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| US11841251B2 |
Direct implementation of sensors in tubes
A tube device is disclosed comprising a tube having at least one deformable component and one or more sensor elements. At least one of the one or more sensor elements is pattered or attached on the at least one deformable component of the tube and being configured to measure at least one property or condition of a substance contained or streamed inside the tube. The at least one deformable component can be at least one integral part of a wall section of the tube, or at least one deformable element attached to the tube, or at least one deformable element attached to respective at least one support element attached to the tube. |
| US11841241B2 |
Systems and methods for updating a 3D model of building
Systems and methods for updating a model of a building are provided. The method includes obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) model of a building including reference environmental data associated with a plurality of reference locations of the building and obtaining current environmental data corresponding to a current location of the building. The method further includes identifying, from the 3D model, a target reference location corresponding to the current location from the plurality of reference locations of the building and comparing the current environmental data with the target reference environmental data. The method further includes sending to the user device the target reference location when the current environmental data match the target reference environmental data, and updating the 3D model with the current environmental data when the current environmental data statistically un-match the target reference environmental data. |
| US11841231B2 |
Method and system for vehicle route determination based on motion data
Apparatuses and methods for determining a route are provided. In some examples, the method comprises: receiving measurements of one or more motion sensors of a mobile device disposed in a vehicle; selecting, based on a start time and an end time of a first route, a subset of the measurements; determining, based on the subset of the measurements, turns or stops made by the vehicle as part of the first route and their directions; determining, based on the subset of the measurements, distances of path segments traveled by the vehicle between the turns or stops; constructing an estimated route including a sequence of the turns or stops and path segments; selecting, based on comparing the estimated route and a plurality of candidates routes from a map, the first route; and displaying the map including the first route. |
| US11841228B2 |
Drive and sense balanced, fully-coupled 3-axis gyroscope
The subject disclosure provides exemplary 3-axis (e.g., GX, GY, and GZ) linear and angular momentum balanced vibratory rate gyroscope architectures with fully-coupled sense modes. Embodiments can employ balanced drive and/or balanced sense components to reduce induced vibrations and/or part to part coupling. Embodiments can comprise two inner frame gyroscopes for GY sense mode and an outer frame or saddle gyroscope for GX sense mode and drive system coupling, drive shuttles coupled to the two inner frame gyroscopes or outer frame gyroscope, and four GZ proof masses coupled to the inner frame gyroscopes for GZ sense mode. Components can be removed from an exemplary overall architecture to fabricate a single axis or two axis gyroscope and/or can be configured such that a number of proof-masses can be reduced in half from an exemplary overall architecture to fabricate a half-gyroscope. Other embodiments can employ a stress isolation frame to reduce package induced stress. |
| US11841227B2 |
Polarized radio frequency (RF) angular orientation sensor with integrated communication link
A system including a polarized radio frequency (RF) scanning reference source and one or more cavity sensor receivers. The system uses a sensor processor to apply Fourier integration to extract a fundamental frequency and, at least, a fundamental frequency and two predetermined harmonics from the received output of the one or more cavity sensor receivers in determining a reference time of the reference clock. |
| US11841226B2 |
Inertial measuring device for determining a north direction
The invention relates to an inertial measuring device, having an inertial measuring unit for determining a north direction and for determining position angles, having a battery, and having a wireless interface, which inertial measuring device has a housing, in which the inertial measuring unit, the battery and the interface are housed. A carrying handle is provided on the housing, which carrying handle is designed as a one-hand carrying handle such that the inertial measuring device can be carried with only one hand during normal use. |
| US11841224B2 |
Air-ground integrated landslide monitoring method and device
Disclosed is an air-ground integrated landslide monitoring method and device. The monitoring method comprises the following steps: step one, performing high-precision (centimeter-level) vertical aerial photogrammetry and oblique photogrammetry on a monitored area by using an unmanned aerial vehicle, and quickly generating a digital topographic map, a digital orthographic map and a digital surface model; step two, performing accurate and intensive monitoring on the monitored area through a monitoring device; and step three, finally sending obtained data to a processor, and after the monitoring data are processed by the processor, sending the data to a remote-control center, so that real-time transformation and spatialization of dynamic landslide monitoring information are achieved. The present disclosure also provides a landslide monitoring device. The landslide monitoring device comprises a control box, a bottom plate and an unmanned aerial vehicle. |
| US11841223B2 |
Optical systems with controlled mirror arrangements
An optical system can include a mirror that reflects incoming light to a sensor for detection. The position and/or orientation of the mirror can be controlled to reflect incoming light from different locations and/or directions. Position and/or orientation of the mirror may be tracked and/or detected by an optical position sensor. The position sensor can transmit a beam to a reflector on the mirror, and the reflected beam can be received by the position sensor. Characteristics of the reflected beam can be measured to determine the position and/or orientation of the mirror. For example, the beam can be used for interferometric and/or intensity measurements, which can then be correlated with a position and/or orientation of the mirror. |
| US11841217B2 |
WFOV backward-propagating active-to-passive autoalignment system
A multi-function sensor system including an auto-alignment system. The multi-function sensor system includes a laser module configured to provide a transmit beam and an auto-alignment beam, a shared aperture component, a first channel configured to direct the transmit beam and the auto-alignment beam to the shared aperture component, a second channel configured to receive the transmit beam from the shared aperture component and provide a receive beam to the shared aperture component, and a third channel including a passive imager configured to receive the auto-alignment beam and a first portion of the receive beam from the shared aperture component, wherein the auto-alignment beam propagates through the passive imager to provide an indication of a line of sight (LOS) of the transmit beam relative to a field of view (FOV) of the passive imager. |
| US11841216B2 |
Methods and apparatus for freight dimensioning using a laser curtain
Methods and systems are provided for dimensioning a moving freight in motion along a path. An example system includes a plurality of laser line generators configured to emit coplanar laser beams forming a laser curtain oriented perpendicular to the floor and angled towards the direction of the path of the moving freight. A camera is configured to capture a series of two-dimensional images of the freight as it passes through the laser curtain. Additionally a positioning sensor is configured to detect the position and orientation of the moving freight as it passes through the laser curtain. A computing device in communication with the camera and the positioning sensor correlates each successive two-dimensional image with each corresponding position and orientation of the freight to obtain a composite three-dimensional shape of the freight. Furthermore, the computing device processes the composite three-dimensional shape of the freight to dimension the freight. |
| US11841211B2 |
Method for fire control of an anti-aircraft gun
A fire control method against aerial targets flying toward a protection object when the position of the protection object is known includes measuring the position of the aerial target, estimating the position of the aerial target, estimating the velocity of the aerial target, predicting the future path of the aerial target from the estimated position of the aerial target and the estimated velocity of the aerial target, and deciding, on the basis of the predicted path, whether the aerial target i.) is incoming and thus a threat against the protection object, ii.) is passing by and thus not a threat to the protection object. |
| US11841210B2 |
Open airborne or vehicle-mounted sight
An open airborne or vehicle-mounted sight, including a carrier and an inner red dot module carrier installed on the carrier. The inner red dot module carrier is installed on the top surface of the carrier by means of a pitch angle adjustment mechanism. An inner red dot module, including an LED light source capable of projecting graphic signs; the LED light source includes a point light source, a peripheral light source surrounding the point light source, and the peripheral light source is a discontinuous line light source. |
| US11841208B1 |
Universally adjustable firearm stock
A universally adjustable firearm stock is provided having adjustments for comb, cast, length of pull and butt pad height. The stock has an adapter (receiver model specific) to connect a frame to the receiver. An end of a mount passes through a slot through a frame seat. A cast piece is received within the seat and has a cast hole (center hole—no cast, offset hole—cast). The rearward extending end of the mount passes through the cast hole, wherein any offset in the cast hole results in an angular cast. The comb is vertically adjustable relative to the frame. Two rods are extendable relative to the frame to adjust the length of pull. A butt plate has two slots wherein the height of a butt pad relative to the rods is adjustable. |
| US11841203B2 |
Action timer switch and system for internal ballistic measurements
An action timer start switch, a breech block with an integral action timer start switch and a system for measuring internal ballistic data in a test weapon system are described herein. The action timer start switch includes a through-hammer adjustable contact having a first contact element and a contact switch supported on the breech block having a second contact element. The first contact element is adjustable for contacting the second contact element when the hammer is a position to generating a primer strike. The first contact element may be set by simply positioning the breech block in the in-battery position with the hammer in the ignition position and moving the adjustable contact relative to the contact switch through the breech of the universal receiver. |
| US11841201B2 |
Barrel unit for a firearm
A barrel unit for a firearm, including a barrel with a barrel axis, muzzle and a barrel end opposite the muzzle, on which at least two barrel lugs are formed, and a barrel extension with a barrel receptacle and a first end and a second end, wherein inwardly extending locking lugs are formed on the first end, to work together with a bolt, and inwardly extending barrel locking lugs are formed closer to the second end than the locking lugs. A barrel cam on the outer surface cooperates with a cam lug arranged on the barrel extension to fix the barrel in a predefined end position. |
| US11841199B2 |
Trigger device
A trigger device is disclosed. The trigger device comprises a housing, a trigger, a reverser, and a first pull weight adjustment mechanism. The trigger is rotatably mounted in the housing via a trigger pivot pin. The trigger comprises a trigger tooth. The reverser is rotatably mounted in the housing via a reverser pivot pin. The reverser comprises a reverser tooth. The first pull weight adjustment mechanism is coupled between the trigger and the reverser to bias the trigger in a first direction and the reverser in an opposite direction. Actuation of the trigger causes the trigger to rotate in the opposite direction, the trigger tooth to engage the reverser tooth, and the reverser to rotate in the first direction. |
| US11841195B2 |
Means for sensing temperature
A brazed plate heat exchanger comprises a number of heat exchanger plates (100) provided with a pressed pattern comprising ridges (R) and grooves (G). The ridges and grooves of neighboring plates contact one another in order to keep the plates on a distance from one another under formation of interplate flow channels for media to exchange heat when the heat exchanger plates are placed in a stack to form the heat exchanger. Means (120a, 120b) are provided for allowing temperature measurement of a fluid present in a second flow channel counted from an end of the stack of heat exchanger plates (100). |
| US11841190B2 |
Biomass combustion system for ceramic roller kiln and biomass combustion method
A biomass combustion system for ceramic roller kiln, including a roller kiln including a preheating section, a combustion section and a cooling section; a biomass gasifier with a feed port, a first gas inlet, a second gas inlet and an gas outlet; a fuel manifold; and a pentane gasification device connected to the fuel manifold. The biomass or biomass waste is fed through the feed port. The gas outlet is connected to the fuel manifold through a heat exchanger. The premixer is configured to mix part of the hot air discharged from the cooling section with a mixture of biomass gas and gaseous pentane transported by the fuel manifold to obtain an air-fuel mixture, and distribute the mixture to the combustion section through burners. A biomass combustion process is also provided. |
| US11841189B1 |
Disposable for a spray drying system
The present invention includes a spray drying disposable device for use in a spray drying system. The disposable has a spray drying head and a plasma drying chamber. The head has a spray dry nozzle assembly in fluid communication with the plasma source and the pressurized aerosol gas source. The pressurized gas flows in a vortex pattern that atomizes plasma droplets in the chamber. The head also includes a plenum has uniform air pressure of the drying gas. A baffle plate forms the floor of the plenum having drying gas jets that supply drying gas to the chamber. The atomized plasma droplets evaporate in the presence of the drying gas emitted from the jets to obtain dried plasma particles and humid air. A capture filter captures the dried plasma particles and allows the humid air to pass. The humid air passes through the gas outlet and the exhaust port. |
| US11841185B2 |
Storage box for refrigerator at entrance
A storage box for a refrigerator at an entrance according to an embodiment of the present invention, may comprise: a base; first side walls erected at the top front end and the top rear end of the base, respectively; and second side walls erected at the top left end and the top right end of the base, respectively, wherein the first side wall may include a plurality of first blocks stacked in the vertical direction and arranged in the horizontal direction, and a plurality of connectors movably connecting the adjacent first blocks in the horizontal direction. |
| US11841184B2 |
Movable refrigerator allowing bidirectional door opening
Provided is a movable refrigerator allowing bidirectional door opening. The refrigerator comprises a refrigerator body and a refrigerator door, wherein the refrigerator door is detachably connected to the refrigerator body; door frames are provided at four corners of the refrigerator body, and convex door columns are fixedly provided at the door frames; mounting grooves are provided at two ends of one side of the refrigerator door, and accommodating grooves are provided at two ends of the corresponding side; and limiting protrusions are provided in the mounting grooves, and the door columns are clamped between the mounting grooves and the limiting protrusions, so that the refrigerator body and the refrigerator door are rotatably connected, and the door columns on the opposite sides are accommodated in the accommodating grooves. By providing the door columns on the front side and the rear side of the refrigerator body and also providing the mounting grooves and the accommodating grooves on the refrigerator door, the refrigerator door can be mounted on any lateral surface on the front side or the rear side, it is easy to detach the refrigerator door from the refrigerator body, and a user can change the opening direction of the refrigerator door at any time, thereby overcoming the defect of one-side door opening. |
| US11841182B2 |
Coordination of refrigerated storage containers
A system is provided and includes refrigerated storage containers (20), local controllers (30) respectively coupled with corresponding refrigerated storage containers (20) to control operations thereof in accordance with controller parameters and a supervisory controller (40). The supervisory controller (40) is configured to issue control commands to the local controllers (30) based on respective responses of the refrigerated storage containers (20) to local controller control. |
| US11841181B2 |
Ice maker and household refrigeration apparatus
An ice maker for a household refrigeration apparatus includes a housing with an opening through which ice is dispensable from an interior of the housing out of the housing. A crushing device for crushing ice is provided at the opening. A flap is movably disposed at the opening and switchable between a closed position for dispensing crushed ice and an opened position for dispensing uncrushed ice through the opening. A drive unit is coupled to the flap by a coupling device for moving the flap. The flap has a pivot axis about which the flap pivots and a first flap arm coupled to the coupling device and a second flap arm movable relative to the opening, extend radially away from the pivot axis. A household refrigeration apparatus includes an apparatus housing having a receiving space for food, and an ice maker. |
| US11841179B2 |
Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems and methods
A heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (“HVAC”) system for use with a refrigerant. The HVAC system includes a compressor, a condenser, an expansion device, an evaporator, and a separator. The compressor is operable to compress the refrigerant. The condenser is positioned downstream of the compressor and operable to condense the refrigerant. The expansion device is positioned downstream of the condenser and operable to reduce a pressure of the refrigerant flowing therethrough. The evaporator is positioned downstream of the expansion device and operable to vaporize the refrigerant from the expansion device. The separator is positioned downstream of the expansion device and operable to separate the refrigerant into liquid refrigerant and gaseous refrigerant. The gaseous refrigerant from the separator and the liquid refrigerant from the separator are combined prior to being compressed by the compressor. |
| US11841177B2 |
Refrigerant control system and cooling system
A refrigerant control system for controlling a first refrigerant flowing through a first circulation passage connected to a compression unit, including a storing unit which stores a first refrigerant, a first sub-pipe which is connected to an outlet side pipe, a second sub-pipe which is connected to an inlet side pipe, a first opening/closing valve which is provided in the first sub-pipe and is capable of switching whether to flow the first refrigerant in the outlet side pipe to the storing unit, a second opening/closing valve which is provided in the second sub-pipe and is capable of switching whether to flow the first refrigerant in the storing unit to the inlet side pipe, and an opening/closing control unit which controls an opening/closing state of the first opening/closing valve and the second opening/closing valve on the basis of a setting temperature of a second refrigerant set according to a predetermined method. |
| US11841174B2 |
Method for controlling ejector capacity in a vapour compression system
A method for controlling ejector capacity in a vapour compression system (1) is disclosed. A parameter value being representative for a flow rate of liquid refrigerant from the evaporator(s) (8, 10) and into a return pipe (12, 13) is obtained, and the capacity of the ejector(s) (6) is adjusted based on the obtained parameter value. Ejector capacity may be shifted between low pressure ejectors (liquid ejectors) (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) and high pressure ejectors (gas ejectors) (6e, 6f). |
| US11841173B2 |
Variable stage compressors
A centrifugal compressor includes a first stage and a second stage. At least one of the first stage and the second stage includes an impeller and a shroud spaced from the impeller and configured to guide a fluid flow through the impeller. The shroud is selectively moveable between an engaged position and a disengaged position. |
| US11841172B2 |
Geothermal power from superhot geothermal fluid and magma reservoirs
System, method, and apparatus for harnessing geothermal power from superhot geothermal fluid (SHGF) and magma reservoirs. An exemplary embodiment is directed to a cased wellbore includes a well casing suspended within a borehole that extends between a surface and an underground reservoir of magma and a boiler casing housed within the well casing and extending between the surface and the underground reservoir of magma. The boiler casing has a first end submerged within the underground reservoir of magma and a terminal end opposite to the first end. The cased wellbore also includes a fluid conduit housed within the boiler casing and configured to deliver a liquid-phase fluid to the terminal end of the boiler casing. A temperature and a pressure at the terminal end of the boiler casing converts the liquid-phase fluid into a gas-phase fluid that travels through the boiler casing towards the surface. The cased wellbore also includes a well head connected to the first end of the boiler casing. |
| US11841171B2 |
Radiative cooling systems
A material may be included in a cooling film or cooling panel to achieve cooling even under direct solar irradiation. The material includes one or more constituent materials and an outer surface configured to interact thermally with the atmosphere and with solar radiation. The material exhibits an emissivity of at least 0.8 in spectral range of 5 μm to 15 μm, an ultraviolet reflectivity of at least 0.5 in the spectral range of 275 nm to 375 nm, an ultraviolet absorptivity of at least 0.75 in the spectral range of 275 nm to 375 nm, or a combination thereof. A cooling film, or cooling panel, may be affixed to an exterior surface of a vehicle, structure, or system to provide cooling even under direct solar irradiance. |
| US11841170B2 |
Optimized truss foundations, adapters for optimized truss foundations, and related systems and methods
An A-frame shaped truss foundation system for a single-axis tracker with moderately sloped legs that translate lateral loads into tension and compression without substantially increasing the magnitude of the lateral load force while optimizing material usage. Several such truss foundation systems are installed in a row to support a torque tube of a single-axis solar tracker. An adapter joins ends of adjacent upper legs and separates the truss legs by an angle more than 35-degrees up to 70-degrees. In some cases, the adapter may have an integrated bearing. |
| US11841162B2 |
Pipe bend for an exhaust air duct of a fume extraction hood
A pipe bend, in particular for an exhaust air duct of a fume extraction hood, which has a deflection of 60° to 120°, preferably 90°, with an inflow side and an outflow side, wherein the pipe bend has at least one air guide element which is curved in deflection direction and which extends in the interior of the pipe bend, characterized in that the pipe bend has a cross-sectional widening in flow direction behind the inflow side, in particular adjacent thereto, and a cross-sectional tapering in front of the outflow side, in particular adjacent thereto, the course of the bend of the outer wall of the bend deviating from the course of a quarter circle and having a bulge lying outside the vertex of the bend, in particular downstream of the vertex in the direction of flow. |
| US11841161B2 |
Profiled damper and fan for controlling air flow direction in an air duct
A device for controlling air flow in an air duct comprises a rotary, profiled damper, a fan or turbine, and an actuator. The profiled damper comprises two rotatable integral canopies, a central opening therebetween, flat ribs extending outwardly from the canopies and towards an interior of the air duct, wherein an axis of rotation of said canopies coincides with an axis of rotation of the profiled damper and the canopies are arranged on the opposite sides of the profiled damper. The profiled damper is characterized in that the actuator is configured to reverse a position of the profiled damper, thereby reversing a direction of an air stream generated by the fan or turbine. |
| US11841158B2 |
Air conditioner energy recovery unit
An air conditioner energy recovery unit has a hood, at least one aperture into which a fan is positioned, a generator and a power storage. The hood has a substantially pyramidal shape. The substantially pyramidal shape has at least three sides that meet at an apex. The hood has a hollow interior and an open base. At least one of the at least three sides has an aperture into which a fan is positioned. A generator is provided in communication with the fan such that when the fan rotates, the generator creates electricity. A power storage is provided in communication with the generator for storing electricity created by rotation of the fan. |
| US11841154B1 |
Methods and systems for tracking thermal profile of hot water storage tanks
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for tracking temperature profile of water in a hot water storage tank. The method performed by a control unit includes monitoring flow of water at one or more inlets and one or more outlets included in the tank to determine current locations of a plurality of water layers within the tank. The plurality of water layers changes corresponding positions within the tank based on water entering within and exiting from the tank. The method includes receiving a series of temperature values measured at a series of time instances from at least one temperature sensor mounted to the tank. The method includes electronically generating a temperature profile of the tank based at least on the current locations of the plurality of water layers and the series of temperature values. |
| US11841151B2 |
Method of operating an electronic expansion valve in an air conditioner unit
An air conditioner unit includes a refrigeration loop including a condenser and an evaporator, a compressor for circulating refrigerant, and an electronic expansion valve. A controller monitors an operating superheat of the refrigerant across the evaporator, identifies a superheat fault condition based on at least one of the operating superheat, a target valve position of the electronic expansion valve, or a compressor speed, stops the compressor in response to identifying the superheat fault condition, and initiates a calibration process of the electronic expansion valve. |
| US11841148B2 |
Window-type air conditioner
A split air conditioner having an indoor unit and an outdoor unit. A piping system interconnects the indoor unit with the outdoor unit. The indoor unit has an indoor heat exchanger for cooling or heating air in the indoor unit. The outdoor unit has a compressor, a first outdoor heat exchanger, and a second outdoor heat exchanger. The compressor is configured to drive a refrigerant via the first outdoor heat exchanger and the second outdoor heat exchanger in a refrigerant circuit. The piping system is configured to circulate an energy transport media from the first outdoor heat exchanger via the piping system to the indoor heat exchanger. |
| US11841147B2 |
Heat recovery apparatus and methods of increasing energy efficiency of hybrid heating systems using the apparatus
A hybrid heating system having a heat recovery apparatus in fluid communication with a heat pump and a furnace is provided. The apparatus recovers heat from flue gas discharged from the furnace and transfers the recovered heat to a stream of refrigerant in the heat pump. The apparatus includes a shell disposed in fluid communication with the furnace and tubes disposed in fluid communication with the shell and the heat pump. The system includes valves for regulating access between the apparatus and the stream of the refrigerant in the heat pump, and a control unit in communication with the valves to regulate access between the apparatus and the heat pump during a heating mode based on operating parameters of the system. |
| US11841141B2 |
Reverse flow combustor
An apparatus and method for a reverse flow combustor, the reverse flow combustor including a straight portion, a dilution portion and a curved portion. The reverse flow combustor receives a flow of fuel that is ignited and mixed with cooling air to form a flow of combustion gases. The flow of combustion gases travels through the reverse flow combustor to a turbine section of an engine. |
| US11841139B2 |
Resonance prevention using combustor damping rates
Methods and systems for resonance suppression, can involve measuring signals with one or more sensors, wherein the signals are produced by a combustor associated with an actuator, and receiving at a controller the signals measured by the sensor or sensors. The controller can calculate a damping rate of the combustor. Based on the damping rate, the controller can modulate the actuator if the damping rate falls below a predefined threshold and can continue to modulate the actuator until the damping rate is adjusted and the resonance is suppressed. The sensor can be an acoustic sensor, an optical sensor, or another type of sensor. |
| US11841138B2 |
Fuel tank monitoring systems and methods
Systems and methods for remotely monitoring the amount of fuel in one or more fuel tanks are disclosed. A fuel monitoring device includes a sensor configured to monitor the operation of a valve coupled to an output of a fuel tank and a network and communication system configured to receive data from the sensor related to the operation of the valve and establish communication with one or more remote systems via a communications network. The fuel monitoring device communicates the data related to the operation of the sensor to a remote server system via the communications network. Based on the data received from the fuel monitoring device and one or more remote systems, the remote server system can determine the amount of fuel remaining in the tank, and can predict when the tank will require additional fuel. |
| US11841124B2 |
Aircraft beacon light, method of operating an aircraft beacon light, and method of producing an aircraft beacon light
An aircraft beacon light includes a light source carrier, wherein the light source carrier comprises a plurality of connection fields, with the plurality of connection fields forming at least two polygonal connection structures on the light source carrier. The beacon also includes a plurality of LED modules, with the plurality of LED modules being arranged along a particular one of the at least two polygonal connection structures and with each of the plurality of LED modules being coupled to a respective connection field of said particular one of the at least two polygonal connection structures. |
| US11841119B2 |
Lamp for vehicle
Disclosed is a lamp for a vehicle. The lamp for a vehicle includes a light source part, and a lens part that outputs light input from the light source part to a front side, and having a three-dimensional pattern having a specific pattern shape, the lens part outputs the light input from the light source part to the front side when the light reaches the three-dimensional pattern, and the three-dimensional pattern is patterned such that a lighting image generated by the light output to the front side of the lens part is implemented as a three-dimensional image. |
| US11841118B1 |
Modular light bar assembly
A modular light assembly provides an end bracket having a bracket housing. The housing has an open distal end and a closed proximal end. A closed end magnet is inserted the end bracket toward the closed proximal end. A non-magnetic ring is distal of the closed end magnet and closes the open distal end, An open end magnet is distal of the non-magnetic ring. An endcap is distal of the open end magnet and a light assembly extends distal of and connected to the endcap. |
| US11841108B2 |
Multi-legged equipment support having leg angle adjustment
A multi-legged equipment support, components thereof, and associated methods. The equipment support comprises a stand and an equipment holder. The stand includes a hub and multiple legs pivotable with respect to the hub. The legs are pivotable outward from stowed positions to preset operational pivoted positions. The user can select a preset operational pivoted position in which outward pivoting of a leg will stop based on moving an actuator between preset locations. |
| US11841105B2 |
Systems and methods for maintaining structures
A motorized apparatus includes a body assembly and a maintenance device mounted to the body assembly. The maintenance device is configured to perform a service operation on a surface. The maintenance device extends from the body assembly at an angle. The motorized apparatus also includes a plurality of leg assemblies coupled to the body assembly and configured to support the body assembly and the maintenance device at a distance from the surface. The motorized apparatus further includes at least one actuator assembly coupled to the plurality of leg assemblies and configured to independently actuate each leg assembly of the plurality of leg assemblies. The at least one actuator assembly is configured to receive instructions related to a position of the maintenance device and actuate the plurality of leg assemblies to adjust an orientation of the body assembly and the maintenance device relative to the surface. |
| US11841104B2 |
System and method for equalizing pressure in ionization chamber of radiation device
A system for equalizing a pressure in an ionization chamber of a radiation device is provided. The system may include the ionization chamber including: a chamber housing including one or more chamber walls; a chamber volume inside the chamber housing, the chamber volume being filled with a radiation sensitive material; and a pressure adjustment apparatus operably coupled to the chamber volume via at least one wall of the one or more chamber walls, the pressure adjustment apparatus being configured to equalize a first pressure of the radiation sensitive material inside the chamber volume and a second pressure of ambient air outside the chamber housing. |
| US11841100B2 |
Pipe fixing device and method for manufacturing the same
A pipe fixing device includes a fixing portion formed in a channel shape in which a first space therein is opened to an outside through an opening formed in an upper portion; and a support coupled to a lower portion of the fixing portion and made of steel-making slag, wherein a part of upper end edges of the fixing portion corresponding to a front and a rear of the opening is formed to be bent toward the first space. |
| US11841096B2 |
Universal pipe sleeve junction for an aspirated smoke detection system
Methods, devices, and systems for a universal pipe sleeve junction for an aspirated smoke detection system are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a sleeve body having an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface defining an opening through the sleeve body, wherein the sleeve body further includes a first end surface and a second end surface opposite the first end surface, and a nozzle having an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface of the nozzle defining an opening through the nozzle and extending through to the inner surface of the sleeve body, where the nozzle opening is configured to couple with a pipe sleeve attachment mechanism. |
| US11841092B2 |
Stem seals with triangular rings
A pressure-tight stein cylinder seal and a self-energizing stein shoulder seal matching the stein cylinder seal that both use an equilaterally triangular soft ring as their sealing element, wherein their designing rules are first, by means of wedging function of a hard gland coaxial with the stein cylinder, to convert their original axial tightening force 2f respectively into a radial compression force 4f/√3 of their soft ring 04 on the stein 02 cylinder and another radial compression force 2f of their soft ring 06 on the stein 02 shoulder and ensure that the two soft rings are so compressed from a great room to a small room as to be able to pass a pressure or stress exactly to each different direction, then to cut off their off-stein corners to give their cavities an opening or give each soft ring an axial compressing allowance, and last, by means of anti-extrusion metallic C-rings without axial resistance, to close each opening to provide a full support for the sealing deformation of their soft rings compressed in their cavities. |
| US11841091B2 |
Directional control valve
A directional control valve includes: a housing having a cylindrical spool hole communicating with an inlet port letting a fluid from an external supply source at a predetermined pressure and an outlet port flowing the fluid to a working cylinder; a spool movable in the spool hole axially and changing an amount of flow of the fluid; a first solenoid driving section having a first needle coupled to or integral with a first end portion of the spool and driving the spool; and a second solenoid driving section having a second needle coupled to or integral with a second end portion of the spool and driving the spool, the directional control valve including a pressure equalization circuit equally applying a pressure to the end portions. |
| US11841090B2 |
Capacity control valve
A capacity control valve includes a valve housing; a rod configured to be driven by a solenoid; a CS valve formed by a CS valve seat and a CS valve element configured to open and close a communication between the control port and the suction port; a DC valve formed by a DC valve seat and a DC valve element arranged movably with respect to the CS valve element, the DC valve being configured to open and close a communication between the discharge port and the control port in accordance with movement of the rod; and a pressure drive portion coupled to the CS valve element to be movable in an integrated manner with the CS valve element and arranged in a suction fluid supply chamber formed in the valve housing and to which the suction fluid is supplied, the pressure drive portion being driven by the suction pressure. |
| US11841085B1 |
Piston actuated cartridge valve
A piston actuated cartridge valve (PACV) can be formed within a fluid fitting such as a tee or cross member in a fluid piping system. The PACV includes a base mount extending between first and second ends having a stop and a slide positioned therein. The slide is movable between a closed position and a fully open position by an actuation piston and spring working in combination. The slide permits fluid flow therethrough in the open position and restricts fluid flow in the closed position. |
| US11841084B2 |
Valve spool with flow force mitigation features
An example spool includes a spool body varying in diameter along a length of the spool body, thereby forming a plurality of lands of variable diameters, wherein a land of the plurality of lands is configured to control fluid flow from a workport passage formed in a valve worksection to a return cavity; and a plurality of axial grooves formed in a circular array about a circumference of the land, wherein the plurality of axial grooves comprises a first set of axial grooves and a second set of axial grooves, wherein an axial length of axial grooves of the second set of axial grooves is greater than a respective axial length of axial grooves of the first set of axial grooves, allowing the axial grooves of the second set of axial grooves to engage the return cavity before the axial grooves of the first set of axial grooves. |
| US11841081B2 |
Transmission lock for electric vehicle
A park lock for an output drive gear includes a pawl, a rotational cam, and a rotational spring. The pawl has an engagement protrusion that extends outward from a body disposed on a pawl rotational shaft, such that rotation moves the engagement protrusion toward the output drive gear. The rotational cam rotates such that a circumferential side engages with a portion of the pawl opposite the engagement protrusion, causing rotation of the pawl about the rotational pawl shaft to move the engagement protrusion towards the output drive gear. The rotational spring maintains tension on the pawl and cam such that the engagement protrusion maintains an engagement with the output drive gear based on rotation of the cam and a speed of the output drive gear. |
| US11841079B2 |
Method for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle
A method for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle includes: sensing a speed of the vehicle; sensing an acceleration of the vehicle along three spatial axes; determining that the vehicle is in a jump state associated with the vehicle being off a ground surface, the jump state being defined at least in part by the acceleration of the vehicle along the three spatial axes and the speed of the vehicle; and controlling the transmission according to a jump strategy in response to determining that the vehicle is in the jump state. Other methods for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle are also contemplated. |
| US11841077B2 |
Motor vehicle having a control element for selecting a vehicle operating mode from a plurality of defined vehicle operating modes
A motor vehicle has a control element for selecting a vehicle operating mode from a plurality of defined vehicle operating modes. Furthermore, the motor vehicle has at least one drive motor and an electronically controllable, automated transmission, which is operable in at least one automatic program and in at least one manual program. The motor vehicle also has an electric control arrangement and at least one button for triggering a changeover from an automatic program to a manual program. The electronic control arrangement is configured such that, upon activation of the button for triggering a manual program for a predefined minimum duration by the driver, an operating mode, which is not selectable via the control element based on dynamics, independent of the activation of the control element, is automatically activatable and displayable on the display instead of a selectable operating mode. |
| US11841075B2 |
Oil storage structure of transmission case
The oil storage structure includes an oil pan that closes a lower opening of the transmission case and forms an oil pool in a lower space inside the transmission case, and a strainer having a suction port for oil located in the oil pool. The suction port for the oil is provided so as to face a bottom wall portion of the oil pan with a gap in between, and the bottom wall portion of the oil pan is provided with a protruding portion protruding toward the suction port, with the protruding portion being formed in a direction across the suction port as viewed from the bottom wall portion. |
| US11841074B2 |
Transmission mechanism
A transmission mechanism includes a housing, a first rotating member accommodated in the housing and rotatable about a first rotating member axis, and a lubricating member accommodated in the housing and containing a lubricant. While the first rotating member rotates about the lubricating member, the lubricating member applies a preload to and comes into contact with a part of the first rotating member on the basis of an elastic force, so that the part of the first rotating member is lubricated with the lubricant. |
| US11841073B2 |
Shaft retention mechanism and speed reducer
A shaft retention mechanism of the present invention includes: a casing forming a housing space containing a lubricant; an input shaft penetrating a through-hole formed in the casing, the input shaft extending through the casing; a sealing ring encircling the input shaft in the through-hole, the sealing ring sealing between the input shaft and the casing; and a bearing disposed on an opposite side of the sealing ring to the housing space, the bearing rotatably supporting the input shaft in the through-hole. |
| US11841070B2 |
Differential transmission apparatus
A differential transmission apparatus including: a case that is rotatable around rotation axis that has shaft hole; pinion pin that extends parallel to rotation axis; pinion shaft that is supported by case, that has axial end portion passing through shaft hole of the case, and that bears rotation torque around rotation axis from case via axial end portion when axial end portion is in contact with peripheral wall portion of shaft hole in conjunction with a rotation around the rotation axis of the case; a pinion gear that is rotatably supported around the pinion shaft; and a side gear that meshes with the pinion gear, in which on an end surface in an axial direction of the pinion shaft, the pinion shaft has a groove portion that extends in an extending direction of the pinion pin, and in which the pinion pin is fitted into the groove portion. |
| US11841067B2 |
Transmission structure
A transmission structure of the present invention changes capacity of pump body so that vehicle speed detected by vehicle speed sensor increases and reduces according to speed-increasing and speed-reducing operations of speed-change operating member while fixing capacity of motor body at a low-speed motor capacity when the vehicle speed is equal to or lower than a switching speed that is realized by setting motor body to the low-speed motor capacity and setting the pump body to a predetermined pump switching capacity, and changes capacity of motor body so that vehicle speed increases and reduces in accordance with speed-increasing and speed-reducing operations of speed-change operating member while fixing capacity of the pump body at the pump switching capacity when vehicle speed is higher than the switching speed. |
| US11841061B2 |
Damper device
A damper device includes a first rotor, a second rotor, and an elastic coupling part elastically coupling the first and second rotors in a rotational direction. The elastic coupling part includes first and second elastic members that are each initially disposed in a compressed state in a neutral condition without relative rotation between the first rotor and the second rotor. The first elastic member is transitioned from the compressed state to a free state and then further compressed when torsion of the first rotor with respect to the second rotor is caused from the neutral condition to a first side in the rotational direction. The second elastic member is transitioned from the compressed state to the free state and then further compressed when the torsion of the first rotor with respect to the second rotor is caused from the neutral condition to a second side in the rotational direction. |
| US11841060B1 |
Isolation system and method
An isolation system and method are disclosed. The isolation system includes a beam that includes a first end and a second end. The isolation system may include at least one clamping block comprising first elastomeric material, and the first end may be coupled with the first elastomeric material by the at least one clamping block. An end condition of the buckling beam may be varied based on compression stiffening of the first elastomeric material. |
| US11841057B2 |
Electro-mechanical brake and vehicle comprising the same
An electro-mechanical brake and a vehicle including the same are provided. As an electro-mechanical brake according to an aspect of the present invention, an electro-mechanical brake including a pair of brake pads disposed on both sides of a disc, may include a motor that provides a rotational driving force; a rotating screw that rotates about a second rotating shaft parallel to a first rotating shaft of the motor; a power transmission unit that transmits the rotational driving force of the motor to the rotating screw; and a piston that is coupled to the rotating screw to be able to move forward and backward to press the disc with the brake pads. |
| US11841055B2 |
Hydraulic cylinder for controlling a friction clutch in a motor vehicle
A hydraulic cylinder is provided which has a body forming a hydraulic chamber, in which a tubular piston made of thermoplastic material slides. An insert is locked in an internal cavity of the piston and has a spherical seat configured to receive and retain a spherical head of a rod connectable to a control pedal. The insert is made of thermoplastic material and forms a plurality of flexible fins adjacent to the spherical seat. The flexible fins have retaining elements protruding in a radially internal direction to hold the spherical head of the rod. A tensile force exerted by the rod away from the insert is transferred to a body of the piston by a stop ring. |
| US11841048B1 |
Bearing and bearing liner
The present invention is directed at products and methods related to the manufacture of a bearing with a bearing liner and the bearing liner on its own. The bearing liner within the bearing includes a fabric with a bonding side polymerized resin composition dispensed on one side and a sliding side polymerized resin composition disposed on a second side that contains dispersed lubricant. The liner preparation also offers the ability for the liner to conform to a selected bearing surface. |
| US11841047B2 |
Adjustable joint assembly
A joint assembly including a housing including an inner diameter portion having a tapered surface; and at least one shaft having an outer diameter portion having a tapered surface that is complementary in shape to the inner diameter portion of the housing, where the shaft is adapted to rotate relative to the housing, and where the frictional fit is adjustable by modifying the axial position of the shaft relative to the housing. |
| US11841044B2 |
Retainer and a retainer and nut assembly
A retainer comprises first and second legs extending away from a base wall. In one embodiment, the first leg includes a dimple array surrounding an aperture and projecting from an inboard surface of the first leg. In another embodiment, the first leg has a necked portion having a set of first shoulders extending away from a first base, and a first apertured portion extending away from the set of first shoulders. The second leg has a necked and stepped portion having a step extending away from a second base, and a shouldered portion extending away from the step and having a set of second shoulders extending laterally outwardly, and a second apertured portion extending away from the second shoulders. The retainer of either embodiment may be coupled to a nut to produce a retainer and nut assembly. |
| US11841042B2 |
Quick-release interconnect
The quick release interconnect includes a mount member that includes a cleat and a top hanger seat. An attachment member includes a lower jaw that is spring-biased into an open condition that can be secured closed by a cam-lock lever. An upper jaw hanger is also provided to permit the attachment member to be hung on the top hanger seat while the attachment member and object are oriented in place. The upper jaw hanger member is located over the top hanger seat and then the attachment member is rotated in place so the lower jaw is aligned with the cleat. The cam lock lever is rotated to clamp the lower jaw into communication with the cleat portion of the mount member to secure the attachment member securely to the mount member. To release the attachment member, the process is reversed. |
| US11841036B2 |
Laminar flow restrictor and seal for same
Apparatuses for controlling gas flow are important components for delivering process gases for semiconductor fabrication. These apparatuses for controlling gas flow frequently rely on flow restrictors which can provide a known flow impedance of the process gas. In one embodiment, a flow restrictor is disclosed, the flow restrictor constructed of a plurality of layers, one or more of the layers having a flow passage therein that extends from a first aperture at a first end of the flow restrictor to a second aperture at a second end of the flow restrictor. |
| US11841034B2 |
Method for manufacturing a piston rod unit and a hollow shaft
A piston rod unit and a method for producing a piston rod unit, or a shaft, in light-weight construction, with a rod which is hollowly-drilled by means of a deep bore into the rod shank, and the resulting rod opening is closed subsequently by means of a forging process. |
| US11841032B2 |
Fan assembly with components for quick assembly
A fan assembly designed for quick assembly and disassembly can include a housing, a fan and a motor disposed within the housing, a first guard located on a first side and a second guard located on a second side of the housing. The fan assembly can include a tensioner mechanism provided on an exterior of the housing to secure the first and the second guards to the housing. The fan assembly can be assembled by securing a plurality of struts to an interior side of a housing, mounting a fan and motor to the plurality of struts, inserting first and second guards within the housing proximate the inlet and outlet ends, and tensioning the first and second free ends of the housing to secure the first and second guards within the housing. |
| US11841031B2 |
Compressor sensor mount
The disclosed technology generally relates to a compressor housing that includes a main housing portion and an end housing portion. The main housing portion is configured to house a compressor motor and an inlet housing. The inlet housing is configured to receive vapor refrigerant downstream of the compressor motor. The main housing portion and the end housing portion are configured to interface at a mating surface of the respective housing portions and define a volume. The end housing portion includes a sensor cavity extending into the volume toward an opening of the inlet housing. |
| US11841023B2 |
Blowers having noise reduction features
Blowers having noise reduction features are provided. A blower may include a main body defining an airflow path therethrough, the main body extending between and defining an inlet end and an outlet end. The blower may further include an inlet muffler provided at the inlet end. The inlet muffler includes a plurality of inlet ports, each of the plurality of inlet ports including a peripheral surface defining a port aperture therethrough. At least one of the plurality of inlet ports further includes a damper material provided on the peripheral surface of the at least one inlet port and further defining the port aperture therethrough. |
| US11841022B2 |
Control system for electric fluid moving apparatus
A control system is provided for an electric motor configured to drive a fluid moving apparatus to generate a fluid-flow. The control system includes a drive circuit configured to regulate power supplied to a stator of the motor to turn a rotor and generate the fluid-flow, and a processor that computes a value proportional to at least one of a system resistance or a static pressure for the fluid moving apparatus based on a fixed set point for a first control parameter and a feedback parameter. The processor receives a fluid-flow rate demand and computes an operating set point for a second control parameter based on the fluid-flow rate demand and the value proportional to the system resistance or the static pressure. The processor controls the drive circuit based on the operating set point to supply power to the motor and operate the fluid moving apparatus to generate the fluid-flow. |
| US11841020B2 |
Variable volume ratio screw compressor
A screw compressor, method of operating, and refrigerant circuit are disclosed. The screw compressor includes a suction inlet that receives a working fluid to be compressed. A compression mechanism is fluidly connected to the suction inlet that compresses the working fluid. A discharge outlet is fluidly connected to the compression mechanism that outputs the working fluid following compression by the compression mechanism. A valve assembly is configured to vary a location at which the compression mechanism compresses the working fluid, the valve assembly being disposed to modify a suction location of the screw compressor. |
| US11841019B2 |
Rotary piston compressor and system for temperature conditioning with rotary piston compressor
A rotary piston compressor (1) for a system for temperature conditioning comprises a rotor (19) mounted in a housing (21), wherein the rotary piston compressor (1) is designed in such a way that the rotor (19) rotates in a first direction in a first operating state and rotates in a second direction opposite to the first direction in a second operating state, and wherein, in the first operating state, a first compressor connection (3) is designed to supply a heat transfer medium (17), and a second compressor connection (5) is designed to discharge the compressed heat transfer medium (17), and wherein, in the second operating state, the second compressor connection (5) is designed to supply the heat transfer medium (17), and the first compressor connection (3) is designed to discharge the compressed heat transfer medium (17). |
| US11841016B2 |
Rotor for an eccentric screw pump and method for the manufacture thereof
A method of manufacturing a metallic rotor of an eccentric screw pump, comprising clamping a workpiece extending along a central longitudinal axis in a workpiece clamping device and removing material from the workpiece by cutting with a cutting tool. The invention further comprises not producing the surface of the rotor in a three-axis whirling process, using the cutting tool to produce the outer surface geometry of the rotor, advancing the cutting tool along an axis of advance that is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the rotor, and rotating the cutting tool about an axis of tool rotation that is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the rotor. |
| US11841015B2 |
Fluid-injected compressor installation
A fluid-injected compressor installation (1) comprises a screw compressor (2) with a compression housing (4) in which a pair of compressor rotors (6a, 6b) are mounted. A drive motor (3) drives the compressor rotors. An inlet (7) and an outlet (8) on the screw compressor (2) supply a gas and discharge compressed gas. A gear transmission (20) between the shaft (16) of one of the compressor rotors and the motor shaft (11), includes a driven gear (18) and a driving gear (19); a motor bearing (21) on the motor shaft (11) next to the driving gear (19); and a dynamic seal (25) next to the motor bearing (21), on the drive motor (3) side, such that the motor bearing (21) is between the driving gear (19) and the seal (25). |
| US11841014B1 |
Scroll compressor
A scroll compressor is provided. In the scroll compressor, a valve accommodating groove that accommodates a discharge port and bypass holes is recessed by a predetermined depth into a rear surface of a non-orbiting scroll, and a valve guide is disposed between the rear surface of the non-orbiting scroll and a rear surface of the back pressure chamber assembly facing the rear surface of the non-orbiting scroll. Bypass valve guide holes into which bypass valves that open and close the bypass holes are slidably inserted are formed in the valve guide. Accordingly, the bypass valves that suppress or prevent overcompression in compression chambers are not fastened to a non-orbiting end plate, which may allow the non-orbiting end plate to be reduced in thickness. As the non-orbiting end plate is reduced in thickness, lengths of the bypass holes may be reduced, thereby decreasing dead volumes in the bypass holes. |
| US11841006B2 |
Estimating wind direction incident on a wind turbine
Systems and methods for estimating a direction of wind incident on a wind turbine, the wind turbine comprising a tower; a rotor-nacelle-assembly (RNA) carried by the tower; a deflection sensor configured to sense a position of the RNA or a deflection of the tower; and a wind direction sensor. One approach includes: obtaining deflection training data from the deflection sensor; obtaining wind direction training data from the wind direction sensor; training a machine learning model on the basis of the deflection training data and the wind direction training data in order to obtain a trained machine learning model; obtaining further deflection data from the deflection sensor; inputting the further deflection data into the trained machine learning model; and operating the machine learning model to output a wind direction estimate on the basis of the further deflection data. |
| US11841004B2 |
Controller and control method for a wind turbine
A controller structure for a wind turbine having an aerodynamic rotor with at least one rotor blade, wherein the controller structure is designed to control a rotation speed of the rotor of the wind turbine, wherein the controller structure is designed as a cascade control arrangement and has an outer control loop and an inner control loop, wherein the inner control loop receives an input signal which comprises a change in the rotation speed, an acceleration of the rotation speed, a function of the change in the rotation speed and/or a function of the acceleration of the rotation speed. |
| US11841003B2 |
Wind turbine with a yaw system
A wind turbine comprising a tower (2) with a tower wall and having at least one nacelle (3) mounted thereon, and a yaw system (1) interconnecting the tower (2) and at least one nacelle (3) is disclosed. The yaw system (1) comprises a yaw claw (4) comprising an upper radially extending part (5), a lower radially extending part (6) and an axially extending part (7) interconnecting the upper radially extending part (5) and the lower radially extending part (6), thereby defining a space. A sliding bearing connection with at least two axial sliding surfaces (9, 10) and at least one radial sliding surface (11) is arranged between the yaw claw (4) and a flange (8) arranged in the space defined by the yaw claw (4). At least one yaw drive (13) comprising a toothed gear (14) is arranged in meshing connection with a toothed yaw ring (12). The axially extending part (7) of the yaw claw (4) and the meshing connection between the toothed gear (14) and the toothed yaw ring (12) are arranged at the same side of the tower wall. |
| US11841002B2 |
Monitoring a wind turbine based on a predicted future thermal condition of a wind turbine electrical component
Method and apparatus for monitoring a wind turbine having an electrical component. An exterior temperature and power loss associated with the electrical component is obtained, and a thermal model describing the electrical component is executed, based on the exterior temperature and power loss, to determine an internal temperature of the electrical component. A further thermal model describing the electrical component is executed, based on the internal temperature and an exterior component temperature, to predict a future thermal condition of the electrical component in order to monitor operation of the wind turbine. |
| US11841000B2 |
Method and a device for dampening movement in a multiple rotor wind turbine located at sea
A method and a device for dampening movement in a multiple rotor (MR) wind turbine located at sea and comprising a tower (2) extending in an upwards direction, a load carrying structure (3, 4) forming a first section (3) and a second section (4), the first and second sections extending in different directions away from the tower (2). To provide efficient dampening of the movement, the method comprises tethering a first body (20) to the first section (3), the first body being at least partly submerged into the sea. |
| US11840998B2 |
Hydraulic turbine cavitation acoustic signal identification method based on big data machine learning
The present invention provides a hydraulic turbine cavitation acoustic signal identification method based on big data machine learning. According to the method, time sequence clustering based on multiple operating conditions under the multi-output condition of the hydraulic turbine set is performed by utilizing an neural network, characteristic quantities of the hydraulic turbine set under a steady condition in a healthy state is screened; a random forest algorithm is introduced to perform feature screening of multiple measuring points under steady-state operation of the hydraulic turbine set, optimal feature measuring points and optimal feature subsets are extracted, finally a health state prediction model is constructed by using gated recurrent units; whether incipient cavitation is present in the equipment is judged. The present invention can effectively identify the occurrence of incipient cavitation in the hydraulic turbine set, reducing unnecessary shutdown of the equipment and prolonging the service life. |
| US11840996B2 |
Variable energy ignition systems, methods, and apparatuses
Systems, apparatuses, and methods of controlling an ignitor are disclosed. A method includes: receiving, by a controller, fuel quality data regarding a fuel for a spark-ignition engine; determining, by the controller, a fuel quality metric based on the fuel quality data; and controlling, by the controller, an ignition energy characteristic of an ignitor in response to the fuel quality metric. |
| US11840992B2 |
EGR pump system with overhung rotors
An exhaust gas recirculation pump system for an internal combustion engine includes an EGR gas source and an electric motor assembly. A roots device is coupled to the electric motor. The roots device includes a housing defining an internal volume wherein the housing includes a radial inlet port receiving the EGR gas source and an outlet port expelling the EGR gas from the housing. Rotors are disposed in the internal volume and connected to the electric motor. A transmission housing is attached to the housing. The transmission housing includes journals formed therein receiving bearings that support the rotors on only a single end of the rotors. |
| US11840990B2 |
Fuel vapor treatment apparatus
A fuel vapor treatment apparatus includes a controller configured to detect an abnormality in at least one of a first check valve, a second check valve, a second purge passage, a charging passage, and an ejector based on pressure detected by a pressure detector. |
| US11840989B2 |
Heat exchanger with partition wall interposed between different flow paths
Provided is a heat exchanger in which first flow paths for flowing a first fluid and second flow paths for flowing a second fluid are arranged adjacent via a partition wall through which heat exchange is performed. The partition wall includes parallel tubular partition walls inside of which is the first flow paths. At least a part of the tubular partition walls in a flow path direction are integrally coupled to form a partition wall coupling portion having a geometric pattern in transverse cross section. An element figure of the geometric pattern corresponding to a transverse cross-sectional shape of the tubular partition wall is connected to each other at a vertex, and the number of sides of the element figure gathering at the vertex is an even number. In the partition wall coupling portion, the second flow paths are defined between outer peripheral surfaces of the surrounding tubular partition walls. |
| US11840987B2 |
Cascade thrust reverser assembly for a gas turbine engine
A cascade thrust reverser assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a nacelle assembly defining a bypass passage. The cascade thrust reverser assembly includes a cascade assembly configured to be at least partially enclosed by the nacelle assembly, the cascade assembly comprising one or more cascade members, the one or more cascade members movable between a stowed configuration wherein the one or more cascade members define a first radial extent and a deployed configuration wherein the one or more cascade members define a second radial extent, wherein the one or more cascade members form a cascade segment in the deployed configuration, and wherein the second radial extent is greater than the first radial extent. |
| US11840981B2 |
Thermal barrier coating member
At least one thermal barrier coating member mounted on an inner wall surface, facing a combustion chamber of an engine, of a cylinder liner accommodating a piston slidably along an axial direction, is provided with: a base layer configured to be detachably fitted into a recess formed in the inner wall surface of the cylinder liner; and a thermal barrier coating layer formed on an opposite side of the base layer from the inner wall surface of the cylinder liner. The thermal barrier coating layer is disposed above a piston ring which is positioned at an uppermost position in the axial direction of the cylinder liner when the piston reaches top dead center. |
| US11840979B1 |
Gaseous fuel engine system and operating method for same
Operating a gaseous hydrogen fuel engine includes controlling an injection timing of a gaseous hydrogen fuel injected into a flow of pressurized intake air so as to produce a leading cooling flow of pressurized intake air into a cylinder in an engine, a trailing purging flow through an intake conduit, and a middle flow of both pressurized intake air and gaseous hydrogen fuel into the cylinder. Undesired combustion such as preignition and/or backfire can be limited. Related apparatus and control logic is also disclosed. |
| US11840977B2 |
Method of controlling fuel injection after cranking
A method of controlling fuel injection subsequent to engine start, comprises: a) at, or after synchronization, in respect of a potential upcoming firing or injection event for a particular cylinder, determining or selecting a first injection profile; b) determining if there is sufficient time for the first injection profile to be implemented; and c) if so, implementing the said first injection profile with respect to said event. |
| US11840976B2 |
Control device for engine
A control device for an engine is provided, which includes a combustion chamber formed by a cylinder and a piston, an intake air amount adjuster that adjusts an intake air amount supplied to the combustion chamber, a controller switchable of a combustion mode between a fuel-lean first combustion mode and a stoichiometric second combustion mode based on an engine operating state, and an intake air cooler that cools the intake air supplied to the combustion chamber. The controller controls the intake air cooler to start intake air cooling in response to a request for switching the combustion modes, and after the intake air cooling is started, controls the intake air amount adjuster to start the switching of the combustion modes, and then controls the intake air cooler and the intake air amount adjuster so that the switching of the combustion modes ends after the intake air cooling is finished. |
| US11840966B1 |
Tuning engine parameter estimator using gas path analysis data
An engine parameter estimation tuning system includes an engine parameter estimator unit and a gas path analysis (GPA) unit. The engine parameter estimator unit includes an onboard model (OBM) configured to output estimated parameters based on operation of a gas turbine engine. The gas path analysis (GPA) unit includes a performance health monitor unit configured to adjust a long-term deterioration parameter independently from adjustment of a short-term tuning parameter to tune one or more targeted estimation parameters included in the estimated engine parameter. In this manner, the engine parameter estimation tuning system can realize the different time scales associated with uncertainties in an engine and accommodate them separately so that the estimated engine parameters become much more accurate. |
| US11840960B2 |
Gas turbine engine
A gas turbine engine including a compressor that compresses air taken in; a combustor that sprays a fuel into the compressed air and combusts the fuel; a turbine rotated by energy of the combustion gas generated by the combustor; a rotating shaft coupling the compressor and the turbine; a rear bearing that is a cageless ball bearing including an inner race, an outer race, and a ball, the inner race being fixed to a portion of the rotating shaft which portion is close to the turbine; a housing to which the rear bearing is attached; and a rear bearing holding member that is interposed between the rear bearing and the housing and holds the outer race of the rear bearing such that the outer race of the rear bearing is movable in an axial direction relative to the housing. |
| US11840958B2 |
Turbofan with offset gas generator and auxiliary power core
A gas turbine engine includes a fan positioned at an engine central longitudinal axis, and a fan drive turbine located at the engine central longitudinal axis and configured to drive rotation of the fan. A gas generator is non-coaxial with the fan drive turbine and operably connected to the fan drive turbine such that exhaust from the gas generator drives rotation of the fan drive turbine. An auxiliary power core is located at the engine central longitudinal axis, and one or more bleed passages connect the gas generator and the auxiliary power core. The one or more bleed passages are configured to selectably combine a bleed airflow from the gas generator and an auxiliary core airflow at the auxiliary power core to direct the combined airflow to the fan drive turbine to increase output of the fan drive turbine. |
| US11840955B2 |
Internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, in particular for a car
An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle includes a combustion chamber in which a first tumble-shaped current of a fuel-air mixture is settable. A pre-chamber spark plug is allocated to the combustion chamber which has a pre-chamber which is fluidically connected to the combustion chamber via a plurality of openings where via the plurality of openings a part of the fuel-air mixture flows out of the combustion chamber and into the pre-chamber. The plurality of openings are formed such that the part of the fuel-air mixture that flows into the pre-chamber via the plurality of openings has a second tumble-shaped current where the second tumble-shaped current is opposite to the first tumble-shaped current. |
| US11840954B2 |
Spark ignited engine with a pre-chamber, a prechamber and an adapter insert for the engine
A spark ignited engine is disclosed. The spark ignited engine includes a main combustion chamber and a cylinder head at least partially surrounding the main combustion chamber. A spark plug having a central axis is arranged in the cylinder head and an ignition end of the spark plug faces the main combustion engine. A pre-chamber with at least two nozzles is arranged in the main combustion chamber and connects the ignition end and the main combustion chamber via the at least two nozzles. A pre-chamber volume ratio corresponds to a ratio of a volume of the pre-chamber to a volume of the main combustion chamber at a top-dead-center and is between 1.9% and 3.1%. A nozzle factor corresponds to a ratio of a summed flowed-through area of the at least two nozzles to the volume of the pre-chamber and is between 0.085 l/cm and 1.15 l/cm. |
| US11840953B2 |
Closed control loop with ammonia slip and NOx sensor feedback for use in selective catalytic reduction system
A selective catalytic reduction system control system (10) and method of its use include an ammonia (“NH3”) slip sensor (13) located within an interior space (27) of an exhaust stack (15) of a selective catalytic reactor (31), toward an inlet end (25) of the stack (15); a housing (17) located within the interior space of the exhaust stack; the housing including face panels 19; a nitrogen oxides (“NOx”) sensor (11) contained within an interior space (29) defined by the face panels of the housing, at least two of the face panels (19I, 19O) containing an oxidation catalyst; and a dosing controller (59) in communication with the NH3 and NOx sensors, the dosing controller including a microprocessor with dosing logic embedded thereon. The housing with oxidation catalyst acts as a linear box, isolating the NOx sensor from NH3 slip, linearizing the NOx sensor signal. |
| US11840952B2 |
Dosing conduit arrangements for exhaust aftertreatment system
An aftertreatment device includes flow guides disposed within a dosing conduit. Exhaust enters through a perforated region of the dosing conduit and passes through the flow guides. The flow guides induce swirling or other turbulence to mix injected reactant with the exhaust gas. Various types of flow guides include cantilevered vanes, guide passageways, and louvered openings of a second conduit. Some types of flow guides induce localized mixing to inhibit deposit formation at the doser mounting unit. Other types of flow guides induce mixing downstream of the dosing conduit. |
| US11840951B1 |
Exhaust gas burner assembly
An exhaust system for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust pipe having a central axis and configured to receive an exhaust gas flow from the engine, a catalytic converter disposed within the exhaust pipe, and an exhaust gas burner assembly having a burner unit configured to generate and supply a heated burner flow to a supply pipe. An outlet end of the supply pipe is disposed within the exhaust pipe and extends substantially parallel to the exhaust pipe central axis such that the exhaust gas flows around the supply pipe outlet end. A plurality of mixing apertures are formed in the supply pipe outlet end and configured to promote mixing of the heated burner flow and the exhaust gas flow to disperse heat over the catalytic converter for rapid heating thereof. |
| US11840948B2 |
Silencer for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine
A silencer for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine includes a silencer housing which surrounds a silencer interior and which has at least two housing portions which are adjacent to each other in an abutment region. The two housing portions are connected to each other. The silencer housing has at least one housing opening formed therein and an outlet pipe extends through the silencer housing in the region of the housing opening. The housing opening is completely formed in one of the two housing portions. |
| US11840942B2 |
Variable capacity turbocharger
A variable capacity turbocharger includes a nozzle flow path which allows a gas to pass from a scroll flow path toward a turbine impeller, a shroud side ring and a hub side ring which face each other in a rotation axis direction of the turbine impeller and form a nozzle flow path therebetween, a bearing hole which is provided in the shroud side ring, a bearing hole which is provided in the hub side ring, and a nozzle vane which is disposed in the nozzle flow path and is supported by both bearing holes. A center axis line of the bearing hole is located on the inside in a radial direction in relation to a center axis line of the bearing hole at a room temperature, and the center axis line is located on the outside in the radial direction in relation to the center axis line during operation. |
| US11840940B2 |
Turbine blade tip cooling hole supply plenum
A turbine blade includes a blade tip defining pressure side cooling apertures. The turbine blade defines a serpentine cooling passage having a first, second, and third legs, and first and second junction portions. The first leg extends radially and is connected to the second leg by the first junction portion proximate the blade tip. The second leg extends radially between the first and second junction portions. The second junction portion connects the second leg to the third leg which extends radially toward the blade tip and is connected to a trailing edge cooling aperture to exhaust the gas to an exterior of the turbine blade. The turbine blade defines a plenum connected to the first junction portion. At least one tip cooling aperture connects to the plenum and is radially outward of the third leg and axially aftward of at least a portion of the third leg. |
| US11840939B1 |
Gas turbine engine with an airfoil
A turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section. Fuel combusted in the combustion section drive stages of airfoils in the turbine section to drive the compressor section. The airfoils can include a geometry near or at the trailing edge with a linear portion provided between the pressure side and a first curved portion, to reduce shock generated in the wake of the airfoils. |
| US11840933B2 |
LiDAR based FOD detection for gas-turbine engines
A foreign object debris (FOD) detection system for a gas turbine engine comprises a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor assembly. The LiDAR sensor assembly is configured to scan a pre-determined volume within an inlet of the gas turbine engine. The inlet may be defined by a nacelle of the gas turbine engine. The LiDAR sensor assembly may comprise a single transceiver, a transmitter and a receiver, a plurality of transmitters and a receiver, or a plurality of receivers and a transmitter. |
| US11840926B2 |
Non-invasive time-based sag testing apparatus
Time-based sag in a fluid can be measured non-invasively using a time-based sag testing apparatus by measuring the change in rotational inertia over time of fluid having no initial density gradient and a center of mass initially coincident with its geometric center. |
| US11840917B2 |
Magnetic downhole monitoring system
A magnetic downhole monitoring system includes a sensor configured to be lowered into a wellbore and to sense a well parameter. The sensor is housed in a magnetic material. A magnetic joint is configured to be attached to an inner surface of a wellbore tubular installed within a wellbore completion. The magnetic joint is configured to be electromagnetically activated to attract and attach to the sensor. A power cable is configured to be lowered into an annulus between the wellbore completion and the wellbore tubular. The power cable is configured to provide power through the wellbore tubular to electromagnetically activate the magnetic joint. |
| US11840916B2 |
System and method for monitoring abandoned subsea wells with wet Christmas tree
There is disclosed a system for monitoring abandoned subsea wells with a Wet Christmas Tree (WCT) comprising a Control Module to be installed on a modified abandonment cap and a Communication Module coupled beneath the ROV to perform the communication with the control system of the Control Module by way of an electric jumper and supply hydraulic power to the control system by way of an hydraulic jumper. The system is useful for wells with a VCM or three VCMs. In this case, the modified abandonment caps are used. The monitoring method of the abandoned subsea wells with WCT is also described. |
| US11840914B1 |
Multi-stage perforation and shock wave combined device and method for initial fracture enhancement
A multi-stage perforation and shock wave combined device and method for initial fracture enhancement are provided. The multi-stage perforation and shock wave combined device for initial fracture enhancement includes a perforating gun and a shock wave excitation nipple, where the perforating gun is configured to fire perforating bullets into a formation to form initial fractures; the shock wave excitation nipple is connected to the perforating gun, and includes an energetic rod capable of exploding after excitation and a feeding assembly; the feeding assembly includes a pushing head, a reciprocating spring, and a feeding spring; and the reciprocating spring is configured to push the pushing head, so as to push a spare energetic rod into a target position. |
| US11840911B2 |
Fracturing method with synergistic effects of energy enhancement, oil displacement, huff and puff, imbibition, and displacement
Disclosed is a fracturing method with synergistic effects of energy enhancement, oil displacement, huff and puff, imbibition, and displacement, comprising the following steps: selecting a well that has never been fracted as a fracturing well; dividing the target layer into several fracturing intervals; performing perforating operations on each fracturing interval of the fracturing well; injecting pore cleaning fluid into the fracturing well to perform pore cleaning and acidizing pretreatment on each cluster perforation; designing fracturing construction parameters; alternately injecting slick water fracturing fluid and oil-displacement slick water fracturing fluid into each of the fracturing layers. The beneficial effects of this disclosure are: the construction method of slick water fracturing fluid with high pump rate and large displacement can form a more complex fracture network structure, tap the production potential of the target reservoir, and further improve the stimulation effect of the reservoir. |
| US11840905B2 |
Stage tool
A method of closing a stage tool in a wellbore includes releasing a closing tube into the wellbore; attaching the closing tube to the stage tool; and expanding the closing tube, thereby closing a port of the stage tool. |
| US11840902B2 |
Well abandonment
A method of recovering casing from a wellbore in which: a logging tool is run to an estimated stuck point of the casing through the central bore of the casing spear and casing cutter; the casing spear is attached to the casing and tension applied so that logging can be performed over a length at an estimated stuck point both with and without tension to provide the verified stuck point; and the casing cutter is positioned relative to this to cut the free casing; and the spear used to remove it. The method can be performed on a single trip. Embodiments include incorporating a packer to circulate fluid during casing cutting; a disconnect, anchor mechanism and motor to allow use of a motor to operate the cutter; and a Down Hole Power Tool with a method of establishing the required force to recover a length of stuck casing. |
| US11840900B2 |
Well abandonment and slot recovery
A vibratory casing recovery bottom hole assembly and a method of recovering casing in a wellbore. The vibratory casing recovery bottom hole assembly includes a casing spear, a flow modifier and a dynamic amplification tool. The flow modifier produces cyclic variations in fluid pressure through the assembly at a first frequency and the bottom hole assembly is configured to have a natural or resonant frequency when vibrated to be near or at the first frequency. The dynamic amplification tool induces vibration in the bottom hole assembly while ensuring the dynamic amplification factor of the system is greater than one so as to transmit maximum vibration to the casing at the casing spear. Embodiments of dynamic amplification tools are described. |
| US11840899B2 |
Well abandonment and slot recovery
A method of recovering casing in a wellbore using a vibratory casing recovery bottom hole assembly. In a vibratory casing recovery bottom hole assembly having a casing spear, a flow modifier and one or more further elements including a shock sub. The flow modifier produces cyclic variations in fluid flow through the assembly at a first frequency and at least one of the elements is configured to have a natural or resonant frequency when vibrated to be near or at the first frequency. By tuning elements of the bottom hole assembly to be close or at the frequency of the output of the flow modifier, the dynamic amplification factor of the system is maximised and longer lengths of casing can be recovered. A method of recovering casing using the vibratory casing recovery bottom hole assembly is also described. Further embodiments include a casing cutter and a hydraulic jack. |
| US11840896B2 |
Fluid collecting device and method
An apparatus and method for collecting fluid from a drill string or borehole casing includes a collection casing having means for sealably engaging around a drill string or borehole casing to create a chamber between the interior of the collection casing and the drill string or borehole casing, and one or more fluid nozzles for directing cleaning fluid into the interior of the chamber. The one or more nozzles are configured to direct cleaning fluid to impact the inwardly facing interior surface of the collection casing. |
| US11840894B1 |
Method and device for connecting to a conductor pipe
The connector body attaches to the bowl for a rotating head assembly. The connector body welded to the bowl secures the conductor pipe to the bowl. An inner aperture of the connector body accepts the bowl and the conductor pipe. Fasteners insert into the connector body to secure the conductor pipe within the connector body. An attachment shoulder that extends inward from the outer wall narrows the inner aperture. The bowl rests on top of the attachment shoulder. The bowl inserts vertically downward into an upper opening of the connector body to the attachment shoulder. The conductor pipe inserts into a lower opening of the connector body. The fasteners insert radially into the connector body to secure the conductor pipe within the connector body. The attachment shoulder limits movement of the bowl and the conductor pipe within the inner aperture of the connector body. |
| US11840892B2 |
Hand-actuated earth auger
A hand-actuated earth auger of the type used to drill water wells, for taking soil samples, or other similar purposes is disclosed. It consists of a spiral or bladed earth drill, extended with one stem rod consisting of one or more stem segments, and one tee handle mounted on a handle collar. The handle collar can be clamped at any height along the stem rod, while the tee handle can be attached to the handle collar in two configurations, resulting in two different heights of the handle. These features allow the operator to lift the auger out of the ground by doing a seated calf raise in two quick increments, corresponding to the two configurations of the tee handle. It also allows the stem rod to be assembled of fewer, but longer stem segments, thus saving on cost. |
| US11840887B2 |
Support connector lock
An improved roller shade system provides increased support, additional adjustments and/or increased safety. The slip plate allows the brake to slip forward and minimize damage to the clutch spring when a user pulls too hard on the hembar. The center drive mechanism extends through a bracket to allow the drive shaft to distribute power in both directions and drive two shade tube simultaneously. The tube adapter absorbs force from the spinning shade tube to minimize damage to the other components and the bead chain. The sprocket has a back wall supporting the sprocket, allowing the sprocket 130 to rest on the back flange of the sun gear to minimize pressure on the gears. An adjustment arm is adjusted to help level the shade band. The shade bands may be removed without disturbing the other shade bands in the system. A height of a hembar may be adjusted by rotating a rod within the hembar. |
| US11840886B2 |
External motor drive system adjusting for creep in window covering system with continuous cord loop
A drive system for raising and lowering a window covering includes a motor, a driven wheel configured to engage a continuous cord loop, a controller for the motor, a sensor, and a housing. The continuous cord loop includes an endless loop of flexible material and one or more sensor targets disposed on the endless loop of flexible material. The housing supports a guide rail adjacent the driven wheel. The sensor is mounted to the guide rail and is configured to generate a signal indicating presence of each sensor target when the target is located in proximity to or in contact with the sensor. The controller is calibrated to store an initial position of each sensor target along the continuous cord loop, and is configured to receive the signal indicating presence of the sensor target and to identify a drift from the initial position during continuing operation of the drive system. |
| US11840882B2 |
Water-blocking device
The present disclosure provides a water-blocking device including a water-blocking plate installed on a floor of a passage, rails installed on both sidewalls of the floor, and a driving part configured to lift and lower the water-blocking plate, wherein, when the driving part is operated, the water-blocking plate is lifted and lowered along the rails. |
| US11840878B2 |
Profile system
A profile assembly includes two profile elements, a profile connecter element, and at least one fastening element connecting the two profile elements to each other using the profile connecter element. The first profile element includes guide channels for receiving two leg parts of the profile connecter element. The first profile element includes at least one fastening channel for receiving the fastening element. The second profile element includes a U-shaped recess for receiving the profile connecter element. In the base, the profile connecter element and second profile element in the bottom of the U-shaped recess thereof respectively include at least one mounting opening corresponding to the fastening channel for passing the fastening element there-through. At least the second profile element is formed in several parts and includes two shell parts in the direction of interior and exterior rooms. The profile shell parts are connected to each other, yet thermally insulated. |
| US11840866B2 |
Bolt mechanism with door position sensor
An exemplary bolt assembly includes a housing, a bolt, and a magnetic sensor. The housing includes a tubular sleeve configured for mounting in a latch bore of a door. The bolt is movably mounted to the housing for movement between an extended position and a retracted position. The magnetic sensor includes wires that extend through the tubular sleeve, and is operable to transmit information relating to an open/closed position of the door. |
| US11840865B2 |
Pull handle structure
A pull handle structure includes a carrier mounted on a first object, a pull handle movably assembled to the carrier, and a limiting section located on the pull handle for connecting to, interfering with or engaging with a second object. By operating the pull handle to move the carrier, the first object can be engaged with or separated from the second object. Therefore, the pull handle structure has the advantages of being securely lockable in place and operable in an easy, convenient, effortless and quick manner. |
| US11840863B2 |
Key having a catch and a replaceable blade, lock, and operating method thereof (variants)
Proposed is a group of inventions relating to locking mechanisms, containing keys which can be separated into parts and which have catches and a plurality of replaceable blades which fit a plurality of locks, the replaceable blades of the keys of all of said locks attach to the catches of one key part having a bow, thus reducing the weight and overall size of a bunch of keys, allowing a person to carry only one key part having a bow and a plurality of key blades pertaining to different locks, reducing the weight and size of a bunch of keys, and a lock having corresponding mating mechanisms, increasing the security of the locking mechanism. The drawing shows the position of two catches on a key shank, using the example of a key to a pin-tumbler mechanism. |
| US11840861B1 |
Selectively securable, magnetically attachable and removable, foot activated doorway opener, preferably for horizontally sliding screen doors
A pair of foot-contacting components are magnetically coupled on both sides of the bottom frame of a corner of a sliding screen door. The magnetic coupling holds the components to one another about the frame and near to the door's lower corner. The components have foot or toe contact surfaces so that either component can be contacted by a foot or toe in such a manner that lateral movement of the user's foot or toe against the component will slide the door open or closed in its trackway. The components are shaped to facilitate contact with the user's toe/foot and are easy to put onto the door and selectively removed. The magnets are molded into components (preferably made of silicone, rubber, hard plastic, etc.) and can be quickly placed onto the door and removed. |
| US11840856B1 |
Tree climbing tarp securing cuff
The tree climbing tarp securing cuff includes a tree cuff, a plurality of wheels, a plurality of motors, a motor controller, and a receiver. The tree cuff may climb a trunk of a tree to elevate an end of a rope that is removably coupled to the tree cuff. The plurality of wheels may be exposed on the interior of the tree cuff and may be turned by the plurality of motors to propel the tree cuff up and down the trunk. The tree cuffs may be used in groups to suspend a tarp via a plurality of ropes. As non-limiting examples, the tree cuffs may suspend the tarp higher than a user can reach to provide shade or to keep rain off of a tent or a picnic table. |
| US11840855B2 |
Umbrella pole protecting device
An umbrella pole protecting device is a protective sleeve for the lower pole section of a pool-side umbrella. In other words, the device is a protective sleeve that covers the lower pole section of an umbrella to prevent potential contact of water. Further, the device includes a gasket for providing a water-proof seal between the sleeve and the pole section of the umbrella. Additionally, a water-resistant coating on the protective sleeve prevents the sleeve from being subjected to water damage. Thus, the present invention is a simple yet effective solution for preventing damage of lower pole section of a pool umbrella. |
| US11840849B2 |
Light weight composite deck panelling
A light weight composite deck panel comprising at least two pre-defined shaped and sized foams that are encapsulated with multiple layers of the bi-directionally and/or uni-directionally oriented synthetic glass fabric and the resin system and the encapsulated foams are arranged in a pre-defined configuration of the deck with at least one joint; said composite deck panel is cured. A process and assembly for manufacturing the light weight composite deck panels of the invention is disclosed. |
| US11840841B2 |
Self-sealing construction material
A construction material that is a laminate including a nonwoven comprising a super absorbent material and a method of self-sealing liquid transport through the construction material in proximity to punctures in the laminate. |
| US11840839B2 |
Apparatus for cleaning gutters and methods of use
A tool for cleaning gutters includes a specialized nozzle that may be attached to a leaf blower via a set of rigid tubing. The nozzle transitions from a tubular shape into a mouth-like opening with a first projection in opposed, spaced relation to a second projection. The tool is particularly well suited to removing debris from gutters with the nozzle in contact with a gutter and made to expel high-velocity air. |
| US11840838B2 |
Gutter cleaners and methods associated therewith
A gutter cleaner comprising: a fan assembly configured to generate airflow to blow debris from a gutter; a cage at least partially disposed around the fan assembly and configured to prevent ingress of clogging debris into the fan assembly; and at least one wheel configured to roll along the gutter and at least partially support the gutter cleaner, wherein the at least one wheel is non-powered, and wherein the gutter cleaner is self-aligning on the gutter. |
| US11840837B2 |
Roofing products with improved nail zone, roofing systems and methods for installing them
The present disclosure relates generally to roofing products, for example, shingles suitable for covering and protecting the roofs of houses, buildings, and other structures. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a roofing shingle including an upper edge, a lower edge, a first end, a second end, a headlap section, and an exposed section. A nail zone extends across the roofing shingle from the first end to the second end within the headlap section. The roofing shingle includes a top shingle layer including a top surface and a bottom surface. A reinforcement strip is secured to the bottom surface of the top shingle layer and overlaps with the nail zone. Further, a self-sealing material is disposed within the nail zone and is configured to form a seal around a mechanical fastener that punctures the roofing shingle in order to secure the roofing shingle to an underlying roof structure. |
| US11840836B2 |
Structural wall panel system
A structural panel system formed from a substrate (such as cement board or paper) and structural metal studs (such as lightweight galvanized steel members), where the metal studs are embedded within an insulating core that is formed onto the substrate, where the metal studs are gapped from the inner surface of the substrate to prevent thermal energy from transferring from the substrate to the metal stud or vice versa. In addition, parallel assembly slots may be formed in the gap at the top and bottom ends of each panel assembly to provide connective access to the top and bottom ends of the metal studs for structural connection to the foundation at the bottom or other overhead structure at the top via connective components. The connective components include a bottom U-channel member and a top U-channel member that are configured to fit into the parallel assembly slots. |
| US11840831B2 |
Hidden-drain sink
A sink that includes a door that is positioned to visually obscure the drain, wherein the door can be opened by the user to access the drain when needed. The door includes a door adjustment mechanism that can allow for the door to be opened by a user and then held open without requiring user intervention. The door adjustment mechanism can also be configured to release the door and allow it to close through the actions of the user. In one or more examples, the door can be positioned so that a gap exists between an edge of the door and a basin portion of the sink. The gap can be large enough to allow for water to flow from the basin of the sink to the drain, but small enough to allow for the drain to be visually obscured. |
| US11840828B2 |
Faucet assembly with integrated anti-scald device
Fluid supply assemblies for fluid systems are provided, including faucet assemblies (e.g., electrically or mechanically actuated faucet assemblies) having an integrated anti-scald device and having an integrated temperature mixing valve. An exemplary faucet assembly includes an integrated temperature mixing valve, and/or an integrated anti-scald device configured to stop the inlet flow of hot water in the event the mixed outlet water temperature exceeds a user-selected set point. The faucet assemblies can prevent scalding as defined by ASSE 1070. |
| US11840826B1 |
Hydraulic health system
A system and method for determining a health status of a hydraulic system is disclosed. The system may comprise a controller configured to receive a request to determine a health status and in response to the request, automatically conduct a health test and determine the health status. The health test may include: move a member or the upper frame; receive information indicative of measurements associated with movement; determine one or more parameters; compare each parameter to a check range or value; and if the pump status, the main control valve leakage status, the in-line relief valve leakage status, the cylinder drift status or the cylinder seal leak status associated with the component is currently failing, predicted to fail or out of specification, identify the component as a service-needed on a display or log and activate an alarm. |
| US11840824B2 |
Hydraulic machine
Provided is a hydraulic machine. A pump pressurizes fluid using power provided by a power source. An actuator works using the pressurized fluid from the pump. A recovery part recovers energy from fluid discharged from the actuator. A first operator input device receives a desired input from operator to select an eco-mode or a boost mode. The recovery part includes an accumulator storing hydraulic energy by receiving the fluid discharged from the actuator and an assist unit assisting the power source using the hydraulic energy stored in the accumulator. The controller controls the pump such that output power of the pump does not exceed P1max when the eco-mode is selected or the assist unit does not assist the power source and that the output power does not exceed P2max when the boost mode is selected and the assist unit assists the power source, where P1max |
| US11840816B2 |
Brace assembly for a geosynthetic wrapped system used to construct stabilized earth walls and slopes
A bracing assembly for a geosynthetic wrapped system is provided. The bracing assembly includes a standing brace bar, a bottom brace bar, and a cross brace bar having different configurations to facilitate both easy and mistake free assembly of the bracing assembly. Furthermore, the standing brace bar and the bottom brace bar include guide tips that are sized and shaped to direct insertion of the standing brace bar and the bottom brace bar respectively into a weave of a geotextile fabric material such that a first connector of the bottom brace bar and a first connection slot of the standing brace bar are aligned together and with a fold line of the geotextile fabric material. |
| US11840814B2 |
Overriding control of motorized transport unit systems, devices and methods
Some embodiments include apparatuses providing control over movement of motorized transport units at a retail facility, comprising: multiple self-propelled motorized transport units; a wireless communication network; and a central computer system, wherein the central computer system comprises: a transceiver; a control circuit; and a memory storing computer instructions that when executed cause the control circuit to: receive an override command, from a worker associated with the retail facility, to cause a first motorized transport unit of the multiple motorized transport units to implement one or more actions; confirm a valid authorization of the worker to override one or more operating limits of the first motorized transport unit; and override the one or more operating limits and communicate one or more instructions to the first motorized transport unit configured to cause the first motorized transport unit to implement the one or more actions in accordance with the override command. |
| US11840812B1 |
Steel-concrete composite bridge deck slab with steel tube-prefobond rib shear connectors and method for constructing same
A steel-concrete composite bridge deck slab with steel tube-perfobond rib shear connectors and a method for constructing the same. The steel-concrete composite bridge deck slab structurally includes a steel bottom plate, a concrete layer, transverse perforated steel plate units provided on the steel bottom plate, steel grids arranged on upper surfaces of the transverse perforated steel plate units and longitudinal steel tubes arranged in an inserted manner on the transverse perforated steel plate units. |
| US11840805B2 |
High efficiency fiber bleaching process
A high efficiency bleaching method for cellulosic pulp includes: (a) providing a charge of aqueous cellulosic pulp to a bleaching vessel at a consistency of from 10% to 30% along with a peroxy bleaching agent and an alkaline agent effective to adjust pH of the charge to 9.5 to 12.5; and (b) bleaching the aqueous cellulosic pulp in the bleaching vessel while maintaining a bleaching temperature of from 110° F. (43° C.) to 135° F. (57° C.) and a pH of the charge from 9.5 to 12.5 for an extended bleaching retention time. The bleaching method is advantageously used to bleach low brightness recycle pulp, and/or as part of a multistage process with bleaching stages of lesser duration, and/or as a high peroxy efficiency, low dose bleaching process or in connection with concurrently storing and bleaching pulp. |
| US11840799B2 |
Mesh member, sieve, and screen printing plate
To provide a mesh member such that a static charge can be suppressed. Provided is a mesh member including a mesh woven fabric and a coating layer that is formed on the surface of the mesh woven fabric and contains a carbon nanotube and/or graphene. |
| US11840797B1 |
Textile formulation and product with odor control
A textile formulation adapted to impart an odor-controlling property to a textile material. The textile formulation is an odor capturing formulation comprising a carrier and an odor capturing agent. The odor capturing agent is a liquid dispersible boehmite. An odor absorbing article and a method of treating the odor absorbing article is also provided. |
| US11840793B2 |
Washing machine
A washing machine includes a gasket that includes a plurality of nozzles and a plurality of port receiving pipes communicating with the plurality of nozzles, respectively, and a distribution pipe that includes a transport conduit and a plurality of outlet ports protruding from the transport conduit toward the gasket body. The transport conduit includes a first portion spaced apart from an outer circumferential surface of the gasket body. Among the plurality of outlet ports, a first lower outlet port protrudes from the first portion, and the first lower outlet port and the first lower port receiving pipe are coupled to each other in a space where the first portion of the transport conduit and the outer circumferential surface of the gasket body are spaced apart, so that the gasket and the distribution pipe are connected tightly. |
| US11840791B2 |
Washing method
A washing method according to the present invention comprises: a first rotation step for rotating an inner tub; a rotating direction detecting step for detecting the rotating direction of the inner tub; and a second rotation step for starting to rotate the inner tub in the opposite direction to the rotating direction of the inner tub when the rotation of the inner tub stops in the first rotation step. When the inner tub stops over a predetermined time and then restarts, the inner tub starts to rotate in the opposite direction to the rotating direction when the inner tub stops, thereby reducing the eccentricity of the inside of the inner tub, inhibiting collisions between the inner tub and an outer tub, reducing noise during collisions, and improving the rotation performance of the inner tub. |
| US11840787B2 |
Tufting tool module
A tufting tool module (10) for a tufting machine is provided. The tufting tool module comprises a plurality of tufting tools (20). The tufting tools have a head portion and a securing portion. The securing portion of each tufting tool is casted in a base block (12). The securing portions of each tufting tool is provided with at least two cut outs (26, 28) located inside the base block. By providing such cut outs it is possible to reduce the lateral pressure differences between the different tufting tools of the tufting tool module during casting of the base block. This is because the cast material, such as zinc, is allowed to move more freely within the cast during casting of the base block. Furthermore, the cut outs will during the cooling phase of the metal, e.g. zinc, control and stabilize the shrinkage so the tufting tools will not be dislocated. In other words, dislocation of the tufting tools during the casting process can hereby be reduced or eliminated. The result is a tufting tool module with improved tolerances. |
| US11840784B2 |
Sewing method and apparatus to increase 3D object strength
An addition to additive manufacturing sews a number of printed substrate sheets together using industrial sewing machine technology. Portions of the final 3D object that will be solid are sewn together into bundles of the object with a needle protruding through the top of the bundle via a sewing machine with a looping mechanism connecting the thread loops under each bundle of printed substrate sheet layers. This will result in many well connected stack bundles that are then stacked in alignment to form the final stack. During heat and compression, the stitch thread may bunch together and become entangled with the cooled plastic of the final solid 3D object. Removal of the excess substrate may proceed as usual, since the sewing is applied only in the solid portions of the final object. The end result will be a part with much higher strength in the Z axis. |
| US11840781B2 |
Systems and methods for thermally bonding fiber
A system for thermally bonding nonwoven fibers of assemblages of nonwoven fibers loosely held together may include a processing duct including an inlet end, an outlet end, and an intermediate portion extending between the inlet end and the outlet end. The system also may include one or more heat inlets located in the intermediate portion and configured to facilitate introduction of heat and air flow into the intermediate portion. The system further may include an inlet air feed at the inlet end and configured to separate the assemblages upon entry into the inlet end and propel the assemblages into the intermediate portion. The system also may include one or more heating devices configured to heat the assemblages as the assemblages are conveyed toward the outlet end to form processed assemblages, each of the processed assemblages including at least some nonwoven fibers adhered to one another. |
| US11840780B2 |
Atraumatic stent and method and apparatus for making the same
A method of braiding a stent includes braiding a number of elongate filaments around a mandrel using tensioned braiding carriers without spooling the filaments to the tensioned braiding carriers to form a braided stent having atraumatic ends. |
| US11840779B2 |
Braided medical device and manufacturing method thereof
An medical implantable occlusion device (100) is disclosed having a collapsed state and an expanded state and comprising a braiding (101) of at least one thread, and a distal end (102) comprised of said braiding. The distal end comprises loops (103, 104, 204, 304) formed by loop strands (105, 106, 206, 306) of the at least one thread, wherein, at least in said expanded state, each loop strand has a curved shape and extends away from a centre point (117) of the distal end, whereby an apex point (107, 108, 208, 308) of each of the loop strands corresponds to the turning point of the curved shape and to the point of each of the loop strands being arranged closest to the centre point. At least one of the loop strands is displaced from the centre point by a centre distance (109, 110, 210, 310), and the apex point lie at a distance from a periphery (113) of the distal end. |
| US11840778B2 |
Method and system to detect the presence of a broken needle in a needle textile machine
A method for detecting the presence of one or more faulty and/or broken needles in a circular or rectilinear textile machine including a plurality of needles to which yarns are fed from yarn feed devices associated with that machine, each yarn being fed to the textile machine with at least one of its tension, feed speed and quantity fed characteristics being kept monitored and equal to a constant value during the production of an article or part thereof, with the provision of monitoring apparatus for monitoring the at least one characteristic capable of monitoring its value throughout the stage of feeding to the textile machine; provision is made for monitoring the tension and the feed speed of the yarn to identify a periodic variation in the same indicating the existence of at least one broken or faulty needle in the textile machine. A system for implementing this method. |
| US11840771B2 |
Composition for tin or tin alloy electroplating comprising suppressing agent
Described herein is an aqueous composition including tin ions and at least one compound of formula I wherein X1 is selected from a linear or branched C1-C12 alkanediyl, which may optionally be interrupted by O or S or a C5 to C12 aromatic moiety, R11 is a copolymer of ethylene oxide and a further C3 to C6 alkylene oxide, wherein the content of ethylene oxide is from 5 to 30% by weight, R11 is selected from H, R11, R40, R13, R14 are (a) independently selected from H, R11, R40, or (b) may together form a divalent group X13; X13 is selected from a linear or branched C1-C12 alkanediyl, which may optionally be interrupted by O, S or NR43; R40 is H or a linear or branched C1-C20 alkyl, R43 is selected from H, R11 and a linear or branched C1-C20 alkyl. |
| US11840766B2 |
Etching metal using N-heterocyclic carbenes
An etchant is described that includes an N-heterocyclic carbene and optionally an appropriate solvent. The etchant was effective at etching a metallic surface having, for example, a metal oxide and/or metal, in both solution phase and vapour-phase. The etchant has been shown to effectively etch oxidized copper and tungsten. |
| US11840764B2 |
Laminate and method for preparing the same
The present disclosure relates to a laminate and a method for preparing the same. The laminate comprises a substrate, a coating layer, and a water-repellent layer sequentially laminated, the coating layer comprises a first coating layer and a second coating layer laminated one or more times alternately, the first coating layer comprises at least one metal oxide selected from a group consisting of a lanthanide metal oxide, a transition metal oxide, and a composite metal oxide comprising lanthanum metal and transition metal, the second coating layer comprises an alkaline earth metal fluoride and a transition metal oxide. |
| US11840763B2 |
Metal-coated steel strip
An Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy coated strip that has Mg2Si particles in the coating microstructure is disclosed. The distribution of Mg2Si particles is such that the surface of the coating has only a small proportion of Mg2Si particles or is at least substantially free of any Mg2Si particles. |
| US11840761B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus
Provided is a cooling device capable of controlling the temperature of an upper portion of a reactor, particularly, a gas supply device, for example, a shower head, by using a vortex tube. The cooling device may supply a cooling gas of a temperature lower than the temperature of the gas supply device heated to a high temperature, thereby easily controlling the temperature of the gas supply device. |
| US11840759B2 |
Method of forming tungsten film and system therefor
A method includes: forming a titanium nitride base film containing silicon by alternately repeating: precipitation of titanium nitride by alternately and repeatedly supplying a titanium-containing gas, and supplying a nitriding gas to a substrate on which a recess is formed; and precipitation of silicon nitride by alternately and repeatedly supplying a silicon-containing gas, and supplying a nitriding gas to the substrate; and subsequently, forming a tungsten film so as to bury tungsten in the recess in which the titanium nitride base film is formed, by alternately and repeatedly supplying a raw material gas containing a tungsten raw material and a reaction gas reacting with the raw material gas, to the substrate. A supply flow rate of the silicon-containing gas is adjusted so that a content of the silicon in the titanium nitride base film is high on an opening side rather than on an inner side of the recess. |
| US11840758B2 |
Display apparatus and methods
A display includes a plurality of pixel chips, chixels, provided on a substrate. The chixels and the light emitters thereon may be shaped, sized and arranged to minimize chixel, pixel, and sub-pixel gaps and to provide a seamless look between adjacent display modules. The substrate may include light manipulators, such as filters, light converters and the like to manipulate the light emitted from light emitters of the chixels. The light manipulators may be arranged to minimize chixel gaps between adjacent chixels. |
| US11840753B2 |
Reinforcement of a deposited structure forming a metal matrix composite
A method for forming a reinforced metallic structure includes providing a tool having a formation surface corresponding to a desired structure shape of the reinforced metallic structure. The method also includes positioning a plurality of fibers on the formation surface of the tool. The method also includes depositing a layer of material on the plurality of fibers using a cold-spray technique. The method also includes removing the layer of material with the plurality of fibers from the tool to create the reinforced metallic structure. |
| US11840751B2 |
Boron-based amorphous alloys and preparation method thereof
Boron-based amorphous alloys and a preparation method thereof is provided. The composition formula of the alloys is BaCobREcX1dX2eX3f, wherein RE is any one or more of La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy, Er and Y; X1 is any one or more of C, Si and Al; X2 is any one or two of Fe and Ni; X3 is any one or more of Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W; and a, b, c, d, e and f respectively represent atomic percent of each corresponding element in the formula, where: 45≤a≤55, 25≤b≤40, 10≤c≤20, 0≤d≤10, 45≤a+d≤55, 0≤e≤20, 25≤b+e≤40, 0≤f≤3, 10≤c+f≤20 and a+b+c+d+e+f=100. The preparation method of the boron-based amorphous alloy comprises: preparing master alloy ingots using an arc furnace or an induction melting furnace; and then obtaining amorphous ribbons with different thicknesses by a single copper roller melt-spinning equipment. |
| US11840747B1 |
Aluminum alloy material, aluminum alloy object and method for manufacturing the same
An aluminum alloy material includes 1.2 wt % to 3.0 wt % of Si, 0.1 wt % to 0.8 wt % of Mg, 0.2 wt % to 2.0 wt % of Cu, 0.5 wt % to 2.5 wt % of Zn, 0.2 wt % to 2.0 wt % of Ti, and the remainder being Al and inevitable impurities. The powder of the aluminum alloy material can be processed to form an aluminum alloy object. The aluminum alloy object may further include an anodized film on its surface. |
| US11840732B2 |
Diagnostic methods
A method for determining one or more tumour properties in a subject with a tumour, the method comprising:—seeding a cell-free scaffold obtained from the tumour with cancer cells;—culturing the cancer cells in the scaffold;—assaying the cultured cancer cells for the presence of target molecules indicative of the expression of one or more genes in the cells; and—determining one or more tumour properties based on the results of the assay. |
| US11840731B2 |
Method for diagnosing and treating subjects having single nucleotide polymorphisms in chromosome 2, 2:107,510,000-107,540,000 locus
Methods and products for identifying individuals who are likely to respond in a positive (benefit) or negative (harm) manner to a pharmacological drug treatment intended for treating or preventing a neuropsychiatric disorder, neurodegeneration, sleep-wake cycles such including and not limited to Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, autism and attention disorders based on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) chromosome 2, 2:107,510,000-107,540,000 locus (as disclosed in the Genome Reference Consortium Human genome build 37 (GRCh37)). |
| US11840728B2 |
Inhibition of nucleic acid polymerases by endonuclease V-cleavable oligonucleotide ligands
Provided are methods and compositions for activating oligonucleotide aptamer-deactivated DNA polymerases, comprising cleaving the aptamer by endonuclease V enzymatic activity to reduce or eliminate binding of the oligonucleotide aptamer to the DNA polymerase, thereby activating DNA synthesis activity of the DNA polymerase in a reaction mixture. Mixtures for use in methods of the invention are also provided. In some aspects, the oligonucleotide aptamer comprises one or more deoxyinosine nucleotides providing for aptamer-specific recognition and cleavage of the aptamer by the endonuclease V enzymatic activity. Exemplary oligonucleotide aptamers, mixtures and methods employing endonuclease V enzymatic activity are provided. The methods can be practiced using kits comprising a DNA polymerase-binding oligonucleotide aptamer and at least one endonuclease V enzymatic activity having oligonucleotide aptamer-specific recognition to provide for specific cleavage of the aptamer by the endonuclease V enzymatic activity. |
| US11840723B2 |
Methods for detection and quantification of infectious carbapenem resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE)
Provided herein are qPCR-based methods for quantitatively detecting and differentiating between live and dead pathogenic bacteria such as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). Also provided herein are simple, fast, and reliable genomic DNA extraction methods with improved efficiency. |
| US11840722B2 |
Diagnostic systems and methods
A diagnostic system is configured to perform first and second, different nucleic acid amplification reactions. The system includes a bulk reagent container compartment configured to store first bulk reagent container containing a first bulk reagent for performing sample preparation processes with a first subset and a second subset of a plurality of samples and a second bulk reagent container containing a second bulk reagent for performing the first nucleic acid amplification reaction. The system includes a unit-dose reagent compartment storing a unit-dose reagent pack including unit-dose reagents for performing the second nucleic acid amplification reaction. The system is configured to perform the sample preparation process using the first bulk reagent on the first and second subsets of the samples, perform the first nucleic acid amplification reaction using the second bulk reagent on the first subset of the samples, and perform the second nucleic acid amplification reaction using the unit-dose reagents on the second subset of the samples. |
| US11840721B2 |
Methods and devices for identifying microbial infections
The present disclosure generally relates to the field of microbial pathogen detection and identification utilizing genomic sequence recognition. |
| US11840718B2 |
Processes for producing ethanol
The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention. |
| US11840714B2 |
Enriching DHA in glyceride fractions
The present invention provides a method of producing a composition containing docosahexaenoic acid as a constituent fatty acid of glycerides. The method includes hydrolyzing a feedstock oil containing glycerides, the glycerides including docosahexaenoic acid as a constituent fatty acid, by action of a first lipase and a second lipase, to increase the proportion of docosahexaenoic acid in glyceride fractions. The first lipase is at least one lipase selected from the group consisting of a lipase obtained from a microorganism of the genus Thermomyces, a lipase obtained from a microorganism of the genus Pseudomonas, a lipase obtained from a microorganism of the genus Burkholderia, and a lipase obtained from a microorganism of the genus Alcaligenes. The second lipase is a partial glyceride lipase. |
| US11840713B2 |
Glucoamylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same
The present invention relates to glucoamylase variants having improved thermostability. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants. |
| US11840709B2 |
Mitochondria isolation
The present disclosure relates to methods and compositions for isolating mitochondria from cells and tissues. The methods provided herein are suitable for use in plants, animals, and fungi. |
| US11840708B2 |
Isogenic blood-brain barrier model
A method of creating an isogenic multicellular blood-brain barrier model from iPSCs is disclosed. |
| US11840706B2 |
Composition and method for generating a desired cell type and/or tissue type from hair follicular stem cells
The present invention is concerned with a composition and in vitro method for generating a desired cell type and/or tissue type from hair follicular stem cells. The composition and in vitro method are particularly suitable for generating an autologous desired cell type and/or tissue type. Furthermore, the composition and method are especially efficient and suitable for use in the context of cosmetic cell and/or tissue transplantation in recipient areas of a subject experiencing cell and/or tissue loss caused by, for example, a wound, scar, burn injury, tissue degeneration, and aging. The composition and in vitro method are also suitable to circumvent complications related to infections and/or immune rejection of a cosmetic cell and/or tissue implant or graft. |
| US11840699B2 |
Nucleotide sequences and corresponding polypeptides conferring modulated growth rate and biomass in plants grown in saline conditions
The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of improved plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants challenged with saline conditions. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are improved in saline conditions with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions. |
| US11840694B2 |
Truncated CRISPR-Cas proteins for DNA targeting
The present invention relates to a polypeptide comprising at least one at least one deletion selected from the group consisting of ΔHNH (Δ775-909), ARuvCIII-b (Δ1002-1074), AREC1-a (Δ510-655), AREC1-b (Δ525-587), AREC1-c (Δ662-710), AREC2 (Δ180-308), AREC2-a (Δ212-244), AREC2-b (Δ244-276), AREC2-c (Δ276-308), AREC2-d (Δ199-283), AREC2-e (Δ198-257), AREC2-f (Δ235-286), AREC2-g (Δ217-266), AREC3 (Δ498-712) and combinations thereof, wherein the position numbering is in accordance with SEQ ID NO: 1 encoding for S. pyogenes Cas9, and wherein the polypeptide has CRISPR-Cas DNA-binding activity. The polypeptide may further comprises a missense mutations selected from G12R, T13K, T13R, N14K, N497K, T657K, T657R, N767K, T770K, T770R, Q920K, Q920R, S1109R, D1135K, D1135R, S1338R and combinations thereof. Also claimed are nucleic acid molecules encoding for said polypeptides, compositions and method of site-directed engineering of a target DNA thereof. |
| US11840692B2 |
Angiopoietin-like 3 (ANGPTL3) iRNA compositions and methods of use thereof
The invention relates to double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) compositions targeting the ANGPTL3 gene, as well as methods of inhibiting expression of ANGPTL3 and methods of treating subjects having a disorder of lipid metabolism, such as hyperlipidemia or hypertriglyceridemia, using such dsRNA compositions. |
| US11840689B2 |
Method of treating fatty liver disease
The present disclosure provides methods of treating or preventing fatty liver disease and/or lowering cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels in a subject. The present disclosure further provides methods of lowering expression of Pleckstrin and Sec7 Domain Containing 3 (PSD3) in a subject. |
| US11840687B2 |
Nucleic acid library methods
Provided herein are methods, compositions, and kits for removing a portion of a sequence in a member of a nucleic acid library. |
| US11840686B2 |
Modulation of prekallikrein (PKK) expression
Disclosed herein are antisense compounds and methods for decreasing PKK mRNA and protein expression. Such methods, compounds, and compositions are useful to treat, prevent, or ameliorate PKK-associated diseases, disorders, and conditions. |
| US11840685B2 |
Inhibition of unintended mutations in gene editing
Provided are fusion proteins and related molecules useful for conducting base editing with reduced or no off-target mutations. The fusion protein may include a first fragment comprising a nucleobase deaminase or a catalytic domain thereof, a second fragment comprising a nucleobase deaminase inhibitor, and a protease cleavage site between the first fragment and the second fragment. Also provided are improved prime editing systems, including prime editing guide RNA with improved stability. |
| US11840684B2 |
Filter systems for separating microcarriers from cell culture solutions
A method for separating microcarriers from a medium includes transferring a suspension that includes medium, microcarriers and cells into a compartment of a filter assembly. The filter assembly includes: a container having an interior surface bounding the compartment; and a filter having a tubular stem with an encircling sidewall extending between a first end and an opposing second end, the first end being secured to the interior surface of the container and the second end projecting into the compartment of the container, a plurality of openings extend through the sidewall of the stem that are large enough to allow the medium and cells to pass therethrough while preventing the microcarriers from passing therethrough. The medium and cells within the compartment are allowed to pass through the plurality of openings of the filter while the microcarriers are retained within the compartment of the container. |
| US11840682B2 |
Cell culture cassette and automated apparatus
The invention concerns a cassette for cell culture comprising: an at least partially rigid housing internally defining an internal space inside which a cell culture bag defining an internal volume is arranged and attached; conduits each connected at one end to the internal volume of the bag and each having a second end situated outside the housing; and valves for enabling/preventing the flow of fluid through the conduits that are mounted on the housing. |
| US11840680B2 |
Dishwashing detergent formulations comprising polyaspartic acid and graft polymers based on oligo- and polysaccharides as film inhibiting additives
Described herein is a dishwashing detergent formulation, including (a) 1-15% by weight of the total composition of (a1) at least one of polyaspartic acid or modified polyaspartic acid or salts thereof, and (a2) at least one graft copolymer composed of wherein the weight ratio of (a1):(a2) is from 20:1 to 1:12; (b) 0-60% by weight of complexing agent; (c) 0.1-80% by weight of builders and/or cobuilders; (d) 0.1-20% by weight of nonionic surfactants; (e) 0-30% by weight of bleaches and bleach activators; (f) 0-10% by weight of enzymes and enzyme stabilizers; and (g) 0-50% by weight of additives. |
| US11840679B2 |
Automatic dishwashing composition
An automatic dishwashing composition having a ternary mixture of non-ionic surfactants comprising: i) a non-ionic surfactant having a high cloud point of 50° C. or above; ii) a non-ionic surfactant having a low cloud point below 50° C.; and iii) an ethylene oxide-propylene oxide block copolymer having a cloud point below 50° C. |
| US11840678B2 |
Mixture containing calixarenes, process for the production thereof and use thereof for preparing detergent compositions for lubricants
There are mixtures containing calixarenes of formula (I) with a reduced alkyl phenol and linear oligomer content and a preparation process thereof: wherein: a. R is selected between a linear or branched alkyl having a number of carbon atoms comprised between 4 and 40, more preferably between 4 and 24, even more preferably comprised between 8 and 18; b. n is the number of units of the calixarene cycle and is comprised in the range from 4 to 16, preferably between 4 and 12. Furthermore, there are detergent compositions containing overbased metal salts of calixarenes, a preparation process thereof, and a use thereof in lubricant compositions. |
| US11840667B2 |
Depolymerization of recovered plastic materials
Described herein are systems and methods for the depolymerization of polyethylene-based plastics. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that comprises combining a polyethylene-based plastic with a solvent in a reactor to generate a plastic solvent mixture, heating the plastic solvent mixture in the reactor, and fractionating the plastic solvent mixture into a gas phase product, a solid phase product, and a liquid phase product. In another embodiment, a system is disclosed that comprises a solvent, and a reactor configured to receive the polyethylene-based plastic and the solvent and convert the polyethylene-based plastic into a gas phase product, a solid phase product, and a liquid phase product, the reactor being configured to operate at a temperature greater than 275° C. and at a pressure greater than 2 megapascals. |
| US11840663B2 |
Development of ultra-high molecular weight (UHMW) branched block copolymer drag reducer with improved mechanical and chemical stability
A drilling fluid composition comprising a base fluid, and a drag reducing agent including an ultra-high molecular weight branched block copolymer having the following structure, where monomer A is an anionic monomer, monomer B is a hydrophilic monomer, monomer C is an anionic monomer, monomer D is a crosslinker-divinyl monomer, and -SSCZ ground being a terminal RAFT agent. |
| US11840659B2 |
Heat exchanging thermal liquid container
A heat exchanging thermal liquid container system that comprises a main body at least partially defining a liquid reservoir structured and operable to retain a liquid, and a phase change material (PCM) liner comprising a PCM liner PCM having a selected melting temperature, and/or at least one PCM pod. Each of the at least one PCM pod(s) comprising a respective PCM pod PCM having a respective selected melting temperature. Wherein the PCM liner and/or the at least one PCM pod are disposable within the liquid reservoir such that when a liquid is disposed within the liquid reservoir the liquid will contact at least one of the PCM liner and the at least one PCM pod such that thermal energy can be exchanged between the liquid and the respective at least one of the PCM liner PCM and the at least one PCM pod PCM. |
| US11840655B2 |
Yellow-red spectral quantum dot, synthesis method therefor and application thereof
The present disclosure provides a yellow-red spectral quantum dot, a synthesis method therefor and application thereof. The yellow-red spectral quantum dot has an alloyed structure of CdSe@CdZnSe/CdZnS or an alloyed structure of CdSe@CdZnSe/CdZnS/ZnS, the ZnS shell being one or more monolayers, and the fluorescence emission peak wavelength of the yellow-red spectral quantum dot being between 580 nm and 640 nm. |
| US11840652B2 |
Adhesive film and method for manufacturing electronic device
An adhesive film includes a base material layer; an adhesive resin layer (A) provided on a first surface side of the base material layer; and an adhesive resin layer (B) provided on a second surface side of the base material layer and in which an adhesive force is decreased by an external stimulus, in which, as measured by method 1, an integrated tacking force value (F2.5) of the adhesive resin layer (B) is 1.0 gf/sec or more at a test speed of 2.5 mm/min and a test temperature of 130° C., and an integrated tacking force value (F30) of the adhesive resin layer (B) is 7.0 gf/sec or more at a test speed of 30 mm/min and a test temperature of 130° C. |
| US11840647B2 |
Recyclable conductive adhesive composition for Led packaging and preparation method thereof, recycling method and recycled conductive silver powder
The present invention refers to a recyclable conductive adhesive composition for LED packaging and preparation method thereof, and its recycling method and the obtained recycled conductive silver powder, wherein the recyclable conductive adhesive composition for LED packaging comprises epoxy resin, epoxy resin diluent, curing agent containing imine bond, amine curing agent, curing accelerator, wetting dispersant, coupling agent, defoamer and conductive silver powder. The epoxy curing agent containing imine bond adopted in the present invention can introduce the dynamic imine chemical bond into the epoxy resin matrix of the conductive adhesive by curing reaction, and can endow the epoxy resin matrix with degradable function by its imine bond's feature of occurring dynamic exchange reaction with amine solvent under heating condition, therefore the conductive silver powder in the conductive adhesive can be recycled and reused. |
| US11840644B2 |
Radiation curable compositions for low gloss coatings
The present invention relates to radiation curable coating composition (I) consisting essentially of: —from 20 to 95 wt % of one or more (meth)acrylated compounds (a), —from 5 to 80 wt % of one or more metal salts of a C10 to C22 fatty acid (b), and —optionally, from 0 to 10 wt % of one or more additives (c), wherein the wt % of compounds (a) to (c) add up to at least 95%, preferably add up to 100%. Compositions of the invention are compatible with a whole range of radiation curable materials and with the standard additives like the standard matting agents. Compositions of the invention permit to obtain a dead matt effect using lower amounts of matting agents like silica and/or waxes. Dead matt effects can be obtained over a wide range of coating thicknesses. |
| US11840642B2 |
Composite film with anti-reflective coating
A composite film may include a first transparent substrate and a first anti-reflective coating overlying a first surface of the first transparent substrate. The first anti-reflective coating may include a first UV curable acrylate binder, a photo initiator component, and silica nanoparticles dispersed within the first anti-reflective coating. The first anti-reflective coating may further include a ratio AC1SiO2/AC1B of at least about 0.01 and not greater than about 1.3. The composite film may further have a VLT of at least about 93.0% and a haze value of not greater than about 3%. |
| US11840639B2 |
Coating compositions for application utilizing a high transfer efficiency applicator and methods and systems thereof
A system for applying a first, a second, and a third coating composition. The system includes a first high transfer efficiency applicator defining a first nozzle orifice. The system further includes a second high transfer efficiency applicator defining a second nozzle orifice. The system further includes a third high transfer efficiency applicator defining a third nozzle orifice. The system further includes a substrate defining a target area. The first, the second, and the third high transfer efficiency applicators are configured to expel the first coating composition through the first nozzle orifice to the target area of the substrate, through the second nozzle orifice to the target area of the substrate, and through the third nozzle orifice to the target area of the substrate. |
| US11840636B2 |
Water-resistant acrylic coatings
Water-resistant waterborne acrylic coating materials, systems and methods providing enhanced water resistance and durability are provided. Such coatings extend the service life of roofing systems that are exposed to ponding water and other extreme weather conditions. Coatings described herein exhibit superior water resistance attributes including one or more of water infiltration resistance, wet tensile strength and wet adhesion. |
| US11840634B2 |
Stretchable electrically conductive ink compositions
Provided herein are stretchable conductive inks consisting of a continuous polymer phase with dispersed silver flakes and a low melting metal or alloy, wherein initial resistivity is measured before elongation and the resistivity of the stretchable conductive ink composition is less than 10 times the initial resistivity at 50% elongation. |
| US11840630B2 |
Resin composition and article made therefrom
A resin composition includes 50 parts by weight of a vinyl-containing polyphenylene ether resin, 1 part by weight to 30 parts by weight of a styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer and 0.5 part by weight to 30 parts by weight of a zinc molybdate-covered silica, wherein the zinc molybdate-covered silica has a mass ratio of zinc molybdate to silica of between 1:9 and 2:8. The resin composition may be used to make various articles, such as a prepreg, a resin film, a laminate or a printed circuit board, and at least one of the following properties can be improved, including gel time stability, copper foil peeling strength, difference rate of dissipation factor and conductive anodic filament test. |
| US11840629B2 |
Polyalkylene carbonate-based resin, and method of preparing the same
The present disclosure relates to a polyalkylene carbonate-based resin having an excellent effect of suppressing a blocking phenomenon as well as excellent mechanical properties and thermal stability, a method of preparing the same, and a molded article prepared from the polyalkylene carbonate-based resin. |
| US11840628B2 |
Resin composition and article made therefrom
A resin composition includes 100 parts by weight of an unsaturated C═C double bond-containing polyphenylene ether resin; 15 parts by weight to 40 parts by weight of a hydrogenated styrene-butadiene-styrene triblock copolymer; 1 part by weight to 20 parts by weight of a compound of Formula (1); and 0.001 part by weight to 0.5 part by weight of a compound of Formula (2), a compound of Formula (3), a compound of Formula (4) or a combination thereof. Moreover, an article may be made from the resin composition, including a prepreg, a resin film, a laminate or a printed circuit board. |
| US11840627B2 |
Phenolic triazine silicon polymer resin blends
A resin composition that is useful in the preparation of protective coatings. The resin composition comprises a polyfunctional cyanate ester, a phenol-end-modified PDMS oligomer, and a catalyst. |
| US11840626B2 |
Poly alpha-1,3-glucan compounds
A poly alpha-1,3-glucan compound comprising: a) poly alpha-1,3-glucan, and b) a functionalized polyolefin; wherein said poly alpha-1,3-glucan compound comprises from 0.5 to 70 weight percent of poly alpha-1,3-glucan, based on the total weight of poly alpha-1,3-glucan (a) and functionalized polyolefin (b) in the poly alpha-1,3-glucan compound and wherein said functionalized polyolefin is grafted onto the poly alpha-1,3-glucan. These poly alpha-1,3-glucan compounds have many uses including films for packaging applications and as elastomers for automotive applications. |
| US11840624B2 |
Methods for forming stereospecific, polar functionalized polypropylene
Methods for forming polar-functionalized isotactic and syndiotactic polypropylenes are provided, including amino-functionalized polypropylene. In embodiments, such a method comprises contacting a propylene monomer and a polar monomer comprising an amine group in the presence of an organozirconium catalyst and in the absence of a masking reagent, under conditions to induce a polymerization reaction between the propylene and polar monomers, thereby forming polar-functionalized polypropylene. |
| US11840622B2 |
Process for regenerating a monolithic, macro-structural, inter-penetrating elastomer network morphology from ground tire rubber particles
Crumb rubber obtained from recycled tires is subjected to an interlinked substitution process. The process utilizes a reactive component that interferes with sulfur bonds. The resulting treated rubber exhibits properties similar to those of the virgin composite rubber structure prior to being granulated, and is suitable for use in fabricating new tires, engineered rubber articles, and asphalt rubber for use in waterproofing and paving applications. |
| US11840613B2 |
Z-pin for increasing delamination resistance
A Z-pin for increasing a delamination resistance of continuous fibre-reinforced polymer composites, formed of a composite material including a polymer matrix, and a plurality of fibres embedded in the polymer matrix and aligned along the length direction of Z-pin, the fibres having an elongation at break of at least 2% and a tensile strength of at least 5 GPa, the polymer matrix having an elongation at break equal to or greater than the elongation at break of the fibres, and a tensile strength of at least 120 MPa. |
| US11840611B2 |
Polyamide-based composite film and display device comprising same
The embodiments relate to a polyamide-based composite film that not only has excellent curl characteristics, mechanical properties, and optical properties, but also exhibits a privacy protection effect at a wide angle of view and glossiness characteristics similar to those glass at a main angle of view, and to a display device comprising the same. There are provided a polyamide-based composite film that comprises a base film comprising a polyamide-based polymer; and a functional layer disposed on the base film, wherein a glossiness control value according to Equation 1 is 0 or more, and a displace device comprising the same. |
| US11840607B1 |
Cross-linkable thermoplastics, and processes of making and using same
The invention relates to cross-linkable thermoplastics, processes of making such cross-linkable thermoplastics and products comprising such cross-linkable thermoplastics. Such cross-linkable thermoplastics provide articles made by the additive manufacturing (AM) process with increased strength, the desired in use temperature stability and the desired thermo-oxidative stability. |
| US11840601B2 |
Composition of alkoxysilyl-functionalized epoxy resin and composite thereof
An epoxy composition, a composite thereof, and an article including the same, in which the reactivity of the epoxy resin having an alkoxysilyl group is improved by a specific acrylic-based polymer resin, are provided. According to the present disclosure, an epoxy composition comprising an epoxy resin having an alkoxysilyl group, an acrylic-based polymer resin, and an inorganic filler, a composite thereof, and an article including the same are provided. The epoxy composition of the present disclosure shows an excellent thermal expansion property in a composite, and may be used in manufacture of semiconductor packaging and/or electrical and electronic components. |
| US11840600B2 |
Cured epoxy resin material, epoxy resin composition, molded article, and composite material
A cured epoxy resin, which is a cured product of an epoxy compound having a mesogenic structure and a curing agent having a molecular chain or a flexible backbone with a molecular weight of 100 or more, the cured epoxy resin having a smectic structure; a cured epoxy resin, which is a cured product of an epoxy compound having a mesogenic structure and a curing agent having a molecular chain or a flexible backbone with a molecular weight of 100 or more, the cured epoxy resin not having a smectic structure; an epoxy resin composition, comprising an epoxy compound having a mesogenic structure and a curing agent having a molecular chain with a molecular weight of 100 or more; and an epoxy resin composition, comprising an epoxy compound having a mesogenic structure and a curing agent having a flexible backbone with a molecular weight of 100 or more. |
| US11840598B2 |
Urethane resin
There is provided a urethane resin that is excellent in adhesive strength, and maintains high adhesive strength even after exposure to high temperature and humidity. A urethane resin obtained by reacting a glycol-modified aromatic hydrocarbon-formaldehyde resin (A) modified with a glycol with a polyisocyanate (B) having two or more free isocyanate groups in a molecule. |
| US11840597B2 |
Curable resin composition and cured product thereof
A curable resin composition for producing a three-dimensional object formed of a cured resin product comprises a polyfunctional urethane (meth)acrylate having a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 or more and 60,000 or less; a monofunctional radically polymerizable compound having one radically polymerizable functional group in a molecule; a polyfunctional radically polymerizable compound other than the polyfunctional urethane (meth)acrylate; rubber particles; and a radical polymerization initiator. The monofunctional radically polymerizable compound includes a monofunctional acrylamide-based compound, and the content of the polyfunctional radically polymerizable compound other than polyfunctional urethane (meth)acrylate (particularly one having a radically polymerizable functional group equivalent of less than 300 g/eq) is controlled. |
| US11840594B2 |
Polymerization catalyst system and process to produce highly reactive polyisobutylene
The present invention provides a method for producing highly reactive polyisobutylene by liquid phase polymerization of isobutylene or isobutylene containing feed stock, wherein at least 70 mole % of polymer chains in the polyisobutylene have exo olefin end groups. Further, the present invention provides a catalyst composition for polymerization, comprising of a Lewis acid complexed with at least two Lewis bases selected from sterically hindered ether and linear dialkyl ether; or a Lewis base complexed with at least two Lewis acids selected from aluminium halides mixture. The present invention additionally provides that Lewis acid with Lewis bases mixture or Lewis base with Lewis acids mixture constituting the catalyst show synergistic effect resulting in high isobutylene conversion and production of polyisobutylene having high exo olefin content, while maintaining desired molecular weight range of 250-10000 Dalton. |
| US11840591B2 |
In situ peelable protective barrier films
A water emulsion and film are provided comprising a polyacrylate random copolymer synthesized from acrylic acid (AA), butyl acrylate (BA), methyl methacrylate (MMA), and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate (EHA). The emulsion may be applied to a surface in liquid form, quickly drying to yield a peelable protective barrier film. |
| US11840585B2 |
Cellulose derivatives
The present invention provides a method for derivatizing cellulose pulp at high solids content or even at a fully dry state without pretreating the cellulose, the method comprising preparing a reaction medium comprising urea and at least one derivatization reagent; carrying out a chemical derivatization reaction between the at least one derivatization reagent and the cellulose pulp in a reaction system comprising the cellulose pulp in contact with the reaction medium; and optionally purifying and/or recovering the derivatized cellulose product. The present description also relates to products obtainable using said method. |
| US11840582B2 |
Synthesis method of cyclosporine derivatives
The present disclosure relates to a method of synthesizing cyclosporine derivatives. The method includes: providing a precursor fluid of the cyclosporine derivative, an alkaline fluid and a ClCH2OCOCl solution; premixing the precursor fluid and the alkaline fluid to obtain a premixed solution; feeding the premixed solution into a first reaction chamber, reacting to prepare a first reaction liquid; feeding the first reaction liquid into a second reaction chamber, reacting the first reaction liquid with a CO2 fluid to prepare a second reaction liquid; and reacting the second reaction liquid with the ClCH2OCOCl solution. |
| US11840581B2 |
α4β7 thioether peptide dimer antagonists
The invention relates to thioether monomer and dimer peptide molecules which inhibit binding of α4β7 to the mucosal addressing cell adhesion molecule (MAdCAM) in vivo. |
| US11840580B2 |
Host-guest metal organic framework systems
A method for producing Metal Organic Framework (MOF) having a framework that encapsulates a bio-molecule, the method comprising combining in a solution the bio-molecule and MOF precursors, wherein the bio-molecule promotes formation of the encapsulating framework. |
| US11840576B2 |
Methods for treating nephrotic syndrome
Described herein are methods for treating nephrotic syndrome using an anti-CD20 antibody. In one embodiment, that anti-CD20 antibody is Obinutuzumab. |
| US11840571B2 |
Methods of using bispecific molecules having immunoreactivity with PD-1 and CTLA-4
The present invention is directed to bispecific molecules (e.g., diabodies, bispecific antibodies, trivalent binding molecules, etc.) that possess at least one epitope-binding site that is immunospecific for an epitope of PD-1 and at least one epitope-binding site that is immunospecific for an epitope of CTLA-4 (i.e., a “PD-1×CTLA-4 bispecific molecule”). The PD-1×CTLA-4 bispecific molecules of the present invention are capable of simultaneously binding to PD-1 and to CTLA-4, particularly as such molecules are arrayed on the surfaces of human cells. The invention is directed to pharmaceutical compositions that contain such PD-1×CTLA-4 bispecific molecules, and to methods involving the use of such bispecific molecules in the treatment of cancer and other diseases and conditions. The present invention also pertains to methods of using such PD-1×CTLA-4 bispecific molecules to stimulate an immune response. |
| US11840565B2 |
Methods and compositions for treating virus-associated inflammation
The compositions and methods described herein include methods and agents that inhibit inflammasome signaling in a mammal such as antibodies directed against inflammasome components used alone or in combination with extracellular vesicle uptake inhibitor(s) or other agents. Also described herein are compositions and methods of use thereof for treating viral-associated lung inflammation, for example lung inflammation associated with viral infections such as SARS-CoV-2. |
| US11840563B2 |
Methods of treating cancer by administering inhibitory RNA molecules targeting protease serine 2 (PRSS2) expression
Provided herein are agents that inhibit the function (e.g., the ability to repress Tsp-1) of Protease, Serine 2 (PRSS2) by inhibiting the binding of PRSS2 to LRP1. Further provided herein are agents that bind to binding domain I of LRP1 and mimic the activity of prosaposin in stimulating Tsp-1 Methods of using these agents in treating cancer are also provided. |
| US11840560B2 |
Prodrugs and uses thereof
Prodrug compounds of GLP-1/GIP receptor co-agonists are provided wherein the GLP-1/GIP receptor co-agonists have been modified by the linkage of a dipeptide to the GLP-1/GIP receptor co-agonist through an amide bond. The prodrugs disclosed herein have extended half-lives and are converted to the active GLP-1/GIP receptor co-agonist at physiological conditions through a non-enzymatic reaction driven by chemical instability. |
| US11840555B2 |
Methods and compositions for antibody-evading virus vectors
The present invention provides AAV capsid proteins comprising a modification in the amino acid sequence and virus vectors comprising the modified AAV capsid protein. The invention also provides methods of administering the virus vectors and virus capsids of the invention to a cell or to a subject in vivo. |
| US11840553B2 |
Anti-CD47 antibodies and methods of use thereof
The invention relates to monoclonal and/or monovalent antibodies that bind CD47. The invention relates to monoclonal and/or monovalent antibodies that bind CD19. The invention also relates to novel bispecific monoclonal antibodies carrying a different specificity for each binding site of the immunoglobulin molecule, where one of the binding sites is specific for CD47. The invention also relates to novel bispecific monoclonal antibodies carrying a different specificity for each binding site of the immunoglobulin molecule, where one of the binding sites is specific for CD19. |
| US11840551B2 |
Compositions and methods of modulating the immune response by activating alpha protein kinase 1
The disclosure provides compositions and methods related to activating alpha-kinase 1 (ALPK1) for modulating an immune response and treating or preventing cancer, infection, inflammation and related diseases and disorders as well as potentiating an immune response to a target antigen. The disclosure also provides heterocyclic compounds of formula (I) as agonists of alpha protein kinase 1 (ALPK1) and their use in activating ALPK1, modulating an immune response and treating diseases such as cancer, wherein A1, A2, L1, L2, L3, Z1, Z2, W1, W2, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are defined herein. |
| US11840550B2 |
Silyl-biaryl phosphoramidites and methods of making
The present disclosure provides compounds that may be used as ligands in metal-catalyzed reactions, in particular 3,3′-bisilyl biaryl phosphoramidite compounds and processes for preparing the same. |
| US11840546B2 |
Imidazopyridazine compounds and uses thereof
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I), methods of using the compounds for inhibiting ALK2 activity and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. The compounds are useful in treating, preventing or ameliorating diseases or disorders associated with ALK2 activity such as cancer. |
| US11840545B1 |
Spirooxindole-copper complex as novel efficient anticorrosion agent for C-steel
New spirooxindole compounds are described herein, as well as the use of such spirooxindole compounds in forming copper complexes that act as efficient anticorrosion agents for C-steel. Also described are methods for forming the new spirooxindole compounds as well as anti-corrosion coatings containing the spirooxindole-copper complexes, CuL. |
| US11840544B2 |
Intermediates in the synthesis of C3-substituted cephalosporins
Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods for preparing intermediates in the synthesis of C3-substituted cephalosporins. One preferred C3-substituted cephalosporin of clinical interest is Cefovecin. Accordingly, the present invention provides for methods of preparing reactive halogen intermediates for use in the synthesis of C3-substituted cephalosporins, such as Cefovecin. In the case of Cefovecin the reactive intermediates are of the formula: |
| US11840542B2 |
Method for producing cyclic enol ether compound
Provided is a one-step method for producing an enol ether using a diketone of a macrocyclic compound as a starting material. A method for producing a compound represented by general formula (I) includes reacting a compound represented by general formula (II) in the presence of a metal catalyst containing at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of magnesium, aluminum, zirconium, titanium, and samarium, and an alcohol containing at least one selected from the group consisting of a primary alcohol and a secondary alcohol to obtain the compound represented by general formula (I). |
| US11840540B2 |
Dimers of covalent NFKB inhibitors
Provided herein are compounds and methods for modulating the NFκB pathway. More particularly, provided are inhibitors of the NFκB pathway and the uses of such inhibitors in regulating diseases and disorders, e.g., to treat cancer, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, or neurological diseases. |
| US11840538B2 |
Heterocyclic compounds and organic light emitting device using the same
Provided is a heterocyclic compound of Formula 1: and an organic light emitting device comprising the same. |
| US11840537B2 |
Preparation and application of a 5-bromoquinazoline derivative
A 5-bromoquinazoline derivative (I), structural formula thereof is as follows: the synthesis method thereof comprises weighing 1.18 g of 5-bromoisatin, 2.5503 g of ammonium formate and 100 ml of absolute methanol in a 250 mL round-bottom flask, heating, stirring and refluxing for 48 h, stopping reaction, rotating to obtain 1.6033 g of filter residue crude product, carrying out column chromatography separation by using dichloromethane and absolute methanol according to a volume ratio of 1:1, and obtaining a target crystal compound I; the application of the 5-bromoquinazoline derivative compound crystal (I), as a catalyst has a good catalytic effect in nitrile silicification reaction of benzaldehyde and auto-polymerization reaction of benzophenone hydrazone, the conversion rates thereof respectively reach 39% and 76%, and the crystal (I) can be used as an anti-cancer reagent which has certain anti-cancer activity of breast cancer, liver cancer and lung cancer. |
| US11840535B2 |
Alkynyl(hetero)aromatic compound for inhibiting protein kinase activity
Provided is an alkynyl(hetero)aromatic compound having an inhibitory effect to protein tyrosine kinase, a pharmaceutical composition comprising same, preparation and usage thereof. Specifically, disclosed is an alkynyl(hetero)aromatic compound as shown in formula (I), wherein rings A, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, L, and B are defined in the description, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a stereoisomer, a solvate, a hydrate, a crystal form, a prodrug or an isotopic variant thereof. The compound can be used for treating and/or preventing protein tyrosine kinase-related diseases, such as anti-tumor. |
| US11840533B2 |
Pyridinone-based epigenetic modifiers and uses thereof
Described herein are pyridinone-based compounds, derivatives thereof, and pharmaceutical formulations thereof. In some aspects, the pyridinone-based compounds, derivatives thereof, and/or pharmaceutical formulations thereof can be administered to a subject in need thereof. In some aspects, pyridinone-based compounds, derivatives thereof, and/or pharmaceutical formulations thereof can modulate an activity and/or a function of a BRD protein and/or BET protein. |
| US11840532B2 |
Modulators of THR-β and methods of use thereof
Disclosed herein are compounds of Formula I′: or a stereoisomer or a tautomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of treating disease by administering or contacting a patient with one or more of the above compounds. |
| US11840527B2 |
Non-fused thiophene derivatives and their uses
The present invention relates to a new class of non-fused thiophene derivatives and their uses for treating diseases such as infection, cancer, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, iron storage disorders and inflammatory disorders. |
| US11840519B2 |
Process for the synthesis of the sodium salt of 4-[[(1R)-2-[5-(2-fluoro-3-methoxyphenyl)-3-[[2-fluoro-6-(trifluoromethyl)-phenyl]methyl]-3,6-dihydro-4-methyl-2.6-dioxo-1(2H)-pyrimidinyl]-1-phenylethyl]amino]-butanoic acid (elagolix sodium salt) and intermediates of said process
The present invention to a process for the preparation of the sodium salt of 4-[[(1R)-2-[5-(2-fluoro-3-methoxyphenyl)-3-[[2-fluoro-6-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]methyl]-3,6-dihydro-4-methyl-2,6-dioxo-1(2H)-pyrimidinyl]-1-phenylethyl]-amino]-butanoic acid, compound also known as Elagolix sodium salt, having the formula (I) reported below: |
| US11840517B2 |
Lappaconitine derivative with analgesic activity, and preparation and application thereof
Provided herein are a lappaconitine derivative of formula (I), and a preparation and application thereof. |
| US11840516B2 |
KCNQ potentiators
Small molecule potentiatiors to potassium channels (such as Kv7 potentiators—which are also called KCNQ potentiators), compositions including such compounds, and methods of using such compounds for the treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and other neurological diseases caused by changes in motor neuron excitability, including, but not limited to, primary lateral sclerosis, pseudobulbar palsy, progressive bulbar palsy, progressive muscular atrophy and epilepsy. |
| US11840512B2 |
Oxazole compound crystal
Provided is a crystal of a specific oxazole compound that has specific inhibitory activity against PDE4, and that shows excellent stability. Specifically, provided is a crystal of an oxazole compound represented by formula (5) wherein the crystal has peaks at diffraction angles 2θ(°) of 9.6±0.2, 19.1±0.2, and 21.2±0.2 in an X-ray powder diffraction pattern measured using CuKα characteristic X-rays. |
| US11840509B2 |
Process to conduct an endothermic dehydrogenation and/or aromatisation reaction in a fluidized bed reactor
The disclosure relates to a process to perform an endothermic dehydrogenation and/or aromatization reaction of hydrocarbons, said process comprising the steps of providing at least one fluidized bed reactor comprising at least two electrodes and a bed comprising particles; putting the particles in a fluidized state to obtain a fluidized bed; heating the fluidized bed to a temperature ranging from 480° C. to 700° C. to conduct the reaction; and obtaining a reactor effluent containing hydrogen, unconverted hydrocarbons, and olefins and/or aromatics; wherein the particles of the bed comprise electrically conductive particles and particles of a catalytic composition, wherein at least 10 wt. % of the particles are electrically conductive particles and have a resistivity ranging from 0.001 Ohm·cm to 500 Ohm·cm at 500° C. and wherein the step of heating the fluidized bed is performed by passing an electric current of through the fluidized bed. |
| US11840503B2 |
Salt, acid generator, resist composition and method for producing resist pattern
A salt represented by formula (I), a generator and a resist composition: wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent an iodine atom, a fluorine atom or an alkyl fluoride group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R4, R5, R7 and R8 each independently represent a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, a haloalkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms or an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, —CH2— included in the haloalkyl group and the alkyl group may be replaced by —O—, —CO—, —S— or —SO2—; X1 and X2 each independently represent an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; m1 represents 1 to 5, m2 and m8 represent 0 to 5, and m4, m5 and m7 represent an integer of 0 to 4, in which 1≤m1+m7≤5, 0≤m2+m8≤5; and AI− represents an organic anion. |
| US11840501B2 |
Xylitol preparation device integrating evaporation, crystallization and centrifugal separation and control method thereof
The present invention relates to a xylitol preparation device integrating evaporation, crystallization and centrifugation, including a xylitol tank, a cleaning liquid tank, a recycling tank and a multiple distribution system, wherein the multiple distribution system includes J groups of evaporators for evaporation concentration, K groups of vacuum crystallization kettles for vacuum crystallization and L groups of centrifuges for centrifugation, wherein 2≤J≤6, 6≤K≤12 and 2≤L≤4; the evaporator, the vacuum crystallization kettle and the centrifuge in different groups are sequentially connected in series with one another through a pipeline and a valve respectively; by controlling on and off of each valve, a xylitol exchange liquid is switched and controlled between a series-connection mode and a parallel-connection mode in the multiple distribution system to enable evaporation, crystallization and separation processes to reach an optimal effect distribution so as to improve productivity. The present invention further discloses a control method of the device. The processes and equipment of the present invention are highly integrated to realize continuous integrated production of xylitol preparation with low energy consumption and high automation degree, and full utilization of raw materials. |
| US11840495B2 |
Compositions and methods related to di-substituted bicyclo[2.2.1] heptanamine-containing compounds
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods related to bicyclo[2.2.1] heptanamine-containing compounds and salts. |
| US11840494B2 |
Process for treating polyalkylaromatic hydrocarbons
A process for treating mixtures containing polyalkylaromatic hydrocarbons, intended for transalkylation processes, includes a mild reduction with hydrogen in the presence of a suitable hydrogenation catalyst. The process also relates to a transalkylation process of polyalkylaromatic hydrocarbons having the treatment. |
| US11840488B2 |
Method for obtaining a compacted material and compacted material obtained thereby
In a method for obtaining a compacted material, a) a set of particles of raw materials is mixed with 1-50% by weight of a hydraulic binder to form a dry composition, the percentage being relative to the total weight of the dry composition, the particle size distribution of the raw material particles being characterised by a first reference diameter ≤50 millimetres and a second reference diameter ≥0.08 micrometres, b) the dry composition is mixed with 1-35% by weight of water to form a mixed composition, the percentage relative to the total weight of the dry composition, c) the mixed composition is vibrated ≥0.3 millimetres at 20-80 Hertz, while a compressive stress is applied, the value of the applied compressive stress being at least 2 MegaPascal. Also disclosed is a method for obtaining a multilayer compacted material and to the materials obtained according to the methods. |
| US11840486B1 |
High-entropy ultra-high temperature ceramic (HE-UHTC) coatings and deposition methods thereof
High-entropy ultra-high temperature ceramics (HE-UHTC) coatings deposited on substrates, as well methods for depositing the HE-UHTC coatings on the substrates, are provided. An HE-UHTC electrode can be fabricated via spark plasma sintering (SPS) and then a thin coating of the HE-UHTC can be deposited in a precision-controlled manner on a substrate via an electro-spark deposition process. |
| US11840485B2 |
Method for preparing an injection material and the obtained injection material
Disclosed is a method for preparing a mixture and the injection material to be used as soil injection material to close the pores after a certain gelling period by applying it to the pores in the silt size, including the steps of: (a) preparation of a mixture of sodium silicate with a SiO2/Na2O ratio of 3-4 and water so that their ratio by volume varies between 3/7 and 1/1; (b) obtaining a mixture by dissolving ultra-low sulfated boric acid in water, containing between 2.5-5% by weight of ultra-low sulfated boric acid; and (c) mixing the obtained ultra low sulfate boric acid-water mixture with sodium silicate in the step a. |
| US11840481B2 |
Production of aggregates
An improved process for the preparation of aggregates for use with mixtures of various carbonatable substances, in particular mixtures comprising pulverised fuel ash and/or steel slag. The mixtures also comprise a carbonatable binder. The process comprises the steps of a. blending a combination of two carbonatable wastes, b. mixing the blended carbonatable waste with a carbonatable binder, c. mixing the blended carbonatable waste and binder with water, and d. carbonating the damp blended carbonatable waste in the presence of carbon dioxide. |
| US11840479B2 |
Bond produced with an at least partially crystallized glass, such as a metal-to-glass bond, in particular a metal-to-glass bond in a feed-through element or connecting element, and method for producing such a bond, in particular in a feed-through element or connecting element
The disclosure relates to a bond produced with an at least partially crystallized glass, such as a metal-to-glass bond, in particular a metal-to-glass bond in a feed-through element or connecting element, and to a method for producing such a bond, in particular in a feed-through element or connecting element. The at least partially crystallized glass includes at least one crystal phase and pores which are distributed in the at least partially crystallized glass in a structured manner. |
| US11840478B2 |
Window, method of manufacturing the window, and display module including the window
A display module includes a display panel and a window. The window includes a base substrate and a plurality of functional layers. A central portion of the base substrate is flat, and an edge portion of the base substrate has a rounded shape. An upper portion of the edge portion of the window has the rounded shape and thus protrudes from a lower portion of the edge portion toward the outside. A first functional layer of the plurality of functional layers includes an acrylic-based material and/or an epoxy-based material, and a second functional layer of the plurality of functional layers includes a fluorine-based material. |
| US11840470B2 |
System and method of removing oil and toxic metals from petroleum produced water
Taught herein is a two stage process for removing dissolved and emulsified oil from produced water (PW) from, for example, a hydrocarbon well. The first stage involves microbiological stimulation of indigenous oil degrading methanogenic microbial communities that are adapted to high salinity conditions preferably by supplying carbon dioxide and protein-rich matter (isolated soy protein) under controlled pH conditions. The second stage removes toxic metals using filters made of compressed powdered dolomite of uniform grain size. Increased levels of toxic metals removal are achieved by filtrating PW previously treated for oil. To further increase the removal efficiency of the dolomite filter, calcium and magnesium is removed from PW by the addition of lime and soda ash in a sedimentation tank, and guar gum is supplied to PW to enable the trapping of toxic metals by guar gum in small pore throats of the dolomite filter. |
| US11840466B2 |
Dispensing system with bypass
A chemical injection system connects a main water flow to a source of chemicals to a bypass chemical dispenser in a water treatment system. The chemical injection system includes a supply pipe, a return pipe having a bypass chemical dispenser located along a length thereof, and a controlled pumping system including a compounding-rate pump controller connected to a pumping loop. |
| US11840464B2 |
Systems and methods for ozone water generator
A novel cell for generating ozonated water, the cell comprises a nafion membrane separating a diamond coated anode, and a gold surfaced cathode enclosed within a cell housing with the catalyst side of the nafion membrane facing the cathode. The cell housing has a cathode housing portion and an anode housing portion separated by the membrane, each housing portion having ridges to enhance substantially even flow of fluid over the cathode and anode. The housing portions contain O-rings in grooves to prevent leaks, and alignment features to keep the electrodes aligned. The cathode and anode have an array of holes allowing fluid to penetrate to the surface of the niobium membrane. Input ports allow fluid to flow into the housing and over the anode and cathode and then out of the housing through outlet ports. The housing may also incorporate an integrated spectral photometer including a bubble trap. |
| US11840462B2 |
Switchable system for high-salinity brine desalination and fractional precipitation
A saline feed stream flows into a liquid-liquid extraction system; and a volatile organic solvent flows through a main compressor. The compressed volatile organic solvent then flows through a solvent regenerator, which can be a heat exchanger or a combination of a vaporization device and a condenser, to cool the volatile organic solvent. The cooled volatile organic solvent in liquid phase then flows into the liquid-liquid extraction system, where the saline feed stream contacts the volatile organic solvent to selectively extract water from the saline feed stream into the volatile organic solvent, producing a concentrated brine and an organic-rich mixture of water and the volatile organic solvent. The organic-rich mixture flows from the liquid-liquid extraction system into the solvent regenerator, where the organic-rich mixture is heated to produce an organic-rich vapor and desalinated water; and the organic-rich vapor is recycled as volatile organic solvent back into the liquid-liquid extraction system. |
| US11840457B1 |
System and method for production of aluminum chloride derivatives
A system for producing particles of aluminum chlorohydrate includes a feed stream configured to have a liquid solution of aluminum chloride, a conveyor belt having a surface configured to hold the liquid solution, a first radiant heat source configured to heat the liquid solution on the surface in order to form solid aluminum chloride hexahydrate, a grinder configured to crush the solid aluminum chloride hexahydrate in order to reduce an overall particle size of the aluminum chloride hexahydrate, and a second radiant heat source configured to heat the aluminum chloride hexahydrate in order to decompose the aluminum chloride hexahydrate and produce the particles of aluminum chlorohydrate. Methods of producing particles of aluminum chlorohydrate are also disclosed. |
| US11840456B2 |
Rare earth compound particles and method for producing rare earth oxide particles
An aqueous solution containing ions of one or more rare earth elements selected from the group consisting of Y, Nd, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu, hydrogen peroxide, urea, and polyvinylpyrrolidone is heated at a temperature of 80° C. or higher and equal to or lower than a boiling point of the aqueous solution to produce particles of a rare earth compound under a reaction between a hydrolysis product of urea and the ions of the rare earth elements. Furthermore, the particles of the rare earth compound are solid-liquid separated from the aqueous solution, and the obtained solid content is baked at a temperature of 600° C. or higher in an atmosphere containing oxygen to produce rare earth oxide particles. |
| US11840453B2 |
Protecting valve parts from erosion
A coating that is configured for use on parts of a control valve. The configurations may incorporate various material layers, preferably that form a layered structure on a base or substrate (for example, an Inconel body). In one implementation, the layered structure can be arranged as “stacked” individual layers that exhibit different concentrations or ratios of materials, including by example tungsten carbide and nickel alloy. The concentration of tungsten carbide may increase from an innermost layer to an outer most layer. This feature can extend service life of the parts, particularly when in use with highly-erosive process fluids, like particle-entrained fluids commonly found in hydrocracking or refining operations. Manufacture of the layered structure on the parts may require use of additive manufacturing technology in order to deposit layers of material of varying composition and thickness on the unique fluted design contemplated herein. |
| US11840452B2 |
Spherically-shaped coated graphite, negative electrode for lithium ion secondary battery, and lithium ion secondary battery
Provided is spherically-shaped coated graphite exhibiting excellent cycle capacity-maintaining property when used as a negative electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery. The spherically-shaped coated graphite includes: spherically-shaped graphite in which primary particles with an equivalent spherical diameter of not more than 0.8 μm have a volume ratio of more than 40.0% and not more than 70.0%, and primary particles with an equivalent spherical diameter of not less than 1.5 μm and not more than 3.0 μm have a volume ratio of not less than 3.0% and not more than 17.0%, in a particle size distribution of primary particles obtained using X-ray computed tomography; and a carbonaceous substance covering the spherically-shaped graphite, and a pore volume of pores with a pore size of 7.8 nm to 36.0 nm is not more than 0.017 cm3/g, and a mass of infiltrated dibutyl phthalate is less than 0.70 g/cm3. |
| US11840446B2 |
Fabrication of 3D microelectrodes and use thereof in multi-functional biosystems
Disclosed herein is a microelectrode platform that may be used for multiple biosystem applications including cell culturing techniques and biosensing. Also disclosed are microfabrication techniques for inexpensively producing microelectrode platforms. |
| US11840439B1 |
Refill station for refillable carbonation container
A refill station for refillable carbonation containers is disclosed. Exemplary implementations may include a refill station housing, a refill tank, a control interface, a conduit, a controllable refill valve, and/or other components. The refill tank of the refill station holds a pressurized liquid, such as CO2. The refill station housing holds a carbonation container, such as a bottle, which includes a container tank. A user can control filling or refilling the container tank from the refill tank. |
| US11840438B2 |
Pallet transportation
A pallet transportation apparatus including a pallet support array supported on a pallet transportation chassis for reciprocal motion and comprising pallet supporters that receive and support pallets. A mast assembly is fixed to the chassis and includes guides that support and guide the pallet support array through a reciprocal lifting and lowering motion, causing the pallet support array to lift and lower pallets. A prime mover moves the pallet support array through its reciprocal lifting and lowering motion, and a motion control system schedules the reciprocal lifting and lowering motion of the pallet support array. |
| US11840434B2 |
Extendable platform lift assembly
An extendable lift assembly, comprising a sliding rail assembly, including a plate and a knuckle arm pivotably connected to the plate, and a first platform pivotably connected to the knuckle arm. |
| US11840433B2 |
Systems and methods for restricting operation of a lift device
A lift device includes a chassis, tractive elements, a platform, a lift assembly, a first set of proximity sensors, and a controller. The tractive elements are rotatably coupled to the chassis and support the chassis. The platform is disposed above the chassis and includes a deck for supporting an operator. The lift assembly couples the platform to the chassis and can selectably move the platform between a lowered position and a raised position. The first set of proximity sensors are coupled to the platform and detect a distance of an obstacle relative to the platform. The controller is operably coupled with an alert system and receives obstacle detection data from the first set of proximity sensors. The controller selects a subset of the first set of proximity sensors to analyze based on an active function of the lift device and determines whether the obstacle is within the minimum allowable distance. |
| US11840430B2 |
Cable break-away safety device
A cable break-away device for a rescue hoist connects a cable to a cable drum of the rescue hoist. The cable break-away device provides overload protection to the rescue hoist by disconnecting the cable from the cable drum when the loads transmitted through cable become excessive. The cable break-away device is configured to fracture, releasing the cable from the cable drum, when the loads experienced by the cable break-away device exceed a predetermined failure set point. As such, the cable break-away device forms a mechanical fuse connecting the cable to the cable drum. |
| US11840427B2 |
Crane
A crane comprising a traveling body and a turning body turnably supported by the traveling body, the crane performing power feeding and communication between the traveling body and the turning body. The traveling body is provided with: a power supply; a lower controller which controls the traveling body and transmits power to the devices included in the traveling body; and a lower transmitter-receiver which wirelessly transmits and receives the power and data signal from the power supply. The turning body is provided with: an upper controller which controls the turning body and transmits power to the devices included in the turning body; and an upper transmitter-receiver which wirelessly transmits and receives the power and data signal to and from the lower transmitter-receiver. |
| US11840422B2 |
Reel braking system
A braking system for a hose or cable reel including a housing configured to fit inside a drum of the reel and to rotate with the drum during use, and a gerotor including inner and outer gears disposed inside the housing, wherein the inner gear is attachable to a shaft of the reel and the outer gear is configured to rotate relative to the inner gear with the housing during use thereby causing hydraulic fluid to be pumped through the gerotor and impede rotation of the drum. |
| US11840418B2 |
Post-processing device, method for controlling post-processing device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program for controlling post-processing device
A post-processing unit includes a stapler, a driving section, and a controller. The stapler is moved in a Y direction and executes a stapling process on a paper sheet. The driving section moves the stapler in the Y direction. The controller controls an operation of the stapler and an operation of the driving section. The controller executes first control to supply a set current or a set voltage to the driving section, second control to supply, to the driving section, the same supply current as the set current or the same supply voltage as the set voltage, and third control to stop the supply of the supply current or the supply voltage. When the stapler executes the stapling process a plurality of times, the controller repeatedly executes the second control and the third control and causes the stapler to execute the stapling process during the execution of the second control. |
| US11840416B2 |
Sheet sorting apparatus and image forming apparatus
A sheet sorting apparatus includes a second tray arranged below a first tray detachable from a main body having a first discharge port corresponding to the first tray and a second discharge port corresponding to the second tray, a discharge unit, a tray detecting unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges a sheet toward the first or second discharge port. In a state that the first tray is detached from the main body and the discharge unit discharges sheets from the first discharge port to the second tray and then the first tray is detected as attached to the main body, the control unit selects a discharge destination of a second sheet, subsequent to a first sheet discharged and stacked first after the first tray is attached to the main body, such that the second sheet is stacked on a tray having the first sheet thereon. |
| US11840415B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus has an apparatus main body, a sheet conveyance passage, a cover member, a conveyance unit, a sheet tray, a first sheet feeding portion, and a feed unit. The sheet conveyance passage is inside the apparatus main body. The conveyance unit is inside the cover member and is supported to be pivotable between an open position and a closed position. The first sheet feeding portion has a feed unit. The conveyance unit has a swing guide of which a lower end part is swingably supported on the apparatus main body and which, in the closed position, is located in a first position to face the feed unit and constitute part of the sheet conveyance passage and, in the open position, is located in a second position to be located away from the feed unit. |
| US11840414B2 |
Roll unwinder, web-fed printing press, and method for operating a roll unwinder
In some examples, a roll unwinder for a flying roll change includes a roll station for receiving a first material roll to be unwound, and a roll station for receiving a second material roll to be unwound after a roll change has occurred. A cut-off tool can sever a first web unwound from the first material roll, and includes a pressing element, to press the web against the outer surface of the second material roll. A supporting device can be transferred from an idle state into a working state in which the supporting device supports the web to be unwound, at least at the time of the severing process. The supporting device supports the web in a web path upstream from the cut-off tool. A receiving unit at a frame that carries the cut-off tool is movably mounted in the stand of the roll unwinder. |
| US11840413B2 |
Roll printer holder
A printer includes: a container configured to contain a roll into which a belt-shaped print medium is wound, the roll being inserted through an opening; a guide configured to guide the roll, the guide being disposed in the container and having a pair of abutting faces that abut on both side faces of the roll; a holding part that is movable between a first position where the holding part protrudes inwardly from the abutting face and a second position where the holding part does not protrude inwardly from the abutting face, the holding part being biased from the second position to the first position and holding the roll rotatably at the first position; and a displacement part configured to be displaced with motion of the holding part. At least a portion of the displacement part is exposed when a user sees the displacement part through the opening, such that the displacement part is recognizably displaced in a different position depending on whether the holding part is at the first position or at the second position. |
| US11840411B2 |
Vision-assisted robotized depalletizer
A vision-assisted robotized depalletizer receives at a pallet station a pallet loaded with products and outputs on a conveyor unitized products aligned in a desired orientation. Such depalletizers include a vision system having one or more image acquisition sensors that are positioned relative to the pallet station so as to have a field of view covering a top portion of the pallet. The sensors send to a controller one or more image of the top portion of the pallet that the controller uses along to determine the position of each product in the top portion of the pallet. The depalletizer further includes a robot equipped with a depalletizing tool that is coupled to the vision system controller for receiving information indicative of the position of each product from the top portion and uses that information to pick and position on the output conveyor each product from the top portion. |
| US11840404B2 |
Roller plate assembly
A roller plate assembly includes a base plate having a plurality of openings distributed along a length and a width of the base plate. The roller plate assembly includes at least two cross supports coupled to the base plate. The roller plate assembly also includes a roller shaft extending at least partially through the at least two cross supports and a plurality of rollers rotatably mounted to the roller shaft. Each roller is disposed within a corresponding one of the plurality of openings and configured to project at least partly over the upper surface of the base plate. The plurality of rollers are configured to allow a package to move across the plurality of rollers from a first edge of the roller plate assembly to a second edge of the roller plate assembly in the length direction of the base plate. |
| US11840403B2 |
Adjustable conveyor belt guiderail and related methods
An apparatus for guiding products along a conveyor in a conveying direction. The apparatus includes a first guiderail for at least partially forming a conveying path for articles on the conveyor. A guiderail adjuster includes a flexible or collapsible support, which make take the form of a linkage, and which provides support for the first guiderail along the conveyor. The flexible or collapsible support is adapted for being extended and retracted along a support rail extending in the conveying direction to selectively position the first guiderail relative to the conveyor, and thereby alter (increase or decrease) the width of the conveying path. Related methods are also disclosed. |
| US11840399B2 |
Gas blanketing management of low-pressure hydrocarbon tanks
A hydrocarbon tank system environment corrosion inhibitor includes use of inert gas, preferably Nitrogen, to blanket ullage and interstice through the tank system. Blanket gas is provided is controller into coupling to access ullages. Blanket gas is provided upon fueling events to stabilize the pressure in the system and prevent entry of atmospheric air and water (vapor). Blanket gas may be continuously run into the ullage and/or other spaces in tank system. A controlled system allows for monitoring of pressures in the tank, and thereby identifies pressure events and even leaks in system due to unusual events, or general loss of pressure. |
| US11840396B2 |
Dog waste bag dispenser system
A dog waste bag dispenser device includes: a frame with a roll opening and an elongated opening, an axle assembly, a lower frame, and a bag clip with a slit; such that the waste bag dispenser device holds a dog waste bag roll, such that the dog waste bag dispenser device enables a user to easily remove a dog waste bag from the dog waste bag roll. The dog waste bag dispenser device also includes an attachment ring, which is configured to attach the dog waste bag dispenser device to an article of clothing or an object for easy portability. |
| US11840393B2 |
Cooler latch
The insulated cooler includes a body, a lid, and at least one latch assembly. The body includes an outer shell, an inner liner disposed therein creating a gap therebetween, and an insulating layer disposed within the gap. The body defines a cavity therein with an opening formed at its upper end. The lid is removably coupled to the body and covers the body's opening. The latch assembly includes an upper component having at least one aperture formed therein, a lower component having at least one opening formed therein, and an intermediate component having a first portion coupled to the upper component and a second portion coupled to the lower component. The intermediate component is fabricated using a thermoplastic rubber. The upper component is coupled to the lid using at least one aperture. The lower component is coupled to a top portion of the outer shell using at least one opening. |
| US11840388B2 |
Multilayered container and inner container
A multilayered container includes an inner container configured to contain content, and an outer container configured to accommodate the inner container. The inner container has a side surface formed with a plurality of folded pleats contractable and expandable in a vertical direction, so that the inner container is shrinkable inside the outer container. The inner container includes a metal layer or an inorganic layer. A discharge mechanism, configured to discharge the content, and including a mechanism configured to prevent air from entering the inner container when discharging the content, is attached to an upper surface of the inner container. |
| US11840386B2 |
Carton and blank therefor
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a carton for packaging one or more articles, a blank for forming the carton and a method of packaging articles. The carton comprises a plurality of primary panels including a pair of bottom lap panels (12, 20) secured together to allow the primary panels to form walls of a tubular structure. An upper end closure structure partially closes an end of the tubular structure. The upper end closure structure comprises a lower edge that defines at least in part a window for exposing to view contents (B) of the carton. The upper end closure structure comprises a top end closure flap (30a, 30b, 30c, 30d) having a handle opening defined therein and a pair of side end closure flaps (26a, 26b, 34a, 34b). The side end closure flaps comprise an outer surface and an inner surface opposing the outer surface. The outer surface of each of the side end closure flaps comprises a glue area (G1, G2). |
| US11840382B2 |
Molded dispensing closure with biasing hinge assembly
A closure includes a pivoting closure cap and a closure base configured to more easily align and securely pivot open without uncoupling. In various embodiments, the pivoting closure cap includes a pair of hinge assemblies including hinge pins pivotable between a closed position and an open position where the pivoting closure cap is opened for pouring. The closure base includes a pair of hinge pin receivers with a hinge pin sockets. The hinge pins located and rotatable within the sockets. |
| US11840381B2 |
Child resistant lockable container
A lockable container comprising a sleeve having at least three sidewalls, the sidewalls defining a pocket, the pocket having at least one entrance, and the pocket adapted for receiving and housing a hinged shell, a least one sidewall of the sleeve having a slit; a hinged shell having a lid, a tray hingedly connected to the shell, storage space defined by the tray, and a locking tab disposed on one of the lid or the tray, the hinged shell comprised of a flexible and resilient material; wherein the locking tab is substantially aligned with the slit when the hinged shell is housed within the sleeve, causing the locking tab to protrude through the slit; and wherein the hinged shell is prevented from sliding out of the sleeve unless the locking tab is flexed to disengage the slit. |
| US11840380B2 |
Resealable pouring element for cardboard/plastic composite packages with a tamper-evident seal to indicate the initial opening
Represented and described is a resealable pouring element for cardboard/plastic composite packages, in particular beverage packages, with a base element having a circumferential fastening flange as well as an external thread, with opening means arranged at least in the unopened state of the pouring element in the interior of the base element and with a screw cap with internal thread, wherein the opening means are designed such that when the composite package is initially opened by unscrewing the screw cap by breaking the composite material of the package or a barrier layer located in the base element, a pour opening is created inside the pouring element and wherein at least one tamper-evident seal is arranged between the base element and the screw cap. In order to reduce the assembly effort for such a resealable pouring element, it is provided that an anchor ring is arranged below the screw cap and is connected to the screw cap via a hinge a rotationally fixed manner and in that the tamper-evident seal consists of an indicating element, whose one end is fixedly connected to the anchor ring or the screw cap and in which the other end is connected to the anchor ring by means of a predetermined breaking point in such manner that the predetermined breaking point of at least one mandrel element arranged on the fastening flange is broken when the screw cap is unscrewed and thus indicates to the consumer that an initial opening has already taken place. |
| US11840379B2 |
Tamper-evident box
A locking device for a box includes a first panel defining a locking tab separable from the first panel and comprising a first tab subpanel and a second tab subpanel; the first tab subpanel extending from the first panel and the second tab subpanel extending from the first tab subpanel, the second tab subpanel including a neck and an ear, the ear extending from the neck in a lateral direction of the locking tab; and a second panel defining a locking opening, the locking opening sized to receive and capture the locking tab, the locking tab configured to engage an edge of the locking opening and thereby configured to prevent movement of the locking tab with respect to the locking opening in an opening direction of the locking device. |
| US11840376B2 |
Security container
A security container that can be easily and securely connected to a fixed structure such as, but not limited to, a rod, pole, handle, latch, etc. such that the security container can be securely and easily connected and disconnected from the fixed structure. |
| US11840374B2 |
Container system
Various implementations include a container system that includes a first and second bowl. The first bowl has a resilient wall that is urgable radially outwardly from a resting position to an expanded position. The edge of the resilient wall spaced apart from a first bowl base has a resting perimeter length and an expanded perimeter length. A rigid wall of the second bowl has a first edge spaced apart from a second bowl base and a second edge opposite the rigid wall first edge each have a perimeter length. The perimeter lengths of the rigid wall are both greater than or equal to the resting perimeter length and are less than or equal to the expanded perimeter length. A groove is defined by the resilient wall and/or rigid wall. A protrusion extends along the other of the rigid wall and/or resilient wall. The protrusion is engageable within the groove. |
| US11840372B2 |
Cargo carrier
A cargo pallet is disclosed. The cargo pallet may have a pallet base. The cargo pallet may also have a pallet liner. The pallet liner may have a pallet liner base. The pallet liner base may be positioned on the pallet base. The pallet liner may also have a pallet extension, which may be fixedly attached to the pallet liner base. The pallet extension may project outwardly from the pallet liner base. The pallet extension may also have a support surface that may at least in part extend outwardly beyond a footprint of the pallet base. |
| US11840371B2 |
Configurable pallet
This disclosure provides a configurable pallet or load-bearing platform, such as a pallet, for supporting goods. The load-bearing platform may include one or more plastic bases having two or more protrusions connected by one or more bridge pieces. The two or more protrusions are spaced apart one or more distances. The load-bearing platform further includes a cardboard base having openings spaced apart an amount wherein the openings are configured to receive the two or more protrusions of the plastic base. A load distribution member may be included and configured to contact at least a portion of the plastic base. The load distribution member may support at least a portion of the goods and distributes at least a portion of the weight of the goods to at least a portion of the plastic base. The size of the cardboard base, as well as other components of the load-bearing platform, in certain implementations, may be customized on demand. |
| US11840365B2 |
Container and method of forming a container
An insulating container can be configured to retain a volume of liquid, and include a canister having a first inner wall having a first end having an opening extending into an internal reservoir, and a second outer wall forming an outer shell. The opening can be sealed by a spout adapter, the spout adapter having a spout channel extending between the internal reservoir and a spout opening, smaller than the opening of the canister. The spout opening may be sealed with a cap having a magnetic top surface, and the spout adapter may be further removably coupled to a lid that may be used as a cup into which a volume of the liquid can be poured. |
| US11840364B2 |
Packaging machine for packaging portioned products which are liquid or pasty in the processing state
A method for packaging products, wherein packaging material web is transported in direction of an upwardly open pair of folding claws, is cut to length while forming a planar blank of the wrapper, and the blank is positioned above the folding claws, wherein the product is metered, the product portion is pre-shaped, and the blank by placing thereon the pre-shaped product portion is folded into the claws while forming the upwardly open wrapper. Thereafter, the upward-projecting lateral longitudinal peripheries of the wrapper are folded inward onto the product portion, whereupon the transverse peripheries of the wrapper which extend perpendicular thereto are folded inward onto the product portion. The lateral longitudinal peripheries and transverse peripheries of the wrapper are folded inward onto the product portion and are simultaneously connected to one another, while the wrapper provided with the product portion is still situated in the pair of folding claws. |
| US11840357B2 |
Method and device for dual-light image integration, and unmanned aerial vehicle
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a dual-light image integration method, a dual-light image integration device and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The method includes: receiving first image data from a first image device and second image data from a second image device; separately storing the first image data and the second image data; combining the first image data and the second image data to composite third image data; and transmitting the third image data. According to the present invention, dual-light images are processed by using different data processing methods depending on subsequent operations, which can maintain synchronization of the dual-light images during image transmission while avoiding information loss during image storage, thereby well satisfying user needs. |
| US11840354B2 |
Systems and methods for improved aircraft safety
Methods and system for improved aircraft safety are described herein. A machine learning model may be trained using historical flight data for a number of previously flown flights where an automation function autonomously disengaged. The trained machine learning model may be used to generate probabilistic alert rules. The probabilistic alert rules may be used by a computing device onboard an aircraft to provide contextual information to flight crew relating to engagement status for one or more automation functions of the aircraft. |
| US11840353B2 |
Ram air turbine installation allowing low speed flight
An installation configuration for a ram air turbine on an aircraft arranged to operate during a low speed operation. An example aircraft includes a fuselage and a lifting body connected to the fuselage and configured to provide a lifting force on the fuselage, the lifting body including a suction surface and a pressure surface disposed on opposite sides of the lifting body from each other, the suction surface extending from a leading edge of the lifting body to a trailing edge of the lifting body. A ram air turbine is coupled to the lifting body and configured to move between a retracted position where the ram air turbine is stowed inside the aircraft and an extended position where the ram air turbine is disposed above the suction surface of the lifting body. |
| US11840347B2 |
Assembly comprising a translationally and rotationally immobile link axis, engine attachment or aircraft comprising such an assembly
An assembly including a link axis supported by first and second guiding rings positioned in first and second branches of a clevis, one of the guiding rings including a tubular extension, protruding with respect to an outer face of one of the branches, which has a threaded portion on its outer circumferential face. Complementing this, the assembly includes a nut configured to be screwed onto the threaded portion of the tubular extension and an immobilization system configured to immobilize the nut in translation and/or in rotation, the nut and the link axis being linked by a complete link that is non-removable or that forms a single-piece part. This solution makes it possible to reduce the number of parts forming the assembly. Also provided are an engine attachment and an aircraft including such an assembly. |
| US11840337B2 |
Leading-edge arrangement for an aircraft
A leading-edge arrangement for an aircraft is proposed, comprising a plurality of movable flow bodies, a supply duct, an air transfer duct, and at least one perforated tube. The movable flow bodies are arranged in a consecutive arrangement to form a row with a first end and a second end. The supply duct reaches into an interior of one of the flow bodies at the first end. The air transfer duct connects to the supply duct and extends at least through the interior of the respective flow body in the direction towards the second end. The at least one perforated tube is arranged inside at least one of the flow bodies that directly follows on. The at least one perforated tube is in fluid communication with the transfer duct. The transfer duct is configured to transfer air from the supply duct into the at least one perforated tube. |
| US11840335B2 |
Weapon mountable tactical heads-up display systems and methods
Systems and methods for a weapon mountable tactical heads-up display (HUD) are provided. The HUD may include a 9 degrees of freedom (9DOF) sensor, a target library, and a target finder visualization. The target library may store respective ballistic information for each target of a plurality of targets. The respective ballistic information may include a target vector for each target of the plurality of targets. The target vector may be calculated based on data received from the 9DOF sensor. The target finder visualization may allow a shooter to locate a selected target of the plurality of targets. The target finder visualization may be based on the target vector. |
| US11840332B1 |
Method of making hypersonic leading-edge heat pipe with porous wick
Some variations provide a leading-edge heat pipe comprising: (a) an envelope fabricated from a shell material, wherein the envelope includes at least one edge with a radius of curvature of less than 3 mm, and wherein the envelope includes, or is in thermal communication with, at least one heat-rejection surface; (b) a porous wick fabricated from a ceramic or metallic wick material, wherein the porous wick is configured within a first portion of the interior cavity, wherein at least a portion of the porous wick is adjacent to the inner surface, and wherein the porous wick has a bimodal pore distribution comprising an average capillary-pore size from 0.2 microns to 200 microns and an average high-flow pore size from 100 microns to 2 millimeters (the average high-flow pore size is greater than the average capillary-pore size); and (c) a phase-change heat-transfer material contained within the porous wick. |
| US11840330B2 |
Downstop load sensing system
Embodiments are directed to a tiltrotor aircraft having a wing, a proprotor pivotably mounted on the wing, and a downstop striker attached to the proprotor using a load pin, wherein the load pin is configured to generate an output signal representing a force between the proprotor and the wing. A downstop mounted on the wing is aligned to be in contact with the downstop striker when the proprotor is in a horizontal position. A conversion actuator moves the proprotor between a horizontal position and vertical position. A flight control computer is coupled to the output signal from the load pin and configured to control the conversion actuator, wherein the flight control computer is configured to cause the conversion actuator to increase the force if the force is less than a first selected preload value or to decrease the force if the force is greater than a second selected preload value. |
| US11840323B2 |
Additive manufactured airframe structure having a plurality of reinforcement elements
Additive manufactured airframe structure having a plurality of additive manufactured airframe segments operable to be linked together in an assembled direction. Each of the plurality of additive manufactured airframe segments are separate from one another in an unassembled configuration. Plurality of reinforcement elements operable to be received in a receiving portion of the plurality of airframe segments and extending through the plurality of airframe segments in a normal direction. Receiving portion is located on the interior of a respective one of the plurality of airframe segments. |
| US11840321B2 |
Outboard drive assemblies
An outboard drive assembly for a work boat is provided. In embodiments, an outboard drive assembly includes a lower outdrive assembly including: a housing extending between a first and end a second end and having a motor housed therein; a propeller mounted to the first end of the housing; first and second fins extending horizontally from opposing side portions of the motor housing; a third fin extending vertically from the housing; respective cutting blades attached to respective end portions of each of the first, second and third fins adjacent the propeller; an upper outdrive assembly including mounting brackets configure to connect the upper drive assembly to a deck of a work boat; and a drive arm assembly pivotally mounted to the lower outdrive assembly at a first end of the drive arm assembly and mounted to the upper outdrive assembly at a second end of the drive arm assembly. |
| US11840319B2 |
Actuator for inflation device
An inflation device is provided including a shell, a pin, a restraining element, and a barrier. The shell may be coupled to an inflation canister. The pin is positioned within the shell in order to open a seal of the inflation canister. The restraining element is positioned within the shell and is positioned to prevent the pin from opening the seal of the inflation canister. The restraining element is dissolvable. The barrier is positioned within the shell. The barrier includes a fluid resistant skin and a heating element coupled to the fluid resistant skin. The heating element may open a portion of the barrier responsive to an electrical current running through the heating element. |
| US11840318B2 |
Vessel for farming of marine organisms
A vessel for farming of marine organisms includes several tanks with seawater and the marine organisms that shall be farmed, where the tanks include a farming net cage that holds the marine organisms and where the tanks are open to the surrounding seawater. |
| US11840315B2 |
Gear changer adjustment and device
In an adjustment mode for a derailleur of a bicycle, acceleration values from an accelerometer of the derailleur are sampled as the derailleur moves through sprockets of a rear sprocket assembly. Acceleration signal powers are identified based on the sampled acceleration values, and potential rasping positions are identified based on thresholding of the acceleration signal powers. The identified potential rasping positions are compared to expected rasping positions, and adjustment for the derailleur is set based on a minimum error between the identified potential rasping positions and the expected rasping positions. |
| US11840314B2 |
Multi-sprocket assembly and rear wheel assembly for a bicycle with a derailleur system
A multi-sprocket assembly for a bicycle rear wheel assembly comprising a multi-sprocket arrangement and a locking screw arrangement. The multi-sprocket arrangement is configured to be couplable to a driver of the wheel assembly in a torque-transmitting manner and comprises at least eleven sprockets. The multi-sprocket assembly is configured such that at least two of the smallest sprockets are axially fixed to the driver via the locking screw arrangement. The locking screw arrangement has a shaft portion for receiving at least one sprocket. The shaft portion has an axially outer stop portion at one end region and at least one external thread at an opposite end region. The external thread configured to be screwed into an associated internal thread to fix the locking screw arrangement. The external thread has an outer diameter which is larger than an outer diameter of a shaft portion region that receives the at least one sprocket. |
| US11840313B2 |
Control device for human-powered vehicle and power transmission system
A human-powered vehicle includes a crank axle, a first rotational body, a wheel, a second rotational body, a transmission body that transmits a driving force between the first rotational body and the second rotational body, a derailleur configured to operate the transmission body to change a transmission ratio, an electric actuator configured to actuate the derailleur, and a motor configured to drive the transmission body. A control device has an electronic controller configured to control the motor and drive the transmission body upon determining the derailleur has been actuated with the electric actuator to change the transmission ratio and a predetermined condition related to pedaling is satisfied. The electronic controller is configured to control the electric actuator so as not to change the transmission ratio until a first condition related to shifting is satisfied in a case where the derailleur is actuated. |
| US11840311B2 |
Human-powered vehicle control device, suspension system, and human-powered vehicle
A control system for a human-powered vehicle includes a suspension device, at least one detector, an electronic controller. The suspension device includes a first suspension and a second suspension. The at least one detector is configured to detect information related to at least two conditions of the human-powered vehicle. The conditions include an operating state of the suspension device, a power input to the human-powered vehicle, a torque of a power transmission component, and a rotating state of the power transmission component. The electronic controller is configured to selectively control the suspension device between a first operating state and a second operating state in accordance with a detection result obtained by the at least one detector. |
| US11840307B2 |
Damping mechanism and vehicle
A damping mechanism and a vehicle are provided. The damping mechanism includes: a spindle; an elastic cushion assembly used to couple the spindle and the vehicle body; a coupling arm having a first end used to be fixedly coupled to an axle of the wheel and a second end pivotally coupled to the spindle; and a locking assembly provided between the coupling arm and the spindle and used to switch the coupling arm and the spindle between at least two locking states and a unlocking state. In the unlocking state, the coupling arm is rotatable, and in the locking states, the coupling arm is locked; in each of the locking states, the coupling arm is in different locking positions relative to the spindle; and when the coupling arm is in different locking positions, the coupling arm is at different angles to a horizontal plane. |
| US11840304B2 |
Suspension handlebar assembly and stem for bicycle
A bicycle handlebar stem or stem/handlebar assembly has an inclined linear travel approximately 45 degrees from horizontal. This inclined path mimics a rider's natural arm inclination and pitching moment. 45 degrees is nearly ideal for most dropped bar road bicycles but different style bicycles may have an ideal angle between 30 and 60 degrees. |
| US11840300B2 |
Vehicle body cover and saddle-type vehicle
There is provided a vehicle body cover that covers front, left, and right sides of a front upper portion of a saddle-type vehicle. A front cover covers the front side of the front upper portion. A pair of side covers respectively cover the left side and the right side of the front upper portion. An inward surface of at least one of the pair of side covers in a vehicle width direction is provided with a harness insertion groove. A wire harness is inserted and positioned in the wire harness groove. |
| US11840297B2 |
Parallel cell based mobility production system
An embodiment parallel cell based mobility production system includes a front serial production line which is composed of one or more cells arranged in series and through which vehicles of various types sequentially pass to be processed, a parallel production line provided with a plurality of cells arranged in a matrix form, and a rear serial production line in which the vehicles of various types passed through the parallel production line are sequentially fed. |
| US11840294B2 |
Regulating device and method for regulating the steering angle of a vehicle
The disclosure relates to a regulating device for regulating the steering angle for a vehicle, comprising a first controller unit with a controller superposed thereon, the controller having a feedback path and a prefilter. The feedback path provides a first adjustment variable based on actual steering angle information which is provided by the first controller unit as an output variable and the prefilter provides a second adjustment variable based on nominal steering angle information. The controller is configured to form input information for the first controller unit based on the first and the second adjustment variables, wherein the feedback path has a first correction element, the transfer behavior of which can be adjusted. The prefilter has a second correction element, the transfer behavior of which can be adjusted. The controller is configured such that at least the controller gain of the first controller unit can be adjusted. |
| US11840293B2 |
Turning system for vehicle
In a turning system for a vehicle, a toe angle change is acquired based on an estimated stroke which is a stroke of a suspension which is estimated based on a moving state of a vehicle and an actual stroke which is an actual stroke of the suspension detected by a stroke sensor, and control of a turning angle of a vehicle wheel is performed based on the acquired toe angle change. Accordingly, it is possible to appropriately perform control of a turning angle even in travel. |
| US11840292B2 |
Locking mechanism for self-propelled tandem axle trailer
A trailer for towing by a power vehicle is provided and generally includes a frame and a tandem wheel assembly. The trailer is provided with a drive assembly having a locking mechanism to selectively engage the drive from the motor to the wheels of the trailer. The locking mechanism having a reciprocating pushing member that may push an urging member to act upon a flanged driveshaft to selectively engage a clutch of the drive assembly. |
| US11840291B2 |
Rack-driven power assisted steering apparatus
A steering apparatus with an assistance of a rack-driven power includes a rack bar having an outer circumferential screw groove formed, a ball nut having an inner circumferential screw groove and a pair of first and second ball circulation holes, a nut pulley provided with a space on the inner circumferential surface spaced apart from the outer circumferential surface of the ball nut and coupled to an end of the ball nut, and a return tube disposed between the outer circumferential surface of the ball nut and the inner circumferential surface of the nut pulley. |
| US11840290B2 |
Electric power steering device
In an electric power steering device in which a control unit and a motor are integrated, when the control unit is housed in a case, although a frame, by which the motor and the control unit are compartmentalized, is required, there have been problems in that the case is deformed by a pressure which influences the case when the frame is provided, and a position accuracy of a shaft center of a rotation shaft of the motor is worsened. Therefore, in order to reduce a deformation of the case, a step portion is provided at an inner wall surface of the case and the frame is contacted to the step portion, and moreover, a connecting portion is provided between an outer circumference portion of the frame and an inner circumference portion of the case, whereby a movement of the frame is restrained. |
| US11840284B2 |
Modular saddle mount with isolator retained in a frame for reducing vibration in heavy equipment cabs
A modular saddle mount retained with isolator in a frame for reducing vibration in heavy equipment cabs preferably includes a heavy equipment modified frame cross member, two modular saddle mounts and at least two vibration isolators. The modified frame cross member includes a frame cross member, two sets of opposed mounting blocks and two cutout filler plates. The two cutout filler plates are secured in first and second cutouts. Each opposed mounting block is secured to an outside of the frame cross member. The modular saddle mount preferably includes a saddle base member and a pair of fastening inserts. A fastening cutout is formed in each end of the saddle base member. The pair of fastening inserts are retained on an inside surface of the saddle base member at opposing ends thereof. At least one isolator opening is formed through the base saddle member to receive a vibration isolator. |
| US11840281B2 |
Rear body structure
A rear vehicle body structure includes a wheel housing including a wheel housing inner panel, a shock absorber mounting bracket mounted on the outside of the wheel housing inner panel, and a wheel housing reinforcement mounted inside the wheel housing inner panel and connected to the shock absorber mounting bracket. |
| US11840279B2 |
Secondary retention devices for retaining a heavy equipment cab on a frame
A secondary retention device includes a bolt inserted through a cab floor and a modular saddle mount. A nut and the bolt retain the cab floor and the modular saddle mount together. A first alternative includes a yoke extending upward from the modular saddle mount, an extension plate extending downward from a bottom of the cab floor and a lock pin. A second alternative includes a bent over edge of the cab floor, a bent-up edge of the modular saddle mount and the lock pin. A third alternative includes a retention plate extending downward from the cab floor, a slot opening formed through a modular saddle mount to receive the retention plate and a fastener. A fourth alternative includes a curved tab extending upward from a modular saddle mount and a slot opening formed through the cab floor to receive the curved tab. |
| US11840277B2 |
Stamped rear frame bolster
A cargo transport rear frame includes a pair of posts, an upper cross member, and a rear bolster. The posts are spaced in a width direction, and extend in a height direction. The upper cross member extends along the width between the posts. The rear bolster extends between lower ends of the posts such that the rear bolster is spaced below the upper cross member. The posts, the upper cross member, and the rear bolster bound the rear cargo opening. The rear bolster has a first side facing in a forward direction, and the rear bolster has a second side facing in a rearward direction to be exposed to a rear side of the cargo transport rear frame. The rear bolster comprises a sheet metal stamping including a base surface and a relief embossed in the rearward direction from the base surface to form a loading dock engagement feature. |
| US11840272B2 |
Frame structure and baby stroller
A frame structure and a baby stroller are provided. The frame structure includes a hand-gripping part; a front leg pivotally connected with the hand-gripping part; a rear leg pivotally connected with the hand-gripping part; a basket tube including two side rods and a rear rod connected with the two side rods, each of the side rods including a first end and a second end, the first end being pivotally connected to the front leg, and the second end being pivotally connected to the rear leg; a fixing seat slidably disposed on the front leg for connecting the seat bracket to the front leg; a linkage rod having an end pivotally connected to the basket tube, and the other end pivotally connected to the fixing seat. The front leg includes a sliding rail along its longitudinal direction, and the fixing seat includes a sliding groove matched with the sliding rail. |
| US11840269B2 |
Hand truck
Provided is a hand truck comprising a frame having a first end, and a second end configured with a wheel set, and a ledge extending at said second end, wherein one or both of the frame and the ledge is configured with an articulation arrangement for detachably attaching thereto a utility unit, the articulation arrangement extending parallel to a plane of the respective frame or ledge. |
| US11840267B2 |
Control device for railway vehicle
A control device for a railway vehicle includes a housing and a cover covering an opening. The cover is provided with a lock and a restricting member. The restricting member is located in one of a lock permitting position for permitting locking of the cover and a lock restricting position for restricting locking of the cover. The control device further includes an urging member that urges the restricting member to the lock restricting position. When the cover closes the opening, a pushing member pushes the restricting member to the lock permitting position, resulting in permission of locking of the cover. |
| US11840266B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle
Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle in response to vehicle instructions from a remote computing system are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes controlling a first autonomous vehicle to provide a vehicle service, the first autonomous vehicle being associated with a first convoy that includes one or more second autonomous vehicles. The method includes receiving one or more communications from a remote computing system associated with a third-party entity, the one or more communications including one or more vehicle instructions. The method includes coordinating with the one or more second autonomous vehicles to determine one or more vehicle actions to perform in response to receiving the one or more vehicle instructions from the third-party entity. The method includes controlling the first autonomous vehicle to implement the one or more vehicle actions. |
| US11840265B1 |
Variable safe steering hands-off time and warning
Techniques are described for providing a hands-off steering wheel detection warning. An example method can include a vehicle computer determining a real-time level of fatigue of a driver of an autonomous vehicle. The method can further include the vehicle computer determining an operating parameter associated with an environment in which the autonomous vehicle is traveling. The method can further include the vehicle computer determining a time interval for providing a hands-off steering wheel detection warning based at least in part on the real-time level of fatigue of the driver, and the operating parameter. The method can further include the vehicle computer identifying a final time interval for providing a hands-off steering wheel detection warning. The method can further include the vehicle computer outputting the hands-off steering wheel detection warning after the final time interval has elapsed. |
| US11840264B2 |
Autonomous driving vehicle system
A system includes an acquisition unit that acquires an operation amount or a duration count, and a switching unit that switches a driving state. The switching unit switches the driving state to the cooperative driving state when the operation amount is equal to or greater than an intervention threshold and less than a start threshold or the duration count is equal to or greater than a first threshold and less than a second threshold during the autonomous driving state, switches the driving state to the autonomous driving state when the operation amount is less than the intervention threshold or the duration count is less than the first threshold during the cooperative driving state, and switches the driving state to the manual driving state when the operation amount is equal to or greater than the start threshold or the duration count is equal to or greater than the second threshold. |
| US11840263B1 |
Method for controlling an automated driving operation of a vehicle
A method for controlling an automated driving operation of a vehicle involves authorizing the automated driving operation according to a number of predetermined conditions. Traffic information and event information is received by the vehicle. The traffic information contains place- and time-referenced information about a traffic jam on a part of the route lying ahead of the vehicle and the event information contains place- and time-referenced information about an event on the part of the route lying ahead. The traffic information and the event information are evaluated by the vehicle as belonging together if these are close together in terms of place and time. The automated driving operation of the vehicle is not authorized if event information and traffic information is available for a predetermined prediction horizon, but only then if these are evaluated as not belonging together. |
| US11840261B2 |
Ground truth based metrics for evaluation of machine learning based models for predicting attributes of traffic entities for navigating autonomous vehicles
A system uses a machine learning based model to determine attributes describing states of mind and behavior of traffic entities in video frames captured by an autonomous vehicle. The system classifies video frames according to traffic scenarios depicted, where each scenario is associated with a filter based on vehicle attributes, traffic attributes, and road attributes. The system identifies a set of video frames associated with ground truth scenarios for validating the accuracy of the machine learning based model and predicts attributes of traffic entities in the video frames. The system analyzes video frames captured after the set of video frames to determine actual attributes of the traffic entities. Based on a comparison of the predicted attributes and actual attributes, the system determines a likelihood of the machine learning based model making accurate predictions and uses the likelihood to generate a navigation action table for controlling the autonomous vehicle. |
| US11840259B2 |
Method for simulating obstacle in unmanned simulation scene
A method for simulating an obstacle in an unmanned simulation scene includes: for obstacle information in a three-dimensional scene map, determining Gaussian distribution information of obstacle position detected by using a perception algorithm to be tested based on actual perception performance of the perception algorithm; adjusting each position of the simulated obstacle in the initial motion trajectory sequence, such that a position deviation between each adjusted position point in the target motion trajectory sequence and the corresponding position point in the initial motion trajectory sequence follows a Gaussian distribution; and adding the target motion trajectory sequence of the simulated obstacle to the three-dimensional scene map. |
| US11840254B2 |
Vehicle control device, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for automonously driving vehicle
A system for autonomously driving a vehicle along a road segment includes at least one processor. The processor is configured to: acquire at least one piece of peripheral object data indicating information about an object disposed around the vehicle from a peripheral monitoring sensor; analyze the peripheral object data to calculate a position of the landmark with respect to the road on which the vehicle travels; determine position coordinates of the vehicle based on the position of the landmark calculated from the peripheral object data and the map data; and change a relative position of the vehicle with respect to an obstacle so as to easily detect the landmark by the peripheral monitoring sensor when the obstacle is disposed within a detection range of the peripheral monitoring sensor. |
| US11840253B1 |
Vision based, in-vehicle, remote command assist
An apparatus including an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data of an area external to a vehicle. The processor may be configured to generate video frames from the pixel data, perform computer vision operations on the video frames to detect objects in the video frames and determine characteristics of the objects, analyze the characteristics of the objects to determine a visually observable status of the objects, perform a comparison of the visually observable status to a remote command and send the remote command if the comparison determines that the visually observable status does not match the remote command. The remote command may be configured to control the visually observable status of the objects. |
| US11840252B2 |
Vehicle communications device and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing program
A dialog confirmation unit in a vehicle communication device calculates the deceleration of a vehicle on the basis of vehicle speeds, when the vehicle speed at an operation start time and the vehicle speed at a time when a certain time has elapsed since the operation start time have been obtained by a vehicle information acquisition unit. Next, the dialog confirmation unit calculates a change in distance on the basis of distances when a distance information acquisition unit has obtained the distance between the vehicle and an object in front at the operation start time and the distance at the time when a certain time has elapsed since the operation start time. Next, the dialog confirmation unit selects a dialog that corresponds to the deceleration and the change in distance, from among a plurality of dialogs. |
| US11840251B2 |
Image processing device
An image processing device applied to a driving assistance system, which includes: a driving assistance device that detects a relative position of a lane marking with respect to a vehicle and assists a driving of the vehicle based on a detected positional information; and a head-up display device that projects a display image on a projection area arranged on the vehicle to visually recognize a virtual image of the display image, includes: an acquisition device that acquires the positional information; and a generation device that generates the display image including a predetermined display element. The generation device generates the display image to visually recognize the display element at a position associated with the positional information and to visually recognize the display element as a shape inclined toward the vehicle from the lane marking. |
| US11840249B2 |
Method for supporting a driver during a manual parking procedure of a motor vehicle, wherein a first and a second indicator are acquired, parking assistance system, and motor-vehicle
A method for supporting a driver of a motor vehicle in a manual parking procedure of the motor vehicle in a surroundings of the motor vehicle, is disclosed. At least one indicator characterizing the parking procedure is acquired and, depending on an evaluation of the indicator, a performance of a parking procedure is recognized and, depending thereon, at least one parking-procedure-specific function of the motor vehicle is activated to support the driver during the parking procedure, wherein a performance of the parking procedure is recognized when at least a first indicator that characterizes the parking procedure in a surroundings-specific manner is acquired and if, after the acquisition of the first indicator, at least one second indicator that characterizes the parking procedure in a motor-vehicle-specific manner is acquired. |
| US11840241B1 |
Adjusting driver assist technology based on vehicle ride height
A system and method for providing calibration data for driver assist systems based on a changed ride height includes receiving sensor data from at least one of a camera, RADAR sensor, ultrasonic sensor, and/or LiDAR sensor of the vehicle, determining that a ride height of the vehicle has changed based on the sensor data, retrieving calibration data for at least one driver assist system based upon the changed ride height; and operating the at least one driver assist system using the retrieved calibration data. |
| US11840237B2 |
Control device and method for controlling a vehicle powertrain to overcome, or avoid, a cog-to-cog condition, computer program, computer-readable medium and vehicle
A control device and a method for controlling a vehicle powertrain to overcome, or avoid, a cog-to-cog condition during gear shifting is provided. The method comprises, when an input shaft of the gearbox is rotating, controlling a synchromesh arrangement so as to induce a difference in rotational speed between a first gear wheel and a first coupling sleeve arranged to lock the first gear wheel to a main shaft of the gearbox by at least partly engaging the first gear wheel or a second gear wheel to the input shaft. Furthermore, a computer program, a computer-readable medium and a vehicle are provided. |
| US11840235B1 |
Electric vehicle and control method thereof
An electric vehicle includes a drive motor configured for generating power required for driving of the vehicle, a twin clutch which may include a first clutch and a second clutch and configured to adjust distribution of the power supplied from the drive motor to a first drive wheel and a second drive wheel of the vehicle through the first clutch corresponding to the first drive wheel and the second clutch corresponding to the second drive wheel, and a controller electrically connected to the twin clutch and configured to, when a control condition for a deceleration turning of the vehicle is satisfied, determine a control torque of the twin clutch as a larger value of an initial torque to prevent slip of the twin clutch and a base torque determined based on output torque of the drive motor, and distribute the control torque to the first clutch and the second clutch depending on a drive mode of the vehicle. |
| US11840233B2 |
Traveling lane estimation apparatus, traveling lane estimation method, and computer-readable non-temporary storage medium storing control program
By a traveling lane estimation apparatus, a traveling lane estimation method, a control program, a computer-readable non-temporary storage medium, a front vehicle is recognized based on a sensing result by a periphery monitoring sensor, a front vehicle traveling trajectory is estimated based on a front vehicle position, map data including lane number information is acquired; a subject vehicle position on a map is identified, an inappropriate traveling trajectory for estimating the subject vehicle traveling lane is determined; and the subject vehicle traveling lane is estimated. |
| US11840218B2 |
Vehicle assistance or control system, as well as its use as guides
The invention relates to a vehicle assistance or control system with a vehicle and with an in particular autonomously drivable offboard obstacle recognition sensor for recognizing obstacles to the vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes an onboard obstacle recognition sensor for recognizing obstacles to the vehicle, wherein the vehicle assistance or control system includes a synchronization circuit for determining the alignment of the offboard obstacle recognition sensor relative to the vehicle, and/or relative to the onboard obstacle recognition sensor depending on an output signal from the offboard obstacle recognition sensor and an output signal from the onboard obstacle recognition sensor. |
| US11840217B2 |
Autonomous drive instruction device and autonomous drive instruction method
An autonomous drive instruction device shortens the time required for vehicles to arrive at a designated location from a parking location in a parking lot without a navigation map. The autonomous drive instruction device includes a travel-direction determiner and an autonomous drive instructor. The travel-direction determiner determines one path as the travel direction of the vehicle on the basis of the designated location and information on paths in a branch area. The one path corresponds to an extension direction that forms a smaller one of angles formed by extension directions of the paths from the branch area and a designated-location direction from the branch area to the designated location. The autonomous drive instructor outputs instruction information including information on the travel direction to the autonomous drive control device such that the autonomous dive control device controls the vehicle to move in the travel direction by autonomous driving. |
| US11840216B2 |
Parking assist apparatus, parking assist system, and parking assist method
A parking assist apparatus is provided. The parking assist apparatus includes: a parking space recognizer that recognizes a plurality of parking spaces in which a vehicle parks; a parking space candidate calculator that calculates one or more parking space candidates from among the plurality of parking spaces based on an evaluation criterion of a driver and information indicating a route of a moving object around the vehicle; a display controller that displays the one or more parking spaces on a display; and a driving controller that controls driving of the vehicle toward a parking space candidate selected from among the one or more parking space candidates. |
| US11840210B2 |
Vehicle control system
A control device includes an additional deceleration calculation unit that calculates an additional deceleration (G×add) to be applied to the vehicle based on the steering angle, a target control amount calculation unit that calculates the control amount for the vehicle behavior changing device based on the additional deceleration, a rough road level calculation unit that calculates a rough road level of a road based on a wheel speed, and a control amount correction unit that corrects the control amount based on the rough road level, the rough road level calculation unit being configured to correct the wheel speed so as to remove a change thereof caused by the cornering maneuver of the vehicle, and to calculate the rough road level by using the corrected wheel speed. |
| US11840209B2 |
Vehicle crane having hydropneumatic suspension and a braking system comprising at least two braking circuits
A vehicle crane having a hydropneumatic suspension and a braking system including wheel brakes and a first braking circuit assigned to the wheel brakes of at least one vehicle axle and a second braking circuit assigned to the wheel brakes of at least one other vehicle axle. In order to adapt the actuation of the braking system to the weight state, the hydropneumatic suspension is coupled to an automatically load-dependent braking force regulator that is operatively connected to one of the braking circuits or to one of their braking circuit sections such that, on the basis of a weight state signal of the vehicle crane generated from the hydropneumatic suspension, a braking pressure generated inside the braking circuit or braking circuit section coupled to the automatically load-dependent braking force regulator, can be varied with respect to a braking pressure generated simultaneously inside the other braking circuit or braking circuit section. |
| US11840203B2 |
Vehicular washing device
A vehicular washing device includes: a nozzle (4); a flow passage forming body (2) of which an internal space is a flow passage of a fluid; and a valve (21) that has a pressing tube part (22) with an axial direction coinciding with a flow direction of the fluid, is elastically deformable in a direction in which the diameter of the pressing tube part changes, and opens and closes the flow passage according to the state of deformation. A first flow passage (2a) and a second flow passage (2b) are formed as the flow passage on opposite sides of the pressing tube part. A shaft (9) with which the pressing tube part is capable of coming into close contact is located inside the valve. The valve deforms elastically according to the magnitude of the pressure of the first flow passage or the pressure of the second flow passage relative to an atmospheric pressure. |
| US11840201B2 |
Wiper blade with cover
A cover for windshield wiper blades having an elongate body with a central collar and first and second elongate portions extending from the central collar. The first and second elongate portions having outer ends, and the central collar defining an interior passageway having a snap-fit tongue. A channel is disposed along each of the first and second elongate portions extending from the central collar towards the outer ends; and an end retainer or other securing mechanism is located at the outer ends. Also, windshield wiper blades incorporating such covers. |
| US11840199B2 |
Charging facility and control method of charging facility
A control device executes a process including a step of determining whether a first state is established, a step of acquiring an operating state of a wiper of a surrounding vehicle when the first state is determined to be established, a step of determining whether rainfall of which rainfall amount is equal to or more than a predetermined amount is predicted, and a step of executing elevating control when the rainfall of which rainfall amount is equal to or more than the predetermined amount is predicted. |
| US11840194B2 |
Sensor for a vehicle safety device
The invention relates to a sensor (310), in particular for triggering a vehicle safety device (301), having a movable inertia body (350) which is movable relative to a carrier element (340) of the sensor (310), wherein the inertia body (350) is moved by inertia in relation to the carrier element (340) in the event of an abrupt change in speed or an inclination of the sensor (310) beyond a predetermined extent, and is brought from its inoperative position into its triggering position, through which a triggering position of the sensor (310) is brought about.According to the invention, it is provided that the sensor (310) is provided with a deactivation device (700) which is suitable, in its deactivating state, to force the inoperative position of the inertia body (350). |
| US11840192B2 |
Panoramic window safety system and vehicle having the same
A panoramic window safety system applied to a vehicle moves a piston in a piston movement space of a piston carriage by a gas pressure of an inflator located on the bottom portion of a panoramic window space, and switches a wire that forms a side bending arrangement in the panoramic window space into an intermediate linear arrangement by a forward movement of the piston to be stood perpendicular to the panoramic window space to support an airbag covering the panoramic window space, preventing the risk of a passenger leaving when a panoramic window having the size at which the upper body of a passenger is exposed is damaged to meet the North American regulations that prescribe preventing the passenger from leaving. |
| US11840190B1 |
Occupant protection system for vehicle
A vehicle includes an expandable curtain disposed in a roof of the vehicle and is configured to selectively deploy from a stowed configuration to a deployed configuration. An expandable bladder is configured to inflate at least partially during deployment of the expandable curtain. The expandable bladder includes a neck portion mechanically coupled to the expandable curtain and a head portion extending from the neck portion. |
| US11840189B2 |
Vehicle seat
To reduce an amount of rear protrusion of a vehicle seat equipped with an airbag module configured to deploy rearward, in a vehicle seat provided with a seat cushion and a seat back, the seat back includes: a seat back frame including a pair of left and right side frames extending in a vertical direction and an upper frame connecting upper ends of the side frames to each other; an airbag module supported by an upper half of the seat back frame via a bracket; and a skin member covering the seat back frame, the bracket, and the airbag module from a rear side thereof, wherein a part of the skin member corresponding to the airbag module is provided with a frangible portion configured to open upon inflation of an airbag. |
| US11840187B2 |
Airbag holding cover and vehicle airbag device
A retaining cover that encapsulates a cushion which is stowed in a bulk stowed form in front of the regular seating position of the vehicle having a side surface retaining part wound around a side surface of the cushion in stowed form, a cloth-like part provided in a manner traversing vertically across the upper surface of the cushion in stowed form, and a weak part provided at a prescribed location on the cloth-like part that divides the cloth-like part to an upper piece and lower piece due to the expansion pressure of the cushion. If the cushion expands and deploys with the occupant in close proximity, the upper piece of the cloth-like part is sandwiched in between the cushion and the occupant, such that the upper piece restrains the upward deployment of the cushion. |
| US11840184B2 |
Method for determining a digital assistant for carrying out a vehicle function from a plurality of digital assistants in a vehicle, computer-readable medium, system, and vehicle
A digital assistant is determined from a plurality of digital assistants in a vehicle for performing a vehicle function. A speech message of a vehicle occupant is received via a digital assistant from the plurality of digital assistants in the vehicle. A command of the speech message is ascertained via the digital assistant. An execution authorization of the vehicle occupant is determined for the command of the speech message via the digital assistant. If the vehicle occupant has an execution authorization for the command of the speech message, command of the speech message is executed via the digital assistant in order perform the vehicle function in the vehicle. |
| US11840183B2 |
Switch arrangement and method for controlling a switch arrangement
A switch arrangement for providing alternative distribution paths in a system for distributing electrical power in a vehicle including electrical power supplies and electrical loads. The switch arrangement includes a first switch adapted to be connected to a first electrical element, a second switch adapted to be connected to the first electrical element and a second electrical element, and a third switch adapted to be connected to the electrical element and a third electrical element. Each of the first, second, and third switches is independently controllable, and selective operation of each of the first, second, and third switches to its open or closed state interconnects at least two of the first, second, and third electrical elements to establish one of multiple alternative distribution paths to connect one of the power supplies and one of the loads or to connect two of the power supplies. |
| US11840182B2 |
Vehicle on-board electrical network switch for motor vehicles, on-board electrical network for motor vehicles and method for operating an on-board electrical network switch for motor vehicles
Motor vehicle on-board electrical network switch having at least two inputs for a respective one of at least two on-board power supplies, at least one output for a load of the motor vehicle, at least two switches, a first switch being disposed between a first of the inputs and a common node, and a second switch being disposed between a second of the inputs and the common node, and the output being electrically connected to the common node, wherein the switches are formed as semiconductor switches and are respectively connected with their body diodes in forward direction towards the common node, characterized in that a monitoring circuit monitors a first voltage at the first input and/or a second voltage at the second input and/or a voltage at the common node, and in that the monitoring circuit causes an opening signal for simultaneous opening of both switches depending on an amount of at least one of the monitored voltages. |
| US11840181B2 |
In-vehicle communication device and method for starting up in-vehicle device
An in-vehicle communication device and a method for starting up an in-vehicle device are provided. An in-vehicle communication device according to the present embodiment includes: a first processing unit; a second processing unit; and a communication unit. The first processing unit, upon being started up, performs initialization processing thereof. The second processing unit requires a shorter time from start-up until completion of the initialization processing than the first processing unit does. Another in-vehicle device is connected to the communication unit via a communication line, and the communication unit communicates with the other in-vehicle device in accordance with control of the first processing unit and the second processing unit. The second processing unit, after completing the initialization processing thereof, transmits an instruction to start up the other in-vehicle device via the communication unit. |
| US11840179B2 |
Camera/lens mounting platform for vehicle
A Camera/lens mounting platform (also referred to hereafter as the “platform”) for attachment to the window opening in a vehicle door is described. The platform is configurable to clamp to the doors of many, if not most, passenger cars and light duty trucks when a door's window is fully or nearly fully retracted. The platform offers a firm connection to the vehicle door and high stability to minimize blurring of photos and video. |
| US11840172B2 |
Vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly
A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a ground illumination module or turn signal indicator that includes at least one light source operable to emit light when electrically powered. A near field communication device communicates utilizing a near field communication (NFC) standard. Responsive to a near field communication-enabled device being present exterior the vehicle, the near field communication device wirelessly receives a communication from the near field communication-enabled device and determines whether the near field communication-enabled device is an authorized device. Responsive to determining that the near field communication-enabled device is an authorized device, the near field communication device authenticates the near field communication-enabled device as an authorized device for communication with the near field communication device. When the near field communication-enabled device is within a threshold distance to the vehicle, the at least one light source is electrically powered. |
| US11840171B2 |
Light assembly, vehicle design element, rear view device and door finisher
The present disclosure relates to a system comprising a light assembly for a 360° illumination of a design element, in particular configured for a vehicle design element, comprising: one or more light pipes, wherein each light pipe comprises a core, and two or more light pipes and/or two end portions of one light pipe at least partially overlap, providing at least one region of overlap to substantially close a loop; one or more light sources, disposed at least partially within an interior of the system, wherein each light source is configured to emit light based on at least receiving electrical power from an electrical power source, and each light source is arranged adjacent to and directed towards at least one of the one or more light pipes such that the emitted light results in reflected light propagating within the core and diffuse light exiting the one or more light pipes along the same; and a lens substantially enclosing the interior, the one or more light pipes and the one or more light sources, wherein the lens, having an inner surface and an outer surface disposed opposite the inner surface, is provided with a continuous transparent and/or translucent coating on the outer surface, and with the one or more light sources receiving electrical power from the electrical power source, the continuous transparent and/or translucent coating is at least partially permeable to at least some of the diffuse light which is passed through the lens; wherein the continuous transparent and/or translucent coating depends on at least one characteristic of the one or more light pipes and/or the one or more light sources, and/or the transparent and/or translucent coating comprises a metal, an alloy or a conductive metalloid, preferably providing a chromium or chromium-based reflective coating, to provide a homogenous illumination of a 360° illumination window when the one or more light sources receive electrical power from the electrical power source. |
| US11840170B2 |
Vehicle lamp having two lamp units each having a two light sources and a receiver for detecting an intensity of reflected light
The vehicle lamp includes a first lamp unit and a second lamp unit each including a first light source configured to emit an emission beam (visible light), a second light source configured to emit infrared light for sensing having a peak wavelength different from that of the first light source, and a light receiving unit configured to detect an intensity of reflected light of the infrared light emitted from the second light source. The light distribution control is performed on the light emitted from the first light source in accordance with the intensity of the reflected light detected by the light receiving unit, and the peak wavelength of the light emitted from the second light source of the first lamp unit and the peak wavelength of the light emitted from the second light source of the second lamp unit are different from each other. |
| US11840168B2 |
Rolling truck bed tray
An article of manufacture for providing a rolling truck bed tray with a folding end is disclosed. The article includes a main tray component with a width that fits within the bed of a pickup truck, a folding extension component coupled to the main tray component by one or more hinges, and a plurality of casters coupled to an underside of the main tray component and the underside of the folding extension component. The folding extension component has an open position in which the main tray component and folding extension component are oriented at a common height above the bed of the pickup truck and a closed position in which the folding extension component is oriented on top of the main tray component. |
| US11840164B2 |
Child safety seat
A child safety seat includes a seat shell for receiving a child, an extension member, an extension locking mechanism operable to lock the extension member with respect to the seat shell, and an anti-rebound part. The anti-rebound part can be installed on the extension member or the seat shell. The child safety seat is installable on a vehicle seat in a rear facing position with the anti-rebound part extending at an angle above the extension member and adjacent to a seatback of the vehicle seat. |
| US11840163B2 |
Seat sliding device
A front upper support surface and a rear upper support surface facing an upper surface of a rear end of an operation handle are provided in a lock release lever with a gap between the front upper support surface and the rear upper support surface in the vehicle front-rear direction, and front lower support surfaces are provided below the front upper support surface. An upper rail is provided with a rear lower support surface, which is positioned below a rear upper support surface. A clearance is provided between the front lower support surface and a lower surface of a rear end of the operation handle, and a clearance is provided between the rear lower support surface and the lower surface of the rear end of the operation handle. |
| US11840162B2 |
Vehicle seat slide attachment
The present disclosure relates to a slide comprising a fixed profile and a movable profile mounted on the fixed profile so as to slide in a longitudinal direction, the slide comprising a longitudinal adjustment screw, the fixed profile presenting a bottom having an outer face opposite the adjustment screw, the adjustment screw having one end integral with a support which comprises two longitudinal side walls able to receive the end. The bottom comprises two longitudinal parallel slots, and the bottom and the support each have a hole which are in line with one another and are able to receive an attachment part for attaching the fixed profile to the floor of a vehicle when the side walls are engaged in the slots with the rest of the support facing the outer face. |
| US11840161B2 |
Seat blocking system and method
A seat blocking system can comprise a seat. The seat can include a seat understructure and an overlying seating surface. The seat understructure can form a seat base and a seatback arranged in a seating configuration. The seating surface can be configured to morph between a sittable shape, in which the seating surface is coextensive with the seat understructure, and an unsittable shape, in which the seating surface is expanded over at least a portion of the seat understructure. The seat blocking system can include a seat blocker. The seat blocker can be integrated with the seat. The seat blocker can be operable to morph between a deactivated state, whereby the seat blocker leaves the seat understructure to impart the sittable shape to the seating surface, and an activated state, in which the seat blocker acts on the seating surface to impart the unsittable shape to the seating surface. |
| US11840151B2 |
Device for encapsulating and interrupting the power supply of a battery
A device for encapsulating a battery includes an enclosure including a casing and a cover and forming a housing for receiving the battery, a circuit breaker arranged in the enclosure, and an actuating element of the circuit breaker arranged outside the enclosure or partially outside the enclosure. |
| US11840150B2 |
Systems and methods for power management and control
Systems and methods directed to improved battery management, motor control, energy storage and battery charging. The systems and methods enable vehicle electrification and provides a paradigm changing platform that enables integration of battery management, charging and motor controls with means to manage regenerative braking, traction and handling. In embodiments, systems and methods are directed to a unified modular battery pack system having a cascaded architecture comprising an integrated combination of a networked low voltage converter/controller with peer-to-peer communication capability, embedded ultra-capacitor or other secondary energy storage element, battery management system and serially connected set of individual cells as the fundamental building block. |
| US11840146B2 |
Control method for vehicle, vehicle system, and vehicle controller
In a control method for a vehicle and a vehicle controller that add deceleration to a vehicle so as to control a vehicle posture when a turning operation of a steering system is performed, the deceleration is appropriately set on the basis of an operation of a single pedal. The control method for the vehicle includes: a step of adding the deceleration that corresponds to an accelerator pedal depression amount to a vehicle 1 when the accelerator pedal depression amount is smaller than a specified value A1 that is larger than 0; a step of determining whether the turning operation of the steering system is performed on the basis of a steering angle detected by a steering angle sensor 8; a step of adding the deceleration to the vehicle 1 so as to control the vehicle posture when it is determined that the turning operation of the steering system is performed; and a step of setting the deceleration added to the vehicle to a smaller value when the accelerator pedal depression amount is smaller than the specified value and is a first value than when the accelerator pedal depression amount is smaller than the specified value and is a second value (>the first value). |
| US11840143B2 |
Cruise control for controlling a straddle-type vehicle during cornering
The present invention obtains a controller and a control method capable of achieving appropriate cornering during cruise control of a straddle-type vehicle.In the controller and the control method according to the present invention, during the cruise control, in which acceleration/deceleration of the straddle-type vehicle is automatically controlled without relying on an accelerating/decelerating operation by a driver, an entry of a curved road is detected on the basis of a predicted route of the straddle-type vehicle, and the straddle-type vehicle is decelerated at a time point before the straddle-type vehicle reaches the entry. |
| US11840141B2 |
Vehicle drive train assembly
A vehicle drive train assembly includes a propeller shaft and a nut. The nut has a first part and a second part. The first part is movable with respect to the propeller between an uninstalled position and an installed position of the nut. The second part is stationary with respect to the propeller shaft in the uninstalled position and the installed position. |
| US11840138B2 |
Temperature control system for a motor vehicle
The invention relates to a thermal control system (100) for a vehicle, the thermal control system (100) comprising at least one first heat exchanger (110) and at least one second heat exchanger (120) that are arranged in series, the first heat exchanger (110) extending mainly on a first plane (P1) intersecting a second plane (P2) on which the second heat exchanger (120) mainly extends such that the first heat exchanger (110) is closer to the second heat exchanger (120) at respective first ends (111, 121) of the two heat exchangers (110, 120) and the first heat exchanger (110) is farther away from the second heat exchanger (120) at respective second ends (112, 122) of these two heat exchangers (110, 120). |
| US11840136B2 |
Structural assembly and vehicle having structural assembly
A structural assembly for a vehicle includes a battery structure having a battery frame. The structural assembly includes a vehicle frame and a vehicle body. The vehicle frame has opposed longitudinal rails. The vehicle body is separate from and mounted on the vehicle frame. The vehicle body includes opposed rockers extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. Each opposed longitudinal rail is located between a respective rocker and the battery frame of the battery structure. |
| US11840129B2 |
Roof system having a wind deflector assembly
A roof system for a vehicle comprises a wind deflector member including a wind deflector body which extends in a transverse direction of the vehicle that is movable between a retracted position below a fixed roof and an extended position at least partly above the fixed roof. Wind deflector arms at the lateral ends of the wind deflector body extend substantially in a rearward direction and are at least rotatably connected to a stationary part. A sealing arrangement comprises a first seal is positioned between the wind deflector body and a panel that seals a gap between an the wind deflector body and the panel in its closed position. The first seal is configured to close a gap between the wind deflector arms and the panel. A second seal is closes a gap between the wind deflector member and the stationary part when the panel is in its closed position. |
| US11840127B2 |
Vehicle body structure
A vehicle body structure includes a reinforcement member, a latch mechanism and a secondary reinforcement portion. The reinforcement member is installed to an inner door panel of a door structure and extends from a forward area of the door structure to a rearward area of the door structure. The latch mechanism is installed to the rearward area of the inner door panel and is positioned such that a section of a rearward portion of the reinforcement member is outboard and level with a portion of the latch mechanism. The secondary reinforcement portion is fixedly attached to a central area of the reinforcement member spaced apart from a forward area of the inner door panel. In response to an impact event where force is directed to a central area of the door structure, the reinforcement member deforms and contacts the latch mechanism retaining the latch mechanism in the latching orientation. |
| US11840122B2 |
Thermal management system
A thermal management system includes a cooling liquid circulation flow path, a refrigerant circulation flow path and a first heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger includes a first heat exchange portion and a second heat exchange portion. The cooling liquid circulation flow path includes a first heat exchange assembly, a second heat exchange assembly and a first branch. The thermal management system has a heating mode. After passing through the first heat exchange assembly, one path of the cooling liquid flows to the first branch, and another path of the cooling liquid flows to the second heat exchange assembly. The cooling liquid after flowing through the first branch and after flowing through the second heat exchange assembly merge and then flow to the first heat exchange portion. As a result, the number of heat exchangers used by the thermal management system to recover waste heat is reduced. |
| US11840117B2 |
Ramp-equipped vehicle
A ramp-equipped vehicle includes: a vehicle-height adjusting mechanism configured to adjust a vehicle height of a vehicle; a ramp configured to be movable between a deployed state and a stored state, the deployed state being a state where the ramp protrudes outwardly from the vehicle, the stored state being a state where the ramp is stored inside the vehicle; and a camera configured to detect a person coming closer to the vehicle. When the camera detects a person coming closer to a doorway of the vehicle during vehicle height adjustment by the vehicle-height adjusting mechanism, the vehicle height adjustment by the vehicle-height adjusting mechanism is interrupted. |
| US11840113B2 |
Marker opener
The present disclosure is directed to a marker opening device comprising at least one plug remover, at least one nib remover, and/or at least one cartridge remover. Also provided herein is a method of disassembling a marker using the marker opening device, the disassembly of the marker allowing for separation of the recyclable and non-recyclable components thereof. |
| US11840106B2 |
Sliding board including on its visible face a decorated composite material and associated method
A method for decorating a sliding board including on its visible part, a composite material formed of a fibrous layer coated with hardenable resin, includes preparing a transfer film that includes a face covered with a pattern constituted of an arrangement of grains of at least one type of ink. The ink includes colourants and a crosslinked polymer. The method also includes positioning the face of the transfer film covered with the pattern on all or some of the external surface of the composite material, applying pressure and temperature conditions generating the softening or/then hardening of the resin to as to incrust the grains of the pattern in the superficial layer of the composite material while conserving the arrangement of the grains, and peeling the transfer film. |
| US11840104B2 |
Printing apparatus and control method thereof
A printing apparatus includes at least a tank configured to hold a first printing material at a first position and a tank configured to hold a second printing material at a second position different from the first position. A light emitting control unit controls light emitting states of a plurality of light emitters. If an amount of the printing material in the first tank is less than a predetermined amount, and an amount of the printing material in the second tank is greater than a predetermined amount, the light emitting control unit transits a state of a first light emitter from a state indicating that the amount of the printing material is greater than the predetermined amount to a state indicating that the amount of the printing material is less than the predetermined amount, and maintains a state of a second light emitter. |
| US11840099B2 |
Inkjet print system and inkjet printing method using the same
Disclosed are an inkjet print system and an inkjet printing method using the same. An inkjet print system according to one embodiment of the disclosure may include a stage on which a printing medium is loaded and which moves the printing medium in a first direction, an inkjet head which moves in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and in which a plurality of nozzles configured to eject an ink on the printing medium are formed, a measurement instrument which moves in the second direction independent of the inkjet head and measures a height for each section of an impacted coating layer on the printing medium, and a processor which allows the nozzles to be opened or closed on the basis of height information of the coating layer. |
| US11840097B2 |
High resolution laser induced forward transfer
In a method and system for laser induced forward transfer (LIFT), energy (E1,E2) is deposited according to a non-Gaussian intensity profile (Ixy) which is spatially tuned across an interface (11xy) of the donor material (11m) to cause the donor material (11m) to be ejected from the donor substrate as an extended jet (Je) momentarily bridging the transfer distance (Zt) between the donor substrate (11) and the acceptor substrate (12) during a transfer period (Tt). A locally increased intensity spike (Is) at a center of the intensity profile (Ixy) causes a relatively thick jet (J1) of donor material to branch into a relatively thin jet (J2) at a branching position (J12) between the donor substrate (11) and acceptor substrate (12). The thick jet (J1) allows a relatively large transfer (Zt) distance while the thin jet (J2) deposits a relatively small droplet (Jd) of donor material (11m). |
| US11840092B2 |
Liquid ejection head
A liquid ejection head includes an ejection-port formed member including liquid ejection ports, a substrate including liquid supply ports for supplying liquid to the ejection ports and a partition between the liquid supply ports, and a substrate supporting member. The liquid supply ports extend along the longitudinal direction of the substrate when viewed from a position facing the main surface of the substrate. The liquid supply ports are arrayed along the lateral direction of the substrate when viewed from the position facing the main surface. The partition includes a non-contact portion that is not in contact with the supporting member and a contact portion that is in contact with the supporting member. Of the liquid supply ports, adjacent liquid supply ports communicate with each other in the lateral direction through a gap between the non-contact portion and the supporting member, and liquid flows through the gap. |
| US11840085B2 |
Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus
A liquid ejecting head includes: a plurality of individual flow channels provided with nozzles; a common supply flow channel through which a liquid is supplied to the plurality of individual flow channels; a common discharge flow channel through which the liquid is discharged from the plurality of individual flow channels; and a bypass flow channel that bypasses the plurality of individual flow channels and causes the common supply flow channel and the common discharge flow channel to communicate with each other. A combined flow channel resistance of the bypass flow channel and the plurality of individual flow channels is greater than a flow channel resistance of the common supply flow channel and is greater than a flow channel resistance of the common discharge flow channel. |
| US11840083B2 |
Print module capping station
A single pass inkjet printer that utilizes a modular printing system with one or more self-contained printing modules, where each printing module is easy to remove and replace from a large printing machine, thus resulting in an overall system that is easy to service and maintain. Each module is a self-contained printer including an ink supply, printhead drive electronics, and printhead assembly in order to provide one color or fluid of inkjet printing capability. Each module includes a precise three-point compliant self-aligning mount system to obtain accurate printhead positioning, and a unique integrated printhead tending system that includes a compact movable vacuum knife for cleaning the printheads, and a printhead capping station for sealing and protecting the printheads from the ambient environment when not in use. |
| US11840079B2 |
Inkjet printing apparatus and control method thereof
An inkjet printing apparatus includes a printhead in which a plurality of ejection ports that eject ink are formed, a carriage mounted with the printhead and reciprocated in a predetermined direction, a conveyance unit to convey a print medium, a platen to support, at a printing position, the conveyed print medium, and an obtaining unit to obtain information regarding a distance from an ejection port surface of the printhead to the print medium at positions in the predetermined direction. The apparatus controls an ink ejection timing in accordance with the information regarding the obtained distance and information corresponding to the number of passes of printing, which is the number of times of moving the carriage to print the image in a unit area of the print medium. |
| US11840076B2 |
Drive circuit and liquid ejecting apparatus
A level shift circuit that outputs a level shift amplification modulation signal obtained by shifting a potential of an amplification modulation signal output by an amplifier circuit is provided, a potential of a first voltage supplied to one end of a first transistor of the amplifier circuit is larger than a potential of a second voltage supplied to a bootstrap circuit which is a reference of a third voltage supplied to one end of a third transistor included in the level shift circuit, and a second gate driver included in the level shift circuit outputs a third gate signal that switches an operation of the third transistor and a fourth gate signal that switches an operation of a fourth transistor, in a period during which a potential of a drive signal is between the potential of the first voltage and the potential of the second voltage. |
| US11840075B2 |
Emulating parameters of a fluid ejection die
An integrated circuit includes thermal tracking logic, control logic, and an output interface. The thermal tracking logic determines a temperature of a fluid ejection die. The control logic defines an emulated parameter of the fluid ejection die as a function of the temperature of the fluid ejection die. The output interface outputs the emulated parameter to a printer system based on the function and the temperature of the fluid ejection die. |
| US11840073B2 |
Tension adjustments in printers to prevent slipping
In example implementations, a printing device is provided. The printing device includes a printer module, a first driver roller, and a second drive roller. The printer module includes a single set of print bars. A first side of the single set of print bars is to print on a first side of a continuous web of print media and a second side of the single set of print bars is to print on a second side of the continuous web of print media. The continuous web of print media travels over a common set of idler rollers. The first driver roller is to control an amount of tension of the continuous web of print media on a first side. The second drive roller is to control an amount of tension of the continuous web of print media on a second side. The amount of tension of the continuous web of print media on the second side is greater than the amount of tension of the continuous web of print media on the first side. |
| US11840071B2 |
Cartridge
A cartridge to be installed in a tape printing device includes: a cartridge case having a cartridge-side tape ejection port; a tape path that feeds a printing tape toward the cartridge-side tape ejection port; a platen roller that applies a feeding force to the printing tape; and an electrode part. When seen from a front side in an installation direction of the cartridge, a feeding angle that is an angle formed by a feeding direction of the printing tape at a portion at which the feeding force is applied to the printing tape by the platen roller when the printing tape is fed with respect to a direction in which the electrode part receives a force from a contact terminal part is less than 45°. |
| US11840062B2 |
Three-dimensional object printing method and apparatus
A three-dimensional object printing method includes first operation of concurrently performing ejection of liquid toward a workpiece by a head, emission of energy toward the workpiece by an energy emitter, and movement of the head and the energy emitter with respect to the workpiece by a moving mechanism, and second operation of concurrently performing emission of energy toward the workpiece by the energy emitter and movement of the head and the energy emitter with respect to the workpiece by the moving mechanism, without performing ejection of liquid by the head. A first irradiation distance, which is a distance between the workpiece and an emission face during execution of the first operation, and a second irradiation distance, which is a distance between the workpiece and the emission face during execution of the second operation, are different from each other. |
| US11840059B2 |
Device for measuring a surface of a rotary body or elevations thereof and system
A device for measuring a surface or elevations of the surface of a rotary body provided as a cylinder, a roller, a sleeve, or a plate for a graphic industry machine, includes a first motor for rotating the rotary body about an axis of rotation and a measuring device including at least one radiation source, at least one area scan camera, and at least one computer used to take contactless measurements on the surface which is permanently sticky and/or compressible and/or porous and therefore difficult to measure. The measuring device uses a virtual reference object saved on the computer to determine the concentricity of the rotary body on the basis of the measurement results. A system including the measuring device and a flexographic printing press is also provided. |
| US11840057B2 |
Metal organic framework modifications of structural fibers
A reinforced carbon composite can include a carbon substrate and a metal organic framework bonded to the carbon substrate. For example, a reinforced carbon composite can include a first layer, a second layer, and a resin adhered to the first layer and the second layer. The first layer can include a carbon substrate and a metal organic framework bonded to the carbon substrate. The second layer can include a carbon substrate and a metal organic framework bonded to the carbon substrate. |
| US11840055B2 |
Construction member
A construction member of one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a decorative film and a pre-mask: that is laminated to the decorative film and removed alter application of the decorative film is described. The decorative film includes: a transparent resin film having, an embossed first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a printed layer disposed on the second surface of the transparent resin: film; and a colored adhesive layer disposed on or above the printed layer. The pre-mask includes: a support film having a first surface and a second, surface opposite: the first surface; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that has an uneven surface and: is disposed on the first, surface of the support film. The first surface of the transparent resin film of the decorative film and the uneven surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the pre-mask face each other. |
| US11840053B2 |
Skin material and method for producing the same
The method for producing a skin material is a method for producing a skin material having a concave part formed on the front surface side, comprising heat-pressing a raw material between an embossing die and an elastic sheet to form the concave part and, at the same time, forming a convex part on a bottom surface of the concave part. |
| US11840052B2 |
Method for producing a composite component
A method for producing a composite component including a bottom layer, cover layer and honeycomb structure, including applying the honeycomb structure to the bottom layer wherein honeycomb chambers are formed. Honeycomb chambers are filled in a reinforcement region with a granular material and granular material is removed from other honeycomb chambers wherein each honeycomb chamber is filled up to a granular-material filling height and honeycomb chambers outside the reinforcement region are free of granular material. The cover layer is applied to the honeycomb structure wherein the honeycomb chambers are closed. The composite component is heated so the granular material in the honeycomb chambers expands to fill it with granular material and the cover layer, the bottom layer, the honeycomb structure and the expanded granular material harden, the density of the expanded granular material in the honeycomb chambers filled with granular material being dependent on the granular-material filling height. |
| US11840048B2 |
Laminated body and method for manufacturing laminated body
A laminated body includes a glass substrate, an adhesion layer, and a resin layer in this order. The adhesion layer includes a side-contact portion. The side-contact portion is located outside an outer edge of the resin layer in a part of an entire circumferential of the outer edge when observing the laminated body from a normal direction of a surface of the glass substrate, and is in contact with at least a part of a side surface of the resin layer. |
| US11840041B2 |
Compaction system and methods for compacting composite components
Compaction systems and methods of compacting components are provided. In one aspect, a laminate of a component can be laid up on a tool of a compaction system. The laminate defines a cavity. A noodle is positioned relative to or in the cavity. A noodle ring is then positioned relative to the noodle. For instance, the noodle ring can be placed over the noodle. A cross section of the noodle ring can be shaped complementary to a cross section of the noodle. A plunger of the compaction system is moved so that it engages the noodle ring. Particularly, the plunger is moved in such a way that a force is applied on the noodle ring so that the noodle ring compacts the noodle into the cavity. |
| US11840040B2 |
Pressing arrangement and method of cooling article in said arrangement
A pressing arrangement (100) is disclosed. The pressing arrangement (100) comprises a pressure vessel (2) comprising a pressure cylinder (1), a top end closure (3) and a bottom end closure (9), a furnace chamber (18) for heating a pressure medium, a plurality of guiding passages (10, 11, 13), a load compartment (19) configured for holding at least one article to be treated, and at least one flow generator (30, 32) for circulating pressure medium within the pressure vessel. The pressing arrangement further comprises a heat exchanging element (170) arranged in the top end closure or in the bottom end closure. The heat exchanging element comprises at least one passage for allowing a flow of pressure medium through the heat exchanging element, and at least one circuit for allowing a circulation of cooling medium within the at least one circuit for a cooling of the pressure medium. |
| US11840033B2 |
Method for producing contact lenses
The invention provides a method producing contact lenses, comprising the step of: separating the mold into the male and female mold halves, with the silicone hydrogel contact lens adhered on one of the male and female mold halves; cooling the lens-adhere mold half with the molded silicone hydrogel contact lens adhered thereon; bringing a shaped ultrasonic horn in direct contact with at least one area of a non-optical surface of the female mold half or the male mold half having the molded silicone hydrogel contact lens attached thereon; and applying a ultrasonic vibrational energy to the at least one area of the non-optical surface of the female mold half or the male mold half having the molded silicone hydrogel contact lens attached thereon so as to separate the molded silicone hydrogel contact lens from the mold half attached thereon. |
| US11840031B2 |
Radiation amount determination for an intended surface property level
According to examples, an apparatus includes a processor and a memory on which is stored machine readable instructions. The instructions may cause the processor to identify an intended surface property level for a surface of a three-dimensional (3D) object, determine an amount of radiation to be applied as a flash of radiation onto the surface to obtain the intended surface property level, and output the determined amount of radiation to be applied as a flash of radiation, in which a radiation source is to flash apply the determined amount of radiation onto the surface of the 3D object. |
| US11840027B2 |
Device and method for shaping a blank for the formation of a structural thermoplastic part
A device for shaping a blank for forming a thermoplastic structural part, the blank comprising reinforcing fibres embedded in a thermoplastic matrix, said shaping device comprising a support member for supporting a blank along a longitudinal axis, at least one heating member, at least one inclination member configured to modify the inclination of at least one part of the longitudinal portion of the blank at an angle of inclination that can be parameterised with respect to the horizontal plane in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis, and a movement system from upstream to downstream along the longitudinal axis of the heating member and of the inclination member relative to the support member so as to successively modify the inclination of a part of each longitudinal portion of the blank. |
| US11840026B2 |
Fiber component having fiber rods connected to form a framework
A fiber component has at least three fiber rods which each have fibers extending continuously in the axial direction of the fiber rods, wherein at least two of the three fiber rods each form a support rod and at least one of the three fiber rods forms a connecting rod. The support rods are arranged substantially parallel in the axial direction thereof and spaced from each other. The connecting rod connects the support rods to each other. The connecting rod forms a node point with the support rod in question at each of the connecting points between the connecting rod and the support rods. |
| US11840024B2 |
Sacrificial barriers
A system includes a controller to receive data corresponding to an object or slices of the object to be generated by a 3D printer, wherein the 3D printer includes an array of printhead nozzles to selectively eject a print agent on a layer of build material in a build chamber having a build chamber wall, the array of printhead nozzles spanning substantially the full width of the build chamber and moveable along a length of the build chamber. The controller to generate first print data used to generate layers of the object based on the received object data, and to generate second print data used to generate layers of a sacrificial barrier located between the object and the build chamber wall, the second print data is generated such that different parts of the sacrificial barrier are generated using a different plurality of nozzles of the array of printhead nozzles. |
| US11840021B2 |
Methods and apparatus for additive manufacturing utilizing multifunctional composite materials, and articles made therefrom
A method of depositing a multiphase material. The method includes providing a Continuous Multifunctional Composite (CMC) phase containing at least one continuous element in a polymeric matrix, passing the CMC phase through a feeding system containing a cutting system, producing a predetermined length of the CMC phase, providing a flow a molten polymer such that the molten polymer and the CMC phase are merged into a continuous co-extrusion nozzle so as to produce a co-extruded multiphase material, and depositing the co-extruded multiphase material onto a surface. An apparatus for depositing a multiphase material. The apparatus contains a co-extrusion nozzle, a means to introduce a CMC phase and a molten polymer into the co-extrusion nozzle, such that the molten polymer and the CMC phase are co-extruded and deposited on a surface. An article containing a CMC phase containing continuous elements embedded in a polymer resin forming a multiphase structure. |
| US11840017B2 |
Techniques for releasing parts in additive fabrication and related systems and methods
An improved additive fabrication device and a build platform are provided. The additive fabrication device is configured to form layers of material on a build surface. The additive fabrication device comprising: a build platform comprising: a rigid structure; an actuation structure attached to the rigid structure, wherein the actuation structure comprises one or more sheet handles and a flexible sheet, and wherein a first surface of the flexible sheet forms a build surface on which the additive fabrication device is configured to form layers of materials; and the one or more sheet handles are configured to be actuated to apply a force to the flexible sheet while at least a part of the actuation structure remains attached to the rigid structure, to deform at least a part of the flexible sheet away from the rigid structure. |
| US11840016B2 |
Increasing electrical conductivity at selected locations of a 3D object
A device includes a coater, a dispenser, and a treatment portion. The coater is to coat, layer-by-layer, a build material relative to a build pad to form a 3D object. The dispenser is to at least dispense a fluid including a first at least potentially electrically conductive material in at least some selected locations of an external surface of the 3D object. The treatment portion is to treat the 3D object to substantially increase electrically conductivity on the external surface of the 3D object at the at least some selected locations. |
| US11840013B2 |
Graphite materials and devices with surface micro-texturing
Flexible graphite and other graphite materials with surface micro-texturing, and methods and apparatuses for micro-texturing the surface of flexible graphite and other graphite materials are provided. Micro-texturing can be used to modify wettability and/or adhesion characteristics of a flexible graphite surface. Micro-textured flexible graphite materials can be advantageously used in applications where the material is in contact with liquid water or other liquids. |
| US11840008B2 |
Light-transmitting decorated molding article and method of fabricating the same
A method of fabricating a decorated molding article includes forming an all-in-one coating on a substrate and performing a curing step, thereby forming a composite layer structure with a protective effect, a color effect, and a bonding effect. The composite layer structure may form a molded film with better physical properties (e.g., higher hardness, better protection effect, and the like) after the blister molding process. Therefore, the molded film of the embodiments may be applied to a laser engraving process to form a variety of light-transmitting decorated molding articles. |
| US11840007B2 |
Handle-orienting preform feeding mechanism and orienting preform feeding method for a bottle preform with a handle
Provided are a handle-orienting preform feeding mechanism and orienting preform feeding method for a bottle preform with a handle. Under the combined action of the axial rotation of a plastic bottle preform and a handle positioning structure on a preform feeding tray, the handle of the plastic bottle preform with an integrated handle (especially a PET plastic bottle preform with an integrated handle) is positioned so that the plastic bottle preform with an integrated handle enters a heating machine and a bottle blowing machine of the next process according to the predetermined orientation. Accordingly, the wrong orientation of the integrated handle of the plastic bottle preform is avoided so that a mechanical arm can grasp the plastic bottle preform correctly and place the plastic bottle preform at the correct position of a bottle blowing mold. Thus the plastic bottle preform can be blown successfully. |
| US11840000B2 |
Methods of overmolding softer material with harder material and moisture tight container assemblies made by the methods
A method of over-molding materials includes: providing a first material in a groove in a first portion of a mold such that only a single surface of the first material is exposed to a vacant portion of the mold; providing, via an injection molding process, a second material in a liquid form in the vacant portion of the mold adjacent to, and in engagement with, the first material; and allowing the second material to solidify and become directly coupled to the first material, thus forming a single component. During the method, the entire single surface of the first material is flush with a plane defined by outer surface of the first portion of the mold. The second material has one or both of a greater hardness when solidified than the first material and/or a higher melting temperature than the first material. |
| US11839998B2 |
Crack engineering as a new route for the construction of arbitrary hierarchical architectures
Three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical morphologies widely exist in natural and biomimetic materials, which impart preferential functions including liquid and mass transport, energy conversion, and signal transmission for various applications. While notable progress has been made in the design and manufacturing of various hierarchical materials, the state-of-the-art approaches suffer from limited materials selection, high costs, as well as low processing throughput. Herein, by harnessing the configurable elastic crack engineering-controlled formation and configuration of cracks in elastic materials, an effect normally avoided in various industrial processes, the present invention provides a facile and powerful technique to enable the faithful transfer of arbitrary hierarchical structures with broad material compatibility and structural and functional integrity. The present invention provides a cost-effective, large-scale production method of a variety of flexible, inexpensive, and transparent 3D hierarchical and biomimetic materials. |
| US11839997B2 |
Self pressurizing bladder tooling
A method of fabricating a composite structure includes laying at least one composite ply about a bladder, the bladder comprising a phase change material in a first phase having a first volume, positioning an outer mold about the bladder and the at least one composite ply, and curing the at least one composite ply to form the composite structure. Curing causes the phase change material contained within the bladder to change to a second phase to expand from the first volume to a second volume and apply a pressure to an interior surface of the composite ply and press an outer surface of the composite ply against the outer mold to form an interior cavity. The bladder is not removable from the formed interior cavity. |
| US11839992B2 |
Printer waste diverters
A mechanism is described herein to drive slitter and cutter waste in a direction that allows for a more advantageous use of the waste collection bin's volume. The waste drive mechanism allows for at least one armature that drives the waste in a desired direction. The armature is made from a material that is flexible, with a curved shape to allow a pre-loaded force against a contact surface of the waste collection bin. The pre-loaded flexible armature against a contact surface of the collection bin provides sufficient force to drive the waste it in a desired direction, allowing for a more consistent use of the waste collection bin spatial volume. |
| US11839988B2 |
Power operated rotary knife
A power operated rotary knife including an annular rotary knife blade supported for rotation in a blade housing. The rotary knife blade including a body and a blade section extending from the body. The body includes an outer wall including an arcuate surface having an upper region extending from a first upper end portion to a second intermediate portion and a lower region extending from the second intermediate portion to a third lower end portion. A plurality of gear teeth extend downwardly from the upper end of the body, each of the plurality of gear teeth including an outer peripheral face forming a portion of the upper region of the arcuate surface of the outer wall. The body outer wall includes a bearing surface having a lower bearing face in the lower region of the arcuate surface and an upper bearing face in the upper region of the arcuate surface. |
| US11839985B2 |
Control of a robot assembly
A method for the control of a robot assembly having at least one robot. The method includes acquiring pose data from an object arrangement having at least one object, which data has a first time interval; determining modified pose data from the object arrangement, which data has a second time interval that is larger or smaller than the first time interval, or is equal to the first time interval, on the basis of the acquired pose data; and controlling the robot assembly on the basis of said modified pose data. |
| US11839984B2 |
Robotic touch perception
An apparatus such as a robot capable of performing goal oriented tasks may include one or more touch sensors to receive touch perception feedback on the location of objects and structures within an environment. A fusion engine may be configured to combine touch perception data with other types of sensor data such as data received from an image or distance sensor. The apparatus may combine distance sensor data with touch sensor data using inference models such as Bayesian inference. The touch sensor may be mounted onto an adjustable arm of a robot. The apparatus may use the data it has received from both a touch sensor and distance sensor to build a map of its environment and perform goal oriented tasks such as cleaning or moving objects. |
| US11839982B2 |
Systems and methods for real-time control of a robot using a robot animation system
Various systems and methods for controlling a target device are disclosed. For example, a system includes a user computing device including a user interface, a user motion database communicatively coupled to the user computing device, a controller, a controller motion database communicatively coupled to the controller, and a target device communicatively coupled to the controller. The user computing device can be configured to connect the user motion database and the controller motion database to share corresponding sets of motion instructions in real-time in response to receiving a sync indication from the user computing device. The target device can be configured to implement the corresponding sets of motion instructions in real-time on the target device. |
| US11839980B2 |
Image processing apparatus monitoring target, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor
An image processing apparatus capable of analyzing a cause of an abnormality of a system efficiently. The image processing apparatus includes a monitoring unit and an analysis unit. The monitoring unit monitors a monitoring object to detect occurrence of an abnormality in the monitoring object by applying an image process to a first area in each of images of the monitoring object that are photographed at different time points. The analysis unit analyzes a cause of an abnormality detected by the monitoring unit by applying an image process to a second area that is different from the first area in an image of a time point preceding a time point at which the abnormality is detected. |
| US11839979B2 |
Dual mode free-drive of robot arm
Method and robot arm, where the motor torques of the joint motors of a robot arm are controlled based on a static motor torque indicating the motor torque needed to maintain the robot arm in a static posture, where the static motor torque is adjusted in response to a change in posture of the robot arm caused by an external force different from gravity applied to the robot arm. Further the motor torque of the joint motors is controlled based on an additional motor torque obtained based on a force-torque provided to the robot tool flange, where the force-torque is obtained by a force-torque sensor integrated in the tool flange of the robot arm. |
| US11839973B2 |
Continuum robot control system and continuum robot control method
A kinematic model arithmetic portion calculates a coordinate value (ze1 (θe)) as distance information indicating the distance between a member that serves as a reference surface for the curve shape of a curvable portion and a member in the curvable portion that is closest to the reference surface. A switch determination unit determines based on the coordinate value whether to drive a wire for driving the curvable portion by a drive displacement calculated for the wire along with the coordinate value by the kinematic model arithmetic portion. |
| US11839971B2 |
Teaching control method for robot, robot system, and computer program
A teaching control method includes displaying three or more plurality of teaching points on a display section, acquiring a result of classification processing for classifying the plurality of teaching points into one or more teaching point groups, receiving an operation parameter for each teaching point group, and setting an operation value for each teaching point group using the operation parameter. |
| US11839967B1 |
Tool for marking sheet metal and method of use
A tool for marking sheet metal prior to bending in a bending brake, includes a scale having a first end, an opposite second end, a longitudinal axis, and four faces. Each of the four faces include a plurality of marking stations. A cross member is rotatably connected to the first end of the scale. The cross member has a surface which is disposed perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and is configured to abut the edge of the sheet of metal. The tool is positioned at a first location on the sheet of metal and marks are made at the marking stations. The tool is then moved to a second location on the sheet of metal and a second set of marks are made. The two sets of marks are used to align the sheet of metal with the bend line of a bending brake so that accurate bends can be made. |
| US11839966B1 |
Bicycle stand and repair apparatus
A bicycle stand and repair apparatus includes left and right positioning rails and left and right pivotable support bars pivotable through an angle “β” to the left and right positioning rails, with a positionable center guide generally transverse to the left and right positioning rails and connecting same. Front and rear stability bars are fixed to the left and right positioning rails. A slidable tire holder having a tire holder notch, the slidable tire holder transversely connecting the left and right pivotable support bars, the slidable tire holder positionable from distal ends of the left and right pivotable support bars. A repair mount is provided that may be temporarily stowed when the apparatus is in a stowed position or when the apparatus is used as a bicycle rack, and detachable from the stowed position and securable to the slidable tire holder and/or to the left and right pivotable support bars. |
| US11839963B2 |
Power tool including input control device on top portion of housing
Power tool methods and systems are provided for controlling an operating mode of the power tool. A power tool includes a housing having a handle portion and a top portion. An input control device is located on the top portion of the housing for changing an operational mode of the power tool. The plurality of operational modes include at least a forward mode and a reverse mode. A controller includes an electronic processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed by the electronic processor configure the controller to receive a mode signal from the input control device indicating the selected one of the plurality of operational modes and operate the motor responsive to the mode signal. |
| US11839958B2 |
Tension fed fastener installation tool and related methods of use
An installation tool and related methods are provided. The tool can pull a strip of collated fasteners along a collated fastener path to a guide, where individual fasteners are sequentially separated from the strip and advanced into a workpiece. The tool can include a tension feeder located downstream of the guide. The tension feeder is configured to apply tension to the strip between the guide and a leading end of the strip. The tool can include a driveshaft configured to attach to a conventional drive tool chuck or a drive tool having hexagonal type drive components. The guide can be one piece and replaceable, with a guide body and a guide head. A strip slot can be defined in the same to align a fastener head with a backstop and facilitate entry of a fastener shank in a feed slot. Related methods of use are provided. |
| US11839957B2 |
Intelligent electric tool and control method thereof
An intelligent electric tool includes an output shaft, a motor, a transmission assembly, an adjustment assembly, a detection unit, and a controller. The output shaft outputs torsion. The motor drives the output shaft to rotate. The transmission assembly connects the motor to the output shaft. The adjustment assembly adjusts an operating mode of the intelligent electric tool, where the operating mode includes at least a metal mode. The detection unit detects a current value of the intelligent electric tool in operation. The controller determines a first detection value and a second detection value according to the current value of the intelligent electric tool in operation and control, according to the first detection value and/or the second detection value, the motor to stop rotating to control the intelligent electric tool to stop. |
| US11839955B2 |
Biased pawl ratcheting wrench
A ratchet wrench comprises a handle defining a cavity including a plurality of teeth on an inner periphery thereof, a wheel, a biasing spring ring, and at least one tooth pawl mounted in recesses formed on the outer periphery of the wheel. The wheel is rotatably mounted inside the cavity and the pawls are biased by the spring ring to engage the plurality of teeth on the inner periphery of the cavity when rotated in a first direction, and to slide over the teeth engage the plurality of teeth on the inner periphery of the cavity when rotated in a direction opposite the first direction. |
| US11839949B2 |
Grinding and polishing device
A grinding and polishing device includes a main body, a grinding disk, a sample disk, a first console, and a second console. The main body includes a support table and a support column. The support table is coupled to the support column. The grinding disk is fixed on the support table and includes a polishing surface. The sample disk is fixed on the support column and configured to hold a preform. The first console is electrically coupled to the sample disk and used for controlling a distance between the preform held by the sample disk and the grinding disk. The second console is electrically coupled to the grinding disk and used for controlling a working state of the grinding disk for grinding and polishing the preform. |
| US11839948B2 |
Polishing apparatus
A polishing apparatus capable of increasing an added value is disclosed. The polishing apparatus includes a polishing table configured to support a polishing pad, a top ring configured to press a substrate against the polishing pad, and a liquid supply mechanism configured to supply a liquid onto the polishing pad. The liquid supply mechanism includes a nozzle arm configured to be movable in a radial direction of the polishing table, and a liquid ejection nozzle attached to the nozzle arm. The liquid ejection nozzle is a fan-shaped nozzle having a liquid throttle surface having a tapered shape. |
| US11839947B2 |
Pad-temperature regulating apparatus, and polishing apparatus
A pad-temperature regulating apparatus is disclosed, which includes a heat exchanger capable of being cleaned in a limited space. A pad-temperature regulating apparatus includes a heat exchanger configured to contact a polishing pad to exchange heat with the polishing pad, a moving mechanism configured to move the heat exchanger between a temperature regulating position where the heat exchanger can exchange heat with the polishing pad, and a retreat position located on a side of the polishing pad, and a cleaning mechanism configured to clean the heat exchanger moved to the retreat position. The heat exchanger has an approximate triangular shape in a horizontal cross-section, and a longest side of the heat exchanger faces the polishing pad when the heat exchanger is moved to the retreat position. |
| US11839936B2 |
Sheet for sintering bonding and sheet for sintering bonding with base material
To provide a sheet for sintering bonding and the same with a base material suited for lamination and integration and also suited for realizing satisfactory operational efficiency in a sintering process in a process of producing semiconductor devices that go through sintering bonding of semiconductor chips. A sheet for sintering bonding 10 of the present invention comprises an electrically conductive metal containing sinterable particle and a binder component. In this sheet, the minimum load, reached during an unloading process in load-displacement measurement according to a nanoindentation method, is −100 to −30 μN. Alternatively, the ratio of the minimum load to a maximum load, reached during a load applying process in the above measurement, is −0.2 to −0.06. A sheet body X, a sheet for sintering bonding with a base material of the present invention, has a laminated structure comprising a base material B and the sheet 10. |
| US11839933B2 |
Laser processing apparatus
A laser processing apparatus 3 includes: a laser head H; a head driving mechanism that moves the laser head H above a workpiece W; and a dust collecting box 60 that moves below the workpiece W and follows the laser head H. A non-contact support unit 7 is provided at an opening 61 of the dust collecting box 60, and the non-contact support unit 7 suctions a lower surface of the workpiece W toward a suction surface 71 and supports the workpiece W without bringing the lower surface of the workpiece W and the suction surface 71 into contact with each other. An outer support roller 81 and an inner support roller 82 that are each rotatable about an axis parallel to a width direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to a conveying direction Fy are provided at the opening 61. |
| US11839931B2 |
Laser processing apparatus
A laser beam irradiation unit of a laser processing apparatus includes a first pulsed laser oscillator that oscillates a pulsed laser having a wavelength of 9 to 11 μm and a pulse width of 5 ns or less, a CO2 amplifier that amplifies a pulsed laser beam emitted from the first pulsed laser oscillator, and a condenser that focuses the pulsed laser beam amplified by the CO2 amplifier on a workpiece held on the chuck table. |
| US11839927B2 |
Methods for fabricating strain wave gear flexsplines using metal additive manufacturing
Methods for the fabrication of metal strain wave gear flexsplines using a specialized metal additive manufacturing technique are provided. The method allows the entire flexspline to be metal printed, including all the components: the output surface with mating features, the thin wall of the cup, and the teeth integral to the flexspline. The flexspline may be used directly upon removal from the building tray. |
| US11839926B2 |
Trunnion mounted blade guide
The present invention relates to a blade guide and a blade guide assembly for adjusting an elongate blade of a sawmill, where the blade having a longitudinal axis. The blade guide includes a guide with a blade surface for lateral contact with the blade, a shaft extending from the guide, a shaft block having a bore extending therethrough, the bore dimensioned to slidably receive the shaft therethrough, and a trunnion block pivotably coupled to the shaft block about a pivot. The pivot is orientated generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the blade, and the trunnion block is adapted to be securable to the sawmill. Thus, pivoting the shaft block and, thereby, the shaft relative to the trunnion block, causes the guide to pivot and angularly adjust the blade about the longitudinal axis. |
| US11839920B2 |
Modular drill and method for using a modular drill
A modular drill including a shank having a shank bore therein, a guide pin tip disposed in the shank bore, a cutting tip, and a connection shaft coupled to the cutting tip, the connection shaft having a connection shaft sidewall and a guide path therein for guiding the guide pin tip therethrough while the connection shaft moves through the shank bore. |
| US11839919B2 |
Spheroidal dehydrogenated metals and metal alloy particles
Methodologies, systems, and devices are provided for producing metal spheroidal powder products. Dehydrogenated and spheroidized particles are prepared using a process including introducing a metal hydride feed material into a plasma torch. The metal hydride feed material is melted within a plasma in order to dehydrogenate and spheroidize the materials, forming dehydrogenated and spheroidized particles. The dehydrogenated and spheroidized particles are then exposed to an inert gas and cooled in order to solidify the particles into dehydrogenated and spheroidized particles. The particles are cooled within a chamber having an inert gas. |
| US11839917B2 |
Polyscrystalline diamond compact including erosion and corrosion resistant substrate
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to polycrystalline diamond compacts that have a substrate including a cementing constituent constituting less than 13 weight percent (wt %) of the substrate, the cementing constituent including a cobalt alloy having and at least one alloying element, wherein the at least one alloying element constitutes less than 12 wt % of the substrate and wherein the cobalt constitutes less than 12 wt % of the substrate; and methods of making the same. |
| US11839915B2 |
System and method for determining beam power level along an additive deposition path
A laser power control method for additive manufacturing includes a pre-processing component and an intra-processing component. The pre-processing component creates in the system controller a machine code expressed additive-path-with-geometry-metadata that includes a path description. The path description represents the path of the beam source on the build and includes a geometry index for the build. The intra-processing component calculates required power for the beam at intervals and events on the beam path based upon the additive-path-with-geometry-metadata and calculations of the energy balance at the melt pool and the total energy for each point P(s) on the path. |
| US11839914B1 |
Process monitoring and feedback for metal additive manufacturing using powder-bed fusion
A method of metal additive manufacturing includes generating a plurality of laser beams and directing the plurality of laser beams to selected portions of a surface of a powder bed of powdered metal. The method also includes monitoring the powder bed while performing the generating and directing, and adjusting at least one of the generating or directing based on the monitoring. |
| US11839913B2 |
Binder systems
The present disclosure includes binder systems for making foundry articles. The binder systems may comprise a humic substance-containing component that comprise lignite, an isocyanate component, and a catalyst component. The binder systems may be mixed with an aggregate (e.g., sand) for making foundry articles such as molds and cores. Also disclosed herein are methods of making foundry articles using the binder systems. |
| US11839912B2 |
Automobile wheel hub shaping device
The present disclosure discloses an automobile wheel hub shaping device. The automobile wheel hub shaping device includes a clamping part for clamping a wheel hub to be shaped, a first driving mechanism for driving the clamping part to rotate, a shaping roller for shaping the wheel hub to be shaped, and a rack; all the clamping part, the first driving mechanism and the shaping roller are mounted to the rack, the shaping roller is located above the clamping part and is capable of rotating relative to the clamping part; and the clamping part is equipped with a fixing part for fixing the wheel hub to be shaped. |
| US11839911B2 |
Method of manufacturing a perforated sheet, perforated sheet, shaped part and processing device
A method of manufacturing a perforated sheet which has at least one hole. The method includes introducing at least two spaced boreholes into a sheet, the at least two spaced boreholes being formed so that they each pass through a thickness of the sheet, introducing a continuous cut between the at least two spaced boreholes in the sheet, and bending open a section of the sheet which is adjacent to the continuous cut so as to form a hole. |
| US11839910B2 |
Insect-based biowaste processing apparatus
Continuous insect-based biowaste processing apparatus has a tubular drum; a drive for rotatably driving the drum; a shaftless screw conveyor fixedly connected to an inner surface of the drum; circumferentially spaced cantilevered blades that (a) are connected to the inner drum surface and (b) each longitudinally extends throughout the drum; and a mechanism for introducing a conglomerate portion that includes biowaste and insect larvae into the drum interior. The screw conveyor is subdivided into longitudinally spaced chambers for the introduced insect larvae, each of the chambers being defined by two adjacent flights of the screw conveyor and by the blades. The size of the insect larvae progressively increases within a more distally located rearing chamber. Two or more blades firmly hold and unify the conglomerate portion throughout its residing time within the drum interior while being distally conveyed. |
| US11839906B2 |
Ultrasonic treatment apparatus
An ultrasonic treatment apparatus according to the present invention includes: a treatment tank capable of containing a treatment object and a treatment liquid for immersing the treatment object; and an ultrasonic application mechanism that applies ultrasonic waves to the treatment liquid, wherein the treatment tank has a long axis where cross-sectional shapes are substantially identical to each other, and a wall surface to a scheduled liquid level height line of the treatment liquid is formed by a concave surface, and the ultrasonic application mechanism is installed at a position where an angle θ formed by a normal line of an oscillation surface of ultrasonic waves and the scheduled liquid level line of the treatment liquid is 5° to 80°. |
| US11839905B2 |
Vibrating base assembly for cleaning contact lenses
An integrated and standalone vibrating base assembly for cleaning contact lenses having two selective modes of operation, each mode operably configured to produce different preset vibrational rotations per minute, and comprising a base housing defining a housing cavity, with at least one vibration motor disposed within the housing cavity, electrically coupled to a power source, and operably configured to selectively induce a vibration therefrom with at least one switch coupled to the base housing; and a bottom surface and an upper surface spanning inwardly toward the housing cavity from an upper edge of the base housing to define a concave recess sized to receive two contact lens containers, the upper surface of a friction-inducing, deformable, and polymeric material configured to support two contact lens containers and operably coupled to the at least one vibration motor and to receive a vibration thereon upon activation of the at least one switch. |
| US11839904B2 |
Cleaning apparatus
A cleaning apparatus capable of thoroughly cleaning all parts of a workpiece is provided. The cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning chamber; a table rotation shaft that rotates about a first axis; a first swivel fitting disposed inside the table rotation shaft; a table on which the cleaning workpiece is placed; a first motor that rotates the table rotation shaft; a propeller shaft that rotates about a second axis that is parallel to the first axis; a second swivel fitting connected to a propeller shaft; and a nozzle that rotates integrally with the second swivel shaft and that ejects a cleaning fluid in a direction different from the second axis toward the cleaning workpiece. |
| US11839900B2 |
Material processing screen plant drive system
A screen drive for a mobile material processing screen which can be at a travel width without having to fold or disable the screen drive. The screen drive system includes a drive motor, which is tucked at least partially under the vibrating screen; a sheave, having a double row ball bearing being supported by a shaft; a belt, coupling sheave and drive motor; a drive shaft coupled to a first universal joint, and a second universal joint, which is coupled to an opposing end of the drive shaft and to sheave. |
| US11839899B2 |
Coating die and coating device
A coating die includes: a first body; a second body; a discharge port; an intermediate member; a first shim to define a first flow passage; a second shim to define a second flow passage; and a confluence passage in which the first flow passage and the second flow passage join together and that communicates with the discharge port. The first shim includes a pair of first arms, and the second shim includes a pair of second arms. Each first arm includes a first female portion and a first male portion. Each second arm includes a second female portion and a second male portion. The first female portion and the second male portion are engaged with each other, and the first male portion and the second female portion are engaged with each other. |
| US11839896B2 |
Caulking finger
A caulking finger includes a handle and a finger portion. The finger portion may be shaped according to a human finger and is elastic. The various curvatures, shapes, and pliable nature of the finger portion allows the caulking finger to press caulk into a seam or joint to a desired finish. |
| US11839893B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus
A holding mechanism holds a substrate horizontally. A rotation mechanism rotates the holding mechanism holding the substrate. A nozzle supplies a processing liquid to the substrate. A nozzle arm holds the nozzle. An arm actuation mechanism moves the nozzle arm between a processing position overlapping the substrate in plan view and a retracted position displaced from the substrate in plan view. A cup portion is disposed around the holding mechanism, and receives the processing liquid from the substrate. A cup actuation mechanism moves the cup portion up and down between an upper position and a lower position. A first container is fixed to the cup portion to be movable up and down integrally with the cup portion, and can accommodate the nozzle at the retracted position. |
| US11839891B2 |
Protection of aperture plate during aerosol generation
An aerosol delivery system has an aerosol generator with a vibrating aperture plate (10) and an actuator (11, 16, 17, 19), a controller (18, 19). The controller in real time monitors (201) the aerosol generator as it is driven for vibration of the aperture plate, and detects (202) a change in an electrical characteristic in response to a transition from a wet state to a dry state of the aperture plate. It automatically modifies (203, 205, 206), during the transition, operation of the aerosol generator in response to the detected change. The modification includes reducing applied power (203). The controller continues (204) to monitor during the transition, including monitoring the aperture plate for presence of residual liquid on the aperture plate first surface. The controller monitors at a number of drive frequencies and maintains data representing trends in a combination of the electrical characteristic signals at the different frequencies, and identifies a start of a transition if a calculated value rises above a threshold. There is one threshold for triggering a check scan for residual volume and a higher threshold to trigger an immediate shut down. |
| US11839886B2 |
Liquid guiding component and using method and application thereof
The present disclosure provides a liquid guiding component and a using method and application thereof. The liquid guiding component includes a plurality of liquid guiding grooves, each of which includes at least one inlet end, at least one outlet end, and a groove wall connecting the inlet end and the outlet end, the liquid guiding component includes a first side and a second side arranged opposite to each other, each of said inlet ends is arranged as liquid inlet on the first side and each of the outlet ends is arranged as the liquid outlet on the second side, and the liquid guiding grooves are used to transport liquid from the inlet ends to the outlet ends. The liquid guiding component can be used to precisely control the movement direction of the ejected ink. |
| US11839885B2 |
Rotary atomization device
A rotary atomization device includes a housing, a blowing device, a rotating drive device, a rotating shaft, a gas tube and an atomizing structure. The housing has an atomization room and a containing room which are communicated by a gas channel. The blowing device is arranged in the containing room, and the rotating drive device is arranged in the containing room or the atomization room. A drive shaft of the rotating drive device is connected with the rotating shaft connected with the gas tube. One end of the gas tube is arranged in the atomization room and has a gas inlet, and the other end is extended out of the housing and has a gas outlet. The atomizing structure is disposed on the bottom of the atomization room, and the blowing device blows towards the gas channel. The rotary atomization device can realize rotary spraying. |
| US11839883B2 |
Modular cyclone
A cyclone sand separator kit, method, and separator, of which the kit includes a cyclone body having an inlet, a fluid outlet, and a solids outlet, the inlet being configured to receive a mixed fluid including a solid portion and a fluidic portion, the solids outlet being configured to receive the solid portion separated from the fluidic portion, and the fluid outlet being configured to receive the fluidic portion separated from the solids portion. The kit includes a plurality of cyclone inserts configured to be positioned in the cyclone body, at least partially between the inlet and the solids outlet and at least partially between the fluids outlet and the solids outlet. The cyclone inserts each define a vortical section configured to induce inertial separation of the mixed fluid, have different geometries including different inner diameters, lengths, angles, underflow outlet sizes, vortex finder placements, or a combination thereof. |
| US11839880B1 |
Mobile trash compactor and pulverizer
A mobile trash compactor and pulverizer with a light weight compaction roller. The compaction roller has support discs in which a main shaft is supported and between which is mounted an over shaft concentric with the main shaft. An inner drum is mounted on the over shaft and flanking outer drums are mounted on the main shaft with drum support rings. A disc wheel mounted on a disc support ring caps the ends of the main shaft. A reversible drive is attached to the main shaft and another independent reversible drive is attached to the over shaft. The support discs, drum support rings and disc support rings have a rim, spokes and a hub with apertures between the spokes that facilitate maintenance. |
| US11839879B2 |
Hammer
The various embodiments disclosed and pictured illustrate a hammer cluster for comminuting various materials. The embodiments pictured and described herein are primarily for use with a rotatable hammermill assembly. An illustrative embodiment of a hammer cluster may include at least two hammers each having a connection portion, a contact portion, and a neck connecting the contact and connection portions. The connection portions may include a connection aperture with a relief cavity having a tab on either side thereof. A collar having a collar gap defined by two collar edges may be inserted through connection apertures of each hammer. The collar edges may engage the respective tabs such that the hammers and the collar may rotate about a rod positioned within the collar as a singular unit. |
| US11839878B2 |
System and method for sex sorting of mosquitoes
A method for sex sorting of mosquitoes generally comprises the steps of: providing a plate that includes multiple wells, with each of the multiple wells configured to receive a mosquito; filling each of the multiple wells with a predetermined volume of water; placing a mosquito in each of the multiple wells; capturing an image of each mosquito in each of the multiple wells; and analyzing each image to determine if each mosquito is male or female. Mosquitoes have distinct anatomical areas for identification, which are captured in the images and are used to determine if a mosquito is male or female. Furthermore, in some implementations, there is an additional step of exterminating each mosquito that is determined to be female. |
| US11839877B2 |
Preservation tube for sampling swab
The present invention relates to the technical field of sample preservation, and more specifically, to a preservation tube for a sampling swab which includes a tube body. A first cavity for storing a sample releasing agent and a second cavity for placing the sampling swab are provided in the tube body, the first cavity is in communication with the second cavity, and a central axis of the second cavity deviates from a central axis of the tube body. When the present invention is in use, the sampling swab is placed in the second cavity, moved up and down and rotated to elute in the second cavity, and nucleic acid samples of the sampling swab are evenly distributed in the sample releasing agent, and can be used for detection after sucking the sample releasing agent in the first cavity. |
| US11839861B2 |
Sterile chromatography resin and use thereof in manufacturing processes
Provided herein are methods of reducing bioburden of (e.g., sterilizing) a chromatography resin that include exposing a container including a composition including a chromatography resin and at least one antioxidant agent and/or chelator to a dose of gamma-irradiation sufficient to reduce the bioburden of the container and the chromatography resin, where the at least one antioxidant agent and/or chelator are present in an amount sufficient to ameliorate the loss of binding capacity of the chromatography resin after/upon exposure to the dose of gamma-irradiation. Also provided are reduced bioburden chromatography columns including the reduced bioburden chromatography resin, compositions including a chromatography resin and at least one chelator and/or antioxidant agent, methods of performing reduced bioburden column chromatography using one of these reduced bioburden chromatography columns, and integrated, closed, and continuous processes for reduced bioburden manufacturing of a purified recombinant protein. |
| US11839858B1 |
Peracetic acid concentration and monitoring and concentration-based dosing system
A system and related methods for monitoring and dosing peroxycarboxylic acids, particularly peracetic acid, in food processing applications based upon desired concentration of the processing solution. The concentration of the peroxycarboxylic acid measured and additional peroxycarboxylic acid being added to the processing solution if the measured concentration is below a threshold level of the desired concentration, and additional water being added to the processing solution if the measured concentration is above a threshold level of the desired concentration. The system and related methods capable of being used in utilized with either live stream or static, storage tank based systems, to keep the concentration of peroxycarboxylic acid at or near desired concentration levels while experiencing less variation than experienced with conventional flow-based or hand-mixed systems. |
| US11839857B2 |
Filtration membrane bundle, filtration membrane assembly and method of producing the same
The present invention concerns a filtration membrane bundle (30) comprising a plurality of elongated filtration fibers (40) arranged in a spiraled coil (34); and one or more filaments (50) woven around the plurality of elongated filtration fibers (40) binding one or more adjacent elongated filtration fibers (40) at a predetermined and homogeneous spacing (44,48) from one another wherein each elongated filtration fiber (40) is bound to respective adjacent elongated filtration fibers (40) in a co-planar configuration, and wherein the co-planar configuration of filtration fibers (40) are rolled into a coil (34). Furthermore, a filtration membrane assembly comprising the filtration membrane bundle (30) and a housing and method of providing the filtration membrane bundle (30) are disclosed. |
| US11839853B2 |
Osmotic pressure assisted reverse osmosis membrane and module
Membranes and filtration modules for producing a concentrated feed stream and a diluted feed stream during operation in a water purification or wastewater treatment system. Filtration modules are provided that include a semipermeable membrane having a first side and a second side, the first side configured to receive a first feed solution stream from a first feed solution source and the second side configured to receive a second feed solution stream from a second feed solution source. The semipermeable membrane may be configured to operate at a hydrostatic pressure on the second side of the membrane from about 1% to about 40% of the hydrostatic pressure on the first side of the membrane, and may in some cases exhibit a salt rejection of from about 60 percent to about 90 percent during operation. |
| US11839850B2 |
System for the chemical decontamination of corrosive gases
The use of a composition including at least one acido-basic neutralising agent for decontaminating an atmosphere contaminated by a corrosive gas, the acido-basic neutralising agent having at least 2 pKa's and being characterised by: pKa 1≤pKa 2, pKa 1>2, pKa 2<12, 4<½ (pKa 1+pKa 2)<10 pKa 1, representing the smallest of the basic pKa's and pKa 2 representing the largest of the acidic pKa's. Also, a method for decontaminating an atmosphere contaminated by a corrosive gas comprising the spraying of the neutralising agent, and to a decontamination device. |
| US11839846B2 |
High-pressure annular water collector with axial swirl vanes for an air cycle environmental control system
An annular water removal system (AWRS) for an air cycle environmental control system (ECS) includes a line replaceable unit (LRU) configured to output air flow, and a water collector coupled to the LRU. The water collector includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion includes a coalescing unit having a collector inlet to receive the air flow and configured to coalesce moisture from the air flow output from the LRU. The lower portion includes a collection unit in fluid communication with the coalescing unit. The collection unit is configured to collect the moisture coalesced by the coalescing unit. |
| US11839843B2 |
Intermediate cover of a filter housing of a filter for purifying liquid fluids and filter insert, filter and use
An intermediate cover of a filter housing of a filter for purifying liquids can be mounted in the filter housing for separating a filter receiving space for a filter insert from a centrifuge receiving space for a centrifuge separator by a rotary and/or insertion movement relative to an imaginary axis. The intermediate cover is provided with a portion of at least one clean fluid channel forming a fluidic connection between a clean fluid side of the filter insert and a fluid outlet of the filter housing for a purified clean fluid. The filter insert has a connecting device arranged at an axial end face and connectable to the intermediate cover. An outlet opening for purified clean fluid is arranged at the axial end face and corresponds with an inlet opening of the clean fluid channel of the intermediate cover. The outlet opening at least partially forms the connecting device. |
| US11839841B2 |
Online cleaning device and online cleaning method
The present invention discloses a cleaning liquid for a ship ballast water treatment filter, an online cleaning device and an online cleaning method. The online cleaning device comprises a filter cleaning pipeline and a cleaning liquid preparation tank located in the filter cleaning pipeline. The cleaning liquid preparation tank is provided with a cleaning liquid outlet and a cleaning liquid reinjection opening. The filter cleaning pipeline comprises a cleaning liquid injection pipeline located between the cleaning liquid outlet of the cleaning liquid preparation tank and a filter water inlet, and a cleaning liquid reinjection pipeline located between a filter water outlet and a cleaning liquid reinjection opening of the cleaning liquid preparation tank. The cleaning liquid prepared in the cleaning liquid preparation tank is injected into the filter through the cleaning liquid injection pipeline and is re-injected into the cleaning liquid preparation tank through the cleaning liquid reinjection pipeline. |
| US11839840B2 |
Water treatment device
Provided concerns a device for treating water of the kind intended for treating running water from a domestic water supply system or other sources of pressurized water, to obtain filtered or treated water, for example, of drinking water quality. |
| US11839839B2 |
Apparatus and system for filtrating liquid
A filtration apparatus is provided. The filtration apparatus includes a housing and a plurality of filtering sheets. The housing is enclosed by a first end cap and a second end cap. The first end cap includes a liquid inlet, and the second end cap includes a liquid outlet. The plurality of filtering sheets is disposed on an internal sidewall of the housing. A portion of the filtering sheets interlaces with another portion of the filtering sheets to form a winding flow path in the housing. |
| US11839836B2 |
Chromatography plug
Chromatography column components are described. One component, a chromatography plug, can include a body, the body including: a first surface; a second surface opposing the first surface; a passage through the body extending from an opening in the first surface to an opening in the second surface; and a circumferential surface extending from the first surface to the second surface; a plurality of ridges, located on the first surface, wherein each of the plurality of ridges having a first end and an opposed second end, and the first end of each of the plurality of ridges being closer to one another than the second ends of each of the plurality of ridges. In some instances, a bridge can be located between the first ends, the bridge extending into the body. A porous partition can be located on or in the plug. |
| US11839833B2 |
Phytochemical extraction systems, methods, and devices
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices for phytochemical extraction. One example extraction system includes two solvent columns, a material column, and a dewaxing column. The solvent columns store and provide solvent for stripping target chemicals from plant material in the material column. The solvent mixed with target chemicals passes into the dewaxing column, where the target chemicals are separated from waxes and lipids. Cooling is applied to elements of the system by way of an open-loop CO2 refrigeration method. Solvent is moved from the solvent columns to the material column by creating a pressure differential between the two solvent columns. |
| US11839830B2 |
Portable electric foam maker
A foam maker has a bucket and a lid. The bucket has an outlet port provided in one of its walls, and a delivery tube connected to the outlet port. The lid includes a lid base and a lid top. The lid base has a frame and a compartment that receives a fan, a motor coupled to the fan, and a fluid inlet port through which foam solution and water can be introduced. The lid top has a water/foam inlet opening that is aligned with the fluid inlet port, and an air inlet port that is positioned adjacent the fan. An air tube is disposed inside the bucket, and has a first end connected to the lid base and communicating with the fan, and an opposite second end having an open distal end that is immersed inside foam solution. The air tube further includes an air chamber positioned adjacent the open distal end. |
| US11839829B2 |
Wearable visualization device with a retractable cover
A wearable visualization device includes a housing, one or more lenses coupled to the housing and configured to display virtual features for visualization by a user of the wearable visualization device, and a cover coupled to the housing and configured to adjust between an extended configuration in which the cover extends over at least a portion of the one or more lenses and a retracted configuration in which the cover does not extend over at least the portion of the one or more lenses. The wearable visualization device also includes a controller and one or more sensors. The controller is configured to receive sensor data from the one or more sensors and to provide control signals to an actuator to adjust the cover between the extended configuration and the retracted configuration based on the sensor data. |
| US11839827B2 |
Interactive toy
A toy having a theme comprises a puzzle including first pieces, second pieces and a frame support. The first pieces are configured to be assembled into a three-dimensional structure. Each of the first pieces includes at least one of a tab and a hole. In particular, the hole is sized and shaped to receive the tab of another one of the pieces. Each of the second pieces are configured to interactively cooperate with the three-dimensional set piece. Each of the first and second pieces also includes a graphic image associated with the theme of the toy. The frame support is substantially flat with a first side having recesses for receiving each of the first and second pieces. The frame support also has a second side, opposite the first side having a graphic image (e.g., representative of a stage) associated with the theme of the toy. |
| US11839823B2 |
Free-in / free-out style game program
A game program instructions executable by a processor to perform operations comprising: placing a predetermined number of nonplayer characters in a battle space; controlling the battle between the nonplayer character and the playing character in the battle space; rendering the battle state with a virtual camera and displaying on the display; the operations further comprising: counting the number of playing characters placed in the battle space; excluding a defeated nonplayer character from battle when the nonplayer character is defeated; relocating the excluded nonplayer character to the battle space after a predetermined respawn time elapsed; calculating the respawn time according to the counted number of playing characters and controlling the time to reposition the excluded nonplayer character to the battle space based on the respawn time calculated. |
| US11839821B2 |
Racing game operation control method and apparatus, storage medium, and device
This application discloses an operation control method performed at a computer device. The method includes: detecting a target distance between a first virtual object and a second virtual object in a process that a client runs a round of racing game, a position of the first virtual object being located behind a position of the second virtual object, the first virtual object being controlled by the client; triggering an operation instruction when detecting that the target distance is continuously less than or equal to a first distance threshold for a first time threshold, the operation instruction being used for indicating that the first virtual object has satisfied a trigger condition for performing an acceleration operation; and responding to the operation instruction to control the first virtual object to perform the acceleration operation and surpass the second virtual object. |
| US11839820B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating game character model, processor, and terminal
A method and apparatus for generating a game character model, a processor, and a terminal are provided. The method includes: a user map corresponding to a two-dimensional user image to be used is acquired; the user map is mapped to an initial map of a game character to obtain a mapped map of the game character; and the mapped map and a game character grid are fused to generate a game character model. The present disclosure solves the technical problem that face mapping and face fusion provided in the related art are generally applied to two-dimensional face images but cannot be applied to a three-dimensional game environment. |
| US11839816B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling movement of virtual object, terminal, and storage medium
A method for controlling movement of a virtual object in a virtual environment is performed at a terminal. The method includes: obtaining first recorded trajectory information, the first recorded trajectory information being information that is recorded when a first user account of an online gaming application controls a first virtual object to race in a virtual scene and is used for drawing a movement trajectory of the first virtual object; displaying a racing battle interface, the racing battle interface being used for presenting a racing battle including a second virtual object and a third virtual object, the second virtual object being a virtual object controlled by a second user account of the online gaming application, the third virtual object being a virtual object controlled by a computer; and controlling movement of the third virtual object according to the first recorded trajectory information in the racing battle. |
| US11839815B2 |
Adaptive audio mixing
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing adaptive audio mixing are disclosed. A trained neural network dynamically selects and mixes pre-recorded, human-composed music stems that are composed as mutually compatible sets. Stem and track selection, volume mixing, filtering, dynamic compression, acoustical/reverberant characteristics, segues, tempo, beat-matching and crossfading parameters generated by the neural network are inferred from the game scene characteristics and other dynamically changing factors. The trained neural network selects an artist's pre-recorded stems and mixes the stems in real-time in unique ways to dynamically adjust and modify background music based on factors such as game scenario, the unique storyline of the player, scene elements, the player's profile, interest, and performance, adjustments made to game controls (e.g., music volume), number of viewers, received comments, player's popularity, player's native language, player's presence, and/or other factors. The trained neural network creates unique music that dynamically varies according to real-time circumstances. |
| US11839812B2 |
Online gaming platform systems, methods, and apparatus
Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed involving an online gaming platform, and in a particular embodiment, to an entertainment and educational system involving a marketplace comprising a plurality of vendors, a plurality of marketplace video games, and a plurality of game configurations; wherein each marketplace video game of the plurality of marketplace video games is available from at least one vendor of the plurality of vendors; wherein each game configuration of the plurality of game configurations is available from at least one vendor of the plurality of vendors for use with or within at least one configurable video game; and wherein each configurable video game is one of the plurality of marketplace video games available on the marketplace, or a third-party video game not available on the marketplace. |
| US11839806B2 |
Pool rack
The present invention is directed to a pool rack for grouping pool balls tightly on a pool table. The frame has walls that may be disassembled and may move between, and exist alternatively in, an extended position that loosely group a set of billiard balls, wherein the rack walls are substantially upstanding and, or a closed position that tightly groups the balls, wherein the rack walls are angled and the frame sits atop the billiard balls. |
| US11839805B2 |
Computer vision and artificial intelligence applications in basketball
Various applications of computer vision and artificial intelligence to basketball practice and game situations are described. |
| US11839804B2 |
Interactive exercise and training system
A punching bag training comprises a flexible housing adapted to be wrapped around a punching bag. The housing supports a strike pad array. Each strike pad in the array comprises a force sensor to detect strikes, together with a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that are positioned around the force sensor and that are lit when the user strikes the pad accurately (e.g., within a predetermined strike zone, and within a predetermined time). In addition, each strike pad has associated therewith an extension (or connecting) portion that couples the strike pad to the center portion. The connecting portion advantageously includes a set of LEDs that are selectively lit to telegraph a hit point to the user, namely, the strike pad associated with the connecting portion. The LEDs arranged on the connecting portion serve as a runway with the LEDs being lit progressively from the center portion and outward toward the strike pad to be hit next in a programmed hit sequence. As the user interacts with the system, speed, timing and accuracy preferably are measured to determine a score. The lighting elements are controlled using a controller unit that may be integral with the housing, attached thereto, or coupled to the housing wirelessly. The controller unit outputs one or more programmed hit sequences (i.e., to provide the control signals that activate the LEDs), and to detect and record electrical signals generated by the force sensors as the user strikes the pads. |
| US11839802B2 |
Multi-component golf club head
Embodiments of wood-type club heads comprising one or more components are described herein. The wood-type club head comprises a first, metallic component, and a second, non-metallic component. The first component comprises the load bearing structure that forms the striking face, and portions of the crown, the heel, the toe, and the sole. The second component comprises a lightweight structure that wraps around the first component to form portions of the crown, the heel, the toe, and the sole. The first component comprises the majority of the club head mass and can receive removable weights. The two-component design allows for additional discretionary mass redistribution to improve center of gravity location and moment of inertia. |
| US11839801B2 |
Golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads
Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a face portion for striking a golf ball and an enclosed interior cavity. A filler material may be inside the interior cavity and may reinforce the face portion. The filler material may include a low density polymer material to enable discretionary mass placement to other areas of the golf club head to improve certain mass properties of the golf club head. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| US11839800B2 |
Golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads
Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion, a face portion coupled to the body portion, a filler material in an interior cavity of the body portion, a mass portion, a first port connected to the interior cavity, a second port below a horizontal midplane of the body portion and connected to the interior cavity, and a cover portion coupled to the body portion to cover the first port. The second port is configured to receive the mass portion. A distance between the first port and the toe portion edge is less than a distance between the second port and the toe portion edge. The second port is substantially larger than the first port. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| US11839792B2 |
Multifunctional fitness chair
A multifunctional fitness chair includes an underframe, an armrest frame, an upper backrest frame, and a lower backrest frame. The underframe comprises left and right underframes, and underframe fixed shaft, and the armrest frame comprises left and right armrest frames and armrest fixed shaft, the left and right underframes are hinged on the left and right armrest frames, and the extension parts of the left and right armrest frames are correspondingly provided with left and right limiting plates which restrict the upward rotation of the left and right underframes. The upper backrest frame is fixed with an upper backrest shaft bushing, and at least two sets of symmetrically distributed upper backrests are arranged on the upper backrest frame. The lower backrest frame is fixed with a lower backrest shaft bushing, and at least two sets of symmetrically distributed lower backrests are arranged on the lower backrest frame. |
| US11839790B2 |
Sweat grip
A sweat grip comprising a main body with a sweat-absorbent side and a grip side with a higher coefficient of friction than the sweat-absorbent side and having antimicrobial properties. The sweat grip can be wrapped around an object such as the handle of an exercise machine, such that the sweat grip can enhance a user's grip on the object and can at least partially absorb the user's sweat without transferring sweat to the object. |
| US11839788B2 |
Portable anchor apparatus for resistance exercises
The present disclosure provides a portable anchor apparatus comprised of a modular and foldable frame structure which folds down to a compact shape having a storage compartment with a pair of wheels. The apparatus provides a wide variety of horizontal, vertical, and ground level anchor points and has horizontal bars which can be mounted at different vertical heights to suit a user's needs for various exercises. A kit is also provided herein, the kit comprising the anchor apparatus, a resistance band apparatus, and one or more items capable of being stored within the storage compartment. |
| US11839785B2 |
Hydrant monitoring communications hub
A communications hub for a hydrant can include a plug comprising a non-metallic material and configured to be sealably received within a plug bore defined in a flange of a bonnet of the hydrant, the flange separating an interior cavity of the hydrant from a bonnet cavity of the hydrant; a PCB; at least one battery in electrical communication with the PCB; and an antenna configured for wireless communication with a sensing device located within the interior cavity of the hydrant and in electrical communication with the PCB, the antenna able to receive a wireless signal from the sensing device. |
| US11839784B2 |
Fire suppression system
A fire suppression system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a detection unit for detecting a particular change due to a fire and transmitting a particular change value as a measurement value; a fire extinguishing unit for spraying a fire extinguishing substance; a control unit for receiving the measurement signal and transmitting an execution signal to the fire extinguishing unit; and a management unit enabling a user or a manager to confirm whether or not there is a fire, and for remotely operating the fire extinguishing unit, wherein the control unit transmits a notification signal to the management unit only when a measured measurement data value exceeds a threshold value, and transmits the execution signal only when an operation command is received from the management unit, thereby enhancing convenience and safety and reducing the initial cost. |
| US11839780B1 |
Air purifier and method
A portable air purifier and method includes a collapsible first tube; a perforated firm second tube that houses the first tube; a fan that brings air into a first end of the first tube and pushes the air through the first tube; a multi-part filter arranged in a concentric configuration inside the first tube; an outlet at a second end of the first tube; and a breathing mask coupled to the outlet. The filter filters the air as the air proceeds through the first tube and the outlet discharges filtered air from the first tube to the breathing mask. The first tube and the second tube may be semi-circular to fit around the neck of a user. The filter may be a corrugated filter. The portable air purifier may include a power source electrically connected to the fan. |
| US11839776B2 |
System and method for radiation treatment planning
A method of radiotherapy treatment planning involves dynamic target tracking and beam redirection. A set of 3D images of a patient reflecting a movement of the patient is obtained, and each image is deformably registered with one reference image. The accumulated dose is calculated as the sum of the dose distribution over all phases in dependence of the patient movement and the model of the delivery machine, the dose distribution for each phase being deformed by means of the deformation map for the respective phase, to match the reference image. |
| US11839774B2 |
Phototherapy assistance device, phototherapy system, and phototherapy assistance method
A phototherapy assistance device includes: a connector that is connectable to a balloon detection unit that detects inflation information regarding whether a balloon has been inflated in a body cavity; and one or more processors including hardware, the one or more processors being configured to: detect connection information regarding whether an optical probe to be inserted into the balloon is connected to a light source device; determine whether the optical probe can be inserted on a basis of the inflation information received from the balloon detection unit via the connector, and the connection information; and report a determined determination result. |
| US11839772B2 |
Redundant traces for flexible circuits used in an energy delivery device
Energy delivery devices with a flexible circuit. The energy delivery devices may be used in the treatment of human tissue, and the flexible circuit move or flex during use. The flexible circuit may include an electronic component and a trace connected with the electronic component. The trace may have a plurality of sections that provide parallel current paths over a portion of the trace. Alternatively, the flexible circuit may include a plurality of traces that are connected with the terminal of the electronic component to provide parallel current paths over their entire length to the terminal of the electronic component. These redundant parallel current paths improve device reliability. |
| US11839768B2 |
Methods for reducing the risk of strokes by pharmacotherapy to reduce the number and duration of atrial fibrillations
Disclosed are methods to treat patients with AFib by monitoring their heart rhythm to determine the presence and/or the number of episodes of long duration AFib, and optionally the extent of AFib burden. Patients who meet threshold requirements are qualified for the treatment of AFib with a dosage of budiodarone. Patient monitoring is continued in order confirm that the patient is and remains responsive to budiodarone therapy including dose adjusting the patient to achieve such therapy. Subsequently, monitoring is continued to confirm that the patient remains responsive. These methods allow for treatment of the AFib and, correspondingly, reduce or delay the risk of stroke and/or congestive heart failure in the treated patient. |
| US11839767B2 |
Systems and methods for stimulation of cranial nerves
Neuromodulation of cranial nerves can be used to treat sleep or breathing disorders, among other diseases and disorders. A neuromodulation system can include a housing configured for implantation in an anterior cervical region of a patient, such as at or under a mandible of the patient, such as at least partially in one or more of a submental triangle, a submandibular triangle, and a carotid triangle. The system can include an electrode lead coupled to the housing, and the electrode lead can include an electrode configured to be disposed at or near a cranial nerve target in the patient. The system can be configured to generate electrical neuromodulation signals for delivery to the cranial nerve target using the electrode. |
| US11839766B2 |
Neuromodulation system
A neuromodulation system comprising: at least one input means for inputting patient data into the neuromodulation system; at least one model calculation and building means for building a patient model, the patient model describing the anatomy and/or physiology and/or pathophysiology and the real and/or simulated reaction of the patient on a provided and/or simulated neuromodulation; at least one computation means for using the patient model (M) and calculating the impact of the provided and/or simulated neuromodulation. The present invention further relates to a method for providing neuromodulation. |
| US11839764B2 |
Systems and methods for treating a medical condition with an electrical stimulation treatment regimen
Systems and methods are disclosed that allow a patient to self-treat a medical condition, such as migraine headache and trigeminal neuralgia and the like, by noninvasive electrical stimulation of nerves of the head, particularly supraorbital, supratrochlear, infraorbital, and mental nerves in the vicinity of their foramen or notch. The system comprises a stimulator having one or more electrodes that apply electrical impulses transcutaneously through the patient's skin to the targeted nerve. The stimulator may be coupled to a handheld mobile device, such as a smartphone, for receiving a treatment regimen to treat the medical condition. The system is designed to address problems that arise particularly during self-treatment, when a medical professional is not present. |