US11386257B2
Various implementations for efficiently manipulating surfaces in a multi-dimensional space using energy agents are described. A context including one or more surfaces is rendered for display in the multi-dimensional space. One or more events manipulating the one or more surfaces of the context are detected. One or more energy agents are computed for the one or more surfaces of the context based on the one or more events. A visual effect manipulating the one or more surfaces of the context is applied based on the one or more energy agents.
US11386255B2
Capturing and processing a digital image of a pictorial (e.g., hand-drawn) representation of a schematic or block diagram as a digital image to aid in creation and maintenance of electrical designs is disclosed. Processing of the digital image includes processing to determine design parameters to create an informational format useful as input to other design software. Design parameters may include schematic layout and attributes such as maximum output voltage, minimum input voltage, ambient temperature, etc. The method and system also include storage of information accessible to refine designs and perform simulations of designs as part of an overall electrical design process. Associated devices and methods are disclosed as well.
US11386246B2
A method for designing a hybrid surface optical system comprises establishing a first initial system; keeping the first initial system unchanged and calculating a plurality of first feature data points, and fitting the first feature data points to obtain a spherical surface; repeating such steps until all spherical surfaces are obtained; calculating a plurality of second feature data points, and fitting the plurality of second feature data points to obtain an aspheric surface; repeating such steps until all aspheric surfaces are obtained; calculating a plurality of third feature data points, and fitting the plurality of third feature data points to obtain a freeform surface; repeating such steps until all freeform surfaces are obtained.
US11386244B2
Interactive systems and methods are provided for designing and constructing fences or other structures supported by posts, including methods which enable users to design custom fence panels and be presented with dynamic visual representations of such custom fence panels.
US11386230B2
Systems and methods are described for modifying input and output (I/O) to an object storage service by implementing one or more owner-specified functions to I/O requests. A function can implement a data manipulation, such as filtering out sensitive data before reading or writing the data. The functions can be applied prior to implementing a request method (e.g., GET or PUT) specified within the I/O request, such that the data to which the method is applied my not match the object specified within the request. For example, a user may request to obtain (e.g., GET) a data set. The data set may be passed to a function that filters sensitive data to the data set, and the GET request method may then be applied to the output of the function. In this manner, owners of objects on an object storage service are provided with greater control of objects stored or retrieved from the service.
US11386225B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are related to computing systems and methods for localizing how a user will receive and view received DID-related data. The computing system and methods are implemented in the decentralized network that implements a distributed ledger that backs one or more decentralized identities (DID) for one or more users of the computing system. Various sets of rule are accessed. The sets of rules specify how a DID owner will receive and view DID-related data received from a third party entity. The sets of rules are applied to the DID-related data received from the third party entity. The received DID-related data is modified such that the received DID-related data conforms to the one or more sets of rules. The modified DID-related data is provided to the DID owner so that the DID owner is able to view the modified DID-related data according to the applied sets of rules.
US11386223B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a customer a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use customer information maintained by a financial institution are described. The central location serves as a central portal where a customer of the financial institution can manage all access to account information and personal information stored at the financial institution. Accordingly, the customer does not need to log into each individual third-party system or customer device to manage previously provided access to the customer information or to provision new access to the customer information. A user additionally is able to have user data and/or third-party accounts of the user deleted from devices, applications, and third-party systems via a central portal.
US11386218B2
Various techniques are described for platform management of integrated access of public and privately-accessible datasets utilizing federated query generation and query schema rewriting optimization, including receiving at a dataset access platform a query formatted according to a first data schema, generating a copy of the query, saving the query and the copy to a datastore, parsing the copy of the query in the first schema using an inference engine, determining whether the query comprises data associated with an access control condition associated with accessing the dataset, the access control condition being configured to indicate whether the query is permitted to access the dataset, and rewriting, using a proxy server, the copy of the query in a second schema, and optimizing the rewriting by identifying a database engine to execute the query and including other data converted into another triple associated with an attribute of the query.
US11386217B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving, by the centralized sub-system, user data representing a user that is authorized to access one or more electronic documents stored in the centralized sub-system, generating a hash identifier that is unique to the user, the hash identifier being generated based on at least a portion of the user data, and recording, by the decentralized sub-system, the hash identifier in a blockchain that is maintained within the decentralized sub-system, the blockchain being stored in multiple nodes of the decentralized sub-system.
US11386215B1
A system and method are disclosed for allowing a plurality of augmented and/or virtual reality users to interact with higher dimensional virtual or augmented environment models in which a plurality of objects are placed throughout in a pseudorandom fashion. The placed plurality of objects are subsequently assigned values either in a predetermined or real time manner. The system and method enable security countermeasures, thereby protecting the higher dimensional environmental model from malicious users.
US11386214B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for executing a web application with client-side encryption. A web browser can receive a document comprising a plurality of data elements including a secure element that comprises an encrypted value. An extension component may generate a secure container element to replace the secure element. The extension component can also insert a subdocument into the secure container element. The web browser may be configured to prevent web applications from accessing the subdocument. The extension component may also decrypt the encrypted value to generate a clear value and write the clear value to the subdocument. The web browser may render the document using the clear value.
US11386213B2
An apparatus configured for database access control. The apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute instructions. The instructions include receiving a statement requesting access for a user to data files stored in a non-transitory memory medium; parsing the statement into one or more arguments, wherein each argument ends with a logical operator; computing a skip count for each of the arguments; evaluating the statement using the skip counts to determine whether the access should be granted to the user; retrieving the data files from the non-transitory memory medium; and sending the data files to the user, if the access is granted.
US11386210B2
The present disclosure provides a method, system, and device for inquiry response mapping for determining a cybersecurity risk level of an entity. To manage and/or evaluate a cybersecurity risk level based on a relationship between a first entity and a second entity, questionnaires (e.g., requests or inquires) are often exchanged between two entities. One or more aspects of the present disclosure provide populating data sets (e.g., questionnaires) indicative of risk level for the first entity or the second entity. One or more other aspects of the present disclosure further provide determining a cybersecurity risk level of an entity by mapping responses to a plurality of inquiry sets directed to the first entity or the second entity.
US11386193B2
Various systems and methods are provided for defining a CAPTCHA generator that is configured to generate CAPTCHA challenges by using at least a first parameter and a first plurality of values associated with the first parameter; defining an adversary program, where the adversary program is configured to automatically attempt to solve the CAPTCHA challenges; performing a first feedback loop that includes generating a first plurality of CAPTCHA challenges, receiving feedback from a group of human users and feedback from the adversary program; and using the feedback received from the human user and the feedback received from the adversary program to modify a weight associated with a first value among the plurality of values in order to generate future CAPTCHA challenges that create less inconvenience for human users but which are more difficult for adversary programs.
US11386188B2
An input recognition method carried out by an electronic device implemented by a computer comprises the steps of generating a virtual grid of which the distance between lines is variable, in correspondence with at least a partial region of a display included in or connected to the electronic device; and recognizing, by using an index of the virtual grid, a position selected by a user of the electronic device in the region of the display corresponding to the virtual grid.
US11386184B2
An information processing apparatus comprising accepting means, transmission means, reception means and display means, wherein in a case where a plurality of pieces of link information is included in a search result and one of the pieces of link information is selected, the transmission means transmits a request for a Web page to a destination server in accordance with that link information, and the information processing apparatus further comprises processing means for, with respect to the Web page received in accordance with the request, searching in that Web page for the search term and processing by inserting a tag for performing an emphasized display of that search term into that Web page, and the display means displays the Web page, into which the tag for the emphasized display is inserted, emphasizing the search term in that Web page.
US11386176B2
Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein provide improved autonomous agent applications that are configured to generate automated answers to a complex query (e.g., a query that includes more than one search parameter). A user query comprising a complex query may be received and decomposed into a number of simple queries. A simple query may be executed with a search engine to obtain a set of search results. An answer for the simple query may be obtained from the search results and then substituted for a term of the next simple query identified from the complex query. The next simple query may then be executed to obtain another set of search results. These steps may occur any suitable number of times. An answer for the complex query may be generated based at least in part on the answers one or more of the simple queries.
US11386173B2
A computer-implemented method of processing user provided information from a plurality of users in a digital network for ranking one or more information modules is described, which involves causing at least one processor to store in memory user assessment weights, each associated with a user of the plurality of users and representing a weight to be applied to information module assessments, receive a proxy nomination message, change the user assessment weight associated with the proxy user based on the proxy nomination message, for one or more information modules: receive information module assessments, generate weighted assessments, each based on one of the information module assessments received and a user assessment weight, aggregate the weighted assessments to generate an aggregated weighted assessment, and rank a set of the plurality of information modules based at least in part on the aggregated weighted assessments. Apparatuses, systems and computer readable media also described.
US11386172B1
A computer implemented method includes supplying to a client device prompts for a first individual to specify matching criteria for a potential introduction to a second individual, where the matching criteria includes criterion to specify commitment disposition. Matching criteria is collected. Matches between the first individual and a pool of individuals are generated based upon the matching criteria. The matches are supplied to the client device. Match acceptances are collected from the client device. Network communication is enabled between the first individual and the second individual in response to a match between the first individual and the second individual and a match acceptance by at least one of the first individual and the second individual.
US11386150B2
A method according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes acquiring verbal data representing a verbal expression corresponding to a sound reproduced by an acoustic device, and displaying, on a display device, motion graphics including the verbal expression corresponding to the sound reproduced by the acoustic device in a form of a text in accordance with the verbal data. The displaying the motion graphics on the display device includes selecting a type of motion graphics that relates to the verbal expression corresponding to the reproduced sound from among various types of motion graphics and displaying the selected type of motion graphics on the display device.
US11386147B2
A first connection state may be entered on a computing device. While the computing device is in the first connection state, actions taken on a playlist on the computing device may be applied to the playlist and not applied to a playback queue associated with a zone. An input may be received via the computing device, indicating a selection of the zone. In response to receiving the input, a second connection state may be entered. Entering the second connection state may comprise establishing a connected state between the computing device and the one or more playback devices. While the connected state is established, one or more actions taken on the playlist on the computing device may be applied to the playlist and transmitted, in a message to the zone over a network. The one or more actions may be one or more corresponding actions applied to the playback queue.
US11386140B2
A story album display method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, so that a thematic story album can be generated. The method includes: aggregating, by a terminal, N images in a gallery based on a first dimension, where the first dimension includes a photographing time and/or a photographing location, and N>1; and removing, by the terminal, an invalid image from the N images, to obtain the story album comprising the M images, wherein the invalid image comprises an image with an invalid label, or one or more images with an image similarity greater than a threshold; and displaying, by the terminal, an album cover of a story album, where the story album includes M images in the N images, the M images are associated with a theme of the story album, and M
US11386139B2
A system and method for generating analytics for entities depicted in multimedia content, including: identifying at least one social pattern based on social linking scores of a plurality of entities indicated in a social linking graph, wherein each social pattern is identified at least by comparing one of the social linking scores to a predetermined social pattern threshold, wherein each social linking score is generated based on contexts of at least one multimedia content element (MMCE) in which at least two of the plurality of entities are depicted, wherein each context is determined based on a plurality of concepts of one of the at least one MMCE, wherein each concept matches at least one signature generated for the at least one MMCE above a predetermined threshold; and generating, based on the identified at least one social pattern, analytics for the plurality of entities depicted in the social linking graph.
US11386132B2
A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for processing a search query that includes context based exclusion criteria. A search query is analyzed as to a subject, topic, noun phrase and query intent. Negative exclusion context and emphasis of the search query are determined with a filter word list to refine the query intent. A knowledge graph is created based on the search query. A set of branches of the knowledge graph is determined from which information is retrieved. Negative intent branches are identified based on the exclusion context and pruning is performed on the negative intent branches from the knowledge graph.
US11386115B1
A transactional data storage engine may implement selectable storage endpoints. A selection of storage endpoints may be received at a transactional data storage engine. The selected storage endpoints may identify storage locations maintaining replicas of data for the transactional data storage engine. A storage engine configuration for the transactional data storage engine may be updated to include the storage endpoints so that access requests for the data may be sent to storage endpoints identified according to the storage engine configuration. In some embodiments, storage endpoints may identify strongly consistent or eventually consistent storage locations for performing reads of the data maintained for the transactional data storage engine.
US11386113B2
A data intake and query system processes and stores events, which are associated with token identifiers for tokens corresponding to data sources for the messages that the events are generated from. Thus, the data intake and query system can receive a request to provide analyses and visualizations regarding stored events associated with a particular component associated with a plurality of events, such as a data source for the messages from which the plurality of events are generated from. These requests and the resulting visualizations can be customized based on selected tokens and selected components.
US11386097B2
A method for personalizing reviews for a user on a social network, comprising the steps of: receiving from at least two or more users a rating and a recommendation for a reviewable item, wherein the rating is numerical value in a rating scale, and wherein a recommendation is a binary endorsement; receiving a request from a user to view the ratings and recommendations for one or more reviewable items; determining a combined rating and an combined recommendation for all users of the social network at one or more social degrees for the one or more reviewable items; and displaying, by a user interface, the combined rating and combined recommendation for all users of the social network at one or more social degrees for the one or more reviewable items.
US11386086B2
A DBMS query-optimization module receives a corpus of training data that contains data-access requests, such as SQL queries. Each request specifies data to be accessed but does not specify a query plan that the database should use to generate the requested data. The module identifies, in each received request, parameters, such as join methods and access methods, that can vary among query plans; and variables that cannot be assigned values until the query is actually processed. The system generates a set of queries, each of which implements a distinct query plan, that specify every viable permutation of values of the parameters and of the variables. The generated queries are added to the received corpus, which is forwarded to a machine-learning module in order to train the query-optimizer to select query plans that incur the lowest resource costs when servicing a particular type of query.
US11386085B2
Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media for deriving data elements from queries. In some implementations, a query is received, and one or more computers determine that the query involves an operation that satisfies one or more criteria. In response data is saved that indicates a derived data element corresponding to the operation. The one or more computers provide data causing a representation of the derived data element to be presented, such as data causing an interactive control representing the derived data element to be presented on a user interface.
US11386071B2
Configuration data characterizing configuration information of at least one application process executing on a target system is received. The configuration data includes at least one first table and at least one second table upon which the first table depends. The receiving is performed prior to transmission of the configuration data to the target system for application of the configuration data to the target system. At least one validation definition including a header and table elements specifying a dependency of the first table on the second table is determined using the configuration data. Whether to validate the configuration data to ensure consistency within the target system is determined using the at least one validation definition. The determining whether to validate includes determining to validate the configuration data in response to determining that the second table has been modified. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11386070B2
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for verifying the integrity of replicated virtual machine data. The method includes reading data from a production volume at a production site. A representation of the data may be stored at a replica site with the integrity of the data stored in the replica volume being verified according to the representation of the data.
US11386063B2
Disclosed are system and methods for processing and storing data files, using a data edge file format. The data edge file separates information about what symbols are in a data file and information about the corresponding location of those symbols in the data file. The described technique for converting a source file comprising symbols into a data edge file includes: generating a locality file of symbol location from the source file to identify locations of the symbols in the source file, generating a symbol file to identify symbols in the source file, and then modifying the locality file of symbol location to associate each symbol from the symbol file with a location in the source file.
US11386057B2
A system for searching and discovering information where a first server is provided with a digital catalogue of products and is connected to a communication network. The first server communicates with a front-end client associated to an user and connected to said communication network, and with a back-end server connected to said communication network. The back-end server has in turn an indexing section for processing the data of said digital catalogue in order to extract and save relevant data of said digital catalogue in an index, and a runtime section adapted to interpret the user query on the front-end client, compare the search information and/or the user behavior with said index and send to said front-end client suggestions to the user on how to refine said query.
US11386053B2
A method for the automatic generation of a data model from an SQL statement includes receiving a single SQL statement in a user interface to a data analytics application, parsing the single SQL statement and extracting from the SQL statement different table references. The method also includes, for each one of the table references, directing a selection of all fields available in a corresponding table and storing the available fields in a collection of fields implicated by each table referenced by the table references. Finally, the method includes generating a data model with the fields in the collection of fields and displaying a view of the data model in a user interface of the data analytics application.
US11386050B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods allow a distributed database to be maintained to store records of activities that may promote purchasing a product and determine whether such promotions should be rewarded. Using anonymous identifiers and a permission-based system, identities of users, products, content, content distribution systems, and marketplaces can be made available only to parties with rights to know such identities. Furthermore, systems can be put in place so that activities with a certain product, content item, etc. can be monitored without ever disclosing the identity of the product, content item, etc. In some embodiments, the database can be an immutable, append-only, distributed database such as a blockchain ledger.
US11386046B2
An apparatus includes: a display control unit that displays a UI screen for performing a predetermined process, the UI screen being a screen where unit blocks each assumed as a single continuous character string in a scan image are displayed to be selectable by the user; an OCR process unit that performs an OCR process on unit blocks selected by the user through the UI screen to thereby extract character strings; and a setting unit that sets incidental information for the predetermined process by using the character strings extracted by the OCR process unit. The display control unit separates a character string satisfying a predetermined separation condition among the character strings extracted by the OCR process unit from the unit blocks selected by the user, and displays the separated character strings on the UI screen such that the separated character strings are selectable by the user.
US11386044B2
A file server receives a request for data from a user device. The data is represented at the file server by a virtual cluster descriptor. The file server queries an identifier map using an identifier of the virtual cluster descriptor. Responsive to the identifier map indicating that the requested data is stored at a location remote from the file server, the file server accesses a cold tier translation table that stores a mapping between an identifier of each of a plurality of virtual cluster descriptors and a storage location of data associated with the respective virtual cluster descriptor. The cold tier translation table is queried using the identifier of the virtual cluster descriptor to identify a storage location of the requested data, and the data is loaded to the file server from the identified storage location.
US11386042B2
An apparatus in an illustrative embodiment comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The apparatus is configured to maintain a snapshot tree data structure having a plurality of volume nodes corresponding to respective ones of (i) a root volume and (ii) multiple snapshots related directly or indirectly to the root volume. The apparatus is further configured to receive a request to read a data item from a given volume offset of a particular one of the volume nodes, to determine a set of data descriptors for the given volume offset, to determine a set of volume nodes of interest for the particular volume node, to determine a contribution set based at least in part on the set of data descriptors and the set of volume nodes of interest, to determine a read address for the data item as a function of the contribution set, and to read the data item from the read address.
US11386039B2
One example method includes transmitting, by an application running in a host CPU, a notification to an application in a coprocessor/accelerator indicating that inbound data generated by the application is ready, receiving, by the application in the coprocessor/accelerator, the notification and delegating, by the application in the coprocessor/accelerator, an IO command to the application running in the host CPU, forwarding, by the application running in the host CPU, the IO command to an OS of the host CPU, transmitting, by the OS of the host CPU, an IO request to an IO device, initiating, by the IO device, a P2PDMA to transmit data associated with the IO request to a memory of the coprocessor/accelerator, and processing, by the application in the coprocessor/accelerator, the data.
US11386026B1
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing a Shell PCIe Bridge (SPB) and shared-link-interface services that support a shared common PCIe physical link between SPB clients in a PCIe system. In operation, shared-link-interface operations include accessing, at a Shell PCIe Bridge (SPB), an outbound transaction for a PCIe endpoint vendor IP or an inbound transaction for an SPB client. The SPB supports a shared common PCIe physical link based on a shared-link-interface comprising vendor-agnostic downstream custom interface and a vendor-specific upstream PCIe endpoint interface. The shared-link-interface operations further include processing the outbound transaction or the inbound transaction based on shared-link-interface services. In this way, processing transaction comprises executing shared-link-interface operations that provide protection enhancements associated with sharing a physical PCIe link. The shared-link-interface operations further include communicating the outbound transaction to the PCIe endpoint vendor IP or the inbound transaction to the SPB client.
US11386024B2
According to certain embodiments, a memory module is operable with a memory controller of a host system. The memory module includes a module controller configurable to receive address and control signals from the memory controller, and dynamic random access memory elements configurable to communicate data signals with the memory controller in accordance with the address and control signals. The module controller has an open-drain output and is configurable to drive the open-drain output with a first signal to indicate a parity error having occurred when the memory module is being accessed for a normal memory read or write operation. The module controller is further configurable to drive the open drain output with a second signal related to one or more training sequences when the memory module performs operations associated with the one or more training sequences and not associated with any normal memory read or write operations.
US11386018B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a memory system and an operating method thereof. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the memory system may generate a nonce based on a physical address of a target area of a memory device using a cryptographic algorithm, and request the memory device to authenticate the nonce. When the authentication for the nonce succeeds, the memory controller may set an authority to perform a read, write or erase operation on the target area. Through this operation, the memory system can prevent data leakage or damage by a user who has no access authority.
US11386008B1
A memory apparatus for detecting false hits in a content-addressable memory (CAM) is disclosed. The memory apparatus includes a controller coupled to the CAM and a memory. The controller receives a search result including an address from the CAM, the address corresponding to a matching entry from a first set of data entries that matches a search tag. The controller provides a read address based on the address to the memory, which returns a second data entry from a second set of data entries corresponding to the read address. The controller receives the read data and generates an error detection result based on a comparison between the second data entry and the search tag.
US11386004B2
Memory devices, systems and methods include a buffer interface to translate high speed data interactions on a host interface side into slower, wider data interactions on a DRAM interface side. The slower, and wider DRAM interface may be configured to substantially match the capacity of the narrower, higher speed host interface. In some configurations, the buffer interface may be configured to provide multiple sub-channel interfaces each coupled to one or more regions within the memory structure and configured to facilitate data recovery in the event of a failure of some portion of the memory structure. Selected memory devices, systems and methods include an individual DRAM die, or one or more stacks of DRAM dies coupled to a buffer die.
US11385996B1
Techniques, supported by corresponding apparatuses and methods, are disclosed for monitoring execution of software and generating path signatures which are characteristic of the behaviour of the software. Multiple approximate nearest neighbour searching hash tables are generated in dependence on such path signatures. Observed path signatures are also compared against the previously generated content of these runtime multiple approximate nearest neighbour searching hash tables and a behavioural classification is determined in dependence on hash collision-based similarity between the observed path signature and the content of the multiple approximate nearest neighbour searching hash tables.
US11385993B2
Dynamic integration of command line utilities is disclosed. For example, a host has a processor and a memory, where the memory stores a first program with a command line interface (CLI). A program testing module executes on the processor to discover a plurality of commands accepted by the CLI, where a command of the plurality of commands additionally accepts a subcommand and an argument. A first input data type associated with the first command is determined. A first test case is generated that invokes the first command with first test data of the first input data type. A second input data type that is incompatible with the command is determined based on the first input data type. A second test case that invokes the command with second test data of the second input data type is generated and both test cases are executed.
US11385983B1
An approach is provided for implementing memory profiling aggregation. A hardware aggregator provides memory profiling aggregation by controlling the execution of a plurality of hardware profilers that monitor memory performance in a system. For each hardware profiler of the plurality of hardware profilers, a hardware counter value is compared to a threshold value. When a threshold value is satisfied, execution of a respective hardware profiler of the plurality of hardware profilers is initiated to monitor memory performance. Multiple hardware profilers of the plurality of hardware profilers may execute concurrently and each generate a result counter value. The result counter values generated by each hardware profiler of the plurality of hardware profilers are aggregated to generate an aggregate result counter value. The aggregate result counter value is stored in memory that is accessible by a software processes for use in optimizing memory-management policy decisions.
US11385982B2
In an embodiment, an integrated circuit includes one or more GPIO pins coupled to a GPIO block in the integrated circuit. At least a first GPIO pin may include corresponding logic circuitry that may be programmed to apply one or more requirements to changes of the digital value received on the first GPIO pin before the change is forwarded to a destination within the integrated circuit. That is, if the requirements are not met for a given change, the logic circuitry may suppress the given change so that it is not provided to other circuits internal to the integrated circuit (e.g. the destination circuit that receives communication via the GPIO pins). The one or more requirements may be a form of hysteresis, for example.
US11385980B2
Methods and systems are provided for rapid failure recovery for a distributed storage system for failures by one or more nodes.
US11385977B2
In the invention, a problem is solved in which, in order to achieve high performance and high reliability with the conventional multi-core and lockstep core, a redundant lockstep core is necessarily prepared to execute a multi-core program in which an error has occurred, a circuit area increases, and a cost and a power consumption increase. In the invention, a safe operation of a control system is secured by operating a software program operating on a multi-core in which an error has occurred as degenerate software on a core switched from a lockstep operation to a multi-core operation.
US11385964B1
A method for execution by a computing device of a storage network includes determining an encoded data slice reduction scheme for a set of encoded data slices stored in a set of storage units of the storage network, where a data segment of data is encoded into the set of encoded data slices in accordance with encoding parameters, and where the encoding parameters include a pillar width number and a decode threshold number. The method further includes maintaining storage of the set of encoded data slices in accordance with the encoded data slice reduction scheme, where the maintaining storage includes keeping, until a deletion time for the set of encoded data slices, a number of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices equal to or greater than the decode threshold number and less than the pillar width number.
US11385963B1
A method and apparatus for masking errors in a DRAM write are disclosed to perform a partial write request with an SSD controller. In embodiments, write data from a host is provided to the controller that is not aligned to the DRAM data. The controller issues a read command from the LBA of a data storage device, and a corresponding write command to write the data received from the host, prior to receipt of the read data, to perform a partial write. The read data is error corrected, and in the event an error is found in the read data, bytes containing an error are masked. The read data, including masked read data, and write data are merged to form partial write data, and written to the DRAM. In certain embodiments, the partial write data may be provided to a logic analyzer to assess the masked read data for debug analysis.
US11385961B2
Methods, systems, and devices for adaptive parity techniques for a memory device are described. An apparatus, such as a memory device, may use one or more error correction code (ECC) schemes, an error cache, or both to support access operations. The memory device may receive a command from a host device to read or write data. If the error cache includes an entry for the data, the memory device may read or write the data using a first ECC scheme. If the error cache does not include an entry for the data, the memory device may read or write the data without using an ECC scheme or using a second ECC scheme different than the first ECC scheme.
US11385960B2
A semiconductor memory device is provided. The device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of dynamic memory cells; an error correction code (ECC) engine; an input/output (I/O) gating circuit connected between the ECC engine and the memory cell array; an error information register configured to store an error address and a first syndrome, the error address and the first syndrome being associated with a first error bit in a first codeword stored in a first page of the memory cell array; and a control logic configured to, based on the first codeword being read again and including a second error bit which is different from the first error bit, recover a second syndrome associated with the second error bit by using the first syndrome stored in the error information register and sequentially correct the first error bit and the second error bit.
US11385955B1
An apparatus for determining probability of error in identifying evidence includes a computer. The apparatus includes a non-transitory memory in communication with the computer in which is stored a software program, and prior and posterior probability distributions from a plurality of independent tests conducted on an item of evidence. For each test, the computer forms a factor distribution from the test's probability distributions using the software program stored in the non-transitory memory of the computer. The computer convolves the independent factor distributions to form a joint factor distribution using the software program. The computer calculates a tail probability from the joint factor distribution using the software program to determine a probability of error in identifying the evidence. The computer stores the probability of error in the non-transitory memory. A method. A computer program.
US11385948B1
A distributed database system maintains data for a database client by storing data on a plurality of storage nodes. Upon receiving a request from the database client in a first format, the database system translates the request to a second format and sends the translated request to a storage subsystem. The storage subsystem generates an exception if the translated request cannot be successfully completed. The distributed database system resends the translated request on behalf of the database client if the exception corresponds to a request that can be retried, and continues to resend the translated request until a first of an expiration of a predetermined time period or until the request completes successfully. The distributed database system sends a response to the database client based on the resent database request.
US11385945B2
A method and system for event consumers management are described. A batch of events that is stored in an event recordation system according to an aggregate topic is received based on the aggregate topic. Each event from the batch of events is associated with an initial topic to be used by a respective instance of an event consumer from a set of event consumers to consume events. A first initial topic associated with one or more events from the batch of events is determined. Based on the first initial topic, a state of a first event consumer is updated to a running state. The updated state of the first event consumer causes execution of a first instance of the first event consumer on a server of a cluster of servers for consuming events from the event recordation system based on the first initial topic.
US11385929B2
Techniques are described for detecting failure of one or more virtual computing environments and causing a migration of workloads. In some examples, a computing system includes a storage medium and processing circuitry having access to the storage medium. The processing circuitry is configured to communicate with a plurality of virtual computing environments (VCEs), including a first VCE and a second VCE, wherein each of the plurality of VCEs is operated by a different public cloud provider. The processing circuitry is further configured to deploy a group of workloads to the first VCE, detect a failure of at least a portion of the first VCE, and output, to the first VCE and responsive to detecting the failure, an instruction to transfer a set of workloads of the group of workloads to the second VCE to thereby cause a migration of the set of workloads to the second VCE.
US11385923B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for extending kernel functionality of a kernel of a container-based virtualization system. The method comprises: providing in the container-based virtualization system a compiling container for compiling kernel modules against the kernel of the container-based virtualization system, and an application container for extending kernel functionality of the kernel using a kernel module. The application container may input the kernel module to the compiling container. The compiling container may compile the kernel module in the compiling container. The application container may receive from the compiling container the compiled kernel module. The application container may load the compiled kernel module to the kernel of the system for enabling the extension of the kernel functionality.
US11385917B2
The present specification provides a method for executing a smart contract and a blockchain node. An implementation of a method for executing a smart contract includes: receiving, by a blockchain node, a request for creating a smart contract, the request including a bytecode of the smart contract; starting, by the blockchain node after completing deployment of the smart contract, to compile the bytecode of the smart contract into a machine code by using just-in-time and storing the machine code; and in execution of the deployed smart contract, executing, by the blockchain node, the machine code corresponding to a bytecode of the smart contract in response to the machine code being locally stored. According to the above implementations of the present application, the blockchain node can greatly increase a speed of executing a smart contract.
US11385909B2
A method for data configuration is provided. The method comprises parsing a first cascading configuration associated with a data source and selecting content of the first cascading configuration to migrate to a data target. The selected content of the first cascading configuration is then migrated to a second cascading configuration, and the second cascading configuration is applied to the data target.
US11385906B2
The invention is related to a non-transitory computer program product, a method and an apparatus for controlling access to a flash storage. The method, performed by a processing unit of a bridge integrate circuit (IC), includes: receiving a host write command from a host side; determining whether the flash storage needs to enter a hibernate state based on at least information regarding a length of data that has been programmed into the flash storage and/or a quantity of host write commands that have been executed after executing the host write command; and instructing the flash storage to enter the hibernate state when the length of data and/or the quantity of host write command meets a triggering condition.
US11385900B2
A method and apparatus of accessing queue data is provided. According to the method, a double-layer circular queue is constructed, where the double-layer circular queue includes one or more inner-layer circular queues established based on an array, and the one or more inner-layer circular queues constitute an outer-layer circular queue of the double-layer circular queue based on a linked list. A management pointer of the outer-layer circular queue is set. Data accessing is performed on the inner-layer circular queues by using the management pointer.
US11385894B2
A processor circuit is provided. The processor circuit includes an instruction decode unit, an instruction detector, an address generator and a data buffer. The instruction decode unit is configured to decode a load instruction to generate a decoding result. The instruction detector, coupled to the instruction decode unit, is configured to detect if the load instruction is in a load-use scenario. The address generator, coupled to the instruction decode unit, is configured to generate a first address requested by the load instruction according to the decoding result. The data buffer is coupled to the instruction detector and the address generator. When the instruction detector detects that the load instruction is in the load-use scenario, the data buffer is configured to store the first address generated from the address generator, and store data requested by the load instruction according to the first address.
US11385881B2
A method for forming a virtualization system image. A specification of an expressed end state of a virtualization system image is analyzed. The specification is decomposed into lower level specifications and the lower level specifications are decomposed into idempotent operations. The virtualization system image corresponding to the expressed end state is assembled by processing the idempotent operations. The expressed end state, decomposed lower level intents, and decomposed idempotent operations are codified into a decomposition hierarchy. The decomposition hierarchy is query-able such that, for a given intent, an idempotent operation is returned. An idempotent operation code library is query-able such that, for a given idempotent operation, a corresponding set of executable code is returned. An image builder executes the executable code. When all of the idempotent operations have been successfully executed, the virtualization system image is complete. A virtualization system image is deployed to computing nodes that constitute a computing cluster.
US11385873B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines that a control loop is to be executed for an unspecified number of iterations and automatically forces the control loop to be executed for a fixed number of iterations in addition to the unspecified number of iterations, where execution of the control loop for the fixed number of iterations is conducted in parallel. In one example, the technology also removes one or more dataflow tokens associated with the execution of the control loop for the fixed number of iterations.
US11385872B2
Operations include a compilation process and a runtime process. A compiler compiles code to generate virtual machine instructions. The compiler further generates information referencing respective parameter types of the parameters of a target virtual machine instruction. The compiler stores the information external to and in association with the target virtual machine instruction. The information may be included in another virtual machine instruction that precedes the target virtual machine instruction. A runtime environment processes the target virtual machine instruction based on the information stored external to and in association with the target virtual machine instruction. Parameter types referenced by the external information override parameter types that are (a) referenced by the target virtual machine instruction itself, (b) deduced by the runtime environment and/or (c) stored directly in association with the parameter values.
US11385870B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a data transformation program that causes a processor to execute a process. The process includes generating a plurality of first programs, each of the first programs transforming first input data and outputting first output data, contents of the transforming by the plurality of the first programs being different from each other, and among a plurality of pieces of a second input data different from the first input data, outputting the second input data that maximizes an entropy of a plurality of pieces of second output data, where each of the first programs transforms the second input data to the second output data.
US11385859B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and methods of sound control. For example, an apparatus may be configured to process one or more audio inputs to be heard in one or more personal sound zones, and a plurality of monitoring inputs, wherein the plurality of monitoring inputs represent acoustic sound at a plurality of predefined monitoring sensing locations, which are defined within the one or more personal sound zones; determine a sound control pattern based on the one or more audio inputs, and the plurality of monitoring inputs, the sound control pattern comprising a plurality of sound control signals configured to drive a respective plurality of acoustic transducers such that the one or more audio inputs are to be heard in the one or more personal sound zones; and output the plurality of sound control signals to the plurality of acoustic transducers.
US11385851B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a robot comprises: a case configured to form an external shape; a front cover configured to cover an internal space of the case on a front of the case; a projector arranged in the internal space and configured to project an image or a video to a display region of the front cover; a head display arranged in an opening formed at the front cover, and including a display; and a controller configured to output a visual content via at least one of the projector or the display, wherein the display region surrounds at least a portion around the opening.
US11385847B2
A user interface includes a display and a controller configured for displaying image frames with variable contents. Each image frame includes a selection of display items. At least some of the image frames include a summary window displayed at a fixed location on a screen of the display. The controller is configured to assign a summary attribute to at least some of the display items and to display these display items in the summary window. The controller has an editing function allowing a user to change a configuration of the image frames. The editing function includes a function allowing the user to assign the summary attribute to a display item by dragging the display item into the summary window.
US11385844B2
A printing system includes a terminal device, a plurality of printers, a first server, and a second server. The first server calculates a round-trip accuracy of each printer using a color conversion profile supplied from the second server with respect to target color information included in a printing command provided from the terminal device, and selects one or more printers among the plurality of printers according to the round-trip accuracy to cause the printers to execute printing.
US11385839B1
A method of operating a memory is provided. The method includes, in response to an access of a block of memory updating a first queue to identify the accessed block in response to a determination that the block is not already identified in the first queue and a determination that the block is not already identified in a second queue, and updating the second queue to identify the accessed block of memory in response to a determination that the block is already identified in the first queue. The method further includes scanning the second queue to identify, as a read setup candidate, each block of the memory that is identified as present in the second queue longer than a threshold, and performing a read setup operation on a block of memory that has been identified as the read setup candidate.
US11385827B1
Systems and methods for creating virtual machine snapshots. An example method comprises: receiving a request to create a snapshot of a virtual machine running on a host computer system; protecting from modification a plurality of virtual memory pages of the virtual machine; responsive to detecting an attempt to modify a virtual memory page of the plurality of memory pages, copying the virtual memory page to a queue residing in a random access memory (RAM) of the host computer system; making the virtual memory page writable; retrieving the virtual memory page from the queue; writing the virtual memory page to a disk of the host computer system; and responsive to exhausting the queue, completing creation of the snapshot of the virtual machine.
US11385820B2
Methods, systems, and devices for command batching for a memory sub-system are described. A memory sub-system can receive a plurality of commands for a plurality of transfer units of a memory sub-system and generate a list of the plurality of transfer units that includes pointers between the plurality of transfer units. The memory sub-system can store at least one pointer of the list in a shared memory that is shared by a plurality of cores, the at least one pointer indicating a next transfer unit of the list. The memory sub-system can send an indicator of a first transfer unit of the list based on storing the at least one pointer in the shared memory and retrieve the plurality of transfer units from the shared memory based on sending the indicator of the first transfer unit and storing the at least one pointer in the shared memory.
US11385817B2
The present disclosure is related to methods, systems, and machine-readable media for supporting deduplication in object storage using subset hashes. A plurality of hashes of a plurality of blocks of a plurality of log segments can be received from a software defined data center, wherein each block corresponds to a respective logical address. Each of the plurality of logical addresses can be associated with a respective sequentially-allocated chunk identifier in a logical map. A subset hash comprising a hash of a subset of the plurality of blocks can be determined that corresponds to a contiguous range of the plurality of logical addresses. A search of a hash map for the subset hash can be performed to determine if the subset hash is a duplicate. The subset of the plurality of blocks can be deduplicated responsive to a determination that the subset hash is a duplicate.
US11385813B2
Techniques involve: determining, according to a received request for creating a stripe in a storage system, a type of the stripe; acquiring a first workload distribution corresponding to the determined type, wherein the first workload distribution describes the distribution, among a first number of storage devices, of multiple extents in a set of stripes of this type in the storage system; selecting a set of extents from the first number of storage devices based on the first workload distribution, so that the distribution, among the first number of storage devices, of the selected set of extents and the multiple extents in the set of stripes of this type satisfies a preset distribution condition associated with the type; and using the selected set of extents to create the requested stripe based on a stripe creation rule associated with the type. The stripes can be managed in a more effective manner.
US11385812B2
A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of nonvolatile memories; a controller configured to allocate write blocks of the nonvolatile memory device to a plurality of streams provided from an outside; and a buffer memory configured to store a result of allocation of the write blocks to the plurality of streams, wherein the controller is further configured to reallocate the write blocks of the nonvolatile memory device to the plurality of streams based on the result of allocation stored in the buffer memory.
US11385811B2
A storage device is provided. In relation to the storage device operating in an active mode and a low power mode, the storage devices includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells, and a storage controller configured to process commands inputted from a host device in the active mode, wherein the storage controller includes a power mode manager that adjusts the plurality of power modes, wherein, when a first command is inputted, the power mode manager predicts an input prediction time for a second command to be inputted from the host device after the first command, changes from the active mode to the low power mode when a processing operation of the first command is completed, and returns to the active mode from the low power mode when a set return time elapses according to the input prediction time.
US11385808B2
A method of operating a memory comprises reading a first node including first data and a first link; writing the first data to a data collecting area; updating a first collecting link of the first data, which is written in the data collecting area to a position in the data collecting area; reading a second node corresponding to the first link, the second node including second data and a second link; and writing the second data to a position in the data collecting area, which is designated by the first collecting link.
US11385801B1
Offloading device management responsibilities from a storage device in an array of storage devices, including: retrieving, from the storage device, control information describing the state of one or more memory blocks in the storage device; and performing, in dependence upon the control information, a storage device management operation.
US11385794B2
A system and method for encoding data using a plurality of encoding libraries. Portions of the data are encoded by different encoding libraries, depending on which library provides the greatest compaction for a given portion of the data. This methodology not only provides substantial improvements in data compaction over use of a single data compaction algorithm with the highest average compaction, but provides substantial additional security in that multiple decoding libraries must be used to decode the data. In some embodiments, each portion of data may further be encoded using different sourceblock sizes, providing further security enhancements as decoding requires multiple decoding libraries and knowledge of the sourceblock size used for each portion of the data. In some embodiments, encoding libraries may be randomly or pseudo-randomly rotated to provide additional security.
US11385786B2
A spin control graphical user interface is used to display a currently applied option and to receive options from a user. The spin control is a circular graphical user interface that is positioned near a displayed document to which it applies. For example, the spin control may be positioned on or near a corner of the displayed document. The spin control comprises options that are presented to a user upon rotation of the spin control. An option may be manually selected or automatically selected and applied to the displayed document upon rotating the spin control clockwise or counterclockwise. More than one spin control may be associated with the displayed document. The spin control may be automatically shown and removed from a display in response to whether the document to which the spin control is attached is currently being displayed.
US11385782B2
Described are computing systems and methods configured to detect a small, but meaningful, anomaly within one or more metrics associated with a platform. The system displays visuals of the metrics so that a user monitoring the platform can effectively notice a problem associated with the anomaly and take appropriate action to remediate the problem. An operational visual includes a radar-based visual with a heatmap arranging metrics, and a node representing a state of the metrics. Moreover, the system uses an ensemble of unsupervised machine learning algorithms for multi-dimensional clustering of hundreds of thousands of monitored metrics. Via the visuals and the implementation of the machine learning algorithms, the described techniques provide an improved way of representing and simulating many metrics being monitored for a platform. Moreover, the techniques are configured to expose actionable and useful information associated with the platform in a manner that can be effectively interpreted.
US11385773B2
A system and method displays to a user nearby other user's compatible with that user.
US11385766B2
Methods, systems, and storage media are described for indicating deceptive or trustworthy resources are provided. A client system generates and renders a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising one or more graphical objects in a client application. The client system identifies resources corresponding to individual graphical objects. The client system communicates the identified resources to a reputation system, and obtains indicators indicating deceptive resources to be obfuscated and/or trustworthy resources to be illuminated. The client system obfuscates the deceptive resources and illuminates the trustworthy resources according to the received indicators. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11385764B2
This blow molding device is provided with: a display device configured to display on a setting screen information for setting control conditions for a plurality of objects to be controlled; and a display control device configured to control a display state of the setting screen. The display control device is configured to: cause a main display unit to display the information for setting the control conditions, as required; and cause a sub-display unit to constantly display status information which makes it possible to know operational states of the objects to be controlled, and a display switching icon for causing the main display unit to display operating icons of the objects to be controlled.
US11385761B2
In one embodiment, a method of generating a computer-generated reality (CGR) file includes receiving, via one or more input devices, user input generating a computer-generated reality (CGR) scene, a user input associating an anchor with the CGR scene, user input associating one or more CGR objects with the CGR scene, wherein the CGR objects are to be displayed in association with the anchor, and user input associating a behavior with the CGR scene, wherein the behavior includes one or more triggers and actions and wherein the actions are performed in response to detecting any of the triggers. The method includes generating a CGR file including data regarding the CGR scene, the CGR file including data regarding the anchor, the CGR objects, and the behavior.
US11385750B2
The present application provides a touch substrate, a method of manufacturing a touch substrate and a touch apparatus. The touch substrate includes a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes intersecting with each other. Each of at least part of the plurality of first touch electrodes includes a plurality of first electrodes disposed along a first direction and a first connection part connecting adjacent first electrodes. The first connection part includes at least one first connection line extending along the first direction and configured to connect the two first electrodes adjacent in the first direction. The first connection line has a curved line shape.
US11385749B2
Discussed is a touch display device having an antenna disposed in a panel, thereby improving product reliability while reducing manufacturing cost. The touch display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels disposed in an active area, an encapsulation unit disposed on the display unit, the encapsulation unit being configured to seal the plurality of pixels, a touch sensor unit including a plurality of touch sensors disposed on the encapsulation unit, an antenna pattern disposed at an edge on the touch sensor unit in the state in which a planarization layer is interposed therebetween, the antenna pattern not overlapping a touch electrode and a touch routing line included in the touch sensor unit, and a ground plane disposed in an identical layer to any one metal layer belonging to the display unit, the ground plane overlapping the antenna pattern.
US11385746B2
The present disclosure relates to an electroluminescent device, a touch panel and a touch display device. The electroluminescent device includes: an array substrate, a first electrode layer, an electroluminescent layer and a second electrode layer. The electroluminescent device further includes a force sensing layer electrically coupled to the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; wherein the force sensing layer is a strain resistance material layer which outputs a voltage signal under driving of a power supply voltage provided by the first and second electrode layers.
US11385743B2
Provided is a light-transmitting conducive laminate which is moldable and has good designability. A light-transmitting conductive laminate is provided in which at least a surface skin material and a transparent conductive base are sequentially laminated from the input side.
US11385740B2
An organic light-emitting display panel and a method for driving the same, and a display device are provided. The organic light-emitting display panel includes a light-emitting driving circuit and a touch signal driving circuit. The light-emitting driving circuit is configured to provide, within a scanning duration of each frame, a light-emitting control signal having b1 light-emitting cycles and a duty cycle of a1 to each row of pixels. A display area scanning duration includes at least one touch duration during which the touch signal driving circuit provides a touch signal to the display panel and the number of rows of the light-emitting pixel-rows of the display panel remains unchanged.
US11385735B2
An in-cell touch-type display panel includes an array substrate divided into a display area, a bezel area, and a pad area, gate lines, data lines and touch lines disposed in the display area of the array substrate, a data pad and a touch pad disposed in the pad area of the array substrate, and data link lines connecting the data lines to the data pad and the size of a bezel can be reduced by applying a dual link to data link lines using gate line metal and data line metal.
US11385734B2
A display device includes a first display panel including N input/output (I/O) pads [I/O1 to I/ON] at a first side of the display device. A first display driver is operatively connected to the N I/O pads of the first display panel at the first side of the display device. A second display panel includes the N I/O pads at the first side of the display device. I/O pads I/O1+M and I/ON−M are a same type of I/O pad for M=0 to M=P for the first display panel and the second display panel. A second display driver, having a same configuration as the first display driver is operatively connected to the N I/O pads of the second display panel at the first side of the display device. A hinge pivotably connects the first display panel to the second display panel.
US11385729B2
A sensor controller can be used with both a first stylus that operates in a first communication mode and a second stylus that operates in a second communication mode. The sensor controller performs a dual mode discovery process in which a first discovery process and a second discovery process are alternately performed. During the first discovery process, the sensor controller transmits a search signal for detecting the first stylus. During the second discovery process, the sensor controller performs processing to detect a signal transmitted by the second stylus. When a response to the search signal that is transmitted by the first stylus is detected, an operating mode of the sensor controller is determined to be the first mode. When the signal transmitted by second stylus is detected, the operating mode of the sensor controller is determined to be the second mode.
US11385720B2
A picture selection method of projection touch for a projection touch system is provided. The projection touch system includes an image projection module, a sensing module, an image recognition module including at least one camera module and a processing unit. The picture selection method includes: the sensing module sensing and transferring a first projection coordinate on the target picture at a first time point of a sensing action; the sensing module sensing and transferring a second projection coordinate on the target picture at a second time point of the sensing action; the processing unit selecting at least one to-be-selected picture in the target picture based on the first and second projection coordinates and generating a set of selected image data; and the processing unit controlling the selected image data projected by the image projection module to move to a designated position according to a movement instruction of the user.
US11385719B2
The present disclosure relates to a device including electrostatic brakes providing haptic kinaesthetic feedback to a user in e.g. assistive, rehabilitation or virtual reality scenarios, as well as tele-manipulation.
US11385717B2
A vehicle input device includes: an interior panel that is an opaque plate-shaped member; and multiple fixing portions for fixing the interior panel to a vehicle. In the interior panel, an operation area portion in which multiple symbols indicating multiple control contents and a non-operation area portion are set. On a rear surface side of the operation area portion, a press sensor for detecting a press operation on a switch portion and a vibrator that vibrates the operation area portion are placed. The switch portion is a portion in which the multiple symbols are placed. The vehicle input device includes a controller that specifies an operation content and causes the vibrator to vibrate. The multiple fixing portions are placed in the non-operation area portion and are not placed in the operation area portion.
US11385714B2
There is provided a magnetic deformable member that is deformable upon application of magnetism, and that has a front surface that projects toward the side opposite to a magnet when such a magnet is placed. The front surface provides variations in tactile feel or viewability for humans by providing a soft tactile feel. A magnetic deformable member includes: a flexible sheet; a back plate made of a hard material and stacked on the flexible sheet; a gel charged inside a space between the flexible sheet and the back plate; and a magnetic member having an annular shape as viewed in plan in a direction that is perpendicular to a front surface of the flexible sheet and having a length in the perpendicular direction. The magnetic member is secured to the flexible sheet, and disposed in the gel.
US11385710B2
A geometric parameter measurement method and a device thereof, an augmented reality device, and a storage medium are provided. The geometric parameter measurement method includes: acquiring a left eye image and a right eye image upon a user gazing at a target object, and determining a left eye sight line and a right eye sight line based on the left eye image and the right eye image, which images are acquired upon the user gazing at the target object; determining, according to the left eye sight line and the right eye sight line, a convergence point of the left eye sight line and the right eye sight line; and calculating geometric parameters of the target object in a case where the convergence point coincides with a desired position on the target object.
US11385707B2
A power-supply detection-circuit control method is a method for a first microcomputer to control operation of a power-supply detection circuit, the first microcomputer being connected to the power-supply detection circuit and controlling a fan motor, the power-supply detection circuit detecting a voltage to be applied from a power supply to the fan motor, wherein the first microcomputer switches the power-supply detection circuit between an operating state and a non-operating state on the basis of information indicating whether a predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11385701B2
Provided are a power-on processing method and apparatus of a terminal device, and a terminal device, and the method includes: detecting whether a fingerprint input operation is performed on the fingerprint device, when the operating system of the terminal device is in a non-working state; controlling the fingerprint device to collect fingerprint data corresponding to the fingerprint input operation when it is detected that the fingerprint input operation is performed on the fingerprint device; detecting whether the fingerprint input operation triggers the power button, when it is detected that the fingerprint input operation is performed on the fingerprint device; and transmitting the fingerprint data collected by the fingerprint device to the operating system for security verification, when it is detected that the fingerprint input operation triggers the power button.
US11385699B2
An interface device for a processing unit, allowing a plurality of circuits to be connected to a single input port of the processing unit, capable of acquiring a state value of a circuit of the plurality of circuits, when the circuit is biased, including a plurality, of the same cardinal number, of power sources, each power source being associated with a circuit of the plurality of circuits and capable of biasing same, a switch capable of selectively connecting a single circuit of the plurality of circuits to the associated power source, in such a way as to bias the circuit, and of connecting all of the other circuits to ground, the selection of the biased circuit being controlled by a set of at least one output port of the processing unit.
US11385693B2
In an embodiment, a local memory that is dedicated to one or more hardware accelerators is divided into a plurality of independently powerable sections. That is, one or more of the sections may be powered on while other ones of the plurality of sections are powered off. The hardware accelerators receive instruction words from one or more central processing units (CPUs). The instruction words may include a field that specifies an amount of the memory that is used when processing the first instruction word, and the power control circuit may be configured to power a subset of the plurality of sections to provide sufficient memory for the instruction word based on the field, while one or more of the plurality of sections are powered off.
US11385692B2
A remote automatic control power supply system is disclosed, comprising a power supply control device and an electronic device having a control circuit, in which the power supply control device is configured to control whether the power supply is to be outputted, and the control circuit can set the GPS coordinate and the starting distance value close to the power supply control device; afterwards, it is possible to operate the control circuit via the backend of the electronic device such that, when the distance between the real-time GPS coordinate of the electronic device and the GPS coordinate of the power supply control device is equivalent to the starting distance value, the control circuit can transmit a power control signal to the power supply control device thereby allowing the power supplying control device to output the electric power to the receiving end.
US11385685B2
A supporting layer, a display device and a manufacture method of the display device are provided by the present application. The display device includes: a flexible screen device and a supporting layer. The flexible screen device is located on a side of the supporting layer, and the supporting layer is provided with at least one hollowed-out area for releasing an impact force when the flexible screen device is subjected to the impact force. In embodiments of the present application, by attaching a supporting layer with a plurality of hollowed-out areas to a flexible screen device, an impact force can be dispersed and buffered when the flexible screen device is impacted by a heavy object, damage to display components due to stress concentration can be avoided, thereby avoiding malfunction or failure of the flexible screen device.
US11385677B2
A clock data recovery circuit includes a deglitch filter circuit and a timer circuit. The deglitch filter circuit is configured to remove pulses of less than a predetermined duration from a data signal to produce a deglitched data signal. The timer circuit is coupled to the deglitch filter, and is configured to compare a duration of a pulse of the deglitched data signal to a threshold duration, and identify the pulse as representing a logic one based on the duration of the pulse exceeding the threshold duration.
US11385676B2
Single-counter, multi-trigger systems and methods in communication systems consolidate tracking of multiple trigger events into a single counter in place of plural counters. The single counter may track multiple trigger events for a single triggered element. Likewise, the single counter may track trigger events for a plurality of triggered elements. By consolidating tracking of trigger events with reference to a single counter, the size of the circuit may be reduced and power savings may be achieved.
US11385661B1
A gas pressure regulating device is provided which comprises a housing, in which a first mounting cavity for installing a level-1 depressurization mechanism and a second mounting cavity for installing a level-2 depressurization mechanism are provided in sequence along the air intake direction; the level-1 depressurization mechanism comprises a sliding sleeve, and a mounting tubing which is communicated with the gas inlet is formed inside the first mounting cavity, and the sliding sleeve is slidably assembled between an outer wall of the mounting tubing and an inner wall of the first mounting cavity; the other end of the sliding sleeve is provided with a gas discharge orifice and a sealing gasket, and the gas inlet connector is in communication with the first mounting cavity through the gas discharge orifice; the sliding sleeve slides along the axial direction to adjust the openness of the gas outlet to realize the level-1 depressurization. The gas pressure regulating device provided comprising two levels of depressurization mechanisms, which is simple in structure and fewer in parts. Further, the device is capable of effectively reducing the risk of occurrence of dangerous accidents such as product leakage due to failure of parts, thereby effectively guaranteeing stability and accuracy of pressure regulation performance.
US11385643B2
An artificial intelligence (AI) moving agent is provided. The AI moving agent includes a traveling actuator configured to drive the artificial intelligence moving agent, at least one sensor configured to obtain data for determining an occupied region, and at least one processor configured to determine an occupied region of one or more objects based on the data, and obtain an adjustment zone by resetting a restricted zone set by a user based on the occupied region of the one or more objects.
US11385642B2
Techniques relating to training a model for detecting that a vehicle is likely to perform a cut-in maneuver are described. Computing device(s) can receive log data associated with vehicles in an environment and can detect an event in the log data, wherein an event corresponds to a cut-in maneuver performed by a vehicle. In an example, the computing device(s) can generate training data based at least in part on converting a portion of the log data that corresponds to the event into a top-down representation of the environment and inputting the training data into a model, wherein the model is trained to output an indication of whether another vehicle is likely to perform another cut-in maneuver.
US11385641B2
Provided an information processing device that is capable of switching between a state in which a device is carried and a state in which the device is not carried in a more suitable form in accordance with a state or situation in which the device is used. The information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires information on a user and a controller that executes a control process for moving a device that can be carried by the user so that the device changes between a carry state in which the device is carried by the user and a non-carry state in which the device is not carried by the user on the basis of the information on the user.
US11385640B2
One embodiment describes a control system in an automation system including a first portion located at a first vehicle, which includes a first autonomous module that autonomously controls operation of the first vehicle to perform operations in a first area based at least in part on a first target operation result while the first portion is in an autonomous mode; and a second portion located at a second vehicle, in which the second portion includes a second autonomous module that autonomously controls operation of the second vehicle to perform operations in a second area based at least in part on a second target operation result while the second portion is in the autonomous mode and a first command module that determines the first target operation result and the second target operation result based at least in part on a global plan that indicates a total target operation result.
US11385639B2
An automatic driving system includes an electronic control device configured to: detect a driving operation input amount during an automatic driving control for a vehicle; determine whether the driver is able to start manual driving during the automatic driving control for the vehicle; output a signal for performing switching from automatic driving to the manual driving based on a result of a comparison between the driving operation input amount and a driving switching threshold that is a threshold for the switching from the automatic driving to the manual driving; set the driving switching threshold to a first driving switching threshold when it is determined that the driver is able to start the manual driving; and set the driving switching threshold to a second driving switching threshold exceeding the first driving switching threshold when it is determined that the driver is not able to start the manual driving.
US11385635B2
Embodiments provide for autonomous drone play and directional alignment by in response to receiving a command for a remotely controlled device to perform a behavior, monitoring a first series of actions performed by the remotely controlled device that comprise the behavior; receiving feedback related to how the remotely controlled device performs the behavior, wherein the feedback is received from at least one of a user, a second device, and environmental sensors; updating, according to the feedback, a machine learning model used by the remotely controlled device to produce a second, different series of actions to perform the behavior; and in response to receiving a subsequent command to perform the behavior, instructing the remotely controlled device to perform the second series of actions.
US11385627B2
A semiconductor fabrication scheduling method includes creating a load scheduling data schema including facility data of product lots to be dispatched to a plurality of workstations; generating a load schedule profile using a load-balancing model and based on the load scheduling data schema, wherein the load-balancing model includes one or more objective functions and there is at least one weight factor in an objective function; generating a current load schedule based on the load schedule profile; dispatching the product lots to the plurality of workstations using the current load schedule to complete fabrication of the product lots; obtaining a set of current key performance indicators (KPIs) of the completed fabrication of the product lots; and automatically adjusting the weight factors of the objective functions of the load-balancing model based on the current KPIs using a big-data architecture to generate a next load schedule for next cycle of fabrication.
US11385624B2
An additive manufacturing apparatus includes an additive manufacturing engine and an input to receive a plurality of part files to create a plurality of parts. Each part file includes a description of a part to be created by the additive manufacturing engine. A processor interprets a part file to read the description of the part from the part file, stores at least a portion of the description of the part, and repeats the interpretation and storing for each of the received part files. A job composer generates a manufacturing job using the stored descriptions and using characteristics of the additive manufacturing engine, and provides the generated manufacturing job to the additive manufacturing engine.
US11385623B2
System and methods for data collection, processing, and utilization of signals in an industrial environment are disclosed. A data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from a plurality of input sensors communicatively coupled to the data acquisition circuit, a peak detection circuit to determine at least one peak value in response to the plurality of detection values, a peak response circuit to select at least one detection value in response to the at least one peak value, a communication circuit to communicate the at least one selected detection value to a remote server, and a monitoring application on the remote server to receive the at least one selected detection value, jointly analyze received detection values and recommend an action in response are disclosed herein.
US11385620B2
A method for operating an automation system comprising at least one field device associated to a local control device is provided. The method comprises: controlling an operation of the field device based on control data generated by the local control device; receiving monitoring data describing the controlled operation of the field device from the field device; modifying configuration data of the local control device based on the monitoring data; generating upload data comprising information about the modification of the configuration data and/or about changes in the operation of the field device resulting from the modification of the configuration data; in the local control device and/or in a central control device, deleting, encrypting and/or masking specified information from the upload data to generate modified upload data; and providing the modified upload data for use by another local control device.
US11385618B2
Methods, devices, and systems related to process control in manufacturing are described. In an example, a method can include receiving data from a first process control device affixed to a first manufacturing tool of a first type, identifying one or more attributes of the data via a second processing resource of a second process control device affixed to a second manufacturing tool of a second type different from the first type, determining one or more settings for the second manufacturing tool via the second processing resource in response to identifying the one or more attributes of the data, and sending a command including the one or more settings to the second manufacturing tool from the second process control device.
US11385617B2
A diagnostic apparatus includes a context information acquisition unit that acquires context information of operation being performed from a plurality of mechanical apparatuses, a sensing information acquisition unit that acquires physical quantity sensing information sensed by each of sensing units of a target machine and other mechanical apparatuses, a sensing information separation unit that separates the physical quantity information of the target machine and the physical quantity information of the other mechanical apparatuses from each other based on the context information and the sensing information of each of the plurality of mechanical apparatuses, a feature information extraction unit that extracts feature information of the physical quantity information, and an anomaly determination unit that determines, from a model corresponding to the acquired context information and the extracted feature information, whether or not operation of the target machine is normal.
US11385616B2
An actuator of a process control device continuously monitors actuator force and records high force values at each position point by continuously executing a routine in a processor of the actuator. The routine includes receiving from a position sensor a current position value indicating a position of a valve element in the valve, and from a force sensor a current force value indicating a force applied by the actuator. The routine also includes retrieving, from a memory device coupled to the processor, a previous force value measured at the current position, and comparing the current force values for the current position with the previous force value for the current position. If the current force value for the current position exceeds the previous force value for the current position, the routine replaces the previous force value for the current position with the current force value for the current position in memory.
US11385614B2
A driver device comprises a housing and a driving-bit socket in the housing. The driver device may comprise a first guide-leg track on the housing. A first guide leg may be inserted into the first guide leg track. The driver device may also comprise a first guide-leg foot at an end of the first guide leg. The first guide-leg foot may be configured to interface with a surface of the driving recipient. The first guide leg may retract into the first guide-leg track as the driver device drives a driving object into the driving recipient.
US11385610B2
A stage automation system may include a first and second executing program configured to selectively control a first and second actionable mechanism, respectively. The stage automation system may further include a stage automation server configured to: receive, from the first executing program, a distributed program object announcement including a set of one or more time-stamped variables associated with the first actionable mechanism; transmit a distributed program object announcement to the second executing program; receive one or more data packets from the second executing program; adjust at least one time-stamped variable of the distributed program object based on the one or more received data packets; and transmit one or more data packets to the first executing program to cause the first executing program to adjust the at least one time-stamped variable of the distributed program object associated with the first actionable mechanism.
US11385608B2
A big data network or system for a process control system or plant includes a big data apparatus including a data storage area configured to store, using a common data schema, multiple types of process data and/or plant data (such as configuration and real-time data) that is used in, generated by or received by the process control system, and one or more data receiver computing devices to receive the data from multiple nodes or devices. The data may be cached and time-stamped at the nodes and streamed to the big data apparatus for storage. The process control system big data system provides services and/or data analyses to automatically or manually discover prescriptive and/or predictive knowledge, and to determine, based on the discovered knowledge, changes and/or additions to the process control system and to the set of services and/or analyses to optimize the process control system or plant.
US11385602B2
A system control method includes receiving a control task and randomly selecting a chromosome from an evolution pool according to the control task. The selected chromosome is decoded to obtain (N+1) ensemble policies, where the chromosome includes (N+1) gene fragments, and where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1. Each gene fragment can uniquely correspond to an ensemble policy, and each ensemble policy can uniquely correspond to a preset function. One ensemble policy is used for assigning a weight to a preset function that uniquely corresponds to the ensemble policy. The evolution pool can maintain two or more chromosomes. An ensemble calculation is performed according to weights assigned by the (N+1) ensemble policies to obtain an ensemble control output. A control signal is generated according to the ensemble control output, where the control signal is used for performing system control.
US11385601B2
A wrist-wearable device comprises a module connector for enabling the connection of modules while the wrist-wearable device remains actively worn by a user. Several connectors can be devised following a similar set of rules that provide mechanical, electrical and possibly sealing connectivity between a wrist-wearable device and a module while still being operable with one hand by their users. Locking features and mechanisms and corresponding non-trivial, yet one-hand operable unlocking mechanisms for module release can be used to secure modules against wrist-wearable devices. Such a connector system as applied to a watch enables watch functionality to be extended and/or enhanced without requiring replacement of the watch itself while still offering users an effective user experience that enables them to connect and disconnect modules throughout the day without having to take their watch off.
US11385595B2
Disclosed are a refractive optical screen and a floating hologram system using the same. The refractive optical screen is a refractive optical screen which refracts incident light beams and adjusts a travelling direction of the light beams, and includes a prism array in which a plurality of prisms refracting one or more light beams toward a viewing direction of a viewer located at the front side of the refractive optical screen is arranged in a line, and one or more virtual images generated by the one or more refracted light beams simultaneously form a floating hologram arranged in the viewing direction.
US11385594B2
A holographic display with an illumination device, an enlarging unit and a light modulator. The illumination device includes at least one light source and a light collimation unit, the light collimation unit collimates the light of the at least one light source and generates a light wave field of the light that is emitted by the light source with a specifiable angular spectrum of plane waves, the enlarging unit is disposed downstream of the light collimation unit, seen in the direction of light propagation, where the enlarging unit includes a transmissive volume hologram realising an anamorphic broadening of the light wave field due to a transmissive interaction of the light wave field with the volume hologram, and the light modulator is disposed upstream or downstream of the anamorphic enlarging unit, seen in the direction of light propagation.
US11385593B2
A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes a rotatable photosensitive drum; a rotatable developing roller configured to develop image formed on the drum, the developing roller being capable of contacting to and spacing from the drum; an urging force receiving portion configured to receive, from a main assembly side urging member, an urging force for spacing the developing roller from the drum; a cartridge side drive transmission member capable of the coupling with a main assembly side drive transmission member and configured to receive, from the main assembly side drive transmission member, a rotational force for rotating the developing roller; and a decoupling member capable of urging the cartridge side drive transmission member by the urging force received by the urging force receiving portion to decouple the cartridge side drive transmission member from the main assembly side drive transmission member.
US11385592B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a housing having an opening; a drawer movable, through the opening, between a housing position in which the drawer is housed in the housing and a drawn position in which the drawer is drawn from the housing; a first drum cartridge including a first photosensitive drum, and mountable to and removable from the drawer; a first developing cartridge including a first developing roller, and mountable to and removable from the first drum cartridge; and a transfer device configured to transfer toner on the first photosensitive drum to a sheet and located above the first drum cartridge in a state where the first drum cartridge is mounted to the drawer and the drawer is located in the housing position. In a state where the first drum cartridge is removed from the drawer, the first developing cartridge is mountable to and removable from the first drum cartridge.
US11385581B1
A heat generating roller includes a base member made of metal, a heat generating portion made of a material that generates heat when energized, and an insulating portion provided between the base member and the heat generating portion and that electrically insulates the base member and the heat generating portion from each other, the insulating portion being made of poly-ether-ether-ketone resin.
US11385577B2
A transport device includes: a first nipping part having an outer surface; a second nipping part having an outer surface, the second nipping part being configured to form, with the first nipping part, a nip region in which a recording medium is nipped by bringing the outer surface of the second nipping part into contact with the outer surface of the first nipping part, the second nipping part being relatively movable between a first position at which a distance from the second nipping part to the first nipping part is a first distance at which the nip region is formed and a second position at which the distance from the second nipping part to the first nipping part is longer than the first distance; a transport part including a holder that holds a front end side of the recording medium, the transport part being configured to move the holder to transport the recording medium to pass through the nip region together with the holder while the recording medium is being held by the holder; and a moving mechanism configured to relatively move the second nipping part such that a middle point of a period from when a relative movement of the second nipping part from the first position to the second position is started before a holding position of the recording medium by the holder enters the nip region to when the second nipping part is relatively moved to the first position after the holding position enters the nip region precedes a middle point of a period during which the holding position passes through the nip region.
US11385563B2
A developing cartridge includes: a developing roller rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction; a casing; a first shaft extending in the first direction and movable in the first direction between a first position and a second position; a first inclined surface movable together with the first shaft; a second shaft extending in the first direction and movable in the first direction between a third position and a fourth position; a second inclined surface movable together with the second shaft; and a link mechanism connecting the first shaft to the second shaft. The link mechanism shifts to a first state to move the second shaft to the third position when the first shaft is at the first position. The link mechanism shifts to a second state to move the second shaft to the fourth position when the first shaft is at the second position.
US11385554B2
Disclosed is a method of determining a characteristic of interest, in particular focus, relating to a structure on a substrate formed by a lithographic process, and an associated patterning device and lithographic system. The method comprises forming a modified substrate feature on the substrate using a corresponding modified reticle feature on a patterning device, the modified substrate feature being formed for a primary function other than metrology, more specifically for providing a support for a vertically integrated structure. The modified reticle feature is such that said modified substrate feature is formed with a geometry dependent on the characteristic of interest during formation. The modified substrate feature can be measured to determine said characteristic of interest.
US11385552B2
An overlay metrology target (T) is formed by a lithographic process. A first image (740(0)) of the target structure is obtained using with illuminating radiation having a first angular distribution, the first image being formed using radiation diffracted in a first direction (X) and radiation diffracted in a second direction (Y). A second image (740(R)) of the target structure using illuminating radiation having a second angular illumination distribution which the same as the first angular distribution, but rotated 90 degrees. The first image and the second image can be used together so as to discriminate between radiation diffracted in the first direction and radiation diffracted in the second direction by the same part of the target structure. This discrimination allows overlay and other asymmetry-related properties to be measured independently in X and Y, even in the presence of two-dimensional structures within the same part of the target structure.
US11385550B2
In a lithographic process, product units such as semiconductor wafers are subjected to lithographic patterning operations and chemical and physical processing operations. Alignment data or other measurements are made at stages during the performance of the process to obtain object data representing positional deviation or other parameters measured at points spatially distributed across each unit. This object data is used to obtain diagnostic information by performing a multivariate analysis to decompose a set of vectors representing the units in the multidimensional space into one or more component vectors. Diagnostic information about the industrial process is extracted using the component vectors. The performance of the industrial process for subsequent product units can be controlled based on the extracted diagnostic information.
US11385547B2
An extraction body for a support apparatus of a lithographic apparatus. The support apparatus is configured to support an object. The extraction body is formed with an opening at a surface thereof. The opening extends within the extraction body forming a first passageway. The first passageway is configured to fluidly communicate an extraction channel in the extraction body to liquid between the surface and the object. A first pressure in the extraction channel is less than ambient pressure. At least a part of the first passageway is sized and dimensioned such that when the liquid enters the first passageway via the opening, a second pressure in the first passageway associated with surface tension of the liquid is lower than the first pressure such that at least a portion of the liquid is retained in the first passageway.
US11385540B2
The present application relates to an apparatus for determining a position of at least one element on a photolithographic mask, said apparatus comprising: (a) at least one scanning particle microscope comprising a first reference object, wherein the first reference object is disposed on the scanning particle microscope in such a way that the scanning particle microscope can be used to determine a relative position of the at least one element on the photolithographic mask relative to the first reference object; and (b) at least one distance measuring device, which is embodied to determine a distance between the first reference object and a second reference object, wherein there is a relationship between the second reference object and the photolithographic mask.
US11385537B2
A phase shift mask includes a transparent substrate and light-shielding portions. The light-shielding portions include a first light-shielding portion, and over one side of it, a first compensating light-shielding portion, which has a first distance to the first light-shielding portion and a first width smaller than a resolution of an exposing machine utilized for an exposure process using the phase shift mask. The light-shielding portions can further include a second compensating light-shielding portion, having a second distance to another side of the first light-shielding portion and a second width smaller than the resolution of the exposing machine. The first distance and the second distance respectively allow the first and the second compensating light-shielding portion to reduce an exposure at a region corresponding to two sides of the first light-shielding portion during the exposure process. A method manufacturing an electronic component utilizing the phase shift mask is also provided.
US11385532B2
A projection system includes a first optical system including a first lens, and a second optical system including an optical element and disposed at the enlargement side of the first optical system. The first lens is disposed in a position closest to the enlargement side in the first optical system. The optical element has a first transmissive surface, a first reflection surface, a second reflection surface, and a second transmissive surface. The second reflection surface is disposed between the first reflection surface and a first surface of the first lens that is a surface on the enlargement side in a direction along a first optical axis of the first optical system. The second transmissive surface is disposed at a side opposite a side where the first optical system is located with respect to the second reflection surface in the direction.
US11385530B2
A projecting method includes: outputting, by a projection display apparatus, a projected image to a projection screen through a shifting device, wherein the projected image includes multiple frames; outputting, by a processing circuit, a control signal to drive the shifting device to rotate multiple first angles along a first axis or to rotate multiple second angles along a second axis, wherein combination of the first and the second angles corresponds to multiple projected positions; and when the projection display apparatus outputs multiple frames sequentially, rotating the shifting device sequentially according to the control signal to make multiple frames projected to the corresponding one of projected positions, wherein a number of the first angles or the second angles is at least four.
US11385524B2
A technique reduces images unintended by the user captured with an electronic device by, for example, unauthorized access or an accidental operation performed by the user. An electronic device includes a camera module including a camera drive that activates or deactivates a camera function, a blade that opens or closes a lens aperture in the camera module, a blade drive that drives an actuator to open or close the blade, a controller that controls the camera drive and the blade drive, and a switch that transmits, to the controller, an opening signal or a closing signal for forcibly driving the blade drive independently of the camera drive. The controller activates the camera function in the camera drive in response to the opening signal transmitted from the switch.
US11385519B2
A display device includes: a display panel having a central part and a peripheral part surrounding the central part, the display panel comprising a plurality of pixels; and a lens array on the display panel, wherein: the lens array comprises a first lens on the central part and a second lens on the peripheral part; a first focal length of the first lens is smaller than a second focal length of the second lens; and each of the first lens and the second lens overlaps at least two pixels among the plurality of pixels.
US11385512B2
To form a sufficiently large storage capacitor, a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal held between the first substrate and the second substrate, the liquid crystal display panel having multiple pixels arranged in matrix. The first substrate has, in a transmissive display area provided in each of the pixels, a laminated structure containing a first transparent electrode, a first insulating film, a second transparent electrode, a second insulating film, and a third transparent electrode which are laminated in this order. The first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a first storage capacitor through the first insulating film, and the second transparent electrode and the third transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a second storage capacitor through the second insulating film.
US11385507B2
According to one embodiment, an electro-optical device includes a panel, a sealant, a liquid crystal layer, a light source and a reflective layer. The panel includes first and second transparent substrates, an electro-optical area and a peripheral area. The seal is provided in the peripheral area and adheres the substrates. The liquid crystal layer contains a polymer liquid crystal composition. The light source opposes a side surface of the first or second substrates. The reflective layer is between the substrates. The panel includes a first edge, and the reflective layer overlaps a portion of the sealant, located along the first edge.
US11385506B2
A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display apparatus are provided. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a sealant on the base substrate; and a contact layer between the base substrate and the sealant, the contact layer being in contact with the sealant. In the display substrate, a contact layer surface of the contact layer, which is away from the base substrate (100A), is not flat at a contact position where the contact layer (50) is in contact with the sealant (300).
US11385496B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display panel and a display device, including: a liquid crystal panel, a light control panel, and a polarizer located on a surface of the liquid crystal panel away from the light control panel that are stacked, in which the polarizer includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in contact with the liquid crystal panel, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a light adjustment structure configured to adjust a propagation path of light emitted from the liquid crystal panel by means of refraction or total reflection. The liquid crystal display panel provided by the present disclosure can improve or even eliminate the rainbow pattern phenomenon, and improve the display quality of the liquid crystal display panel.
US11385495B2
A method of manufacturing a display device includes disposing a polarizing layer on one surface of a display panel including a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode, cutting the polarizing layer using a first laser beam so that a step between a side surface of the polarizing layer and a side surface of the display panel is smaller than a predetermined value, attaching a conductive film to the side surface of the display panel, and patterning the conductive film using a second laser beam.
US11385492B2
A display apparatus includes a display, a plate-like body, and a gap portion. The display is configured to display an image and having a front surface. The plate-like body is provided along the front surface of the display and configured to transmit image light emitted from the front surface of the display. The gap portion is formed between the front surface of the display and the plate-like body and configured to switch between a state filled with a fluid and a state where the fluid is discharged.
US11385487B2
A display module and a glue dispensing method thereof are provided. The display module includes a display panel and a backlight module, and a polarizer is disposed between the display panel and the backlight module. The display module includes a blind hole for under-screen camera lighting in a display area, and the display panel includes a light transmission region and a light non-transmission region which are disposed corresponding to the blind hole. An aperture of the polarizer corresponding to the blind hole is reduced and blackened at an edge, thereby omitting the first glue dispensing process in the blind hole of the conventional structures.
US11385481B1
Eyewear providing dynamic focus. The eyewear includes two lenses, a mechanism for detecting a near object viewed by a user of the eyewear and a mechanism for dynamically changing a focus of the lenses. The lenses change focus to a near focus when a near object is detected. The eyewear may be eyeglasses or contact lenses.
US11385477B2
Method for designing a pair of ophthalmic lenses and device for optical measurements. The method comprises: determining a distance and placing an object (100) at said distance; placing a frame (4) of reference on the user; for each eye: keeping it uncovered and covering the other eye; placing in front of the eye a screen (5, 6) with a through hole (520, 620); shifting the position of the hole (520, 620) until the user sees said object (100) looking through the hole (520, 620), so that said object (100) is centred in the field of view available; uncovering both eyes; adjusting the positions of the holes (520, 620), to obtain binocular vision; and designing each lens (510, 610) according to said position. The device (1) comprises a frame (2) to which, for each eye, a first plate (51, 61) having a vertical groove (53, 63) and a second plate (52, 62) having a horizontal groove (54, 64) are attached and can be shifted. So that, when the grooves overlap, a pinhole (55, 65) is formed.
US11385469B2
A wearable display apparatus has a support that mounts the display apparatus against the head of a viewer; a ball joint that is fitted within the support and coupled to a clamp that extends from the support; a slide that is translatable within the clamp in a first direction and that holds a display module for forming the display image; and a display coupled to the display module and rotatable in a first arc about a vertical axis that extends in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction and further rotatable in a second arc about a horizontal axis that is substantially orthogonal to the vertical axis.
US11385463B1
An optical system includes a transparent display, which has a first side configured to be positioned in proximity to an eye of an observer and a second side opposite the first side, and which is configured to project an image into the eye. An image generator is configured to generate a sequence of images during respective display intervals, which are interleaved with blanking intervals, and to transmit the images to the transparent display for projection into the eye. A shutter is positioned on the second side of the display and having a first state in which the shutter blocks optical radiation and a second state in which the shutter transmits optical radiation. A controller drives the image generator and the shutter so that the shutter operates in the first state during the display intervals and in the second state during the blanking intervals.
US11385462B2
A head-up display device includes: an illumination light source unit configured to emit illumination light; an image forming unit configured to form the image by partial transmission of the illumination light and to emit the image as the display light; and an anisotropic diffusion unit disposed on an optical path between the illumination light source unit and the image forming unit to diffuse the illumination light at an anisotropic diffusion angle. When the image is displayed as a virtual image, the image is defined to have an image up-down axis in a direction along an up-down direction of the vehicle and an image left-right axis perpendicular to the image up-down axis. The diffusion angle in the anisotropic diffusion unit is larger in a direction corresponding to the image left-right axis than in a direction corresponding to the image up-down axis.
US11385460B2
A head-up display system includes a housing having an interior surface and defining a cavity configured for receiving a ray of light. The head-up display system also includes a lens disposed within the cavity and configured for reflecting the ray of light towards the interior surface. Further, the head-up display system includes a first cured film formed from a coating composition, disposed on the interior surface, and configured for absorbing a ray of light within the cavity. The head-up display system also includes a second deposited film formed by an ionized gas treatment of the first cured film. The second deposited film is configured for transmitting the ray of light to the first cured film to thereby minimize scatter of the ray of light within the cavity. A device including the head-up display system is also described.
US11385458B2
An optical device comprises a printed circuit board comprising a rigid main portion and comprising at least one flexible portion arranged at the periphery of the rigid main portion, the rigid main portion including an electronic image-capture circuit; a lens holder comprising at least one optical lens, the lens holder comprising a wall forming a cavity extending along the optical axis of the device from its top end to its bottom end, the bottom end being mounted on the rigid main portion of the printed circuit board so as to align, along the optical axis of the device, the electronic image-capture circuit and the optical lens; at least one heating element arranged on the flexible portion of the printed circuit board, the flexible portion of the printed circuit board being arranged by bearing directly against the wall of the lens holder.
US11385455B2
An optical module includes a mirror unit having a movable mirror portion, a magnet portion configured to generate a magnetic field acting on the movable mirror portion, and a package accommodating the magnet portion. The magnet portion has a Halbach structure including a first magnet applied with a force in a first direction, and a second magnet applied with a force in a second direction. The package has a bottom walls portion, a side wall portion, and a restriction portion configured to restrict movement of the second magnet in the second direction. The movable mirror portion is disposed in a space formed by the restriction portion.
US11385449B2
The present invention relates to a galvanometer scanner, and the galvanometer scanner includes a mirror mounting shaft having a portion inserted into a shaft insertion opening of a housing which includes the shaft insertion opening on one surface thereof and has contents contained therein; and a mirror mounted at the mirror mounting shaft and positioned inside the housing.
US11385448B2
A microscope apparatus includes: a sample setting unit in which a sample is set; an imaging unit configured to image the sample set in the sample setting unit; a housing unit on which the sample setting unit is arranged, and which is configured to internally accommodate the imaging unit; a first light source configured to irradiate light for fluorescence excitation on the sample in the sample setting unit; a first cover configured to be movable to a first position that covers the sample setting unit and a second position that opens the sample setting unit; and a second cover configured to be movable within the first cover; and a second light source arranged in a space covered with the second cover and configured to irradiate light on the sample in the sample setting unit.
US11385426B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include pluggable optical transceiver modules comprising a first interface on a proximate end and eight (8) sockets arranged on a distal end. A first portion of the pluggable optical transceiver module including the proximate end is inserted into a port. A second portion, including the distal end extends outside the port. In one embodiment, an OSFP optical transceiver module include sockets for eight (8) SN or MDC connectors.
US11385413B2
Device for the coaxial connection of fiber-optic cables, comprising a single-piece coupling housing (10) and a single-piece sleeve mount (20), the sleeve mount (20) being designed with at least one latching nose (21) and the coupling housing (10) being designed with at least one latching mount which complements the at least one latching nose (21), wherein the latching mount is designed with at least one latching hook (14) and at least one stop (15).
US11385408B2
Structures for a polarizer and methods of forming a structure for a polarizer. A polarizer includes a first waveguide core and a layer that is positioned adjacent to a side surface of the first waveguide core. The layer is composed of a first material having a permittivity with an imaginary part that ranges from 0 to about 15. A second waveguide core is positioned over the first waveguide core. The second waveguide core is composed of a second material that is different in composition from the first material.
US11385406B2
One example LIDAR device comprises a substrate and a waveguide disposed on the substrate. A first section of the waveguide extends lengthwise on the substrate in a first direction. A second section of the waveguide extends lengthwise on the substrate in a second direction different than the first direction. A third section of the waveguide extends lengthwise on the substrate in a third direction different than the second direction. The second section extends lengthwise between the first section and the second section. The LIDAR device also comprises a light emitter configured to emit light. The waveguide is configured to guide the light inside the first section toward the second section, inside the second section toward the third section, and inside the third section away from the second section.
US11385404B2
Disclosed is a system for and a method of manufacturing of an optical system, including a first optical component, comprising a first waveguide and a carrier substrate, wherein the first optical component is arranged on the carrier substrate. The first optical component comprises a first markup set having a defined position/orientation with respect to the first waveguide, the carrier substrate has a second markup set detectable based on a relative position/orientation of the first and second markup sets when a desired orientation of the first waveguide relative to the carrier substrate is achieved in a reference plane extending parallel to a surface of the carrier substrate.
US11385401B2
The present disclosure relates to a MCF, including a plurality of cores, an outer cladding or tube, diffusion barriers, and claddings. The diffusion barriers and claddings are designed so that unwanted migration of dopants from the inner cladding to the outer cladding or tube is reduced, or that unwanted migration of dopants from the cores to the outer cladding or tube is reduced. The doping levels of the various components of the MCF can be controlled in order to reduce dopant migration. The reduction in dopant gradients reduces the migration of dopants and bubbles to the interfaces between the inner claddings, the outer cladding or tube, and the cores.
US11385400B2
The material stack of the present disclosure can be used for fabricating optical waveguides that are thin and flexible, and that can bend light around small turns. The stack of materials can include a polymer core and a cladding, which together can create a large difference in refractive index. As a result, light can remain within the core even when bent around radii where standard glass fibers could fail.
US11385399B1
An integrated functional multilayer structure includes substrate film, circuitry provided upon the substrate film including a first light source and a monolithic lightguide layer, the lightguide layer includes a first surface and an opposite second surface, the second surface facing the first light source and a portion of the first surface containing, a pre-defined outcoupling area for the light emitted by the first light source and transmitted within the lightguide layer, the lightguide layer further containing a light leakage prohibition region and the attenuation of emitted light effectuated on a direct optical path between the first light source and the outcoupling area is less than the attenuation effectuating on a optical path between the first light source and the light leakage prohibition region. A related method of manufacture is also presented.
US11385392B2
Disclosed herein is a lens of an optical fiber lamp apparatus, which allow light to be entirely collected uniformly on an optical fiber when lighting using the optical fiber to minimize a difference in brightness for each optical fiber, improving quality of lighting through the optical fiber, and an optical fiber lamp apparatus having the same.
US11385391B2
A long polarizer that can achieve the multi-functionalization and high-functionalization of an electronic device, such as an image display apparatus, that shows no variation in quality when provided as a final product, and that is excellent in yield in its production. A polarizer according to an embodiment includes a long resin film containing a dichromatic substance, the polarizer having non-polarization portions arranged in a lengthwise direction and/or a widthwise direction at predetermined intervals, the non-polarization portions including decolored portions formed through partial decoloring.
US11385387B2
A diffractive optical element having, on a surface of a transparent substrate, a plurality of types of regions which provide different phase modulation to an incident light, wherein each of the regions has a microstructure formed with concave and convex portions of which sizes are smaller than the wavelength of the incident light, and wherein in the microstructure, a ratio of the width of the convex portion and the width of the concave portion in the concave and convex portions and the depth of the concave portion are different for each type of region.
US11385383B2
An apparatus includes an optical device that includes a substrate, a first layer of material over the substrate, and a second layer of material comprising an optical coating over the first layer of material. The first layer of material creates a first stress within the optical device that counteracts a second stress within the optical device created by the second layer of material. The optical device may also include a third layer of material positioned between the substrate and the first layer of material. In some cases, the second layer of material creates a compressive stress within the optical device, and the first layer of material creates a tensile stress within the optical device that counteracts the compressive stress within the optical device.
US11385380B2
A millimeter wave security inspection instrument debugging system and a millimeter wave security inspection instrument debugging method, which are used for debugging the imaging definition of a millimeter wave holographic imaging security inspection system. A main control apparatus is used for generating a millimeter wave detection signal and a reference signal. The main control apparatus is also used for, where a millimeter wave transmitting antenna, a millimeter wave receiving antenna and a detected object are respectively located at different relative positions, transmitting the millimeter wave detection signal to the detected object by means of the millimeter wave transmitting antenna, and receiving an echo signal reflected from the detected object by means of the millimeter wave receiving antenna, and then using a holographic image technique to perform three-dimensional imaging according to the reference signal and the echo signal. The main control apparatus can finally obtain a plurality of three-dimensional imaging results, so that the optimal relative positions of the millimeter wave transmitting antenna, the millimeter wave receiving antenna and the detected object can be determined, which results are applied to a millimeter wave holographic imaging security inspection system, thereby improving the imaging definition of the millimeter wave holographic imaging security inspection system.
US11385378B2
Method for security inspection and kit of parts with a detachable single-use inlay for an X-ray tray
This disclosure relates to a method for security inspection of baggage and/or personal items. This disclosure also relates to a kit of parts with a detachable single-use inlay and an X-ray tray of a security check at an airport.
US11385377B2
A shielding structure of the safety inspection equipment includes a first carbon fiber layer, a polyurethane layer and a second carbon fiber layer, which are sequentially stacked to be configured as a shielding channel with two opened ends. The second carbon fiber layer is an outer layer of the shielding channel. The first carbon fiber layer and the second carbon fiber layer are made of carbon fiber materials. The polyurethane layer is made of polyurethane materials.
US11385375B2
A stud finder for detecting ferrous objects hidden within a wall, such as nails and screws, comprising a tray having at least one cavity, a magnet, and a cover. The magnet placed within the cavity and secured by the cover. The magnet is free to move within the cavity when a force, such as gravity or magnetic, is applied. As the stud finder is slid across a wall, a magnet will move within the cavity when it comes into proximity of a ferrous material such as a screw or nail. The movement is caused by magnetic force. The presence of the magnetic force indicates the presence of a screw or nail which also indicates the presence of a stud.
US11385374B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for processing acoustic logging information with automatic dispersion matching. The method comprises obtaining, from an acoustic logging tool, acoustic waveforms from within a borehole, applying dispersion analysis to the acoustic data to extract a slowness-frequency response, calculating a slowness density log of the slowness-frequency response, obtaining an initial shear slowness estimate based on the slowness density, generating a dispersion model comprising model parameters, and performing a dispersion response auto match inversion to minimize the difference between the slowness-frequency response and the dispersion model in order to obtain a final shear slowness estimate.
US11385373B2
A method for determining seismic sensor depths in a body of water includes accepting as input to a computer measurements of seismic signals made by a plurality of seismic sensors disposed in a body of water. A depth increment and a range of sensor depths for correlation of signals from each of the plurality of seismic sensors is defined. In the computer, the input seismic measurements are extrapolated to each depth increment in the range. A depth of each seismic sensor is determined by correlating the seismic signal measurements with depth-extrapolated measurements of the seismic signal measurements.
US11385365B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating a model for detection of seismic events. In this regard, one or more processors may receive from one or more stations located along an underwater optical route, one or more time series of polarization states of a detected light signal during a time period. The one or more processors may transform the one or more time series of polarization states into one or more spectrums in a frequency domain. Seismic activity data for the time period may be received by the one or more processors, where the seismic activity data include one or more seismic events detected in a region at least partially overlapping the underwater optical route. The one or more processors then generate a model for detecting seismic events based on the one or more spectrums and the seismic activity data.
US11385363B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for PET imaging. The system may include a first device and a second device. The first device may include a first scanning channel. The second device may include a second scanning channel connected to the first scanning channel, a heat generating component, and a cooling assembly configured to cool the heat generating component, wherein the cooling assembly may include an inlet chamber and a return chamber, the heat generating component may be closer to a first side of the second device than at least one of the inlet chamber or the return chamber, and the first side of the second device may face the first device.
US11385358B2
An apparatus includes an antenna assembly including an antenna configured to receive a signal and, based on the received signal, generate a first linearly polarized signal at a first feed point and a second linearly polarized signal at a second feed point; and a switching circuit configured to periodically switch between the first feed point and the second feed point to select a polarized signal between the first and second polarized signals at a point in time based on a switching signal.
US11385357B2
A microservice node can store first raw satellite data, associated with a first satellite constellation, in a first electronic file in a first data store, can combine the first electronic file and one or more second electronic files, associated with the first satellite constellation, into a first compressed electronic file, and can store the first compressed electronic file in a second data store. The first raw satellite data and second raw satellite data can be received during a particular time period. The second data store can include a second compressed electronic file that includes third raw satellite data associated with a second satellite constellation. The microservice node can receive a request from a client device, can combine the first compressed electronic file and the second compressed electronic file into a third compressed electronic file based on the request, and can transmit the third compressed electronic file to the client device.
US11385356B2
A spoofing detection system including at least one antenna, a receiver and a controller is provided. The at least one receiver is in communication with the at least one antenna to receive detected satellite signals. The controller is configured to determine raw pseudorange values from the received satellite signals. The controller is further configured to apply at least one first filter on the raw pseudorange values to generate at least an output of first filtered pseudorange values. The controller is also conjured to compare an output of the first filtered pseudorange values with one of the raw pseudorange values and second filtered pseudorange values from a second filter. The controller is further configured to determine if spoofing is present in the received satellite signals based on a determined divergence between the output of first filtered pseudorange values and one of the raw pseudorange values and the second filtered pseudorange values.
US11385351B2
A method of adjusting a detection threshold in a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes determining a first confidence threshold for detecting a first target from multiple targets within a frequency range, wherein the frequency range comprises frequencies corresponding to the targets. The method further includes determining a subset of frequencies within the frequency range for detecting a second target. The second target transmits signals within the subset of frequencies lower than the first confidence threshold. The method further includes adjusting the first confidence threshold to a second confidence threshold at the subset of frequencies for detecting the second target within the subset of frequencies and restoring the second confidence threshold to the first confidence threshold outside the subset of frequencies for detecting the first target.
US11385348B2
A wideband sonar receiver is provided that includes: a selectable bandpass filter adapted to filter a received sonar signal to produce a filtered signal and a correlator adapted to correlate the baseband samples with baseband replica samples to provide a correlated signal. In addition, the wideband sonar receiver may include a shaping filter to shape unshaped received pulses. Finally, a variety of sonar processing algorithms are described with regard to reducing clutter and interference, target detection, and bottom detection.
US11385346B2
In one example, this disclosure is directed to a system configured to detect inclement weather in the travel path of a vehicle, determine a recommended maneuver to avoid the inclement weather, and determine the feasibility of the recommended maneuver with respect to any nearby vehicles.
US11385336B2
A time of flight sensor includes a time of flight (TOF) processor having a digital TOF port, a digital input port, and a digital output port, the TOF processor comprising a phase detector including cyclically rotating demultiplexer (DEMUX), a first summer coupled to a first DEMUX output, a second summer coupled to a second DEMUX output, a third summer coupled to a third DEMUX output, a fourth summer coupled to a fourth DEMUX output, and a phase estimator coupled to outputs of the first summer, the second summer, the third summer and the fourth summer and having a phase estimate output; a driver having a digital driver port coupled to the digital TOF port and a driver output port; and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having an output port coupled to the digital input port of the digital TOF processor.
US11385333B2
Systems and methods are provided for aligning a laser scanning device for measurement of a volume of a container. A method includes: causing an autonomous vehicle coupled to the laser scanning device to move to a location at a known distance from a reference circumference; generating data indicative of locations of points along a portion of the reference circumference; determining, based on the data, an alignment angle by which the autonomous vehicle is to steer such that an axis of the laser scanning device that intersects the container passes through a center axis of the container; causing the autonomous vehicle to steer by the alignment angle, such that the laser scanning device is thereby aligned normal to a tangent plane of a wall of the container; and measuring a plurality of horizontal offsets of the wall relative to the reference circumference for use in determining the volume.
US11385331B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to light detection and ranging. In one aspect, a method comprises providing an apparatus. The apparatus comprises a LiDAR unit and a LiDAR enclosure. The LiDAR enclosure comprises a four-sided container having a square or rectangular cross-section with a first open end and a second open end comprising two opposite ends of the four-sided container. The LiDAR unit is attached to a mounting area inside the four-sided container. A reflective material is disposed on an interior of a second side and a third side of the four-sided container. Laser light is generated with the LiDAR unit. The laser light that has interacted with environment surrounding the LiDAR enclosure and that has been reflected back to the LiDAR unit is detected. The detected laser light is processed to construct an image of the environment surrounding the LiDAR enclosure.
US11385324B2
A system and methodologies for radar target detection for air surveillance and weather surveillance radar. Embodiments enable the ability to combine radar target detection and tracking with weather surveillance in a single polarimetric Phased Array Radar (PAR) system. Structure and software are provided for performing polarization in a non-orthogonal manner when steering an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar off its principal planes.
US11385318B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining transit routes through crowd-sourcing, for determining an estimated time of arrival (ETA) of a vehicle of the transit route at a given location, and for providing predictive reminders to a user for catching a vehicle of the transit route. A server receives signal source information about wireless signal sources detected by user devices, including information about a first wireless signal source detected by some devices. The server determines that the first wireless signal source is moving. The server determines that the first wireless signal source is associated with a public transit route upon determining that the signal source information satisfies one or more selection criteria. The server stores information associating the first wireless signal source with the public transit route as transit movement data corresponding to the public transit route.
US11385316B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for locating a wireless access device relative to a vehicle. The method can include receiving, from a wireless access device, a beacon message at each of two or more antennas positioned within a vehicle and determining, based at least in part on the beacon message received at each of the two or more antennas, a position of the wireless access device relative to the vehicle. One or more systems of the vehicle can be configured based at least in part on the determined position of the wireless access device relative to the vehicle.
US11385315B2
One embodiment is a method including: receiving signals of at least 4 paths from the Tx UE; measuring a ToA, an AoA, an AoD of each of the signals of 4 paths, determining each distance between the Rx UE and each scatter of each 4 paths, each distance between the Rx UE and the Tx UE and a driving direction of the Tx UE, based on the ToA, AoA and AoD; determining a position of the Tx UE based on results of measurement and results of the determination, wherein an assumption that each of x-axis distance and y-axis distance between the Tx UE and Rx UE based on the AoA, AoD and the driving direction of the Tx UE are identical in signal path 1 and signal path p (p=2, 3, 4) is used for determination of the position.
US11385309B1
The present disclosure provides a system for MRI. The system may obtain MRI scan data of a subject by directing an MRI scanner to perform an MRI scan on the subject according to a first gradient waveform. The system may also determine a second gradient waveform based on the first gradient waveform and a gradient waveform determination model. The gradient waveform determination model may have been trained according to a machine learning algorithm. The system may further generate a target reconstruction image of the subject based on the second gradient waveform and the MRI scan data.
US11385306B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a sensor of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with shape anisotropy. In one embodiment, a tunnel magnetoresistive (TMR) based magnetic sensor in a Wheatstone configuration includes at least one magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ). The MTJ includes a free layer having a first edge and a second edge. The free layer has a thickness of about 100 Å or more. The free layer has a width and a height with a width-to-height aspect ratio of about 4:1 or more. The MTJ has a first hard bias element positioned proximate the first edge of the free layer and a second hard bias element positioned proximate the second edge of the free layer.
US11385304B2
A magnetic field measuring apparatus includes a digital FLL circuit including ADC that converts a periodically changing voltage output from a SQUID according to a change in a magnetic field into a digital value, a digital integrator that integrates the digital value output from the ADC, a DAC that converts an integrated value output from the digital integrator into a voltage, a converter that converts the voltage output from the DAC into a current, and a coil that generates the magnetic field received by the SQUID, based on the current output from the converter. A calculating device calculates a digital value indicating a flux quantum based on the digital value output from the ADC when the ADC converts the periodically changing voltage output from the SQUID upon receiving the magnetic field generated by a current that is obtained by converting a voltage generated by a voltage generator.
US11385303B2
A magnetic sensor device includes a conductor that constitutes a coil, and a detection circuit including a plurality of MR elements. The coil includes an upper coil portion. The upper coil portion includes a first conductor portion and a second conductor portion. An average cross-sectional area of the upper coil portion in the first conductor portion of the upper coil portion is smaller than that of the upper coil portion in the second conductor portion. The first conductor portion is located at a position where a first partial magnetic field occurring from the first conductor portion is applied to an MR element.
US11385302B2
A magnet flux absorber of the present invention has a soft magnetic layer having a first surface and a second surface that is a back surface of the first surface, as well as and at least one magnetically pinning portion that faces a part of the first surface of the soft magnetic layer or a part of the second surface of the soft magnetic layer. A region of the soft magnetic layer that faces the magnetically pinning portion is magnetized by the magnetically pinning portion in a direction that is different from a direction in which at least a part of remaining region of the soft magnetic layer is magnetized.
US11385301B2
A sensor device comprises a busbar, a dielectric arranged on the busbar, and a sensor chip arranged on the dielectric, wherein the sensor chip is designed to measure a magnetic field induced by an electric current flowing through the busbar, wherein the surface of the dielectric facing toward the busbar is spaced from the busbar in an area along the entire periphery of the dielectric.
US11385296B2
A computer-implemented method and a battery state estimating system for estimating a battery state of an electrochemical battery, including: weighting the electrical impedance measurements of a provided series of electrical impedance measurements according to a weighting function that is dependent on the index(s) of the series or on the measurement frequency, resulting in at least a series of consecutive elements of the series of measurements, when point-to-point connected in the complex plane of the electrical impedance in a sequence according to the index of the series of measurements, forming at least one loop in the complex plane; calculating a measure of the size of the at least one loop in the complex plane; determining an estimation of a battery state of the electrochemical battery based on the calculated measure of the size of the at least one loop in the complex plane; and outputting the estimation of the battery state.
US11385286B2
A method for controlling a test apparatus, the test apparatus including a test unit in which testers are arranged in columns and rows, each tester configured to test a substrate; aligners each configured to cause the substrate to be contacted with respect to a given tester from among the testers, at least one aligner provided in each row; and a controller configured to control the aligners. The method includes constraining, by the controller, operation of at least a second aligner, while alignment is performed through a first aligner from among the aligners.
US11385282B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) comprising a signal path combiner, comprising a plurality of input paths and an output path. The IC comprises a delay circuit having an input electrically connected to the output path, the delay circuit delaying an input signal by a variable delay time to output a delayed signal path. The IC may comprise a first storage circuit electrically connected to the output path and a second storage circuit electrically connected to the delayed signal path. The IC comprises a comparison circuit that compares outputs of the signal path combiner and the delayed signal, wherein the comparison circuit comprises a comparison output provided in a comparison data signal to at least one mitigation circuit.
US11385281B2
Heat spreaders for use in semiconductor device testing, such as burn-in testing, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a heat spreader is configured to be coupled to a burn-in testing board including a plurality of sockets. The heat spreader includes a base portion and a plurality of protrusions extending from the base portion. When the heat spreader is coupled to the burn-in testing board, the protrusions are configured to extend into corresponding ones of the sockets to thermally contact semiconductor devices positioned within the sockets. The heat spreader can promote a uniform temperature gradient across the burn-in board during testing of the semiconductor devices.
US11385278B2
A bonded structure is disclosed. The bonded structure can include a first semiconductor element having a first front side and a first back side opposite the first front side. The bonded structure can include a second semiconductor element having a second front side and a second back side opposite the second front side, the first front side of the first semiconductor element directly bonded to the second front side of the second semiconductor element along a bond interface without an adhesive. The bonded structure can include security circuitry extending across the bond interface, the security circuitry electrically connected to the first and second semiconductor elements.
US11385275B2
A high-pressure burn-in test apparatus comprises a burn-in furnace including a high-pressure burn-in furnace cavity equipped with a driving motor, at least one intake manifold, at least one extension manifold equipped with a nozzle, a communicating tube connected to the intake manifold, and a fan. A processing chamber having a test board is formed inside the high-pressure burn-in furnace cavity. The periphery of at least one of the intake manifold is connected to the at least one extension manifold. At least one component to be tested is placed on the test board. High-pressure gas is ejected through the nozzle to disturb the gas around the component to be tested. The fan is installed in the processing chamber. The driving motor drives the fan to rotate, so that the gas in the processing chamber generates convection, to improve the uniformity of gas temperature distribution.
US11385273B2
Provided are a voltage measurement method and apparatus. The method includes following steps: a number j of height values are selected in a vertical direction of a transmission line, a number m of sensors used for measuring, according to a Stark effect, electric field strength of a corresponding spatial position are arranged in sequence at each of j spatial positions of the j heights from the ground, electric field strength values of the corresponding spatial position are measured through the m sensors respectively, and an electric field strength average value of the corresponding spatial position is calculated according to the acquired m electric field strength values, where j and m are positive integers, and the j spatial positions are below the transmission line; a voltage of the transmission line is calculated according to j electric field strength average values.
US11385269B2
A frequency sensor is provided. The frequency sensor may include: a magnetoresistive nano-oscillator including a magnetic heterostructure of at least a magnetic free layer, a magnetic reference layer and a non-magnetic intermediate layer arranged between the magnetic free layer and the magnetic reference layer; a coupling arrangement for coupling an incoming signal to at least one magnetic mode of the magnetic free layer, and a frequency estimator. The frequency estimator may be configured to: perform a plurality of voltage measurements across the magnetoresistive nano-oscillator over time; calculate a time averaged voltage across the magnetoresistive nano-oscillator based on the plurality of voltage measurements; estimate, over a finite range of frequencies, a frequency of the incoming signal based on the calculated time averaged voltage, and output a signal representative of the estimated frequency. A method of estimating a frequency of an incoming signal is also provided.
US11385254B2
A movement distance calculation device includes: a first movement distance calculation unit which calculates a first movement distance of a movable body based on plural rotation speeds of plural wheels of the movable body and a steering angle of the movable body; a vector detection unit which detects a movement vector of an object included in the acquired images as defined herein; a second movement distance calculation unit which calculates a second movement distance of the movable body based on the movement vector; a first reliability determining unit which determines reliability of the calculated first movement distance as defined herein; a second reliability determining unit which determines reliability of the calculated second movement distance as defined herein; and a movement distance determining unit which determines a movement distance using at least one of the calculated first movement distance and the calculated second movement distance as defined herein.
US11385250B2
An automated analyzer system for biological samples is provided and includes a sample processing system and a controller configured to receive a selection of one of multiple workflows for determining a presence and/or concentration of an analyte in a biological sample and prompt the automated analyzer system to automatically carry out the selected workflow using the sample processing system and output a result classifying the biological sample.
US11385241B2
A method of determining a management course for treating a subject showing symptoms of a disease is disclosed. The method comprises measuring the TRAIL protein level in a blood sample of the subject, wherein when the TRAIL level is below a predetermined amount, the subject is treated as a high-risk patient.
US11385240B2
The invention provides an isolated peptide comprising a lysine 3-hydroxybutyrylation site, a lysine 3-hydroxybutyrylation specific affinity reagent that specifically binds to the peptide, and a method for detecting protein lysine 3-hydroxybutyrylation in a sample using the reagent.
US11385236B2
Provided herein are a voltage indicator and a method of measuring voltage. The voltage indicator includes a membrane-localized voltage-sensitive protein coupled to a capture protein. The method of measuring voltage includes administering a voltage indicator including a membrane-localized voltage-sensitive protein coupled to a capture protein, and determining changes in fluorescence of a small-molecule fluorescent dye captured by the capture protein.
US11385233B2
The present invention relates to a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) which comprises an antigen-binding domain which selectively binds TCR beta constant region 1 (TRBC1) or TRBC2; cells; such a T cells comprising such a CAR; and the use of such cells for the treatment of a T-cell lymphoma or leukaemia in a subject.
US11385230B2
Methods for the diagnosis of CRC, colorectal polyps in general and adenomatous polyps in particular by measurement of metabolites in urine are described. In some embodiments, certain metabolites are identified as being elevated or reduced in concentration or quantity in subjects with CRC and/or colorectal polyps as compared with subjects without CRC or colorectal polyps. The measurement of these metabolites in urine can indicate the presence of CRC or colorectal polyps in general or adanomatous polyps in particular in a subject.
US11385229B2
Diagnostic assays and methods employ a dual-enzyme cascade system comprised of two enzymatic amplifiers and two molecular probes, by (a) incubating a target enzyme with a target enzyme substrate to liberate a thiol; (b) incubating the thiol with a disulfide inactivated amplification enzyme to activate the amplification enzyme in an interchange reaction of the thiol and the disulfide; and (c) incubating the activated amplification enzyme with an amplification enzyme substrate to generate an amplified signal.
US11385216B2
In one embodiment, a pipeline interchange flows a product through an upstream pipeline. An automated analyzer is connected to the upstream pipeline to analyze different physical and/or chemically properties in the product and generate data from the product without extracting a sample from the upstream pipeline. An automatic splitter is placed downstream of the automated analyzer, capable of receiving and interpreting the data from the automated analyzer and directing the refined petroleum product into at least three different downstream pipelines, wherein at least one of the downstream pipelines is a transmix pipeline.
US11385212B2
Smoke detection sample points and systems are described herein. One smoke detection sample point includes a body; a chamber formed within the body, the chamber having a first aperture, to allow air to pass between an area to be sampled and the chamber, and a second aperture, to allow air to pass between the chamber and a space within a second enclosure; a valve positioned within the chamber; a first enclosure surrounding the body, but allowing the first aperture to pass air between the area to be sampled and the chamber and the second aperture to pass air between the chamber and the space within the second enclosure; and the second enclosure surrounding the first enclosure and having a third aperture, the third aperture allowing the air in the space within the second enclosure to pass between the second enclosure and a tube connected to the second enclosure.
US11385197B2
A sensor element includes: an element base including: a ceramic body made of an oxygen-ion conductive solid electrolyte, and having a gas inlet at one end portion thereof; at least one internal chamber located inside the ceramic body, and communicating with the gas inlet under predetermined diffusion resistance; an electrochemical pump cell including an electrode located on an outer surface of the ceramic body, an electrode facing the chamber, and a solid electrolyte located therebetween; and a heater buried in the ceramic body, and an leading-end protective layer being porous, and covering a leading end surface and four side surfaces in a predetermined range of the element base on the one end portion. The leading-end protective layer has an extension extending into the gas inlet, and fixed to an inner wall surface of the ceramic body demarcating the gas inlet.
US11385191B2
An image acquisition system includes a radiation source configured to output radiation toward an object, a rotating stage configured to rotate the object around a rotation axis, a radiation camera having an input surface to which the radiation transmitted through the object is input and an image sensor capable of TDI control, and an image processing apparatus configured to generate a radiographic image of the object at an imaging plane P based on the image data. The angle formed between the rotation axis of the rotating stage and the input surface of the radiation camera is set in accordance with the FOD which is the distance between the radiation source and an imaging plane in the object. The radiation camera is configured to perform TDI control in the image sensor in synchronization with the rotational speed of the object rotated by the rotating stage.
US11385189B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed which enable the analysis of a break in a vehicle glazing panel without the attendance of a technician, the method and apparatus utilize capturing an image of the break and processing the image of the break to enable the suitability for repair or replacement of the glazing panel to be determined.
US11385178B2
An improved device and system for facilitating polymerase chain reaction including a light source, detector, waveguide, and filters that occupy minimal space and facilitate detection of stationary samples, reduced sample read time, and simultaneous reading of multiple light wavelengths.
US11385177B2
Designs of accurate pm sensors and systems for laboratory and real time calibration / data inversion
A sensor analysis computer device for analyzing particulate matter is provided. The computer device includes at least one memory and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory. The computer device is in communication with a sensor configured to measure particulate matter. The at least one processor is programmed to store a plurality of parameter data for the sensor including a calibration factor, receive a plurality of sensor data from the sensor, determine a present calibration factor based on the plurality of parameter data and the plurality of sensor data, determine an updated calibration factor for the sensor based on the present calibration factor and the plurality of parameter data, and transmit the updated calibration factor to the sensor, wherein the sensor is configured to adjust subsequent sensor data based on the updated calibration factor.
US11385170B2
The present disclosure provides a plate comprising an array of wells for chemical or biological reactions, wherein each of the wells comprises a reaction chamber with at least one opening on a surface of the plate. The array of wells consist of a plurality of adjacent blocks of wells, wherein each block of wells consists of a plurality of adjacent rows of wells, and wherein at least one void is provided in each block of wells in between the rows of wells. Here, the void is particularly part of the surface of the plate and lacks a well opening. Furthermore, a method for multiple imaging of such a plate by means of an imaging system is provided with the present disclosure.
US11385160B2
A system to measure a streaming potential of a core plug includes a measurement cell having a chamber to hold the core plug and an inlet fluid line connected to an inlet port of the measurement cell. A filtration device is arranged to control a salinity and ionic strength of a liquid medium received in the chamber through the inlet fluid line. The filtration device has membrane filters with different ion rejection rates and is controllable to selectively dispose each of the membrane filters in the inlet fluid line.
US11385156B2
A particle size measuring apparatus capable of measuring a smaller particle size includes: a first light source configured to emit parallel beam to a sample containing particles; a first image capturing apparatus disposed to approximately face the first light source with the sample disposed therebetween and configured to capture an image of the sample; and an image analyzing unit configured to analyze the image captured by the first image capturing apparatus. The first image capturing apparatus and the first light source are disposed so as to approximately face each other so that an image of scattered light of the parallel beam incident on particles and scattered at a prescribed angle θth or smaller is captured by the first image capturing apparatus. The image analyzing unit is configured to calculate a particle size on the basis of a scattered light image captured by the first image capturing apparatus.
US11385154B2
Techniques herein include an apparatus and method for measuring and monitoring properties of fluids consumed in a semiconductor fabrication process. The apparatus includes a flow cell having a hollow chamber, a first chamber sidewall of the hollow chamber bisecting the length of the flow cell, the first chamber sidewall having a predetermined angle to the incoming direction of light from the first light source; a refractive index sensor configured to detect the light from the first light source transmitted through the hollow chamber of the flow cell and exiting the flow cell through the second flow cell sidewall of the at least six flow cell sidewalls; and a first light sensor configured to detect the light from the first light source scattered off the fluid in the hollow chamber.
US11385153B2
Method and system to measure and monitor the grey water content in a rotating concrete mixer drum mixer truck using a sensor attached to the interior of the concrete mixer drum. By measuring the grey water content before a batching process takes place, the batched water (and cement content and admixture type and content) can be modified in order to maintain expected performance of the batched load in terms of both strength and rheology, or more simply, some or all of the grey water can be discharged from the concrete mixer drum before batching.
US11385152B2
A method includes directing a wellbore fluid into a flow control assembly coupled to a completion string positioned within a wellbore, the flow control assembly including at least a first fluidic device defining a flow passage, where the flow passage is formed of a material having a known wettability selected to correspond to a component of the wellbore fluid. The pressure change along the flow passage is measured and utilized to determine fluid cut based on a predetermined correspondence between pressure change and component cut for the first fluidic device. Multiple fluidic devices, each selected to have a wettability responsive to a different component of the wellbore fluid, may be aligned in parallel or series to determine the cut of multiple components in the fluid.
US11385151B2
A measuring device for detection pf measurement signals during a penetrating movement of a penetrating member into a surface of a test object or during a sensing movement of the penetrating member on the surface of the test object. The measuring device includes a housing which accommodates a force generating device and on which a holding element is arranged remote from the force generating device, which holding element is movable relative to the housing at least in one direction along a longitudinal axis of the housing and which accommodates the penetrating member. The measuring device also includes at least one first measuring element for measuring the penetration depth of the penetrating member into the surface of the test object or a traversing movement of the penetrating member along the longitudinal axis relative to the housing during a sensing movement on the surface of the test object, wherein a transmission element is provided which extends between the force generating device and the penetrating member.
US11385146B2
Sampling systems and techniques that increase pickup efficiency and shedding efficiency of an analyst of interest collected from a surface are provided. In one aspect, an absorbent swab collects an analyte of interest, such as a hazardous contaminant, from a test area demarcated by a template. The sampling techniques can include swab speed and force protocols specifying how fast and how hard the user should apply the swab across the surface to improve pickup efficiency. The sampling techniques can include instructions for inverting a container enclosing the swab and collected contaminant to improve shedding efficiency from the swab.
US11385142B2
A measuring arrangement for determining at least one parameter of a fluid medium flowing through a fluid flow duct. The measuring arrangement includes a probe device designed to be arranged in the flowing medium as a hollow body having an incident flow side closing the cavity of the hollow body, an open discharge flow side, an outer contour, which generates a flow separation on the discharge flow side, for generating a backflow, and a partition wall dividing the cavity into a fluid inflow chamber and a fluid outflow chamber, wherein the fluid inflow chamber includes an inlet opening and the fluid outflow chamber includes an outlet opening.
US11385135B2
A vehicle test device is to test performance of a vehicle or a part of the vehicle by rotating a wheel placed on a rotating body in order to reproduce an actually running state of the vehicle by controlling rotational speed of the wheel so as to make the rotational speed equal to a target value accurately, and a rotation related value that indicates rotational speed of the wheel or torque applied to the wheel is obtained, and the rotational speed of the rotating body or the torque applied to the rotating body is controlled so as to make the rotation related value equal to a predetermined target value.
US11385134B1
A vehicle service system and method to determine spatial parameters of a vehicle, employing a display system under processor control, to display or project visible indicia onto surfaces in proximity to a vehicle undergoing a safety system service or inspection identifying one or more locations, relative to the determined vehicle centerline or thrust line, at which a calibration fixture, optical target, or simulated test drive imagery is visible for observation by a sensor onboard the vehicle.
US11385131B2
The present invention provides a low-cost detachment determining device capable of determining whether or not an electromagnetic valve-equipped device has been detached. The detachment determining device determines whether or not at least a part of an electromagnetic valve-equipped device included in an industrial machine, such as a construction machine or an industrial vehicle, has been detached from the industrial machine, the electromagnetic valve-equipped device being a hydraulic device equipped with an electromagnetic valve. The detachment determining device includes: an electrical characteristic detecting portion configured to output a detection signal to the electromagnetic valve-equipped device and detect an electrical characteristic of the electromagnetic valve-equipped device based on the detection signal; and a detachment determining portion configured to determine, based on a plurality of electrical characteristics detected at different time points by the electrical characteristic detecting portion, whether or not at least a part of the electromagnetic valve-equipped device has been detached.
US11385130B2
Multi-spectral feature sensing techniques and sensor and related digital signal processing circuitry and methods. A method of operating a digital signal processing circuitry includes acquiring optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) data from an interferometer operably coupled to a tunable laser and a sensing fiber, separating sensor signals corresponding to sensors of the sensing fiber from the OFDR data, and inferring a relative shift of a separated sensor signal. A digital signal processing circuitry includes a front end circuitry and a back end circuitry. The front end circuitry is configured to isolate sensor responses from an input signal including OFDR data. The back end circuitry is configured to determine a phase shift corresponding to each isolated sensor response.
US11385116B2
Systems and methods for pressure measurement are provided. A ludion with a trapped gas bubble floats between two liquids. Pressure acting upon the liquids causes the bubble to expand or contract, resulting in movement of the ludion which can be measured and correlated with pressure change. Pressure measuring device can measure pressures from 0.05 inHg to 110 inHg with a four-to-one Test Accuracy Ratio (TAR) without using mercury.
US11385109B2
A pressure detecting circuit may include a pressure sensing circuit (101), a signal generating circuit (102), and a frequency detecting circuit (103). The pressure sensing circuit (101) and the signal generating circuit (102) may be configured to constitute an oscillating circuit (104). The signal generating circuit (102) may be configured to generate an oscillating signal based on a pressure sensed by the pressure sensing circuit (101). The frequency detecting circuit (103) may be configured to detect a frequency of the oscillating signal and determine a value of the pressure sensed by the pressure sensing circuit (101) based on the frequency of the oscillating signal.
US11385100B2
Aspects relate to mechanisms for increasing the field of view of a spectrometer. An optical device may be configured to simultaneously couple light from different locations (spots) on a sample to the spectrometer to effectively increase the spectrometer field of view. The optical device can include a beam combiner and at least one reflector to reflect light beams from respective spots on the sample towards the beam combiner. The beam combiner can combine the received light beams from the different spots to produce a combined light beam that may be input to the spectrometer.
US11385099B1
Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors have recently been developed for a wide range of applications, including imaging and communications. An improved detection system is disclosed, whereby the detectors are monolithically integrated on the same chip with Josephson junctions for control and data processing. This enables an enhanced data rate, thereby facilitating several new and improved applications. A preferred embodiment comprises integrated digital processing based on single-flux-quantum pulses. An integrated multilayer fabrication method for manufacturing these integrated detectors is also disclosed. Preferred examples of systems comprising such integrated nanowire photon detectors include a time-correlated single photon counter, a quantum random number generator, an integrated single-photon imaging array, a sensitive digital communication receiver, and quantum-key distribution for a quantum communication system.
US11385095B2
An ultrasonic distance measuring device retrieves an ultrasonic wave propagation speed from a correlation between an output of a medium sensor and a corresponding ultrasonic wave propagation speed. The ultrasonic distance measuring device sets a propagation path detection period for detecting a detection signal, which corresponds to the ultrasonic wave reflected by a liquid surface, based on a longest propagation path length and a shortest propagation path length between the liquid surface and the retrieved propagation speed of the ultrasonic wave. The ultrasonic distance measuring device calculates a distance of the propagation path based on a time difference between a detection timing of the detection signal and an output timing of the ultrasonic wave in a propagation path detection period, and the propagation speed of the ultrasonic wave.
US11385091B2
A rail vehicle includes a truck having wheels for engaging a railroad track, a bolster supported by the truck, and a tank supported by the bolster for storing a lading. A measurement system measures the level of the lading within the tank and includes gauges and a controller. The gauges are disposed at selected points on the bolster for sensing at least one of lateral and longitudinal localized displacement experienced by the bolster during motion of the rail vehicle. The controller calculates the level of the lading within the tank and compensates for changes in the level of the lading during motion of the rail vehicle in response to signals generated by the gauges.
US11385090B2
A dual-sensor fluid sensor assembly is provided. The dual-sensor fluid sensor assembly includes a probe holder, a base, and a spring. The probe holder is configured to receive and secure two fluid sensor probes. The base is configured to receive and secure the holder upon rotation of the holder into the base. The spring is positioned between the holder and the base, the spring being positioned to exert a repelling force between the holder and the base to secure the holder to the base.
US11385088B2
The present invention relates to a dosing system (100) with an actuator unit (60) and a fluidic unit (10) which can be coupled thereto in a detachable manner, wherein the fluidic unit (10) has a nozzle (20) an element (30), mounted in a movable manner, and the actuator unit (60) has an actuator system (90), in order to actuate the movable element (30) of the fluidic unit (10), wherein the fluidic unit (10) has a first plug coupling part (11) and the actuator unit (60) has a second plug coupling part (61), which can be plugged into one another for coupling the fluidic unit (10) to the actuator unit (60) along a plugging axis (S) and can be coupled to one another integrally. The invention additionally relates to a fluidic unit (10) and an actuator unit (60) for such a dosing system (100) and also a method for the detachable coupling of a fluidic unit (10) to an actuator unit (60) of a dosing system (100).
US11385077B2
An embodiment provides a sensing device comprising: a first cover; a second cover coupled with the first cover; a rotor disposed at the second cover; a first magnet disposed between the second cover and the rotor; a stator disposed between the first magnet and the second cover; a seating part disposed between the first cover and the rotor; a second magnet disposed on the seating part; a circuit board disposed on a bottom surface of the second cover; and a first hall sensor and a second hall sensor disposed on the circuit board, wherein the first cover comprises an upper plate having an opening and a side plate extending downward from the upper plate, and the side plate of the first cover comprises a first groove formed at a position corresponding to the second hall sensor and a second groove spaced apart from the first groove.
US11385073B2
The invention relates to a method and a system for aircraft navigation along a predetermined airway, including an on-board navigation system supplying a positioning integrity of the aircraft during flight relative to said airway respecting an expected position precision performance level, and at least one on-board radio receiver on the aircraft suitable for communicating with at least one land-based radio beacon suitable for supplying a distance of the aircraft relative to said radio beacon. The system includes a module configured to obtain, from a current position of the aircraft and stored data, a tuple of radio beacons to be used, a module configured to obtain a distance measurement of the aircraft relative to each of the N radio beacons of said tuple, a module configured to compute an integrity position from distance measurements obtained by a predetermined computing method, and a module configured to use the computed integrity position as current integrity position.
US11385072B2
Methods and systems are provided for presenting an energy state associated with an aircraft with respect to an operating envelope region for a procedure to restart an engine of the aircraft. One method involves providing a graphical user interface display having a first reference axis corresponding to a first energy state parameter and a second reference axis corresponding to a second energy state parameter different from the first energy state parameter, providing a graphical representation of an operating envelope region associated with a procedure for starting an engine of the aircraft with respect to the first and second reference axes, obtaining current values for the first and second energy state parameters for the aircraft, and providing a graphical representation of the aircraft positioned with respect to the first and second reference axes based on the current values for the first and second energy state parameters.
US11385051B2
Systems and methods for three-dimensional computer modeling of buildings are disclosed, including a method comprising generating, with a computer processor, a 3D model of walls of a structure and a wall area measurement estimate report, using the 3D model of the walls, displaying multiple line drawings of a building having a roof.
US11385044B2
The range of measurement in spectrally controlled interferometry (SCI) is extended by superimposing multiple modulations on the low-coherence light used for the measurement. Optimally, a spectrally controllable light source modulated sinusoidally with low spectral frequency is combined with a delay line, such as provided by a Michelson interferometer. The resulting light is injected into a Fizeau interferometer to generate localized fringes at a distance corresponding to the effect of the spectrally modulated source combined with the optical path difference produced by the delay line. The combination provides a convenient way to practice SCI with all its advantages and with a range that can be extended to the degree required for any practically foreseeable application. Alternatively, a single source capable of multiple modulations can be used instead of a separate second modulator component.
US11385042B2
A position detection device includes a magnetic detection element, a wiring, a first component and a second component as a first mold resin, a terminal, and a sensor cover as a second mold resin. The magnetic detection element can detect a change in magnetic field. The wiring is connected to the magnetic detection element. The first component and the second component mold the magnetic detection element and the wiring so that the wiring is exposed. The terminal is connected to the wiring. The sensor cover molds the first component, the second component and the terminal so that the first component and the second component where the magnetic detection element is located are exposed, and has a deformation suppressing portion. The deformation suppressing portion suppresses the deformation of the first component or the second component when the sensor cover is deformed.
US11385039B2
An edge defect gauge that measures a size of edge defects of glass sheets, the edge defect gauge comprising: a body including opposite end edges and opposite side edges that extend between the end edges forming a body, the body having opposite flat faces; and at least one of (i) a dog ear measuring projection extending outward from one of the end edges at one of the side edges, the dog ear measuring projection having a predetermined height and a predetermined length or (ii) a cantilever measuring recess extending inward from the other end edge at the one of the side edges, the cantilever measuring recess having a predetermined height and a predetermined length.
US11385036B2
A detonating cord for using in a perforating gun includes an explosive layer and an electrically conductive layer extending around the explosive layer. The electrically conductive layer is configured to relay a communication signal along a length of the detonating cord. In an embodiment, a protective jacket extends around the electrically conductive layer of the detonating cord. The detonating cord may be assembled in a perforating gun to relay a communication signal from a top connector to a bottom connector of the perforating gun, and to propagate a detonating explosive stimulus along its length to initiate shaped charges of the perforating gun. A plurality of perforating guns, including the detonating cord, may be connected in series, with the detonating cord of a first perforating gun in communication with the detonating cord of a second perforating gun.
US11385025B2
The system and method of swarm navigation using a follow the forward approach. Using on-board sensors and communications links between members of a swarm, numerous targets can be engaged more quickly and precisely. In some cases, a designator is used to help a forward of the swarm navigate to a target using image-based navigation up until terminal guidance is used. A cascade of messages are projected back to a following round so that, each member of a swarm can determine a best target/round match and provide real-time, up-to-date information regarding targets' locations and each round's location, range to target, target selection, and the like.
US11385014B2
A weapon testing chamber is provided. The chamber enables the testing of conducted energy weapon (CEW) and contain any accidental discharges which may occur. In addition the chamber may also be utilized for safe unloading of a handgun by providing a testing chamber which can absorb any accidental discharges of the firearm and can accommodate differing models and types of weapons in a single testing chamber.
US11385013B2
A hybrid composite and steel rifle barrel assembly relating to bolt action rifles or other firearms, including those that fire rimfire or centerfire ammunition. The inner barrel construction consists of a pre-machined and rifled steel barrel that has been machined down from its original geometry to a much lighter and smaller geometry to achieve a significant weight savings. The metal portion of the barrel that is removed, is replaced by a composite tubular structure, that slips over the machined down steel barrel which is then adhesively bonded to the steel barrel. The composite barrel consists of a plurality of concentric composite material layers including carbon fiber-based uni-directional prepreg and a unique metallic weave that is placed within the composite structure to aid in the thermal transfer of heat extending from the chamber to the muzzle end of the rifle barrel. The metallic weave is positioned so that it is the first layer(s) within the composite structure that make direct contact with the steel barrel. This metallic weave is a continuous weave that extends the full length of the barrel and not only provides a highly thermally conductive layer, but also provides significant longitudinal barrel stiffness. The resin matrix system within the composite structure is a standard epoxy resin that preferably does not contain any type of thermally conductive particulate or filler, to achieve an effective thermal transfer layer. The resulting hybrid composite/steel barrel achieves significant weight reduction compared to an all-steel barrel in addition to increased accuracy. In addition to the weight reduction and accuracy benefits associated with this invention, is that the movement of a bullet associated with shooting through a cold barrel (cold bore) versus a hot barrel is reduced substantially.
US11385002B2
Methods and structures are provided for implementing selective airflow modification. An airflow control member holder receives and retains an airflow control member having compliance characteristics allowing easy removal and changing of the airflow control member. The airflow control member holder includes retention features to facilitate mounting and removal from the system, such as mounting and removal from a printed circuit board (PCB). The airflow control member holder provides a protective function for a component, such as a depopulated component, a central processing unit (CPU) or other device.
US11384999B2
This disclosure provides a heat dissipation device configured to be in thermal contact with a heat source. The heat dissipation device includes a heat dissipation body and a cover plate. The heat dissipation body has at least one vertical channel. The heat dissipation body is configured to be in thermal contact with the heat source. The cover plate includes a first layer and a second layer that are stacked on each other. The first layer is stacked on the heat dissipation body and covers the at least one vertical channel. A thermal conductivity of the first layer is larger than a thermal conductivity of the second layer. The cover plate has at least one first through hole penetrating through the first layer and the second layer and connecting to the at least one vertical channel.
US11384982B2
A dual-purpose sintering furnace including a furnace body having a furnace chamber, a first furnace mouth and a second furnace mouth which are communicated with the furnace chamber, a furnace door hinged to the furnace body and configured for closing the first furnace mouth, a blocking member lap-jointed inside the furnace chamber and configured for blocking the second furnace mouth, a sample stage, an ejection rod fixedly arranged on a sample placement face of the sample stage, a lifting device configured for driving the sample stage to raise or lower, so that the ejection rod pushes the blocking member until the second furnace mouth is opened, and so that the sample stage enters the furnace chamber through the second furnace mouth. The dual-purpose sintering furnace can complete a large amount of sintering as conventional sintering and also implement rapid sintering.
US11384974B2
A refrigerator includes a rear wall, a first strap, a second strap, an insulative member, a housing, an ozone generator, a ventilation panel, and a light. The first strap and the second strap fix the insulative member to the rear wall. The housing is disposed in the ventilation panel. A frontside of the housing has a recessed portion that defines a receptacle on a backside of the wall, a trough on the frontside of the wall, and a first number of vents. The first number of vents establish fluid communication between the receptacle and the trough. The ozone generator is disposed in the receptacle. The light is fixed to the housing. The light includes a cover that overlaps at least a portion of the trough and defines a second number of vents that are in fluid communication with the trough.
US11384967B2
A trailer refrigeration unit is provided. Aspects include a plurality of power sources, wherein the plurality power sources are selectively coupled to a power converter and at least one compressor. The power converter is coupled to at least one fan and is selectively coupled to the at least one compressor. A microcontroller circuit is included and is configured to selectively operate the trailer refrigeration unit in one of a plurality of modes based on an environmental parameter within the trailer refrigeration unit. The plurality of modes includes a first mode where the at least one compressor and at least one fan are powered by the power converter and a second mode where the at least one compressor is powered by at least one of the plurality of power sources.
US11384965B2
During a first cooling operation, a compressor is in an operational state, a liquid pump is in a non-operational state, and an amount of refrigerant allowing for existence of a liquid surface of the refrigerant in a refrigerant tank is accumulated in the refrigerant tank. During a second cooling operation, the compressor is in the non-operational state, the liquid pump is in the operational state, and the amount of the refrigerant allowing for the liquid surface of the refrigerant in the refrigerant tank is accumulated in the refrigerant tank.
US11384958B1
A tankless water heater with an impeller flowmeter having multiple K factors significantly improving the accuracy of flowmeter readings, particularly at low water flow rates, such as under 1 gallon per minute. Rather than use a single K factor impeller flowmeter in a tankless water heater that is particularly inaccurate at low flow rates, this disclosure provides an impeller flowmeter with multiple K factors to obtain precise flow rate readings to precisely control heating of the water at low flow rates. The flowmeter has an onboard memory with multiple K factors stored for a controller to access and read. These multiple K factors are established for flowrates across the entire dynamic range of the flowmeter at the time it is manufactured. Just enough K factors are determined to provide good curve fitting. The flowmeter onboard memory is programmed with the multiple K factors.
US11384955B2
An indoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a body having an opening, a decorative panel attached to the body to cover the opening, and a filter disposed between the body and the decorative panel. The decorative panel has a rectangular air inlet grille disposed at a location that faces the opening of the body. The air inlet grille has long-side wall portions that face each other, a plurality of short-side wall portions disposed perpendicularly to each of the long-side wall portions, a bottom portion surrounded by the long-side wall portions and the plurality of short-side wall portions, and hook receiving portions located in respective grille corner portions each located at the corresponding one of four corners of the bottom portion. The filter is formed in a rectangular shape and has hook portions in respective filter corner portions each located at the corresponding one of four corners of the filter. The hook portions are engaged with the respective hook receiving portions.
US11384952B2
The present application provides an air duct machine with switchable air-out directions and a control method thereof, and an air-conditioning apparatus. The air duct machine with switchable air-out directions comprises: a housing, a first fan (3), a second fan (4) and a control mechanism, wherein the first fan (3) and the second fan (4) are both mounted in the housing, the housing has a first vent (1) at a side corresponding to the first fan (3) and a second vent (2) at a side corresponding to the second fan (4), and a communicating air channel is formed between the first vent (1) and the second vent (2); the control mechanism is used for linkage control of the rotation of two fans, and when one fan serves as an air supply fan, the other fan is controlled as a regulating fan to rotate in a direction opposite to a direction in which air is supplied to a corresponding vent, and reverse rotation of the regulating fan reduces obstruction to return air, optimizes a flow field of return air, enlarges the area of return air, increases the air output amount, and effectively lowers the noise.
US11384931B2
A combined lighting and speaker device having a central longitudinal axis defining a forward and a rearward direction and a radially outward and a radially inward direction is provided. The device comprises a tweeter; a tweeter horn positioned radially outwardly of the tweeter; a speaker positioned rearward of the tweeter horn; and a light emitting diode, LED, assembly positioned radially outwardly of the tweeter. The LED assembly comprises one or more light emitting diodes, LEDs, and a lens having a forward surface. The tweeter horn has an inner edge in communication with an outer edge of the tweeter, so that the tweeter horn forms a guide to direct sound produced by the tweeter away from the speaker when in use. At least part of the tweeter horn is provided by the forward surface of the lens.
US11384927B2
A linear light fixture assembly comprises a linear housing structure with a linear mounting region, the linear mounting region including an exposed passage having a first lateral dimension and configured to be secured to a ceiling mounting structure on a ceiling, the ceiling mounting structure having a second lateral dimension, and a linear conduit structure having opposed surfaces which are spaced by a third lateral dimension, wherein the linear housing structure and/or the linear conduit structure are configured so that the first, second/or and third lateral dimensions enable the linear conduit structure to extend past the ceiling mounting structure into the exposed passage to deliver power to one or more light sources to be located in the housing.
US11384926B2
The application discloses a cabinet lighting power-taking system including a cabinet, a power-taking assembly and lamps. The power-taking assembly includes at least one wire-distribution box, which is attached to and installed on a surface of the cabinet and is provided with a power-input interface and a plurality of power-output interfaces, so as to separate a single power-output interface into the plurality of power-output interfaces in parallel through shunt conversion. The power-input interface is configured for connecting a commercial power. The lamps are installed in the cabinet and plugged into the plurality of power-output interfaces one by one. This application improves an installation structure of the cabinet lighting power-taking system, and provides a structure that does not require slotting and wiring, which facilitates a process of installation, improves the efficiency of installation and optimizes the safety of using the lamps.
US11384924B2
An area light including a base having a first end and a second end, a pair of legs rotatably coupled to the first end of base, wherein the pair of legs is rotated towards the base when the area light is in a stowed configuration and is rotated away from the base when the area light is in an open configuration, and a light body having a light head. The light body is rotatably coupled to the base on the first end of the base, wherein the light body is rotated towards the base when the area light is in the stowed configuration and is rotated away from the base when the area light is in the open configuration. The pair of legs is rotatably fixed to one another to rotate as a single unit relative to the base.
US11384920B2
An illumination device includes a housing including an opening portion, a wavelength converting component which is disposed inside the housing and radiates wavelength-converted light having a different wavelength from that of a laser beam after the laser beam enters the component, an optical film which covers the opening portion and has optical properties such that the transmittance for the wavelength-converted light is 80% or more and the transmittance for the laser beam at the peak wavelength is 80% or less of the transmittance for the wavelength-converted light at the peak wavelength, and a light diffusing structure which is disposed on at least part of the inner wall of the housing and diffusely reflects the laser beam reflected at least by the optical film.
US11384912B2
A thin aspect lighting system and method are shown. The system and method include at least one module having a reflector that is generally elliptical in one cross-section and generally parabolic in another cross-section. Each module is adapted to generate at least one of a flat beam pattern, a high beam pattern or a low beam pattern, such as a low beam pattern with a kink or elbow. Also shown is a headlamp assembly having a plurality of modules that generate the same or a different light beam pattern. Manipulation and variation of facets or positions of various components, such as at least one light source provides improved characteristics in one or more of the light beam patterns.
US11384910B1
A light fixture is configured for mounting within a given housing-can. The light fixture may have a driver assembly, a heat-sink and a trim-casing assembly. The driver assembly may have a driver-printed-circuit-board, a lumen-switch, a color-temperature-switch, and a driver-box. The driver-printed-circuit-board, the lumen-switch, and the color-temperature-switch may be at least partially housed within the driver-box. With the lumen-switch, a lumen output of the light fixture may be selected. With the color-temperature-switch, a light color-temperature output of the light fixture may be selected. The trim-casing assembly may have a light-emitting-diode-circuit, a reflector, a lens, a can-attachment-means, and a trim-casing-member. The light-emitting-diode-circuit, the reflector, and the lens may be housed within the trim-casing-member. The can-attachment-means may be attached to an exterior of the trim-casing-member and is for attaching the light fixture to the housing-can. The heat-sink may be disposed between the driver assembly and the trim-casing-assembly.
US11384905B2
The invention relates to a protective valve ring (1) for an oxygen gas cylinder (3). The protective valve ring (1) comprises a body (4) adapted to enclose an outlet (5) of a cylinder valve (2). The body (2) comprises an incombustible and heat absorbing material, and has an internal shaping adapted to guide any potential oxygen gas leak away from inflammable parts of the gas cylinder (3). The invention also relates to a shut-off valve (2) for controlling flow of a pressurised gas and a method for attaching a protective valve ring (1) to a shut-off valve (2) of an oxygen gas cylinder (3).
US11384904B2
A method, and a system, are for filling a container with an amount of liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) which is partially converted into an amount of solid CO2 into the container, for maintaining one or more products, loaded into the container, at a defined temperature, below a defined temperature, or within a defined temperature range, the defined temperature or the defined temperature range being below environmental temperature. A method and a system are for providing identification and traceability data determining the container and the one or more products, and for enabling identification of the container during transport to a destination.
US11384901B2
A safety cutting tool has an electrically conductive cutting element, an electrically controlled actuating motor drivingly connected to the cutting element, a gripping handle electrically insulated from the cutting element and adapted to receive a hand of an operator therein, a cutting trigger control electrically insulated from the cutting element and adapted to be actuated by the hand of the operator, and an emergency stop device that is able to respond to a contact of the operator with the cutting element. The emergency stop device includes a first manual contact, electrode and a second manual contact electrode with an electrical monitoring circuit connected thereto.
US11384893B2
A device is disclosed that provides secure and releasable connection between a mount and a display device where corresponding structural elements on the mount and a receptor hollow disposed on the display device provide for alternate attachment where the connected structures can be rotated in increments of ninety degrees and consistently and releasably connected. A second axis of rotation is provided around a pivot bolt that can be adjusted or fixed with a threaded adjustment nut.
US11384882B2
Spigot device including a spigot formed with exterior gripping teeth and sleeve device to telescope over the spigot. The sleeve device is formed with a radially inwardly opening, distally contracting conical bearing surface which mounts a radially inwardly contractible gripper ring device captive therein, and constructed to be driven radially inwardly by the bearing surface as the sleeve is drawn proximally on the spigot to grip a plastic pipe trapped in the annulus between the sleeve and spigot.
US11384880B2
A quick connector (QC) assembly comprises a housing defining a fluid passageway extending along an axis at an open end, a retainer ring disposed in the open end and defining a slot, a retainer clip secured to the housing and at least partially disposed within the fluid passageway at the open end, and a verification tab disposed within the slot. The tab is slideably displaceable along the slot between a negative position, where the tab is completely disposed within the housing, and a positive position, where a portion of the tab is visibly disposed above an exterior surface of the housing.
US11384879B2
A fluid circuit (160) defining a flow path for a fluid from a fluid supply (152) toward a process stage (156). The fluid circuit may include a plurality of operative components (168) including a body portion (182) and a plurality of tubing connector fittings (186). The operative components may be connected by a plurality of tubing segments (164). Each body portion may include a non-conductive fluoropolymer portion and an outer conductor (234) that extends between each of the plurality of tubing connector fittings and that is unitary with the non-conductive fluoropolymer portion. The plurality of tubing segments may include a non-conductive fluoropolymer tubing portion (187) and an axial strip (188) of conductive polymer. The outer conductor of each body portion conductively connected with tubing segments connected thereto. Each of the connectors may include a bridging component (262) for conductively connecting the respective outer conductor of the body portion to the strip of conductive polymer of the connecting tubing segments.
US11384877B2
A retaining assembly may comprise a bracket assembly having a first end and a second end. The first end may be configured to mount to a clamping band. The retaining assembly may further comprise a retention component. The retention component may have a clevis coupled to the second end. The retaining assembly may be coupled to an otherwise loose external component on a gas turbine engine. The retaining assembly may keep the otherwise loose external component fixed to the gas turbine engine during maintenance operations and prevent the otherwise loose external component from being lost or misplaced.
US11384875B2
A pipe joint includes: a sealing member, having an annular shape, which is provided between the outer circumferential surface of a spigot and an inner circumferential surface of a socket; a pushing ring to push the sealing member into the socket, the pushing ring being fitted onto the spigot; and a separation preventive member configured to engage with the spigot protrusion part in a pipe-axial direction to prevent a separation of the spigot from the socket. The separation preventive member is provided between an inner circumferential surface of the pushing ring and the outer circumferential surface of the spigot. The sealing member is provided along an outer circumferential surface of the spigot protrusion part and includes a compression part. The compression part is compressed in a pipe-radial and is located, in the socket, upstream of the spigot protrusion part in an insertion direction in which the spigot is inserted.
US11384873B2
A split coupler, and methods of making and using such a split coupler, whereby the split coupler includes a first semi-cylindrical member, a second semi-cylindrical member, and an interlocking assembly configured to interlock the first and second semi-cylindrical members to form a substantially cylindrical coupler having a coupler inner surface which defines a throughbore. Additionally, the split coupler can include spiral threads coupled to the coupler inner surface. Furthermore, the split coupler can include a flange inwardly extending from the coupler inner surface.
US11384871B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an axial swage tool configured to axially swage a fitting to a tube, a cable, or other such item of manufacture. The swage tool can be configured to utilize swaging engagement members for grasping and driving a swaging ring over a fitting. The swaging ring thereby radially compresses the fitting around the tube or other item.
US11384860B2
An execution system (100) for a fluid micro-injection device have a base body (110), a movable member (120), an executor, an adjusting member (130) and a plurality of clearance sheets. The movable member (120) is movably disposed on the base body (110). The executor and the adjusting member (130) are disposed in the base body (110). The plurality of clearance sheets are disposed between the base body (110) and the adjusting member (130) to adjust a pre-tightening force of the executor.
US11384858B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to locking assembly apparatus and methods for fluid ends, and associated components thereof. In one implementation, a locking assembly for fluid ends includes a first actuator and a second actuator disposed at least partially below the first actuator. The second actuator includes one or more coupling surfaces disposed in coupling engagement with one or more coupling surfaces of the first actuator. The locking assembly also includes a plurality of wedges disposed about the second actuator and movable between an unlocked position and a locked position.
US11384853B2
A backflow prevention assembly is disclosed including a backflow prevention valve having a valve housing including a valve inlet end and a valve outlet end; a spool spacer of predetermined length having a first end and a second end; an inlet shut-off valve; and an outlet shut-off valve, wherein the spool spacer extends between the backflow prevention valve and one of the inlet shut-off valve and the outlet shut-off valve. The entire assembly, including the backflow prevention valve, the spool spacer, the inlet shut-off valve, and the outlet shut-off valve, is a certified assembly, certified by a certifying authority prior to installation. Methods of manufacturing a backflow prevention assembly and replacing a backflow prevention assembly are also disclosed.
US11384842B2
A poppet valve, in particular a hollow poppet valve, includes: a valve stem; a valve body having along a longitudinal axis, a first end with a neck portion to which the valve stem is coaxially arranged and having along a longitudinal axis a second end with a first conical contact face portion, the valve body including a cavity with a first opening towards the first end and a second opening towards the second end; and a valve cap coaxially arranged to the valve body on the second end for closing the second opening, the valve cap having a second conical contact face portion to form together with the first conical contact face portion a valve head contact face.
US11384838B2
A seal member includes a bottom portion, a first side wall portion, a second side wall portion, and an outer wall portion. At least one of the first side wall portion and the second side wall portion is provided to be outwardly widened from the bottom portion toward the outer wall portion with respect to a virtual plane perpendicular to an axis. The outer wall portion has a recessed portion recessed toward a bottom portion side, between the first side wall portion and the second side wall portion, and the outer wall portion forms a first lip region in a region including the first side wall portion, and forms a second lip region in a region including the second side wall portion, with the recessed portion being sandwiched therebetween.
US11384830B2
A differential assembly including a differential housing, a gear assembly, a shaft, and a ring gear. The differential housing generally includes a peripheral wall, first and second end walls connected to the peripheral wall and spaced apart along a rotational axis so that the peripheral wall and the first and second end walls, in combination, define an internal cavity, a transitional region defined in the differential housing where the second end wall meets the peripheral wall, and a first window formed through the peripheral wall, the transitional region, and/or the second end wall and into the internal cavity, the first window including a central portion and first and second ear portions adjoining the central portion and extending outwardly therefrom. The first window defines a shape when projected perpendicularly onto a first plane including both the rotational axis and a pinion axis, said pinion axis extending perpendicular to the rotational axis.
US11384818B2
A pressing device for a toroidal continuously variable transmission, comprises: a disk having a toroidal curved surface and a first cam surface; a cam plate having a cylindrical portion, and an outward facing flange portion having a second cam surface; and a plurality of rolling bodies. The cylindrical portion has a cylinder portion, a projection projecting inward in the radial direction in one axial end portion of the cylinder portion and having a step surface, and an oil supply passage. At least a part of a radial inside opening of the oil supply passage opens to a portion of the cylinder portion positioned further on the other side in the axial direction than the step surface. The oil supply passage has an oil-passage hole penetrating the cylinder portion and an oil-passage groove continuous with the oil-passage hole and recessed from the step surface.
US11384816B2
Some embodiments of a gearbox for an irrigation system can comprise a housing, a worm gear within the housing, a bull gear within the housing and configured to be engaged with the worm gear, a diaphragm, and a vent. The diaphragm can define a chamber configured for expansion and contraction and configured to be positioned inside the housing to relieve pressure build-up within the housing. The vent can be configured to allow air to flow between the atmosphere and the chamber.
US11384815B2
A bicycle chain is used to transmit the drive force to at least one chain wheel and contains chain rollers and inner and outer plates which are connected to each other by means of pins. As a result of a corresponding shaping of the extremely hard inner plate, the wear on the teeth which cooperate with the inner plate can be reduced on the chain wheels or sprockets.
US11384810B2
A shock absorber pressure tube defining a working chamber is provided. A piston assembly coupled to a piston rod is slidably disposed in the pressure tube and divides the working chamber into upper and lower working chambers. A reserve tube surrounds the pressure tube to define a reserve chamber. A base valve assembly, position at one end of the pressure tube, controls fluid flow between the lower working chamber and the reserve chamber. The reserve tube comprises first and second open shells that are joined together at longitudinal seams to create a substantially cylindrical shape. The first and second open shells may be made from patchwork blanks, tailor welded blanks, tailor rolled blanks, or tailor heat treated blanks to give different portions of the first and second open shells different thicknesses, strengths, properties, or characteristics.
US11384796B2
A coupling includes a shaft at least partially inserted into a hollow shaft and a ring part, in particular of a clamping ring, slipped onto the hollow shaft. The ring part is axially restricted by a collar provided on the shaft, in particular a radially projecting collar, and/or the ring part is resting against a collar, or the collar, of the shaft, in particular against a collar provided on the shaft, in particular a radially projecting collar. The hollow shaft has slots, in particular axial slots, which are set apart from the collar. The ring part has a chamfer, in particular on its inner side and/or at its ring opening and/or in particular in its axial end region facing the collar, so that the inner diameter of the ring part in the axial region covered by the chamfer is greater than the inner diameter in the particular axial region in which the ring part is in contact with the hollow shaft. The ring part has a radially uninterrupted threaded bore into which a screw part, in particular a set screw and/or a threaded pin, is screwed, which exerts pressure on the hollow shaft.
US11384786B2
A car body (1) includes a nut plate (2) predominantly made of hardened steel, wherein the hardened steel of the nut plate (2) is welded directly to the car body (1). A nut plate (2) as for use in direct welding to a car body (1) is also provided. A method for mounting a nut plate (2), which is predominantly made of hardened steel, to a car body (1), wherein the method involves welding the hardened steel of the nut plate (2) to the car body (1).
US11384783B2
Two piece tack rivets and method of forming holes for permanent fasteners. The tack rivets have a stem with a head on one end and a grooved region adjacent the other end, and a locking collar for fitting over the grooved region of the stem for deforming into the grooved region of the stem on applying a setting force between the locking collar and the stem. The head includes cutouts formed therein. The cutouts prevent the head from forming large chips or strips when drilled.
US11384782B2
A furniture frame is provided that includes a plurality of frame members and a socket coupled to at least one of the plurality of frame members. The socket may include a plurality of walls arranged about a central axis and enclosing the central axis. The frame may further include a leg configured to be removably inserted into the socket. A first portion of the leg that is configured to be inserted into the socket may include walls having approximately a first thickness, and a second portion of the leg that is not configured to be inserted into the socket may include walls having approximately a second thickness that is twice as large as the first thickness. The frame members, socket, and leg may comprise metal.
US11384781B2
A turnbuckle for adjustably locking a component of a gas turbine engine to an engine static structure is disclosed. In various embodiments, the turnbuckle includes an outer body having a first internal threading and an outer body witness hole, the outer body defining a first end configured for attachment to the component; an inner body having a first external threading, the inner body defining a second end configured for attachment to the engine static structure; and a coupling body having a second internal threading configured to threadedly engage the first external threading and a second external threading configured to engage the first internal threading, wherein the outer body witness hole extends through the outer body and is configured to detect a first short-threading of the second external threading within the first internal threading.
US11384775B2
The present invention is related to an improved fan design. According to an exemplary preferred embodiment, the improved fan design of the present invention preferably includes a fan main body having fan blades, a front grill, a flexible guide cone, an air inlet, and supporting legs movable from a first position to a second position. According to preferred embodiments, the flexible guide cone is preferably also movable from a first position to a second position. In the first position, the flexible guide cone preferably forms a first shape which conforms to the surface of the air inlet. In a second position, the flexible guide cone preferably extends away from the air inlet.
US11384771B2
There is disclosed a compressor comprising a case comprising a discharging part provided one side and configured to discharge a refrigerant, the case defining a predetermined space for storing oil; a drive part comprising a rotor coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the case and having coils wound there around and configured to generate a rotation magnetic field, and a rotor mounted in the rotor and configured to be rotatable by the rotation magnetic field; a shaft extending in a state of being coupled to the rotor; a compression part lubricated by the oil in a state of being coupled to the shaft and configured to compress and discharge the refrigerant; and a sealing part extending from the stator towards the compression part and configured to induce the winding of the coil.
US11384767B2
A blower apparatus includes a casing, ribs located radially inward of the casing and integrally provided with the casing, a motor housing located radially inward of the ribs and integrally provided with the ribs, a first housing located radially inward of the motor housing, a first motor supported on one side in an axial direction by the first housing, a first impeller rotatable around the central axis on one side in the axial direction by the first motor, a second housing located on the other side of the first housing in the axial direction, a second motor supported on the other side in the axial direction by the second housing, and a second impeller rotatable around the central axis on the other side in the axial direction by the second motor. The second housing is fixed to the first housing.
US11384766B2
A centrifugal compressor includes an impeller, a plurality of diffuser vanes arranged in a circumferential direction on a radially outer side of the impeller, and a housing which includes a scroll portion forming a scroll flow passage positioned on a radially outer side of the plurality of diffuser vanes. The plurality of diffuser vanes include at least one first diffuser vane positioned in an angular range between a tongue section of the scroll portion and a scroll end of the scroll portion in the circumferential direction, and a second diffuser vane positioned outside the angular range. A vane outlet angle formed by a tangent line at a trailing edge to a pressure surface of each of the plurality of diffuser vanes satisfies β1<β2, where β1 is the vane outlet angle of the first diffuser vane, and β2 is the vane outlet angle of the second diffuser vane.
US11384759B2
A valve assembly forms a check valve for a scroll compressor including a fixed scroll having a pair of injection ports fluidly coupled to a compression mechanism. The valve assembly includes a valve body having a pair of flow paths with each of the flow paths fluidly coupled to a corresponding one of the injection ports. An injection plate has a pair of injection holes. A reed structure is disposed between the injection plate and the valve body with the reed structure including a pair of reeds. Each of the reeds is configured to selectively provide fluid communication between a corresponding one of the injection holes and a corresponding one of the injection ports. A valve gasket is disposed between the reed structure and the valve body and includes a pair of flaps with each of the flaps configured to selectively contact a corresponding one of the reeds.
US11384757B2
A pump cartridge comprising an external housing including a lateral wall, a first fin extending from a first side of the lateral wall, and a second fin extending from a second side of the lateral wall. The second side of the lateral wall may be opposite the first side of the lateral wall, such that the fins are on opposite sides of the lateral wall. The pump cartridge may be part of a pumping system further comprised of a chassis comprising a pump basin including an interior side wall, a first tab extending inwardly from the interior side wall, and a second tab extending inwardly from the interior side wall and opposed to the first tab. The first fin of the cartridge is reversibly engageable with the first tab of the chassis and the second fin of the cartridge is reversibly engageable with the second tab of the chassis.
US11384755B2
A linear compressor includes a cylinder, a piston, a linear motor configured to drive the piston, a current detection unit configured to sense a current in the linear motor, a relay configured to change an operation mode of the linear motor, and a control unit configured to set at least one parameter for determining a stroke of the piston according to the operation mode. The control unit is configured to: determine a first magnitude of a first current in the linear motor based on a state of the relay being in a first state, determine a second magnitude of a second current in the linear motor based on the relay being switched to a second state from the first state, compare the first magnitude to the second magnitude, and based on the comparison of the first magnitude to the second magnitude, determine whether the relay fails to operate.
US11384751B2
A push-pull micropump includes one or more pairs of channels configured to transfer one or more fluids, each channel pair having an aspiration channel and an injection channel; and an actuator configured to engage the one or more pairs of channels, wherein the actuator comprises a plurality of rolling members and a driving member configured such that when the driving member rotates, the plurality of rolling members rolls along the one or more pairs of channels to cause individually the one or more fluids to transfer through each channel pair simultaneously at different flowrates or the same flowrate, depending upon actuated lengths of the aspiration and injection channels of each channel pair, wherein an actuated length of a channel is defined by a length of the channel along which the plurality of rolling members rolls during a full rotation of the driving member.
US11384743B2
An aerosol-generating device for use in an aerosol-generating system is provided, the aerosol-generating device including a cavity configured to receive an aerosol-generating article; a heat exchanger having a first portion proximate to the cavity and a second portion distal to the cavity for capturing heat from a lighter; and a retractable cover, wherein the retractable cover is movable from a first position in which the retractable cover covers the second portion of the heat-exchanger to a second position in which the second portion of the heat exchanger is exposed for heating by a lighter and wherein the retractable cover is configured to automatically return from the second position to the first position when the second portion of the heat exchanger reaches a threshold temperature.
US11384740B2
A rotor lock assembly for locking a rotor of a wind turbine includes at least one removable rotor lock. The removable rotor lock has a housing comprising an opening and a mounting portion, a pin shaft positioned within the opening, and a locking mechanism. The opening extends from a first end to a second end thereof. The mounting portion is adapted for mounting to a bearing housing adjacent to a rotor lock plate of the rotor.
US11384738B2
Embodiments herein describe a method and associated controller for a wind turbine. The method comprises determining one or more characteristics of a sensor signal received from a mechanical sensor of the wind turbine; determining, based on the one or more characteristics of the sensor signal, an icing condition of the wind turbine; and controlling operation of one or more wind turbine systems based on the determined icing condition.
US11384737B2
A method is provided for determining an orientation of a rotor plane of a wind turbine, including the following steps: determining direction information of a moving part of a wind turbine on basis of at least one signal of a positioning system received at the moving part, determining the orientation of the rotor plane on basis of the determined direction information. Further, a wind turbine and a device as well as a computer program product and a computer readable medium are suggested for performing the method.
US11384734B1
A power generating windmill having a plurality of blade extending radially outward from a central rotor in position to be engaged by a moving fluid stream is provided. Each blade partially overlaps the blade prior to and behind it to increase lift forces on the blades.
US11384733B2
A method, controller, wind power plant, and computer program product are disclosed for operating a wind power plant comprising a plurality of wind turbines, the wind power plant producing a plant power output. The method comprises receiving a modulation request signal indicating a requested modulation of the plant power output, the requested modulation specifying a modulation frequency. The method further comprises generating a respective power reference signal for each of at least two wind turbines of the plurality of wind turbines selected to fulfill the requested modulation, Each generated power reference signal includes a respective modulation component corresponding to a portion of the requested modulation and having a frequency different than the modulation frequency.
US11384730B2
A method for controlling a multirotor wind turbine is disclosed. A first operational state of each of the energy generating units of the wind turbine is obtained. A difference in thrust acting on at least two of the energy generating units is detected. At least one constraint parameter of the set of operational constraints is adjusted in accordance with prevailing operating conditions and in accordance with the detected difference in thrust, and a new operational state for at least one of the energy generating units is derived, based on the at least one adjusted constraint parameter, the new operational state(s) counteracting the detected difference in thrust. Finally, the wind turbine is controlled in accordance with the new operational states for the energy generating units.
US11384728B2
Provided is a wind turbine rotor blade pitch bearing for mounting a rotor blade to a hub, including a carrier with an annular arrangement of bearing pad seats; a plurality of bearing pads, wherein a bearing pad is arranged in each bearing pad seat of the carrier; and a gripping assembly for gripping the carrier, which gripping assembly including a sliding part arranged to lie against an annular arrangement of bearing pads and further includes an access window dimensioned to expose a bearing pad when opened. A wind turbine with a number of such pitch bearings; and a method of performing a service routine on a wind turbine rotor blade pitch bearing is further provided.
US11384713B1
A liquid rocket engine integrates tap-off openings at a combustion chamber wall to direct exhaust from the combustion chamber to a tap-off manifold that provides the exhaust to one or more auxiliary systems, such as a turbopump that pumps oxygen and/or fuel into the combustion chamber. The tap-off opening passes through a fuel channel formed in that combustion chamber exterior wall and receives fuel through a fuel opening that interfaces the fuel channel and tap-off opening. The tap-off manifold nests within a fuel manifold for thermal management. The fuel channel directs fuel into the combustion chamber through fuel port openings formed in the combustion chamber, the fuel port openings located closer to a headend of the combustion chamber than the tap-off openings.
US11384709B2
Provided is a fuel injection control device that controls a fuel injection amount at higher accuracy. The fuel injection control device includes: a base waveform acquisition section 823 that generates a control current S9 for controlling a fuel injector 400; an A/D converter 824 that acquires a drive current P for the fuel injector 400 (controlled based on the control current S9) at each of measurement timings t1 to t6 based on a counter cycle; and an arithmetic operation section 821 that, based on a drive current P1 at a first measurement timing t1 and a drive current P2 at a second measurement timing t2 later than the first measurement timing t1, both acquired by the base waveform acquisition section 823, predicts a drive current P3 at a third measurement timing t3 later than the second measurement timing. With this configuration, the arithmetic operation section 821 makes a comparison between a predicted electric power amount calculated based on the drive current P3 at the third measurement timing t3 that the arithmetic operation section 821 has predicted and a target electric power amount calculated based on a control current predetermined, so as to correct the control current S9.
US11384701B2
A method for calculating the mass of an overlap gaseous flow (MOVL), wherein the exhaust pressure is higher than the intake pressure, or in the case of scavenging (SCAV), wherein the intake pressure is higher than the exhaust pressure. The overlap gaseous flow (MOVL) is the flow which flows, in overlap conditions, through the intake valve and the exhaust valve of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine. At least one intake valve is driven so as to vary the lift (H) of the intake valve in controlled manner. The overlap condition is a condition in which the intake valve and the exhaust valve are both at least partially open. The method comprises calculating the mass of the gaseous flow (MOVL) which flows through the intake valve and the exhaust valve on the basis of the relation: MOVL=PERM*β(P/P0,n)*P0/P0_REF*(T0_REF/T0)1/2/n.
US11384694B2
An auxiliary device system includes a motor generator, an auxiliary device motor, a converter configured to convert electric power generated by the motor generator, an inverter configured to drive the motor generator and the auxiliary device motor, a switch configured to be switched between a motor generator control state in which the inverter controls the motor generator and an auxiliary device motor control state in which the inverter controls the auxiliary device motor, and a controller configured to control the switch. When a condition in which a motor generator drive command is generated is satisfied, the controller sets the switch to the motor generator control state. When the condition is not satisfied, the controller sets the switch to the auxiliary device motor control state.
US11384688B2
An air intake structure for a nacelle of an aircraft is disclosed having an air intake lip with a U-shaped section open towards the rear, an acoustic panel that extends the air intake lip towards the rear and on an inner side, an outer panel extending the air intake lip towards the rear and on an outer side, and a rear strengthening frame fixed between the outer panel and the acoustic panel, where the rear strengthening frame partly defines an inner volume that is immediately in front of the rear strengthening frame. The air intake structure comprises an impact absorber element positioned in the inner volume and the impact absorber element assumes the form of a structure that is deformable during an impact and that is at least partially filled with a fluid. The impact absorber element is a flexible shroud filled with a pressurized gas.
US11384685B1
The invention in question relates, in particular, to a hydraulic variable compression ratio piston comprising a full floating eccentric mounted in the body of said piston, wherein the eccentric accepts a piston pin, with the pin in turn, accepting the small end of the connecting rod. The eccentric moves in a circular manner against the force of preloaded springs installed at the bottom of the piston, thereby allowing the piston to move up or down relative to the connecting rod. An adjustment mechanism within the piston comprising of a combination of said preloaded springs and a lifter acting against the movement of the eccentric, holds the piston's current position relative to the connecting rod until an increase or decrease in combustion forces act upon the piston and changes the compression ratio.
US11384681B2
An opposed-piston engine includes an electronic sensor located in a charge air channel, at position between an outlet of a charge air cooler and an air intake component that distributes charge air to cylinder intake ports of the engine. The electronic sensor is disposed to measure a rate of mass airflow between the outlet of the charge air cooler and the intake component and generate electronic signals indicative of the rate of mass airflow from the charge air cooler. A control mechanization of the opposed-piston engine is electrically connected to the electronic sensor for controlling air handling devices, fuel provisioning devices, and/or EGR devices in response to the electronic signals.
US11384677B2
A state estimation apparatus includes: a rate calculating configured to calculate, based on both a flow rate and an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into an oxygen storage catalyst, a rate of change in an oxygen storage amount in the oxygen storage catalyst; a limit calculating unit configured to calculate a limit rate which is a limit value for the rate of change; and a storage-amount updating unit configured to update, based on the rate of change and the limit rate, an estimated value of the oxygen storage amount. Moreover, the storage-amount updating unit is further configured to: update, when the rate of change does not exceed the limit rate, the estimated value based on the rate of change; and update, when the rate of change exceeds the limit rate, the estimated value based on the limit rate.
US11384675B2
The control section of a control apparatus executes a first control for operating a voltage application section such as to cause a current to flow in a first direction through a gas sensor in a first period, and a second control for operating the voltage application section such as to cause a current to flow in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, through the gas sensor in a second period. The control apparatus changes the length of at least one of the first period and the second period based on a comparison between a first measurement value, which is the absolute value of a value measured by a sweep measurement section during execution of the first control, and a second measurement value, which is the absolute value of a value measured by the sweep measurement section during execution of the second control.
US11384671B2
A gas/gas mixer for introducing gas into an exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine. The gas/gas mixer includes an exhaust gas flow duct (18) in an exhaust gas carrying element (14), through which exhaust gas (A) can flow. A mixer body (20) is arranged in the exhaust gas carrying element (14) with a plurality of exhaust gas flow openings (44), through which exhaust gas (A) flowing in the exhaust gas flow duct (18) can flow. A gas feed volume (38), through which gas (G) to be introduced into the exhaust gas stream (A) can flow, is formed in the mixer body (20). The gas feed volume (38) is open towards the exhaust gas flow duct (18) via a plurality of gas release openings (56).
US11384662B2
A valve assembly for controlling an apparatus for camshaft timing adjustment being driven by a hydraulic pump, having a valve body with a first control port, a second control port, a high pressure port and a low pressure port, the valve assembly having a first state for enabling a flow of a hydraulic fluid from the high pressure port to the first control port and from the second control port to the low pressure port, respectively, and a second state for enabling a flow of the hydraulic fluid from the high pressure port to the second control port and from the first control port to the low pressure port, respectively. The valve body has central actuating through-hole extending axially through the valve body defining an axial direction.
US11384657B2
A turbine engine has a fan and a low pressure compressor that rotate at a common speed and in a common direction. A fan drive turbine drives a gear reduction to, in turn, drive the low pressure compressor and the fan at a speed which is slower than a speed of the fan drive turbine. A combustor intermediate the low pressure compressor and the fan drive turbine and a thrust bearing mount the fan drive turbine, the thrust bearing being aft of a location of the combustor. A shear section in a drive connection connecting the fan drive turbine to the gear reduction is weaker than other portions of the drive connection. The shear section is aft of the thrust bearing.
US11384654B2
A gas turbine engine includes one of a turbine section and a compressor section having multiple stages. At least one of the stages defines an outer diameter comprised of a plurality of circumferentially arranged blade outer air seals. Each blade outer air seal is spaced from each adjacent blade outer air seal in the plurality of circumferentially arranged blade outer air seals via a mateface gap. The mateface gap is oblique to a radius of the gas turbine engine, such that air entering the mateface gap is directed to an inner diameter surface of at least one of the blade outer air seals in the plurality of blade outer air seals.
US11384647B2
A composite blade formed by laying up composite layers containing reinforcing fiber and resin, the composite blade comprising: a blade root mounted in a blade groove; an airfoil extending from the blade root to a front end side; and a metal patch mounted between the blade groove and the blade root, and bonded to the blade root.
US11384645B2
A turbine wheel is provided with a groove having a bottom surface and a pair of side wall surfaces. The turbine wheel includes: a balance weight that is arranged in the groove, is insertable from any circumferential position of the opening of the groove, and has a through-hole opened toward one of the pair of side wall surfaces; and a retaining member that contacts the one of the pair of side wall surfaces in a state of being inserted in the through-hole of the balance weight, to thereby cause the balance weight to abut against the other one of the pair of side wall surfaces and be retained in the groove. The groove has engagement recesses provided at intervals in a circumferential direction at the bottom surface or an engagement protrusion fitted to one of fitting recesses provided at intervals in the circumferential direction at the bottom surface and protruding from the bottom surface. The balance weight has an engagement protrusion or an engagement groove that engages with one of the engagement recesses or the engagement protrusion of the groove, to thereby restrict a circumferential shift of the balance weight in the groove.
US11384631B2
A method of condition monitoring of tubing (10) in an injection well (12). A baseline measurement of friction loss in the tubing is taken by obtaining pressure responses at the wellhead (34) and downhole for a number of injection rates. After a period of time, pressure responses at the wellhead and downhole are taken when the well is shut-in. Analysis of the Instantaneous Shut-In Pressure (ISIP) at the wellhead and downhole on shut-in provide the friction loss in the tubing for the last injection rate before shut-in. A comparison can be made with the baseline measurement of friction loss to indicate deterioration of the inner surface of the tubing if the friction loss has increased. The baseline measurement may be made using a step rate test or by analysis of the combined ISIP.
US11384630B2
Methods for logging a well utilizing natural radioactivity originating from clay based particulates are disclosed. The methods can include utilizing a gravel pack slurry containing a liquid and gravel pack particles to hydraulically place the particles into a gravel pack zone of a borehole penetrating a subterranean formation and obtaining a post gravel pack data set by lowering into the borehole traversing the subterranean formation a gamma ray detector and detecting gamma rays resulting from a native radioactivity of the gravel pack particles. The methods can further include using the post gravel pack data set to determine a location of the gravel pack particles and correlating the location of the gravel-pack particles to a depth measurement of the borehole to determine the location, height, and/or percent fill of gravel-pack particles placed in the gravel pack zone of the borehole.
US11384622B2
A method of decontaminating naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) from downhole equipment may include injecting a NORM dissolver into an isolated region of a wellbore in which NORM-contaminated production equipment is located; and removing the NORM contaminants from the production equipment. The method may also include recommencing production of hydrocarbons following the decontamination.
US11384619B2
A wellhead system includes a first position casing hanger and a second position casing hanger, arranged within a wellbore. The second position casing hanger is positioned axially higher and stacked on the first position casing hanger, and a weight of the second position casing hanger is supported, at least in part but less than entirely, by the first position casing hanger and, at least in part but less than entirely, by an actuated load shoulder transferring the force into a high pressure housing. The actuated load shoulder includes a load ring having a hanger side profile and a housing side profile, the load ring is adapted to engage a hanger profile formed in the second position casing hanger and a housing profile formed in the high pressure housing upon activation via the first position casing hanger.
US11384614B2
A running tool includes a tool body having a fluid conduit, and an actuation assembly including an actuator member connected to a release mechanism, the actuator member moveable in an axial direction from a first position to a second position to cause the release mechanism to disengage with a downhole component. The actuation assembly includes a first pressure chamber in pressure communication with the fluid conduit, where the running tool is configured to be activated to release the downhole component by applying fluid pressure to the first pressure chamber to generate an actuation force that moves the actuator member to the second position. The running tool also includes a second pressure chamber in pressure communication with the same fluid conduit. The second pressure chamber is configured to receive borehole fluid from the fluid conduit during deployment and apply a balancing force to the actuator member during the deployment.
US11384605B2
A centralizer assembly includes a tubular comprising a ground-down region and a raised region. A wall thickness of the tubular in the ground-down region is less than a wall thickness of the tubular in the raised region, and the wall thickness of the tubular in the ground-down region is substantially constant as proceeding around the tubular in the ground-down region. The centralizer assembly also includes a centralizer disposed at least partially in the ground-down region.
US11384601B2
A hole opener comprising a shaft, a key, a first blade, and a second blade. The shaft includes a front end, a rear end, and a longitudinal axis that extends through the front end and the rear end, the shaft configured for rotation about the longitudinal axis by the horizontal directional drilling rig. The key is coupled to the shaft for rotation with the shaft. The first blade is removably coupled to the key, and is spaced a first radial distance from the longitudinal axis and spaced a first longitudinal distance from the front end. The second blade is removably coupled to the key and is spaced a second radial distance from the longitudinal axis that is greater than the first radial distance. The second blade is spaced a second longitudinal distance from the front end that is greater than the first longitudinal distance.
US11384597B2
A window treatment system includes a roller tube, a covering material, a motor drive unit, and an idler. The covering material is coupled to the roller tube such that the covering material is configured to be wound and unwound from the roller tube when the roller tube rotates. The motor drive unit is configured to rotate the roller tube. The idler includes a bearing sleeve, a bearing, a bearing retainer, and a pin. The bearing sleeve and the roller tube rotate together. The bearing sleeve includes a cavity and a flange. The bearing is disposed at least partially within the cavity and also defines a bore. The bearing retainer is disposed between the flange and an outboard face of the bearing to maintain the bearing's position. The pin is disposed in the bore such that the bearing sleeve and the roller tube rotate with respect to the pin.
US11384595B1
The present disclosure provides for an installable pet door. The device may comprise a door, a knob, a plurality of windows, a frame, and a hinge. The knob may comprise a latch for secure closing. When the pet door comprises a hinge, the hinge may be inserted into a hinge recess so that the door may be securely locked. The orientation of the one or more elements of the pet door system may be predetermined, interchangeable, or customizable. The door may open from, slide into, revolve within, or move in some other non-limiting equivalent way from or relative to the frame. The frame may comprise a sensor. When the frame comprises a sensor, the sensor may interface with an external device, such as a doormat, to operate the door automatically as a result of motion, temperature, or other non-limiting sensible feature or method.
US11384593B2
An induction-heating welding method for vacuum insulated glass comprising upper and lower glass substrates is disclosed. Metal layers are prepared in regions to be sealed for the upper and lower glass substrates. A continuous solder is distributed on the metal layer in the lower glass substrate's region to be sealed. The upper and lower glass substrates are superposed. During welding, a high-frequency induction welding head's center moves forward along a centerline of a width of the metal layers; during induction heating of the metal layers in a corner region, a relative position between a movement route of the high-frequency induction welding head's center and the centerline of the width of the metal layers is changed, so that the movement route deviates from the centerline of the width of the metal layers, and thus reducing induction power and avoiding overheating of the metal layers in the corner region.
US11384590B2
Methods and systems for automatically opening the tailgate of a vehicle without any interaction with a smartkey or the vehicle itself are provided. The tailgate can be opened automatically by utilizing location data of the vehicle and remote key or smartkey proximity to the vehicle, in tandem with location data and mobile payment information of a user's mobile device. Instead of having to manually open the tailgate, place a foot under the tailgate, press a button on a remote key fob, or press a trunk-release button on the tailgate or key fob, the tailgate can automatically open as the user approaches the vehicle.
US11384588B2
Method (100) for controlling a drive arrangement (200) for an automatic door operator (30) of an entrance system (10) having one or more movable door members (D1 . . . Dm), whereby the automatic door operator (30) is for causing movements of the one or more movable door members (D1 . . . Dm) between a closed position and an opened position, respectively. The drive arrangement (200) comprises a DC-motor (34) for driving the automatic door operator (30), a H-bridge (96) and a controller (32, 232) for controlling the drive arrangement (200). The H-bridge (96) comprises a first leg (A) and a second leg (B), the first leg (A) and second leg (B) both being connected to a first voltage supply line (97) and a second voltage supply line (98), the first voltage supply line (97) having a higher voltage than the second voltage supply line (98).
US11384587B2
A user interface unit for an automatic door drive comprises a display unit for outputting output information and a control element arrangement for capturing input information. The user interface unit, together with the door drive, is mountable in a first spatial position and in a second spatial position on a door that is drivable by the door drive. The control element arrangement comprises a first control element and a second control element, wherein the first control element is arranged in the first spatial position of the user interface unit on the same spatial side of the control element arrangement as the second control element in the second spatial position. The display unit is designed to display the displayed output information in the same spatial orientation in both the first spatial position and the second spatial position of the user interface unit. In addition, the user interface unit is designed to capture the same input information in the first spatial position with the first control element as with the second control element in the second spatial position.
US11384581B2
A door opening/closing apparatus is provided which can expand storage space in a main body. A door opening/closing apparatus includes at least two hinges, and a connecting bar that is connected to the at least two hinges. Each hinge includes a main body-side member, a door-side member, a main arm, a first link, and a second link, and causes a door to move parallel to itself between a closed position and an open position. The main arm includes a bent portion. The connecting bar is mounted on a door side of the main arm. A center of the connecting bar in a width direction thereof is placed on a second shaft side relative to a center between a first shaft and the second shaft of the main arm in a front view of the door in a state where the door is in the closed position.
US11384580B2
A dual lower rail structure for opposite sliding doors is provided. The dual lower rail structure includes a first lower rail mounted in a longitudinal direction at a lower side of a vehicle body, a second lower rail mounted in a longitudinal direction on a vehicle body at one side of the first lower rail, a first lower rail roller unit rollably connected to the first lower rail, a second lower rail roller unit having one end rollably connected to the second lower rail, and the other end connected to a sliding door, and a lower rail swing arm rotatably connected to the first lower rail roller unit and the sliding door.
US11384579B2
A guiding assembly (300) for guiding a sliding door leaf (101) movable along a sliding door rail (110) is provided. The guiding assembly (300) comprises a bogie (130) having a first end (132) being provided with a first steering member (136) and a second steering member (138), and an opposite end (134) comprising at least one guiding element (122) being engaged with the sliding door rail (110), wherein the bogie (130) is connected to the sliding door leaf (101). The guiding assembly (300) further comprises a guiding rail (140) having first end section (140a) and a second end section (140b). The bogie (130) is configured to pivot relative the sliding door leaf (101) as the second steering member (138) travels along the guiding rail (140).
US11384571B2
The present invention relates to a hood latch system for a vehicle comprising a hood having a striker, the system comprises: a spring loaded claw rotatable between an engaged position in which the striker is locked in place by the claw, and an open position in which the striker is disengaged from the claw, and a main pawl rotatable between a first position in which the claw is held in place by the main pawl in the engaged position and a second position in which the claw is released by the main pawl whereby the claw is allowed to rotate into the open position. When the main pawl is caused to be activated for rotating from the first position to the second position by a crash acceleration force, the main pawl is configured to prevent the striker from being released.
US11384567B2
A combination lock including: locking means configured to be moveable between a first position in which the lock is placed in a locking state and a second position in which the lock is placed in an unlocked state; a set of mechanical combination reels operable by a user of the lock to configure the reels in accordance with a selected input combination; and a controller having a network interface and being configured to receive via the network interface one or more unlock input combinations associated with the unlocked state of the lock, and wherein the controller is configured to operate the locking means to place the lock in the unlocked state when an input combination of the mechanical combination reels matches any one of the one or more unlock input combinations.
US11384559B1
Disclosed is a power transmission tower having elevatable trusses. The power transmission tower has a tower head, a tower body, and a tower leg. The power transmission tower comprises a truss set symmetrically arranged at both sides of the tower body and an elevating device which is capable of driving the displacement of the truss set. The elevating device comprises a power unit arranged within the tower body, and a linear slide module secured to side of the tower body. The linear slide module is connected to the power unit and the truss set, respectively.
US11384551B2
A lounge assembly comprising a lower wall structure including at least first and second spaced apart side walls and a rear wall that together form an assembly space, each of the side walls and rear wall including an internal surface, a seat assembly supported between the first and second side walls, a first coupler mounted to the internal surface of the first side wall, a support arm having an arm length dimension between proximal and distal ends, the proximal end mounted to the first coupler adjacent the internal surface of the first side wall for rotation about a first vertical axis and a tablet member supported at the distal end of the support arm for rotation about a second vertical axis through a second range of motion with respect to the support arm.
US11384547B2
A method of constructing a hollow wall structure comprising: a step (A) of constructing a grout wall mold; a step (B) of grouted a curable liquid material into the grouting space; a step (C) of removing the first template wall and the second template wall so as to produce a semi-finished hollow wall having the Styrofoam board; and a step (D) of removing a semi-finished hollow wall having the Styrofoam board so as to obtain a hollow wall having a communication space. The communication space has an inflow conduit and a connection channel.
US11384545B2
A profile system includes elongate profiles (2) for terminating installed tiles with a uniform, substantially L-shaped cross-section comprising a fastening leg (5) for fastening to a substrate and forming a bearing surface. An adjoining, substantially perpendicular, boundary leg (6) forms a contact surface for the tiles and each of the front ends (12) of the boundary leg forms a contact surface provided with a receiving opening (13) for receiving a connecting element (4). At least one corner connecting piece (3) is configured to visually connect the front ends (12) of the boundary legs of three profiles (2). At least two connecting elements (4) are configured so that one exposed end is inserted into the receiving opening (13) of a profile (2) for terminating installed tiles and an other exposed end is inserted into the receiving recess (24) of a corner connecting piece (3).
US11384536B1
A main tee for a suspended ceiling formed of metal sheet and having an upper reinforcing bulb, a lower flange and a web between the bulb and flange, the web having evenly spaced, generally vertical cross tee receiving slots along a length of the tee and a series of suspension wire receiving holes along the length of the tee, the lowermost edges of the holes being above a highest extremity of the cross tee slots.
US11384524B2
A modular assembly is provided and includes a modular frame to be installed at least partially below grade and at least two panels attached to the modular frame, where the at least two panels are made of a material that withstands lateral, vertical and shear forces generated by surrounding below grade materials. The modular frame and the at least two panels are joined together as a unit prior to installation.
US11384511B2
A wheeled work vehicle includes: a transmission transmitting the rotational power of a traveling hydraulic motor to wheels; a traveling control valve having an interruption position that interrupts supply of hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic pump to the traveling hydraulic motor; a shift changeover valve that shifts the speed stage of the transmission by the position of the shift changeover valve being selectively switched; and a controller that controls the traveling control valve and the shift changeover valve. The controller switches the traveling control valve to the interruption position, then switches the position of the shift changeover valve such that the speed stage of the transmission is shifted to the low speed stage, and switches the traveling control valve from the interruption position to an original position side before the switching in a case where the controller shifts the transmission from the high speed stage to the low speed stage.
US11384510B2
A mobile hydraulic system includes a hydraulic actuator coupled to a load, and a control unit coupled to the load and/or to the hydraulic actuator. The control unit is adapted to anticipate an over-center transition of the load relative to a gravity vector prior to the over-center transition through the use of sensors configured with accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers. In some examples, the over-center transition is from an overrunning driving of the load to a passive driving of the load. In some examples, the over-center transition is from a passive driving of the load to an overrunning driving of the load. In some examples, the control unit is adapted to control change in a metered flow through one or more ports of the associated actuator to minimize and/or prevent one or more hydraulic effects of the anticipated over-center transition. In some examples, the control unit controls the metered flow by causing one or more actuators (e.g., a solenoid) to shift one or more valve positions to change the flow through one or more ports of the associated actuator.
US11384497B2
Flexible containment tubes form sections of a dike for fluid containment. For example, multiple vinyl-coated polyester tubes with a 19-inch diameter may be filled with water and stacked on top of each other to create a temporary diversion dike. Multiple sections of dike may be abutted together to form longer sections of dike. A vapor barrier or plastic membrane may wrap over dike sections and/or weaved through the flexible containment tubes as they are placed prior to filling. Configurations of the vapor barrier and associated anchoring mechanisms improve the utility of dike sections by reducing hydrostatic pressure of contained fluid on the dike, harnessing the weight of fluid columns, and mitigating seepage through the dike sections.
US11384486B2
A work train lays a rail of a railway track. The work train has a heating device with a heating zone, gas burners, and a radiant body interposed between the gas burners and the heating zone. The radiant body has openings that open into the heating zone. The work train is moved in a laying direction, so that at each moment a portion of the rail to be fixed passes through the heating zone. Heat is supplied to the rail to be fixed through the heating zone by feeding the gas burner so that no flame emerges from the openings in the heating zone and that at least 75% of the heat supplied to the rail is transmitted by radiation from the radiant body. Then the rail is fixed after the heat has been applied to a tie of the railway track behind the heating zone in the laying direction.
US11384485B2
A rail clip assembly includes a rail clip, and a toe insulator having a pad with a diagonally oriented rail contact face, and an open-sided pocket receiving a toe end of a rail clip. The toe insulator includes a snap lock, structured to adjust between a locked configuration trapping a locating projection of the toe insulator in a bore in the rail clip, and an unlocked configuration.
US11384481B2
The present application provides a calender, a floor production line and a production method using the calender, wherein the calender comprises a calendering roller rack and a set of calendering rollers arranged on the calendering roller rack. The set of calendering rollers comprises a plurality of calendering rollers arranged in a line and not vertically. The present application changes the arrangement of the calendering rollers. The calendering rollers are arranged in a line, not vertically. This arrangement reduces the overall height of the calender, decreases the requirements of the calender on the height of the factory building and facilitates long-distance transportation by containers. Using the calender to assemble the floor production line, the height space of the factory building occupied by the production line can be saved.
US11384474B2
A washing machine includes a pin member coupled to an upper side of a cabinet and extending upwardly toward the upper side of the cabinet. The pin member passes through a through hole of a top cover which is engaged by the pin member. When the top cover is moved to the upper side of the cabinet, the through hole is hooked up in a section where the pin member is inclined upward. Accordingly, it is possible to restrict the top cover from moving to the upper side of the cabinet by a predetermined distance or more. The washing machine includes a fixing bracket that is laterally coupled to the lower flange of the cabinet to which the pin member is coupled.
US11384472B2
Provided is a washing machine having a detergent supply device in which water supplied to the detergent supply device is evenly distributed in a detergent case so that detergent remaining in the detergent case is washed out completely. The detergent supply device includes a housing having an opening, a detergent case coupled to be movable through the opening and provided with a detergent accommodating part in which a detergent is accommodated, and a water supply unit coupled to the housing and configured to guide water to the detergent case, wherein the water supply unit includes: a first water supply frame provided with a first water supply channel that guides water to a first area corresponding to the detergent accommodating part; and a second water supply frame provided with a second water supply channel that guides water to a second area having at least a portion located outside a circumference of the first area.
US11384468B2
An ozone laundry system that injects ozone into the chemical injection system in order to allow the system to inject ozone as other cleaning chemicals are injected into the washer. This allows ozone to be injected through the wash cycle rather than just during the initial fill phase and additional avoids the expense and maintenance of adding ozone recirculation plumping to an ozone laundry system. Accordingly, ozone levels may be maintained at superior levels throughout the wash cycle.
US11384465B2
A household appliance for performing a cycle of operation on an article according to a cycle of operation. The household appliance includes a cabinet defining a treating chamber that is configured to receive the article. The cabinet also includes at least one consumable, a controller, a user interface, and a luminary communication interface.
US11384462B2
Indigo-dyed garments are treated with an anti-ozone agent to prevent ozone-related degradation of the garments before laser finishing. Without treatment, the garments can exhibit color loss (e.g., color change or fading) from exposure to ozone in the atmosphere. The indigo-dyed garments with anti-ozone treatment can serve as base templates in a laser finishing process flow. The anti-ozone treatment of the base templates can include a rinse including an ascorbic acid or vitamin C constituent during a base preparation process. Then quantities of these base templates can manufactured and stored for periods of time without exhibiting ozone-related degradation effects.
US11384459B2
A knitted component including a first knit layer of a first yarn and a second knit layer of a second yarn. The second knit layer and the first knit layer are at least partially coextensive with each other and form a pocket between the first and second knit layers. A third yarn is at least partially positioned within the pocket and between the first and second knit layer. The third yarn is secured to the first knit layer at a first location within the pocket and to the second knit layer at a second location within the pocket. The pocket forms a raised structure when the knitted component is subjected to a stimulus.
US11384451B2
The invention relates to a crucible for crystal growth and a method for releasing thermal stress of silicon carbide crystals. The crucible is a crucible in contact with the side surface of the prepared crystals, and the crucible has an annular non-closed splicing structure. The crucible for the crystal growth has the annular non-closed splicing structure, so that the crystals can be prevented from being hooped, hot stress concentrated in the crystals in the growth process of the crystals can be effectively released, the fracturing rate of the crystals can be reduced, and the finished product rate of the crystals can be increased.
US11384446B2
A copper electroplating solution comprising a copper salt, a source of halide ions, and a linear or branched polyhydroxyl. The copper electroplating solution is used to deposit copper having a high density of nanotwinned columnar copper grains on a substrate. The linear or branched polyhydroxyl may comprise a reaction product between 2,3-epoxy-1-propanol and aminic alcohol or ammonium alcohol.
US11384444B2
A method for electrochemical extraction of uranium from seawater using an oxygen vacancy (OV)-containing metal oxide includes the following steps: adding glycerin to a solution of indium nitrate in isopropanol, transferring a resulting mixture to a reactor, and conducting reaction to obtain a spherical indium hydroxide solid; dissolving the solid in deionized water, transferring a resulting solution to the reactor, and conducting reaction to obtain a flaky indium hydroxide solid; calcining the solid to obtain calcined OV-containing In2O3-x; adding the In2O3-x to ethanol, and adding a membrane solution; coating a resulting solution uniformly on carbon paper, and naturally drying the carbon paper; clamping dried carbon paper with a gold electrode for being used as a working electrode for a three-electrode system; and adding simulated seawater to an electrolytic cell, placing the three-electrode system in the simulated seawater, and stirring the simulated seawater for electrolysis to extract uranium from the seawater.
US11384432B2
Atomic layer deposition chamber with funnel-shaped gas dispersion channel and gas distribution plate
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided herein. In some embodiments, a substrate processing chamber includes: a chamber body; a chamber lid assembly having a housing enclosing a central channel that extends along a central axis and has an upper portion and a lower portion; a lid plate coupled to the housing and having a contoured bottom surface that extends downwardly and outwardly from a central opening coupled to the lower portion of the central channel to a peripheral portion of the lid plate; and a gas distribution plate disposed below the lid plate and having a plurality of apertures disposed through the gas distribution plate.
US11384429B2
Embodiments of the invention provide processes to selectively form a cobalt layer on a copper surface over exposed dielectric surfaces. In one embodiment, a method for capping a copper surface on a substrate is provided which includes positioning a substrate within a processing chamber, wherein the substrate contains a contaminated copper surface and a dielectric surface, exposing the contaminated copper surface to a reducing agent while forming a copper surface during a pre-treatment process, exposing the substrate to a cobalt precursor gas to selectively form a cobalt capping layer over the copper surface while leaving exposed the dielectric surface during a vapor deposition process, and depositing a dielectric barrier layer over the cobalt capping layer and the dielectric surface. In another embodiment, a deposition-treatment cycle includes performing the vapor deposition process and subsequently a post-treatment process, which deposition-treatment cycle may be repeated to form multiple cobalt capping layers.
US11384426B2
A method of coating a non-refractory and/or non-planar substrate (8) with synthetic diamond material using a microwave plasma chemical vapour deposition (CVD) synthesis technique, the method comprising: forming a composite substrate assembly (1) comprising: a support substrate (2) comprising an upper surface; one or more electrically conductive refractory guards (6) disposed over the upper surface of the support substrate and extending to a height hg above the upper surface of the support substrate; and one or more non-refractory and/or non-planar substrates disposed over the upper surface of the support substrate and extending to a height hs above the upper surface of the support substrate, wherein the height hs is less than the height hg, wherein a difference in height hg−hs lies in a range 0.2 mm to 10 mm; placing the composite substrate assembly within a plasma chamber of a microwave plasma CVD reactor; feeding process gases into the plasma chamber including a carbon containing gas and a hydrogen containing gas; feeding microwaves in the plasma chamber to form a microwave plasma at a location over the composite substrate assembly; and growing synthetic diamond material on the one or more non-refractory and/or non-planar substrates.
US11384407B2
Provided are a high-strength galvannealed steel sheet, and a manufacturing method therefor. The manufacturing method is for a high-strength galvannealed steel sheet which includes a zinc coated layer with a coating weight of 20 to 120 g/m2 per side on a surface of a steel sheet having a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.03 to 0.35%, Si: 0.01 to 1.00%, Mn: 3.6 to 8.0%, Al: 0.001 to 1.00%, P: 0.100% or less, and S: 0.010% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The method includes: setting a cold rolling reduction ratio to 20% or more and 35% or less when cold rolling is performed on the steel sheet, and setting a maximum steel sheet temperature to be reached in an annealing furnace to 600° C. or higher and 700° C. or lower when annealing is further performed on the steel sheet.
US11384405B2
The invention relates to a ferritic stainless steel having excellent corrosion and sheet forming properties. The steel consists of in weight percentages 0.003-0.035% carbon, 0.05-1.0% silicon, 0.1-0.8% manganese, 20-24% chromium, 0.05-0.8% nickel, 0.003-0.5% molybdenum, 0.2-0.8% copper, 0.003-0.05% nitrogen, 0.05-0.8% titanium, 0.05-0.8% niobium, 0.03-0.5% vanadium, less than 0.04% aluminium, and the sum C+N less than 0.06%, the remainder being iron and inevitable impurities in such conditions, that the ratio (Ti+Nb)/(C+N) is higher or equal to 8, and less than 40, and the ratio Tieq/Ceq=(Ti+0.5l5*Nb+0.940*V)/(C+0.858*N) is higher or equal to 6, and less than 40.
US11384400B2
The present invention relates to methods of treating cancer patients carrying one or more specific fusion genes. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that the protein encoded by the MAN2A1-FER fusion gene exhibits kinase activity and the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors targeting MAN2A1-FER in a cancer other than prostate, for example hepatocellular cancer, led to dramatic improvement of survival of animals xenografted with the cancer.
US11384397B2
This document provides methods and materials related to genetic variations associated with endometriosis. For example, this document provides methods for using such genetic variations to assess risk of, or susceptibility of developing or diagnosing endometriosis.
US11384396B2
Method of detection or diagnosis of abnormal gene expression in an individual comprising determining in a sample from the individual the presence or absence of a chromosome structure in which two separate regions of the gene have been brought into close proximity, to thereby detect or diagnose whether the individual has abnormal gene expression.
US11384391B2
This invention provides nucleotide analogues each of which comprises a tag comprising one or more Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) acceptor fluorophores, a nucleotide polymerase having one or more FRET donor fluorophores, and methods for sequencing single-stranded.
US11384388B2
An in vitro process for the production of closed linear deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) comprises (a) contacting a DNA template comprising at least one protelomerase target sequence with at least one DNA polymerase in the presence of one or more primers under conditions promoting amplification of the template; and (b) contacting amplified DNA produced in (a) with at least one protelomerase under conditions promoting production of closed linear DNA. A kit provides components necessary in the process.
US11384387B2
The disclosed disclosure is related to methods, compositions, and kits for targeting Adenovirus, nucleic acid. Compositions include amplification oligomers and/or detection probe oligomers. Kits and methods comprise at least one of these oligomers. Methods include uniplex and multiplex amplification and detection reactions.
US11384377B2
The invention provides improved methods for synthesizing polynucleotides, such as DNA and RNA, using renewable initiators coupled to a solid support. Using the methods of the invention, specific sequences of polynucleotides can be synthesized de novo, base by base, in an aqueous environment, without the use of a nucleic acid template.
US11384373B2
To provide a method for industrially producing a sugar carboxylic acid from an oxidized starch decomposition product or oxidized transfer reaction product having a degree of polymerization of 2 or more in a high yield, using a catalase formulation which quickly decomposes hydrogen peroxide produced as a by-product in the oxidation. A method for producing a sugar carboxylic acid in which an aldehyde group on a reducing end of a starch decomposition product or starch transfer reaction product having a degree of polymerization of 2 or more and having a glucose residue at the reducing end is oxidized, the method comprising a step of treating a raw material substrate containing the starch decomposition product or starch transfer reaction product in the presence of a catalase formulation with a carbohydrate oxidase agent producing hydrogen peroxide as a by-product in carbohydrate oxidation, wherein a total volume of a reaction liquid in the treatment step is 1 L or more, wherein a predetermined amount of a basic compound is added during the treatment step; and wherein a carbonate or a hydrogen carbonate is added as the basic compound in an amount by mass corresponding to 5% or more of the predetermined amount at a start of the treatment step.
US11384366B2
Provided are a method for establishing a lentiviral vector system capable of directly reflecting type I interferon response, and applications thereof. The method for establishing the lentiviral vector system comprises: cutting a Gaussia luciferase at the position of amino acid 109, removing 16 amino acids from N-terminus, and cloning the two polypeptides into a lentiviral vector to form a lentiviral BiLC expression vector; and cloning a shuttle plasmid of pEntry-IRF3 or pEntry-IRF5 or pEntry-IRF7 by homologous recombination into the lentiviral BiLC expression vector, so as to construct a lentiviral vector IRF3-BiLC or IRF5-BiLC or IRF7-BiLC capable of directly reflecting type I interferon response.
US11384365B2
The present invention relates to the field of (vector) vaccines, and especially to novel EHV's having an inactivation of UL18 and/or UL8. The present invention further concerns related expression cassettes and vectors, which are suitable to express genes of interest, especially antigen encoding sequences. The viral vectors of the present invention are useful for producing an immunogenic composition or vaccine.
US11384352B2
Provided herein, in some embodiments, are methods of purifying a nucleic acid preparation. The methods may comprise contacting a nucleic acid preparation comprising messenger ribonucleic acid with an RNase III enzyme that is immobilized on a solid support and binds to double-stranded RNA contaminants.
US11384343B2
The present invention relates to non-naturally occurring polypeptides useful for preparing armodafinil, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods of using the polypeptides. The non-naturally occurring polypeptides of the present invention are effective in carrying out biocatalytic conversion of the (i) 2-(benzhydrylsulfinyl)acetamide to (−)-2-[(R)-(diphenylmethyl)sulfinyl]acetamide (armodafinil), or (ii) benzhydryl-thioacetic acid to (R)-2-(benzhydrylsulfinyl)acetic acid, which is a pivotal intermediate in the synthesis of armodafinil, in enantiomeric excess.
US11384334B2
Provided are: a polymer gel for a medium, and a medium in which the stiffness of the polymer gel can be easily and reversibly changed and the shape of cells can be controlled according to the stiffness of the gel; and a method for culturing cells using the medium. The polymer gel for a medium contains a solvent and a crosslinked structure that is crosslinked by reversible bonds. The stiffness of the polymer gel for a medium can be easily and reversibly changed. Accordingly, when the polymer gel for a medium according to the present invention is used, cell morphology and function can be reversibly controlled according to the stiffness of the gel.
US11384324B2
The invention features a method of reconditioning a fluid container including heating for at least one cycle the fluid container to a select temperature for a select time duration; sealing for at least one cycle the fluid container; cooling for at least one cycle the fluid container to a select vacuum for a select time duration in an interior of the fluid container; wherein the select vacuum and the select time duration of the cooling step are selected to draw substantially a fluid from at least one of a pore, a cell and a fiber of the fluid container to a surface of the fluid container. The invention also features methods of infusing an infusion agent into a reconditioned fluid container, and methods for preparing construction materials, devices adapted for the construction material preparation methods, and construction materials including wood reconditioned and prepared in accordance with the methods of the invention.
US11384318B2
Laundry perfuming composition of the type comprising water-soluble, non-polymeric crystal salts in combination with a fragrance in free form, wherein said crystal salts are furthermore provided with at least a partial coating layer consisting of a fragrance in microcapsules, and such fragrance in free form is absorbed in said coating layer.
US11384314B2
The disclosure provides cleaning compositions including at least one acid, at least one carbonate salt, at least one gum, at least one acid salt, and, optionally, at least one chelating agent. When exposed to an aqueous medium, the cleaning compositions may produce carbon dioxide. These cleaning compositions find use, for example, in cleaning textile fibers, such as carpets, drapery, upholstery, and the like. The disclosure provides methods of cleaning soiled textile fibers with a cleaning composition including gum arabic, at least one acid, and at least one carbonate salt.
US11384307B2
A lubricant additive may be synthesized by forming a nanohybrid of a transition metal dichalcogenide and a metal borate, forming a base oil, and then dispersing the transition metal dichalcogenide into the base oil. An exemplary nanohybrid may be synthesized by forming a first solution by adding a borax solution to an aqueous solution of a metal source, forming a second solution by adding ethanol to the first solution, forming a mixture by mixing the transition metal dichalcogenide with the second solution, and heating the mixture at a temperature of 180° C. to 230° C. and a pressure of 5 to 20 bar under a nitrogen atmosphere.
US11384304B2
The present disclosure is directed to an additive mixture and method for controlling nitrogen oxide(s) by adding the additive mixture to a feed material prior to combustion.
US11384297B1
A system for upgrading pyrolysis oil may include a pyrolysis upgrading unit having a mixed metal oxide catalyst and a separation unit operable to separate used mixed metal oxide catalyst from a reaction effluent. A method for upgrading pyrolysis oil may include contacting the pyrolysis oil with hydrogen in the presence of the mixed metal oxide catalyst at reaction conditions to produce a reaction effluent. The pyrolysis oil may include multi-ring aromatic compounds. The mixed metal oxide catalyst may include a plurality of catalyst particles and each of the plurality of catalyst particles having a plurality of metal oxides. Contacting the pyrolysis oil with hydrogen in the presence of the mixed metal oxide catalyst at the reaction conditions may convert at least a portion of the multi-ring aromatic compounds in the pyrolysis oil to the light aromatic compounds.
US11384289B2
Systems and methods are provided for conversion of methanol to gasoline in an integrated system that can also upgrade light paraffins generated by the methanol conversion process to aromatics. In some aspects, the integrated configuration can include integration of the stage for upgrading of light paraffins to aromatics into the product separation sequence for processing of the methanol conversion effluent. In other aspects, the integrated configuration can further include sharing a common catalyst between the methanol conversion stage and the stage for upgrading light paraffins to aromatics.
US11384288B2
A method for forming mesophase pitch can include applying a stimulus to a first amount of coal tar to form a first amount of mesophase pitch. The stimulus can include one or more of an electromagnetic field (“EMF”) or a magnetic field. The method can further include evaluating a characteristic of the first amount of mesophase pitch, changing a parameter of the stimulus in response to evaluating the characteristic of the first amount of mesophase pitch, and applying the stimulus exhibiting the changed parameters to a second amount of coal tar to form mesophase pitch.
US11384283B2
Coated particles include a particulate substrate, a surface copolymer layer surrounding the particulate substrate, and a resin layer surrounding the surface copolymer layer. The surface copolymer layer includes a copolymer of at least two monomers chosen from styrene, methyl methacrylate, ethylene, propylene, butylene, imides, urethanes, sulfones, carbonates, and acrylamides. The resin layer includes a cured resin. Methods of preparing the coated particles include preparing a first mixture including at least one polymerizable material, an initiator, and optionally a solvent; contacting the first mixture to a particulate substrate to form a polymerization mixture; heating the polymerization mixture to cure the polymerizable material and form a polymer-coated particulate; preparing a second mixture including the polymer-coated substrate, an uncured resin, and a solvent; and adding a curing agent to the second mixture to cure the uncured resin and form the coated particle.
US11384274B2
The diverting agent of the present invention contains resin particles of polyvinyl alcohol-based resin. The resin particles of polyvinyl alcohol-based resin are a particle mixture containing two or more types of resin particles having different particle diameters, and the diverting agent contains resin particles A of polyvinyl alcohol-based resin having a particle diameter of 1,700 μm or more in a range of 5 mass % to 95 mass % and resin particles B of polyvinyl alcohol-based resin having a particle diameter of 250 μm to 1,000 μm in a range of 5 mass % to 95 mass %.
US11384254B2
A chemical mechanical polishing composition includes water, colloidal silica abrasive particles with a silica core containing a nitrogen species, a cerium compound coating including cerium oxide, cerium hydroxide or mixtures thereof, and a positive zeta potential, optionally an oxidizing agent, optionally a pH adjusting agent, optionally a biocide and optionally a surfactant. The chemical mechanical polishing composition has a pH of less than 7. Also described is a method of polishing a substrate containing silicon dioxide and a method of making the composite colloidal silica particles with the coating of cerium oxide, cerium hydroxide or mixtures thereof. The chemical mechanical polishing composition can be used to enhance the removal of silicon dioxide from a substrate in an acid environment.
US11384252B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous coating composition comprising polyurethane A and vinyl polymer, wherein the polyurethane A comprises as building blocks at least: (a) a polyisocyanate(s) containing at least two cyclic groups, (b) a non-cyclic aliphatic diisocyanate(s) whereby the non-cyclic aliphatic group connecting the two isocyanate groups has from 4 to 36 carbon atoms, and (c) a component(s) containing an isocyanate-reactive group(s), whereby the summed amount of (a) and (b) is 10 to 60 wt. %, relative to the total weight amount of components used to prepare the polyurethane A; and whereby the weight ratio between (a) and (b) is in the range from 50:50 to 99:1.
US11384238B2
A polymer composition is described well suited for being combined with relatively short fibers. The fibers, for instance, can have a mean fiber length of less than 1,000 microns, such as less than 700 microns, such as less than 500 microns. The polymer formulation allows for intimate mixing with the fibers without having to use a sizing agent. In one embodiment, the composition contains a polybutylene terephthalate polymer combined with a thermoplastic polymer having lower crystallinity.
US11384224B1
Cellulose acetate films having excellent optical properties are disclosed. The films are made from cellulose acetate and a plasticizer. A solvent cast precursor film is initially formed and then subjected to high temperatures and pressures for improving at least one optical property.
US11384220B2
Provided is a white resin composition that can maintain a high degree of whiteness even after undergoing a thermal resistance test. A white resin composition contains: a white pigment; a surface-treated calcium carbonate in which particle surfaces of a synthetic calcium carbonate with an average particle diameter of 0.05 to 1 μm are subjected to surface treatment with a condensed phosphoric acid and an organic modified silicone oil; and a resin, wherein a content ratio between the white pigment and the surface-treated calcium carbonate is, in mass ratio (white pigment to surface-treated calcium carbonate), within a range of 90:10 to 60:40, and a total content of the white pigment and the surface-treated calcium carbonate in the resin composition is within a range of 5 to 70% mass.
US11384201B2
A non-halogenated flame retardant polyamide composition is disclosed which comprises a polyamide, a non-halogenated flame retardant, and a synergist. The polyamide may have a ratio of carboxylic acid to amine end groups of greater than 1.8. Products formed from the composition are also disclosed. The polyamide may comprise nylon 6,6.
US11384197B2
The present invention relates to polymers comprising a repeating unit of the formula—[Ar3]c—[Ar2]b—[Ar1]a—Y(R1)n1 (R2)n2—[Ar1′]a—[Ar2′]b′—[Ar3′]c′— (I), wherein γ is a bivalent heterocyclic group, or ring system, which may optionally be substituted, Ar1, Ar1′Ar2, Ar2′, Ar3 and Ar3′ are independently of each other a C6-C24 arylen group, which can optionally be substituted, or a C2-C30 heteroarylen group, which can optionally be, Formula (1), substituted; at least one of R1 and R2 is a group of formula (II); and their use as organic semiconductor in organic devices, especially in organic photovoltaics and photodiodes, or in a device containing a diode and/or an organic field effect transistor. The polymers according to the invention can have excellent solubility in organic solvents and excellent film-forming properties. In addition, high efficiency of energy conversion, excellent field-effect mobility, good on/off current ratios and/or excellent stability can be observed, when the polymers according to the invention are used in organic field effect transistors, organic photovoltaics and photodiodes.
US11384193B2
The present invention relates to a novel styrenic polymer comprised of the repeat units of structures (I), (II), and (III), wherein R1, R2 and R3 are individually selected from H or a C-1 to C-4 linear alkyl, R5, R7 and R6 are individually selected from a C-1 to C-8 linear alkyl, a C-3 to C-8 linear alkyl and a C-3 to C-8 cyclic alkyl and to the novel composition comprised of this polymer and a spin on organic solvent. In another aspect of this invention it pertains to the use of this composition to create a grafted on a substrate, and a further aspect, this grafted film may be used in a directed self-assembly process.
US11384189B2
The present invention provides a graft copolymer comprising (A) a seed comprising units derived from an alkyl methacrylate monomer; (B) a core formed on the seed and comprising units derived from an alkyl acrylate monomer; and (C) a shell formed on the core and comprising units derived from one or more one or more selected from the group consisting of an aromatic vinyl-based monomer, a vinyl cyanide-based monomer and an alkyl methacrylate monomer, wherein an average particle diameter of the core is 40 to 90 nm, and a graft ratio of the shell is 10 to 30%, and a thermoplastic resin composition and a thermoplastic resin molded article including the same.
US11384179B2
A method of preparing a catalyst comprising a) contacting a non-aqueous solvent, a carboxylic acid, and a chromium-containing compound to form an acidic mixture; b) contacting a titanium-containing compound with the acidic mixture to form a titanium treatment solution; c) contacting a pre-formed silica-support comprising from about 0.1 wt. % to about 20 wt. % water with the titanium treatment solution to form a pre-catalyst; and d) thermally treating the pre-catalyst to form the catalyst. A method of preparing a catalyst comprising a) contacting a non-aqueous solvent and a carboxylic acid to form an acidic mixture; b) contacting a titanium-containing compound with the acidic mixture to form a titanium treatment solution; c) contacting a pre-formed chrominated silica-support comprising from about 0.1 wt. % to about 20 wt. % water with the titanium treatment solution to form a pre-catalyst; and d) thermally treating the pre-catalyst to form the catalyst.
US11384176B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method of making a reaction inhibiting polymer having a formula of M—CO—NR. The method may comprise reacting PAA with an organic coupling reagent and at least one alicyclic amine to produce the reaction inhibiting polymer. In accordance with another embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of making an acryloyl monomer having a formula of Ra—CO—NR may comprise reacting an acrylic acid with an organic coupling reagent and an alicyclic amine to form the acryloyl monomer. Ra may be an alkylene moiety, M may be a poly(acrylic) acid backbone. NR may be an alicyclic amine moiety coupled to the polymer backbone or coupled to the alkylene moiety.
US11384172B2
Provided is a polymer having antimicrobial and disinfecting properties against a wide range of kinds of germs. A polymer, including: a polymer chain having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (1); and a partial structure (excluding the polymer chain) derived from a compound containing a group represented by —NH—. [In formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Z represents a group forming an organic ammonium salt, —NR5R6 (where R5 and R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group), or a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group, and X represents a single bond, or a divalent linking group.]
US11384166B2
The present invention relates to a process for the continuous preparation of a polyolefin from one or more α-olefin monomers in a reactor system, the process for the continuous preparation of polyolefin comprising the steps of: feeding a polymerization catalyst to a fluidized bed through an inlet for a polymerization catalyst; feeding the one or more monomers to the reactor, polymerizing the one or more monomers in the fluidized bed to prepare the polyolefin; withdrawing polyolefin formed from the reactor through an outlet for polyolefin; withdrawing fluids from the reactor through an outlet for fluids and transporting the fluids through first connection means, an heat exchanger to cool the fluids to produce a cooled recycle stream, and through second connection means back into the reactor via an inlet for the recycle stream; wherein a thermal run away reducing agent (TRRA) is added to the reactor in a discontinuous way.
US11384165B2
A stable aqueous dispersion of multi-stage polymeric particles comprising a polymer and an oligomer, and an aqueous freeze-thaw stable coating composition comprising the aqueous dispersion providing coatings made therefrom with acceptable scrub resistance.
US11384158B2
Disclosed is an antibody which binds to a symmetrically dimethylated arginine analyte that can be used to detect a symmetrically dimethylated arginine analyte in a sample, such as in a homogeneous enzyme immunoassay method.
US11384156B2
A chimeric antigen receptor specific for the extracellular membrane-proximal domain (EMPD) of membrane-bound IgE (mIgE) is provided. The EMPD-specific chimeric antigen receptor comprises an extracellular ligand binding domain capable of binding EMPD, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular domain that mediates T cell activation upon EMPD binding. Nucleic acids and vectors encoding the EMPD-specific chimeric antigen receptor are provided. T cells transduced with such vectors find use in chimeric antigen receptor-based adoptive T-cell therapy for targeting IgE-expressing B cells and treating IgE-mediated allergic diseases.
US11384155B2
Isolated antigen binding molecules that specifically bind to an anti-CD19 scFv comprising SEQ ID NO: 1 are provided. The antigen binding molecules can be used in the methods provided herein.
US11384154B2
The present invention relates, in part, to chimeric proteins comprising at least one targeting moiety that recognizes and binds SIRP1α and their use as diagnostic and therapeutic agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the chimeric proteins and their use in the treatment of various diseases.
US11384153B2
B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) is expressed on malignant plasma cells. The present invention provides novel bispecific antibodies (bsAbs) that bind to both BCMA and CD3 and activate T cells via the CD3 complex in the presence of BCMA-expressing tumor cells. In certain embodiments, the bispecific antigen-binding molecules of the present invention are capable of inhibiting the growth of tumors expressing BCMA. The bispecific antigen-binding molecules of the invention are useful for the treatment of diseases and disorders in which an upregulated or induced BCMA-targeted immune response is desired and/or therapeutically beneficial. For example, the bispecific antibodies of the invention are useful for the treatment of various cancers, including multiple myeloma.
US11384150B2
An immunoconjugate, comprising an anti-EGFR antibody or a binding fragment thereof, and a kinase inhibitor.
US11384146B2
The invention provides novel anti-BTLA antibodies, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies, and therapeutic methods of using such antibodies and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of diseases such as cancer or autoimmune disease.
US11384142B2
This invention concerns methods of treating a patient diagnosed with a platinum-resistant ovarian cancer comprising administering to said patient an effective amount of an anti-VEGF antibody and a chemotherapeutic.
US11384141B2
The present document describes an antibody or an antigen-binding fragment that bind to serum albumin comprising three complementarity determining regions (CDR1, CDR2 and CDR3), for half-life extension of biologics. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions, nucleic acid vectors, cells comprising the nucleic acid vectors, and methods of removing molecules from serum.
US11384140B2
This invention relates to the general field of recombinant expression of polypeptides in animal cell culture. More specifically, the invention concerns improved selection of cells transfected with recombinantly engineered vectors designed to express polypeptides, in particular heteromultimeric polypeptides.
US11384137B2
Vaccine-derived neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) for CMV infections and small peptides which define precise recognition elements of the antigens by the NAbs. The vaccine-derived NAbs may be produced by immunizing a subject with a gH/gL/UL128/UL130/UL131A pentameric glycoprotein complex (gH/gLPC). The vaccine-derived NAbs may have properties similar or identical to those of NAbs induced in a subject naturally infected with CMV. Native and non-native small peptides from UL128 and gH have been defined by mapping epitopes and deriving artificial sequences which are minimal recognition elements of vaccine-derived NAbs. These small peptides can be used to elicit vaccine-derived NAbs that prevent CMV entry into susceptible cell types and protect humans from infection and disease. Multivalent vaccines comprising these small peptides and/or epitopes as well as methods of using the vaccine-derived NAbs and small peptides for treating or preventing CMV infection in a subject are also provided.
US11384135B2
This invention relates to genetically engineered strains of yeast and methods, for producing recombinant protein (e.g., collagen). Recombinant protein of the present invention is used to produce biofabricated leather or a material having leather-like properties containing recombinant or engineered collagen. The yeast strains are engineered to produce ascorbate and/or increased production of α ketoglutarate.
US11384134B2
This disclosure relates to variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs) modifications such as humanized sequences and polypeptides comprising such sequences that specifically bind a target molecule and uses related thereto. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to recombinant polypeptide VLRs disclosed herein and variants thereof. In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to treating or preventing a disease or condition comprising administering an effective amount of a recombinant polypeptide or variant disclosed herein to a subject in need thereof.
US11384133B2
The use of model T cell receptors (TCRs) as scaffolds for in vitro engineering of novel specificities is provided. TCRs with de novo binding to a specific peptide-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) product can be isolated by: 1) mutagenizing a T cell receptor protein coding sequence to generate a variegated population of mutants (a library), 2) selection of the library of TCR mutants with the specific peptide-MHC, using a process of directed evolution and a “display” methodology (e.g., yeast, phage, mammalian cell) and the peptide-MHC ligand. The process can be repeated to identify TCR variants with improved affinity for the selecting peptide-MHC ligand.
US11384127B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11384115B2
The sulfated oxysterol 5-cholesten-3β, 25-diol 3-sulphate, a nuclear cholesterol metabolite that decreases lipid biosynthesis and increases cholesterol secretion and degradation, is provided as an agent to lower intracellular and serum cholesterol and/or triglycerides, and to prevent or treat lipid accumulation-associated inflammation and conditions associated with such inflammation. Methods which involve the use of this sulfated oxysterol to treat conditions associated with high cholesterol and/or high triglycerides and/or inflammation (e.g. hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases, atherosclerosis, etc.) are also provided.
US11384110B2
The present invention relates to a method of removing residual organic solvent from crystalline oligosaccharides by the use of water vapour as well as the pharmaceutically and nutritionally suitable crystalline oligosaccharides obtained by said method.
US11384107B2
Provided is an easy-to-process thermoelectric conversion device whose shape can be freely changed. The device is provided containing electrodes and an ionic solid, wherein the ionic solid has: an anionic heterometal complex aggregated to form a crystal lattice; and a cationic species present in interstices of the crystal lattice, and wherein the anionic heterometal complex includes: a metal M1 selected from the group consisting of the elements of Groups 8, 9 and 10 of the Periodic Table and Cr and Mn; a metal M2 selected from the group consisting of the elements of Groups 11 and 12 of the Periodic Table; and a ligand.
US11384104B2
The present invention provides a compound having the structure of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, or isomer thereof, for the controlled delivery and release of Agent.
US11384079B2
The present disclosure provides, inter alia, Compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof that are modulators of the C5a receptor. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use including the treatment of diseases or disorders involving pathologic activation from C5a and non-pharmaceutical applications.
US11384076B2
The present invention relates to small molecule compounds of formula (I) and their use as FLT3 inhibitors for the treatment of various diseases, such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The present invention further relates to methods of synthesizing the compounds and methods of treatment.
US11384075B2
The invention relates to new quinolinone compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, to processes for the preparation of said compounds and to the use of said compounds as FGFR (fibroblast growth factor receptor) inhibitors and to their use in the treatment of diseases, e.g. cancer.
US11384059B2
A carrier for an ethylene epoxidation catalyst, the carrier comprising a porous alumina body formed of sintered particles of alumina in a substantial absence of inorganic binder species other than alumina, wherein the substantial absence of inorganic binder species corresponds to an amount of less than 0.6 wt % inorganic binder species other than alumina and comprises at least a substantial absence of silicon-containing species.
US11384055B2
Described herein are compounds, methods of making such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with the enzyme glycolate oxidase (GO). Such diseases or disorders include, for example, disorders of glyoxylate metabolism, including primary hyperoxaluria, that are associated with production of excessive amounts of oxalate.
US11384041B2
The present invention provides a process for preparing an alkoxymethyl alkynyl ether compound having a terminal triple bond of the following formula (4): H—C≡C(CH2)aOCH2OCH2R (4), wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, an n-alkyl group having 1 to 9 carbon atoms, or a phenyl group, and “a” represents an integer of 1 to 10, the method comprising subjecting an alkynol compound having a terminal triple bond of the following formula (1): H—C≡C(CH2)aOH (1), wherein “a” is as defined above, to an alkoxymethylation with a halomethyl alkyl ether compound of the following formula (3): RCH2OCH2X (3), wherein X represents a halogen atom, and R is as defined above, in the presence of a dialkylaniline compound of the following formula (2): [CH3(CH2)b][CH3(CH2)c]NC6H5 (2), wherein b and c represent, independently of each other, an integer of 0 to 9, to form the alkoxymethyl alkynyl ether compound (4) having a terminal triple bond.
US11384037B2
The invention relates to a process for removing dienes from a material stream comprising C3 to C5 hydrocarbons by selective hydrogenation at a specified reaction pressure and a specified reaction temperature in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst, wherein the reaction pressure and the reaction temperature at the reactor inlet are regulated such that the reaction pressure at the reactor inlet does not deviate by more than 0.01 bar from the specified reaction pressure and the reaction temperature at the reactor inlet does not deviate by more than 0.1° C. from the specified reaction temperature and the proportion of hydrogen supplied to the selective hydrogenation is in the range from 2 to 20 moles per mole of diene present in the material stream comprising C3 to C5 hydrocarbons.
US11384029B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods of carbonation processing for the fabrication of cementitious materials and concrete products. Embodiments include manufacturing processes of a low-carbon concrete product comprising: forming a cementitious slurry including portlandite; shaping the cementitious slurry into a structural component; and exposing the structural component to a CO2 waste stream, thereby enabling manufacture of the low-carbon concrete product.
US11384024B2
A negative thermal expansion material made of zirconium phosphate tungstate containing an Al atom, and having a thermal expansion coefficient of −2.0×10−6 to −3.3×10−6/K. According to the present invention, a negative thermal expansion material made of zirconium phosphate tungstate having various thermal expansion coefficients, and an industrially advantageous manufacturing method thereof can be provided.
US11384023B2
The present disclosure relates to the manufacture of ceramic products by aqueous gelcasting. Exemplary ceramic products include sanitary ware, such as toilets and sinks. The process includes a slurrying step, a mixing step, a molding step involving aqueous gelcasting, a drying step, a glazing step, and a firing step.
US11384021B2
Grains for the production of a sintered refractory product, a batch for the production of a sintered refractory product, a process for the production of a sintered refractory product and a sintered refractory product.
US11384017B2
A method for manufacturing a binder of a hydratable material includes providing a starting material from one or more raw materials convertible by tempering at 600 to 1200° C. into the hydratable material, tempering the starting material to provide the hydratable material containing not more than 10% by weight monocalcium silicate and at least 15% by weight hydratable phases in the form of lime and dicalcium silicate, wherein the residence time and the tempering temperature are adapted to obtain the hydratable material by converting not more than 80% by weight of the starting material, and cooling the hydratable material to provide the binder comprising the hydratable material. The binder can be mixed with water and optionally one or more of aggregate, additives, admixtures to obtain a binder paste that is placed, hydrated and carbonated to produce a building product.
US11384014B2
A glass mat is provided. The glass mat includes an assembly of glass fibers; and a binder composition including a polymer resin and a crosslinker. The polymer resin has a pH of at least about 5.0. The polymer resin includes a styrenic copolymer, an acrylic copolymer, or combination thereof having at least one functional group of a carboxylic acid, a salt of a carboxylic acid, an anhydride, a salt of an anhydride, or combination thereof. The crosslinker includes a polyol, a polyepoxy, a polycarbodiimide, a polyaziridine, a bivalent metal carbonate, or combination thereof. Further provided is a method of making the glass mat.
US11384012B2
A durable, hydrophobic and anti-scratching nano-coating for coating on a glass substrate or surface having a water contact angle of about 90° or more, a reduced coefficient of friction by 50% or more, and a reduced surface roughness compared to those of the glass substrate or surface without the nano-coating is provided, which includes a layer of fluorinated silica derived from sol-gel hydrolysis between one or more tetraalkoxysilanes having at least three alkoxy groups and one or more polyfluorinated silanes having at least a trialkoxysilane and from 15 to 17 fluorine atoms in the presence of a catalyst to a reaction mixture of the sol-gel hydrolysis between the one or more tetraalkoxysilanes and the one or more polyfluorinated silanes, and a solvent. A related method of fabricating the nano-coating via atomization of acid-containing or alkali-containing solution and sol-gel precursor solution onto the glass surface is also provided.
US11384008B2
The heat resistant separation fabric for use as tool cover in glass processing comprises heat resistant yarns (100). The heat resistant yarns comprise a core (110) and at least one wrap yarn (123, 125). The core is a core yarn. The core yarn is a multifilament glass yarn. The at least one wrap yarns (123, 125) comprises stainless steel fibers. The core yarn is present in the heat resistant yarn without crimp. The at least one wrap yarn is wrapped around the core yarn.
US11383996B2
The present invention discloses an oil-contained wastewater treatment apparatus applying the integrative physical methods. The wastewater treatment system of the invention may include a main tank, where the upper part is a rectangular body and the lower part is designed to a multi-bucket bottom structure. Two oil collection boxes are arranged to both outside ends of tank. A mud discharging outlet is attached to the bottom of the tank. Meanwhile, both of a water outlet and an electric polarizer are localized at the end face of the effluent on the tank. A power supply for the electro-adsorber is fixed to the inlet end on the top face of the tank. Divided by upper and lower deflectors, the inside of the tank is divided to three processing units, i.e., sludge-water separation unit, degradation-coalescence treatment unit, and sedimentation-electric polarization unit. Vortex centripetal gas flotation is applied to remove oil. Electro-adsorption induces the micelle clustering to achieve the decolorization. The electric polarization functions as anti-scaling, descaling, sterilization, and corrosion inhibition. Moreover, the referred physical treatment can be fulfilled in virtue of centrifugal force, buoyancy, gravity, adsorption force, coalescence force, inertia, shifting, and modification. Through the application of the system, the oil-contained wastewater can be treated environmentally friendly, safe and pollution-free. Besides the above advantages, high removal efficiency can make the apparatus and method a widely used approach on the oil-contained wastewater treatment.
US11383995B2
A process of removing contaminants and concentrating wastewater includes delivering wastewater from a source of wastewater to a hydrogen sulfide removal device, mixing an oxidant with the filtered wastewater in the hydrogen sulfide removal device to produce a hydrogen sulfide lean effluent, delivering the hydrogen sulfide lean effluent to a direct contact concentrator, and evaporating a portion of the hydrogen lean effluent in the direct contact evaporator to produce a slurry and an exhaust gas.
US11383992B2
The improved water purification system includes a water purification unit having a tap water inflow port for receiving a tap water inflow from a water supply system to produce relatively purified water and a brine water outflow having impurities concentrated therein. An RO filter having an RO membrane separates relatively unfiltered water flow into purified water and the brine water outflow. A flush flow activation chamber fluidly coupled to the brine water outflow includes a plunger for substantially occluding brine water outflow through the brine outflow port when seated, and substantially permits brine water outflow to exit the purification unit through the brine outflow port when unseated. Accordingly, the activation chamber generates back pressure within the water purification system to flash flow tap water inflow into the purification unit and through the RO membrane when the plunger moves from being seated to unseated, thereby substantially refreshing said RO membrane.
US11383985B2
Compositions, methods, and articles of manufacture relating to a transparent/translucent insulating material formed by a hybrid silica gel composition made of porous silica particles joined with each other by silane crosslinking through a three dimensional silica network. In one embodiment, the hybrid silica gel includes small porous silica particles, and is made by a process that avoids energy intensive techniques.
US11383983B2
A nanocarbon separation device of the present invention includes a separation tank which is configured to accommodate a dispersion liquid including a nanocarbon, a first electrode that is provided at an upper part in the separation tank, a second electrode that is provided at a lower part in the separation tank, and a porous structure that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode in the separation tank.
US11383978B2
A heat integrated steam reformer, which incorporates a catalytic combustor, which can be used in a fuel processor for hydrogen production from a fuel source, is described. The reformer assembly comprises a reforming section and a combustion section, separated by a wall. Catalyst (21) able to induce the reforming reactions is placed in the reforming section, either in the form of pellets or in the form of coating on a suitable structured catalyst substrate such as fecralloy sheets. Catalyst (22) able to induce the combustion reactions is placed in the combustion section in the form of coating on suitable structured catalyst substrate such as fecralloy sheet. A steam and fuel mixture (30) is supplied to the reforming section (14) where it is reformed to produce hydrogen. A fuel and an oxygen (32) containing gas mixture is supplied to the combustion section where it is catalytically combusted to supply the heat for the reformer. The close placement of the combustion and reforming catalysts facilitate efficient heat transfer. Multiple such assemblies can be bundled to form reactors of any size. The reactor made of this closely packed combustion and reforming sections is very compact.
US11383974B2
A method for dehydrogenating a hydrogen carrier medium comprises the method steps of providing a metal-containing catalyst material, an at least partially loaded hydrogen carrier medium, a metal-free reaction accelerator substance, transferring hydrogen from the hydrogen carrier medium to the reaction accelerator substance and releasing hydrogen gas from the reaction accelerator substance.
US11383972B2
A method for producing a microstructure in a substrate with a membrane-like bridging or overhanging surface includes modifying the substrate, which is made of glass, by laser radiation along a peripheral contour. A membrane layer is applied over a surface of the substrate for producing the bridging or overhanging surface, wherein, at least in partial surfaces enclosing the peripheral contour of the laser modifications, a sacrificial layer is disposed between the substrate and the membrane layer. A side of the substrate facing away from the membrane layer is exposed to an etching attack such that material is removed primarily along the peripheral contour until the sacrificial layer is reached and there is a disintegration or reduction of the sacrificial layer and a separation of a connection of a part of the substrate enclosed by the peripheral contour from the surrounding substrate and from the membrane layer.
US11383963B2
A platform assembly includes a work platform including a platform floor and a safety rail extending from the platform floor to a rail height, and a primary sensor unit secured to the work platform and positioned adjacent the platform floor. The primary sensor unit is configured to monitor an area from the platform floor to a space above the rail height and forward and aft of the work platform. The platform assembly enhances protection for an operator from sustained involuntary operation resulting in an impact with an obstruction or structure.
US11383962B2
An industrial truck extends along a longitudinal truck axis and comprises a drive section and a stand-on platform positioned on the drive section. The stand-on platform comprises a base element configured to pivot about a first pivot axis and a stand-on element mounted to the base element and configured to pivot about a second pivot axis. The first pivot axis is parallel to the second pivot axis and offset from the second pivot axis by an offset distance in a direction of a longitudinal truck axis, and the stand-on element is configured to extend above the base element to form a standing surface. A first suspension is configured to support the base element and a second suspension is configured to support the stand-on element. The first suspension is positioned at a distance from the second suspension in the direction of the longitudinal truck axis.
US11383958B2
An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator compensation assembly includes at least one compensation sheave having an outer surface configured to engage a plurality of compensation rope members. A guard has an inner surface situated adjacent the outer surface of the compensation sheave. A plurality of dividers that extend away from at least one of the outer surface of the compensation sheave or the inner surface of the guard. The dividers establish a space between adjacent ones of the dividers for accommodating a compensation rope member.
US11383957B2
A method and an elevator for moving an elevator car to a landing floor in case of a predefined event related to a main electrical power supply of an elevator are disclosed. The method includes charging energy from the main electrical power supply into an external electrical energy storage prior to detecting the predefined event related to the main electrical power supply, controlling an operation of an electric motor for moving the elevator car with an electrical drive to decelerate the elevator car and to produce regenerative electrical energy, selectively utilizing said energy charged from the main electrical power supply into the external electrical energy storage and said produced regenerative electrical energy to maintain an elevator brake in deactivated state.
US11383949B2
Provided are a loading portion configured to load a medium discharged from a discharging portion, and a plurality of pressing portions provided downstream of the discharging portion in a discharging direction of the medium, and configured to press the medium loaded on the loading portion. The loading portion includes a first loading portion including a downward sloped surface sloping downward in the discharging direction, and also includes a second loading portion including an upward sloped surface sloping upward in the discharging direction. The downward sloped surface and the upward sloped surface form a discharging path through which the medium is discharged. The plurality of pressing portions includes a first pressing portion configured to press the medium loaded on the first loading portion, and also includes a second pressing portion configured to press the medium loaded on the second loading portion.
US11383948B2
Maintaining a level of tension on material as it is processed in a manufacturing operation assists in the processing of the material. The tension of the material as it is fed through a process station is maintained by a material sag portion, such as an unsupported portion of the material extending between a roll of the material and the process station. The formation of the sag portion and the loading of the material forming the sag portion are automated and adjusted with a system having a material storage retrieval system, a shuttle, a tensioning device, and/or a processing station.
US11383930B2
A delivery system generates a pick sheet containing a plurality of SKUs based upon an order. A loaded pallet is imaged to identify the SKUs on the loaded pallet, which are compared to the order prior to the loaded pallet leaving the distribution center. The loaded pallet may be imaged while being wrapped with stretch wrap. At the point of delivery, the loaded pallet may be imaged again and analyzed to compare with the pick sheet.
US11383929B2
A control device executes retrieval control to, in response to a transport request in which a type and an order of each of a plurality of articles that are transported to a transport target location are specified, retrieve all the articles specified in the transport request from a target automatic warehouse, which is one automatic warehouse selected from among a plurality of automatic warehouses, to a retrieval transport device in a specified order that is specified in the transport request. The control device executes, before execution of the retrieval control, inter-warehouse movement control to, if at least one of the plurality of articles specified in the transport request is not stored in the target automatic warehouse, move the article that is not stored in the target automatic warehouse from another automatic warehouse to the target automatic warehouse by using an inter-warehouse transport device.
US11383927B2
The present invention concerns an order-picking system, comprising a goods-in buffer (3) with at least one storage area (4), in which the picked goods units are stored before they leave the order-picking system, and at least one staging area (6), in which the picked goods units are staged automatically by an operating device in accordance with a predetermined sequence. In addition, the present invention comprise a pallet racking warehouse for a shipping buffer and a stacker crane for a corresponding pallet racking warehouse. A gravity conveyor (5) for the staging area of the shipping buffer is also the subject-matter of the present invention.
US11383917B2
Provided is an aerosol product which has a simple configuration and which makes it possible to emulsify a foamable liquid and a foaming agent sufficiently and discharge a satisfactory foam without shaking the aerosol container. An aerosol product (100) has a plurality of partitioned housing spaces and a valve unit (120) provided with an inflow port (122) corresponding to the housing space, wherein at least one among the plurality of housing spaces is a foamable liquid housing section (141) that houses contents (S) including a foamable liquid, at least one other of the plurality of housing spaces is a foaming agent housing section (140) that houses contents including a foaming agent (LG), and the foamable liquid (S) discharged from the inflow port (122) and the foaming agent (LG) discharged from the inflow port (122A) are mixed in an actuator (130).
US11383916B2
An improved package for core-less rolls of bags provides a shrink-wrap film around the bag having differential shrinkage to better accommodate the roll form.
US11383906B2
An extensible slit sheet paper product is produced having an expandable slit pattern that forms open cells upon expansion of the paper product. The paper product is an extensible paper having an extensibility in the range from 1-9% in the machine direction and 1-5% in the cross direction. The expansion produces an array of hexagonal cells. The expanded extensible paper can be used to wrap an object for shipping by wrapping and cushioning the object in the expanded slit sheet material. The extensible, expandable slit sheet paper can be wrapped around itself to produce a void fill product.
US11383902B2
A pressure relief cap includes a body engageable with a container and rotatable about an axis for coupling or decoupling the body from the container. The pressure relief cap also includes a handle and a motion control mechanism operable to selectively couple the handle to the body. The motion control mechanism includes a clutch plate moveable between an engaged position in which the clutch plate permits torque transfer from the handle to the body, and a disengaged position in which the clutch plate inhibits torque transfer from the handle to the body. The pressure relief cap also includes a relief valve for releasing pressure in response to elevated pressure within the container.
US11383898B2
A beverage container closure or lid that is adapted for closing an open end of a beverage container. The lid is selectively couplable to the beverage container and includes a selectively openable stopper that when closed, creates a fluid-tight seal between the beverage container and the environment. The stopper may be selectively opened by a user by the user pressing a button disposed on a side of the beverage container closure. The stopper is subsequently automatically closed when the user releases the button. Thus, a user may open and close the beverage container closure using a single hand without the need to remove the beverage container closure from the beverage container.
US11383896B2
A cover for a container includes a plurality of panels extending at least partially around an interior of the cover. The plurality of panels includes a central panel, at least one side panel foldably connected to the central panel, and at least one end panel foldably connected to the central panel. At least one of the at least one side panel and the at least one end panel includes an opening configured to receive a portion of the container. The opening includes an engagement edge for engaging the container. The cover also includes a handle foldably connected to the central panel.
US11383894B2
A disposable, bio-degradable food and beverage storage container, preferably of cardboard construction. The storage container is comprised of a cylindrical body portion and a removable lid having a seal that is also comprised of a biodegradable material. The interior surface of the body portion of the storage container is further comprised of an embossed portion line and a portion indicator. In one embodiment of the storage container, the body portion comprises a pair of opposing and spaced apart mixers fixedly attached to the interior surface for the mixing and/or agitation of the contents of the storage device in a spill-proof manner.
US11383893B2
Containers comprise a container body and a cap, wherein the cap comprises a surface feature configured to accommodate engagement with a member to provide desired increased leverage to a user to aid loosening and/or removing the cap from the container. The surface feature may be an opening or any other surface feature, and the member may be another container having a cap or container body having a surface feature configured to complement and fit the surface feature of the cap, forming an interlocking attachment therewith. Both containers may be configured identically, each having surface features that complement one another, thereby forming a system made up of such two containers for loosening/removing the caps of one another. The caps each may include an opening and a section sized to fit in the opening so that the section of one cap fits in the opening of the other cap.
US11383891B2
Child-deterrent packaging includes an enclosure having opposing first and second sidewalls coupled with each other. The child-deterrent packaging also includes a zipper assembly coupled with the first and second sidewalls of the enclosure. The zipper assembly includes first and second zipper portions that mate with each other to enclose product that release from each other to provide access to the product. The child-deterrent packaging also includes a peel seal providing a barrier to ingress of one or more of oxygen or moisture. The peel seal is one or more of: disposed between and coupling the first and second zipper portions with each other, disposed between and coupling an entry section of the first sidewall with the first zipper portion of the zipper assembly, or disposed between and coupling the entry section of the first sidewall with another portion of the first sidewall.
US11383888B2
The invention comprises a package for reactive materials comprising a panel defining a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and at least two side edges. The panel comprises at least one film layer, an adhesive adjacent the film layer, wherein the adhesive is pattern applied such that it is disposed within an interior region of the film layer and wherein a perimeter of the film layer is adhesive-free adjacent each of the first end, second end, and side edges, and a release liner comprising a substrate layer and a cured silicone layer. The release liner is adhered to the film layer via the adhesive, the substrate layer of the release liner is disposed adjacent the film layer, and a perimeter of the release liner is smaller than the perimeter of the film structure. In an embodiment, the panel comprises a tubular body and the side edges are sealed together to form a fin seal, the first end is sealed closed to form an end seal, and the second end is sealed closed to form an end seal.
US11383884B2
The present disclosure describes a device for transporting waste or recyclable material. An example device may include a base and a collapsible sleeve, wherein the collapsible sleeve is movable between an open state and a collapsed state. The collapsible sleeve is structured to interface, in the open state, with the base to form a bin for receiving and transporting waste or recyclable material. The example device may further include an RFID as part of the base or the collapsible sleeve.
US11383882B2
A stackable transport and storage container includes a bottom, two side walls, two end-face walls, and inner partitions and/or a container cover. The inner partitions and/or a container cover can be detachably fastened to the container without the aid of tools and additional fastening elements. In the storage and transport container, the side walls and the end-face walls comprise folded-over edges, above which stacking profiles which are open at the bottom can be placed. The connecting piece of the stacking profile, which piece forms the stacking support, has profiling in the form of a keder holder into which a pull-in keder, having a keder core and a keder flap, can be inserted. Partitions for receiving transport and storage parts and/or the protective cover are fastened to at least one keder flap.
US11383880B2
A plastic internally hollow body has a cavity for containing liquids, solids or gases, and includes a main body shaped and having an inner surface at least partially defining the cavity. The inner surface terminates in a shaped edge that delimits a coupling aperture to the cavity. The internally hollow body includes a closure body, having an outer sealing surface suitable at least partially engaging the inner surface of the main body. The closure body at least partially closes the cavity in correspondence of the coupling aperture. The main body is joined to the closure body at least partially along the shaped edge by a joining element over-moulded to the main body and the closure body and covering the over-moulding seat resulting between the main body and the closure body. A method for making the internally hollow body over-moulds the joining element by injection moulding with an over-moulding mould.
US11383870B2
The invention relates to chemical and pharmaceutical industry, in particular to technologies of obtaining sterile drugs, drug substances and cosmetic products used in the form of solutions or emulsions, and comprising poloxamer. The thermal method for sterilizing aqueous poloxamer solutions is provided, the method including: dissolving a poloxamer in water for injection; performing the sterilizing filtration of the aqueous poloxamer solution simultaneously with filling sterile containers with the filtered poloxamer solution; sealing the containers containing the poloxamer solution; applying a thermal sterilization with steam under pressure to the containers containing the poloxamer solution, and cooling them, wherein the thermal sterilization of the containers containing the poloxamer solution with steam under pressure is performed under the pressure between 82.4 and 107.8 kPa.
US11383869B2
A packaging machine for producing sealed packages of a pourable product from a packaging material web advancing along a web advancement path comprises an isolation chamber separating inner and outer environments, and a sterilization apparatus for sterilizing the packaging material web and in fluid connection with the isolation chamber. The sterilization apparatus comprises a main shielding chamber housing an irradiation device and comprising an advancement channel having inlet and outlet openings, and through which, in use, the packaging material web advances, and first and second auxiliary shielding chambers having respectively first and second inner spaces fluidically connected to the advancement channel. A pressure control controls a first pressure in the first auxiliary shielding chamber, a second pressure in the second auxiliary shielding chamber and a third pressure in the isolation chamber, the third pressure being higher than the second pressure and the second pressure being higher than the first pressure.
US11383868B2
A system of managing the sterilisation of empty flexible pouches (1) provides applying sacrificial closures (200) to the empty pouches, loading the empty provisional closed pouches to be sterilised on a transport device (300) for the collective transportation, performing the sterilisation of the transport device (300) carrying the empty provisional closed pouches, and finally separating, in a sterile chamber, the sacrificial closures (200) from the pouches, filling and applying a tamper-proof cap (100).
US11383863B2
A top loading assembly is provided. The assembly includes a robotic arm and an article collector assembly supported thereby. The robotic arm is characterized by first and second arm segments and three pivotable arm joints, a first arm joint J1 being a distal arm joint for operatively supporting said collector assembly, a second arm joint J2 being an intermediate arm joint, and a third arm joint J3 being a terminal/anchorable arm joint. The collector assembly, directable from an article collection locus to a collected article loading locus, includes a collector adapted to effectuate select clamping in relation to articles collected by the collector during direction of the collector assembly from the article collection locus to the collected article loading locus.
US11383861B2
An apparatus and methods for producing at extremely high production speeds small pouches filled with tobacco or other granular, powdered or solid content. An endless web substrate, with or without flavor film thereon, is formed into a tubular shape with a longitudinal seam. The tube is cut to individual lengths, and a procession of tubes is crimp-closed at one end, filled and crimp-closed at the other end to complete pouch production. During production, the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch are parallel to one another and the longitudinal seam of the pouch is midway between the sides of the pouch and orthogonal to the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch.
US11383859B1
An unmanned aerial vehicle according to certain embodiments generally includes a chassis, a power supply mounted to the chassis, a control system operable to receive power from the power supply, at least one rotor operable to generate lift under control of the control system, and a winch mounted to the chassis. The winch includes a reel and a motor. The reel has a line wound thereon, the line having a free end. The reel includes a circumferential channel in which a wound portion of the line is wound onto the reel. The circumferential channel includes an inner portion, an outer portion, and a passage connecting the inner portion and the outer portion. The motor is operable to rotate the reel under control of the control system to thereby cause the line to wind onto and off of the reel, thereby causing the free end of the line to raise and lower.
US11383854B2
An oil reservoir assembly includes a tank, a return passage, a pressurization valve, a first passage, and a vent valve. The tank includes a canister, a fill port, an first oil outlet, an second air outlet, and an inlet. The inlet is disposed in the canister and is connected to a restrictor. The return passage is connected to the inlet of the tank and to a scavenge pump. The pressurization valve is fluidly connected to the second air outlet of the tank. The first passage is connected to the pressurization valve and to an accessory gearbox of the engine. The vent valve is disposed in the return passage and includes a body, a channel extending through the body, an inlet orifice, and an outlet orifice. The inlet orifice is disposed in an end of the body. The outlet orifice is fluidly connected to the inlet orifice via the channel.
US11383853B2
An electric propulsion unit (102) for an aircraft is shown. A fan (202) produces a pressured airflow (P) by raising the pressure of an incident airflow (I). An electric machine (201) is arranged to drive the fan and is located within a casing (204). A primary cooling circuit (205) is located within the casing, and includes the electric machine and a first pass of a fluid-fluid heat exchanger (208), thereby placing the electric machine and the fluid-fluid heat exchanger in thermal communication. A secondary cooling circuit includes a second pass of the fluid-fluid heat exchanger and an air-fluid heat exchanger (210) located within the pressurised airflow produced by the fan, thereby placing the fluid-fluid heat exchanger and the air-fluid heat exchanger in thermal communication.
US11383840B2
The field of this disclosure relates to the use of variable transparency technology on aircraft seats. Specifically, there is described a system that uses a transparent material that can be transitioned to become more opaque upon application of a voltage. The transparent material may be used for privacy purposes, may be used to create a video screen on a selected surface, or for other uses described herein.
US11383834B2
Detectors detect a user's touch operation to an airframe, and a motor control unit controls rotations of motors, based on the user's touch operation detected by the detectors. The motor control unit is configured to have a hovering function of making the airframe automatically perform a stationary flight at a hovering position. The motor control unit keeps the setting of the hovering function off during a period while the detectors are detecting a user's touch operation, and when the detectors stop detecting a user's touch operation, the motor control unit sets the hovering function on.
US11383828B2
Aspects of the subject technology relate to a landing gear of a rotorcraft including two skid tubes and a cross tube. The cross tube couples the skid tubes to each other and attaches the skid tubes to a fuselage of the rotorcraft. At least a part of the cross tube is made of a composite material to achieve sufficient absorption of energy while preventing the fuselage from coming into contact with a ground surface, at the time of landing the rotorcraft, under a more satisfactory condition. The rotorcraft includes the landing gear to achieve sufficient absorption of energy while preventing the fuselage from coming into contact with the ground surface, at the time of landing the rotorcraft, under a more satisfactory condition.
US11383825B2
A micro detecting device includes a flying main body, at least one fluid actuation system, an image capture system and a controller. The fluid actuation system is disposed within the flying main body and includes a driving module, a flow guiding channel, a convergence chamber, plural valves and a fluid discharging zone. The driving module is consisting of plural flow guiding units for transporting fluid. The flow guiding channel includes plural diverge channels which are in fluid communication with plural connection channels. The convergence chamber is in fluid communication between the corresponding diverge channels. The valves are respectively disposed in the corresponding connection channels and controlled in open/closed state for the corresponding connection channels. The fluid discharging zone is in communication with the connection channels. The image capture system is used to capture external image. The controller is connected to the valves to control the valves in the open/closed state.
US11383810B2
The cooling device for a power source for a ship propulsion device that pumps up cooling water, from which foreign matters with sizes that cause clogging of a cooling water route have been removed, supplies the cooling water to a cooling water passage (30), and discharges the cooling water to outside after cooling a power source (10) includes: a filtration device (40, 40A, 40B) provided in the cooling water route to filtrate foreign matters remaining in the cooling water, and the filtration device is of a cartridge type that incorporates a filter (45, 72) for filtration disposed in a main water passage (P1) and a valve member (46, 66) configured to open and close a bypass water passage (P2) and that is configured such that in a case in which clogging occurs in the filter, the valve member opens to cause the cooling water to flow via the bypass water passage.
US11383806B2
A subsea assistance system for supporting saturation diver operations includes an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) such as an observation remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) that can be flown to a subsea worksite, and various items of ancillary electrical equipment that are connected or subsea-connectable to the UUV or to a skid forming part of the UUV. Those items can include any of: a hand-portable subsea display that displays an image to a diver communicated from the UUV, which image can be generated or enhanced underwater and/or by surface support; a subsea camera that captures subsea image data for communication to the UUV and from the UUV to surface support; and a selection of electrical power tools for performing subsea tasks. Fast-acting protective devices protect divers when using high-voltage wet-mateable subsea connectors on the UUV.
US11383799B2
A floating support structure for an offshore wind turbine, comprises a float intended to be partly immersed and on which a wind turbine mast is intended to be assembled, and a counterweight connected to the float and intended to be immersed under the float. The float comprises a toroid or polygon-shaped main structure with at least five sides, a central tubular structure having a diameter adapted to receive the mast of the wind turbine and comprising a section able to be ballasted in order to adjust the waterline of the float, a first series of horizontal struts distributed about a vertical axis and connecting the main structure to the central structure, and a second series of oblique struts distributed about a vertical axis and connecting the main structure to the central structure at an angle comprised between 15° and 60° with the horizontal struts.
US11383795B2
Craft including hull having stern with mobile platform having first work position where it is extracted from water, and second work position where it is immersed in water, device for platform movement having a pantograph, a structure with an articulated quadrilateral connected to the mobile platform, said movement and a unit for actuating movement of this structure, which unit allows moving the platform from the first to second work position and vice versa. The structure with articulated quadrilateral folded back onto hull when platform is in first position, and extended when platform is in second position. The movement device includes a body distinct from hull. The structure with articulated quadrilateral integral with, but mobile relative to body. The body secured on hull stern and having at least one fixed step, at least one second step inside the structure with articulated quadrilateral, which step moveable and foldable back with the structure.
US11383793B2
A control device for a bicycle is arranged or can be arranged on the handlebar of the bicycle and serves to wirelessly drive at least one electronic, electrical, electromechanical or electrohydraulic component of the bicycle. The control device includes an operator control arrangement which has at least one manually operable operator control element and is designed to respond to operation of the operator control element and to output electrical signals which represent the operation. The control device also includes at least one electronic circuit arrangement comprising a radio communication circuit and a control circuit which is connected or can be connected to the operator control arrangement. The control device also may include at least one antenna which is connected or can be connected to the radio communication circuit or which is integrated into the said communication circuit.
US11383792B1
A vehicle for a person to ride on a ground surface includes a rigid frame that has front and rear ends and at least a seat on a top side of the frame. A steering mechanism disposed proximate the front end of the frame is adapted for allowing the person to steer a front wheel. A steering fork may include two lower fork members each selectively detachable from two upper fork members of the steering fork at two telescoping attachment arrangements that includes a front suspension arrangement. A rigid frame extension has a front end that is pivotally fixed proximate the rear end of the frame. The frame extension includes at least one rear wheel fixed with a rear end of the frame extension. A motor is fixed with the front wheel and is electrically connected with at least one battery and a throttle switch fixed with the steering mechanism.
US11383785B2
Disclosed is a tilting structure of a mobility device, the tilting structure including: a base frame; a tilting bar coupled to the base frame to be able to rotate in two side directions on a rotational center fixed to the base frame; front wheels having a rotary shaft fixed to steering knuckles vertically extending; first connection links each having a first end rotatably coupled to the steering knuckle and a second end rotatably coupled to the base frame; second connection links each having a first end rotatably coupled to the steering knuckle at a position spaced over or under the coupling position of the first connection link and a second end rotatably coupled at a position spaced apart from the rotational center of the tilting bar; and shock-absorbing members each having a first end fixed to the base frame and a second end connected to the steering knuckle, the first connection link, or the second connection link.
US11383772B2
The present disclosure provides a rear air guide device for a vehicle. The rear air guide includes a first air guide element and a control device that moves the first air guide element between a first terminal position and a second terminal position such that the first air guide element prolongs a car body element of the vehicle. The first air guide element is pivotably mounted to the car body element such that first air guide element pivots between the first terminal position and the second terminal position. The rear air guide further includes a second air guide element coupled to the first air guide element. When the first air guide element is set at the second terminal position, the second air guide element spans a gap between the first air guide element and the car body element.
US11383771B1
Integrated fiber-reinforced polymer vehicle rail-and-panel structures and methods of making the same
Presented are fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite components for motor vehicles, methods for making and using such components, and motor vehicles with unitary FRP-composite vehicle roof rail-and-panel structures. A vehicle body structure for a motor vehicle includes one or more elongated support rails, each of which includes at least two contoured rail panels that are joined together to define therebetween an internal rail cavity. At least one of these contoured rail panels is formed with an FRP material. The vehicle body structure also includes a body panel that is formed with the same FRP material. The body panel includes a main panel section with one or more stepped interfaces that each projects transversely from a respective side of the main panel section and mounts thereon one of the contoured rail panels. The body panel and a contoured rail panel of each support rail are integrally formed as a single-piece, unitary structure.
US11383768B2
A composite floor is provided comprising a skeletal framework, foam core inserts, an impact resistant sheet, and a weather resistant sheet bonded together with adhesive. Recreational vehicles incorporating such floors are also contemplated, as are methods of making the composite floor.
US11383759B2
A manual steering command value generation unit generates a manual steering command value, using a steering torque. A summed angle command value calculation unit calculates a summed angle command value, by adding the manual steering command value to an automatic steering command value. A control unit performs angle control of an electric motor, based on the summed angle command value. The control unit includes a basic torque command value calculation unit that calculates a basic torque command value, a disturbance torque estimation unit that estimates a disturbance torque other than a motor torque of the electric motor applied to an object driven by the electric motor, and a disturbance torque compensation unit that corrects the basic torque command value, based on the disturbance torque. The manual steering command value generation unit uses an estimated torque calculated based on the disturbance torque, when generating the manual steering command value.
US11383754B2
A steering system includes an upper jacket, a lower jacket, a support, a lock mechanism, and a shock absorber. The support supports the lower jacket. The lock mechanism switches a restriction of a telescopic adjustment and a termination of the restriction. The upper jacket includes a protruding stopper configured to regulate a position of the upper jacket at one end of a telescopic stroke range. The lock mechanism includes an opening and closing portion configured to enter a path of the stopper while the restriction of the telescopic adjustment is terminated, and configured to open the path of the stopper while the telescopic adjustment is restricted.
US11383743B2
A rail signal arrangement for a rail signaling system comprises a rail signal having a rail signal lamp including a plurality of light emitter sub-arrays each comprising a light emitter, wherein the light emitter sub-arrays are electrically connected in parallel. A control circuit is provided and configured to operate the rail signal lamp in response to operating instructions from a remote operations management system, detect the proportion of light emitter sub-arrays that are in an operable condition with a monitoring system, and provide a condition status signal to the remote operations management system in accordance with whether the proportion of light emitter sub-arrays in an operable condition meets a minimum threshold level.
US11383739B2
A sealing system for an openable panel on a vehicle includes a channel member disposed on the openable panel and extending along a longitudinal axis and a seal member fastened to the channel member. The channel member includes two side portions extending parallel to each other and a recess defined between the two side portions. A plurality of depressions are defined in the side portions and extend along the longitudinal axis and into the recess. The seal member includes a proximal portion disposed within the recess and a distal portion extending away from the channel member. The proximal portion of the seal member has grooves defined on opposing sides thereof. The plurality of depressions on each side portion of the channel are received in a respective groove on the seal member to fasten the seal member to the channel member.
