent, wherein the PFA resin ranges from 1 to 25% by weight relative to a total weight of the PFA material, and the polysiloxane resin dispersion liquid ranges from 1 to 30% by weight relative to a total weight of the PFA material.
US11370888B2
A silsesquioxane resin, photoresist composition comprising the silsesquioxane resin and a photoacid generator, etching mask composition comprising the silsesquioxane resin, products prepared therefrom, methods of making and using same, and manufactured articles and semiconductor devices containing same. The silsesquioxane resin comprises silicon-bonded hydrogen atom T-units and T-units having a silicon-bonded group of formula —CH2CH2CH2CO2C(R1a)3 or —CH(CH3)CH2CO2C(R1a)3, wherein each R1a is independently an unsubstituted (C1-C2)alkyl.
US11370883B2
A polycarbonate resin composition, a molded article, a polycarbonate resin, and an end-capping agent for polycarbonate resins are provided. The polycarbonate resin composition contains: a polycarbonate resin having a terminal structure represented by Formula (A) and having a viscosity average molecular weight from 1×104 to 5×104, and a stabilizer. In Formula (A), R1 is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, halogen atoms, linear alkyl groups having from 1 to 9 carbons, branched alkyl groups having from 3 to 9 carbons, linear alkenyl groups having from 2 to 9 carbons, branched alkenyl groups having from 3 to 9 carbons, and aryl groups having from 6 to 12 carbons; and R2 to R7 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, alkyl groups having from 1 to 9 carbons, and alkoxy groups having from 1 to 9 carbons.
US11370872B2
A composition for pattern formation includes a first polymer, a second polymer and a solvent. The first polymer includes: a first block including a first structural unit derived from a substituted or unsubstituted styrene; and a second block including a second structural unit other than the first structural unit. The second polymer includes: the first structural unit; and a group bonding to at least one end of a main chain thereof and including a polar group. The polar group is preferably a hydroxy group or a carboxyl group. A number average molecular weight of the second polymer is preferably no greater than 6,000. A mass ratio of the second polymer to the first polymer is preferably no less than 0.15 and no greater than 0.4. The solvent preferably comprises a compound comprising a hydroxyl group and an alkyl ester group.
US11370871B2
The present invention relates to multi-arm salt-tolerant star macromolecules, and methods of preparing and using the same. In one aspect of the invention, a salt-tolerant star macromolecule is capable of providing salt-tolerance to an aqueous composition.
US11370869B2
According to the present invention, an ultraviolet curable silicone composition for stereolithography, which contains (A) an organopolysiloxane that has two groups represented by formula (1) (wherein each R1 independently represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1-20 carbon atoms; R2 represents an oxygen atom or the like; R3 represents an acryloyloxyalkyl group or the like; p represents a number satisfying 0≤p≤10; and a represents a number satisfying 1≤a≤3) in each molecule, (B) an organopolysiloxane resin that is composed of (a) a unit represented by formula (2) (wherein R1-R3, a and p are as defined above), (b) an R43SiO1/2 unit (wherein each R4 independently represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1-10 carbon atoms) and (c) an SiO4/2 unit, and wherein the molar ratio of the total of the unit (a) and the unit (b) to the unit (c) is within the range of 0.6-1.2:1 and (C) a photopolymerization initiator has a viscosity that is applicable to a stereolithography system such as lifting system and forms a cured product which has excellent physical properties of rubber.
US11370866B2
A process for the preparation of a diene elastomer modified by a 1,3-dipolar compound is provided. The process comprises a thermomechanical kneading of a mixture of a diene elastomer and of a 1,3-dipolar compound in an internal mixer in order to form a modified diene elastomer, followed by an extrusion of the modified diene elastomer.
US11370865B2
A hardenable multi-part acrylic composition having at least two parts that react upon mixing to form a cement, such as bone cement, which hardens to a solid is described that includes storage stable liquid first and second parts, and optionally, further liquid parts. The parts react upon mixing to form a cement that hardens to a solid. The composition includes an acrylic monomer component and an initiator component in an amount effective to polymerize the acrylic monomer component when mixed and/or activated with it. The liquid first part comprises an aqueous dispersion of acrylic polymer particles and acrylic polymer beads. The polymer beads are at an equilibrium water content with the aqueous phase of the dispersion that generally has a viscosity between 10 and 10,000 centipoise. A twin barreled syringe, caulking gun or other cement mixing and delivery device and a method of producing the composition are also described.
US11370850B2
Ethylenically unsaturated polymerization catalyst compositions including an active catalytic metal component and an ionic compound component and methods for making and using same.
US11370849B2
A method for producing a carboxy group-containing hydrogenated nitrile rubber includes a step of preparing a latex of a carboxy group-containing nitrile rubber by polymerizing a monomer mixture in a dispersive medium, the monomer mixture containing at least an α,β-ethylenically unsaturated nitrile monomer and a carboxy group-containing monomer; a step of heating the latex of the carboxy group-containing nitrile rubber at 50 to 85° C. in the state where the pH is adjusted in the range of 8.5 to 12; and a step of subjecting the latex of the carboxy group-containing nitrile rubber after the heating to a hydrogenation reaction in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst in the state where the pH is adjusted in the range of 5 to 8.
US11370847B2
This invention provides compositions and methods to prevent aberrant cell proliferation in a subject using a single-domain antibody (sdAb) directed against an intracellular component, wherein the aberrant cell proliferation can be cancer. The sdAb is synergistic with one or more chemotherapeutic drugs and improves therapeutic efficacy of the one or more chemotherapeutic drug against cancer. The invention also includes a method of treating viral infections using a sdAb, wherein the sbAb inhibits the replication of viruses such as Ebola virus and Zika virus in infected cells.
US11370845B2
The purpose of the present invention is to produce a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to glypican-1 (GPC-1) and to treat squamous cell carcinoma with genetically modified cells capable of expressing the CAR. The present invention provides: a chimeric antigen receptor for use in the treatment and/or prevention of squamous cell carcinoma, said chimeric antigen receptor comprising an extracellular domain capable of binding to GPC-1, a transmembrane domain and one or multiple intracellular domains, wherein at least one of the intracellular domains is an intracellular domain containing a primary cytosolic signaling sequence or an intracellular domain containing both a primary cytosolic signaling sequence and a secondary cytosolic signaling sequence; a genetically modified cell capable of expressing the chimeric antigen receptor; and a cell preparation containing the cell.
US11370835B2
Processes and methods of purifying or separating Single Domain Antigen Binding (SDAB) molecules that include one or more single binding domains (e.g., one or more nanobody molecules), substantially devoid of a complementary antibody domain and an immunoglobulin constant region, using Protein A-based affinity chromatography, are disclosed.
US11370825B2
This disclosure describes, generally, a modified form of CD16, genetically-modified cells that express the modified CD16, and methods that involve the genetically-modified cells. The modified form of CD16 can exhibit increased anti-tumor and/or anti-viral activity due, at least in part, to reduced susceptibility to ADAM17-mediated shedding upon NK cell stimulation.
US11370823B2
Compositions and provided to induce cells of the inner ear to renter the cell cycle and to proliferate. In particular, hair cells are induced to proliferate by administration of a composition which activates the Myc and Notch. Supporting cells are induced to transdifferentiate to hair cells by inhibition of Myc and Notch activity or the activation of Atoh1. Methods of treatment include the intracellular delivery of these molecules to a specific therapeutic target.
US11370814B2
The present invention is a multivalent immunogenic composition for immunizing an animal against filariasis. In some embodiments, the antigens of the multivalent immunogenic composition are protein-based, DNA-based, or a combination thereof. This invention also provides a method and kit for detecting a filarial nematode and determining vaccine efficacy.
US11370807B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a sulfonamide compound which is an inhibitor of Bcl-2/Bcl-xL, including the compound (3R)-1-(3-(4-(4-(4-(3-(2-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-isopropyl-4-methylsulfonyl-5-methyl-1H-pyrrol-3-yl)-5-fluorophenyl)piperazine-1-yl)-phenylaminosulfonyl)-2-trifluoromethanesulfonyl-anilino)-4-phenylthio-butyl)-piperidine-4-carboxylic acid 3-phosphonopropyl ester. The present invention also relates to an intermediate for preparing the sulfonamide compound and a preparation process thereof.
US11370799B2
The present invention relates to novel methods for the preparation of 1,3-benzo-dioxole heterocyclic compounds and intermediates for the same. The compounds are useful as PDE4 inhibitors.
US11370791B2
The preparation and properties of crystalline polymorphs and solvates of 1-benzyl-8-methyl-1,4,8-triazaspiro-[4.5]-decan-2-one free base and of the mono- and dihydrochloride salts and solvates thereof are disclosed, as is an amorphous polymorph of the dihydrochloride. A pharmaceutical composition containing one or more polymorphs and a method of using that composition are also disclosed.
US11370786B2
Disclosed herein are compounds of structural Formula VIIa or VIIb: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and compositions thereof useful in the treatment of GLS1 mediated diseases, such as cancer. Methods of inhibition GLS1 activity in a human or animal subject are also provided.
US11370776B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): wherein Q is O or S, R1 is a 6-membered heteroaryl group containing at least one nitrogen atom in the 6-membered ring structure, wherein R1 may optionally be substituted, and R2 is a cyclic group substituted at the α-position, wherein R2 may optionally be further substituted. The present invention further relates to salts, solvates and prodrugs of such compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and to the use of such compounds in the treatment and prevention of medical disorders and diseases, most especially by the inhibition of NLRP3.
US11370769B2
Provided herein are TRPC5 inhibitors and methods of using the same, e.g., to protect podocytes and/or treat kidney disease.
US11370768B2
The present invention relates to novel cannabinoids 1 and 2, synthesized from simple starting materials using a cascade sequence of allylic rearrangement, aromatization and, for tetracyclic cannabinoids, further highly stereoselective and regioselective cyclization. These synthesized cannabinoids can more easily be obtained at high purity levels than cannabinoids isolated or synthesized via known methods. The cannabinoids 2 are obtained containing very low levels of isomeric cannabinoids such as the undesirable Δ8-tetrahydrocannabinol. The analogues with variation in aromatic ring substituents, whilst easily synthesized with the new methodology, would be much more difficult to make from any of the components of cannabis oil. Novel compounds of the formulas 3, 4, 5 and 6, as intermediates for the synthesis of the cannabinoids of the formulas 1 and 2 are also disclosed.
US11370759B2
A hole transporting material using ethylene bisacridine as a core is provided, having a following structural formula (I) and suitable migration rates under highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy levels and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy levels. Moreover, an organic light emitting diode is disclosed, including an anode, a cathode, and a light emitting structure located between the anode and the cathode, wherein the light emitting structure includes the hole transporting material using ethylene bisacridine as the core which is represented by the following structural formula (I)
US11370755B2
This disclosure describes compounds of Formula (I), stereoisomers, side compounds thereof, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of manufacturing such compounds, using silylation reagents and producing compositions and products made using such methods. More particularly, this disclosure describes manufacture of trofinetide and side products, compositions and products containing such compounds, for pharmaceutical uses to treat neurodegenerative or neurodevelopmental disorders.
US11370748B2
The invention provides novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of preparation and use thereof for treating disease affecting the central nervous system such as multiple sclerosis.
US11370747B2
Provided is a novel method for producing amide compounds at high stereochemical selectivities. The method according to the present invention for producing amide compounds is provided with an amidation step for reacting, in the presence of a catalyst comprising a metal compound, an amino compound with an aminoester compound represented by general formula (1) to amidate the ester group in the aminoester compound.
US11370743B2
Embodiments of prodrugs of PKC modulators that show efficacy coupled with low levels of toxicity and improved stability are provided. The prodrug compounds are useful in academic research (animal studies), as candidates for preclinical research, and as therapeutic agents. By taking advantage of a pharmacophore-based strategy, this design strategy provides access to prodrugs of PKC modulators of diverse scaffolds including tigliane diterpenes, ingenane diterpenes, daphnane diterpene orthoesters, diacylglycerols, and bryostatins, and analogs thereof. In particular, embodiments of the prodrug ingenane esters having substitutions at C20 and their use as therapeutic agents are provided.
US11370713B2
Method for manufacturing a composite material combining a metal oxide or metalloid based matrix suited for allowing light to pass, and a mineral pigment dispersed in the matrix, the method comprising a step of mixing the mineral pigment in powder form with the matrix in powder form, and a step of sintering of the mixture under sufficient pressure such that the densification temperature of the matrix under said pressure is below the breakdown temperature of the mineral pigment, where the sintering temperature is greater than or equal to the densification temperature of the matrix and below the breakdown temperature of the mineral pigment.
US11370710B2
Sintered product having a chemical analysis such that, in mass percentages: SiO2 content is greater than 0.2% and less than 2%, and CaO content is greater than 0.1% and less than 1.5%, and MgO content is less than 0.3%, and alumina and other elements being the complement at 100%, the content of other elements being less than 1.5%, having a relative density greater than 90%, comprising, for more than 90% of its volume, a stack of ceramic platelets (10) laid flat, all of said platelets having an average thickness less than 3 μm, more than 95% by number of said platelets each containing more than 95% by mass of alumina, having a width (l) greater than 81 mm.
US11370699B2
The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include a heterogeneous structure, for example a heterogeneous composition and/or morphology. Such heterogeneous anodically coloring layers can be used to better tune the properties of a device.
US11370695B2
A silicate glass that is tough and scratch resistant. The toughness is increased by minimizing the number of non-bridging oxygen atoms in the glass. In one embodiment, the silicate glass is an aluminoborosilicate glass in which −15 mol %≤(R2O+R′O—Al2O3—ZrO2)—B2O3≤4 mol %, where R is one of Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs, and R′ is one of Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba.
US11370694B2
An alkali-free glass substrate includes, as represented by molar percentage based on oxides, 11.0% or more of Al2O3, 8.0% or more of B2O3, and 1% or more of SrO. The alkali-free glass substrate has an average coefficient of thermal expansion α100/200 at 100 to 200° C. of from 3.10 ppm/° C. to 3.70 ppm/° C., a Young's modulus of 76.0 GPa or less, and a density of 2.42 g/cm3 or more.
US11370692B2
According to a fabrication method for fabricating a porous glass base material for optical fiber, the orientation of a clad forming burner used to form the outermost layer of a clad-corresponding portion is changed further upward while glass fine particles are deposited during the period between a first timing and a second timing. At the first timing, the outer diameter of the porous glass base material for optical fiber has not reached a target outer diameter. The second timing is later than the first timing, and either a timing at which the outer diameter of the porous glass base material for optical fiber reaches the target outer diameter for the first time, or a timing prior to this timing.
US11370689B2
The vacuum-based methods of forming an optical fiber preform include applying a vacuum to a preform assembly. The preform assembly has at least one glass cladding section with one or more axial through holes, with one or more canes respectively residing in the one or more axial through holes. The opposite ends of the at least one glass cladding section are capped to define a substantially sealed internal chamber. A vacuum is applied to the substantially sealed internal chamber to define a vacuum-held preform assembly. The methods also include heating the vacuum-held preform assembly to just above the glass softening point to consolidate the vacuum-held preform to form the cane-based glass preform. An optical fiber is formed by drawing the cane-based glass preform. The same furnace used to consolidate the vacuum-held preform can be used to draw the optical fiber.
US11370688B2
Provided is a method of molding an optical element to obtain the molded optical element. The method includes: preparing a die set including an upper die having an upper molding surface, a lower die having a lower molding surface, a side die in which a through hole is formed, and a sleeve configured to accommodate the upper die, the lower die, and the side die; disposing a mold material on the lower molding surface after inserting the lower die into the through hole of the side die; heating the mold material; press molding the mold material with the upper die and the lower die to integrally move the side die and the lower die with respect to the upper die and the sleeve; and pushing the optical element upward by raising the lower die with respect to the side die and the sleeve.
US11370684B2
Provided is a manufacturing method for a glass article, including: a pre-heating step (S1) of heating a transfer pipe (7); and a transfer step (S4) of allowing a molten glass to flow inside the transfer pipe (7) after the pre-heating step (S1). The transfer pipe (7) includes: a main body portion (8) having a tubular shape; and a flange portion (9a, 9b) formed at an end portion of the main body portion (8). The main body portion (8) is retained by a refractory (10). The pre-heating step (S1) includes an external force application step of applying an external force (F) to the transfer pipe (7) to extend the transfer pipe (7).
US11370671B2
Focusing on zinc oxide itself, which is a main raw material for a zinc oxide varistor (laminated varistor), a predetermined amount of additive is added to a zinc oxide powder having crystallite size of 20 to 100 nm, particle diameter of 20 to 110 nm found using a specific area BET method, untamped density of 0.60 g/cm3 or greater, and tap density of 0.80 g/cm3 or greater. This allows a zinc oxide sintered body to secure uniformity, high density, and high electric conductivity, resulting in a zinc oxide varistor with high surge resistance, capable of downsizing and cost reduction. Moreover, addition of aluminum (Al), as a donor element, to the zinc oxide powder allows control of sintered grain size in conformity with the aluminum added amount and baking temperature, and also allows adjustment of varistor voltage, etc.
US11370666B2
A method of preparing pentachlorodisilane is disclosed. The method comprises partially reducing hexachlorodisilane with a metal hydride compound to give a reaction product comprising pentachlorodisilane. The method further comprises purifying the reaction product to give a purified reaction product comprising the pentachlorodisilane. The purified reaction product comprising pentachlorodisilane formed in accordance with the method is also disclosed.
US11370661B2
Ozone generating machine for generating ozone in a ship, including: an ozone generator (OG), a liquid cooling circuit portion, a frame, comprising a base (B) for laying on the ground, a top subframe (TSF) supporting the ozone generator (OG), and at least one pair of pillars (P) arranged between the base (B) and the top subframe (TSF), characterized in that the frame comprises: at least one pair of cross-brace beams (CB), for linking the pillars (P) and a plurality of dampers (D) attached to a bottom of the base (8).
US11370657B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for manufacturing a microfluidic chip with a femtosecond plasma grating. The method is characterized in that two or more beams of femtosecond pulse laser act on quartz glass together at a certain included angle and converge in the quartz glass, and when pulses achieve synchronization in time domain, the two optical pulses interfere; Benefited by constraint of an interference field, only one optical filament is formed in one interference period; and numbers of optical filaments are arranged equidistantly in space to form the plasma grating. The apparatus for manufacturing the microfluidic chip includes a plasma grating optical path, a microchannel processing platform, and a hydrofluoric acid ultrasonic cell.
US11370655B2
A semiconductor device has a first semiconductor die and a modular interconnect structure adjacent to the first semiconductor die. An encapsulant is deposited over the first semiconductor die and modular interconnect structure as a reconstituted panel. An interconnect structure is formed over the first semiconductor die and modular interconnect structure. An active area of the first semiconductor die remains devoid of the interconnect structure. A second semiconductor die is mounted over the first semiconductor die with an active surface of the second semiconductor die oriented toward an active surface of the first semiconductor die. The reconstituted panel is singulated before or after mounting the second semiconductor die. The first or second semiconductor die includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS). The second semiconductor die includes an encapsulant and an interconnect structure formed over the second semiconductor die. Alternatively, the second semiconductor die is mounted to an interposer disposed over the interconnect structure.
US11370650B2
A pedal-operated device for hands-free operation of a beverage dispenser features a support structure mounted or mountable to a perimeter wall structure of the beverage dispenser, and a working unit movably supported on said support structure and configured for movement between a working position forcing a spigot actuator of the dispenser into an open position, and a default rest position releasing the spigot actuator back into a closed position. An included foot pedal has a foot pad movable between a default upper position and a depressed lower position. A cable is connected between the foot pad and said working unit to pull said working unit into the working position under depression of the foot pad.
US11370648B2
An apparatus for making a beverage includes a housing, a first receptacle, a second receptacle, a cutting assembly, a water source, and at least one water outlet. The first receptacle is positioned in the housing for accepting a first beverage container containing a liquid. The second receptacle is positioned in the housing for accepting a second beverage container containing a liquid. The cutting assembly has a cutting blade that is movable relative to the first and second receptacles for opening the first and second containers substantially simultaneously so that liquid stored therein can be at least in part evacuated. The water source is coupled to the housing The at least one water outlet is associated with one or more of the first and second receptacles for adding water to the liquid from the first and second beverage containers from the water source.
US11370640B2
A suspension body for an elevator includes a core having a belt-like shape, and a covering layer covering at least a part of an outer periphery of the core. The core includes a load bearing layer. The load bearing layer is formed of an impregnation resin and a plurality of high-strength fibers. Further, the load bearing layer is divided into a plurality of segment layers arranged apart from each other in a thickness direction of the core. An intermediate layer made of a material different from that for the load bearing layer is interposed between the segment layers adjacent to each other in the thickness direction of the core.
US11370636B2
A cable spool for networking and cross connect equipment is shown which comprises a telescoping arrangement and is moveable between a retracted and an extended position. In a particular embodiment a static cable spool is provided together with the moveable cable spool and arranged along the same axis. The cable spool is also moveable horizontally.
US11370628B1
A plastic film roll includes: a convolute cardboard tube including a tubular body having a tubular body wall formed by a plurality of layers of a straight rolled cardboard sheet having a weight equal to or less than 300 gsm; a plastic film wound about the convolute cardboard tube to form a plurality of plastic film windings around the convolute cardboard tube, the plastic film windings creating a radial compression force equal to or greater than 10 bar on the tubular body wall, wherein the cardboard sheet includes a plurality of fibers, at least a majority of the fibers being substantially aligned in a tangential direction relative to the tubular body to allow the convolute cardboard tube to resist the radial compression force.
US11370612B2
A transport system for products comprising a plurality of driverless transport units that move in a travel zone not accessible to persons and that do not have a sensor system for a reliable avoidance of accidents with persons. In this respect, at least one driverless transport unit is configured as an escort vehicle that has at least one sensor for a safe detection of sensor data to safely escort a person in the non-accessible travel zone.
US11370606B2
A hopper-in-frame for transporting granular proppant material, such as oil well sands subjected to fracturing, having a top loading through a hatch in the roof and lateral gravity discharge opening at the level of the hopper floor and not below the hopper through a lower side discharge opening where the load asymmetry is compensated for by the inclusion of an asymmetric roof that includes at least a portion of the roof asymmetrically lowered, such as a sloping roof or sloping to the side of the wall of download. The hopper-in-frame is supported and delimited by a frame that in turn is compatible to be incorporated in intermodal cargo containers.
US11370589B2
A package is described for housing a product supported upon a blister portion of the package. The product may be an item whose weight may be supported by the blister. For some products such as cables, wires, or hoses the product may also be held in a desired shape.
US11370579B2
A metal cup and method of forming the same is provided. Metal cups of the present disclosure comprise a plurality of thin, straight-walled sections and a tapered profile. A domed portion is provided in the bottom of the cup. The cup may comprise a disposable cup, a reusable cup, or a recyclable cup.
US11370578B2
A customisable, modular storage system is described where goods are stored in containers and the containers are stored in stacks. The stacks are contained within towers formed of stacks of bin receiving units. A grid network of tracks is provided on the top of the bin receiving units upon which load handling devices run. The load handling 30 devices take containers from the stacks and deposit them at alternative locations in the stacks or deposit then at stations where goods may be picked out.
US11370574B2
An applicator apparatus including an applicator pad (10) and an actuator (180) for positioning the applicator pad (10) in a desired position, the applicator pad (10) being attached to the actuator (180) by an attachment member (40), wherein the attachment member (40) enables articulation between the applicator pad (10) and the actuator (180).
US11370568B2
A form-fill-seal machine forms a bag by filling and sealing a packing object in a wrapping material. The form-fill-seal machine includes a thickness adjustment unit which adjusts a thickness of the bag and a control unit which controls an operation of the thickness adjustment unit. The control unit acquires thickness information obtained in a rear stage of the form-fill-seal machine and relating to a thickness of the bag and controls the operation of the thickness adjustment unit on the basis of a result obtained by performing statistical processing on the thickness information.
US11370562B2
Examples include an apparatus for providing a point of attachment to a structural component, the apparatus including: a first grommet comprising: a head; and a shaft that extends from a first side of the head, where the shaft comprises a first attachment component opposite the head; a gasket bonded to a second side of the head that is opposite the first side, where the gasket, the head, and the shaft are aligned and a hole is formed through the gasket, the head, and the shaft; and a second grommet comprising a second attachment component that is configured to engage the first attachment component of the first grommet.
US11370560B2
A storage system for a flying object is equipped with a landing portion having a landing surface on which the flying object can land, and a storage main body for storing the flying object that has landed on the landing surface. The storage main body includes opening and closing portions that cover the landing surface. The storage system is further equipped with retaining mechanisms adapted to retain the flying object in a state of having landed on the landing surface from a direction perpendicular to the landing surface.
US11370558B2
In one embodiment, tie-down assembly is provided for securing a parked aircraft to a slab of an aircraft mooring area. The assembly includes a support structure having a first side wall, a second side wall, a first end cover coupled with the first side wall and the second side wall, and a second end cover coupled with the first side wall and the second side wall. The assembly also includes a connector rod coupled with the first side wall and the second side wall, a talon pivot rod coupled with the first side wall and the second side wall, a first talon rotatably coupled with the talon pivot rod, a second talon rotatably coupled with the talon pivot rod, a first depth adjustment mechanism coupled with the first talon, and a second depth adjustment mechanism coupled with the second talon.
US11370557B2
An aircraft includes a battery, an airfoil and heat conducting elements, and the heat conducting elements connect the battery thermally to the airfoil in such a way that heat which is produced in the battery is distributed to the airfoil.
US11370556B2
A power system of an aircraft includes a hybrid energy storage system with at least two energy storage subsystems each having a different power-energy density, power draw characteristics and/or dissimilar configuration. A primary power unit includes an aircraft engine coupled to an electric motor and a first generator. A secondary power unit is coupled to a second generator. A bidirectional power converter is coupled to the hybrid energy storage system and one or more controllers of the electric motor, the first generator, and the second generator. A power management controller is configured to interface with the hybrid energy storage system and the one or more controllers of the electric motor, the first generator, and the second generator and perform a model predictive control to dynamically adjust one or more electric power flows through the bidirectional power converter based on an engine propulsion power demand of the aircraft engine.
US11370554B2
An example hybrid aircraft propulsion system includes one or more power units configured to output electrical energy onto one or more electrical busses; a plurality of propulsors; and a plurality of electrical machines, each respective electrical machine configured to drive a respective propulsor of the plurality of propulsors using electrical energy received from at least one of the one or more electrical busses.
US11370545B1
Methods and systems for efficiently loading cargo transports, such as cargo aircraft, are described. The methods and systems rely upon payload profiles for various payloads where the payloads include repeatable payloads that have the same characteristics. Based on the payload profile, the payload is positioned at a designated location in an interior cargo bay of the cargo transport. The designated location is denoted by one or more pre-formed markings in the interior cargo bay that establish where a payload having the respective payload profile should be positioned in the bay. The payload can then be secured in the bay. Because the designated location accounts for centers of gravity, the payload can be loaded and secured in the bay without having to run various calculations each time a payload is loaded. Systems and methods related to how the payloads are packaged in an efficient, expeditious manner are also provided.
US11370544B2
A system is described and includes a first track assembly for connecting a top surface of a pallet supporting payload to an upper interior surface of a payload bay of an aircraft; a second track assembly for connecting a side surface of the pallet to a side interior surface of the payload bay; and a pallet actuator system for selectively moving the pallet along the first and second track assemblies between a first position in which the pallet is fully extended from the payload bay and a second position in which the pallet is fully retracted into the payload bay.
US11370529B2
A propeller-less unmanned aerial vehicle having a body having a plurality of channels, an inlet formed in the body and configured to allow air flow to enter the plurality of channels from an exterior of the body, an anechoic chamber formed in the body and coupled to the plurality of channels, a rotor comprising a plurality of angled fins located in the anechoic chamber, a control system configured to direct air flow within the plurality of channels, and one or more circular tubes coupled to the exterior of the body and in communication with the plurality of channels. The air flows into the body through the inlet, into the plurality of channels and the anechoic chamber, and exits through the one or more circular tubes to provide lift and directional control to the propeller-less unmanned aerial vehicle.
US11370513B2
The invention concerns a method, device and computer program product for monitoring or planning a dive of a diver. The method includes providing data on the composition of gases breathed by the diver during the dive, providing data on the depth or ambient pressure of the diver, and using a model to provide a safe ascent profile for the diver based on the data on the composition of gases and on the depth or ambient pressure. According to the invention, the method further comprising detecting, based on the data on the composition of gases, a gas composition change which may lead to a deep tissue isobaric counter diffusion situation, and the model comprising means for immediately temporally retarding the ascent profile if such gas composition change is detected. The invention can be used to mitigate the harmful effects of dangerous breathing gas changes during diving.
US11370502B2
A tire force estimating device estimates tire forces which are forces applied from a ground surface to a wheel of a vehicle which turns in a bank state in which a vehicle body is tilted around a forward-rearward axis. The tire force estimating device includes a first tire force estimating section which estimates the force applied from the ground surface to the wheel, based on a change over time of a motion state of the vehicle body within a plane perpendicular to the forward-rearward axis.
US11370498B1
A booster axle assembly includes a wheel axle, a suspension system coupled to the wheel axle, a booster frame supported by the suspension system, a main link coupled via a first hinged connection to a rear portion of the booster frame and extending from the first hinged connection in an upward and forward direction, a lock assembly coupled to a forward end of the main link via a second hinged connection, and a lockup frame (with a curved bottom portion that defines a cradle) coupled to a front end of the booster frame by a third hinged connection and coupled to the lock assembly by a fourth hinged connection and a fifth hinged connection.
US11370490B2
A trailer reversing assist system for controlling reversing operations of a vehicle and trailer connected to the vehicle includes a module that detects an angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle, and outputs a trailer angle signal corresponding to the detected angle. The system also includes a human machine interface (HMI) device that provides an output signal based upon an input of the user, where the generated output signal includes information regarding magnitude and direction of a desired change to the angle. The system calculates a trailer trajectory that positions the trailer at a target location or calculates a trailer trajectory correction, wherein the calculation is performed using the output signal as corresponding to a change relative to the detected angle, and the detected angle corresponds to the trailer angle signal generated at the time of operation of the HMI device by the user.
US11370489B2
A vehicle includes: a sensor configured to detect an obstacle of a front side of the vehicle to obtain at least one of position information or speed information of the obstacle; a lane detector configured to detect a lane on which the vehicle is located; and a controller configured to calculate a first lateral movement distance for the vehicle to avoid an obstacle through steering, to determine a steering-based avoidance path for the obstacle based on the first lateral movement distance, to determine whether to depart the lane on the steering-based avoidance path, and to control the vehicle to perform steering avoidance control when the vehicle does not depart the lane.
US11370486B2
A noise reduction apparatus for an electric power steering system may include a worm wheel rotatably and integrally coupled to a steering shaft connected to a steering wheel; a worm gear shaft to be rotatably operated by rotational force of an electric motor and formed with a worm gear to be meshed with the worm wheel; a tilt bearing provided between the worm gear shaft and the electric motor to rotatably support one end of the worm gear shaft; a support bearing for rotatably supporting the other end of the worm gear shaft; a plurality of pressing pins for pressing the support bearing; and a plurality of elastic members for elastically supporting the plurality of pressing pins respectively.
US11370485B2
An identical steer control mechanism of a radial bar-link trapezoidal swing arm, a method and a multi-wheel vehicle thereof are disclosed. The radial bar-link trapezoidal swing arm is in a right triangle shape, and in combination with a two-dimensional composite control transmission arm of a cross-shaped groove formed by a transverse groove and a vertical groove, an elliptical gauge is shaped; the longitudinal cosine displacement is controlled by the sliders in the transverse groove, and the transverse sine displacement can be controlled by connecting the sliders in the vertical groove after the right-angle end bearing is hinged to connecting rods, the end bearing on the two-dimensional composite control transmission arm, namely the key control point bearing, draws a deflection elliptical trajectory, and the hinged slider to the key control point bearing is connected with a vector control swing arm sliding slot to generate a steering angle βi.
US11370476B2
A drive device includes a motor, a control board, a connector located between the motor and the control board in a predetermined direction, and a solder connecting a motor wire and the control board. The control board has a through-hole opening on an upper side and on a lower side. The connector includes a support portion that protrudes toward the control board such that a tip surface of the support portion is in contact with the lower side of the control board, a guide portion that has a guide hole through which the motor wire passes, the guide hole opening on a lower side and on an upper side. The upper side of the connector is spaced from the lower side of the control board in the predetermined direction. A fillet of the solder is formed on both the upper side and the lower side of the control board.
US11370472B2
A steering column assembly includes a steering column housing, a tilt housing pivotally attached to the steering column, and a steering wheel shaft supported by the tilt housing. The tilt housing is moveable between a range of angular positions relative to the steering column housing. A tilt lever assembly, including a tilt lever that is moveable between a locked position and an unlocked position, mechanically actuates a tilt lock mechanism between an engaged condition and a disengaged condition. The tilt lever assembly has a tilt lever assembly center of mass that is positioned such that an inertial force acting in a forward direction on the tilt lever assembly center of mass urges the tilt lever towards the locked position.
US11370465B2
A method for reducing slack in a linkage chain of a vehicle truck assembly is provided. In one example, the method includes responding to a request to de-lift a lift mechanism by reducing pressure in an actuator coupled to the lift mechanism, where the lift mechanism is configured to transfer a load from a first axle to a second axle of the vehicle during the de-lift, and during the de-lift, maintaining the pressure in the actuator at or above a threshold pressure to maintain tension in a weight transfer device of the lift mechanism.
US11370460B2
A method for assisting in the driving of a vehicle comprises receiving and processing data originating from an actuation module via the first network and in response to the detection of a failure in the first network, further comprising steps of: triggering a phase of manual control recovery by a driver of the vehicle, and receiving and processing the data originating from the actuation module via a second network.
US11370459B2
A vehicle control system includes: an operation element configured to receive a driving operation by an occupant; a movement sensor configured to detect a movement of the operation element; a travel control unit configured to select a manual driving mode to control a steering device based on a signal from the movement sensor or an autonomous driving mode to control the steering device regardless of the signal from the movement sensor; a travel information acquiring unit configured to acquire travel information of a vehicle; a grip area setting unit configured to set at least one recommended grip area of the operation element based on the travel information of the vehicle; an indicator configured to turn on so as to illuminate the recommended grip area; and an indicator control unit configured to change a control mode of the indicator according to a driving mode selected by the travel control unit.
US11370448B2
A vehicle control device is equipped with a travel control unit which, in the case that a user-requested driving force exceeds a system-required driving force in a state in which a user is not in contact with an operating element, performs a travel control on the basis of a limited driving force obtained by applying a limit to the user-requested driving force, whereas in the case that the user-requested driving force exceeds the system-required driving force in a state in which the user is in contact with the operating element, performs the travel control on the basis of the user-requested driving force without applying the limit to the user-requested driving force.
US11370441B2
A position to which a turn signal lever can be moved includes a neutral position, middle positions, and end positions. A detection unit detects a start request of a lane change operation based on the turn signal lever having been operated to the middle position in one of two different directions, and detects a cancellation request of the lane change operation based on the turn signal lever having been operated to the middle position in the other of the two different directions during the execution of the lane change operation.
US11370436B2
A vehicle controller, a system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle controller includes a processor that detect an intervening vehicle based on a line of sight direction of a user; and respond to the intervening vehicle based on an intent of the user when the intervening vehicle is detected; and a storage configured to store information regarding the line of sight direction of the user or the detected intervening vehicle.
US11370433B1
A travel control method includes using the vehicle to autonomously control a travel of the vehicle. The vehicle has an autonomous speed control function for autonomously controlling a traveling speed of the vehicle and an autonomous steering control function for autonomously controlling the steering of the vehicle. The autonomous speed control function includes a curved route speed control function for controlling the traveling speed of the vehicle at a set speed corresponding to the size of a curve of a travel route. The curved route speed control function can be set to ON/OFF. Each of the autonomous speed control function and the autonomous steering control function can be set to ON/OFF. When the autonomous speed control function and the autonomous steering control function are set to ON, the curved route speed control function is operated regardless of whether the curved route speed control function is set to ON or OFF.
US11370432B2
A vehicle control apparatus includes an electric control unit that performs a preceding vehicle trailing control which makes an own vehicle trail a preceding vehicle as an adaptive cruise control, and performs a first brake control which automatically applies a first braking control to the own vehicle when a time-to-collision to a target object is less than a first threshold. In a case where a performing condition for the first brake control has been determined to be satisfied during a performance of the adaptive cruise control, the electric control unit continues performing the adaptive cruise control without performing the first brake control when a deceleration control by the adaptive cruise control is being performed, whereas stops performing the adaptive cruise control when the deceleration control by the adaptive cruise control is not being performed.
US11370431B2
A vehicle control device comprises an operation amount sensor for measuring an operation amount of an accelerator element, an object sensor for detecting an object ahead of a vehicle, and a controller for applying a normal operation drive force which is determined depending on the operation amount to the vehicle. The controller executes an adaptive cruise control for applying a drive force required for an acceleration of the vehicle to become equal to an adaptive cruise control acceleration to the vehicle. The adaptive cruise control acceleration is an acceleration which increases as a difference between an inter-vehicle distance from the vehicle to an objective-forward-vehicle and a target inter-vehicle distance increases. When an erroneous operation start condition becomes satisfied, the controller ends the adaptive cruise control, and executes an erroneous operation related control for applying a drive force which is smaller than the normal operation drive force to the vehicle.
US11370424B1
A tool for providing vehicle perception system metrics associated with objects that are relevant to the vehicle is discussed herein. The tool may be configured with criteria for relevance. The criteria may include a region of interest proximate the vehicle, an object classification, an object characteristic and/or a sensor type. The tool may receive sensor data captured by a sensor of the vehicle and may be configured to identify relevant objects based on the criteria. The tool may filter and/or determine perception system metrics associated with the relevant objects. In some examples, the tool may identify the relevant objects and may cause the vehicle to be controlled based on the determination of object relevance.
US11370420B2
A vehicle control device comprising a processor configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle and perform driving control according to speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer. The processor is configured to recognize a physical object present on a route of the vehicle on the basis of an image representing a space in a traveling direction of the vehicle and determine whether or not the physical object is a specific obstacle that hinders traveling in a lane where the vehicle is currently traveling. The processor is further configured to start a lane change execution possibility determination before determining whether the specific obstacle hinders travel or simultaneously with a start of the determining in a case where the physical object and the vehicle is allowed to make the lane change.
US11370417B2
In a remote parking device, a remote control receiver receives remote operation signals including remote parking commands of a subject vehicle from a plurality of remote controllers. A sensor information receiver receives sensor information including surrounding information obtained in a surrounding information sensor in the subject vehicle and vehicle information obtained in a vehicle information sensor in the subject vehicle. When the plurality of remote operation signals including the remote parking commands are received at the same time, a priority determination part determines priority of each of the plurality of remote parking commands included in the plurality of remote operation signals based on information obtained from the plurality of remote operation signals. A remote parking controller controls a remote parking of the subject vehicle based on the remote parking command having highest priority and the sensor information.
US11370415B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for adaptive user input boundary support for remote vehicle motion commands. The systems and methods described herein may be used to allow more flexibility in continuous inputs provided to trigger commands to a vehicle to perform an autonomous function, such as Remote Park Assist (RePA). The systems and methods may allow RePA to continue even if the continuous input is not provided in the form of a perfect circle or if the continuous input drifts gradually over time.
US11370414B2
A vehicle attitude control apparatus is provided in which an active suspension device of each wheel has a mass body arranged between a sprung mass and an unsprung mass of a vehicle, and upper and lower actuators each configured to generate an actively generated force acting on the sprung and unsprung masses, respectively, by applying urging forces to the masses, and a control unit calculates a target braking/driving force of each braking/driving device for achieving target motion state quantities of the vehicle, target actively generated forces of the upper and lower actuators, and controls a braking/driving device and the upper and lower actuators, so that the target braking/driving force and the target actively generated forces of the upper and lower actuators are achieved.
US11370411B2
A control device of a vehicle comprises a vehicle control part 61 configured to use a probability distribution of at least one predetermined parameter to calculate an expected value of each of at least one evaluation value and control the vehicle 1 based on the expected value.
US11370410B2
When a travel mode in which an engine is not used as a drive power source for travel is switched to a travel mode in which the engine is used as a drive power source for travel in response to an acceleration request from a driver, it is determined whether an assist torque which is able to be output from a second rotary machine is sufficient for a required assist torque for compensating for an output shortage of the engine due to a supercharging response delay in a supercharger. When it is determined that the assist torque is not sufficient for the required assist torque, an engine rotation speed is increased to a predetermined target rotation speed by an MG1 torque of a first rotary machine.
US11370408B2
A control apparatus is used with a vehicle including an engine, a storage battery, and an electrical load. The control apparatus works as an automatic engine stop and restart system and calculates a SOC lower limit that is a minimum value of state of charge (SOC) of the battery required to continue to stop the engine in an idle stop mode. The control apparatus also calculates an amount of electric power expected to be consumed by the electrical load during the idle stop mode and determines an idle stop enable SOC at which the idle stop mode is entered and which is selected to be the sum of the SOC lower limit and a SOC of the battery which at least compensates for the consumed amount of electric power. This ensures chances to stop the engine in the idle stop mode and improves fuel economy.
US11370403B2
An apparatus having a housing, a cavity which is disposed in the housing and which at least in regions is configured as a bore in which at least one piston and one piston spring associated with the piston are received, wherein the piston spring in the bore when activating the piston in the operation of the apparatus is compressed by the piston. The piston spring is configured from a magnetic or magnetizable material, the piston is configured from a non-magnetic material, and an assembly unit which comprises the piston having the piston spring is provided, and in which the piston spring is held on the piston by a magnetic field.
US11370390B2
The invention relates to a belt tightener (1) with a mass body drive for a seat belt of a motor vehicle with a force-limiting device with—a belt shaft (3) mounted rotatably in at least one opening (15) of a housing (14) that can be fastened fixedly to the vehicle, it being possible to wind up the seat belt on said shaft, —a tightener drive wheel (24) connected non-rotatably to the belt shaft (3) and having recesses (14) distributed at regular intervals over the circumference, —a chain forming the mass body drive made of loose mass bodies (19), which are guided in a tightener tube (10) and can be driven by pressure application of the tightener tube (10), wherein—the belt shaft (3) can be driven in the winding direction of the seat belt by engagement of the driven mass bodies (19) in the recesses (14) of the tightener drive wheel (24), wherein—the mounting of the belt shaft (3) in the opening (15) of the housing (14) is designed to be flexible in the radial direction.
US11370389B2
An assembly includes a housing. The assembly includes a spool rotatable relative to the housing. The assembly includes a cable fixed to the spool. The assembly includes a passenger restraint fixed to the cable. The assembly includes a pyrotechnic device fixed relative to the housing and designed to rotate the spool relative to the housing. The assembly includes a ratchet-and-pawl mechanism between the housing and the spool.
US11370381B1
An assembly includes a housing having a sidewall defining a first slot and a second slot, the sidewall having a press plate between the first slot and the second slot, the press plate movable between an initial position and a deployed position. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the housing and inflatable from an uninflated position to an inflated position, the press plate being moveable from the initial position to the deployed position by inflation of the airbag from the uninflated position to the inflated position.
US11370377B2
The invention relates to a vehicle steering wheel (10) having a steering wheel axis (A) about which the vehicle steering wheel (10) can be rotated in the installed state, a steering wheel carcass (12) which has a hub section (14) in the region of the steering wheel axis (A), and a separate latching peg (18) for latching with an airbag module (20), which extends in the axial direction (22) and can be mounted on the steering wheel carcass (12), wherein the hub section (14) of the steering wheel carcass (12) has a rigid carcass hook (24) for latching with the airbag module (20), which extends in the axial direction (22), wherein the latching peg (18) adjoins the carcass hook (24) and partially surrounds same in the circumferential direction. The invention also relates to a steering wheel assembly having a vehicle steering wheel (10) of this kind.
US11370375B2
A cladding part for a motor vehicle has an external side, and an internal side which is disposed opposite the external side. At least one sensor is disposed on the internal side. The cladding part has at least one main region and at least one functional region, wherein the functional region in terms of oscillations has a lower damping value than the main region. The functional region at least in portions is surrounded by a decoupling region, wherein the cladding part in the decoupling region has a first mechanical rigidity value and in the main region has a second mechanical rigidity value. The first rigidity value is lower than the second rigidity value.
US11370372B2
An electronic control device comprises at least three connectors, a case, and a board. The case has at least three openings through which the connectors are inserted, the connectors are provided on a plane. The board is housed inside the case and to the connectors are electrically connected thereto. The at least three openings includes a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening. The third opening is disposed between the first opening and the second opening. The case includes the first, second, and third openings, and a heat dissipation fin or a rib provided between the first opening and the second opening.
US11370358B2
A cloaking device comprises an object-side, an image-side, a cloaked region between the object-side and the image-side. An object-side optical component and an object-side tilt correction (TC) component are positioned on the object-side, and an image-side optical component and an image-side TC component are positioned on the image-side. The cloaking device is tilted relative to an object positioned on the object-side such that light from the object is incident on the cloaking device at an acute angle. The object-side TC component redirects light from the object incident on the cloaking device such that the light propagates through the cloaking device generally normal to the object-side and image-side optical components. The image-side TC component redirects light propagating through the cloaking device back to normal to the object to form an image of the object on the image-side of the cloaking device which, if not for the TC components, would be distorted.
US11370353B2
A wireless doorsill plate with changeable display information and power-saving mechanism includes a baseplate, a battery module, a radio frequency module, a display module and an energy-saving module. A circuit board is provided on the baseplate, the battery module is disposed on the baseplate and electrically connected to the circuit board, and the battery module is used to generate an electric power. The radio frequency module is disposed on the circuit board and used to receive an activation signal to generate a wireless signal. The display module is assembled on the circuit board and has a backlight unit connected to the battery module. The energy-saving module is disposed on the circuit board and electrically connected to the battery module. According to the wireless signal the energy-saving module reduces the electric power generated by the battery module in order to turn on the backlight unit.
US11370352B2
The present invention proposes a lighting device for a motor vehicle comprising a first module that projects a first pixelated high beam, a second module that projects a second pixelated writing beam onto the road, and a third module that projects a third low beam cut-off. The first, second and third modules are arranged such that the first and second beams overlap at least partially vertically; and the second and third beams overlap at least partially vertically.
US11370349B1
A coil rack carrier for guiding and carrying a plurality of coil racks includes a pair of upstanding front guide members laterally spaced apart from one another and a pair of upstanding rear guide members laterally spaced apart from one another. Each rear guide member defines a length that is greater than a length of each front guide member. One of the pair of rear guide members is rearwardly adjacent a first one of the front guide members so as to define a first channel therebetween. Similarly, another of the pair of rear guide members is rearwardly adjacent a second one of the front guide members so as to define a second channel therebetween. For stowage the plurality of coil racks is sequentially received into the first and second channels.
US11370335B1
A vehicle seating assembly includes a seat base with a support structure, a seatback pivotably coupled to the seat base, a first anchor access point positioned in the seat base, a second anchor access point positioned in the seat base and laterally disposed relative to the first anchor access point, a seat surface of the seat base. The seat surface includes a lower portion and a rearward portion. The rearward portion is positioned rearward of the lower portion. The rearward portion is arranged at an angle relative to the lower portion such that the rearward portion and the lower portion are non-parallel to one another. The seat surface is an occupant-facing surface.
US11370328B2
An ISS is a seating system that actively adjusts to improve an occupant's comfort, performance, and safety in a specific driving environment. The ISS determines the occupant's posture, position on the seat surface, and/or physiological state, for example, by applying a machine vision process. The ISS can further determine a driving environment. The ISS adjusts its settings and settings of the vehicle according to one or more factors such as an occupant's posture, the occupant's physiological state, the occupant's preferences, and/or the driving environment. The ISS can include a state machine that determines a current state and determines if a change has occurred such that the system should shift to another state that best suits this change. The ISS makes adjustment according to system settings associated with the best suitable state.
US11370327B2
The present disclosure relates to a hollow-type BLDC motor of a power sliding device of a vehicle seat, and a nut coupled to a lead screw is injection-molded with a plastic and installed only on a longitudinal partial section of the inner diameter of a rotor, a magnet of the rotor is produced in an integrated cylindrical shape having no gap between magnetic poles, and a skew angle is given on a boundary line between the magnetic poles, thereby reducing noise and vibration.
US11370320B2
An electronic control device including a first power supply path that supplies power from a battery for in-vehicle use through an electric power supply terminal, to a load; a first disconnecting part in the first power supply path and performs connection/cutoff of the first power supply path; a second power supply path that supplies power from the battery for in-vehicle use, to a control part that controls the first disconnecting part, through a control power supply terminal and a power supply IC; a third power supply path that supplies power from the control power supply terminal, to a connecting point between the first disconnecting part and the load in the first power supply path from a point between the control power supply terminal and the power supply IC in the second power supply path; a second disconnecting part that is provided in the third power supply path and performs connection/cutoff of the third power supply path; and a detecting part that detects a voltage in the first power supply path.
US11370319B2
Provided is an electric scooter with a top-swappable battery. In some embodiments, the electric scooter a frame having an opening, and a removable deck assembly disposed in the opening, the removable deck assembly comprising a deck having an upper surface and a lower surface, and a battery pack attached to the lower surface of the deck.
US11370314B1
In one embodiment, a system includes: an enclosure; a plurality of first converters adapted within the enclosure to receive grid power at a distribution grid voltage and convert the distribution grid voltage to at least one second voltage; at least one high frequency transformer adapted within the enclosure and coupled to the plurality of first converters to receive the at least one second voltage; a plurality of second converters adapted within the enclosure and coupled to an output of the at least one high frequency transformer to receive the at least one second voltage and convert the at least one second voltage to a third voltage; and a dielectric fluid adapted within the enclosure to provide dielectric isolation.
US11370311B2
An electrical energy system containing fuel-cells and a method for operating an electrical energy system for a motor vehicle are disclosed. The electrical energy system includes, for example: at least one fuel-cell; at least one HV battery; a diode arranged between the at least one fuel-cell and the at least one HV battery, which diode allows current flow only in a direction from the at least one fuel-cell to the at least one HV battery; a switching element configured to reversibly disconnect or close a circuit between the at least one fuel-cell and the at least one HV battery; a control unit configured to control the switching element; and an inductor arranged between the at least one fuel-cell and the at least one HV battery and connected in series with the switching element.
US11370310B2
A vehicle power supply system includes: a main battery; a sub-battery with output voltage; a power converter having an input end connected to the main battery and an output end connected to a motor and converting output power of the main battery to driving power for the motor; a voltage converter connected between the main battery and the sub-battery and stepping down the voltage of the main battery to the voltage of the sub-battery; a charging inlet connected to the main battery and connecting to a power supply device outside a vehicle; a capacitor connected between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the input end; and a coil connected between the main battery and the voltage converter. The coil is connected to the capacitor not via a charging power path from the charging inlet to the main battery.
US11370304B2
Provided is a head-up display device which can stably display a virtual image viewed so as to be stuck to a road surface, during traveling of a vehicle. A head-up display device according to the present invention is provided with a display means for projecting display light to a front window shield provided to a vehicle, and generating and displaying a virtual image, formed by the display light reflected at the front window shield, so as to be superposed on an actual scene seen through the front window shield. At least a part of a virtual image display region in which the virtual image is displayed is positioned below a road surface on which the vehicle travels.
US11370301B2
Disclosed embodiments provide a technical improvement for providing visualization of vehicle speed via a speedometer in an instrument cluster of a vehicle/driver interface of a transportation vehicle by providing multiple indicia of vehicle speed and rate of change of speed in a manner that connotes vehicle motion so as to enhance the driving experience for the driver and improve safety.
US11370298B2
A work vehicle includes front and rear wheels, a transmission case and a power transmission device. The power transmission device is housed in the transmission case and is configured to transmit driving power from an engine to driving wheels. The power transmission device has a front wheel driving shaft and a four-wheel drive clutch. The front wheel driving shaft is arranged in a lower inside portion of the transmission case and is configured to transmit the driving power to the front wheels. The four-wheel drive clutch is arranged above the front wheel driving shaft, and is configured to switch between a two-wheel drive state in which the driving power is transmitted to the rear wheels, and a four-wheel drive state in which the driving power is transmitted to both the front wheels and the rear wheels via the front wheel driving shaft.
US11370290B2
A friction clutch includes a reference plane aligned perpendicular to a rotational axis, a first clutch component, and a second clutch component. The first clutch component has a first friction element, a first support part that receives the first friction element, a leaf spring unit including a leaf spring that rotationally fixes the second support part to the first support part. The second clutch component has a second friction element. The first friction element lies against the second friction element in a frictionally locking manner in a closed position, and is axially spaced from the second friction element in an open position. The leaf spring is designed and positioned relative to the reference plane in a set angle in the closed position such that an additional axial force is applied to the first friction element and the second friction element in a drive rotational direction of the first clutch component.
US11370286B2
A drive module for an electric vehicle having noise, vibration, and harshness counter measures. The drive module includes multiple covers and mass dampeners in order to detune vibration and noise from the cabin of the vehicle.
US11370281B2
A vehicle container has a vehicle container body, a door pivotally connected to the vehicle container body, the door defining at least one recess, and a door latch system for locking the door in a closed position. The door latch system has an extendible and retractable actuator pivotally connected to the vehicle container body, a linkage assembly operatively connected to the actuator, a rod operatively connected to the linkage assembly, the rod being pivotable about an axis upon extension and retraction of the actuator, at least one hook connected to the rod, the at least one hook being received and withdrawn from the at least one recess of the door by pivoting the rod about the axis, and at least one pin removably fastened to the door and extending in the at least one recess, the at least one pin being selectively movable relative to the door.
US11370279B2
An Al-steel assembly is provided. The assembly includes an aluminum-based element and a steel element on at least one surface of the aluminum-based element. The steel element has a metal coating made of a zinc-aluminum-magnesium alloy and includes from 2.3% to 3.3% by weight of magnesium and from 3.6% to 3.9% by weight of aluminum. A coated surface of the steel element is in contact with the aluminum-based element in an assembly zone and a protective coating coats the assembly around and adjacent the assembly zone. A body-in-white, further assembly and method are also provided.
US11370274B2
A blow-off device (10) is equipped with a wind direction variable means (40) and a pressure adjustment unit (60) in a ventilation passage (50). The wind direction variable means is rotatably provided in the ventilation passage and can change a conditioned air from the inflow port (50c) toward a blow-off port (50d) and a second inclined part (52r) along an intermediate part (53r). The pressure adjustment unit prevents the pressure of the ventilation passage from exceeding a predetermined value by releasing the conditioned air to the outside of the ventilation passage. A bypass inlet (66) of the pressure adjustment unit is provided on an upstream side of an end portion (42d) in a +X direction at the time of maximum rotation of the wind direction variable means.
US11370265B2
A thermal management system includes a refrigerant line including a compressor, a water-cooled condenser, and a cooling core for indoor air conditioning connected to the water-cooled condenser such that refrigerant emerging from the water-cooled condenser is introduced into the cooling core for indoor air conditioning, and a battery line including a high-voltage battery heat exchanging module and a heater core for indoor air conditioning. The battery line is connected to the refrigerant line through the water-cooled condenser in a heat exchangeable manner such that the high-voltage battery heat exchanging module and the heater core for indoor air conditioning are connected in parallel to the water-cooled condenser via a first valve to cause cooling water heated while passing through the water-cooled condenser to be selectively introduced into the high-voltage battery heat exchanging module or the heater core for indoor air conditioning.
US11370263B2
A front upper frame connection for a space frame can comprise a top surface; a bottom surface opposite the top surface; a right-side surface; a left-side surface opposite the right-side surface; a front surface; a rear surface opposite the front surface; a pair of forward support plates provided on the front surface; a pair of forward flat mounting surfaces; and a pair of rocker attachment interfaces located on the top surface adjacent to the rear surface and respectively the right-side surface and the left-side surface. The front surface and the forward support plates can define a cutout section. Each of the forward support plates is curved and runs outward from a transverse centerline of the top surface and then forward.
US11370258B2
A suspension system for a vehicle may include a steering knuckle operably coupled to a wheel hub, and a plurality of links operably coupling the steering knuckle to a chassis of the vehicle. One of the links may be a trailing blade having a body portion that lies in a plane. The trailing blade may include a first end operably coupled to the steering knuckle and a second end operably coupled to the chassis. The trailing blade may extend from the first end to the second end such that the plane of the body portion forms an angle of greater than 5 degrees relative to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle.
US11370257B1
A trailer hitch ball mount locking apparatus that includes a locking rod assembly having a main body with a slidable rod extending from each end of the main body, a trailer hitch coupler having a hitch ball socket for receiving a hitch ball therein and a pair of rail slots for receiving and supporting a free end of the corresponding slidable rod of the locking rod assembly therein, and a shifting fork pivotably connected to the trailer hitch coupler with the shifting fork having a hand gripping end and a slotted end with a surface for engaging a portion of the main body of the locking rod assembly to guide the locking rod assembly between an open gate condition and a closed gate condition.
US11370256B2
A hitch tightening pin system is designed to attach a draw bar to a hitch receiver tube and prevent relative motion between the draw bar and receiver tube. The pin system has an elongate tapered shoulder bolt that has a larger and smaller outer diameter with a tapered surface extending between the larger and smaller outer diameter. The system includes an expansion sleeve that has arcuate portions. The expansion sleeve can slide onto the smaller outer diameter with the arcuate portions facing the tapered surface. A nut tightens to move the arcuate portions radially outwardly to apply force to the inside surface of a draw bar. The application of force causes the draw bar to be held tightly to the receiver tube and reduce or eliminate looseness or rattling during use.
US11370246B2
A composite wheel assembly and method of fabricating the same is provided. The wheel assembly includes a composite wheel rim, a wheel center, and a plurality of attachment fasteners for attaching the wheel center to the wheel rim. The wheel rim includes a plurality of attachment inserts that are configured to selectively engage with respective attachment fasteners. Each attachment insert is encapsulated by a plurality of composite layers of the wheel rim or is otherwise secured to the wheel rim. The attachment inserts extend from and/or are positioned within a drop well region of the wheel rim. The method of fabricating the wheel assembly includes forming first and second preforms and positioning the same onto a mold assembly. The method further includes positioning the attachment inserts between the first and second preforms such that the attachment inserts are secured therebetween.
