US11880592B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller communicates with a host. The host includes a host memory and a circuit. The circuit accesses the host memory in a unit of first size. When an address designated as a first location of the host memory where data read from the nonvolatile memory is to be stored is not aligned with a boundary in the host memory defined in a unit of the first size, the controller transmits a first packet which has a size from the first location to the boundary and includes the read data to be stored from the first location, and transmits a second packet which has the first size and includes the read data to be stored from the boundary thereafter.
US11880581B2
A tree data structure for a file is maintained. The tree data structure is used to capture different versions of the file at different moments of time. An access pattern associated with the file stored on a storage system is determined based at least in part on time-series data associated with the file using the tree data structure that captures different versions of the file at different moments in time. The determined access pattern indicates a period for which the file is likely to be accessed. The file is migrated from a secondary storage tier to a primary storage tier.
US11880580B1
A virtual volume (vVol) is non-disruptively migrated from a first data storage appliance (DSS) to a second DSS. In a synchronizing phase, data is copied from a source vVol to a destination vVol which is not mapped and to which a host computer has no path. Upon completion of synchronization, (1) a mapping is created to the destination vVol for the host and signaled to the host by sending a notification having an associated log page, (2) it is determined whether the host has retrieved the log page, (3) in response the host retrieving the log page, a cutover is performed making the destination vVol accessible to the host and the source vVol inaccessible to the host, and (4) in response to the host not retrieving the log page, the cutover is not performed, leaving the destination vVol inaccessible to the host computer (migration may be aborted or retried).
US11880579B2
A data migration method and a storage device are provided. The device obtains data access temperature of a first storage unit group, which is determined by data access temperature of each storage unit, and the data access temperature of each storage unit is determined by a logical unit in which the storage unit is located. When the data access temperature of the first storage unit group reaches a specified threshold, the storage device migrates data in the first storage unit group to a second storage unit group. Access performance of the second storage unit group is higher than access performance of the first storage unit group. According to this application, accuracy of collecting statistics about data access temperature can be improved, thereby improving hierarchical storage performance of a storage device.
US11880574B2
Apparatuses and methods related to memory authentication. Memory devices can be authenticated utilizing authentication codes. An authentication code can be generated based on information stored in a fuse array of the memory device. The authentication code can be stored in the memory device. The stored authentication code can be compared to a captured authentication code based on fuse array information broadcast to memory components of the memory device. The authenticity of the memory device can be determined based on the comparison and can result in placing the memory device in an unlocked state.
US11880565B2
Examples are disclosed relating to computing devices and methods for performing touch detection within a virtual trackpad area of a touch screen display. In one example, a non-trackpad touch input signal is received from outside the virtual trackpad area and processed with at least one touch detection algorithm applying a non-trackpad threshold value. A virtual trackpad touch input signal is determined to be received from within the virtual trackpad area. On condition of determining that the virtual trackpad touch input signal is received from within the virtual trackpad area, the virtual trackpad touch input signal is processed with the touch detection algorithm applying a virtual trackpad threshold value different from the non-trackpad threshold value.
US11880561B2
Systems and methods for identifying on an electronic device an identifier and an associated time, date, or time and date, wherein the identifier is a name of an entity that a user is scheduled to visit at the associated time, date, or time and date. Determining, at around the time, date, or time and date, using a location sensor, a location of the electronic device as an entity address. Associating the identifier with the entity address and storing the identifier and associated entity address. Upon receipt of the identifier as an input: retrieving, using the identifier, the entity address, displaying, at the touch-sensitive display, a selectable user interface element corresponding to the entity address, receiving a selection of the selectable user interface element corresponding to the entity address, and in response to receiving the selection, providing the entity address to an application on the electronic device for use.
US11880558B1
An information technology (IT) and security operations application is described that stores data reflecting customizations that users make to GUIs displaying information about various types of incidents, and further uses such data to generate “popular” interface profiles indicating popular GUI modifications. The analysis of the GUI customizations data is performed using data associated with multiple tenants of the IT and security operations application to develop profiles that may represent a general consensus on a collection and arrangement of interface elements that enable analysts to efficiently respond to certain types of incidents. Users of the IT and security operations application can then optionally apply these popular interface profiles to various GUIs during their use of the application. Among other benefits, the ability to generate and provide popular interface profiles can help analysts and other users more efficiently investigate and respond to a wide variety of incidents within IT environments, thereby improving the operation and security of those environments.
US11880555B2
Display is enabled in such a way that a user can easily discover predetermined information regardless of dynamic change in size of a display region provided on a screen. A display control device includes: a display region setting unit configured to change a position of a boundary line of one or a plurality of display regions provided on a screen to dynamically change a size of the one or plurality of display regions; and a display control unit configured to determine a display mode and a display position of one or a plurality of display objects displayed on the one or plurality of display regions, in accordance with the size of the one or plurality of display regions, wherein the display control unit displays a specific display object on the boundary line, and moves display of the specific display object along with moving of the boundary line.
US11880553B2
Embodiments are described herein that involve a media playback system playing back a playback queue according to a continuous-playback mode. In one aspect, a playback device is provided that includes a network interface, one or more media processing components, a non-transitory computer-readable medium with program instructions stored thereon. The program instructions are executable by at least one processor to cause the media playback device to: add one or more items to a playback queue of the media playback device, where the one or more items include a continuous-playback item including at least one media item, play back the playback queue according to a continuous-playback mode, where playing back the playback queue according to the continuous-playback mode involves: detecting a continuous-playback trigger, and based on the detected continuous-playback trigger, adding at least one additional media item to the continuous-playback item.
US11880549B2
An electronic device includes a hinge configured to foldably connect a first housing to a second housing; a display including a first display area disposed on the first housing, and a second display area and a third display area arranged on the second housing; and at least one processor configured to: in a first state in which the hinge is unfolded, display a first application in the first display area and the second display area, and display, in the third display area, at least one default button, in a second state in which the hinge is folded, control the display to display a panel button, in the third display area, and based on a selection of the panel button in the second state, display the first application in the first display area, and display, in the second display area, a first panel including at least one control button and at least one system button.
US11880547B2
An apparatus (10) for navigating a hierarchical electronic questionnaire (12) includes at least one electronic processor (20) programmed to: provide (102) a user interface (UI) (27) via which: at least a portion of the hierarchical electronic questionnaire is presented on a display device (24) represented as a tree-based questionnaire map (30) with a plurality of nodes (32) connected by a plurality of branches (34), the nodes of the plurality of nodes corresponding to questions; a user input is received, via at least one user input device (22), indicative of a selection of at least one of the nodes; and the question corresponding to the selected node is displayed and a user input indicative of an answer to the question corresponding to the selected node is received via the at least one user input device; and populate (104) one or more nodes other than the selected node based on the selected node and/or the answer to the question corresponding to the selected node.
US11880546B2
In some implementations, a system may transmit a first set of user interface (UI) data indicating a UI having a first interaction element. The system may receive interaction data indicating a user interaction with the first interaction element. The system may determine one or more suggestions to provide based on one or more factors related to account information associated with a user account. The system may transmit a second set of UI data associated with a UI element and that may indicate a first portion, extending downward from a top of a display of the user device, that may include one or more second interaction elements corresponding to the suggestions, and a second portion extending upward from a bottom of the display and including a virtual keyboard. An intermediate portion of the UI may be exposed through a gap between the first and second portions of the UI element.
US11880545B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to assigning dynamic eye-gaze dwell-times. Dynamic dwell-times may be tailored to the individual user. For example, a dynamic dwell-time system may be configured to receive data from the user, such as the duration of time the user takes to execute certain actions within applications (e.g., read a word suggestion before actually selecting it). The dynamic dwell-time system may also prevent users from making unintended selections by providing different dwell times for different buttons. Specifically, on a user interface, longer dwell times may be established for the critical keys (e.g., “close” program key, “send” key, word suggestions, and the like) and shorter dwell times may be established for the less critical keys (e.g., individual character keys on a virtual keyboard, spacebar, backspace, and the like).
US11880542B2
Disclosed is a method of receiving and processing content-sending inputs received by a head-worn device system including one or more display devices, one or more cameras and a vertically-arranged touchpad. The method includes displaying a content item on the one or more display devices, receiving a touch input on the touchpad corresponding to a send instruction, displaying a carousel of potential recipients, receiving a horizontal touch input on the touchpad, scrolling the carousel left or right on the one or more display devices in response to the horizontal touch input, receiving a tap touch input on the touchpad to select a particular recipient, receiving a further touch input, and in response to the further touch input, transmitting the content item to the selected recipient.
US11880541B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for generating an Augmented Reality (AR) object are presented. The apparatus can include memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors can be configured to receive an image of at least a portion of a real-world scene including a target object. The one or more processors can also be configured to generate an AR object corresponding to the target object and including a plurality of parts. The one or more processors can further be configured to receive a user input associated with a designated part of the plurality of parts and manipulate the designated part based on the received user input.
US11880540B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to digital mark-up in a three dimensional (3D) environment. An example device for digital mark-up in a 3D environment includes a processor, a display for showing a view of the 3D environment, and a memory including instructions on the processor. When the memory stored instructions are executed on the processor, they cause the processor to generate an anchor point in response to an author input, wherein the anchor point includes a virtual location. When the memory stored instructions are executed on the processor, they cause the processor to generate a mark-up object associated with the anchor point, wherein the mark-up object includes mark-up dimensions, a virtual authoring location, and a selectable association that, in response to being selected, instructs the processor to adjust the view shown in the display to be a view from the virtual authoring location at the time the mark-up object was authored.
US11880539B1
Provided are systems and methods directed to a pop-up visualization that provides a view of data values currently hidden on a display screen. In one example, the method may include displaying data values from a subset of columns of a database table via a user interface, displaying a plurality of pop-up indicators via the user interface, where each pop-up indicator is displayed within a different row of the displayed data values, detecting a selection of a pop-up indicator from among the plurality of pop-up indicators corresponding to a row of displayed data values, and in response to the detecting, initializing a display of a pop-up visualization which includes one or more additional data values from a second subset of columns of the database table that are not included in the row of displayed data values.
US11880538B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that can selectively route actions, such as notifications, to cause activations of one or more applications based on data associated with the actions and based on activation conditions specified at a scene level by each of the applications.
US11880531B2
A display device with a touch sensor having a display function and a touch sensor function is provided. The display device includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode; a first electrode along a first direction; and a second substrate including a second electrode that includes patterns of electrodes along a second direction crossing the first direction and that faces the first electrode and the pixel electrode, wherein upon the display function being activated, the pixel electrode is supplied with a pixel signal, and the second electrode is supplied with common voltage, and upon the touch sensor function being activated, the first electrode is applied with a first signal and the second electrode is configured to receive the first signal to be a second signal as a touch detecting signal.
US11880514B2
Provided is an electronic pen that includes a body portion housing of an electronic pen body portion has housed therein a refill body and a circuit board having a side switch formed by a push button switch mounted thereon, and has a pen-point opening portion through which a pen point of the refill body protrudes. A pressing member is provided in a side opening portion of the body portion housing such that the pressing member is disposed on the side switch in such a manner as to be prevented by an engagement portion from protruding outwardly from a side surface of the body portion housing. The side switch of the circuit board is operated through the pressing member of the electronic pen body portion when an operation unit of the outer housing having the electronic pen body portion installed therein is pressed.
US11880497B2
Systems and methods for providing stationary omnidirectional locomotion for virtual reality or other applications. An omnidirectional mobility system (“OMS”) is provided that allows a user thereof to walk or run in all directions as the OMS constrains the user's movement relative to an environment to within a small area. The OMS includes two independent mobile OMS devices that each support one of the user's feet. Each OMS device tracks one of the user's feet during movement and moves responsive to the tracking to remain under the user's feet, thereby providing stationary locomotion. Each of the two OMS devices may include a plurality of tracking sensors, and a plurality of wheels to provide omnidirectional movement. Non-limiting examples of drives/wheels that may be used include Mecanum based systems, omni based systems, swerve drives, etc.
US11880490B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for controlling use of sensitive data. A heartbeat signal conveying a context identifier is transmitted into areas where access to sensitive data is granted to authorized users. In response to receiving a request to access the sensitive data, access may be granted if the context identifier in the request matches the context identifier in the heartbeat and denied otherwise. If the requestor has exceeded an access threshold, access may be granted at a reduced rate. This reduced rate may be achieved by reducing a rate at which encryption keys are provided to the requestor. An access control layer positioned between an application layer and a communication layer allows the application layer to use plaintext of the sensitive data while protecting the sensitive data as ciphertext in the communication layer.
US11880485B2
A medical information anonymizing system includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires medical information generated in a format based on a communication standard for a medical image and including a medical image and supplementary information. The processing circuitry adds the anonymization reference information indicating an anonymizing method for anonymizing the medical information to the supplementary information in the medical information. The processing circuitry configured to receive the medical information in which the anonymization reference information is added to the supplementary information and, based on the anonymization reference information added to the medical information, anonymize at least one of the medical image and the supplementary information included in the medical information.
US11880480B2
Disclosed systems and methods initiate an instance of an isolated application on a node computing device. The systems determine that the isolated application requests exclusive access to a block storage resource, create a control group associated with the block storage resource to provide access to members of the control group and set an access rate limit to zero for non-members of the control group, and assig the isolated application to the control group.
US11880471B2
A password hardcoding checking method and apparatus based on PCA, and a medium. the checking method includes: step one, data collection, involving: collecting function code blocks in which data of password hardcoding that is subject to a false alarm is located; step two, extracting feature values in the function code blocks collected in step one, so as to obtain a feature set; step three, using the function code blocks collected in step one to serve as samples to construct a PCA model; and step four, on the basis of the PCA model constructed in step three and the feature set obtained in step two, detecting whether there is a false alarm in password hardcoding. by means of the method, the false alarm rate of hardcoding checking in code scanning is reduced, and the working efficiency of a developer and a code auditor is improved.
US11880469B2
A system and method for providing a secure image load. The system includes a microcontroller. The microcontroller has a plurality of physically modifiable internal components (PMIC). Each of the plurality of PMICs can only be modified one time. The system further includes an image loader configured to load a boot image from the memory of the microcontroller, and a checksum calculator configured to calculate a checksum value for the boot image. The system further includes a checksum burner configured to modify the plurality of PMICs to create a binary representation of the checksum value for the image. A checksum value is calculated for the image. This checksum value is written to the microcontroller. The value is burned into the microcontroller using the PMICs. Further, responses to the checksum mismatch are burned into the microcontroller using the PMICs that are present in the microcontroller.
US11880467B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for security-aware caching of resources. An offline version of a resource may be prepared for a computing device. The offline version of the resource may include a security parameter. The security parameter may define a security rule to be enforced with respect to offline usage of the resource. The offline version of the resource may be provided for caching by the computing device. The cache of the offline version of the resource may enable the offline usage of the resource by the computing device. The security rule for the offline usage of the resource may be enforced by the computing device based on the security parameter.
US11880455B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for selecting a detection model for detection of a malicious file. An exemplary method includes: monitoring a file during execution of the file within a computer system by intercepting commands of the file being executed and determining one or more parameters of the intercepted commands. A behavior log of the file being executed containing behavioral data is formed based on the intercepted commands and based on the one or more parameters of the intercepted commands. The behavior log is analyzed to form a feature vector. The feature vector characterizes the behavioral data. One or more detection models are selected from a database of detection models based on the feature vector. Each of the one or more detection models includes a decision-making rule for determining a degree of maliciousness of the file being executed.
US11880454B2
A method to prevent a malicious attack on CPU subsystem (CPUSS) hardware is described. The method includes auto-calibrating tunable delay elements of a dynamic variation monitor (DVM) using an auto-calibration value computed in response to each detected change of a clock frequency (Fclk)/supply voltage (Vdd) of the CPUSS hardware. The method also includes comparing the auto-calibration value with a threshold reference calibration value to determine whether the malicious attack is detected. The method further includes forcing a safe clock frequency (Fclk)/safe supply voltage (Vdd) to the CPUSS hardware when the malicious attack is detected.
US11880453B2
A compute instance is instrumented to detect certain kernel memory allocation functions, in particular functions that allocate heap memory and/or make allocated memory executable. Dynamic shell code exploits can then be detected when code executing from heap memory allocates additional heap memory and makes that additional heap memory executable.
US11880446B2
Systems and methods for decryption of payloads are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, systems and methods herein are configured for decrypting thousands of transactions per second. Further, in particular embodiments, the systems and methods herein are scalable, such that many thousands of transactions can be processed per second upon replicating particular architectural components.
US11880441B2
Provided is a method of granting access, including compiling a training profile of each of two or more persons, wherein the training profile includes one or more oculomotor features exhibited during one or more tasks, associating a training profile of one of the two or more persons with a permission, detecting a testing profile of one of the two or more persons, wherein the testing profile includes one or more of the one or more oculomotor features exhibited by during one or more of the one or more tasks, identifying a target profile, granting access if and only if the target profile is associated with the permission, wherein the one or more tasks are selected from fixation, saccade speed, saccade accuracy, visually-guided saccades, anti-saccades, memory-guided saccades, free viewing, pursuit.
US11880439B2
User verification using a mobile interaction can include receiving interaction data associated with a user of an application operating on a mobile device, the interaction data is generated during an interactive session of the user with the application on the mobile device. A plurality of features are extracted from the interaction data and one or more feature vectors are generated from the plurality of features. The plurality of features are aggregated to the one or more feature vectors and embedded within each feature vector. The embedded plurality of features are then projected to a global feature space by comparing a history of interactive sessions associated with the user and a history of interactive sessions associated with a plurality of different users for generating a global training dataset. Finally, a verification model is generated as a global binary classification model using the global training dataset.
US11880435B2
A document is received. The document is analyzed to discover text and structures of content included in the document. A result of the analysis is used to determine intermediate text representations of segments of the content included in the document, wherein at least one of the intermediate text representations includes an added text encoding the discovered structure of the corresponding content segment within a structural layout of the document. The intermediate text representations are used as an input to a machine learning model to extract information of interest in the document. One or more structured records of the extracted information of interest are created.
US11880432B2
Presented are concepts for obtaining a confidence measure for a machine learning model. One such concept process input data with the machine learning model to generate a primary result. It also generate a plurality of modified instances of the input data and processes the plurality of modified instances of the input data with the machine learning model to generate a respective plurality of secondary results. A confidence measure relating to the primary result is determined based on the secondary results.
US11880431B2
A system and a method of classifying data and providing an accuracy of classification are described. The method includes determining values of statistical features associated with data packets present in a data stream. The values of statistical features are provided to a data model for producing a classification output including the data packets classified into one or more categories. While producing the classification output, the data model extracts heuristics for each of the values of statistical features, compares the heuristics with one or more conditional checks defined at each node within the data model, and determines a cumulative score based on results of the comparing. The cumulative score is determined by aggregating a score assigned to successful clearance of each conditional check. The cumulative score indicates an accuracy of the classification output.
US11880424B1
The one or more embodiments provide for a method. The method includes receiving a digital image stored in an object notation data format. The method also includes converting the digital image into hypertext markup language (HTML) data format. The method also includes caching the HTML data format to generate cached HTML data. The method also includes receiving a first request to reload the digital image. The method also includes rendering, responsive to receiving the first request to reload, the digital image using the cached HTML data to generate a rendered digital image.
US11880422B2
Methods, systems, and techniques for application isolation by remote-enabling applications are provided. Example embodiments provide an Adaptive Rendering Application Isolation System (“ARAIS”), which transparently enables applications to run in an isolated execution environment yet be rendered locally in a manner that facilitates preventing theft of sensitive information while allowing users to interact with any third-party application or website via the local environment without overburdening available bandwidth or computational resources by, in some cases, evaluating only select information responsive only to select events, as compared to whitelist/blacklist techniques, monitoring all information provided by the user, or other techniques. The ARAIS typically includes an orchestrator server that comprises one or more of a sensitive-information theft-prevention logic engine, information-theft prevention engines, or a rules engine. These components cooperate to deliver isolation-ready technology with sensitive-information theft prevention to client applications.
US11880419B2
A network function is implemented using cloud native architecture. The network function utilizes one or more loosely coupled and independently deployable microservice instances to perform services. To retain state between independent transactions, a microservice instance takes a soft lock on state data in an external database. The soft lock makes the state data unavailable except to the microservice instance. After the microservice instance completes the transaction, the microservice instance clears the lock so that the state data is available for use by other microservices.
US11880404B1
A system and method for multi-media content bookmarking with provenance supplements multi-media content captured by media recording devices used or carried by a police officer during the course of his/her duties with information inputted by the police officer, wherein the added information is in the form of metadata. In at least one embodiment, a user interface (UI) tool for inputting the supplemental metadata is the source of provenance for the metadata, and the supplemental metadata is tagged to the captured content in a manner that preserves the provenance of the captured content. In a further embodiment, the user interface further enables the officer to create an affidavit as to the veracity of the supplemental metadata. The supplemental metadata may be stored in conjunction with the captured multi-media content in a secure data storage, but the content itself is not altered, thereby maintaining provenance of the content.
US11880403B2
One example method includes, for each document in a group of annotated documents, extracting a set of words from the annotated document, and each of the words is positioned in a respective field of the annotated document. The method further includes using an aggregation function to determine, for one of the fields, a similarity of each one of the annotated documents to all of the other annotated documents, creating a document layout graph with nodes that each correspond to a respective annotated document, and each node is connected to all other nodes for which a similarity threshold for the one field has been met, and running an algorithm on the document layout graph to identify a clique of the annotated documents, and each annotated document in the clique has a similar layout to respective layouts of the other annotated documents in the clique.
US11880402B2
A system for detecting a conflict of interest between entities includes a server and a database. The server selects a category to be evaluated for detecting whether or not two entities have a conflict of interest. A tree structure is created including the category and child and descendent categories of the category. The category and the child and descendent categories are hierarchically arranged as nodes of the tree structure. For the two entities, a conflict potential value is iteratively computed for each node based upon a previous conflict potential value of that node, previous conflict potential values of neighbouring nodes and distances between that node and neighbouring nodes. A conflict index value is computed for each node based upon the conflict potential value for that node for each entity. A conflict of interest between the entities is detected if the conflict index value of a node matches a predefined criteria.
US11880401B2
Technologies for template generation using directed acyclic word graphs (DAWGs). The technologies can include receiving a first plurality of titles from a first plurality of title feeds, and sorting the first plurality of titles into a plurality of category sets. And, for each category set of the plurality of category sets, the technologies can include transforming the respective titles belonging to the category set into a trie data structure by separating words in the respective titles into nodes of the trie data structure. For each category set, the technologies can also include transforming the trie data structure into a directed acyclic word graph (DAWG) data structure. Also, for each category set, the technologies can also include generating one or more unique templates based on the DAWG data structure.
US11880400B2
A method for classifying patent documents may include the steps of learning patent documents stored in a patent database by machine learning technology, establishing a first classification standard based on similarity between the patent documents, and generating a basic classification model of classifying the patent documents based on the first classification standard; generating a patent pool including a plurality of patent documents based on a search and/or selection input of the user; receiving the classification input of the user and classifying the plurality of patent documents included in the patent pool according to the classification input; predicting a second classification standard classifying the plurality of patent documents by the user based on the similarity between the classified patent documents; and classifying remaining patent documents which are not yet classified in the patent pool based on the basic classification model and the second classification standard.
US11880388B2
The subject technology receives, from a metadata database, information related to a base table. The subject technology determines a table object associated with the base table, the table object including a first set of metadata. The subject technology generates a nested object based on a second set of metadata, the second set of metadata including information linking the nested object to the table object. The subject technology generates a second table object associated with the nested object, the second table object representing a secondary index of the base table, the second table object including information linking the second table object to the nested object. The subject technology establishes a link between the second table object to the base table based on the nested object. The subject technology stores, in the metadata database, the nested object and the second table object.
US11880376B2
In some embodiments, a method receives a sequence of subsidiary features that are associated with a sequence of main features. A subsidiary feature provides subsidiary information for a main feature. A sequence of first weights for the sequence of subsidiary features is generates where a first weight in the sequence of first weights is generated based on a respective subsidiary feature. The method processes the sequence of first weights to generate a sequence of second weights. The processing uses relationships in the sequence of first weights to generate values of the second weights. The method uses the sequence of second weights to process the sequence of main features to generate an output for the sequence of main features.
US11880369B1
A top K query directed at a table is received. The table is organized into multiple storage units. The top K query comprises a first clause to sort a result set in order and a second clause that specifies a limit on a number of results provided in response to the query. A table scan operator identifies a first set of rows from the table based on a scan set determined for the table and provides the first set of rows to a top K operator. The top K operator determines a current boundary based on the first set of rows and provides the current boundary to the table scan operator. The table scan operator prunes the scan set based on the current boundary and identifies a second set of rows from the table based on the pruning.
US11880364B2
The subject technology receives a query directed to a set of source tables, each source table organized into a set of micro-partitions. The subject technology determines a set of metadata, the set of metadata comprising table metadata, query metadata, and historical data related to the query. The subject technology predicts, using a machine learning model, an indicator of an amount of computing resources for executing the query based at least in part on the set of metadata. The subject technology generates a query plan for executing the query based at least in part on the predicted indicator of the amount of computing resources. The subject technology executes the query based at least in part on the query plan.
US11880359B2
A work assistance system includes a storage storing work data for each of a plurality of devices, the work data indicating work performed to maintain the plurality of devices, a setter configured to set at least one attribute among a plurality of prescribed attributes with respect to the work data stored in the storage, an extractor configured to interpret the attribute set in the work data and to extract work data in which a specific attribute is set, and a provider configured to provide the work data extracted by the extractor.
US11880358B2
In one embodiment, a device receives, from a requestor, a query function that queries a dataset and an intended use schema associated with the query function. The device determines, using a policy ruleset, whether the intended use schema falls within an available schema for the dataset. The device executes the query function on the dataset to form a result data, when the intended use schema falls within the available schema for the dataset. The device provides the result data to the requestor.
US11880353B2
A method and system for handling engineering data in a multi-engineering-system environment is disclosed. The method includes receiving an engineering data from an engineering system. The engineering data corresponds to a data format common to one or more engineering disciplines. The method includes determining whether the engineering data matches with a reference engineering data and identifying one or more modifications in the engineering data by comparing the reference engineering data with the engineering data if the engineering data fails to match with the reference engineering data. The method includes generating a notification message including the identified one or more modifications in the engineering data in a predefined format. The method includes sending the notification message to one or more engineering systems based on one or more engineering applications running on the one or more engineering systems. The one or more engineering applications correspond to the one or more engineering disciplines.
US11880350B2
Resource lock ownership identification is provided across processes and systems of a clustered computing environment by a method which includes saving by a process, based on a user acquiring a resource lock, a lock information record to a shared data structure of the clustered computing environment. The lock information record includes user identification data identifying the user-owner of the resource lock acquired on a system executing the process. The method also includes referencing, by another process, the lock information record of the shared data structure to ascertain the user identification data identifying the user-owner of the resource lock, and thereby facilitate processing within the clustered computing environment.
US11880349B2
A method implemented by a computer system including receiving a transaction for a blockchain to update a data record persistently stored on the blockchain, the transaction specifying updated values for one or more of a plurality of data elements of the data record, and updating correlated data records separate from the blockchain in a database system to match the updated values for the data record in the blockchain.
US11880345B2
This disclosure relates generally to generating annotations and field-names for a relational schema. Typically, most domains have relational database (RDB) system built for them instead of domain ontologies and usually linguistic information of the schema is not used to recover the domain terms. The disclosed method and system facilitate generating annotations and field-names for a relational schema, while considering the linguistic information of a schema by using a trained model, trained through a proposed training technique. The trained model comprises of at least one knowledge graph and a set of associated parameters. The trained model is further used to perform a plurality of tasks, wherein the plurality of tasks include generating a plurality of new fieldnames for a relational schema through a stochastic generative process and for generating a new annotation for a fieldname of a relational schema through a probabilistic inference technique.
US11880338B2
Described is hard link handling when a directory snapshot exists that includes the hard link's connected file object. A hard link is created by allocating a virtual inode number for the hard link, with the virtual inode number mapped to a real inode number that identifies a real inode of the file object; the hard link is assigned weight. A total weight associated with the real inode is increased by the hard link weight, and a hard link data store is updated with an entry for the hard link. Upon receiving data write request to the hard link, weight data determines that the file object is shared as a result of the snapshot; the hard link is disassociated from the real inode file, and associated with a new real inode number and new real inode of a new file object. The data is written based on the new real inode.
US11880327B1
A coherent connection and a non-coherent connection are provided between system-on-chips (SoCs). The coherent connection can be coupled to coherent interconnects on the SoCs, and the non-coherent connection can be coupled to non-coherent interconnects on the SoCs. An input/output (I/O) transaction from an I/O device on a first SoC that is targeted to a second SoC can be transmitted via the non-coherent connection, and a processor transaction from the first SoC that is targeted to the second SoC can be transmitted via the coherent connection.
US11880326B2
Emulated telemetry interfaces for host processors and management processors coupled over communication fabrics are presented herein. In one example, an apparatus includes a monitoring function executed by a host processor configured to determine telemetry related to operation of at least the host processor. A driver function executed by the host processor is configured to emulate operation of a network interface to an operating system of the host processor for transfer of communications comprising at least the telemetry to a management processor over a communication fabric different than the network interface, where the host processor and the management processor are communicatively coupled to the communication fabric.
US11880313B2
In one embodiment, the method includes receiving, at a storage device, a request. The request includes a request message authentication code and write protect information. The write protect information includes at least one of start address information and length information. The start address information indicates a logical block address at which a memory area in a non-volatile memory of the storage device starts, and the length information indicates a length of the memory area. The method also includes generating, at the storage device, a message authentication code based on (1) at least one of the start address information and the length information, and (2) a key stored at the storage device; authenticating, at the storage device, the request based on the generated message authentication code and the request message authentication code; and processing, at the storage device, the request based on a result of the authenticating.
US11880307B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products structured for dynamic management of stored cache data based on predictive usage information. The invention is structured for proactive alleviation of obsolete data, dynamic pre-population and fetching of cached data based on determining actions preceding initiation of activities. Specifically, the invention is configured to detect, via a proactive processor application, a first access event via a first network device associated with a first communication channel at a first time interval, such that the first access event is detected prior to initiation of a first technology activity event by the user. The invention is also structured to populate the first adapted hierarchical cache data object for use at a technology application associated with the first network device prior to the initiation of the first technology activity event by the user.
US11880306B2
Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include configuring a configurable combined private and shared cache in a processor. Related processor-based systems and methods are also disclosed. A combined private and shared cache structure is configurable to select a private cache portion and a shared cache portion.
US11880303B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for content cache invalidation using cache tags are provided. A first proxy hop may receive a request from a client device for a content object originating from a content source. A cache tagging script is executed to add a query parameter to the request to create a modified request. The query parameter specifies a cache tag version for the content object. The modified request is transmitted through one or more subsequent proxy hops to the content source to retrieve the content object. The content object, tagged with a cache tag specifying the cache tag version, is cached as a cached content object within a cache. The cache tag is associated with an expiration timestamp after which the cached content object is designated to be invalid.
US11880302B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for optimizing record placement in defragmenting a graph database. Issues with fragmented data within a graph database are addressed on the record level by placing data that is frequently accessed together contiguously within memory. For example, a dynamic rule set may be developed based on dynamically analyzing access patterns of the graph database, policies, system characteristics and/or other heuristics. Based on statistics regarding normal query patterns, the systems and methods may identify an optimal position for certain types of edges that are often traversed with respect to particular types of nodes.
US11880294B2
Distributed tracing is applied during an upgrade from a first management appliance to a second management appliance. The distributed tracing method includes generating a parent span that encapsulates states of the overall workflow, including a span context that contains a trace identifier and a span identifier, and generating a plurality of child spans. Each child span encapsulates states that represent a piece of the workflow and contains a reference to the parent span context. The states of the child spans include an error tag that indicates whether the piece of the workflow associated with the child span executed with an error. Because child spans may be generated for a piece of the workflow that is executed by a service running in the first or second management appliance, the span context for the parent span is persisted by the first management appliance and replicated for use by the second management appliance.
US11880292B2
Example implementations relate to simulating an environment. For example, a system for environment simulation may include a simulation engine to build an environment simulation to mimic portions of a real environment relevant to a detected anomaly trend, an acceleration engine to simulate, within the environment simulation, a scenario associated with the detected anomaly at a rate faster than the scenario occurs in the real environment, a abnormal behavior engine to detect a abnormal behavior associated with the scenario, and an adaptation engine to modify a device within the real environment to be adaptive to the scenario, based on the detected abnormal behavior.
US11880289B2
A self-detection mechanism for an IC is disclosed that determines whether the IC's internal bus is in a hanging state. An initialization sequence can be modified after a soft reset by reading data from an internal DRAM of the IC using a Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller as part of the initialization sequence. The read command is issued over the internal bus and, if the bus is hanging, the read command is not completed. Monitoring can be performed by waiting a predetermined period of time (e.g., 100 ms) to determine if the read was properly completed. If so, no further action is needed. If the read was not completed, then a hard reset is requested to be performed. Thus, an initialization sequence can be modified to run dummy transactions through the internal bus, and validate that all paths are functional.
US11880284B2
A storage restore system includes a processor, a memory, and a restore part configured to generate, in a recovery-destination storage area to which to recover a file or a directory stored in a designated storage area and indicated by object data including the file or the directory and parent directory information which is information on a directory to which the file or the directory belongs, a directory indicated by the parent directory information in the object data, and configured to generate the file or the directory indicated by the object data under the directory thus generated.
US11880280B2
A plurality of data objects is generated from a data stream received for constructing a backup image. A stream size of the data stream is determined. For each multi-threaded put operation used to write a data object of the plurality of data objects to a cloud storage, a maximum number of threads is determined into which the data object can be separated into a number of parts for simultaneous transmission to the cloud storage. A part size of each part is determined. A number of multi-threaded put operations is determined for writing the plurality of data objects to the cloud storage based, at least in part, on the stream size, the maximum number of threads into which the data object can be separated, and the part size. The plurality of data objects is stored into the cloud storage using the number of multi-threaded put operations.
US11880279B2
There is provided a computer implemented method, a system for performing the method, and a computer program for recreating a program state. In one aspect, the invention comprises associating a step counter with respective points in the progress of a program's execution and generating a snapshot by storing the set of program values associated with a first step counter value. The state of the program is subsequently recreated by recreating the program state from the snapshot preceding the point in the progress of the program execution associated with a query step counter value and executing the program from the recreated state of the program to the point in the progress of the program execution associated with the second index reference value, including using previously stored non-deterministic values.
US11880275B2
Various embodiments described herein provide for copying (e.g., to cache) a portion of defect management data for a block of a memory device, such as a non-volatile memory device of a memory sub-system, based on activity of the memory device. For instance, the portion of defect management data can be copied from a first-type memory device of the memory sub-system to a second-type memory device of the memory sub-system, where the first-type memory device stores defect management data for a working set of blocks of the non-volatile memory device being operated upon by the memory sub-system, where the second-type memory device is used to store defect management data for an active block of the working set of blocks, and where the second-type memory device has a faster access (e.g., read or write access) than the first-type memory device.
US11880265B2
A receiver device includes detection logic, an error counter, and an interrupt logic. The detection logic is to receive a first set of data frames and detect one or more frame errors in the first set of data frames. The error counter is to store a number of the one or more frame errors detected in the first set of data frames. The interrupt logic can be coupled to the error counter. The interrupt logic is to specify a period and compare the number of the one or more frame errors with a threshold number of frame errors during the period, where the interrupt logic is to indicate an interrupt responsive to the number of the one or more frame errors detected within the period satisfying the threshold number of frame errors.
US11880255B1
An energy usage computing system includes one or more processors that are configured to receive data corresponding to energy usage of a plurality of devices within a property from a plurality of sensors. The energy usage computing system is also configured to analyze the data to determine an amount of energy used for at least one device of the plurality of devices, project an estimated cost of operation for the at least one device based at least in part on the determined amount of energy used for the at least one device, compare the estimated cost of operation for the at least one device to a threshold, and perform a cost-saving action in response to determining that the estimated cost of operation for the at least one device is above the threshold.
US11880248B2
A docking station for secondary external cooling for mobile computing devices, including: one or more ports for docking a mobile computing device; a docking platform for supporting the mobile computing device; a cooling element; and a thermal interface housed in the docking platform for transferring heat between the mobile computing device and the cooling element.
US11880247B2
An air directing device for thermal management in side breathing equipment includes at least three vertical panels disposed in generally parallel relationship and horizontally spaced a fixed distance from one another. Each panel defines a fin arranged orthogonally relative to an airflow path for deflection of cooling air into side breathing equipment. At least one of the panels is an inner panel that is wider than two outer panels. The air directing device further includes at least one connection member connecting the outer panels to one another.
US11880242B2
A foldable touch screen display device made up of flexible display segments that can be folded from a compact state to an expanded state which also includes an aperture that can retract parallel to the respective planes of each flexible display segment structure. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone or smaller. The form factor of the expanded state is roughly the size of a larger phone or tablet computer, which may also have the size and mechanical functionality of a laptop. The device may also have a flip phone configuration. Both folded states may include an integrated speaker and microphone. The device may also be folded 360 degrees about a hinge such that it can fold to a compact folded state in one direction with its flexible display segments facing inward towards each other, or to an inverted compact folded state in the opposite direction such that the flexible display segments are facing outward along the device's segment structures. The aperture acts as a central support for the flexible display that can also retract as the device is folded to any state such that the display is not damaged.
US11880232B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a first housing and a second housing, a display extending from the first housing to the second housing, and a hinge structure including a hinge connected to the first housing and the second housing. The hinge structure includes: a fixed portion, a first rotary portion coupled to the fixed structure to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation and connected to the first housing, a second rotary portion coupled to the fixed portion to be rotatable about a second axis of rotation and connected to the second housing, the first axis of rotation and the second axis of rotation extending parallel to an axial direction, a first arm shaft rotatably coupled to the fixed portion and parallel to the axial direction, a second arm shaft rotatably coupled to the fixed portion and parallel to the axial direction, a first arm coupled to the first arm shaft and configured to rotate together with the first arm shaft and including a first arm cam formed around the first arm shaft, a second arm coupled to the second arm shaft and configured to rotate together with the second arm shaft and including a second arm cam formed around the second arm shaft, a first elastic member coupled to the first arm shaft and configured to apply an elastic force in the axial direction, a second elastic member coupled to the second arm shaft and configured to apply an elastic force in the axial direction.
US11880231B2
Timekeeping on a computing device is deterministically performed by implementing two successive calls to a time function that returns current time based on a continuously running counter that is maintained in one or more cores of the device's CPU. The same fixed time computation parameters are used in each call, with the single variable being a value that is read from the counter. For the initial call to the time function, the processor optimizes the instruction execution by predicting the function's execution path based on observed patterns. As the instructions and data are already cached, and the processor has the results of the prior execution path prediction, the subsequent call executes quickly and predictably relative to the initial call while the processor remains in a working (i.e., non-sleep) state. The series of calls provides a deterministic time computation with improved accuracy by mitigating the unpredictability of processor sleep state delays.
US11880229B2
A processing device initializes a memory device in an unauthenticated state in which the memory device is unable to execute one or more restricted commands. The processing device accesses a security capsule that is digitally signed using a private key. The processing device transitions the memory device to an authenticated state based on verifying that the security capsule is validly signed. The processing device uses a public key corresponding to the private key to verify the security capsule is validly signed. While in the authenticated state, the memory device is able to execute the one or more restricted commands.
US11880228B2
Methods and systems for processing a blockchain comprising a plurality of immutable sales records corresponding to sales made by agents of an entity are provided. According to certain aspects, a transaction request indicating a sale made by an agent of the entity may be received at a first node. A block including a sales record indicating the sale made by the agent may be added to a blockchain and transmitted to another node for validation. The first node may add the block to a copy of the blockchain, where the block may be identified by a hash value that references a previous block in the blockchain that includes at least one additional sales record.
US11880203B2
Methods and systems for controlling navigation of an autonomous vehicle for traversing a drivable area are disclosed. The methods include receiving information relating to a drivable area that includes a plurality of polygons, identifying a plurality of logical edges that form a boundary of the drivable area, sequentially and repeatedly analyzing concavities of each the plurality of logical edges until identification of a first logical edge that has a concavity greater than a threshold, creating a first logical segment of the boundary of the drivable area. This segmentation may be repeated until each of the plurality of logical edges has been classified. The method may include creating and adding (to a map) a data representation of the drivable area that comprises an indication of the plurality of logical segments, and adding the data representation to a road network map comprising the drivable area.
US11880189B2
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for optimizing a gasifier model. Some examples include: virtually partitioning the gasifier by temperature; enabling the gasifier model to input feed split from total feed based on a respective proportion coefficient in each virtual partition to perform gasification reactions independently by each virtual partition; enabling the gasifier model to determine a virtual value of a gasifier parameter after mixing the virtual partitions, quenching and shifting when gasification reactions reach an equilibrium in each virtual partition; determining a measured value of the gasifier parameter when the total feed is input; and adjusting the proportion coefficients based on a comparison result between the measured value and the virtual value of the gasifier parameter.
US11880184B2
A method includes determining a current situation to be present in a process controlled by an industrial process control and automation system (IPCS) that includes at least one process controller coupled to input output (I/O) modules coupled to field devices including sensors and actuators that are coupled to processing equipment. Responsive to the current situation, displaying a plurality of suggested actions each including at least one step in a selectable panel in a human machine interface (HMI) associated with an operator computing system for an operator that is coupled to the process controller. Responsive to the displaying, the operator selects in the selectable panel at least one of the plurality of suggested actions (selected action). The selecting of the selected action results in the IPCS automatically implementing at least in part the step(s) associated with the selected action.
US11880182B2
Sensor data generated by a sensor of a computer numerically controlled machine can be compared with a forecast. The forecast can include expected sensor data for the sensor, over a course of an execution plan for making a cut with a movable laser cutting head. The sensor data can be generated during execution of the execution plan. During execution of the execution plan, the sensor data can be monitored and a deviation of from the forecast can be detected. It can be determined, based on the detecting, that an anomalous condition of the computer numerically controlled machine has occurred. Based on the determining, an action can be performed.
US11880175B2
A method for controlling an automation process in real time based on a change profile of at least one process variable, comprises determining a first change profile by a real-time-capable recognition method based on a non-linear optimization process taking into consideration at least one boundary condition of the process variable, determining a second change profile by a numerical algorithm based on the first change profile, including adapting a selected profile function to the first change profile by a numerical adaptation process and identifying the adapted profile function as a second change profile, checking whether the second change profile satisfies at least one secondary condition of the process variable, controlling the automation process based on the second change profile if the second change profile satisfies the secondary condition, and controlling the automation process based on a predetermined fallback profile if the second change profile does not satisfy the secondary condition.
US11880174B2
A disturbance suppression apparatus includes a timing prediction device. The timing prediction device includes a dead time acquisition unit, a disturbance start time acquisition unit, and a timing prediction unit. The dead time acquisition unit performs PID tuning to acquire a dead time. The disturbance start time acquisition unit acquires a disturbance start time representing a period from a time point at which a start signal is input to a time point at which a temperature starts to be affected by a disturbance. The timing prediction unit predicts a disturbance manipulated variable application timing on the basis of the dead time and the disturbance start time.
US11880168B2
A timepiece according to an embodiment enables a crown to be rotated even when it is locked, using a structure that does not cause constraints of design. The timepiece includes an outer case having a movement therein, the outer case having a crown hole through a portion thereof, an engagement member connected to the outer case, and a crown. The crown includes a shaft part inserted into the crown hole and connected to the movement, an operation part holding the shaft part movably along an axial direction of the shaft part and enabling the shaft part to rotate in a circumferential direction, and an engagement part disposed between the engagement member and the operation part and restricting movement of the operation part in the axial direction when engaged with the engagement member, the engagement part rotatably holding the operation part whether or not engaged with the engagement member.
US11880167B2
A sealing device (100) for a watch (200) configured to be inserted into a primary space (201) comprised in a middle part (210). The sealing device (100) includes an insertion organ (110) configured to be inserted into the primary space (201), a first sealing elements set (120) configured to seal the primary space (201) between the middle part (210) and the insertion organ (110), and a sealing elements set (140) configured to seal a secondary space (131) between a drive organ (130) and the insertion organ (110).
US11880165B2
Disclosed is a method including the following steps: a) providing a substrate including a first silicon layer, a second silicon layer and an intermediate silicon oxide layer therebetween; b) etching the first silicon layer in order to form the timepiece components therein; c) releasing from the substrate a wafer formed by at least all or part of the etched, first silicon layer and including the timepiece components; d) thermally oxidizing and then deoxidizing the timepiece components; e) forming by thermal oxidation or deposition a silicon oxide layer on the timepiece components; f) detaching the timepiece components from the wafer.
US11880164B2
Disclosed herein a module controlling viewing window, a device for hologram display and a method for displaying hologram. The module controlling viewing window includes: a viewing window forming unit having a first reflective optical system that receives an incident light and forms a viewing window in a user's viewing region; and a viewing angle expanding unit having a second reflective optical system that is arranged in one direction on the viewing window forming unit and expands a viewing angle of the viewing window.
US11880163B2
A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and an external additive attached to the surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive includes specific external additive particles. The specific external additive particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 30 nm and no greater than 305 nm. The specific external additive particles include antimony-doped tin oxide particles or indium tin oxide particles. A ratio (MSb/(MSn+MSb)) of a mass (MSb) of an antimony atom to a total of the mass (MSb) of the antimony atom and a mass (MSn) of a tin atom in the antimony-doped tin oxide particles is at least 0.04 and no greater than 0.46.
US11880161B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section that forms, with a developer containing toner, a toner image on a recording material; a fixing unit that fixes a toner image formed at the image forming section to a recording material; a recovery unit that recovers waste powder containing toner discharged from the image forming section; and a gas circulation unit in which gas for cooling the vicinity of the image forming section or the vicinity of the fixing unit circulates and that has a portion disposed between the recovery unit and the fixing unit.
US11880158B2
A drawer is moveable between an inner position and an outer position through an opening when a cover is located at an opening position. A waste toner conveying tube is movable in a second direction between a first connection position and a first disconnection position when a drum cartridge is attached to a drawer and the drawer is at the inner position. When the cover moves from a closing position toward the opening position, the waste toner conveying tube moves from the first connection position toward the first disconnection position in conjunction with the movement of the cover. The drawer is movable from the inner position toward to the outer position when the drum cartridge is attached to the drawer, the drawer is at the inner position, and the waste toner conveying tube is at the first disconnection position.
US11880157B2
A sheet feed device comprises a first conveyance path and a second conveyance path which are different sheet conveyance paths, and a conveyance path merging section for merging the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path together. At least one of the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path includes an upstream side roller that feeds sheet to downstream side in a conveyance direction. The conveyance path merging section comprises a conveyance roller pair that conveys the sheet fed from the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path through a nip; a variable mechanism that makes an arrangement angle of one roller of the conveyance roller pair to the other roller thereof variable; and a transmission mechanism that transmits a driving force from the upstream side roller provided in one of the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path to the variable mechanism.
US11880156B2
The image forming apparatus includes a paper feed unit that stores print paper used for printing, a paper size sensor that detects a paper size of the print paper stored in the paper feed unit, a filter information setting unit that sets filter information indicating the paper size detected by the paper size sensor in association with the paper feed unit, and a paper catalog list generating unit that extracts a paper catalog matching the filter information from paper catalogs included in predetermined paper catalog data and generates a paper catalog list using the extracted paper catalog.
US11880155B2
An image forming device comprising circuitry. The circuitry generates an image pattern in which two or more types of patch images are combined and changes a value of image data around at least one type of patch image of the two or more types of patch images to less than a maximum value of image data of the at least one type of patch image when the two or more types of patch images are combined.
US11880144B2
An object table configured to hold an object on a holding surface, the object table including: a main body; a plurality of burls extending from the main body, end surfaces of the burls defining the holding surface; an actuator assembly; and a further actuator assembly, wherein the actuator assembly is configured to deform the main body to generate a long stroke out-of-plane deformation of the holding surface based on shape information of the object that is to be held and the further actuator assembly is configured to generate a short stroke out-of-plane deformation of the holding surface.
US11880139B2
A system, device, and method for imparting or transferring a geometric pattern on the surface of a substrate. The device comprises, a housing forming at least a partially enclosed space, a light source body comprising an array of light emitters, a base disposed below the light source body and configured for supporting the substrate having a photoresist layer thereon, and a controller for activating a predetermined number of individual light emitters corresponding to the predetermined geometric pattern. Each individual light emitter within the array of light emitters is selectively activatable to emit a light. The array of light emitters comprises a plurality of light-emitting diodes, a plurality of quantum dots, or both.
US11880137B2
Methods and apparatuses for minimizing line edge/width roughness in lines formed by photolithography are provided. In one example, a method of processing a substrate includes applying a photoresist layer comprising a photoacid generator to on a multi-layer disposed on a substrate, wherein the multi-layer comprises an underlayer formed from an organic material, inorganic material, or a mixture of organic and inorganic materials, exposing a first portion of the photoresist layer unprotected by a photomask to a radiation light in a lithographic exposure process, and applying an electric field or a magnetic field to alter movement of photoacid generated from the photoacid generator substantially in a vertical direction.
US11880134B2
New Te-salt compounds, including photoactive tellurium compounds useful for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography.
US11880131B2
A process for transfer imprinting using a novel family of anti-sticking layers, such as for nanoimprint lithography processes, is described.
US11880122B2
An optical system includes a light source configured to emit irradiation light, an optical modulation element having a plurality of reflection planes by which an incident light is reflected in a different direction, and an optical element having an interface through which the irradiation light emitted from the light source is emitted to the optical modulation element as the incident light and a first exit light reflected by the optical modulation element in a first direction is guided to a projection surface. Each one of the plurality of reflection planes is inclined with reference to a surface of the optical modulation element to reflect the incident light as the first exit light, and the surface of the optical modulation element is inclined with reference to the interface.
US11880120B2
A gimbal control method includes configuring, while a gimbal is in a power-on state, turning-off motor control parameters according to a mass of a camera device carried by the gimbal. The gimbal includes an electric motor. The turning-off motor control parameters are configured to control the electric motor when the gimbal is powered off or enters a sleep state. The method further includes, in response to the gimbal being powered off or entering the sleep state, controlling a torque of the electric motor to decrease gradually from a starting moment at which the gimbal is powered off or enters the sleep state according to the turning-off motor control parameters.
US11880117B2
A camera module includes a plastic carrier, an imaging lens assembly, a reflective element and a plurality of auto-focusing elements. The plastic carrier includes an inner portion and an outer portion, wherein an inner space is defined by the inner portion, and the outer portion includes at least one mounting structure. The imaging lens assembly is disposed in the inner space of the plastic carrier. The reflective element is for folding an image light by a reflective surface of the reflective element into the imaging lens assembly. The auto-focusing elements include at least two magnets and at least one wiring element, wherein the auto-focusing elements are for moving the plastic carrier along a second optical axis of the imaging lens assembly, and the magnets or the wiring element can be disposed on the mounting structure of the outer portion.
US11880114B2
Techniques for using ferroelectric liquid crystals Dammann grating (FLCDG) for light detection and ranging devices are disclosed. In LiDAR devices, accuracy, response time, and cost performance can be limited by some factors, such as laser pulse width, time resolution of a time-to-digital conversion chip, detector bandwidth, shot noise, and time error generated by electronic circuits. A FLCDG-based architecture can improve a LiDAR device, and provide for one-shot capturing due to the high switching speed at very low driving voltage provided by ferroelectric liquid crystals and the equal diffracting ability of Dammann grating.
US11880107B2
The present application provides a pixel electrode, a driving method of the pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal display panel, the pixel electrode comprises a frame electrode and a keel electrode, the frame electrode forms a closed region, the keel electrode is located in the closed region, the keel electrode comprises at least a first trunk and a second trunk vertically intersecting the first trunk, the first trunk and the second trunk divide the closed region into four sub areas, and a shape of an area composed of any two adjacent sub areas is pagoda shaped, to improve a light transmittance of the pixel electrode.
US11880103B2
An optical element includes a first boundary layer and a second boundary layer. A solution is disposed between the first boundary layer and the second boundary layer. The solution includes liquid crystals co-mingled with oblong photochromic dye molecules. The photochromic dye molecules are matched to the liquid crystals to offset a decrease in absorption of the photochromic dye molecules in response to a temperature increase of the photochromic dye molecules.
US11880102B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a frame positioned behind the display panel, a plate positioned between the display panel and the frame, and a side frame, which extends along an edge of the frame behind the frame and which is coupled to the frame, wherein the plate includes a base facing the frame, and a projection, which projects rearwards from the base through the frame and the side frame and which is bent at an end thereof so as to be coupled to the side frame.
US11880098B2
A semiconductor optical device includes: a buried layer having a side surface, an upper surface, and an intermediate region; an insulating film on the upper surface of the buried layer; and an electrode including a mesa electrode, a pad electrode, and a lead-out electrode. The upper surface of the buried layer has an outer edge including a first edge extending along the first direction and a second edge extending along a second direction. The intermediate region includes an upright surface that stands straight between the side surface and the first edge, and a slope surface that slopes more gently than the upright surface and extends downward from the second edge. The lead-out electrode includes a portion on the insulating film and connected to the pad electrode, another portion on the intermediate region and through the slope surface, and another portion connected to the mesa electrode.
US11880091B2
The embodiments disclose an apparatus including an eyewear pupilometer for detecting, measuring and processing a wearer's pupil movement and size, for detecting and processing retinal images, for detecting and processing a wearer's field of view, for broadcasting alerts, for pre-diagnostic screening, for overriding vehicle operation and for measuring, recording and transmitting circadian responses, at least one eyewear pupilometer module including a lens fiber optic camera module, an image processor module, a retinal image infrared detector module, an outward camera module, at least one alert module, an alert light and message projector, a WI-FI module, an automated pullover module, an automated steering module, fiber optic & data cables, a contact lens pupilometer image, sensor and processor module, and at least one eyewear pupilometer module coupled to and/or embedded into eyewear frames and lenses, contact lenses, a vehicle wind shield and protective covers for hand held devices and laptop computers.
US11880078B2
An optical communication cable is provided having a cable body with an inner surface defining a passage within the cable body and a plurality of core elements within the passage. A film surrounds the plurality of core elements, wherein the film directs a radial force inward onto the plurality of core elements to restrain and hold the plurality of core elements in place.
US11880077B2
An optical connector assembly (OCA) includes a connector housing to maintain alignment between optical components housed within the OCA and photoelectric converters on an optoelectronic substrate (OES) assembly. The optical components include a ferrule and an optical cable. The ferrule is optically coupled to the optical cable. The OCA includes a ferrule holder to hold the ferrule within the OCA, and a spring located between the connector housing and the ferrule holder. The spring is to apply a separating force between the ferrule holder and the connector housing. The OCA includes a gasket coupled to the connector housing. The coupling of the connector housing to a socket compresses the gasket to provide a seal between the connector housing and the socket.
US11880070B2
Plural grating couplers having grating conditions different from each other and plural optical waveguides respectively connected with the plural grating couplers are included. The plural grating couplers have the same arraying directions of gratings. Further, each of the plural grating couplers has a different grating interval as a grating condition. Further, plural reflection units respectively provided to the plural optical waveguides are included.
US11880068B2
A space optical coupling apparatus, including M first couplers, a phase adjustment apparatus, N beam splitters, M second couplers, a coupling apparatus, and a controller. The first coupler receives a beam, and couples the beam to the phase adjustment apparatus. The phase adjustment apparatus includes M phase adjusters, N beam splitters, and N detectors. Each beam splitter is configured to split a received beam into two beams, one sent to a corresponding detector and the other sent to a corresponding phase adjuster. The second coupler receives output light from the coupling apparatus, and transmits the output light into the space. The coupling apparatus is configured to couple a beam onto a single-mode fiber. The controller is configured to control, based on the beam intensity detected by the detector and the beam intensity on the single-mode fiber, the M phase adjusters to adjust the phases of the received beams.
US11880065B2
Structures including an edge coupler and methods of fabricating a structure including an edge coupler. The structure includes an edge coupler having a longitudinal axis, a first ring resonator, and a second ring resonator. The first ring resonator has a first center point that is spaced from the longitudinal axis of the edge coupler by a first perpendicular distance. The second ring resonator has a second center point that is spaced from the longitudinal axis of the edge coupler by a second perpendicular distance.
US11880060B2
The systems and methods of the present disclosure provide connectable tiles that can form a self-contained illuminated sign of potentially unlimited size. The self-contained illuminated sign can include one or more tiles. A tile can include a diffusion film having a surface to be illuminated. The tile can include a light guide plate coupled to the diffusion film. The light guide can be configured to evenly distribute light through the diffusion film. The tile can include a solar panel coupled to the light guide. The solar panel can capture light that passes through the diffusion film and the light guide. The tile can include a light source positioned adjacent to the light guide that receives stored electrical power from a battery electrically coupled to the solar panel. The tile can include a connector configured to attach the tile to a second tile.
US11880056B2
A high power uniform light beam is generated on an oblique plane by one or more diode lasers and 2 or more light pipes. The light pipes may be trapezoidal so that the illuminated area is substantially square. The light pipes may be elliptical so that the illuminated area is substantially circular.
US11880048B2
An imaging lens assembly includes five lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the two surfaces of the fourth lens element are both aspheric. The fifth lens element having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein two surfaces of the fifth lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element includes at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
US11880046B2
An automatic polarization control device and a method thereof are proposed. More particularly, the automatic polarization control device and the method thereof is provided to control a penetrated polarization direction of light incident on a camera by using electricity and generate a polarization image desired by a user.
US11880043B2
A wearable device may include a head-mounted display (HMD) for rendering a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object which appears to be located in an ambient environment of a user of the display. The relative positions of the HMD and one or more eyes of the user may not be in desired positions to receive, or register, image information outputted by the HMD. For example, the HMD-to-eye alignment may vary for different users and may change over time (e.g., as a given user moves around or as the HMD slips or otherwise becomes displaced). The wearable device may determine a relative position or alignment between the HMD and the user's eyes by determining whether features of the eye are at certain vertical positions relative to the HMD. Based on the relative positions, the wearable device may determine if it is properly fitted to the user, provide feedback on the quality of the fit to the user, and take actions to reduce or minimize effects of any misalignment.
US11880042B2
A detachable projection device, a sealing housing thereof, and a wearable apparatus are provided. The sealing housing includes a first cover, a second cover, a first waterproof and dustproof gasket having an enclosed loop-shape, and a transparent case. The first cover and the second cover respectively have two sealing edge portions corresponding in shape to each other. The second cover is detachably fastened to the first cover, and the first waterproof and dustproof gasket is gaplessly sandwiched between and abutted against the two sealing edge portions, so that the first cover, the second cover, and the first waterproof and dustproof gasket jointly define an accommodating space. The transparent case is connected to the second cover and has an insertion slot that is in spatial communication with an optical area of the accommodating space.
US11880037B2
A control method applied in a display device is provided. The display device includes an image generator and a screen. The image generator is directed to output an output image. The screen is directed to operate in a first operation mode or a second operation mode. The screen has a first light-transmittance in the first operation mode and has a second light-transmittance in the second operation mode. The first light-transmittance is different from the second light-transmittance. In response to the screen operating in the first operation mode or the second operation mode, the image generator outputs the output image onto the screen in a light-emitting period and stops outputting the output image onto the screen in a non-light-emitting period after the light-emitting period.
US11880020B2
An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The object-side surface of the third lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the third lens element; the object-side surface of the fourth lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis; the object-side surface of the fifth lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis; the image-side surface of the fifth lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the fifth lens element; and the seventh lens element has negative refracting power.
US11880018B2
An optical window for a hypersonic vehicle includes a window substrate and an optical coating on the window substrate, with the coating including multiple alternating layers of different materials. The coating may have many layers, for example having five or more alternating bi-layers and may be configured to still perform its optical function with some of the layers removed, such as by ablation of some of the layers through exposure to hypersonic flow. The different materials of the different layers may have different properties, for example with one of the materials being more resistant to ablation and/or chemical reaction than another of the layers. Coatings for anti-reflection additionally include a region of graded optical index between the sequence of bi-layers and the substrate. The hypersonic vehicle may include an optical sensor which operates by receiving light through the optical window.
US11880017B2
The present invention relates to anti-reflective films including: a light-transmitting substrate; a hard coating layer; and a low refractive layer, wherein the low refractive layer includes a first region including a binder resin and high refractive inorganic nanoparticles and a second region including a binder resin and low refractive inorganic nanoparticles, and when polarization ellipticity measured by ellipsometry is fitted to a Cauchy model for each of the first region and the second region, predetermined requirements are fulfilled.
US11880014B2
A prediction method for changes of physical parameters after earthquakes includes: obtaining a precipitable water vapor after an earthquake in a target monitoring area during a historical period; verifying the accuracy of the precipitable water vapor collected in the historical period; obtaining thermal anomaly data of the land surface temperature after the earthquake in the target monitoring area during the historical period; determining a time difference between peak of the precipitable water vapor and peak of the thermal anomaly of the land surface temperature; when the earthquake occurs again in the target monitoring area, detecting a time point corresponding to the peak of the thermal anomaly of the land surface temperature in the target monitoring area, adding the time point to the time difference to obtain a predicted time point of the peak of precipitable water vapor, and outputting the predicted time point as a time point of secondary disaster.
US11880013B2
An example screening system includes a plurality of detectors about a screening area. Each detector includes a sensor configured to detect information from one or more objects moving along a path from an entrance to an exit of the screening area. The plurality of detectors include a first detector configured to detect information from a first location of the path, and a second detector configured to detect information from a second location of the path. The second detector is configured to adapt its functionality based on a finding of the first detector for a given one of the one or more objects.
US11880000B2
A LIDAR transceiver includes a source input, coherent cells, and an optical switch. The optical switch is configured to switchably couple the source input to the coherent cells. At least one of the coherent cells includes an input port, an optical antenna, and a splitter. The input port is coupled to the optical switch and the splitter is coupled between the input port and the optical antenna. The splitter is configured to split a received portion of a laser signal into a local oscillator signal and a transmit signal, where the transmit signal is emitted through the optical antenna. A reflection of the transmit signal is received through the optical antenna as a reflected signal, where the splitter is further configured to output a return signal that is a portion of the reflected signal.
US11879995B2
A system and method of calibrating a laser tracker is provided. The system includes a support system for quickly and easily moving an artifact to a desired position and orientation and for holding the artifact in the position and orientation. An adjustable alignment mirror is coupled to a first end of the artifact so that the more accurate ranging system of the laser tracker can be isolated to determine a reference length of the artifact. Additional measurements are then taken to exercise one or more error source within the tracker. The support system includes a positioner and a support beam for positioning and supporting the artifact. The artifact is coupled to the support beam using kinematic clamps that are designed to reduce or eliminate errors associated with over-constraining the artifact.
US11879994B2
According to one embodiment, a data processing apparatus includes a data processing unit and an acquisition unit. The data processing unit is configured to perform data processing on measurement data according to a distance to a marker, the measurement data being obtained by a ranging sensor attached to a moving object and measuring the marker of which surface includes a pattern with different reflection characteristics. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire operation information of the moving object based on data obtained by the data processing.
US11879992B2
A method for identifying and classifying static radar targets with the aid of a radar sensor of a motor vehicle. The method includes: identifying an object as a static radar target based on the received radar signals reflected by the object, generating an occupancy pattern in an occupancy grid based on the received radar signals reflected by the object, storing an assignment, which assigns the generated occupancy pattern to the static radar target, classifying the static radar target as belonging to one or multiple groups of static radar targets based on characteristic features of radar signatures of the received radar signals reflected by the corresponding object. A radar sensor is also described.
US11879987B2
A method for modifying a repeat interval of a locator beacon is described. The method includes transmitting repeatedly, by a beacon transmitter, a first advertising beacon signal through a first number of transmission repetitions spaced at a first repeat interval. The method further includes transmitting repeatedly, by the beacon transmitter, a second advertising beacon signal through a second number of transmission repetitions at a second repeat interval, wherein the second advertising beacon signal includes an identifier that provides identification of the beacon transmitter and user information. The method further includes receiving a modification instruction from a user device. The modification instruction is configured to modify the first repeat interval into a third repeat interval. The method also includes transmitting repeatedly, by a beacon transmitter, the first beacon signal through the first number of transmission repetitions spaced at the third repeat interval.
US11879986B2
The present disclosure discloses a three-dimensional co-prime cubic array direction-of-arrival estimation method based on a cross-correlation tensor, mainly solving the problems of multi-dimensional signal structured information loss and Nyquist mismatch in existing methods and comprising the following implementing steps: constructing a three-dimensional co-prime cubic array; carrying out tensor modeling on a receiving signal of the three-dimensional co-prime cubic array; calculating six-dimensional second-order cross-correlation tensor statistics; deducing a three-dimensional virtual uniform cubic array equivalent signal tensor based on cross-correlation tensor dimension merging transformation; constructing a four-dimensional virtual domain signal tensor based on mirror image augmentation of the three-dimensional virtual uniform cubic array; constructing a signal and noise subspace in a Kronecker product form through virtual domain signal tensor decomposition; and acquiring a direction-of-arrival estimation result based on three-dimensional spatial spectrum search.
US11879985B2
A method and system for determining center coordinates of a circular arc uses a position sensor, such as a GPS receiver, for receiving position coordinates for a plurality of points along the circular arc. The position coordinates for the plurality of points are then processed using an algorithm developed based on the geometric relationship for a cone inscribed in a sphere, with the sphere representing the Earth, the position coordinates defining points along a base perimeter of the cone, and an apex of the cone being located at the center of the Earth. A regression model is used to determine the center coordinates of the circular arc in a three-dimensional coordinate system without converting the position coordinates into two-dimensional coordinates. The method and system can be used to determine center coordinates for a center pivot sprinkler monitoring system or a vehicle guidance system.
US11879973B2
Various approaches for focusing an ultrasound transducer include introducing at least one transient acoustic reflector located in proximity to at least one target region; generating multiple sonications to the at least one target region; measuring a reflection signal of each of the sonications off the at least one transient acoustic reflector; selecting the measured reflection signals, and based at least in part on the selected reflection signals, adjusting a parameter value associated with at least one of the transducer elements so as to improve an ultrasound focus at the target region.
US11879966B2
A semiconductor package having an antenna; and a semiconductor die which is coupled to the antenna and comprises a transmitter configured to transmit wirelessly via the antenna a wireless signal having information on a local oscillator signal to a further semiconductor package comprising a further semiconductor die.
US11879965B2
Methods performed by a first device. The methods include transmitting a first ranging poll to a plurality of second devices, receiving a polling response message from each of at least a first subset of the second devices, determining a propagation delay for each of the received polling response messages and determining a distance to each of the first subset of the second devices based on at least the respective propagation delays. The methods further include receiving a ranging poll from a second device, wherein the ranging poll is one of a multicast transmission or a broadcast transmission, determining a type of response to be transmitted to the second device based on at least a capability of the first device and transmitting a response of the determined type to the second device.
US11879947B2
A battery management device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of slave controllers including at least one sensing port connected to at least one battery cell provided to a plurality of battery modules through a sensing line to sense a voltage of each connected battery cell and at least one ID allocation port for receiving the voltage from the sensing line when being connected to the sensing line, the plurality of slave controllers being configured to be connected to at least one corresponding battery module among the battery modules; and a master controller connected to the plurality of slave controllers, respectively, to receive voltage information about the voltage applied to the ID allocation port from the slave controller and allocate a regular ID to each of the plurality of slave controllers based on the received voltage information.
US11879943B1
A system for detecting changes in an electronic component and a method for operating a data processing system for finding events that predict an electronic component's failure are disclosed. The system includes an input port that receives a data stream that includes an ordered sequence of data values generated by the electronic component. A controller identifies a segment of the data stream (EDS), transforms the EDS to a CSV, and compares the CSV to a plurality of reference signature vectors (RSVs) to determine if the CSV is similar to any of the RSVs. Information identifying a new CSV is stored in an RSV database if the new CSV is similar to one of the RSVs, and a new RSV is created if the new CSV is not similar to any of the RSVs in said RSV database. A predictor RSV that occurs as the electronic component ages is identified.
US11879942B1
Implementations described herein relate to a core and interface scan testing. In some implementations, an integrated circuit may include input scan flip-flops (ISFFs) arranged in multiple ISFF stages that include a first ISFF stage and a second ISFF stage. Inputs to the first ISFF stage are connected to inputs of the integrated circuit. Inputs to the second ISFF stage are connected to outputs of a logic component that is connected to outputs of the first ISFF stage. The integrated circuit may include output scan flip-flops (OSFFS) arranged in multiple OSFF stages that include a first OSFF stage and a second OSFF stage. Outputs from the first OSFF stage are connected to outputs of the integrated circuit. Outputs from the second OSFF stage are connected to inputs of a logic component that is connected to inputs of the first OSFF stage. The integrated circuit may include core scan flip flops.
US11879940B2
A circuit includes a multipath memory having multiple cells and a plurality of sequence generators. Each sequence generator of the plurality of sequence generators drives one separate cell of the multiple cells via an automatic test pattern generator (ATPG) mode signal for each cell. The ATPG mode signal for each cell is configured via a sequence configuration input that controls a timing sequence to test each cell. The state of the ATPG mode signal of each cell selects whether test data or functional data is output from the respective cell.
US11879938B2
Method for detecting perturbations in a logic circuit and logic circuit for implementing this method
A method for detecting perturbations in a logic circuit including a plurality of datapaths coordinated by a clock signal and at least one test circuit having a programmable length datapath for varying a test propagation delay. The test circuit further including inputs, an output and an error generator for providing an error in case that the output is different than an expected output for the inputs. The test circuit having a calibration mode including determining a critical propagation delay by varying the programmable length datapath until the error generator outputs an error, adjusting the programmable length datapath to include therein a tolerance delay, and switching into a detection mode configured to detect a perturbation in the logic circuit along the programmable length datapath in case the error generator outputs an error.
US11879931B2
Systems and methods for testing a lightning protection circuit are provided. Aspects include providing an alternating current (AC) test signal source coupled to a circuit under test, the circuit under test comprising a lightning protection circuit having a threshold voltage, a first filter, and a second filter, providing a direct current (DC) voltage supply in series with a filtering device, the filtering device coupled to the AC test signal source, providing a first capacitor coupled between the AC test signal source and the circuit under test, operating the DC voltage supply and the AC test signal source to provide a first test signal to the circuit under test, wherein the first test signal comprise a first voltage that exceeds the threshold voltage, measuring a first impedance of the circuit under test responsive to providing the first test signal, wherein the first impedance corresponds to the first filter.
US11879929B2
A method is for testing the functionality of a switching member including at least one switching element. A switching state is influenced via a control input of the switching element and via a control signal generated and output to the control input. An activation signal is output to the control unit and changes the control signal. The activation signal induces a test signal as the change to the control signal and induces a disconnection pulse as the test signal. The SiC or GaN power semiconductor is switched off via the disconnection pulse and conducts current in the reverse direction. In response to the disconnection pulse, the voltage drop is recorded. A comparison is carried out between an indicator and a reference encoding an expected response to the disconnection pulse. Depending on the result of the comparison, a status signal is generated which encodes the functionality of the switching member.
US11879927B2
A system and method for determining if a fault condition exists in an electrical network. The method includes determining that a fault protection device has been opened and monitoring a voltage angle of a voltage waveform across a vacuum gap switching arrangement if the fault protection device is open, where the vacuum gap switching arrangement includes at least one vacuum gap switching element. The method also includes triggering a breakdown of a vacuum gap in the at least one vacuum gap switching element when the voltage angle corresponds to a predetermined switching angle to enable a temporary current flow through the vacuum gap switching arrangement, measuring the current flow through the vacuum gap switching arrangement, and determining whether the fault condition exists based at least in part on the measured current flow.
US11879921B1
Coaxial load pull tuners use one horizontally-only moving metallic reflective probe inserted in the slabline at fixed penetration and an adjustable RF energy absorbing eccentrically into the slabline rotated disc. The tuner does not use high precision vertical axes. The remotely adjustable attenuator is inserted adjacent to the test port and mitigates spurious high reflection. Calibration procedures using de-embedding or adapter removal techniques allow high resolution full tuner characterization in a few minutes.
US11879920B1
Toroidal high dielectric ceramic microwave tuning probes are sliding on the central conductor of a high power electro-mechanical microwave dual-probe coaxial load pull tuner and create high reflection factor over a wide frequency range. The probes are positioned horizontally using a remote translation mechanism and allow continuous coverage of the Smith chart over a high frequency and VSWR (reflection factor) range. A remotely adjustable attenuator is inserted adjacent to the test port and mitigates spurious high reflection. A de-embedding calibration allows full tuner characterization in a few minutes instead of several hours.
US11879917B2
A phase detector includes: a phase shift circuit to phase-shift a first positive-phase signal included in a first differential signal and a first negative-phase signal included in the first differential signal, and phase-shift a second positive-phase signal included in a second differential signal and a second negative-phase signal included in the second differential signal; a multiplication circuit to perform multiplication of two signals for all combinations of the first positive-phase signal and the first negative-phase signal with the phase-shifted second positive-phase signal and the phase-shifted second negative-phase signal, and perform multiplication of two signals for all combinations of the phase-shifted first positive-phase signal and the phase-shifted first negative-phase signal with the second positive-phase signal and the second negative-phase signal; and a phase difference calculating circuit to calculate a phase difference between the first differential signal and the second differential signal using multiplication signals of the multiplication circuit.
US11879906B2
A modified version of a MEMS self-test procedure is presented that can be used to detect the amplitude and frequency of an external vibration from an ambient environment. The method implements processing circuitry that correlates an output sense signal, s(t), with a plurality of periodic signal portions and a plurality of shifted periodic signal portions to generate a plurality of correlation values. A frequency associated with the external vibration is determined based on the plurality of correlation values.
US11879899B2
The present invention is directed to a cartridge device for a measuring system for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid, in particular a blood sample, comprising a cartridge body having at least one measurement cavity formed therein and having at least one probe element arranged in said at least one measurement cavity for performing a test on said sample liquid; and a cover being attachable on said cartridge body; wherein said cover covers at least partially said at least one measurement cavity and forms a retaining element for retaining said probe element in a predetermined position within said at least one measurement cavity. The invention is directed to a measurement system and a method for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid.
US11879897B2
Real-time search (RTS) for mass spectrometry is described. In one aspect, a mass spectrometer can identify a candidate peptide for a product ion spectrum by searching a mass spectral database. While executing the search of the mass spectral database, the elapsed search time can be monitored. If the elapsed search time of the identification of the candidate peptide is completed before reaching a maximum value, then the mass spectrometer can perform further actions.
US11879896B2
A method of determining the effect of non-specific interactions in simulated in vivo conditions is presently disclosed. The method includes (a) contacting a solution comprising a biologically relevant molecular crowding agent and a target molecule with a biosensor, wherein the surface of the biosensor comprises a capture molecule that specifically binds the target molecule; (b) allowing the target molecule to bind to the capture molecule; and (c) determining an amount of the target molecule bound to capture molecule using biolayer interferometry.
US11879891B2
A method and system for remotely monitoring intoxication of a user, comprising: prompting the user to provide a breath sample at a time point; at a breath sample acquisition device, generating a breath sample signal upon reception of the breath sample from the user, and broadcasting a unique signature proximal in time to the time point; using a sensor of a mobile computing device, generating an authentication signal derived from detection of the unique signature; at a processing system in communication with the mobile computing device and the sample acquisition device, receiving the breath sample signal and the authentication signal; generating a verification assessment that validates provision of the breath sample by the user; determining a value of an intoxication metric for the user based upon the breath sample signal; and transforming the verification assessment and the value of the intoxication metric into an analysis of intoxication of the user.
US11879889B2
A test method for testing for presence of a biological agent, a test apparatus and a system to control entry to an event uses particle count and spectrographic data. The present embodiments of the invention provide testing apparatuses, systems and methods. These embodiments may provide for an apparatus, system and method for non-invasive respiratory testing with multiple spectrometers. Also, the embodiments may provide for a system and method for determining test sufficiency for a non-invasive respiratory testing apparatus. Also, the embodiments may provide for a system and method for permitting access to a venue for a subject.
US11879885B2
An electrochemical measurement system for monitoring a concrete structure having a reinforcement bar, including: at least six electrodes to contact the concrete structure's surface, including at least two emitting electrodes to inject electrical signals into the structure and at least four receiving electrodes combined in pairs, each pair receiving electrical signals, originating from an explored zone of the structure located beneath an axis connecting the electrode pairs with its depth depending on the distance between the two electrodes in the pair; an acquisition module to (i) control the electrodes and (ii) acquire and store in a memory the electrical signals; a processing module to calculate, for the electrical signals, induced polarization potential response value(s) and one apparent resistivity value; from these values, process output characteristic(s) of each explored zone; an image reconstruction module to generate an image of the distribution of the output characteristic(s) in the explored zones.
US11879883B1
A precious metal source verification system includes a quantity of precious metal being formed into a shape. A quantity of trace elements is imprinted into the shape with the precious metal such that the trace elements are detectible within the shape. The quantity of trace elements defines a signature for the shape. The quantity of trace elements is at least partially destroyed or altered upon melting of the shape wherein the signature is destroyed if the shape is altered. The system provides verification of provenance of the precious metal when the signature is maintained.
US11879882B2
A sensor for determining a measurand dependent on a concentration of a gaseous analyte in a liquid medium includes: a closed measurement chamber with a gas sensor sensitive to the gaseous analyte for generating a measurement signal which is dependent on the concentration of the gaseous analyte in the measurement chamber; a diffusion membrane impermeable to liquid and gas-permeable to the gaseous analyte, which diffusion membrane closes the measurement chamber and includes a medium-contacting second surface; an evaluation unit for determining the measurand on the basis of the measurement signal; and an ultrasound emission unit designed to introduce ultrasonic waves into the medium such that a mixing of the medium is generated in a volume adjacent the medium-contacting second surface. Further disclosed is a method for determining the measurand dependent on the concentration of the gaseous analyte in the liquid medium using the disclosed sensor.
US11879880B2
Machines and methods are for performing fully-automated biological evaluation and chemical analysis. A pretreatment module is used in treatments of enriching, concentrating and purifying a sample to be analyzed. A component separation module is used for carrying out separation of multiple compounds in mother liquor to be analyzed. A monitoring and identifying module is for monitoring and collecting chromatographic signals of the separated liquid effluent in real time, as well as quantitative detection of suspicious compounds. A component collection module is used in operations of collecting, transferring and dissolving, redissolving, and pipetting the separated liquid effluent. A biological evaluation module is for cell culture and detection of cytotoxic effect and toxic targets. A data processing and automated control module is for acquisition, arrangement and analysis of the integrated data. The machines and methods provide an efficient, stable and normalized standard operation condition for the screening of toxicity of compounds.
US11879879B2
A mass spectrum generation section (22) generates an original mass spectrum at a peak of a target compound based on data acquired through analysis on a sample. A background spectrum generation section (23) generates a background spectrum in accordance with each of a plurality of predetermined background acquisition conditions. A difference mass spectrum calculation section (25) obtains a difference mass spectrum by subtracting the each background spectrum from the original mass spectrum, and a spectrum similarity calculation section (27) calculates a similarity between each difference mass spectrum and a standard mass spectrum of a candidate compound selected from a spectrum library (28). A compound identification section (29) identifies the candidate compound as the target compound if the highest similarity exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US11879874B2
A TBM-mounted surrounding rock wear resistance testing system and method, the system including: a fixing module, arranged on a TBM, the module has a movable end for extending to the surrounding rock of a tunnel; a surrounding rock polishing module on the movable end, the module includes a polishing mechanism for test area; a surrounding rock wear resistance testing module on the movable end, follows the movable end moving the test area, and including a mechanism for testing the wear resistance of the polished test area and a drive mechanism thereof; and a central control module, configured to control the motion states and operations of the fixing module, the surrounding rock polishing module and surrounding rock wear resistance testing module, and determine the wear resistance of the surrounding rock according to the wear resistance test result. The system can polish tunnel surrounding rock during TBM excavation and test wear resistance.
US11879870B2
A sensor device includes a substrate having a substrate surface, a first IDT electrode positioned on the substrate surface, a second IDT electrode positioned on the substrate surface, a waveguide, and a protective film. The waveguide is positioned on the substrate surface and between the first IDT electrode and the second IDT electrode. The waveguide includes a first immobilized layer positioned on the substrate surface and a second immobilized layer positioned on the first immobilized layer. The second immobilized layer is positioned inside an outer edge of the first immobilized layer as seen in a plan view.
US11879868B2
Techniques are provided for detecting wafer defects. Example techniques include exciting a wafer using an acoustic signal to cause the wafer to exhibit vibrations, measuring one or more of linear frequency response metrics or nonlinear frequency responses metrics associated with the vibrations, and identifying any defects in the wafer based at least in part on one or more of the linear frequency response metrics or nonlinear frequency responses metrics. In embodiments, the wafer includes bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3).
US11879866B2
In accordance with embodiments there is proposed an ultrasound sensor device and an ultrasound sensor system configured to perform a method using ultrasound to determine a ratio or concentration of respective gases in a flow of mixed gases. There is provided a method to adapt a distribution system with an ultrasound sensor device and/or an ultrasound sensor system.
US11879863B2
The present invention provides a method for analyzing a liquid sample that solves a problem of a kinetically slow equilibrium at a liquid-solid interface, the problem occurring when liquid sample analysis is performed with a chemical sensor. In the method for analyzing a liquid sample according to an embodiment of the present invention, a component to be analyzed in a liquid sample is adsorbed on a receptor layer of a chemical sensor, one or more kinds of gases are then supplied to the chemical sensor, and a response thereof is measured. As a result, since a slow equilibrium at a liquid-solid interface is not used, a high-sensitivity measurement can be performed in a short time, and existing findings regarding analysis of gas samples on which much progress in research has been achieved can be used.
US11879856B2
A method and a system for providing calibration for a photon counting detector forward model for material decomposition. The flux independent weighted bin response function is estimated using the expectation maximization method, and then used to estimate the pileup correction terms at each tube voltage setting for each detector pixel.
US11879855B2
A system for non-destructive examination of three-dimensional (3D) printed objects includes a muon source directs muon particles at and through the 3D object and a muon detector receives the muon particles from the muon source to produce a muon signal which is representative of the 3D object. A first computing device executes an algorithm to analyze the muon signal. The analysis comprises creating a 3D rendering of the 3D object based upon the muon signal; preparing a physics-based digital model of the 3D object; and comparing the 3D rendered object to the digital model to identify defects within the 3D object. An augmented reality (AR) device and a second computing device may communicate with the first computing device and receive the 3d rendered object and the digital model. This can used on earth, in space, on a moon or asteroid or another planet as muons occur naturally in these environments.
US11879853B2
An inspection system may include an illumination source to generate an illumination beam, illumination optics to direct the illumination beam to a sample at an off-axis angle along an illumination direction, and collection optics to collect scattered light from the sample in a dark-field mode, where the scattered light from the sample includes surface haze associated with light scattered from a surface of the sample, and where at least a at least a portion of the surface haze has elliptical polarizations. The system may further include pupil-plane optics to convert the polarizations of the surface haze across the pupil to linear polarization that is aligned parallel to a selected haze orientation direction. The system may include a linear polarizer to reject the surface haze aligned parallel to this haze orientation direction and a detector to generate a dark-field image of the sample based on light passed by the linear polarizer.
US11879850B2
Systems and methods are described for providing a representative, homogeneous, and planarized target for solid sample laser ablation. A method embodiment includes, but is not limited to, removing portions of a solid sample with an abrasive sampling system, the abrasive sampling system including at least one of a plurality of abrasive particles configured to hold the portions of the solid sample on an abrasive substrate between the abrasive particles or a texturized surface configured to hold the portions of the solid sample on the texturized surface; transferring the abrasive sampling system holding the portions of the solid sample to a laser ablation system; and ablating the portions of the solid sample held by the abrasive sampling system with the laser ablation system.
US11879843B2
The disclosure features methods that include exposing a biological sample to illumination light and measuring light emission from the sample to obtain N sample images, where each sample image corresponds to a different combination of a wavelength band of the illumination light and one or more wavelength bands of the light emission, where the one or more wavelength bands of the light emission define a wavelength range, and where N>1, and exposing the sample to illumination light in a background excitation band and measuring light emission from the sample in a background spectral band to obtain a background image of the sample, where the background spectral band corresponds to a wavelength within the wavelength range.
US11879842B2
Systems and methods here may be used for a setup of image capturing of a gemstone, such as a diamond, exposed to different light sources. Some examples utilize a setup that both sends light and captures the image through multiple dichroic beam splitters at pre-selected timing. The multiple light source and multiple dichroic beam splitter arrangement allows for multiple gemstones to be analyzed using multiple methods with minimal moving, changing, or adjusting the equipment for different samples.
US11879834B2
A method includes identifying, by pre-set criteria, a first plurality of optical channels and a second plurality of optical channels using optical data generated from a plurality of optical filters of a tester tool. The method also includes determining, from the optical data, a first plurality of fluid types detected by each channel in the first plurality of optical channels using a bootstrap fluid identification technique and determining, from the optical data and the first plurality of fluid types, a second plurality of fluid types detected by each channel in the second plurality of optical channels using a guided fluid identification technique. Further, the method includes generating a spectral signature indicating fluid types for each channel within the tester tool based on the first plurality of fluid types and second plurality of fluid types.
US11879829B2
Methods for classifying fluorescent flow cytometer data are provided. In some instances, methods include processing the flow cytometer data with a supervised algorithm configured to cluster the fluorescent flow cytometer data into distinct populations according to the relationship of data points to relevant threshold values. In embodiments, methods include determining a measure of spillover spreading by calculating spillover spreading coefficients and combining them in a spillover spreading matrix. In some embodiments, populations of fluorescent flow cytometer data are adjusted to subtract the magnitude of spillover spreading. In embodiments, spillover spreading adjusted populations are partitioned after potential partitions are evaluated relative to the threshold values. In embodiments, partitioned populations of fluorescent flow cytometer data are classified (i.e., phenotyped) according to a hierarchy. Systems and computer-readable media for classifying fluorescent flow cytometer data are also provided.
US11879824B2
Various embodiments include methods and apparatuses to reduce false-particle counts in a water-based condensation particle counter (CPC). In one embodiment, a cleanroom CPC has three parallel growth tube assemblies. A detector is coupled to an outlet of each of the three parallel growth tube assemblies, and is used to compare the particle concentrations measured from each of the three growth tube assemblies with remaining ones of the three growth tube assemblies. An algorithm compares the counts from the three detectors and determines when the particles counted are real and when they are false counts. Any real particle event shows up in all three detectors, while false counts will only be detected by one detector. Statistics are used to determine at which particle count levels the measured counts are considered to be real versus false. Other methods and apparatuses are disclosed.
US11879811B2
An elongated sensor for detecting the presence of a particular fluid includes first and second conductors, both extending from the proximal end to the distal end of the sensor. The second conductor includes a swellable conductor, at least a portion of the swellable conductor is swollen when in contact with the fluid and its conductance at least 10 times less when the portion is in contact with the fluid than when absent contact with the fluid. The second conductor further includes a subsidiary conductor in direct contact with the swellable conductor. In one embodiment the first conductor is isolated from the second conductor in the inner part of the sensor, and the two conductors are electrically connected at the distal end of the sensor. In another embodiment, the first contactor is in direct contact with the subsidiary conductor within the inner part of the sensor.
US11879808B1
An improved electronically controlled portable testing system provides one or more self-contained, automated testing skids configured to perform required tests on the exhaust output of a stationary engine. The testing skids are configured for easy transportation on a medium duty truck and in a preferred testing process, are deployed to the engine site (and reloaded on the truck after testing is complete) using a lift attached to the truck. Using these systems and methods, a single technician can concurrently test multiple exhaust stacks on engines separated by any distance, from 100 feet to miles apart. The testing skids provide the technician with wireless remote test control and monitoring. The disclosed systems and methods increase the efficiency, accuracy and repeatability of tests.
US11879800B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) strain gauge pressure sensor includes a top wafer stack having a top surface and a first cavity that is configured to receive a first fluid at a first pressure, a backing wafer having a bottom surface opposite the top surface of the top wafer stack; a diaphragm wafer positioned between the top wafer stack and the backing wafer and having a second cavity that is configured to receive a second fluid at a second pressure, and a pedestal connected laterally to the top wafer stack, the backing wafer, and the diaphragm wafer. The diaphragm wafer includes a diaphragm extending between the first cavity and the second cavity, and a resistor positioned on the diaphragm. The MEMS strain gauge pressure sensor has a central axis such that the MEMS strain gauge pressure sensor has mechanical symmetries about the central axis.
US11879796B2
A force torque sensor device includes a sensor chip that detects a displacement in a predetermined axis direction, a strain body that transmits an applied force to the sensor chip, and an adhesive that bonds the sensor chip to the strain body. The Young's modulus of the adhesive is greater than or equal to 130 MPa and less than or equal to 1.5 GPa.
US11879792B2
A magnetic sensing system 10 according to the present invention is provided with a sensing device 11 that generates an electrical signal according to the strength of a magnetic field that changes in response to the action of an external force, and a detection device 12 that detects a physical quantity associated with the action of the external force from a change in the magnetic field based on the electrical signal from the sensing device 11. The sensing device 11 includes magnetic field generation means 15 and 18 that generate a desired measurement magnetic field of different strengths from a site that is displaced by the action of the external force, and a magnetic field measurement means 19 that measures the strength of a surrounding magnetic field including the measurement magnetic field. The detection device 12 uses a relational expression stored in advance to specify, on the basis of fluctuations over time in the measurement magnetic field of different strengths, a magnetic interference amount corresponding to the strength of an interference magnetic field generated separately from the measurement magnetic field, and calculates the physical quantity by removing the influence of the magnetic interference amount.
US11879789B2
Techniques regarding determining the temperature of one or more quantum computing devices are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a temperature component that can determine a temperature of a superconducting resonator based on a frequency shift exhibited by the superconducting resonator due to a change in kinetic inductance with a change in temperature.
US11879783B2
An optical spectrometer uses broadband radiation detectors to measure thermal radiation generated by the varied heating of an object without complex mechanical mechanisms, narrowband filters, or the like. The received thermal radiation is used to deduce spectral qualities of either the thermal radiation emitter or a second object reflecting or transmitting this thermal radiation.
US11879773B2
One embodiment provides a pyranometer, including: a pyranometer housing; and at least one radiation sensor; wherein the at least one radiation sensor is electrically isolated from the pyranometer housing and thermally coupled to the pyranometer housing by at least one supporting element, wherein the supporting element is connected to the pyranometer housing and is configured to support the at least one radiation sensor. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11879768B2
Methods and apparatus to generate an augmented environment including a weight indicator for a vehicle are disclosed herein. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes memory including stored instructions, a processor to execute the instructions to generate a map of loads on a vehicle based on load data associated with a sensor of the vehicle, determine a load condition of the vehicle based on the map of loads, correlate a first load of the map of loads with an object identified using live video data received from a camera, and generate an augmented environment identifying at least one of a location of the object, the first load correlated with the object, or the load condition.
US11879766B2
A droplet dispensing apparatus includes a crystal sensor, a resonance frequency measuring unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain the resonance frequency of the crystal sensor before droplets are discharged from a liquid dropping device, control the liquid dropping device to discharge droplets on to the crystal sensor, and obtain the resonance frequency of the crystal sensor after droplets are discharged from the liquid dropping device. The controller estimates a volatilization amount for the droplets on the crystal sensor based on a temporal change trend in the resonance frequency of the crystal sensor and calculates the total weight of the droplets discharged from the liquid dropping device based on the difference in resonance frequency of the crystal sensor before and after the droplets are discharged and the estimated volatilization amount.
US11879761B2
A fine grain powder metering unit for fine-grained powders combines the volumetric metering mode with the weighing mode, using for pre-metering 95-99% of the required quantity a volumetric drawer which is then emptied into the tray of a precision scale where a low-flow feeder feeds the powder for metering the final 1-5%, so as to combine the advantages of both metering modes and quickly achieve a metering with high accuracy and repeatability, automatically and with a simple and reliable structure.
US11879759B2
An ultrasonic transducer for an ultrasonic flowmeter includes: a transducer housing with an ultrasound window; a transducer element in the transducer housing that transmits ultrasonic signals onto a signal path and receives ultrasonic signals from the signal path; a control and evaluation unit that controls the transducer element and evaluates the ultrasonic signals; and a buffer element that forms at least one at least partially reflective boundary layer in the signal path. In an operating state, the transducer element transmits an ultrasonic signal that is at least partially reflected at the boundary layer of the buffer element, and the reflected signal component is received by the transducer element. The control and evaluation unit monitors the reception of the reflected signal component and, in the absence of reception of a reflected signal component, detects an error state of the ultrasonic transducer.
US11879755B2
A method for determining the position of a rotary element of a motor vehicle based on a position sensor configured to measure the position of the rotary element, to simultaneously generate a sine-type output signal and a cosine-type output signal reflecting the angular position of said rotary element as it rotates and to deliver these output signals to a control module of the vehicle, the method, implemented by the control module, including the steps of rotating the rotary element, receiving the output signals generated by the position sensor as the rotary element rotates, determining the average period of the output signals received within a predetermined time range, correcting both received output signals such that the period of each of the signals is equal to the determined average period, and determining the angular position of the rotary element based on the corrected output signals.
US11879754B2
A stroke sensor module is provided in which the contact area where the moving element slides on the main body is limited. A stroke sensor module has: a moving element that is moved in a first direction; a magnetic field generator that is moved in the first direction together with the moving element; a magnetic field detecting element that detects movement of the magnetic field generator; and a housing that houses a part of the moving element and the magnetic field generator. At least either the moving element or the magnetic field generator has a plurality of protrusions that are provided at different angular positions, as viewed in the first direction, and the housing has guide portions that guide the protrusions.
US11879749B2
System and techniques for enhanced electronic navigation maps for a vehicle are described herein. A set of map tiles may be received at a vehicle component from a remote entity. Sensor derived data that has a locality corresponding to a map tile in the set of map tiles may be obtained. A field-programmable gate array of the vehicle may then be invoked to combine the sensor derived data and the map tile to create a modified map tile. The modified map tile may be communicated to a control system of the vehicle.
US11879745B2
The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for facilitating travel over a last leg of a journey. In one example embodiment, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) captures an image of an area to be traversed by an individual during the final leg of the journey. The image is evaluated to identify a hindrance that may be encountered by the individual in the area. A pre-emptive action may be taken to address the hindrance before reaching the area. The pre-emptive action, may, for example, include using the UAV and/or a terrestrial robot to assist the individual traverse the area. The assistance may be provided in various ways such as by use of the terrestrial robot to transport the individual and/or a personal item of the individual through the area, and/or by use of the UAV to provide instructions to guide the individual through the area.
US11879736B2
Systems and methods for detecting degraded navigation sensors are based on a policy derived from a Partially Observable Markoff Decision Process (POMDP). Navigation parameters derived from the navigation sensors are provided to individual Kalman filters. A covariance of each of the filters is indicative of a probability of degradation of a sensor from which the navigation parameter is derived. Outputs of the Kalman filters are provided to a master filter. The master filter is compared to a criterion to determine whether there are indicia of a degraded sensor. If such an indicia are present, the Policy is consulted to determine which of the sensors are degraded. Consideration of degraded sensors when navigating a vehicle is inhibited.
US11879728B2
A method for measuring a thread includes moving a contactless distance sensor parallel to an axial direction of the thread, recording a measurement signal corresponding to a distance of the contactless distance sensor to a top of the thread, comparing the measurement signal with a reference value lying between a maximum value and a minimum value of the measurement signal, and determining intersection points of the measurement signal with the reference value. Further steps include combining pairs of intersection points, directly following one another, into measurement value tuples, calculating mean values of the measurement value tuples, and calculating a time-angle resolution from the mean values. In an example embodiment, the thread is for a spindle of a ball screw drive.
US11879721B2
A measurement method for interferometrically measuring the shape of a surface (112) of a test object (114). A test wave (125-1, 125-2) directed at the test object has a wavefront that is at least partially adapted to the desired shape of the surface, and a reference wave (128-1, 128-2) directed at a reflective optical element (130-1, 130 2) has a propagation direction that deviates from the propagation direction of the test wave (125-1, 125-2) for each of two input waves by diffraction at a diffractive element (124). For each wavelength, the test wave is superimposed after interaction with the test object with the associated reference wave after the back-reflection at the first reflective optical element. The test and reference waves are diffracted again at the diffractive element for superposition. An interferogram produced by the superposition is captured in a capture plane (148-1, 148-2). The interferograms are jointly evaluated.
US11879720B2
A device and a method for characterizing the surface shape of a test object. The device for characterizing the surface shape of a test object has a test arrangement (130, 230) for determining the surface shape of a test object (111, 112, 113, 211, 212, 213) using a test wave. The test wave has a wavefront generated by diffraction at a diffractive optical element. The device additionally has a first vacuum chamber (110, 210) and a second vacuum chamber (120, 220), wherein the second vacuum chamber (120, 220) has a magazine for mounting at least two diffractive optical elements (121, 122, 123, 221, 222, 223).
US11879716B2
A detonator which is responsive to a shock tube event which is validated if a link is fused at a predetermined time interval after a light signal produced by the event is detected and if, at the end of a subsequent time interval, the link is still fused and the light signal is absent.
US11879702B2
A machine gun comprising an ammunition belt feed mechanism comprising a mechanism for ejecting a last two links of an ammunition belt, and an ejecting ratchet configured to push on a penultimate link and actuated by mobile parts of the machine gun wherein the ejecting ratchet is secured to a belt traction mechanism, wherein the belt traction mechanism comprises an advancing ratchet configured to push, in use, against an ammunition item, wherein the ejecting ratchet and the advancing ratchet are formed as a single part.
US11879693B2
Provided herein are components for a fluid network, specifically a U bend structure connected to at least two pipes which is modified for one or more objective functions of interest such as pressure drop, erosion rate, fouling, coke deposition and operating costs. The U bend structure is so designed to have a specific ARQ between 1.0 to 1.02 for 5% of the flow passage from the inlet and from the outlet, and an ARQ from 1.02 to 1.15 over the remaining 90% of the flow passage through an Rb/D ratio being greater than 1 and less than 4.
US11879688B1
A window assembly heat transfer system is disclosed in which a window member has a selected transparency to monitored or sensed electromagnetic wavelengths. One or more passages are provided in the window member for flowing a single-phase or two-phase heat transfer fluid. A mechanism allows either evaporation or condensation of the fluid and/or balancing of a flow of the fluid within the passages. In one embodiment, the window assembly can be made by producing passages in a top surface of a first single plate, optionally producing passages in a bottom surface of a second single plate and bonding the top surface of the first plate to a bottom surface of a second single plate to form the window member with the passage or passages. In another embodiment, the window assembly can be made by providing a core around which the window member material is grown and thereafter removing the core to produce the passage or passages.
US11879687B2
Provided is a method of designing a heat exchanger group being installed in a processing plant and having multiple ACHEs. In a first step, at least one design variable relating to ACHE design and the number of installed ACHEs are set as variable parameters, and a variable range and a change unit of each of the variable parameters are set. In a second step, a design value of the ACHE, which includes a value of a design variable non-selected as the variable parameter, is set. In a third step, Pareto solutions for at least two objective functions selected from an objective function group consisting of an installation length of the heat exchanger group, a total heat transfer area of heat transfer tubes, and total power consumption of fans are calculated by using a computer while the variable parameter are changed.
US11879684B2
A horizontal plate freezer (1) for freezing articles inside said horizontal freezer during a freezing process comprising: a plurality of freezer plates (2) forming a stack of freezer plates, where said plurality of freezer plates are arranged substantially horizontal, defining a distance between the freezer plates, where in use articles to be frozen are arranged on one or more freezer plates, where said in stack of freezer plates are arranged between a top frame (3) and a bottom frame (4), where said top frame is arranged at a horizontal level above the stack of freezer plates, and said bottom frame is arranged at a horizontal level underneath the stack of freezer plates, at least one intervention unit (8) with at least one engaging device (10), where the engaging device is arranged moveable in a longitudinal direction along said intervention unit(s), whereby the engaging device is lifted and lowered along said stack of freezer plates, at least one device (6) comprising a first end positioned above a topmost freezer plate and a second end connected to said bottom frame.
US11879680B2
An appliance ice-making compartment includes a housing which defines an inlet aperture and an outlet aperture. A first ice tray is disposed at a first height within the housing. A second ice tray is disposed at a second height within the housing where the first height is closer to a top of the housing compared to the second height. The second ice tray is closer to the inlet aperture compared to the first ice tray. An inlet duct is in fluid communication with the inlet aperture and configured to direct air toward the first ice tray and the second ice tray.
US11879679B2
A refrigerator comprises: a storage chamber, a cooler, a first tray, a second tray, the first portion and the second portion being configured to define a space formed by the cell to receive a liquid to be phase-changed to form ice, a heater provided adjacent to at least one of the first tray or the second tray; and a controller configured to: operate the heater while the ice is being formed so that gas bubbles dissolved in the liquid within the cell move from a portion of space where the liquid that has phase-changed into the ice to another portion of the space where the liquid is in a fluid state, and when a defrosting start condition is satisfied while the ice is being formed in the space of the cell, perform a defrosting process and reduce an amount of cold supplied by the cooler.
US11879675B2
A cooling system partially floods the low temperature low side heat exchangers (e.g., freezers) in the system. An accumulator is positioned between the low temperature low side heat exchangers and the low temperature compressor. The accumulator collects the refrigerant (both liquid and vapor) from the flooded low temperature low side heat exchangers. Refrigerant discharged by the low temperature compressor is fed through the accumulator so that heat can be transferred to the refrigerant collected in the accumulator. As a result, the temperature of the refrigerant discharged by the low temperature compressor drops before that refrigerant reaches the medium temperature compressor.
US11879671B1
A process is disclosed for cooling a material that includes semiconductor nanoparticles in matrix material by anti-Stokes up-conversion. The semiconductor nanoparticle matrix is irradiated by a laser with a photonic wavelength matched to the anti-Stokes photoluminescence of the semiconductor nanoparticle bandgap. The semiconductor nanoparticles absorb the laser photon and phonons (heat) from lattice vibrations to photoluminescence photons with higher energy than the photon that were absorbed. A net cooling effect is generated from the lower energy and lower temperature in the material after anti-Stoke up-conversion.
US11879649B2
An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a casing, and grasp portions provided at corner portions of the casing in plan view. Each grasp portion includes an outer peripheral portion at an outer periphery, and a finger hook portion protruding downward from an upper part of the outer peripheral portion and extending in a lateral direction of the finger hook portion. The outer peripheral portion includes a first opening such that a lower end portion of the finger hook portion is exposed as seen in a horizontal direction and a direction perpendicular to the lateral direction, a second opening below the finger hook portion and continuous with the first opening, and a third opening behind the finger hook portion and continuous with the second opening, the second opening and the third opening are at one of the lateral end portions.
US11879647B2
A portable air conditioner unit window installation system having a closure plate, a vent opening through the closure plate, a clamp fixture located adjacent to the vent opening in a longitudinal direction of the closure plate, and a clamp movably mounted to the clamp fixture.
US11879646B2
An air conditioner includes a power source that supplies AC voltage and a wiring plug-in coupler connected to the power source. The wiring plug-in coupler is connected to a portion of the power source to which a first functional component, which is actuated by the AC voltage in cooperation with the air conditioner, is connected, supplies voltage to a second functional component actuated by DC voltage in cooperation with the air conditioner, and is connected with an input terminal of a converter that converts AC voltage to DC voltage and supplies the converted DC voltage to the second functional component.
US11879639B2
A fuel management system for a biomass furnace features a common drive motor operatively coupled to both a fuel delivery conveyor, which is arranged to support and displace fuel during combustion in a combustion chamber of the furnace, and an ash removal conveyor which is arranged to transfer ash generated by the combustion out of the combustion chamber. The system also features ducting which extends around the fuel delivery conveyor to convey airflow generated by a blower for subsequent discharge both below and above the fuel during combustion. Furthermore, the system features a housing which operably supports at least the fuel delivery conveyor and which is arranged to be removably insertible into the combustion chamber of the furnace.
US11879638B2
A boiler performs mixed-fuel combustion of a sulfur-containing fuel and ammonia as a fuel, and includes a furnace having a plurality of wall parts, a burner installed on at least one of the wall parts of the furnace, and an ammonia injection port that is configured to cause the ammonia to be burned as the fuel to flow along an inner wall surface of the wall part where the burner is not installed.
US11879637B1
The present disclosure relates to a gas mixing apparatus for a boiler, and the gas mixing apparatus includes a housing provided in the form of a hollow pipe opened at upper and lower sides thereof and having a first gas inlet port through which fuel gas is introduced from the outside, and a mixing pipe including a pipe body provided in the housing and configured to allow air to flow therein, the mixing pipe having a second gas inlet port provided at a lateral side of the mixing pipe and configured to allow the fuel gas to be introduced therethrough, and fluid guides provided at an outer side of the pipe body and configured to guide a flow of the fuel gas from the first gas inlet port to the second gas inlet port.
US11879624B1
A method of detecting a condition of a light source includes adhering an adhesive tape platform in a vicinity of the light source; detecting light emitted from the light source that is incident to a light sensor of the adhesive tape platform; in response to the detecting light, determining that the light source is functioning correctly; and transmitting a report indicating that the light source is functioning to another node of an associated Internet of Things (IOT) system.
US11879619B2
A light stake for holding a light bulb includes a spike with a body extending along a spike axis between a top end and an insertion end, a connecting base at the top end of the body, and a socket having a socket axis. The socket has a socket base, a plurality of fingers, and a strengthening fillet. The socket base is perpendicular to the socket axis and with a solid-material periphery extending on all sides of the socket axis. The fingers extend from the socket base along the socket axis, with each finger extending between a fixed end near the socket base and a movable end. The strengthening fillet is at the intersection between the fixed end of each finger and the socket base, and increases the local thickness of each fixed end and of the socket base for increased rigidity of the fixed end.
US11879613B2
An optical lens system for vehicle lighting includes a light guide with optical elements arranged as indentations in a light impacting surface of the lens body. The optical elements are configured with a truncated cone section arranged within the lens body in connection to the light impacting surface, and a rounded cap section arranged within the lens body in connection to the truncated cone section. A base surface of the rounded cap section is coincident with a top surface of the truncated cone section. The truncated cone section has an outer surface and a base surface, and the rounded cap section includes an outer surface. A cross-sectional transition between the outer surface of the truncated cone section and the outer surface of the rounded cap section is non-linear.
US11879608B2
Provided are an automotive lamp optical element, an automotive lamp module and a vehicle. The automotive lamp optical element includes a light-incident portion, a transmission portion and a light-emitting portion connected in sequence. The light-incident portion is provided with at least one light-incident structure configured to converge light. An area of a cross section of the transmission portion gradually increases in a light transmission direction. A light-emitting convex surface is formed on one end of the light-emitting portion facing away from the transmission portion. The automotive lamp module includes the above automotive lamp optical element, and further includes at least one light source. The at least one light source is disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the at least one light-incident structure.
US11879603B2
A work light including a body having a mount surface, a pair of ferromagnetic members coupled to the body and disposed adjacent the mount surface, and a recess defined in the mount surface in the space between the pair of ferromagnetic members. The pair of ferromagnetic members define a space therebetween. The recess is a keyhole slot configured to receive a nail from which the work light can be hung. The work light further includes a light source pivotably coupled to the body opposite the mount surface, such that the light source pivots relative to the body about a vertical axis when the work light is hung using the recess.
US11879601B2
A light source module includes a first light-emitting unit, a second light-emitting unit, a first dichroic mirror, and a wavelength conversion unit. The first light-emitting unit emits a first color light. The second light-emitting unit emits a second color light. The first dichroic mirror allows the first color light to transmit through and has a passing area. The passing area allows the second color light to pass through. The wavelength conversion unit includes a substrate and a phosphor layer disposed on the substrate. The phosphor layer converts the first color light transmitting through the first dichroic mirror into a third color light, and reflects and scatters the second color light passing through the passing area. The first dichroic mirror reflects the second color light reflected by the wavelength conversion unit and the third color light.
US11879592B2
A gas pressure vessel capable of performing processing of removing wrinkles on an inner surface of a dome part and preventing cracking starting from a root of a thread of a neck part is provided. In a gas pressure vessel according to one embodiment, a dome part (12) has an opening whose diameter is 90 mm or greater, and the innermost root of the thread in a female thread part (10a) into which a lid (20) is screwed is provided inside an imaginary plane (B) formed by extending an outer surface of the dome part (12) toward an opening.
US11879590B2
A lubricating system has a pump to force a viscous lubricant from a supply of lubricant to a lubricator at which the lubricant is to be dispensed onto a cable, wire, or the like that is being pulled through a conduit. A sensor, associated with a spool from which the cable is being dispensed, is be used to automatically control the amount of lubricant that is to be dispensed onto the cable. A second described system comprises a custom bucket or bucket insert which allow a cable to pass through the bucket whereupon lubricant will be automatically applied to the cable and the container includes a profiled base to ensure proper passage of the cable through the lubricant and ensure the maximum usage of any lubricant.
US11879587B2
A positioning apparatus includes: an upper unit that includes a spherical body, a retainer part that retains the spherical body, and an upper plate part provided on the retainer part and adapted to carry a carried object; a lower unit that includes a lower plate part on which the upper unit is mounted and a guide part that marks a region of movement of the upper unit on the lower plate part; and a tilting structure that tilts the region of movement relative to a horizontal plane and guides the upper unit, on which the carried object is not mounted, toward a reference position located on a lower side of a tilt.
US11879581B2
A coupling assembly (10) is reconfigurable among three states. In a disconnected state, a spring-biased lock indicator (20) is in a first lock indicator position, and the lock indicator includes a restriction member (40) that in the first lock indicator position retains an actuator in a first actuator position such that a valve is in a closed position and a locking pin is in a retracted position. In a connected/valve-closed state, the lock indicator (20) is in a second lock indicator position in which the restriction member (40) permits movement of the actuator (30), but with the actuator (30) still being in the first actuator position such that the valve is in the closed position and the locking pin (46) is in the retracted position. In a connected/valve-open state, the lock indicator (20) is in the second lock indicator position to permit movement of the actuator (30), and now with the actuator (30) being in the second actuator position such that the valve is in the open position and the locking pin (46) is in an extended position to lock a second coupling assembly to the coupling assembly to form a unisex coupling connection.
US11879575B2
A gimbal assembly for a flexible conduit configured to convey a medium. The gimbal assembly includes a first component including a first plurality of struts that terminate in a first socket defining a first cavity of a first geometric configuration. The gimbal assembly also includes a second component including a second plurality of struts that terminate in a second socket defining a second cavity of a second geometric configuration. A joint fastener is configured to couple the first socket to the second socket. The joint fastener includes a first portion that geometrically corresponds to the first cavity and a second portion that geometrically corresponds to the second cavity. The first portion is configured to be immovably seated within the first cavity, and the second portion is configured to be movably retained by the second socket such that the first component can rotate relative to the second component.
US11879569B2
Flexible BMG elements and methods for making the flexible BMG elements. The BMG element contains a main body made from a BMG material and may further contain a flange. The main body may contain at least one opening. The main body may be a thin-walled structure that is compressible, extendable, and/or bendable. A surface of the main body may be corrugated with a series of ridges and furrows.
US11879565B1
A dual-valve, valve core installation/removal tee enable the removal and or replacement of a Schrader® valve insert without evacuating the refrigeration system. The use of a dual-valve valve core installation/removal tee also permits the valve core to be removed and maintenance of the HVAC system to be performed without the flow restriction of the valve core and core depressor.
US11879561B2
A valve setup for SMB chromatography includes a cassette block, a control block, a swiveling door, and a flexible pressurizing tube. The cassette block is configured to control each of a plurality of valves when an operation surface is in close contact with a control surface of the cassette block. The swiveling door is hinged to the valve control block such that an open state of the door arranges the cassette block such that the control surface is at the operation surface of the control block, and a closed position holds the cassette block with an inner surface of the swiveling door abutting a rear surface of the cassette block opposite the control surface. The flexible pressurizing tube is arranged at the inner surface of the swiveling door so the pressurizing tube presses against the rear surface of the cassette block when the pressure in the tube is increased.
US11879558B2
In an example, a pressure relief valve is described. The pressure relief valve comprises a housing configured to allow fluid flow therethrough. The pressure relief valve also comprises an adapter having interior threads, where the adapter is attached to the housing such that the adapter is positioned at least partially within the housing. The pressure relief valve also comprises an orifice plate having an orifice formed therein to allow fluid flow therethrough, where the orifice plate comprises exterior threads that engage with the interior threads of the adapter to couple the orifice plate to the adapter. The pressure relief valve also comprises a spring disposed within the housing. The orifice plate translates via engagement of the exterior threads with the interior threads to calibrate a spring force of the spring.
US11879553B2
A steam valve having a first inclined surface, which is formed at the distal end portion of a valve rod and in which the outer diameter of the valve rod increases from the distal end toward the base end of the valve rod, and a second inclined surface, which is formed on the inside of a portion of a main valve that is positioned on the base-end side of the valve rod and which inclines with the same inclination angle as the first inclined surface. In a state in which a slave valve and the main valve are closed the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface are separated from each other, and when the slave valve and the main valve are in a fully open state the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface abut each other.
US11879547B2
A device for actuating a park lock in an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle, in which a gear position selector can be used to set at least one drive-, neutral- and park position. When the park position is selected, a park lock that is operatively connected to the automatic transmission can be actuated, and it can then be activated or deactivated with an emergency actuator device that can be operated manually. The emergency actuating device has a toothed wheel (gear) that can be made to engage with a spur gear that is configured as an intermediate toothed wheel (gear). A first engaging element engages into a control cam provided on the spur gear and, when the spur gear moves, the first engaging element can be moved in order to activate and deactivate the park lock in the control cam.
US11879544B2
A transmission system avoids activation of a sailing functionality in a vehicle. The transmission system is configured for automatic gear-shifting in an automatic mode and manual gear-shifting by a user in a manual mode. The transmission system includes a user input device configured for manually changing the operational mode between the automatic and manual modes. The transmission system includes a transmission control unit for determining a recommended gear in the automatic and manual modes. In the manual mode, an operating gear of the transmission system is detected by the transmission control unit. A change of the operational mode from manual to automatic by means of the user input device is detected, and if the detected operating gear in the manual mode when changing to automatic mode is lower than the recommended gear, the sailing functionality in the automatic mode is deactivated.
US11879541B2
A gearbox including a gear and a gutter. The gear is rotatable about a rotational axis in a rotational direction. The gear has a radial direction and an axial direction, and the gear expels oil radially outward when the gear rotates. The gutter is positioned radially outward of the gear in the radial direction of the gear to collect oil expelled by the gear when the gear rotates. The gutter includes an axial surface, a plurality of radial surfaces including a first radial surface and a second radial surface, and at least one opening to allow the oil collected in the gutter to flow therethrough. Each of the first radial surface and the second radial surface is oriented in a direction intersecting the axial surface, and the at least one opening is formed on both the axial surface and one of the first radial surface and the second radial surface.
US11879540B2
A lubrication structure of a planetary gear set includes a hollow shaft on which the planetary gear set is disposed and forming an oil passage in an axial direction thereof and a plurality of oil holes in a radial direction thereof to supply a lubrication oil to the planetary gear set, and an internal pipe provided within the oil passage of the hollow shaft, wherein a gap chamber is formed between the internal pipe and the hollow shaft with a preset gap, where a plurality of oil supply holes are formed through the internal pipe in the radial direction to fluidically communicate the gap chamber and an internal space of the internal pipe.
US11879539B2
An insert for supplying a fluid to splines of a drive shaft, the insert comprising an insert wall extending between a first end and a second end of the insert, a chamber surrounding the insert wall for storing a fluid, a piston having a surface configured to be exposed to the fluid, the piston configured to move between a first position and a second position within the chamber, and the piston biased toward the first position, and wherein an increase in supply of the fluid in the chamber causes the piston to move toward the second position and a decrease in supply of the fluid in the chamber causes the piston to move toward the first position.
US11879532B2
A torque converter, including: a cover arranged to receive torque; an impeller including an impeller shell connected to the cover and at least one impeller blade; a turbine in fluid communication with the impeller and including a turbine shell and at least one turbine blade; and a stator assembly. The stator assembly includes: a stator including at least one stator blade axially disposed between the turbine and the impeller; a one-way clutch including an outer race non-rotatably connected to the stator and an inner race arranged to non-rotatably connect to a stator shaft; and a combination washer and seal including a first portion axially disposed between the turbine shell and the stator and a second portion extending radially inwardly from the first portion and arranged to at least partially seal against the stator shaft.
US11879529B1
A two-speed gearbox assembly for an electric drive vehicle includes a housing, a first planetary gear set configured to operably connect to an output of an electric motor to drive a first axle, the first planetary gear set including a first sun gear, a first carrier, and a first ring gear, a first clutch configured to selectively ground the first ring gear, and a second clutch configured to selectively ground the first carrier. A second planetary gear set is configured to operably connect to the output of the electric motor to drive a second axle, the second planetary gear set including a second sun gear, a second carrier, and a second ring gear. A third clutch is configured to selectively ground the second ring gear, and a fourth clutch is configured to selectively ground the second carrier. The first, second, third, and fourth clutches are independently controlled.
US11879526B2
A transmission with alternating rotary disks contains a plurality of first rotary disk assemblies, a plurality of second rotary disk assemblies, a drive shaft, and a gearbox shell. The plurality of first rotary disk assemblies is rotatably connected to the plurality of second rotary disk assemblies, where the plurality of first rotary disk assemblies and the second plurality of disk assemblies are arranged in a specified pattern. The first rotary disk assembly contains a first rotary element that rotates in one direction when the drive shaft is subjected to torque. The second rotary disk assembly contains a second rotary element that rotates in the opposite direction, relative to the first rotary element rotation.
US11879520B2
The present invention pertains to a friction transmission belt that includes a core cable. The core cable includes a cord comprising: a core yarn containing high elastic-modulus fibers; and a plurality of sheath yarns that are disposed around the core yarn and that contain low elastic-modulus fibers. The cord is twisted and the proportion of the average diameter of the sheath yarn to the average diameter of the core yarn is 0.2 to 0.4.
US11879515B1
A centrifugal pendulum absorber includes a center plate arranged to receive a torque, a first pendulum connected to the center plate, a second pendulum mass connected to the center plate, and a resilient bumper disposed between the first and second pendulum masses. The first pendulum mass and the second pendulum mass axially bracket the center plate. The resilient bumper is connected to the first and second pendulum masses. The resilient bumper includes a core enclosed by a casing. The core is a metal and the casing is a polymer.
US11879513B2
A friction material comprising: (a) at least one lubricant, wherein the at least one lubricant includes an amount of graphite, and wherein at least about 30 percent by weight of the graphite has a particle size of greater than about 500 microns using a sieve analysis; (b) at least one metal containing constituent for imparting reinforcement, thermal conductivity, and/or friction when the friction material is brought into contact with a movable member, wherein the at least one metal containing constituent includes iron and an iron containing compound; (c) a micro-particulated material; (d) one or more filler materials; (e) optionally at least one processing aid; (f) a balance being an organic binder, wherein the organic binder has less than 1 percent by weight of free phenol; wherein the friction material is free of asbestos and substantially devoid of copper.
US11879507B2
The present disclosure is a high-stability and large-torque magnetorheological fluid clutch. Firstly, in order to prevent sedimentation of the magnetorheological fluid, blades are installed on the disc body of an input disc. When the clutch operates in a power interruption mode, the blades can stir the magnetorheological fluid, so that the sedimented magnetorheological fluid is uniformly mixed. Secondly, in order to improve the maximum transmission torque of the magnetorheological fluid clutch, an excitation magnetic field is increased in a mode that a permanent magnet and an electromagnet are connected in series. Meanwhile, a third electric push rod is used for pushing the input disc, and the magnetorheological fluid works in a shearing-extruding working mode, so that the yield stress of the magnetorheological fluid is improved. Therefore, the maximum transmission torque of the magnetorheological fluid clutch is improved.
US11879503B2
A stiff key provides rigid coupling between a pair of shafts, such as a motor shaft and a rotary position sensor. The key may have a main body and a protrusion from the main body, such as from a middle portion of the main body. One of the protrusion or the main body may engage one part of one of the shafts being coupled together, and the other of the protrusion or the main body may engage a part of the other of the shafts. For example the protrusion may be in a keyway of one shaft and the main body may engage a recess or flat of the other shaft. The key and the coupling may be used in applications where space is at a premium, for example in a missile.
US11879501B2
A connection system for joining two wind turbine components together includes one or more bearing surfaces and one or more support surfaces extending away from the one or more bearing surfaces on a first wind turbine component, and one or more bearing surfaces and one or more support surfaces extending away from the one or more bearing surfaces on a second wind turbine component. One or more bores are formed in the one or more support surfaces of the first and second wind turbine components. One or more pins are configured to be engaged with respective one or more bores of the first and second wind turbine components to thereby join the two components together. A method for joining two wind turbine components together is also disclosed.
US11879497B2
The proposed morphable sheet structure comprises a succession of adjacent flexible elongated rods (10) laterally connected to each other defining a sheet structure (1), each rod (10) defining a longitudinal axis (A); wherein the rods (10) are grouped in pairs, each pair of adjacent rods (10) are connected to each other through a first connector (11) tightly connected to a second connector (12) complementary with the first connector (11), being the first connector (11) part of one rod (10) of said pair of adjacent rods (10) and being the second connector (12) part of the other rod (10) of said pair of adjacent rods (10); being the first connector (11) and the second connector (12) slidably movable to each other in the direction of the longitudinal axis (A); the first connector (11) and/or the second connector (12) extending along the entire longitude of the rod (10).
US11879496B2
An electronic device includes a fixed component, a removable component removably connected to the fixed component, and a cable. The shipping component includes a locking component, a wire clamping component sleeved on the locking component, and a fixing component. The wire clamping component is provided with a wire clamping part for clamping and locking the cable. The locking component may penetrate through the fixed component and be locked and connected to the removable component, and the fixing component may limit the distance between the fixed component and the removable component. The removable component may be locked and connected to the fixed component by the shipping component, the cable of the electronic device is synchronously clamped to the shipping component, and the cable cannot be used and electrified when the shipping component is not removed.
US11879493B2
A split nut with an outer body and an inner body formed of two jaws for gripping a threaded rod. The outer body has an inner surface defining tapered axial channel and includes a separator between the jaws to guide the jaws against an inner surface of the tapered axial channel. The inner surface can be circular in cross section and the outer body can also have an outer surface be circular in cross section. A lock is arranged to lock the jaws in an axial position at which the jaws are sufficiently close to force the jaws into threaded engagement with the threaded rod. The lock can also lock the jaws in an additional axial position at which the threaded rod can be moved freely axially between the jaws. The lock can comprise a locking pin movable within the outer body into respective slots corresponding to each locking position.
US11879492B2
To reduce the load required to press-fit a nut into a plate material, the nut includes a base part 2 provided with a female screw 18, a cylindrical protrusion part 3 protruding from one surface of the base part and a plurality of foot parts 4 protruding from an outer peripheral surface side of the protrusion part. An end of the respective foot parts closer to the protrusion part is formed so that a width gradually expands from a tip end side toward a protrusion part side, and that both outer sides of the end are arc-shaped in plan view.
US11879482B1
A modular ceiling fixture mounting device for mounting a ceiling fixture without attaching it to a ceiling includes first, second, and third tubes, which are selectively attachable, and a connector, which is attached to the third tube. A second section of the first tube extends from an upper end of a first section. A rear edge of the first section is positionable along an intersection of walls of a room. An article of mounting hardware is inserted through mounting holes positioned in the first section to attach the first tube to a structural element of at least one of the walls. The second section extends toward a ceiling of the room, the second tube extends substantially perpendicularly to the first section into the room, and the third tube is substantially parallel to the walls. A fixture can be suspended in the room by attachment to the connector.
US11879480B1
A compressor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes an outer band, a plurality of variable pitch vanes, and an inner band. The plurality of variable pitch vanes extend radially between the outer band and the inner band. The inner band extends circumferentially partway about an axis and includes a first ring segment and a second ring segment that cooperate to receive the plurality of variable pitch vanes.
US11879475B2
A fan includes a motor base, a bearing, an impeller, a stator and a magnetic element. The motor base has a bearing stand in a center portion thereof. The impeller includes a metallic case, plural blades and a rotating shaft. A top surface of a top wall of the metallic case continuous with curved surface that defines part of a central opening, and a depth of the central opening is equal to a thickness of the top wall. The blades are disposed around an outer periphery of said metallic case. The rotating shaft is inserted into the central opening and penetrated through the bearing stand, wherein no raised ring structure is formed in the top wall, and the rotating shaft and the metallic case are jointed together by a laser welding process. The magnetic element is disposed on an inner wall of the metallic case and aligned with the stator.
US11879471B2
A method of utilizing a mobile climate control assembly to selectively generate air flow across an angular range and at various velocities that includes providing first and second fan blower wheel assemblies each retained in a housing, having a wheel blade member operably coupled to a motor and operably configured to rotate 360° around an axis of rotation, and having an air deflector wall surrounding a partial circumference of the wheel member to direct generated air outwardly from the housing and electronically controlling the motor(s) to independently rotate the wheel members to generate an ambient air velocity gradient along at least an approximate 90° angular traverse path outwardly from the at least one housing without rotating the housing or the air deflector wall of each of the first and second fan blower-wheel assemblies.
US11879467B1
Disclosed is a system for creating a fog. In one nonlimiting example embodiment, the system includes a pump, a motor configured to drive the pump, a first controller configured to control the motor, a reservoir configured to hold a liquid, a first conduit configured to transfer the liquid to the pump, a second conduit configured to transfer the liquid from the pump to a nozzle, a high pressure sensor configured to detect pressure within the system, wherein the nozzle includes a surface upon which the liquid shatters and turns into the fog and wherein a pressure on a pressure side of the pump does not exceed 3000 psi.
US11879465B2
A compressor includes a motor unit that includes a rotor and a stator, a compressor unit that compresses a refrigerant by rotation of the rotor, and a container that forms an internal space in which the motor unit and the compressor unit are housed, wherein in the rotor, a rotor gas passage through which the refrigerant flows from an under-motor space of the internal space arranged on a side of the motor unit that is close to the compressor unit to an above-motor space of the internal space arranged on a side of the motor unit that is distant from the compressor unit is formed, in the stator, a stator gas passage through which the refrigerant flows from the under-motor space to the above-motor space is formed, and a cross-sectional area of the stator gas passage is 6.0 times or less a cross-sectional area of the rotor gas passage.
US11879460B2
A compressor may include first and second scrolls, an axial biasing chamber, and a control valve. The second scroll includes an outer port and an inner port. The outer and inner ports may be open to respective intermediate-pressure compression pockets. The control valve may be in fluid communication with the inner port, the outer port, and the axial biasing chamber. Movement of the control valve into the first position allows fluid communication between the inner port and the axial biasing chamber. Movement of the control valve into the second position allows fluid communication between the outer port and the axial biasing chamber.
US11879458B2
A rotary piston compressor/pump/blower includes a housing spatially limiting a working chamber, an intake connection for guiding fluid into the working chamber, a pressure connection for guiding the fluid out of the working chamber, and a rotor assembly having a first rotor rotatably arranged in a first working sub-chamber and a second rotor cooperating with the first rotor and rotatably arranged in a second working sub-chamber. The rotary piston compressor/pump/blower also includes a ventilation channel, formed in the housing and connected to the working chamber via a ventilation channel opening, for the temporally limited introducing of air into the working chamber, wherein the ventilation channel opening is open at least in sections, in particular completely open, in a compression phase.
US11879456B2
A scroll compressor includes a casing, compression mechanism housed in the casing, and drive shaft. The compression mechanism includes fixed and movable scrolls, and a housing. The housing includes a bearing portion configured to rotatably support the drive shaft, a body portion continuous with the bearing portion and extending radially outward, a pressing portion provided radially outside the body portion to press the casing, and a supporting portion extending from a face of the body portion near the fixed scroll. An end face of the supporting portion near the fixed scroll is a fastening face to which the fixed scroll is fastened. A gap is formed between an inner peripheral surface of the casing and outer peripheral surfaces of the body and supporting portions. An axial length of the gap is greater than or equal to an axial length of an inner peripheral surface of the supporting portion.
US11879455B2
A cam ring of a supply pump revolves around a camshaft without rotating. A tappet reciprocates in a direction perpendicular to the camshaft in response to revolution of the cam ring such that the tappet slides along a cam ring sliding surface. A plunger reciprocates together with the tappet to pressurize and deliver fuel. The cam ring sliding surface is shaped in a convex form that has a curved contour line which is non-circular. A height of an inside of the cam ring sliding surface is higher than a height of a periphery of the cam ring sliding surface. Specifically, an ellipsoidal surface portion is formed at the cam ring sliding surface, and an axial direction of a major axis of the ellipsoidal surface portion is set to coincide with a direction perpendicular to a sliding direction of the cam ring sliding surface.
US11879445B2
A submersible pump assembly (1) includes a submersible pump (2) with a housing (3), and a sensor capsule (4) with a hermetically sealed casing (5). The sensor capsule (4) is releasably mountable at a sensor position (6) located at an outer face (7) of the housing (3) of the submersible pump (2). The submersible pump (2) includes a primary coil (8) within the housing (3). The sensor capsule (4) includes a secondary coil (9) within the casing (5). The primary coil (8) and the secondary coil (9) are arranged to be inductively coupled with each other for wirelessly transferring data and/or power through the housing (3) and the casing (5) when the sensor capsule (4) is mounted at the sensor position (6).
US11879444B2
A positive displacement pump, including at least a cylinder, provided with at least an entrance aperture and at least an exit aperture for the liquid and a plunger, mobile inside the cylinder by means of a first actuator and configured to transfer the liquid from the entrance aperture to the exit aperture; the cylinder is provided with at least a first inactive position and at least a second working position between which it can be selectively positioned in an automatic and adjustable manner by at least one second actuator.
US11879443B2
A joint for the angularly adjustable drive-connection of a cylinder block and a driveshaft of a hydrostatic bent axis piston unit. The joint has a shank which is rotatable about its longitudinal axis defining a joint axis, on both ends of the shank roller carriers project radially and basically perpendicular to the joint axis. On each roller carrier a roller is provided rotatable around a roller axis. The rollers are secured in axial direction against slipping-off of the roller carriers by means of an embossed area located axially outside of the roller on the respective distal end portion of the roller carrier.
US11879437B2
A method for controlling heating of rotor blades of an aerodynamic rotor of a wind turbine, wherein, the heating of the rotor blades is initiated, if icing of the rotor blades is expected, wherein according to an icing criteria, if icing is expected is evaluated depending on a determined ambient temperature, a determined relative humidity, and a determined wind speed, each defining a determined weather parameter, and further according to the icing criteria, if icing is expected is evaluated depending on a temporal change of at least one of these weather parameters and/or of at least one other weather parameter.
US11879436B2
Provided is a lightning suppression device for wind turbine blades that is provided at a tip of a wind turbine blade and suppresses lightning struck on the wind turbine blade, the device including: an electrical insulator attached to the tip of the wind turbine blade and formed of a non-conductive material; an internal electrode attached to the electrical insulator on a side opposite to the wind turbine blade; and an external electrode attached to the electrical insulator so as to surround the internal electrode with a predetermined gap therebetween, wherein the electrical insulator is fixed to the tip of the wind turbine blade by a fixing member, and a ground line is connected to the internal electrode.
US11879419B2
An engine intake structure comprises an intake passage member 18 which defines an intake passage 36 for supplying air to an internal combustion engine 12, and which also defines a resonator chamber 40 in communication with the intake passage 36; and an in-vehicle device 14 located in an engine room 10 of a vehicle and having a preset reference temperature for temperature control, the intake passage member 18 being located above and adjacent to the in-vehicle device 14. The intake passage 36 extends above the in-vehicle device 14 so as to at least partially overlap the resonator chamber 40 as viewed in a vertical direction, thereby forming a two-layer structure, which makes the in-vehicle device 14 less affected by ambient temperature in the upper part of the engine room 10.
US11879416B1
A method of thrust vectoring a missile utilizing jet tabs is presented. Jet tabs are used to create lateral control moments on a missile by rotating tabs into the rocket exhaust plume and changing the thrust deflection angle. The method includes simultaneously rolling the missile during the thrust vector maneuver in order to reduce the maximum tab exposure to the rocket plume. The method enables aggressive pitchover maneuvers while reducing the risk of tab failure due to excessive exposure.
US11879410B2
A rocket motor for a gun-fired projectile is configured stiffen the burnable propellant in the rocket motor during burning and/or protect the rocket motor from the pressure that occurs during firing of the projectile from the gun. The rocket motor may include a rigid structure that is integrated into the burnable propellant grain to stabilize the burnable propellant grain during burning of the burnable propellant grain. The rigid structure has a matrix or truss-like shape that extends into the depth of the burnable propellant grain. The rocket motor may include a baffled end cap that covers a nozzle of the rocket motor. The end cap defines a baffled path through the end cap to dampen gas flow into the nozzle and prevent particles of the gun propellant from entering the rocket motor. A rocket motor may implement the rigid structure or the baffled end cap, or both structures.
US11879409B2
Systems and generating power in an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) operation to supply electrical power. In embodiments, an inlet temperature of a flow of gas from a source to an ORC unit may be determined. The source may connect to a main pipeline. The main pipeline may connect to a supply pipeline. The supply pipeline may connect to the ORC unit thereby to allow gas to flow from the source to the ORC unit. Heat from the flow of gas may cause the ORC unit to generate electrical power. The outlet temperature of the flow of the gas from the ORC unit to a return pipe may be determined. A bypass valve, positioned on a bypass pipeline connecting the supply pipeline to the return pipeline, may be adjusted to a position sufficient to maintain temperature of the flow of gas above a threshold based on the inlet and outlet temperature.
US11879402B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided to reduce combustion time and/or combustion temperature in an internal combustion engine. In an exemplary embodiment, intake air and oxygen-rich gas are introduced upstream of a turbofan, wherein the amount of oxygen rich gas is controlled in proportion to the engine speed.
US11879401B2
An internal combustion-type engine or powertrain that is capable of burning wet-alcohol fuel mixture and including a piston reciprocating within a cylinder attached to a cylinder head and connecting to a crank shaft via a connecting rod. An intake cam and valve is mounted within an intake port formed in the cylinder head and an exhaust cam and valve is mounted within an exhaust port also formed in the cylinder head. A pressurized fuel source is introduced into the cylinder by a fuel injector and the percentage of water in the alcohol/water mix operates to prolong the cylinder pressure in order to increase a mean effective pressure (IMEP), leading to a higher torque (improved Brake Mean Effective Pressure—BMEP) of the engine via a longer pressure pulse attained during the period of preferred mechanical advantage of the crank-arm of the engine.
US11879399B2
A method, for an internal combustion engine including an intake camshaft equipped with a variable intake valve timing device including an intake timing actuator and an exhaust camshaft equipped with a variable exhaust valve timing device including an exhaust timing actuator, of detecting inverted connection of the intake timing actuator with the exhaust timing actuator, including: measuring the angular position of the intake camshaft and the angular position of the exhaust camshaft; commanding one of the two timing actuators according to a setpoint and keeping the other of the two timing actuators immobile; measuring the angular positions of the intake camshaft and of the exhaust camshaft; and comparing: if the angular position of the camshaft corresponding to the timing actuator that's been commanded has not been modified, and if the angular position of the camshaft corresponding to the immobile timing actuator has been modified, inverted connection can be diagnosed.
US11879398B2
The present invention relates to a shaft for a propulsion system configured to rotate a reducing mechanism about a rotational axis, the shaft comprising: —a first end configured to engage with an input gear of the reducing mechanism, —a first bellows and a second bellows, the first bellows and the second bellows being rotationally symmetrical about the rotational axis, the first bellows extending between the first end and the second bellows, and —a frustoconical body mechanically connecting the first bellows and the second bellows.
US11879394B2
In at least one aspect of this disclosure, a shut off valve for an ecology fuel return system can include an inlet for receiving a fluid, an outlet for effusing the fluid, and a valve member configured to move between an open position such that the valve member allows fluid to effuse from the outlet and a closed position such that the valve member prevents fluid from effusing from the outlet. The valve member can include a pressure deflector configured to prevent fluid flow from biasing the valve member toward the closed position.
US11879389B2
An exhaust turbine includes a turbine wheel having a plurality of rotor blades, an exhaust outlet where the exhaust outlet is arranged downstream of the rotor blades and is delimited radial to the outside by an axial turbine diffusor. An exhaust mass flow can be output in an axial flow direction by the exhaust outlet duct and the axial turbine diffusor opens downstream, radially to the outside at a non-constant diffusor-opening angle, such that at a first diffusor-opening angle deviates from a second diffusor-opening angle by at least 1°. The exhaust turbine further includes a waste gate duct, the outlet region of which opens into the diffusor or directly downstream of the diffusor into the exhaust outlet duct. The waste gate duct is designed to generate a substantially axial flow direction of a waste gate mass flow at the outlet region of the waste gate duct.
US11879382B2
An explosion relief valve for a crankcase of an engine includes a carrier plate, a cap, and an annular flame arrestor. The carrier plate includes a valve plate that has a sinuous shape for redirecting flame back into the engine. The flame arrestor includes a plurality of layers of smooth metal sheets, with each layer having a pattern of apertures that is different in size and spacing than the pattern of apertures of its adjacent layer. The apertures of each layer are partially, and only partially, aligned with the perforations of its adjacent layers. The layers are laid flush against each other to minimize or eliminate air space between the layers, leaving only the air channels existing between the apertures of the metal sheet layers as passageways for exhaust gases to be released from the valve.
US11879376B2
A control method is performed to control a traction device of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine that includes a plurality of cylinders. Each of cylinders has at least one air intake valve, at least one exhaust valve for the combustion gases generated by the internal combustion engine, and a fuel injector. A treatment device is provided for the combustion gases that is active from an actuation temperature. The treatment device is placed downstream of the exhaust valve. The traction device includes an electrical heater for heating the combustion gas treatment device. The traction method further compares a temperature of the combustion gas treatment device with an actuating threshold temperature and actuates the electrical heater and stopping a fuel supply being supplied to one or more of the cylinders as long as the temperature of the combustion gas treatment device is below the actuating threshold temperature.
US11879371B2
A heating conductor for an exhaust gas heating arrangement for an exhaust gas system for an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of heating conductor sections. At least one throughflow opening, preferably a plurality of throughflow openings through which exhaust gas can flow, is or are provided in at least one heating conductor section, preferably in a plurality of heating conductor sections or in each heating conductor section.
US11879368B2
A method (200) for ascertaining an air volume provided by means of an electric air pump (134) in an exhaust system (120) of an internal combustion engine (110), including detecting at least one activation parameter (5) of the air pump and ascertaining (220) a provided air mass flow rate (8) on the basis of a calculation specification from the at least one activation parameter (5) by utilizing an inertia of the air pump (134) and/or an inertia of the air upstream and/or downstream from the air pump (134) and/or a differential pressure from upstream from the air pump to downstream from the air pump. In addition, a processing unit and a computer program for carrying out a method (200) of this type is provided.
US11879344B2
A device for making a fan or compressor for the aeronautical industry includes an annular casing with a main axis (A) and defines an internal flow duct for a gas flow along this axis. The device further includes a bladed wheel mounted inside the casing and having an axis of rotation coincident with the axis (A) of the casing. A system for retaining debris in the event of breakage of the bladed wheel has a retaining annulus mounted around the casing, which includes two radially outwardly projecting annular bosses located respectively upstream and downstream of the bladed wheel. Upstream and downstream edges of the retaining annulus are applied and attached to the bosses.
US11879337B2
Disclosed is a thermodynamic cycle process, performing transfer between mechanical and heat energies, by changing a state of a fluid, including: an expansion of the fluid, an energy retrieval from the fluid expansion, a step of powering a liquid pump or a gas compressor with the retrieved energy, using a cyclic free piston expander which alternatively changes direction of the free piston sliding: by alternatively: closing the fluidic communication between the both opposite sides of the free piston, to make different from each other the pressures applied respectively thereon, so the free piston slides in a first direction, opening a fluidic communication between both opposite sides of the free piston, to make equal to each other the pressures applied respectively thereon, so the free piston slides in a second direction opposite to the first direction, the free piston sliding, directly and mechanically, opening and closing, the fluidic communication.
US11879335B2
The invention relates to variation of concentrations of abrasive particles in a stream of drilling fluid mixed with abrasive particles, passed as an abrasive jet through abrasive nozzle(s) of a drill bit along rotations thereof, to vary the erosive power of the stream along angular sections of the borehole for directional drilling. During subsequent time periods majorities of abrasive particles are alternately deflected into two parallel channels with a different flow resistance. A resulting velocity difference between said majorities makes that the subsequently deflected majorities recombine downstream of the channels, so that high concentration stream portions of the combined majorities are formed which alternate low concentration stream portions. Synchronising the frequency of the stream portions with the rotational velocity of the drill bit results in a consistently higher erosive power of the abrasive jet within a selected angular section of the borehole than outside thereof.
US11879333B2
A rotary steerable drilling assembly for directional drilling includes a driveshaft rotatably disposed in a driveshaft housing, a bend adjustment assembly coupled to the driveshaft housing, a bearing mandrel coupled to the bend adjustment assembly, and a torque control assembly including a rotor configured to couple with a drill string, a stator assembly coupled to the downhole motor, and a torque control actuator assembly configured to control the amount of torque transmitted between the rotor and the stator assembly, wherein the bend adjustment assembly includes a first position providing a first deflection angle between a longitudinal axis of the driveshaft housing and a longitudinal axis of the bearing mandrel, wherein the bend adjustment assembly includes a second position providing a second deflection angle between the longitudinal axis of the driveshaft housing and the longitudinal axis of the bearing mandrel, the second deflection angle being different from the first deflection angle.
US11879328B2
A method and a system for collecting data at a fixed point in a wellbore are provided. An exemplary method includes dropping an untethered measurement tool (UMT) in the wellbore, switching a first magnet to drop a ballast from the UMT at a ballast drop condition, switching a second magnet to attach the UMT to a wall of the wellbore at a wall attachment condition. Data is collected in the UMT while the UMT is attached to the wall of the wellbore. The second magnet is switched to release the UMT from the wall of the wellbore at a wall release condition. The UMT is collected from the wellbore and the data is downloaded from the UMT.
US11879323B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for isolation detection. In one implementation, a radial acoustic log is obtained. The radial acoustic log is captured using a radial sensor of an acoustic logging tool deployed within a first structure. The first structure disposed within a second structure in a subterranean environment. A radial symmetry is determined using the radial acoustic log. An eccentricity of the first structure relative to the second structure is determined based on the radial symmetry.
US11879319B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of exploiting underground resources with a negative thixotropic fluid, which induces the fault or the fracture to slip by replacing a conventional mode of injecting water with a mode of injecting the negative thixotropic fluid. According to the negative thixotropy of the injected fluid, when the fault or the fracture does not slip, viscosity of the negative thixotropic fluid is low, and the negative thixotropic fluid could flow in the fracture network. When the fault or the fracture slips, a great shear strain rate is generated, such that the viscosity of the negative thixotropic fluid is rapidly increased with the shear strain rate, to generate a great resistance force, thereby preventing the fault from further slipping.
US11879317B2
System and methods of controlling fracture growth during multi-well stimulation treatments. The flow distribution of treatment fluid injected into first and second well formation entry points along multiple wellbores is monitored during a current stage of a multi-well, multistage stimulation treatment. Upon determining the fracture growth and/or monitored flow distribution meets a threshold, a remainder of the current stage is partitioned into a plurality of treatment cycles and at least one diversion phase. A portion of the fluid to be injected into the first well and/or second well formation entry points is allocated to each of the treatment cycles of the partitioned stage. The treatment cycles are performed for the remainder of the current stage using the treatment fluid allocated to each treatment cycle, wherein the flow distribution is adjusted so as not to meet the threshold.
US11879316B2
A method may comprise: modeling a complex fracture network within the subterranean formation with a mathematical model based on a natural fracture network map and measured data of the subterranean formation collected in association with a fracturing treatment of the subterranean formation to produce a complex fracture network map; importing microseismic data collected in association with the fracturing treatment of the subterranean formation into the mathematical model; identifying directions of continuity in the microseismic data via a geostatistical analysis that is part of the mathematical model; and correlating the directions of continuity in the microseismic data to the complex fracture network with the mathematical model to produce a microseismic-weighted (MSW) complex fracture network map.
US11879311B2
A method of gravel packing an open hole penetrating a subterranean information includes installing at least one sand control screen disposed about a tubular member into the open hole, circulating a slurry including an expandable gravel and a carrier fluid, depositing the slurry in the wellbore annulus surrounding the at least one sand control screen in an alpha wave beginning at a heel of the wellbore annulus, detecting at least one of: arrival of the alpha wave at a toe of the wellbore annulus and start of a beta wave at the toe of the wellbore annulus, stopping circulation of the slurry, and triggering the expandable gravel to expand to pack the wellbore annulus surrounding the at least one sand control screen above the alpha wave.
US11879309B2
A method is described for supply of liquid from a liquid storage to a casing string (10,12, 14..) which from a deck (16) on an installation is conveyed down in a well with the help of a pipe handler comprising an elevator, where the liquid is supplied via an uppermost casing (10) which is added to the casing string, and the liquid is supplied through a filling pipe (30) via an outlet nozzle (36) to the top of the casing (10) already during the pipe's (10) screwing into the casing string (10, 12, 14..) where the filling pipe is extended during the liquid supply until the casing string is being lowered down to a position where it is securely locked to the deck (16), and liquid is added to a suitable level in the casing string. The method is characterised in that the filling pipe (30) is extended in that it comprises a telescopic axially moveable pipe end part (35) with a constricted outlet (36) which leads to the pipe end part (35) being pushed axially outwards and extends the filling pipe (30) when the liquid is supplied under pressure, and the pipe end part (35) is pushed outwards under the counter effect of a prestressing force, and pulled back under the influence of said prestressing force when the liquid supply stops. Also described is a device as given in claim 10.
US11879301B2
A method and related system for transporting an object to an outlet of a transport system operably coupled to an in fluid communication with a wellhead, from a location at a distance to the wellhead are disclosed. In some embodiments, the transporting includes propelling the objection through a pipeline of the transport system by moving a gas in the pipeline. In some embodiments, the object is a dart for use in a wellbore completion operation.
US11879296B2
The force modulation system for a drill bit includes a cutter, a blade cap, a cap retention device, and a first force member. The cutter or cutters fit in the blade cap, and the blade cap fits to the drill bit. The cap retention device exerts a cap retention force in a first direction. The first force member exerts a first force in a second direction. The cutting profile of the force modulation system is now variable in more than one direction so as to avoid excessive forces from more than one direction for each cutter on the blade cap. There can also be a second force member to exert a second force in the first direction for more variability of the cutting profile in the first direction and a third force member to exert a third force in an opposite second direction.
US11879292B2
In example implementations, a header seal for a vertical stacking panel door is provided. The header seal includes a header channel and a seal plate. The header channel includes a body portion comprising a plurality of openings to receive a mechanical fastener and a lip portion coupled to the body portion. The seal plate includes a bracket comprising a plurality of openings to receive a mechanical fastener to connect the bracket to the top most vertical panel and a flexible member to contact the lip portion to form a seal against the lip of the header channel when the vertically stacking panel door is in a closed position.
US11879271B2
A storage lock for a storage door, the lock comprising a lock housing for mounting to the storage door or a storage frame supporting the door; and a lock mechanism arranged within the lock housing, the lock mechanism comprising a latch selectively operable between a locked position in which the latch is extended to engage with the other of the storage door and storage frame to block against opening of the storage door, and an unlocked position in which the latch is retracted to disengage from the other of the storage door and storage frame to allow the storage door to be opened for access to storage, and a latch control system selectively operable between a restricted position to block against operation of the latch out from the locked position, and an unrestricted position to permit operation of the latch out from the locked position to the unlocked position.
US11879269B2
Ratchet lock assemblies for use with various locking actuation members such as, but not limited to, lock cylinders of interchangeable core cylinder types are provided. In one embodiment, a ratchet lock assembly includes a plunger barrel with at least one projection extending therefrom. The at least one projection configured to mate with at least one aperture of a locking bar or strike plate to lock the ratchet lock assembly in place. In another embodiment, a ratchet lock assembly is provided with an anti-shim configuration to prevent unwanted removal of the ratchet lock assembly. The anti-shim ratchet lock assembly includes a driver and cam to lock a member, e.g., a spring, of the ratchet lock assembly to a locking bar or strike plate.
US11879266B2
An exemplary auxiliary trim locking module is configured for use with a handle including a shank. The handle is mounted for rotation relative to a rose having an aperture defined therein. The auxiliary trim locking module includes a collar defining an opening sized and shaped to receive the shank, a blocking member movably mounted to the collar for movement between a proximal position and a distal position, and a biasing mechanism urging the locking member toward the distal position. The blocking member includes a projection sized and shaped to be received in the aperture, and an arm operable to be manually engaged by a user to shift the blocking member between a proximal position and a distal position.
US11879265B2
The present invention discloses a three-dimensional energy dissipation and vibration isolation bearing. A laminated rubber bearing comprises an upper connecting plate and a lower connecting plate, and the upper connecting plate and the lower connecting plate are tightened through a stay cable; U-shaped strips are arranged around the laminated rubber bearing and fixed with the edge of the steel plate and the edge of the lower connecting plate; a support shaft is fixed on the top surface of the upper connecting plate; disk springs are sleeved on the support shaft and clamped between the upper connecting plate and the steel plate and between the steel plate and the jacking nut; and anchor bars are vertically fixed on the top surface of the U-shaped frame and the bottom surface of the lower connecting plate.
US11879261B1
A wire mesh fence panel includes a top longitudinal portion of a wire mesh disposed inside of a top rail that is connected to a first post and a second post, a bottom longitudinal portion of the wire mesh that is disposed inside of a bottom rail that is connected to the first and second post, a first vertical portion of the wire mesh disposed inside of the first post, a second vertical portion of the wire mesh disposed inside of the second post, top rail links connecting the top rail to the first and second posts, and bottom rail links connecting the bottom rail to the first and second posts.
US11879255B2
The invention relates to a decoupling mat (1) with a continuous plastic layer (2), for example one fabricated via deep drawing, comprising elongated, rib-like formations (3) on a first broadside (B1), wherein the formations (3) simultaneously form groove-like recesses (5) on a second broadside (B2) lying opposite the first broadside (B1). In order to achieve a solution advantageous for use, emphasis is placed on having the formations (3) be bordered in their longitudinal extension (1) by sections (9) of a reduced height (h′) and/or width (c′), which simultaneously also form partial areas (10) of less depth (s′) and/or width (d′) bordered relative to the recesses (5). In addition, the invention relates to a floor structure, in particular in a building with a decoupling mat (1).
US11879239B2
A lavatory system includes a countertop, a fixture, and a soap system mounted to the countertop adjacent the fixture. The fixture includes at least one leg, a first passage and a second passage distributed through the at least one leg, and an extension section extending from the at least one leg. A first tube carrying water extends through one of the first passage and the second passage, while a second tube carrying soap extends through one of the first passage and the second passage. The soap system includes a mounting component within an orifice of the countertop, a refill port extending through the mounting component to a soap container below the countertop, a cap over the refill port, and a soap pump to transmit soap from the soap container to the second tube of the fixture. A mounting bracket is secured below the countertop to support the soap container.
US11879235B2
A wear member includes a forward working portion that is disposed along its longitudinal axis including a closed end, and a rear attachment portion that is disposed along the longitudinal axis including an open end with an exterior surface, and an interior surface. The interior surface defines an interior counterbore with a major diameter, and a minor diameter. A ratio of the major diameter to the minor diameter ranges from 1.8 to 2.2.
US11879219B2
A driverless traffic management vehicle has a control system having a controller interfacing steering and drive interfaces for control of respective steering and drive subsystems of the vehicle. The vehicle also has an impact attenuator and actuator therefor for configuring the attenuator in deployed and stowed configurations. The control system comprises at least one driverless mode controller operably controlling the steering and drive interfaces for controlling the vehicle in at least one of follow mode, remote-control and autonomous driverless mode of operation. To control traffic, the vehicle may be driven to a roadside location and set in the at least one driverless mode of operation to control the steering and drive interfaces accordingly.
US11879216B2
A paver, in particular a slipform paver, has a machine frame supported by front and rear undercarriages and a paving device for the paving of material. The paver is provided with an apron monitoring device for generating elevation profile data or elevation profile signals describing the elevation profile of the material deposited in the apron of the paving device in a direction transverse to the working direction. A data or signal processing device receives the elevation profile data or signals. The apron monitoring device provides the data needed to allow the material to be spread more evenly across the working width of the paver during the feeding operation by means of a spreading device for spreading the material to be paved in a direction transverse to the working direction and/or to allow the spreading device to be controlled for improved spreading of the material after the paver has been fed.
US11879213B2
The present invention relates to a high-strength fibre composition comprising fibres up to 7 mm long with a viscosity of between 10 and 20 cP. The fibres present in said composition are distributed according to the length thereof, thereby guaranteeing high strength. The fibre composition according to the invention can also be redispersible. The use of the fibre composition according to the invention and an article comprising said composition are also disclosed.
US11879208B2
Control and stabilizing cables and tendons for high altitude aircraft and airships having lightweight, high strength and low CTE are disclosed, along with a method and machine for fabrication of same. The cable is comprised of a fiber prepreg tow encased in a polymer sleeve with one bobbin at each end to facilitate connections. Consolidating the fiber prepreg tow along the length of the cable using high temperature shrink tubing, such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), allows for eliminating the twisting of the fiber prepreg tow, thus reducing the number of wraps around the bobbins. Eliminating the twists in the fiber prepreg tow also reduces the length of fiber needed, and therefore the overall change in length of the control cable with temperature variations is reduced. Additional cable strength can be achieved by adding and holding significant tension on the fiber prepreg tow by applying weight during the curing process.
US11879206B2
A preparation process of spunlace intertwining type recycled cow leather comprises a material preparation process, a cow leather fiber web forming process, as well as a mixed fiber web forming process, an overlapped web forming process, a base fabric manufacturing process and a cow leather finished product manufacturing process which are sequentially arranged according to a preparation process flow; the base fabric manufacturing process comprises a buffing process, a single-side immersion treatment process and an ironing process which are sequentially arranged for manufacturing the overlapped web into the base fabric; and the single-side immersion treatment process comprises the steps of subjecting a single side of the base fabric to single-side coating treatment of the water-based PU material or the oil-based PU material by adopting an inverted feeding device and using a water-based PU material or an oil-based PU material as a coating so as to form a single-side permeable immersion layer of the base fabric.
US11879195B2
An automatic thread trimming device of a sewing machine contains: a holding disc, a cutter assembly, a fixed cutter, and a protective sheet. The automatic thread trimming device further contains an abutting segment formed on a distal portion of a curved section of a front end of an elastic extension and corresponding to a contact zone of a movable cutter, such that the movable cutter moves to the fixed cutter horizontally to produce cutting force. In the meantime, a longitudinal thickness of a protrusion corresponding to a receiving orifice is 0.5 mm so that a short thread end is cut between a thread and a cut portion of the thread, and the short thread end retracts inward because of a woven fabric, thus obtaining a flatness of a sewing product. Preferably, the automatic thread trimming device is capable of being driven by drive elements of any sewing machines.
US11879177B2
The present disclosure relates to a self-supporting electrocatalytic material and a preparation method thereof, the self-supporting electrocatalytic material is a Cu2O/WO3/CF self-supporting electrocatalytic material. The Cu2O/WO3/CF self-supporting electrocatalytic material comprises: a foamed copper substrate, and Cu2O and WO3 grown in situ on the foamed copper substrate.
US11879175B2
The present disclosure relates to a W18O49/COO/CoWO4/NF self-supporting electrocatalytic material and a preparation method thereof, the W18O49/CoO/CoWO4/NF self-supporting electrocatalytic material comprising: a foamed nickel substrate and a W18O49/CoO/CoWO4 composite material formed in-situ on a foamed nickel substrate. Preferably, the W18O49/CoO/CoWO4 composite material is CoO/CoWO4 composite nanosheets and W18O49 nanowires distributed among the CoO/CoWO4 composite nanosheets.
US11879172B2
A method for producing a chemically treated alloy material is provided that suppresses a decrease in chemical treatability even in a case where chemical treatment is repeatedly performed. The method for producing a chemically treated alloy material of the present disclosure includes a chemical treatment step and a treatment solution regeneration step. In the chemical treatment step, an alloy material (6) is immersed in an oxalate treatment solution (4) containing oxalate ions and fluorine ions to perform a chemical treatment. In the treatment solution regeneration step, light is radiated to the oxalate treatment solution (4) during the chemical treatment and/or the oxalate treatment solution (4) after the chemical treatment.
US11879165B2
The present disclosure relates to a process for recovering vanadium in the form of iron vanadate from a gasifier slag. The process comprises pulverizing the slag to obtain pulverized slag (2). The pulverized slag (2) is soaked in water (6) and an alkali salt (4) to obtain a slurry (8), followed by roasting the slurry in the presence of air to obtain roasted slag (12) which is leached (14) to obtain a first solution (18). The first solution (18) is heated at a temperature in the range of 60° C. to 80° C. while adding an iron salt (17) in an amount in the range of 10 wt % to 60 wt % at a pH in the range of 4 to 10, to obtain a second solid residue (21) which is dried to obtain iron vanadate (24).
US11879162B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions to cause a system to detect a genetic variation in a polynucleotide analyte in a sample. A fluorophore is attached to a first primer, a quencher is attached to a second primer, and the first primer and the second primer are specific for the polynucleotide analyte. The primers are configured to amplify the polynucleotide analyte having the genetic variation and a corresponding polynucleotide analyte lacking the generic variation. There is a detectable difference between a measured change in signal generated by the fluorophore and quencher, when using the first and second primers to amplify the polynucleotide analyte with the genetic variation, and a change in signal generated by the fluorophore and quencher, when using the first and second primers to amplify the corresponding polynucleotide analyte lacking the genetic variation.
US11879137B2
Described herein are methods and compositions for producing modified, PD-L1 expressing hematopoietic stem cells, and uses thereof. Aspects of the invention relate to modulating the expression of micro RNA that controls the expression of PD-L1 in the hematopoietic stem cell. Methods for modulating the expression of micro RNA include, e.g., introducing to the cell a nucleic acid encoding a given micro RNA, or an agent that inhibits a given micro RNA.
US11879135B2
The present disclosure provides a method for determining the undifferentiated state of pluripotent stem cells, comprising: irradiating a test culture medium in which pluripotent stem cells are cultured with wavelength light having a wavelength in the range of 190 nm to 2,500 nm or a partial range thereof; detecting the reflected light, transmitted light or transmitted reflected light thereof to obtain absorbance spectrum data; and analyzing the absorbance at all or part of the measurement wavelengths in the absorbance spectrum data to determine the undifferentiated state of the pluripotent stem cells.
US11879103B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for producing aromatic compounds from pyrolysis gasoline includes splitting the pyrolysis gasoline into a stream comprising non-aromatic hydrocarbons and a stream comprising paraffinic hydrocarbons and aromatic hydrocarbons; aromatizing the stream comprising paraffinic hydrocarbons and aromatic hydrocarbons, thereby converting the stream comprising paraffinic hydrocarbons and aromatic hydrocarbons to a first stream comprising benzene-toluene-xylenes (BTX); hydrotreating the first stream comprising BTX in a selective hydrotreatment unit, thereby producing a de-olefinated stream comprising BTX; hydrodealkylating and transalkylating the de-olefinated stream comprising BTX in a hydrodealkylation-transalkylation unit, thereby producing a second stream comprising BTX, the second stream comprising BTX having a greater amount of benzene and xylenes than the first stream comprising BTX; and processing the second stream comprising BTX in an aromatics recovery complex, thereby producing the aromatic compounds comprising benzene, toluene, and xylenes.
US11879100B2
Catalyst fines can be removed from heavy oils, such as marine fuel oils, by introducing an additive in an effective amount to at least partially remove the catalyst fines, where the additive is an oxyalkylated acid-catalyzed alkylphenol formaldehyde resin and/or a Mannich condensate base resin copolymer.
US11879091B2
Methods are disclosed for emplacing a gel-form material in a porous subterranean formation, such as a hydrocarbon reservoir. The material is formed by admixing solid nanoparticles with gelation supporting amounts of surfactants or ionic species, such as ionic species of the kind that form ionic liquids. The nanoparticle to ion ratio may be selected, in combination with selecting the components of the gel-form material, so that the rheological and gelation properties of the gel-form material are adapted for a particular use, for example forming a fluid flow barrier in a reservoir.
US11879089B1
A treatment fluid can include a base fluid and a lost-circulation package. The lost-circulation package can include plurality of particles of a first, second, and third lost-circulation material. The plurality of particles can be cellulose, sized calcium carbonate, and fibers. The particle size distribution of the plurality of particles can be selected such that the particles enter permeable areas of a subterranean formation to help prevent loss of the base fluid into the formation and allow most of the particles to pass through the screen of a shale shaker. The plurality of particles can have a particle size distribution of a d10 value in the range of 30 to 55 microns, a d50 value in the range of 60 to 100 microns, and a d90 value in the range of 130 to 190 microns. The treatment fluid can be used in an oil and gas operation.
US11879088B2
Additives configured to temporarily reduce viscosity in oil-based fluids are provided. The additives may be a reaction product of at least one non-ionic additive and at least one acid anhydride of maleic, succinic and/or glutaric acid. The at least one non-ionic additive may be selected from linear or branched alcohols, alcohol ethoxylates, a combination thereof, and/or a derivative thereof.
US11879086B2
A high internal phase emulsion stabilized by a low content of surfactant and its preparation method thereof are provided. An oil ethoxylate is added to a vegetable oil, and the resulting mixture is uniformly mixed under a low-speed stirring at room temperature. Water is added dropwise to the mixture of surfactant and vegetable oil under stirring, and a homogenization is performed on the obtained dispersed system by a high-shear dispersion emulsification homogenizer to obtain the high internal phase emulsion stabilized by oil ethoxylate. The preparation method requires a low content of surfactant, mild preparation conditions and simple operations. When the oil-phase volume fraction is 83 vol %, the minimum mass fraction of the oil ethoxylate to stabilize the high internal phase emulsion is 0.6 wt %, and the prepared oil-in-water type high internal phase emulsion has excellent stability and shows bright color, delicate odor, hydra feel and being easy to apply.
US11879085B2
The invention relates to a converter system, for instance for a light emitting device, comprising: —a first material, which comprises, preferably essentially consists of an emitting material, emitting a color of interest, and is essentially free of sensitizer material, —a second sensitizer material, which is essentially free of the first material and absorbs light (is excitable) in the wavelength range of interest and its emission spectrum overlaps at least partly with one or more excitation bands of the first material.
US11879074B2
The present invention relates to a blister pack (1) filled with a shaped adhesive, coating or sealant article that is solid at room temperature, said pack (1) having a shaped plastic film part (2), which has at least one cavity (3), and a lidding film (4), wherein the at least one cavity (3) has a filling volume with adhesive, coating material or sealant in the range from 5 ml to 500 ml, and the lidding film (4) closes the cavity (3). The invention further relates to a method for producing the blister pack.
US11879072B2
Disclosed herein are styrene butadiene rubber latex compositions with high solids content and methods for making and using these compositions. The method for making the styrene butadiene rubber latex compositions can include mixing a seed, a styrene, an initiator, a base, a surfactant, and a solvent; adding a first portion of 1,3-butadiene to make a first reaction mixture; heating the first reaction mixture for a first reaction time to make a first styrene butadiene rubber latex; mixing the first styrene butadiene rubber latex, a styrene, a base, an initiator, a surfactant, and a solvent; adding a second portion of 1,3-butadiene to make a second reaction mixture; and heating the second reaction mixture for a second reaction time to make a second styrene butadiene rubber latex, where the second styrene butadiene rubber latex has a solids content higher than that of the first styrene butadiene rubber latex.
US11879069B2
The present invention provides a graphene oxide-tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS)/silane composite gel material, and a preparation method and use thereof, and belongs to the technical field of building surface coating. The graphene oxide-TEOS/silane composite gel material provided by the present invention includes the following components: 5-45 parts by weight of graphene oxide dispersion, 30-90 parts by weight of TEOS, 30-80 parts by weight of silane, 1-5 parts by weight of emulsifier, and 1-5 parts by weight of dispersant; the graphene oxide dispersion has a concentration of 0.5-5%. The graphene oxide-TEOS/silane composite gel material provided by the invention can form a hydrophobic anticorrosive coating after coating the surface of a cement-based material, and has excellent water resistance and corrosion resistance.
US11879064B2
A technical problem of the present invention is to provide a condensed polycyclic organic pigment having excellent dispersion properties and dispersion stability. More specifically, the technical problem of the present invention is to provide a condensed polycyclic organic pigment in which a practically sufficient viscosity is achieved in terms of both the initial viscosity of a base ink and the viscosity over time of a base ink when used in the printing ink application. As a result of thorough studies on the surface state of organic pigment particles and interaction among components constituting a printing ink, it has been found that the technical problem can be solved by using a polyvalent metal inorganic salt in a condensed polycyclic organic pigment, thus accomplishing the present invention.
US11879062B2
A bituminous composition and a process for the preparation of bituminous mixes including at least one bitumen base, at least one compound of general formula Ar1-R1—Ar2 (I), and at least one compound of general formula R2—(NH)nCONH—X—(NHCO)p(NH)n—R′2 (II). The composition is used as road binder, notably for the preparation of bituminous mixes.
US11879049B2
A flame retardant is included in a resin phase, and the flame retardant has a maximum number frequency in a range of 1 μm or less when a particle size distribution is evaluated by dividing a particle size into 1 μm increments. The resin phase includes inorganic particles, and the inorganic particles have a maximum number frequency in a range of 0.5 μm or less when the particle size distribution is evaluated by dividing the particle size into 0.5 μm increments. The flame retardant has an average particle size larger than the average particle size of inorganic particles. The number frequency of the flame retardant and the inorganic particles, respectively, decreases with increasing the particle size.
US11879045B2
A polymer-based sensor for detecting agricultural analytes is disclosed, including stable polymer-based sensing films such as molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs) that can be incorporated in sensors for detecting herbicides and pesticides, as well as methods of making the sensing films.
US11879042B2
A first composition is disclosed that includes a fire-resistant thermoplastic resin. The fire-resistant thermoplastic resin includes 1-20 wt % of an aryl phosphate, includes 1-20 wt % of a phosphate polymer, and 60%-98% of a (meth)acrylic polymer, including units from at least one monomer, wherein the monomer is chosen from methyl methacrylate, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, acrylic acid esters, methacrylic acid esters, acrylonitrile and maleic anhydride. The first composition may further include a fabric or a composite material that is embedded with the fire-resistant thermoplastic resin. In some instances, the aryl-phosphate and the phosphonate polymer synergistically reduce an effective heat of combustion, a peak heat release, or a flame time as compared to a second composition that contains only one of the aryl phosphate or the phosphonate polymer.
US11879041B2
Provided is a film including a thermoplastic resin, in which a relative permittivity of the film at a frequency of 1 GHz is 3 or less, a dielectric loss tangent of the film at a frequency of 1 GHz is 0.005 or less, and a molecular orientation (MOR) value of the film, which is measured by a microwave orientation meter, is in a range of 1 to 1.1.
US11879038B2
The present invention relates to a polymer foam, said polymer foam comprising pores forming an open-cell polymer foam, said polymer foam comprising a supramolecular gel inside pores, and said polymer foam comprising at least one enzyme. The present invention relates to a supramolecular gel; its preparation and its applications, notably in chemical synthesis and kinetic resolution, in particular of organic compounds. The present invention also relates to flow chemistry.
US11879037B2
The present invention relates a hydroxyl-functionalized unimodal polysiloxane polyalkyleneglycol brush copolymer of the structure [A(-X—B)]s, wherein: A represents said polysiloxane backbone; B represents said polyalkyleneglycol side chain; X is a linker group characterized by including the moiety Si—C—C— of which said Si is a part of the polysiloxane backbone A; and s is an integer of from 1 to 100, wherein the polysiloxane backbone A contains less than 500 ppm mol % of SiH moiety based on the total moles of the silicon atom which constitutes the polysiloxane backbone, and said copolymer has a polydispersity index of from 1.3 to 5.0; and a method for producing said hydroxyl-functionalized unimodal polysiloxane polyalkyleneglycol brush copolymer.
US11879030B2
The present invention relates to a liquid composition comprising a monomer, a (meth)acrylic polymer and at least three initiators. In particular the present invention relates to a liquid composition comprising a monomer, a (meth)acrylic polymer and at least three initiators that have a different half life time. That liquid composition can be used as a syrup and especially as a syrup for impregnation of fibres or fibrous material. Also concerned is a thermoplastic material obtained after polymerization of the liquid composition. The invention also relates to a process for manufacturing such a liquid composition. The invention also relates to a process for impregnating a fibrous substrate of long fibres with said liquid composition. The invention also relates to a fibrous substrate impregnated with said liquid composition which is useful for manufacturing composite parts. The present invention also relates to a process for manufacturing mechanical parts or structural elements made of composite material and to mechanical parts or structural elements made of composite material obtained via a process using such a liquid composition.
US11879027B2
Disclosed is agents and methods that target metabolism malfunctions, inborne as well as acquired, as well as methods for preparation of the agents. In particular, the invention relates to methods for preparing molecular imprinted polymers with high binding capacity for phenylalanine or tyrosine, MIPs that bind phenylalanine or tyrosine, and methods for treating phenylketonuria, alkaptonuria, and hypertyrosinemia.
US11879025B2
A method for removing perfluorinated compounds from a fluoropolymer material is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing the fluoropolymer material in a chamber; (b) providing an anaerobic environment in the chamber; and (c) providing a fluorination gas in the chamber, thereby exposing the fluoropolymer material to the fluorination gas. The method results in the removal the perfluorinated compounds from the fluoropolymer material.
US11879011B2
A polypeptide having a heavy chain variable region and/or a light chain variable region that specifically binds to Ror2 protein, as well as antibodies and antibody fragments containing the heavy chain variable region and/or the light chain variable region, are provided. Pharmaceutical compositions and kits comprising the polypeptide or antibodies and antibody fragments containing the polypeptide are also provided.
US11879001B2
The present invention relates to an IL-2 protein sequence of the formula Ala-SEQ A-Cys*-SEQ B (I), wherein SEQ A has at least 94% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:1; SEQ B has at least 94% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:2; Ala is an alanine residue; and Cys* is a cysteine residue; to conjugates thereof and their uses in the treatment of cancer.
US11879000B2
A method for isolating a protein complex comprising BCL10 and at least one, preferably all, of ROS1, LSD1, BTK, KU80, KU70, CUL4A, IMP3, thioredoxin, hTID1, DAP3, CDK1/CDC2, PRL1/PTP4A1 or NM23. Methods for using this complex to diagnose or prognose diseases including diabetes, obesity, cancer, neurodegenerative disease or inflammatory diseases associated with activation of NF-κB. Methods for distinguishing lean, obese and diabetic subjects based on expression of BCL10 and its ligands are also disclosed. The invention also pertains to pharmaceutical compositions comprising ligands for BCL10 or other components of this complex or agents such as siRNA or miRNA that regulate the expression of the protein components of this complex.
US11878994B1
Disclosed herein are novel compositions and methods for the treatment of inflammation. Also described herein are methods for the identification of agents useful in the foregoing methods. The invention relates to methods for treatment and prevention of disorders associated with inflammation by administering agents that may also increase levels of NAD+, such as NAD+ precursors or agents involved in NAD+ biosynthesis.
US11878983B2
A method of producing levoglucosenone from particulate cellulosic material. The method comprises forming a premix of particulate cellulosic material, water, acid and a polar organic solvent. The solvent has a higher boiling point than levoglucosenone. The pre-mix is fed into a pyrolysis reactor, such as a fluidised bed reactor, in which the pre-mix is fluidised by a fluidising gas. The reactor is maintained at a temperature within the range 250° C. to 450° C., and gaseous products and char are withdrawn from the pyrolysis reactor. Levoglucosenone and the polar organic solvent are condensed from the gaseous products, produced by the reactor.
US11878981B2
The present disclosure provides certain substituted 1,2,4-oxadiazole derivatives of the below formula (I) that are inhibitors of transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1), and are therefore useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of TRPA1. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and processes for preparing said compounds.
US11878973B2
The present invention provides a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, of formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R26, R27, y, R, M, W, L, V, T, Y, J, K and A are as described herein, therapeutic uses of said compounds, uses of said compounds as research chemicals, a pharmaceutical composition and combinations comprising said compounds, and methods for manufacturing the compounds of the invention.
US11878972B2
The present invention is relates to a compound of formula (I), wherein X1, X2 and X3 are, independently of each other, N or CH; with the proviso that at least two of X1, X2 and X3 are N; Y is N or CH; R1 and R2 are independently of each other (iii) a morpholinyl of formula (II) wherein the arrow denotes the bond in formula (I); and wherein R3 and R4 are independently of each other H, C1-C3alkyl optionally substituted with one or two OH, C1-C2fluoroalkyl, C1-C2alkoxy, C1-C2alkoxyC1-C3alkyl, CN, or C(O)O—C1-C2alkyl; or R3 and R4 form together a bivalent residue —R5R6— selected from C1-C3alkylene optionally substituted with 1 to 4 F, —CH2—O—CH2—, —CH2—NH—CH2—, or any of the structures wherein the arrows denote the bonds in formula (II); or (iv) a saturated 6-membered heterocyclic ring Z selected from thiomorpholinyl and piperazinyl, optionally substituted by 1 to 3 R7; wherein R7 is independently at each occurrence C1-C3alkyl optionally substituted with one or two OH, C1-C2fluoroalkyl, C1-C2alkoxyC1-C3alkyl, C3-C6cycloalkyl; or two R 7 substituents form together a bivalent residue —R8R9— selected from C1-C3alkylene optionally substituted with 1 to 4 F, —CH2—O—CH2— or —O—CH2CH2—O—; with the proviso that at least one of R1 and R2 is a morpholinyl of formula II; and prodrugs, metabolites, tautomers, solvates and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, for use in the prevention or treatment of a neurological disorder in a subject.
US11878971B2
Disclosed are a novel piperlongumine-based compound, an immuno regulator containing as an active ingredient the compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, and a health functional food for immune regulation.
US11878970B2
The disclosure relates to compounds of Formula (I) as allosteric chromenone inhibitors of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) useful in the treatment of diseases or disorders associated with PI3K modulation, Formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof wherein R, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8, are as defined herein. The disclosure also relates to methods of making and using compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
US11878956B2
The present invention relates to metal salts of 2-[3-[(3R)-3-[[2-chloro-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]methyl-(2,2-diphenylethyl)amino]butoxy]phenyl]acetic acid which exhibit improved physical properties and stability. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions including an effective amount of the metal salts, as well as methods of treating cancer including administration of a pharmaceutical composition including a salt of the invention to a subject in need thereof.
US11878955B1
3,3′,3″-nitrilotris(1-(naphthalen-2-yloxy)propan-2-ol) as an eco-friendly insecticidal agent against
A compound 3,3′,3″-nitrilotris(1-(naphthalen-2-yloxy)propan-2-ol, its synthesis, and its use as an insecticidal agent.
US11878953B2
In a first stage of a methane conversion system, at least some methane (CH4) in an input gas flow stream can be converted into C2 hydrocarbons, hydrogen gas (H2), and aromatics to provide a first processed stream. The conversion can be direct non-oxidative methane conversion (DNMC). At least some of the aromatics can be removed from the first processed stream to provide a second processed stream. In a second stage of the methane conversion system, at least some of the H2 can be removed from the second processed stream to provide a recycle stream. The recycle stream can be returned to the first stage of the methane conversion system for further conversion of methane and removal of aromatics and H2 products.
US11878939B2
A hot-formed, chemically prestressable glass article having a low percentage of crystals or crystallites, in particular a plate-shaped, chemically prestressable glass article, as well as to a method and a device for its production are provided. The glass article has a composition including the components SiO2, Al2O3, and Li2O and a content of seed formers (ZrO2, SnO2, and TiO2) of at least 0.8 wt %, as well as at most ten crystals, including crystallites, per kilogram of glass, which have a maximum diameter greater than 1 μm and up to at most 5 μm.
US11878936B2
A glass-based article including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface defining a thickness (t) of about 3 millimeters or less (e.g., about 1 millimeter or less), and a stress profile, wherein all points of the stress profile between a thickness range from about 0·t up to 0.3·t and from greater than about 0.7·t to t, comprise a tangent with a slope having an absolute value greater than about 0.1 MPa/micrometer. In some embodiments, the glass-based article includes a non-zero metal oxide concentration that varies along at least a portion of the thickness (e.g., 0·t to about 0.3·t) and a maximum central tension of less than about 71.5/√(t) (MPa). In some embodiments, the concentration of metal oxide or alkali metal oxide decreases from the first surface to a point between the first surface and the second surface and increases from the point to the second surface. The concentration of the metal oxide may be about 0.05 mol % or greater or about 0.5 mol % or greater throughout the thickness. Methods for forming such glass-based articles are also disclosed.
US11878935B1
A method of coating a superstrate using a vacuum chuck containing ridges can comprise attaching the superstrate on the vacuum chuck; applying on the superstrate a liquid layer of a coating composition, the coating composition comprising a coating agent and a non-fluorinated solvent, wherein the non-fluorinated solvent has a boiling point of at least 165° C.; and solidifying the coating composition to form a solid coating layer. The material of the superstrate can have a thermal conductivity of not greater than 10 W/mK and the solid coating layer obtained after solidifying may comprise a smoothness value (SM) of not greater than 1%, the smoothness value being defined as SM=(CRD/CT)×100%, with CRD being a maximum roughness depth of the coating layer and CT an average thickness of the coating layer over a length of 10 mm of the solid coating layer.
US11878931B2
A window manufacturing system includes a first wire, a second wire spaced apart from the first wire, a controller moving the first wire up and down and the second wire up and down, and a load carrier connected to the first wire and the second wire. Window substrates are disposed on the load carrier. The controller moves the first wire and the second wire in opposite directions to each other.
US11878928B2
Methods of processing a viscous ribbon include supplying a molten material from a supply vessel. Methods include forming the molten material into the viscous ribbon. The viscous ribbon travels along a travel path. Methods include receiving thermal light energy produced from the viscous ribbon. Methods include generating an image of the viscous ribbon from the thermal light energy. Methods include detecting a defect of the viscous ribbon from the image.
US11878925B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for processing or treating wastewater. The methods of systems of the present disclosure may perform a treatment process on a wastewater stream including gray water and black water to produce a product stream. The product stream may comprise a potable water stream or a stream of treated water with a reduced concentration of one or more contaminant originally included in the wastewater stream.
US11878923B2
A system for biologically treating wastewater comprising a rotating drum disposed within a tank. Biofilm carriers are contained in the drum. One or more hollow tube aerators are secured inside the drum to a perforated wall that forms a part of the drum. As the drum is rotated within the tank, the mixing of the biofilm carriers with the wastewater therein and the action of the hollow tubes aerates the wastewater in the rotating drum.
US11878918B2
A system for water desalination and power generation. The system includes a power generation section and a desalination section. The power generation section includes a first tank, a second tank, and a first channel. The desalination section includes a third tank, a fourth tank, and a second channel. The system utilizes waste energy in power plants to desalinate water and generate power. The disclosed system is able to improve the performance of power plants, by utilizing the wasted power of the exit steam, to desalinate seawater and even generate electricity. The disclosed system alleviates requirements for cooling towers and introduces thermal exchange tanks, radiators, and sprinkles instead of cooling towers.
US11878915B2
The present invention provides a method of producing high-purity molybdenum hexafluoride in good yield and a reaction apparatus therefor. The method of producing molybdenum hexafluoride in a production apparatus for molybdenum hexafluoride, which production apparatus includes a fixed bed that is for mounting metallic molybdenum and that extends inside a reactor from an upstream side to a downstream side of the reactor, a fluorine (F2) gas inlet provided on the upstream side of the reactor, and a reaction product gas outlet provided on the downstream side of the reactor, comprises bringing metallic molybdenum into contact with fluorine (F2) gas, where the fixed bed for mounting metallic molybdenum is tilted.
US11878912B2
A method of producing boron trichloride, which includes: a metal chlorination step of bringing a gas containing chlorine gas into contact with raw boron carbide as boron carbide including, as an impurity, a metal other than boron, and allowing the metal to react with the chlorine gas in the gas containing the chlorine gas, to form a metal chloride and to obtain boron carbide containing the metal chloride; a removal step of removing the metal chloride from the boron carbide containing the metal chloride, obtained in the metal chlorination step; and a generation step of bringing a gas containing chlorine gas into contact with the boron carbide from which the metal chloride has been removed in the removal step, and allowing the boron carbide and the chlorine gas in the gas containing the chlorine gas to react with each other to generate boron trichloride.
US11878908B2
A method for enrichment of a mixture of graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) may include providing GNP into a column. The method may also include passing the GNP through an electrostatic field in a drift column to separate thinner GNP from thicker GNP to increase the content of the thinner GNP. The method may further include coupling a feeder to the drift column to accept the GNP and providing electrical charge to the GNP by the drift column with a charging module. The method may still further include generating the electrostatic field with an electrostatic field generator in the drift column to increase the content of GNP with smaller thickness.
US11878905B2
The present disclosure related to a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device and a method of forming the same. The MEMS device includes a substrate, a cavity, an interconnection structure and a proof mass. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The cavity is disposed in the substrate to extend between the first surface and the second surface. The interconnection structure is disposed on the first surface of the substrate, over the cavity. The proof mass is disposed on the interconnection structure, wherein the proof mass is partially suspended over the interconnection structure.
US11878901B2
A mounting assembly includes a beverage mounting assembly having a housing. The housing has a housing wall that surrounds a cavity. A valve body is connectable to the beverage mounting assembly. The valve body is connectable to the beverage mounting assembly via a clip. The clip is insertable into both the housing and the valve body to connect the valve body to the beverage mounting assembly. At least one actuator is disposed in the cavity of the housing. The actuator rotates from a closed position to an open position that actuates pressure to the valve body from a liquid source. The actuator is separate from the clip that connects the housing to the valve body.
US11878895B2
A cable coiling system for coiling a cable into a cable coil includes a reel rotatable around a central axis of the reel, a gripper configured to grip a starting end of the cable, and a slide rail extending in a direction perpendicular to the central axis of the reel. The cable is coilable around the reel to form the cable coil by rotating the reel in a state in which the gripper is coupled onto the reel and grips the starting end of the cable. The reel is slidably mounted on the slide rail. A length of the starting end of the cable coiled around the reel is adjustable by moving the reel along the slide rail and rotating the reel around the central axis in a state in which the gripper is separated from the reel and fixed at a predetermined position.
US11878892B2
An improved system for handling delicate linear media and in particular to a method and apparatus for winding delicate linear media such as superconducting wire or tape or optical fibers onto a spool or former. A combination of direct closed loop control and media routing design facilitates the handling of the delicate media without causing damage. The axial tension in the linear media may be closely controlled during winding by means of feedback control loop using tension measurements to control the rotation speeds of the wind-from and wind-to spools. Further, during winding, the delicate linear media is only exposed to large radius bends with no reverse bending. Finally, output devices and features, commercial or otherwise, made possible by delicate linear media handling are revealed. This includes advanced SC devices and features.
US11878880B2
A grain bin has a top opening with a hopper for receiving grain that is directed downwardly to a spreader supported for rotation by a vertical tubular center shaft. The spreader has an elongated inclined chute having a V-shape cross-section. The chute has a center portion having an opening with a trap door pivoted or controlled from a mechanism operable from the top opening of the bin. A deflector is positioned under the trap door opening and rotates the chute in response to the flow of grain through the opening. The tubular center shaft encloses an electrical cable that supports a temperature sensing element within the grain in the bin, and a temperature monitoring device is connected to the cable outside the grain bin.
US11878879B1
A dry granular material transfer system and method for transfer of granular material such as sand in a dry state through a hose using pressurized air. On a base platform, a conveyor subsystem moves granular material placed on a lower portion to a higher portion while separating clumped material and allowing rocks and debris to fall away, spreading the granular material in a thin layer for ejection at the highest level. A containment subsystem receives granular material and contains the downward fall of material. A portioning subsystem has a turntable with blow-through chambers which receive granular material and move into line with an air inflow tube and air-material outflow tube, and the air-material mixture is blown through the air-material outflow tube and through a transfer hose.
US11878874B2
A belt cleaner assembly is provided for cleaning a conveyor belt. The belt cleaner assembly includes an elongate support member for extending longitudinally across a conveyor belt. The belt cleaner assembly further includes a cartridge for supporting at least one scraper blade thereon. The cartridge is slidable over the support member. The belt cleaner assembly further includes slide blocks between the support member and the cartridge to space facing surfaces of the cartridge and the support member from each other.
US11878871B2
A conveyor system includes a rail having one or more channels therein and one or more sleds operatively associated with the rail. A sled can include a body and one or more wheels mounted on the body and configured to move through the one or more channels in the rail. A sled can also include a holding device connected to the body. The holding device can be configured to engage a packaging container to move the packaging container along the rail. Multiple sleds can be used to secure a packaging container therebetween and move the packaging container along the rail. The conveyor system may also include a queue system that dynamically moves packaging containers to packaging stations.
US11878870B2
A conveying unit of a textile machine has an endless circulating and drivable conveying element, the conveying element having a conveying area on an outer side thereof to receive and convey textile material. Opposite side walls are disposed to hold the textile material in the conveying area in a transverse direction of the conveying element. A sealing device is arranged between each of the side walls and the conveying element such that an interior space enclosed by the conveying element is at least partially sealed with respect to the textile material. The sealing device includes a sealing element connected to the conveying element so as to extend transversely away from and above the outer side of the conveying element.
US11878866B2
The tray body comprises a support surface and a spring for spring biasing the tray door relative to the tray body to urge the tray door to open. When the tray door is fully opened, it rests against the support surface under the influence of a spring biasing force, provided by the spring, that exceeds a first non-zero threshold. The tray body comprises a tray frame and a door shaft that defines an axis of rotation of the tray door and the spring comprises a torsion spring arranged around the door shaft. The tray door comprises a shaft channel in which the door shaft is rotatably accommodated. The torsion spring has one end fixed coupled to the door shaft and another end to an inside wall of the shaft channel and/or the damper is arranged in the shaft channel and fixed in position relative to the door shaft.
US11878860B2
The thermal liner relates to the field of thermal insulation for transporting goods and contains a thermal insulating material, and its components are hermetically connected. At that, the liner repeats the inner shapes of the container; it has a front wall that opens, and its fastening elements are made along the upper perimeter with the possibility of fixing the liner in the container using a mounting cord and the inner lugs of the metal container. The thermal liner is made of a set of materials, and laminated metallized polyethylene foam (PE foam) as the thermal insulating material and a black polyethylene film, which provides the desired temperature difference between the external and internal temperatures and reduces the thermal conductivity of the product.
US11878849B2
A biodegradable container including a unitary polymeric body element having a top portion and a cylindrical body portion. The top portion has a cylindrical neck wherein the cylindrical neck defines an inner surface and an outer surface. The container further includes a polymeric bottom element welded to the cylindrical body portion of the unitary polymeric body element. A polymeric cap defines an internal rim configured to be received by the inner surface of the cylindrical neck. The polymeric cap includes an external cover having an interior surface which may be tapered so that the outer surface of the cylindrical neck and the interior surface of the external cover form an inner seal. The interior surface of the external cover may also form an outer seal with the outer surface of the cylindrical neck when the polymeric cap is in a closed position.
US11878844B1
A lid that is designed to cover the lip of a disposable coffee cup. The lid defines a circular central wall on its top side that is designed to receive a lip of a disposable miniature coffee cup. The lid defines a perforated spout on its top side that opens outward toward the circumference of the lid. The lid is designed to serve as mount, after a first miniature coffee cup is inserted into the circular central wall, that will securely hold a stack of miniature coffee cups.
US11878843B2
A cup with a cup lid and a detachable and washable cup lid are provided. The detachable and washable cup lid includes an outer cover adapted to a cup body. A top inner wall of the outer cover protrudes downwards to form a clamping frame, a clamping groove is formed in an inner wall of the clamping frame, and a notch communicating with the clamping groove is formed in a bottom end of the clamping frame. An inner bolt vertically arranged in the outer cover. The top of the inner bolt is inserted in the clamping frame, a clamping block is formed at the top end of an outer wall of the inner bolt, and the clamping block is inserted into the clamping groove to limit and connect the inner bolt and the outer cover.
US11878834B2
A container made of an elastomer such as silicone with a leak resistant seal and pressure shield. The seal incorporates press-fit elements sufficient to provide a strong seal that resists leakage of liquids from inside the container. The pressure shield increases leak resistance, is formed by material disposed on an inside of the container, and works by deflecting pressure away from the two leak resistant seal portions. The pressure shield includes a bottom pressure shield having an average thickness of at least 0.15 cm, and a top pressure shield having an average thickness of at least 0.15 cm.
US11878832B2
A bottle-shaped can includes a cap having an excellent sealing ability but easy to be opened. A top section includes a leading end section as an upper end of a neck portion, a diametrically-largest section formed beneath the leading end section, a diametrically-shrunk section extending downwardly from the diametrically-largest section, and an outer circumferential wall section extending downwardly from the diametrically-shrunk section. The leading end section, the diametrically-largest section, and diametrically-shrunk section form a smooth curved surface. A curvature of the diametrically-largest section in a cross-section is zero or negative value, given that a curvature of the diametrically-shrunk section is positive value. A flexion section is formed between the diametrically-shrunk section and the outer circumferential wall section. The outer diameter of the outer circumferential wall section in which the curvature is zero or negative value is larger than an outer diameter of the flexion section.
US11878816B2
A reusable modular spacecraft has a spacecraft bus structure configured to support spacecraft subsystems, at least one interchangeable housing component configured to be interchangeably received and supported by the bus structure, and a wireless system configured to permit wireless communication between the at least one interchangeable housing component and spacecraft subsystems supported by the bus structure. In embodiments of the spacecraft, the wireless system includes a wireless hub and a wireless coordinator for wireless transmission of data between the at least one interchangeable housing component and the spacecraft subsystems. An electrical/power transfer interface unit is provided to the at least one interchangeable housing component for transferring electricity, power, data and/or providing thermal management and control.
US11878805B2
An aircraft propulsion system comprising a reciprocating liquid cooled engine housed within the fuselage driving twin fuselage mounted ducted-fans is disclosed. The propulsion system may be liquid cooled with a liquid cooled exhaust and at least one turbocharger. The ducted-fans may run fan blade tip speeds of up to 97% Mach driven by a near constant RPM engine through a continuously variable transmission. The propulsion system may be low noise and may meet environmental standards typical in the automotive industry.
US11878801B2
An aft pivot assembly includes a height adjustment mechanism integrated into a device for mounting a payload, to enable release of the payload. The aft pivot assembly releasably secures an aft portion of the payload, such a pod, store, ordinance, or fuel tank. The aft pivot assembly includes a shaft operable with the mount device and a release component, the shaft being rotatable about multiple shaft axes relative to the mount device so as to either minimize or eliminate carriage loads about the aft portion, while reacting jettison loads during a jettison event or phase. The rotation of the shaft about its shaft axes can further be limited via a limit device. As the payload transitions from a carriage phase to a jettison phase, the shaft moves in multiple degrees of freedom and in multiple axes relative to the mount device.
US11878800B2
An environmental control system of an aircraft includes a plurality of inlets for receiving a plurality of mediums including a first medium, a second medium, and a third medium and an outlet for delivering a conditioned flow of the second medium to one or more loads of the aircraft. A ram air circuit includes a ram air shell having at least one heat exchanger positioned therein. At least one compressing device is arranged in fluid communication with the ram air circuit and the outlet. The at least one compressing device includes at least one compressor and at least one turbine operably coupled via a shaft. A heat exchanger is arranged in fluid communication with the at least one compressing device. The second medium output from the at least one compressing device is cooled by the third medium. The second medium is fresh air.
US11878799B2
A method for configuring an interior of a reconfigurable vehicle using one or more cabin modules. The method comprises providing, by a user interface system, a plurality of possible cabin configuration options to a plurality of users for selection by the plurality of users so as to generate selection data indicative of cabin configuration options selected by the users. The cabin configuration options relate to types of configuration of the one or more cabin modules. The method comprises determining an availability of cabin configuration options based on inventory data which relates to types of configuration of cabin modules that are currently available for use so as to generate availability data, and generating a forecast of cabin modules predicted to be loaded on the reconfigurable vehicle based on the selection data and the availability data. The method further comprises updating the availability data and the selection data substantially in real time based on the inventory data and user input to the user interface system so as to generate updated availability data and updated selection data, and modifying the forecast based on the updated availability data and the updated selection data. The method comprises finalizing the forecast so as to generate commissioning data indicative of cabin modules to be loaded on the reconfigurable vehicle, loading the reconfigurable vehicle with one or more cabin modules based on the commissioning data, and updating the inventory data based on the cabin modules that are loaded on the reconfigurable vehicle.
US11878797B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) solar irradiation assessment system may automate several design parameters of solar panel design, cost and payoff estimations, and installation. The system determines the irradiance at various locations on a roof during various time periods. The system accounts for the effects of various existing, potential, or future obstacles proximate the structure. In some embodiments, a visual model of the roof may be shown with a heatmap of irradiance values and/or graphical placement of solar panels. In other embodiments, the data may be analyzed and reported without visual presentation.
US11878791B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of air vehicles, and in particular, an air vehicle with a double-layer rotor wing structure, including a cabin in which a power device is arranged, the power device includes a drive assembly, a crankwheel, and a connecting link; the connecting link is fixed on the crankwheel; the drive assembly drives the crankwheel to rotate; the top of the cabin is provided with a flying device that includes a first flying unit and a second flying unit; the first flying unit includes a sleeve, a rotating bearing II, and lower-layer rotor wings symmetrically fixed on two sides of the rotating bearing II; the rotating bearing II is fixed to the sleeve which is fixed to the cabin; the second flying unit includes a transmission rod, a rotating bearing I, and upper-layer rotor wings symmetrically fixed on two sides of the rotating bearing I.
US11878789B2
An aircraft brake control system for controlling antiskid braking of an aircraft wheel is disclosed including a control assembly having a mode controller which sets the mode of operation of an antiskid brake calculator, configured to set a first mode, when an input of the indication of a brake energy supply configuration indicates a first brake energy supply being used, in which the antiskid brake calculator applies a first restriction level on a rise rate of the antiskid brake command, and a second mode, when the input 305 indicates a second brake energy supply being used, in which the antiskid brake calculator applies a second, lower, restriction level on a rise rate of the antiskid brake command.
US11878787B1
The present invention relates to a propeller control mechanism comprising a center, a first group, and a second group. This mechanism is capable of controlling the angle of attack of the propeller blades without auxiliary actuators or external linkages and minimizing the propeller blades' motion range. Furthermore, this mechanism is applicable not only to aerial vehicles but also to vehicles on the surface of water or underwater.
US11878786B2
A propulsion system for an aircraft, including at least one rotor and a nacelle cowling extending around the at least one rotor, said nacelle cowling being sectored and including at least one sector, which is fixed and sectors which are retractable in the peripheral direction relative to an axis of rotation of the rotor. The retractable sectors include at least a first series of sectors which are telescopically retractable in or on at least one fixed sector and at least a second series of sectors which are telescopically retractable in or on at least one fixed sector, the at least one fixed sector having an angular extent around the axis which is less than or equal to 90°.
US11878783B2
A marine device assembly, such including a trolling motor and/or at least one sonar transducer, is provided for attachment to a watercraft. The trolling motor and/or sonar transducer is attached at an end of a shaft. The marine device assembly includes a position adjustment assembly comprising a plurality of rotatable drums surrounding the shaft that are configured to adjust the rotational and/or vertical position of the trolling motor and/or sonar transducer(s) in accordance with a position adjustment command. In various aspects, the drums are configured to independently rotate about the shaft in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction so as to cause the trolling motor and/or sonar transducer(s) to rotate about the central axis of the shaft and/or translate along the central axis of the shaft.
US11878777B2
A system is demonstrated for heave neutralisation of semisubmersible platforms that can be built into any conceivable configuration of such platforms. That the system is also conceivably active and predicatively can be controlled can be concluded by analysing the appended calculation models. As an example FIG. 18, column E, is mentioned, wherein the water volume increments in the rise canister are 37 cubic metres for each half metre of wave height, so that, with reference to column A, from H=10.5 m to H=12 m is 4×37 148 cubic metres more than 150 tonnes—simultaneously with the air pressure, shown in column K, increasing from 123.86 to 131.05 kPa, a difference of just 6.19 kPa (0.0619 bar or 61.9 millibars). Large ballast volumes can be moved out and in of the system at small pressure changes and short response time.
US11878773B1
A deployable platform is disposed at a side of the hull of a marine vessel and is movable between a raised position in which the platform is substantially vertically oriented, and a first lowered position in which the platform is in a horizontal orientation. Further, at least a portion of the platform can be lowered to a second lower position that is below the first lowered position. In the second lowered position the platform will normally be submerged when the vessel is afloat in water. In the raised position the platform forms a portion of the side of the hull and acts to exclude water from entering the vessel.
US11878771B2
A foil system is used with a towed marine cable array to provide downward, upward or lateral lift to the array. The foil system can be coupled with the cable and configured to bias the submerged payload toward a target position. The foil system can include a group of foil sections each having a leading edge collectively defining an angle of attack, and a group of through-cables supporting the group of foil sections within the foil system. A subset of through-cables of the group of through-cables are arranged through front halves of the group of foil sections. This subset of through-cables can be selectively tensionable, and manipulatable to define a tensioned one of the subset of through-cables as being offset from a chord that is defined between the leading edge and a trailing edge of any of the foil sections. The foil system can thus induce one or more angles of attack for the group of foil sections, based on a rotational constraint defined by the tensioned one of the through-cables.
US11878768B2
A saddled vehicle includes an air cleaner and a vehicle body movement sensor. The air cleaner takes travel wind in an air cleaner box to purify air of the travel wind and supplies the purified air to an internal combustion engine. The vehicle body movement sensor is received in a recess and measures movement of a vehicle body. The recess is defined by a flat surface that crosses a rear wall of the air cleaner box. This provides a saddled vehicle including a vehicle body movement sensor that is disposed without reducing the volume of an air cleaner box.
US11878765B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a snowmobile including an engine mounted on the chassis, a drive track in contact with the chassis, and a drive train, operatively interconnecting the engine with the drive track for delivering propulsive power to the drive track. The drive train includes a driveshaft, comprising a tubular driveshaft including two or more interior channels, the channels positioned in a substantially longitudinal orientation, two or more sprocket driving features on an exterior surface of the tubular driveshaft, and one or more fitting components, positioned at one or more distal ends of the driveshaft.
US11878764B2
A control device is provided for controlling a human-powered vehicle. The control device includes an electronic controller. The human-powered vehicle includes a drive unit, a brake device, and a brake control device. The drive unit is provided with an electric motor that assists in propulsion of the human-powered vehicle. The brake device generates brake force. The brake control device controls the brake force with an electric actuator differing from the electric motor. The electronic controller is configured to control the electric motor in accordance with an actuation state of the brake control device.
US11878758B2
A bottle holder is provided, including: a base, including a first restriction portion; a rack, configured for mounting of a bottle, including a connection portion, the connection portion including a second restriction portion, the connection portion being rotatable about an axial portion between an initial position and a first operation position relative to the base, defining a first rotation direction from the initial position to the first operation position; and a restoring member, connected between the base and the connection portion; wherein when the connection portion is in the initial position, the first restriction portion is blocked by the second restriction portion in a direction opposite to the first rotation direction.
US11878747B2
A speed reducer includes an input rotating body, a base block, a speed reducing mechanism unit and a tubular case. The input rotating body is rotatable when acted upon by power from a drive device. The base block supports the input rotating body rotatably. The speed reducing mechanism unit reduces a speed of rotation of the input rotating body. The tubular case externally covers the speed reducing mechanism unit and the base block. The tubular case is assembled onto the base block such that they are rotatable relative to each other. The speed-reduced rotation from the speed reducing mechanism unit is output from one of the tubular case and the base block. The base block has a fixture flange integrally formed therewith. The flange extends from a radially inner region within the tubular case radially outward beyond an outer peripheral surface of the tubular case.
US11878742B2
A utility vehicle includes a vehicle body frame and a cargo bed supported by the vehicle body frame, the cargo bed including a side wall unit. The side wall unit includes a side wall, a tail lamp mounted on a rear end portion of the side wall, and a bolt including a shaft portion and a head portion. The tail lamp is secured to the side wall by the bolt oriented in a vehicle width direction. The head portion of the bolt is hidden by a part of the side wall unit when viewed from behind.
US11878735B2
A fender for a lawn mower having tire and wheel assemblies that are mounted to a yoke of a swivel caster assembly, whereby the yoke pivots through 360 degrees of rotation, includes an arcuate fender body. The fender body is attached to the yoke by a bracket so that it is rotatably carried by the rotating yoke. As such, the fender body is maintained at an optimal position relative to the mower tire and thereby provides desirable deflection of lawn clippings and other debris from the various operational components provided upon the mower deck. This prevents the premature wear of such operational components, thereby decreasing down time and reducing maintenance costs of the mower.
US11878733B2
A steering control device according to the present invention is configured to obtain information on a parking position of a vehicle obtained by an external world recognition unit, and to output, based on the obtained information on the parking position, an instruction for moving a rear portion of the vehicle to a set position in a parking width direction to a rear-wheel steering device configured to control a steered angle of rear wheels of the vehicle. With this configuration, even when a timing or an angle for operating a steering wheel by a driver is not appropriate, or even when a steered angle of front wheels is limited, parking of the vehicle at the predetermined position in the parking width direction is facilitated.
US11878730B1
An attachable handle for a stroller comprises a tubular cross-bar removably securable across the span of a stroller rear handlebar. A pair of tubular handles having a limited range of independent forward and backward resilient motion each are movably secured to the tubular cross-bar. The device is capable of folding down when not in use.
US11878724B2
Autorack cars, may include a car body and a pair of wheeled trucks supporting the car body. The autorack cars may additionally include a stationary deck segment fixedly attached to the car body and at least one pivoting deck segment that is adjacent to the stationary deck segment and that is pivotably connected to the stationary deck segment such that the at least one pivoting deck segment is pivotable between a lowered position and a raised position relative to the stationary deck segment. The at least one pivoting deck segment may be adapted to support at least one vehicle in the lowered and raised positions. The autorack cars may further include at least one pivot assembly for moving the at least one pivoting deck segment between the lowered and raised positions.
US11878716B2
The present application provides a method and apparatus for planning an autonomous vehicle, an electronic device and a storage medium, which relates to the field of autonomous driving. According to the technical solutions of the present application, time points of entering a vehicle-converging area can be accurately predicted according to traveling conditions of two parties, so that a driving behavior of the autonomous vehicle is controlled more accurately. The specific implementation is as follows: acquiring first traveling information of an autonomous vehicle; acquiring second traveling information of at least one obstacle vehicle; predicting a driving intention of the obstacle vehicle according to the acquired second traveling information of the obstacle vehicle; planning a vehicle-converging strategy for the autonomous vehicle according to the first traveling information and the driving intention of the obstacle vehicle; and controlling the autonomous vehicle to travel according to the vehicle-converging strategy.
US11878710B2
The disclosure relates to a method for performing a correction of a direction of travel by a driver assistance system in a motor vehicle. The disclosure provides that a need for correcting a direction of travel is recognized by a control device of the driver assistance system in order to continue operating the motor vehicle within a currently traveled lane, at least one display symbol is output by an output apparatus to display the correction of the direction of travel to be performed and being performed, and the correction of the direction of travel is performed by controlling steering of the motor vehicle.
US11878707B2
A computer-implemented method displays a media file below a distraction threshold. The method includes identifying a driver of a vehicle, where the vehicle includes an augmented reality system, and the vehicle is at least partially automated. The method also includes determining, a driving mode for the vehicle and calculating a focus score. The method includes requesting, from a media repository, a media file, where the media repository contains a plurality of media files, and each media file has an associated distractions score. The method includes receiving from the media repository, a first media file to display, where a first distraction score of the first media file combined with the focus score is below a safety threshold. The method also includes displaying the first media file by the AR system. Further aspects of the present disclosure are directed to computer program products containing functionality consistent with the method described above.
US11878706B2
A driver command predictor includes a controller, multiple sensors, and a command prediction unit. The controller is configured to command an adjustment of multiple motion vectors of a vehicle relative to a roadway in response to multiple actual driver commands and multiple future driver commands. The actual driver commands are received at a current time. The future driver commands are received at multiple update times. The update times range from the current time to a future time. The sensors are configured to generate sensor data that determines multiple actual states of the vehicle in response to the motion vectors as commanded. The command prediction unit is configured to generate the future driver commands at the update times in response to a driver model. The driver model operates on the actual driver commands and the actual states to predict the future driver commands at the update times.
US11878701B2
A method and device for controlling an autonomous driving vehicle, and an autonomous driving vehicle. Wherein the method comprises: detecting error information of different components in a vehicle, wherein the different components comprise at least one of the following: a power supply, a sensor, a navigation device, a log memory and a processing device; if the error information of any component is detected, feeding back the detected error information to a processor; restarting the vehicle’ automatic driving function based on a feedback result, wherein the feedback result is feedback by the processor according the detected error information. The present invention solves the technical problem that the autonomous driving vehicle in the related art cannot perform error information detection on the components in the vehicle which leads to the low reliability of the autonomous driving vehicle.
US11878697B2
A vehicle control device includes: a distance-acquisition section acquiring a path end distance between a vehicle and an end of a turn-travel path, on which the vehicle travels with turning; a path-width-acquisition section acquiring a path width of the turn-travel path; a velocity-acquisition section acquiring a velocity of the vehicle; an anticipated-curvature-radius-acquisition section acquiring a curvature radius of an anticipated turn-travel path obtained by assuming that the turn-travel path starts from a pre-turn position, based on the path width and the path end distance obtained at the pre-turn position; a target-velocity-setting section setting a target velocity at which the vehicle should travel on the turn-travel path, based on the anticipated curvature radius; a target-acceleration/deceleration-calculation section calculating a target acceleration/deceleration for accelerating/decelerating the vehicle to the target velocity, based on the velocity of the vehicle and the target velocity, and a vehicle-control section performing acceleration/deceleration control based on the target acceleration/deceleration.
US11878694B2
A 360 safety system for automated verification of a 360 walk-around prior to vehicle engagement is described. The 360 safety system includes at least three sensors that receive a signal from a transmission fob, where one signal may be received by one of the at least three sensors at a time. The signals received by the at least three sensors are configured to be signal inputs to an operating system, where the operating system is in electrical communication with the at least three sensors. Each signal input received by one of the at least three sensors is processed by the operating system to generate a verification output displayed on a HMI of the operating system. When the CPU determines a valid signal input of each of the at least three sensors has been stored, the operating system processes the signal inputs and generates outputs that permit engagement of the vehicle.
US11878683B1
A method and apparatus are provided for determining one or more behavior models used by an autonomous vehicle to predict the behavior of detected objects. The autonomous vehicle may collect and record object behavior using one or more sensors. The autonomous vehicle may then communicate the recorded object behavior to a server operative to determine the behavior models. The server may determine the behavior models according to a given object classification, actions of interest performed by the object, and the object's perceived surroundings.
US11878681B2
A method for operating a first vehicle (100) with a parking assistance system (110) is proposed, comprising: a) sensing an obstructing parked position (BP) of the first vehicle (100) by means of the parking assistance system (110), wherein the obstructing parked position (BP) is a parked position which adjoins a parking space (PP) occupied by a parked second vehicle (150), b) reception of a sensor signal, acquired by a sensor apparatus (120, 130) of the vehicle (100), by means of the parking assistance system (110), c) detecting a request to exit a parking space of the parked second vehicle (150) in accordance with the received sensor signal by means of the parking assistance system (110), and d) autonomously driving the first vehicle (100) from the obstructing parked position (BP) into a position which is different from the obstructing parked position (BP) in accordance with the detected request to exit a parking space by means of the parking assistance system (110).
US11878651B2
Variable behaviour control mechanism with a variety of motion characteristics, the mechanism comprising means to measure a plurality of motion characteristics and to activate systems when a threshold of the motion characteristics is reached. The mechanism described is, for example, a vehicle seat belt and the mechanism minimises or prevents unwanted activation of line extension or retraction of the seat belt. A first mechanism is described where activation occurs between at least one primary system and at least one secondary system when a combination of the sensed motion characteristics achieves a threshold. A second mechanism is described where activation occurs between at least one primary system and at least one secondary system when at least one sensed motion characteristic achieves a threshold, the threshold being modified based on at least one further motion characteristic. A method of use of the above mechanisms is also described.
US11878649B2
An improved modularization of an airbag cushion covered with a cover member and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. A first press is performed on the first portion of the cover member in a state where the folded airbag cushion 30 is not covered with the cover member. The first portion has at least a portion that includes a position corresponding to an inflator within the folded airbag cushion. Next, the folded airbag cushion is covered with the cover member, and in the covered state, a second press is applied to at least a part of the second portion of the cover member excluding the first portion.
US11878643B2
Event-based connected vehicle control and response systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed. An example method comprises identifying the occurrence of an event, storing first data corresponding to apparatus operation for a first threshold amount of time prior to the event, during the occurrence of the event, and for a second threshold amount of time after the event, determining whether a responsive object is involved in or near the event, in response to determining that the responsive object is involved in or near the event, transmitting the first data to the responsive object, and receiving, from the responsive object, second data, analyzing the first data and the second data to determine a party at-fault for the event, aggregating the first data and second data into an event report, and causing, automatically, a response to be initiated through an entity associated with the party at-fault.
US11878639B2
A vehicle audio video navigation (AVN) system may be provided that includes: a plurality of source providers which receives a sound source; a user operation unit which selects at least one of a plurality of the sound sources input from the plurality of the source providers and selects a focusing zone of the sound source; a processor which generates a sound source signal for focusing an output of the selected sound source on the focusing zone; and a multi-channel amplifier which outputs the sound source signal. As a result, the focusing zone of each sound output within a vehicle can be individually controlled. Particularly, the focusing zone of each sound can be easily selected and controlled without changing the location of the speaker within the vehicle. Also, the sound source and the focusing zone within the vehicle can be selected and controlled only by adding an external processor without replacing the AVN device provided in the vehicle.
US11878631B2
Disclosed is an infotainment device. The infotainment device comprises: a connector detachably attached to a slot disposed in a vehicle; at least one auxiliary antenna electrically connected to a main antenna arranged on the outside of the vehicle; a first communication circuit capable of performing communication for an infotainment service by using the main antenna and the at least one auxiliary antenna; a second communication circuit capable of performing communication with a head unit device installed in the vehicle; and a processor functionally connected to the connector, the at least one auxiliary antenna, the first communication circuitry, and the second communication circuitry, wherein the processor may be configured to: acquire a signal for the infotainment service by using the first communication circuit; and output the acquired signal using a speaker or a display which is functionally connected to the head unit device, through the second communication circuit; In addition, various embodiments recognized through the specification are possible.
US11878622B2
A left vehicle lamp includes a lamp housing, a lamp cover that covers an opening of the lamp housing, an illumination unit that is disposed inside a lamp chamber formed by the lamp housing and the lamp power bar, a radar) configured to acquire a radar data indicating a surrounding environment of a vehicle by emitting radio waves toward the outside of the vehicle, and a light guide member that is disposed in a manner of facing the radar so as to hide at least a part of the radar from the outside of the vehicle and is configured to transmit radio waves emitted from the radar. The radar is disposed outside the housing. The light guide member is configured to emit light toward the outside of the vehicle.
US11878620B2
A boom hose apparatus for a material collection vehicle includes a telescoping boom assembly and a hose assembly supported by the boom assembly. The boom assembly includes a plurality of telescoping conduits. A flexible hose is received through the telescoping conduits and can slidably extend from, or retract into, the conduits independently from the telescoping of the conduits.
US11878600B2
An on-board charger is provided with a first stage for converting an alternating current (AC) voltage from an external power supply to a direct current (DC) voltage. A capacitor is coupled to the first stage to receive the DC voltage and to provide a DC-Link voltage. A second stage is coupled to the capacitor to boost the DC-Link voltage and to supply the boosted DC-Link voltage to charge a battery. A processor is programmed to adjust the DC-Link voltage between a first setpoint and a second setpoint based on a battery voltage value.
US11878598B2
A method and apparatus for parking lot metering. The present invention allows multi-space meters to separately manage and control premium parking spaces, such as those for charging electric vehicles or those which supply electric power for engine block heaters in both pay-by-space and pay-an-display systems. Such premium spaces can be managed together over large areas (e.g., a city or region), or may be managed over smaller areas (e.g., the domain of an individual kiosk), or individually per parking space. Management includes pricing, time limits, hours, seasons of operation, and restrictions by vehicle type, and alternative pricing and restrictions for non-premium hours.
US11878596B2
A power-transmitting unit starts transmitting power to a power-receiving unit in a vehicle if (1-1) operation information represents a parking operation of the vehicle and/or (2-1) intention information represents that a user of the vehicle intends to get off the vehicle, and (3) authentication information represents that the user of the vehicle is a registered user. The power-transmitting unit stops transmitting the power to the power-receiving unit if (1-2) the operation information represents a start operation of running of the vehicle and/or (2-2) the intention information represents that the user of the vehicle intends to get in the vehicle, and (3) the authentication information represents that the user of the vehicle is the registered user.
US11878594B2
Methods and apparatus for detecting and characterizing arc faults in an aerospace electric propulsion system and then coordinating the operation of various elements of the protection system to execute a fault-clearing sequence. In a current-based method, the arc is detected and characterized based on differential readouts from current sensors. The difference between currents measured at two ends of a protection zone are compared to a difference threshold. In a power-based method, the arc is detected and characterized based on differential readouts from voltage and current sensors. The differential voltage and current readouts are used to compute the respective powers at two ends of a protection zone. The difference between the respective powers is integrated over a period of time and then the integrated difference is compared to a difference threshold. A differential protection trip mode is invoked when the difference threshold is exceeded.
US11878593B2
There is provided a method of operating an electric device. The method includes receiving one or more operating power levels being used by one or more loads on a given circuit of the electric device, and setting a power threshold based on the one or more operating power levels. The method also includes receiving an output power level being delivered to the given circuit by a power source connected to the given circuit, and comparing the output power level with the power threshold. Furthermore, the method includes, if the output power level exceeds the power threshold, reducing the output power level to less than or equal to the power threshold. A related power regulator is also provided.
US11878590B2
A transmission arrangement for a vehicle includes an input gearbox including a first input shaft, a base gearbox connected to an output side of the input gearbox in a direction of a power flow, and a drive unit for rotatably driving a drive shaft at a rotational speed. The drive shaft is drive-connected to a second input shaft of the input gearbox. The transmission arrangement also includes a locking device being transferable into a locking position for arresting a rotation of the second input shaft.
US11878584B2
A driving joystick arrangement for a construction machine comprises an operating lever and a basic housing, wherein the operating lever is pivoted in the basic housing, and the basic housing comprises a shift gate through which the operating lever extends. The operating lever comprises, at least in sections, a material which is suited and arranged in the operating lever such that a position of the operating lever relative to the basic housing can be detected by means of the Hall sensor.
US11878583B2
An axle system (150) for a vehicle comprises: —a differential unit (10) including a first housing (24) and a second housing (20) which rotationally receives at least part of said first housing; —at least one drive shaft (11) having one end configured to be connected to a wheel of the vehicle and one end connected to the differential unit (10) and rotationally received in the first housing (24), the drive shaft (11) including at least one joint (110) connecting two portions (114a, 114d) of the drive shaft (11) to transmit rotary motion between said portions; —a first bearing (30) secured around the drive shaft (11), placed between the drive shaft and the first housing (24), having an outer diameter (D30) smaller than the radial dimension (D) of the joint (110); —a second bearing (40) placed between the first housing (24) and the second housing (20); —at least one tightening member (50) to axially lock the first bearing outer ring (32) relative to the first housing (24). The tightening member comprises at least one manoeuvring portion (51) which is arranged in an offset relation relative to the joint (110), when looking axially towards the differential unit (10), so that the tightening member manoeuvring portion (51) is visible and accessible, at least during a tightening phase of an axle system mounting process.
US11878580B2
The present disclosure relates to an active air flap apparatus, and the active air flap apparatus includes a frame coupled to a rear surface of a grill in which an air inlet is formed, a flap portion slidably coupled to an inside of the frame to open or close the air inlet formed in the grill, an actuator coupled to an outside of the frame to transmit power to the flap portion to open or close the air inlet, and a gear unit configured to transmit the power generated from the actuator to the flap portion, in which the flap portion is provided as a pair of flap portions, and when the air inlet is closed, the pair of flap portions close an upper region and a lower region of the air inlet while a distance between end portions in a direction toward the air inlet increases.
US11878575B2
A computing device in a vehicle can determine an occupant type, location and orientation and determine intensity and direction of sunlight. The computing device can tint one or more portions of vehicle windows based on the occupant type, location and orientation and the strength and direction of sunlight.
US11878571B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a climate-control system (12) for a vehicle (10). According to the invention, total energy efficiencies are determined for a group of operating strategies for the air-conditioning system (12) and an operating strategy with the greatest total efficiency that fulfills the heating output requirement (44) that has been determined, is selected.
US11878570B2
A vented roof panel is provided for an overhead portion of a roll-over protection system of an off-road vehicle. The vented roof panel comprises a planar member that includes a shape and a curvature that match the overhead portion to enable closely attaching the vented roof panel to the roll-over protection system. The planar member is formed of any of various plastics, such as injection molded plastic, or other similar materials. An air scoop including an air inlet port is centrally disposed in the planar member. The air inlet port is disposed in a forward-facing portion of the air scoop and configured to direct an airstream from outside to underneath the vented roof panel. The vented roof panel may be attached to tubular frame members comprising the roll-over protection system by way of one or more suitable fasteners.
US11878558B2
A weight distribution hitch system comprising a vehicle attachment member comprising a forward end configured to rigidly attach to a vehicle, and a rearward end extending rearwardly toward a trailer, the rearward end comprising an upper portion comprising a trailer attachment member configured to pivotally attach to a coupler of the trailer, and a lower portion configured to receive a moment bar; a moment bar having a modulus of elasticity, the moment bar comprising a moment bar forward end attached to the lower portion of the rearward end of the vehicle attachment member so as to prevent rotation about a horizontal axis, and a moment bar rearward end; a tension member comprising a top end configured to be supported by a frame member of the trailer, and a bottom end configured to support the rearward end of the moment bar; wherein, when the tension member is in tension, it imposes an upward force on the moment bar rearward end, which, in turn, imposes a forward moment on the vehicle; and wherein the modulus of elasticity is low enough that an adjustment range for the moment bar is greater than 0.5 inches is disclosed.
US11878540B2
A finished flexo plate with printing dots and non-printing indicia. The printing dots have an elevation above the plate floor sufficient to transfer ink to a substrate in a printing step, whereas the non-printing indicia are configured for persistent readability relative to the plate floor but have a height relative to the plate floor insufficient to transfer ink to the substrate in the printing step. The non-printing indicia define a pattern of alphanumeric characters, non-text graphics, or a combination thereof, and are disposed on the plate floor in the form of areas of presence and absence of polymer defined by structures formed of microdots, each microdot having an elevation relative to the plate floor lower than a printing height.
US11878538B2
A cover opening and closing device (100) includes a cover section (110), a rotary shaft (X), and a plurality of locking sections (120). The cover section (110) covers an opening (23) of a main body section (2). The rotary shaft (X) connects the cover section (110) to the main body section (2) in a manner that the cover section (110) is pivotal between a first position and a second position. The locking sections (120) lock the cover section (110) in the first position. The first position is a position in which the cover section (110) covers the opening (23). The second position is a position in which the cover section (110) does not cover the opening (23). When at least one of the locking sections (120) is not locking the cover section (110), the cover section (110) pivots from the first position to the second position.
US11878537B2
A printing control method, a printing control device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes steps of: acquiring first scan times of first ink used for printing a unit area; acquiring second scan times of second ink used for printing a unit area; comparing the first scan times with the second scan times; according to a comparison result, controlling a printer to eject the first ink or/and the second ink in each scan in a main scan direction. The method and device are able to efficiently and quickly print a three-dimensional effect image.
US11878531B2
A wiping device includes a wiper unit, a carriage, and a fixing member. The wiper unit includes a wiper that wipes a liquid discharge surface of a liquid discharge head from which liquid is to be discharged. The carriage moves along the liquid discharge surface in a first direction and a second direction, both of which are opposite to each other. The fixing member fixes the wiper unit to the carriage. When the carriage is disposed on a side in the first direction with respect to a middle point in a moving range of the carriage, the fixing member is removable in the first direction.
US11878530B2
A method of inkjet printer operation indicates a need for printhead purging without requiring analysis of printed images to detect streakiness in the images. The method compares terms of a histogram of a filtered response of an inkjet status vector to a streakiness metric to determine whether the distribution of inoperative inkjets in a printhead enables missing ink techniques to be used to compensate for inoperative inkjets in the printhead.
US11878529B2
A first frame holds a platen. A second frame holds a head. When the second frame is at a first position, the head faces the platen. When the second frame is at a second position, the second frame is positioned farther away from the first frame than when the second frame is at the first position. At the second position, the head is positioned farther away from the platen than when the second frame is at the first position. A head lifter is held by the second frame. At the first position, the head lifter moves the head with respect to the second frame between a printing position and a separate position. At the printing position, the head ejects liquid toward a medium supported by the platen. At the separate position, the head is farther away from the platen in an intersecting direction than at the printing position.
US11878528B2
A controller of a liquid ejection device obtains a temperature of a head after recording and before a pre-cap flushing and determines a pre-cap flushing voltage based on the temperature. Then, the controller outputs the pre-cap flushing voltage to the head in the pre-cap flushing process.
US11878522B2
An inkjet printing apparatus comprises an inkjet head disposed above a stage and including nozzles through which ink including bipolar elements is discharged, the bipolar elements each having regions partially doped with different polarities. At least part of the nozzles is deflected from a direction in case that the nozzles are in a deflected state.
US11878513B2
A recording device includes a recording head, a conveyance portion that conveys a liquid-ejected medium so that the liquid-ejected medium passes through a position facing the recording head, a supply portion for air, and an air blowing mechanism that is disposed on an upstream side of the recording head in a relative moving direction between the recording head and the liquid-ejected medium, the air blowing mechanism including an air blow-out port for blowing out air from the supply portion toward a gap between the recording head and the liquid-ejected medium. The air blow-out port includes a plurality of slits that are lined up in a direction intersecting the relative moving direction, and the plurality of slits are lined up in the direction intersecting the relative moving direction so that long sides of the adjacent slits have regions facing each other in a direction orthogonal to the long sides.
US11878510B2
A light irradiator includes a housing having vents and a light-emission opening. The housing has a first surface having a first side with a first dimension and a second side with a second dimension, a second surface having the second side and a third side with a third dimension, and a third surface having the first side and the third side. The housing includes the light-emission opening in the first surface, and a first vent and a second vent in the second surface. The first vent is nearer the light-emission opening than the second vent. The second vent is opposite to the light-emission opening. The light irradiator includes an axial fan at the second vent that has a fan size greater than the first dimension and less than the second dimension, and a plate that faces the axial fan with a spacing with the first dimension or less.
US11878508B2
In some examples, an intaglio gravure printing press includes at least one gravure printing unit having at least one forme cylinder, at least one impression cylinder, at least one inking unit and/or at least one ink collecting cylinder. Additionally, at least one assigned inking unit, at least one print head, and at least one wiping device are arranged at the at least one forme cylinder. The wiping device is arranged along the direction of rotation of the forme cylinder, and downstream from the print head when the print head is arranged at the at least one forme cylinder. In addition, the wiping device is arranged along the direction of rotation of the forme cylinder, upstream from a contact region of the forme cylinder with the impression cylinder. Alternatively, in some examples, at least one print head is arranged at the at least one impression cylinder.
US11878506B2
A heat press device is provided that includes a support structure, a first platen and a heating element assembly that includes a heating element and a second platen. The heat press device further includes a movement assembly configured to change a pressure state between the first platen and the second platen when the heat press device is in a closed configuration. The heat press device can also include an indicator that is configured to convey the pressure state between the first platen and the second platen when the heat press device is in the closed configuration.
US11878501B2
Embodiments of the invention include articles incorporating fibrous fragments of mats of silica fibers and methods for producing such articles. The fiber mats may be formed via electrospinning of a sol gel produced with a silicon alkoxide reagent, such as tetraethyl ortho silicate, alcohol solvent, and an acid catalyst.
US11878498B2
A method for producing a laminated pane with a functional element with electrically switchable optical properties, includes creating a first stack of layers including a first pane, a first thermoplastic laminating film, a separating film, a second thermoplastic laminating film, a second pane, laminating the first stack of layers while being heated, taking the first pane with the first thermoplastic laminating film off the second pane with the second thermoplastic laminating film, and the at least one separating film is removed from the stack of layers, providing a functional element having an active layer, placing the functional element into the stack of layers, whereby a second stack of layers is formed, laminating the second stack of layers to form a laminated pane, wherein the separating film is detachable residue-free from the first thermoplastic laminating film and the second thermoplastic laminating film.
US11878488B2
A hot stamped component, includes: a base material; and a Zn-based plating layer provided in contact with the base material as an upper layer of the base material and containing Zn and Ni. A region of the Zn-based plating layer on a base material side is a Fe—Zn solid solution containing Ni, and two or more twins exist in 10 crystal grains of the Fe—Zn solid solution containing Ni adjacent to an interface between the base material and the Zn-based plating layer.
US11878482B2
Provided are a tire-trimming device and method. The method includes: detecting a profile of a tire outer surface and a position thereof by using a profile sensor while rotating the tire; inputting data detected by the profile sensor into a control unit; when removing the unnecessary rubber components, selecting, from among a plurality of different types of the trimming tool, a trimming tool which is of a type set in the control unit in advance for use in a location on which the unnecessary rubber components are formed; moving the selected trimming tool and the tire relative to one another on the basis of the data detected by the profile sensor; and positioning a tip end section of the trimming tool along the detected profile of the tire outer surface.
US11878478B2
The present invention aims at providing a prepreg for producing a laminate suitable as a structural material, and a laminate, which have excellent tensile shear joining strength, fatigue joining strength, and interlaminar fractural toughness values, and can be firmly integrated with another structural member by welding. The present invention is a prepreg including the following structural components [A], [B], and [C], wherein [C] is present on a surface of the prepreg, [C] is a crystalline thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or higher or an amorphous thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature of 180° C. or higher, 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: [A] reinforcing fibers; [B] a thermosetting resin; and [C] a thermoplastic resin.
US11878477B2
A temperature control apparatus includes: a first pressure bonding unit which includes a first flow passage and a first pressure bonding surface which is to be brought into contact with an object; a temperature control fluid supply device which supplies a temperature control fluid in form of gas to the first flow passage in such a manner that the temperature control fluid is condensed on an inner wall surface of the first pressure bonding unit that partitions the first flow passage to adjust the first pressure bonding surface to a first heating temperature; and a pressure adjustment device which lowers an internal pressure of the first flow passage to promote vaporization of the temperature control fluid in form of liquid in the first flow passage in such a manner that the first pressure bonding surface is adjusted to a temperature lower than the first heating temperature.
US11878471B2
A magnetic powder dispensing structure for tablet printing comprises a powder collecting device, a printing device, a guide rod device and a printing platform, the powder collecting device comprises a powder collecting box, a powder feeding device, a plurality of stirring rods, a plurality of rocker arms, a pressing rod, a driving motor and a first electromagnetic attraction device; the printing device comprises a second electromagnetic attraction device. The printing device and the powder collecting device are capable of moving laterally through the guide rod device, and capable of being magnetically attracted with each other or detached from each other by energizing or de-energizing the first electromagnetic attraction device and the second electromagnetic attraction device, thereby the powder collecting device can be driven when dispensing powder, and the printing device is capable of operating independently during printing.
US11878467B2
Techniques for producing a flat film surface in additive fabrication and related systems and methods
Techniques for producing a flat film surface in additive fabrication are provided. According to some aspects, a movable stage may be arranged beneath a container having a base that includes a flexible film. The movable stage may include a segmented member in which a number of segments are aligned along a common axis. The segmented member may maintain contact with the flexible film as the movable stage moves beneath the container, with the segmented member producing a flat surface of the flexible film, at least within a region above the movable stage. According to some embodiments, multiple segmented members may be provided within the movable stage, such as in parallel with one another.
US11878465B2
A nozzle holder assembly for a three-dimensional printer comprises a mount, a printer nozzle, and a locking mechanism. The mount is operable to be secured to the three-dimensional printer. The printer nozzle shaft is movably coupled to the mount along a predetermined length. The locking mechanism is configured to fix the printer nozzle shaft relative to the mount at any position along the predetermined length.
US11878458B2
A method for bending a flexible panel includes first, providing an airbag assembly; second, inflating the airbag assembly; next, abutting against the bending area with the airbag assembly; and lastly, bending the flexible panel by pivoting on the airbag assembly so that a bent portion of the flexible panel tightly contacts a surface of the airbag assembly, and the terminal area is located behind the flexible panel. The airbag assembly includes a housing and an elastic film. The housing includes at least one outlet and at least one inlet. The elastic film wraps the housing to form a gas chamber. The outlet and the inlet communicate with the gas chamber.
US11878442B2
According to some embodiments, a system includes a three-dimensional (3D) printer, a hydraulic press, and a kiln. The three-dimensional printer includes a print bed, a first printhead, and a second printhead. The first printhead is configured to deposit a layer of a first powder on the print bed. The second printhead is configured to deposit a layer of a second powder on the print bed. The hydraulic press is configured to compress a greenware to form a compressed greenware. The kiln is configured to heat the compressed greenware to a reaction temperature to form an object. The object is surrounded by an excess of the first powder. The kiln is also configured to heat the object surrounded by the excess of the first powder to a melting temperature. The melting temperature is at least the melting point of the first powder and less than the melting point of the object.
US11878437B1
The present invention relates to a personal razor and methods of use for shaving hair. The personal razor includes a substantially V-shape body. The exterior surface has a razor cartridge interface on which a razor cartridge is attached. Retaining clips are affixed along the exterior surface securing the razor cartridge in place and orientating a razor-cutting surface to be in contact with the skin of a user during use of the personal razor. An interior surface forms two opposing entry surfaces. Ridges are disposed along each of the opposing entry surfaces that grip the finger of the user on insertion into the personal razor. The grip of the ridges on the finger of the user enables the user to better control the motion, the angle of the razor cutting surface, and the downward pressure on the skin of the user during use of the personal razor.
US11878431B2
An end effector comprising: a driving roller and presser rollers configured to hold a threaded member; a motor; a linear guide and an air cylinder including a rod configured to move the threaded member linearly along the axis of the threaded member; a detector; a robot arm; and a controller configured to: provide the threaded member near a position coaxially facing a threaded hole member by controlling the robot arm based on the position and the direction of the threaded hole member detected by the detector; and insert and screw the threaded member into the threaded hole member by controlling: the air cylinder including the rod to advance the threaded member toward the threaded hole member and insert a tip of the threaded member into the threaded hole member; and the motor to rotate the threaded member about the axis of the threaded member.
US11878424B2
A robot interference checking motion planning technique using point sets. The technique uses CAD models of robot arms and obstacles and converts the CAD models to 3D point sets. The 3D point set coordinates are updated at each time step based on robot and obstacle motion. The 3D points are then converted to 3D grid space indices indicating space occupied by any point on any part. The 3D grid space indices are converted to 1D indices and the 1D indices are stored as sets per object and per time step. Interference checking is performed by computing an intersection of the 1D index sets for a given time step. Swept volumes are created by computing a union of the 1D index sets across multiple time steps. The 1D indices are converted back to 3D coordinates to define the 3D shapes of the swept volumes and the 3D locations of any interferences.
US11878422B2
An automation server accesses a task for a robotic device. The automation server generates motor control commands for the robotic device to complete the task. The automation server transmits, via a network and in a format defined by an Application Program Interface (API), the motor control commands from the automation server to a fleet manager associated with the robotic device, the motor control commands for forwarding from the fleet manager to the robotic device. The automation server receives, from one or more sensors attached to the robotic device and via the network, robotic device sensor data. The automation server receives, from multiple remote sensors and via the network, remote sensor data. The automation server adjusts the generated motor control commands to complete the task based on the robotic device sensor data and the remote sensor data.
US11878409B2
Systems and methods for changing end-of-arm tools and methods for manufacturing vehicles are provided. An exemplary end-of-arm tool changing system includes a rotatable tool rack configured to hold at least two end-of-arm tools and configured to move a selected end-of-arm tool from a far location to a near location. The exemplary end-of-arm tool changing system further includes a robot configured to reach the near location for attachment of the selected end-of-arm tool to the robot.
US11878408B2
A robotic system includes a multi-sectional show robot. The multi-sectional show robot includes a primary robot with a controller and one or more sensors. The one or more sensors are configured to acquire feedback indicative of an environment surrounding the primary robot. The multi-sectional show robot also includes a secondary robot configured to removably couple to the primary robot to transition the multi-sectional show robot between a disengaged configuration, in which the primary robot is decoupled from the secondary robot, and an engaged configuration, in which the primary robot is coupled to the secondary robot. The controller is configured to operate the primary robot based on the feedback and a first control scheme with the multi-sectional show robot in the disengaged configuration and to operate the primary robot based on a second control scheme with the multi-sectional show robot in the engaged configuration.
US11878403B2
A rotary tool includes a tool body, a motor, a determining part, a monitoring part and a criterion changing part. The motor is housed in the tool body and configured to drive the tool accessory. The determining part is configured to determine whether or not excessive rotation of the tool body around the driving axis due to jamming of the tool accessory occurs, according to a specific determination criterion. The monitoring part is configured to monitor information relating to a use state of the rotary tool. The criterion changing part is configured to change the determination criterion according to the use state.
US11878400B2
A fastener driver includes a housing defining a head portion and a handle portion, a drive mechanism positioned within the housing, and a firing mechanism. The firing mechanism includes a primary guide member supported within the head portion of the housing, a secondary guide member spaced from the primary guide member and supported within the head portion of the housing, a piston slidable along the primary guide member and the secondary guide member, a driver blade attached to the piston and configured to be movable along a drive axis, and a biasing member configured to move the piston and the driver blade from a top dead center (TDC) position toward a bottom dead center (BDC) position. A lifter assembly is operated by the drive mechanism to return the piston and the driver blade towards the TDC position, against the bias of the biasing member.
US11878395B2
A torque tool is provided, including: a main body, a driving portion, a torque mechanism and an adjusting mechanism. The main body defines an axial direction. The driving portion is disposed on an end of the main body. The torque mechanism is non-rotatably disposed within the main body. The adjusting mechanism includes a plurality of first engaging portions disposed on the main body and an adjusting member rotatably disposed on the main body, and the adjusting member includes a plurality of second engaging portions releasably engaged with the plurality of first engaging portions. The main body defines a center line parallel to the axial direction, and as viewed in the axial direction, hypothetical lines extending between the plurality of second engaging portions and the center line define a plurality of included angles, and at least two of the plurality of included angles have different angle sizes.
US11878392B2
The invention relates to a method for the hydro-erosive processing of components, in which hydro-erosive grinding a liquid containing grinding particles flows over surfaces of the component (1), in a device having a channel (3), through which the liquid containing grinding particles flows under pressure and in which the component (1) to be ground is held and in which a valve (5) is positioned upstream of the component (1) in the flow direction, by means of which valve the flow of the liquid can be adjusted.
US11878385B2
A method for slicing an ingot with a wire saw, comprising: forming a wire row by a wire spirally wound between a plurality of wire guides and configured to travel in an axial direction of the wire; feeding an ingot held with a workpiece-feeding mechanism to the wire row for slicing; and slicing the ingot into a plurality of wafers, while supplying a slurry to a contact portion between the ingot and the wire, wherein a warp direction in a wire travelling direction of a wafer obtained in previous ingot slicing is checked in advance, and the ingot is then sliced under a condition that a warp direction in a workpiece feeding direction of a wafer to be obtained matches the checked warp direction in the wire travelling direction, so that the wafers have identical warp directions in the workpiece feeding direction and in the wire travelling direction.
US11878383B2
Positionable block assemblies are described. Example block assemblies include a block body with a tooth surface and a plate member with a tooth surface. The tooth surfaces of the plate member and the block body are engageable to interlock the plate member with the block body. Further, the block body is engageable with the plate member at multiple different positions to enable precise positioning of a positionable block assembly to achieve a variety of different working scenarios.
US11878374B2
The present invention relates generally to welding gas compositions used as shielding gases in an electric arc welding process. More particularly, the invention is directed a shielding gas compositions used in gas metal or tungsten metal arc welding processes for welding aluminum or aluminum alloy containing work pieces. The compositions comprise from 200 to less than 400 ppm oxygen; from 200 to less than 400 ppm of a second gas selected from nitrous oxide, nitrogen, and combinations thereof; and the remainder being an inert gas preferably selected from argon, helium, and mixtures thereof.
US11878373B2
A brazing material for brazing a brazed plate heat exchanger comprising a number of heat exchanger plates being provided with a pressed pattern of ridges and grooves adapted to provide contact points between neighbouring heat exchanger plates, such that the heat exchanger plates are kept on a distance from one another and such that interplate flow channels for media to exchange heat are formed between the heat exchanger plates comprises a brazing alloy comprising at least one melting point depressing element and metals resembling the composition of the heat exchanger plates. The brazing material comprises a mixture between grains of a melting brazing material having solidus and liquidus temperatures lower than a brazing temperature and a non-melting brazing material having solidus and liquidus temperatures above the brazing temperature. The ratio between the melting and non-melting brazing materials is such that an alloy formed by the melting and non-melting brazing materials has a solidus temperature lower than the brazing temperature and a liquidus temperature higher than the brazing temperature.
US11878368B2
A laser processing system includes a laser beam source that produces a raw laser beam; a beam expansion system that receives the raw laser beam and produces an expanded laser beam; a homogenization system that receives the expanded laser beam and produces a laser beam that is homogenized and has a line-shaped beam cross section in the processing plane, wherein the homogenization system includes a first homogenization arrangement that homogenizes along the short axis and a second homogenization arrangement for homogenization along the long axis, each of the homogenization arrangements includes optical elements that split the laser beam into a multiplicity of partial beams and a condenser system that superposes the partial beams in a superposition plane, and the first homogenization arrangement includes a first condenser system with at least one first mirror and the second homogenization arrangement includes a second condenser system with at least one second mirror.
US11878367B2
In an optical device capable of adjusting a focal position of laser light, the accuracy of laser processing is improved. An optical device which processes a subject by irradiating the subject with laser light, includes: a focal position adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a focal position of the laser light; an incident position adjustment mechanism configured to adjust an incident position of the laser light incident on the subject in a direction perpendicular to a focal direction of the laser light; and a control unit configured to control driving of the focal position adjustment mechanism and the incident position adjustment mechanism, wherein the control unit controls the driving of the incident position adjustment mechanism based on an amount of driving of the focal position adjustment mechanism to correct a shift of the incident position due to change of the focal position.
US11878365B2
Methods of determining at least one parameter of an irradiation device of an apparatus for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects may include generating an energy beam and guiding the energy beam across a structured test surface, generating a signal by detecting radiation that is emitted from the test surface, and determining the at least one parameter based on a frequency spectrum of the signal.
US11878360B2
The present disclosure provides an electrochemical machining device and a method for a blisk using an electrode array, which relate to the technical field of electrochemical machining. The electrochemical machining device comprises an outer ring-shaped rotating ring, an inner ring-shaped base and a plurality of cathode rods. An inner diameter of the outer ring-shaped rotating ring is larger than an outer diameter of the inner ring-shaped base, and an inner diameter of the inner ring-shaped base is larger than an outer diameter of the blisk. The outer ring-shaped rotating ring and the inner ring-shaped base are coaxially arranged. Middle parts of the cathode rods are connected with the inner ring-shaped base, outer ends of the cathode rods are rotatably connected with the outer ring-shaped rotating ring, and inner ends of the cathode rods are provided with trepanning cathode pieces or radial feeding electrodes.
US11878358B2
A method for treatment using a cutting arrangement includes providing a rotor blade of a wind turbine and attaching an alignment tool to the rotor blade. The alignment tool includes at least one fixation means for fixing the alignment tool to proximate a trailing edge of the rotor blade that is a structure attachable to a first surface and a second opposing surface of the rotor blade. The alignment tool further includes at least one guiding structure operably connected to the fixation means that is configured to embrace the leading edge of the rotor blade and includes at least one groove or at least one edge that provides guidance for a cutting edge of a cutting apparatus. The method includes treating the rotor blade using the cutting apparatus, in which the cutting edge of the cutting apparatus is guided by the at least one guiding structure of the alignment tool.
US11878348B2
A three-dimensional powder bed fusion additive manufacturing apparatus includes a powder application device that includes a squeegee and applies a powder material to a build plate to form a powder layer, a camera that photographs a manufactured surface of the powder layer, and a determination unit that determines whether powder application failure of the powder material has occurred using an image photographed by the camera while or immediately after the squeegee passes through the manufactured surface.
US11878345B2
A thixomolding material includes: a metal body that contains Mg as a main component; and a coating portion that is adhered to a surface of the metal body via a binder and contains SiC particles containing SiC as a main component. A mass fraction of the SiC particles in a total mass of the metal body and the SiC particles is 2.0 mass % or more and 40.0 mass % or less. The binder may contain waxes. A content of the binder may be 0.001 mass % or more and 0.200 mass % or less.
US11878343B2
The present disclosure is directed, in certain embodiments, a component of a mechanical apparatus. The component includes a cast body with an initial structure formed by a mold and at least one feature deposited on the cast body using a solid state additive manufacturing process, such that in combination the initial structure and the at least one feature form a complete structure of the component.
US11878341B2
A method for preparing an aluminum carbon composite by using a foam aluminum includes the following steps. Electromagnetic stirring and drying are performed on the foam aluminum and a carbon material to obtain a foam aluminum preform; an aluminum block is melted into aluminum liquid, the aluminum liquid is adjusted to qualified aluminum liquid, the qualified aluminum liquid is cooled to a temperature of 620˜650° C. and keeping the temperature to make the qualified liquid aluminum become a semi-solid state, then the foam aluminum preform is pressed into the qualified liquid aluminum and performing electromagnetic stirring. A mold is heated to a certain temperature and extrusion molding is performed to obtain a carbon reinforced aluminum matrix composite material. The method overcomes a problem that the carbon material and the aluminum matrix have poor wettability and are not easy to be added into the aluminum matrix.
US11878340B2
Disclosed herein is a casting cluster for casting a body of a golf club head made of titanium or a titanium alloy. The casting cluster comprises a receptor and a plurality of runners coupled to the receptor and configured to receive molten metal from the receptor. The casting cluster also includes at least forty main gates. At least two of the main gates are coupled to each of the runners and each main gate is configured to receive molten metal from a corresponding one of the plurality of runners. The casting cluster further comprises at least forty molds. Each mold of the at least forty molds is configured to receive molten metal from a corresponding one of the main gates and to cast a body of an iron-type golf club head.
US11878335B2
The disclosure pertains to a fine blanking press comprising a first press unit comprising a first press drive for driving the first press unit in a first driving movement during a fine blanking process step, and a second press unit wherein the second press unit is driven in a second driving movement at least partially during the first driving movement of the first press unit, and wherein a force control unit exerts a counter force against a force exerted by the first press unit during its first driving movement, and wherein the force control unit comprises at least one sensor and a controller operative to receive measuring data collected by the at least one sensor, and wherein the controller is configured to carry out a closed loop control on basis of the received measuring data. The disclosure further pertains to a method for operating a fine blanking press.
US11878334B2
A method of manufacturing a press-formed product includes: capturing the amount of warp in a sheet to be pressed separately for each sheet; and using a die 6, a punch 7, and a movable mold part to press-form the sheet into a press-formed product. During press-forming, the initial position of the movable mold part 9 relative to the die 6 or punch 7 is controlled depending on the amount of warp in the sheet.
US11878331B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for landfill systems, comprising waste, a geosynthetic product, and a layer of foam glass aggregates interposed between the waste and the geosynthetic product.
US11878330B2
A device and assembly for a cleaning adapter to be placed in an air/water port of an endoscopic device is described. The device can have a button to control a valve stem with openings to permit the control of air and water flow, depending on the position of the cleaning adapter, which a user controls. A method and system are also described. A tag is also described, instructing the users of the proper use of the device.
US11878325B1
System for use in directing a sorting operation comprises a server, a receptacle logical destination identification (ID) assignment engine, a plurality of receptacles, and an automated transport device for transporting and depositing articles into the receptacles. The system is configured to: assign a first logical destination ID to a first receptacle; and direct an automated transport device to transport and deposit a first article into the first receptacle associated with the first logical destination ID. The system is further configured to: determine that the first receptacle is full; re-assign the first logical destination ID to a second receptacle; and re-direct the automated transport device to transport and deposit the first article into the second receptacle associated with the first logical destination ID.
US11878320B2
A powder layer composite includes a base and a powder layer having a thickness of 100 μm or less and disposed on the base. An average of a total value of a number of powder aggregates having a long diameter of 500 μm or greater and a number of pinholes having a long diameter of 500 μm or greater, in any of a plurality of different regions of 20 mm×20 mm on a surface of the powder layer, is 0.2 pieces/cm2 or less.
US11878306B2
A coarse crusher includes a coarsely crushing unit configured to coarsely crush a sheet piece having an elongated shape, a hopper configured to feed the sheet piece to the coarsely crushing unit through a feed opening, and a posture adjuster configured to adjust posture of the sheet piece. The hopper includes two guide plates facing each other with the feed opening therebetween and configured to guide the sheet piece to the coarsely crushing unit and two coupling plates coupling the two guide plates. The posture adjuster includes a protrusion disposed on at least one of the coupling plates and protruding toward an inner side of the hopper. The posture adjuster is configured to come in contact with the sheet piece being coarsely crushed to adjust the posture of a portion of the sheet piece that is remote from the coarsely crushing unit.
US11878300B2
A device, system and process involve conducting electroporation of microvesicles or exosomes or other target structures in a microfluidic arrangement at pressures that exceed atmospheric pressure. Single as well as multiple flow configurations can be employed. In some cases, the system and its operation are computer-controlled for partial or complete automation.
US11878297B2
Provided herein is technology relating to testing fluid specimens and particularly, but not exclusively, to apparatuses, devices, methods, systems, and kits for testing a fluid specimen, e.g. urine, saliva, or other body fluids, to detect specified chemical components in the specimen.
US11878286B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst for a hydrocarbon resin hydrogenation reaction and a preparation method for the same, wherein the catalyst is a nickel powder catalyst including nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), and sulfur (S), and more particularly, a nickel-based catalyst for a hydrogenation reaction, which is added to a hydrogenation reaction in order to improve the color of the hydrocarbon resin. According to an embodiment of the present invention, provided is a catalyst for a hydrogenation reaction, includes 40-80 parts by weight of nickel, 0.01-5 parts by weight of copper, 1-10 parts by weight of sulfur, and 10-60 parts by weight of a silica support based on 100 parts by weight of the entire dried catalyst including a support. Therefore, the catalyst can improve the quality of hydrocarbon resin. Furthermore, the catalyst can provide colorless, odorless, and transparent water-white hydrocarbon resin with improved thermal stability by removing unsaturated bonds in the hydrocarbon resin.
US11878282B2
A method includes forming a carbon aerogel on a substrate to produce a highly adsorptive structure. The carbon aerogel is characterized by having physical characteristics of in-situ formation on the substrate.
US11878281B2
A reactor includes: a heat exchange section including: a first flow channel configured to flow a reaction fluid and a second flow channel configured to flow a heat medium; an introduction path for a temperature sensor, extending from an insertion opening provided on a side surface of the heat exchange section to the first flow channel or the second flow channel; a pipe for a temperature sensor, connected to a side surface of the heat exchange section and communicating with the introduction path through the insertion opening; and a jig provided in the pipe. The jig is provided with a guide hole extending from the base end toward the tip end and opened toward the insertion opening of the introduction path. The guide hole is provided with a tapered hole directed from the base end toward the tip end.
US11878269B2
A composition, process, and apparatus are disclosed. The composition includes a cyclopropeneimine-carbon dioxide (CPI-CO2) adduct. The process includes forming the CPI-CO2 adduct by reacting a CPI with CO2 gas. The apparatus includes components for providing the CPI and mixing the CPI with CO2 gas. The mixing results in formation of the CPI-CO2 adduct.
US11878263B2
An exhaust gas purification filter is configured to he disposed in an exhaust passage in a gasoline engine. The exhaust gas purification filter includes partition walls including a plurality of pores, a plurality of cells partitioned by the partition walls, and sealing portions alternately sealing ends of a plurality of the cells in the exhaust gas purification filter. The partition walls each have an average pore diameter of more than 16 μm and less than 21 μm, and have a ratio of an average surface opening diameter of the pores in a partition wall surface to the average pore diameter of the partition wall of 0.66 or more and 0.94 or less.
US11878260B1
A phase separation assembly includes a stand pipe configured to be located at a bottom of a distillation column, the stand pipe for directing a liquid phase of a hydrocarbon fluid through a bottom outlet to a heating assembly; a return conduit configured to direct heated hydrocarbon fluid from the heating assembly into the distillation column; a ring baffle configured to be located within the distillation column above the return conduit; and a horizontal plate configured to be disposed above the stand pipe. The ring baffle directs the heated hydrocarbon fluid around the inner circumferential wall of the distillation column so that vapor and liquid phases can separate. Weir features on the ring baffle can facilitate separation of vapor and liquid flows of the hydrocarbon.
US11878254B2
A wisdom ring puzzle including: a stage; a first ring unit positioned in a first direction with respect to the stage; a second ring unit positioned in the first direction with respect to the first ring unit; a third ring unit positioned in the first direction with respect to the second ring unit; a first pole connected to the first ring unit and the stage, and passing through an inner side of the second ring unit and an inner side of the third ring unit; a second pole connected to the second ring unit and connected to the stage through an inner side of the first ring unit; and a third pole connected to the third ring unit and connected to the stage crossing over an outer side of the first ring unit and an outer side of the second ring unit.
US11878229B2
A stroke decision device 30 includes an acquisition section 31 configured to acquire state information including a position, a velocity, and a rotational velocity of an incoming ball, and a stroke decision section 32 configured to decide a stroke condition including a position, a velocity, and an orientation of a striking implement at a time point when hitting back the ball toward a target arrival position, based on the state information for the ball and the target arrival position when hitting back the ball with the striking implement.
US11878209B1
An exercise mat is fashioned as a tripartite mat assembly having a padded upper surface secured to a stiff lower surface. The mat has a handle disposed on a one (1) of the mat assembly sections and also includes a securing fastener capable of securing the exercise mat in a closed configuration.
US11878208B1
A workout device that allows for at home Nordic hamstring curls using a. doorframe or other immovable object is disclosed.
US11878191B2
An automatically braking belay device for use in belaying climber or descending with a rope, using the pull of the rope to activate braking by the roll of the cam within the frame of the device. An adaptive release lever unjam the rope to release with closing mechanism utilizing magnets for practically permanent and fail safe closure.
US11878185B2
Described herein are multi-leaf collimators that comprise leaf drive mechanisms. The leaf drive mechanisms can be used in binary multi-leaf collimators used in emission-guided radiation therapy. One variation of a multi-leaf collimator comprises a pneumatics-based leaf drive mechanism. Another variation of a multi-leaf collimator comprises a spring-based leaf drive mechanism having a spring resonator.
US11878183B1
A device, system and method for performing or conducting laser therapy, and more specifically, for performing Class IV laser therapy in an unattended and hands-free manner is provided herein. The system and method includes a support assembly with a laser treatment device supported thereon. The laser treatment device is configured to provide hands-free Class IV laser therapy treatment and includes a plurality of preprogrammed treatment protocols, each of the plurality of preprogrammed treatment protocols being associated with at least one of a plurality of body locations. A positionable arm extends from the support assembly and terminates at a laser emitter directed toward the selected body location. Upon selection of one of the plurality of body locations on the laser treatment device, the laser emitter will perform laser therapy treatment according to a corresponding one of the preprogrammed treatment protocols.
US11878181B2
An erythrocyte de-aggregation system includes a band, including a strap and housing securing an iron-cored, micro-coil to an appendage, such as a wrist, of a subject to apply a PEMF into a target vessel in the vascular system of the subject. Typically, all of the blood circulates about the body within a matter of a few minutes, some within seconds, thus treating the entire bloodstream over time. The portable PEMF system intensifies both the concentration of electromagnetic flux per unit area, as well as the depth of penetration into the body. The portable PEMF systems relies on the body's circulatory system to eventually pass the body's entire volume of blood past it over a period of time.
US11878178B2
Implants must protect against implant contamination and corrosion of electronics. However, when electrical components are fitted to flexible substrates, failure can occur at electrical connections. An implant comprises: a flexible substrate; a first and second electrical component at a first and second position, electrically connected through an interconnect layer; a first and second component cover, separately encapsulating the first and second component to resist the ingress of body fluids into the component positions; wherein the flexible substrate allows a relative change in disposition between the first component cover and the second component cover. One or more electrodes are provided at a third position. By encapsulating each component separately, the position of force/tension is moved away from the component attachment position to a point somewhere between the component positions. By disposing one or more electrode away from the components, the ingress is further restricted.
US11878174B2
Certain embodiments of the present technology described herein relate to detecting atrial oversensing in a His intracardiac electrogram (His IEGM), characterizing atrial oversensing, determining when atrial oversensing is likely to occur, and or reducing the chance of atrial oversensing occurring. Some such embodiments characterize and/or avoid atrial oversensing within a His IEGM. Other embodiments of the present technology described herein relate to determining whether atrial capture occurs in response to His bundle pacing (HBP). Still other embodiments of the present technology described herein relate to determining whether AV node capture occurs in response to HBP.
US11878168B2
An illustrative cochlear implant system is disclosed herein. The cochlear implant system comprises a microphone assembly including a microphone and a retention device configured to hold the microphone near an entrance to an ear canal of an ear of a recipient. The cochlear implant system further comprises an off-the-ear (OTE) sound processor that includes a housing configured to be worn off the ear of the recipient and further configured to physically attach to the microphone assembly so as to allow the microphone assembly to be worn off the ear when the microphone assembly is not being worn at the ear using the retention device. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11878159B2
An implantable device for providing electrical stimulation of cervical vagus nerves for treatment of chronic cardiac dysfunction is provided. A stimulation therapy lead includes helical electrodes configured to conform to an outer diameter of a cervical vagus nerve sheath, and a set of connector pins electrically connected to the helical electrodes. A neurostimulator includes an electrical receptacle into which the connector pins are securely and electrically coupled. The neurostimulator also includes a pulse generator configured to therapeutically stimulate the vagus nerve through the helical electrodes in alternating cycles of stimuli application and stimuli inhibition that are tuned to both efferently activate the heart's intrinsic nervous system and afferently activate the patient's central reflexes by triggering bi-directional action potentials.
US11878142B2
A non-surgical method of delivering a liquid radioactive solution from a source to a recipient comprising the steps of: determining a desired recipient level of radioactivity and recipient volume of the radioactive solution to be delivered to the recipient, providing a first valve having a waste position and a recipient position, providing a bolus conduit, a waste conduit and a recipient conduit, each conduit having a valve end being connected to said first valve, so that the first valve can establish a waste flow path in the waste position and a recipient flow path in the recipient position, the recipient flow path being different from said waste flow path, the bolus conduit comprising a measuring section and an internal volume, the internal volume being approximately equal to the desired recipient volume of the radioactive solution to be delivered to the recipient, arranging said first valve in the waste position, transporting a first amount of said radioactive solution through said waste flow path, the first amount of said radioactive solution having an initial level of radioactivity that is at least approximately equal to or higher than the desired recipient level of radioactivity and an initial volume that is larger than the internal volume of said bolus conduit, providing a radiation detector, the radiation detector being operable to measure a level of radioactivity of the radioactive solution in said measuring section, measuring a reference level of radioactivity of said radioactive solution present in said measuring section, wherein when the reference level of radioactivity is approximately equal to an injection level of radioactivity, the method further comprises the steps of: arranging the first valve in the recipient position, and transporting the radioactive solution present in the bolus conduit through the recipient flow path.
US11878140B2
A drug delivery system for injecting a medicament includes a housing defining a cavity, a container received within the cavity and configured to receive a medicament, the container comprising a stopper configured to move within the container and a closure, a drive assembly received within the cavity and configured to drive the stopper within the container, a needle actuator assembly received within the cavity and comprising a needle configured to be placed in fluid communication with the container, the needle moveable from a first position and a second position spaced from the first position, and a sterilizer received within the cavity and configured to sterilize at least one of the container, the drive assembly, and the needle actuator assembly upon activation of the drug delivery system.
US11878137B2
A venous access port assembly having a housing base with a discharge port, a septum, and a cap, with an interior reservoir. The housing base is provided with X-ray discernable indicia to identify an attribute of the assembly after its implantation and clearly appear on an X-ray of the patient in a manner informing the radiologist or technologist and the medical practitioner of that particular attribute. Such indicia can be depicted as cutouts through a disc of radiopaque material where the cutouts are in the form of alphabetical letters such as “CT”, or can be a set of discrete elements of radiopaque material, that are affixed along the bottom surface of the housing base or embedded within the thickness of the bottom housing wall.
US11878136B2
A system, apparatus and method for a tightly sealed, low moisture vapor transmission, low relative humidity headspace atmosphere aseptic vaccine delivery with low particulate generation. The system can include a housing, desiccant and a biasing member designed to quickly and efficiently deliver medicament to a patient.
US11878135B2
A medical delivery device for treating a tunneling wound includes an outer sleeve, a plunger, and a hollow tube extending through an opening in the plunger. The plunger is configured to deliver a wound treatment material from an inner cavity of the outer sleeve, through a cavity opening on the outer sleeve, and into the tunneling wound. The hollow tube is configured to deliver a fluid to the wound treatment material after insertion into the tunneling wound. In some embodiments, the medical delivery device may further include a flap disposed on the outer sleeve. The flap may be reconfigurable between a closed position in which the flap is configured to shield the cavity opening, and an open position in which the flap is configured to allow the wound treatment material to be ejected through the cavity opening.
US11878133B2
Methods for purging a balloon catheter of air. An inflation fluid is inserted into a balloon and an inflation lumen of a balloon catheter. The inflation lumen is in fluid communication with the balloon. The balloon catheter is positioned in an inverted orientation with a distal end thereof disposed below a proximal end thereof. The distal end of the balloon catheter includes a balloon. A vibration source is positioned in direct contact with an outer surface of the balloon catheter. The balloon catheter is vibrated via the vibration source. A vacuum is applied or pulled on the inflation lumen of the balloon catheter. The steps of vibrating the balloon catheter and applying the vacuum are performed simultaneously.
