US11500261B2
An electrophoretic display and a driving method thereof are provided. The electrophoretic display includes a display panel and a driving circuit. The display panel includes an electrophoretic unit and a driving substrate. The electrophoretic unit includes a plurality of electrophoretic particles. The driving substrate is disposed below the electrophoretic unit. The driving circuit is coupled to the driving substrate. The driving circuit sequentially provides a first reset signal and a second reset signal to the driving substrate during a reset period to reset the plurality of electrophoretic particles. The first reset signal sequentially includes a first sub-balanced signal and a first sub-mixed signal. The second reset signal sequentially includes a second sub-balanced signal and a second sub-mixed signal.
US11500253B2
A display device is provided and includes first substrate having display region and frame region around display region; coloring layer disposed on first substrate; first insulation layer disposed on the coloring layer; light shielding layer disposed in matrix in display region on first insulation layer; and second insulation layer disposed on the light shielding layer, wherein part of first insulation layer in frame region part is in direct contact with first substrate, and part of first insulation layer in frame region extends along one side of first substrate.
US11500251B2
An electro-optical device. The electro-optical device includes an pixel electrode that applies the electric field to the electro-optical layer, a transistor that includes a semiconductor layer including a drain region, a capacitance element that includes a first capacitance electrode and a second capacitance electrode, an electrode contact coupled to the pixel electrode, and a drain relay electrode electrically coupled to the drain region. The pixel electrode contact is coupled to the second capacitance electrode and the drain relay electrode.
US11500243B2
The present disclosure provides an LED assembly, a light source, and a liquid crystal display device. The LED assembly includes: a substrate; a plurality of blue LED chips which are disposed on the substrate at intervals and have different emission wavelengths; a white light phosphor layer which is disposed on the substrate and covers the plurality of blue LED chips; and a sealing frame which is disposed on the substrate and is configured to encapsulate the plurality of blue LED chips and the white light phosphor layer. The LED assembly encapsulates the blue LED chips having different emission wavelengths together, which can avoid LED mixing from an LED encapsulation source, thereby saving cost. Moreover, problems such as nonuniform images and chromatic aberration are basically avoided when the LED assembly is applied to an LCD module.
US11500240B2
A display panel includes a first substrate which includes a display device and a second substrate which is disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate covers a base layer, a color filter layer, a first sealing layer, a color control layer, a step compensating layer, and a second sealing layer. The base layer includes a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area. The color filter layer overlaps the display area in a plan view, and is disposed under the base layer. The first sealing layer covers the color filter layer. The color control layer overlaps the display area in the plan view, and is disposed under the first sealing layer. The step compensating layer overlaps the non-display area in the plan view, and is disposed under the base layer. The second sealing layer covers the color control layer and the step compensating layer.
US11500231B2
A modulation control method for a filter device for avoiding flicker appearing in streamed video images before acquiring images, includes setting the exposure time to be equal or longer than an oscillating light source's period duration or to be as long as possible between two frames in the image acquisition of streamed video images, polarizing of incoming light in a first polarizer to turn into polarized light with a first polarization, altering the polarization of the light with the first polarization in an electro- or magneto-optic modulator by an angle α to turn into light with a second polarization, and reducing an amount of light with the second polarization in a second polarizer.
US11500226B1
A smart glasses viewing area management system and processes for managing content display in smart glasses according to a relationship between a content viewing area and a field of view of a user are disclosed. The smart glasses viewing area management system enables caption glasses to define a viewing cone area for multiple devices with methodology to turn content on or off when a user chooses to focus on an object(s). When a person is watching TV and turns to talk with the person next to them the captions will stop displaying on the caption glasses.
US11500211B2
According to one embodiment, a display device including a display panel configured to emit display light of linear polarization, a first retardation plate, a second retardation plate, a reflective polarizer configured to pass first linear polarized light, and to reflect second linear polarized light, a transflective layer including a concave surface opposed to the second retardation plate, and a transparent solid with almost zero refractive anisotropy, wherein the first retardation plate and the second retardation plate are a quarter-wave plate, and the transparent solid includes a first surface shaped convex to be opposed to the concave surface, and a second surface opposed to the reflective polarizer.
US11500210B2
A method is provided for adjusting a luminance profile of an image displayed on a look-through display to a user. The method comprises: determining a field of view of the user based on a spatial configuration of the user's head. Determining one or more lighting conditions in the field of view. Adjusting the luminance profile for the image based on the field of view, wherein, as a result of the adjusted luminance profile, the image is reconciled with the field of view.
US11500209B2
A method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for displaying graphic interfaces are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. The method includes: generating a first graphic interface associated with an operation performed by a user of a wearable device at a computing device connected to the wearable device; causing a display device of the computing device to display the first graphic interface; and causing the wearable device to display at least a second graphic interface, the second graphic interface being obtained by extending the first graphic interface. In this way, a plurality of graphic interfaces can be efficiently displayed with both a physical display device and a wearable device.
US11500206B2
An example waveguide can include a polymer layer having substantially optically transparent material with first and second major surfaces configured such that light containing image information can propagate through the polymer layer being guided therein by reflecting from the first and second major surfaces via total internal reflection. The first surface can include first smaller and second larger surface portions monolithically integrated with the polymer layer and with each other. The first smaller surface portion can include at least a part of an in-coupling optical element configured to couple light incident on the in-coupling optical element into the polymer layer for propagation therethrough by reflection from the second major surface and the second larger surface portion of the first major surface.
US11500194B2
A beam delivery system according to an aspect of the present disclosure is used for an extreme ultraviolet light generation apparatus and includes a propagation mirror disposed on an optical path between a laser apparatus and a condensation optical system and configured to change the propagation direction of a pulse laser beam, and a curvature mirror disposed on an optical path between the propagation mirror and the condensation optical system and having a concave reflective surface configured to convert the pulse laser beam to be incident on the condensation optical system into a convergent beam. The curvature mirror has a focal length selected so that the beam spread angle of the pulse laser beam from the curvature mirror is constant irrespective of thermal deformation of the propagation mirror or constant with change in a predetermined allowable range irrespective of thermal deformation of the propagation mirror.
US11500189B2
A light sheet microscope includes a sample chamber in which a cover slip or slide is arrangeable, which has a surface that defines a partially reflective interface and which has a further surface that defines a further partially reflective interface. The two interfaces are arranged at different distances from an objective. The light sheet microscope further includes an optical system having the objective facing toward the cover slip or slide, an illumination apparatus, which is designed to generate a light sheet, a sensor, and a processor. The two interfaces are formed in that two optical media are applicable in the sample chamber. The light sheet microscope forms a measuring device for acquiring a measured variable. The sensor is designed to acquire the intensities and/or the incidence locations of the two reflection light beams.
US11500184B2
The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first positive lens group, a stop, a second positive lens group, and a third negative lens group. The first lens group includes a negative lens which has a concave surface on the image side, and two positive lenses which are disposed to be closer to the image side than the negative lens and which have respective convex surfaces on the object side, convex surfaces on the object side. The second lens group includes an aspheric lens, and two sets of cemented lenses disposed to be closer to the image side than the aspheric lens. The third lens group consists of one lens component.
US11500182B2
An optical imaging system includes: a first lens having refractive power, a second lens having refractive power, a third lens having refractive power, a fourth lens having refractive power, and a fifth lens having refractive power. Here, the first lens, the third lens, and the fifth lens may have refractive indices of about 1.6 or more, and an entire field of view of the optical imaging system may be about 120° or more.
US11500175B2
An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, an intermediate unit including one or more lens units, and a final lens unit having a negative refractive power. The second lens unit is moved toward an image plane, and a lens unit closest to the image plane in the one or more lens units included in the intermediate unit is moved toward the object in focusing from infinity to a short distance. The second lens unit satisfies a predetermined inequality.
US11500173B2
An imaging lens module includes a plastic lens barrel, a first optical element assembly and a second optical element assembly, wherein both of the first optical element assembly and the second optical element assembly are disposed in the plastic lens barrel. The plastic lens barrel includes a first inner annular surface and a second inner annular surface. The first inner annular surface forms a first receiving space. The second inner annular surface forms a second receiving space. The first optical element assembly is disposed in the first receiving space and includes a plurality of optical lens elements and a first retainer. The second optical element assembly is disposed in the second receiving space and includes a first light blocking sheet and a second retainer.
US11500169B2
The present invention provides a receptacle structure for an optical connector comprising a receptacle body, and a first housing. The receptacle body has a first end and a second end for providing optical connector inserted thereto, respectively. Two sides of the first end respectively have first flexible plate having first attaching structure. The first housing, folded by a single piece material, is a closed structure having a first through hole wherein two walls of the first housing have first coupling structure for coupling to the attaching structure when the first end of the receptacle body is inserted into the first through hole whereby the first housing is completely assembled with the receptacle body. In addition, an optical communication device having the receptacle structure is also provided in which the optical connector can be inserted into the receptacle structure for optical communication.
US11500158B2
Arrays of fiber pigtails can be used to project and receive light. Unfortunately, most fiber pigtail arrays are not aligned well enough for coherently combining different optical beams. This imprecision stems in part from misalignment between the optical fiber and the endcap spliced to the end of the optical fiber. The endcap is often polished, curved, or patterned, causing the light emitted by the endcapped fiber to refract or diffract as it exits the endcap. This refraction or diffraction shifts the apparent position of the beam waist from its actual position. Measuring this virtual beam waist position before and after splicing the endcap to the fiber increases the absolute precision with which the fiber is aligned to the endcap. This increase in absolute precision reduces the deviation in virtual beam waist position among endcapped fibers, making it easier to produce arrays of endcapped fibers aligned precisely enough for coherent beam combining.
US11500152B2
Provided are three dimensional, stretchable, optical sensor networks that can localize deformations. The devices described herein are suitable for uses in soft robots to determine the position of external contact, such as touching, and possibly internal deformations that may be caused by actuation. Sensor networks of the present disclosure contain a substrate, such as a 3D lattice, and cores having a cladding, such as air. Light passes through the cores and upon deformation of the substrate, cores may come into contact, allowing light to couple between cores due to frustrated total internal reflection. The resulting changes in intensity in the cores can be used to determine the placement and magnitude of deformation.
US11500150B2
Provided is a waveguide photodetector including a semiconductor substrate, a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide, which are sequentially laminated on the semiconductor substrate, in which each of the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide includes a first portion and a second portion, and the first portion extends from the second portion in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the semiconductor substrate, a refractive index matching layer disposed on the second portion of the second optical waveguide, a clad layer disposed on the refractive index matching layer, and an absorber disposed between the refractive index matching layer and the clad layer. Here, the second optical waveguide has a first conductive-type, the clad layer has a second conductive-type opposite to the first conductive-type, and the refractive index matching layer includes a first semiconductor layer that is an intrinsic semiconductor layer.
US11500141B2
An optical fiber module includes an optical fiber containing a glass component, and a ferrule which is tubular in shape and covers an outer circumferential surface in an end portion of the optical fiber. The outer circumferential surface of the optical fiber and an inner circumferential surface of the ferrule are bonded by a silicone resin containing siloxane bonds at cross-linking points.
US11500139B2
In various embodiments, one or more prisms are utilized in a wavelength beam combining laser system to regulate beam size and/or to provide narrower wavelength bandwidth.
US11500132B2
An actuator including an electrically conducting coil arranged on or integrated into a wall member, wherein the electrically conducting coil is arranged adjacent to a magnetic flux return structure. A magnet connected to a carrier, wherein the magnet interacts with the electrically conducting coil such that when a current is applied to the coil the coil is either moved towards the carrier along an axial direction or away from the carrier along the axial direction depending on a direction of the current within the coil. A magnetic flux guiding structure connected to the carrier, wherein magnetic flux is guided through the flux return structure and the flux guiding structure.
US11500127B2
A precipitation index estimation apparatus includes a data collection unit and an estimation processing unit. The data collection unit is configured to collect rainfall amount data that is detected by a rainfall amount sensor in one or more vehicles positioned in a predetermined area within a predetermined period. The estimation processing unit is configured to estimate a precipitation index indicating an intensity of precipitation in the predetermined area within the predetermined period, based on the collected rainfall amount data.
US11500123B2
Hybrid 3D geocellular grids are generated to represent a subset of a natural fracture network (“NFN”) directly in the simulation, while the remainder of the NFN is approximated by a multi-continuum formulation. The resulting output is a 3D geocellular grid that possesses a higher level of mesh resolution in those areas surrounding the first fracture subsets, and lower mesh resolution in the areas of the second fracture subset.
US11500121B1
A well image logging tool assembly comprising at least one sensor unit, at least one spatial positioning device, and a cylindrical outer sheath that extends around and contains the sensor unit and the spatial positioning device. The sensor unit includes a solid cylindrical sensor body formed of a gamma ray shielding material and including at least one longitudinal sensor cavity extending through at least one of the top end and the bottom end of the sensor body. A window corresponds to each sensor cavity and extends through the sensor body from the outside surface thereof to the corresponding sensor cavity. A sensor assembly is disposed in each sensor cavity. Each sensor assembly includes a gamma ray radiation sensor and associated photomultiplier tube.
US11500118B2
A seismic dataset and a task to be performed with the seismic dataset may be received. A representative seismic line representative of the seismic dataset may be generated. The representative seismic line may include pixel data representative of the seismic dataset. Based on the representative seismic line, the task may be performed. The task may include at least finding an analogous geological region by searching for an analogous seismic dataset existing in a seismic database by comparing the representative seismic line with the analogous seismic dataset's representative seismic line.
US11500114B2
Method for characterizing subterranean formation is described. One method involves simulating a poroelastic pressure response of known fracture geometry utilizing a geomechanical model to generate a simulated poroelastic pressure response. Compiling a database of simulated poroelastic pressure responses. Measuring a poroelastic pressure response of the subterranean formation during a hydraulic fracturing operation to generate a measured poroelastic pressure response. Identifying a closest simulated poroelastic pressure response in the library of simulated poroelastic pressure response. Estimating a geometrical parameter of a fracture or fractures in the subterranean formation based on the closest simulated poroelastic pressure response.
US11500105B2
A transmitting optical system for a LIDAR system is described for illuminating a field of view with light, having a linear light source for generating and outputting primary light in linear form; and having a deflecting optical system that has a lens assemblage in an intermediate image plane of the deflecting optical system for outputting received primary light into the field of view, and has a deflecting mirror, pivotable one-dimensionally around an axis, for receiving primary light from the linear light source and for directing the primary light onto the lens assemblage and, in that context, imaging the linear light source onto the lens assemblage in such a way that the image of the linear light source sweeps over the lens assemblage, or over a part thereof, upon a pivoting motion of the deflecting mirror.
US11500104B2
A reference pose of an object in a coordinate system of a map of an area is determined. The reference pose is based on a three-dimensional (3D) reference model representing the object. A first pose of the object is determined as the object moves with respect to the coordinate system. The first pose is determined based on the reference pose and sensor data collected by the sensor at a first time. A second pose of the object is determined as the object continues to move with respect to the coordinate system. The second pose is determined based on the reference pose, the first pose, and sensor data collected by the sensor at a second time consecutive to the first time.
US11500102B1
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to imaging an environment and providing velocity characteristics of one or more objects in the imaged environment. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, objects in a local environment are scanned with laser light, and reflections of the scanned laser light from the objects are received and processed to generate a 3D image of the local environment. Distance and velocity of each object is provided or detected based on a frequency delay and frequency shift of one or more reflections of the scanned laser light from the object. For instance, the 3D image may provide relative position of an object and indicate velocity of the object, which may be ascertained based on a frequency shift.
US11500098B2
A Time-of-Flight (ToF) ranging device and a ToF ranging method are provided. The ToF ranging device includes a signal processor, a light emitter, and a light sensor. The light emitter sequentially emits a plurality of intense pulsed lights to a sensing target. The light sensor sequentially receives the plurality of intense pulsed lights reflected by the sensing target to correspondingly output a plurality of pixel voltage signals. The signal processor generates a plurality of read-out voltage signals according to the plurality of pixel voltage signals. The signal processor compares the plurality of read-out voltage signals with a plurality of count signals to obtain a plurality of count values. The signal processor calculates an average value of the plurality of count values and determines a distance between the ToF ranging device and the sensing target according to the average value.
US11500093B2
A lidar system comprises a photodetector circuit and a signal processing circuit. The photodetector circuit comprises an array of pixels for sensing incident light. The signal processing circuit processes a signal representative of the sensed incident light to detect a reflection of a laser pulse from a target within a field of view. The signal processing circuit can comprise a plurality of matched filters that are tuned to different reflected pulse shapes for detecting pulse reflections within the incident light, and wherein the signal processing circuit applies the signal to the matched filters to determine an obliquity for the target based how the matched filters respond to the applied signal.
US11500092B2
In an embodiments, a method for operating a time-of-flight (ToF) ranging array includes: illuminating a field-of-view (FoV) of the ToF ranging array with radiation pulses; receiving reflected radiation pulses with a plurality of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) in a region of interest (ROI) of the ToF ranging array, the plurality of SPADs arranged in a plurality of SPAD clusters; determining an ambient count of ambient light events generated by SPADs of a first SPAD cluster of the plurality of SPAD clusters; and gating an output of the first SPAD cluster based on the ambient count.
US11500087B2
A method for classification of ground conditions in the vicinity of a vehicle using a radar sensor, comprising: receiving reflected portions of a radar signal at a receiver unit of a radar system; calculating information derived from the received portions of the radar signal for discrete spatial regions by the radar system or a control unit connected thereto; assigning the information to data structure units associated with a geographical location and the assignment of the information taking into account movement of the vehicle; collecting pieces of information in the respective data structure units, the pieces of information being obtained from reflected portions of radar signals transmitted at different times; evaluating the information contained in the data structure using a classifier to obtain information regarding the ground condition; assigning ground condition types to the data structure units based on evaluation results obtained by the classifier.
US11500086B2
An imaging system to reconstruct a reflectivity image of a scene including an object moving with the scene. A tracking system to track a deforming object to estimate an object deformation for each time step. Sensors acquire snapshots of the scene, each acquired snapshot of the object includes measurements in the object deformation for that time step, to produce a set of object measurements with deformed shapes over the time steps. Compute a correction to estimates of object deformation for each time step, with matching measurements of the corrected object deformation for each time step to measurements in the acquired snapshot of object for that time step. Select a corrected deformation over other corrected deformations for each time step, according to a distance between the corrected deformation and the estimate of the deformation, to obtain a final estimate of the deformation of the deformable object moving in the scene.
US11500079B2
The present invention relates to the field of vehicle correction, and provides a calibration system and a calibration bracket thereof. The calibration bracket includes: a base, a stand assembly and a beam assembly. The stand assembly is fixedly connected to the base. The beam assembly is supported by the stand assembly, and includes a beam, the beam being configured to mount a calibration element and including a left beam portion, a right beam portion and a connecting portion, the connecting portion being supported by the stand assembly, one end of the connecting portion being pivotally connected to the left beam portion, and the other end of the connecting portion being pivotally connected to the right beam portion. In the foregoing structure, the left beam portion and the right beam portion can respectively rotate toward each other relative to the connecting portion, to fold the beam assembly, so that a volume of the calibration bracket can be reduced to facilitate shipment.
US11500072B2
A photonic circulator deployed on a chip-scale light-detection and ranging (LiDAR) device includes a first arm that includes a first waveguide that is bonded onto a first member at a first bonding region, and a second arm that includes a second waveguide that is bonded onto a second member at a second bonding region. A first thermo-optic phase shifter is arranged on the first member and collocated with the first waveguide, and a second thermo-optic phase shifter is arranged on the second member and collocated with the second waveguide. The magneto-optic material and the first thermo-optic phase shifter of the first member cause a first phase shift in a first light beam travelling through the first waveguide, and the magneto-optic material and the second thermo-optic phase shifter of the second member cause a second phase shift in a second light beam travelling through the second waveguide.
US11500071B2
A LIDAR system includes a demultiplexer that separates an outgoing LIDAR signal into multiple LIDAR output signals that each carries a different channel and the different channels are each at a different wavelength. The system also includes a beam distributor that receives each of the LIDAR output signals. The beam distributor directs the received LIDAR output signals such that different LIDAR output signals travel away from the beam distributor in different directions.
US11500069B2
An optical system for detecting a scanning field, a system for controlling the optical system as well as a method for controlling the optical system, the optical system having at least one transmitter comprising at least one source for emitting electromagnetic radiation and at least one deflection unit for deflecting the beam path of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the source into the scanning field. The optical system furthermore has at least one optical receiver comprising at least one optical filter element for filtering the electromagnetic radiation scattered back and/or reflected in the scanning field and at least one detector element for detecting the filtered electromagnetic radiation. The essence of the invention lies in the fact that it is possible to vary the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the source and that the variation of the wavelength occurs as a function of the deflection of the beam path.
US11500055B2
The disclosure relates to a detection method and a detection apparatus, the method including: calculating, when a location base station in an ultra-wideband location system receives a pulse response, values of a plurality of specified pulse response characteristics using the received pulse response, and using the calculated values as values of the plurality of specified pulse response characteristics of the location base station; calculating differences between the values of the plurality of specified pulse response characteristics of the location base station and values of the plurality of specified pulse response characteristics of the location base station at a previous time, and using the calculated differences as variations of the plurality of specified pulse response characteristics of the location base station; determining, based on at least the variations of the plurality of specified pulse response characteristics of the location base station and by means of a trained classifier, whether signal propagation in which the location base station participates is non-line-of-sight propagation.
US11500046B2
In an embodiment, a radio frequency head coil for a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The radio frequency head coil includes a body defining an imaging cavity for receiving a head of a patient, and one or more bracket shells disposed within the body. At least one or more coil elements operative to receive a magnetic resonance signal emitted from the patient are disposed on the bracket shells.
US11500042B2
A magnetic sensing device includes a non-magnetic layer serving as a spacer and two magnetic layers that sandwich the spacer, and two oxide layers that sandwich the trilayer structure including the two magnetic layers and the spacer.
US11500039B2
A device includes an analog main signal path and a digital control circuit. The digital control circuit determines and provides a digital control signal to the analog main signal path to reduce a gain error of the analog main signal path.
US11500034B2
An electrical cable analysis method includes providing an electrical cable comprising an elongated metallic element and a cable core, the cable core comprising an electrical conductor. The method includes connecting an electrical generator to an electrical circuit including the elongated metallic element, generating, by the electrical generator, a flow of an electrical current along the electrical circuit, detecting a magnetic field associated with the flow of the electrical current in the electrical cable, measuring at least one value relating to the magnetic field along a cable length of the electrical cable, and analyzing the measured at least one value to obtain information about at least one structural aspect of the electrical cable.
US11500031B2
A battery state estimating apparatus including a voltage measuring unit configured to measure a voltage of a battery cell and measure an open circuit voltage (OCV) of the battery cell whenever the measured voltage reaches a reference charge voltage, and a control unit configured to receive the OCV measured by the voltage measuring unit, calculate a voltage fluctuation rate based on a result obtained by processing the received OCV, determine a voltage increase and decrease pattern based on the calculated voltage fluctuation rate and pre-stored voltage fluctuation rate data, and determine a degradation acceleration degree of the battery cell according to the determined voltage increase and decrease pattern.
US11500028B2
A sensor unit includes a current sensor that detects a current, a voltage sensor that detects a voltage, a ground fault sensor that detects a ground fault, and a common substrate on which the current sensor, the voltage sensor, and the ground fault sensor are mounted. In the sensor unit, for example, in a power supply circuit of a vehicle, the three sensors of the high voltage system can be integrated on the common substrate, so that an increase in the number of parts can be suppressed.
US11500026B2
The invention is directed toward a primary AA alkaline battery. The primary AA alkaline battery includes an anode; a cathode; an electrolyte; and a separator between the anode and the cathode. The anode includes an electrochemically active anode material. The cathode includes an electrochemically active cathode material. The electrolyte includes a hydroxide. The primary AA alkaline battery has an integrated in-cell ionic resistance (Ri) at 22° C. of less than about 39 mΩ.
US11500025B2
An equipment management method comprises a step A of predicting, at an equipment management apparatus, occurrence of a first abnormality which is an abnormality occurred in a fuel cell system and not predicted by the fuel cell system; and a step B of transmitting, at the equipment management apparatus, a message associated with a prediction for the occurrence of the first abnormality when the occurrence of the first abnormality is predicted.
US11500024B2
A battery characterization system includes a drive-sense circuit (DSC), memory that stores operational instructions, and processing module(s) operably coupled to the DSC and the memory. Based on a reference signal, the DSC generates a charge signal, which includes an AC (alternating current) component, and provides the charge signal to a terminal of a battery via a single line and simultaneously to senses the charge signal via the single line to detect an electrical characteristic of the battery based on a response of the battery. The DSC generates a digital signal representative of the electrical characteristic of the battery. The processing module(s), based on the operational instructions, generate the reference signal to include a frequency sweep of the AC component of the charge signal (e.g., different frequencies at different times or multiple frequencies simultaneously) and processes the digital signal to characterize the battery across the different respective frequencies and generate spectrum analysis (SA) information of the battery.
US11500020B2
A sensor device comprises a sensor connected to a first signal and responsive to an external field to produce a sensor signal, a test device connected to a second signal and electrically connected in series with the sensor by an electrical test connection providing a test signal, and a monitor circuit electrically connected to the first, second and test signals. The monitor circuit comprises a processing circuit and a determination circuit. The processing circuit is responsive to the test signal and a predetermined processing value to form a processing output signal. The determination circuit is responsive to the processing output signal to determine a diagnostic signal. A sensor circuit responsive to the sensor signal provides a sensor device signal responsive to the external field.
US11500015B2
Provided is a short-circuit determining apparatus comprising: a sensor configured to detect a time change of a main current flowing between a first main terminal and a second main terminal of a switching device having a control terminal, the first main terminal and the second main terminal; an integration unit configured to integrate an output of the sensor; a polarity determining unit configured to determine a polarity of the output of the sensor; and a short-circuit determining unit configured to determine a short-circuit of the switching device, based on a comparison result of an output of the integration unit and a short-circuit determination reference value according to a determination result of the polarity.
US11500005B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on a computer-readable storage medium, for obtaining a reference phase signal that is synchronized with an alternating current (AC) phase of a multi-phase electrical power distribution system. The apparatus obtains output signals from sensors, each output signal representative of an electromagnetic emission detected by a respective sensor. The apparatus identifies, based on comparing respective phases of the output signals to the reference phase signal, a particular AC phase of the multi-phase electrical power distribution system associated with a source of the emissions. The apparatus provides an indication of the particular AC phase to a user.
US11500002B2
A method for determining an electrical variable of a component of part of a vehicle electrical system including at least one external current and an electrical impedance unit. A measuring unit is configured to generate a plurality of current and voltage values for each of at least two different operating points of the impedance unit. The method includes: providing the current values of the impedance unit at a first operating point and at least one second operating point; providing the voltage values of the impedance unit at a first operating point and at least one second operating point; corresponding current and voltage values being associated with one another; determining the at least one electrical variable of the component based on a parameter estimation method and an electrical model of the part of the vehicle electrical system and at least part of the corresponding current and voltage values.
US11500001B2
An insulation resistance detection circuit and method are disclosed. The circuit includes a controller configured to: open a first relay, and close second relays, or switch an on/off status of at least one of the second relays; determine, based on a first measurement value between a positive input terminal of an inverter circuit and an earthing point, whether the positive input terminal of the inverter circuit is short-circuited or has low resistance to protective earthing; and determine, based on a second measurement value between a negative input terminal of the inverter circuit and the earthing point, whether the negative input terminal of the inverter circuit is short-circuited or has low resistance to protective earthing, where the first relay is one of in M relays and is connected to at least one impedor in parallel, and the second relays are relays other than the first relay in the M relays.
US11499997B2
Transmission-line voltage measurements in a digital-electricity power system are validated by acquiring a series of transmission-line voltage measurements during a sample period when a transmitter-disconnect device is in a non-conducting state. A numerical analysis is performed to determine a point in time at which AC components in the transmission line have diminished and at which the primary change in the transmission-line voltage measurement values is due to DC decay. A receiver acquires a series of receiver-voltage measurements during the same sample period; and a numerical analysis is performed on the receiver-voltage measurements to determine the point in time at which the AC components have diminished and where the primary change in the transmission-line voltage measurement values is due to DC decay. The transmitter-disconnect device is then placed in a non-conducting state based on an evaluation of those measurements.
US11499995B2
A current sensor circuit comprises multiple resistive circuit elements of different values of electrical resistance arranged between at least one input terminal of the current sensor circuit and an output terminal; a first plurality of switching circuits coupled between the input terminal and the resistive circuit elements, wherein each switching circuit of the first plurality of switching circuits includes a pair of transistors connected in series; at least one drive amplifier including an output and an input connected to the output terminal; and a second plurality of switching circuits, each switching circuit including a first switch terminal coupled to the at least one drive amplifier output and a second switch terminal coupled to a common connection of a pair of transistors of the first plurality of switching circuits.
US11499994B2
A power distribution network monitoring system includes a plurality of measuring instruments that are installed at predetermined positions on power lines constituting a power distribution network and configured to perform electrical measurement of the power lines; a data collection relay configured to receive data related to measurement results from the plurality of measuring instruments; an imaging unit that is disposed near the data collection relay and configured to capture an image including the data collection relay; an abnormality detector configured to use the image captured by the imaging unit to detect an abnormality in the data collection relay; and a storage unit configured to store image data taken by the imaging unit. The image data consists of a single image previously captured by the imaging unit. The abnormality detector compares the latest image captured by the imaging unit and the image data stored by the storage unit and determines whether or not an appearance of the data collection relay changes. If it is determined that there is no change in the appearance of the data collection relay, the image data in the storage unit is updated with the latest image captured by the imaging unit.
US11499993B2
A stage on which an inspection object having an electronic device against which a contact terminal of a probe card of an inspection apparatus is pressed by a load applied thereto is placed, includes a first cooling plate including a first coolant flow path formed therein, a heating source mounted on the first cooling plate and including a plurality of light emitting elements so as to heat the inspection object, a transparent member provided on the heating source and transmitting light output from the heating source, a second cooling plate provided on the transparent member so as to hold the inspection object and including a second coolant flow path formed therein, and a transparent resin layer filled between the first cooling plate and the transparent member so as to cover the heating source.
US11499991B2
The present disclosure relates to an IC chip holder capable of alleviating an impact if the IC chip holder is dropped or collides with another object. In the IC chip holder, an upper housing body is provided, on a side of electric contacts of an IC chip, with an elastic deformation portion capable of elastically deforming toward the inside of the upper housing body. Thus, since the elastic deformation portion elastically deforms toward the inside of the upper housing body, if the IC chip holder is dropped or collides with another object, the elastic deformation portion bends and the impact is alleviated. Thus, a possibility of the IC chip being damaged is reduced.
US11499985B2
Systems and methods for measuring rotational frequency in rotating machines use variable sliding windows of measurement. The systems and methods count and store the number of internal clock cycles between the start of a measurement interval and each pulse signal from a pulse generator. Rotational frequency is determined by taking a difference between the count for a most recent pulse signal and the count for some previous pulse signal within the measurement interval. The number of pulse signals that have occurred between the most-recent pulse signal and the previous pulse signal represents a window of measurement. This window of measurement, or the size thereof, may then be used along with the count difference to determine the rotational frequency. The window of measurement may then be slid to the counts for next most recent pulse signal and the next previous pulse signal to obtain a new count difference, and so on.
US11499982B2
The present invention relates to the field of brain injuries. More specifically, the present invention provides methods and compositions useful in the diagnosis/prognosis/assessment of brain injuries. In a specific embodiment, a method for identifying which patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) require a head computerized tomography (CT) scan for diagnosing acute intracranial pathology comprises the steps of (a) obtaining or collecting a sample from the patient; (b) measuring the levels of one or more biomarkers in the blood sample obtained from the patient, wherein the biomarkers comprise glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), S100B, metallothionein 3 (MT3), neuron specific enolase (NSE) and intracellular adhesion molecule 5 (ICAM5); and (c) identifying the patient as requiring or not requiring a head CT scan based on the measured levels of one or more of biomarkers comprising GFAP, S100B, MT3, NSE and ICAM5.
US11499977B2
The invention relates to a system, comprising: a) a sample processing unit, comprising an input port and an output port coupled to a rotating container having at least one sample chamber, the sample processing unit configured provide a first processing step to a sample or to rotate the container so as to apply a centrifugal force to a sample deposited in the chamber and separate at least a first component and a second component of the deposited sample; and b) a sample separation unit coupled to the output port of the sample processing unit, the cell separation unit comprising separation column holder (42), a pump (64) and a plurality of valves (1-11) configured to at least partially control fluid flow through a fluid circuitry and a separation column (40) positioned in the holder, the separation column configured to separate labeled and unlabeled components of sample flowed through the column.
US11499974B2
Disclosed herein are methods for identifying a subject as having NSCLC that is predicted or is likely to respond to treatment with an ALK inhibitor, for example crizotinib. The methods include identifying a sample including NSCLC tumor cells as ALK-positive or ALK-negative using immunohistochemistry (IHC) and scoring methods disclosed herein. A subject is identified as having NSCLC likely to respond to treatment with an ALK inhibitor if the sample is identified as ALK-positive and is identified as having NSCLC not likely to respond to treatment with an ALK inhibitor if the sample is identified as ALK-negative. According to certain embodiments of the methods, subjects predicted to respond to an ALK inhibitor may then be treated with an ALK inhibitor such as crizotinib.
US11499965B2
The purpose of the present invention is to develop a kit capable of detecting antigen or measuring its amount with high sensitivity without requiring an immobilization step and a washing step. The present invention provides a kit for detecting antigen or measuring its amount. The kit comprises a complex of a polypeptide including an antibody light chain variable region and a polypeptide including an antibody heavy chain variable region and a protein M fragment labeled with a fluorescent dye. The protein M fragment is a fragment having a binding ability to the complex.
US11499962B2
Provided are systems and methods for analyte detection and analysis. A system can comprise an open substrate configured to rotate. The open substrate can comprise an array of immobilized analytes. A solution comprising a plurality of probes may be directed, via centrifugal force, across the array during rotation of the substrate, to couple at least one of the plurality of probes with at least one of the analytes to form a bound probe. A detector can be configured to detect a signal from the bound probe via continuous rotational area scanning of the substrate.
US11499952B2
A process for quantifying the amount of unbound metal and bound metal in solution is provided. A process for quantifying the amount of bound metal amino acid chelate and free ligand in a solid (e.g., dry mixture such as an animal feed) is also provided.
US11499949B2
Certain configurations are described of column heaters that can be used in gas chromatography applications to provide individual heating zones along a gas chromatography column. The column heater may comprise a plurality of inductive elements that can be used to provide heating zones. A thermally conductive support can be used with the gas chromatography column and the inductive elements if desired. The column heater can be used to provide a travelling wave, a thermal gradient or other heating profiles.
US11499944B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example pre-amplifier includes a demodulator to generate an oscillating signal having a measurement center frequency, combine an acoustic emission signal and the oscillating signal to generate a sideband acoustic emission signal, sample spectral data of the sideband acoustic emission signal at an intermediate center frequency in an intermediate frequency bandwidth, and generate demodulated acoustic emission data based on a mapping of the sampled spectral data to the measurement center frequency, the measurement center frequency different from the intermediate center frequency, and a transmitter to transmit the demodulated acoustic emission data to a computing device.
US11499937B2
A gas sensor includes a first electrode, a gas detecting layer disposed on the first electrode, and an electric-conduction enhanced electrode unit being electrically connected to the first electrode and the gas detecting layer. The electric-conduction enhanced electrode unit includes an electric-conduction enhancing layer and a second electrode electrically connected to the electric-conduction enhancing layer. The electric-conduction enhancing layer is electrically connected to the gas detecting layer and is made of an electrically conductive organic material.
US11499936B2
A sensor includes: a hole; a sensing area formed around the hole, wherein at least one sensor is in the sensing area; and a crack detector configured to output a first crack signal if a comparison value obtained by comparing a detected value from the at least one sensor with a reference value exceeds an error range.
US11499935B2
Methods and systems are provided for clay detection, clay typing, and clay volume quantification using electromagnetic measurements on a porous media sample at a low frequency less than 5000 Hz. The electromagnetic measurements are used to determine and store permittivity data that characterizes permittivity of the porous media sample at the low frequency less than 5000 Hz. The low frequency electromagnetic measurements can be performed in a laboratory, at a wellsite or other surface location. The low frequency electromagnetic measurements are nondestructive, and the results indicate that the methods and systems are highly sensitive to the existence of clays.
US11499922B2
An inspection system for a drug container is provided to identify foreign matter, such as particles or fibers, within the drug container prior to filling with a drug. The system includes a camera device aligned with an axis of the drug container and captures a series of images of an interior surface of a sidewall of the drug container while the robot causes relative movement between the drug container and the camera device along a linear path. Atypical lighting, which improves contrast between particles and the background in images is employed to aid detection. A control circuit then processes the series of images to identify foreign matter within the drug container.
US11499891B2
A tire tester includes a plurality of tire holding units attached to a movable member or a towed member and each configured to detachably hold a tire, and one or more load measuring units for measuring a load acting on the tire. The plurality of tire holding units include a first tire holding unit configured to detachably hold a first tire, and one or more second tire holding units each configured to detachably hold a second tire. The second tire holding unit holds the second tire to generate a force opposite to a lateral component force generated by steering the first tire. The tire holding units are arranged such that at least one tire holding unit is disposed on each right and left side of the movable member or the towed member with respect to a center line passing through a lateral center thereof.
US11499886B2
A test method for a semiconductor device having a package with airtight space, which is formed between a substrate wafer on which an element is formed and a cap wafer which is provided being opposite to the substrate wafer, comprises an applying water process in which the semiconductor device is exposed to high moisture atmosphere and cooled and a leak discrimination process in which power is supplied to the element which is formed on the substrate wafer and leak of the package is discriminated by detecting a sound wave which is generated by the semiconductor device.
US11499869B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include an optical sensor system for use in plasma processing tools. In an embodiment, the optical sensor system, comprises an optically clear body with a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface. In an embodiment, the optically clear body further comprises a third surface that is recessed from the second surface. In an embodiment, the optical sensor system further comprises a target over the third surface and a first reflector to optically couple the first surface to the target.
US11499866B2
The invention relates to the technical field of mechanical vibration measurement, and discloses a device for accurately measuring mechanical vibration by photon counter. The device comprises a laser, an optical isolator, an adjustable attenuator, an optical fiber coupler, a single-photon counter and an FPGA post-processing module, wherein the laser enters the optical fiber coupler after passing through the optical isolator and the adjustable attenuator, and then enters into a measured object. The transmitted signal of the object to be measured returns to the optical fiber coupler and is output to the single-photon counter; the mechanical vibration of the measured object is analysed and obtained by the FPGA post-processing module connecting with the output terminal of the single-photon counter. This invention solves the problem that weak mechanical vibration is difficult to measure, and realizes microscopic vibration measurement of light-permeable objects such as nanofiber cavities by using a single photon counter.
US11499865B2
In-ear sound pressure level, SPL, is determined that is caused by output audio being converted into sound by a headset worn by a user. The in-ear SPL is converted into a sound sample having units that are suitable for evaluating sound noise exposure. These operations are repeated to produce a sequence of sound samples during playback. This sequence of sound samples is then written to a secure database. Access to the database is authorized by the user. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11499863B2
The utility model discloses a carrier structure for multiple weight sensors, comprising bearing assemblies and a positioning device, wherein at least two bearing assemblies are provided; and the bearing assembly comprises a positioning end and a bearing branch end, the positioning end is fixedly connected with the bearing branch end, and a positioning hole is formed in one end face of the bearing branch end. According to the carrier structure for the multiple weight sensors, multiple weight sensor units in multiple directions can be combined, designed and mounted according to requirements, and quality detection information in multiple directions is obtained through the multiple weight sensing units, thus realizing multi-point and multi-position measurement; and the weight sensor units of multiple specifications can be designed and mounted at the same time, so that a corresponding sensing mode is effectively selected according to actual use conditions, thus improving measurement accuracy.
US11499859B2
A capacitive level-sensor device, for detecting the level of a medium contained in a container, is configured for being installed on the outside of the container, in a position substantially resting against a wall of the container that is made at least in part of an electrically insulating material. The circuit support has, in a sensing region thereof, at least one first plurality of first capacitive elements, which comprise at least one first array of first electrodes, preferably set at a distance apart from one another along a level-detection axis, the first electrodes being made of an electrically conductive material and being arranged at least in part in a position corresponding to at least one first side of a supporting structure of the circuit support. The first electrodes are covered with at least one insulation or protection layer made of an electrically insulating and sealing material, which is selected from materials that include silicon, or its derivatives or compounds, and materials that include fluorine derivatives or compounds.
US11499857B2
A system (600, 700) for correcting a measured flow rate for viscosity effects of a fluid in a vibratory meter (5) is provided. The system (600, 700) includes a sensor assembly (10) and a meter electronics (20) communicatively coupled to the sensor assembly (10). The meter electronics (20) is configured to receive sensor signals from the sensor assembly (10), determine a non-viscosity correlation parameter based on the sensor signals, and correlate the non-viscosity correlation parameter to a viscosity of a fluid in the sensor assembly (10).
US11499855B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for measuring a fluid flow through a pipe of a semiconductor manufacturing device, in particular a coater or a bonder. The apparatus includes a sealing structure arranged in the pipe, a flow structure having a fluid inlet arranged upstream of the sealing structure and a fluid outlet arranged downstream of the sealing structure, a first chamber arranged in the pipe upstream of the sealing structure, and a second chamber arranged in the pipe downstream of the sealing structure, and a measuring device, wherein the measuring device is adapted to measure a first fluid pressure in the first chamber and a second fluid pressure in the second chamber, wherein the measuring device is configured to determine the fluid flow based on the first and second fluid pressure.
US11499850B2
A method for transferring a sensor of a production apparatus with a sensor assembly positioned in a housing includes connecting at least one of (1) supply lines, and (2) sensor signal lines to a sensor section of the sensor. A first end of a sealing sleeve is sealingly connected to a sealing section of the sensor. A second end of the sealing sleeve is sealingly connected to a sealing container. The sensor with the sealing sleeve are inserted into the sealing container. A first end of the sealing container is sealingly connected to an access opening defined by the housing of the production apparatus. The access opening is opened and the sensor is transferred from the sealing container to an interior of the housing.
US11499838B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product may be provided for providing traffic data to a client device. The system may receive from the client device, a request for traffic data corresponding to road segments of at least one map area, said request identifying the at least one map area and determine road segment identifiers corresponding to each of the road segments of the at least one map area and determine traffic data for at least a portion of the road segment identifiers, said traffic data obtained from a traffic data source. The system may further determine a plurality of traffic ranges based on the obtained traffic data and generate a bloom filter set, each bloom filter of the bloom filter set corresponding to a traffic range of the plurality of traffic ranges, wherein each bloom filter encodes road segment identifiers corresponding to the respective traffic range.
US11499837B2
Transportation systems have artificial intelligence including neural networks for recognition and classification of objects and behavior including natural language processing and computer vision systems. The transportation systems involve sets of complex chemical processes, mechanical systems, and interactions with behaviors of operators. System-level interactions and behaviors are classified, predicted and optimized using neural networks and other artificial intelligence systems through selective deployment, as well as hybrids and combinations of the artificial intelligence systems, neural networks, expert systems, cognitive systems, genetic algorithms and deep learning.
US11499835B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for image assisted delivery. A computing device may receive a first image from a first client device and a second image from a second client device. The computing device match a location in the first image to a location in the second image. The computing device may subsequently determine a characteristic of a package in the second image and determine that the characteristic of the package corresponds to package information of an order. Then, the computing device may confirm a delivery of the package.
US11499831B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein enable a mobile device to accurately locate where the mobile device is located indoors by measuring geomagnetic fields, and tracing relative changes in the magnetic fields as the mobile device is moved. The relative changes can be compared to a fingerprint signal map, and a trace of a portion of the path can be determined by matching the relative changes in the magnetic fields to relative changes in the fingerprint signal map. A collection of the path portions can then be connected by determining a shortest path that connects each of the path portions. In another embodiment, a step counter can also be used to constrain possible locations, and fuse the geomagnetic field and step counter information for joint indoor localization.
US11499815B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for performing visual quality assessment using holographic interferometry are provided. Aspects include obtaining a reference holographic pattern based on a reference object and obtaining a test holographic pattern based on a test object. Aspects also include creating an interference pattern by superimposing the test holographic pattern onto the reference holographic pattern. Aspects further include determining a difference between the reference object and the test object based upon the interference pattern.
US11499810B2
An acquisition device for at least semiautomated acquisition of sets of multiple object data of at least one object, including a movement device for generating a defined relative movement between at least one object data acquisition unit and the at least one object.
US11499805B2
An electric shock round utilized in projectile launching systems suitable for ranged non-lethal applications is presented. The electric shock round contains a projectile housing, a nose cap, an electroshock generation unit, and a plurality of electrodes. The electroshock generation unit is connected within the projectile housing. The plurality of electrodes is connected to the electroshock generation unit, opposite to the projectile housing. The nose cap is connected adjacent to the projectile housing, where the nose cap houses and secures the plurality of electrodes.
US11499801B1
A firearm safe box comprising a housing having sides defining an interior volume and an opening. A container is slidably received in the opening of the housing, the container being movable between a closed position preventing access to the container and an open position allowing access to the container. In this embodiment, the container carries a configured insert adapted to cradle a firearm. A lock mechanism is operative to retain the container in the closed position. An opening mechanism is operative to automatically move the container to the open position when the lock mechanism is released.
US11499800B2
A system for supporting a firearm in a generally vertical position includes a stock support member to support the stock of the firearm, a first fastening element operatively connectable to a user, and a second fastening element mountable with respect to the firearm. The system is configured such that the first and second fastening elements remain engaged when the firearm is in the generally vertical position so that the firearm is supported only by the fastening elements and the stock support member, but automatically disengage when the firearm is moved to a generally horizontal position for firing.
US11499798B2
A retainer clip including a body having a first end, second end, top, bottom, first side and second side. An arm extends from the body at a junction on the second end of the body. The arm is preferably folded so as to extend along the bottom of the body such that the arm is spaced from the body. The body includes an aperture which extends through the body from the top to the bottom. A stop pin is positioned in the aperture and is capable of extending into the space between the bottom of the body and the arm.
US11499782B2
A large scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser. A bottom bonnet runs along the bottom length of the heat exchanger bundle for delivering steam to the bottom end of the condenser tubes and for receiving condensate formed in those same tubes. The tops of the tubes are connected to a top bonnet. Uncondensed steam and non-condensables flow into the top bonnet from the condenser tubes. Each cell of the ACC is fed by steam distribution manifold suspended from and directly below the bundle support framework.
US11499780B2
The invention relates to a refractory anchor comprising an elongated mounting pin having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end seen in the longitudinal direction of the elongated mounting pin, wherein the first end is weldable to an object, the refractory anchor further comprises at least one anchor fin having a first side at least partially connected to the elongated mounting pin. The invention further relates to an assembly comprising an object and a refractory anchor welded to the object, and to a method for manufacturing the assembly.
US11499773B2
A refrigerator according to the present invention comprises: a storage chamber for storing articles; a camera for photographing the inner space of the storage chamber; a control part which visually recognizes a first article image captured by the camera so as to acquire article information corresponding to the first article image; a memory for storing the acquired article information so as to generate an article image history; and a display electrically connected to the control part. Further, the control part may: acquire, through the camera, a second article image in which an article is partially hidden by any other article; detect, from the second article image, a partial article image of the article partially hidden by the other article; and identify an article matching the partial article image on the basis of the article image history. Further, the control part may perform control such that the corresponding partial article image is displayed on the display in association with the article information identified from the article image history. The present invention provides a refrigerator to which AI (Artificial Intelligence) is applied.
US11499769B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for controlling the operation of a compressor of an HVAC system in response to the refrigerant super heat value for refrigerant within the compressor. First and second signals are received for indicating one or more temperature values of refrigerant substantially at the first compressor sump and within the first distributor tube, respectively. A saturated suction temperature is estimated using at least the second signal. A first super heat value is calculated for refrigerant substantially at the first compressor sump using at least the saturated suction temperature and the one or more temperature values indicated by the first signal. A first control signal is generated for at least de-energizing the first compressor if the calculated first super heat value is below a tolerance value defining the minimum super heat value at which the first compressor may be operated.
US11499764B2
A cooled system includes an enclosure having an outer surface and an inner surface comprising a cooled enclosed area, multiple cable brackets thermally coupled to the outer surface of the enclosure, each cable bracket including a first surface conforming to the outer surface of the enclosure and an opening therethrough sized to hold a cable and conduct heat from the cable to the outer surface of the enclosure.
US11499759B2
An air-conditioning device includes a heater unit that heats the air to be lead to a vehicle cabin using the heat of the refrigerant compressed by a compressor, a liquid receiver arranged at the downstream side of an outside heat exchanger, a liquid receiver separating the refrigerant lead from the outside heat exchanger into a liquid-phase refrigerant and a gaseous-phase refrigerant and storing the liquid-phase refrigerant, and a restrictor mechanism provided between the heater unit and the outside heat exchanger, the restrictor mechanism decompressing and expanding the refrigerant. When there is a dehumidification request, the operation mode is temporarily switched from a dehumidifying cabin-heating mode which evaporates the refrigerant by an evaporating unit and radiates heat by the heater unit in the state in which the restrictor mechanism restricts the flow of the refrigerant, to the cabin-cooling mode which evaporates the refrigerant by the evaporating unit while promoting the storage of the liquid-phase refrigerant in the liquid receiver.
US11499758B2
Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for cooling using both air and/or liquid cooling sub circuits. A vapor compression cooling system having both an air and liquid cooling sub circuit designed to service high sensible process heat loads that cannot be solely cooled by either liquid or air is provided.
US11499748B2
A water heater can include a heat source and a heat exchanger that transfers heat to the water. A header attached to the heat exchanger provides an inlet and an outlet for water to flow into and out of the heat exchanger. The header can also include an anode assembly that releasably attaches to the header. The anode assembly can be located at a bottom of the header so that an anode in the anode assembly remains in contact with the water when water is flowing through the heat exchanger.
US11499741B2
A flanged duct blank has a male part defined by lead notches formed at each side of a leading end and has a female part defined by trail notches formed at each side of a trailing end. The male part includes a lock tab. The female part includes a leg part and a Z-bend. The Z-bend includes a leg part and a gap. The duct blank is repeatedly clamped and bent by a pivoting wiper to form a duct portion. The pivoting wiper includes a clench tool that has a retractable rib and a retractable roller. With the lock tab inserted into the Z-bend and the retractable rib engaged with the Z-bend, the retractable roller clenches the leg part over the lock tab to lock the male and female parts together in a duct seam.
US11499739B2
The present disclosure provides an air conditioner and a control method thereof. The control method of the air conditioner is capable of acquiring a voice of a user including a state of the user, transmitting the voice of the user to an external server, receiving, from the external server, a control command acquired by using a cooling tendency of the user and the state of the user determined on the basis of a usage history of the air conditioner, and controlling the air conditioner on the basis of the control command. In particular, at least a part of a method of acquiring a control command on the basis of a cooling tendency of a user may use an artificial intelligence model trained according to at least one of machine learning, a neural network, and deep learning algorithms.
US11499735B2
A programmable thermostat supports at least one attribute where each different attribute values may support different sets of thermostatic settings. The programmable thermostat may be programmed based on the different attribute values rather than on temperature set points that are traditionally mapped to programmed times. Each set may include settings for a plurality of controlled equipment including a heating/cooling system, fan, ventilator, humidifier, and/or de-humidifier. Each embodiment may support attribute values associated with an occupancy attribute (which is indicative whether or not people are occupying an environmental entity) and/or a scenario attribute (which flexibly maps different thermostatic settings to different scenario attribute values). Stored configuration data about the thermostatic settings may be organized as a tree structure, where the leaves correspond to the thermostatic settings. A programmable thermostat/ventilator controller may also instruct a ventilator system to run during an adjustable pre-occupancy purge time duration before an environmental entity is occupied.
US11499734B2
An integrated energy optimizer having an edge side and a cloud side. The edge side may incorporate an energy optimizer, a building management system connected to the energy optimizer, a controller connected to the building management system, and equipment connected to the controller. The cloud side may have a cloud connected to the energy optimizer and to the building management system, and a user interface connected to the cloud. Data from the field sensor may go to the optimizer and the building management system. The data may be processed at the optimizer and the building management system for proper settings at the building management system.
US11499732B2
The present disclosure relates to a method, device and system for air conditioning units. The method includes: acquiring information of air conditioning units; determining air conditioning units that need to be networked according to the acquired information, wherein the air conditioning units that need to be networked include a first air conditioning unit and a second air conditioning unit; sending the information of the second air conditioning unit to the first air conditioning unit, and sending the information of the first air conditioning unit to the second air conditioning unit, wherein the information of the second air conditioning unit is used for the first air conditioning unit to be networked with the second air conditioning unit, and the information of the first air conditioning unit is used for the second air conditioning unit to be networked with the first air conditioning unit.
US11499730B2
The disclosure relates to an ex vivo generated population of educated macrophages specific to LPS and methods of making and using such macrophages.
US11499728B2
The air processing device is provided with a processing unit that determines the state of a predetermined part(s) in a casing on the basis of the change in a plurality of image data acquired by an imaging unit.
US11499719B2
A regulator assembly is disclosed. The regulator assembly can include a regulator having a gas inlet and a gas outlet. The regulator assembly can also include an extension pipe having a proximal end and a distal end. The regulator assemble can also include an orifice disposed in the extension pipe for modification of the gas flow.
US11499716B2
A furnace blower assembly includes a blower housing a blower and a motor. The blower is positioned within the housing and is adapted to rotate relative to the housing. The motor is coupled to the blower. The housing defines an outlet having an external periphery and an internal periphery. The external periphery or the internal periphery of the outlet is adapted to be fitted to a portion of the external periphery or the internal periphery of the duct. The outlet defines a longitudinal axis. The outlet has a peripheral edge and a protrusion extending outwardly from the external periphery or the internal periphery of the outlet. The protrusion is spaced from the peripheral edge of the outlet and is adapted to abut the peripheral edge of the duct.
US11499715B2
Methods and systems for oxidizing gas are provided. An example regenerative oxidizer is provided that includes a combustion chamber to heat gas present in the combustion chamber. The regenerative oxidizer also includes a first heat exchange media bed and a second heat exchange media bed. Each of the first heat exchange media bed and the second heat exchange media bed are in fluid communication with the combustion chamber. The regenerative oxidizer further includes two burners disposed within the combustion chamber to provide a total heat input to the gas present in the combustion chamber. At least one of the two burners is independently adjustable based on the airflow direction.
US11499712B2
A gas burner for cooking appliances, having overlapping main flame and simmering flame rings, includes an injector holder assembly associated with a first and a second injector and positioned below a cooktop opening; and a head assembly associated at the top with the injector holder assembly and positioned above the cooktop opening, the head assembly having a first chamber communicating with the first injector and with doors for ejecting the gas and primary air mixture supplied to the main flame ring, and a second chamber communicating with the second injector and with a passageway for ejecting the gas and primary air mixture supplied to the simmering flame ring. The second chamber communicates with a through opening in the outer side walls of the head assembly to receive primary air from above the cooktop, and the head assembly completely seals the cooktop opening where the gas burner is to be installed.
US11499704B1
A lamp power supply includes: a housing, a main circuit board, and an end cover, where the circuit board is disposed in the housing, the end cover is connected to an open end of the housing, the end cover is provided with a through hole running through a surface of the end cover, a rubber stopper is disposed in the through hole, the rubber stopper includes an elastic pressing portion, an end of which protrudes upward from the surface of the end cover and an other end of which is located in the through hole, and the elastic pressing portion is connected with a conductive portion. The sub-circuit board is electrically connected to the conductive portion of the elastic pressing portion.
US11499687B1
Provided is a light fixture comprising: a) a housing; b) a cover for the housing; d) one or more lenses configured to be attached to the cover; and d) a plurality of LED light sources placed inside of the housing to provide a substantially uniform light through the one or more lenses.
US11499683B2
A luminaire includes a housing that defines a light output aperture, a backlight apparatus that emits light toward the light output aperture, and an optical sheet of light transmissive material. The optical sheet is adjacent the backlight apparatus and modifies the light before it leaves the light output aperture. The optical sheet forms a first surface and an opposite second surface. At least one of the first surface or the second surface of the optical sheet includes a first spatial region that includes elliptical diffusers oriented predominantly in a first direction, a second spatial region that includes elliptical diffusers oriented predominantly in a second direction that is different from the first direction, and a third spatial region that includes at least one type of optical microstructure selected from the group consisting of Fresnel lenses, v-groove lenses, v-cut lenses, pyramidal lenses, lenticular lenses, donut lenses and conical diffusers.
US11499676B2
Method for filling a liquefied gas tank with pressurized liquefied gas from a source of liquefied gas using a filling apparatus comprising a transfer circuit that is provided with first and second pipes, each connecting between the source via respective first ends and the tank via respective second ends, third and fourth pipes each connecting between the first and second pipes, and a set of valves controlling flows of fluid in the pipes. The tank is depressurized and at least part of the circuit is cooled by transferring pressurized vaporization gas from the tank to the first end of the second pipes via the second end of the second pipe, the third pipe, the first pipe, and the fourth pipe.
US11499670B2
A fixing mechanism for a lifting device is provided. The lifting device includes a motor and a transmission shaft driven by the motor. The fixing mechanism includes a support body, a fixing assembly, a bearing, and a connection assembly. The fixing assembly includes a base plate fixed above the support body and a chamber disposed between the base plate and the support body. A bearing is arranged in the chamber and clamped between the support body and the base plate, and the transmission shaft passes through the bearing and protrudes from the base plate. The connection assembly is sleeved on the transmission shaft to together connect with the motor. Accordingly, power transmission efficiency may be improved, and vibration and noise generated during operation of the motor may be reduced.
US11499663B2
A water main tapping device and method includes a saddle body including an arcuate portion between a first end and a second end, wherein the saddle body includes a saddle opening at a location between the first end and the second end, and a corporation stop body formed integrally with and extending from the saddle body. The corporation stop body includes a base with an inlet cavity in fluid communication with the saddle opening, a housing extending from the base and having a valve cavity in which a rotatable valve is positioned and which is in fluid communication with the inlet cavity, and a connector end extending from the housing and including an outlet in fluid communication with the valve cavity.
US11499661B2
The present invention relates to a hydraulic and/or pneumatic multi-coupler connector of the type comprising at least one pair of couplers inserted into a containment body and equipped with a lever actuated mechanism comprising an actuation lever maneuverable by the user for the relief of the residual pressure of the couplers and the connection thereof to corresponding male couplers.
US11499660B2
A hose connecting device has a connector, an inner locking ring, an outer connector and a tubal body. The connector has an insertion section and an engaging section, the engaging section has a size greater than the insertion section, and the engaging section further has a stopping ring at a top end. The inner locking ring is jacketed onto the engaging section of the connector and abutting the stopping ring of the connector. The inner locking ring has an outer threaded section and an abutting portion disposed at a bottom end of the inner locking ring. The outer connector has one of a female connector and a male connector, and a channel, the channel has a positioning step at a middle portion, an inner threaded section disposed below the positioning step of the channel. The tubal body is jacketed onto the insertion section of the connector.
US11499659B2
A high pressure swivel joint used in pipe assemblies transferring high pressure fluid. The swivel joint comprises a first pipe section and a sleeve-like second pipe section. The first pipe section is inserted into the second pipe section and the sections are relatively rotatable. A wear ring is positioned within a recess formed in the inner wall of the first pipe section. A second wear ring is positioned within a recess formed in the inner wall of the second pipe section.
US11499658B2
An improved rotatable joint for fluid flow therethrough having (a) a housing, (b) a tube fitting axially aligned with the housing, (c) a bearing around the tube fitting and configured to permit relative rotation of the housing and tube fitting, and (d) a seal between the housing and tube fitting, the improvement wherein (i) the housing includes one or more leak detection ports and (ii) the rotatable joint is configured such that any leakage of fluid through the rotatable joint flows first around the seal to the bearing and then through one or more of the leak detection ports to the atmosphere.
US11499643B2
A valve component comprising a substrate with a sliding surface, the sliding surface being designed to be subjected to sliding against another surface during operation of the valve, wherein at least a portion of the sliding surface is coated with a coating comprising an under-layer comprising tungsten and an upper-layer deposited atop the under-layer, said upper-layer comprising diamond-like-carbon, wherein the under-layer comprises carbon and has a layer thickness of at least 11 micrometers, and the upper-layer has a lower coefficient of friction than the under-layer and has a layer thickness of at least 1.5 micrometers.
US11499634B1
Briefly, the present invention relates, in one embodiment, to a gasket for sealing a filter housing to a filter mount. The gasket may have an upper body and a lower body which seals between the filter housing and filter head. The gasket may include chamfered surfaces to allow for properly sealing against manufacturing tolerances, and may include an annular groove which receives the filter housing and stabilizes the gasket during installation.
US11499633B2
A transmission for a drivetrain of a motor vehicle, including a transmission casing which is or can be at least partially filled with oil and wherein a parking lock is arranged, wherein the parking lock includes a parking lock gear, which is connected rotationally conjointly to a transmission shaft and which has a locking toothing, and a locking pawl, which is mounted pivotably on the transmission casing and which has a locking tooth which, when the locking pawl is pivoted into a locking position, can be placed in positive locking engagement with the locking toothing of the parking lock gear, wherein the locking pawl is actuatable by an electromechanical parking-lock actuator which is arranged within the transmission casing. The invention furthermore relates to a motor vehicle which has a transmission of the type.
US11499627B2
Techniques related to vehicle operation. A processor determines that at least one condition is met related to a vehicle. In response to the at least one condition being met, the processor generates a natural language output having a query. The processor determines that an affirmative response to the query is received and causes a downshift of a transmission of the vehicle in response to the affirmative response.
US11499618B2
A device for cold working pipe elements has two or more cams, each having a gear which meshes with a pinion to turn all of the cams. Each cam has a cam surface with a region of increasing radius and may have a region of constant radius extending around a cam body. Each cam also has a traction surface extending around a cam body. A discontinuity in each cam surface is aligned with a gap in the traction surface of each cam. The discontinuities and gaps provide clearance for insertion and removal of the pipe element between the cams to form a circumferential groove when the cams are rotated.
US11499609B2
A torque transmission device has a pinion that includes a plurality of rollers that mesh with a plurality of teeth of an output. Each roller is supported by a bearing having rotating bearing elements. A clearance compensation for the diametrical difference between a diameter of each roller and an inscribed diameter of the associated rotating bearing elements is included in the plurality of teeth of the output such that there is no interference between the plurality of rollers and the plurality of teeth.
US11499601B2
A damper assembly with a bypass for a vehicle comprises a pressure cylinder with a piston and piston rod for limiting the flow rate of damping fluid as it passes from a first to a second side of said piston. A bypass provides fluid pathway between the first and second sides of the piston separately from the flow rate limitation. In one aspect, the bypass is remotely controllable from a passenger compartment of the vehicle. In another aspect, the bypass is remotely controllable based upon one or more variable parameters associated with the vehicle.
US11499598B2
Method and plant for manufacturing braking elements such as vehicle brake pads. The plant can comprise a first station that applies an adhesive to a first face of a metallic element; a second station that applies to the first face of the metallic element a block of friction material; a checking station that verifies the presence of the adhesive by detecting the gray level of a plurality of points of at least one zone of the first face; and a processing unit that compares the gray level detected for each point with a first threshold value, counts the number of points that have a gray level that satisfies a relationship (which is a function of the threshold value,) and compares such a value with a second threshold value to discard those metallic elements for which the percentage calculated does not correspond to the second threshold value.
US11499597B2
A braking device including: a piezoelectric element; and a braking portion. The braking portion is configured to be fixed to a member when the piezoelectric element is in a first state, and to be slidable along the member when the piezoelectric element is in a second state. The piezoelectric element changes from one state to another state when a voltage is applied.
US11499592B2
A strain wave gearbox configured to provide over-torque protection. The strain wave gearbox is designed to include a clutch that is at least partially housed within or positioned inside the internal space (herein labeled a chamber or void space interchangeably with internal space) of a flex spline. In some cases, the internal space is utilized to generate the preload for the clutch, and it may be used to provide room for a clutch preload subassembly. The clutch is located outside the flex spline's internal space and is formed to use geometric friction surfaces in the form of mating rings of teeth on mating surfaces or sides of the first and second clutch plates that once preloaded by the clutch preload subassembly require a greater torque than the design torque to rotate to the next tooth.
US11499590B2
An attachment interface is provided for connecting a vehicle composite component having a plate portion that is made of a fiber reinforced polymer and has a passage extending in a through manner along an axis. The attachment interface provides a metal attachment device, which includes an inner portion engaging the passage and an outer portion defining a connection point suitable to be connected to another vehicle element. The plate portion is axially sandwiched between two layers made of a fiber reinforced polymer composite material selected from the group consisting of BMC (Bulk Molding Compound), LFT (Long Fiber Thermoplastic) and DLFT (Direct Long Fiber Thermoplastic).
US11499588B1
A fastening device for hanging items in a bathroom includes a cup, which is resiliently compressible and can be compressed against a surface to engage a first face of the cup to the surface. A wire is engaged to and extends from a second face of the cup. The wire is resiliently bendable so that opposed sections of the wire can be bent into a pair of hooks. The hooks can be used to support one or more articles in a fixed position relative to the surface.
US11499574B2
A fluid leakage detection device includes: a rod seal provided in a cylinder head, a rod seal being configured to seal an annular gap between a piston rod and the cylinder head; a detection seal configured to seal an annular gap, a detection seal being configured to partition the detection space together with the rod seal; a communication passage in communication with the detection space; a pressure sensor configured to detect the pressure of the working oil guided through the communication passage; and a relief valve configured to release the pressure in the communication passage, wherein the detection seal is provided between the rod seal and a dust seal, the dust seal being configured to seal the annular gap by being provided in the cylinder head so as to face the outside of the cylinder tube.
US11499572B2
A cartridge-based fan apparatus includes a cartridge component, wherein the cartridge component includes at least an airflow driver and at least a first spindle secured to a rotary device, a cartridge housing unit, wherein the cartridge housing unit includes a cartridge insertion chamber, a motor, and a drive element that mechanically couples the motor to the spindle when the cartridge is inserted in the cartridge insertion chamber, and a securing mechanism that secures the cartridge component in the cartridge insertion chamber.
US11499570B2
A quick connect mounting assembly for a ceiling fan. The quick connect mounting assembly includes two releasably attachable plates that are easily interconnected to mechanically couple elements of a ceiling fan. The quick connect mounting assembly can be used to mount a ceiling fan switch housing to a ceiling fan motor assembly.
US11499565B2
An impeller for centrifugal pump comprising: a disc, a succession of vanes which extend from the disc around the rotation axis, a central body, adapted for connection to a rotating shaft, the vanes having a profile with a double curvature: a first curvature with respect to a sectional plane that is parallel to the disc, a second curvature with respect to a sectional plane that is perpendicular to the plane of the disc, each one of the vanes comprising an inside curve and an outside curve with different curvatures: the inside curve having an angle of curvature chosen between zero and one quarter of a round angle, and/or the outside curve has an angle of curvature chosen between zero and one quarter of a round angle.
US11499553B2
The scroll compressor comprises a fixed scroll having a fixed end plate and a fixed spiral wrap extending from the fixed end plate; an orbiting scroll (9) having an orbiting end plate and an orbiting spiral wrap extending from the orbiting end plate, the fixed spiral wrap and the orbiting spiral wrap meshing with each other to form compression chambers; a vertical drive shaft (19) having a crankpin (21) at an upper end portion of the vertical drive shaft (19), the crankpin (21) including an outer circumferential surface (23) cooperating with an orbiting scroll bearing (24). The crankpin (21) includes a recess (25) formed in an axial end face (26) of the crankpin (21), the recess (25) and an upper portion (27) of the outer circumferential surface (23) defining therebetween a circumferential wall (28) extending along at least a part of the circumference of the crankpin (21), the circumferential wall (28) being deformable in a radial direction during operation of the scroll compressor.
US11499552B2
A fluid working system such as a pump for displacing a working fluid such as hydraulic fluid or a motor using a working fluid is provided. The system may have a positive displacement machine which includes one or more working chamber with displacement means such as a cylinder with a reciprocating piston. There are also two or more fluid ports to allow the working fluid to flow into and out of the working chamber. The working fluid flows from one fluid port means to another either being forced to do so when pumped or moving the piston when functioning as an engine. The fluid working system has associated therewith a non-dead compliance volume of a material such as syntactic foam. This compliance volume acts to smooth any pressure fluctuations within the working fluid system.
US11499551B2
A rotary pump comprising a housing (1) defining an annular chamber with inlet and outlet ports (12;11) spaced apart around the chamber, a flexible annular diaphragm (3) forming one side of the chamber spaced opposite an annular wall of the housing (1), the diaphragm (3) being sealed at its edges to the housing (1), a partition (13) extending across the chamber from a location between the inlet and outlet ports (12;11) to the diaphragm (3). The diaphragm (3) is configured to be pressed progressively against the opposite wall of the housing (1) to force fluid drawn in at the inlet port (12) on one side of the partition (13) around the chamber and to expel it at the outlet port (11) at the other side of the partition (13). The outer face of the annular diaphragm (3) has a trough (40) at the part of the diaphragm (3) which faces the inlet port (12) and/or at the part of the diaphragm 3 which faces the outlet port (11).
US11499550B2
Sealing in rotary positive displacement machines based on trochoidal geometry that comprise a helical rotor that undergoes planetary motion within a helical stator is described. Seals can be mounted on the rotor, the stator, or both. The rotor can have a hypotrochoidal cross-section, with the corresponding stator cavity profile being the outer envelope of the rotor as it undergoes planetary motion, or the stator cavity can have an epitrochoidal cross-section with the corresponding rotor profile being the inner envelope of the trochoid as it undergoes planetary motion. In some embodiments, the geometry is offset in a manner that provides advantages with respect to sealing in the rotary machine. In multi-stage embodiments, the rotor-stator geometry remains substantially constant or varies along the axis of the rotary machine.
US11499548B2
Gerotor pump comprising an inner gerotor and an outer gerotor and an electric motor in a pump housing, and the outer gerotor is formed integrally with the rotor of the electric motor, wherein magnets are integrated into the outer gerotor, and the rotor is rotatably mounted on a shaft that is fixed on one side to a housing or a housing base of the pump housing.
US11499544B2
A monitoring system may include a strain gauge, a position sensor, and a torque sensor. The strain gauge may measure strain in a chamber of the pressure pump and generate a strain signal representing the strain measurement. The position sensor may measure a position of a rotating member and generate a position signal representing the position measurement. The torque sensor may measure torque in a component of the pressure pump and generate a torque signal representing the torque measurement. The torque measurement may be used with the strain measurement and the position measurement to determine a condition of the pressure pump.
US11499542B2
An electric pump includes a pump unit, a motor and a controller. The pump unit is configured to pump fluid by a rotating operation. The motor is a brushless direct-current motor and configured to rotationally drive the pump unit. The controller is configured to control a current to be supplied to the motor. The controller is configured to switch between voltage control for controlling the current to be supplied to the motor based on a target voltage and current control for controlling the current to be supplied to the motor based on a target current.
US11499541B2
A diaphragm compressor includes first structure having a first pressing part, a first diaphragm, and a first substrate partially separated from the first diaphragm and partially joined to the first diaphragm, a second structure having a second pressing part, a second diaphragm, and a second substrate partially separated from the second diaphragm and partially joined to the second diaphragm, the first structure and the second structure being stacked in a stacking direction in which the first diaphragm and the first substrate are stacked, wherein the first pressing part is placed at sides of the first diaphragm opposite to the first substrate, and a first separation portion between the first diaphragm and the first substrate is part of a first channel in which a fluid flows, the second pressing part is placed at sides of the second diaphragm opposite to the second substrate, and a second separation portion between the second diaphragm and the second substrate is part of a second channel in which a fluid flows, the first channel and the second channel are placed in series, as seen from the stacking direction, the first pressing part overlaps the second pressing part, and a buffer chamber holding the fluid is provided between the first channel and the second channel.
US11499536B2
A magnetically coupled piston pump includes a piston, a pump body, and a set of drive magnets. The piston includes a set of piston magnets. Each piston magnet has poles arranged along a longitudinal axis of the piston, and each piston magnet is arranged in the piston so that the orientation of the poles of each piston magnet is the opposite of the orientation of each adjacent piston magnet. The piston is disposed in and permitted to move within the pump body. The set of drive magnets is arranged outside the pump body. Each drive magnet corresponds to a piston magnet, has poles arranged along the longitudinal axis, and is arranged so that the orientation of the poles is opposite the orientation of the poles of the corresponding piston magnet. A drive unit is coupled to the drive magnets for moving the drive magnets along the longitudinal axis.
US11499533B2
Provided is a rotor for a wind turbine, including: a blade, a hub, a pitch bearing being configured to support the blade rotatably about a longitudinal axis of the blade and relative to the hub, and one or more metal arcs for conducting a lightning current from the blade to the hub, the one or more metal arcs including: a first arc portion electrically and mechanically connected to the blade, a second arc portion electrically and mechanically connected to the hub, and a bent portion connecting the first and second arc portions. The metal arcs being configured such that, when the blade rotates relative to the hub, the first arc portion is shifted relative to the second arc portion and a length of the first arc portion is reduced or increased at the expense of an increase or decrease of a length of the second arc portion.
US11499530B2
A self-aligning interface for assembling a powertrain housing 210 of a wind turbine onto a support base 220 is provided. The support base 220 comprises a support surface 230 and the powertrain housing 210 comprises a housing surface 240. The support surface 230 and the housing surface 240 are configured to be in contact after assembly. The self-aligning interface comprises: one or more protrusions 250 on the support surface 230, wherein the one or more protrusions 250 comprises one or more walls 260 which are inclined with respect to the support surface 230; and one or more recesses 270 on the housing surface 240. In addition or alternatively, the self-aligning interface comprises one or more protrusions on the housing surface, wherein the one or more protrusions comprises one or more walls which are inclined with respect to the housing surface, and one or more recesses on the support surface. The one or more protrusions 250 are complementary in size and shape to respective ones of the one or more recesses 270, such that, during assembly of the powertrain housing 210 onto the support base 220, the one or more protrusions 250 act as a guide for the one or more recesses 270, and the one or more protrusions 250 fit directly into the respective one or more recesses 270, to enable direct contact between the support surface 230 and the housing surface 240.
US11499526B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus (10) for wind power generation comprising at least one primary wind duct (12); at least one secondary wind duct (14); at least one pressure-balancing and guiding unit (14); at least one primary blade unit (20); at least one booster and generator unit (22); at least one secondary blade unit (24); and at least one extractor (26). Characteristically, a counter-rotating motion is created between the primary blade unit (20), the secondary blade unit (24) and the components of the booster and generator unit (22), which causes an increase in the velocity of the wind flowing through the apparatus (10) and a resultant increase in the impact of the high velocity wind on the blades; further amplifying the self-reinforcing effect occurring at each stage of the apparatus (10).
US11499518B2
The present invention relates to a power generation apparatus, and more particularly to a power generation apparatus that generates power by dropping collected water. A power generation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a chamber having an accommodation space for accommodating water, and configured to accommodate water introduced through an intake pipe disposed on the bottom surface thereof; a pressure pump configured to discharge the air of the accommodation space out of the chamber through a discharge pipe provided on the ceiling surface of the chamber by generating pressure; a spray unit provided on the side surface of the chamber, and configured to spray water, introduced by the pressure pump and accommodated in the accommodation space, out of the chamber; and a power generation unit configured to generate power using the pressure of water sprayed by the spray unit.
US11499507B2
The concepts described herein provide for a system, apparatus and/or method for fuel vapor capture on-vehicle for evaporative emission control. This includes a device for capturing fuel vapor on-vehicle that includes a canister device having a first port that is fluidly coupled to a head space portion of a fuel tank. The canister device defines a chamber that is fluidly coupled in series between the first port and a second port. A first Metal Organic Framework (MOF) material is disposed in the chamber to adsorb fuel vapor constituents.
US11499506B2
An opening/closing mechanism of an intake member includes: an intake member that accommodates a filter part and has an opening leading to a carburetor in an end wall opposing the filter part; an opening/closing member disposed between the filter part and the end wall, and opens/closes the opening; and a working member disposed on an opposite side to the opening/closing member so as to interpose the end wall, and allows the opening/closing member to be operated. The working member includes: an arm part which extends along the end wall and is linked with the opening/closing member to interpose the end wall at one end part, and a holding part provided to another end part of the arm part. The intake member has a guide hole into which the arm part is inserted and guides movement of the arm part.
US11499504B2
A propulsion assembly for an aircraft includes a pylon, a turbofan including a structure fixed to the pylon, and at least one thrust reverser, each having a top beam extending parallel to a longitudinal direction and mobile in rotation on the structure around a rotation axis parallel to the longitudinal direction. For each thrust reverser, an actuator is provided, a first end of which is articulated on the pylon and a second end of which is articulated on the top beam of the thrust reverser and the articulation axis of the actuator on the top beam is not coaxial with the rotation axis. Such assembly allows a positioning of the actuator in the upper part of the turbofan between the top beam of the thrust reverser and the pylon to free some space.
US11499494B1
A method for diagnosing fuel leakage of a vehicle includes: measuring a pressure of a fuel tank by a pressure sensor in a closed state of a fuel system during starting-off of the vehicle; measuring an inner temperature of the fuel tank by a temperature sensor; and diagnosing, by a controller, whether or not leakage occurs by performing different leakage diagnoses depending on a pressure condition of the fuel tank. Thus, the controller performs a first leakage diagnosis when a pressure value of the fuel tank, measured in the measuring the pressure of the fuel tank, is within an atmospheric pressure level; performs a second leakage diagnosis when the pressure value is higher than a positive pressure; and performs a third leakage diagnosis when the pressure value is lower than a negative pressure.
US11499492B2
Provided is a diesel engine capable of regenerating a DPF even during no-load and/or light-load operation. In a DPF regeneration process, opening-degree reduction control S2 for an exhaust-air throttle valve is performed after a start condition S1 of the regeneration process of the DPF in which PM is deposited is satisfied. When exhaust air reaches a temperature equal to or higher than a predetermined after-injection permissible temperature TA, after-injection control is subsequently started S5. Post-injection control is started S7 after the exhaust air reaches a temperature equal to or higher than a predetermined post-injection permissible temperature TP by combustion of after-injection fuel. The PM deposited in the DPF is incinerated by the exhaust air increased in temperature by catalytic combustion of post-injection fuel in a valve downstream-side DOC.
US11499481B2
A fuel distribution device is provided wherein an axis is defined. The device comprises a body housing a distribution path for fuel; the distribution path has one inlet and a plurality of outlets; the inlet is located on the external surface of the body at an end of an inlet branch of the distribution path; the plurality of outlets are located on the external surface of the body at ends of a corresponding plurality of outlet branches of the distribution path; the inlet branch and the outlet branches are fluidly connected to a distribution space; and the outlet branches are arranged radially.
US11499468B2
A method includes: interpreting first oxygen data acquired by a first nitrous oxide (NOx) sensor indicative of a first amount of oxygen in an exhaust flow at a location in or proximate to an exhaust aftertreatment system, wherein the exhaust aftertreatment system is in exhaust gas receiving communication with an engine; estimating an amount of oxygen in the exhaust flow entering the exhaust aftertreatment system from the engine based on engine operation data; and, determining that the NOx sensor is faulty based on determining that a difference between the first amount of oxygen and the estimated amount of oxygen is greater than a threshold value.
US11499467B2
An exhaust sensor includes a sensing element with a ceramic sensing element substrate and a sensing element terminal which is electrically conductive and which is supported by the ceramic sensing element substrate such that the sensing element is configured to sense constituents of exhaust gases when exposed thereto. The exhaust sensor also includes a mating terminal which is electrically conductive and which is in electrical communication with the sensing element terminal. The mating terminal has a base material and a clad material bonded to the base material such that the clad material contacts the sensing element terminal and such that the clad material is located between the sensing element terminal and the base material, thereby providing the electrical communication. The clad material is an alloy which is less than or equal to 20% iron, greater than or equal to 40% nickel, and greater than or equal to 13% chromium.
US11499463B2
The present disclosure describes methods for evaluating quality of DEF dosed to an EAS including a close coupled SCR unit a downstream SCR unit. A NOx conversion efficiency of the close coupled SCR unit and a NOx conversion efficiency of the downstream SCR unit are used to evaluate quality of DEF. In some embodiments, the NOx conversion efficiency of close coupled SCR unit is used to evaluate quality of DEF. Operation of an EAS using the results of the evaluation of quality of DEF are described.
US11499462B2
Disclosed is a device for storing a liquid for a motor vehicle, the device including a reservoir, including a bottom wall, a pump, mounted at an orifice formed at the bottom wall and including at least one portion extending through the orifice and including at least one suction nozzle, a filter mounted on the at least one portion of the pump at the at least one suction nozzle, and a mat arranged inside the reservoir at least partly on the bottom wall, the mat being able to move the liquid by capillarity and including a so-called “contact” portion being in contact with the filter at a contact surface in order to convey the liquid by capillarity to the filter.
US11499459B2
A diesel-electric locomotive includes a diesel emissions reduction unit, including an inlet configured to receive an exhaust stream of a high-speed diesel engine; means for trapping at least a portion of diesel particulate matter contained in the exhaust stream; an aqueous NH3 dosing system including a dosing controller in communication with an electronic locomotive controller and a nitrogen oxide (“NOx”) concentration sensor and an ammonia (“NH3”) concentration sensor, at least one oxidation catalyst panel arranged to isolate the NOx concentration sensor from NH3 in the exhaust stream; mixing elements located between the dosing system and the NOx and NH3 concentration sensors to mix metered aqueous NH3 in the exhaust stream; a selective catalyst reactor bed located between the mixing elements and the NOx and NH3 concentration sensors; and an exhaust heating system in communication with at least one of the dosing and electronic locomotive controllers.
US11499455B1
A fluid filter, filtering medium composition, and associated process for removing contaminants from feed and exhaust fluids used in fuel cell electricity generation, laboratories, the semiconductor and other industries to improve performance and extend useful equipment lifetimes and to clean fluids of sulfur compound contaminants, as well as to remove noxious NOx contaminants from feed and exhaust gases.
US11499452B2
An oil treatment system for an internal combustion engine in one implementation includes an elongated dipstick tube defining a tube axis and a first flow passageway, a housing arranged on the dipstick tube and defining an internal cavity, an oil treatment apparatus disposed in the internal cavity, and a retainer coupled to the housing. The retainer may have a cylindrical body comprising an elongated first flow protuberance insertably received through the oil treatment apparatus to establish fluid communication between the oil treatment apparatus and the first flow passageway of the dipstick tube. The retainer comprises a cavity through which oil may be added directly to the first flow passageway of the dipstick which may be fluidly coupled to an oil sump of the engine. The oil treatment apparatus may be an oil filter. An oil treatment additive may optionally be added to the housing.
US11499451B2
A valve spring retainer for an internal combustion engine includes a body having a lower portion and an upper portion. The lower portion defines a radial flange and a first opening extending axially therethrough. The upper portion includes a first wall and a re-entrant lip. The first wall extends at least partially axially away from an outer perimeter edge of the radial flange. Together, the first wall and the radial flange define an open reservoir for receiving and retaining oil therein. The re-entrant lip extends from an outer end of the first wall at least partially radially inward toward a central axis of the first opening. The re-entrant lip extends over a portion of the reservoir defined by the first wall and the radial flange.
US11499448B2
A composite fan casing for a gas turbine engine defining a central axis is generally provided. The composite fan casing includes a core having a plurality of core layers of reinforcing fibers bonded together with a thermosetting polymeric resin and having an outer surface. The composite fan casing further includes at least one stiffener integrally coupled to an aft portion of the outer surface of the core relative to the central axis. Additionally, the at least one stiffener comprises an elastic material.
US11499447B2
A gas turbine engine has: an engine shaft rotatable about a rotation axis; at least two bearings spaced apart from one another along the rotation axis, the at least two bearings having inner races for rotation with the engine shaft, outer races, and rolling elements disposed radially between the inner races and the outer races; a bearing support extending axially along the rotation axis from one of the at least two bearings to the other, the bearing support secured to both of the outer races of the at least two bearings, the bearing support secured to a structural case of the gas turbine engine via frangible tabs.
US11499446B2
Methods and systems for detecting a shaft event of a gas turbine engine are described. The method comprises monitoring at least one engine parameter and comparing the at least one engine parameter to a schedule for the at least one parameter defining a first threshold and a second threshold greater than the first threshold; applying a limit to the at least one engine parameter when the at least one engine parameter is inside a parameter limiting region between the first threshold and the second threshold, the first threshold separating the parameter limiting region from a normal operating region, the second threshold separating the parameter limiting region from a hazardous operating region; and detecting the shaft event when the at least one engine parameter crosses the second threshold and issuing a signal in response to the detecting.
US11499445B2
The invention provides a CO2 turbine power generation system that can be easily prevented from reaching an overspeed condition. A CO2 turbine power generation system of an embodiment includes a CO2 medium shutoff valve installed in a medium flow path between a regenerative heat exchanger and a combustor. When load rejection is to be performed, the CO2 medium shutoff valve closes to shut off the supply of the medium from the regenerative heat exchanger to the combustor.
US11499441B2
A compressor stator vane unit includes multiple compressor stator vanes disposed at a certain interval in a circumferential direction; and an annular joint member connected with inner ends of the multiple compressor stator vanes; wherein the annular joint member constitutes an outer diameter side surface of a leakage fluid flow path provided in an inner diameter side of the joint member to communicate a high-pressure space with a low-pressure space respectively located downstream and upstream of the multiple compressor stator vanes in a fluid flow direction, and D/P is set to 0.05≤D/P≤0.2, wherein D is defined as a distance in an axial direction between an upstream end surface of the annular joint member and an upstream edge of the multiple compressor stator vanes in the fluid flow direction and P is defined as a pitch between the adjacent compressor stator vanes in the circumferential direction.
US11499436B2
A turbine blade including a root carrying an impeller terminated by a tip in the form of a squealer tip. This impeller also includes a serpentine median circuit, including a first radial pipe collecting air at the root and that is connected by a first bend to a second radial pipe that is connected by a second bend to a third radial pipe, a cavity under the squealer tip running along the pressure side wall, extending from a central region of the tip to the trailing edge, and a radial central pipe collecting air at the root extending between at least two of the three pipes of the median circuit and directly supplying the cavity under the squealer tip.
US11499432B2
A method of altering the twisting relationship for the aerodynamic surface of a fan blade of a gas turbine engine, wherein the following steps are performed: establishing, for a portion of the aerodynamic surface of the fan blade, an alteration relationship defined by variation of a pitch angle of the blade as a function of radial height along the blade, the alteration relationship including alterations that are each defined by a height along with the radial height of the fan blade and by an amplitude; and applying the alteration relationship as established in this way to an initial twisting relationship of the fan blade so as to obtain an altered twisting relationship for the fan blade, the initial twisting relationship being defined by a polynomial for the radial height of the fan blade as a function of its pitch angle.
US11499427B2
The disclosure discloses an adaptive lining structure of a tunnel in complex environment and a construction method thereof, and relates to the technical field of tunnel construction, comprising a lining, a pressure regulating layer and a connecting cylinder; wherein the pressure regulating layer is provided between the lining and a surrounding rock; and the connecting cylinder is provided in the tunnel and runs through the top of the lining. The adaptive lining structure of a tunnel in complex environment and the construction method in the disclosure are simple in structure, reasonable in design and convenient for efficient construction; it can deal with engineering problems such as lining cracking caused by high internal water and high external water in the tunnel, and can ensure the safety of tunnel lining in different periods.
US11499426B2
A cutting device for cutting rock includes a disc and a plurality of cutting elements secured to the disc. The disc is supported for rotation about an axis of rotation, and the disc includes a peripheral edge extending around the axis of rotation. The plurality of cutting elements are spaced apart along the peripheral edge of the disc and positioned in a cutting plane. Each of the cutting elements includes a base portion and a cutting portion including a cutting edge, and the cutting portion has a width that is larger than a width of the base portion.
US11499424B2
Systems and methods to determine the productivity index of individual laterals under commingled flow
Systems and methods for determining the productivity indices for individual laterals of a completed multilateral well under commingled flow comprise a productivity index generator, zonal inflow control valves (ICVs), and a pressure downhole monitoring system (PDHMS). The completed multilateral well comprises a mother bore and a plurality of laterals extending from the mother bore in corresponding well zones of the mother bore. Each zonal ICV is configured to close for a shut-in period and open for an open period. The PDHMS is configured to generate real time pressure measurements for each well zone of the mother bore. The productivity index generator is communicatively coupled to the zonal ICVs and the PDHMS and is operable to determine a productivity index for individual laterals under commingled flow based on (i) the productivity index ratio of individual laterals under non-commingled flow and (ii) the global well productivity index under commingled flow.
US11499423B2
Systems and methods include a method providing automated production optimization for smart well completions using real-time nodal analysis including comingled production calibration. Real-time well rates and flowing bottom-hole pressure data are collected at various choke settings for multiple flow conditions for each lateral of a multilateral well during regular field optimization procedures. Surface and downhole pressures and production metrics for each of the laterals are recorded for one lateral at a time during production of the well. Flowing parameters of individual laterals are estimated using the multilateral well production model. An optimum pressure drop across each downhole valve is determined using the multilateral well production model. Each lateral of the multilateral well is calibrated during the commingled production at various choke valves settings. The calibrating is done using the multilateral well production model, based at least in part on the optimum pressure drop across each downhole valve.
US11499416B2
A spoolable array of sensors may be deployed within a wellbore and external a tubular string for measuring properties of a fluid in the central flow passage of the tubular string. A flow port may be made in the tubular string passing from the central flow passage to the external surface. Sensors of the spoolable array of sensors may be covered with a shroud and placed proximate the flow port, or such sensors may be isolated in a zone with packers along with the flow port. The spoolable array of sensors may additionally obtain pressure data to calculate a flow rate from a production zone. The spoolable array of sensors may also be employed in a non-flowing wellbore for monitoring nearby wellbores.
US11499411B2
There is described a computer-implemented method of controlling a drilling operation. In particular, there is described a computer-implemented method of determining that a differential pressure is in an oscillating state. In response to determining that the differential pressure is in the oscillating state, a weight on bit setpoint is decreased so as to decrease the differential pressure. There is also described a computer-implemented method of determining a difference between a differential pressure and a target differential pressure. The target differential pressure is less than a differential pressure limit. A weight on bit setpoint is adjusted as a function of the difference between the differential pressure and the target differential pressure so as to adjust the differential pressure and thereby reduce the difference between the differential pressure and the target differential pressure.
US11499409B2
A method can include providing a trained drilling motor model trained via machine learning based at least in part on drilling motor simulation results; instantiating a motor engine component with an interface in a computational environment; and, responsive to receipt of a call via the interface, returning drilling motor information based at least in part on the trained drilling motor model.
US11499403B2
A downhole tool includes an electric submersible pump to pump a well fluid to a surface of a borehole. The downhole tool includes a motor to power the electric submersible pump and a seal section to protect the motor from the well fluid. The seal section includes an elastomeric bag and a clamp at each end of the elastomeric bag to secure the elastomeric bag. The seal section includes an elastomeric bag protector secured around each clamp, wherein the elastomeric bag protector extends axially beyond a respective clamp to surround a tapered portion of the elastomeric bag above and below the clamp, and wherein the elastomeric bag protector has a sloped inner diameter that matches a profile of the tapered portion.
US11499399B2
Liner hangers and methods of use. An example method includes positioning a liner hanger in a wellbore; the liner hanger comprising: two sealing elements disposed on the exterior of the liner hanger and having a void space therebetween, and a pressure reducing metal element disposed between the two sealing elements. The method further includes trapping a wellbore fluid in the void space; wherein the wellbore fluid thermally expands in the void space creating an annular pressure in the void space; and reducing the annular pressure by materially altering the pressure reducing metal element.
US11499398B2
A wellbore downhole tool, comprising: a nozzle assembly, the nozzle assembly includes a nozzle including: a cylindrically-shaped tube with a substantially uniform outer diameter across substantially an entire height of the nozzle, at least one retaining body opening located in an outer wall of the nozzle; a holding body including: a conduit, the conduit sized to fit the nozzle there-through, an alignment opening extending from an outer surface of the holding body to the conduit; and a retaining body sized to fit within the alignment opening of the holding body and to contact the retaining body opening of the nozzle when the nozzle is inserted in the conduit such that the cylindrically-shaped tube of the nozzle cannot rotate or move further in or out of the conduit. A method of assembling the wellbore downhole tool is also described.
US11499393B2
A sub having an anti-rotation feature for a resource exploration and recovery system includes a tubular having an outer surface and an inner surface defining a flow bore. A sleeve is slideably disposed in the flow bore between a first position and a second position. The sleeve includes an inner surface portion having a taper. A dart including an end portion is disposed in the sleeve. The dart is configured to shift the sleeve between the first position and the second position when exposed to a selected pressure in the flowbore. The end portion includes a tapered section. The tapered section mating with the taper formed in the inner surface to rotatably lock the plug to the inner surface of the sleeve.
US11499392B2
A method to design a wellbore cement sheath in compacting or subsiding formations is provided. The method may include performing a field scale analysis on a formation surrounding a wellbore. The field scale analysis may output boundary conditions including a pore pressure of the formation and a three-dimensional movement of the formation. The method may also include performing a wellbore scale analysis based on the boundary conditions, a wellbore scale model, wellbore conditions, and cement material properties. The wellbore scale analysis may output an indication of stress applied over time to a cement sheath within the wellbore. Further, the method may include determining cement material properties of the cement sheath to withstand the stress applied over time output by the wellbore scale analysis, and the method may include installing the cement sheath within the wellbore. The cement sheath may include the cement material properties.
US11499388B2
An autonomous BOP system is provided for stopping an uncontrolled flow of formation hydrocarbons comprising two or more sensors distributed along a length of a subsea blowout preventer to monitor a drill pipe inside a blowout preventer and measure critical parameters. A computer using predictive-software monitors a blowout preventer along with material critical parameters and calculates a blowout preventer configuration and sequence to arrest a well blowout. Blowout preventer components are fine-tuned and operational modes are added to aid an arrest of a well blowout under realistic conditions.
US11499386B2
A system and method for injecting bailer content utilizing a dump bailer having an elongated, flexible bailer receptacle secured between a head assembly and an injection assembly. Disposed within the dump bailer are first and second piston assemblies, each of which includes a piston having a central fluid passage with a pressure actuated flow control mechanism in the form of a rupture disk disposed along the fluid passage of the piston. An electric, positive displacement pump within the head assembly draws wellbore fluid into the dump bailer assembly to drive the first piston assembly towards the second piston assembly so as to release bailer content into a wellbore. The elongated flexible bailer receptacle may be a hose stored on a bailer receptacle reel, which hose may be paid out by the reel to a length that corresponds with a volume of bailer content to be released into the wellbore.
US11499382B2
A system including an elevator to move a tubular, the elevator including two or more remotely operable latches that can configure the elevator to handle various tubular diameters. Each jaw can include a locking mechanism that engages a portion of the housing adjacent a spacer ring in the elevator when the first jaw is in the engaged position and configured to transfer a closing force to the housing. A portion of the latches can be laterally offset from each other and another portion can overlap adjacent latches. The elevator can be explosive (EX) Zone 1 certified with an electronics enclosure contained within a sealed chamber. The elevator can use rotary actuators to operate the latches and rotate the housing of the elevator. The elevator can use a circular pressure sensor to determine weight of a tubular.
US11499360B2
A guide mechanism for a sliding door includes a rail configured to be mounted on the sliding door, a roller carriage configured to move along the rail, and including a roller bracket and a roller configured to be rotatably mounted on the roller bracket, a hinge arm configured to be pivotally connected to a vehicle body, a first shaft configured to pivotally connect the roller carriage to the hinge arm, and a second shaft configured to pivotally connect the hinge arm to the vehicle body.
US11499352B2
A control mechanism for controlling a door handle movable between a normal position in which the handle is flush with the door and a working position in which the handle protrudes from the door includes a first lever mounted so as to pivot about a first shaft supported by the handle, a second lever mounted so as to pivot about a second shaft supported by the handle in parallel to the first shaft and at a distance from the first shaft in a longitudinal direction of the handle, and a link rod having ends connected to the first lever and to the second lever by articulated links. At least one of the articulated links has play in a longitudinal direction of the link rod, and the first lever, the second lever, the link rod, and the handle form a deformable quadrilateral, the deformation of which moves of the handle.
US11499346B2
The invention relates to an electronic padlock cover with a knob, wherein the padlock includes a rotor assembly formed by an electronic cylinder joined in continuity to an electronic knob, a body wherein the cylinder and a padlock ring are housed, wherein the cover includes a protective casing of the body intended to surround and protect the body of the padlock on one end, a support with a ring-shaped configuration including two grooves and an extension, centered on each groove, which includes a pair of first holes for the introduction of corresponding fastening screws for fastening to the body of the padlock and a protective casing of the knob including two flanges located in correspondence with the grooves, including an inner cylindrical opening for the housing of the knob.
US11499337B2
A modular privacy fence system, in particular, a modular privacy fence system having fence panels with a board-on-board appearance is disclosed. The fence system includes one or more fence panels having at least two fence panel portions that are cooperatively configured such that the fence panel portions are disposed in partial overlapping relationship such that one of the fence panel portions is offset relative to an adjacent one or ones of the fence panel portions. The fence panel portions are formed within a unitary, one-piece construction and may be in the form of plastic extrusions. The fence panels are configured for coupling to adjacent fence panels, the one or more fence panels being disposed between spaced apart upper and lower rails with the fence panels being connected, respectively, to the upper and lower rails.
US11499327B1
A guardrail mounting bracket for a staircase includes an upper clamping bracket comprising an upper post engagement portion and an upper stair engagement portion, the upper stair engagement portion defining an upper stair engagement surface; a lower clamping bracket comprising a lower post engagement portion and a lower stair engagement portion, the lower stair engagement portion defining a lower stair engagement surface; and a front clamping bracket coupled to the lower clamping bracket and defining a front stair engagement portion.
US11499323B2
A deck drainage system includes a bracket, a locking bead, and a sheet. The bracket includes a first leg and an elongate receiver connected to an end portion of the leg. The elongate receiver defines a substantially round cross-sectional profile. The locking bead is an elongate member that defines a slit in an outer surface thereof for receiving the sheet. The locking bead is configured to be received in the receiver.
US11499321B2
The current invention concerns coverings such as a floor covering, wall covering or ceiling covering, said covering comprising at least one substrate and at least one surface layer, said surface layer comprising a print pattern and a wear layer, whereby said print pattern is directly applied to said substrate, and further concerns a method to produce such coverings.
US11499310B2
A gait assistance slab is provided. The gait assistance slab includes a body that includes an outer surface. The gait assistance slab further includes a plurality of sensors disposed inside the body. The gait assistance slab further includes a plurality of actuators disposed inside the body. The gait assistance slab further includes circuitry communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors and the plurality of actuators. The circuitry detects a presence of a person on the outer surface based on an electric signal acquired from one of the plurality of sensors. The circuitry determines a level of actuation of one of the plurality of actuators based on the detected presence of the person and the acquired electric signal. The circuitry further controls, based on the determined level of actuation, the one of the plurality of actuators to assist gait of the person on the outer surface.
US11499306B2
The present invention provides an anchor assembly for attaching a first structure to a second structure. The anchor assembly has a body having a first face and a second face. The first face is transverse to the second face and has an elongate slot. The second face has a through hole. The body is fabricated from a material that fails at a temperature in excess of 1,000° F. A fastening member is positioned in the elongate slot for connecting the first face to the first structure and for sliding engagement with the elongate slot in response to relative movement of the first structure and the second structure.
US11499305B2
A liquid treatment system is provided having a vault that contains a treatment chamber and an outflow chamber. The treatment chamber may have a filtration media layer containing media that treats liquid as it descends through the filtration media layer, where it will accumulate in a porous layer or open space. The liquid will then be directed through the plurality of pipes to the outflow chamber, where the treated liquid is further directed to outside the system. Accumulated debris settled at the bottom of the treatment chamber may be flushed out by a spray bar.
US11499302B2
A device (1) for cleaning for example a single or multi-bladed wet razor head. The device includes a housing (2) which has a water through-flow opening (20) that can be mounted on an outlet of a sanitary outlet fitting. At least one mechanism (21) is arranged inside the housing (2) of the device (1) and is designed to generate at least one pulsating water jet and/or to increase the flow speed of the mains water exiting the outlet of the tap, and adjoins the water through-flow opening. The mains water is delivered to the mechanism (21) via several of the flow-cross sections of the channels (22a, 22b, 22c) defining the mains water exiting the outlet of the sanitary outlet fitting, this mechanism (21) being designed as a rotational valve which includes several blades (multi-bladed) which are arranged close to each other on a common axis (23) below at least one of the channels (22a, 22b, 22c), with blades guiding the mains water to the water outlet (24).
US11499297B2
A measuring arrangement includes a positioning arrangement including at least one locator, at least one first spot to be located, at least one second spot to be located, and a position data gathering unit for gathering a first set of at least three different position data measurements of each of the at least one first spot to be located, wherein the different position data measurements are taken in different rotation angles around a first axle, and a second set of at least three different position data measurements of each of the at least one second spot to be located, wherein the different position data measurements are taken in different rotation angles around a second axle. The three dimensional location and orientation of the center axis of the first axle with respect to the center axis of the second axle are determined on the basis of the first and second set of position data measurements.
US11499295B2
In accordance with an example embodiment, a method for directing a work machine to one or more worksites from a selection of candidate worksites is disclosed. The method includes receiving obscurant data related to a forecast availability of obscurants at one or more worksites; receiving environmental data related to the suppression, creation, transportation, or direction of obscurants; and receiving operational data related to machine components and the ability of the machine components to generate obscurants or have performance degraded by obscurants at the one or more worksites. Determining an obscurant metric for each of the one or more worksites based on the obscurant data, the environmental data, and the operational data; and directing the work machine to the one or more worksites based on the obscurant metric.
US11499292B2
In embodiments, a work vehicle magnetorheological fluid (MRF) joystick system includes a joystick device, an MRF joystick resistance mechanism, and a controller architecture. The joystick device includes, in turn, a base housing, a joystick, and a joystick position sensor. The MRF joystick resistance mechanism is controllable to selectively resist movement of the joystick relative to the base housing. The controller architecture is configured to: (i) when detecting operator rotation of the joystick in an operator input direction, determine whether continued joystick rotation in the operator input direction will misposition the work vehicle in a manner increasing at least one of work vehicle instability and a likelihood of work vehicle collision; and (ii) when determining that continued joystick rotation will misposition the work vehicle, command the MRF joystick resistance mechanism to generate an MRF resistance force deterring continued joystick rotation in the operator input direction.
US11499291B2
The invention relates to a work machine (1, 1.1, 1.2) comprising: a work unit (2, 2.1, 2.2) or a receptacle (16) for a work unit, exactly one primary vehicle axis (3), wheel elements (4) arranged on both sides of the primary vehicle axis (3), drive units associated with the wheel elements (4), at least one control, wherein the control comprises at least one control circuit and effects a self-balancing of the work machine (1, 1.1, 1.2) about the main vehicle axis (3), and a counter-weight (5), wherein a position of the counter-weight (5) relative to the primary vehicle axis (3) is controllable via the control, and therefore the work machine (1, 1.1, 1.2) can be balanced about the primary vehicle axis (3) and controlled in the movement directions thereof via a position shift of the counter-weight (5).
US11499288B2
An upper revolving structure (4) of a hydraulic excavator (1) includes a revolving frame (7), a counterweight (8), an operator's seat (12), a right front cover (17B) disposed from the right side of the operator's seat (12) toward a front end side of the revolving frame (7), a control valve device (18), and an accumulator (21). An accumulator support device (23) is provided between the operator's seat (12) and the right front cover (17B), the accumulator support device (23) is configured by a box (24) providing the inside thereof for an accommodating space (25) and having an opening (26) and a lid member (28) mounted on the box (24) through a hinge member (29) and opened and closed between an open position at which the side of a free end (28D) opens the opening (26) and a closed position at which the side of the free end (28D) closes the opening (26), and the accumulator (21) is mounted on the lid member (28).
US11499275B2
Various embodiments for a pad that may be combined with other similar pads to form a padding layer of an athletic field, or other surface, are disclosed. The pad includes a top surface and a bottom surface. Bottom-side projections are positioned on the bottom surface of the pad. Water channels are positioned on the bottom surface of the pad defined as a recessed area between individual ones of the bottom-side projections. A drainage hole is positioned in at least one of the bottom-side projections such that the drainage hole does not connect with any of the water channels on the bottom surface. The drainage hole may be at least partially coupled to projection channels on the bottom-side projections, where the projection channels act as a water vacuum to facilitate air circulation and vertical water evacuation relative to the drainage hole.
US11499267B1
A leather substrate formed from waste leather and its method of production, particularly a leather substrate made up substantially of a collagen fibril matrix.
US11499262B2
A laundry treating apparatus may include a main body having a laundry input port at a front surface thereof; a laundry accommodating portion provided inside of the main body to accommodate laundry; and a door rotatably coupled to a front surface of the main body to open and close the laundry input port. The door may include an outer frame facing an outside of the main body; an inner frame facing an inside of the main body and coupled to a rear surface of the outer frame; a front glass mounted to the outer frame; and a door window mounted to the inner frame. A plating layer may be provided on an outer surface of the outer frame, thereby enhancing a sense of quality of the laundry treating apparatus and visibility of the door.
US11499261B2
A washing machine includes a casing, a tub, a drum, a pump, a gasket that is arranged between a case opening and a tub opening and that includes first nozzles and second nozzles, and a water pipe assembly that includes: first nozzle ports affixed to the first nozzles, second nozzle ports affixed to the second nozzles, a first conduit, and a second conduit. The gasket further includes port insertion pipes into which the first and second nozzle ports are inserted. Each of the first and second nozzle ports includes at least one press-fit protrusion that is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the nozzle supply port and that is configured to, in a state in which the nozzle supply port is inserted into a corresponding port insertion pipe, maintain contact with an inner circumferential surface of the port insertion pipe.
US11499258B2
A first irrigation assembly includes a base plate having an upwardly curved sidewall and a planar annular peripheral flange. Spray outlets on the upwardly curved sidewall provide liquid spray to exterior portions of a wetsuit at a plurality of spray angles. Spray outlets on the annular peripheral flange provide liquid spray to exterior portions of the wetsuit at spray angles different from the spray angles of the spray outlets on the upwardly curved sidewall. A second irrigation assembly includes first and second curved pipes and an upper piping arrangement having major external surfaces. First and second flow junctions provide fluid flow connection between the curved pipes and the upper piping arrangement. Spray outlets arranged along the major external surfaces of the curved pipes and the upper piping arrangement provide liquid spray to upper and lower interior rear and front portions of the wetsuit.
US11499253B2
A method of producing a component for an article of footwear or apparel or a sporting goods accessory. The method of producing a component includes forming at least a first layer by braiding a first braided tube. Braiding may be performed with an empty braiding center. The method further includes arranging the first layer on a form.
US11499250B2
An elastic multiple component fiber comprising a cross-section, wherein at least a first region of said cross-section comprises a polyurethaneurea composition; and comprising a second region.
US11499247B2
This disclosure provides a vapor-liquid reaction device including a vapor-liquid reaction chamber and a projecting member. The vapor-liquid reaction chamber holds a molten metal in a lower portion of an internal space of the vapor-liquid reaction chamber.
US11499240B2
A reinforced separator for alkaline hydrolysis includes a porous support, a first porous polymer layer contiguous with one side of the support and a second porous polymer layer contiguous with the other side of the support, characterized in that the maximum pore diameter at the outer surface of the first porous polymer layer PDmax(1) and of the second porous polymer layer PDmax(2) are different from each other and wherein a ratio between PDmax(2) and PDmax(1) is between 1.25 and 10.
US11499231B2
Exemplary semiconductor processing chambers may include a substrate support positioned within a processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The chamber may include a lid plate. The chamber may include a gasbox positioned between the lid plate and the substrate support. The gasbox may be characterized by a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The gasbox may define a central aperture. The gasbox may define an annular channel in the first surface of the gasbox extending about the central aperture through the gasbox. The gasbox may include an annular cover extending across the annular channel defined in the first surface of the gasbox. The chamber may include a blocker plate positioned between the gasbox and the substrate support. The chamber may include a ferrite block positioned between the lid plate and the blocker plate.
US11499229B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to substrate support assemblies used in semiconductor device manufacturing. In one embodiment, a substrate support includes a ceramic body having at least one aperture formed therein defined by a sidewall. A plurality of recesses extend into the sidewall, a rod member is disposed in the at least one aperture, and an eyelet member is circumferentially disposed about the rod member. The eyelet member has a plurality of protrusions extending outwardly therefrom, each disposed in a corresponding recess of the plurality of recesses. A first portion of each protrusion is in contact with a sidewall of the respective recess of the ceramic body and a second portion of each protrusion is separated by a gap from the sidewall of the respective recess of the ceramic body. A first portion of a brazing material is disposed between an upper surface of the at least one aperture and an end of the rod member.
US11499227B2
Vapor deposition processes for forming thin films comprising gold on a substrate in a reaction space are provided. The processes can be cyclical vapor deposition processes, such as atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes. The processes can include contacting the substrate with a gold precursor comprising at least one sulfur donor ligand and at least one alkyl ligand, and contacting the substrate with a second reactant comprising ozone. The deposited thin films comprising gold can be uniform, continuous, and conductive at very low thicknesses.
US11499225B2
There is provided a gas processing apparatus, including: a vacuum vessel; a mounting part installed in the vacuum vessel and configured to mount a substrate; an opposing part configured to face the mounting part and including first gas discharge ports configured to discharge a processing gas to the substrate; a first diffusion space configured to communicate with the first gas discharge ports; second gas discharge ports formed in a ceiling portion and configured to supply the processing gas to a central portion of the first diffusion space; a second diffusion space configured to communicate with the second gas discharge ports; a gas supply path installed at an upstream side of the second diffusion space and configured to supply the processing gas to the second diffusion space; and third gas discharge ports configured to be opened to an outer portion of the ceiling portion in an oblique direction.
US11499219B2
A method of fabricating a thin film with a varying thickness includes the steps of providing a shadow mask with an opening, providing a carrier plate, arranging a substrate on the carrier plate, and coating the substrate through the opening whilst rotating the carrier plate relative to the shadow mask. A plurality of zones of the substrates is swept and exposed from arcuate portions of the opening per each turn by a plurality of predetermined exposure times, respectively. The varying thickness of the thin film corresponds to variation of the predetermined exposure times.
US11499200B2
The invention provides a method for treating a patient having human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection by determining whether the human immunodeficiency virus is likely to be more resistant to a viral entry inhibitor than a reference HIV and treating the patient based on that determination. In certain aspects, the methods comprise detecting whether the envelope protein from an HIV from the patient comprises a mutation or mutations in codons 117, 421, 121, and/or 298, wherein the presence of the mutation or mutations indicates that the HIV is likely to be more susceptible to the entry inhibitor than the reference HIV.
US11499197B2
The invention relates to a method for in vitro predicting the outcome of an individual having a multiple myeloma, comprising the steps of: a. measuring the expression level of genes coding for kinases, b. calculating a score value for each genes; and c. classifying the individual as having a good or a bad outcome.
US11499195B2
There is described herein a method of prognosing and/or predicting disease progression and/or in subject with prostate cancer, the method comprising: a) providing a sample containing mitochondrial genetic material from prostate cancer cells; b) sequencing the mitochondrial genetic material with respect to at least 1 patient biomarker selected from CSB1, OHR, ATP8 and HV1 (hypervariable region 1); c) comparing the sequence of the patient biomarkers to control or reference biomarkers to determine mitochondrial single nucleotide variations (mtSNVs); and d) determining the a prostate cancer prognosis; wherein a relatively worse outcome is associated with the presence of mtSNVs in CSB1, OHR, ATP8 and a relatively better outcome is associated with the presence of mtSNVs in HV1.
US11499193B2
Disclosed are formulations, including both liquid and lyophilized formulations, comprising a far-red dye probe and a non-linear surfactant or foamban. Also disclosed are related methods for preparing a lyophilized far-red dye probe formulation as well as related kits and diagnostic products.
US11499185B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods and systems for sequencing a template nucleic acid using a polymerase based, nucleic acid binding reaction involving examination of the interaction between a polymerase and template nucleic acid in the presence of one or more unlabeled nucleotides. The methods rely, in part, on identifying a base of a template nucleic acid during nucleic acid synthesis by controlling the sequencing reaction conditions. Template nucleic acid bases may be identified during an examination step followed by an optional incorporation step.
US11499182B2
A method for generating amplicon constructs of a target sequence is disclosed, the method comprising providing a target sequence; an oligonucleotide probe, comprising a universal sequence and further comprising, at or towards its 5′ end, a target specific sequence capable of hybridising to the reverse complement of a sequence at, or flanking one of the 3′ ends of the target sequence; a universal primer, comprising at its 3′ end a sequence capable of hybridising to the universal sequence of the oligonucleotide probe and performing a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).
US11499179B2
A cleavage-based real-time PCR assay method is provided. In general terms, the assay method includes subjecting a reaction mixture comprising a) PCR reagents for amplifying a nucleic acid target, and b) flap cleavage reagents for performing a flap cleavage assay on the amplified nucleic acid target to two sets of thermocycling conditions. No additional reagents are added to the reaction between said first and second sets of cycles and, in each cycle of the second set of cycles, cleavage of a flap probe is measured.
US11499169B2
The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for typing of Lactobacillus buchneri bacterial strains, detecting the presence of a L. buchneri in a sample, identifying a strain of L. buchneri having resistance to an invasive foreign genetic element, modifying the resistance of bacteria and archeae to an invasive foreign genetic element, and introducing nicks into or cleaving double stranded DNA for genome editing.
US11499168B2
The invention relates to a method to determine a homology directed repair (HDR) event within a eukaryotic cell, wherein the cell expresses a first isoform of a surface protein, which is different from a second isoform of said surface protein with regard to an amino acid marker. The method comprises the steps of inducing a DNA double strand break, providing a HDR template DNA construct comprising the amino acid marker corresponding to the second isoform of the surface protein and subsequently determining the expression of the first or second isoform of said surface protein on said cell, wherein expression of the second isoform indicates a successful HDR event. The invention also relates to a method for editing a genomic location of interest within a eukaryotic cell, and to a method of selectively depleting or enriching an edited cell in a composition of non-edited and edited cells.
US11499161B2
Provided are isolated polypeptides which are at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NOs: 710-1153 and 9276-15726, isolated polynucleotides which are at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NOs: 1-709 and 1157-9275, nucleic acid constructs comprising same, transgenic cells expressing same, transgenic plants expressing same and method of using same for increasing yield, abiotic stress tolerance, growth rate, biomass, vigor, oil content, photosynthetic capacity, seed yield, fiber yield, fiber quality, fiber length, and/or nitrogen use efficiency of a plant.
US11499151B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of assessing a sample of guide RNAs (gRNAs).
US11499143B2
Provided are an amadoriase that is less likely to be influenced by oxygen concentration and a method and a reagent kit for measurement of HbA1c using such amadoriase. Provided are an amadoriase that is obtained via substitution of one or more amino acid residues at a position or positions corresponding to the position(s) selected from the group consisting of positions 280, 267, 269, 54, and 241 of the amadoriase derived from the genus Coniochaeta, a method for measurement of HbA1c, a reagent kit for measurement, and a sensor using such amadoriase. The modified amadoriase according to the invention has a lowered oxidase activity and an enhanced dehydrogenase activity, and this enables the use of an electron mediator, and this reduces the influence of oxygen concentration. Thus, HbA1c can be measured with high sensitivity.
US11499139B2
Described herein are specific CHO genomic sites for targeted insertion of exogenous genes. The sites are located within a sequence selected from SEQ ID NOs: 1-16.
US11499138B2
Provided is a method for efficiently manufacturing high-purity peripheral nerve cells from undifferentiated cells. The method for manufacturing peripheral nerve cells from undifferentiated cells having an ability to differentiate into peripheral nerve cells includes the following steps (a) and (b): (a) culturing undifferentiated cells having an ability to differentiate into peripheral nerve cells to induce differentiation into neural progenitor cells without detaching a grown colony from a culture vessel; and (b) detaching the neural progenitor cells produced in the step (a) from the culture vessel, then seeding the cells at a seeding density of 2×105 to 6×105 cells/cm2 to a culture vessel, and culturing the cells for 14 to 42 days.
US11499130B2
Devices and methods are provided that allow for the casting of flat, controlled thickness layers of gel or polymer on a test surface, such as within the wells of a microplate. A spacer device is interposed between the test surface and the planar lower face of a movable pillar, defining a highly uniform volume. Addition of a gel or polymer precursor in solution followed by curing generates a highly uniform gel or polymer layer with a planar upper surface within this volume, which is exposed on removal of the pillar. In some embodiments a group of pillars is provided in a manifold that provides spacing and arrangement corresponding to a group of test wells. The pillars are mounted in the manifold so as to provide translation movement normal to the test surface, allowing them to rest against the spacer device and facilitating gentle removal from the wells. A variety of spacer devices are considered, including beads, flattened rings, and toroidal spacers.
US11499124B2
A solid granule or granular material used for cleaning agents includes an anionic surfactant component and a molding agent. The anionic surfactant component includes an anionic sulfonate surfactant and an anionic fatty alcohol-based sulfate surfactant. Based on the total amount of the cleaning granule being 100 wt %, the combined amount of the sulfonate surfactant and the sulfate surfactant is between 15.0 wt % and 100 wt %. The amount of molding agent is 5.0 wt % or less. The ratio of the sulfonate surfactant to the sulfate surfactant is 0.20 to 0.75, inclusive. A cohesion of the solid granule is between 1000 g/mm and 4000 g/mm.
US11499120B2
The present disclosure provides liquid and unit dose laundry detergent compositions. Provided herein is a laundry detergent composition including: (a) at least one anionic surfactant, (b) at least one non-ionic surfactant, (c) at least one cationic cellulosic polymer, (d) at least one dye transfer inhibitor polymer, (e) at least one anti-redeposition polymer, and (f) water. The present disclosure also provides a unit dose laundry detergent product including: a water-soluble polymeric film; a detergent composition encapsulated by the water-soluble polymeric film, the detergent composition including: (a) at least one anionic surfactant, (b) at least one non-ionic surfactant, (c) at least one cationic cellulosic polymer, (d) at least one dye transfer inhibitor polymer, (e) at least one anti-redeposition polymer, and (g) water. Methods of making and using the disclosed laundry detergent compositions are also provided.
US11499109B2
A fuel composition comprising a fuel and a lubricity additive package, where the lubricity additive package comprises (1) Dodecanoic acid and (2) 1-Lauroyl-rac-glycerol and the fuel is gasoline.
US11499108B2
Disclosed herein are scavenging and antifouling compositions useful in applications relating to the production, transportation, storage, and separation of crude oil and natural gas. Also disclosed herein are methods of using the compositions as scavengers and antifoulants, particularly in applications relating to the production, transportation, storage, and separation of crude oil and natural gas.
US11499106B2
A fuel composition comprising a base fuel and at least one viscosity index (VI) improving additive, wherein the viscosity index (VI) improving additive is a functionalized dispersant olefin copolymer. The viscosity index (VI) improving additive provides improved power output and/or acceleration characteristics.
US11499105B2
Method of online control of a slag forming gasification process and plant for a gasification process
A method of online control of a slag-forming process of gasification of a carbonaceous solid fuel, especially coal, in a gasification reactor with supply of a gasifying agent and a moderator is provided. Certain embodiments relate to a gasification process for producing a product gas including carbon monoxide and hydrogen from a solid fuel, to a computer program for online control of the slag-forming gasification process, and to a plant for conducting a gasification process for producing a product gas including carbon monoxide and hydrogen from a solid fuel. Certain aspects of the invention combine an online solid fuel analysis with a process model in order to operate a gasification process for solid fuels by the feed-forward principle at the thermodynamically optimal operating point. The invention permits the establishment of the operating point in real time in order to react to rapid variations in the composition of the solid fuel. Certain embodiments also permit the complete automation of the gasification process.
US11499075B2
Disclosed is a composition including one or more isocyanate functional prepolymers; one or more catalysts for the reaction of isocyanate moieties and active hydrogen containing moieties; one or more mercapto silanes; one or more amino silanes, isocyanato silanes or a mixture thereof; one or more reinforcing fillers comprising one or more high surface area carbon blacks; one or more untreated calcium carbonates; one or more polyisocyanates having an isocyanate functionality of about 2 or greater; and one or more linear plasticizers. Preferably, the isocyanate functional prepolymer is prepared in the presence of at least a portion of the linear plasticizer. Preferably, the isocyanate functional polymer is prepared in the presence of a dialkyl malonate. The composition may be one-part adhesive composition. Also disclosed are methods of applying the compositions to substrates. The composition bonds primerlessly to hard to bond to coatings, such as coatings prepared from compositions including a silanated component, such as a silanated acrylopolyols, or having silica clusters.
US11499066B2
Provided is a metal-particle dispersion composition as a composition containing dispersed metal particles and being suitable for use in aqueous coating compositions, etc., the metal-particle dispersion composition comprising 10-80 mass % metal particles, 0.01-10 mass % organic titanate compound in a chelate form, 1-40 mass % water, and 2-30 mass % organic solvent having a higher boiling point than water, the amounts being based on the whole composition, wherein the organic titanate compound is an organic compound represented by Ti(OR)4 (the OR groups include at least one chelatable substituent based on triethanolamine) and the organic solvent having a higher boiling point than water is a C7 or lower alcohol compound.
US11499057B2
The present invention discloses a method of preparing a terpolymer-doped polyaniline super-hydrophobic composite anticorrosive paint. The method includes: firstly by adopting solution polymerization, stirring a hydrophilic vinyl monomer, a fluorine-containing acrylate monomer and an oil-soluble initiator in a solvent evenly and carrying out a reaction for a period of time, then adding a functional acrylic monomer or long-chain acrylate monomer as a third monomer for further reaction for a period of time to obtain a fluorine-containing terpolymer surfactant; then mixing the fluorine-containing terpolymer surfactant with an aniline monomer and an oxidant evenly, and carrying out a reaction for a period of time to obtain super-hydrophobic polyaniline; and finally dispersing the prepared super-hydrophobic polyaniline evenly in a resin matrix to prepare the polyaniline super-hydrophobic composite anticorrosive paint with an excellent anticorrosive performance.
US11499052B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing lycopene crystals with high purity and low harm. The method comprises the following steps: (1) mixing lycopene oleoresin with a mixed solvent consisting of an alkane and a lower alcohol, and heating and stirring the resultant for dissolution to form a homogenous solution; (2) cooling the homogenous solution for crystallization, filtering the resultant to obtain a filter cake; and (3) washing the filter cake successively using a lower alcohol and an alkane, and drying the resultant to obtain lycopene crystals. According to the method provided by the present invention, lycopene crystals can be obtained using a mixed solvent by means of one step crystallization, and the crystal content is further improved and harmful substances in the crystals are reduced by means of a two-step crystal washing process to obtain lycopene crystals with high purity and low harm. The method is fast and convenient, lycopene crystals with high purity, low harm, and sanitary safety can be produced, and the method is suitable for industrial production.
US11499036B2
A rubber composition exhibiting an improved processability/stiffness compromise is based on at least a diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler, a crosslinking system, between 1 and 30 parts by weight per hundred parts by weight of elastomer, phr, of an epoxy resin and between 1 and 15 phr of a specific amine-comprising hardener comprising in particular at least two primary amine functional groups located on at least one six-membered aromatic ring and at least two Ri radicals, which are identical or different, selected from the group consisting of linear or branched C1-C6 alkyl radicals, halogens, and ethers, tertiary amines, thioethers, ketones, esters and amides, substituted by linear or branched C1-C6 alkyl radicals, the said ring not comprising a hydrogen atom located in the ortho position with respect to the primary amine functional groups.
US11499033B2
A polymer composite formed from an epoxy based polymer and an amino-graphene. The epoxy based polymer forms a polymer matrix and the amino graphene is dispersed throughout the polymer matrix. Further, a graphene is functionalized with 3,5-dinitrophenyl groups to form functionalized graphene and one or more amine functional groups form Meisenheimer complexes with the functionalized graphene to form the amino-graphene. An associated method of making the polymer composite is also provided.
US11499016B2
A polysulfone-urethane copolymer is disclosed, which can be used as a membrane polymer, e.g., a matrix polymer, a pore forming agent, or both, while enhancing a membrane's blood compatibility. Methods are disclosed for forming the copolymer and incorporating the copolymer in membranes (e.g., spun hollow fibers, flat membranes) and other products.
US11499013B2
A zwitterionic polysulfone formed from an allyl-containing monomer, a phenol-containing monomer, and an aryl-halide-containing monomer. The zwitterionic polysulfone may be incorporated into a desalination membrane.
US11499010B2
Provided is a polycarbonate of Chemical Formula 1: wherein in Chemical Formula 1: Ar is C6-60 arylene unsubstituted or substituted with C1-10 alkyl; and n and m are each independently an integer from 1 to 50, provided that n+m is 2 or more, and a preparation method thereof.
US11499009B2
A liquid crystal polymer including structural units derived from an aromatic hydroxy carboxylic acid in an amount of greater than about 30 mol % and less than or equal to about 50 mol %, an aromatic dicarboxylic acid which includes about 50 mol % or greater of a structural unit derived from a compound including two carboxyl groups at a meta-position of an aromatic ring in an amount greater than or equal to about 50 mol % of the amount of the structural unit derived from the aromatic hydroxy carboxylic acid, each based on total moles of the structural units in the liquid crystal polymer, and an aromatic diol that is 4,4′-dihydroxybiphenyl, hydroquinone, or a combination thereof; a composite composition including the liquid crystal polymer, an article produced from the liquid crystal polymer or the composite composition, a battery case including the article, and a battery including the battery case and an electrode assembly.
US11499006B2
A polymer compound including a repeating unit represented by Formula: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, a1, a2, and a11 in Formula 1 are as defined in the specification.
US11499001B2
Disclosed is a composition having: an organosilane polymer, a polyamide polymer; and an abrasive aggregate. The organosilane is made by: reacting an amino-functional alkoxysilane with one or more polyisocyanates to form one or more adducts having an unreacted isocyanate group; and reacting the adducts with one or more polyfunctional amino- and/or hydroxyl compounds so that the polymer contains no unreacted isocyanate groups. The polyfunctional amino- and/or hydroxyl compound has a cycloaliphatic group or an aromatic group. The composition can be used to make a single-component polysiloxane non-skid/non-slip coating that is applied by rolling, spraying, or troweling and cures with atmospheric moisture.
US11498987B2
The present specification relates to a polymer including: a first unit represented by Formula 1; and a second unit represented by Formula 2, a coating composition including the same, and an organic light emitting device formed by using the same.
US11498984B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing a vinyl ether polymer by photo-initiated polymerization, which comprises the step of: under a protective atmosphere, performing photo-initiated polymerization on a vinyl ether monomer in the presence of an organic halogenated hydrocarbon and manganese carbonyl under irradiation of light having a wavelength of 365-550 nm at −25° C. to 25° C., to obtain a vinyl ether polymer after the reaction is completed. In the method, a vinyl ether monomer is subjected to cationic polymerization in the presence of manganese carbonyl and an organic halogenated hydrocarbon under visible light, to prepare a vinyl ether polymer with controlled molecular weight and narrow molecular weight distribution.
US11498980B2
Provided is a novel defibration method different from defibration by physical/mechanical pulverization and different from defibration by chemical modification. Provided is a defibration method and a production apparatus each capable of obtaining an intended, fine CNF without chemically modifying the CNF itself and by a treatment for a short time. A method for producing a cellulose nanofiber, the method being a method for continuously obtaining a cellulose nanofiber from raw material cellulose without performing chemical defibration and without performing physical/mechanical defibration in a post-treatment, and comprising mixing subcritical water in a high-temperature/high-pressure state, the subcritical water having a temperature of 180° C. or higher and lower than 370° C. and having a pressure of 5 MPa to 35 MPa, and the raw material cellulose, thereby defibrating the raw material cellulose to obtain a cellulose nanofiber dispersed in water, and a production apparatus for obtaining the cellulose nanofiber.
US11498978B2
Provided herein are antibodies capable of binding to YKL-40. These YKL-40 antibodies are suitable for multiple purposes, for example for detection of YKL-40.
US11498975B2
The present invention provides a method of treating insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a Janus kinase inhibitor, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, or a therapeutically effective amount of intravenous immunoglobulin, or a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic agent that destroys B lymphocytes, or a combination thereof. The present invention also provides kits containing the same.
US11498971B2
The present invention relates to Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CAR) that are recombinant chimeric proteins able to redirect immune cell specificity and reactivity toward selected membrane antigens, and more particularly in which extracellular ligand binding is a scFV derived from a BCMA monoclonal antibody, conferring specific immunity against BCMA positive cells. The engineered immune cells endowed with such CARs are particularly suited for treating lymphomas, multiple myeloma and leukemia.
US11498970B2
The present invention provides antibodies that bind to the human glucagon receptor, designated GCGR and methods of using same. According to certain embodiments of the invention, the antibodies are fully human antibodies that bind to human GCGR. The antibodies of the invention are useful for lowering blood glucose levels and blood ketone levels and are also useful for the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with one or more GCGR biological activities, including the treatment of diabetes, diabetic ketoacidosis and long-term complications associated with diabetes, or other metabolic disorders characterized in part by elevated blood glucose levels.
US11498968B2
The current invention relates to the combination therapy of an anti-CSF-1R antibody (especially a CSF-1R dimerization inhibitor) in combination with an anti-PD-L1 antibody after PD1/PD-L1 inhibitor treatment failure, corresponding pharmaceutical compositions or medicaments using such combination therapy.
US11498966B2
The present invention relates, in part, to agents that bind PD-1 or PD-L1 and their use as diagnostic and therapeutic agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the PD-1 or PD-L1 binding agents and their use in the treatment of various diseases.
US11498963B2
The present disclosure is directed to antibodies binding to LILRBs and methods of detecting and treating cancer therewith.
US11498962B2
The present invention relates to mouse antibodies that bind to angiopoietin-2 (Ang2), humanized anti-Ang2 antibodies derived therefrom, and the use thereof. The anti-Ang2 antibodies have a dual function of activating the Tie2 receptor together with neutralizing Ang2. The anti-Ang2 antibodies show the property of normalizing abnormal and pathological blood vessels, and thus exhibits therapeutic efficacy against various diseases and disorders associated with abnormal blood vessels. The present invention further provides an angiogenesis inhibitor and a composition for treatment of diseases associated with abnormal Ang2 expression and Tie2 dysregulation, which comprise the antibody as an active ingredient, and a composition for diagnosing diseases associated with Ang2 inhibition and Tie2 activation, which comprises the antibody.
US11498953B2
Provided are compositions for increasing the half-life of a polypeptide or polypeptides in a feline and methods of their use. The compositions involve variant feline IgG Fc regions.
US11498950B1
The instant invention provides soluble fusion protein complexes and IL-15 variants that have therapeutic and diagnostic use, and methods for making the proteins. The instant invention additionally provides methods of stimulating or suppressing immune responses in a mammal using the fusion protein complexes and IL-15 variants of the invention.
US11498943B2
The present invention relates to peptides, in particular amyloid inhibitory peptides, and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such peptides. Furthermore, the present invention relates to such peptides, in particular such amyloid inhibitory peptides, for use in methods of treating or diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, or for use in a method of treating or diagnosing type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to a kit for the in-vitro or in-vivo detection and, optionally, quantification of amyloidogenic polypeptides, amyloid fibrils or amyloid aggregates, and/or for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or type 2 diabetes in a patient.
US11498942B2
The present invention is directed to an isolated synthetic tripeptide of formula H-D-Phe-N-Methyl-L-Val-L-Ala-OMe (SEQ ID NO:1), or a derivative thereof, and to the corresponding lipotripeptides, which are specific to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map) S-type strain, as well as derivatives and conjugates thereof. The invention also concerns the use of these antigens in different methods and tests for detecting Map infection, especially by detecting humoral response and cell mediated response of infected animals. The invention is also directed to a genetic signature of Map and a mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy signature of Map presence or infection.
US11498937B2
Disclosed is an organic light-emitting material including a 3-deuterium-substituted isoquinoline ligand. The organic light-emitting material is a metal complex including a 3-deuterium-substituted isoquinoline ligand and an acetylacetonate ligand, which can be used as a light-emitting material in a light-emitting layer of an organic electroluminescent device. These novel complexes can effectively prolong device lifetime. Further disclosed is an electroluminescent device including the metal complex and a compound formulation.
US11498932B2
The presently-disclosed subject matter includes fluorescent indicators, including bright and targetable red Ca2+ indicators. The presently-disclosed subject matter also includes kits comprising the same as well as methods for using the same to detect a target substance. Fluorescent indicators of the presently-disclosed subject matter include a compound of the formula:
US11498928B2
Provided are compounds represented by Formula (I-A) and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof, wherein R8, R9a, R9b, R9c, R9d, X, Y, Z, Z1, W, and (aa) are as defined as set forth in the specification. Provided are also compounds of Formula (I-A) for use to treat a condition or disorder responsive to Mcl-1 inhibition such as cancer.
US11498926B2
The present invention relates to tricyclic heterocycles of Formula (I): which are inhibitors of BET proteins such as BRD2, BRD3, BRD4, and BRD-t and are useful in the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
US11498924B2
Provided is a compound of Chemical Formula 1: wherein: Y is O or S; X1 to X3 are each N or CH, and one or more of X1 to X3 is N; and Ar1 to Ar4 are the same as or different from each other, and each independently is an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms that is unsubstituted or substituted with nitrile or a heteroaryl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms; or a tricyclic heteroaryl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms that is unsubstituted or substituted with an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, and an organic light emitting device including the same.
US11498918B2
Provided herein is a bulk composition comprising the trihydrate form of (3S, 4R, 3′R)-6-[4-(4-amino-5-chloro-2-methoxy-benzoylamino)-3-methoxy-piperidin-1-yl]-hexanoic acid 1-azabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-3′-yl ester di-hydrochloride salt. Provided are also pharmaceutical compositions and dosage forms comprising the trihydrate form, and methods and uses for treating a gastrointestinal disorder in a subject with the trihydrate form. In some embodiments, the gastrointestinal disorder is gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), dyspepsia (such as functional dyspepsia or functional motility disorder), gastroparesis, paralytic ileus, post-operative ileus, emesis, nausea, heartburn, intestinal pseudo-obstruction, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), constipation, enteral feeding intolerance (EFI), or esophagitis. In some embodiments, the gastrointestinal disorder is post-operative ileus, chronic grass sickness, constipation, megacolon, gastritis, gastrointestinal stasis, or abomasal emptying defect.
US11498916B2
A number of crystalline forms of N-(2-((6-(3-(2,6-dichloro-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-1-methylureido)pyrimidin-4-yl)amino)-5-(4-ethylpiperazin-1-y1)phenyl)acrylamide are provided. These include a crystalline free base form, a crystalline monohydrochloride salt form, a crystalline dihydrochloride salt form, and a crystalline ethanesulfonate salt form. Methods of making and using crystalline compounds are also provided.
US11498915B2
The present invention relates to compound of the following structure for use as an inhibitor of TrkA, as well as compositions including this compound, and methods of using this compound for the treatment of pain including post-surgical pain, rheumatoid arthritis pain, neuropathic pain and osteoarthritis pain.
US11498914B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds capable of emitting delayed fluorescence, and uses of the compounds in organic light-emitting diodes.
US11498913B2
The invention relates to inhibitors of mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase (mt-IDH) proteins with neomorphic activity useful in the treatment of cell-proliferation disorders and cancers, having the Formula: where A, U, W1, W2, W3, R1-R6, and R9 are described herein.
US11498905B2
Disclosed herein are small molecule inhibitors of platelet function, and methods of using the small molecules to treat diseases, such as platelet hemostasis and thrombosis. In particular, disclosed herein are compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: wherein the substituents are as described.
US11498903B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): wherein all variables are as defined in the specification. The compounds are apelin and APJ agonists for treating cardiovascular diseases. Preferred compounds are 2-(1,1′-biphe-1H-benzo[d]imidazole derivatives. The invention further provides compositions comprising the compounds and the compounds for use in methods of medical treatment.
US11498898B2
The present invention provides a production method of a sulfonylpyrrole compound useful as a pharmaceutical product, a production method of an intermediate used for the method, and a novel intermediate. The present invention relates to a method of producing sulfonylpyrrole compound (VIII), which includes reducing compound (III) and hydrolyzing the reduced product to give compound (IV), subjecting compound (IV) to a sulfonylation reaction to give compound (VI), and subjecting compound (VI) to an amination reaction.
US11498897B2
A preparing method for high-purity levetiracetam, comprising: adjusting the pH of an extracted aqueous layer obtained by dissociating (S)-α-ethyl-2-oxo-1-pyrrolidineacetic acid (R)-methylbenzylamine salt to 5-9; removing water; adding an organic solvent to form a solution and then performing an esterification reaction with ethyl chloroformate or methylchlorofonmate; and carrying out an ammonolysis reaction to obtain the levetiracetam. The method simplifies production process, increases yield, reduces or even avoids the use of triethylamine in the esterification process, and reduces the emission of a great amount of three wastes.
US11498894B2
Provided herein are integrated methods and systems for the production of acrylamide and acrylonitrile compounds and other compounds from at least beta-lactones and/or beta-hydroxy amides.
US11498887B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a diene, preferably a conjugated diene, more preferably 1,3-butadiene, comprising the dehydration of at least one alkenol having a number of carbon atoms greater than or equal to 4, in the presence of a catalytic material comprising at least one crystalline metalosilicate in acid form, preferably a macroporous zeolite, more preferably a zeolite with a FAU, BEA or MTW structure. Preferably, said alkenol having a number of carbon atoms greater than or equal to 4 may be obbtained directly through biosynthetic processes, or through catalytic dehydration processes of at least one diol. When said alkenol is a butenol, said diol is preferably a butanediol, more preferably 1,3-butanediol, even more preferably bio-1,3-butanediol, i.e. 1,3-butanediol deriving from biosynthetic processes. When said alkenol is 1,3-butanediol, or bio-1,3-butanediol, the diene obtained with the process according to the present invention is, respectively, 1,3-butadiene, or bio-1,3-butadiene.
US11498882B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed towards a system and method relating to depositing vapor in a sample. For example, a device includes a vapor source chamber configured to contain a vapor source material to generate vapor. An activation chamber is configured to contain a sample. The activation chamber is in fluid communication with the vapor source chamber to receive the vapor. A permeable separator divides the vapor source chamber and the activation chamber, and isolates the sample in the activation chamber while allowing vapor to pass between the vapor source chamber and the activation chamber. The device is sealable and configured to apply vacuum to the vapor and sample, to cause deposition of the vapor into the pumice stone samples.
US11498881B2
A process for manufacturing continuous ceramic tape includes steps of heating a ceramic feedstock to a molten state and spraying molten droplets of the feedstock onto a deposition surface. The method further includes forming a ceramic coating on the deposition surface by accumulating the droplets, which solidify and are directly bonded to one another. The deposition surface is non-stick with respect to the ceramic coating such that the coating may be peeled off of the deposition surface as a continuous ceramic tape, without fracture. Additionally, in embodiments, the deposition surface is removed by running the deposition over a bending edge, chemically stripping or dissolving the deposition surface, or burning the deposition surface.
US11498877B2
A method of treating at least one silicon carbide fibre, the method including a) formation of a silica layer at the surface of a silicon carbide fibre having an oxygen content less than or equal to 1% in atomic percentage, the silica layer being formed by contacting this fibre with an oxidizing medium having a temperature greater than or equal to 50° C. and pressure greater than or equal to 1 MPa, and b) removal of the silica layer formed by hydrothermal treatment of the fibre obtained after implementation of step a) in which the fibre is treated with water at a pressure between saturating vapour pressure and 30 MPa and at a temperature less than or equal to 400° C.
US11498875B2
The present application discloses a method for fabricating a ceramic heating body with a porous heating film, which relates to technical field of fabricating method of heating body; the method including mixing, ball-milling, defoaming, molding and drying, sintering, paraffin filling, machining, coating, metalizing sintering, and electrode leading; the beneficial effects of the present application is simple in whole fabricating method, and by using a box furnace to sinter the green body under an oxidizing atmosphere and normal pressure, the fabricated ceramic heating body is heated uniformly and the heating efficiency is high.
US11498870B2
The invention generally relates to a method of making a plastic aggregate, and its use to make concrete products. The aggregate is formed by providing a granulated waste plastic material, introducing the granulated waste plastic material into an extruder having a die, the die having a ratio of die nozzle open area to die land area of about 1:10 to about 1:40, and extruding the granulated waste plastic material through the extruder to generate an extruded plastic aggregate. The method can include the presence of controlled cooling, the addition of additives and treatment of the surface of the aggregate to produce a desired aggregate that can be used to make a concrete product with desired properties, such as compressive strength and weight.
US11498864B2
Provided is an ultraviolet-radiation absorbing glass product, characterized by: having a transmittance of ultraviolet radiation (TUV), as specified by ISO 9050: 2003, of 2% or less at a plate thickness of 3.5 mm, and transmittance of visible light (TVA) of 8 to 28% inclusive, based on the Standard Illuminant A at a plate thickness of 3.5 mm; and the color of the glass, as denoted by the chromaticity coordinates x, y in the XYZ color coordinate system based on a 2-degree visual field of the Standard Illuminant C as specified by JIS Z8701: 1999, satisfying the following expressions (1) and (2). (1) y≥−0.735×x+0.544 (2) y≥1.389×x−0.089
US11498851B2
A two-stage filtering system including a first and second filter container. The first filter container has a first filter assembly with a foam filter sleeve enveloping a fluid intake device, a connected valve, and transfer tubing. The second filter includes a pump connected to a spout, a second stage splashguard strainer, a second stage cup filter, and a second filter assembly. The second filter assembly includes at least one main filter comprising at least one carbon body filter enveloping a filter chamber, and exit tubing. The first filter container is structured to stack on top of the second filter container and the transfer tubing is structured to transfer first stage filtered fluid to the second filter container. The pump is structured to draw second stage filtered fluid from the second container through the exit tubing and expel the second stage filtered fluid out the spout to provide purified water.
US11498847B2
The present disclosure is directed to a non-destructive process for removing metals, metal ions and metal oxides in alumina-based materials without destroying alumina, allowing the regeneration of alumina-based catalysts. The non-destructive process uses an extracting agent that sequesters metals, metal ions and/or metal oxides present in alumina-based materials without destroying the alumina, allowing the regeneration of alumina-based catalysts.
US11498846B2
An effectively solvent-free alkali metal or alkali earth metal closo-borate salt is prepared in the presence of a non-aqueous solvent where the solvent can be removed to levels below one mole percent of the salt. The process involves the exchange of cations with a closo-borate anion via an acid-base process or a metathesis process. The solvent is removed from the alkali metal or alkali earth metal closo-borate salt by heating. The temperature can be greater than the melting point of the salt but lower than temperatures where decomposition occurs.
US11498842B2
A method of forming nanoparticles having superhydrophobicity includes preparing a PDMS film including a structure having a predetermined shape on a surface thereof, and generating the nanoparticles having superhydrophobicity on the surface of the PDMS film by combusting the surface of the PDMS film using a diffusion flame. Transparent nanoparticles having superhydrophobicity and oleophobicity may be generated simply and easily on the surface of the PDMS film.
US11498834B1
An H2-rich fuel gas stream can be advantageously produced by reforming a hydrocarbon/steam mixture in to produce a reformed stream, followed by cooling the reformed stream in a waste-heat recovery unit to produce a high-pressure steam stream, shifting the cooled reformed stream a first shifted stream, cooling the first shifted stream, shifting the cooled first shifted stream to produce a second shifted stream, cooling the second shifted stream, abating water from the cooled second shifted stream to obtain a crude gas mixture stream comprising H2 and CO2, and recovering a CO2 stream from the crude gas mixture stream. The H2-rich stream can be advantageously combusted to provide thermal energy needed for residential, office, and/or industrial applications including in the H2-rich fuel gas production process. The H2-rich fuel gas production process can be advantageously integrated with an olefins production plant comprising a steam cracker.
US11498829B2
A no-gel sensor package is disclosed. In one embodiment, the package includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) die having a first substrate, which in turn includes a first surface on which is formed a MEMS device. The package also includes a polymer ring with an inner wall extending between first and second oppositely facing surfaces. The first surface of the polymer ring is bonded to the first surface of the first substrate to define a first cavity in which the MEMS device is contained. A molded compound body having a second cavity that is concentric with the first cavity, enables fluid communication between the MEMS device and an environment external to the package.
US11498822B2
A screw cap twisting tool uses two primary members—a stationary member with gripping surface(s) and a high-mechanical-advantage-for-gripping pivoting member with gripping surface(s)—to easily and effectively grip and twist a screw cap. The screw cap twisting tool is easily operated by pushing the screw cap against the pivoting member. A screw cap twisting tool also uses a method for holding the pivoting member in its most open position before screw cap insertion. This method for holding the pivoting member in its most open position can be accomplished in numerous ways by using a force opposing feature, member, or mechanism that allows movement and/or deformation when force is applied and restores position and/or shape when force is removed. Examples include, but are not limited to: built-in elastic metal or plastic material, separate metal or plastic spring, separate elastic O-ring or rubber band, gravity, or magnetism.
US11498821B2
The mixing tool is for opening a container and for mixing a product contained in the container. The tool includes a mixing device which is shaped to mix the product contained in the container. A shank extends along a length from the mixing device to an end face. A channel is formed into the end face for receiving an edge of a lid of the container to allow the tool to be used to pry the lid off of the container.
US11498818B2
A vehicle support assembly mountable to a runway vehicle lift having a frame with a plurality of vertically oriented spaced apart support, a rack having a plurality of portions, wherein each portion is movably coupled to a different vertically oriented support, a runway vehicle support supported on the rack, a lift actuator coupled to the rack to move the rack and the runway vehicle support up and down. The vehicle support assembly comprising: a pair of carriage assemblies, each carriage assembly having an arm carriage and a two movable arms, each arm having a first end coupled to the arm carriage and a second end configured to engage an undercarriage of a vehicle; and a pair of posts wherein each post supports a carriage assembly, each post being movably coupled to the runway vehicle lift with a mount to move the post to and from a first position wherein the post is arranged vertically with the arms extended to support the vehicle above the runway vehicle support and a second storage position wherein the post is displaced from the first position.
US11498816B2
A method for loading equipment and/or personnel onto a platform mounted on the nacelle tower of an offshore wind farm is provided. This method enables loading of equipment onto a platform mounted on the nacelle tower or on the monopile or tripod or jacket foundation of an offshore wind turbine without needing to mount the construction during the loading operation.
US11498812B2
The invention relates to an elevator landing door assembly and a method for installing an elevator landing door. The landing door assembly comprises at least a landing door unit to be assembled to a landing door base opening having an upper edge, two side edges and a lower edge, which landing door unit comprises at least a top track and one or more door panels suspended by the top track through one or more supporting elements, and a door sill. The assembly comprises fixing elements in the landing door base opening equipped with receiving parts for fastening the landing door unit.
US11498808B2
A belt for suspending and/or driving an elevator car includes a plurality of tension elements extending along a length of the belt and a plurality of belt fibers transverse to the plurality of tension elements and interlaced therewith. The belt fibers define at least one traction surface of the belt. An edge fiber is located at a lateral end of the belt transverse to and secured to the plurality of belt fibers to secure the belt fibers in a selected position.
US11498801B2
A pressurized fluid powered cabin-management system for an elevator system with a cabin and drive system is provided. The cabin-management system is configured to direct operation of the elevator system upon arrival of one of the cabins at a floor, and comprises a floor detector configured to detect when the cabin is located at a floor and to activate a timer. The timer is configured, when triggered, to activate a timing arrangement and to pass pressurized fluid to a control valve being in a first position. The timing arrangement is configured to direct the control valve to assume a second position after a predetermined amount of time. The cabin-management system performs, when pressurized fluid is passed to the control valve in its first position, actions for opening a door, and, after the control valve has assumed its second position, actions for travel of the cabin.
US11498797B2
A flyer assembly including a spindle rotatable about an axis of rotation, an arm coupled to the spindle, a level wind device axially mounted to the arm, a first friction member disposed along a width of the level wind device and shaped into a convex curve defining the width of the level wind device, a second friction member offset from the first friction member, and a fulcrum having an eye or hook.
US11498796B1
An apparatus for dispensing wire or cable, the apparatus including an enclosure with a top and a bottom portion and at least three side portions of a first height, a plurality of holes located in both the top and bottom portions of the enclosure, and a core of a second height located within the enclosure, wherein the core forms an area, wherein at least one of the plurality of holes has a first hole diameter and is located in the top and bottom of the enclosure and is located within the area formed by the core, and wherein the wire or cable is placed around the core.
US11498793B2
A medium transport device includes a lower guide member, a processing tray, a feeding section, and a notch. The lower guide member supports a medium transported and guides the medium toward the processing tray. The processing tray includes an alignment member, and a plurality of media are stacked in the processing tray. The feeding section includes a paddle member having a rotation center between the processing tray and the lower guide member such that a rotation locus of a distal end intersects the lower guide member, and the feeding section is configured to feed the medium toward the alignment member. The lower guide member has a notch, and an upstream end of the notch in the transport direction is formed at a position inside the rotation locus in the lower guide member.
US11498791B2
The subject matter of the present invention is a method and a device for producing an adhesive tape (1). First a material web (2) comprising a carrier tape material is supplied from an unwinding unit (3). The supplied material web (2) is subsequently provided on at least one surface with at least one adhesive strip (4) in a coating unit (6). The material web (2) provided with the adhesive strip (4) is then cut into at least two longitudinal strips with the aid of a cutting device (10) and made up into individual adhesive tapes (1). According to the invention, a sensor (8, 9) scanning the material web is used to align the material web (2) and/or the cutting device (10) in the transverse direction (Q) in such a way that a longitudinal cut (S) respectively produced with the aid of the cutting device (10) is introduced in an exact position into the material web (2).
US11498790B2
A sheet-processing machine includes a turning device. Sheets can be conveyed, by a sheet conveyor system, from a sheet guide cylinder in the turning device, and can be conveyed in a sheet conveyor direction on a sheet conveyor path. A sheet guide element is provided beneath or along the sheet conveyor path. A deionization device is assigned to the sheet guide element. The deionization device can provide positive and negative ions.
US11498788B2
A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a sheet supporting tray to support a sheet, a sheet conveyance unit to convey the sheet supported on the sheet supporting tray, a first detection sensor to detect the supported sheet at a first detection position, and a second detection sensor to detect the supported sheet at a second detection position farther from a center of the sheet supporting tray in a sheet width direction than the first detection position. In addition, a control unit controls the sheet conveyance unit in a first mode in a case where the first and second detection sensors detect the sheet, and controls the sheet conveyance unit in a second mode in which a sheet conveyance speed is slower than that of the first mode in a case where the first detection sensor detects the sheet and the second detection sensor detects no sheet.
US11498774B2
An automated modular plant growing system includes a rack structure with primary guiding tracks and secondary guiding tracks transverse to each other, and upper guiding tracks in parallel and above the primary guiding tracks. The automated modular plant growing system also includes a plurality of mobile modules detachably connected to the upper guiding tracks and to a nutrient solution supply system.
US11498773B1
A material layered conveying device based on a disassembly line, including a front section conveyor belt, a rear section conveyor belt, and a lower conveyor belt. An interval between the front and rear section conveyor belts is provided with two sets of movable conveyor belts arranged in side by side parallel, a lifting conveyor belt is provided below the interval and adjacent to and horizontal with the lower conveyor belt, and a lifting conveyor belt elevator is provided under the lifting conveyor belt. The lifting conveyor belt is driven vertically up, and the lifting conveyor belt is horizontal with the front and rear section conveyor belts when the lifting conveyor belt is moved to a maximum distance. The device adopts the movable dual conveyor belts of the respective levels of the upper and lower conveyor belts, and can achieve synchronous high-low transferring of the material when the material is conveyed.
US11498772B2
A method and a device for buffering containers in a container treatment plant are disclosed. The containers are stored in single rows by at least one inlet conveyor belt in an inlet direction, are shifted in single rows on a buffer surface transversely adjacent by shuttles with row pushers guided on rails and driven individually into a buffer direction extending transversely to the inlet direction in single rows, and are withdrawn by at least one outlet conveyor belt adjacent to the buffer surface in the buffer direction in an outlet direction extending transversely to the buffer direction, or by at least one planar motor armature that can be driven towards the buffer surface and that is in particular driven two-dimensionally. Thus, the containers can be decelerated/accelerated with respect to the inlet/outlet conveyor belt in a controlled manner.
US11498768B2
A method 10 of refurbishing a bucket wheel reclaimer (BWR) 41 having structural frame 68, a chute 66 supported by the structural frame 68, a yard conveyor 42 for receiving material from the chute 66 and an impact table 64 supported by the structural frame 68 below a portion of an upper run 44 of the yard conveyor 42. The method includes a step 12 of decoupling a current impact table 64 from the BWR structural frame 68. The impact table 64 is lowered at step 26 from the structural frame 68. Thereafter at step 14 the current impact table is moved laterally away from and to one side of the yard conveyor. At steps 16 and 18 a fresh impact table is moved laterally to a location beneath the upper run 44 of the yard conveyor and coupled to the BWR 41.
US11498766B2
The present disclosure provides a warehousing system, a material transporting method, a control terminal, a robot and a storage medium. Where the robot performs material fetching according to a control instruction of a control terminal, transports a material to a destination, and automatically docks with a conveyor line at the destination so as to automatically transport the material to the conveyor line. Manual participation is not needed in the material transporting process, therefore material transporting efficiency can be improved; besides, by configuring different conveyor lines corresponding to different workstations, the material conveying of each workstation does not affect each other, and the workstation with low material processing efficiency does not cause effect on other workstations, thereby facilitating to improve overall work efficiency of all workstations.
US11498763B1
Embodiments provide for systems and methods related to kiosks for personalizing a packaged article. The kiosks may also be used for storage, inventory management, retrieval, packaging, and/or personalization of packaged articles. The kiosks discussed herein differ from non-kiosk personalization systems, such as personalization systems installed on a factory or warehouse floor, in that the kiosks are self-contained personalization systems. In some embodiments, the kiosks are portable and can be moved between different sites or events. This portability allows the kiosks to personalize packaged articles for concerts, festivals, conventions, trade shows, and the like.
US11498762B1
Embodiments provide for systems and methods related to kiosks for personalizing a packaged article. The kiosks may also be used for storage, inventory management, retrieval, packaging, and/or personalization of packaged articles. The kiosks discussed herein differ from non-kiosk personalization systems, such as personalization systems installed on a factory or warehouse floor, in that the kiosks are self-contained personalization systems. In some embodiments, the kiosks are portable and can be moved between different sites or events. This portability allows the kiosks to personalize packaged articles for concerts, festivals, conventions, trade shows, and the like.
US11498761B1
The invention relates to a method for step dispensing discrete medicaments from a feeder unit, wherein the feeder unit comprises a container holding said medicaments, and a dispensing mechanism configured for receiving the medicaments from the container and selectively dispensing the medicaments from the feeder unit, wherein the dispensing mechanism comprises a singulating body with a plurality of singulation chambers; and a first release member arranged below the singulating body and provided with a release opening, wherein the first release member and the singulating body are movable with respect to each other, the method comprising the steps of: moving the singulating body and the first release member relative to each other into an aligned position in which one of the plurality of singulation chambers is aligned with the release opening; when the singulating body is in the aligned position, stopping relative movement between the singulating body and the first release member; maintaining the singulating body stationary with respect to the first release member for a predetermined waiting period to allow any medicaments accommodated in the aligned singulation chamber to fall through the release opening.
US11498759B2
A rail can include first and transverse channels defined therein. A container can include a rod, a spring, a first plate assembly, and a second plate assembly. The first plate assembly can include a first transverse bearing disposed in the first transverse channel. The second plate assembly can include a second transverse bearing disposed in the second transverse channel. A robotic assembly can include a robotic arm. The robotic arm can include opposing grips defining a grip space therebetween. A processing system including one or more processors can be configured to, via the robotic assembly: align the grip space with the container rod; drive the rod against the spring; allow the spring to relax and thereby separate the first plate assembly from the second plate assembly; position the rod such that the first transverse bearing and the second transverse bearing are simultaneously withdrawn from the first and second transverse channels.
US11498753B2
A collapsible container wherein the left side panel is hingedly connected to the top panel and includes at least one strut, one end of the strut being pivotally connected at an intermediate point along the end edge of the left panel, the other end of the strut being pivotally connected to the bottom panel; the right side panel being hingedly connected to the bottom panel and includes at least one strut, one end of the strut being pivotally connected at an intermediate point along the end edge of the side panel, the other end of the strut being pivotally connected to the top panel, such that the container is moveable between a collapsed configuration and an erect configuration, wherein the struts maintain a spaced apart relationship between the edges of the hingedly connected panels and the respective top or bottom panel during such movement.
US11498752B2
A sludge digester including a vessel and floating cover. The vessel includes a sidewall and an interior volume configured to receive and contain sludge. According to one embodiment, the cover comprises a frame structure that is constructed and arranged to form a skirt member formed at a periphery of the cover and extending downwardly into the vessel, and a continuous ballast ring attached to a lower portion of the skirt member and configured to form a trough member with an interior surface of the skirt member. The sludge digester may also include a guide system coupled to the sidewall and the skirt member and configured to allow vertical displacement of the cover with change in volume of at least one of a gas and a sludge contained in the vessel beneath the cover.
US11498751B2
A machine for providing a single serving of a cold beverage or a frozen confection is disclosed. The machine includes a cooling system, a first assembly, and a second assembly. The first assembly includes the cooling system and has sidewalls partially defining a recess for receiving a pod containing at least one ingredient for forming the single serving of the cold beverage or frozen confection and at least one internal paddle. The second assembly has a lid and a plunger movably mounted to the lid. The plunger is operable to engage a top of the pod and rotate the at least one internal paddle of the pod to scrape the cold beverage or a frozen confection off a wall of the pod and mix contents of the pod.
US11498750B2
The invention relates to a single serve capsule (1) for producing a beverage, comprising a capsule body (2). Said capsule body has a capsule bottom (3), a sidewall (22), a collar edge (5), and a cover (6). A cavity (100) for accommodating a beverage substrate in the form of a powder, granules, cut leaves or liquid is formed between the capsule bottom and the cover. A filter element (7) is arranged in the cavity, and the filter element is produced of non-woven fiber material. The filter element has a cut-out in which no filtering material is provided. The present invention also relates to a method for producing a single serve capsule.
US11498738B2
An overpack assembly and a method of making an overpack assembly, the overpack assembly includes a liner positioned within an overpack. In one embodiment, the method includes making a liner including providing a first sheet including a fitment positioned over a second sheet, the first sheet attached to the second sheet along an attachment seam at an entire perimeter edge. The first sheet is pulled apart from the second sheet at a center of the liner, forming a three-dimensional liner with triangular wings. A vertical seam is formed across each triangular wing, the vertical seam being perpendicular to the attachment seam, where a length of the vertical seam corresponds to the height of the liner when in use. The liner is positioned within the overpack.
US11498724B1
A system and method for easily operated self-releasing stopper/cork for bottles of compressed liquids. The corks have a gas bladder that is designed to be inserted in a bottle and inflated, the bladder having a ribbed or smooth exterior to complete the sealing of the bottle whereby a gas release mechanism can be activated by depressing a button on a cap or via an on-board micro controller and/or electro-mechanical release solution in the cap. Once the gas is released from the bladder the pressure inside the vessel will collapse the bladder's bottom and eject the cork assembly from the bottle.
US11498717B2
Disclosed is a bottle for containing liquid content including a body portion, at least part or the entire portion of an upper portion of which is provided with a plurality of guides which protrudes inward from an inside surface thereof and is in a spiral pattern so that the liquid content can be guided towards an opening of a neck portion of the bottle while spirally revolving inside the bottle.
US11498715B1
An apparatus for attaching a label to a moving cable, the apparatus comprising: a roller for pressing a label against the moving cable, wherein the label has a first attaching edge and a second attaching edge and wherein the roller comprises: a first roller for pressing the label against the moving cable, wherein the label is pressed against the moving cable with the first attaching edge and the second attaching edge of the label on opposites sides of the moving cable; a first roll down roller for folding the second edge of the label against the moving cable; and a second roll down roller for folding the first edge of the label against the moving cable.
US11498711B2
The present disclosure relates to a discharge apparatus for discharging an assembly of interconnected guiding elements, having a support having at least one support section configured to support the assembly of interconnected guiding elements and the flexible pouch containers carried therein; a gripping unit configured to grip a first guiding element of the guiding element assembly and displace the first guiding element together with one or more interconnected further guiding elements of the guiding element assembly in a transport direction substantially perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the first guiding element; and a disconnection unit configured to disconnect at least the gripped and displaced first guiding element from a neighboring second guiding element, the disconnection unit having a movable wedge and a wedge drive unit configured to move the wedge between the first and second guiding elements, thereby disconnecting the first guiding element from the second guiding element.
US11498709B2
A transport or packaging container accommodating a plurality of supporting structures for closures, for transporting or packaging closures for closing cartridges for use in pharmaceutical, medical or cosmetic applications, in which the transport or packaging container is box-shaped and includes a bottom, which is closed or sealed by a seal, upstanding lower side-walls extending essentially perpendicularly from the bottom, a circumferential supporting step extending horizontally from the upstanding lower side-walls, upper side-walls extending upward from said circumferential supporting step, and a circumferential flange formed at upper ends of the upper side-walls; and the plurality of supporting structures for closures is accommodated inside the transport or packaging container.
US11498708B2
Systems and methods for distributing a filling fluid are discussed. More particularly an exemplary filling system may include a reservoir holding a filling fluid for distribution. The filling system may also include a pump and filling nozzle fluidly coupled to the reservoir. A processor executes a filling module that when executed receives at least one input fluid property of the filling fluid and generates at least one set of operating parameters for controlling operation of the pump during a filling operation based at least in part on the fluid property. The generated set of operating parameters enable control of the pump to distribute the filling fluid through the filling nozzle, such that a fluid interface with a stable resting profile forms in the filling fluid in the filling nozzle adjacent to the nozzle opening after the filling fluid is distributed from the filling nozzle.
US11498701B2
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, a line having one end coupled to the chassis and an opposite free end, wherein the free end is positioned below the chassis, and a severing mechanism operable to sever the line under control of the control system.
US11498695B2
A data transmission system and method for an engine of an aircraft. Engine fault data indicative of at least one fault condition of the engine is obtained at a computing device provided on-board the aircraft. Sensor data associated with the at least one fault condition is retrieved based on the engine fault data. The engine fault data and the sensor data are transmitted, through a wireless connection, to an electronic device external to the aircraft.
US11498691B2
Redundant electrochemical systems and methods for vehicles are described. The systems include a first electrochemical device located at a first position on the vehicle wherein the first electrochemical device is configured to generate at least one of inert gas, oxygen, and electrical power and a second electrochemical device located at a second position on the vehicle wherein the second electrochemical device is configured to generate at least one of inert gas, oxygen, and electrical power. The first electrochemical device is configured to operate in a first mode during normal operation of the vehicle and a second mode when the second electrochemical device fails, wherein in the second mode, the first electrochemical device provides the at least one of inert gas, oxygen, and electrical power for at least one vehicle critical system of the vehicle.
US11498687B1
A parachute release apparatus includes at least one parachute connector releasably attached thereto. A delay release timer coupled to the apparatus is movable between locked and unlocked positions at a predetermined time after deployment of the parachute to permit release of the parachute connector after landing. A fail-safe device positioned adjacent the delay release timer is operable to hold the delay release timer in the locked position until the fail-safe device is removed after deployment of a parachute.
US11498685B2
An armrest is disclosed that includes an armrest subframe configured to couple to an arm of the seat that includes a slot within a face of the armrest subframe configured to receive a stop pin. The armrest further includes an arm pad translatably coupled to the armrest subframe and includes a plurality of grooves formed on one edge of the armrest subframe. The arm pad further includes the stop pin that restricts the translation of the arm pad and a spring anchor. The armrest further includes a lever rotationally coupled to the armrest that includes a locking pin configured to engage one or more grooves of the plurality of grooves, and an actuating end, wherein a movement of the actuating end at least one of engages or disengages the locking pin from the one or more grooves of the plurality of grooves. The armrest further includes a biasing spring.
US11498681B2
An aircraft seat for an aircraft passenger compartment suite is disclosed. In embodiments, the aircraft seat includes a primary section including a primary seatback portion and a primary seat base portion, and an auxiliary section including an auxiliary seatback portion and an auxiliary seat base portion. In embodiments, the aircraft seat may further include an actuatable element configured to actuate between an open position and a closed position. The actuatable element may include a first surface which defines at least a portion of the auxiliary seatback portion when the actuatable element is in the closed position, and a second surface which defines a surface of an armrest when the actuatable element is in the open position.
US11498680B1
A removable step assembly for a helicopter includes a main tube, which supports a forward step and a rear step, as well as a bushing housing. The main tube is mounted to a helicopter by the bushing housing, an associated bushing, and by an adapter assembly that is secured to the cabin of the helicopter.
US11498679B2
A projectile cartridge that can be removably attached to a flying vehicle is disclosed. A system can include a first flying vehicle, a projectile attachment mechanism configured with the first flying vehicle, a projectile cartridge that contains a projectile, the projectile cartridge being removably attachable to the projectile attachment mechanism, a weight attached to the projectile, the weight being configured in a releasable configuration in the projectile cartridge and a drawstring configured with the projectile. After firing the projectile, when tension is applied to the drawstring as the projectile approaches or envelops a second flying vehicle, the tension can cause the drawstring to close the projectile down to secure the second flying vehicle.
US11498669B1
An extension assembly for a rotor system for rotating a plurality of rotor blades about a rotor axis with a central rotor hub that defines the rotor axis includes a beam assembly and a first bearing assembly. The beam assembly is configured to attach to the central rotor hub and is positioned at least partially within a corresponding one of the plurality of rotor blades. The first bearing assembly is configured to be fastened to the beam assembly and to at least one of a leading edge or a trailing edge of the corresponding one of the plurality of rotor blades.
US11498668B2
According to certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method may be used for rotorcraft track and balance. The method may include capturing one or more images of at least one rotating blades of a rotorcraft and analyzing the one or more images of the at least one rotating blades to determine blade information. Additionally, the method may include determining a location of the at least one rotating blades in the one or more images based on the blade information and calculating blade position information based on the determined location of the at least one rotating blade and a parameter of a user device capturing the one or more images. Additionally, the method may include displaying the blade position information to the user device and displaying instructions on one or more adjustments to the at least one rotating blades of the rotorcraft based on the blade position information.
US11498667B2
A rotor for a hover-capable aircraft is described, comprising: a hub rotatable about an axis and, in turn, comprising a plurality of blades; a mast connectable to a drive member of the aircraft and operatively connected to the hub to drive the hub in rotation about the axis; and damping means for damping vibrations transmitted to the mast, which comprise a mass designed to oscillate in a plane transversal to the axis so as to contain flexural vibrations of the mast generated by rotation of the blades; the damping means also comprise elastic means having a desired stiffness along the axis and operatively connected to the mass to contain vibration of the mast along the axis.
US11498665B2
An aircraft landing gear shock absorber assembly having: an outer cylinder having a bore which extends into the outer cylinder, the bore defining an opening in the outer cylinder; a sliding tube having a first end region slidably coupled within the bore and a second end region which projects out of opening; a ground fitting distinct from the sliding tube; and a mechanical fixing arranged to mechanically couple the ground fitting to the second end region of the sliding tube, wherein the sliding tube comprises a tubular body portion formed from a ceramic coated fibre composite tube.
US11498664B2
A landing gear system includes a wheel rotatably coupled to an axle about an axis. A torque tube is rotatably mounted to the axle about the axis such that the axle extends through a central portion of the torque tube. A rotor is fixed in rotation about the axis relative to the wheel, and a stator is fixed in rotation about the axis relative to the torque tube. The landing gear assembly further includes a clutch assembly selectively reciprocal between an engaged state and a disengaged state. The stator is fixed in rotation about the axis relative to the torque tube when the clutch assembly is in an engaged state. When the clutch assembly is in a disengaged state, the stator is rotatably about the axis relative to the torque tube.
US11498663B2
A landing gear system includes an axle having an internal cavity and a wheel rotatably coupled to the axle. A drive shaft is mounted within the cavity to be rotatable about an axis. The landing gear system further includes a rod slidably mounted within the drive shaft and a clutch. The clutch has a first portion that is coupled to the rod and rotates with the drive shaft. A second portion of the clutch is fixedly coupled to the wheel. The rod selectively reciprocates along the axis between a first position and a second position to engage and disengage the clutch.
US11498662B2
A lock system for a landing gear assembly may comprise a housing and a hook configured to rotate relative to the housing. A lock pin may be configured to translate into a rotational path of the hook. An electromechanical actuator may be configured to translate the lock pin.
US11498656B1
An airfoil system is provided that includes an airfoil. This airfoil includes a first exterior surface, a second exterior surface, a first airfoil segment and a second airfoil segment. The airfoil extends widthwise between the first exterior surface and the second exterior surface. The first airfoil segment includes first composite material and a receptacle. A base of the receptacle is embedded within the first composite material. The second airfoil segment includes second composite material and a key. A base of the key is embedded within the second composite material. The key is mated with the receptacle thereby attaching the second airfoil segment to the first airfoil segment.
US11498655B2
A pressure bulkhead for the pressure-tight axial closure of a pressurized fuselage of an aircraft or spacecraft that can be put under an internal pressure, comprises a pressure dome, which is designed with a concave inner surface and a convex outer surface; inspection hatches, which each form an aperture in the pressure dome from the inner surface to the outer surface; and pressure covers for pressure-tight closure of the inspection hatches, wherein the pressure covers each have a cover and a pressure seal, wherein the cover is designed for the repeatedly releasable fixing of the pressure cover on the concave inner surface over the inspection hatch and wherein the pressure seal is formed at the edge of the cover for the pressure-tight closure of the cover with the pressure dome.
US11498645B2
To provide a shifting control device and an electric shifting system allowing a user to comfortably ride a human-powered vehicle, a shifting control device comprising a controller configured to control a shifting device in accordance with a first operation performed on an operating device for braking a rotary body of a human-powered vehicle.
US11498643B2
A bicycle electric rear derailleur 26 comprises a base member 41, a movable member 43, and a linkage structure 45. The linkage structure 45 is configured to operatively couple the base member 41 to the movable member 43. The linkage structure 45 includes at least one of a wireless communication unit receiving space S11, a charging-portion receiving space S12, a control-board receiving space S13, an operating-member receiving space S14, a display-unit receiving space S15, a connector receiving space S16 and a data-reader receiving space S17.
US11498642B2
To allow a wide range of existing bicycles to be easily converted into electric power assisted bicycles, a retrofit electric machine for a bicycle includes: a housing (52) configured to be attached to a frame (18) of a bicycle (10), an electric motor (54) attached to the housing (52); an annular rotating plate (84) mounted on the housing (52) in a rotatable manner to be centered around a rotational center line of a crankshaft (24) for a pedal of the bicycle (10), and connected to the electric motor (54) in a torque transmitting relationship; and a connecting member (90) including a first connecting portion (92) connected to the crankshaft (24) with a shape fit so as to rotate integrally with the crankshaft (24), and a connecting pin (98) secured to the rotating plate (84).
US11498640B1
A motorcycle brake pedal lever includes a rod connected to a motorcycle and a base is connected to the rod. The base includes a bore. A pivotal member includes a first pivot and a second pivot extending toward different directions. The first pivot is pivotably connected to the bore of the base so that the pivotal member is pivotable about the first pivot. A peg includes a space formed therein, and the second pivot of the pivotal member is pivotably engaged with the space by a pin so that the peg is pivotable about pin and the second pivot. Multiple torsion springs are respectively mounted to the first and second. The torsion springs respectively contact the pivotal member, the base and the peg. The peg is returned relative to the pivotal member, and the pivotal member is returned relative to the base by the torsion springs.
US11498637B2
An armrest handlebar and a bicycle handlebar assembly having the armrest handlebar are disclosed. The bicycle handlebar assembly includes a steering handlebar, the armrest handlebar, and two armrest pads. The steering handlebar is pivotally engaged with a frame. The armrest handlebar includes two extending tubes which are engaged with the steering handlebar. Each of the extending tubes includes a combining segment, a lifting segment, a leaned segment, and a holding segment which are sequentially disposed. The lifting segment is raised above the combining segment at a first angle, and the leaned segment is raised above the combining segment at a second angle. A curved surface is formed by recessing from a top surface of each of the leaned segments. Each of the two armrest pads is engaged with the steering handlebar and has a concave surface for a rider to lean on.
US11498634B2
A straddle type vehicle comprising a vehicle body frame including a head pipe and a main frame extending from the head pipe to a rear side, and a headlight unit provided on a front side of the vehicle body frame, and further comprising a support stay fixed to the vehicle body frame to support a predetermined vehicle constituent component on the front side of the vehicle body frame, and a driving support sensor fixed to the support stay on a lower side of the headlight unit.
US11498633B2
The bicycle ramp of the present invention is foldable and easily transportable. The bicycle ramp of the present invention may be built directly onto a utility trailer with a foldable gate and wheels and thus is transportable to be pulled along the back of a suitable vehicle using the hitch. The bicycle ramp of the present invention creates an inclined surface for bicycle riding applications, including the teaching of a beginning cyclist skills such as balancing and pedal. There is a receiving slot to engage the rear wheel of the bicycle at the flat upper section of the bicycle ramp. The receiving slot stabilizes the bicycle in a static position until a releasable stopper is released to launch the rider down the angled sections of the bicycle ramp.
US11498632B2
A work vehicle including: a first link having one end portion supported by a vehicle body so as to be pivotable; a second link having one end portion pivotally coupled to the other end portion of the first link so as to be pivotable, and another end portion that supports a travel wheel; a first hydraulic cylinder capable of changing a swing posture of the first link; and a second hydraulic cylinder capable of changing a swing posture of the second link relative to the first link. The action of the first hydraulic cylinder is controlled such that a swing position of the first link is located at a target position, based on the result of detection performed by a position detection sensor, and the action of the second hydraulic cylinder is controlled such that thrust has a target value, based on the results of detection performed by pressure sensors.
US11498630B2
A snow vehicle is disclosed comprising a vehicle frame, a propulsion unit coupled to the frame, and a front ski steered by a steering mechanism. The snow vehicle has a chain coupling the sprocket of the propulsion unit and a chain tensioning device to take up the chain tension. The chain has a chain guide positioned below a lower run of the chain which directs the chain towards an upper run of the chain.
US11498620B2
A scrum type side sill includes: a side sill inner located on a side surface of a center floor, wherein the center floor forms a bottom of a vehicle body; a side sill outer coupled to the side sill inner and configured to form a side sill inner space; and a plurality of scrum members provided in the side sill inner space in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
US11498619B2
A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle includes: determining whether an autonomous control mode of the autonomous vehicle is active; determining a steering wheel angle bias in response to determining that the autonomous control mode of the autonomous vehicle is active; and controlling, via a steering controller of the autonomous vehicle, an electronic power steering system of the autonomous vehicle using the steering wheel angle bias.
US11498617B2
A vehicle control method for controlling a vehicle using a vehicle control apparatus includes: a sensor configured to detect a state outside a subject vehicle; and a control device. The vehicle control method includes: executing control of recovering a travel trajectory of the subject vehicle to a target trajectory, as ordinary control, by giving a steering amount in a lateral direction with respect to a travel lane of the subject vehicle; using detection data of the sensor to determine whether or not another vehicle is traveling in an adjacent lane to the travel lane of the subject vehicle; and when determining that the other vehicle is traveling in the adjacent lane ahead of the subject vehicle, increasing a response of the steering amount to a higher response than that in the ordinary control, before the subject vehicle passes the other vehicle.
US11498616B2
An apparatus for use in turning steerable vehicle wheels includes a steering column having a pinion connected with a vehicle steering wheel such that rotation of the steering wheel results in rotation of the pinion. An electrically powered steering unit includes an electric motor having a first output shaft rotatable about an axis. A first planetary gear stage has a first gear reduction ratio and is driven by the first output shaft. A second planetary gear stage is driven by the first planetary gear stage and the pinion and has a second gear reduction ratio different from the first gear reduction ratio. A second output shaft is driven by the second planetary gear stage and coupled to the steerable wheels such that rotation of the second output shaft affects steering of the vehicle wheels.
US11498614B2
A control device for an on-board device including an actuator is configured to: supply power to a first microprocessor and a first driver circuit from a first power source through a first power supply path; supply power to a second microprocessor and a second driver circuit from a second power source through a second power supply path; and use the first and second driver circuits to drive the actuator. In this control device, the negative electrodes of the first and second power sources are electrically connected to a common ground portion. Furthermore, the control device includes a first and second sensor for measuring current or voltage between the vehicle body ground and the negative electrodes of the first and second power source, respectively. When detecting an abnormal current or voltage, the first and second microprocessors control the first and second driver circuits so as to place a limit on power supply to the actuator.
US11498601B2
A folding wagon with a footwell for carrying small children or other articles. The folding wagon has a solid frame with scissor connections, that allow it to be compacted for storage and expanded for use. The footwell allows children a place to rest their feet within the wagon. The folding wagon has a fabric paneling system, from which portions can be removed for the cleaning of the wagon and the footwell. The folding wagon also has two canopies, allowing the carrying of two children with the canopies protecting them from the sun or the elements. The folding wagon can use attachments that expand its capabilities.
US11498596B2
The present application discloses a draft gear including a buffer assembly; a connection assembly, the connection assembly including a connection body, the connection body has: a first connection part, the first connection part is mutually and horizontally rotatably connected with the buffer assembly, and the first connection part and the buffer assembly have a first rotation center; a second connection part, the second connection part has a connection surface, the second connection part is connected with a train body through the connection surface, and the first rotation center is located on a rear side of the connection surface; a bearing assembly, the bearing assembly is mutually and horizontally rotatably connected with the connection assembly, the bearing assembly and the connection assembly have a second rotation center, the second rotation center is located on a front side of the connection surface; and a self-adaption assembly, the bearing assembly is connected with the buffer assembly by the self-adaption assembly.
US11498587B1
An autonomous robot system to enable automated movement of goods and materials in a dynamic environment including one or more dynamic objects. The autonomous robot system includes an autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) including a vehicle management system. The vehicle management system provides real time resource planning and path optimization to enable the AGV to operate safely and efficiently alongside humans in a dynamic environment. The vehicle management system includes one or more processing devices to execute a moving object trajectory prediction module to predict a trajectory of a dynamic or moving object in a shared environment.
US11498586B2
Disclosed herein is a method and system for dynamically generating a secure navigation path for navigation of an autonomous vehicle. The method comprises detecting disproportional acceleration of the autonomous vehicle when the autonomous vehicle is navigating from a source point to a destination point based on a predefined trajectory plan. The method comprises determining direction values of the autonomous vehicle for reaching a secure path point in the predefined trajectory plan. Based on the determined direction values, distance values are determined. The method includes detecting position of the secure path point for navigation of the autonomous vehicle based on the determined direction values and the distance values. The present disclosure uses secure path point to realign the autonomous vehicle in the predefined trajectory plan to overcome the disproportional acceleration of the autonomous vehicle due to narrow roads, upward slope, or downward slope.
US11498585B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide for enabling autonomous vehicles to pull over into driveways when picking up or dropping off passengers or goods. For instance, a request for a trip identifying a first location and a second location may be received. The first location may be a location of a client computing device, and the second location may be a starting location or a destination for the trip. A user preference for the trip indicating that a pickup for the trip be in a driveway may be identified. That the first location corresponds with the second location may be identified. Based on the determination that the first location corresponds with the second location, dispatch instructions may be to an autonomous vehicle. The dispatch instructions may identify a polygon for a driveway at the second location in order to cause the autonomous vehicle to pull over into the driveway.
US11498575B2
An unsupervised learning-based detection method according to one technical aspect of the present disclosure relates to an unsupervised learning-based detection method using a supervised-learned model, and includes: generating a first plurality of matrix data on the basis of driving data; generating encoding information by encoding the first plurality of matrix data using a convolutional neural network; modeling a time series feature of the encoding information by using a long short-term memory (LSTM) network, so as to derive a correlation between variables according to a time series; re-implementing a second plurality of matrix data through a deconvolution calculation of the correlation between the variables according to the time series; and determining whether the driving data corresponds to a pre-supervised learned driver profile, on the basis of a difference between the first plurality of matrix data and the second plurality of matrix data.
US11498572B2
A vehicle information calculation apparatus includes a motor torque acquisition unit, an angular acceleration acquisition unit, a contact force acquisition unit, and an inertia moment calculator. The motor torque acquisition unit acquires a torque of a motor that drives a vehicle. The angular acceleration acquisition unit acquires an angular acceleration of the motor. The contact force acquisition unit acquires a contact force of a wheel of the vehicle. The inertia moment calculator calculates an inertia moment of a rotating system of the vehicle including the wheel on the basis of the torque acquired by the motor torque acquisition unit, the angular acceleration acquired by the angular acceleration acquisition unit, the contact force acquired by the contact force acquisition unit, and a coefficient of friction between the wheel of the vehicle and a contact surface.
US11498565B2
A method actuates a vehicle drivetrain of a vehicle having a drive unit, in particular an electric motor, wherein the drivetrain has at least one first partial drivetrain which is assigned to a first output unit which transmits a torque between the drive unit and the first output unit, and has at least one second partial drive train which is assigned to a second output unit which transmits a torque between the drive unit and the second output unit. When a positive torque is transmitted, a load is applied to the drivetrain in a first direction, and when a negative torque is transmitted, a load is applied to the drivetrain in a second direction opposed to the first direction. At least one pre-load device is provided which, when a predetermined positive torque limiting value is reached or when a predetermined negative torque limiting value is reached, pre-loads the first partial drivetrain in the first direction of the positive torque and pre-loads the second partial drivetrain in the second direction of the negative torque.
US11498564B2
Coordinates of a point, representing a current pair of states of a vehicle, can be determined to be outside of a first curve. An interior of the first curve, representing a first region of operation of the vehicle, can be characterized by values of forces produced by tires being less than a saturation force. A distance between the point and a second curve can be determined. An interior of the second curve, representing a second region of operation of the vehicle, can be characterized by an ability of an operation of a control system to cause the vehicle to change from being operated in the current pair of states to being operated in the first region of operation. A manner in which the vehicle changes from being operated in the current pair of states to being operated in a different pair of states can be controlled based on the distance.
US11498560B2
A braking force controller includes: a target jerk calculation unit; a first estimation unit configured to estimate an increment of braking force when a prescribed factor that increases braking force to be generated by the first actuator unit currently occurs; a second estimation unit configured to estimate the increment of the braking force when the prescribed factor occurs within a prescribed period; and a control unit configured to determine a negative jerk generated when the second actuator unit generates the braking force such that a sum of the negative jerk and the jerk generated by the first actuator unit without the prescribed factor becomes the target jerk. When the increment of the braking force due to the prescribed factor is larger than a prescribed value, the control unit corrects the determined negative jerk such that an absolute value of the negative jerk becomes smaller.
US11498558B2
The present invention relates to a method to control a hybrid powertrain, comprising a combustion engine, an electric machine, a gearbox with input shaft and output shaft, wherein the combustion engine and the electric machine are connected to the input shaft. The method comprises the following steps: a) disconnecting the combustion engine from the input shaft with a coupling device, b) engaging a starting gear in the gearbox, which starting gear is higher than the gear at which the combustion engine's torque at idling speed is able to operate the input shaft, c) generating a torque in the input shaft with the electric machine, d) accelerating the electric machine, and e) connecting the combustion engine to the input shaft with the coupling device when the electric machine has reached substantially the same rotational speed as the combustion engine. The invention also relates to a hybrid powertrain and a vehicle.
US11498557B2
A longitudinally guiding driver assistance system in a motor vehicle has a first detection system for detecting currently applying events or relevant events lying ahead, which require a change of the permissible maximum speed, a second detection system for detecting the course of the route, and a function unit which, when detecting a relevant event while taking into account the location of the relevant event, determines a location-dependent point in time, whose reaching causes the function unit to initiate an automatic adaptation of the currently permissible maximum speed or an output of a prompt information for permitting an automatic adaptation of the currently permissible maximum speed to anew permissible maximum speed. The function unit is designed to take into account available information concerning the course of the route when determining the location-dependent point in time.
US11498548B2
Embodiments of an intelligent hybrid powertrain system include an engine, a controller architecture, and an electric drive subsystem having a battery supply and a motor/generator. The controller architecture is configured to: (i) monitor a current state of charge (SoC) of the battery supply when the combine harvester engages in a combine harvest cycle having a tank fill phase and a tank unload phase; (ii) during the tank fill phase, operate the motor/generator to supplement the engine power output and regulate a rate of battery discharge to prevent the current SoC of the battery supply from decreasing below a lower predetermined SoC threshold prior to completion of the tank fill phase; and (iii) during the tank unload phase, operate the motor/generator to charge the battery supply until the current SoC of the battery supply is equal to or greater than a first upper predetermined SoC threshold.
US11498547B2
A vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, an electric machine, and a controller. The electric machine is rotatably coupled to the engine and is configured to deliver electrical power to electrical accessories. The controller is programmed to, in response to a control signal loss between the electric machine and the controller, limit torque output of electric machine to less than a torque threshold that corresponds to the power threshold. The controller is further programmed to, in response an accessory power demand being greater than the power threshold, control the engine to power the electric machine to increase the torque output of electric machine to greater than the torque threshold to meet the accessory power demand.
US11498540B2
A brake actuator comprising a DC motor, a computer configured for: measuring, over time, a current drawn by the motor and a voltage between the terminals of the motor; implementing a Kalman filter in order to compute, from the measured current and voltage, a filtered current drawn by the motor and a filtered rotational speed of a shaft of the motor; computing, from the value of the filtered current and the value of the filtered rotational speed, a clamping force that is produced by the actuator; controlling the motor such that it stops when the computed value of the clamping force reaches a predetermined setpoint value.
US11498536B2
A system for a vehicle and a trailer connected to the vehicle is provided. The system includes a trailer brake output circuit configured to output a trailer brake output signal, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether a value of a yaw rate of the trailer connected to the vehicle becomes greater than a threshold value, change a yaw rate oscillation counter in response to determining that the value of the yaw rate of the trailer becomes greater than the threshold value, instruct the trailer brake output circuit to output the trailer brake output signal to the trailer in response to the yaw rate oscillation becoming a first value, and activate trailer sway control in response to the yaw rate oscillation becoming a second value. The second value is greater than the first value.
US11498534B2
An electric brake device installed on a vehicle, including: a rotary body to rotate with a wheel; a friction member to be pushed onto the rotary body; an actuator including an electric motor as a drive source to cause the friction member to be pushed onto the rotary body; and a controller to control a braking force generated by the electric brake device by controlling a supply current supplied to the electric motor, wherein the controller determines, by mutually different methods, a plurality of target supply current components each of which is a component of a target supply current as a target of the supply current, determines the target supply current by adding up the target supply current components, and changes contribution degrees of the respective target supply current components in the determination of the target supply current in accordance with a characteristic of the braking force to be generated.
US11498525B2
The present invention relates to a gear motor (101), in particular for a wiper system, comprising: -a brushless DC electric motor (103) including: -a rotor; -a stator having coils for electromagnetically exciting the rotor; -a device for determining the angular position of the rotor; -a control unit configured to generate control signals for supplying power to the electromagnetic excitation coils of the stator; -a reduction mechanism (104) that is linked on one side to the rotor of the electric motor (103) and on the other side to an output shaft (109), the reduction mechanism (104) having a predefined reduction ratio and; -an output angular position sensor (110) that is configured to measure the angular position of the output shaft (109), wherein the output angular position sensor (110) that is configured to transmit a signal corresponding to the measured angular position of the output shaft (109) to the device for determining the angular position of the rotor and said device is configured to determine the position of the rotor on the basis of the transmitted signal by taking into account the predefined reduction ratio of the reduction mechanism (104). The invention also relates to a wiper system and to a method for controlling the electric motor (103).
US11498520B2
A reader includes a transceiver and a control module. The transceiver is configured to, during a current connection event, monitor notification messages transmitted from a portable access device to a phone-as-a-key (PaaK) system of a vehicle, where the notification messages are transmitted to establish a communication link between the portable access device and the PaaK system. The control module is configured to: perform an in-phase and quadrature phase capture of the notification messages based on fields in one or more of the notification messages, where the fields include a mobile de-whitened section including two or more series of consecutive bits, where the consecutive bits in each of the one or more series are all zeros or all ones; based on the in-phase and quadrature phase capture, determine an angle-of-arrival of the notification messages, and indicate the angle-of-arrival to the PaaK system for permitted access determined by the PaaK system.
US11498505B2
An occupant protection device, protecting an occupant seated in a seat, includes: a seat belt; and an airbag which is arranged in an area of a lap belt in the seat belt. The airbag includes a bag body and a regulatory tether. A thigh abutment surface abutting on a thigh of the occupant is arranged on a lower surface side of the bag body, and an upper body restraining surface restraining an upper body of the occupant is arranged on a rear surface side. The regulatory tether connects a base end to a rear surface side of an upper-lower intermediate portion of the bag body and connects a tip extending downward from the base end to the lap belt side and a length dimension is set a dimension in which a connecting portion connecting the base end of the bag body can be pulled toward the lap belt side.
US11498500B1
An apparatus includes a capture device and a processor. The capture device may be configured to generate a plurality of video frames. The processor may be configured to perform operations to detect objects in the video frames, detect users based on the objects detected in the video frames, determine a comfort profile for the users and select a reaction to adjust vehicle components according to the comfort profile of the detected users. The comfort profile may be determined in response to characteristics of the users. The characteristics of the users may be determined by performing the operations on each of the users. The operations detect the objects by performing feature extraction based on weight values for each of a plurality of visual features that are associated with the objects extracted from the video frames. The weight values are determined by the processor analyzing training data prior to the feature extraction.
US11498499B2
A vehicle inverter is arranged to transform direct current power from a power supply to alternating current power for an outlet. The inverter includes a transformer electrically connected between the power supply and outlet, a resistive element that can be selectively electrically connected in parallel with the transformer via a multiway switch to establish a direct electrical connection between the power supply and outlet, and a controller that selectively commands the multiway switch to close according to values indicative of resistance between the power supply and outlet before and after the multiway switch is closed.
US11498490B1
An attachment assembly for storage and organization of light cargo including a first article having an open surface or a vertical panel, a semi-rigid elongate strip having a series of equally spaced apart aperture slots that may be pivotable about a live hinge, fastener(s) with an configured for releasable coupling with at least one of the plurality of apertures and an opposing end is configured for connection to a second article, and a releasable couplable stay member so as to hold the article against the first article.
US11498481B2
A steering assembly and a system for actuating a vehicle horn uses a grounding signal transmitted from the steering assembly to an electronic control unit in communication with an electronically actuated horn. The steering assembly includes a base plate connected to a hub in the steering assembly. At least one horn grounding switch is coupled to the base plate and has a ground contact generating an output from the horn grounding switch. The ground contact is movable between a normally closed position connected to the vehicle electrical ground that corresponds to the off status of the vehicle horn and an open position disconnected from the vehicle electrical ground that corresponds to the on status of the vehicle horn. A biasing force directs the ground contact to a normally closed position in electrical communication with the vehicle electrical ground.
US11498475B2
A motor vehicle includes a projection device to project a light distribution for driver information in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle onto the ground in front of the motor vehicle. The light function of the projected light distribution is different from a low beam and a high beam light. During operation of the projection device within a predefined interval of the vehicle speed in the forward direction of the motor vehicle, an increase in the extent of the light distribution in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle occurs as the vehicle speed increases. The extent of the light distribution at each vehicle speed is thereby greater than or equal to the extent at lower vehicle speeds.
US11498472B2
In a structure, for example in the form of a trailer cabin (115), which structure is advantageously provided for connection to a vehicle (103), the following are provided as sliding segments: a number of horizontal sliding segments (201) slidable in an expansion direction, vertical sliding segments (136) slidable in an extension direction at a right angle to the expansion direction, and double sliding segments (139) which are slidable both in the expansion direction and in the extension direction and which are connected to a central fixed segment (403). Thus, when the sliding segments (136, 139, 201) are transferred from a pushed-together compact position into a pulled-out expansion position, an interior space of the structure (115) can be considerably enlarged by a usable space in comparison with a minimum volume in the compact position.
US11498461B2
A passenger seat (10) with a sitting area (40), a side ottoman (42), an open space (44) that may be enclosed via use of a bed extension (50), and a backrest (14). The backrest may be divided into an upper portion and a lower portion. The seat may also be provided with one or more storage areas and/or a side console.
US11498460B1
A child carrier restraint that allows the upper ends of the shoulder straps to be adjustably positioned to properly secure children having varying torso lengths within the child carrier. The child restraint includes a traditional five point belt harness and pair of shoulder belt location adjusters, which allows the shoulder strap to be selectively positioned over and behind the child regardless of the length of the child's torso. The shoulder location adjusters are mounted to the back of the child carrier and includes a strap loop trained about a locking slide and a bottom strap loop anchor. The end of the shoulder strap is sewn directly to the strap loop. The locking slide can be manually disengaged to allow the strap loop to slide freely, thereby selectively positioning the end of the shoulder strap along the back of the child carrier.
US11498457B2
A vehicle control system monitors an infant possibly left behind in a cabin of a vehicle. The vehicle control system performs a danger avoidance process of either avoiding or reducing a danger to the infant based on a monitoring result. The vehicle control system includes an image acquirer for acquiring one or more vehicle stationary images indicating an interior of the cabin. The one or more vehicle stationary images are captured by an imaging device during stopping of the vehicle. A leaving behind determiner is provided to determine presence or absence of an infant left behind in the cabin based one or more vehicle stationary images.
US11498452B2
A vehicle charging system includes a vehicle propelled by an electric machine powered by a chargeable energy storage system. The charging system also includes a controller programmed to predict at least one upcoming plug-in event based on historical charging data, and define a plug-in routine based on a plurality of upcoming plug-in events. The controller is also programmed to set a charging schedule to coincide with the plug-in routine such that a target state of charge (SOC) is achieved at a conclusion of each of the plurality of upcoming plug-in events. Each target SOC corresponding to a plug-in event is based on minimizing a charging energy cost of the plug-in routine and an expected energy depletion ahead of a next subsequent plug-in event.
US11498449B1
Charging apparatus and methods are provided that support multiple charging devices. In an embodiment, a charging apparatus includes a secondary signal generator (SSG) and an output circuit. The SSG receives charging control signals and generates one or more secondary charging control signals. The output circuit outputs the charging control signals to a primary charging device and the one or more secondary charging control signals to one or more secondary charging devices, thereby enabling the use of multiple charging devices in battery applications. In an embodiment, the secondary charging signals are pulse width modulated to control the current output of the secondary charging devices to avoid over-current conditions.
US11498445B1
A system and method for energy distribution with decoupled by time and space domains that integrates energy storage capabilities that feature co-products utilization at the point of energy storage charging, byproduct utilization at the point of energy production, and time and space decoupling of vehicle shuttling energy storage media discharge to accelerate return on investment, reduce system energy consumption, and maximize utilization of existing energy infrastructure. Additionally, the system executes the energy transactions by controlling and integrating distributed energy producers and consumers with minimal grid dependence.
US11498442B2
A method for controlling a battery charger circuit of a vehicle. The method includes injecting a first current pulse between at least one line and a protective earth connection of the battery charger circuit. The method also includes measuring at least one line voltage value of at least one node of the battery charger circuit. The method also includes identifying a noise value by performing one or more operations on the battery charger circuit. The method also includes determining a protective earth connection impedance based on the at least one line voltage value and the noise value.
US11498430B2
A method of controlling coasting of an eco-friendly vehicle includes: determining at least one effective event among deceleration events configured with a target speed in a forward driving path; setting a closest effective event based on a current position among the at least one effective event as a first candidate event; determining whether at least one second candidate event corresponding to an event needed to be followed is present among remaining effective events except for the first candidate event of the at least one effective event; and, when the at least one second candidate event is present, determining a target event among the first candidate event and the second candidate event in consideration of a control start point.
US11498422B2
Provided is a smart garnish installed on an automobile interior material (a door trim, an instrument panel, a console, or the like), and to a smart garnish for an automobile which is driven when a capacitance change is sensed by a pressed deformation of an upper case through a capacitive touch sensor pad formed of a ground (GND) and capacitive touch sensors corresponding to symbols and capacitive force sensors distributed corresponding to the ground and thus the touch and force of the desired symbol are sensed without noise.
US11498414B2
An operating fluid tank for a motor vehicle, in particular for storing an aqueous additive, comprising: a tank wall made of a thermoplastic material, wherein the tank wall has a top, a bottom and side walls, and the tank wall delimits a tank volume, wherein the tank volume has a height, a depth and a width; and at least one electrically operated heating device having one or more heating elements, the heating element being inserted into an outer depression of the tank wall, or into an outer recess or opening in the tank wall, or into an inner structure that is integrally formed with the tank wall and that extends into the tank volume, and said heating element extending over at least one third of the height of the tank volume and being electrically contacted outside the tank volume.
US11498413B2
A device for regulating an air stream for an air inlet of a motor vehicle may include a duct defining a flow channel in which an air stream flows. A cooling unit is arranged in the duct and includes at least one heat exchanger and a motor-fan unit. Additionally, the duct includes at least one sound absorption means arranged so that it at least partially limits the propagation of noise annoyance to the outside of the duct. A motor vehicle may include the regulation device.
US11498403B2
An electric powertrain includes a first electric motor that has an uninterrupted connection with a drive shaft of a vehicle. The electric powertrain further includes a second electric motor that has an interruptible connection with the drive shaft. In one form, this interruptible connection includes a clutch. The electric powertrain further includes a first gear train in the form of a first planetary gear and a second gear train in the form of a second planetary gear. To provide a compact configuration, the first electric motor and second electric motor are arranged in a centerline orientation with the drive shaft.
US11498396B1
A viewing port for sighting through a barrier includes a primary body and a secondary body engaging with a barrier aperture in the barrier. The primary body defines a first aperture. The secondary body defines a second aperture. The first aperture of the primary body is aligned with the second aperture of the secondary body defining a viewing channel between the primary body and the secondary body. The viewing channel providing a field of view through the barrier.
US11498393B2
Refrigeration cycle intercooler with dual coil evaporator is a component in a refrigeration cycle that is installed in a vehicle with an internal combustion engine or motor. The refrigeration cycle operates by continuously cycling a refrigerant through a closed loop where refrigerant passes through an inner coil evaporator and an outer coil evaporator where the refrigerant changes from liquid to gas, thereby providing a cooling effect. During operation, fresh air or outside air continuously passes by the inner coil evaporator and the outer coil evaporator and then continues into the internal combustion engine or motor air intake. The inner coil evaporator and the outer coil evaporator function to cool and dry the intake air for the internal combustion engine or motor. The inner coil evaporator and an outer coil evaporator are specially designed to provide substantially more cooling and drying than any other intercooler design.
US11498386B2
Methods and systems for providing multi-zone climate control for a vehicle. One system includes a power source, a plurality of switches, a first zone heating/cooling device, a second zone heating/cooling device, and an electronic controller. The electronic controller is configured to operate the plurality of switches to supply current bi-directionally through the first zone heating/cooling device, bi-directionally through the second zone heating/cooling device, or bi-directionally through a series connection of the first zone heating/cooling device and the second zone heating/cooling device.
US11498378B2
A special suspension-type tracked underwater robot adaptable to ultra-soft geological conditions comprises traveling mechanisms, wherein the traveling mechanisms are track-mud sled structures, the mud sled structures are fixedly arranged on two sides of each track, and the bottoms of the mud sled structures are higher than the bottoms of the tracks and are provided with arched plate heads; the arched plate heads are provided with plate water-jet devices capable of spraying water forwards; and in the traveling process of the traveling mechanisms, and the arched plate heads press water downwards to form a water film at the bottoms of the mud sled structures together with the water sprayed by the plate water-jet devices, so that the traveling mud resistance is reduced, and the robot can stably advance under ultra-soft geological conditions. The special suspension-type tracked underwater robot further comprises a propelling mechanism, an adjustment device, an operating module, and the like, can autonomously advance on a seabed, can suspend in water, can repair itself when broken, and can achieve detailed operations.
US11498376B2
A trailer coupler locking device that includes: a trailer ball body, wherein the trailer ball body is shaped as a coupling ball; a plurality of locking rods, where the plurality of locking rods define elongated members which extend from the trailer ball body; and a locking mechanism. The elongated members may be placed in either a locked position or an unlocked position. When in the unlocked position, the ball body moves freely in and out of a ball mount coupler, and when in a locked position, the ball body is locked into a ball mount coupler. The locking rods selectively extend and retract by manual operation of the locking mechanism, where the locking mechanism includes a cylinder lock that is operably connected to a rotational member and a mechanical rod actuator. The mechanical rod actuator operable connects the rotational member with each locking rod and enables each locking rod to move linearly in response to the rotary motion of the rotational member.
US11498367B2
A tire has a tread portion 2 including a first land portion 11. The first land portion 11 includes a first circumferential edge 11a, a second circumferential edge 11b, and a tread surface between the first circumferential edge 11a and the second circumferential edge 11b. On the tread surface, a first inclined groove 21 extending from the second circumferential edge 11b to the first circumferential edge 11a side, a second inclined groove 22 extending from the second circumferential edge 11b to the first circumferential edge 11a side so as to be inclined in a direction opposite to that of the first inclined groove 21, and a triangular block 35 demarcated by the first inclined groove 21 and the second inclined groove 22, are formed. A curved groove 15 curved so as to be convex on the second circumferential edge 11b is formed on the triangular block 35.
US11498366B2
In a tire having composite grooves provided on a shoulder land portion, dry performance and wet performance are improved. The tire includes a tread portion 2. The tread portion 2 includes a first shoulder land portion 13. The first shoulder land portion 13 has shoulder lateral grooves 15 and shoulder composite grooves 20. The shoulder lateral grooves 15 and the shoulder composite grooves 20 are each curved so as to be convex in a tire circumferential direction. Each shoulder composite groove 20 includes, in a cross section thereof, a sipe element 21 having a width not greater than 1.5 mm and extending from a tread surface of the first shoulder land portion 13 in a tire radial direction, and a groove element 22 connected to an inner side in the tire radial direction of the sipe element 21 and having a width greater than 1.5 mm.
US11498362B2
Tone wheel assembly, an axle assembly made therewith, and a method of manufacturing an axle assembly
A tone wheel assembly includes a tone wheel. A first member is attached to the tone wheel. A second member is at least partially disposed around a portion of the first member. The second member includes a collar portion, one or more first leg portions extending axially from the collar portion, and one or more second leg portions extending axially from the collar portion. The one or more first leg portions include a first leg portion protuberance that extends radially from an outer surface of the one or more first leg portions. The one or more second leg portions include a second leg portion protuberance that extends radially from an outer surface of the one or more second leg portions.
US11498351B2
A method for producing a laminated body including a first curable liquid composition and a second curable liquid composition, the method including: forming a first liquid layer formed of the first curable liquid composition; impacting the second curable liquid composition onto the first liquid layer, to form a second liquid droplet layer formed of the second curable liquid composition inside the first liquid layer or at a lower part of the first liquid layer in a direction in which second liquid droplets for the second liquid droplet layer are impacted onto the first liquid layer; and curing the first liquid layer and the second liquid droplet layer.
US11498350B2
A printing apparatus includes a sending unit to send an order request for requesting an ordering apparatus to order a consumable in a case where a predetermined condition regarding a consumable of which the degree exceeds a predetermined degree is satisfied based on the information related to a contract and information related to the consumable. The sending unit sends the order request based on information related to a current contract and the information related to the consumable in a case where a remaining contract period based on a contract expiration date of the current contract is equal to or more than a predetermined number of dates and sends the order request based on the information related to a next contract in a case where the remaining contract period based on the contract expiration date of the current contract is less than the predetermined number of dates.
US11498349B2
A multi-layer label assembly apparatus. A label printing apparatus, a label dispensing mechanism, and a receptacle affixed to the label printing apparatus in a position adjacent the label dispensing mechanism are provided.
US11498348B2
A printer device includes a guide section, a first projecting section, and a second projecting section. The guide section is disposed to be opposed to a side surface of roll-like continuous paper and includes a guide surface for restricting movement of the continuous paper along a width direction of the continuous paper during conveyance of the continuous paper. The first projecting section is provided on the guide surface side of the guide section and rotatably holds a core section of the continuous paper. The second projecting section has an outer diameter larger than an outer diameter of the first projecting section and is movable between a supporting position where the second projecting section contains an outer circumference of the first projecting section and a storing position where the second projecting section is stored further on an inner side than the guide surface. In the supporting position, the second projecting section rotatably holds a core section of another continuous paper having a core diameter larger than a core diameter of the continuous paper.
US11498344B2
An apparatus and method for printing labels (1), in particular labels provided on a liner (2). The apparatus includes at least one label feed device (3) for providing and feeding labels, a transport device (4) including at least one transport element (9, 10) for transporting the labels, which have been fed by the label feed device, in a transport direction, a printing device (11) including a printing head (11a) for printing the labels transported by the transport device, and a capturing device (12) for capturing the position of the respective label in a section of the transport device. The capturing device has a line-scan or area-scan camera (13) with which the side of the transport element that faces the labels during correct use and/or a gap (19) formed between two transport element sections (17, 18) in the transport direction is optically capturable in a capturing region (14).
US11498342B2
A thermal head includes a substrate, a heat-generating portion, electrodes, and a protective layer. The heat-generating portion is located on the substrate. The electrodes are located on the substrate and are connected to the heat-generating portion. The protective layer covers the heat-generating portion and parts of the electrodes. Further, a kurtosis Rku of the protective layer is smaller than 3. A thermal head includes a substrate, a heat-generating portion, electrodes, and a protective layer. The heat-generating portion is located on the substrate. The electrodes are located on the substrate and are connected to the heat-generating portion. The protective layer covers the heat-generating portion and parts of the electrodes. Further, a skewness Rsk of the protective layer is smaller than 0.
US11498340B2
Provided is an inkjet printing device including an ink storage unit configured to store an ink, an ejection head configured to eject the ink to form a print layer, and a heating unit configured to heat a material to be printed, wherein the ink is an aqueous clear ink including a resin and water, the inkjet printing device has a low gloss printing mode that is a printing mode for imparting low gloss, and a high gloss printing mode that is a printing mode for imparting high gloss, and the heating unit is configured to heat to satisfy the following formula Tmatte>Tgloss, where Tmatte (degrees Celsius) is a temperature of a low gloss printing region of the material to be printed where the low gloss printing region is printed with the low gloss printing mode when the aqueous clear ink is deposited on the material to be printed, and Tgloss (degrees Celsius) is a temperature of a high gloss printing region of the material to be printed where the high gloss printing region is printed with the high gloss printing mode when the aqueous clear ink is deposited on the material to be printed.
US11498336B2
A cleaning device for printing heads arranged in a group along an alignment direction (Y) with a lower surface lying on a main plane (T). The device comprises a collecting head (2), movable along the alignment direction (Y) on the main plane (Y), in contact with or near the lower surfaces of the heads. The print head (2) is movable between a first and a second position that are located at the ends of the group of heads. The collecting head (2) is provided with an inlet opening (21) for collecting material from the heads (T).
US11498333B2
An element substrate, according to an embodiment of this present invention, capable of detecting the behavior of a liquid at a high sensitivity, comprises: a first electrothermal transducer configured to generate heat to discharge a liquid; at least one temperature detection element arranged near the first electrothermal transducer; and a second electrothermal transducer configured to generate heat in association with a temperature detection operation by the at least one temperature detection element.
US11498321B2
A multilayer tube, particularly for fluids, includes a sheath made of fluorinated polymers which is located in an innermost layer, which is adapted to be in contact with a circulating fluid, and is constituted by coupling a first, nonconducting material to a second, black-pigmented material that is electrically at least antistatic in the form of one or more continuous strips. The sheath has a smooth internal surface and is reinforced with external layers that are predominantly made of rubber.
US11498315B2
A transparent resin substrate composed of a light-transmitting resin base sheet, and an underlying layer, a hard coat layer, and an antireflection coating formed sequentially on the base sheet. The antireflection coating includes a medium refractive index layer on the hard coat layer, and a low refractive index layer on the medium refractive index layer. The underlying layer is a cured product of a hexa- or higher functional urethane acrylate monomer. The hard coat layer is a cured product of a hard coat layer composition containing a polymerizable monomer containing 50% by mass or more of a tri- or lower functional urethane acrylate monomer, silica particles, a silane coupling agent, and a metal chelate compound. The medium refractive index layer is a cured product of a medium refractive index layer composition. The low refractive index layer is a particle-free cured product of a low refractive index layer composition.
US11498312B2
Provided are a multi-layered composite film that may be thermally-bonded to a fabric by using a hot melt adhesive that is dot-coated on the surface thereof, and a method of manufacturing the same. In particular, the present invention relates to: a thermally-bondable multi-layered composite film which can be used in the manufacture of outdoor clothing, has excellent breathability and waterproofing properties, and can simplify the process of manufacturing the outdoor clothing; and to a method for manufacturing same.
US11498308B2
A thermoplastic bag includes raised rib-like elements that allow the thermoplastic bag to expand. The thermoplastic bag further includes side seals having rib-like elements that allow the side seals to expand. Additionally, in one or more implementations, the thermoplastic bag includes one or more of a material formulation, a density of raised rib-like elements, a height of raised rib-like elements, or land areas that provide the raised rib-like elements with a reduced rebound ratio.
US11498305B2
Floorboards which have a core and a surface layer and are provided with decorative joint edges which are formed by removing the surface layer. A method for making a floorboard, or a floor element that is to be divided into at least two floorboards, the method including making a core from a sheet shaped material, from which a part of a locking system for vertical locking of the floorboards is to be formed, impregnating and/or staining the core surface with a substance at least in portions which in the completed floorboard will constitute a joint edge of the completed floorboard, and arranging an surface layer on the core surface.
US11498303B2
A machine for converting a sheet stock material into a dunnage product includes a conversion assembly for converting sheet stock material into a dunnage product as the sheet stock material travels along a path from an upstream end of the conversion assembly to a downstream end of the conversion assembly. The machine further includes a transversely extending guide over which the stock material passes for guided entry into the upstream end of the conversion assembly. The guide is rotatable such that the transverse extent of the guide can be moved between a plurality of relatively rotated orientations to guide the sheet stock material from different sides of the conversion assembly.
US11498295B2
The invention relates to a device for sealing pneumatic tires by means of sealing liquid, having a sealing liquid container having an air inlet opening for connection to a compressor and an outlet opening for the discharge of an air/sealing liquid mixture into a pneumatic tire to be sealed, the sealing liquid container having at least two chambers in which components of the sealing liquid that are reactive to one another are stored separately, the chambers being separated from one another by a closed connecting element which can be opened via a pressure and/or an air flow from the air inlet opening to the outlet opening.
US11498286B2
A system for holding a workpiece in position and exposing it to laser radiation, such that: the workpiece includes a bottom surface and a top surface that are electrically insulated from each other. The system includes an electrostatic charge generating device for generating electrostatic charges on the top surface; an electrically conductive support for forming, on the bottom surface, electrostatic charges of opposite sign to those generated on the top surface; and a laser device for machining or welding. The electrostatic charge generating device is arranged to be activated before or during the laser machining or welding, such that the workpiece is held in position relative to the electrically conductive support during the machining or welding thereof.
US11498281B2
A multiple axis robotic additive manufacturing system includes a robotic arm movable in six degrees of freedom. The system includes a build platform movable in at least two degrees of freedom and independent of the movement of the robotic arm to position the part being built to counteract effects of gravity based upon part geometry. The system includes an extruder mounted at an end of the robotic arm. The extruder is configured to extrude at least part material with a plurality of flow rates, wherein movement of the robotic arm and the build platform are synchronized with the flow rate of the extruded material to build the 3D part.
US11498278B2
A three dimensional printing system, the system including: a printhead; and a removable tray comprising a reservoir, the tray located in a print bed of the three dimensional printing system such that liquid purged from the printhead is deposited in the reservoir, wherein prior to the system purging liquid from the printhead, the system confirms that the tray is in place using a sensor.
US11498258B2
An apparatus for forming pre-shaped insulating sheets comprises a first bending station and a second bending station. The first bending station is used for bending a flat sheet of insulating material into a Z-shaped sheet (5). The second bending station is used for bending the Z-shaped sheet into an S-shape. The first and second bending stations comprise pairs of first (13a, 13b) and second bending operators for creating bending movements.
US11498250B2
A method for the design, manufacture, and assembly of modular lattice structures composed of cuboctahedron unit cells.
US11498248B2
A novel material for producing auxetic foams is disclosed. The material comprises a multiphase, multicomponent polymer foam with a filler polymer having a carefully selected glass transition temperature. Novel methods for producing auxetic foams from the material are also disclosed that consistently, reliably and quickly produce auxetic polyurethane foam at about room temperature (25° C.). This technology overcomes challenging issues in the large-scale production of auxetic PU foams, such as unfavorable heat-transmission problem and harmful organic solvents.
US11498240B2
A wood substrate or member is included, having an increased density with respect to natural, untreated wood. The process includes drying the wood prior to application of heat and pressure, which are controlled to reduce or eliminate color change on a surface of the wood member where heat and pressure are applied.
US11498228B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for sensing the depth of an object by considering external light and a device implementing the same, and a method for sensing the depth of an object by considering external light according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: storing, in a storage unit, first depth information of an object, which is sensed at a first time point by a depth camera unit of a depth sensing module; storing, in the storage unit, second depth information of the object, which is sensed at a second time point by the depth camera unit; comparing, by a sensing data filtering unit of the depth sensing module, the generated first and second depth information to identify a filtering target region from the second depth information; and adjusting, by a control unit of the depth sensing module, the depth value of the region filtered from the second depth information.
US11498226B2
A protective device for an effector of a manipulator includes a shell having a plurality of chambers, wherein the shell is flexurally slack and bounds a fillable and/or evacuable pressure space. The protective device further includes at least one first pulling means for pulling back the shell, and at least one actuator for applying a tensile force to the at least one first pulling means. A device for manipulating workpieces includes a robotic manipulator having an effector, and the protective device disposed proximate the effector.
US11498225B2
An electronic device including: a housing; a sensor module disposed on an inner face of the housing and including a plurality of sensing units; and a processor positioned within the housing and electrically connected to the sensor module. Each of the plurality of sensing units is electrically connected to another sensing unit adjacent thereto among the plurality of sensing units, and includes a central portion and a plurality of peripheral portions connected to a partial area of the central portion and arranged around the central portion, and each of the central portion and the plurality of peripheral portions includes a touch sensor. In addition to this, various embodiments understood through this document are possible.
US11498224B1
Disclosed is a fully automatic intelligent spraying robot. The robot includes a chassis, a driving device, a sliding device, a clamping device, a detection device and a control device; the driving device is fixedly connected to the chassis, and the driving device drives the chassis to move freely on the ground; the sliding device is fixed on the chassis; one end of the clamping device is used to fix a spray gun, and the other end of the clamping device is connected to the sliding device, and the clamping device can freely slide along the height direction of the sliding device; the detection device is fixed on the chassis, and the control device is also fixed on the chassis; and the control device is respectively in signal connection with the driving device, the sliding device, the clamping device and the detection device.
US11498215B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a robot arm apparatus including a fastener for fastening a first electronic component to a second electronic component, and a movable part configured to move the fastener. The fastener includes an arm connected to the movable part, a head connected to the arm and configured to contact the first electronic component, and a lock configured to be in contact with the arm when the first electronic component is moved to a reference space, and to be spaced apart from the arm when the first electronic component is fastened to the second electronic component after the first electronic component is moved to the reference space.
US11498212B2
A method for planning a manipulation task of an agent, particularly a robot. The method includes: learning a number of manipulation skills wherein a symbolic abstraction of the respective manipulation skill is generated; determining a concatenated sequence of manipulation skills selected from the number of learned manipulation skills based on their symbolic abstraction so that a given goal specification indicating a given complex manipulation task is satisfied; and executing the sequence of manipulation skills.
US11498209B2
A robot control apparatus for a more precise seam tracking operation, includes: a storage unit in which teaching data is stored; an accepting unit that accepts a sensing result of a laser sensor, from a robot including a working tool and the laser sensor attached to the working tool and configured to detect a shape of a working target before an operation of the working tool; and a control unit that moves the working tool based on the teaching data, corrects the movement of the working tool based on the sensing result, and adjusts an angle about a tool axis such that an operation point indicated by the sensing result is at a center of a field of view of the laser sensor. Accordingly, an operation line can be detected near the center of the field of view of the laser sensor, and thus more precise detection is possible.
US11498208B2
A drive module for rotating a first robot arm member relative to a second robot arm member comprising a motor, a gear head driven by the motor, a pinion driven by the gear head and a slip clutch including an input section with integral gear teeth driven by the pinon, and an output section configured to be coupled to the second robot arm member. A housing is disposed at least about the pinion and slip clutch and configured to be coupled to the first robot arm member.
US11498200B1
A system suitable for use as a portable tradesperson workstation is presented. The system includes a main table configured to support and connect with a material working apparatus, the main table positionable on top of and connected to associated adjustable support legs. The system also includes two center adjustment brackets positionable on top of and connected to opposite ends of the main table. Additionally, the system includes a preparation area extension, with associated adjustable support legs, connected to the main table with one of the center adjustment brackets on a top left-hand side of the main table. Further, the system includes a post product working area extension, with associated adjustable support legs, connected to the main table with the other center adjustment bracket on a top right-hand side of the main table. The system is configured to form an assembly and configured for transportation as a portable tradesperson workstation.
US11498185B2
A maintenance device for remotely maintaining the inside of a structure, for example, by deploying a maintenance tool to remotely clean, sandblast using various blast media, and/or paint an interior surface of a building structure.
US11498184B2
The temperature of the chamber housing a shot wheel of a shot blaster is controlled by positioning a fan exterior to the chamber that creates air flow across a mounting plate defining the chamber. The air flow created by the fan may also pass around the bearing surrounding the drive shaft that turns the shot wheel.
US11498175B2
A control device for controlling a machine tool, wherein the machine tool and the control device are configured such that a tool and/or workpiece disposed on the machine tool can be moved with at least one first speed and at least one second speed. When switching from a movement with the first speed to a movement with the second speed, the tool or the workpiece is at first stopped prior to the execution of the movement with the second speed, if the second speed is greater than the first speed by at least a predetermined factor. The control device has an input device for triggering the movement with the second speed, and the subsequent execution of the movement with the second speed is triggered by an operator input on the input device. A corresponding control method for controlling a machine tool is also described.
US11498172B2
A high torque dual speed turbine rotor for a lightweight hand held tool for grinding and polishing or for use with a spindle mounted pneumatic machine. The high torque dual speed turbine rotor includes a two-piece shaft with flow control screw disposed within the shaft. The shaft includes a first set of hollow openings, at a first position from one end of the shaft, in fluid communications with a first annular chamber of a rotor. There is also a second set of hollow opening, at a second position from the one end of the shaft, in fluid communications with a second annular chamber of the rotor. The flow control screw moves inside a threaded axial bore of the shaft from an open position inside the axial bore to the closed position corresponding to the second set of hollow openings.
US11498166B2
A clinch-in fastener with a cylindrical body having a top, a bottom, sides and an axial internal bore. The fastener has a single shank at the bottom end of the body having a top surface orthogonal to the bore and a chamfer tapering to the bottom of the body. The top surface of the shank is adapted for receiving the cold flow of material surrounding a receiving hole of a workpiece. The shank may have a plurality of notches in its outermost edge that extend through both the top surface of the shank and the chamfer. The bore of the fastener extends completely through the fastener body from top to bottom and may be threaded. A fastener installation system having a tool with means for affixation to a rotary and vertically reciprocal element of an industrial machine. The tip of the tool has a distal end face with at least one arcuate displacer adapted for deforming a workpiece as the tool rotates and is pressed against the workpiece. A bore within the tip holds a fastener installed by the tool. The displacer is vertically and radially tapered along an arcuate ridge centered about the axial bore. The width of the displacer is also tapered to a point.
US11498151B2
A single side heating apparatus equipped with a pair of electrodes for heating a workpiece is provided. The apparatus includes: a base portion; the pair of electrodes each having a contact portion configured to contact with the workpiece in one direction continuously or at a plurality of spaced-apart portions thereof; an electrode holder, to which the pair of electrodes are fixed; and a four-bar linkage provided between the base portion and the electrode holder and configured to rotate to tilt the electrode holder around an axis orthogonal to the one direction by a reaction force received by the electrodes from the workpiece. The four-bar linkage includes a first link located closer to the electrode holder, a second link located closer to the base portion, and third and fourth links. The first link is shorter than the second link, and the third link and the fourth link are equal in length.
US11498144B2
A welding system that, using a junction at which a standing plate and a bottom plate meet as a welding line, makes an electrode weave centered on the welding line and thereby welds along the welding line. While weaving, the electrode moves forward in a welding advancement direction until a bottom-plate-side weaving edge. When the electrode arrives at the bottom-plate-side weaving edge, the electrode moves backward with respect to the welding advancement direction until a standing-plate-side weaving edge. The electrode repeats this weaving motion on the bottom-plate side and on the standing-plate side. The system can suppress occurrence of inferior bead appearance and of welding defects in horizontal fillet welding.
US11498142B2
A wire dispenser for a laser metal wire deposition machine comprises a longitudinal duct for guiding a wire from a proximal end to a distal end of the duct. A nozzle unit is connected to the distal end of the duct and has a through bore for receiving the wire from the distal end of the duct and for discharging the wire adjacent to a laser metal wire deposition site. The nozzle unit includes a cooling circuit for a cooling liquid.
US11498139B2
A saw tooth for a saw including a square saw tooth body to be mounted on a holder and for receiving inserts fastened to inwardly sloping seating surfaces on the cutting end of the tooth body. The inserts are provided with cutting edges. Between seating surfaces, the cutting end of the tooth body defines recesses for receiving intermediate members fastened therein. The intermediate members are provided with cutting edges, and the intermediate members abut the adjoining inserts to form a cutting surface about the periphery of the cutting end of the saw tooth and help protect the saw tooth body from damage including washout.
US11498131B2
Estimation algorithms, methods, and systems are provided that estimate the internal temperatures inside of a part being built using powder bed fusion (PBF). Closed-loop state estimation is applied to the problem of monitoring temperature fields within parts during the PBF build process. A simplified linear time-invariant (LTI) model of PBF thermal physics with the properties of stability, controllability and observability is presented. In some aspects, an Ensemble Kalman Filter is applied to the model. Linear time-varying (LTV) systems are also contemplated.
US11498129B2
Desirable methods for larger scale silver nanoplate synthesis are described along with methods for applying a noble metal coating onto the silver nanoplates to form coated silver nanoplates with a desirable absorption spectrum. The silver nanoplates are suitable for use in coatings for altering the hue of a transparent film. The hue adjustment can be particularly desirable for transparent conductive films.
US11498124B1
A novel process for creating porous structures via powder bed fusion additive manufacturing is provided. The process reduces the computational requirement for generation of the porous structure geometry and for processing the porous structure geometry to generate CNC code. The process provides reduced file size for CNC code and avoids large files which may exceed capacity of manufacturing machines. The process also significantly reduces the time required to sinter the porous structure on a powder bed fusion manufacturing machine.
US11498121B2
Methods for creating a cast component, along with the resulting cast components, are provided. The method may include heating a mold having a cavity therein; supplying a first molten metal material into the cavity of the mold such that the first molten metal material is directed to a first portion of the cavity of the mold; supplying a second molten metal material into the cavity of the mold such that the second molten metal material is directed to a second portion of the cavity of the mold, wherein the first molten metal material is compositionally different than the second molten metal material; and thereafter, allowing the first molten metal material and the second molten metal material to form the cast component.
US11498116B2
A stretch rolling method and a stretch rolling unit can roll out any gripping ends and uses the narrowest possible installation space. In the stretch rolling method, a workpiece is successively fed to at least two passes of a stretch rolling unit of a gripping device, wherein the workpiece is rotated by 180° about an axis of rotation lying perpendicular to the main direction of extent of the workpiece between the first pass of the two passes and the second pass of the two passes.
US11498112B1
An assembly for securing a component of a damper assembly includes a press movable along an axis from a retracted position to an extended position. The assembly includes a plurality of rollers rotatably supported at an end of the press. The rollers have an outer circumferential surface that includes a middle portion extending, in cross-section, transversely to the axis and linearly between an entry portion and a top portion of the outer circumferential surface.
US11498110B2
A fine blanking device and method for forming a friction plate with friction material layers. The fine blanking device includes an upper die, a lower die, a guide mechanism, a punch and a counter punch. Upper and lower blank holders are respectively provided at outer circumferences of the punch and the counter punch. The upper and lower blank holders are respectively provided with a buffer mechanism. Friction material powders are sintered on both sides of the base sheet. The friction material layers are trimmed and planished by hot pressing. The base sheet with the friction material layers is fixed by the upper blank holder and the lower blank holder. A tooth profile with an absolute shear fractural surface is formed. The fixing indentation of the V-shaped structure of the friction material layers is cut off for obtaining a finished friction plate product with the friction material layers.
US11498108B2
A manufacturing apparatus for a hat-shaped cross-section component includes a die having first molding surfaces, a pad having a second molding surface, a punch having a third molding surface, a holder having fourth molding surfaces, and a first restraint portion. An upright wall is molded between a top and each of flanges by moving the pad and the punch relative to the die and the holder, or moving the die and the holder relative to the pad and the punch. The first restraint portion is configured to, during a period from when a top forming part is sandwiched by the second molding surface and the third molding surface to when the upright walls are molded, suppress displacement of the top forming part in a longitudinal direction of the top forming part relative to the second molding surface and the third molding surface.
US11498107B2
This torsion beam manufacturing method is for manufacturing a torsion beam including a central portion of which a cross-section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction is a closed cross-section having a substantial V-shape or a substantial U-shape at any position in the longitudinal direction, and a shape changing portion which has a connection region leading to the central portion and including a closed cross-section having a shape different from the shape of the closed cross-section of the central portion. This torsion beam manufacturing method has a compression step of thickening at least the connection region through application of a compression force in the longitudinal direction to at least the connection region of a torsion beam material to obtain the torsion beam, the torsion beam material being formed with the central portion and the shape changing portion.
US11498106B2
A tool for bending an elongated workpiece includes a shaft having a first shaft portion and a second shaft portion, and a coupling assembly coupling the first shaft portion and the second shaft portion. The coupling assembly has a locked configuration in which the coupling assembly inhibits movement of the first shaft portion relative to the second shaft portion and an unlocked configuration in which the coupling assembly permits movement of the first shaft portion relative to the second shaft portion. The tool also includes a shoe coupled to the second shaft portion. The shoe has a curved bottom portion and a hook configured to hold the workpiece against the curved bottom portion. The curved bottom portion is engageable with the workpiece to bend the workpiece.
US11498096B2
In a chip-on-array approach, acoustic and electronic modules are separately formed. The acoustic stack is connected to one interposer, and the electronics are connected to another interposer. Different connection processes (e.g., using low temperature bonding for the acoustic stack and higher temperature-based interconnect for the electronics) may be used. This arrangement may allow for different pitches of the transducer elements and the I/O of the electronics by staggering vias in the interposers. The two interposers are then connected to form the chip-on-array.
US11498091B2
A fluid dispenser includes a dispenser body including an actuator, a fluid body housing, and a fluid body. The fluid body housing is coupled to the dispenser body at one end and releasably coupled to the dispenser body at another end, such that the fluid body housing is pivotable between a first position in which the fluid body housing is coupled to the dispenser body at both ends and a second position in which the fluid body housing is decoupled from the dispenser body at the other end. The fluid body includes a fluid inlet and a dispensing valve. The fluid body is at least partly retained in the fluid body housing when the fluid body housing is in the first position and is removable from the fluid body housing when the fluid body housing is in the second position.
US11498079B2
The paper shredder simultaneously shreds both manually inserted sheets of paper and sheets of paper that are placed in an auto-feeder input tray. Immediately above the shredding mechanism the input path is bifurcated. One branch extends essentially straight up from the blades and leads to a manual input slot. A second branch extends at an angle towards the rear of the shredder where an auto-feed roller lies at the bottom of an auto-feed slot. When a stack of paper is placed into the slot, the bottom of the stack rests against the auto-feed roller which grasps the top sheet and pulls it under the roller. The roller then pushes the sheet down the angled throat where a curved surface bends the sheet downwards and into the shredding mechanism.
US11498074B2
A module for processing fluids includes one or more collapsible fluid chambers supported on a substrate, a compression element supported on the substrate and configured to be movable with respect to the one or more chambers, and an actuating element coupled to the compression element and configured to effect movement of the compression element relative to the one or more fluid chambers to collapse each fluid chamber by compressing the fluid chamber between the compression element and the substrate as the compression element moves over the fluid chamber. A method for motivating a fluid out of a fluid chamber comprises the steps of providing a module that includes one or more collapsible fluid chambers supported on a substrate, a compression element supported on the substrate and configured to be movable with respect to the one or more chambers, and an actuating element coupled to the compression element and configured to effect movement of the compression element relative to the one or more fluid chambers and moving the actuator element to move the compression element across at least a portion of t substrate and compress the fluid chamber, thereby motivating the fluid out of the fluid chamber.
US11498067B2
An apparatus for patterning biological cells, and a method of patterning and coculturing biological cells using the apparatus. The apparatus includes a fluidic structure having an outlet and a plurality of inlets, the fluidic structure is arranged to facilitate a flow of a plurality of different cells in a cell suspension therethrough, wherein each of the plurality of inlets is arranged to facilitate a loading of the plurality of different cells from a plurality of supplies into the fluidic structure; and a flow controlling device arranged to control the flow of the plurality of different cells through the fluidic structure and/or the loading of the plurality of different cells from the plurality of supplies through the plurality of inlets; wherein the fluidic structure is further arranged to facilitate a simultaneous observation of the plurality of different cells arranged in a predetermined pattern in the fluidic structure.
US11498065B2
Systems and methods for positive dispense verification are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system has a plurality of light emitters. The light from the emitters is directed toward a plurality of light detectors across a proximately horizontal plane. The liquid dispense device is positioned above the horizontal plane of light emission from the plurality of light emitters to the plurality of light detectors such that the dispensed liquid will travel through the horizontal plane defined by the emitted light and onto the container being inoculated. Each of the plurality of detectors is coupled to an amplifier. The amplifier generates a signal in response to an interrupt in the transmission of light from the light emitters to the light detectors when the light path is disrupted by the dispense of liquid confirming the liquid was dispensed onto the container.
US11498061B2
A method of preparing a mesoporous Fe—Cu—SSZ-13 molecular sieve includes activating an aluminum source, a silicon source, an iron source and a copper source respectively; mixing the activated minerals with sodium hydroxide, water and a seed crystal at 25-90° C., while controlling feeding amounts of respective raw materials so that molar ratios of respective materials in a synthesis system are as follows: SiO2/Al2O3=10-100, SiO2/Fe2O3=30-3000, SiO2/CuO=1-100, Na2O/SiO2=0.1-0.5, H2O/SiO2=10-50, template/SiO2=0.01-0.5; adding an acid source to adjust pH of the system for first aging; and adding the acid source again to adjust the pH of the system for second aging to obtain aged gel; pouring an aged mixture into a kettle; cooling a crystallized product and filtering to remove a liquor; washing a filter cake; drying to obtain a solid; performing ion exchange; and filtering, washing and drying the solid to obtain powder; and placing the powder in a muffle furnace.
US11498058B2
The present application discloses a supported PtZn intermetallic alloy catalyst, a method for preparing the same and application thereof. The catalyst uses SiO2 as a support and Zn as a promoter, and a small amount of active component Pt is supported; the weight percentage of Pt is 0.025%-1%, and the weight percentage of Zn is 0.025%-1.7%, a co-impregnation method is adopted in preparation, the SiO2 support is impregnated in aqueous solution of chloroplatinic acid and zinc nitrate, and then drying and high-temperature reduction are performed to obtain a PtZn/SiO2 catalyst. The catalyst has the advantages of high activity, high stability, low price and low toxicity. The catalyst provided by the present application is applicable to preparation of alkene through short-chain alkane dehydrogenation, in particular to preparation of propylene through propane dehydrogenation in a hydrogen atmosphere. Under high-temperature conditions, the dehydrogenation activity is very high, the propylene selectivity can reach more than 90%, the stability is good, and the amount of used Pt is small, the utilization rate is high, and it is cheaper than industrial Pt series catalysts.
US11498056B2
The present disclosure provides a monolith substrate used for an exhaust gas purifying catalyst that improves purification performance, a method for producing such monolith substrate, and an exhaust gas purifying catalyst comprising such monolith substrate. The present disclosure relates to a monolith substrate comprising an alumina-ceria-zirconia composite oxide and alumina, a method for producing such monolith substrate, and an exhaust gas purifying catalyst comprising such monolith substrate.
US11498053B2
Modified red mud catalyst compositions, methods for production, and methods of use in dry reforming, the composition comprising: red mud material produced from an alumina extraction process from bauxite ore; and nickel oxide, the nickel oxide present at between about 5 wt. % to about 40 wt. % of the modified red mud catalyst composition.
US11498051B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing a monolithic stationary phase in the interior volume of a chromatography column made of thermoplastic polymer. This method comprises the following steps: (i) modifying the inner wall of the chromatography column by implementing the following steps: (a) preparing a polymerizable anchoring composition comprising at least one particular methacrylate monomer, one or more solvents and 2,2-dimethoxy-2-phenylacetophenone, (b) depositing, on the inner wall of the column, the polymerizable anchoring composition prepared in step (a), and (c) polymerizing the polymerizable anchoring composition by irradiation with ultraviolet radiation; (ii) introducing, into the interior volume of the column, a polymerizable monolith synthesis composition comprising first and second particular (meth)acrylate monomers, one or more pore-forming agents and a free-radical polymerization initiator; and (iii) polymerizing the polymerizable monolith synthesis composition. The invention also relates to a method for producing a chromatography column comprising such a monolithic stationary phase and to a chromatographic separation method using such a column.
US11498050B2
A method of preparing a superabsorbent polymer, which enables the preparation of the superabsorbent polymer exhibiting an improved absorption rate while maintaining excellent absorption performances is provided. The method of preparing the superabsorbent polymer includes carrying out a crosslinking polymerization of a water-soluble ethylene-based unsaturated monomer having acidic groups which are at least partially neutralized, in the presence of an internal crosslinking agent having a predetermined chemical structure to form a water-containing gel polymer, gel-pulverizing the water-containing gel polymer, drying, pulverizing, and size-sorting the gel-pulverized water-containing gel polymer to form a base polymer powder, and carrying out a surface crosslinking of the base polymer powder by a heat treatment in the presence of a surface crosslinking agent, wherein the gel-pulverizing is carried out by extruding the water-containing gel polymer through a porous plate having a plurality of holes using a screw extruder mounted inside a cylindrical pulverizer under a condition that a chopping index is 28 (/s) or more.
US11498047B2
The invention relates to a device consisting of a reactor facility for the flow dynamics treatment of fluid or gaseous media or mixtures of the two. In the context of this invention, flow dynamics treatment means the energy-optimised production of at least one rotating fluid eddy together with an eversion of the at least one fluid eddy and the bursting open of organic constituents dissolved in the fluid medium with inner cell pressure (Turgor). The guided fluid eddy is treated, cleaned and disinfected in the reactor facility according to the invention. The invention further relates to a method for the flow dynamics treatment of fluid media in the reactor facility according to the invention.
US11498042B2
A new type of biomaterial that can be generated from pollen, methods for its production, the various uses thereof in, for example, biological, medicinal, cosmetic, nutritional and printing applications and the materials/devices that comprise this new material are provided. The biomaterial comprises microgels of sporoderm polymer complex microcapsules (SPC-MCs), produced by deproteinizing the pollen from eudicot plants, in particular of genus Baccharis, Helianthus or Camellia, by contacting it with an aqueous base solution at elevated temperatures for up to 10 hours to obtain porous SPC-MCs, and hydrolytically degrading the SPC-MCs by contacting it with an aqueous base solution for periods up to 60 days to obtain microgels of SPC-MCs.
US11498037B2
In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, systems and methods for efficiently handling dry additives to be mixed with bulk material in a blender are provided. The systems may include a support structure used to direct bulk material from one or more portable containers on the support structure to a first outlet location, and a combined metering/transferring system for directing dry additives from another portable container to a second outlet location. Specifically, the metering/transferring system may output a metered flow of dry additives to the blender mixer to be combined with bulk material that is released from the portable containers. The metering/transferring system may utilize a gravity feed outlet coupled to a metered screw or other conveying device to move the dry additive from the portable container to the second outlet location.
US11498032B2
A concentration apparatus that includes a liquid tank storing a liquid containing a filtration object, a tubular member having first and second end portions disposed in the liquid tank and forming a first circulation flow path therebetween, a circulation pump for supplying the liquid stored in the liquid tank to flow from the first end portion to the second end portion, a filtration filter disposed in a sidewall of the tubular member, a bypass pipe having first and second ends thereof connected to sidewalls of the tubular member so as to form a second circulation flow path between the first and second end portions of the tubular member, a switching valve constructed to cause the liquid to flow in one of the first or second circulation flow paths, and a control unit controlling driving of the circulation pump and a switching operation of the switching valve.
US11498023B2
Methods and systems for recovering retained filtered fluid are provided.
US11498018B2
Disclosed are effective methods for activating, washing, specifically extracting and purifying cannabinoids from Cannabis plant tissues using heat activation, washing impurities away with a polar solvent, optionally modified with an organic acid, base, surfactant or inorganic salt, extracting the activated non-polar cannabinoids with a potable selective solvent such as ethanol. The extracted active ingredients may be purified by chromatography and detected and quantified by mass spectrometry with external or isotopic or otherwise labelled standards.
US11498017B2
A refining system includes a Peltier heat exchanger, an evaporation tank, and a nozzle. The Peltier heat exchanger is configured to receive unrefined liquid and comprising a Peltier cell. The nozzle is positioned within the evaporation tank and configured to receive unrefined liquid from the Peltier heat exchanger and provide unrefined liquid into the evaporation tank such that vapor is formed. The Peltier heat exchanger is configured to receive vapor from the evaporation tank while simultaneously receiving unrefined liquid. The Peltier cell is configured to heat unrefined liquid within the Peltier heat exchanger and cool vapor within the Peltier heat exchanger simultaneously.
US11498008B2
A water ride includes ride vehicles and spectator areas for allowing interaction between ride vehicles and/or between a ride vehicle and spectators to the ride. The water ride may include engagement components (e.g., water guns) located on the ride vehicle and/or at spectator areas. Users of the engagement components may therefore interact with other users operating other engagement components. Activators and corresponding reactors may be triggered by users and/or automatically providing additional entertainment and interaction for the water ride. Various charging capabilities may be used for powering one or more components, activators, and/or reactors of the ride, ride vehicle, and/or spectator areas.
US11498005B1
Techniques for a texture modification feature are described herein. First data identifying a position and a distance of an actor in an environment from a view point is obtained. The actor may correspond to a mesh comprised of a plurality of triangles. Second data identifying a location, an angle, and size for each triangle of the plurality of triangles with respect to a spectrum of pre-defined viewpoints is obtained. A value for each triangle may be determined based on the first data and the second data. The value may represent a level of detail to optimize viewing of each triangle of the actor from a corresponding viewpoint of the spectrum of pre-defined viewpoints. One or more areas of a texture that corresponds to the mesh may be modified prior to applying the texture to the mesh based on the associated values for triangles of the mesh.
US11497980B2
An interactive exercise method includes streaming exercise content to an interactive video system for display via a mirror, the exercise content including a depiction of an instructor performing a repetitive movement. A video stream of a user performing the repetitive movement is received, via a camera of the interactive video system, and the user is detected in the video stream. The user or a body portion thereof is tracked in the video stream as the user performs the repetitive movement. The method also includes generating a measure of a difference between a form of the user performing the repetitive movement and a predetermined form for the repetitive movement. A corrective movement is displayed to the user, via the display and during the display of the instructor performing the repetitive movement, based on the measure, to conform the form of the user to the predetermined form for the repetitive movement.
US11497977B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an adjustable-incline climbing wall. The climbing wall includes one or more climbing panels supported by a frame and a system for adjusting the incline of the frame to provide a climbing wall of a desired incline. The incline of the climbing wall may be adjusted by activating an actuator, which extends the frame a distance from a support wall, tilting the climbing wall to a desired incline. Further, by providing a plurality of attachment points between the actuator and the frame (and/or between the actuator and a support), the adjustable-incline climbing wall may be provided with a wider range of incline angles, as well as increased control over those angles.
US11497960B2
A system and method are disclosed for modularly scheduling learning events in a modular learning system. Information about application services and microlearning events are stored in the modular learning system, with each microlearning event comprising a plurality of learning applications associated with the application services. The modular learning system receives a request from an organizing user to organize a microlearning event, and in response the modular learning system generates a set of services compatible with the event.
US11497959B1
A compression training system comprises an aperture tool, a tube, and a manometer. The tube comprises a first end opening and a second end opening. The aperture tool is releasably attached to the manometer via the tube. The aperture tool comprises a through aperture in communication with the first end opening of the tube. The aperture tool is shaped and sized to be placed between lips of a user. The manometer comprising a pressure inlet. The second end opening of the tube is hermetically attached around the pressure inlet such that the through aperture is in fluid communication with the manometer.
US11497947B2
An illustrated view of an exemplary rescue rig for rescue and recovery of a person, such as an oil field worker, soldier, etc., animal, supplies, etc. The rescue rig is useful for efficient and effective rescue when a man or person is down. The rescue rig is useful for quick, efficient and effective outfitting of a down person such that rescue can occur quickly thereby rescuers out of dangerous situations or terrains quickly. The rescue rig allows for a smaller rescuer to be able to rescue a bigger man down. The rescue rig is preferably made of a nylon material, however other materials are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, Kevlar®, Nomex®, Dyneema®, etc. The rescue rig has a main strap, torso portion, a head portion and a rescuer portion.
US11497946B2
A respiratory protection mask includes detachably connected main body and front cover. The main body includes a shielding member for shielding a wearer's mouth and nose, and has air outlet with air-outlet valve and air inlets with air-inlet valves. The mask is characterized in a guide structure and a limiting structure provided between the main body and the front cover. The guide structure includes corresponding slide rail and slide channel capable of guiding the front cover to move along a linear path parallel to a longitudinal section of the air outlet to assemble to the main body and cover the air-outlet valve. The limiting structure includes corresponding male and female fasteners that are detachably engaged with each other when the front cover is assembled to the main body, preventing the front cover from moving in an opposite direction on the linear path to separate from the main body.
US11497939B2
An improved x-ray cone-beam CT image reconstruction by end-to-end training of a multi-layered neural network is proposed, which employs cone-beam CT images of many patients as input training data, and precalculated scattering projection images of the same patients as output training data. After the training is completed, scattering projection images for a new patient are estimated by inputting a cone-beam CT image of the new patient into the trained multi-layered neural network. Subsequently, scatter-free projection images for the new patient are obtained by subtracting the estimated scattering projection images from measured projection images, beam angle by beam angle. A scatter-free cone-beam CT image is reconstructed from the scatter-free projection images.
US11497928B2
A computerized method for controlling the operation of a laser therapy device is disclosed. A laser therapy device comprising laser diodes has a microprocessor for storing and executing instructions pertaining to the operation of the laser diodes within certain parameters. The computerized method detects the movement of the laser therapy device and alters the output of the laser diodes when a movement signal exceeds predetermined threshold parameters. The computerized method detects difference in temperature in certain areas, and patterns in temperature differences, for assistance in diagnosing ailments. The computerized method also detects differences in skin color to determine treatment areas. The computerized method also measures the distance of the laser therapy device to a treatment area. The microprocessor executes instructions then which can alter the output of the laser diodes or generate an alarm signal based on measurements received.
US11497922B2
A header for an implantable medical device includes at least an antenna and a receptacle for receiving a signal transmission line. Either one or a combination of the antenna and the receptacle are encased in a dielectric material. The dielectric material can be one of or include one of a polymer, a ceramic material, polyoxymethylene, polysulfone, polybutylene terephthalate. A medical device and a method for assembling a medical device are also provided.
US11497919B2
This disclosure relates to a communication amplification device for an implantable capsule, in particular for an autonomous cardiac stimulation capsule. The amplification device comprises a first holding element and a second element configured to hold the implantable capsule. The first holding element is configured to receive the distal end of the capsule and the second holding element is configured to receive the proximal end of the capsule. The first holding element comprises a communication amplification antenna configured to couple to a distal electrode of the capsule.
US11497916B2
The present invention provides improved methods for positioning of an implantable lead in a patient with an integrated EMG and stimulation clinician programmer. The integrated clinician programmer is coupled to the implantable lead, wherein the implantable lead comprises at least four electrodes, and to at least one EMG sensing electrode minimally invasively positioned on a skin surface or within the patient. The method comprises delivering a test stimulation at a stimulation amplitude level from the integrated clinician programmer to a nerve tissue of the patient with a principal electrode of the implantable lead. Test stimulations are delivered at a same stimulation amplitude level for a same period of time sequentially to each of the four electrodes of the implantable lead. A stimulation-induced EMG motor response is recorded with the integrated clinician programmer for each test stimulation on each electrode of the implantable lead via the at least one pair of EMG sensing electrodes so as to facilitate initial positioning of the implantable lead at a target stimulation region.
US11497911B2
Apparatus for ophthalmic electrophysiological testing, the apparatus comprising: an EER stimulator for providing an electrical stimulus to an eye so as to evoke an electrophysiological response, wherein the EER stimulator comprises a power source; an amplifier for receiving the electrophysiological response and measuring that response, wherein the amplifier is integrated with the EER stimulator; and at least one switch disposed between the power source and the amplifier for isolating the power source from the amplifier when the electrical stimulus is delivered to the eye.
US11497907B2
Some embodiments include a dipolar antenna system to electrically power an implantable miniature device and/or to stimulate bioelectrically excitable tissue. Other related systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11497904B2
Antiseptic caps that can be used to disinfect and/or protect medical connectors are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the antiseptic cap can include a first chamber configured to be removably attached to the medical connector. Delivery systems for use with medical articles are also disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the delivery system comprises various dispensing systems for antiseptic caps and/or antiseptic cap holder assemblies. In some embodiments, the delivery system can be configured to permit the medical articles to be individually removable from the delivery system.
US11497903B2
A connection device includes a tube that is branched to two passages from a branch portion and includes a first and second branch tubes provided on one end side as a liquid-feeding destination, a first protruding plate that includes, on another end side, first another end edge provided in a direction orthogonal to an axis line of the first branch tube and that is provided so as to protrude from an outer circumference portion of the tube, and a second protruding plate that is provided so as to face the first protruding plate across the tube and protrude in a diameter direction of the tube and that includes, on the other end side, second another end edge provided so as to be orthogonal to an axis line of the second branch tube.
US11497897B2
A deep vein intravenous introducer has a wheel located toward the front end of the device that can be rotated by the index finger of the user. After placement of the needle in the lumen of the vessel, the user rotates the wheel, which turns a drive wheel. The drive wheel has an outer surface that advances the guide wire through the center of the needle and into the patient. Once the guide wire is advanced into the vessel lumen the catheter can be advanced over the guide wire with a hub or finger tab on the catheter close to the index finger. The operation can be performed by one hand without moving the hand from its initial position.
US11497895B2
Guidewires and methods of use of guidewires having improved atraumatic tips that can distribute force to lessen trauma as well as anchor the guidewire to facilitate improved catheter exchange.
US11497889B2
Intravascular catheters that include a handle assembly with first and second handle actuators, where the actuators are adapted to separately control inner and outer catheter shafts in at least one of axial displacement, deflection, or rotation. The catheters may also include a medical tool secured to the outer shaft.
US11497886B2
A urinary catheter assembly is provided. The catheter assembly has a first outer package (20), which contains a second inner package (1). The second inner package includes a hydrophilic coated, intermittent catheter 82) and liquid swelling medium. The first outer package is made of a first material with a WVTR value between 1 and 6 g/(m2·24 h) and the second inner package is made of a second material with a second WVTR value below 3 g/(m2·24 h). An intermediate cavity (25) is defined inside the first outer package, but outside the second inner package. The first and second WVTR-values are balanced in such a way that the relative humidity (RH) is below 90% in the intermediate cavity. This prevents condensation on the inner surface of the first outer package and on the outer surface of the second inner package.
US11497884B2
A smart power hub for a sleep aid device includes a data communication system for transmitting and receiving data between the sleep aid device and a user communication device and/or network. The data communication system may include a network module for providing wireless data communication access to the user communication device and/or network with respect to the sleep aid device. The smart power hub may be in data communication with the sleep aid device via a wired connection. The wired connection may include a cable having length greater than two meters. The smart power hub may also include a power system for transmitting power to the sleep aid device. The cable may also couple the power system to the sleep aid device for delivering a supply of power to the sleep aid device.
US11497879B2
A reservoir configured to retain a volume of liquid for use in an apparatus for humidifying a flow of pressurised air comprises a base portion and a lid portion. The reservoir may be configured to improve its level of thermal contact to the heater plate using the flow of pressurised air. The reservoir may be configured to improve thermal contact between the reservoir and the heater plate by pre-compression upon engagement of the reservoir with the humidifier. The reservoir may comprise a removable intermediate portion, which may include the inlet tube and/or the outlet tube, for improved access for cleaning. The reservoir may also be configured to prevent overfilling. Overfill prevention features in the reservoir may include defined flow egress paths and/or formation of air locks.
US11497873B2
An air delivery system for providing a supply of air from a source of air at positive pressure to an interfacing structure located at the entrance to the airways of a patient includes a manifold adapted to connect with the supply of positive air pressure and at least one tube connected to the manifold and adapted to deliver the supply of air to the interfacing structure. Each tube is structured to allow movement between an open phase in which the tube allows the passage of air and a collapsed phase in which the tube is collapsed. Each tube is structured such that weight of a typical patient's head against bedding apparel is sufficient to collapse the tube from the open phase to the collapsed phase.
US11497867B2
A nebulizer system capable of identifying when activation has occurred and aerosol is being produced. The nebulizer system monitors the inhalation and exhalation flow generated by the patient and communicates proper breathing technique for optimal drug delivery. The nebulizer system may monitor air supply to the nebulizer to ensure it is within the working range and is producing, or is capable of producing, acceptable particle size and drug output rate. When a patient, caregiver or other user deposits or inserts medication into the nebulizer, the nebulizer system is able to identify the medication and determine the appropriate delivery methods required to properly administer the medication as well as output this information into a treatment log to ensure the patient is taking the proper medications. The system is able to measure the concentration of the medication and volume of the medication placed within the medication receptacle, e.g., bowl.
US11497863B2
A nebulizer unit includes a housing, which includes an aerosol generator with a feed chamber disposed at one side, an ampoule receiver, an opening device with at least one opening, which is in communication with the feed chamber, and an ampoule with liquid, which comprises at least one opening, with which it can be inserted or used in the ampoule receiver, wherein the ampoule has a connection region, which interacts with a connector of the ampoule receptacle in order to hold the ampoule firmly in the ampoule receiver and to connect the openings and such that they are leak tight.
