US11841889B1
A user interface displays: a first column comprising non-editable input strings retrieved from a data field; a second column comprising editable output strings initialized from the data field; and an expression window displaying a transformation function ƒ. The computer iteratively processes user inputs, each user input i providing a sample row transformation to edit an ith output string ti. Some user inputs i designate a contiguous substring ssi of the corresponding input string si. The contiguous substring expresses a causal basis for transforming the input string si. into the output string ti. The computer updates the transformation function ƒ according to the provided sample row transformations so that: ƒ(s1)=t1, . . . , ƒ(si)=ti; the transformation function ƒ specifies text or string position of at least one contiguous substring; and ƒ has minimal branching among possible transformation functions that satisfy the samples. The computer displays the updated transformation function ƒ in the expression window.
US11841886B2
A quality management system (QMS) contains a collection of documents and content relating to interdependent policies, processes, and procedures required for planning, manufacturing, and marketing complex products. Change management refers to the way a company manages modifications to products and processes within their business and the potential impacts of those changes. A core part of change management is to understand what may be impacted by the change, why it impacted, and how to assess and or identify the risk of the change throughout the company and quality/regulatory processes. The impact assessment is a core part of the process to ensure one does not make changes that create a product and/or process failures as well as evaluating the regulatory impact of such changes. The disclosure pertains to a recommendation system for change management that maps the dependencies between the document contained in the QMS, allows the searching for related documents based on user-supplied criteria, and includes interactive visualization of inter-document dependencies.
US11841885B2
An audio file format of an audio portion of a natural language content is determined. Using a trained audio language identification model, a human language included in the audio portion is identified. Using a trained audio to text model trained on the human language, the audio portion is converted to a corresponding set of text data. The set of text data is indexed. Using the indexed set of text data responsive to a search query, a search result is generated, the search query specifying a search including a non-textual portion of the natural language content.
US11841882B2
Described herein is a system and method of processing data of a digital twins object model. Data associated with a node of the digital twins object model is parsed to identify metadata associated with the node. The data can comprise telemetry data received from an IoT device associated with the node. User-defined function(s) are determined that match the identified metadata. The data and metadata can be provided to the user-defined function(s). The determined user-defined function(s) are executed. Also described herein is a method of creating a user-defined function for processing data of a digital twins object model. Information regarding business logic is received from a user defining a user-defined function. Information regarding telemetry condition(s) to which the user-defined function applies is received defining a matcher. The user-defined function and matcher are stored as objects within a spatial intelligence graph associated with the digital twins object model.
US11841871B2
An approach to implement an extract, transform and load system, a queue is provided for holding units of data between extraction and transformation. When units of data suffer a rate limit error in the load phase, they are requeued so they can be resubmitted for transformation. The contents of the queue are monitored and, if too many requeued units of data are detected in the queue, then this is taken as an indicator of an unacceptable number of rate limit errors and active pacing management is triggered. A retry schedule is defined for the requeued units of data. Extraction is temporarily halted to allow the requeued units of data to be retransformed without more units of data queuing up. Then, after the suspension is lifted, a pacing delay is inserted between subsequent extract events to avoid the same load phase bottleneck recurring.
US11841862B2
A processing system of a node is operable to determine a query for execution and determine a set of segments that each include a corresponding set of rows required to execute the query. A first segment of the set of segments is determined to be processed as a virtual segment. A locally rebuilt set of rows corresponding to the first segment is generated by utilizing a recovery scheme based on determining the first segment is to be processed as a virtual segment. Execution of the query is facilitated by utilizing the locally rebuilt set of rows.
US11841849B2
In an embodiment, a database platform receives a query that is directed at least in part to external data in an external table stored on a data storage platform that is external to the database platform. The external table includes a plurality of partitions. The database platform identifies, from external-table metadata, a subset of the plurality of partitions of the external table as including data that potentially satisfies the query. The external-table metadata is stored by the database platform. The database platform identifies data that satisfies the query by scanning the identified subset of the partitions, and responds to the query at least in part with the identified data that satisfies the query.
US11841839B1
The present invention discloses a preprocessing and imputing method for structural data, comprising: step 1, querying the missing information of an original data, counting missing values, and obtaining a missing rate for the original data; step 2, based on the missing rate, performing listwise deletion on the original data, and then traversing the rows to generate corresponding dichotomous arrays, converting the arrays to the form of histogram, calculating the maximum rectangular area formed by the corresponding histogram, and then sorting all rectangular areas to obtain the maximum complete information matrix; step 3, using multiple imputation by chained equations, auto-encoders, or generative adversarial imputation networks to impute missing values on the original data. The present invention can carry out missing information statistics on the original data, automatically search the maximum complete information that meets the conditions, impute the structural data, greatly improve the quality of the original dataset and convenience for subsequent prediction tasks.
US11841835B2
A computer-implemented system and method for data revision control in a large-scale data analytic systems. In one embodiment, for example, a computer-implemented method comprises the operations of storing a first version of a dataset that is derived by executing a first version of driver program associated with the dataset; and storing a first build catalog entry comprising an identifier of the first version of the dataset and comprising an identifier of the first version of the driver program.
US11841826B2
Techniques for efficiently managing a file clone from a filesystem which supports efficient volume snapshots are provided. In some embodiments, a system may receive an instruction to remove the file clone from the filesystem. The file clone may be a point-in-time copy of metadata of an original file. The system may further—for a file map entry in a filesystem tree associated with the file clone, the file map entry indicating a data block—decrement a reference count in a reference count entry associated with the file map entry. The reference count entry may be stored in the filesystem tree according to a key and the key may comprise an identification of the original file. The system may further reclaim the data block in a storage system when the reference count is zero.
US11841809B1
Memory systems and methods of operating the memory systems are disclose. In one arrangement, a device includes a memory device configured to store first data, a first input/output (I/O) pin, and a serial communication device configured to receive the first data and output the first data. The serial communication device is connected to the first I/O pin via a first device. The device also includes a virtual communication logic configured to receive the first data and output the first data to a communication interface connected to a host device.
US11841803B2
A chiplet system includes a central processing unit (CPU) communicably coupled to a first GPU chiplet of a GPU chiplet array. The GPU chiplet array includes the first GPU chiplet communicably coupled to the CPU via a bus and a second GPU chiplet communicably coupled to the first GPU chiplet via a passive crosslink. The passive crosslink is a passive interposer die dedicated for inter-chiplet communications and partitions systems-on-a-chip (SoC) functionality into smaller functional chiplet groupings.
US11841799B2
This application describes a hardware accelerator, a computer system, and a method for accelerating Graph Neural Network (GNN) node attribute fetching. The hardware accelerator comprises a GNN attribute processor; and a first memory, wherein the GNN attribute processor is configured to: receive a graph node identifier; determine a target memory address within the first memory based on the graph node identifier; determine, based on the received graph node identifier, whether attribute data corresponding to the received graph node identifier is cached in the first memory at the target memory address; and in response to determining that the attribute data is not cached in the first memory: fetch the attribute data from a second memory, and write the fetched attribute data into the first memory at the target memory address.
US11841794B2
A system includes a memory device and a processing device communicatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to write data to a number of groups of memory cells of the memory device in a physically non-contiguous manner. The processing device is further to track a sequence in which the number of groups of memory cells were written with the data. In response to a trigger event, the processing device is further to identify at least a portion of the number of groups of memory cells having data received over a predefined period preceding the trigger event based at least in part on the tracked sequence.
US11841791B2
A method, system, and computer program product to aggregate code change requests for a continuous integration pipeline. The method may include receiving a plurality of code change requests (CCRs) for a software product that are to be processed by a continuous integration (CI) pipeline. The method may also include obtaining all functions of the software product tested by all testcases in a testcase set. The method may also include selecting a plurality of groups of testcases from the testcase set, each group of the plurality of groups of testcases corresponding to a CCR from the plurality of CCRs. The method may also include identifying at least two groups of testcases from the plurality of groups of testcases without overlapping code. The method may also include aggregating each CCR that corresponds to the at least two groups of testcases into a single CCR group.
US11841787B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for monitoring technology usage and performance. In some implementations, use of a technology item by one or more individuals assigned to use the technology item is monitored. Based on the monitoring, usage data that indicates usage of the technology item is generated. One or more criteria for evaluating the usage of the technology item by the one or more individuals is identified. It is determined whether usage data satisfies the one or more criteria. A system provides, for display on a user interface, output data indicating whether the usage data satisfies the one or more criteria.
US11841779B2
In the disaster recovery system exemplified by the information processing system, the cloud management node manages the importance information indicating the importance placed on the performance of each application to be executed by the primary site in correspondence with the virtual computer for executing the application, determines the DR method applied to the virtual computer and the application by selection from multiple types of DR methods based on the importance information of the corresponding application for each of the virtual computers, and determines a content of a predetermined set item applied to transfer of data to be used by the virtual computer.
US11841776B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that includes a chip having a first die including a first processing logic to execute a first application instance and generate a first output of the first application instance, and a second processing logic to execute a second application instance and generate a second output of the second application instance. The chip may also include a second die coupled to the first die, wherein the second die includes a safety monitor detect a condition associated with one or more of an error in the first output, an error in the second output, or a discrepancy between the first output and the second output. The safety monitor may also initiate a transition of the chip into a safe state in response to the condition.
US11841771B1
A data auto-backup system includes a main server and a terminal device. The main server includes a registered account, and the terminal device includes an application connected to the main server. When the application of the terminal device detects a registered portable storage device connected to the connection port, the application reads a local file stored in the registered portable storage device, and uploads the local file to the registered account in the main server as a cloud backup file. As a result, the terminal device automatically backs up the local file of the registered portable storage device to the main server whenever the registered portable storage device is connected, saving the user from manual backup steps, and preventing valuable data from missing. Furthermore, a software solution to encrypt data in the portable devices is employed without introducing any hardware to the existing portable devices.
US11841764B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving, via control lines of a parallel interface of a memory device, a first command and a first read command including one or more bits indicative of a first selection that causes a selector circuit to select data from a data memory portion of the memory device; providing, via data lines of the parallel interface, first data from the data memory portion using the selector circuit, where the provided first data is associated with the first read command; receiving, via the control lines, a second command and a second read command including one or more bits indicative of a second selection that causes the selector circuit to select data from an ECC memory portion; and providing, via the data lines, first ECC values from the ECC memory portion using the selector circuit, where the first ECC values are associated with the first data.
US11841762B2
Provided are a data processing method and an apparatus thereof. The method includes: when data writing is to be performed for a target Trunk Group (TKG), determining whether the target TKG is available (S100); when the target TKG is available, performing data writing for the target TKG (S110); and, when the target TKG is unavailable, repairing the target TKG, and performing data writing for the repaired target TKG (S120).
US11841759B2
The disclosure provides an approach for fault tolerance handling. Embodiments include determining, by a management component, that a host stores data relating to a service. Embodiments include receiving, by the management component, fault tolerance information from the service, the fault tolerance information comprising first information about host failures tolerated by the service and second information about existing host failures related to the service. Embodiments include determining, by the management component, based on the fault tolerance information from the service, whether the service will tolerate the host becoming unavailable. Embodiments include performing, by the management component, one or more actions based on the determining of whether the service will tolerate the host becoming unavailable.
US11841753B2
An operating temperature of a memory sub-system is identified. It is determined whether the operating temperature satisfies a first temperature condition associated with a threshold temperature. Upon determining that the operating temperature satisfies the first temperature condition, one or more operations are performed on at least one data block at a memory component of the memory sub-system until the operating temperature changes to satisfy a second temperature condition associated with the threshold temperature. The one or more operations are selected to be performed based on a difference between the operating temperature and the threshold temperature.
US11841746B2
A display device according to an embodiment comprises: an elastic member; and at least one panel from among a display panel and a touch panel which are arranged on the elastic member, wherein the elastic member includes one surface and the other surface opposite to the one surface, the elastic member includes a first area and a second area, the first area is defined as a folding area, the second area is defined as an unfolding area, the elastic member has a plurality of first grooves arranged on the one surface in the first area thereof, and the panel is arranged on the other surface of the elastic member via an adhesive layer.
US11841741B2
A wearable computing device, including a device body, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), and a processor. The processor may receive, from the IMU, a plurality of kinematic measurements collected within a time window. With one or more machine learning models, based at least in part on the kinematic measurements, the processor may compute a current velocity estimate for the wearable computing device at a current timestep and a prior velocity estimate for the wearable computing device at a prior timestep. The processor may compute a current pose estimate and a prior pose estimate based at least in part on the current velocity estimate and the prior velocity estimate, respectively. The processor may compute a composite pose estimate for the wearable computing device at the current timestep based on the current pose estimate and the prior pose estimate. The processor may output the composite pose estimate to a target program.
US11841740B2
The present invention provides a DP-out adapter including a decoder, a clock signal generating circuit, a DP signal generating circuit and a symbol counter value comparator. The decoder is configured to decode a USB signal to generate a plurality of packets. The clock signal generating circuit is configured to generate a clock signal. The DP signal generating circuit is configured to generate a DP signal according to the packets, and output the DP signal according to the clock signal. The symbol counter value comparator is configured to generate a first counter value according to a number of symbols corresponding to the plurality of packets, and use the clock signal to count to obtain a second counter value, and compare the first counter value and the second counter value to generate a control signal to the clock signal generating circuit to adjust a frequency of the clock signal.
US11841732B2
A predictive clock controller is provided for modifying the frequency of a clock signal provided to a processing unit based on knowledge of the power usage by the application running on the processing unit during different execution periods. The predictive clock controller counts barrier syncs for the application, so as to determine where the application is in its sync schedule. The predictive clock controller is able to determine from the number of counted syncs, when the application will transition from one execution period to another execution period with different power requirements, and to adjust the clock frequency accordingly.
US11841728B2
An integrated circuit, including: a first current source; a second current source provided in parallel to the first current source; a first resistor with one end coupled to an output of the first current source; a first bipolar transistor that is diode-connected and is coupled to the other end of the first resistor; a second bipolar transistor that is diode-connected and is coupled to an output of the second current source; a second resistor coupled to the second bipolar transistor; and an output circuit configured to output a voltage based on a first voltage outputted from the first current source and a second voltage outputted from the second current source.
US11841724B2
A module level power electronics (MLPE) photovoltaic system and a method for photovoltaic string control are provided. The method is applied to a control unit in the MLPE photovoltaic system. The control unit detects an output current of each photovoltaic string in the MLPE photovoltaic system, and then controls, for photovoltaic strings connected in parallel to a same inverter in the MLPE photovoltaic system, a voltage of a photovoltaic string with larger output current to be reduced, or controls a voltage of a photovoltaic string with smaller output current to be increased, so that backflow current can be reduced to preset range tolerable for MLPE device. The method is from a perspective of the MLPE photovoltaic system, the backflow current is limited by controlling voltage change of associated photovoltaic string without additional hardware cost, effectively protecting MLPE device in the MLPE photovoltaic system.
US11841723B2
The present application provides a distributed LDO regulator structure without an external capacitor. The structure includes one CORE module; and one or more POWER modules driven by one of the CORE modules. The CORE module comprises a mirror source voltage generating circuit and a built-in LDO regulator circuit. An output end of an operational amplifier and a gate of the sixth PMOS together serve as a control voltage end of the POWER module. A negative input end of the operational amplifier is connected to a drain of the fifth PMOS and a source of the sixth PMOS by means of a first resistor, wherein a connection end serves as an output end of the built-in LDO regulator circuit. POWER modules having the same output voltage are connected to each other in parallel.
US11841720B2
Provided is a flow rate controller. The flow rate controller calculates a resistor flow rate that is a flow rate of a fluid flowing through a fluid resistor, on the basis of a first measured pressure measured by a first pressure sensor and a second measured pressure measured by a second pressure sensor; controls a second valve on the basis of a deviation of the resistor flow rate from the set flow rate; outputs a first set pressure that is a target of a pressure upstream of the fluid resistor, on the basis of the set flow rate and a second set pressure which is a target of a pressure downstream of the fluid resistor and to which a constant value is set; and controls the first valve on the basis of a deviation of the first measured pressure from the first set pressure.
US11841713B2
Flight control systems, flight control laws, and aircraft are provided. An flight control system includes an input configured to receive a pitch rate command, a processor operative to receive the pitch angle command, to calculate a pitch angle saturation limit, to compare the sum of the pitch rate command, the scaled pitch rate, and the scaled pitch angle to the pitch angle saturation limit, to convert the pitch rate command system to the pitch angle command system in response to the sum exceeding the pitch angle saturation limit value to limit the pilot pitch-up pitch rate command, and to couple the pitch rate command to an aircraft control surface for the failure case of one of control surface, and the aircraft control surface configured to adjust an aircraft control surface setting in response to the pitch rate command and/or pitch angle command to protect an aircraft from being in stall condition.
US11841708B2
Techniques for compensating for errors in position of a vehicle are discussed herein. In some cases, a discrepancy may exist between a measured state of the vehicle and a desired state as determined by a system of the vehicle. Techniques and methods for a planning architecture of an autonomous vehicle that is able to provide maintain a smooth trajectory as the vehicle follows a planned path or route. In some cases, a planning architecture of the autonomous vehicle may compensate for differences between an estimated state and a planned path without the use of a separate system. In this example process, the planning architecture may include a mission planning system, a decision system, and a tracking system that together output a trajectory for a drive system.
US11841707B2
The present disclosure provides a driving assistance method and system for a mobile vehicle to avoid hazards in its environment. This system can detect hazards in a vehicle's surroundings and unobtrusively adjust its driving module's driving commands when necessary to avoid hazards. The system is configured to allow it to provide interference-free assistance to the operator of a human-operated vehicle or the motion controller of an autonomous vehicle to avoid hazards.
US11841705B2
Systems and methods for determining appropriate energy replenishment and controlling autonomous vehicles are provided. An example computer-implemented method can include obtaining one or more energy parameters associated with an autonomous vehicle. The method can include determining a refueling task for the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the energy parameters associated with the autonomous vehicle. The refueling task comprises a first refueling task that is interruptible by a vehicle service assignment or a second refueling task that is not interruptible by the vehicle service assignment. The method can include communicating data indicative of the refueling task to the autonomous vehicle or to a second computing system that manages the autonomous vehicle. The method can include determining whether the refueling task for the autonomous vehicle has been accepted or rejected.
US11841696B2
A tool selection unit has an analysis unit and a selection unit. The analysis unit determines a pick feed direction and the feed direction of a tool on the basis of information relating to the shape of a machining region including a double curved surface or a machining surface in the machining region, and creates parameter information in which at least a value relating to the smallest curvature radius in the machining surface and a value relating to the largest curvature radius in the pick feed direction are recorded. The selection unit selects a tool to use for machining the machining region on the basis of the parameter information, from among a plurality of tools having a bottom cutting edge and a side cutting edge formed in a curved-surface shape having a curvature radius different from a curvature radius of a curved surface of the bottom cutting edge.
US11841694B2
Systems and methods for predicting drilling tool failure based on an analysis of at least one of a plot of jerk and inverse jerk for the drilling tool and a plot of drilling tool failure pattern trends data.
US11841688B2
The display device is arranged in a timepiece which includes a counting wheel and a manual control mechanism which is arranged to permit cyclical starting, stopping and resetting of the counting wheel. The display device includes an indicating member, a unit for moving the indicating member into a first predefined position when the counting wheel is being reset, a unit for moving the indicating member into a second predefined position, different from the first predefined position, when the counting wheel is being started, and a unit for permitting the indicating member to be moved into a reading position following stopping of the counting wheel, the reading position being determined by the position of the counting wheel.
US11841687B2
An electromechanical watch including an electromechanical motor (4) mechanically coupled to an analogue display (AD) and formed by two coils (B1, B2) through which the magnetic circuit (10) of the stator passes. A first of the two coils is connected to a voltage detection circuit (CD1, CD2) arranged to be able to detect any voltage induced in this first coil during intervals of time occurring, in a stepping functioning mode of the motor, between drive pulses to detect whether an unwanted step is made by the rotor (18) during these intervals of time. The electromechanical watch includes at least one switch (T1, T2, T3) that is controlled by an electronic control circuit (CEC) to short-circuit the second coil during each of said intervals of time, in order to passively hold the rotor in the idle position in which it is situated momentarily between the drive pulses.
US11841685B2
A horological display mechanism (10) with elastic hand (1), including means for driving barrels (2; 4) coaxial at the ends of a flexible blade (3), including a differential mechanism with an input frame (180) including an input toothing (182), free to rotate and carrying an intermediate wheel (103) and a satellite (101) meshing with each other, this satellite (101) including an eccentric finger (1010) traveling the track (105) of a fixed cam (104), and returned against it by the elasticity of the elastic hand (1), the input frame (180) including a shaft (185) carrying, coaxially, a first cannon-pinion (1020) including the first barrel (2) and a second cannon-pinion (1040) including the second barrel (4), the toothing (1049) of one of which meshes with the toothing (1039) of the intermediate wheel (103), and the toothing (1029) of the other one of which meshes with the toothing (1019) of the satellite (101).
US11841684B2
A timepiece resilient hand with drive pipes at the ends thereof, including a display index which is at a variable distance from the pipes, and including flexible segments between each pipe and the index each with a web having a substantially constant section, at least one flexible segment thereof includes discontinuous elements projecting from the web thereof in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the pipes and defining, along this web, an alternation of sections, the stiffnesses thereof per unit of length are different from one another, and/or at least one web includes a succession of areas of opposite concavities, projecting on a plane perpendicular to the axis of the pipes.
US11841674B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a main contact, and a main guide, and a cartridge including a memory contact, a moving unit moving into and out of the apparatus body in a first direction and including a frame to which the cartridge is attached, first and second protrusions protruding in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction from the end surface of the frame, an intermediate contact being in electrical contact with the memory contact, an unit contact being in electrical contact with the main contact, and a line conductor, the first protrusion being supported by the main guide of the apparatus body, the second protrusion being located above the first protrusion. At least part of the line conductor connecting the intermediate contact and the unit contact is located in a recess formed by the first protrusion, the second protrusion, and the end surface.
US11841672B1
An image forming apparatus includes: a detachable body that is able to be attached to and detached from an image forming apparatus body in a depth direction and is movable from a first position to a second position; an operation unit that is operated in a direction approaching the image forming apparatus body to position the detachable body from the first position to the second position; and a pressing member that presses the detachable body toward the second position with a pressing surface in contact with the detachable body in a state in which an operation of the operation unit is completed and moves the detachable body from the first position to the second position with a slope surface forming an obtuse angle with respect to the pressing surface in contact with the detachable body in accordance with the operation of the operation unit.
US11841667B2
A coupling structure is provided in an imager forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material and configured to couple a first member and a second member. The second member includes a sheet metal having an insulative layer on a surface of a metal layer. A first conductive portion is formed in the first member. A second conductive portion includes a projection formed by press working in the second member. A coupling portion couples the first member and the second member in a state in which at least a part of the first conductive portion and at least a part of the second conductive portion are contacted with each other.
US11841661B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a discharge conveyance path configured to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming unit to outside, a reverse conveyance path configured to reverse a conveyance direction of the conveyed sheet and convey the sheet, a first conveyance path configured to guide the sheet conveyed from the image forming unit to the reverse conveyance path, a second conveyance path configured to guide the sheet reversed in the reverse conveyance path from the reverse conveyance path to the discharge conveyance path, and a reading unit configured to read the image of the sheet in the second conveyance path.
US11841660B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image processor configured to convert image data based on a first conversion condition; an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet based on the image data converted by the image processor, the image forming unit having an image bearing member on which the image is to be formed, a transfer unit configured to transfer the image from the image bearing member onto the sheet, and a fixing unit configured to fix the image to the sheet; a conveyance roller configured to convey the sheet having the image fixed thereto; a reading unit configured to read a pattern image on the sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller; and a detector configured to detect a pattern image on the image bearing member.
US11841655B2
A fixing device includes a heating rotating member having a conductive layer and an exposed portion in which the conductive layer is partially exposed, and a roller including a metal core and an elastic portion, the roller forming a nip portion with the heating rotating member, the elastic portion being elastically deformed in a region where the nip portion is formed, wherein an annular conductive member provided in a longitudinal end portion of the metal core is in contact with the exposed portion of the heating rotating member while elastically deformed, and wherein in a state where the roller is not mounted to the fixing device, an outer diameter of the conductive member is smaller than an outer diameter of the elastic portion.
US11841646B2
A developer storage device that stores developer includes a frame having an internal space and an inlet, a partition portion for partitioning the internal space into first and second chambers, the partition portion including a communication port through which the first and second chamber communicate, a conveyance portion arranged in the internal space and configured to convey the developer, and a detection unit detecting an amount of the developer stored in the first chamber. When the amount of the developer in the first chamber is less than a predetermined value, the developer is conveyed to a far side portion of the first chamber by the conveyance portion. When the detection unit detects that the amount of the developer in the first chamber reaches the predetermined value or more, the conveyance portion conveys the developer to the second chamber.
US11841642B2
A developer supply container 1 detachably mountable to a developer supplying apparatus 201 includes a developer accommodating portion 2 capable of accommodating a developer, a discharge opening 4a for discharging the developer accommodated in the developer accommodating portion 2 toward the developer supplying apparatus 201, a pump portion 3a for effecting a discharging operation through the discharge opening 4a, a communicating portion 4d provided at a position contacting the discharge opening 4a and capable of storing a constant amount of the developer, and a regulating portion 7 capable of taking a developer flow regulating state in which the flow of the developer into the communicating portion 4d and a developer flow non-regulating state in which the entering of the developer is not regulated, the regulating portion 7 taking the developer flow regulating state in a discharging operation of the pump portion 3a, wherein the regulating portion 7 is provided with an air flow path 7g for communicating between the communicating portion 4d and the pump portion 3a.
US11841641B2
Provided is a developer replenishing container including: a developer containing part capable of containing a developer; a discharge port through which the developer contained in the developer containing part is discharged; a conveyance part conveying the developer in the developer containing part by rotating; and a displacement part displaceable in conjunction with rotation of the conveyance part in the developer in a vicinity of the discharge port, and including a moving member capable of reciprocating in conjunction with the rotation of the conveyance part and a biasing member which biases the moving member and which is expandable according to movement of the moving member.
US11841636B2
A developing device includes a developing member to carry developer stored by a developing frame, and a regulating blade having a support plate fixed to the developing frame, a plate-like member, and a regulating member. One end portion of the plate-like member is opposed to the developing member, and the other end portion is welded to the support plate. The regulating member is fixed to a plate-like member surface, and contacts the developing member to regulate a developer thickness on a developing surface. The regulating member is provided with a recessed portion recessed at a regulating member end portion. The regulating member end portion is lower than a regulating member central portion. A plate-like member region welded to the support plate is located at the plate-like member other end portion and overlaps the regulating member central portion and the regulating member end portion at which the recessed portion is provided.
US11841633B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor; an image signal generating unit configured to generate an image signal based on input image data; a light emitting portion configured to emit light based on the image signal and expose the photoreceptor; a driving unit configured to drive the light emitting portion; a first substrate in which the driving unit is provided and a plurality of the light emitting portions is provided in a direction parallel to a rotational axis direction of the photoreceptor; an exposure head including the first substrate; a reference clock signal generating unit configured to generate a reference clock signal that is a clock signal of a constant frequency; a modulated clock signal generating unit configured to generate a modulated clock signal by performing spread spectrum on the reference clock signal, the modulated clock signal being a composite wave in which odd-order harmonics are combined with a fundamental wave when a triangular wave is subjected to Fourier series expansion; a transmission unit configured to superimpose the modulated clock signal on the image signal and transmit the superimposed signal to the first substrate; a second substrate on which the image signal generating unit, the modulated clock signal generating unit, and the transmission unit are provided; and an extraction circuit that is mounted on the first substrate and extracts the modulated clock signal from the superimposed signal transmitted from the transmission unit.
US11841632B2
A holding member includes a first side wall portion and a second side wall portion, and a part of a surface of a substrate on a side opposite from a mounting surface and a holding member are fixed to each other by an adhesive. In the first side wall portion, an inserting hole is disposed opposing a corner portion as of the substrate in a widthwise direction of the substrate and also, in the second side wall portion, another inserting hole is disposed opposing another corner portion of the substrate.
US11841623B2
An illumination apparatus configured to provide illumination while changing a spectrum of light from a light source includes a wavelength variable unit configured to change a spectrum of irradiating light, and an optical system configured to irradiate the wavelength variable unit with the light from the light source. The wavelength variable unit is disposed so that an incident surface of the wavelength variable unit on which the light emitted from the optical system is incident is tilted with respect to a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical system.
US11841622B2
A method of overlay error measurement includes disposing a reference pattern module over a substrate. The substrate includes first and second overlay measurement patterns in first and second locations. The reference pattern module includes first and second reference patterns. The method includes creating a first overlap of the first reference pattern with the first overlay measurement pattern and a second overlap of the second reference pattern with the second overlay measurement pattern. The method further includes determining a first overlay error between the first reference pattern of the reference pattern module and the first overlay measurement pattern of the substrate and determining a second overlay error between the second reference pattern and the second overlay measurement pattern. The method also includes determining a total overlay error between the first and second overlay measurement patterns of the substrate based on the first and second overlay errors.
US11841618B2
A photoresist apparatus and a method are provided. The photoresist apparatus includes a pre-baking apparatus. The pre-baking apparatus includes: a hot-plate, a first cover over the hot-plate, a second cover over the first cover, a first heating element extending along a topmost surface of the first cover, and a second heating element extending along a topmost surface of the second cover.
US11841610B2
Provided are a lens adjusting device and a projection apparatus. The device includes a first adjusting support including a lens support, a first guide post and a second guide post; and a second adjusting support including a moving support, a first limit slot, and a first boss. The first guide post is fixedly clamped in the first limit slot, the second guide post being connected to the first boss, and the lens support being supported by and slidably connected to the first guide post and second guide post, such that the lens support is slidable relative to the second adjusting support along the first direction. The lens support is configured to adjust a position of the second guide post relative to the first boss prior to the second guide post and the first boss being fastened to each other to parallel the second guide post and the first guide post.
US11841608B2
An electronic apparatus which prevents occurrence of a malfunction even when multiple accessories are attached to the electronic apparatus directly or via an accessory connector. The electronic apparatus includes an attachment part to which an accessory connector is attachable or to which multiple accessories are attachable. On the accessory connector, multiple accessories are attachable. When multiple accessories have been attached to the attachment part or on the accessory connector attached to the attachment part, accessory information is obtained via the attachment part from each of the attached accessories. In a case where overlapping accessories with overlapping functions are found based on the accessory information, the overlapping function of at least one of the overlapping accessories is restricted.
US11841604B2
A vehicular camera includes (i) a lens barrel accommodating a lens, (ii) a lens holder having a passageway and (iii) an imager printed circuit board attached to the lens holder with the imager facing the lens. The lens barrel at least partially passes through the passageway of the lens holder when attaching the lens barrel to the lens holder. The imager printed circuit board is attached to the lens holder with the imager facing the lens and optically aligned with the lens. A biasing element urges the lens barrel in a direction outward away from the imager printed circuit board. With the imager printed circuit board attached to the lens holder, the lens barrel is fine adjustable relative to the lens holder. A rear housing attached at the lens holder to encase the imager printed circuit board.
US11841596B2
An array substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The array substrate includes: a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scanning lines, a pixel array, first common electrode lines, and second common electrode lines; the HSD design is applied to the array substrate, and the array substrate is provided with first common electrode lines and second common electrode lines, and the second common electrode lines are provided on the data lines and connected to each other to form a meshed structure of the common electrodes, which ensures the stability of the voltage signals of the common electrodes and effectively improves the display effect of the display panel.
US11841593B2
The present disclosure provides a transparent display device including a first substrate and a second substrate, and the second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The light blocking element is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the light blocking element has a light transmitting opening. The light blocking element further has another light transmitting opening, and the another light transmitting opening and the light transmitting opening have different areas.
US11841571B2
A display apparatus includes: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged so as to face each other; a display region included in each of the first substrate and the second substrate; a transparent region formed inside the display region in a planar view; a frame region formed between the display region and the transparent region so as to surround the transparent region along an outer edge of the transparent region in a planar view; a polarizer formed in either the first substrate or the second substrate and having an opening overlapping the transparent region; a first transparent conductive film formed in a first conductive layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a second transparent conductive film formed in a second conductive layer between the first conductive layer and the second substrate. The second transparent conductive film is in the frame region in a planar view.
US11841567B2
A first organic insulating film is arranged on a first substrate in a circumference area outside an active area. A mounting portion is located in the circumference area for mounting a signal source. A second organic insulating film is formed on a second substrate in the circumference area so as to face the first substrate. The second substrate exposes the mounting portion. A seal material is arranged between the first organic insulating film and the second organic insulating film to attach the first substrate and the second substrate. A resin layer is arranged between the first organic insulating film and the second organic insulating film in the circumference area, and formed in a rectangular frame shape including four linear ends. An end along the mounting portion is formed broadly than other ends.
US11841566B2
A ubiquitously mountable image display system includes a shape-reconfigurable display screen component to which is attached a plurality of circuit modules each having at least one light source. The shape-reconfigurable display screen component is formed of a material that accommodates flexing of the display screen component without creating a perceivable aberration in separation distance between two or more picture elements of an image that is rendered upon a viewing plane of the display screen component when light from the plurality of light sources is directed towards the viewing plane.
US11841564B2
A display device includes a liquid crystal display including a first liquid crystal display panel that displays a character or an image; a decorative member; and a controller that controls the display of the liquid crystal display. The decorative member is disposed on a display surface side of the liquid crystal display, and includes a display region in which the display of the liquid crystal display is transparently displayed, and a non-display region adjacent to the display region. The controller controls a luminance through the decorative member of a black display of the liquid crystal display to a luminance invisible to a user, and controls the luminance through the decorative member of a low-gradation region, except for the black display, of the liquid crystal display to a luminance visible to the user.
US11841562B1
Electro-optic modulation of multiple phase modulator waveguides with a single electrode is made possible by determining places of equal electric field strength. Substrate extensions support edges of a wide hot electrode and ground electrodes equally spaced from the wide hot electrodes. Waveguides are positioned in the extensions separated from the electrodes by buffer layers. A wide microstrip hot electrode on a buffer layer, wider substrate and ground has multiple waveguides in the substrate below the buffer layer. A thinned substrate has a microstrip hot electrode and spaced coplanar grounds with multiple waveguides located on both sides. Decreasing substrate thickness flattens the electric field strength between the electrodes and allows multiple waveguides located between the central hot and outer ground electrodes. Adjacent waveguides with different asymmetric waveguide index portion staged along their length eliminate cross talk.
US11841554B2
An eyewear interface assembly for facilitating a hands-free interface with a personal electronic device includes a pair of eyeglasses that can be worn on a user for vision correction. The pair of eyeglasses includes a frame which comprises a pair of lens loops and a pair of arms each hingedly coupled to a respective lens loop. A pair of lenses is each positioned in a respective one of the lens loops and each of the lenses has a transparent display integrated therein to display indicia to the user. A transceiver is integrated into the pair of eyeglasses to receive an audio signal and a video signal from a personal electronic device. A pair of ear buds is each coupled to the pair of eyeglasses to be positioned in a respective one of the user's ears when the user wears the pair of eyeglasses.
US11841552B1
Eyewear includes at least one ferromagnetic member, region, surface or material for releasably mounting the eyewear to a target surface with a magnet. Kits and methods for mounting a pair of eyewear including at least one ferromagnetic member, region, surface or material with a magnet.
US11841550B2
An imaging optical lens assembly includes six lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface of the first lens element being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The image-side surface of the sixth lens element is aspheric and has at least one inflection point. At least one of the six lens elements is made of plastic material.
US11841549B2
The present disclosure provides a wide-angle lens, including a first lens group having a negative focal power, a second lens group having a positive focal power, and an aperture stop disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. The first lens group, from the object side to the imaging surface, sequentially includes a meniscus-shaped first lens having a negative focal power, a second lens having a negative focal power, and a third lens having a positive focal power. A concave surface of the first lens faces the imaging surface, and a concave surface of the second lens faces the imaging surface.
US11841548B2
Disclosed is a variable-zoom imaging apparatus that includes: i) imaging optics configured to form an image in an imaging area of an object positioned in an object area; ii) an adjustable aperture stop to adjustably set a numerical aperture NA for the image formed by the imaging optics; iii) an electronic detector comprising an array of detector elements positioned in the imaging area to detect the image; and iv) image processing circuitry coupled to the electronic detector to produce a digital representation of the image based on signals from at least some of the detector elements. The image processing circuitry produces the digital representation with a different magnification of the object m for each of a plurality of different numerical apertures for the image set by the adjustable aperture stop.
US11841547B2
An optical element drive mechanism is provided. The optical element drive mechanism includes an immovable part, a movable part, and a drive assembly. The movable part is movable relative to the immovable part. The movable part holds an optical element with an optical axis. The drive assembly drives the movable part to move relative to the immovable part. At least part of the drive assembly is disposed on the immovable part.
US11841546B2
A lens moving apparatus includes a base comprising a body and a post extending upward from an upper surface of the body; a bobbin disposed on the body; a magnet disposed on the bobbin; and a coil disposed to correspond to the magnet and configured to move the bobbin in a direction parallel to an optical axis by an interaction with the magnet; and a rolling member disposed between the bobbin and the post of the base. The post includes a groove having an opening spaced from opposite ends of the groove, and the rolling member is disposed in the groove of the post, and the opening is configured to expose a portion of the rolling member. The bobbin includes a support extending into the opening so as to be in contact with the rolling member.
US11841540B2
An optical apparatus (10) for routing an optical signal (12) comprises a body (14) comprising a material. A waveguide (16) is formed in the body (14) by laser modification of the material. The optical apparatus (10) further comprises a region (18) comprising a lower refractive index than the material of the body (14) and defines an interface (24) between the region (18) and the waveguide (16). The waveguide (16) and the interface (24) are aligned relative to each other for routing the optical signal (12) therebetween and reflecting the optical signal (12) at the interface (24).
US11841536B1
A bi-directional optical communication device comprising a reduced number of components for speedier and less costly manufacture includes a plate and a wavelength-division multiplexer disposed on the plate. An optical-signal transmitter disposed on the board emits first beam to the wavelength-division multiplexer and an optical-signal receiver disposed on the board detects the second beam emitted by the wavelength-division multiplexer. An optical receptacle is disposed on the plate for actual connection to an optical fiber. The optical fiber emits the second beam to the wavelength-division multiplexer, and the multiplexer emits the first beam to the optical fiber.
US11841534B1
Structures including a waveguide core and methods of fabricating a structure including a waveguide core. The structure comprises a substrate, a waveguide core, and a grating disposed in a vertical direction between the waveguide core and the substrate. The grating includes a first plurality of layers and a second plurality of layers that alternate in the vertical direction with the first plurality of layers. The first plurality of layers comprise a first material having a first refractive index, and the second plurality of layers comprise a second material having a second refractive index that is greater than the first refractive index.
US11841533B2
Disclosed is a structure including a first waveguide core with a first end portion and a second waveguide core with a second end portion, which overlays and is physically separated from the first end portion. The structure includes a coupler configured for interlayer waveguide coupling. Specifically, the coupler includes an additional waveguide core stacked vertically between and physically separated from the first end portion and the second end portion. Optionally, the coupler includes multiple additional waveguide cores. The shapes of the various waveguide cores are configured in order to achieve mode matching so that optical signals pass between the first end portion of the first waveguide core and the second end portion of the second waveguide core through each additional waveguide core in sequence. Also disclosed is a structure including a crossing array implemented using couplers.
US11841528B2
A linear light-emitting device including a substrate extending while being curved in a predetermined direction, a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged on the substrate in a predetermined direction, and a seal for sealing the plurality of light-emitting elements, wherein a luminance of a specific part of the substrate is higher than that of the other parts of the substrate.
US11841526B2
A method for generating an image in a near-eye display may include operating a light source to emit the image as incident light. The light source may be configured such that incident light as received by the light reflecting elements compensates for the chromatic reflectance of the light reflecting elements. The method may include coupling the incident light into a light-transmitting substrate, thereby trapping the light between first and second major surfaces of the light-transmitting substrate by total internal reflection and coupling the light out of the substrate by the light reflecting elements having chromatic reflectance.
US11841525B2
A lighting device disclosed in an embodiment of the invention includes a substrate; a plurality of light emitting devices on the substrate; a first reflective layer on the substrate; a resin layer on the first reflective layer and including a first surface from which light emitted from the light emitting device is extracted; a second reflective layer on the resin layer; and a light extraction layer on the first surface of the resin layer, wherein the first surface of the resin layer has a convex portion having a convex exit surface facing to each of the light emitting devices, and concave portions between the convex portions, and the light extraction layer may include a first extraction portion having protrusions on each exit surface, and second extraction portions concave between the plurality of protrusions.
US11841524B2
A backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a backlight light board assembly, a reflective layer, and a light-transmitting layer. The backlight light board assembly includes at least two backlight light boards spliced to each other, a splicing gap is defined between two backlight light boards spliced to each other, the reflective layer covers the splicing gap, and the light-transmitting layer is disposed on one side of the reflective layer away from the splicing gap. By disposing the reflective layer and the light-transmitting layer, light can be reflected to the light-transmitting layer by the reflective layer, thereby improving a light extraction effect at the splicing gap.
US11841522B2
On-chip simultaneous full stokes polarization (linear + circular) and (multi/hyper) spectral imaging
An image sensor includes polarizing filters and spectral filters that provide on-chip simultaneous full Stokes polarization parameters (both linear and circular polarization) and multi/hyper spectral imaging. A polarizing filter polarizes incident light into a predetermined linear direction. The light-polarizing filter includes a wire grid and an array of phase-modulating nanostructures. The wire grid includes at least one wire that includes a series of metal-insulator-metal wire structures. The array of phase-modulating nanostructures is formed on the wire grid and changes a phase of the incident light a predetermined amount. A phase-modulating nanostructure is a high-dielectric-index nanostructure that changes of incident light based on a first width and a second width of the phase-modulating nanostructure in which the first width is perpendicular to the second width.
US11841521B2
Provided is an optical film that has a thin thickness, is suitable in terms of continuous productivity, and exhibits suppressed tinting of black color in a front direction and an oblique direction in a case of being used as a circularly polarizing plate in an organic EL display device; a circularly polarizing plate; and an organic EL display device. The optical film includes an elongated support and a first, a second, and a third optically anisotropic layer in this order, in which a thickness of the elongated support is 10 to 45 μm, the first optically anisotropic layer is formed of a rod-like liquid crystal compound, the second optically anisotropic layer is formed by fixing a twist-aligned liquid crystal compound having a helical axis in a thickness direction, the third optically anisotropic layer is formed of a liquid crystal compound, and each optically anisotropic layer exhibits predetermined optical characteristics.
US11841520B2
A multilayer optical element comprises a plurality of layers arranged along an optical axis, each layer having a plurality of nanostructures, wherein a size of—, and a spacing between—, the nanostructures is selected to provide a resonant response to an optical field at different wavelengths for different layers.
US11841519B2
A window unit is designed to prevent or reduce bird collisions therewith. The window unit may include first and second substrates (e.g., glass substrates) spaced apart from one another, wherein at least one of the substrates supports an ultraviolet (UV) reflecting coating for reflecting UV radiation so that birds are capable of more easily seeing the window. The UV reflecting coating is preferably patterned so that it is not provided across the entirety of the window unit. By making the window more visible to birds, bird collisions and bird deaths can be reduced. The UV reflecting coating is designed to have high UV reflectance across a large range of viewing angles.
US11841507B2
An optical system is provided. The optical system includes a gaze tracker operative to track a gaze of a user and output data representative of the gaze and a correction portion including multiple spatially varying polarizers. A first polarizer of the spatially varying polarizers has a first control input configured to receive a first control signal indicating whether the first polarizer is to be active or inactive. The first polarizer, when active, provides a first optical correction on light passing through at a location corresponding to a first region of a virtual image. The optical system includes a controller configured to receive the data representative of the gaze, determine, based on the gaze, whether to implement the first optical correction on the light and in response to determining to implement the first optical correction on the light, output the first control signal indicating the first polarizer is to be active.
US11841501B2
An arithmetic apparatus according to the present embodiment sets setting values with respect to two among a light guide distance of a light guide body, an input light amount to a light incident surface and an output light amount on a light-emitting surface, and calculates remaining one value among the light guide distance, the input light amount and the output light amount by applying the set setting values to a calculation equation indicative of a balance of a light amount of light that is guided by a unit distance in the light guide body.
US11841497B2
Disclosed herein is a control system for a projection system, including a first subtractor receiving an input drive signal and a feedback signal and generating a first difference signal therefrom, the feedback signal being indicative of position of a quasi static micromirror of the projection system. A type-2 compensator receives the first difference signal and generates therefrom a first output signal. A derivative based controller receives the feedback signal and generates therefrom a second output signal. A second subtractor receives the first and second output signals and generates a second difference signal therefrom. The second difference signal serves to control a mirror driver of the projection system. A higher order resonance equalization circuit receives a pre-output signal from an analog front end of the projection system that is indicative of position of the quasi static micromirror, and generates the feedback signal therefrom.
US11841495B2
A particle detection method detects presence and location of particles on a target using measured signals from a plurality of structured illumination patterns. The particle detection method uses measured signals obtained by illuminating the target with structured illumination patterns to detect particles. Specifically, the degree of variation in these measured signals in raw images is calculated to determine whether a particle is present on the target at a particular area of interest.
US11841487B2
The imaging lens includes, in order from a position closest to an object side to an image side: a front lens group that has a positive refractive power and is immovable during focusing; a stop that is disposed subsequent to the front lens group; a first focus lens group that has a positive refractive power; a second focus lens group that has a negative refractive power; and a final lens group that has a positive refractive power, is disposed closest to the image side, and is immovable during focusing. During focusing from an infinite distance object to a short range object, the first focus lens group and the second focus lens group move to increase a mutual distance therebetween.
US11841486B2
An imaging lens includes a positive first lens group and a second lens group, which are continuous in order from the position closest to the object side, as lens groups. During focusing, the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group changes. A stop is disposed closer to the image side than a lens which is second from the object side. A combined refractive power of all lenses closer to the object side than the stop is positive. The imaging lens includes an LA positive lens and an LB positive lens that satisfy a predetermined conditional expression at a position closer to the object side than the stop. An Abbe number of the LB positive lens is the maximum among Abbe numbers of all positive lenses closer to the object side than the stop.
US11841477B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to pairing a receiver with an emitter based on a presence of an amplitude of a spectral profile at at least one predetermined frequency. In an illustrative example, a receiver may receive, from the emitter, an emitted optical signal modulated by the at least one predetermined frequency. A receiver may, for example, generate a digital signal corresponding to the optical signal received. A controller may, for example, generate the spectral profile from the digital signal. The controller may, for example, apply a predetermined threshold to the spectral profile. The controller may, for example, generate an output signal based on the presence of the amplitude of the spectral profile above the first predetermined threshold at the at least one predetermined frequency. Various embodiments may advantageously discriminate a corresponding emitter to establish an optical source-to-detector-link, for example, in the presence of other emitters and/or optically noisy environments.
US11841470B2
Provided area device for detecting sub-atomic particles and method of fabrication thereof. The device includes a plurality of scintillators, a detector provided on a first end of the plurality of scintillators and a prismatoid provided on a second end of the plurality of scintillators. The prismatoid redirects light between adjacent scintillators of the plurality of scintillators.
US11841449B2
A mobile device and base station are enabled to support improved positioning accuracy in the presence of phase noise in high frequency radio network, such as in 5G New Radio network operating in mmWave. Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS) may be transmitted with Positioning Reference Signals (PRS) and used for positioning and/or used to correct the phase offset between symbols in the PRS. A request may be made to transmit PTRS alone or with the PRS, or that the PRS is transmitted with a specific PRS frame structure, e.g., with a specific comb value, that minimizes the impact of phase noise. The PTRS or a phase ramp of the staggered symbols in the PRS may be used to estimate and correct the phase offset. Less than all of the symbols transmitted in the PRS may be used to generate positioning measurements to minimize the impact of phase noise.
US11841437B2
In one embodiment, a set of LIDAR images are received representing the LIDAR point cloud data captured by a LIDAR device of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) at different point in times. Each of the LIDAR imagers is transformed or translated from a local coordinate system (e.g., LIDAR coordinate space) to a global coordinate system (e.g., GPS coordinate space) using a coordinate converter configured with a set of parameters. A first LIDAR reflection map is generated based on the transformed LIDAR images, for example, by merging the transformed LIDAR images together. The coordinate converter is optimized by adjusting one or more parameters of the coordinate converter based on the difference between the first LIDAR reflection map and a second LIDAR reflection map that serves as a reference LIDAR reflection map. The optimized coordinate converter can then be utilized to process LIDAR data for autonomous driving at real-time.
US11841428B2
A system and method for storing sensed values in an optical receiver corresponding to time-of-flight windows for receiving optical signals elicited by emitted optical pulses includes at least one photodetector, a storage array, and a control circuit. The at least one photodetector is configured to generate output signals indicative of received optical signals. The storage array includes a plurality of storage elements and is connected to receive and store the output signals from the at least one photodetector corresponding to at least a portion of a time-of-flight receive window. The control circuit is configured to control storage of output signal values by the storage array, and is configured to: write and overwrite the output signal values to a first subset of the plurality of storage elements, detect an event based on the written output values, and retain data on respective analog storage elements that comprise at least the first subset of the plurality of storage elements in response to detection of the event.
US11841426B2
A three-dimensional (3D) terrain reconstruction method for a scoured area around bridge pier foundation based on a mechanical scanned imaging sonar includes scanning an overall terrain of a scoured area around bridge pier foundation with a sonar from different azimuths to acquire n sonar images of a foundation scouring terrain; intercepting multiple analysis sections from each of acquired sonar images at a same distance; extracting key parameters of upper and lower edges on a terrain imaging strip in each of the analysis sections in the image, and transforming extracted parameters to a 3D space, a fan-shaped beam surface of the sonar being represented with a fan-shaped arc; recognizing a scour terrain profile in the analysis section; recognizing terrain profiles one by one, and respectively extracting spatially scattered 3D coordinate data; and performing interpolation and fitting on the spatially scattered data, thus implementing 3D reconstruction for the foundation scouring terrain.
US11841422B2
The signal processing device includes an interference processing unit which generates an interferogram from a plurality of SAR images, a coherence calculation unit which calculates coherence of the SAR images, a singular point processing unit which performs an operation for resolving singular points in the interferogram, a phase unwrapping unit which executes a phase unwrapping process using operation result of the singular point processing unit, and an SBAS analysis unit which performs displacement analysis by SBAS, using processing result of the phase unwrapping unit.
US11841421B2
A synthetic aperture radar image analysis system 20 includes: a phase correlation determination means 21 which determines a strength of the phase correlation between a plurality of pixels in an image selected from among a plurality of images on the basis of the plurality of images that have been photographed by a synthetic aperture radar and show the same point; a shape determination means 22 which determines a degree of similarity between the shape of the distribution of the plurality of pixels and an object shape indicated by geospatial information; and an association means 23 which associates the plurality of pixels with the object on the basis of the determined strength of the phase correlation and the determined degree of similarity.
US11841419B2
A moving object recognition apparatus includes an object detection section, a position detection section, a road direction estimation section, and a moving direction estimation section. The object detection section detects a moving object that moves on a road around an own vehicle and a roadside object by the road, from objects present around the own vehicle. The position detection section detects positions of the moving object and the roadside object detected by the object detection section. The road direction estimation section estimates a road direction of the road on which the moving object is moving, based on the position of the roadside object detected by the position detection section. The moving direction estimation section estimates a moving direction of the moving object based on the road direction estimated by the road direction estimation section.
US11841415B2
Provided are an apparatus, a method, and a system for determining speeding of a vessel. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method may include: receiving, by sound signal receiving apparatuses installed at at least two points, a sound signal of a first vessel operating at a preset section; extracting operation vibration information of the first vessel from each sound signal received by the sound signal receiving apparatuses installed at the at least two points; measuring an operation speed of the first vessel from each of the received sound signals; and constructing a database including operation speed range information matching the operation vibration information of the first vessel.
US11841412B2
The invention provides for a medical imaging system (100, 300). The execution of the machine executable instructions (110) causes a processor (102) to: receive (200) multiple diffusion weighted images (112) of a subject (318), wherein the multiple diffusion weighted images each have an assigned b-value, wherein the multiple diffusion weighted images each have an assigned diffusion weighting direction, wherein for a region of interest (309) there is at least one corresponding voxel (506) in each of the multiple diffusion weighted images; construct (202) a set of equations (114) for each of the at least one corresponding voxel, wherein the set of equations is constructed from an apparent diffusion equation for the assigned diffusion weighting direction of each of the multiple diffusion weighted images; solve (204) the set of equations for each voxel for the b0 value as an optimization; and construct (206) a b0 image using the b0 value for each voxel.
US11841408B2
According to some aspects, a portable magnetic resonance imaging system is provided, comprising a B0 magnet configured to produce a B0 magnetic field for an imaging region of the magnetic resonance imaging system, a noise reduction system configured to detect and suppress at least some electromagnetic noise in an operating environment of the portable magnetic resonance imaging system, and electromagnetic shielding provided to attenuate at least some of the electromagnetic noise in the operating environment of the portable magnetic resonance imaging system, the electromagnetic shielding arranged to shield a fraction of the imaging region of the portable magnetic resonance imaging system. According to some aspects, the electromagnetic shield comprises at least one electromagnetic shield structure adjustably coupled to the housing to provide electromagnetic shielding for the imaging region in an amount that can be varied. According to some aspects, substantially no shielding of the imaging region of the portable magnetic resonance imaging system is provided.
US11841406B2
A magnetic resonance tomograph and a method for operating a magnetic resonance tomograph. In a transmitting state of the magnetic resonance tomograph nuclear spins are excited in an object under examination with an excitation pulse by a high-frequency unit of the magnetic resonance tomograph via a transmitting antenna. The magnetic resonance tomograph is switched over from the transmitting state to a receiving state in a period of less than 40 microseconds. In a further step, in the receiving state, a magnetic resonance signal is received with a receiving antenna.
US11841404B1
An atomic magnetometer, and a method for using same is disclosed. The method for measuring an ambient magnetic field uses an atomic magnetometer that has a probe light beam with a probe axis that probes a polarization vector of an atomic population confined within a vapor cell. The method employs one or more measurement cycles. In each measurement cycle, the polarization vector is prepared in an initial state via an optical pumping pulse. The vapor cell is then subjected to the ambient magnetic field, which results in rotation of the polarization vector by Larmor precession. Within the measurement cycle, at a point in time after the polarization vector has been prepared in the initial state, the ambient magnetic field rotates the direction of the polarization vector, and at least one measurement is made of a projection of the Larmor-rotated polarization vector onto the probe axis during or after application of a magnetic waveform.
US11841402B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a battery state estimation device capable of accurately estimating a deterioration state of an entire battery system in consideration of an SOH distribution of battery cells. The battery state estimation device according to the present invention estimates an SOH of a battery cell by using a correspondence between a time derivative of an output voltage during a pause period of the battery cell and a battery temperature, and estimates a deterioration state of an entire battery system by using the SOHs of a plurality of battery cells (see FIG. 1).
US11841401B2
A diagnostic device (100) includes: an acquisition unit (101) that acquires first charging information including a first detected value detected by an external charger (200) during charging of a battery mounted in a vehicle (10) and second charging information including a second detected value detected by the vehicle; and a deterioration estimation unit (105) that estimates a deterioration degree that indicates a degree of deterioration of the battery on the basis of the first charging information and the second charging information.
US11841396B1
A storage device controller includes drive controller circuitry configured to control writing and fetching of data from a storage medium, read data channel circuitry for interfacing between the drive controller circuitry and the storage medium, test controller circuitry configured to test the read data channel circuitry by issuing test commands simulating the writing and fetching of data from the storage medium, and selector circuitry configured to switchably couple the read data channel circuitry to the drive controller circuitry in an operating mode and to the test controller circuitry in a testing mode. The storage device controller may include a pattern generator configured to output the test commands. Processor circuitry may be configured to store test results in memory, to compute performance metrics from the stored test results, and communicate the performance metrics to a host device.
US11841391B1
A test apparatus and a method for operating a data processing system to generate a test signal for testing a DUT are disclosed. The apparatus includes a signal generator, artificial neural network, and controller. The signal generator generates a test signal determined by a plurality of signal generator input parameters, X, that are coupled thereto. The test signal is characterized by a plurality of calculated parameters, Y. The artificial neural network has the calculated parameters as inputs and a plurality of outputs connected to the plurality of signal generator inputs. The controller receives desired values for the calculated parameters and couples those desired values to the neural network inputs, thereby causing the test signal generator to generate a test signal having the desired values for the calculated parameters.
US11841387B2
A system for load identification in collaboration with a cloud end includes: a smart Internet of Things electricity meter module, used for matching extracted feature quantity data with a first load feature library of the smart Internet of Things electricity meter module, and determining load feature data corresponding to unmatched feature quantity data in the feature quantity data as target load feature data; a use information front-end/acquisition module, used for calling the target load feature data and transmitting the target load feature data to a main station load identification module; and a main station load identification module, used for receiving the target load feature data, performing data direction processing on the target load feature data, determining an optimal matching strategy matching the feature data to be identified, and identifying an optimal matching solution corresponding to the feature quantity data to be identified in a second load feature library.
US11841367B2
This disclosure relates generally to the field of immunological-based diagnostic assays including an assay to measure cell-mediated immunoresponsiveness. The present disclosure teaches determination of the state, progression and/or severity of disease conditions based on a subject's cell-mediated immunoresponsiveness. The assay contemplated herein is capable of integration into standard pathology architecture to provide a diagnostic reporting system and to facilitate point of care clinical management.
US11841356B2
One aspect of the present invention relates to a lawn monitoring system, and more specifically, to a lawn monitoring system installed at various locations where lawn is created, such as a golf course, a soccer field, a baseball field, etc., to receive lawn status information, thereby enabling a lawn manager to manage the lawn based on the information received from the system. The lawn monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention has effects of accurately and efficiently transmitting the status information of the lawn in places where the lawn is created, such as a golf course, a soccer field, a baseball field, to a lawn manager.
US11841348B2
A system and a method evaluate the effect of proactive utilization of a spatial stress field in laboratory. The system includes a rock sample placement device for placing a rock sample, a confining pressure control device for applying a set confining pressure to the rock sample, a fracture imaging device, a fracturing fluid injection device for injecting fracturing fluid into the perforation in the wellbore of the rock sample to form fractures within the rock sample, a stress measurement device, and a processing device for calculating a stress field proactive utilization coefficient of the rock sample.
US11841340B2
Electronic devices and methods for reading an output signal and controlling a three-electrode electro-chemical amperometric sensor include an operational amplifier having a non-inverting input adapted to receive a biasing electric potential and an inverting input connectable to a reference electrode of the sensor. The devices further include one or more MOS transistors connected to the operational amplifier, with a first MOS transistor connectable to the collector electrode of the sensor to receive or supply a MOS transistor channel current representative of the cell current generated in the sensor, and a second MOS transistor connectable to a reference voltage by a conductor or a resistor. The resistance is lower than the cell impedance such that the current in the second MOS transistor channel depends on the current in the first MOS transistor channel through a nonlinear gain dependent on the resistor.
US11841338B2
Optical and electronic detection of chemicals, and particularly strong electron-donors, by 2H to 1T phase-based transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) films, detection apparatus incorporating the TMD films, methods for forming the detection apparatus, and detection systems and methods based on the TMD films are provided. The detection apparatus includes a 2H phase TMD film that transitions to the 1T phase under exposure to strong electron donors. After exposure, the phase state can be determined to assess whether all or a portion of the TMD has undergone a transition from the 2H phase to the 1T phase. Following detection, TMD films in the 1T phase can be converted back to the 2H phase, resulting in a reusable chemical sensor that is selective for strong electron donors.
US11841324B2
A method for estimating a stimulated emission depletion microscopy (STED) resolution includes generating a first frame representing a reference image from a field-of-view, the reference image having a predetermined reference resolution, and generating at least one second frame representing a STED image from the same field-of-view, the STED image having the STED resolution to be estimated. The at least one second frame is blurred by applying a convolution kernel with at least one fit parameter to the second frame. An optimal value of the at least one fit parameter of the convolution kernel is determined for which a difference between the first frame and the blurred at least one second frame is minimized. The STED resolution is estimated based on the optimal value of the at least one fit parameter and the predetermined reference resolution.
US11841316B2
The present disclosure discloses a mechanism for aligning and orienting a probe in an optical system. The mechanism includes a sensor head, which are defined with one or more provisions. Further, the mechanism includes at least one block member, which is movably disposed within the one or more provisions in the sensor head. The at least one block member is defined with a cavity to accommodate a probe. During contact of the probe with a surface of the subject, a torque is generated, which facilitates in aligning the probe on the surface of the subject. The block member is configured to tilt corresponding to movement of the probe, for aligning the probe at an angle on the surface of the subject.
US11841308B2
A system can include a filter assembly with a filter and a substance in the filter assembly, and at least one optical computing device having an integrated computational element which receives electromagnetic radiation from the substance. A method can include receiving electromagnetic radiation from a substance in a filter assembly, the electromagnetic radiation from the substance being received by at least one optical computing device having an integrated computational element, and the receiving being performed while a filter is positioned in the filter assembly. A detector may receive electromagnetic radiation from the integrated computational element and produce an output correlated to a characteristic of the substance. A mitigation technique may be selected, based on the detector output.
US11841295B2
Various embodiments described herein relate to an anomaly detection framework adaptable to different asset types. In this regard, a data stream associated with a first asset is received. The data stream is then processed to generate output data by encoding the data stream based on historical data associated with the first asset, the historical data comprising clustered data representative of fault states and one or more non-fault states. Furthermore, in accordance with a determination that the generated output data is indicative of a potential fault of the first asset, fault data indicative of the potential fault is generated and caused to be transmitted to an administrative device for display.
US11841285B2
Multiple calibration results for calibrating a barometric pressure sensor based on data received from a device containing the sensor are determined and stored in a table. The table is updated based on rules regarding a relationship between each calibration result and a current calibration value. The calibration results are weighted and combined to determine a combined calibration result. The calibration value for calibrating the sensor is selected from the calibration results, the combined calibration results, or the current calibration value based on a selection criteria.
US11841280B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to mapping a plurality of temperatures across an area. One example provides a temperature sensing device including a flexible support and a temperature sensing structure having a plurality of individually readable temperature sensing junctions. The temperature sensing structure includes a line of a first conductive material extending across an area of the support, and a plurality of lines of a second conductive material each intersecting the line of the first junction material at a corresponding sensing junction.
US11841269B2
A spectroscopic camera includes: a variable-wavelength interference filter; an image pickup element receiving light outputted from the variable-wavelength interference filter; a first circuit board where the variable-wavelength interference filter is provided; a second circuit board where the image pickup element is provided; a casing accommodating the first circuit board and the second circuit board; a first connector mounted at the first circuit board and provided with a first FG terminal electrically coupled to an external device; and a second connector mounted at the second circuit board and provided with a second FG terminal electrically coupled to the external device. The casing is electrically coupled to the first FG terminal of the first connector and the second FG terminal of the second connector without going through the first circuit board and the second circuit board, respectively.
US11841264B2
A method at a sensor apparatus affixed to a transportation asset, the method including detecting a trigger at the sensor apparatus; taking a threshold number of samples of a displacement-related value of the transportation asset over time; determining that a variance of the threshold number of samples exceeds a threshold; analyzing a frequency property based on the threshold number of samples; and based on the frequency property, determining whether the transportation asset is loaded or unloaded.
US11841257B2
An apparatus and method for measuring wet gas using a Coriolis flow meter is provided. An apparatus embodiment includes a Coriolis meter, a DP meter, and a processing unit. The processing unit is in communication with the Coriolis and DP meters, and a memory storing instructions. The executed instructions cause the processing unit to: a) measure a density of the fluid flow using the Coriolis meter; b) determine a measure of gas wetness of the fluid flow using the measured density, an expected gas density value, and an equation of state model; c) determine a differential pressure measurement across the Coriolis meter; d) determine an over-reading of the differential pressure measurement; e) determine a mass flow rate of gas using the determined over-reading; and f) determine a mass flow rate of liquid.
US11841251B2
A tube device is disclosed comprising a tube having at least one deformable component and one or more sensor elements. At least one of the one or more sensor elements is pattered or attached on the at least one deformable component of the tube and being configured to measure at least one property or condition of a substance contained or streamed inside the tube. The at least one deformable component can be at least one integral part of a wall section of the tube, or at least one deformable element attached to the tube, or at least one deformable element attached to respective at least one support element attached to the tube.
US11841246B2
The disclosure provides a device holding member and a device holding member set. The device holding member is engaged with a bottom member formed with a hole or a frame supporting the bottom member and holds a device arranged on the bottom member. The device holding member includes a belt and a locking member. The belt includes an end part provided with an engaging member engageable with an edge part of the bottom member or the frame and holds the device. The locking member is provided between the engaging member and the device and locks a part of the belt to the hole.
US11841244B2
A method for calibrating at least one position sensor in a vehicle, comprising: saving a map in the vehicle with at least one item of virtual location information from the environment of a predefined calibration route, moving the vehicle on the predefined calibration route, detecting at least one item of actual location information via the at least one position sensor while the vehicle moves on the predefined calibration route, carrying out a comparison between the at least one item of virtual location information and the at least one item of actual location information, calculating a map-based movement of the vehicle within the saved map based on the comparison, calculating an odometry-based movement of the vehicle, and calibrating the at least one position sensor based on a comparison between the map-based movement and the odometry-based movement.
US11841234B1
A user analytics computing device for processing vehicle-based telematics data and generating user offerings responsive to the vehicle-based telematics data includes at least one processor in communication with a memory device. The processor is programmed to: (i) receive, from a vehicle computing device, telematics data associated with a plurality of trips taken by a first driver using a first vehicle, (ii) generate a driver profile of the first driver based at least in part upon the telematics data, (iii) access, from the memory device, contextual data associated with an environment in which the first vehicle travelled during the plurality of trips, (iv) synthesize the driver profile and the contextual data to generate a contextualized driver profile, (v) based upon the contextualized driver profile, generate a user offering to influence the driver profile, and (vi) transmit the user offering to a user computing device associated with the first driver.
US11841232B2
The invention relates to a system and method for navigating an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) that utilizes ADV an-onboard computer and/or one or more ADV control system nodes in an ADV network platform. The on-board computer receives sensor data concerning one or more occupants occupying an ADV and/or the ADV itself and, upon a detection of an event, automatically initiates a dynamic routing algorithm that utilizes artificial intelligence to re-route the ADV to another destination, for example a healthcare facility. One or more embodiment of the system and method include an ADV on-board computer and/or one or more ADV network platform nodes that utilize in-memory processing to aid in the generation of routing, health and navigational information to advantageously navigate an ADV.
US11841227B2
A system including a polarized radio frequency (RF) scanning reference source and one or more cavity sensor receivers. The system uses a sensor processor to apply Fourier integration to extract a fundamental frequency and, at least, a fundamental frequency and two predetermined harmonics from the received output of the one or more cavity sensor receivers in determining a reference time of the reference clock.
US11841222B1
A system and method for aligning multiple pieces of rotary machinery equipment by coupling rotating shafts extending from at least one of the multiple pieces of rotary machine equipment. The system includes mounting a first piece of rotary machine equipment to a device comprising three U-shaped plates that are interlocked with each other. The alignment method includes a process for adjusting the first piece of rotary equipment with respect to a first U-shaped plate to correct for both a horizontal offset and a vertical offset.
US11841219B2
A control unit of a tire side device has a feature amount extraction part, a feature amount storage part, a change determination part, a vehicle speed estimation part, and an algorithm switching part. The change determination part determines whether or not there is a change in the road surface condition based on a present feature amount and a previous feature amount stored in the feature amount storage part, and transmits a road surface data including the present feature amount when there is a change in the road surface condition. The algorithm switching part switches based on the vehicle speed estimation by the vehicle speed estimation part whether to transmit the road surface data from the transmission unit when the road surface condition is changed, or to transmit the road surface data without determining whether or not the road surface condition is changed by the change determination part.
US11841202B1
A firearm stabilizing system includes a first mating member attached to a bottom surface of the firearm. A second mating member is mounted on an upper edge of a wall. The first and second mating members are magnetically attached to each other to stabilize the firearm when the firearm is being discharged.
US11841186B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet defining a storage space, a door configured to open and close the storage space, a gap adjusting member configured to be provided between the door and the cabinet and to adjust a gap between the door and the cabinet, and a seating part configured to protrude from the door and to support the gap adjusting member. The gap adjusting member includes a contact part exposed to the rear of the door and being in contact with the cabinet in a state where the door is closed, and a plurality of adjusting parts protruding from the contact part toward the seating part at different heights from each other. The gap between the door and the cabinet is adjusted by selecting a height of the adjusting part which is in contact with the seating part by rotating the gap adjusting member.
US11841183B2
A cooling unit includes a cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, a tank defining a tank chamber that stores a refrigerant, the tank including an outer tank surface and an inner tank surface, and a pump defining a pump chamber, the pump including an outer pump surface and an inner pump surface. The pump chamber is spaced away from and outside of the tank chamber. A portion of the outer tank surface and a portion of the outer pump surface are directly adjacent to one another in the horizontal direction. The pump chamber accommodates a rotating body that transfers the refrigerant. An upper end of the tank chamber in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction is positioned higher than an upper end of the pump chamber in the first direction.
US11841176B2
An air conditioner unit includes a refrigeration loop comprising an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a compressor for circulating refrigerant, and an electronic expansion valve. A controller performs a first operating cycle of the air conditioner unit with the compressor at a first compressor speed and the electronic expansion valve in a first valve position, receives a command to perform a second operating cycle at a target compressor speed, determines that the target compressor speed of the second operating cycle corresponds to the first compressor speed, and initiates the second operating cycle with the electronic expansion valve positioned at the first valve position. The controller is further configured to determine that the first valve position is below a predetermined position threshold at an end of the first operating cycle and open the electronic expansion valve to the predetermined position threshold after the first operating cycle.
US11841173B2
A centrifugal compressor includes a first stage and a second stage. At least one of the first stage and the second stage includes an impeller and a shroud spaced from the impeller and configured to guide a fluid flow through the impeller. The shroud is selectively moveable between an engaged position and a disengaged position.
US11841170B2
An A-frame shaped truss foundation system for a single-axis tracker with moderately sloped legs that translate lateral loads into tension and compression without substantially increasing the magnitude of the lateral load force while optimizing material usage. Several such truss foundation systems are installed in a row to support a torque tube of a single-axis solar tracker. An adapter joins ends of adjacent upper legs and separates the truss legs by an angle more than 35-degrees up to 70-degrees. In some cases, the adapter may have an integrated bearing.
US11841169B2
A truss foundation for supporting single-axis solar tracker drive motors and center structures. An adapter joins a pair of adjacent truss legs and provides a mounting platform to support a drive motor and/or center structure of a solar tracker. The adapter has a pair of connecting portions that are received in the legs of the truss foundation. The adapter may be a unitary structure or consist of a pair of slidably connected members that are joined with fasteners to accommodate truss legs spaced apart at different distances.
US11841160B1
An access device configured to be installed in an air conditioning (AC) system or network. The access device includes a main body and a lid configured to threadedly engage the main body. A hollow cylindrical extension extends between a proximal end and a distal end, thereby establishing a passage through the main body. The access device can be secured to a wall in an AC system with the cylindrical extension passing through a hole in the wall. The access device further includes a flange extending outwardly in a lateral direction relative to the central longitudinal axis. Some embodiments include a plurality of anti-rotation teeth attached to the flange. Some embodiments include an insulation support extending inwardly from the cylindrical extension to temporarily support insulation within the cylindrical extension between the lid and the insulation support.
US11841157B2
A control method and an apparatus for a controller, and a storage medium and a controller. The control method comprises: determining the current state of the controller, the current state comprising a current top surface, and/or an action method based on the current top surface; determining, according to the preconfigured correspondences between set states and set control modes, a set control mode corresponding to a set state that is the same as the current state in the correspondences as a current control mode; and sending a control command of the current control mode to a target control device. The problem of a cumbersome operation in controlling the temperature and the humidity of an air conditioner by means of a remote-control unit can be solved, and the effect of improving the convenience in operation is achieved.
US11841155B2
A method of configuring an HVAC system uses a Specifier Library that includes specifier options for a plurality of HVAC components. An engineering tool accepts a user selection of an HVAC component that will be part of the HVAC system and displays one or more options for the selected HVAC component. The engineering tool accepts selections of one or more options by the user and creates one or more points for the selected HVAC component based on the user selections, each of the one or more points having one or more point parameter values. The engineering tool creates a configuration package to configure a controller based at least in part on the user selections and the one or more points and downloads the configuration package to at least partially configure the controller. At least part of the HVAC system is controlled using the controller.
US11841151B2
An air conditioner unit includes a refrigeration loop including a condenser and an evaporator, a compressor for circulating refrigerant, and an electronic expansion valve. A controller monitors an operating superheat of the refrigerant across the evaporator, identifies a superheat fault condition based on at least one of the operating superheat, a target valve position of the electronic expansion valve, or a compressor speed, stops the compressor in response to identifying the superheat fault condition, and initiates a calibration process of the electronic expansion valve.
US11841149B1
Tools, strategies, and techniques are provided for enhancing the control and operation of air curtain devices. The air curtain device can be provided with a computer system programmed to receive input data from various sensors and to communicate the sensor data to a wireless mesh computer architecture. An algorithm module can be programmed to determine adjusted settings or parameters for the air curtain device in response to the sensor data and/or other data sources such as external data sources. Data may be obtained from multiple air curtain devices configured for cooperative performance, and operating parameters or settings may be adjusted in connection with one or more of the multiple air curtain devices. A control device of the air curtain may be provided with a unitary structure suitable for efficient installation of multiple control harness connectors thereon to supply power and/or to establish data connectivity with multiple components of the control device.
US11841146B2
The present disclosure relates to a multifunctional appliance for cooking comprising: a cover; a first pot on which the cover is fitted, the first pot being provided with one or more first girds at a predetermined position thereof; a second pot detachably fixed inside the first pot, the second pot being provided with one or more second grids at a predetermined position thereof, the position of the one or more second grids corresponding with the position of the one or more first grids; a first heating member fixed on a sidewall of the first pot, facing right toward the one or more first girds; and a convection member fixed on the sidewall of the first pot, facing right toward the first heating member, such that the airflow generated by the convection member flows into the second pot through the first girds and second grids after being heated.
US11841145B2
A system for controlling an appliance having a plurality of burners operated by a plurality of digital gas valves includes a plurality of control selectors that are configurably assigned to a specified burner or burners.
US11841138B2
Systems and methods for remotely monitoring the amount of fuel in one or more fuel tanks are disclosed. A fuel monitoring device includes a sensor configured to monitor the operation of a valve coupled to an output of a fuel tank and a network and communication system configured to receive data from the sensor related to the operation of the valve and establish communication with one or more remote systems via a communications network. The fuel monitoring device communicates the data related to the operation of the sensor to a remote server system via the communications network. Based on the data received from the fuel monitoring device and one or more remote systems, the remote server system can determine the amount of fuel remaining in the tank, and can predict when the tank will require additional fuel.
US11841133B2
An antifouling system for reducing and/or preventing fouling of an object exposed to fouling conditions when in use, comprising a plurality of antifouling devices (26) for providing an antifouling radiation to at least part of the object and/or at least part of the antifouling system; wherein the antifouling system further comprises: —a power transmission system comprising: —an inductive power emitter (10) comprising at least one inductive emitter element (12); and —a plurality of inductive power receivers (24) each one comprising at least one inductive receiver element; wherein the inductive power emitter and the plurality of inductive power receivers are for mounting on the object in a fixed configuration with respect to each other thereby to provide an inductive coupling between each one of the at least one inductive receiver elements and the at least one inductive emitter element such that power may be inductively transmitted when the power transmission system is in use; and wherein the plurality of antifouling devices (26) are configured to be driven using transmitted power from at least one of the plurality of inductive power receivers when the system is in use.
US11841132B1
An LED assembly includes electrical connectors mounted to an LED board each having a connector housing having contact channels holding plug contacts and receptacle contacts arranged in the connector housing to form a hermaphroditic mating interface. The plug contacts have male mating ends configured to be plugged into female mating ends of receptacle contacts of a mating LED assembly. The receptacle contacts have female mating ends configured to receive male mating ends of plug contacts of the mating LED assembly.
US11841125B2
The present invention relates to an optical device that enables a light beam from a light source to be redirected in a specific direction and without having to adjust the tilt angle of the light source with respect to a horizontal working plane, distributing the light homogeneously in said horizontal working plane, wherein the invention furthermore relates to a desk lamp comprising said optical device which avoids the problem of blinding generated by the direct line of sight of the light source, since the light source is arranged below the viewing plane of a user who uses said desk lamp, in addition to the fact that said desk lamp does not invade the user's work area.
US11841109B2
A method using a specially configured computer display support structure reduces occurrences of medical errors by facilitating real-time, synchronous review of medical data by rounding professionals during patient rounds. The support structure includes an upright column assembly that has a column assembly base and six sides. Mounting brackets fixed to non-contiguous sides of the column assembly receive back plates of a system device mounting assembly, each of which includes a pivot arm that receives a system device arm. The system device arm is pivotable at opposing ends and terminates in a coupling member at its distal end. The coupling member is connected to a video display that has an angularly positionable display screen. In some embodiments, a keyboard tray, on which a keyboard and computer mouse rest, is connected to the coupling member.
US11841108B2
A multi-legged equipment support, components thereof, and associated methods. The equipment support comprises a stand and an equipment holder. The stand includes a hub and multiple legs pivotable with respect to the hub. The legs are pivotable outward from stowed positions to preset operational pivoted positions. The user can select a preset operational pivoted position in which outward pivoting of a leg will stop based on moving an actuator between preset locations.
US11841107B1
A monitor mounting system which includes a crossbar having at least one monitor mounting bracket positioned thereon. A support arm is configured to adjust the vertical height of the crossbar and a pivot assembly is positioned between the support arm and the crossbar, with the pivot assembly configured to allow limited pivot adjustment of the crossbar in order to level the crossbar to the horizontal position.
US11841096B2
Methods, devices, and systems for a universal pipe sleeve junction for an aspirated smoke detection system are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a sleeve body having an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface defining an opening through the sleeve body, wherein the sleeve body further includes a first end surface and a second end surface opposite the first end surface, and a nozzle having an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface of the nozzle defining an opening through the nozzle and extending through to the inner surface of the sleeve body, where the nozzle opening is configured to couple with a pipe sleeve attachment mechanism.
US11841093B2
A fluidic connector to connect two ducts of a system such as an air conditioning system. The connector includes at least one elastic material, and includes a duct surrounded by an adjustable clamping collar which, when tightened, serves to deform it to reduce the internal space of the duct. The clamping of the collar makes it possible to easily and quickly regulate the rate of flow in the ducts.
US11841091B2
A directional control valve includes: a housing having a cylindrical spool hole communicating with an inlet port letting a fluid from an external supply source at a predetermined pressure and an outlet port flowing the fluid to a working cylinder; a spool movable in the spool hole axially and changing an amount of flow of the fluid; a first solenoid driving section having a first needle coupled to or integral with a first end portion of the spool and driving the spool; and a second solenoid driving section having a second needle coupled to or integral with a second end portion of the spool and driving the spool, the directional control valve including a pressure equalization circuit equally applying a pressure to the end portions.
US11841081B2
A park lock for an output drive gear includes a pawl, a rotational cam, and a rotational spring. The pawl has an engagement protrusion that extends outward from a body disposed on a pawl rotational shaft, such that rotation moves the engagement protrusion toward the output drive gear. The rotational cam rotates such that a circumferential side engages with a portion of the pawl opposite the engagement protrusion, causing rotation of the pawl about the rotational pawl shaft to move the engagement protrusion towards the output drive gear. The rotational spring maintains tension on the pawl and cam such that the engagement protrusion maintains an engagement with the output drive gear based on rotation of the cam and a speed of the output drive gear.
US11841080B2
Methods and systems for a hydromechanical transmission. In one example, a vehicle system includes a hydromechanical transmission with a power-take off (PTO) that is designed to rotationally couple to an implement. The vehicle system further includes an engine coupled to the hydromechanical transmission and a power-management control unit configured to, during a drive or coast condition, cause the power-management control unit to: determine a net available power for the hydromechanical transmission and manage a power flow between the hydromechanical transmission, a drive axle, and the implement based on the net available power.
US11841079B2
A method for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle includes: sensing a speed of the vehicle; sensing an acceleration of the vehicle along three spatial axes; determining that the vehicle is in a jump state associated with the vehicle being off a ground surface, the jump state being defined at least in part by the acceleration of the vehicle along the three spatial axes and the speed of the vehicle; and controlling the transmission according to a jump strategy in response to determining that the vehicle is in the jump state. Other methods for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle are also contemplated.
US11841078B2
A transmission hydraulic control system includes a manual valve, a default valve, and a clutch prime valve. The manual valve allows fluid flow from a pressurized line to a drive line when the manual valve is open (when a transmission is in drive or reverse). The manual valve prevents fluid flow from the pressurized line to the drive line when the manual valve is closed (when the transmission is in neutral or park). The clutch prime valve allows fluid to flow from the pressurized line to the drive line, and thereby bypass the manual valve, when the manual valve is closed and the clutch prime valve is open. The default valve allows fluid bypassing the manual valve to flow to prime a clutch of the transmission when the default valve is open. The clutch prime valve prevents fluid from bypassing the manual valve when the clutch prime valve is closed.
US11841060B1
An isolation system and method are disclosed. The isolation system includes a beam that includes a first end and a second end. The isolation system may include at least one clamping block comprising first elastomeric material, and the first end may be coupled with the first elastomeric material by the at least one clamping block. An end condition of the buckling beam may be varied based on compression stiffening of the first elastomeric material.
US11841059B2
A powertrain component mount includes a housing, a main rubber element, a hydraulic body, a membrane and a valve. The main rubber element has an outer armature, an inner armature and an isolating element coupled to the armatures, the isolating element being formed of a material that is more flexible than the outer armature and the inner armature, wherein the main rubber element defines at least part of a fluid flow path. The hydraulic body supports the outer armature of the main rubber element, defines part of the fluid flow path, a fluid chamber, and part of a control chamber communicated with the fluid flow path. The hydraulic body has a port open to the control chamber. The membrane defines part of the control chamber and the valve has a valve head movable between a first position closing the port and a second position spaced from the port.
US11841057B2
An electro-mechanical brake and a vehicle including the same are provided. As an electro-mechanical brake according to an aspect of the present invention, an electro-mechanical brake including a pair of brake pads disposed on both sides of a disc, may include a motor that provides a rotational driving force; a rotating screw that rotates about a second rotating shaft parallel to a first rotating shaft of the motor; a power transmission unit that transmits the rotational driving force of the motor to the rotating screw; and a piston that is coupled to the rotating screw to be able to move forward and backward to press the disc with the brake pads.
US11841055B2
A hydraulic cylinder is provided which has a body forming a hydraulic chamber, in which a tubular piston made of thermoplastic material slides. An insert is locked in an internal cavity of the piston and has a spherical seat configured to receive and retain a spherical head of a rod connectable to a control pedal. The insert is made of thermoplastic material and forms a plurality of flexible fins adjacent to the spherical seat. The flexible fins have retaining elements protruding in a radially internal direction to hold the spherical head of the rod. A tensile force exerted by the rod away from the insert is transferred to a body of the piston by a stop ring.
US11841047B2
A joint assembly including a housing including an inner diameter portion having a tapered surface; and at least one shaft having an outer diameter portion having a tapered surface that is complementary in shape to the inner diameter portion of the housing, where the shaft is adapted to rotate relative to the housing, and where the frictional fit is adjustable by modifying the axial position of the shaft relative to the housing.
US11841039B2
A method and system of affixing a plaque to a solid surface is provided. The method includes the steps of providing at least one opening in a face of the solid surface and inserting a plaque support into the at least one opening. The plaque support includes a body defining a passageway therethrough and having a first end and a second end. The first end has a flange portion. Further, at least one outer tab member extends radially outward toward the first end and at least one inner tab member extends radially inward toward the second end. The outer tab member engages the solid surface upon insertion of the plaque support into the at least one opening. The method and system further include providing the plaque with at least one installation fastener. The at least one installation fastener is inserted into the passageway of the plaque support, such that the at least one inner tab member engages the at least one installation fastener.
US11841030B2
A centrifugal fan includes an impeller with a base expanded radially, vanes arranged circumferentially, extending from a radially inner side to a radially outer side, and ends thereof at one axial side being connected to the base, and a ring portion connecting ends of the vanes at the other axial side. The vanes include first vanes and second vanes, when viewed axially, the lengths of the second vanes are larger than the lengths of the first vanes, the first vanes and the second vanes are circumferentially arranged alternatingly. Gaps are provided between radially outer ends of the first vanes and the second vanes that are circumferentially adjacent to each other, and sizes of circumferentially adjacent ones of the gaps are different from each other.
US11841026B2
An interstage throttle for a centrifugal compressor includes a flow guide plate, a throttle ring, a drive ring, and linkage assemblies. The flow guide plate includes guide vanes that form channels that direct working fluid in between stages of the compressor. The linkage assemblies connect the drive ring to the throttle ring such that rotation of the drive ring moves the throttle ring in an axial direction. Teeth of the throttle ring partially block the channels when the throttle ring is in an extended position. A method of operating a centrifugal compressor includes directing the working fluid discharged from the first stage to a second stage via channels in a interstage throttle. A centrifugal compressor includes a first stage with a first impeller, a second stage with a second impeller, and an interstage throttle fluidly connecting the first stage to the second stage.
US11841018B2
An all-metal conical combined screw pump suitable for petroleum field includes: a stator, a rotor, a sleeve and a sucker rod, wherein the internal threaded curved surface and the external threaded curved surface are both tapered The spiral structure and the taper are the same; the all-metal conical combined screw pump further comprises a movable part, a fixed part and a elastic part, the movable part is fixedly connected to the rotor, the fixed part is fixedly connected to the sucker rod, one end of the elastic member abuts against the movable part or the rotor, and the other end abuts against the fixed part or the sucker rod, the elastic member can Elastic contraction or elastic expansion along the sliding direction of the movable part.
US11841014B1
A scroll compressor is provided. In the scroll compressor, a valve accommodating groove that accommodates a discharge port and bypass holes is recessed by a predetermined depth into a rear surface of a non-orbiting scroll, and a valve guide is disposed between the rear surface of the non-orbiting scroll and a rear surface of the back pressure chamber assembly facing the rear surface of the non-orbiting scroll. Bypass valve guide holes into which bypass valves that open and close the bypass holes are slidably inserted are formed in the valve guide. Accordingly, the bypass valves that suppress or prevent overcompression in compression chambers are not fastened to a non-orbiting end plate, which may allow the non-orbiting end plate to be reduced in thickness. As the non-orbiting end plate is reduced in thickness, lengths of the bypass holes may be reduced, thereby decreasing dead volumes in the bypass holes.
US11841005B2
Embodiments herein describe in-plane vibration damping techniques for MR turbines. The MR turbines can include arms that extend from a common tower and support multiple rotors. Because the rotors are disposed laterally away from the tower, side-to-side motion of the tower causes the rotors to have an angled trajectory that includes both lateral and vertical displacement. In addition, a rotor disposed on one side of the tower in MR turbine can have a very different trajectory than a rotor disposed on the opposite side of the tower. To account for the vertical displacement and the different trajectories, in one embodiment, a controller can use different phase offsets for each rotor when calculating pitch offsets for performing in-plane vibration damping. In another embodiment, the controller can use both the lateral and vertical accelerations of the rotors to identify the pitch offsets for the rotors to perform in-plane vibration damping.
US11841002B2
Method and apparatus for monitoring a wind turbine having an electrical component. An exterior temperature and power loss associated with the electrical component is obtained, and a thermal model describing the electrical component is executed, based on the exterior temperature and power loss, to determine an internal temperature of the electrical component. A further thermal model describing the electrical component is executed, based on the internal temperature and an exterior component temperature, to predict a future thermal condition of the electrical component in order to monitor operation of the wind turbine.
US11841001B2
A method for directly determining a theoretical damage of at least one component of a device includes providing load-specific reference data in an evaluation unit, sensing actual load-specific data by a load sensing system, and transmitting the actual, load-specific data to the evaluation unit. The actual load-specific data includes classified load collectives comprising a dwell time of occurring damage variables at defined load levels, a number of load changes of occurring damage variables, and an event count of occurring damage variables. The method further includes scaling the load-specific reference data to the actual load-specific data for calculating the theoretical damage of the at least one component and determining a remaining service life.
US11841000B2
A method and a device for dampening movement in a multiple rotor (MR) wind turbine located at sea and comprising a tower (2) extending in an upwards direction, a load carrying structure (3, 4) forming a first section (3) and a second section (4), the first and second sections extending in different directions away from the tower (2). To provide efficient dampening of the movement, the method comprises tethering a first body (20) to the first section (3), the first body being at least partly submerged into the sea.
US11840993B1
A fuel injector assembly for a fuel-actuated fuel injector includes an injector body, and an injection control valve assembly. The injector body includes therein a low-pressure fuel passage extending from a clamping face to an armature cavity to convey spent actuating fuel to the armature cavity. The fuel injector assembly also includes a flushing drain formed by the injector body and fluidly connected to at least one of a valve pin bore in the injector body or the armature cavity. The flushing drain forms, together with the low-pressure fuel passage and the armature cavity, a cooling circuit for the spent actuating fuel. The flushing drain extends to a drain opening formed in an outer body surface of the injector body. Related methodology is also disclosed.
US11840987B2
A cascade thrust reverser assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a nacelle assembly defining a bypass passage. The cascade thrust reverser assembly includes a cascade assembly configured to be at least partially enclosed by the nacelle assembly, the cascade assembly comprising one or more cascade members, the one or more cascade members movable between a stowed configuration wherein the one or more cascade members define a first radial extent and a deployed configuration wherein the one or more cascade members define a second radial extent, wherein the one or more cascade members form a cascade segment in the deployed configuration, and wherein the second radial extent is greater than the first radial extent.
US11840984B2
An internal combustion engine for gaseous fuel includes a cylinder and a piston for reciprocal movement in the cylinder along a reciprocal axis, whereby a combustion chamber is at least partially delimited by the cylinder and the piston. The piston includes a piston crown facing the combustion chamber, a piston crown projection of the piston crown in a direction parallel to the reciprocal axis and onto a piston crown plane extending transversally to the reciprocal axis having a piston crown center point, the piston crown comprising a piston bowl surface defining a piston bowl and a piston rim portion enclosing the piston bowl surface. A piston bowl opening is the intersection between the piston rim portion and the piston bowl surface. The piston bowl opening has an opening center of gravity in the piston crown plane. The opening center of gravity is offset from the piston crown center point.
US11840982B2
A quick return oil cylinder liner is disclosed. The cylinder liner includes an elongated cylindrical body having an outer surface and an inner surface defining a liner central axis extending between a first liner axial end and a second liner axial end. The inner surface is configured to form a combustion chamber with a piston and an engine housing. A quick oil return part is arranged on the inner surface of the cylinder liner corresponding to a non-skirt part of the piston. The oil return part is positioned below a position of the inner surface corresponding to an oil blade of an oil ring of the piston when the piston is positioned at a bottom dead center position. The oil return part extends to the second linear axial end and forms at opening at the second liner axial end.
US11840975B2
A method for controlling the electrical power supply of injectors for a hybrid automotive vehicle, including an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. A first electrical network, having a first DC voltage, supplies power to a motor control of the engine. A second electrical network having a second DC voltage, higher than the first DC voltage, supplies power to the electric motor. The method includes connecting the second DC voltage to the injectors; reading the value of the second DC voltage; adapting control parameters of the injectors based on the value of engine speed, engine temperature and injection pressure upstream of the injectors; and controlling the injectors using the second DC voltage. Wherein there is no change in the control parameters when the value is higher than a threshold value; and changing at least one of the control parameters when the value is lower than the threshold value.
US11840967B2
A gas turbine engine includes: a compressor section including a compressor mean radius; a combustor section fluidly coupled downstream of the compressor section and include a combustor mean radius; and a turbine section fluidly coupled downstream of the combustor section and a turbine mid-span radius. The combustor mean radius is greater than each of the compressor mean radius and the turbine mid-span radius.
US11840966B1
An engine parameter estimation tuning system includes an engine parameter estimator unit and a gas path analysis (GPA) unit. The engine parameter estimator unit includes an onboard model (OBM) configured to output estimated parameters based on operation of a gas turbine engine. The gas path analysis (GPA) unit includes a performance health monitor unit configured to adjust a long-term deterioration parameter independently from adjustment of a short-term tuning parameter to tune one or more targeted estimation parameters included in the estimated engine parameter. In this manner, the engine parameter estimation tuning system can realize the different time scales associated with uncertainties in an engine and accommodate them separately so that the estimated engine parameters become much more accurate.
US11840962B2
An aircraft including a fuselage, a wing structure, at least one turbomachine running on hydrogen and generating thrust at a propulsion unit distant from the fuselage, at least one fuel tank positioned in the fuselage and configured to store hydrogen in the cryogenic state, at least one hydrogen supply device connecting the fuel tank and the turbomachine and including at least one pump positioned in the fuselage in the vicinity of the fuel tank, at least one hydrogen heating system positioned in the fuselage in the vicinity of the pump. This solution makes it possible to reduce a length of the complex double-walled pipes configured for carrying the hydrogen in the cryogenic state between the fuel tank and the hydrogen heating system.
US11840960B2
A gas turbine engine including a compressor that compresses air taken in; a combustor that sprays a fuel into the compressed air and combusts the fuel; a turbine rotated by energy of the combustion gas generated by the combustor; a rotating shaft coupling the compressor and the turbine; a rear bearing that is a cageless ball bearing including an inner race, an outer race, and a ball, the inner race being fixed to a portion of the rotating shaft which portion is close to the turbine; a housing to which the rear bearing is attached; and a rear bearing holding member that is interposed between the rear bearing and the housing and holds the outer race of the rear bearing such that the outer race of the rear bearing is movable in an axial direction relative to the housing.
US11840937B2
A diffuser nozzle for a gas turbine engine includes a housing disposed about a nozzle axis and extending between a first nozzle end and a second nozzle end. The housing defines a nozzle duct. A plurality of walls is disposed within the nozzle duct. The plurality of walls subdivides the nozzle duct into a plurality of duct sections. The plurality of walls further defines a plurality of axially-extending duct segments of the nozzle duct such that within a first axially-extending duct segment, the duct cross-sectional area of a first duct section of the plurality of duct sections is greater than the duct cross-sectional area of each other duct section and within a second axially-extending duct segment, the duct cross-sectional area of a second duct section of the plurality of duct sections is greater than the duct cross-sectional area of each other duct section.
US11840934B2
Provided is a casing deformation amount measuring apparatus for a steam turbine including a casing, a plurality of nuts fixed to an outer surface of the casing, a plurality of bolts individually screwed, at each one side end portion thereof, in the nuts and projecting to an outer side in a diametrical direction of the casing from the outer surface of the casing, and a lagging material held by the plurality of bolts and covering the casing. The casing deformation amount measuring apparatus includes a target mounted on another side end portion of one of the bolts and exposed to the outer side in a diametrical direction of the casing with respect to the lagging material, and a distance meter that is disposed in an opposing relation to the target on the outer side in a diametrical direction of the casing and measures a distance to the target.
US11840929B2
A seal assembly includes a rotating seal runner having an outer radial surface, and one or more rotationally stationary seal rings located radially outboard of the seal runner. Each seal ring has an inner radial surface, with the inner radial surface and the outer radial surface defining a sealing interface therebetween. An axially extending shape of the inner radial surface is selected utilizing a predicted shape of the outer radial surface at a selected operating condition of the seal assembly.
US11840928B1
The present disclosure providing a geological sampling backpack drilling machine includes a housing, a drilling device movably received in the housing, a seat arranged on the housing, and a bracket detachably connected to the housing via a limiting rotator, with an angle between the bracket and the housing being variable; the seat arranged between a tip of a drilling rod and the bracket, and rotating around the drilling rod as an axis thereof; a rotating member arranged on a surface of the seat and surrounding around the drilling rod to detachably connect with a supporting post, both the supporting post and the bracket cooperatively supporting the drilling device; the drilling rod passing through the housing and the seat; both the bracket and the supporting post supporting the drilling device that is obliquely drilled and the housing for enabling the drilling device to stably drill at an inclined state.
US11840921B2
Methods for fabricating a sensor module for detecting carbon dioxide leakage from a subsurface reservoir are disclosed. The methods include attaching anodic aluminum oxide porous membrane onto a first conductive electrode to form an anodic aluminum oxide template; initiating growth of a plurality of TiO2 nanotubes inside the AAO template using an atomic layer deposition process; removing the anodic aluminum oxide template from the first metal electrode leaving the plurality of TiO2 nanotubes on the first conductive electrode; attaching a second conductive electrode to the plurality of TiO2 nanotubes; connecting the first and the second conductive electrodes with an electric line to form a sensor; providing a rollable sheet of non-conductive material; and attaching a plurality of sensors to the rollable sheet of non-conductive material forming the sensor module.
US11840914B1
A multi-stage perforation and shock wave combined device and method for initial fracture enhancement are provided. The multi-stage perforation and shock wave combined device for initial fracture enhancement includes a perforating gun and a shock wave excitation nipple, where the perforating gun is configured to fire perforating bullets into a formation to form initial fractures; the shock wave excitation nipple is connected to the perforating gun, and includes an energetic rod capable of exploding after excitation and a feeding assembly; the feeding assembly includes a pushing head, a reciprocating spring, and a feeding spring; and the reciprocating spring is configured to push the pushing head, so as to push a spare energetic rod into a target position.
US11840911B2
Disclosed is a fracturing method with synergistic effects of energy enhancement, oil displacement, huff and puff, imbibition, and displacement, comprising the following steps: selecting a well that has never been fracted as a fracturing well; dividing the target layer into several fracturing intervals; performing perforating operations on each fracturing interval of the fracturing well; injecting pore cleaning fluid into the fracturing well to perform pore cleaning and acidizing pretreatment on each cluster perforation; designing fracturing construction parameters; alternately injecting slick water fracturing fluid and oil-displacement slick water fracturing fluid into each of the fracturing layers. The beneficial effects of this disclosure are: the construction method of slick water fracturing fluid with high pump rate and large displacement can form a more complex fracture network structure, tap the production potential of the target reservoir, and further improve the stimulation effect of the reservoir.
US11840902B2
A method of recovering casing from a wellbore in which: a logging tool is run to an estimated stuck point of the casing through the central bore of the casing spear and casing cutter; the casing spear is attached to the casing and tension applied so that logging can be performed over a length at an estimated stuck point both with and without tension to provide the verified stuck point; and the casing cutter is positioned relative to this to cut the free casing; and the spear used to remove it. The method can be performed on a single trip. Embodiments include incorporating a packer to circulate fluid during casing cutting; a disconnect, anchor mechanism and motor to allow use of a motor to operate the cutter; and a Down Hole Power Tool with a method of establishing the required force to recover a length of stuck casing.
US11840876B2
This automatic gate assembly includes at least one first automatic gate and at least one second automatic gate. The or each first automatic gate includes a first frame defining a first passage, at least one first obstacle, chosen from the following obstacles: swing leaf, laterally sliding leaf, pivoting leaf, for selectively closing and opening the first passage, and a first motor assembly for moving the first obstacle. The or each second automatic gate includes a second frame defining a second passage, at least one second obstacle, different to the first obstacle and chosen from the following obstacles: swing leaf, laterally sliding leaf, pivoting leaf, for selectively closing and opening the second passage, and a second motor assembly for moving the second obstacle. The first and second motor assemblies are substantially identical to each other.
US11840873B2
A closing device for opening and closing an opening in a vehicle is disclosed. The closing device comprises a closing system, having a closing body (SK) that is fitted on the vehicle (FZ) in a movable manner and is configured to open and close the opening (O), a drive device (AV) that is operatively connected to the closing body (SK) and is configured to move the closing body (SK), and a transmission system (US) that is arranged between the closing body (SK) and the drive device (AV) and is configured to transmit a drive force generated by the drive device (AV) to the closing body (SK). The closing system (SLS) has a closing system spring rate (FRSLS) that characterizes an overall elasticity of the closing body (SLS), of the drive device (AV) and of the transmission system (US). The closing device (SV) also comprises a force transmission spring unit (KUFE) that is configured to pick up the drive force transmitted from the drive device (AV) to the closing body (SK). The force transmission spring unit (KUFE) has a force transmission spring rate (FRKUFE) that is lower than the closing system spring rate (FRSLS).
US11840871B2
A closing aid for a luggage compartment flap is described, which closing aid comprises an actuating element, a movement element and a connecting element. The actuating element is integrated in a locking mechanism of the luggage compartment flap. The connecting element connects the actuating element to the movement element and transmits a movement of the actuating element to the movement element such that the luggage compartment flap fastened to the movement element is moved at least part of the way from an open position to a closed position. A luggage compartment and a vehicle having a closing aid of this type are also described.
US11840868B2
A vehicle door lock device includes: a latch mechanism switching member which switches a latch mechanism to an unlatching state; a first lever member which moves to an operating position when a door handle is operated to open a door; a link member movable to an unlock position where the link member is engaged with the latch mechanism switching member and the latch mechanism is switched to the unlatching state, and a lock position where the latch mechanism is not switched to the unlatching state; a second lever member releasably engageable with the link member and causing the latch mechanism switching member to move to the operating position by moving from an initial position to an operating position; a biasing member which biases the link member toward the lock position; and a drive unit which drives the second lever member to move from the initial position to the operating position.
US11840863B2
Proposed is a group of inventions relating to locking mechanisms, containing keys which can be separated into parts and which have catches and a plurality of replaceable blades which fit a plurality of locks, the replaceable blades of the keys of all of said locks attach to the catches of one key part having a bow, thus reducing the weight and overall size of a bunch of keys, allowing a person to carry only one key part having a bow and a plurality of key blades pertaining to different locks, reducing the weight and size of a bunch of keys, and a lock having corresponding mating mechanisms, increasing the security of the locking mechanism. The drawing shows the position of two catches on a key shank, using the example of a key to a pin-tumbler mechanism.
US11840855B2
An umbrella pole protecting device is a protective sleeve for the lower pole section of a pool-side umbrella. In other words, the device is a protective sleeve that covers the lower pole section of an umbrella to prevent potential contact of water. Further, the device includes a gasket for providing a water-proof seal between the sleeve and the pole section of the umbrella. Additionally, a water-resistant coating on the protective sleeve prevents the sleeve from being subjected to water damage. Thus, the present invention is a simple yet effective solution for preventing damage of lower pole section of a pool umbrella.
US11840848B2
A fastener unit and related method for securing a board to a support is provided. The fastener unit includes a spacer block, a grip element extending from the spacer block and configured to fit in and engage a groove of the board, and one or more board engagement elements. The board engagement elements can engage the groove of the board, thereby securing the spacer block in a position adjacent the groove to establish a gap between the board and another board. Related methods of use also are provided.
US11840841B2
A construction material that is a laminate including a nonwoven comprising a super absorbent material and a method of self-sealing liquid transport through the construction material in proximity to punctures in the laminate.
US11840835B2
A framing assembly is disclosed including an acoustic framing arrangement and a plurality of tracks. The acoustic framing arrangement interconnects a top track with a bottom track. The acoustic framing arrangement includes a pair of studs positioned in back-to-back configuration and mechanically joined using a connector. The connector includes a vertical portion that extends between the pair of studs and a base portion that connects to the tracks. When assembled, the acoustic framing arrangement creates space between the pair of studs and positions the studs in an offset configuration to improve wall stud acoustic performance.
US11840834B2
A device for linking separate members of a dowel cradle, comprising a bar; and at least two couplings, located on the bar. A dowel cradle comprising: at least one load transfer dowel; a basket having a pair of elongate members spaced apart from each other to support the load transfer dowel thereon; a device comprising: a bar located between the two elongate members of the basket; and at least two couplings located on the bar, each coupling being attached to a respective one of the elongate members of the basket.
US11840818B2
The present application discloses a bionic induction type biological grouting device for uniformly reinforcing foundation soil, comprising an operation table, a rotating shaft and a rotating disc, at least two grouting pipes are arranged in a wall of a spiral guide pipe, a plurality of grout outlet holes are formed in an inner wall of the spiral guide pipe, a plurality of sets of grout spraying holes are formed in an outer wall of the spiral guide pipe in a rotation direction of the spiral guide pipe, and a plurality of adjusting components for controlling opening and closing of each set of grout spraying holes are arranged in the spiral guide pipe, and the plurality of adjusting components are linked through a flexible shaft.
US11840811B1
A steel-concrete composite bridge deck slab using inverted U-shaped shear connectors and a method for constructing the same. The steel-concrete composite bridge deck slab includes a bottom steel plate and a bridge deck concrete layer, wherein inverted U-shaped perforated steel plate units are arranged on an upper surface of the bottom steel plate, and bar-mat reinforcements are arranged at upper ends of the inverted U-shaped perforated steel plate units.
US11840807B2
Disclosed is a base paper for eco-friendly paper cups and, more specifically, to a base paper for eco-friendly paper cups, which is eco-friendly by having recyclability and biodegradability while retaining water resistance, oil resistance, heat sealability, and block resistance required as a base paper for paper cups.
US11840799B2
To provide a mesh member such that a static charge can be suppressed. Provided is a mesh member including a mesh woven fabric and a coating layer that is formed on the surface of the mesh woven fabric and contains a carbon nanotube and/or graphene.
US11840796B2
A laundry basket system has a laundry housing with a base that extends to a base perimeter, and an upwardly extending wall that extends upwardly from the base perimeter of the base to form a laundry receiving chamber. The upwardly extending wall extends to a top perimeter that forms an upper opening. An access opening in the upwardly extending wall allows access into the laundry receiving chamber. A plurality of pallets each have a generally planar body that extends to an outer perimeter, the outer perimeter being sized and shaped to slidably abut the inner surface of the upwardly extending wall, so that the plurality of pallets may be slidably inserted through the upper opening of the upwardly extending wall, in a horizontal configuration, and into the laundry receiving chamber. A hanger assembly may also be mounted on the laundry housing.
US11840790B2
A washing machine includes: a washing tub; a speech reception unit configured to receive speech information; a communication unit activated by starting words input by a user, so as to communicate with a server for providing washing- related information; a touch screen for outputting graphic objects corresponding to washing- related functions which can be performed by the washing tub; and a control unit for controlling the touch screen such that when the user's proximity is sensed, a first graphic object is output to the touch screen, and in response to the input starting words, the first graphic object is switched to a second graphic object indicating that a speech recognition function is activated. In addition, in response to reception of laundry-related speech information, the control unit analyzes the received speech information and outputs, on the basis of the analysis result, feedback sound associated with washing of the corresponding laundry.
US11840787B2
A tufting tool module (10) for a tufting machine is provided. The tufting tool module comprises a plurality of tufting tools (20). The tufting tools have a head portion and a securing portion. The securing portion of each tufting tool is casted in a base block (12). The securing portions of each tufting tool is provided with at least two cut outs (26, 28) located inside the base block. By providing such cut outs it is possible to reduce the lateral pressure differences between the different tufting tools of the tufting tool module during casting of the base block. This is because the cast material, such as zinc, is allowed to move more freely within the cast during casting of the base block. Furthermore, the cut outs will during the cooling phase of the metal, e.g. zinc, control and stabilize the shrinkage so the tufting tools will not be dislocated. In other words, dislocation of the tufting tools during the casting process can hereby be reduced or eliminated. The result is a tufting tool module with improved tolerances.
US11840784B2
An addition to additive manufacturing sews a number of printed substrate sheets together using industrial sewing machine technology. Portions of the final 3D object that will be solid are sewn together into bundles of the object with a needle protruding through the top of the bundle via a sewing machine with a looping mechanism connecting the thread loops under each bundle of printed substrate sheet layers. This will result in many well connected stack bundles that are then stacked in alignment to form the final stack. During heat and compression, the stitch thread may bunch together and become entangled with the cooled plastic of the final solid 3D object. Removal of the excess substrate may proceed as usual, since the sewing is applied only in the solid portions of the final object. The end result will be a part with much higher strength in the Z axis.
US11840781B2
A system for thermally bonding nonwoven fibers of assemblages of nonwoven fibers loosely held together may include a processing duct including an inlet end, an outlet end, and an intermediate portion extending between the inlet end and the outlet end. The system also may include one or more heat inlets located in the intermediate portion and configured to facilitate introduction of heat and air flow into the intermediate portion. The system further may include an inlet air feed at the inlet end and configured to separate the assemblages upon entry into the inlet end and propel the assemblages into the intermediate portion. The system also may include one or more heating devices configured to heat the assemblages as the assemblages are conveyed toward the outlet end to form processed assemblages, each of the processed assemblages including at least some nonwoven fibers adhered to one another.
US11840779B2
An medical implantable occlusion device (100) is disclosed having a collapsed state and an expanded state and comprising a braiding (101) of at least one thread, and a distal end (102) comprised of said braiding. The distal end comprises loops (103, 104, 204, 304) formed by loop strands (105, 106, 206, 306) of the at least one thread, wherein, at least in said expanded state, each loop strand has a curved shape and extends away from a centre point (117) of the distal end, whereby an apex point (107, 108, 208, 308) of each of the loop strands corresponds to the turning point of the curved shape and to the point of each of the loop strands being arranged closest to the centre point. At least one of the loop strands is displaced from the centre point by a centre distance (109, 110, 210, 310), and the apex point lie at a distance from a periphery (113) of the distal end.
US11840775B2
A fiber of a propylene ethylene copolymer having: i) xylene soluble fraction at 25° C. ranging from 14 wt % to 27 wt %; ii) intrinsic viscosity of the fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C. ranging from 1.0 to 2.4 dl/g; iii) melt flow rate, MFR, ranging from 12 g/10 min to 60 g/10 min; iv) an ethylene derived units content ranging from 5.0 wt % to 12.0 wt %; v) the ethylene derived units content of the fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C. ranging from 2.5 wt % to 6.0 wt %; vi) the ethylene derived units content of the fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C. ranging from 15.2. wt % to 30.2 wt % vii) C13 NMR sequences PEP measured on the fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C. ranging from 3.5 mol % to 5.5 mol %; and viii) the C13 NMR sequences PEP measured on the fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C. ranging from 11.0 mol % to 14.2 mol %.
US11840766B2
An etchant is described that includes an N-heterocyclic carbene and optionally an appropriate solvent. The etchant was effective at etching a metallic surface having, for example, a metal oxide and/or metal, in both solution phase and vapour-phase. The etchant has been shown to effectively etch oxidized copper and tungsten.
US11840765B2
Methods for treating steel, along with the resulting treated steel, are provided. The method may comprise: nitriding a carburized Ferrium steel component such that the Ferrium steel component has a surface portion with a nitrogen content that is greater than 0% to about 5% by weight. Nitriding the Ferrium steel component may increase the surface hardness of the Ferrium steel. The surface portion may have a nitrogen content of about 0.05% to about 0.5% by weight.
US11840748B2
An aluminum alloy forging includes 0.30 mass % or more and 1.0 mass % or less of Cu; 0.63 mass % or more and 1.30 mass % or less of Mg; 0.45 mass % or more and 1.45 mass % or less of Si; the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein the following relations are satisfied, [Mg content]×1.587≥−4.1×[Cu content]2+7.8×[Cu content]−1.9 (1) [Si content]×2.730≥−4.1×[Cu content]2+7.8×[Cu content]−1.9 (2) and the ratio of the integrated intensity Q1 of the X-ray diffraction peak of the CuAl2 phase to the integrated intensity Q2 of the X-ray diffraction peak of the (200) plane of the Al phase obtained by the X-ray diffraction method, Q1/Q2, is 2×10−1 or less.
US11840737B2
A process for analysing chromosome regions and interactions relating to immunoresponsiveness.
US11840736B2
The present invention is directed to methods of identifying and treating a human subject harboring a tumor or other disease comprising assessing HRG gene expression at an mRNA level in the human subject and administering a treatment comprising an anti-HER3 antibody to the human subject whose HRG gene expression at an mRNA level is assessed as high. The present invention is also directed to methods of identifying a human subject harboring a tumor or other disease comprising assessing HRG gene expression at an mRNA level in the human subject and withholding a treatment comprising an anti-HER3 antibody to the human subject whose HRG gene expression at an mRNA level is assessed as low.
US11840731B2
Methods and products for identifying individuals who are likely to respond in a positive (benefit) or negative (harm) manner to a pharmacological drug treatment intended for treating or preventing a neuropsychiatric disorder, neurodegeneration, sleep-wake cycles such including and not limited to Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, autism and attention disorders based on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) chromosome 2, 2:107,510,000-107,540,000 locus (as disclosed in the Genome Reference Consortium Human genome build 37 (GRCh37)).
US11840721B2
The present disclosure generally relates to the field of microbial pathogen detection and identification utilizing genomic sequence recognition.
US11840720B2
The invention relates to methods and compositions for detecting colorectal cancer and colorectal polyps by measurement of metabolites in bodily fluids such as urine, including diacetylspermine and kynurenine.
US11840715B2
A switchable hydrophilic surface is created by attaching electrochemically switchable hydrophilicity polymers to the surface of a microelectrode array. Ferrocene polymers are one example of electrochemically switchable hydrophilicity polymers. Activation of electrodes in the microelectrode array changes the oxidation state of metal ions which switches the polymers between hydrophobic and hydrophilic conformations. Selective activation of electrodes can create patterns of wettability on the microelectrode array that may be varied in real time. The switchable hydrophilic surface may be used to control solid-phase synthesis of polymers. Growing polymers may be selectively extended at locations on the microelectrode array that are hydrophilic. The pattern of hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions can be changed during sequential rounds of synthesis to create a variety of different polymers at different locations on the surface of the microelectrode array.
US11840712B2
The present disclosure provides engineered human extracellular DNASE proteins (e.g., variants of DNASE1 (D1), DNASE1-LIKE 1 (D1L1), DNASE1-LIKE 2 (D1L2), DNASE1-LIKE 3 Isoform 1 (D1L3), DNASE1-LIKE 3 Isoform 2 (D1L3-2), DNASE2A (D2A), and DNASE2B (D2B)) that are useful for treating conditions characterized by neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) accumulation and/or release. In accordance with the invention, the DNase variant has advantages for therapy and/or large-scale manufacturing.
US11840700B2
Pesticidal proteins are provided that combine two or more modes of action into a single molecule. These pesticidal proteins therefor exhibit greater efficacy and/or durability of resistance, for the purposes of pest control, and can be utilized for pest control by provision in the diet of a pest organism, or by topical application to crop plants and/or pests. Methods and compositions for producing and using such proteins are also provided.
US11840699B2
The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of improved plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants challenged with saline conditions. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are improved in saline conditions with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions.
US11840695B2
The invention relates to C. acnes strains carrying DNA vectors for the production of recombinant C. acnes phages. The invention encompasses a C. acnes producer cell carrying DNA vectors, with a template for recombination with C. acnes phage genome leading to the insertion of a gene of interest, for the production of recombinant phages that can lead to the transgene expression into C. acnes infected by the recombinant phage. The invention encompasses, C. acnes strains containing these vectors, C. acnes recombinant phages and methods of using these recombinant phages.
US11840692B2
The invention relates to double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) compositions targeting the ANGPTL3 gene, as well as methods of inhibiting expression of ANGPTL3 and methods of treating subjects having a disorder of lipid metabolism, such as hyperlipidemia or hypertriglyceridemia, using such dsRNA compositions.
US11840684B2
A method for separating microcarriers from a medium includes transferring a suspension that includes medium, microcarriers and cells into a compartment of a filter assembly. The filter assembly includes: a container having an interior surface bounding the compartment; and a filter having a tubular stem with an encircling sidewall extending between a first end and an opposing second end, the first end being secured to the interior surface of the container and the second end projecting into the compartment of the container, a plurality of openings extend through the sidewall of the stem that are large enough to allow the medium and cells to pass therethrough while preventing the microcarriers from passing therethrough. The medium and cells within the compartment are allowed to pass through the plurality of openings of the filter while the microcarriers are retained within the compartment of the container.
US11840678B2
There are mixtures containing calixarenes of formula (I) with a reduced alkyl phenol and linear oligomer content and a preparation process thereof: wherein: a. R is selected between a linear or branched alkyl having a number of carbon atoms comprised between 4 and 40, more preferably between 4 and 24, even more preferably comprised between 8 and 18; b. n is the number of units of the calixarene cycle and is comprised in the range from 4 to 16, preferably between 4 and 12. Furthermore, there are detergent compositions containing overbased metal salts of calixarenes, a preparation process thereof, and a use thereof in lubricant compositions.
US11840667B2
Described herein are systems and methods for the depolymerization of polyethylene-based plastics. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that comprises combining a polyethylene-based plastic with a solvent in a reactor to generate a plastic solvent mixture, heating the plastic solvent mixture in the reactor, and fractionating the plastic solvent mixture into a gas phase product, a solid phase product, and a liquid phase product. In another embodiment, a system is disclosed that comprises a solvent, and a reactor configured to receive the polyethylene-based plastic and the solvent and convert the polyethylene-based plastic into a gas phase product, a solid phase product, and a liquid phase product, the reactor being configured to operate at a temperature greater than 275° C. and at a pressure greater than 2 megapascals.
US11840663B2
A drilling fluid composition comprising a base fluid, and a drag reducing agent including an ultra-high molecular weight branched block copolymer having the following structure, where monomer A is an anionic monomer, monomer B is a hydrophilic monomer, monomer C is an anionic monomer, monomer D is a crosslinker-divinyl monomer, and -SSCZ ground being a terminal RAFT agent.
US11840662B2
A drilling fluid composition comprising a base fluid, and a shale inhibitor including an ultra-high molecular weight branched block copolymer having the following structure, where monomer A is an anionic monomer, monomer B is a hydrophilic monomer, monomer C is an anionic monomer, monomer D is a crosslinker-divinyl monomer, and —SSCZ ground being a terminal RAFT agent.
US11840660B2
Cement slurries, cured cements, and methods of making cured cement and methods of using cement slurries have, among other attributes, an extended thickening time, leading to improved retardation, flowability, and pumpability and may be used, for instance, in the oil and gas drilling industry. The cement slurry includes water, microfine cement material, and bisphenol-F diglycidyl ether resin.
US11840659B2
A heat exchanging thermal liquid container system that comprises a main body at least partially defining a liquid reservoir structured and operable to retain a liquid, and a phase change material (PCM) liner comprising a PCM liner PCM having a selected melting temperature, and/or at least one PCM pod. Each of the at least one PCM pod(s) comprising a respective PCM pod PCM having a respective selected melting temperature. Wherein the PCM liner and/or the at least one PCM pod are disposable within the liquid reservoir such that when a liquid is disposed within the liquid reservoir the liquid will contact at least one of the PCM liner and the at least one PCM pod such that thermal energy can be exchanged between the liquid and the respective at least one of the PCM liner PCM and the at least one PCM pod PCM.
US11840644B2
The present invention relates to radiation curable coating composition (I) consisting essentially of: —from 20 to 95 wt % of one or more (meth)acrylated compounds (a), —from 5 to 80 wt % of one or more metal salts of a C10 to C22 fatty acid (b), and —optionally, from 0 to 10 wt % of one or more additives (c), wherein the wt % of compounds (a) to (c) add up to at least 95%, preferably add up to 100%. Compositions of the invention are compatible with a whole range of radiation curable materials and with the standard additives like the standard matting agents. Compositions of the invention permit to obtain a dead matt effect using lower amounts of matting agents like silica and/or waxes. Dead matt effects can be obtained over a wide range of coating thicknesses.
US11840638B2
A method of manufacture for an improved composition for melt-bonding road marking compound is disclosed. Comprising preparing a PET component from pulverized recycled plastic. combining the PET component, a pigment component, a filler component, a silica component and a binder component to form a road marking compound. melting the road marking compound form the melt-bonding road marking compound. selecting an amount of the PET component to maximize PET in the melt-bonding road marking compound while ensuring the melt-bonding road marking compound remains liquid for application to a road surface. The PET component comprises glass beads, is substantially clear, and substantially spherical. The PET component comprises glass beads. The method of manufacture comprises optimizing a bead diameter of the PET component to ensure the melt-bonding road marking compound can flow through screens and nozzles in a typical road paint application equipment.
US11840635B2
A fixer fluid can include a fixer vehicle with water, an NH-type or N-alkylated lactam co-solvent, and a phosphate ester surfactant. The fixer fluid can further include from 0.5 wt % to 12 wt % an azetidinium-containing polyamine polymer dispersed in the fixer vehicle.
US11840634B2
Provided herein are stretchable conductive inks consisting of a continuous polymer phase with dispersed silver flakes and a low melting metal or alloy, wherein initial resistivity is measured before elongation and the resistivity of the stretchable conductive ink composition is less than 10 times the initial resistivity at 50% elongation.
US11840622B2
Crumb rubber obtained from recycled tires is subjected to an interlinked substitution process. The process utilizes a reactive component that interferes with sulfur bonds. The resulting treated rubber exhibits properties similar to those of the virgin composite rubber structure prior to being granulated, and is suitable for use in fabricating new tires, engineered rubber articles, and asphalt rubber for use in waterproofing and paving applications.
US11840621B2
A method of making a homogeneous mixture comprising a liquid hydrocarbylsulfonic acid and a polyolefin, the method comprising multiple stages of adding, mixing, and monitoring of temperature of the ingredients. The method enables making embodiments of the homogeneous mixture having more than 3 weight percent of the liquid hydrocarbylsulfonic acid incorporated into the polyolefin and prevents fouling of the mixer device.
US11840612B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a prepreg and a laminate for producing a laminate suitable as a structural material, which have excellent compressive strength and interlaminar fractural toughness values, and can be firmly integrated with another structural member by welding. The present invention provides a prepreg including the following structural components [A] reinforcing fibers, [B] a thermosetting resin, and [C] a thermoplastic resin, in which [B] has a rubbery state elastic modulus of 10 MPa or more at a temperature obtained by adding 50° C. to a glass transition temperature in a state in which a degree of cure is 90% or more, [C] is present in a surface of the prepreg, and the reinforcing fibers [A] are present, which are included in a resin area including {B] and a resin area including [C] across an interface between the two resin areas.
US11840595B2
To produce an olefin-based polymer having a minor amount of decrease in bulk density due to heat. A solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization containing a titanium atom, a magnesium atom, a halogen atom, and as internal electron donor, and having an envelope E1 calculated by the following Formula (1) in a range of 0.810 to 0.920. E1=LE1/LS1 (1) (In Formula, LE1 is a convex hull perimeter of the solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization obtained from an image of the solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization captured with a scanning electron microscope, and LS1 is an actual perimeter of the solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization obtained from the image of the solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization captured with the scanning electron microscope.)
US11840585B2
The present invention provides a method for derivatizing cellulose pulp at high solids content or even at a fully dry state without pretreating the cellulose, the method comprising preparing a reaction medium comprising urea and at least one derivatization reagent; carrying out a chemical derivatization reaction between the at least one derivatization reagent and the cellulose pulp in a reaction system comprising the cellulose pulp in contact with the reaction medium; and optionally purifying and/or recovering the derivatized cellulose product. The present description also relates to products obtainable using said method.
US11840583B2
The present application relates to cellulose nanocrystals and other anionic carbohydrates and methods of preparation thereof. Specifically, in certain embodiments, the cellulose nanocrystals are modified using ion exchange technology to yield thermally stable or task-specific, dispersible cellulose nanocrystals.
US11840575B2
The present invention provides an engineered immune cell targeting BCMA and use thereof. In particular, the present invention provides a CAR specifically targeting BCMA, the CAR comprising an antigen-binding domain which is an S-derived scFv, an antibody heavy chain variable region as shown in SEQ ID NO: 9 and an antibody light chain variable region as shown in SEQ ID NO: 10. The present invention also provides a CAR-T cell comprising the CAR, a double CAR- and CAR-T cell comprising the S-derived scFv, and related use thereof. Compared to CAR-T cells constructed using other scFvs, the constructed CAR-T cell of the present invention has a better killing effect and tumor elimination capability.
US11840572B2
The present invention relates to antibodies that specifically bind to B7-H4 (B7 Homology 4, encoded by gene VTCN1) and bispecific antibodies that specifically bind to both B7-H4 and CD3 (Cluster of Differentiation 3), and polynucleotides, pharmaceutical compositions and methods and uses thereof.
US11840565B2
The compositions and methods described herein include methods and agents that inhibit inflammasome signaling in a mammal such as antibodies directed against inflammasome components used alone or in combination with extracellular vesicle uptake inhibitor(s) or other agents. Also described herein are compositions and methods of use thereof for treating viral-associated lung inflammation, for example lung inflammation associated with viral infections such as SARS-CoV-2.
US11840564B2
Described are methods and systems for the treatment of individuals having a disorder characterized by complement system dysregulation. The described methods and systems may be used for a variety of purposes, including for example, establishing one or both of a general or personalized dosing schedule for treatment using a complement inhibitor, establishing a dosage schedule sufficient to maintain an effective amount of complement inhibitor, establishing general dosing schedules for novel complement modifying agents and identifying a treatment regimen and/or dose eliminating the possibility of under dosing medication, and treatment regimen and/or dose for reducing or preventing toxicity in a patient.
US11840552B2
The present invention involves a novel aqueous iron composition. The aqueous iron composition includes iron sucrose and bicarbonate. The aqueous iron composition of the invention exhibits enhanced renal protective effects relative to conventional iron sucrose compositions.
US11840550B2
The present disclosure provides compounds that may be used as ligands in metal-catalyzed reactions, in particular 3,3′-bisilyl biaryl phosphoramidite compounds and processes for preparing the same.
US11840548B2
The attachment and proliferation of antibiotic resistant, biofilm-forming bacteria to oft-handled material surfaces has emerged as a growing concern, particularly in the biomedical, healthcare and food packaging industries. UV-curable phosphoniums bearing benzophenone anchors have been synthesized with a variety of alkyl, aryl, and fluoroalkyl functional groups at phosphorus to probe their efficacy as thermally stable antimicrobial additives in plastics or as surface coatings. In an embodiment, a phosphonium compound having the following formula has been synthesized: in which R is a phosphine group substituted with alkyl, aryl, substituted alkyl, substituted aryl, heteroalkyl or any combination thereof. These materials maintained the ability to kill biofilm-forming bacteria even after being subject to abrasion processes, demonstrating the potential to serve as long-term antimicrobial materials.
US11840546B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I), methods of using the compounds for inhibiting ALK2 activity and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. The compounds are useful in treating, preventing or ameliorating diseases or disorders associated with ALK2 activity such as cancer.
US11840545B1
New spirooxindole compounds are described herein, as well as the use of such spirooxindole compounds in forming copper complexes that act as efficient anticorrosion agents for C-steel. Also described are methods for forming the new spirooxindole compounds as well as anti-corrosion coatings containing the spirooxindole-copper complexes, CuL.
US11840530B2
This invention provides a medicament for the treatment of cancer, which cause a reduction of cancer. This invention relates to use of a compound which has inhibitory activities against prostaglandin E2 receptor (EP4 receptor) and is represented by the following general formula (I), (II), (III), or (IV), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound or the salt for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of cancer. The invention relates to a method for treatment of cancer comprising administering the compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound or the salt to humans or animals. The compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or the pharmaceutical composition may be used in combination with one or more second active agents.
US11840527B2
The present invention relates to a new class of non-fused thiophene derivatives and their uses for treating diseases such as infection, cancer, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, iron storage disorders and inflammatory disorders.
US11840512B2
Provided is a crystal of a specific oxazole compound that has specific inhibitory activity against PDE4, and that shows excellent stability. Specifically, provided is a crystal of an oxazole compound represented by formula (5) wherein the crystal has peaks at diffraction angles 2θ(°) of 9.6±0.2, 19.1±0.2, and 21.2±0.2 in an X-ray powder diffraction pattern measured using CuKα characteristic X-rays.
US11840495B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods related to bicyclo[2.2.1] heptanamine-containing compounds and salts.
US11840492B2
A dehydrohalogenation product includes a hydrochlorofluorocarbon mixture of a fluoroolefin of formula RCX═CZQ and a halofluoroalkane of formula RCXYCZQT. R is a perfluorinated alkyl group and X, Z, and Q are independently H or halogen. One of Y and T is H and the other is Cl, Br, or I. About 80% or greater of the hydrochlorofluorocarbon mixture is the fluoroolefin. The dehydrohalogenation product also includes a caustic agent and a solvent. In some embodiments, the dehydrohalogenation product is free of any catalyst, including any phase transfer catalyst.
US11840484B2
Techniques of forming a foamed insulation material from gypsum waste are disclosed herein. One example technique includes mechanically comminuting the gypsum waste from an original size into particles of gypsum at a target size smaller than the original size and mixing the particles of the gypsum with a binder to form a mixture of particles and binder. The binder is configured to bind the particles of gypsum upon hydration. The example technique can further include performing air entrainment on the mixture until a foam is formed from the mixture having the particles of gypsum and binder. The foam has water that causes the binder to bind the particles of gypsum. The example technique can then include removing moisture from the mixture with the formed foam to form a foamed insulation material from the particles of gypsum.
US11840483B2
Disclosed is a method for preparing high-strength coral aggregate concrete under low pressure conditions, including the following steps: weighing cement, mineral admixture, coral aggregate, mixing water, water reducer, and defoamer; mixing the cement and the mineral admixture well to obtain a cementing material; putting the coral aggregate, sea water, water reducer, defoamer, and 55-85% of the cementing material into a closed mixing system to stir for 10-15 min under low pressure conditions, and pouring the remaining cementing material into the mixing system to stir for additional 10-15 min to prepare the high-strength coral aggregate concrete. The high-strength coral aggregate concrete obtained has advantages of high mechanical properties, high compactness, excellent impermeability and durability, drawing on local resources in construction engineering on remote islands and reefs, and maximum resource utilization.
US11840482B2
Embodiments of a dry mix for producing a concrete composition are provided. The dry mix includes aggregate, cement, and bed ash. The bed ash contains the combustion product of a fluidized bed coal combustion reaction. Additionally, embodiments of a method of preparing the dry mix and embodiments of a method of preparing a concrete composition are provided. The dry mix is also suitable for repairing soil slips, and embodiments of a method of repairing a soil slip are also provided.
US11840476B2
ZrO2-toughened glass ceramics having high molar fractions of tetragonal ZrO2 and fracture toughness value of greater than 1.8 MPa·m1/2. The glass ceramic may also include also contain other secondary phases, including lithium silicates, that may be beneficial for toughening or for strengthening through an ion exchange process. Additional second phases may also decrease the coefficient of thermal expansion of the glass ceramic. A method of making such glass ceramics is also provided.
US11840470B2
Taught herein is a two stage process for removing dissolved and emulsified oil from produced water (PW) from, for example, a hydrocarbon well. The first stage involves microbiological stimulation of indigenous oil degrading methanogenic microbial communities that are adapted to high salinity conditions preferably by supplying carbon dioxide and protein-rich matter (isolated soy protein) under controlled pH conditions. The second stage removes toxic metals using filters made of compressed powdered dolomite of uniform grain size. Increased levels of toxic metals removal are achieved by filtrating PW previously treated for oil. To further increase the removal efficiency of the dolomite filter, calcium and magnesium is removed from PW by the addition of lime and soda ash in a sedimentation tank, and guar gum is supplied to PW to enable the trapping of toxic metals by guar gum in small pore throats of the dolomite filter.
US11840452B2
Provided is spherically-shaped coated graphite exhibiting excellent cycle capacity-maintaining property when used as a negative electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery. The spherically-shaped coated graphite includes: spherically-shaped graphite in which primary particles with an equivalent spherical diameter of not more than 0.8 μm have a volume ratio of more than 40.0% and not more than 70.0%, and primary particles with an equivalent spherical diameter of not less than 1.5 μm and not more than 3.0 μm have a volume ratio of not less than 3.0% and not more than 17.0%, in a particle size distribution of primary particles obtained using X-ray computed tomography; and a carbonaceous substance covering the spherically-shaped graphite, and a pore volume of pores with a pore size of 7.8 nm to 36.0 nm is not more than 0.017 cm3/g, and a mass of infiltrated dibutyl phthalate is less than 0.70 g/cm3.
US11840450B2
An exemplary hydrogen production apparatus 100 according to the present invention includes a grinding unit 10 configured to grind a silicon chip or a silicon grinding scrap 1 to form silicon fine particles 2, and a hydrogen generator 70 configured to generate hydrogen by causing the silicon fine particles 2 to contact with as well as disperse in, or to contact with or dispersed in water or an aqueous solution. The hydrogen production apparatus 100 can achieve reliable production of a practically adequate amount of hydrogen from a start material of silicon chips or silicon grinding scraps that are ordinarily regarded as waste. The hydrogen production apparatus thus effectively utilizes the silicon chips or the silicon grinding scraps so as to contribute to environmental protection as well as to significant reduction in cost for production of hydrogen that is utilized as an energy source in the next generation.
US11840449B1
The present invention relates, in general, to systems and methods for generating hydrogen from ammonia on-board vehicles, where the produced hydrogen is used as fuel source for an internal combustion engine. The present invention utilizes an electric catalyst unit to initiate an ammonia cracking process on-board during a cold start of the internal combustion engine, where a heat exchange catalyst unit is utilized once exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine has been heated to a threshold temperature suitable to perform the ammonia cracking process.
US11840439B1
A refill station for refillable carbonation containers is disclosed. Exemplary implementations may include a refill station housing, a refill tank, a control interface, a conduit, a controllable refill valve, and/or other components. The refill tank of the refill station holds a pressurized liquid, such as CO2. The refill station housing holds a carbonation container, such as a bottle, which includes a container tank. A user can control filling or refilling the container tank from the refill tank.
US11840438B2
A pallet transportation apparatus including a pallet support array supported on a pallet transportation chassis for reciprocal motion and comprising pallet supporters that receive and support pallets. A mast assembly is fixed to the chassis and includes guides that support and guide the pallet support array through a reciprocal lifting and lowering motion, causing the pallet support array to lift and lower pallets. A prime mover moves the pallet support array through its reciprocal lifting and lowering motion, and a motion control system schedules the reciprocal lifting and lowering motion of the pallet support array.
US11840435B2
A simulation system for telehandlers that are equipped with a movable operating arm designed to lift and move loads, and stabilisers that include a plurality of movable stabilising arms. An acquisition module is configured to receive at least functional parameters relating to operating conditions of the stabilising arms. A calculation module is configured to determine a potential stability condition as a function of the operating parameters. And an output module is configured to provide an operator with information representing the condition of potential stability.
US11840432B2
The present invention provides a remote-controlled, retractable accessibility device for ceiling and wall fixtures, such as for lighting fixtures, ceiling fans, speakers, mobiles, and the like. The device allows for the raising and lowering of the fixture via a remote wireless or wired control. The device is designed with electrical connectors that automatically disengage and reengage to cut off the flow of electricity when the fixture is lowered so that the fixture can be safely accessed.
US11840430B2
A cable break-away device for a rescue hoist connects a cable to a cable drum of the rescue hoist. The cable break-away device provides overload protection to the rescue hoist by disconnecting the cable from the cable drum when the loads transmitted through cable become excessive. The cable break-away device is configured to fracture, releasing the cable from the cable drum, when the loads experienced by the cable break-away device exceed a predetermined failure set point. As such, the cable break-away device forms a mechanical fuse connecting the cable to the cable drum.
US11840427B2
A crane comprising a traveling body and a turning body turnably supported by the traveling body, the crane performing power feeding and communication between the traveling body and the turning body. The traveling body is provided with: a power supply; a lower controller which controls the traveling body and transmits power to the devices included in the traveling body; and a lower transmitter-receiver which wirelessly transmits and receives the power and data signal from the power supply. The turning body is provided with: an upper controller which controls the turning body and transmits power to the devices included in the turning body; and an upper transmitter-receiver which wirelessly transmits and receives the power and data signal to and from the lower transmitter-receiver.
US11840424B2
A running system for an elevator comprises a car, running rails, and a driving mechanism, the car is moved on the running rails by means of the driving mechanism, and the running system does not comprise a traction part. In a multi-car elevator running system; the running system is provided with a plurality of cars and at least two set of running rails, and each set of running rails can be used for the movement of the cars; the running system is further provided with at least one switching mechanism and driving mechanism, the car is moved on the running rails by means of the driving mechanism, different running rails are connected by means of the switching mechanism, and the car is switched to the different running rails by means of the switching mechanism.
US11840421B2
A telescoping cable spool for attaching to a networking equipment and supporting a plurality of fiber optic cables is shown. The spool comprises a fixed part for attachment to a surface adjacent the networking equipment; a spool housing comprising a pair of cable retaining flanges interconnected by a hollow cable support dimensioned to fit in a telescoping arrangement over the fixed part. The spool housing is moveable relative to the fixed part between a first retracted position and a second extended position.
US11840417B2
A sheet bonding apparatus includes an electrophotographic unit configured to apply powder adhesive on a sheet by an electrophotographic process, a folding portion configured to fold the sheet on which the powder adhesive has been applied by the electrophotographic unit, and a bonding portion configured to heat the sheet folded by the folding portion to bond the sheet by the powder adhesive, wherein the bonding portion and the folding portion are disposed over the electrophotographic unit.
US11840411B2
A vision-assisted robotized depalletizer receives at a pallet station a pallet loaded with products and outputs on a conveyor unitized products aligned in a desired orientation. Such depalletizers include a vision system having one or more image acquisition sensors that are positioned relative to the pallet station so as to have a field of view covering a top portion of the pallet. The sensors send to a controller one or more image of the top portion of the pallet that the controller uses along to determine the position of each product in the top portion of the pallet. The depalletizer further includes a robot equipped with a depalletizing tool that is coupled to the vision system controller for receiving information indicative of the position of each product from the top portion and uses that information to pick and position on the output conveyor each product from the top portion.
US11840407B2
A removable cartridge cleaner assembly is provided that allows for easier replacement of the belt cleaner blades from under a conveyor belt. In one aspect the assembly includes a cartridge assembly configured for connection with at least one belt cleaner blade assembly and a support assembly configured to support the cartridge assembly across a transverse width of the conveyor belt. A releasable connection between the cartridge assembly and the support assembly is configured to be sheltered from dust and debris. The releasable connection may be disposed within a chamber formed by the engaging portions of the cartridge and support assemblies. The releasable connection can be released by removing a longitudinally oriented rod member that extends along a length of the cartridge and support assemblies. The support assembly may include a secondary cartridge support for easing installation and removal of the cartridge assembly.
US11840399B2
A hydrocarbon tank system environment corrosion inhibitor includes use of inert gas, preferably Nitrogen, to blanket ullage and interstice through the tank system. Blanket gas is provided is controller into coupling to access ullages. Blanket gas is provided upon fueling events to stabilize the pressure in the system and prevent entry of atmospheric air and water (vapor). Blanket gas may be continuously run into the ullage and/or other spaces in tank system. A controlled system allows for monitoring of pressures in the tank, and thereby identifies pressure events and even leaks in system due to unusual events, or general loss of pressure.
US11840396B2
A dog waste bag dispenser device includes: a frame with a roll opening and an elongated opening, an axle assembly, a lower frame, and a bag clip with a slit; such that the waste bag dispenser device holds a dog waste bag roll, such that the dog waste bag dispenser device enables a user to easily remove a dog waste bag from the dog waste bag roll. The dog waste bag dispenser device also includes an attachment ring, which is configured to attach the dog waste bag dispenser device to an article of clothing or an object for easy portability.
US11840375B2
A modular pastry packaging carousel is disclosed which provides the ability to individually store wedge-shaped pastry slices in a respective wedge-shaped pastry module. In a version of the application, the modular pasty packaging carousel generally comprises a bottom plate, a top plate, a spacer positioned between the bottom plate and the top plate providing a radial gab therebetween; and a plurality of wedge-shaped pastry modules, each comprising a sector-shaped removable base. The sector-shaped removable base includes a means for engaging the pastry module with the base tray radial connection channels.
US11840374B2
Various implementations include a container system that includes a first and second bowl. The first bowl has a resilient wall that is urgable radially outwardly from a resting position to an expanded position. The edge of the resilient wall spaced apart from a first bowl base has a resting perimeter length and an expanded perimeter length. A rigid wall of the second bowl has a first edge spaced apart from a second bowl base and a second edge opposite the rigid wall first edge each have a perimeter length. The perimeter lengths of the rigid wall are both greater than or equal to the resting perimeter length and are less than or equal to the expanded perimeter length. A groove is defined by the resilient wall and/or rigid wall. A protrusion extends along the other of the rigid wall and/or resilient wall. The protrusion is engageable within the groove.
US11840373B2
In at least one embodiment, an apparatus for securing boxes on a pallet may a structural member sized to run a length or a width of a pallet, the structural member having a top side and a bottom side. The structural member may be L-shaped. The structural member allows for securing a load on the pallet. The structural member also provides additional surface area for plastic wrap to secure a load. The structural member may have tabs that fit within the recesses between planks of a pallet. In various embodiments, the structural member and tabs may be formed as a single composite structure.
US11840372B2
A cargo pallet is disclosed. The cargo pallet may have a pallet base. The cargo pallet may also have a pallet liner. The pallet liner may have a pallet liner base. The pallet liner base may be positioned on the pallet base. The pallet liner may also have a pallet extension, which may be fixedly attached to the pallet liner base. The pallet extension may project outwardly from the pallet liner base. The pallet extension may also have a support surface that may at least in part extend outwardly beyond a footprint of the pallet base.
US11840364B2
Packaging machine for packaging portioned products which are liquid or pasty in the processing state
A method for packaging products, wherein packaging material web is transported in direction of an upwardly open pair of folding claws, is cut to length while forming a planar blank of the wrapper, and the blank is positioned above the folding claws, wherein the product is metered, the product portion is pre-shaped, and the blank by placing thereon the pre-shaped product portion is folded into the claws while forming the upwardly open wrapper. Thereafter, the upward-projecting lateral longitudinal peripheries of the wrapper are folded inward onto the product portion, whereupon the transverse peripheries of the wrapper which extend perpendicular thereto are folded inward onto the product portion. The lateral longitudinal peripheries and transverse peripheries of the wrapper are folded inward onto the product portion and are simultaneously connected to one another, while the wrapper provided with the product portion is still situated in the pair of folding claws.
US11840362B2
A long frame is provided with: a plurality of frame members that have a longitudinal direction and a short direction, have a first flange part folded along a folding line extending along the longitudinal direction, and are arranged close to an inner peripheral surface of a surface plate along an array direction; and a plurality of first connecting parts that connect each of the plurality of first flange parts to the surface plate. The frame is further provided with at least one of a second connecting part that connects second flange parts to each other and a third connecting part that joins together end surfaces of a pair of frame members arranged adjacent to each other in the array direction to connect the pair of frame member arranged adjacent to each other.
US11840352B2
An air intake includes a substantially cylindrical inner wall, a substantially cylindrical outer wall, a front lip connecting the inner wall and the outer wall, a front mounting flange, and a support structure. The front mounting flange is configured to cooperate with a rear flange of a wall of an aircraft engine. The support structure is configured to be secured to the wall of the aircraft engine at a location longitudinally downstream of the mounting flange. The outer wall includes a downstream end configured to be positioned in a junction area flush with a front end of a fan external cowl. A portion of the outer wall being configured to bear at least against the support structure. The support structure is configured to be secured to the wall of the aircraft engine so that a load path passes directly from the outer wall towards the fan casing.
US11840351B2
An aircraft for self-neutralizing flight comprising a fuselage, at least a power source, a plurality of laterally extending elements attached to the fuselage, a plurality of downward directed propulsors attached to the plurality of laterally extending elements and electrically connected to at least a power source, wherein the plurality of downward directed propulsors have a rotational axis offset from a vertical axis by a yaw-torque-cancellation angle.
US11840350B2
A system for controlling idle speed and power draw includes a determination unit configured to determine a current available power value, a determination unit configured to determine a current power consumption value, a determination unit configured to determine a future power requirement variation value, a computation unit configured to calculate a future estimated total power requirement value, a computation unit configured to calculate a future estimated available power value, an optimization unit configured to determine an optimization result by comparing the estimated total power requirement value with a power value associated with an optimization criterion and a controller configured to send an order to adapt an idle speed of the engine, an order to adapt the estimated total power requirement or no order as a function of the optimization result.
US11840349B2
A method for automatically powering off an aerial vehicle includes determining an operating state of the aerial vehicle, and in response to a determination result that the operating state of the aerial vehicle is a landed state, triggering to shut down a propulsion output of the aerial vehicle such that the aerial vehicle completes automatic power off after landing, including, in response to the determination result that the operating state of the aerial vehicle is the landed state, determining whether the propulsion output of the aerial vehicle is currently enabled and determining whether an automatic take-off operation indicated by an automatic take-off instruction is currently being performed, and, in response to the propulsion output being currently enabled and the automatic take-off operation not currently being performed, triggering to shut down the propulsion output of the aerial vehicle.
US11840346B2
An aircraft engine includes an air inlet duct and at least one strut having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The at least one strut extends across at least part of the air inlet duct and has a strut passage. The trailing edge has one or more edge contours, each defining a contour edge wall recessed from a baseline surface of the trailing edge. The one or more edge contours have a recessed tap in fluid communication with the strut passage.
US11840345B2
A valve assembly for an anti-ice system of an aircraft. The valve assembly comprises: a valve body; a first piston; and a regulating piston. The valve body defines a valve inlet, a valve outlet, a fluid passage between the valve inlet and the valve outlet, and a core portion defining a first chamber by cooperation with the first piston and a regulating chamber by cooperation with the regulating piston. The first piston is moveable between a first position and a second position, and the regulating piston is movable between a first position and a second position. The first piston overlaps the regulating piston when the first piston is its first position and the regulating piston is in its second position.
US11840328B2
An aircraft with wing tip devices, for example, folding wing tips, is disclosed. The folding wing tip may have a flight configuration for use during flight, and a ground configuration for use in ground-based operations. The ground configuration creates a shorter wing span than when the aircraft is in the flight configuration. A hinge arrangement protrudes beyond an outer surface of the fixed wing and wing tip device. In order to reduce the aerodynamic effect of the protruding hinge a fairing may be provided. In the flight configuration the fairing comprises a front portion blended into and extending rearwardly from the leading edge of the fixed wing and the wing tip device.
US11840315B2
In an adjustment mode for a derailleur of a bicycle, acceleration values from an accelerometer of the derailleur are sampled as the derailleur moves through sprockets of a rear sprocket assembly. Acceleration signal powers are identified based on the sampled acceleration values, and potential rasping positions are identified based on thresholding of the acceleration signal powers. The identified potential rasping positions are compared to expected rasping positions, and adjustment for the derailleur is set based on a minimum error between the identified potential rasping positions and the expected rasping positions.
US11840308B2
A system for controlling tilting of two wheels of a vehicle, mechanically anchored to the chassis by a first and a second oscillating anchor arm is provided. The system has a first cylinder and a second cylinder suitable for being interposed between the chassis and the first and second oscillating anchor arms respectively. The first and second cylinders have respectively a first chamber and a second chamber with variable volume and containing a working fluid. Transfer of working fluid from the first to the second chamber results in an increase in the volume of the second chamber. Transfer of working fluid from the second to the first chamber results in an increase in the volume of the first chamber. A pipe connects the first and second chambers so that working fluid is alternately transferable from the first to the second chamber and from the second to the first chamber.
US11840307B2
A damping mechanism and a vehicle are provided. The damping mechanism includes: a spindle; an elastic cushion assembly used to couple the spindle and the vehicle body; a coupling arm having a first end used to be fixedly coupled to an axle of the wheel and a second end pivotally coupled to the spindle; and a locking assembly provided between the coupling arm and the spindle and used to switch the coupling arm and the spindle between at least two locking states and a unlocking state. In the unlocking state, the coupling arm is rotatable, and in the locking states, the coupling arm is locked; in each of the locking states, the coupling arm is in different locking positions relative to the spindle; and when the coupling arm is in different locking positions, the coupling arm is at different angles to a horizontal plane.
US11840298B2
The invention relates to a device for measuring and adjusting the parameters of the chassis geometry at a rear axle of a motor vehicle on a production line for the motor vehicle. Gripping and holding means for the rear axle and loading means for the rear axle are associated with the production line. According to the invention, a plurality of interchangeable frames is associated with the production line, and positioning means for positioning one of the interchangeable frames into a position for gripping the rear axle in the production process are associated with the production line. The gripping and holding means for the rear axle and the loading means for the rear axle are associated with the interchangeable frame in question. The interchangeable frames can thereby be matched to rear axles of different vehicle types, such that these different rear axles can be processed in one assembly line.
US11840296B2
A steering control device includes a control unit configured to control at least an operation of a steering-side motor. The control unit is configured to calculate a target reaction torque; calculate a difference axial force that is used to limit steering for turning the turning wheels in a predetermined direction, the difference axial force being reflected in the target reaction torque; and set a reference angle to one of a steering angle and a turning angle, set a converted angle to an angle obtained by converting another of the steering angle and the turning angle according to a steering angle ratio, and calculate the difference axial force based on a difference between the reference angle and the converted angle.
US11840295B2
A steering system includes a steering shaft; a motor configured to generate a torque applied to the steering shaft; and a control unit configured to control the motor. The control unit has a function of performing steering angle feedback control for causing a steering angle that is a rotation angle of a steering wheel to reach a target steering angle that is set based on a point of view of adjusting a rotational position of the steering wheel, as an adjustment process of adjusting the rotational position of the steering wheel. The control unit is configured to set a limit value for limiting a change range of the target steering angle with respect to the steering angle at each moment in a period in which automatic rotation of the steering wheel is hindered in a case where the automatic rotation is hindered while the adjustment process is being performed.
US11840289B2
An apparatus of limiting a steering angle in a steer-by-wire (SBW) system, may include a steering column rotating in association with a steering wheel; a striker which is provided to penetrate the steering column and rotates together with the steering column, and has a guide pin and a stopper pin; and a disk member that has a spiral sliding slot formed on a surface facing the guide pin, and a stopper formed on a position limiting a maximum steering angle of the steering column in a process of the guide pin rotating along the sliding slot and the striker being translated with respect to the steering column, so that the stopper pin is caught by the stopper in the rotation and translation motions of the striker.
US11840288B2
An airflow adjusting apparatus to be installed in a vehicle includes an airflow generator and a controller. The airflow generator is provided on an inner surface of a wheel house or on a wheel. The wheel house provides a wheel containing section of a vehicle body. The wheel is contained in the wheel containing section. The airflow generator is configured to generate an airflow that flows from the wheel containing section toward outer side in a vehicle widthwise direction. The controller is configured to control the airflow generator.
US11840278B2
An embodiment vehicle impact energy absorption system includes a pair of front side members, a battery assembly disposed under a center floor of a vehicle, a front subframe disposed below the pair of front side members and located in front of the battery assembly, the front subframe being connected to the pair of front side members through a pair of support arms and a pair of support brackets, wherein each support arm of the pair of support arms is provided on the front subframe, and each support bracket of the pair of support brackets is provided on each front side member of the pair of front side members, respectively, and an electric motor mounted on the front subframe.
US11840270B2
A pushchair seat for mounting on a pushchair chassis is comprised of a seating surface and a backrest, wherein the backrest has a distal section and a proximal section which can be rotated relative to the distal section in such a way that the backrest can be folded up from an unfolded backrest usage position into a collapsed backrest storage position.
US11840263B1
A method for controlling an automated driving operation of a vehicle involves authorizing the automated driving operation according to a number of predetermined conditions. Traffic information and event information is received by the vehicle. The traffic information contains place- and time-referenced information about a traffic jam on a part of the route lying ahead of the vehicle and the event information contains place- and time-referenced information about an event on the part of the route lying ahead. The traffic information and the event information are evaluated by the vehicle as belonging together if these are close together in terms of place and time. The automated driving operation of the vehicle is not authorized if event information and traffic information is available for a predetermined prediction horizon, but only then if these are evaluated as not belonging together.
US11840259B2
A method for simulating an obstacle in an unmanned simulation scene includes: for obstacle information in a three-dimensional scene map, determining Gaussian distribution information of obstacle position detected by using a perception algorithm to be tested based on actual perception performance of the perception algorithm; adjusting each position of the simulated obstacle in the initial motion trajectory sequence, such that a position deviation between each adjusted position point in the target motion trajectory sequence and the corresponding position point in the initial motion trajectory sequence follows a Gaussian distribution; and adding the target motion trajectory sequence of the simulated obstacle to the three-dimensional scene map.
US11840257B2
Provided is a system and method that can control a speed of an autonomous vehicle when approaching a vehicle on a shoulder based on a piecewise linear function. Further, the system and method may determine whether to perform a lane change based on various factors. In one example, the method may include storing a piecewise linear function, detecting a vehicle on a shoulder (VOS) of a road based on sensor data sensed by one or more sensors of an ego vehicle approaching the VOS, determining that the VOS is within a predefined distance of the ego vehicle, and in response to the determination, controlling the ego vehicle to slow down and then speed up based on the piecewise linear function.
US11840255B2
A method for partially or fully autonomously guiding a motor vehicle includes setting a target steering angle for guiding along a target trajectory. It is checked whether a zero point shift exists between a current position of the motor vehicle with respect to the target trajectory. The set target steering angle is adjusted on the basis of a correction constant in the event that a determined zero point shift exceeds a predefined threshold.
US11840238B2
In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed that detect hazards on a roadway by identifying discontinuities between pixels on a depth map. For example, two synchronized stereo cameras mounted on an ego-machine may generate images that may be used extract depth or disparity information. Because a hazard's height may cause an occlusion of the driving surface behind the hazard from a perspective of a camera(s), a discontinuity in disparity values may indicate the presence of a hazard. For example, the system may analyze pairs of pixels on the depth map and, when the system determines that a disparity between a pair of pixels satisfies a disparity threshold, the system may identify the pixel nearest the ego-machine as a hazard pixel.
US11840232B2
A driving assistance device includes a lane change detection unit, a lane identification unit, a first space determination unit, an operation control unit. The lane identification unit identifies an original lane and a destination lane by using a detection result obtained by a boundary detection unit that detects a first boundary and a second boundary. The first boundary is a boundary between the original lane and the destination lane, and the second boundary is a boundary that defines the original lane and is located on a side opposite to the first boundary. When it is detected that the own vehicle is scheduled to perform a lane change and it is determined that the passable space is present, the operation control unit causes the own vehicle to perform a lateral movement operation before the lane change is performed. The lateral movement operation causes the own vehicle to approach the destination lane.
US11840220B2
A driver assistance system according to an embodiment of present disclosure includes: a camera disposed on the vehicle to have an external field of view of a vehicle and configured to obtain image data; a radar disposed on the vehicle to have a field of sensing outside the vehicle and configured to obtain radar data; and a controller including a processor configured to process the image data and the radar data, and the controller is configured to determine whether a rear vehicle changes direction based on the image data obtained by the camera, determine whether there is a risk of collision with the rear vehicle based on the radar data when the rear vehicle does not change direction and control at least one of a steering system or a vehicle velocity control system of the vehicle to avoid the rear vehicle when it is determined that there is a risk of collision with the rear vehicle.
US11840219B2
Proposed is a method for controlling a vehicle through a multi System on Chip (SoC) system. Specifically, proposed is a method for controlling a vehicle, the method comprising the steps of: by means of a first SoC, requesting information to a second SoC or an Adaptive Driver Assistant System (ADAS); by means of the first SoC, receiving the information from the second SoC or the ADAS as a response to the request; by means of the first SoC, determining whether a vehicle is safe or not by using the received information; and by means of the first SoC, transmitting a command generated on the basis of the determination to the second SoC or the ADAS.
US11840211B2
Systems and methods that facilitate identifying and controlling the systems and subsystems in a vehicle to enable autonomous operation of the vehicle are disclosed. An autonomous vehicle interface (AVI) (the “AVI control system”) can interface with and control the system of the vehicle, thereby enabling control of the vehicle as a whole. Electronic control units may be associated with each of the systems and subsystems in the vehicle, and the AVI may interface with and control these electronic control units over a shared data bus. In order to control particular electronic control units, the systems and methods provide for sampling data packets transmitted by the electronic control units on the shared data bus, measuring the impedance of the shared data bus when data packets are being transmitted, and identifying particular electronic control units based on the measured impedance.
US11840207B2
Disclosed is a method of controlling an electronic stability control (ESC) integrated braking system, which includes, when a failure in which pressure is unable to be formed in a master cylinder unit is detected during braking of a vehicle by the ESC integrated braking system, maintaining, by a controller, a braking force applied during the braking by closing designated oil pressure relief valves for coupling the master cylinder unit and a flow channel of a circuit, and when pressure (PC1) of a pedal cylinder becomes equal to or greater than pressure (MC1) of the circuit based on the maintained braking force, by a brake pedal stepped on by a driver, controlling, by the controller, the designated oil pressure relief valves to be in an open state and then switching the state of the designated oil pressure relief valves to a mechanical backup state.
US11840200B2
A windshield wiper system has an articulating pivot for wiping a curved glass surface of a vehicle. The articulating pivot has a pivot shaft assembly (64) having a first pivot ball (160) separated by a distance from a second pivot ball (166). The pivot shaft assembly is encased in an outer housing (158) and each pivot ball is supported by a bearing. A pinion gear is integrated with one of the first pivot ball, the second pivot ball, and/or the pivot shaft. A rack gear is integrated into one of the bearings and/or the housing. Rotational movement of the pinion gear along the rack gear articulates the pivot shaft as the pivot shaft is rotated.
US11840198B2
A vehicle door trim panel has a vehicle interior-facing A-side and a vehicle door structure-facing B-side. The vehicle door trim panel includes a pocket portion that includes a side portion and a wall portion that surrounds and extends outward from the pocket portion. The wall portion has a first portion. The B-side of the first portion of the wall portion is concave and faces generally vehicle-downward. A thickness of the first portion of the wall portion is less than a thickness of the pocket portion adjacent to the first portion of the wall portion.
US11840197B2
A vehicle-mountable accessory for a vehicle includes an access platform or landing for accessing a portion of the vehicle. The accessory is removably coupled to the vehicle. The access platform may be pivotably operable between a stowed configuration for travel and a deployed configuration that provides access to the vehicle. A deployable step or set of stairs nest under or inside of the body of the access platform and slideably deploy from the access platform to provide additional access to reach the access platform. The stairs are returned to a nested configuration for travel. The set of stairs may also pivot during deployment to improve vertical access to the access platform. The accessory includes a storage unit for storage and support of various equipment, tools, and accessories. A piece of equipment, such as a generator, can be securely mounted on top of the storage unit.
US11840192B2
A panoramic window safety system applied to a vehicle moves a piston in a piston movement space of a piston carriage by a gas pressure of an inflator located on the bottom portion of a panoramic window space, and switches a wire that forms a side bending arrangement in the panoramic window space into an intermediate linear arrangement by a forward movement of the piston to be stood perpendicular to the panoramic window space to support an airbag covering the panoramic window space, preventing the risk of a passenger leaving when a panoramic window having the size at which the upper body of a passenger is exposed is damaged to meet the North American regulations that prescribe preventing the passenger from leaving.
US11840188B2
A component for a vehicle interior configured to provide a moveable panel/door is disclosed. The component may comprise a structural substrate and a reinforcement for the panel at a hinge area. The reinforcement may comprise a stitch pattern to reinforce the hinge area during movement of the panel. The stitch pattern may comprise thread sewn into the structural substrate. The stitch pattern may be pressed into a surface of the structural substrate. The structural substrate may comprise a compression-formed component, a generally rigid fiber mat, or a fiber panel. The stitch pattern may be concealed at an exterior surface of the component by a cover. The component may comprise at least one of an instrument panel, a door panel, a trim panel, a trim component, etc. A vehicle interior/trim component comprising a structural substrate with a reinforcement to provide a door/opening for airbag deployment is also disclosed.
US11840175B2
The inventive subject matter provides devices and methods for improving driving safety using information obtained from images taken by a camera in a device. Among other things, contemplated devices and methods can produce alarms when it appear from rates of speed and acceleration/deceleration, that a vehicle will likely go through a red light, or fail to stop or sufficiently slow down at a stop sign. A significant feature of preferred devices and methods is that they are not dependent on WI-FI, cellular, satellite and radio signals, or any other external data transmission, and are not even dependent on speed, acceleration, or other information native to the vehicle.
US11840171B2
The present disclosure relates to a system comprising a light assembly for a 360° illumination of a design element, in particular configured for a vehicle design element, comprising: one or more light pipes, wherein each light pipe comprises a core, and two or more light pipes and/or two end portions of one light pipe at least partially overlap, providing at least one region of overlap to substantially close a loop; one or more light sources, disposed at least partially within an interior of the system, wherein each light source is configured to emit light based on at least receiving electrical power from an electrical power source, and each light source is arranged adjacent to and directed towards at least one of the one or more light pipes such that the emitted light results in reflected light propagating within the core and diffuse light exiting the one or more light pipes along the same; and a lens substantially enclosing the interior, the one or more light pipes and the one or more light sources, wherein the lens, having an inner surface and an outer surface disposed opposite the inner surface, is provided with a continuous transparent and/or translucent coating on the outer surface, and with the one or more light sources receiving electrical power from the electrical power source, the continuous transparent and/or translucent coating is at least partially permeable to at least some of the diffuse light which is passed through the lens; wherein the continuous transparent and/or translucent coating depends on at least one characteristic of the one or more light pipes and/or the one or more light sources, and/or the transparent and/or translucent coating comprises a metal, an alloy or a conductive metalloid, preferably providing a chromium or chromium-based reflective coating, to provide a homogenous illumination of a 360° illumination window when the one or more light sources receive electrical power from the electrical power source.
US11840166B2
A boarding handrail includes: an outer pipe which is supported by a support member provided on a periphery of an entrance of a vehicle and of which one segment is removed to form a non-annular shape; an inner pipe that has a substantially C-shaped cross-section as seen from an axial direction, with the outside diameter smaller than the inside diameter of the outer pipe, and is disposed in the one segment by being suspended across one end and the other end of the outer pipe; a sheet member that continuously covers an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface of the inner pipe and is capable of being moved in a circumferential direction of the inner pipe by a driving device provided inside the inner pipe; and a disinfecting device that is provided inside the inner pipe and disinfects the sheet member by irradiating it with ultraviolet light.
US11840165B2
A vehicle head restraint includes a head restraint support, a first head restraint member fixedly coupled to the head restraint support, and a second head restraint member attached to the first head restraint member. The second head restraint member is selectively moveable relative to the first head restraint member.
US11840154B2
Electric vehicle charging management methods and systems are provided. First, a server receives a candidate charging request respectively from each of candidate charging stations or candidate mobile devices via a network. According to the candidate charging requests, at least one first charging station is selected from the candidate charging stations, and the first charging station is instructed to perform a first charging operation with an upper power limit value. The server sets the candidate charging requests of the candidate charging stations other than that of the first charging station to a pending state. When the first charging status information corresponding to the first charging operation meets an energy management condition, the server selects at least one second charging station from the candidate charging stations according to the candidate charging requests, and instructs the second charging station to perform a second charging operation with the upper power limit value.
US11840144B2
A deployable rollable display for a vehicle includes a vehicle component having at least one surface. A guide track is provided in the at least one surface. A screen deployment member is selectively shiftable through the at least one surface and along the guide track. A rollable display is spooled onto the screen deployment member.
US11840138B2
The invention relates to a thermal control system (100) for a vehicle, the thermal control system (100) comprising at least one first heat exchanger (110) and at least one second heat exchanger (120) that are arranged in series, the first heat exchanger (110) extending mainly on a first plane (P1) intersecting a second plane (P2) on which the second heat exchanger (120) mainly extends such that the first heat exchanger (110) is closer to the second heat exchanger (120) at respective first ends (111, 121) of the two heat exchangers (110, 120) and the first heat exchanger (110) is farther away from the second heat exchanger (120) at respective second ends (112, 122) of these two heat exchangers (110, 120).
US11840135B2
A battery pack support assembly includes a plurality of isolators disposed between an outer support frame of a battery pack and longitudinal rails of a vehicle frame. Each isolator includes a housing, an elastic body and a fastener. The housing defines a central opening and opposed flanges. The opposed flanges are secured to a respective longitudinal rail. The elastic body is disposed within the central opening of the housing. The fastener extends laterally through the central opening of the housing and secures the elastic body to the outer support frame of the battery pack.
US11840133B2
A torsion spring installation means for a vehicle sunroof, front frame and vehicle sunroof. The torsion spring may have spring coils, a first torsion arm and a second torsion arm. The torsion spring installation means has a recess, the recess being configured as a cavity having an opening, for the purpose of receiving the spring coils, and having a wall and a recess bottom; a receiving component, the receiving component having an opening part, in order to receive the first torsion arm; wherein a guide block is provided on a first wall face of the wall in a fixed manner, the guide block extending out from the first wall face in such a way that its size gradually diminishes. The present means provides convenience of installation and removal, ease of maintenance and replacement, effective prevention of water penetration, the ability to prevent jumping out and wobbling, an extended service life.
US11840130B2
A virtual visor system is disclosed that includes a visor having a plurality of independently operable pixels that are selectively operated with a variable opacity. A camera captures images of the face of a driver or other passenger and, based on the captured images, a controller operates the visor to automatically and selectively darken a limited portion thereof to block the sun or other illumination source from striking the eyes of the driver, while leaving the remainder of the visor transparent. The virtual visor system advantageously adopts a gradient blocking mode for the optical state of the visor that includes a blocker and a transition gradient, which has the effect of making updates to optical state of the visor less distracting. Additionally, the transition gradient in the optical state of the visor makes the virtual visor system more robust against errors in positioning the blocker on the visor.
US11840124B2
A piping system for an air conditioner that includes a refrigerant pipe that is formed of a plastic material and has a multi-layered pipe structure including an outer layer and an inner layer. The piping system provides a fluid flow between parts constituting the air conditioner system. A first flange formed of the plastic material and providing a connection between the refrigerant pipe and components constituting the air conditioner system. A second flange formed of the plastic material and connected to a charging valve for injecting a refrigerant into the refrigerant pipe.
US11840122B2
A thermal management system includes a cooling liquid circulation flow path, a refrigerant circulation flow path and a first heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger includes a first heat exchange portion and a second heat exchange portion. The cooling liquid circulation flow path includes a first heat exchange assembly, a second heat exchange assembly and a first branch. The thermal management system has a heating mode. After passing through the first heat exchange assembly, one path of the cooling liquid flows to the first branch, and another path of the cooling liquid flows to the second heat exchange assembly. The cooling liquid after flowing through the first branch and after flowing through the second heat exchange assembly merge and then flow to the first heat exchange portion. As a result, the number of heat exchangers used by the thermal management system to recover waste heat is reduced.
US11840121B2
A suspension includes a housing, a radius arm, a radius arm bush, and a shock absorber. Inclination angles θ1 and θ2 satisfy ΔF·tan θ2>M·tan θ1, in which: θ1 is an inclination angle at which a straight line coupling the center of the radius arm bush to the center of a rear wheel is inclined to a horizontal line, to lower toward the rear wheel, viewed from a side of the vehicle in a steady state; θ2 is an inclination angle at which an axis of expansion and shrink of the shock absorber is inclined to a vertical direction, to allow the shock absorber's upper end to more forward from the shock absorber's lower end; M is an unsprung mass of the suspension; and ΔF is an amount of increase in a vertical load on the rear wheel from the steady state during a shrinkwise stroke of the shock absorber.
US11840119B2
A movable object such as a mobile robot is designed to be driven indoors or outdoors with improved stability. Stability is enhanced by an attitude control mechanism to improve attitude stability of the movable object in a direction perpendicular to a driving direction thereof. The movable object includes an attitude control motor including a connecting shaft having a first end connected to a body part and a second end connected to a wheel, wherein the second end of the connecting shaft is located higher or lower than the first end of the connecting shaft.
US11840117B2
A ramp-equipped vehicle includes: a vehicle-height adjusting mechanism configured to adjust a vehicle height of a vehicle; a ramp configured to be movable between a deployed state and a stored state, the deployed state being a state where the ramp protrudes outwardly from the vehicle, the stored state being a state where the ramp is stored inside the vehicle; and a camera configured to detect a person coming closer to the vehicle. When the camera detects a person coming closer to a doorway of the vehicle during vehicle height adjustment by the vehicle-height adjusting mechanism, the vehicle height adjustment by the vehicle-height adjusting mechanism is interrupted.
US11840116B2
A method of communicating configuration data of a tire pressure monitoring device configured to be affixed to a wheel is disclosed. The method includes, at the tire pressure monitoring device, receiving a request to confirm configuration data, and responsive to receipt of the request to confirm configuration data, transmitting a configuration data signal which encodes the configuration data. The configuration data signal is configured to be received and understood by a human.
US11840112B2
A document, product, or package, such as a banknote, passport or the like comprises structures having dichroic effects that change color with viewing angle in both transmission and reflection. Such structures can be useful as security features that counter the ability to effectively use counterfeit documents, products, packages, etc.
US11840103B2
A carrier includes a body and a prong formed as a unilaterally fixed arm connected to the body at an end. The prong is folded in a longitudinal direction and has a kink. The prong is insertable into a tube shaped object and mechanically fixes the tube shaped object.
US11840096B2
A semiconductor device is adapted for controlling energization of a heating element that performs printing. The semiconductor device includes: a strobe signal input unit receiving a printing strobe signal that causes the heating element to generate heat for printing; a preheating strobe generation circuit generating a preheating strobe signal that causes the heating element to preheat by compressing a waveform of the printing strobe signal in a time axis direction; and an output controller outputting a control signal that controls energization of the heating element based on the printing strobe signal and the preheating strobe signal.
US11840094B2
A printing apparatus on which an ink tank containing ink to be used for printing is mounted, the printing apparatus including: a cover configured to be opened in a case where the ink tank is replaced; an operation unit configured for shifting to a replacement state in which the ink tank can be replaced; and a control unit configured to display a screen for guidance of a user operation for shifting the ink tank to the replacement state on a display unit if the cover is opened in a case where the ink tank can be replaced and shift the ink tank to the replacement state in a case where the operation unit is operated in a state where the screen is displayed on the display unit.
US11840082B2
A channel member of a liquid ejection head includes an ejection surface, an outer peripheral surface that is connected to an outer edge of the ejection surface and that faces outside of the ejection surface in a direction along the ejection surface, and a plurality of ejection holes that open in the ejection surface. The channel member includes a plurality of concave portions in the outer edge of the ejection surface, the plurality of concave portions being recessed in the ejection surface and being recessed in the outer peripheral surface. With the configuration, it is possible to collect, in the concave portions, a liquid (such as ink mist) that has leaked out from the ejection holes.
US11840079B2
An inkjet printing apparatus includes a printhead in which a plurality of ejection ports that eject ink are formed, a carriage mounted with the printhead and reciprocated in a predetermined direction, a conveyance unit to convey a print medium, a platen to support, at a printing position, the conveyed print medium, and an obtaining unit to obtain information regarding a distance from an ejection port surface of the printhead to the print medium at positions in the predetermined direction. The apparatus controls an ink ejection timing in accordance with the information regarding the obtained distance and information corresponding to the number of passes of printing, which is the number of times of moving the carriage to print the image in a unit area of the print medium.
US11840068B2
An example disclosed printer configured to peel media from a backing, the printer having a peeler assembly that is engageable between a peeling position, wherein the printer is configured to peel the media from the backing, and a non-peeling position, wherein the printer is not configured to peel the media from the backing. The printer further including a sensor configured to send a signal corresponding to a position of the peeler assembly. The printer further including a communication interface configured to receive the position of the peeler assembly from the sensor and configured to transmit the position of the peeler assembly to a secondary component.
US11840067B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of systems and methods that facilitate printer calibration. According to certain embodiments, calibration methods comprise a printer printing a calibration target and cutting a calibration target using an inline slitter. The printer then determines a calibration offset based on the position of the cut on the calibration target. The printer can then be calibrated according to gross amounts on the slitter and fine amounts at an ink applicator.
US11840065B2
A printer includes a platen on which a recording medium is placed, an ink head including a nozzle that discharges ink onto the recording medium placed on the platen and that moves in a main scanning direction, an upstream guide located on an upstream side of the platen in a secondary scanning direction and that guides the recording medium, the upstream guide including an upper surface tilted obliquely downward from a downstream side to the upstream side in the secondary scanning direction, and grit rollers provided in the platen and that move the recording medium in the secondary scanning direction. The upstream guide is recessed from the upper surface of the upstream guide, and includes a concave recess that indicates a position of each of the grit rollers in the main scanning direction so that a position of the grit roller is easily acknowledged when the recording medium is placed on the platen.
US11840063B2
A recording system includes a recording device including a recording unit configured to perform recording, and a drying device including a drying mechanism. The recording device includes a support surface configured to support the recording medium and provided downstream of the recording unit in the conveyance direction, the device is configured to be mounted on the recording device at a position where the support surface and the drying mechanism face each other, one of the recording device and the drying device includes a setting member configured to set a spacing between the support surface and the drying mechanism to a predetermined spacing when the drying device is mounted on the recording device, the drying mechanism functions when the spacing is set to the predetermined spacing by the setting member, and a function of the drying mechanism stops when the setting by the setting member is released.
US11840062B2
A three-dimensional object printing method includes first operation of concurrently performing ejection of liquid toward a workpiece by a head, emission of energy toward the workpiece by an energy emitter, and movement of the head and the energy emitter with respect to the workpiece by a moving mechanism, and second operation of concurrently performing emission of energy toward the workpiece by the energy emitter and movement of the head and the energy emitter with respect to the workpiece by the moving mechanism, without performing ejection of liquid by the head. A first irradiation distance, which is a distance between the workpiece and an emission face during execution of the first operation, and a second irradiation distance, which is a distance between the workpiece and the emission face during execution of the second operation, are different from each other.
US11840056B2
A splice tape is provided. The splice tape includes two internal support layers bonded at interface between opposing inner surfaces of the internal support layers. The support layers are formed utilizing a process and/or materials that ensure that the two internal support layers separate cleanly and consistently along the interface of the two internal support layers.
US11840054B2
A composite textile fabric that includes a first (face) fabric layer, and a second (back) fabric layer that is formed concurrently with the first fabric layer in a plaited construction. The second fabric includes a plurality of anchored regions at which the second fabric layer is anchored to, and in intimate contact with, the first fabric layer. The second fabric layer also includes a plurality of floating regions, overlying and unattached to the first fabric layer, interspersed between the anchored regions.
US11840053B2
The method for producing a skin material is a method for producing a skin material having a concave part formed on the front surface side, comprising heat-pressing a raw material between an embossing die and an elastic sheet to form the concave part and, at the same time, forming a convex part on a bottom surface of the concave part.
US11840047B2
A metal-clad laminate, a printed circuit board using the same and a method for manufacturing the metal-clad laminate. The metal-clad laminate comprises: a first dielectric layer, comprising a first dielectric material and not comprising a reinforcing fabric, the first dielectric material comprising 20 wt % to 60 wt % of a first fluoropolymer and 40 wt % to 80 wt % of a first filler; a second dielectric layer disposed on one side of the first dielectric layer and comprising a reinforcing fabric and a second dielectric material formed on the surface of the reinforcing fabric, wherein the thickness of the reinforcing fabric is not higher than 65 μm and the second dielectric material comprises 55 wt % to 100 wt % of a second fluoropolymer and 0 to 45 wt % of a second filler; and a metal foil disposed on the other side of the second dielectric layer that is opposite to the first dielectric layer.
US11840033B2
The invention provides a method producing contact lenses, comprising the step of: separating the mold into the male and female mold halves, with the silicone hydrogel contact lens adhered on one of the male and female mold halves; cooling the lens-adhere mold half with the molded silicone hydrogel contact lens adhered thereon; bringing a shaped ultrasonic horn in direct contact with at least one area of a non-optical surface of the female mold half or the male mold half having the molded silicone hydrogel contact lens attached thereon; and applying a ultrasonic vibrational energy to the at least one area of the non-optical surface of the female mold half or the male mold half having the molded silicone hydrogel contact lens attached thereon so as to separate the molded silicone hydrogel contact lens from the mold half attached thereon.
US11840030B2
A method for manufacturing a structural component of a blade segment for a rotor blade includes providing a mold of the structural component having an outer wall that defines an outer surface of the structural component. The method also includes laying up one or more fiber layers in the mold so as to at least partially cover the outer wall. As such, the fiber layer(s) form the outer surface of the structural component. Further, the method includes providing one or more metal mesh layers having one or more ends. Moreover, the method includes providing a cover material to the end(s) of the metal mesh layer(s). In addition, the method includes placing the metal mesh layer(s) with the covered end(s) atop the fiber layer(s). Thus, the method includes infusing the fiber layer(s) and the metal mesh layer(s) together via a resin material so as to form the structural component.
US11840022B2
A method is disclosed for use in additively manufacturing a composite structure from reinforcements wetted with a matrix. The method may include slicing a virtual model of the composite structure into multiple slices that are adjacent to each other along a length direction of the composite structure and determining points of the reinforcements passing through each of the multiple slices. The method may further include clocking the points differently around each of the multiple slices and generating at least one tool path including a sequenced subset of the points. The method may additionally include causing an additive manufacturing machine to discharge the reinforcements along the at least one tool path.
US11840021B2
A method of depositing a multiphase material. The method includes providing a Continuous Multifunctional Composite (CMC) phase containing at least one continuous element in a polymeric matrix, passing the CMC phase through a feeding system containing a cutting system, producing a predetermined length of the CMC phase, providing a flow a molten polymer such that the molten polymer and the CMC phase are merged into a continuous co-extrusion nozzle so as to produce a co-extruded multiphase material, and depositing the co-extruded multiphase material onto a surface. An apparatus for depositing a multiphase material. The apparatus contains a co-extrusion nozzle, a means to introduce a CMC phase and a molten polymer into the co-extrusion nozzle, such that the molten polymer and the CMC phase are co-extruded and deposited on a surface. An article containing a CMC phase containing continuous elements embedded in a polymer resin forming a multiphase structure.
US11840017B2
An improved additive fabrication device and a build platform are provided. The additive fabrication device is configured to form layers of material on a build surface. The additive fabrication device comprising: a build platform comprising: a rigid structure; an actuation structure attached to the rigid structure, wherein the actuation structure comprises one or more sheet handles and a flexible sheet, and wherein a first surface of the flexible sheet forms a build surface on which the additive fabrication device is configured to form layers of materials; and the one or more sheet handles are configured to be actuated to apply a force to the flexible sheet while at least a part of the actuation structure remains attached to the rigid structure, to deform at least a part of the flexible sheet away from the rigid structure.
US11840006B1
A flow head and a method for use with a blow molding apparatus. The flow head includes a flow head housing with a material flow cavity. The flow head housing includes a movable die pin mechanism which is moveable between an open position and a closed position. A main melt pipe is connected to the material flow cavity. The main melt pipe is maintained at a first temperature. A shot chamber mechanism is connected to the material flow cavity. The shot chamber mechanism is maintained at a second temperature, which is lower than the first temperature. Thermoplastic material is formed into a parison for the blow molding apparatus. As the movable die pin mechanism is positioned in the closed position, the thermoplastic material is moved to the shot chamber to prevent degradation of the thermoplastic material.
US11840005B2
Plastic profile extrusion system includes an extrusion die that pre-forms a hot, unfrozen plastic profile shape. Cooled calibration device receives the hot plastic in a longitudinal cavity through the calibration device to conductively cool the plastic as it holds the plastic profile to size and dimensions. For plastic parts with channels, inside corners, or other difficult to cool sections, the calibration device would require a metal ridge to hold the shape of that channel or corner as the heat is conducted from the hot plastic through the metal ridge into the body of the calibration device. This invention replaces metal ridges that hold the shape of the plastic profile during cooling in at least part of the calibration device with fluid cooling passages that communicates with the moving portion of the plastic profile and cooling medium to fill the flow passages to extract heat from the plastic material.
US11840004B2
An injection molding machine includes a belt transmission mechanism (mold opening/closing mechanism, ejector mechanism, screw drive mechanism, injection mechanism) configured to transmit drive force from a driving shaft (driving pulley) to a driven shaft (driven pulley) by means of a belt. The injection molding machine includes: a cover covering part or entirety of the belt; and a sensor attached to the cover and configured to detect an abnormality of the belt.
US11840003B2
A molded resin product includes a plurality of protrusions formed in a predetermined region. A histogram indicating a height distribution of the plurality of protrusions has two peaks having a boundary height as a boundary therebetween. In a case where protrusions having height equal to or smaller than the height Hx are first protrusions and protrusions having height larger than the boundary height are second protrusions among the plurality of protrusions, an arithmetic mean curvature of the first protrusions is smaller than an arithmetic mean curvature of the second protrusions.
US11839993B2
Discussed is an apparatus for notching an electrode sheet, the apparatus including a transfer unit having first and second transfer rollers provided on a bottom surface of the electrode sheet to transfer the electrode sheet at regular intervals, a jig unit provided below the electrode sheet, and supporting the bottom surface of the non-coating portion and a notching unit provided above the electrode sheet to notch the non-coating portion supported on the jig unit to provide the electrode tab, wherein the jig unit includes a rotation member provided between the first and second transfer rollers and rotated in a direction perpendicular to a transfer direction of the electrode sheet, two or more jigs provided on an outer circumferential surface of the rotation member to alternately support the non-coating portion disposed between the first and second transfer rollers when the rotation member is rotated.
US11839989B2
The knife includes a handle portion attached to a blade with a tip at its distal end. The blade comprises four surfaces that converge to form a spine and opposing cutting edges with each surface having a concave segment, a first angled segment, a flat segment, and a second angled segment as the surface extends from the spine to the edge. Similarly, the tip includes four surfaces that converge and terminate at a point, with each surface comprising only an angled segment. Optionally, the knife includes a unique safety lanyard that has two attachment points on the handle such that a closed loop is adjustably formed around the user's hand when gripping the handle, which aids in withdrawing the knife, stabilizing the user's grip, and preventing the hand from sliding forward while in use. Optionally, the knife includes a thumb plate as an additional safeguard.
US11839988B2
A power operated rotary knife including an annular rotary knife blade supported for rotation in a blade housing. The rotary knife blade including a body and a blade section extending from the body. The body includes an outer wall including an arcuate surface having an upper region extending from a first upper end portion to a second intermediate portion and a lower region extending from the second intermediate portion to a third lower end portion. A plurality of gear teeth extend downwardly from the upper end of the body, each of the plurality of gear teeth including an outer peripheral face forming a portion of the upper region of the arcuate surface of the outer wall. The body outer wall includes a bearing surface having a lower bearing face in the lower region of the arcuate surface and an upper bearing face in the upper region of the arcuate surface.
US11839985B2
A method for the control of a robot assembly having at least one robot. The method includes acquiring pose data from an object arrangement having at least one object, which data has a first time interval; determining modified pose data from the object arrangement, which data has a second time interval that is larger or smaller than the first time interval, or is equal to the first time interval, on the basis of the acquired pose data; and controlling the robot assembly on the basis of said modified pose data.
US11839974B2
A programmable motion system is disclosed that includes a dynamic end effector system. The dynamic end effector system includes an end effector that is coupled via a dynamic coupling to the programmable motion system, wherein the dynamic coupling provides that at least a portion of the end effector may spin with respect to an other portion of the end effector.
US11839968B2
A substrate transfer device includes a manipulator, a substrate gripping hand, an actuator configured to rotate the substrate gripping hand about a roll axis, and a controller adapted to operate the manipulator to hold a substrate by a first engaging member and a second engaging member of the substrate gripping hand, then operate the actuator so that a first principal surface of the substrate is located above a base member, and a normal line of the first principal surface is oriented downward from a horizontal plane, and move a movable guiding member toward the tip-end part of the base member so that the second engaging member, a third engaging member, and the movable guiding member grip the substrate.
US11839954B2
Magnetic coupling devices are disclosed having magnetic field sensors. The magnetic coupling device may include degaussing coils wrapped about pole extension shoes of the magnetic coupling device.
US11839949B2
A grinding and polishing device includes a main body, a grinding disk, a sample disk, a first console, and a second console. The main body includes a support table and a support column. The support table is coupled to the support column. The grinding disk is fixed on the support table and includes a polishing surface. The sample disk is fixed on the support column and configured to hold a preform. The first console is electrically coupled to the sample disk and used for controlling a distance between the preform held by the sample disk and the grinding disk. The second console is electrically coupled to the grinding disk and used for controlling a working state of the grinding disk for grinding and polishing the preform.
US11839946B2
A grinding machine tool with random eccentric orbital motion speed detection, the grinding machine tool comprises a body and a grinding disc, the body comprises a driving shaft and a tool holder connecting the grinding disc and having an eccentric distance relative to the driving shaft, and the grinding disc performs grinding in a random eccentric orbital motion when the driving shaft rotates. The grinding disc comprises at least one detected member on a side of the grinding disc facing the body for detecting a speed of the random eccentric orbital motion, and the at least one detected member defines a detection area with a range greater than or equal to twice the eccentric distance. Thereby, an accurate speed of the grinding disc performing the random eccentric orbital motion is obtained, so that the grinding operation of precision grinding which is gradually performed by automation is more precisely controlled.
US11839943B2
The present invention discloses a wheel positioning face scanning device comprising a rack to which a motor is fixed, an output end of the motor is fixedly connected vertically upward to a positioning disc, a center of the positioning disc is fixedly connected vertically upward to a positioning shaft, and a radial positioning ring is fixed at the top end of the positioning shaft, which is capable of improving wheel yield and processing quality.
US11839942B2
A method and system temporarily holds a workpiece, most suitably an aero engine turbine blade element during manufacture. The workholding system includes a support body with a contoured body surface, complementary to a workpiece surface, formed of a transparent material to define a bonding zone. The support body is supported by a base to form a workpiece shuttle, and a bond station receives the workpiece shuttle. Complementary zero-point locating elements on the shuttle and station assure accurate positioning. The bond station further has workpiece locating elements configured to accurately position the workpiece on the shuttle in a predetermined position relative to the zero-point locating elements of the shuttle, thereby compensating for shuttle-to-shuttle variance. An adhesive, such as a UV curable adhesive, is applied to the bonding zone and cured by UV through the transparent material, thereby fixing the workpiece in the predetermined position.
US11839936B2
To provide a sheet for sintering bonding and the same with a base material suited for lamination and integration and also suited for realizing satisfactory operational efficiency in a sintering process in a process of producing semiconductor devices that go through sintering bonding of semiconductor chips. A sheet for sintering bonding 10 of the present invention comprises an electrically conductive metal containing sinterable particle and a binder component. In this sheet, the minimum load, reached during an unloading process in load-displacement measurement according to a nanoindentation method, is −100 to −30 μN. Alternatively, the ratio of the minimum load to a maximum load, reached during a load applying process in the above measurement, is −0.2 to −0.06. A sheet body X, a sheet for sintering bonding with a base material of the present invention, has a laminated structure comprising a base material B and the sheet 10.
US11839917B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to polycrystalline diamond compacts that have a substrate including a cementing constituent constituting less than 13 weight percent (wt %) of the substrate, the cementing constituent including a cobalt alloy having and at least one alloying element, wherein the at least one alloying element constitutes less than 12 wt % of the substrate and wherein the cobalt constitutes less than 12 wt % of the substrate; and methods of making the same.
US11839910B2
Continuous insect-based biowaste processing apparatus has a tubular drum; a drive for rotatably driving the drum; a shaftless screw conveyor fixedly connected to an inner surface of the drum; circumferentially spaced cantilevered blades that (a) are connected to the inner drum surface and (b) each longitudinally extends throughout the drum; and a mechanism for introducing a conglomerate portion that includes biowaste and insect larvae into the drum interior. The screw conveyor is subdivided into longitudinally spaced chambers for the introduced insect larvae, each of the chambers being defined by two adjacent flights of the screw conveyor and by the blades. The size of the insect larvae progressively increases within a more distally located rearing chamber. Two or more blades firmly hold and unify the conglomerate portion throughout its residing time within the drum interior while being distally conveyed.
US11839905B2
An integrated and standalone vibrating base assembly for cleaning contact lenses having two selective modes of operation, each mode operably configured to produce different preset vibrational rotations per minute, and comprising a base housing defining a housing cavity, with at least one vibration motor disposed within the housing cavity, electrically coupled to a power source, and operably configured to selectively induce a vibration therefrom with at least one switch coupled to the base housing; and a bottom surface and an upper surface spanning inwardly toward the housing cavity from an upper edge of the base housing to define a concave recess sized to receive two contact lens containers, the upper surface of a friction-inducing, deformable, and polymeric material configured to support two contact lens containers and operably coupled to the at least one vibration motor and to receive a vibration thereon upon activation of the at least one switch.
US11839887B2
A hydraulic spray nozzle, a hydroseeding system and a method of dispersing bulk material with a hydraulic spray nozzle. The hydraulic spray nozzle may further include one or more of an inlet, a diffuser cone, an expansion chamber, one or more interior surface vanes, a converging nozzle and an outlet that fluidly cooperate with one another in order to increase the dispersal distance of the bulk material as it exits the hydraulic spray nozzle. In one form, the hydraulic spray nozzle is incorporated into a hydroseeding system or other bulk material dispersing system in order to apply seeds, mulch, fertilizer or related bulk materials over large swaths of land.
US11839885B2
A rotary atomization device includes a housing, a blowing device, a rotating drive device, a rotating shaft, a gas tube and an atomizing structure. The housing has an atomization room and a containing room which are communicated by a gas channel. The blowing device is arranged in the containing room, and the rotating drive device is arranged in the containing room or the atomization room. A drive shaft of the rotating drive device is connected with the rotating shaft connected with the gas tube. One end of the gas tube is arranged in the atomization room and has a gas inlet, and the other end is extended out of the housing and has a gas outlet. The atomizing structure is disposed on the bottom of the atomization room, and the blowing device blows towards the gas channel. The rotary atomization device can realize rotary spraying.
US11839884B2
A vortex breaker for a particulate separator has a first set of vanes spaced along a perimeter of a first shape and a second set of vanes spaced along a perimeter of a second shape, where the second shape resides within the first shape. Each of the vanes has a top edge, a bottom edge, an inside edge, and an outside edge. The vanes in the first and second sets of vanes intersect the first and second shapes, respectively. The vanes in the first set are oriented in a first rotational direction, and the vanes in the second set are oriented in a second rotational direction that is opposite the first rotational direction. The first set of vanes and the second set of vanes define fluid flow paths between the outside edges and the inside edges of the sets of vanes.
US11839862B2
One aspect of the invention relates to a method comprising a single-stage conversion of an atmospheric pollutant, such as NO, NO2 and/or SOx in a first stream to one or more mineral acids and/or salts thereof by reacting with nonionic gas phase chlorine dioxide (ClO20), wherein the reaction is carried out in the gas phase. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method comprising first adjusting the atmospheric pollutant concentrations in a first stream to a molar ratio of about 1:1, and then reacting with an aqueous metal hydroxide solution (MOH). Another aspect of the invention relates to an apparatus that can be used to carry out the methods disclosed herein. The methods disclosed herein are unexpectedly efficient and cost effective, and can be applied to a stream comprising high concentration and large volume of atmospheric pollutants.
US11839858B1
A system and related methods for monitoring and dosing peroxycarboxylic acids, particularly peracetic acid, in food processing applications based upon desired concentration of the processing solution. The concentration of the peroxycarboxylic acid measured and additional peroxycarboxylic acid being added to the processing solution if the measured concentration is below a threshold level of the desired concentration, and additional water being added to the processing solution if the measured concentration is above a threshold level of the desired concentration. The system and related methods capable of being used in utilized with either live stream or static, storage tank based systems, to keep the concentration of peroxycarboxylic acid at or near desired concentration levels while experiencing less variation than experienced with conventional flow-based or hand-mixed systems.
US11839848B2
The present invention relates to a method of implanting a blood clot removal device in a patient's body, by cutting the skin of the patient's body, dissecting an area of the patient's vascular system, placing the blot clot removal device at the dissected area, and connecting a blood flow passageway of the blood clot removal device to the patient's vascular system to allow circulation of the patient's blood through the blood flow passageway.
US11839847B2
An air purifier filter is proposed. The air purifier filter includes: a filter body having an inlet and an outlet therein such that air flows therethrough, and a receiving space having formed therein; a substrate provided in the receiving space of the filter body; and activated carbon attached to a surface of the substrate, wherein the substrate has a three-dimensional corrugated structure.
US11839846B2
An annular water removal system (AWRS) for an air cycle environmental control system (ECS) includes a line replaceable unit (LRU) configured to output air flow, and a water collector coupled to the LRU. The water collector includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion includes a coalescing unit having a collector inlet to receive the air flow and configured to coalesce moisture from the air flow output from the LRU. The lower portion includes a collection unit in fluid communication with the coalescing unit. The collection unit is configured to collect the moisture coalesced by the coalescing unit.
US11839841B2
The present invention discloses a cleaning liquid for a ship ballast water treatment filter, an online cleaning device and an online cleaning method. The online cleaning device comprises a filter cleaning pipeline and a cleaning liquid preparation tank located in the filter cleaning pipeline. The cleaning liquid preparation tank is provided with a cleaning liquid outlet and a cleaning liquid reinjection opening. The filter cleaning pipeline comprises a cleaning liquid injection pipeline located between the cleaning liquid outlet of the cleaning liquid preparation tank and a filter water inlet, and a cleaning liquid reinjection pipeline located between a filter water outlet and a cleaning liquid reinjection opening of the cleaning liquid preparation tank. The cleaning liquid prepared in the cleaning liquid preparation tank is injected into the filter through the cleaning liquid injection pipeline and is re-injected into the cleaning liquid preparation tank through the cleaning liquid reinjection pipeline.
US11839820B2
A method and apparatus for generating a game character model, a processor, and a terminal are provided. The method includes: a user map corresponding to a two-dimensional user image to be used is acquired; the user map is mapped to an initial map of a game character to obtain a mapped map of the game character; and the mapped map and a game character grid are fused to generate a game character model. The present disclosure solves the technical problem that face mapping and face fusion provided in the related art are generally applied to two-dimensional face images but cannot be applied to a three-dimensional game environment.
US11839816B2
A method for controlling movement of a virtual object in a virtual environment is performed at a terminal. The method includes: obtaining first recorded trajectory information, the first recorded trajectory information being information that is recorded when a first user account of an online gaming application controls a first virtual object to race in a virtual scene and is used for drawing a movement trajectory of the first virtual object; displaying a racing battle interface, the racing battle interface being used for presenting a racing battle including a second virtual object and a third virtual object, the second virtual object being a virtual object controlled by a second user account of the online gaming application, the third virtual object being a virtual object controlled by a computer; and controlling movement of the third virtual object according to the first recorded trajectory information in the racing battle.
US11839814B2
In a multiplayer video game, virtual cameras are controlled by continually assessing and ranking storylines relating to the interactions of various players during a game session. A ranking for each storyline may be based on various factors such as, but not limited to, what the players can see, the distance between certain players, nearby game items or in-game. Subsequently, at least one virtual camera is navigated to provide a view of the highest-ranking storyline, subject to certain limitations on how the camera can move, transition, or otherwise display the interactions between players. In embodiments, a set of rules including rules of cinematography, are used to provide additional control of the movement of the virtual camera. In embodiments, movements of a human camera-person are used on a mocap system to control the movement of the virtual camera.
US11839810B2
A game controller for a mobile device, the game controller having a first handle, a bridge, a first spring mechanism, and a first latch mechanism. The first handle is configured to contact and support a mobile device and includes a user-accessible, first hardware interface on a main body portion of the first handle. The bridge is in sliding engagement with the first handle. The bridge and the first handle are configured for the main body portion of the first handle to translate in a retraction direction toward a midline of the bridge and into a retracted configuration and also to translate in an extension direction away from the midline of the bridge into an extended configuration. The first spring mechanism is configured to bias the first handle toward the retracted configuration. The first latch mechanism is configured to temporarily lock the bridge in the extended configuration.
US11839807B2
The server device includes: a storage unit that associates and stores multiple first characteristic data sets for each user and associates and stores second characteristic data for each group to which the multiple first characteristic data sets belong; a different-user-selecting unit that selects a different user when a predetermined event occurs while a game is being played; a group formation-assessing unit that determines whether or not all of the first characteristic data sets belonging to a group are included in the first characteristic data sets associated with the user and the different user; and an action-executing unit that executes predetermined actions using, in addition to the first characteristic data sets associated with the user and the different user, the second characteristic data associated with the group for which it has been determined that all of the pertinent first characteristic data sets are included.
US11839788B2
The present disclosure provides a portable anchor apparatus comprised of a modular and foldable frame structure which folds down to a compact shape having a storage compartment with a pair of wheels. The apparatus provides a wide variety of horizontal, vertical, and ground level anchor points and has horizontal bars which can be mounted at different vertical heights to suit a user's needs for various exercises. A kit is also provided herein, the kit comprising the anchor apparatus, a resistance band apparatus, and one or more items capable of being stored within the storage compartment.
US11839787B2
An exercising device for fitness training includes a main body forming a container, and a first end and a second end. The main body defines a length between the first end and the second end. The container has an outer surface, an inner surface, and a substantially hollow cylindrical shape with a cross-section which varies between the first end and the second end such that the outer surface and the inner surface define a waveform. A first cover is detachably arranged on the first end and a second cover is detachably arranged on the second end. The container can be filled with a liquid which causes the exercising device to vibrate when it flows through the main body at varying speeds. In addition, a method for operating the exercising device is provided.
US11839783B1
An electric outlet fire detection and prevention system may comprise a temperature sensor and an electromagnetic interference (EMI) sensor. A processor within the system may monitor the measurements of the temperature and EMI sensors to determine that a fire has developed in an electric outlet box. The processor may then actuate a triggering mechanism in a cartridge containing fire extinguishing material such that the fire extinguishing material is dispersed in the outlet box. The fire extinguishing material may extinguish a developing fire and prevent the fire from spreading further. The processor may also be coupled with a server, which is configured to analyze measurements of the temperature and the EMI sensors and generate a building profile. When the server determines that any measurements deviate from the building profile, the server may instruct the processor to actuate the triggering mechanism and/or notify an electronic device associated with the building.
US11839781B1
A wearable device for comprehensive bio-monitoring of physiologic metrics to determine metabolic, pulmonary and cardiac function and oxygen saturation measurements from breathing mask apparatuses. The device non-invasively monitors the physiologic profile of the subject, and is capable of detecting physiologic changes, predicting onset of symptoms, and alerting the wearer or another person or system. In some embodiments, the device comprises both a wearable sensor suite and a portable gas composition and flow analysis system. In preferred embodiments, it comprises a miniaturized non-invasive sensor suite for detecting physiologic changes to detect dangerous breathing or other health conditions. The acquired physiologic profile is used to generate alarms or warnings based on detectable physiological changes, to adjust gas delivery to the subject, alter mission profiles, or to transfer control of the craft or other duties away from a debilitated subject. The device is compact, portable, vehicle independent and non-encumbering to the subject.
US11839771B2
An implantable apparatus for providing tumor treating fields to a target site is disclosed. The implantable apparatus includes an inflatable body having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of stimulation zones coupled to the inflatable body. The stimulation zones are configured to produce an electric field. Inflation of the body causes elongation of the body along the longitudinal axis.
US11839769B2
A computing device includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include providing an alternating electrical signal to a patient through at least a pair of electrodes, and determining transthoracic impedance of the patient from a measurement associated with the applied alternating electrical signal. Operations also include identifying, from the transthoracic impedance, a sequence of resistance values for controlling the discharge of a charge storage device located external to the patient, and controlling the discharge of the charge storage device using the identified sequence of resistance values.
US11839766B2
A neuromodulation system comprising: at least one input means for inputting patient data into the neuromodulation system; at least one model calculation and building means for building a patient model, the patient model describing the anatomy and/or physiology and/or pathophysiology and the real and/or simulated reaction of the patient on a provided and/or simulated neuromodulation; at least one computation means for using the patient model (M) and calculating the impact of the provided and/or simulated neuromodulation. The present invention further relates to a method for providing neuromodulation.
US11839762B2
The present disclosure provides a neuromodulation medical treatment device and a medical treatment neuromodulation method for stimulating peripheral nerves. The device comprises a pulse generator and at least one active electrode connected to the pulse generator. The at least one active electrode has an electrically conductive surface of less than or equal to 0.3100 square inch and the electrically conductive surface is attachable to a patient's skin in a proximity of branches of peripheral nerves. The at least one active electrode is adapted to stimulate via the electrically conductive surface the peripheral nerves by electrical pulses generated by the pulse generator. The control unit controls the pulse generator and sets at least one parameter of generated electrical pulses.
US11839760B2
A system and method are provided that include a power supply having positive and negative terminals. The negative terminal defines a reference ground. First and second electrodes are positioned within a patient and configured to be located proximate to tissue of interest that is associated with a target region. A control circuit is configured to control delivery of current for a therapy between the first and second electrodes. A current regulator (CR) circuit is connected to, and configured to control current flow through, at least the first electrode during delivery of the therapy under direction of the control circuit. A floating power supply is connected across power supply terminals of the CR circuit. The CR circuit and floating power supply are coupled to a floating ground node that is electrically separate from the reference ground.
US11839751B2
An apparatus (300) for suspending air bubbles in a fluid path of a fluid injector system includes an internal chamber (320) having a curved interior wall (322) defined within the housing (310), an inlet fluid pathway in fluid communication with the internal chamber, and an outlet fluid pathway in fluid communication with the internal chamber. The inlet fluid pathway extending into the chamber at a tangent to the curved interior wall, and the outlet fluid pathway spaced from the inlet fluid pathway such that fluid flowing into the internal chamber via the inlet fluid pathway is directed away from the outlet fluid pathway. The internal chamber is configured to create an internal fluid vortex in an injection fluid entering the internal chamber from the inlet fluid pathway, and wherein the internal fluid vortex at least temporarily suspends air bubbles in the fluid in the internal vortex and delays the passage of the air bubbles to the outlet fluid pathway.
US11839750B2
The present invention relates to an injection device that includes a housing having an axis, and a needle sleeve that is axially movably within the housing. Axial movement of the needle sleeve into the housing is configured to actuate an injection process. The needle sleeve includes a first part that is slidably mounted to the housing, and a second part that protrudes from the housing and is rotationally coupled to the first part. The needle sleeve includes a locking mechanism that is configured to prevent axial movement of the needle sleeve into the housing until the second part of the needle sleeve has been rotated relative to the first part of the needle sleeve.
US11839747B2
A nested syringe comprising: a first chamber comprising: an inner tube extending from a base of the first chamber and defining a base opening in the base; an adapter tube in fluid communication with the inner tube via the base opening; at least one base port in the base for providing fluid communication between the adaptor tube and a first inner volume of the first chamber; a second chamber, adapted for insertion into the first chamber wherein the second chamber comprises a third port adapted to provide fluid communication between the inner tube and a second inner volume of the second chamber and adapted for preventing fluid communication between the first inner volume and the second inner volume when the second chamber is inserted into the first chamber and the inner tube penetrates the third port; and a plunger, wherein the plunger is adapted for insertion into the second chamber.
US11839741B2
An apparatus, system and method for regulating fluid flow are disclosed. An apparatus for infusing fluid into a patient infusion apparatus includes a drip-chamber seat configured to receive a drip chamber; a tube seat configured to receive a tube fluidly coupled to the drip chamber, the tube including a plurality of conduits for fluid flow therethrough; a plunger configured to engage with the tube; and a user actuator configured to actuate the plunger.
US11839738B2
A medication infusion device includes a pre-filled medication container containing sterile liquid medication. The medication infusion device also includes an infusion needle and the infusion needle has a distal end, wherein the distal end of the infusion needle is movable relative to the pre-filled medication container. There is a pierceable elastomeric component arranged at the distal end of the infusion needle to define a sterile environment, and this sterile environment is shared by the pre-filled medication container and the distal end of the infusion needle. The distal end of the infusion needle is embedded in a pierceable elastomeric component in order to keep the infusion needle enclosed in the sterile environment and prevent medication from flowing out of the infusion needle.
US11839733B2
Various exemplary devices and methods are provided for performing surgical procedures. In general, one or more adjuncts can be used in conjunction with surgical instruments. The adjunct(s) can have medicant(s) thereon and/or therein. The medicant(s) can vary depending on the desired effect of the medicant(s) on surrounding tissue. As a non-limiting example, medicant(s) can be provided to influence hemostasis, inflammation, macrophages, and/or fibroblasts. When used in conjunction with a surgical stapler, the adjunct(s) can be disposed between and/or on jaws of the stapler, incorporated into a staple cartridge disposed in the jaws, or otherwise placed in proximity to the staples. When staples are deployed, the adjunct(s) can remain at the treatment site with the staples.
US11839713B2
A method and apparatus that reduces the time and trauma associated with tissue removal procedures such as Ultrasound Assisted Liposuction, which emulsifies and then extracts unwanted adipose from a patient's target zone. Emulsification and suction are optimized and performed in a synchronous manner by a single apparatus to improve the outcome and minimize, if not eliminate, the limitations, risks and complications caused by current state of the art techniques.
US11839706B2
An aerosol-generating system may include an electrical power supply, an electrical heater connected to the electrical power supply, and a substrate container. The substrate container may define a blind cavity containing an aerosol-forming substrate in the form of a gel that is a solid at room temperature. The electrical heater is external to the substrate container and configured to heat the substrate container to generate a vapor without contacting the aerosol-forming substrate. As result, the possibility of unwanted materials building up on the electrical heater can be reduced, thereby providing a more reliable and consistent performance.
US11839693B2
An implantable article comprising a dissolvable sponge derived from the mixture of chitosan, a first polysaccharide and a second polysaccharides. The polysaccharides have different number average molecular weight characteristics to enable the control of the mechanical features of the sponge.
US11839690B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a wound dressing layer. The wound dressing layer may include an open-cell foam. The foam may have a 50% compression force deflection of not more than about 4.8 kPa. The foam may also have a density of at least 24 kg/m3. The foam may exhibit a density increase of a factor of at least 12 at about −75 mmHg.
US11839689B2
This disclosure provides formulations of enzalutamide and their use for treating hyperproliferative disorders.
US11839686B2
RNA encoding an immunogen is delivered in a liposome for the purposes of immunisation. The liposome includes lipids which have a pKa in the range of 5.0 to 7.6 and, preferably, a tertiary amine. These liposomes can have essentially neutral surface charge at physiological pH and are effective for immunisation.
US11839680B2
A cosmetic or dermocosmetic agent consisting of: galactomannans having molecular weights between 5 and 630 kDa, and crosslinked sulfated galactans having molecular weights between 7 and 3000 kDa. Methods of using the agent, including for skin tensing and rejuvenation.
US11839678B2
The disclosure relates to hair color bases comprising (a) a surfactant system, (b) an alkaline component, (c) at least one chelating agent, (d) optionally, at least one natural oil, and (e) a solvent system, hair color altering compositions comprising the hair color bases, kits, and methods of altering the color of the hair.
US11839671B2
An oral care composition with tin, polyol with five or more carbon atoms, water, and a pH of greater than 7. An oral care composition with a tin ion source, a fluoride ion source, a polyol with five or more carbon atoms, water, and a pH of greater than 7. Oral care compositions with a high tin ion availability.
US11839669B2
At least one embodiment, relates to a method for making cosmetic emulsions comprising the steps of preparing a uniform (suspension) dispersion of at least one water soluble polymer in a mixture containing at least one fatty alcohol. The mixture is to be sufficiently uniform to be processed by flaking, pastillating, prilling or otherwise solidifying the mixture which is then to be added to a cosmetic emulsion oil phase before combining with a water phase.
US11839664B1
Base material arrangements having at least two layers can accommodate the addition of antifungal material (nanofiller), such as in denture base resin without significantly compromising the mechanical properties and/or translucency of the base material arrangements. Antifungal agents such as nanosilver and nanozirconia can be used to modify a surface layer of the material arrangements, such as the denture base, to overcome certain known shortcomings of the modified materials, e.g., typical acrylic resins containing nanosilver and nanozirconia.
US11839659B2
Disclosed are proteolysis-targeting chimeric molecules (PROTACs) that induce degradation of IDO protein. The disclosed PROTACs typically include a first targeting moiety that binds to IDO (MIDO). The first targeting moiety typically is linked via a bond or a linker (L) to a second targeting moiety that binds to an E3 ubiquitin ligase (ME3). As such, the disclosed PROTACS may be described as having a formula MIDO-L-ME3 or ME3-L-MIDO.
US11839646B2
The present invention relates antidotes to anticoagulants targeting factor Xa. The antidotes are factor Xa protein derivatives that bind to the factor Xa inhibitors thereby substantially neutralizing them but do not assemble into the prothrombinase complex. The derivatives describe herein lack or have reduced intrinsic coagulant activity. Disclosed herein are methods of stopping or preventing bleeding in a patient that is currently undergoing anticoagulant therapy with a factor Xa inhibitor.
US11839645B2
The present invention concerns a postbiotic composition comprising at least one postbiotic and at least one bacteriocin and/or endolysin, preferably formulated, and a postbiotic composition comprising at least one postbiotic and at least one bacteriocin and/or endolysin for use as a medicament, wherein said postbiotic is preferably a microbial lysate, preferably obtained from microorganisms heterologously expressing said at least one bacteriocin and/or endolysin and wherein said at least one postbiotic and said at least one bacteriocin and/or endolysin have a synergistic effect in the therapeutic treatment.
US11839643B2
A pharmaceutical composition contains an antibody or a fragment thereof specific for COL6A3 for the treatment of a cancer. A method of treating a cancer includes administering to a subject in need thereof the pharmaceutical composition. A kit includes a container that contains the pharmaceutical composition. A method of producing an antibody or a fragment thereof against a peptide or a MHC/peptide complex. A method for detecting a diseased tissue includes administering to a subject in need thereof an antibody or a fragment thereof conjugated to a radioisotope and detecting a signal from the radioisotope in the subject. A method for treating a diseased tissue includes administering to a subject in need thereof an antibody or a fragment thereof conjugated to a toxin.
US11839642B2
Carrier compositions, including human-safe phages, equipped with one or more angiogenin-binding peptides, and optionally with tumor-homing peptides for use in anti-tumor therapies, are described. The angiogenin-binding peptides bind to and inactivate angiogenin molecules thereby blocking their angiogenic activity thus inhibiting angiogenesis in the tissue in which the compositions are localized.
US11839639B2
In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a composition comprising an aqueous or ethanolic extract of at least one herb selected from the group consisting of Aloe barbadensis (:F3), Rheum palmatum L. (:B6), Stephania tetrandra (:C4), Phellodendron chinense Schneid. (:D8), Euphorbia humifusa (:S6), Eclipta prostrata (:I2), A. venetum L. (:F1), Portulaca oleracea L. (:F5), and Sanguisorba officinalis L. (:E5), Camellia sinensis var. assamica (Mast.) Kitamura (:PE) and Punica granatum. (:PG), and mixtures thereof. The composition is administered to a patient, in an effective amount, in a method of treating, inhibiting, preventing, reducing the incidence of, ameliorating or resolving a disease state or condition caused in part or exacerbated by hyperactivity of the androgen receptor (AR), by inhibiting the androgen receptor protein. These compositions may also be used inhibit or stabilize hair loss or grow hair in a subject in need.
US11839636B1
A pharmaceutical composition containing dry powder of pine (Pinus) needles and dry peels and pits of grapes extract and pharmaceutically acceptable additive, dry extracts of ginger (Zingiber officinale), green tea (Camellia sinensis), yellow ginger (Curcuma longa), yellow mustard (Brassica hirta) seeds, white pepper, pomegranate (Punica granatum) bark and dry powder of pomegranate (Punica granatum) juice.
US11839634B2
The present invention relates to the use of a composition comprising bacteria to increase the intestinal production of butyric acid, folic acid or niacin and/or to decrease the intestinal production of succinic acid. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of said composition for the treatment and/or prevention of an intestinal butyrate- and/or succinate-dependent pathological condition. In particular, for the treatment and/or the prevention of intestinal inflammation, diarrhoea, ulcerative colitis or intestinal colopathies.
US11839632B2
Compositions, systems and methods of improving the health of the microbiome of an individual's skin relate to the provision of skin contacting formulations containing beneficial bacteria and other microbe components to foster the growth and maintenance of a healthy skin microbiome. Embodiments include methods for treating an individual suffering from acne vulgaris by topically administering a composition that includes live bacteria selected from the group consisting of L. reuteri, L. johnsonii, L. crispatus, C. acnes, and Nitrosomonas eutropha, that have been modified by using a using a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) CRISPR associated protein (Cas) system or a CRISPR from Prevotella and Francisella 1(Cpf1) system to reduce the production of a virulence factor of the bacteria.
US11839627B2
Compositions and methods for the treatment of pruritic ani and anal fissures are described. The compositions include one or more of Calamine (USP) or zinc oxide (ZnO), aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH)3) or kaolin, glycerin, and menthol (or any compound which activates the menthol receptor (TRPM8)). The composition does not contain any hydrocarbon-based pharmaceutical carrier such as petroleum jelly, white petrolatum, mineral oil, hard paraffin, soft paraffin, microcrystalline wax, ceresine, or hard fats. Methods of treating pruritic ani and anal fissures by topical application(s) of the compositions to affected perianal or anal epidermis are also described.
US11839619B2
Methods for treating pediatric patients with systemic mastocytosis are described by administering midostaurin.
US11839618B2
The invention provides an agent for promoting adhesion of a corneal endothelial cell, containing a Rho kinase inhibitor, as well as a culture medium for a corneal endothelial cell, a solution for preservation of cornea, and a method of producing a corneal endothelial preparation, which includes culturing the corneal endothelial cell using the aforementioned culture medium.
US11839617B2
This invention relates to agents that are inhibitors or activators of variant forms of endogenous proteins and novel methods of identifying such variants. Of particular interest are inhibitors and activators of endogenous protein variants, encoded by genes which have mutated, which variants often arise or are at least first identified as having arisen following exposure to a chemical agent which is known to be an inhibitor or activator of the corresponding unmutated endogenous protein.
US11839615B2
The present invention relates to adenosine receptor agonist compounds and methods of use thereof for treatment of certain disorders and conditions, for example an addiction or compulsive disorder. Exemplary compounds for use in disclosed methods include: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
US11839614B2
The disclosure provides methods, treatments and materials for enhancing the effect of an adenosine A2 receptor agonist in the treatment, mitigation or prophylaxis of a disease or condition characterized by inotropic and/or lusitropic dysfunction, and/or enhancing adenosine A2 receptor function in the treatment, mitigation or prophylaxis of a disease or condition characterized by impaired adenosine A2 receptor function, comprising administration of an effective amount of a PDE1 inhibitor to a patient in need thereof, for example a patient suffering from heart failure.
US11839608B2
The disclosed invention provides an antibacterial pro-coagulant formula for assisting in combating the condition of bleeding gums caused by periodontal disease and gingivitis that enhances the natural healing process by assisting in the of cessation of bleeding by providing an “anti-bacterial oral healing environment” accompanied by enhanced blood flow to the affected bleeding area for more rapid blood clotting and increased blood flow to the affected area to assist the body's natural process of rebuilding healthy gum-tissue. Additionally, the disclosed invention with its antibacterial benefits, when used topically, provides for rapid surface skin blood clotting as well as increased blood circulation on the skin surface which greatly aids in the healing of external skin cuts, such as nicks from shaving or against inflammation of the skin from acne vulgaris. Continued use of the product orally and topically has proven to provide a beneficial stability to overall oral and skin health, especially useful in promoting healing in high-bacterial environments, such as is common in a person's mouth or on their face. Further described is a method of promoting hair follicle growth by application of the presented invention to a human scalp to promote blood flow to the scalp through below skin surface blood vessel dilation and below surface anti-bacterial cleansing of the scalp effecting an unrestricted and healthy skin tissue environment conducive to promoting hair follicle re-growth.
US11839603B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an ascorbic acid formulation that can be prepared by a simple method, and that has a reduced unpleasant taste and coloration. The inventors found that an ascorbic acid formulation that is in the form of a water-in-oil type emulsion, that comprises an aqueous phase with a pH of 4 or more and an average particle size of 300 nm or less, and that has a mass ratio of water/ascorbic acid of 0.05 to 0.40 has a reduced unpleasant taste and coloration; and accomplished the present invention. Additionally, the present invention can be prepared by a simple method.
US11839579B2
Spinal weighting devices has pairs of adjustable padding on supporting frames for making contacting selected portions of the core or trunk of a patient and includes an extending armature for applying force to urge at least one of the contacting pads to adjust the spine and/or cause the selective strengthening of muscles or muscles groups to correct scoliosis. The opposing padding members are disposed at oblique angles to correct spinal rotation as well as lateral curvature.
US11839564B1
A knee brace includes a first portion for securement to the thigh region, a second portion for securement to the calf region, and pivotal coupling of the upper region to the lower region. A special pad is used for contacting each region of the leg, which pad is received in a shell that includes a plurality of ventilation openings, and which pad includes a plurality of thru-openings interconnected with the ventilation openings in the shell, and grooves that interconnect the plurality of openings in the pad. The openings and grooves in the pad serve to better grip the wearer's leg and reduce the tensioning needed by the straps to maintain the brace in position. The upper cuff and/or lower cuff may be adjustably secured to the arms of the hinge using T-shaped mounting studs that mate with a corresponding cruciform-shaped opening in the hinge arms.
US11839563B2
Described herein are systems and devices for providing an orthopedic walking brace having a housing and a sole with a curved distal surface. The housing is configured to encompass and immobilize a patient's ankle against flexion. The distal surface of the sole has a posterior region, a mid region, and an anterior region. The posterior region is configured to lie under a heel portion of the patient's foot and has a first anterior-posterior (AP) curvature that increases from a posterior side of the posterior region toward a middle portion of the posterior region and decreases from the middle portion of the posterior region toward the mid region. The mid region is configured to lie under a center portion of the patient's foot. The anterior region is configured to lie under an anterior metatarsal and toe portion of the patient's foot and has a second AP curvature.
US11839561B2
An apparatus for retracting a sheath from over an expandable medical device includes a shell, configured to couple to a longitudinal element, a carriage disposed within the shell and configured to couple to the sheath, and a lever protruding from the shell. The lever is configured to retract the sheath while a distal end of the longitudinal element contacts the expandable medical device, by rotating proximally so as to move the carriage proximally by a first distance, and, subsequently to rotating proximally, sliding proximally so as to move the carriage proximally by a second distance. Other embodiments are also described.
US11839555B2
Devices and methods for bone fixation including a bone fixation system including a bone plate or intervertebral spacer including a plurality of apertures dimensioned to receive bone fasteners and at least one polymeric element capable of transitioning from a solid state to a flowable state. The polymeric element transitions to a flowable state as a result of exposure to ultrasonic vibration. The polymeric element is placed on the bone plate or intervertebral spacer adjacent a fastener in an aperture and acts to prevent rotational and/or translational movement of the fastener relative to the bone plate or intervertebral spacer.
US11839551B2
A system for surgical registration. The system may include at least one computing device in communication with a surgical navigation system and the surgical device. The at least one computing device: a) receiving external bone registration data corresponding to locations on the exterior surface of the femur; b) calculating a first registration transform based on the external bone registration data; c) transforming a first bone removal plan of a surgical plan to the operative coordinate system based on the first registration transform; d) receiving internal bone canal registration data corresponding to at least one of location or orientation data from the inner canal of the femur; e) calculating a second registration transform based on both of the external and internal bone canal bone registration data; and f) transforming a second bone removal plan of the surgical plan to the operative coordinate system based on the second registration transform.
US11839547B2
Disclosed are system and methods that use at least one non-threaded anchor and an implant with at least one aperture to join boney structures, where the interaction of the head of the anchor with the implant aperture causes the anchor to move transversely with respect to an initial trajectory. This movement causes compression or distraction of the boney structures which are coupled to the anchors.
US11839537B2
An apparatus for eye surgery may comprise a nozzle having a delivery lumen, an implant bay coupled to the nozzle, an implant disposed in the implant bay, and an actuator coupled to the implant bay. The actuator may comprise a housing, a plunger disposed within the housing, a bore through the plunger, a first coupling proximate to a first end of the plunger, and a second coupling integral to the housing. The bore may be fluidly coupled to the implant bay. The first coupling may be configured to receive a hydraulic driver and fluidly couple a working fluid in the hydraulic driver to the bore. A portion of the plunger may be slidingly disposed through the second coupling. In some embodiments, the second coupling may be configured to retain a drive coupling of the hydraulic driver in a fixed position relative to the housing.
US11839534B2
A dispenser of hygiene products, including feminine pads and tampons activated by a motion sensor. A motion of a person's hand or other object within a given distance from the motion sensor will close an electronic circuit causing a motor to rotate. The motor is attached to a shaft which rotates. The shaft retains a product dispenser. The product dispenser transports one of the hygiene products to a retrieval tray. A time delay reduces the likelihood of or prevents someone from continuously activating the motion sensor to dispense all of the products in the machine.
US11839527B2
A new and improved NPWT bandage which is simple, inexpensive, easy-to-use, small in size (including having a low profile), is atraumatic to the wound during use, has improved pump efficiency, incorporates an automatic pressure indicator for indicating the level of negative pressure created, and provides an automatic pressure limiter for limiting the level of negative pressure created.
US11839526B2
A blood flow regulator for creating a shunt in the heart, comprising; a proximal element having a general disc-shape, defined by a braid of one or more wires extending about a central aperture of the proximal element; a distal element having a general disc-shape, defined by a braid of one or more wires extending about a central aperture of the distal element; and a third element defining a neck section intermediate the proximal and distal elements and forming a cavity having a diameter no greater than a diameter of each of the distal and proximal elements, wherein said distal element comprises at least one loop of a wire extending radially outwardly from a center of the distal element and returning towards said center of said distal element.
US11839522B2
The present invention relates to a dental implant (100, 100′, 500) and to a kit for said dental implant. In order to provide dental implants (100, 100′, 500) which meet the general requirements for a successful implantation and use and which can be easily adapted to bone variations and implant offerings, it is proposed according to the invention that the dental implant (100, 100′, 500) comprises a ceramic base body (130, 530), a ceramic abutment (120, 120′, 520), a ceramic tooth structure (110), and/or a connector (1, 1′, 1″, 5) for connecting of base body (130, 530), abutment (120, 120′, 520) and/or tooth structure (110) to each other, and a bushing body (6), which is at least in a final assembly state (E) of the dental implant (100, 100′, 500) received at least partly in the base body (130, 530), in the abutment (120, 120′, 520) and/or in the tooth structure (110) or surrounds the connector (1, 1′, 1″, 5) at least in sections.
US11839510B2
Systems, processes, and apparatuses are provided for imaging a body part of a patient such as an eye of the patient. In some embodiments, a process is provided for adjusting the readings from an ultrasound probe to account for the different speeds of sound through different portions of the eye. In various embodiments, a process is provided for combing multiple images of the body part together. In some embodiments, a process is provided for determining the diameter of the lens of the eye.
US11839503B2
An anti-scatter grid, a detector with such an anti-scatter grid and a radiation imaging system including such a detector with an anti-scatter grid are provided. The anti-scatter grid includes at least one grid wall. The parameters of the grid wall may be adjusted to arrive a uniform scatter-to-primary ratio. The parameters of the grid wall comprise thickness, height, shape, or position of the grid wall, or width of interspace between two grid walls. The detector includes the anti-scatter grid, at least one photosensor, and at least one scintillator. The radiation system includes a radiation generator, a radiation detector with the anti-scatter grid, and a processor.
US11839497B2
A method and apparatus for the quantitative determination of an individual's risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD) is described. Risk stratification is accomplished (and may have a sensitivity and specificity of greater than about 90%) by determining the presence in any individual being tested for SCD risk of sequences identified herein to correlate quantitatively with SCD risk. Both the number of such sequences present and their alignment scores (similarity) with the SCD risk sequence ensemble are used to calculate quantitative SCD risk.
US11839494B2
A subcutaneously implantable device includes a housing, a first prong, and a second prong. A first electrode on the first prong is configured to contact the first lung. A second electrode on the device is configured to contact the first lung or a second lung. A third electrode on the second prong is configured to contact the heart or the tissue surrounding the heart. Sensing circuitry in the housing in electrical communication with the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode is configured to measure an impedance in the first lung and/or the second lung, and/or a transthoracic impedance across the first lung and the second lung through the first electrode and the second electrode, and to measure an electrical signal from the heart through the third electrode.
US11839482B2
There is provided an apparatus (100) for monitoring swallowing in a subject. The apparatus (100) comprises a processor (102) configured to acquire, from a motion sensor (104), motion signals obtained from a feeding tube, when placed in the esophagus of the subject. The motion signals are indicative of swallowing motions transmitted along the feeding tube. The processor (102) is also configured to process the acquired motion signals to classify the acquired motion signals as indicative of the subject swallowing healthily or unhealthily.
US11839476B2
The present invention provides a bio-electrode composition including a silsesquioxane bonded to a sulfonic acid salt shown by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 represents an alkylene group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or an arylene group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, optionally containing an ether group or an ester group, and the alkylene group may also contain an aromatic group; Rf1 and Rf2 represent H, F, O, or a CF3 group and can form a carbonyl group with a carbon atom bonded therewith; Rf3 and Rf4 represent H, F, or a CF3 group and one or more fluorine atoms are contained in Rf1 to Rf4; M is selected from Na, K, and Ag. This can form a living body contact layer for a bio-electrode that is excellent in electric conductivity and biocompatibility, light-weight, manufacturable at low cost, and free from large lowering of the electric conductivity.
US11839472B2
Example systems, methods, and apparatus, including cognitive platforms, are provided for applying signal detection metrics in computer-implemented adaptive response-deadline procedures to data collected based at least in part on user interaction(s) with computerized tasks and/or interferences. The apparatus can include a response classifier for generating a quantifier of the cognitive abilities of an individual. The apparatus also can be configured to adapt the tasks and/or interferences to enhance the individual's cognitive abilities.
US11839469B1
A medical device such as an oximeter includes a marking feature. In an implementation, a marking mechanism of the device marks tissue based on a location of where a measurement was taken by the device. In an implementation, the marking mechanism of the device marks tissue based on an oxygen saturation measurement obtained by the device.
US11839468B2
A component concentration measuring apparatus includes: a dielectric spectroscopy portion that irradiates a measurement subject with electromagnetic waves and measures a complex permittivity, thereby acquiring a dielectric spectroscopy spectrum; a temperature measurement portion that measures a temperature of the measurement subject; a signal processing portion that corrects the dielectric spectroscopy spectrum according to the temperature measured by the temperature measurement portion; and a calculating portion that applies a calibration model generated in advance from a dielectric spectroscopy spectrum of a sample whose component concentration is known, to the dielectric spectroscopy spectrum corrected by the signal processing portion, thereby calculating a component concentration of the measurement subject. A dielectric spectroscopy sensor that transmits and receives electromagnetic waves and a temperature sensor that outputs a signal that changes in accordance with a temperature are fixed to the measurement probe such that a certain distance is interposed between the sensors.
US11839466B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a method and system for providing motion biofeedback to a user while the user performs an activity. The biofeedback can occur in real time or after discrete points in time (e.g., after a drive phase or maximum velocity phase). The method includes receiving, from a detection device, first and second motion data corresponding to ground contact force and to force vector angle of the ground contact, respectively; comparing, by a processor, the first motion data to an ideal ground contact force value. The ideal ground contact force value may be an indicator of improved performance. The method includes comparing the second motion data to an ideal force vector angle value. The ideal force vector angle value may be an indicator of improved form. The method includes generating user feedback corresponding to adjustments in ground contact force and force vector angle based on the comparisons.
US11839462B2
The present invention provides a gastrointestinal tract positioning switch, a method of manufacturing the gastrointestinal tract positioning switch and a site-specific delivery capsule. The gastrointestinal tract positioning switch includes a base, a first electrode, a second electrode, a conductive device and a positioning film. The first electrode and the second electrode are spaced apart from each other and fixed on the base. The first electrode and the second electrode electrically connected to the conductive device respectively, and covered by the positioning film. Both the first electrode and the second electrode are an inert electrode, and can be exposed after dissolution or/and degradation of the positioning film in the stomach or intestine.
US11839457B2
An apparatus for assessing a hemodynamic property in a coronary vasculature and a corresponding method are provided in which diagnostic data of a vessel of interest is used to identify a first and second measurement position at which a first and a second value for a first hemodynamic property may be obtained whereby these first and second values are suitable to derive at least one diagnostic parameter indicative of a second hemodynamic 5 property that cannot or should not be measured directly.
US11839453B2
Soft capacitive pressure sensors for continuous wearable health monitoring applications are described herein. Wrinkled gold thin films on elastomeric substrates are used as robust parallel plate electrodes to create a robust integration with the polymer, allowing repeated normal force to deform the thin film without failure. By incorporating micro-ridged structures that support the counter electrodes to create air cavities within the elastomeric dielectric layer, pressure sensitivity is further increased. The pressure sensors are configured to measure human physiological signals such as pressure exerted from a radial pulse on a skin's surface. The radial pulse pressure detected by the sensor can be correlated to an arterial blood pressure. Calibration of said pressure sensors using a neural network allows for determination of absolute blood pressure.
US11839452B2
A non-contact blood pressure measurement system and a non-contact blood pressure value calculation method thereof are disclosed. The non-contact blood pressure measurement system includes a measurement module, a signal processing module, and a calculation module. The measurement module measures a physiological signal of a subject being tested in a non-contact manner. The signal processing module is used to obtain a forward pressure wave and a backward pressure wave according to the physiological signal of the subject being tested. The calculation module is used to find out a reflected pulse transit time between the forward pressure wave and the backward pressure wave so as to substitute the reflected pulse transit time and a plurality of correction parameters into a blood pressure algorithm formula to calculate an estimated diastolic blood pressure and an estimated systolic blood pressure of the subject being tested.
US11839450B2
An interface pressure sensor includes a fluid pressure sensor disposed in a volume defined by a shear wall. The volume is enclosed, and the fluid pressure sensor is encapsulated by, an infill material. The infill material defines a sensing surface that, when pressed, can impart a force that is detectable by the fluid pressure sensor. The interface pressure sensor can be used for applanation tonometry.
US11839448B2
An apparatus for acquiring intraoral images of a subject has an OCT imaging apparatus having an OCT light source, a scanner that conveys OCT light toward the subject and returned from the subject, and an interferometer having a reference arm and a sample arm. A reflectance imaging apparatus has a visible light source directed toward the subject and an image sensor that forms a reflectance image from returned light. Processing and control logic are configured to process and combine the returned reflectance image to the OCT measured data. A display shows the combined reflectance image and OCT measured data.
US11839447B2
A wearable, open and adjustable MRI head coil system having an assembly of support members, panels, or portions defining one or more access openings. The support members, panels, or portions can support, house, or otherwise include radiofrequency receiver antennae or imaging coils such that the assembly is positionable or wearable by a patient for MRI scanning. The radiofrequency receiver antennae or imaging coils, and other devices can be simultaneously in contact with a patient's head, thereby enabling use during diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical, or other interventional procedures.
US11839446B2
A wireless patient monitoring system includes at least one wireless physiological sensor having a sensing element senses physiological parameter information from a patient. A sensor controller is configured to determine a current parameter value based on the physiological parameter information and to compare the current parameter value to a prior parameter value. Based on the comparison, the sensor controller determines if the current parameter value is redundant of the prior parameter value. If so, then the current parameter value is not transmitted. If the current parameter is not redundant of the prior parameter value, then a wireless transmitter is controlled to wirelessly transmit the current parameter value.
US11839445B2
Disclosed are various examples and embodiments of systems, devices, components and methods configured to detect a location of a source of at least one cardiac rhythm disorder in a patient's heart. In some embodiments, electrogram signals am acquired from inside a patient's heart, and subsequently normalized, adjusted and/or filtered, followed by generating a two-dimensional (2D) spatial map, grid or representation of the electrode positions, processing the amplitude-adjusted and filtered electrogram signals to generate a plurality of three-dimensional electrogram surfaces corresponding at least partially to the 2 D grid, one surface being generated for each or selected discrete times, and processing the plurality of three-dimensional electrogram surfaces through time to generate a velocity vector map corresponding at least partially to the 2 D grid. The resulting velocity vector map is configured to reveal the location of the source of the at least one cardiac rhythm disorder, which may be, by way of example, an active rotor in a patient's myocardium and atrium.
US11839435B2
A surgical tool tracking array can include a first marker holder, a second marker holder, and a tool holder. The first marker holder is configured to couple a first marker to the surgical tracking array in a first plane. The second marker holder is configured to couple a second marker to the surgical tool tracking array in a second plane that is independent and substantially parallel to the first plane. The tool holder is configured to couple a portion of a surgical tool to the surgical tool tracking array in a third plane that is independent from the first plane and the second plane.
US11839430B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, an optical coherence tomography-based ophthalmic testing center system includes an optical coherence tomography instrument comprising an eyepiece for receiving at least one eye of a user or subject; a light source that outputs light that is directed through the eyepiece into the user's or subject's eye, an interferometer configured to produce optical interference using light reflected from the user's/subject's eye, an optical detector disposed so as to detect said optical interference; and a processing unit coupled to the detector. The ophthalmic testing center system can be configured to perform a multitude of self-administered functional and/or structural ophthalmic tests and output the test data.
US11839427B2
Systems, methods and apparatuses are provided for the measurement of intraocular pressure. These systems, methods and apparatuses can include an imaging apparatus for capturing two- or three-dimensional images or video of a patient's eye. An image reconstruction based on the captured images or video can be performed, and measurements can be taken of blood vessel features, curvature metrics, or distances between point pairs. In some embodiments, blood pressure measurements can also be taken synchronously with the captured images or video. From these measurements, a relationship between certain medical condition (e.g., elevated intraocular pressure, heart arrhythmia) and the extracted metrics can be established.
US11839420B2
A surgical end effector may comprise first and second jaw members. The second jaw member may comprise an offset proximal supply electrode that is positioned to contact an opposing member of the first jaw member when the first and second jaw members are in the closed position. The second jaw member may also comprise a distal supply electrode that is positioned distal of the offset proximal electrode and is aligned with a conductive surface of the first jaw member when the first and second jaw members are in the closed position. When the first and second jaw members are in the closed position, the proximal supply electrode may be in contact with the opposing member and the distal supply electrode is not in contact with the conductive surface of the first jaw member.
US11839417B2
A device and a method for coagulation and/or dissection of biological tissue is disclosed. The device comprises an apparatus and an instrument electrically connected thereto. The instrument includes an operation circuit with a manually operated switch. An evaluation circuit of the apparatus provides an evaluation signal for the instrument. The apparatus can create a supply voltage or a supply current for the instrument. In the initial condition the evaluation signal comprises only one polarity. The evaluation signal is provided to a control circuit of the instrument in which a characteristic of the evaluation signal is adjusted depending on the operating condition of the switch. The evaluation circuit detects this characteristic and initiates the output of the supply voltage and changes the polarity of the evaluation signal according to the requested cutting mode. In the cutting mode the evaluation signal comprises at least temporarily also a second polarity.
US11839409B2
A bone plate for reconstruction or trauma treatment of a bone which comprises first and second ends, a first contact surface for contacting and securing on a first region of the bone, and a plurality of receiving mechanism each having at least one opening for receiving at least one securing element. At least two adjacent wings extend at least from the first end of the main section, each has a second contact surface for contacting and securing to a second region of the bone, as well as at least one receiving mechanism having at least one opening for each receiving a securing element. A minimum bending stiffness of the main section, in relation to an axis (x) running perpendicular to the first contact surface, is greater than the minimum bending stiffnesses of the wings, but smaller than the total minimum bending stiffness of all wings extending from the first end.
US11839408B2
A device may include a flexible tube comprising: a distal end, a proximal tip, the proximal tip comprising a suction line extension being configured for placement in a uterine cavity of a uterus after childbirth, a tube center of the flexible tube; and at least one lumen around the tube center, the at least one lumen comprising a suction line, the suction line being in communication with a source of negative pressure and the suction line extension, the suction line extension being configured for applying the negative pressure to the uterine cavity using the source of the negative pressure thereby causing mechanical hemostasis of bleeding blood vessels of a uterine wall of the uterine cavity. Embodiments include an anchoring mechanism being proximate to the suction line extension along the flexible tube, the anchoring mechanism being configured for maintaining the suction line extension in a desired position within the uterine cavity.
US11839403B2
A cannula-stylet assembly for piercing tissues of a subject's body includes a stylet that is significantly longer than the cannula. The length of the stylet enables introduction of the stylet through the length of both the cannula and a gripping device that has been coupled to a proximal end of the cannula. A medical piercing system may include a cannula-stylet assembly with a long stylet and a gripping device that may remain assembled with the cannula when the stylet is removed from the cannula or a gripping device that remains assembled with a stylet of a conventionally configured cannula-stylet assembly when the stylet is removed from the cannula.
US11839387B2
An apparatus for extraction of osseous tissue is disclosed. The apparatus includes a fixed portion and a clamp oriented along a generally central area of the fixed portion. The apparatus includes a first bone cutting device and a second bone cutting device coupled to the fixed portion and oriented around the clamp. The first bone cutting device and the second bone cutting device are coupled to the fixed portion using respective joints that accommodate orientations of the first bone cutting device and the second bone cutting device relative to the fixed portion along different horizontal and vertical axes. The clamp is configured to engage a first bone portion during a surgical procedure. The first bone cutting device and the second bone cutting device are configured to remove a second bone portion.
US11839380B2
Detachment of a medical device from a delivery assembly can utilize features of electrolytic detachment and features of mechanical detachment. Detachment zones can facilitate mechanical retention of the medical device as well as electrolytic corrosion of portions of the delivery assembly to allow mechanical release of the medical device. Such a delivery system, can include an implant comprising a hub, the hub defining an aperture having an aperture cross-sectional dimension; and a delivery wire comprising (i) a core member extending through the aperture and (ii) a stopper positioned distal to the aperture, the stopper having a first cross-sectional dimension larger than the aperture cross-sectional dimension, and the stopper being electrolytically corrodible to reduce the first cross-sectional dimension to a second cross-sectional dimension smaller than the aperture cross-sectional dimension.
US11839377B2
A method of operating a medical device comprises electrically connecting a power device to the medical device. The method further comprises sensing at least one characteristic of one of the medical device with the power device. The method further comprises adjusting or maintaining one or more characteristics of an electrical connection feature the power device according to the at least one observed characteristic such that the electrical connection features of the power device and medical device are operationally compatible, and operating the power device according to an operational profile associated with the medical device.
US11839361B2
A nervous tissue imaging system and a method therefor. The system includes: a housing containing an excitation light source, optically coupled with a source optical train, the excitation light source emits excitation light in a first wavelength range, which can be in a near ultraviolet light range, to illuminate a tissue region of interest including healthy nervous tissue and healthy non-nervous tissue. The excitation light in the first wavelength range causes the healthy nervous tissue, in response to being illuminated with the excitation light, to endogenously autoflouresce and emit first autofluorescence light at a first luminance in a second wavelength range. The healthy non-nervous tissue, in response to being illuminated with the excitation light, either avoids emitting any autofluorescence light in the second wavelength range; or endogenously autoflouresces and emits second autofluorescence light in the second wavelength range at a second luminance that is lower than the first luminance.
US11839358B2
A rigidity variable device includes: a main body unit having an elongated shape; a plurality of higher rigidity portions made of metal, the higher rigidity portions being included in the main body unit and arrayed in a separated manner in a direction along a longitudinal axis of the main body unit; and one or a plurality of lower rigidity portions included in the main body unit and including a shape memory alloy coil disposed between adjacent ones of the higher rigidity portions and formed by winding a wire around an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis. A rigidity of the shape memory alloy coil increases when heated.
US11839347B2
A flexible hose for use with surface cleaning devices is disclosed that includes a support structure that allows a user to collapse and lock the same into a storage configuration, and then easily unlock the same using a relatively minor amount of force, e.g., a user-applied pulling force or mechanical force. Thus, in a general sense, a hose consistent with the present disclosure may include two relatively stable/steady-state configurations, namely a storage configuration and an in-use configuration. Thus, the hose allows a user to collapse and lock the hose when not in use, and to transition the hose to an in-use configuration to target various types of surfaces to clean including, for instance, floors, walls and ceilings which may be many feet (e.g., up to 5 feet or more) from the surface cleaning apparatus.
US11839343B2
A hand vacuum cleaner has an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet. An air treatment member and suction motor are positioned in the air flow path. The hand vacuum cleaner includes an onboard energy storage unit and has a pistol grip handle. When the hand vacuum cleaner is oriented with its upper end above its lower end, the pistol grip handle is located at the rear end of the hand vacuum cleaner, the energy storage unit is located at the lower end of the hand vacuum cleaner with the suction motor located above the front end of the energy storage unit and the pistol grip handle located above the rear end of the energy storage unit. A finger grip area may be provided between the handle and the suction motor above the energy storage unit.
US11839342B2
An upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a floor cleaning head and an upright section moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head. A portable cleaning unit is removably mounted to the support structure and comprises an auxiliary cleaning tool mount. The auxiliary cleaning tool mount is provided on one lateral side of a portion of the rigid air flow conduit that is positioned above the portable cleaning unit when the upright surface cleaning apparatus is in the upright cleaning mode and the upflow duct is in the upright storage position wherein the auxiliary tool mount remains spaced from the portable cleaning unit during all use of the upright surface cleaning apparatus in the upright cleaning mode and the auxiliary cleaning tool mount remains mounted to the rigid air flow conduit when the upright surface cleaning apparatus is in the portable cleaning mode. A cord wind member is provided on an opposed lateral side of the rigid air flow conduit.
US11839341B2
The present invention relates to a high-performance adhesive roll cleaner including: an adhesive tape roll formed by winding an adhesive tape, having an adhesive layer formed on one surface of a warp-knitted fabric base layer, so that the adhesive layer faces outward; and a support body configured to rotatably support the adhesive tape roll; wherein the warp-knitted fabric base layer may be continuously cut at intervals of 2 mm. The present invention may provide remarkable advantages in that the adhesive tape may be easily cut at a desired position during use, and may be used repeatedly due to the excellent initial tack thereof, so that the economic efficiency thereof may be maximized while the waste thereof is prevented.
US11839330B2
The present invention is to provide a cooking apparatus to operate in an automated/robotic environment containing 2 major sub-units: air fryer hood and a rotating pot wherein the air fryer hood streams high velocity, heated air, circulating it in the cooking pot which is rotated, generating a stirring motion of the food ingredients contained in the pot. The apparatus can be used as a stand alone or incorporated in robotic or automated food preparation systems. The apparatus provides controlled cooking regimes for various recipes and food product requirements and each of the sub-units of the apparatus is independently controlled, enabling turning on and off the sub-unit, adjusting the circulated air, velocity and temperature, adjusting the pot's rotational velocity and direction.
US11839324B2
A tea maker includes a brewing unit which defines a vessel having an upper opening with a spout disposed thereon. A lid assembly is removeably received on the upper opening of the vessel and includes a steeping tube. The steeping tube extends downwardly from the lid assembly into the vessel when the lid assembly is received on the upper opening of the vessel. An articulating filter assembly is coupled to the lid assembly and includes a filter plate that is operable between an extended position and a retracted position. The filter plate is configured to contact an inner surface of the vessel when the filter plate is in the extended position. A biasing member is configured to bias the filter plate towards the extended position for filtering a brewed tea mixture as the mixture is poured through the upper opening of the vessel.
US11839312B2
A multifunctional small dining chair includes a front U-shaped support frame, a rear U-shaped support frame, a seat, a backrest, a left armrest, a right armrest and a dining tray. A top of the front U-shaped support frame and a top of the rear U-shaped support frame are arranged in a foldable manner. The seat and the backrest are arranged inside the front U-shaped support frame. The seat and the front U-shaped support frame are arranged in a foldable manner. A bottom end of the backrest and a rear end of the seat are hinged. A rear end of the left armrest and a rear end of the right armrest are connected to an upper front end of the front U-shaped support frame. The dining tray is provided between the left armrest and the right armrest, and the dining tray is rotatable relative to the left or right armrest.
US11839309B2
A mattress includes a base layer having a first surface and a second surface arranged opposite to the first surface. The base layer defines a plurality of slots extending from the first surface to the second surface and arranged in a plurality of rows in a staggered arrangement. The mattress also includes a plurality of hoop assemblies arranged inside the plurality of the slots. Each hoop assembly includes a hoop arranged vertically inside the slot and a central axis of the hoop extends substantially horizontally and parallel to the first surface. The hoop is configured to compress under a load.
US11839307B2
The lumbar support mechanism and an adjustable bed having the same. The lumbar support mechanism includes a lumbar support member; first, second, third and fourth support legs; a linkage member; and first and second lumbar support brackets operably attachable to a back platform of the adjustable bed. The first and second support legs are pivotally connected between the lumbar support member and the linkage member; and the third and fourth support legs are pivotally connected between the first and second support legs, and the first and second lumbar support brackets, respectively, such that the lumbar support member is operably movable between a retracted position and an expanded (ejected) position when the linkage member moves between first and second positions. The lumbar support is provided when the lumbar support member is in the ejected position.
US11839305B2
A modular seating system is provided having one or more seat units. Each seat unit includes a plurality of legs extending downward. A suction device is connected to a lower surface of at least one of the legs to hold the seat in place on the floor. The seat units also include first connector components for connection to back units and/or arm units. The back units and arm units include second connector components configured to cooperate with the first connector components.
US11839303B2
A movable chair device and a chair assembly are provided. The movable chair device includes a chair mechanism and a transmission mechanism. The transmission mechanism includes a primary transmission component and an intermediate transmission component. The primary transmission component includes: a fixing member, a first swing arm, a second swing arm and a first linkage member. The first linkage member is enclosed with the first swing arm, the second swing arm and the fixing member to form a closed-loop connecting rod mechanism. The intermediate transmission component includes a first transmission arm, a second transmission arm and a third transmission arm.
US11839302B2
A banquet table comprises a laminate tabletop with a high-pressure solid composite laminate of paper impregnated with resin. A hoop carries a perimeter of the tabletop and has a perimeter with a size and a shape substantially matching a size and a shape of a perimeter of the tabletop. Elongated runners carry an interior of the tabletop. Legs are coupled to the runners and extend to elevate the tabletop thereon. A polymer trim surrounds the perimeter of the hoop. The trim has a vertical height substantially the same as a vertical thickness of the hoop, with the tabletop extending above a height of the trim so that the tabletop has an exposed perimeter edge. The trim has a horizontal thickness extending laterally beyond the tabletop.
US11839299B2
An apparatus for use with a rack of lockers is disclosed. The apparatus includes a key-facilitation server configured to cooperate with a locker server, and also configured to receive a key-access request. The locker server is associated with a rack of lockers including a first compartment configured to allow storage of secondary equipment, a second compartment having an open locker slot configured to maintain storage of equipment, and a locker divider separating the first compartment from the second compartment. The key-access request is configured to indicate a user request configured to request usage of an access key. The access key is also configured to be usable by the locker server. The locker server is configured to receive a locker-access request. The locker-access request is configured to indicate access of a selected locker is user requested. The locker server is configured to use the access key so as to facilitate secured user access of the selected locker associated with the rack of lockers.
US11839297B2
A furniture element, in particular a shelf or shelving unit has at least one storage level, a body, and a bottom plate. Storage surfaces of the body, which face each other, and the bottom plate each have raceways, in which rolling elements are guided. The body is movable relative to the bottom plate from an initial position to an intermediate position and back, wherein, in the intermediate position, the body is rotated relative to the bottom plate in a rotation direction and shifted in a predetermined direction, the raceways of the bottom plate being formed having mirror symmetry to an axis of symmetry extending at an oblique angle relative to a lateral edge of the bottom plate.
US11839290B1
Systems and methods involve implementations including a bar member with a first and second end portions, first and second elongated side portions extending between the first and second end portions, an elongated top and bottom portions extending between the first and second end portions, wherein the first and second elongated side portions extend between the elongated top portion and the bottom portion, and a device case with an aperture sized, shaped, and position to couple with the bar member is removably couplable with the device case. In addition, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US11839286B2
Proposed is a cosmetic container cap with a duo-mix function. In its body, a female fastening portion is formed below an upper open-type chamber where an accommodation space is formed to accommodate a first cosmetic content of liquid or powder to be fastened to a male fastening portion formed to be exposed in a container. A hollow dip tube is formed to extend a predetermined length downward from the chamber. A pumping member coupled to the chamber of the body part is configured to press down the first cosmetic content toward the container for mixing it with a second cosmetic content inside the container, and to pump a mixture of the first and second cosmetic contents into the dip tube and the chamber for discharging outside. A dip tube sealing cap closes and opens the dip tube, which enables mixing the first and second cosmetic contents.
US11839281B2
The travel suitcase comprises: at least one container body for containing objects and/or clothes; at least one gripping element that can be grasped by a user for the movement of said suitcase; at least one wheel for pulling the suitcase on the ground, comprising: an external rolling body made of polymeric material and comprising two lateral sides and a joining portion; two annular flanges defining a support seat; wherein the lateral sides comprise two respective ending portions inserted in the support seat and placed in mutual contact to define an air chamber with the joining portion.
US11839280B2
A suitcase tray assembly includes a suitcase has a pair of tracks each is integrated into an outer wall of the suitcase. A tray is slidably integrated into the tracks and the tray is positionable in a stored position having the tray resting against the outer wall of the suitcase. The tray is positionable in a deployed position having the tray resting on the suitcase to support food items or a laptop computer. A cup holder is integrated into the outer wall of the suitcase and the cup holder is positionable in a stored position having the cup holder resting against the outer wall of the suitcase. The cup holder is positionable in a deployed position having the cup holder extending laterally away from the suitcase to support a beverage container.
US11839278B2
A closure having a first flange with first engagement mechanism and a second with a second engagement mechanism disposed between the first end and the second end. The first engagement mechanism configured to engage the second engagement mechanism. A slider configured to selectively engage the first engagement mechanism and the second mechanism when moved in a first direction and disengage the first engagement mechanism from the second engagement mechanism when moved in a second direction. The closure is substantially watertight in the closed position.
US11839271B2
In at least a part of a movable range of a slider, a slider upper portion is positioned adjacent to a wall upper portion, and a slider lower portion is positioned adjacent to a wall lower portion. This prevents jamming of a cloth in the slider at both sides of the tape upper and lower surfaces.
US11839262B2
An upper for an article of footwear includes a carcass layer including an interior liner defining an interior void of the upper and an exterior liner joined to the interior liner to define a plurality of resilient pads protruding from an exterior surface of the upper. In some examples, the upper includes an outer shell attached to the exterior liner of the carcass layer and including a plurality of openings each configured to receive a respective one of the resilient pads therethrough. Here, each of the resilient pads includes a distal end surface defining a first portion of a ball control surface and the outer shell defines a second portion of the ball control surface. In some implementations, each of the resilient pads includes a compressible material enclosed between the interior liner and the exterior liner. Optionally, each of the resilient pads includes a tensile element disposed therein.
US11839259B2
Presented are footwear sole structures with pressure-mapped midsole topographies and inlaid wear-mitigating outsoles, methods for making/using such sole structures, and footwear fabricated with such sole structures. An article of footwear includes an upper for receiving and attaching to a foot of a user, and a sole structure attached to the upper for supporting thereon the user's foot. The sole structure includes a midsole that is formed with a first material having a first hardness, and an outsole that is mounted to the midsole and formed with a second material that is harder than the first material. The midsole has a ground-facing surface with multiple cavities, multiple channels interspersed with the cavities, and ground-contacting land segments that separate the cavities from the channels. The outsole is disposed in the channels and positioned between the cavities such that a ground-contacting outsole surface is substantially flush with the midsole's ground-contacting land segments.
US11839253B2
An article of apparel includes at least one fabric panel including a first yarn having a first denier and a second yarn having a second denier. The first yarn forms an auxetic structure on the fabric panel comprising a pattern of interconnected segments defining cells, each cell having an interior area. The second yarn forms a fill portion extending between the interconnected segments of the auxetic structure and substantially fills the interior area of each cell.
US11839243B1
A posture support garment includes: a shirt, shoulder band, and waist band. The shirt envelops the wearer's torso and shoulders, and is an elastic material configured to apply a first level of compression. The shoulder band is fixedly secured to the shirt to encircle the left and right shoulders of the shirt and crisscross at a back region, and is made of a first compression material configured to apply a second level of compression. The waist band is formed with a first portion that extends around the back of the wearer's waist and is made of the first compression material to apply the second level of compression, and a second portion that extends around the front of the wearer's waist, and is made of a second compression material configured to apply a third level of compression, where the third level of compression is less than the second level of compression.
US11839220B2
Automatic table-top machines for kneading and extruding pasta are disclosed. The present machines overcome problems associated with prior known automatic table-top pasta machines that exhibit safety problems in relation to a detachable connection of a dough forming tank. The present invention provides one or more automatic table-top machines for kneading and extruding pasta of the specified type, which allows, among other advantages, an operator to carry out the assembly and disassembly operations of a dough forming tank in a safe and easy manner.
US11839219B2
A BVP10 protein shown in SEQ ID NO:2 for controlling tetranychid mites and use of the protein is provided. The BVP10 protein has a median lethal concentration of 19.07 μg/mL against Tetranychus urticae, a median lethal concentration of 58.05 μg/mL against Panonychus citri, a median lethal concentration of 36.08 μg/mL against Tetranychus cinnabarinus, and a control effect of 79.53%-95.45% against strawberry red spider mites. The protein is provided for preparing a novel mite pesticide.
US11839217B2
A process for preparing a composition including a bioactive molecule including the steps of a. Dissolving a bioactive molecule having at least one acid group with a base at pH=>11 to obtain a solution A b. Neutralizing the solution A with an acid to obtain the composition including the bioactive molecule having a pH between 6 and 9, wherein PEG is added before the neutralizing step in case either the base and/or the acid is an inorganic compound, and to a composition including a high concentration of natamycin.
US11839216B1
The present disclosure discloses a quinoline-2,3-fused nine-membered ring scaffold compound, and a preparation method and application thereof as an effective component in a plant fungicide. The quinoline-2,3-fused nine-membered ring scaffold compound stated in the present disclosure is prepared by the following method including steps: mixing a quinoline-derived aniline compound and a formaldehyde compound, adding a solvent and a catalyst, controlling a system temperature, and reacting with stirring to obtain a quinoline-2,3-fused nine-membered ring compound. According to the present disclosure, a 1,6-hydride transfer/cyclization strategy is triggered by aldimine condensation, the quinoline-derived aniline compound and the formaldehyde compound are prepared into the quinoline-2,3-fused nine-membered ring compound with a wide substrate scope and a potential biological activity by a “one-pot synthesis method” quickly. The quinoline-2,3-fused nine-membered ring compound shows an excellent inhibitory activity against G. graminis, C. gloeosporioides, B. cinerea, V. mali, F. oxysporum and other plant disease-related fungi.
