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| US11755501B2 |
Efficient data sharing for graphics data processing operations
An apparatus to facilitate efficient data sharing for graphics data processing operations is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processing resource to generate a stream of instructions, an L1 cache communicably coupled to the processing resource and comprising an on-page detector circuit to determine that a set of memory requests in the stream of instructions access a same memory page; and set a marker in a first request of the set of memory requests; and arbitration circuitry communicably coupled to the L1 cache, the arbitration circuitry to route the set of memory requests to memory comprising the memory page and to, in response to receiving the first request with the marker set, remain with the processing resource to process the set of memory requests. |
| US11755500B2 |
Cryptographic computing with disaggregated memory
In one embodiment, an application executing on a host node allocates a memory address of a remote node. The application selects, based at least in part on device capability information for the host and remote nodes, one of the host node or the remote node to encrypt application data, and configures the selected node to encrypt the application data based on a key and a pointer to the memory address of the remote node. |
| US11755499B2 |
Locally-stored remote block data integrity
Systems and methods to securely store data in a remote storage (e.g., cloud storage or server). In one approach, a method includes: receiving, from a local device, data blocks to be stored; generating a hash from a hash of each data block; storing each respective hash (e.g., in a local or remote memory for later use); and writing the data blocks to remote storage. Data integrity is verified when each data block is read from the remote storage by generating a hash of the respective read data block, and comparing the generated hash to the respective stored hash. |
| US11755495B2 |
Storing a logical-to-physical mapping in NAND memory
A processing device receives a request specifying a logical address associated with a host-initiated operation directed at a first portion of a memory device. The processing device accesses a second L2P table comprising a mapping between logical addresses and physical addresses in a second portion of the memory device. A physical location within the second portion of the memory device is identified based on the second L2P table. The physical location corresponds to a portion of a first L2P table that specifies a physical address within the first portion of the memory device that corresponds to the logical address. The physical address is identified based on the portion of the first L2P table and the host-initiated operation is performed at the physical address. |
| US11755491B2 |
Mapping supporting non-sequential writes at sequentially-written memory devices
A system includes integrated circuit (IC) dice having memory cells and a processing device coupled to the IC dice. The processing device is to perform operations including: causing a logic to enter an initial state associated with a first group of memory cells in response to an input-output (IO) write request directed at the first group of memory cells; retrieving a write pointer that includes a location within the first group of memory cells; causing the logic to transition from the initial state to a sequential IO state; and in response to determining the IO write request is directed to the location of the write pointer, causing data of the IO write request to be written to the plurality of IC dice starting at the location of the write pointer. |
| US11755488B2 |
Demand delay and data value correlated memory pre-fetching systems and methods
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for predictive memory access are described. Memory control circuitry instructs a memory array to read a data block from or write the data block to a location targeted by a memory access request, determines memory access information including a data value correlation parameter determined based on data bits used to indicate a raw data value in the data block and/or an inter-demand delay correlation parameter determined based on a demand time of the memory access request, predicts that read access to another location in the memory array will subsequently be demanded by another memory access request based on the data value correlation parameter and/or the inter-demand delay correlation parameter, and instructs the memory array to output another data block stored at the other location to a different memory level that provides faster data access speed before the other memory access request is received. |
| US11755485B2 |
Snoop filter device
The invention relates to a device for use in maintaining cache coherence in a multiprocessor computing system. The snoop filter device is connectable with a plurality of cache elements, where each cache element comprises a number of cache agents. The snoop filter device comprises a plurality of snoop filter storage locations, where each snoop filter storage location is mapped to one cache element. |
| US11755483B1 |
System and methods for reducing global coherence unit snoop filter lookup via local memories
In a multi-node system, each node includes tiles. Each tile includes a cache controller, a local cache, and a snoop filter cache (SFC). The cache controller responsive to a memory access request by the tile checks the local cache to determine whether the data associated with the request has been cached by the local cache of the tile. The cached data from the local cache is returned responsive to a cache-hit. The SFC is checked to determine whether any other tile of a remote node has cached the data associated with the memory access request. If it is determined that the data has been cached by another tile of a remote node and if there is a cache-miss by the local cache, then the memory access request is transmitted to the global coherency unit (GCU) and the snoop filter to fetch the cached data. Otherwise an interconnected memory is accessed. |
| US11755481B2 |
Universal cache management system
Techniques for universal cache management are described. In an example embodiment, a plurality of caches are allocated, in volatile memory of a computing device, to a plurality of data-processing instances, where each one of the plurality of caches is exclusively allocated to a separate one of the plurality of data-processing instances. A common cache is allocated in the volatile memory of the computing device, where the common cache is shared by the plurality of data-processing instances. Each instance of the plurality of data-processing instances is configured to: identify a data block in the particular cache allocated to that instance, where the data block has not been changed since the data block was last persistently written to one or more storage devices; cause the data block to be stored in the common cache; and remove the data block from the particular cache. Data blocks in the common cache are maintained without being persistently written to the one or more storage devices. |
| US11755480B2 |
Data pattern based cache management
A cache memory circuit that evicts cache lines based on which cache lines are storing background data patterns is disclosed. The cache memory circuit can store multiple cache lines and, in response to receiving a request to store a new cache line, can select a particular one of previously stored cache lines. The selection may be performed based on data patterns included in the previously stored cache lines. The cache memory circuit can also perform accesses where the internal storage arrays are not activated in response to determining data in the location specified by the requested address is background data. In systems employing virtual addresses, a translation lookaside buffer can track the location of background data in the cache memory circuit. |
| US11755477B2 |
Cache allocation policy
A cache includes an upstream port, a downstream port, a cache memory, and a control circuit. The control circuit temporarily stores memory access requests received from the upstream port, and checks for dependencies for a new memory access request with older memory access requests temporarily stored therein. If one of the older memory access requests creates a false dependency with the new memory access request, the control circuit drops an allocation of a cache line to the cache memory for the older memory access request while continuing to process the new memory access request. |
| US11755476B2 |
Memory controller, storage device including the memory controller, and method of operating the memory controller and the storage device
A memory controller includes a buffer memory configured to store first meta data and second meta data having a different type from the first meta data, and a cache memory including first and second dedicated areas. The first meta data is cached in the first dedicated area and the second meta data is cached in the second dedicated area. |
| US11755473B2 |
Method and system for managing memory leaks in a linear memory model
A method for managing memory leaks in a memory device includes grouping, by a garbage collection system, a plurality of similar memory allocations of the memory device into one or more Unique Fixed Identifiers (UFIs); identifying, by the garbage collection system, one of the one or more UFIs having a highest accumulated memory size and adding each of the plurality of memory allocations in the identified one of the one or more UFIs into a Potential Leak Candidate List (PLCL); identifying, by the garbage collection system, the memory leaks in the memory device by identifying unreferenced memory addresses associated with the plurality of memory allocations in the PLCL; and releasing, by the garbage collection system, the identified unreferenced memory addresses associated with the plurality of memory allocations corresponding to the memory leaks into the memory device. |
| US11755472B2 |
Periodic flush in memory component that is using greedy garbage collection
A method includes identifying a first block of a plurality of blocks stored at a first memory based on an amount of valid data of the first block, and writing the valid data of the first block from the first memory to a second memory. The first memory has a first memory type and the second memory has a second memory type different from the first memory type. The method further includes identifying a second block of the plurality of blocks stored at the first memory based on an age of valid data of the second block, determining that the age of the valid data of the second block satisfies a threshold condition, and in response to determining that the age of the valid data of the second block satisfies the threshold condition, writing the valid data of the second block from the first memory to the second memory. |
| US11755468B2 |
Automated generation of load tests for API testing
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer-readable medium embodiments for providing the ability to automate the process of generating load tests used for benchmarking APIs. Rather than having to manually generate load tests for a web service API, a test developer can interact with a test service through a web browser and provide the service an API specification and testing parameters. The test service can analyze the API specification, automatically identified endpoints of the API, and generate load tests according to the expected input/output structures of the endpoints. The automatic load test generation can proceed by referring to a library of test instructions and extracting the portions of the test instructions that work for the identified endpoints. |
| US11755466B1 |
Systems and methods for testing a software application
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for testing a software application. An exemplary method includes storing a control file identifying a test case for testing a software application. A first expected result may be extracted from a device storing expected results of the software application, the first expected result being identified by the control file. A first actual result may be extracted from a device storing actual results output by the software application, the first actual result being identified by the control file. The first expected result may be compared with the first actual result to determine whether the first actual result matches the first expected result. A result file indicating whether the test case passed or failed is generated, and the test case has passed when the first actual result matches the first expected result. The result file may be stored in a storage device. |
| US11755462B2 |
Test data generation for automatic software testing
An embodiment features a method of generating test data. An application-level schema corresponding to a source relational database is received. The schema defines constraints comprising one or more of inter-field, inter-record, and inter-object constraints between related data in the source relational database. A random walk is performed on a graph of nodes representing data in the source relational database. At respective ones of the nodes, corresponding ones of the data in the source relational database are selected along a path ordered in accordance with the constraints defined in the schema. Synthetic test data is generated based on one or more statistical models of the data selected from the source relational database. Data values are generated for respective fields of an object defined in the schema, and data values are generated for records related to the object based on one or more of the constraints defined in the schema. |
| US11755461B2 |
Asynchronous consumer-driven contract testing in micro service architecture
A method of verifying, during a continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) process, that an asynchronous message contract between a consumer service and a provider service in a microservice architecture has not been broken by a change to the provider service is disclosed. The asynchronous message contract is retrieved from a central server. A test message queue is created, the test message queue being separate from an existing message queue. Generation of a message based on a precondition specified in the asynchronous message contract is triggered. The message is retrieved from the test queue. The message is verified according to the asynchronous message contract, the verifying based on a build error not being generated during the CI and CD process. |
| US11755460B2 |
Identifying flawed dependencies in deployed applications
Flaws in dependencies of deployed applications are identified. In one embodiment, a list of dependencies used by a deployed application that is deployed on the deployment platform is obtained. Each dependency of the list of dependencies is mapped with a flaws database, wherein the flaws database comprising an indication of known flaws for different dependencies and different versions thereof. Based on such mapping, one or more flaws in the deployed application are determined. The determination is performed externally to the deployment platform and without executing a monitoring process thereon. |
| US11755459B2 |
Management of a debug buffer based on priority information
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive new debug information, determine that a debug buffer does not have any available free entries for the new debug information, compare the priority information to a lowest priority information of old debug information stored in the debug buffer, remove a most recent old debug information that has a lowest priority information from the debug buffer, and place the new debug information and corresponding priority information in the debug buffer. |
| US11755455B1 |
Detecting and correcting user interface discrepancies
Systems and methods are provided for detecting discrepancies in information that is displayed to a user across different webpages of an online shopping system. User interaction with the online shopping system is simulated in one example to collect data relating to webpages of the online shopping system. The data is analyzed to identify relevant semantic blocks of data and compare the data in those blocks across webpages. In an additional example, source code for the webpages is analyzed using machine-learning systems, which are targeted based on the results of the user interaction simulation to identify problematic source code and correct associated issues. |
| US11755454B2 |
Defect resolution
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for facilitating improved defect resolution. Defect information and defect criteria information may be obtained. The defect information may identify defects of software and/or hardware in development. The defect criteria information may define one or more criteria for measuring the defects. The defects may be measured based on the one or more criteria. A defect analysis interface may be provided. The defect analysis interface may list a limited number of the defects based on the measurements of the defects. The defect analysis interface may provide costs (e.g., computing resources, time, personnel) of solving the defects. |
| US11755452B2 |
Log data collection method based on log data generated by container in application container environment, log data collection device, storage medium, and log data collection system
A log data collection method, a log data collection device, a storage medium, and a log data collection system are provided. The log data collection method includes: acquiring log data generated by at least one container in an application container environment; transmitting the log data to a log cache unit for cache; and allowing a log collection unit to collect the log data cached in the log cache unit and transmit the log data to a log storage unit for storage. |
| US11755451B2 |
Method and apparatus for tuning adjustable parameters in computing environment
A computer-implemented method is carried out on an IT framework and a relative apparatus including: an orchestrator module; an optimizer module; a configurator module; a load generator module; and a telemetry module. The method includes: identifying tunable parameters representing a candidate configuration for a System Under Test (SUT), and applying the candidate configuration to the SUT using the configurator module; performance testing the SUT to determine a performance indicator; supplying performance metrics to the optimizer module's machine learning model to generate an optimized candidate configuration. The model provides as output, in correspondence of a candidate set of parameters, an expected value of the performance indicator and a prediction uncertainty thereof, used by the optimizer module to build an Acquisition Function used to derive a candidate configuration and by the load generator module to build the test workload. The test workload is computed through the machine learning model. |
| US11755450B1 |
Systems and methods for detecting and suggesting breaks from use of an IHS (information handling system)
System and methods are provided for detecting and suggesting breaks in activity by a user of an Information Handling System (IHS). I/O operations by the user of the IHS are monitored, without use of a camera and thus within privacy restrictions. Upon initiating the activity monitoring, a timer is initialized. Using the timer, intervals are identified with no activity by the user, thus indicating the user has taken a break from operating the IHS. Based on the monitored user activity, intervals are also identified with uninterrupted operation of the IHS by the user, such as monitored activity by the user without identifying an interval of inactivity that indicates the user has taken a break. Upon detection of an interval with uninterrupted operation of the IHS, the user is presented with a suggestion to take a break from operation of the IHS. |
| US11755447B2 |
Predictive performance indicator for storage devices
Systems and methods for predictive performance indicators for storage devices are described. The data storage device may process host storage operations and maintenance operations that impact real-time performance. A performance value and corresponding threshold may be determined. Increases in maintenance operations and resulting changes in the performance value may be predicted. When the predicted change in performance value crosses the performance threshold, the host device may be notified. |
| US11755441B2 |
Debugging unit and processor
The present invention discloses a debugging unit and a processor. The debugging unit includes; a register, adapted to sample input data under control of a clock signal; and a dock control unit, adapted to generate a control signal based on a clock enable signal to control the clock signal, so that the register is controlled to sample the input data in a validity period of the clock signal when the control signal is valid. The present invention also discloses a corresponding system-on-chip and an intelligent device including the system-on-chip. |
| US11755437B2 |
Gas supply system
The gas supply system of this invention is furnished with a cylinder apparatus having a pneumatic valve that supplies process gas to a process chamber, and a solenoid valve that opens or closes said pneumatic valve by supplying or stopping the flow of valve actuating gas to said pneumatic valve; and a gas supply control apparatus that controls the actuation of the solenoid valve. In addition, said gas supply control apparatus comprises a main controller that controls the actuation of said solenoid valve during normal operation, and a sub-controller that senses an abnormal state of said main controller and if an abnormality is sensed, controls the actuation of said solenoid valve instead of said main controller. |
| US11755435B2 |
Cluster availability management
A first logical partition in a first processing complex of a server cluster is operated in an active mode and a second logical partition in the processing complex is operated in a standby mode. Upon detection of a failure in a second processing complex of the server cluster. the standby mode logical partition in the first processing complex is activated to an active mode. In one embodiment, partition resources are transferred from an active mode logical partition to the logical partition activated from standby mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US11755430B2 |
Methods and systems for storing and querying log messages using log message bifurcation
Methods and systems described herein are directed to storing and querying log messages using log message bifurcation. Each log message that exceeds a time limit for storage in a live storage database is bifurcated into a log pattern that is stored in a log-pattern database and a metric object that records variable information of the log message in a time-series metric database. The log-pattern database and the time-series metric database together provide long-term log storage for the information contained in log messages that are too old to be stored in a live storage database. A request for access to log messages stored in the long-term log storage is completed by reconstructing the requested log messages from log patterns stored in the log-pattern database and metric objects stored in the time-series metric database. |
| US11755428B2 |
Backup and recovery of application data of an application executing in a virtual machine
Backup of application data associated with an application executing in a virtual machine managed by a hypervisor is performed. Backup of the application data includes retrieving a Logical Unit Number (LUN) identification (ID) used by the application to store the application data in a storage volume. Backup of the application data also includes performing a virtual storage resolution for the LUN ID to determine whether the application data is stored in the storage volume identified by the LUN ID based on a first virtual mapping or a physical mapping. Backup also includes storing in metadata for the backup the LUN ID and whether the LUN ID is based on the first virtual mapping or the physical mapping. Backup includes creating a backup of the application data stored in the storage volume. Application data can subsequently be restored based on the application data that is backed up. |
| US11755424B2 |
Restoring archived object-level database data
According to certain aspects, a system may include a data agent configured to: process a database file residing on a primary storage device(s) to identify a subset of data in the database file for archiving, the database file generated by a database application; and extract the subset of the data from the database file and store the subset of the data in an archive file on the primary storage device(s) as a plurality of blocks having a common size; and at least one secondary storage controller computer configured to, as part of a secondary copy operation in which the archive file is copied to a secondary storage device(s): copy the plurality of blocks to the secondary storage devices to create a secondary copy of the archive file; and create a table that provides a mapping between the copied plurality of blocks and corresponding locations in the secondary storage device(s). |
| US11755420B2 |
Recovery point objective optimized file recovery
A system includes a data store and a data management server. The data store stores a plurality of backup snapshots that capture states of a device at different times. The data management server receives a request to restore the device that is potentially malware affected. The data management server retrieves a first backup snapshot of the device. The data management server determines that a first file stored in the first backup snapshot is malware affected. The data management server checks one or more corresponding versions of the first file captured in one or more previous backup snapshots to identify a clean version of the first file. The data management server determines that a second file stored in the first backup snapshot is clean. The data management server restores data in the device. |
| US11755419B2 |
Utilizing spare network nodes for deduplication fingerprints database
Method, apparatus, and computer program product utilizing a hot-spare node in a storage network having a deduplication fingerprints database. A plurality of nodes is provided in the storage network including at least one active node and at least one hot-spare node. A portion of the deduplication fingerprints database is stored on each active node and on each hot-spare node. Data from the deduplication fingerprints database is provided from at least one of said at least one hot-spare node during normal operation. Responsive to a failure of one of said at least one active node, a portion of the deduplication fingerprints database associated with data stored on the failed one of said at least one active node is retained on one of the at least one hot-spare node. The failed one active node is replaced with one of the at least one hot-spare node. |
| US11755418B2 |
Emulating high-frequency application-consistent snapshots by forming restore point data sets based on remote site replay of I/O commands
The disclosed systems emulate high-frequency application-consistent snapshots by forming restore point data sets based on remote site replay of I/O commands. A method embodiment commences upon identifying a primary computing site and a secondary computing site, then identifying an application to be restored from the secondary computing site after a disaster. Prior to the disaster, a group of computing entities of the application to be restored from the secondary computing site are identified. Input/output operations that are performed over any of the computing entities at the primary site are streamed to the secondary site where they are stored. An I/O map that associates a time with an indication of a last received I/O command that had been performed over a changing set of computing entities is sent to the secondary site. An agent at the secondary site accesses the I/O map and the streamed-over I/Os to construct recovery data. |
| US11755415B2 |
Variable data replication for storage implementing data backup
A log-structured data store implementing data backup may implement variable data replication. Write requests may be received at different storage nodes maintaining respective replicas of a portion of a log for data maintained in the log-structured data store. Log records indicating the write requests may be stored in the respective replicas of the log portions at the different storage nodes. The log records may be sent to a backup data store to be durability persisted as part of an archived version of the log. At some of the storage nodes, in response to determining that the log records have been durably persisted in the backup data store, storage space for the log records may be reclaimed. In other remaining storage nodes, the log records may be retained and made accessible for servicing read requests. |
| US11755414B2 |
Data recovery using bitmap data structure
Examples of the present disclosure describe implementing bitmap-based data replication when a primary form of data replication between a source device and a target device cannot be used. According to one example, a temporal identifier may be received from the target device. If the source device determines that the primary replication method is unable to be used to replicate data associated with the temporal identifier, a secondary replication method may be initiated. The secondary replication method may utilize a recovery bitmap identifying data blocks that have changed on the source device since a previous event. |
| US11755411B2 |
Error rate reduction in a non-volatile memory (NVM), including magneto-resistive random access memories (MRAMS)
A magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) device includes an array of MRAM bit cells grouped into words, each word having specified number of data bit cells, error correction code (ECC) bit cells, and at least two inversion indicator bit cells, the inversion indicator bit cells being redundant of each other; and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to, for each of the words, set the inversion indicator bit cells to indicate whether the number of data bit cells in a word having a zero value is greater than the number of data bit cells having a one value, invert the zeroes and ones in the bit cells when the inversion indicator bit cells are set to indicate a greater number of zeroes than ones in the data bit cells of the word, and revert the data bit cells to their value before the zeroes and ones were inverted. |
| US11755410B2 |
Systems and methods for correcting data errors in memory
Systems and methods for correcting data errors in memory caused by high-temperature processing of the memory are provided. An integrated circuit (IC) die including a memory is formed. Addresses of memory locations that are susceptible to data loss when subjected to elevated temperatures are determined. Bits of data are written to the memory, where the bits of data include a set of bits written to the memory locations. The set of bits are written to a storage device of the IC die that is not susceptible to data loss when subjected to the elevated temperatures, the subset of bits comprise compressed code. At least one of the bits stored at the addresses is overwritten after subjecting the IC die to an elevated temperature. The at least one of the bits is overwritten based on the set of bits written to the storage device. |
| US11755407B2 |
Multi-rate ECC parity for fast SLC read
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to create a dual parity matrix. The dual parity matrix includes a full parity form that includes a payload, a first parity portion, and a second parity portion and a reduced parity form that includes the payload and the first parity portion. The second parity portion is 0. The controller is further configured to create an incremental parity construction matrix. The incremental parity construction matrix includes two arrays. A first array includes a first payload portion, a first, first parity portion, and a first, second parity portion and a second array includes a second payload portion, a second, first parity portion, and a second, second parity portion. The incremental parity construction matrix is arranged in either a block triangular construction or a block diagonal construction. |
| US11755404B2 |
Custom baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware stack monitoring system and method
An Information Handling System (IHS) includes multiple hardware devices, and a baseboard Management Controller (BMC) in communication with multiple hardware devices of the IHS. The BMC includes executable instructions for monitoring a parameter of one or more of the hardware devices when a custom BMC firmware stack is executed on the BMC. The instructions that monitor the parameter are separate and distinct from the instructions of the custom BMC firmware stack. The instructions also control the BMC to perform one or more operations to remediate an excessive parameter when the parameter exceeds a specified threshold. |
| US11755402B1 |
Self-healing information technology (IT) testing computer system leveraging predictive method of root cause analysis
A method of performing root cause analysis of communication system testing results and submitting communication system defect tickets along with associated previously resolved communication system defect tickets that provide insights for repairing the communication system defects. The method comprises categorizing by a categorization engine error messages in logs received from applications undergoing test, remediating the test data errors and rerunning a test case by a test data error handling script, for each error message categorized as a valid error, searching a data store by a valid error handling script to identify previously resolved defect tickets that match the valid error, and, for each error message categorized as a valid error, generating a defect ticket by the valid error handling script that describes the error message categorized as a valid error and identifies at least some of the previously resolved defect tickets that match the valid error. |
| US11755401B2 |
System and method for controlling power grid connection of power consumption entity using an analytical artifact
A method for providing an analytical artifact used for development and/or analysis of an investigated technical system of interest comprised of components having associated machine readable functional descriptions including port definitions and component failure modes processed to generate automatically the analytical artifact in response to at least one applied system evaluation criterion. |
| US11755400B2 |
Error detection and mitigation for software pull requests
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting and mitigating errors associated with software pull requests such as software deployment packages. The embodiments include identifying a failure of a pull request, identifying a system error associated with the failure, determining a failure mitigation process based on the failure and the system error, and executing the failure mitigation process to resolve the failure. The errors can be classified as system errors, user errors or planned downtime. The failure mitigation process can include generating an alert associated with the identified system error, updating a status of the pull request, re-evaluating the failure after a predetermined period of time, and retrying deployment of the pull request using an exponential retry process. |
| US11755399B1 |
Bit error rate reduction technology
An IC is provided and includes a memory array, an address register holding at least one address of a securely stored file and configured to output three or more addresses of the securely stored filed and computation-in-memory (CIM) logic coupled with the memory array. The CIM logic is configured to perform a majority function on three or more bits of the securely stored file, wherein the three or more bits are redundantly stored in three or more different locations in the memory array and wherein the three locations are associated with the three or more addresses in the memory array. |
| US11755398B2 |
Time series clustering to troubleshoot device problems based on missed and delayed data
The described technology is generally directed towards processing time series (e.g., device telemetry) data, including identifying missing data (gaps in the time series data), and delayed data. The time series data are converted to ternary data, e.g., zero if timely, one if delayed or two if missing, and counts are obtained for each. If the missing data and/or delayed counts are significant, e.g., exceed a threshold percentage of the total data, the time series data indicates a problem that can be narrowed down to a more specific cause. For example, the time series data can be filtered by customer products/offers and customer locations, and if a filtered dataset's ternary data are similar to the problematic data, as determined via unsupervised clustering as similarity data (occurring at a similar time), the potential problem or problems can be narrowed to a potential cause based on that filtered dataset's similarity. |
| US11755397B2 |
Systems and methods for processing of messages subject to dead letter queues in representational state transfer architectures to prevent data loss in cloud-based computing environments
Systems and methods are provided for processing of messages subject to dead letter queues in representational state transfer (“REST”) architectures to prevent data loss in cloud-based environments. For example, as opposed to conventional RESTful application programming interface (“API”) approaches to handling message failures, the systems and methods provide a new system component to handle these failures. Specifically, instead of relying on a conventional dead letter queue (e.g., requiring a system to read the queue via lambda functions), the systems and methods create a representative system file based on any REST call in which a failure is detected. |
| US11755395B2 |
Method, equipment and computer program product for dynamic storage recovery rate
Techniques for storage management involve determining, based at least on an upper limit duration for recovering a predetermined number of disk sets among a plurality of disk sets, a first recovery rate for recovering at least a portion of the plurality of disk sets. The techniques may further involve determining the number of disk sets that are not recovered based on the first recovery rate among the plurality of disk sets. In addition, the techniques may further involve performing data recovery on unrecovered disk sets among the plurality of disk sets based on a predetermined second recovery rate according to the determined number being less than or equal to the predetermined number, the second recovery rate being lower than the first recovery rate and being associated with the upper limit duration. Accordingly, it can be ensured that all to-be-recovered disk sets may be recovered within a recovery duration. |
| US11755393B2 |
API registry in a container platform for automatically generating client code libraries
A method of providing Application Programming Interface (API) functions for registered service endpoints in container environments may include receiving, at an API registry, a request from a second service to use a first service in a container environment, where the API registry may list one or more API functions that call the first service. The method may also include generating, by the API registry, a client library for the second service that includes the one or more API functions to execute calls from the second service to the first service in the container environment. |
| US11755392B2 |
Edge cloud caching using real-time customer journey insights
Systems and methods for smart cloud caching using edge computing and real-time customer journey insights are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system identifies a trend in communications received by a first edge cloud server, wherein each communication corresponds to a customer journey comprising user action steps performed in a client application. The system determines which user action steps cause API invocations to non-edge cloud servers and generates a sequence of API invocations in an order associated with the sequence of user action steps of the customer journey. The sequence of API invocations may be chained and/or bundled and stored in a cache for replication at edge cloud servers. The system may determine that the trend is pervasive in a geographical location based on satisfaction of a criteria, and replicate the cached sequence of API invocations at a cache of a second edge cloud server that services the geographical location. |
| US11755391B2 |
System and method for timed data transmission
A method is disclosed. The method comprising receiving, by a processor computer from a coordination computer, a push transfer instruction message comprising a recipient address associated with a recipient, a data item, and a time period for transferring the data item to a recipient account associated with the recipient address. The method also includes storing, by the processor computer, the push transfer instruction message. After the time period, the push transfer instruction message comprising the data item is transmitted to a recipient authorizing entity computer associated with the recipient address to transfer the data item. |
| US11755389B2 |
Message processing method and message processing device
A message processing method is provided. The message processing method comprises the steps of receiving a message, checking the value of an extended protocol discriminator of the message. If the value of the extended protocol discriminator corresponds to a special extended protocol discriminator, the method includes modifying the special extended protocol discriminator to a regular extended protocol discriminator. |
| US11755384B2 |
Scaling virtualization resource units of applications
System resource utilizations by one or more core functionalities of a data storage system is monitored. A system resource allocation for one or more applications of the data storage system is determined based at least in part on the monitored system resource utilizations. A number of virtualization resource units allocated to at least one of the one or more applications is scaled based at least in part on the determined system resource allocation. The number of virtualization resource units allocated to the at least one of the one or more applications is based on a corresponding ratio associated with the at least one of the one or more applications. |
| US11755382B2 |
Programming flow for multi-processor system
Various embodiments are disclosed of a compilation with optimization for multi-processor system with processing elements optimized for high performance and low power dissipation and an associated method of programming the processing elements. Application source code may be initially compiled into an intermediate representation. Following the initial compilation, resources may be mapped and communication synthesis performed. Simulation and debug may be performed prior to loading an executable image onto the multi-processor system. At each step, checks may be performed for possible optimizations, and one or more steps repeated using results of the checks. |
| US11755380B1 |
Methods and apparatus for a multi-tenant computer system for producing service results by matching and resolving conflicts of service requests from client compute devices
An apparatus includes a multi-tenant computer system including a processor and a memory operatively coupled to the processor. The apparatus receives a first service request from a first compute device and a second service request from a second compute device. Data values of the first service request are not accessible by the second compute device and data values of the second request are not accessible by the first compute device. The apparatus merges the data values of the first service request and the data values of the second service request and filters the results based on a set of rules not accessible to the second compute device to produce a first filtered result responsive to the second service request. The apparatus also filters the results based on a set of rules not accessible to the first compute device to produce a second filtered result responsive to the first service request. |
| US11755371B1 |
Data intake and query system with distributed data acquisition, indexing and search
A scheduler manages execution of a plurality of data-collection jobs, assigns individual jobs to specific forwarders in a set of forwarders, and generates and transmits tokens (e.g., pairs of data-collection tasks and target sources) to assigned forwarders. The forwarder uses the tokens, along with stored information applicable across jobs, to collect data from the target source and forward it onto an indexer for processing. For example, the indexer can then break a data stream into discrete events, extract a timestamp from each event and index (e.g., store) the event based on the timestamp. The scheduler can monitor forwarders' job performance, such that it can use the performance to influence subsequent job assignments. Thus, data-collection jobs can be efficiently assigned to and executed by a group of forwarders, where the group can potentially be diverse and dynamic in size. |
| US11755364B2 |
Transferral of process state and/or components in computing environments
This technology relates to transferring state information between processes or active software programs in a computing environment where a new instance of a process or software program may receive such state information even after an original or old instance of the process or software program that owned the state information has terminated either naturally or unnaturally. |
| US11755362B2 |
Techniques for handling escalation of interrupts in a data processing system
Techniques of handling interrupt escalation are implemented in hardware. In at least one embodiment, an interrupt presentation controller (IPC) receives an event notification message requesting an interrupt, specifying an interrupt priority, and referencing a virtual processor (VP) thread. The IPC determines whether the VP thread matches any interruptible VP thread. If not, the IPC conditionally escalates the interrupt requested by the event notification message. Conditionally escalating the interrupt includes determining whether or not the interrupt priority is greater than the operating priority of any interruptible VP thread. If so, the IPC initiates escalation of the interrupt requested by the event notification message to a next higher software stack level by issuing an escalate message. If not, the IPC refrains from escalating the interrupt requested by the event notification message. |
| US11755361B2 |
Freedom from interference for aggregated communication channel handling using event-based processor extensions
A system, method, and apparatus are provided for handling communications with external communication channel hardware devices by a processor executing event-based programming code to interface a plurality of virtual machines with the external communication channel hardware devices by providing the processor with an event latch for storing hardware events received from the external communication channel hardware devices, with a timer circuit that generates a sequence of timer interrupt signals, and with a masking circuit that masks the hardware events stored in the event latch with an event mask in response to each timer interrupt signal, where each event mask is associated with a different virtual machine running on the processor such that each virtual machine is allowed to communicate only on a masked subset of the hardware events specified by the event mask to ensure freedom from interference between the plurality of virtual machines when communicating with the external communication channel hardware devices. |
| US11755360B2 |
Detecting layered bottlenecks in microservices
A computer-implemented method for detecting bottlenecks in microservice cloud systems is provided including identifying a plurality of nodes within one or more clusters associated with a plurality of containers, collecting thread profiles and network connectivity data by periodically dumping stacks of threads and identifying network connectivity status of one or more containers of the plurality of containers, classifying the stacks of threads based on a plurality of thread states, constructing a microservice dependency graph from the network connectivity data, aligning the plurality of nodes to bar graphs to depict an average number of working threads in a corresponding microservice, and generating, on a display, an illustration outlining the plurality of thread states, each of the plurality of thread states having a different representation. |
| US11755359B2 |
Methods and apparatus to implement intelligent selection of content items for provisioning
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to intelligently select content items for provisioning. In one example, the apparatus includes content library querying circuitry that queries a subscription guide database table to generate a list of subscriber content items linked to a target published content item indicated in the request. The apparatus also includes content library selection circuitry to select a first content item from a group of content items that include the generated list of the subscriber content items and the target published content item, the first content item corresponds to a first data access cost that is less than or equal to a second data access cost of a second content item in the group. The apparatus also includes virtual machine provisioning circuitry to provision the virtual machine on the target host with access to the first content item. |
| US11755357B2 |
Parameterized launch acceleration for compute instances
A request to initiate a launch procedure of a compute instance at a virtualization host configured to access a remote storage device over a network is received. A memory buffer of the host is allocated as a write-back cache for use during a portion of the launch procedure. In response to a write request directed to remote storage during the portion of the launch procedure, the write payload is stored in the buffer and an indication of fulfillment of the write is provided independently of obtaining an acknowledgement that the payload has been propagated to the remote storage. Subsequent to the portion of the launch procedure, payloads of other write requests are transmitted to the remote storage device. |
| US11755355B2 |
Systems and methods for assigning domain identifiers to remote peripheral devices using a hypervisor
A processing system includes an interconnect, a master processing device including processing cores coupled to the interconnect, a hypervisor coupled to the interconnect and configured to allocate the processing cores to one or more virtual machines, domain configuration information including a domain identifier for each of the one or more virtual machines, remote peripheral devices coupled to the interconnect, and a domain access controller coupled to the interconnect and configured to receive the domain identifiers for the remote peripherals directly from the hypervisor through the interconnect. |
| US11755351B2 |
Parallel processing of data
A data parallel pipeline may specify multiple parallel data objects that contain multiple elements and multiple parallel operations that operate on the parallel data objects. Based on the data parallel pipeline, a dataflow graph of deferred parallel data objects and deferred parallel operations corresponding to the data parallel pipeline may be generated and one or more graph transformations may be applied to the dataflow graph to generate a revised dataflow graph that includes one or more of the deferred parallel data objects and deferred, combined parallel data operations. The deferred, combined parallel operations may be executed to produce materialized parallel data objects corresponding to the deferred parallel data objects. |
| US11755349B2 |
Secure digital workspace using machine learning and microsegmentation
The disclosure provides an approach for authenticating a user of a computer system, wherein the computer system implements a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), the method comprising connecting to a computing device through a network, receiving from the computing device authentication credentials, and determining whether the authentication credentials match an authorized user of the computer system. The approach further comprises extracting from the computing device features of the computing device, retrieving a machine learning (ML) model associated with the authorized user, wherein the ML model is at least one of (a) a supervised ML model or (b) an unsupervised ML model, and executing the ML model to authenticate the features of the computing device. |
| US11755347B2 |
Method and system for accessing table content in a digital image of the table
A system and method for accessing elements of a table in a digital image of the table, including: obtaining the digital image of the table; finding table elements in the digital image based on digital table properties, wherein the table elements define table cells; calculating coordinates of the table cells in the digital image based on the table elements; and accessing content of a selected table cell in the digital image using the coordinates of the selected table element. |
| US11755346B2 |
Method and apparatus for user interface modification
A method and apparatus for modifying a user interface. The method comprises receiving user interface data at a client from a first server, receiving modification computer program code at said client, and executing said modification computer program code at said client to modify said user interface data to generate modified user interface data. The modification computer program code can be received from said first server or from a further server. |
| US11755339B1 |
Disaggregated cloud-native network architecture
A cloud based network includes a plurality of nodes, each of which include at least one containerized microservice that enables intent-driven operation of the cloud based network. One or more resource controllers, each designated to manage a custom resource, communicate with a master controller of the node to manage operational and configuration states of the node and any microservices containerized within the node. The master enables a user to monitor and automate the management of microservices and the cloud based network as a whole. The containerized microservice architecture allows user customizable rendering of microservices, reconciliation of old and new versions of microservices, and facilitated management of a plurality of nodes. |
| US11755338B2 |
Systems and methods for operating data processing units
A node that includes data processing unit (DPU) and a processor, where the processor is configured to perform a method for utilizing a data processing unit (DPU), that includes identifying, by the DPU, a processing entity operatively connected to the DPU, receiving processing entity properties from the processing entity, storing the processing entity properties in a processing entity catalog, generating a virtual combined memory space in the processing entity catalog, and providing access to the processing entity catalog to a BIOS. |
| US11755336B2 |
Distributed geometry
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing geometry work in parallel on multiple chiplets are disclosed. A system includes a chiplet processor with multiple chiplets for performing graphics work in parallel. Instead of having a central distributor to distribute work to the individual chiplets, each chiplet determines on its own the work to be performed. For example, during a draw call, each chiplet calculates which portions to fetch and process of one or more index buffer(s) corresponding to one or more graphics object(s) of the draw call. Once the portions are calculated, each chiplet fetches the corresponding indices and processes the indices. The chiplets perform these tasks in parallel and independently of each other. When the index buffer(s) are processed, one or more subsequent step(s) in the graphics rendering process are performed in parallel by the chiplets. |
| US11755334B2 |
Systems and methods for augmented notifications in remote management of an IHS (information handling system)
Systems and methods are provided for supporting remote management of an IHS (Information Handling System). A first remote management command is received at an IHS. Managed hardware components of the IHS are identified that are configured by the first remote management command. While the first remote management command is pending, a mapping is maintained of the command and the managed hardware components configured by the command. A second remote management command is received that is related to a component of the IHS. Based on the maintained mapping, a determination is made whether the component of the second remote management command is configured by the pending first management command. When the component of the second remote management command is configured by the pending first management command, a notification of the pending first management command is appended to a response to the second management command. |
| US11755329B2 |
Arithmetic processing apparatus and method for selecting an executable instruction based on priority information written in response to priority flag comparison
An arithmetic processing apparatus includes an instruction execution control circuit that outputs an instruction from an entry of entries, including an executable instruction information storage circuit storing executable instruction information indicating whether an instruction in each of the entries is executable, a priority information storage circuit including, for each entry, storage areas storing priority information indicating whether an instruction in an entry has higher priority on an entry-by-entry basis, an executable instruction information write circuit writing the executable instruction information in response to determining whether an instruction in each of the entries is executable, a priority information write circuit writing the priority information in response to determining whether an instruction in each of the entries has higher priority, and an output determination circuit selecting an entry from which an instruction is output on a basis of the executable instruction information and the priority information. |
| US11755325B2 |
Instruction handling for accumulation of register results in a microprocessor
A computer system, processor, and method for processing information is disclosed that includes at least one computer processor; a main register file associated with the at least one processor, the main register file having a plurality of entries for storing data, one or more write ports to write data to the main register file entries, and one or more read ports to read data from the main register file entries; one or more execution units including a dense math execution unit; and at least one accumulator register file having a plurality of entries for storing data. The results of the dense math execution unit in an aspect are written to the accumulator register file, preferably to the same accumulator register file entry multiple times, and the data from the accumulator register file is written to the main register file. |
| US11755323B2 |
Apparatus and method for complex by complex conjugate multiplication
An apparatus and method for multiplying packed real and imaginary components of complex numbers are described. A processor embodiment includes: a decoder to decode a first instruction to generate a decoded instruction; a first source register to store a first plurality of packed real and imaginary data elements; a second source register to store a second plurality of packed real and imaginary data elements; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction. The execution circuitry includes: multiplier circuitry to select real and imaginary data elements in the first source register and second source, multiply each selected imaginary data element in the first source register with a selected real data element in the second source register, and multiply each selected real data element in the first source register with a selected imaginary data element in the second source register to generate a plurality of imaginary products; adder circuitry to add a first subset of the plurality of imaginary products and subtract a second subset of the plurality of imaginary products to generate a first temporary result, and to add a third subset of the plurality of imaginary products and subtract a fourth subset of the plurality of imaginary products to generate a second temporary result; and accumulation circuitry to combine the first temporary result with first data from a destination register to generate a first final result, combine the second temporary result with second data from the destination register to generate a second final result, and store the first final result and second final result back in the destination register. |
| US11755320B2 |
Compute array of a processor with mixed-precision numerical linear algebra support
Aspects include a compute array of a processor with mixed-precision numerical linear algebra support. A first precision and a first shape of a first input matrix and a second precision and a second shape of a second input matrix to the compute array are determined. A plurality of linear algebra operations is repeated in parallel within the compute array to update a result matrix in an accumulator register based on the first input matrix, the second input matrix, and a number of rank updates of the result matrix to store in the accumulator register. |
| US11755319B2 |
Code development management system
A method includes collecting code development data associated with development of code files on a per user basis. A predicted code execution performance score is determined based on weighting one or more developer attributes captured in the code development data on the per user basis, the predicted code execution performance score indicative of a predicted likelihood of a code quality issue, where the one or more developer attributes are based at least in part on personnel data including a level of developer experience and a history of observed development activities of an associated developer from review data. One or more resources of one or more code execution servers associated with execution of selected files are predictively allocated based on the predicted code execution performance score. One or more code execution metrics are captured associated with executing selected files on the one or more code execution servers. |
| US11755314B2 |
Management of transport software updates
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a software update at a transport, performing a first validation of the software update in a first environment, wherein the first environment includes a least amount of potential interactions, and performing a further validation of the software update when the first validation is successful, in a further environment, wherein the further environment includes an amount of potential interactions greater than the first environment. |
| US11755313B2 |
Implementing changes made to source code of reloadable types at runtime
Systems and methods for implementing changes made to source code of a program at runtime are provided. In particular, a computing device may execute the source code in a runtime environment and detect changes made to the source code at runtime in the runtime environment. In response to detecting the changes, the computing device may determine if the changes were made to a type in the source code identified as reloadable. In response to determining that the changes were made to the type in the source code identified as reloadable, the computing device may create a new version of the type and perform implementation of the changes to the source code at runtime using the new version of the type. |
| US11755311B1 |
Versioned schema
A versioned schema of a data platform. A process of maintaining a call stack of executing objects of an application package having a versioned schema includes calling, by a first procedure executed by one or more processors, a second procedure of a versioned application instance, and determining, by the first procedure, a version of the second procedure based on a call context. In response to determining that the version of the second procedure is not in the call context, the first procedure determines a current version of the versioned application package adds the current version to the call context as the version of the second procedure. |
| US11755309B2 |
Tagging packages in an application ecosystem
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for creating logical groups of packages by tagging individual packages with a tag associated with metadata corresponding to packages that are part of the group. A group of packages may be defined from a plurality of packages that make up an application ecosystem using the tag. A command to perform a first operation of a set of operations performed by the package manager on the group of packages may be provided to a package manager, wherein the command may reference the tag and wherein the package manager is modified to perform each of the set of operations on one or more of the plurality of packages simultaneously. The first operation may be performed by the package manager on the group of packages simultaneously using the metadata to identify each package that is part of the group. |
| US11755301B2 |
Deployment of cloud infrastructures using a cloud management platform
This disclosure relates generally to creating and managing cloud infrastructure, and more specifically, integrating one or more cloud infrastructure tools for building cloud infrastructures. An example method includes, receiving a request to deploy a cloud infrastructure on a cloud service provider based on a cloud template of the cloud management platform; transmitting configuration instructions associated with a cloud infrastructure tool to a container orchestration platform for execution on one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform to deploy the cloud infrastructure; receiving a deployment state of the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider from the container orchestration platform following execution of the configuration instructions; and reporting a status of the cloud infrastructure based on the deployment state. |
| US11755300B1 |
Systems and methods for array structure processing
A compiler optimization for structure peeling an array of structures (AOS) into a structure of arrays (SOA) by which a pointer to an array in the original program, is transformed into a tagged index that includes both an array index, and a memory identifier tagging the array index. Once processed by the compiler, each array index is identified by a respective memory identifier, hence if the program instructions call for redefining an array during run time, its array element can still be retrieved by referring to the memory identifier it is tagged with. |
| US11755292B2 |
Pipeline management tool
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for managing pipelines of operations on data. A system may access data and provide a set of functions for the data. The system may receive a user's selection of one or more functions from the set of functions. The system may generate a pipeline of operations for the data based on the user's selection. The pipeline of operations may include the function(s) selected by the user. |
| US11755289B1 |
Automated use case evaluation, onboarding and gamification
Systems and methods for improving an onboarding process of a use case received from a user device using machine learning by automatically evaluating a potential to implement machine learning on the use case and automating the onboarding process, which may include receiving and processing an initial use case data set using a trained tractability machine learning model to generate a first determination whether the use case is machine learning tractable. The trained tractability machine learning model is trained using historical tractability data. Generating an onboarding machine learning model for solving the use case based at least upon the first determination the use case is machine learning tractable. Receiving a feedback data set and processing the initial use case data set and the feedback data set using the trained onboarding machine learning model. |
| US11755287B2 |
Random number generator
A method for generating random numbers includes initializing a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) having a state of 2048 bits comprising inner bits and outer bits, the inner bits comprising the first 128 bits of the 2048 bits and the outer bits comprising the remaining bits of the 2048 bits. The method also includes retrieving AES round keys from a key source, and for a threshold number of times, executing a round function using the AES round keys by XOR'ing odd-numbered branches of a Feistel network having 16 branches of 128 bits with a function of corresponding even-numbered neighbor branches of the Feistel network, and shuffling each branch of 128 bits into a prescribed order. The method also includes executing an XOR of the inner bits of the permuted state with the inner bits of a previous state. |
| US11755283B2 |
Human-machine interfaces for utterance-based playlist selection
Systems, methods, and devices for human-machine interfaces for utterance-based playlist selection are disclosed. In one method, a list of playlists is traversed and a portion of each is audibly output until a playlist command is received. Based on the playlist command, the traversing is stopped and a playlist is selected for playback. In examples, the list of playlists is modified based on a modification input. |
| US11755279B2 |
Control and audio systems for a boat
A boat includes a controller that is communicatively coupled to a control screen. The controller has stored therein a plurality of modes corresponding to an activity and includes a plurality of controls corresponding to the activity. The controller is configured to display on the control screen, when one of the modes is activated, the plurality of controls for the activated mode. The activated mode may also be an operating mode that corresponds to an operational condition of the boat. The boat may include a processor that is configured to generate an adjusted audio signal by selecting one or more of a plurality of subranges of frequencies of an audio signal and adjusting the selected subranges to compensate for at least one environmental condition associated with the operational condition of the boat corresponding to the operating mode. |
| US11755278B2 |
Source-based sound quality adjustment tool
Systems and methods for adjusting a sound level during a conference call are disclosed herein. Conferencing application receives an audio input including a first sound and a second sound. A user selectable element is generated for each sound in an user interface, where a user selection setting a first user selectable element associated with the first sound at a user-specified level is received. The sound level for the first sound is adjusted based on the user selection and output at the user-specified level while the second sound is output at a default sound level. |
| US11755277B2 |
Daydream-aware information recovery system
A system includes a sensing module configured to collect physiological information from a user; an audio input device configured to capture auditory content that is in an environment proximate the user; and one or more processors configured to: determine that a user has entered a state of inwardly focused attention based on first physiological information collected from the user; and in response, record the auditory content captured by the audio input device. |
| US11755275B2 |
Generating augmented reality experiences utilizing physical objects to represent analogous virtual objects
This disclosure describes embodiments of methods, non-transitory computer-readable media, and systems for detecting that a physical space includes a physical object corresponding to an analogous virtual object from an augmented reality experience and rendering (or otherwise modifying) the augment reality experience to integrate the physical object as part of the experience. In particular, the disclosed systems can determine that a physical object within a physical environment corresponds to an analogous virtual object of an augmented reality experience. Based on this correspondence, the disclosed systems can modify one or more of the virtual graphics, sound, or other features corresponding to the augmented reality experience to represent the virtual object using the physical object. For example, the disclosed systems can modify acoustic features of a sound for the augmented reality experience to simulate the sound originating from (or being affected by) the physical object. |
| US11755263B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus configured to communicate with a cloud print service includes at least one memory that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions, the instructions, when executed, causing the information processing apparatus to perform operations including determining whether transmission of a print job to a printer associated with a cloud printer not via the cloud print service is allowed in a case where the cloud printer on the cloud print service is selected as an output destination, and transmitting the print job to the printer associated with the cloud printer through a path not via the cloud print service in a case where it is determined that transmission of the print job to the printer associated with the cloud printer not via the cloud print service is allowed. |
| US11755259B2 |
Information processing apparatus having predetermined screen display, method of controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus includes printing control software capable of generating print data of a first format and is capable of communicating with a printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus obtains print data of a second format containing print setting information from OS-standard printing software which runs in the information processing apparatus, the second format being different from the first format, obtains a settable list, and displays a predetermined screen in a case where print setting information contained in the print data meets a predetermined condition. A screen containing information on usage is displayed as the predetermined screen where the predetermined condition is that a particular print setting is contained in the print setting information and information as an indication to display the predetermined screen is displayed in an item in the settable list corresponding to the particular print setting and the predetermined condition is met. |
| US11755258B1 |
Economic printing mode with font information modification
Example methods and systems to implement an economic printing mode with font information modification are described. In one example, a computer system may obtain source printing content associated with a print job that is destined for a printer and the economic printing mode may be selected for the print job. The computer system may extract, from the source printing content, (a) textual information to be printed and (b) font information associated with the textual information. The source printing content may be transformed to generate target printing content that is printable using a lower ink consumption compared to the source printing content by modifying the font information associated with the textual information. The computer system may provide the target printing content that includes modified font information to the printer for printing and/or generate a preview of the target printing content prior to printing using the printer. |
| US11755249B2 |
Storage system including storage nodes to determine cache allocations to implement cache control
To improve performance of a storage system. The storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes that communicate via a network. Each of the plurality of storage nodes includes one or more controllers. At least one controller in the controllers specifies at least two controllers that allocate a cache sub-area where write data is stored based on a controller that receives the write data from a host and a controller that processes the write date, and the cache sub-area is allocated in the specified controllers. |
| US11755248B2 |
Memory system and operating method of memory system
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a memory system and an operating method of the memory system. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the memory system may determine, according to a time period to which the length of the idle time belongs among a plurality of set time periods, a command pattern indicating a command type of a command expected to be received from the host, and may execute an operation corresponding to the command pattern. In this case, the type of command may be a read command, a write command, or an erase command, and the command pattern may be a read pattern, a write pattern, or an erase pattern. |
| US11755247B2 |
Storage device and operating method thereof
A storage device may include a plurality of memory devices and a memory controller in communication with the plurality of memory devices through a plurality of channels. The memory controller may select candidate channels to be activated among the plurality of channels, determine a threshold number of channel activation based on a number of channels in an active state before a first time point, and activate one or more target channels among the candidate channels so that a number of the target channels to be activated at the first time point is within the threshold number. |
| US11755246B2 |
Efficient rank switching in multi-rank memory controller
A data processor includes a staging buffer, a command queue, a picker, and an arbiter. The staging buffer receives and stores first memory access requests. The command queue stores second memory access requests, each indicating one of a plurality of ranks of a memory system. The picker picks among the first memory access requests in the staging buffer and provides selected ones of the first memory access requests to the command queue. The arbiter selects among the second memory access requests from the command queue based on at least a preference for accesses to a current rank of the memory system. The picker picks accesses to the current rank among the first memory access requests of the staging buffer and provides the selected ones of the first memory access requests to the command queue. |
| US11755244B2 |
System and method for smart NVMeOF disk array enclosure deep background data reduction offload
A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, by a computing device, storage containers that contain cold data. At least a portion of the storage containers may be processed to determine whether a first compression technique will result in a higher level of compression above a threshold level of compression than a second compression technique. The storage containers may be processed using the first compression technique based upon, at least in part, determining that the first compression technique will result in the higher level of compression above the threshold level of compression than the second compression technique. |
| US11755237B2 |
Overwriting at a memory system
Methods, systems, and devices for overwriting at a memory system are described. A memory system may be configured to overwrite portions of a memory array with new data, which may be associated with omitting an erase operation. For example, write operations may be performed in accordance with a first demarcation configuration to store information at a portion of a memory array. A portion of a memory system may then determine to overwrite the portion of the memory array with different or updated information, which may include performing write operations in accordance with a second demarcation configuration. The second demarcation configuration may be associated with different cell characteristics for a one or more logic states, such as different distributions of stored charge or other cell property, different demarcation characteristics, different write operations, among other differences, which may support performing an overwrite operation without first performing an erase operation. |
| US11755233B2 |
System and method for memory management using memory device cleansing
A method, computer program product, and computing system for identifying a first memory device source that includes first content; identifying a second memory device source that include second content; and initiating a first iteration of a memory device cleansing procedure wherein first content and at least a first portion of the second content are moved to a first unused memory device. |
| US11755232B2 |
Transferring of snapshot data blocks to a virtual storage volume
An example method includes transferring, for each of a plurality of snapshots of a source virtual storage volume mounted at a first compute node, at least a portion of a plurality of data blocks for each of the snapshots to a target virtual storage volume at a second compute node; and after the data blocks are transferred, resynchronizing the target virtual storage volume with the source virtual storage volume. |
| US11755228B1 |
Global heterogeneous data mirroring
A method and apparatus for data minoring are described. In one embodiment, a method for implementing country-specific data locality to cause data related to local transactions to be stored within the country in which the transactions occurred, comprises: capturing a set of transaction data associated with payment processing transactions into a first public cloud storage resource; and performing data mirroring across a heterogeneous set of cloud providers using a pipeline having a plurality of pipeline stages executed by one or more processors. |
| US11755227B2 |
Command batching for a memory sub-system
Methods, systems, and devices for command batching for a memory sub-system are described. A memory sub-system can receive a plurality of commands for a plurality of transfer units of a memory sub-system and generate a list of the plurality of transfer units that includes pointers between the plurality of transfer units. The memory sub-system can store at least one pointer of the list in a shared memory that is shared by a plurality of cores, the at least one pointer indicating a next transfer unit of the list. The memory sub-system can send an indicator of a first transfer unit of the list based on storing the at least one pointer in the shared memory and retrieve the plurality of transfer units from the shared memory based on sending the indicator of the first transfer unit and storing the at least one pointer in the shared memory. |
| US11755224B2 |
Storing data in slices of different sizes within different storage tiers
A technique manages data in slices of difference sizes within different storage tiers. The technique involves, based on access activity for first data currently residing within a first slice having a first size, selecting a target set of storage devices within which to store the first data from among multiple sets of storage devices. The technique further involves moving the first data from the first slice having the first size to a second slice having a second size that is different from the first size. The technique further involves, after the first data is moved from the first slice to the second slice, storing the second slice in the target set of storage devices. |
| US11755220B2 |
Adjustable access energy and access latency memory system and devices
Same sized blocks of data corresponding to a single read/write command are stored in the same memory array of a memory device, but using different formats. A first one of these formats spreads the data in the block across a larger number of memory subarrays (a.k.a., memory array tiles—MATs) than a second format. In this manner, the data blocks stored in the first format can be accessed with lower latency than the blocks stored in the second format because more data can be read from the array simultaneously. In addition, since the data stored in the second format is stored in fewer subarrays, it takes less energy to read a block stored in the second format. Thus, a system may elect, on a data block by data block basis, whether to conserve power or improve speed. |
| US11755219B1 |
Block access prediction for hybrid cloud storage
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for block prediction are provided. A computer receives a first retrieval request for retrieving data from storage blocks. The computer performs a cosine similarity comparison of the first retrieval request compared to prior data retrievals. The computer selects a matching data retrieval of the prior data retrievals. The matching data retrieval has a closest match to the first retrieval request based on the cosine similarity comparison. The computer identifies another storage block from the matching data retrieval as a predicted block for the first retrieval request. The computer transmits a prefetch request to prefetch data from the predicted block. |
| US11755217B2 |
Memory system and method of controlling nonvolatile memory
According to one embodiment, a controller manages a first set of blocks and a second set of blocks. The controller allocates a second block included in the second set of blocks to a first block included in the first set of blocks. In response to receiving one or more write command specifying the first block, the controller writes data associated with the one or more received write commands to the second block in units of a second minimum write size. When the first block is filled with data that has been written to the first block and unwritten region remains in the second block, the controller deallocates the second block from the first block, and allocates the deallocated second block to a write destination block other than the first block. |
| US11755216B2 |
Cache memory architecture and management
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to data cache management. In embodiments, a logical block address (LBA) bucket is established with at least one logical LBA group. Additionally, at least one LBA group is associated with two or more distinctly sized cache slots based on an input/output (IO) workload received by the storage array. Further, the association includes binding the two or more distinctly sized cache slots with at least one LBA group and mapping the bound distinctly sized cache slots in a searchable data structure. Furthermore, the searchable data structure identifies relationships between slot pointers and key metadata. |
| US11755214B2 |
Sequential data optimized sub-regions in storage devices
Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including using a memory controller to partition a memory array into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion and second portion having non-overlapping logical block addressing (LBA) ranges. The memory controller assigns a first granularity of a first logical-to-physical (L2P) mapping table entry for the first portion of the memory array designated for a first usage, and a second granularity of a second L2P mapping table entry for the second portion of the memory array designated for a second usage, where the second granularity is not equal to the first granularity. The memory controller stores the first granularity and the second granularity in the memory array, and stores at least a portion of the first L2P mapping table entry and the second L2P mapping table entry in an L2P cache of the memory controller. |
| US11755211B2 |
Overhead reduction in data transfer protocol for NAND memory
A data storage device including, in one implementation, a NAND memory and a controller. The NAND memory includes a read/write circuit configured to determine and store initial physical column addresses for each plane included in the NAND memory. The controller is configured to send a read-transfer command and a one-byte address to the NAND memory. The read/write circuit is also configured to retrieve a first initial physical column address from the initial physical column addresses stored in the NAND memory after the NAND memory receives the one-byte address from the controller. The first initial physical column address is associated with a die address and a plane address included in the one-byte address. The read/write circuit is further configured to retrieve a first set of data stored at the first initial physical column address. The read/write circuit is also configured to output the first set of data to the controller. |
| US11755209B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and error detection and correction method
An error detection and correction method for a flash memory includes: a setting step, setting selection information to select a first error detection and correction function for performing 1-bit error detection and correction or a second error detection and correction function for performing multiple-bit error detection and correction; and an executing step, performing the first error detection and correction function or the second error detection and correction function based on the selection information during a read operation or a write operation. |
| US11755207B2 |
Data storage method in storage system and related device
A data storage method in a storage system and a related system. The method includes: calculating a similar fingerprint of first to-be-stored data to obtain a first similar fingerprint, where the first similar fingerprint is for determining whether the first to-be-stored data is similar to stored data; determining reference data based on the first similar fingerprint, where a similar fingerprint of the reference data is the first similar fingerprint; determining first differential data between the to-be-stored data and the reference data based on the reference data, where the reference data is stored in a first storage unit; and storing the first differential data in a second storage unit, where the first storage unit and the second storage unit belong to a read range of a same read I/O. |
| US11755205B2 |
Storage space reclamation for transient streaming data
Facilitation of reclaiming of storage space is enabled relative to one or more data streams employing the storage space. A system can comprise a processor, and a memory that stores computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise determining posting or non-posting of one or more specified cut positions from readers of events thus far appended to a stream of a stream storage system. The operations can further comprise, in response to the one or more specified cut positions being posted, truncating the stream based on the specified cut positions of the stream, and, in response to no specified cut positions being posted, truncating the stream based on a time limit or a space limit relative to a respective time quantity or a respective space quantity of the stream. |
| US11755202B2 |
Managing meta-data in an object memory fabric
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to implement a hardware-based multi-node processing system of an object memory fabric. Hardware-based processing nodes operatively coupled may each include object memory modules storing and managing memory objects, each memory object being created natively within the memory module and managed by the memory module at a memory layer, and each memory object including memory object data and memory object metadata. The memory object metadata may include triggers that specify additional operations to be executed by any object memory module of the hardware-based processing nodes when the respective memory object is located at the respective object memory module and accessed as part of the respective object memory module processing requests. |
| US11755196B2 |
Event recognition
An electronic device, while displaying application content for a first application on a touchscreen display, detects an input comprising one or more touches on a region of the touchscreen display that includes the application content of the first application. In response to detecting the input comprising the one or more touches, the electronic device, in accordance with a determination that the one or more touches correspond to a system gesture for switching applications, replaces display of the first application with a second application without delivering information corresponding to the one or more touches to the first application; and in accordance with a determination that the touches do not correspond to a system gesture, delivers the information corresponding to the one or more touches to the first application. |
| US11755192B1 |
Methods and systems for initiating a recording session in a graphical user interface by dragging a drag-to-record element
Systems and methods for recording a GUI element (e.g., a window) on a user device through a single drag-to-record action are disclosed. The method includes rendering a drag-to-record element on a display of the user device and further receiving and storing one or more parameters of the GUI element, where the threshold edges of the GUI element are determined based on the one or more parameters of the GUI element. The method further includes receiving a drop position of the drag-to-record element that is above the GUI element, thus bounded by one or more threshold edges of the GUI element. The method further includes identifying the GUI element as a recording target based on the drop position of the drag-to-record element, and starting the recording of the GUI element. |
| US11755191B2 |
Synthetic image data generation incorporating user-provided objects and relationships
A non-transitory, computer-readable medium includes instructions that causes at least one processing device to display a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to facilitate generating a synthetic dataset including a plurality of images. The GUI includes a dataset size selector to receive user input to indicate a number of images to generate and include in the synthetic dataset; a target object type selector to receive user input indicative of at least one selected target object type to feature in the synthetic dataset; one or more image parameter variability controls to receive user input indicative of at least one variation to include in the synthetic dataset relative to target object representations generated based on the at least one selected target object type; and a dataset generation control to initiate generating the synthetic dataset. The synthetic dataset is generated according to the size input, target object type input, and variability input. |
| US11755188B2 |
Patterns on automated fracturing pump setup and operations
Systems and methods presented herein include a computing system that includes a non-transitory memory and one or more hardware processors configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to perform operations. The operations include detecting one or more pumps of a wellsite system that are activated. The operations also include generating a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface includes a pump list panel comprising one or more pump icons, each pump icon corresponding to a pump of the one or more pumps. The graphical user interface also includes a manifold layout panel comprising a manifold outline that represents an actual physical layout of one or more manifolds of the wellsite system. The operations also include receiving, via the graphical user interface, an input assigning a pump icon of the one or more pump icons onto a pump location of the manifold outline. The operations further include updating the graphical user interface to display one or more operating parameters of the pump corresponding to the pump icon proximate the pump icon. |
| US11755184B2 |
Presentation of a media sequence
A graphical user interface may switch between presentation of a timeline representation of media items and a tile representation of media items. The timeline representation may include graphical representation of the lengths of the media items. The tile representation may include graphical representation of the content of the media items. |
| US11755179B2 |
Sentence builder system and method
The disclosed technology generally relates to an application programming interface (API) and user interface (UI) that can translate user communication into an interactive message that is displayed on the UI. In at least one embodiment, a mobile application uses a sentence builder to translate data structures into an interactive message (e.g., an editable sentence). A UI can display the interactive message in a first portion (e.g., “upper portion”) of a UI, and display user selectable objects for adding information to the interactive message in a second portion (e.g., “lower portion”). For example, as a customer makes choices for a food order, ingredients as emojis can appear and disappear in sentence form from a UI based on customer preferences and inputs. |
| US11755177B2 |
Method and apparatus for adjusting window, electronic device, and computer readable storage medium
A method for adjusting a window includes: in response to detecting a first operation for triggering a specified position of the window, obtaining at least one candidate proportion of the current window based on a type of the window, and obtaining an actual proportion of the window that varies with the first operation; in response to detecting a second operation for stopping triggering the window, obtaining a difference between the at least one candidate proportion and the actual proportion, and determining a candidate proportion with the smallest difference as a target proportion; and adjusting a proportion of the window from the actual proportion to the target proportion. |
| US11755176B2 |
Collaboration system including markers identifying multiple canvases in a shared virtual workspace
A node of a collaboration system is provided to establish communication with other nodes, store data identifying graphical targets having locations in a virtual workspace and including locations in the virtual workspace of the identified graphical targets, and compute a mapping of a local client viewport to a local client screen space. The node is configured to render on the local client screen space graphical targets having locations within the local client viewport, provide a user interface to display a list of viewport markers representing viewports, where each viewport defines an area in the workspace, and respond to an input indicating a selected viewport marker from the list of viewport markers, update the local client viewport to match the location and dimensions of the viewport represented by the selected viewport marker, and render on the local client screen space graphical targets having locations within the updated local client viewport. |
| US11755174B2 |
Template based calendar events with graphic enrichment
Template based calendar events with graphic enrichment are provided. In some examples, upon receiving a request to create a calendar event, an event creation prompt may be presented. The prompt may include an event template selection element comprising visual aids, such as icons or emojis, that each represent different event templates for selection. Upon receiving a visual aid selection, information associated with the user requesting the calendar event may be retrieved based on the selected visual aid to infer one or more aspects of the requested event such as title, timing, and location. A suggested event with the inferred aspects may be presented to the user and upon receiving confirmation and/or modification, the suggested or modified event may be added to the user's calendar. Some events may be presented with a visual background such as an image or graphics on the calendar for prompt recognition. |
| US11755169B2 |
Multi-directional input device
A multi-directional input device includes an operating member that can be tilted and pushed in, a metal dome that functions as a push-in operation detector that detects a push-in operation of the operating member, a magnet holding member that is relatively movable with respect to the operating member only in a direction along a push-in direction and is interlocked only in a tilting direction, a magnet held by the magnet holding member, and a magnetic sensor that is disposed at a position facing the magnet and detects a movement of the magnet. |
| US11755167B2 |
Touch display device
A touch display device can include a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on a substrate, each light-emitting element including an emission area having a plurality of vertices. The touch display device can further include an encapsulation unit disposed on the plurality of light-emitting elements, and a plurality of touch electrodes disposed on the encapsulation unit so as to surround the emission area. Each of the plurality of touch electrodes can have a mesh structure configured to surround the emission area, and surfaces of the each of the plurality of touch electrodes facing the plurality of vertices of the emission area can be formed in a rounded shape. A distance from a peripheral edge of the emission area to a corresponding touch electrode can be substantially same in each of the plurality of light-emitting elements. |
| US11755165B2 |
Electronic apparatus
An electronic apparatus includes a display panel and a sensor disposed on the display panel and including a plurality of sensing units disposed on an active area. Each of the sensing units includes a first sensing pattern, second sensing patterns, a bridge pattern, and a plurality of patterns. Among the sensing units, the patterns of the sensing unit making contact with a first boundary portion having a curvature in the active area and a peripheral area include a plurality of outer patterns, and at least one of the outer patterns is electrically connected to the first sensing pattern or the second sensing patterns. |
| US11755161B2 |
Touch control structure and display apparatus
A touch control structure is provided. The touch control structure includes a plurality of first mesh electrodes along a row direction and a plurality of second mesh electrodes along a column direction. The touch control structure is limited in a touch control region and absent in a window region surrounded by the touch control region. The plurality of second mesh electrodes includes a first mesh block and a second mesh block; a first conductive plate connected to one or more mesh lines of the first mesh block; a second conductive plate connected to one or more mesh lines of the second mesh block; and a first conductive bridge connecting the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate. A second segment of the first conductive bridge is in a layer different from a first segment of the first conductive bridge, the first conductive plate, and the second conductive plate. |
| US11755159B2 |
Touch control structure and display apparatus
A touch control structure is provided. The touch control structure includes a corner row including a plurality of row mesh blocks electrically connected along a row direction; and a plurality of residual portions in a corner region, and electrically connected to the plurality of row mesh blocks. The touch control structure includes a corner column including a plurality of column mesh blocks electrically connected along a column direction; and a corner column mesh block at least partially in the corner region. The corner column mesh block includes a main portion and a plurality of protrusion portions along an edge of the main portion. The plurality of residual portions and the plurality of protrusion portions are alternately arranged along a direction substantially parallel to the edge of the main portion. The touch control structure further includes a residual connecting conductive plate electrically connecting the plurality of residual portions together. |
| US11755158B2 |
Capacitive touch surface
A touch-capacitive surface system can include a plurality of touch surfaces positioned along a target body. Each of the plurality of touch surfaces can include a capacitive surface. A touch controller electrically can couple to each of the plurality of touch surfaces. The touch controller can detect a touch from a particular touch surface of the plurality of touch surfaces. The system can include a project source and at least one computing device in communication with the touch controller and the projection source. The at least one computing device can generate, via the projection source, projected content at least partially onto the target body in response to the touch controller detecting the touch from the particular touch surface. |
| US11755156B2 |
Display device having a touch sensor
Various embodiments provide a thin and lightweight organic light-emitting display device having a touch sensor. The organic light-emitting display device having a touch sensor includes a touch-sensing line and a touch-driving line disposed on an encapsulation stack so as to overlap each other. The touch-sensing line and the touch-driving line overlap each other in a location in which an organic touch dielectric film and an inorganic touch dielectric film are disposed therebetween, thereby preventing the generation of spots in the event of degeneration of the organic touch dielectric film and preventing damage to the organic touch dielectric film. |
| US11755151B2 |
Terminal device
The present disclosure provides a terminal device. The terminal device includes a touch display layer, a fingerprint detection layer, and a shielding layer. The touch display layer includes a touch display surface. The fingerprint detection layer is arranged on a side of the touch display layer opposite the touch display surface. The shielding layer is arranged on the side of the touch display layer opposite the touch display surface. A part of the shielding layer corresponding to the fingerprint detection layer is located on a side of the fingerprint detection layer opposite the touch display layer. The shielding layer includes an electromagnetic shielding layer connected to a grounding end of the terminal device, and at least a part of the electromagnetic shielding layer is located on the side of the fingerprint detection layer opposite the touch display layer. |
| US11755146B2 |
Devices and methods for processing touch inputs
An electronic device, detects a touch input. After a latency period, the device delivers to an application a sequence of input events that represent the touch input, including, in sequence: a first input event that represents the touch input at a first input time and is delivered at a first delivery time, a second input event that represents the touch input at a second input time and is delivered at a second delivery time, and a third input event that represents the touch input at a third input time and is delivered at a third delivery time, a time interval between the second input time and the second delivery time is smaller than a time interval between the first input time and the first delivery time, and a time interval between the third input time and the third delivery time is smaller than the time interval between the second input time and the second delivery time. |
| US11755145B2 |
Interface device including a sensing layer transmitting a driving signal and interface device driving method using the same
An interface device includes an electronic device and an input device configured to communicate with the electronic device. The electronic device includes a display layer and a sensing layer disposed under the display layer. The sensing layer transmits a first driving signal to the input device and sensing an input generated by the input device. The input device includes a resonance circuit unit in which a first magnetic field is generated based on the first driving signal, a control unit configured to control the resonance circuit unit, and a power supply unit providing power to the control unit. A second magnetic field is generated by the supply in the resonance circuit unit. The sensing layer senses the input based on the second magnetic field. |
| US11755143B2 |
Luminescence shock avoidance in display devices
A luminescence shock avoidance algorithm selectively limits the brightness level of a display device when the display device is activated in a dark environment to prevent the temporary vision impairment that can occur when a display device is activated in a dark environment. The algorithm receives the state of the display (e.g. on or in standby mode), and can optionally receive an ambient lighting value from an ambient light sensor and a user-selectable manual brightness adjustment setting to determine whether luminescence shock avoidance should even be triggered, and if it is triggered, how much should the brightness level of the display be limited. |
| US11755142B2 |
Driving method, touch sensing circuit, display panel, and touch display device
A touch sensing circuit can include a plurality of touch electrodes; and a touch circuit configured to supply at least one touch driving signal to at least one of the plurality of touch electrodes, in which the at least one touch driving signal includes a first touch driving signal and a second touch driving signal, and the first touch driving signal has a first frequency in a first touch period included in a first frame, and the second touch driving signal has a second frequency different from the first frequency in a second touch period included in a second frame subsequent to the first frame. |
| US11755140B2 |
Touch sensor and display device including the same
A touch sensor includes a sensor cell coupled to a sensor line, a sensor transmitter including a first switch coupled to the sensor line and a power supply which supplies a charging signal to the sensor line during a first period during which the first switch is turned on, and a sensor receiver including a second switch coupled to the sensor line and a sensor channel which receives a sensing signal from the sensor line during a second period during which the second switch is turned on. The sensor receiver further includes a coupling capacitor including a first electrode coupled to the second switch and a second electrode coupled to the sensor channel. |
| US11755130B2 |
Communication method for communication between pen and sensor controller
Provided is a communication method for communication performed between a pen and a sensor controller that, in operation, transmits uplink signals to the pen in a frame cycle. The communication method includes transmitting, by the sensor controller, a first uplink signal in a first frame, the first uplink signal including an identifier that identifies a type of data to be transmitted to the pen in a second frame following the first frame, and transmitting, by the sensor controller, a second uplink signal in the second frame, the second uplink signal including a value of the data of the type indicated by the identifier. |
| US11755128B2 |
Stylus with compressive force sensor
A stylus input device can allow a user to interface with an external electronic device. The stylus can provide an additional or alternative input to the external electronic device in response to a user applying a compressive force to the device housing. The stylus can include multiple sensors to provide a signal in response to the compressive force applied to the stylus. |
| US11755120B2 |
Method and device for recognizing a gesture in real-time
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for recognizing hand gestures in real-time. A shape is given as an input in a form of a binary image. The shape contour is partitioned into radial and angular spaces by an Angular Radial Bin distribution including multiple concentric circles and angular space partitions in a way that multiple angular radial sections are created denoted Angular Radial Bins. The ARB distribution is angle tilted through its centre of mass multiple times and the same procedure is repeated in order to capture a shape descriptor from different angle perspectives. A shape descriptor is calculated for each of an angle tilted instance of the ARB distribution belonging to a sequence of angle tilted instances of the ARB distribution. |
| US11755119B2 |
Scene controlling method, device and electronic equipment
A scene controlling method, a device and electronic equipment are provided, which relate to the field of scene controlling. The scene controlling method includes displaying a scene in a first modality, recognizing a trigger object, determining a motion of the trigger object, and switching the scene from the first modality to a second modality based on the motion. The first modality of the scene is associated with the second modality of the scene. Predetermined scene information is retrieved based on the motion of the trigger object so as to switch between scenes or control an element in the scene. By associating the motions of the trigger object with the scenes, the scene displayed on the electronic equipment can be controlled without any hardware upgrade of the conventional electronic equipment, thereby reducing the cost. |
| US11755117B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and server device
Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and a server device capable of presenting haptic information by using an existing data format. A smartphone includes a data processing unit that supplies a haptic control signal to a haptic presentation device on the basis of haptic control information embedded in image data in a predetermined file format. |
| US11755114B2 |
Input device
An input device includes: a touch sensor that detects a position of a touch on an operation surface by an operation finger; a vibration element that vibrates the operation surface; and a controller that changes a magnitude of vibration of the operation surface by the vibration element according to acceleration in movement of the operation finger along the operation surface, the movement being performed while the operation finger is touching the operation surface. |
| US11755107B1 |
Finger devices with proximity sensors
A system may include one or more finger devices that gather input from a user's fingers. The system may include control circuitry that sends control signals to an electronic device based on the input gathered with the finger devices. A finger device may include one or more proximity sensors that measure a distance to the user's finger. The proximity sensor may be a self-mixing optical proximity sensor having a laser and photodiode. The proximity sensor may have submicron resolution and may be configured to detect very small movements of the finger as finger pad is moved around by a thumb finger, by a surface, and/or by other finger movements. The proximity sensor may measure changes in distance between the proximity sensor and a flexible membrane that rests against a side portion of the user's finger. |
| US11755105B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and program
The information processing apparatus includes a space information acquisition unit that acquires space information based on the space sensing information, an object information acquisition unit that acquires object information, a user information acquisition unit that acquires user information based on the user sensing information, an attention level map creation unit that creates an attention level map showing an attention level of the user for each local area of the space, a goodness-of-fit map creation unit that creates a goodness-of-fit map showing a goodness-of-fit of the object for each local area, and a proposing unit that proposes a disposition of the object in the space on the basis of the attention level map and the goodness-of-fit map. |
| US11755102B2 |
User interface interaction paradigms for eyewear device with limited field of view
An eyewear device presents, via an image display, an initial displayed image. The initial displayed image has an initial field of view corresponding to an initial head direction or an initial eye direction. Eyewear device detects movement of a user of the eyewear device by: (i) tracking, via a head movement tracker, a head movement of a head of the user, or (ii) tracking, via an eye movement tracker, an eye movement of an eye of the user of the eyewear device. Eyewear device determines a field of view adjustment to the initial field of view of the initial displayed image based on the detected movement of the user. Field of view adjustment includes a successive field of view corresponding to a successive head direction or a successive eye direction. Eyewear device generates a successive displayed image based on the field of view adjustment and presents the successive displayed image. |
| US11755101B2 |
Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and aggregation method
Provided is a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an aggregation program causing a computer to execute a process, the process including determining, plural times within a first period of time, whether a first function, which puts a processor into a sleep state, is being executed among functions written in a program being executed by the processor, identifying a second function that is performing either input or output processing among the functions when it is determined that the first function is being executed, and aggregating a number of times that the second function is identified within the first period of time. |
| US11755100B2 |
Power/workload management system
A power/workload management system includes a power system that is coupled to a first computing device that is configured to perform a first workload, as well as to a second computing device. A management subsystem is coupled to the first computing device and the second computing device, and operates to identify a reduced power event associated with the power system and, in response, determine that the first computing device is associated with a higher power consumption than the second computing device. In response to determining that the first computing device is associated with the higher power consumption than the second computing device, the management subsystem moves the first workload to the second computing device such that the second computing device performs the first workload, and configures the first computing device in a reduced power consumption state. |
| US11755093B2 |
Power disable of memory sub-system
A system includes a power disable circuit coupled to a bus connector of a host system and to power circuitry adapted to power on and off a memory device. The power disable circuit includes: source-coupled first FET and second FET with gates to receive a power disable (PWDIS) signal of the bus connector, wherein, in response to an asserted input of the PWDIS signal at a second gate of the second FET, a drain of the first FET is left floating; a latch circuit to assert an output in response to a general purpose input/output signal received from a processing device; and a third FET coupled to the drain of the first FET and to the output of the latch circuit, wherein in response to assertion of the output of the latch circuit, the third FET is to signal to the power circuitry to cut power to the memory device. |
| US11755089B2 |
Information processing apparatus, electric power transfer system, control method of information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
An information processing apparatus includes a power processor, an interface, a detector that detects at least one of a voltage value and a current value on an electric power line that connects the power processor and the interface, and a controller. The controller transmits warning information to an external device via the interface in a case where a detection value of the detector indicates an abnormal value while electric power is supplied to the external device via the interface. |
| US11755088B2 |
System and method for dynamic switching between batteries in a dual battery system
A system and method for dynamically switching power supply in a dual battery system to minimize unbalanced wear levels in the primary and secondary batteries. If the operating temperature of the primary battery reaches a reliability temperature threshold but the operating temperature of the secondary battery is less than the reliability temperature threshold, the controller switches a primary battery indicator to designate the secondary battery as the primary battery. If the operating temperature of the primary battery reaches a pre-shutdown temperature but the operating temperature of the secondary battery is less than the pre-shutdown temperature, the controller switches a primary battery indicator to designate the secondary battery as the primary battery. If a difference between the wear levels of the batteries exceeds a wear level difference threshold, the controller switches a primary battery indicator to designate the secondary battery as the primary battery. |
| US11755086B2 |
Method for keyless reset, and electronic device therefor
Disclosed is an electronic device comprising: a connection circuit configured to provide an electrical connection of an external power supply device; a processor electrically connected to the connection circuit; a memory operatively connected to the processor; and a reset circuit electrically connected to the connection circuit and operatively connected to the processor. The processor is configured to” transmit, to the reset circuit, an interrupt signal during a first time at least partially based on the identification of the connecting to the external power supply device through the connection circuit, and the reset circuit may be configured to: determine whether the interrupt signal is received within a second time after the connecting to the external power supply device through the connection circuit, and transmit, to the processor, a reset signal for a hardware reset of the processor based on the interrupt signal not being received within the second time. |
| US11755081B2 |
Mechanically-adjustable supplemental cooling systems and methods for portable information handling systems
Systems and methods that may be implemented to provide supplemental cooling air for a portable information handling system from one or more mechanically-adjustable cooling air supply outlets that may be positioned and/or repositioned at multiple different locations relative to a portable information handling system, such as notebook computer or laptop computer. In one example, the disclosed systems and methods may be implemented to have one or more mechanically-adjustable cooling air supply outlets that may be positioned and/or repositioned to align with differing geometries of cooling air inlet opening locations that correspond to different portable information handling system sizes and/or designs. |
| US11755080B2 |
Thermal dissipation in dual-chassis devices
There is disclosed a computing apparatus, including: a first chassis including primary operational circuitry of the computing apparatus; a second chassis hingeably coupled to the second chassis, the second chassis having substantially less operational circuitry than the first chassis whereby the operational circuitry of the second chassis generates substantially less heat than the operational circuitry of the first chassis; and a heat spreader between the first chassis and second chassis and disposed to dissipate generated heat from the first chassis into the second chassis. |
| US11755076B2 |
Display device
Included are at least one first semiconductor resistance element overlapping with one of the spacers and provided as the same layer as the semiconductor layer of the pixel transistors, at least one second semiconductor resistance element provided as the same layer as the semiconductor layer of the pixel transistors and not overlapping with any of the spacers, and a detection circuit detecting a force applied to the display region based on a midpoint voltage between the first semiconductor resistance element and the second semiconductor resistance element, and a resistance value of the second semiconductor resistance element is equivalent to a resistance value of the first semiconductor resistance element when no force is applied. |
| US11755070B2 |
Computing device holder and method of storing thereof
A computing device holder; it has a curved base comprising a flat upper part, wherein the curved base defines an inner space for receiving an edge of a table; a receiving portion for receiving the computing device; a connector connecting the receiving portion to the flat upper part; and a hinge connecting the connector to the receiving portion, wherein the connector allows the receiving portion to rotate around the longitudinal axis defined by the length of the connector, and wherein the hinge allows the receiving portion to rotate around the hinge from a first position where the receiving portion is orthogonal with respect to the flat upper part of the curved base to a second position where the receiving portion is parallel with respect to the flat upper part of the curved base. |
| US11755068B2 |
Sliding mechanism and electronic device
A sliding mechanism for an electronic device is provided. The sliding mechanism includes a slide rail assembly and a driving assembly. The slide rail assembly includes a fixed member and a slide rail, the fixed member is fixed to a housing assembly of the electronic device, the fixed member is provided with a sliding slot, and an end of the slide rail is slidably limited in the sliding slot. The driving assembly is fixed to the housing assembly, the driving assembly includes a driving unit connected to the slide rail in a one-to-one correspondence, and the driving unit is configured to drive the slide rail to slide from the housing assembly to the outside and to slide from the outside to the housing assembly. |
| US11755067B2 |
Foldable electronic device including display protection structure
An electronic device is provided, which includes a first housing; a second housing; a hinge structure connecting the first housing and the second housing in a foldable manner; a flexible display including a first region corresponding to the first housing, a second region corresponding to the second housing, and a folding region corresponding to the hinge structure; a first protection cover disposed on the first housing to cover a periphery of the first region of the flexible display; a second protection cover disposed on the second housing to cover a periphery of the second region of the flexible display; and at least one protection structure. |
| US11755058B2 |
Brain-computer interface device with multiple channels
A brain-computer interface device includes a plurality of pre-amplifiers are configured to amplify physiological signals corresponding to channels to output amplified signals; a multiplexer is configured to output, according to a control signal and a clock signal, the amplified signals; an analog-to-digital converter is configured to convert, according to the clock signal including clocks, the output of the multiplexer into a digital signal including a plurality of digital values corresponding to the clocks, wherein each of the digital values includes bit values; a memory is configured to store the digital signal; and a processor s configured to: add a header corresponding to one channel to each of the digital values according to the clock signal; and delete bit values of higher bits of each of the digital values corresponding to the same channel that are the same as those of a previous digital value, to output a compressed signal. |
| US11755056B2 |
Force compensation method and device
A method to obtain total compensation force information of a user input device is disclosed. The method comprising obtaining velocity information of a portion of the user input device. Obtaining acceleration information of the portion of the user input device. Obtaining damping force information force based on the velocity information. Obtaining inertial compensation force information based on the acceleration information. Combining the damping compensation force and inertial compensation force to provide the compensation force information of the user input device. |
| US11755054B2 |
Driver assistance system
A driver assistance system enables brake and accelerator operation by an operation bar in a manner close to a sense of a driver of a vehicle, regardless of the degree of operation of the operation bar. Embodiments include an operation bar extending downward toward a vehicle floor panel from a manual operation area where a seated driver manually operates the operation bar, and whose lower portion is supported in a slidingly displaceable manner along an axial direction in a front-down, rear-up tilted state. The operation bar includes a brake actuation section, below the manual operation area, that actuates a brake mechanism by sliding displacement of the operation bar in a front-down direction; and an accelerator actuation section that actuates an acceleration mechanism by sliding displacement of the operation bar in a rear-up direction that is a reverse direction on the same axis from the sliding displacement in the front-down direction. |
| US11755048B2 |
Differential to single-ended high bandwidth compensator
A compensator is described with higher bandwidth than a traditional differential compensator, lower area than traditional differential compensator (e.g., 40% lower area), and lower power than traditional differential compensator. The compensator includes a differential to single-ended circuitry that reduces the number of passive devices used to compensate an input signal. The high bandwidth compensator allows for faster power state and/or voltage transitions. For example, a pre-charge technique is applied to handle faster power state transitions that enables aggressive dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) and voltage transitions. The compensator is configurable in that it can operate in voltage mode or current mode. |
| US11755043B2 |
Biologically temperature-controlled electronics shell component
A biologically temperature-controlled electronics shell component is adapted to constitute an outer shell and/or a middle shell of an electronic product such as a mobile phone, a tablet device, a laptop computer a wearable device, and the like. A heat source is provided in the electronic product. The shell component includes an outer shell body and an outer heat-conducting sheet. The outer shell body includes at least one hole extending through inner and outer surfaces thereof. The outer heat-conducting sheet corresponding to the heat source and combined with the outer shell body includes a heat-conducting portion corresponding to the hole. Radiant heat generated by the heat source can be absorbed by and dissipated through the outer heat-conducting sheet and conducted through a user's skin which is contacting the heat-conducting portion. |
| US11755041B2 |
Objective-based control of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle
Techniques are described for controlling an autonomous vehicle such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using objective-based inputs. In an embodiment, the underlying functionality of an autonomous navigation system is exposed via an application programming interface (API) allowing the UAV to be controlled through specifying a behavioral objective, for example, using a call to the API to set parameters for the behavioral objective. The autonomous navigation system can then incorporate perception inputs such as sensor data from sensors mounted to the UAV and the set parameters using a multi-objective motion planning process to generate a proposed trajectory that most closely satisfies the behavioral objective in view of certain constraints. In some embodiments, developers can utilize the API to build customized applications for the UAV. Such applications, also referred to as “skills,” can be developed, shared, and executed to control behavior of an autonomous UAV and aid in overall system improvement. |
| US11755040B2 |
Flight control apparatus and flight control system
A flight control apparatus that enables a flying object to safely pass another flying object includes a detection unit configured to detect, in a predetermined range from a flying object, another flying object. A specifying unit is configured to specify a moving direction of the detected other flying object. A judging unit is configured to judge, based on the specified moving direction, whether or not passing is possible. A determination unit is configured to determine, based on a relationship between the flying object and the other flying object, content of a passing operation to be performed with respect to the other flying object. A flight control unit is configured to, if it is judged that passing is possible, control flight of the flying object and perform the passing operation according to the determined content. |
| US11755039B2 |
Server device, system, and operation method for system
A server device transmits an instruction for causing a plurality of flying bodies to perform flight operation to the flying bodies. The flight operation includes a step in which a first flying body urges a penetrating tool toward an object placed in a predetermined space and flies out of the predetermined space while holding a first part and a second part of a string member attached to the penetrating tool, the first part having penetrated the object and the second part not having penetrated the object, a step in which a second flying body receives either the first or second part from the first flying body, and a step in which the first and second flying bodies transport the object while towing the object with the string member as the first and second flying bodies fly while respectively holding one or the other of the first and second parts. |
| US11755035B2 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle control system and unmanned aerial vehicle control method
A control system includes a base device to be mounted on a mobile object, an aerial vehicle, a cable including a power supply cable for supplying electric power from the mobile object to the aerial vehicle and connecting the base device with the aerial vehicle, and a control device that controls flight of the aerial vehicle. The control device controls the aerial vehicle so that a relative altitude of the aerial vehicle with respect to the mobile object matches a target relative altitude. This control system optimizes an altitude of the aerial vehicle in accordance with the mobile object. |
| US11755029B2 |
Methods and systems for providing remote assistance via pre-stored image data
Examples described may enable provision of remote assistance for an autonomous vehicle. An example method includes a computing system operating in a rewind mode. In the rewind mode, the system may be configured to provide information to a remote assistance operated based on a remote-assistance triggering criteria being met, such as a detected object having a low detection confidence. When the triggering criteria is met, the remote assistance system may provide data from the time leading up to when the remote-assistance triggering criteria was met that was capture of the environment of autonomous vehicle to the remote assistance operator. Based on viewing the data, the remote assistance operator may provide and input to the system that causes a command to be issued to the autonomous vehicle. |
| US11755024B2 |
Navigation by augmented path prediction
A navigation system may include at least one processor programmed to receive, from a camera, one or more images representative of an environment of a host vehicle; receive a first directional indicator representative of a first target trajectory direction for the host vehicle; and receive a first distance estimate associated with the first target trajectory direction. The processor may analyze the one or more images in view of the received first directional indicator and the received first distance estimate to identify in the one or more images a representation of a first road segment consistent with the first target trajectory direction and the first distance estimate; and generate a planned trajectory for the host vehicle, based at least in part on the first target trajectory direction and the first distance estimate. The planned trajectory may be made to extend along at least a portion of the first road segment. The processor may cause at least one adjustment of a navigational actuator of the host vehicle to cause the host vehicle to navigate relative to the planned trajectory. |
| US11755019B2 |
Vehicle control device and vehicle control system
There are provided a vehicle control device and a vehicle control system capable of improving efficiency and reliability of auto valet parking compared to the related art when a communication failure occurs. A vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle includes a recognition unit, an estimation unit, a communication unit, a determination unit, a trajectory generation unit, a vehicle control unit, and a retreated position decision unit. When the determination unit determines that communication of the communication unit is abnormal, the trajectory generation unit generates a target trajectory along which the vehicle drives to a retreated position decided by the retreated position decision unit. |
| US11755017B2 |
Inertial sensor, electronic instrument, and vehicle
An inertial sensor includes, provided that axes X, Y, and Z are three axes perpendicular to one another, a substrate, a fixed section fixed to the substrate, a movable element that swings around a swing axis extending along the axis Y, a first beam and a second beam that link the fixed section to the movable element and are torsionally deformed by the swing motion of the movable element, and a detection electrode that is disposed on the substrate and overlaps with the movable element in the plan view along the axis-Z direction, and the first beam and the second beams differ in shape from each other and have the same torsional spring constant. |
| US11755012B2 |
Alerting predicted accidents between driverless cars
This patent application discloses methods and systems for alerting computerized motor-vehicles about predicted accidents. In an example method, a motor vehicle alerts another motor vehicle about a predicted accident, even though that accident is between the alerting car and a third motor vehicle—for example, the alert is transmitted by non-visual electromagnetic (EM) radiation. When an adjacent motor vehicle receives such accident alert and determines it might itself be hit, it will react so as to minimize its chances of being hit or at least to minimize the damage if it is being hit. Optionally, one or more of the motor vehicles has an onboard device for measuring a blood-alcohol level of a human driver thereof. The measured blood-alcohol level may be used to compute a probability of an occurrence of an accident and/or may be included in one or more of the transmitted accident alerts. |
| US11755008B2 |
Using plays for human-AI decision-making in remote autonomous vehicle support
An apparatus for traversing a vehicle transportation network by an autonomous vehicle (AV) includes a human-autonomy teaming manager. The manager includes a first processor configured to initiate a dialogue associated with a predefined dynamic task sequence that is responsive to a condition experienced by the AV while traversing from a starting location to an ending location within the vehicle transportation network. The sequence is one of a plurality of predefined dynamic task sequences that uses multiple agents to resolve the condition. The manager receives, from an interface accessible to a human agent, an input responsive to the dialogue. The input confirms the sequence as a selected predefined dynamic task sequence or selects an other of the plurality of predefined dynamic task sequences as the selected predefined dynamic task sequence. The manager delegates tasks of the selected predefined dynamic task sequence to resolve the condition. |
| US11755003B2 |
Autonomous task management industrial robot
Example implementations described herein involve systems and methods for operation of a robot configured to work on a first process and a second process, which can involve receiving sensor data indicative of a status of one or more of the first process and the second process; for the status indicative of the first process waiting on the robot, controlling the robot to work on the first process; and for the status indicative of the first process not waiting on the robot, controlling the robot to conduct one or more of work on the second process or return to standby. |
| US11755002B2 |
Method and system for processing optical lenses
A method and a system for processing optical lenses in which the lenses are conveyed to individual processing apparatuses or processing lines corresponding to an assignment. The assignment takes into consideration maintenance that is due. |
| US11755001B2 |
Modular systems for industrial machinery
Systems and methods are described for autonomously recovering a machine comprising one or more modules. An error message from the machine is received and, based on the error message, a first module of the one or more modules to replace is determined, wherein the first module has a first type. An autonomous vehicle is instructed to remove, from the machine, the first module. The autonomous vehicle is instructed to install, at the machine, a second module of the first type. |
| US11754997B2 |
Devices, systems and methods for predicting future consumption values of load(s) in power distribution systems
Devices, systems and methods for predicting future consumption values of load(s) in power distribution systems are provided. The present disclosure provides for receiving a request for a load prediction for at least one meter; extracting time series data relating to the at least meter; retrieving future weather conditions for a particular location based on the at least one meter; and providing the extracted data and the future weather conditions to a prediction model that predicts load usage for the at least one meter. Additionally, the present disclosure provides for performing at least one action based on the prediction, wherein the action includes outputting at least one of a communication signal and/or at least one control signal to at least one client or at least one meter. |
| US11754989B2 |
Semiconductor equipment management method, electronic device, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
A semiconductor equipment management method applicable to an electronic device for managing multiple pieces of semiconductor equipment is provided. The pieces of semiconductor equipment are respectively controlled through multiple control hosts, and the control hosts and the electronic device are connected to a switch device. The method includes: receiving real-time image information of each control host through the switch device; determining whether the real-time image information of each control host includes a triggering event by performing an image recognition on the real-time image information; executing a macro corresponding to the triggering event, where the macro includes at least one self-defined operation; generating at least one input command according to the self-defined operation of the executed macro; and controlling the control hosts to execute the self-defined operation of the executed macro by transmitting the input command to the control hosts through the switch device. |
| US11754988B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method and recording medium
An information processing device includes: a user action recognition part configured to recognize an action of a user of a moving body; an operation state acquisition part configured to acquire an operation state of an electrical apparatus installed in a building; and an information presentation part configured to display the operation state of the electrical apparatus at a display part installed in the moving body, and in a case where a specific action with which it is estimated that the user is to start traveling of the moving body is detected by the user action recognition part, the operation state of the electrical apparatus is acquired by the operation state acquisition part and the acquired operation state is displayed at the display part by the information presentation part. |
| US11754984B2 |
HVAC system with predictive airside control
A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes airside HVAC equipment configured to provide heating or cooling to one or more building spaces and one or more controllers. The one or more controllers are configured to generate airside energy targets for the one or more building spaces using a heat transfer model that defines a relationship between the airside energy targets, a temperature of the one or more building spaces, and a thermal capacitance of the one or more building spaces. The one or more controllers are configured to control the airside HVAC equipment in accordance with the airside energy targets. |
| US11754983B2 |
Environment controller and method for inferring one or more commands for controlling an appliance taking into account room characteristics
Method and environment controller for inferring via a neural network one or more commands for controlling an appliance. A predictive model generated by a neural network training engine is stored by the environment controller. The environment controller determines at least one room characteristic. The environment controller receives at least one environmental characteristic value and at least one set point. The environment controller executes a neural network inference engine, which uses the predictive model for inferring the one or more commands for controlling the appliance. The inference is based on the at least one environmental characteristic value, the at least one set point and the at least one room characteristic. The environment controller transmits the one or more commands to the controlled appliance. |
| US11754982B2 |
Syntax translation from first syntax to second syntax based on string analysis
A computerized method of assigning a building automation system point type to a plurality of unclassified data points is provided. The method includes receiving unclassified data points and attributes for each data point. The method includes receiving classifications for a first subset of the unclassified data points. Each classification associates a data point with a building automation system point type. The method includes generating a term set containing substrings that appear in the attributes. The method includes generating a first matrix describing a frequency that the substrings appear in the attributes. The method includes calculating an indicator of a probability that the presence of the selected substring results in the data point belonging to the selected point type. The method includes assigning a point type to a second subset by finding the substring and potential point type pair having the greatest indication of probability. |
| US11754980B2 |
Antenna receiving apparatus and electronic watch
An antenna receiving apparatus includes, a first antenna; a second antenna that is synchronized with a frequency band different from the first antenna; a substrate that includes a receiving circuit connected to each of the first antenna and the second antenna; and a back lid that includes a conductor, wherein the conductor is in at least a portion of the back lid. The substrate includes a grounding surface of the first antenna. The substrate and the second antenna are positioned between the first antenna and the back lid. The second antenna is positioned on a side of the substrate opposite of the first antenna, and the second antenna is electrically connected to the conductor of the back lid and grounded. |
| US11754969B2 |
Toner cartridge having positioning features including guides extending outward from sides of the toner cartridge
A toner cartridge according to one example includes first and second alignment guides that extend outward from a first side and a second side of the toner cartridge, respectively, for positioning the toner cartridge. The first and second alignment guides define a pivot axis about which the toner cartridge is pivotable relative to an imaging unit when the toner cartridge is installed on the imaging unit. An engagement member is positioned on a rear of the toner cartridge for receiving a bias force for biasing the toner cartridge about the pivot axis when the toner cartridge is installed on the imaging unit. The engagement member is positioned next to the bottom of the housing. The engagement member includes an angled contact surface that faces upward and rearward for contacting a corresponding hold-down on the imaging unit when the toner cartridge is installed on the imaging unit. |
| US11754967B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes: a housing having an opening; a drawer movable, through the opening, between a housing position in which the drawer is housed in the housing and a drawn position in which the drawer is drawn from the housing; a first drum cartridge including a first photosensitive drum, and mountable to and removable from the drawer; a first developing cartridge including a first developing roller, and mountable to and removable from the first drum cartridge; and a transfer device configured to transfer toner on the first photosensitive drum to a sheet and located above the first drum cartridge in a state where the first drum cartridge is mounted to the drawer and the drawer is located in the housing position. In a state where the first drum cartridge is removed from the drawer, the first developing cartridge is mountable to and removable from the first drum cartridge. |
| US11754964B2 |
Cam driver, transfer device, and image forming apparatus
A cam driver includes a support, a cam, a motor, and a retracting torque applicator. The support supports an object. The cam moves the support. The motor rotates the cam and maintains a position of the cam. The retracting torque applicator applies torque to the cam in a direction to move the object away from a counter object that faces the object. |
| US11754961B2 |
Image forming apparatus, and method of controlling image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit storing a sheet, an image forming unit, a display unit, and one or more processors. The image forming unit forms an image on the sheet conveyed from the sheet feeding unit. The display unit displays a screen. The one or more processors perform control to cause the display unit to display a first sheet setting screen for setting sheet information about the sheet feeding unit on which a predetermined operation is performed based on the performance of the predetermined operation on the sheet feeding unit while a setting screen that prompts a user to make a copy-related setting is displayed. Where the predetermined operation is performed while a second sheet setting screen for setting sheet information about the sheet feeding unit is displayed, the one or more processors cause the display unit not to display the first sheet setting screen. |
| US11754958B2 |
Image forming apparatus having WAE control function
An image forming apparatus includes a heating member energization control circuit that estimates a temperature of a fixing rotating body, based on a temperature detection result of the fixing rotating body, which is heated by a heating member and heats a toner image formed on a medium to fix the toner image on the medium, by a temperature sensor, a power supply voltage of a power supply source, and an energization pulse for controlling energization to the heating member, and outputs an energization pulse for controlling power to be supplied to the heating member, based on the estimated temperature and the temperature detection result. The apparatus further includes a controller that acquires a power supply voltage detection result by a communication interface via a network, from another apparatus which holds a power supply voltage detection result by an image forming apparatus with a power supply voltage detection function, provided with a power supply voltage detection circuit that detects a power supply voltage value of a same power supply source as the power supply source, and inputs the acquired power supply voltage detection result to the heating member energization control circuit, as a power supply voltage value of the power supply source. |
| US11754957B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an image forming portion, a transfer member, a power source, an acquiring portion, and a controller capable of executing an operation in an adjustment mode. A plurality of test toner images transferred onto a recording material in the occurrence in the adjusting mode include a first test toner image transferred under application of a first test voltage and a second test toner image transferred under application of a second test voltage different from the first test voltage. In the operation in the adjustment mode, the controller adjusts the transfer voltage set for transfer on the basis of first information on variation in image density acquired in different regions of the first test toner image and second information on variation in image density acquired in different regions of the second test toner image. |
| US11754956B2 |
Medium thickness detection mechanism
A thickness detection mechanism arranged in a scanner or printer for measuring the thickness of mediums fed through the scanner or printer, which comprising: a conveyor section; at least a idle roller set arranged above the conveyor section, which includes at least a shaft and an idle roller pivotally arranged on the shaft; at least an elastic portion arranged above the shaft; and at least a pressure sensor secured on the elastic portion; wherein the thickness detection mechanism measures the thickness of the medium by measuring the pressure applied on the pressure sensor by the idle roller set as the idle roller set being pushed upward, and thus avoids the medium too thin or too thick to enter the scanner or the printer. |
| US11754949B2 |
Imaging system with a developing chamber having a developer roller and multiple air passages
An imaging system includes a developing chamber, a first conveyance path, a second conveyance path, a first air passage and a second air passage. A developing roller located in the developing chamber carries a developer to a developing region where the developing roller is closest to an image carrier. A first stirring-conveying portion is located in the first conveyance path adjacent the developing roller to supply the developer to the developing roller. A second stirring-conveying portion is located in the second conveyance path adjacent the first conveyance path to circulate the developer between the second conveyance path and the first conveyance path. The first air passage has an inlet coupled to the developing chamber and an outlet coupled to the second conveyance path, and the second air passage has an inlet coupled to the second conveyance path and an outlet coupled to the developing chamber. |
| US11754939B2 |
Optical print head and image forming apparatus
An optical print head includes a substrate on which a plurality of light emitting elements is mounted; a lens configured to condense light emitted from the light emitting elements on a photoreceptor; a holding member configured to hold the substrate and the lens; and an attachment portion configured to be provided on the holding member, provided outside an end portion of the substrate in a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and provided with a moving mechanism that moves the holding member to an exposure position at which the photoreceptor is exposed and a separation position at which the holding member is separated from the photoreceptor with respect to the exposure position. A wall portion is provided between the end portion of the substrate and the attachment portion in the longitudinal direction, and a sealing material is applied so as to be in contact with the substrate and the wall portion. |
| US11754935B2 |
Lithographic patterning device multichannel position and level gauge
A patterning device alignment system including a multipath sensory array including a first collimating light path and one or more other light paths, a first detector positioned at a first end of the first collimating light path, and a second detector positioned at a first end of the one or more other light paths, the first detector configured to receive a reflected illumination beam from an illuminated patterning device and calculate a tilt parameter of the patterning device, and the second detector configured to receive a second reflected illumination beam from a beam splitter and calculate an X-Y planar location position and a rotation position of the patterning device. |
| US11754933B2 |
Mounting fixture of apparatus for clamping film
A mounting fixture of an apparatus for clamping a film includes a platform, a barricade, and fixing members. A surface of the platform includes a first fixing portion, and second and third fixing portions which are opposite to the first fixing portion. The second fixing portion is adjacent to the third fixing portion and located between the first and third fixing portions. The barricade is disposed on the surface between the second and third fixing portions and has channels. The fixing members are disposed on the surface. First, second, and third bars of the apparatus are disposed on the first, second, and third fixing portions, the barricade is located between the second and third bars, and the channels receive elastic elements of the apparatus. Each elastic element has two ends disposed on the second and third bars. The fixing members can fix the first and third bar. |
| US11754932B2 |
Control method of driving apparatus, driving apparatus, lithography apparatus, and method of manufacturing article
The present invention provides a control method of a driving apparatus that repeatedly performs a process of driving a target object in a predetermined range by a linear motor, wherein the linear motor includes a stator in which a plurality of coils are arrayed, and a mover provided with the target object, the control method comprising: changing a position of the stator with respect to the predetermined range at an arbitrary timing; and determining, in accordance with the changed position of the stator, output ratios of the plurality of coils in the process. |
| US11754930B2 |
Multi-component kernels for vector optical image simulation
A method of enhancing a layout pattern includes determining a vector transmission cross coefficient (vector-TCC) operator of an optical system of a lithographic system based on an illumination source of the optical system and an exit pupil of the optical system of the lithographic system. The method also includes performing an optical proximity correction (OPC) operation of a layout pattern of a photo mask to generate an OPC corrected layout pattern. The OPC operation uses the vector-TCC operator to determine a projected pattern of the layout pattern of the photo mask on a wafer. The method includes producing the OPC corrected layout pattern on a mask blank to create a photo mask. |
| US11754925B2 |
Methods and apparatus for forming resist pattern using EUV light with electric field
A method and apparatus for forming a resist pattern may be provided. In the method for forming a resist pattern, a resist layer may be formed on a base layer, an electric field may be applied to the resist layer in a thickness direction of the resist layer, and a portion of the resist layer may be exposed with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light while applying the electric field. A lithography apparatus for performing the method of forming a resist pattern may include at least an exposure part and an electric field forming part. The exposure part may be configured to expose a portion of the resist layer with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light. The electric field forming part may be configured to apply an electric field to the resist layer. |
| US11754924B2 |
Organotin oxide hydroxide patterning compositions, precursors, and patterning
Organometallic precursors are described for the formation of high resolution lithography patterning coatings based on metal oxide hydroxide chemistry. The precursor compositions generally comprise ligands readily hydrolysable by water vapor or other OH source composition under modest conditions. The organometallic precursors generally comprise a radiation sensitive organo ligand to tin that can result in a coating that can be effective for high resolution patterning at relatively low radiation doses and is particularly useful for EUV patterning. The precursors compositions are readily processable under commercially suitable conditions. Solution phase processing with in situ hydrolysis or vapor based deposition can be used to form the coatings. |
| US11754923B2 |
Resist dispensing system and method of use
In a method, a resist material is dispensed through a tube of a nozzle of a resist pump system on a wafer. The tube extends from a top to a bottom of the nozzle and has upper, lower, and middle segments. When not dispensing, the resist material is retracted from the lower and the middle segments, and maintained in the upper segment of the tube. When retracting, a first solvent is flown through a tip of the nozzle at the bottom of the nozzle to fill the lower segment of the tube with the first solvent and to produce a gap in the middle segment of the tube between the resist material and the first solvent. The middle segment includes resist material residues on an inner surface wall of the tube and vapor of the first solvent. The vapor of the first solvent prevents the resist material residues from drying. |
| US11754921B2 |
Crosslinking agent compound, photosensitive composition comprising the same, and photosensitive material using the same
The present invention relates to a crosslinking agent compound in which a terminal crosslinkable functional group is capped with a silane-based protecting group, a photosensitive composition including the same, and a photosensitive material using the same. |
| US11754920B2 |
Thermal acid generator and resist composition using same
A thermal acid generator having a high acid generation temperature, and a resist composition using the same. The thermal acid generator is a sulfonic acid derivative compound represented by the following Formula (I): (wherein, R1 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms or the like, or a group represented by the following Formula (II): (wherein, Y1 represents a single bond or an alkanediyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R11 and R12 each independently represent an alkanediyl group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, or the like; R13 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, or the like; a and b each represent 0 or 1; and either a or b is 1); R2 to R7 each independently represent a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 14 carbon atoms; the aliphatic hydrocarbon group or the like of R1 has no substituent or is substituted with a halogen atom or the like; and a methylene structure in the aliphatic hydrocarbon group or the like of R1 is optionally substituted with —O— or the like). |
| US11754908B2 |
Devices and methods for giant single-photon nonlinearities
A periodically poled microring resonator structure, a method for fabrication of the periodically poled microring resonator structure, and a method to achieve giant single-photon nonlinearity are disclosed. The strong single-photon nonlinearity in the microring resonator structure is achieved through its optimized design and fabrication procedures. |
| US11754906B2 |
Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber based optical component for broadband radiation generation
Disclosed is an optical component, being configured to function as an optical frequency converter in a broadband radiation source device. The optical component comprises a gas cell, and a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber at least partially enclosed within said gas cell. The local cavity volume of said gas cell, where said hollow-core photonic crystal fiber is enclosed within the gas cell, comprises a maximum value of 36 cm3 per cm of length of said hollow-core photonic crystal fiber. |
| US11754903B1 |
Electro-optic assemblies and materials for use therein
An electro-optic medium including an encapsulated material and a binder, the encapsulated material being configured to switch optical states upon application of an electric field, and the binder including a polymer having a plurality of side chains, wherein at least a portion of the side chains have an ionic moiety. |
| US11754899B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first insulating substrate, a scanning line, a signal line, a switching, and a pixel electrode. The liquid crystal layer includes a polymer in a shape of a streak and a liquid crystal molecule. The scanning line includes a conductive layer located between the first insulating substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and a first reflective layer located between the first insulating substrate and the conductive layer and having a reflectance higher than a reflectance of the conductive layer. |
| US11754896B2 |
Display device
To provide a display device in which parasitic capacitance between wirings can be reduced while preventing increase in wiring resistance. To provide a display device with improved display quality. To provide a display device with low power consumption. A pixel of the liquid crystal display device includes a signal line, a scan line intersecting with the signal line, a first electrode projected from the signal line, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a pixel electrode connected to the second electrode. Part of the scan line has a loop shape, and part of the first electrode is located in a region overlapped with an opening of the scan line. In other words, part of the first electrode is not overlapped with the scan line. |
| US11754895B2 |
Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus
An electro-optical device includes a substrate, a pixel electrode disposed at the substrate, and a pixel circuit portion disposed between the substrate and the pixel electrode. The pixel circuit portion includes a scanning line disposed along a first direction, a data line disposed along a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first constant potential line disposed along the scanning line, a second constant potential line disposed along the data line, and a transistor disposed corresponding to an intersection position of the scanning line and the data line and including a gate electrode electrically coupled to the scanning line, a source region electrically coupled to the data line, and a drain region electrically coupled to the pixel electrode. The pixel circuit portion also includes a coupling portion disposed corresponding to the intersection position and configured to electrically couple the first constant potential line and the second constant potential line. |
| US11754894B2 |
Display device
The disclosure provides a display device including a substrate, two adjacent scan lines, two adjacent data lines and an opening. Two adjacent scan lines extending along a first direction. Two adjacent scan lines and two disposed adjacent data lines are disposed on the substrate. The pixel is defined by the two adjacent scan lines and the two adjacent data lines. The opening is corresponding to the pixel, and an edge of the opening is adjacent to an edge of one of the two adjacent scan lines. A distance between the edge of the opening and the edge of the one of the two adjacent scan lines is from 1 micrometer to 2 micrometers, and the distance is along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The display device of the disclosed embodiment may improve the contrast ration of the display device. |
| US11754892B2 |
Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus
Provided is an electro-optical device including: a substrate having a recessed portion that extends in a first direction; a laminated film having a first conductive film, a dielectric film, and a second conductive film; a first insulating film; a light shielding film; a second insulating film; and a semiconductor film including a source region, a channel region, and a drain region that are disposed in this order in the first direction, wherein the laminated film, the first insulating film, the light shielding film, the second insulating film, and the semiconductor film are disposed in this order from the substrate side, and the semiconductor film overlaps with the recessed portion and is disposed along the recessed portion as viewed in plan view. |
| US11754888B2 |
Display panel
A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, a first polarizer and a second polarizer. The pixel electrode includes a trunk portion, first to fourth branch portions, and first to fourth strip portions. The trunk portion extends along a first direction. The first and second branch portions are connected to a first end of the trunk portion. The third and fourth branch portions are connected to a second end of the trunk portion. The first strip portions are connected to the first and second branch portions. The second strip portions are connected to the third and fourth branch portions. The third strip portions are connected to the first and third branch portions and the trunk portion. The fourth strip portions are connected to the second and fourth branch portions and the trunk portion. |
| US11754883B2 |
Array substrate and method for manufacturing the same, and display device
A method for manufacturing an array substrate includes: providing a base substrate; forming gate lines and data lines intercrossing each other, the gate lines and the data lines define multiple pixel units. Multiple pixel regions are formed in each pixel unit, a display electrode having a slit is formed in each pixel region. Each data line includes multiple data line segments. In each pixel unit, each of a part of the pixel regions has a display electrode whose slit is parallel to a data line segment adjacent to this pixel region; each of another part of the pixel regions has a display electrode whose slit is non-parallel to a data line segment adjacent to this pixel region. The display electrodes in each of the pixel units are located at a same side of the gate line to which the pixel unit where the display electrodes are located is coupled. |
| US11754876B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a display panel; a light source module provided behind the display panel, the light source module including a board and a light source provided on a rear surface of the board; a rear chassis covering a rear surface of the light source module; and a supporter extending between the board and the rear chassis, the supporter being electrically conductive. |
| US11754873B2 |
Display panel, data processor, and method for manufacturing display panel
Provided is a novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable, a novel data processor that is highly convenient or reliable, or a method for manufacturing a novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable. The display panel includes a pixel and a terminal electrically connected to the pixel. The pixel includes a first insulating film, a first contact portion in a first opening provided in the first insulating film, a pixel circuit electrically connected to the first contact portion, a second contact portion electrically connected to the pixel circuit, a first display element electrically connected to the first contact portion, and a second display element electrically connected to the second contact portion. The first insulating film includes a region lying between the first display element and the second display element. The terminal includes a surface at which contact with other component can be made. |
| US11754872B2 |
Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus
An electro-optical device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a pixel electrode, alight shielding portion, a lens being arranged between the light shielding portion and the pixel electrode and overlapping with the pixel electrode in plan view, and a phase difference compensation member arranged on an incident side of the light with respect to the liquid crystal layer and compensating a phase difference of the light in the liquid crystal layer. In a display region, a light shielding member having a light shielding property is provided between the liquid crystal layer and the phase difference compensation member. The lens includes a first layer arranged on a side of the light shielding portion and a second layer being arranged on a side of the pixel electrode and having a refractive index different from that of the first layer. |
| US11754868B2 |
Liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display panel is provided. A micro-lens array, a black matrix layer array, and a detector array are sequentially disposed between a cover plate and an array substrate, and a combination of the micro-lens array and the black matrix layer array filters out more interference light, so that most of light entering the detector array is fingerprint reflected light, which improves an accuracy of fingerprint recognition. A liquid crystal display device having the liquid crystal display panel is also provided. |
| US11754867B1 |
Privacy device and privacy display apparatus
A privacy device and a privacy display apparatus are provided. The privacy device includes a first substrate, a first privacy electrode, first to fourth pads, a connection electrode, a second substrate, a liquid-crystal layer, a second privacy electrode, and a sealant. The first privacy electrode and the connection electrode are disposed on the first substrate. The first and second pads are coupled to the first privacy electrode. The third and fourth pads are coupled to the connection electrode. The first and second pads are disposed between the third pad and the fourth pad. The liquid-crystal layer and the sealant are disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The sealant includes multiple conductors. The connection electrode, the sealant, and the second privacy electrode are in a non-display area and overlap with each other along a direction perpendicular to a top surface of the first substrate. |
| US11754866B2 |
Gas cooled faraday rotator and method
To enable several orders of magnitude increases in average power and energy handling capability of Faraday rotators, the technology utilizes high speed gas cooling to efficiently remove thermal loading from the Faraday optic faces while minimizing the thermal wavefront and thermal birefringence by creating a longitudinal thermal gradient. A recirculating gas cooling manifold accelerates the gas over the surface of the slab to create a turbulent flow condition which maximizes the surface cooling rate. The technology further provides a spatially uniform thermal profile on the Faraday slabs. |
| US11754865B2 |
Hetergenous integration and electro-optic modulation of III-nitride photonics on a silicon photonic platform
A photonic integrated circuit comprises a silicon nitride waveguide, an electro-optic modulator formed of a III-nitride waveguide structure disposed on the silicon nitride waveguide, a dielectric cladding covering the silicon nitride waveguide and electro-optic modulator, and electrical contacts disposed on the dielectric cladding and arranged to apply an electric field to the electro-optic modulator. |
| US11754861B2 |
Polarization de-multiplexing for intensity-modulated direct-detection (IM-DD) optical communications
Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems including a dynamic polarization controller (DPC) to receive a first light beam and a second light beam, to adjust a rotation of a state of polarization (SOP) of the first light beam and the second light beam to generate a third light beam and a fourth light beam, under the control of a first control signal, a second control signal, and a third control signal. The first control signal may be related to a phase difference between the third light beam and the fourth light beam, the second control signal may be related to an intensity difference between the third light beam and the fourth light beam, and the third control signal may be related to a rotation of a SOP of the third light beam and the fourth light beam. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed. |
| US11754859B2 |
Ophthalmic lens with an optically non-coaxial zone for myopia control
The present disclosure relates to ophthalmic devices such as ophthalmic lenses. An ophthalmic device may comprise an ophthalmic lens for at least one of slowing, retarding or preventing myopia progression. The ophthalmic lens may comprise a center zone with a negative power for myopic vision correction; and at least one treatment zone surrounding the center zone, the at least one treatment zone having a power profile comprising an ADD power, the at least one treatment zone having a surface shape comprising a portion of a generally toroidal shape, wherein the at least one treatment zone is arranged as to form a continuous surface with the center zone. |
| US11754856B2 |
Method for designing eyeglass lens, method for manufacturing eyeglass lens, eyeglass lens, eyeglass lens ordering device, eyeglass lens order receiving device, and eyeglass lens ordering and order receiving system
A method for designing an eyeglass lens includes: displaying an image upon a display device while maintaining a positional relationship of a face of a subject and the display device; acquiring information in which visual sensitivity of the subject is evaluated on the basis of an impression received by the subject who has viewed the image; and designing an eyeglass lens on the basis of the information in which the sensitivity is evaluated. |
| US11754853B2 |
Systems and methods for three-dimensional visualization during robotic surgery
An autostereoscopic three-dimensional display system for surgical robotics has an autostereoscopic three-dimensional display configured to receive and display video from a surgical robotics camera, and a first sensor assembly and a second sensor assembly. A processor is configured to detect and track an eye position or a head position of a user relative to the display based on processing output data of the first sensor assembly, and to detect and track a gaze of the user based on processing output data of the second sensor assembly. The processor further is configured to modify or control an operation of the display system based on the detected gaze of the user. A spatial relationship of the display also can be automatically adjusted in relation to the user based on the detected eye or head position of the user to optimize the user's visualization of three-dimensional images on the display. |
| US11754852B2 |
Encapsulation of polarized light emitters
The present invention provides systems, and methods for manufacturing polarized light emitting semiconductor packages, comprising the disposition of a first bonding solution about (a) a first light emitting element and (b) a first polarizing element, wherein the first polarizing element transmits linearly polarized light in a first directionality. A first energy is applied to polymerize the first bonding solution, thereby encapsulating the first polarizing element and a first light emitting element in a first semiconductor package. A second bonding solution is disposed about (a) a second light emitting element and (b) a second polarizing element, wherein the second polarizing element transmits polarized light in a second directionality different from the first directionality, and a second energy is applied to polymerize the second bonding solution, thereby encapsulating the second polarizing element and the second light emitting element in a second semiconductor package. |
| US11754848B2 |
Optical devices with azimuthal modulator layer
An optical device includes a reflector layer having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface; a third surface, and a fourth surface opposite the third surface; and a first selective light modulator layer external to the first surface of the reflector layer; in which at least one of the third surface and the fourth surface includes an azimuthal modulator layer. A method of making an optical device is also disclosed. |
| US11754844B2 |
Augmented reality spectroscopy
In some embodiments, a system comprises a head-mounted frame removably coupleable to the user's head; one or more light sources coupled to the head-mounted frame and configured to emit light with at least two different wavelengths toward a target object in an irradiation field of view of the light sources; one or more electromagnetic radiation detectors coupled to the head-mounted member and configured to receive light reflected after encountering the target object; and a controller operatively coupled to the one or more light sources and detectors and configured to determine and display an output indicating the identity or property of the target object as determined by the light properties measured by the detectors in relation to the light properties emitted by the light sources. |
| US11754842B2 |
Apparatus for providing waveguide displays with two-dimensional pupil expansion
An optical display comprises: a first waveguide comprising a first surface and a second surface, an input coupler, a fold grating, and an output grating. The input coupler receives collimated first wavelength light from an Input Image Node causes the light to travel within the first waveguide via total internal reflection between the first surface and the second surface to the fold grating. The fold grating provides pupil expansion in a first direction directs the light to the output grating via total internal reflection between the first surface and the second surface. The output grating provides pupil expansion in a second direction different than the first direction and causes the light to exit the first waveguide from the first surface or the second surface. At least one of the input coupler, fold grating and output grating is a rolled k-vector grating, and the fold grating is a dual interaction grating. |
| US11754841B2 |
Eyepieces for augmented reality display system
An eyepiece waveguide for an augmented reality display system. The eyepiece waveguide can include an input coupling grating (ICG) region. The ICG region can couple an input beam into the substrate of the eyepiece waveguide as a guided beam. A first combined pupil expander-extractor (CPE) grating region can be formed on or in a surface of the substrate. The first CPE grating region can receive the guided beam, create a first plurality of diffracted beams at a plurality of distributed locations, and out-couple a first plurality of output beams. The eyepiece waveguide can also include a second CPE grating region formed on or in the opposite surface of the substrate. The second CPE grating region can receive the guided beam, create a second plurality of diffracted beams at a plurality of distributed locations, and out-couple a second plurality of output beams. |
| US11754837B2 |
Optical device for augmented reality having external light leakage prevention function
The present invention provides an optical device for augmented reality having an external light leakage prevention function, the optical device including: an image output unit configured to output image light corresponding to an image for augmented reality; at least one reflective unit configured to transfer the image light to the pupil of an eye of a user by reflecting the image light; and an optical means configured such that the reflective unit is disposed therein and it transmits at least part of image light, output from a real object, therethrough toward the pupil; wherein the at least one reflective unit is formed to have a size of 4 mm or less, and includes a first surface configured to reflect the former image light toward the pupil and a second surface which is a surface opposite to the first surface; and wherein the second surface is made of a light absorbing material. |
| US11754836B2 |
Optical system for AR headsets, and method for design and manufacturing
A projection augmented reality headset (ARHS), providing a wide field-of-view and an optimized eye relief. THE ARHS includes a projection having an imager and imaging optics which provides image light to a partially reflecting combiner. Further, the partially reflecting combiner configured to receive the image light, and is configured to re-direct the image light towards an eyebox, with an eye relief offset between the partially reflecting combiner and the eyebox. As such, the imaging optics include a combination of lens elements having symmetrical or free-form lens surfaces that are tilted and decentered to expand a field-of-view. |
| US11754834B2 |
Optical system for detecting and tracking eye movements, associated external frame and associated connected contact lens
An optical system for detecting and tracking the eye movements of an individual. The system includes a frame, intended to be worn on the face of the individual, that includes a plurality of illumination sources. The system includes at least one contact lens, intended to be worn by an eye of the individual facing the frame, in which are encapsulated: an autonomous integrated circuit, a plurality of photoreceptors and a wireless communication transmitter. Variation in a signal (e.g., voltage or current) delivered by the photoreceptors allows not only the closure of the eyelid but also eye movements to be detected. |
| US11754831B2 |
Optical arrangement and method for correcting centration errors and/or angle errors
The invention relates to an optical arrangement and a method for correcting centration errors and/or angle errors in a beam path. The beam path here comprises an optical compensated system in which at least two optical elements are present and aligned relative to one another such that imaging aberrations of the optical elements are compensated. According to the invention, a correction unit is arranged in an infinity space of the beam path and between the at least two optical elements, wherein the correction unit changes the propagation direction of radiation propagating along the beam path and the correction unit either has a reflective surface or is embodied to be transmissive for the radiation. The correction unit is movable such that the angle of a change in the propagation direction can be set. |
| US11754830B2 |
Vibration device and vibration control method
A vibration device includes a light transmissive body, a first cylindrical body, a plate-shaped spring portion, a second cylindrical body, and a vibrating body. The light transmissive body includes a main body portion on an inner side of a portion supported by the first cylindrical body, and a protruding portion extending from the main body portion toward an outer circumference of the light transmissive body and protruding outward more than a portion supported by the first cylindrical body. A ratio between an equivalent mass calculated from a moment of inertia of the protruding portion and a weight of the main body portion is about 0.8 to about 1.2, and a resonant frequency of the light transmissive body is larger than a resonant frequency of the spring portion. |
| US11754826B2 |
TIRFM-capable microscope and method for operating a TIRFM-capable microscope
A TIRFM-capable microscope including: a light source that generates/emits incoherent excitation light onto an optical path that includes a first projection lens system, a spatial filter, a second projection lens system and an objective. The TIRFM-capable microscope also includes a controller; wherein the first projection lens system projects excitation light onto the spatial filter that filters the excitation light with two-dimensional patterns, the spatial filter lies in a plane conjugate to a back focal plane of the objective which includes an objective lens that directs excitation light onto and receives fluorescent light from the sample, wherein, for a numerical aperture NAObj of the objective and a refractive index nspec of the sample NAObj>nspec, and the controller activates the spatial filter to select/generate various two-dimensional patterns and selects/adjusts the position/shape/size of the pattern such that TIRF illumination of the sample is generated. |
| US11754825B2 |
Illuminator, an imaging apparatus and a system
An illuminator, comprising: an illumination waveguide, and a controller; the illumination waveguide being a planar waveguide configured to receive a light wave at a receiving end and guide it to a mirror end; the mirror end comprising a patterned mirror configured to reflect at least part of the light wave back into the illumination waveguide, the patterned mirror comprising a pattern configured to confer a diffraction pattern to the reflected light, the diffraction pattern contributing to an interference pattern, the interference pattern having an evanescent field outside the illumination waveguide, wherein the evanescent field of the interference pattern is configured to illuminate an object in close relation to the illumination waveguide; wherein the controller is configured to control a wavefront of the received light wave and to set a relation between the controlled wavefront and the pattern of the patterned mirror such that the interference pattern forms at least one element of constructive interference for selectively illuminating a portion of the object; wherein the controller is further configured to sequentially change the interference pattern. |
| US11754822B2 |
Optical imaging system
An optical imaging system includes a first lens having refractive power, a second lens including a first reflective region formed on an object-side surface of the second lens, a third lens having a second reflective region formed on an image-side surface of the third lens, and a fourth lens having refractive power. |
| US11754814B2 |
Imaging lens
There is provided an imaging lens with high-resolution which satisfies demand of the wide field of view, the low-profileness and the low F-number, and excellently corrects aberrations. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface facing the object side near the optical axis, a second lens having negative refractive power near the optical axis, a third lens having the positive refractive power near the optical axis, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens having the negative refractive power and a concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of said fifth lens is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one off-axial pole point, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied. |
| US11754811B2 |
Camera optical lens
The present disclosure provides a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: eight lenses which are, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, a sixth lens having a positive refractive power, a seventh lens having a negative refractive power, and an eighth lens having a negative refractive power; and the camera optical lens satisfies conditions of: 0.95≤f/TTL; 2.50≤f2/f≤5.00; and −20.00≤(R15+R16)/(R15−R16)≤−3.50. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting the design requirements for long focal length and ultra-thinness. |
| US11754809B2 |
Optical assembly for a wide field of view point action camera with low field curvature
An optical assembly for a point action camera with a wide field of view includes multiple lens elements configured to provide a field of view in excess of 150 degrees. One or more lens elements has an aspheric surface. The optical assembly exhibits a low inward field curvature of less than 75 microns. |
| US11754808B2 |
Imaging lens
There is provided a compact imaging lens configured to properly correct aberrations. The imaging lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens L1 with positive refractive power, a second lens L2 with negative refractive power, a third lens L3 with positive refractive power, a fourth lens L4 with negative refractive power, a fifth lens L5, a sixth lens L6, a seventh lens L7 with positive refractive power, and an eighth lens L8 with negative refractive power.The fourth lens is formed in a shape of a meniscus lens having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. The eighth lens L8 has an aspheric image-side surface having at least one inflection point. Furthermore, the following conditional expression is satisfied: 0.04 |
| US11754805B2 |
Zoom lens and imaging apparatus
The zoom lens includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a negative fourth lens group, a negative fifth lens group, and a positive sixth lens group in order from an object side. All distances between adjacent lens groups change during zooming. The first lens group consists of a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the object side. Only the fourth lens group moves to an image side during focusing from a long range to a short range. Conditional Expression is related to lateral magnification of the fourth lens group and a lateral magnification of the sixth lens group is satisfied. |
| US11754804B2 |
Lens device, lens system, imaging device, movable lens operation device, lens driving method, and lens driving program
A lens device includes: a movable lens capable of being moved in a direction of an optical axis and configured to be moved by an operating member driven by an operating member driving unit; an optical member that reflects a portion of light having passed through the movable lens; a target position information acquiring unit that acquires information of a target position of the movable lens by calculating the target position based on the reflected light; and a movable lens driving unit that performs first driving for moving the movable lens based on a position of the operating member detected by an operating member position detection unit, and the operating member driving unit drives the operating member based on the information of the target position. |
| US11754803B2 |
Auto focusing lens assembly
Provided is an auto focusing lens assembly, including a lens; a first base including a first side plate; a second base including a bottom plate, a first base body, and a second base body including a second side plate; and a pair of restoring structures. The first base is mounted to the second base body and slidable along the optical axis. The first side plate includes: a first plate body, and a second plate body. The restoring structure includes: an elastic member including one end connected to the first side plate and the other end connected to the first base body; a magnet assembly provided between the second side plate and the second plate body, and a guiding structure provided between the second side plate and the second plate body. The auto focusing lens assembly provided by the present invention can achieve a compact structure and a miniaturization design. |
| US11754802B2 |
Lens driving unit, camera module, and optical instrument
The present embodiment relates to a lens driving device comprising: a housing; a bobbin disposed inside the housing; a magnet disposed in the housing; a first coil which is disposed in the bobbin, and is opposite to the magnet; a base disposed on the lower side of the housing; a substrate portion comprising a body portion, which is disposed on the upper surface of the base, and a terminal portion extending toward the lower side of the body portion; a terminal portion accommodating portion which is formed on a side surface of the base and accommodates at least a part of the terminal portion; and an adhesive accommodating groove which is formed in the terminal portion accommodating portion and accommodates at least a part of an adhesive contacting the terminal portion and the terminal portion accommodating portion. |
| US11754798B2 |
Impact absorbing breakaway drop clamp system
A system supporting a cable to a building is provided. The system includes a device interposed between the cable and the building. The device includes a first portion. The device includes a second portion. The device includes a frangible segment having a break threshold. The frangible segment retains the first and second portions together below the break threshold and releases the first portion from the second portion upon the break threshold being reached. |
| US11754795B2 |
Cable skin layer with access sections integrated into a cable jacket
An optical fiber cable includes a central tube having a first inner and a first outer surface. The first inner surface defines a bore along a longitudinal axis of the cable. Optical fibers are disposed within the bore of the central tube. A cable jacket is disposed around the central tube. The cable jacket has a second inner and a second outer surface defining a first thickness. A skin layer is disposed around the cable jacket. The skin layer has a third inner and a third outer surface defining a second thickness that is 100 μm or less. The cable jacket material is different from the skin layer material, and the third outer surface defines the outermost surface of the optical fiber cable. Access sections made of the second material extend from the skin layer into the first thickness of the cable jacket. |
| US11754784B2 |
Grating coupler
Embodiments presented in this disclosure generally relate to an optical device having a grating coupler for redirection of optical signals. One embodiment includes a grating coupler. The grating coupler generally includes a waveguide layer, a thickness of a waveguide layer portion of the waveguide layer being tapered, the thickness defining a direction, and a grating layer disposed above the waveguide layer and perpendicular to the direction where at least a grating layer portion of the grating layer overlaps the waveguide layer portion of the waveguide layer along the direction. Some embodiments are directed to grating coupler implemented with material layers above and a reflector layer below a grating layer, facilitating redirection and confinement of light that improves coupling loss and bandwidth. The material layers and reflector layer above and below the grating layer may be implemented with or without the waveguide layer being tapered. |
| US11754781B2 |
Circuit board utilizing optical signals in addition to electrical signals and method for manufacturing the same
A circuit board utilizing the better and faster performance of optical signals includes interconnected first, second, and third areas. The first area includes a first circuit substrate, and a first coupling element and a chip connected thereon. The second area includes an optical fiber within an insulating layer. The third area includes a second circuit substrate, and a second coupling element and an electronic element connected thereon. The first coupling element and the second coupling element are optically aligned with the optical fiber for signal reception and transmission. A method for manufacturing such composite circuit board is also disclosed. |
| US11754775B2 |
Light emitting device and light guiding member
A light emitting device includes first and second light emitting elements; and a light guiding member including first and second light receiving portion corresponding to the first and second light emitting elements and configured to emit the light received by the first and second light receiving portions from a light emitting portion via a light guiding portion. The light guiding portion includes a reflecting surface forming portion between the first light receiving portion and the second light receiving portion in the first direction. The reflecting surface forming portion includes first and second reflecting surfaces. The first reflecting surface is formed by surfaces having different angles including a surface that reflects the light from the first light receiving portion to a side of the first light receiving portion. |
| US11754771B1 |
Optical virtual push button touch panel
An optical virtual push button touch panel includes a substrate (10), a light emitting member (11), a light guide plate (12), a light permeable plate (13), and a touch control sensing member (14). The substrate is provided with a mounting slot (100). The light emitting member is mounted in the substrate. The light guide plate defines multiple light guide structures (120). The light permeable plate is mounted on the substrate. The touch control sensing member is located between the light permeable plate and the light guide plate and defines multiple contact zones (140) aligning with the light guide structures respectively. One of the contact zones produces a coupling capacitance through the light permeable plate and drives the light emitting member to generate the light source, and one of the light guide structures converges the light source toward one of the contact zones. |
| US11754770B2 |
Light guide module and touch display device
A light guide module includes a cover plate, a light-shielding layer, a light guide plate, and at least one light source. The light-shielding layer is disposed under the cover plate and has a width less than about 4 mm. The light guide plate is disposed under the cover plate. The light guide plate has a reflective surface and a light-exiting surface opposite to each other, and a light-incident surface and three side surfaces connected between the reflective surface and the light-exiting surface. The light source is configured to emit light toward the light-incident surface. A surface roughness of the three side surfaces ranges from about 300 nm to about 400 nm, so that a change rate of brightness measured by any adjacent two of measuring points evenly distributed on the light-exiting surface is between about 8% and about 12%. |
| US11754768B2 |
Augmented reality display device
An augmented reality display device, which is configured to provide an augmented reality image to an eye of a user, includes a display module and multiple mirror sets. The display module includes a projector and multiple switching elements. The projector provides an original image beam. The switching elements are deposed sequentially on a path of the original image beam. Each of the switching elements reflects or transmits the original image beam. Reflection paths of each ray of the original image beam on the switching elements intersect at one point to generate multiple image beams. The mirror sets are disposed on paths of the image beams. The image beams are reflected at different angles on the mirror sets, and the mirror sets reflect the image beams to the eye. |
| US11754764B2 |
Lithium containing glass with high oxidized iron content and specified redox ratio
A low infrared absorbing lithium glass includes FeO in the range of 0.0005-0.015 wt %, more preferably 0.001-0.010 wt %, and a redox ratio in the range of 0.005-0.15, more preferably in the range of 0.005-010. The glass can be chemically tempered and used to provide a ballistic viewing cover for night vision goggles or scope. A method is provided to change a glass making process from making a high infrared absorbing lithium glass having FeO in the range of 0.02 to 0.04 wt % and a redox ratio in the range of 0.2 to 0.4 to the low infrared absorbing lithium glass by adding additional oxidizers to the batch materials. A second method is provided to change a glass making process from making a low infrared absorbing lithium glass to the high infrared absorbing lithium glass by adding additional reducers to the batch material. In one embodiment of the invention the oxidizer is CeO2. An embodiment of the invention covers a glass made according to the method. |
| US11754760B2 |
Lightweight night vision systems using broadband diffractive optics
Systems and methods for improving night vision systems are presented. Broadband multi-level diffractive lenses are used in place of either or both of the objective and eyepiece of traditional night vision systems. By using one or more broadband multi-level diffractive lenses, the size, weight, and weight distribution may be reduced or modified. |
| US11754759B2 |
Electronic devices having optical diffusers for optical components
An electronic device may have a housing. Input-output devices may be mounted in the housing. The input-output devices may include a display with an array of pixels configured to display images for a user. The electronic device may have an optical component formed under a transparent region in the housing. The transparent region may be associated with an opening in an opaque masking layer in an inactive area of the display or other portion of the electronic device. A diffuser may be formed between the optical component and the transparent region. The diffuser may have a polymer layer with embedded thin-film interference filter flakes configured to scatter light and to exhibit desired reflection and transmission spectral. |
| US11754756B2 |
Angular selective light control sheeting and method of making the same
A method of making an angular selective light control sheeting is disclosed. The method includes providing a sheet of an optically transmissive elastic material, providing a slitting blade, advancing the slitting blade into the optically transmissive elastic material to a predetermined depth, moving the slitting blade relatively to the sheet along a straight or curvilinear path so as to form a channel in the elastic material, and introducing an opaque material into the channel. |
| US11754755B2 |
Systems and methods to reduce temperature induced drift effects on a liquid lens
Systems and methods reduce temperature induced drift effects on a liquid lens used in a vision system. A feedback loop receives a temperature value from a temperature sensor, and based on the received temperature value, controls a power to the heating element based on a difference between the measured temperature of the liquid lens and a predetermined control temperature to maintain the temperature value within a predetermined control temperature range to reduce the effects of drift. A processor can also control a bias signal applied to the lens or a lens actuator to control temperature variations and the associated induced drift effects. An image sharpness can also be determined over a series of images, alone or in combination with controlling the temperature of the liquid lens, to adjust a focal distance of the lens. |
| US11754754B2 |
Silicone hydrogels comprising N-alkyl methacrylamides and contact lenses made thereof
The present invention relates to silicone hydrogels exhibiting desired combinations of physical and mechanical properties, formed from a reactive monomer mixture comprising at least one N-alkyl methacrylamide, and at least one silicone-containing component. These silicone hydrogels may also contain hydrophilic components, crosslinking agents and toughening monomers. These silicone hydrogels are useful in preparing biomedical devices, ophthalmic lenses, and contact lenses. |
| US11754753B2 |
Antioxidant contact lens
A contact lens having antioxidant properties is described as well as methods of manufacturing the same. The contact lens can be present in a sealed contact lens package. The seal contact lens package can include at least a) a plastic base member having a cavity; b) a contact lens packaging solution in the cavity; c) a sterile, unworn contact lens immersed in the contact lens packaging solution in the cavity; and d) a cover that forms a liquid-tight seal with the plastic base member. As an example, the unworn contact lens is a silicone hydrogel contact lens having present therein vitamin E. The vitamin E is non-releasable from the unworn contact lens and the contact lens packaging solution has less than 1 ppm of vitamin E present. The vitamin E is trapped, embedded, absorbed, or non-covalently attached in the unworn contact lens. |
| US11754752B2 |
Photochromic polyurethane laminate
A photochromic polyurethane laminate wherein the photochromic polyurethane layer of the laminate has been crosslinked with an isocyanate-active prepolymer using a crosslinking agent. The crosslinking agent is formulated to have at least three functional groups that are reactive with functional groups of the polyurethane or of the isocyanate-active prepolymer. A method of making the photochromic polyurethane laminate includes steps of causing the crosslinking. |
| US11754747B2 |
Systems and methods for hybrid model hydraulic fracture pressure forecasting
A system for determining pressure in a hydraulic fracturing system for a well includes a processing module executing code and configured to receive a plurality of input parameters. The processing module can predict either a bottomhole pressure, based on statistical predictions and physics-based predictions, or a surface pressure based on the predicted bottomhole pressure. |
| US11754746B2 |
Systems and methods for creating 4D guided history matched models
A system for creating a 4D guided history matched model may include a network of saturation sensors and a model processing hub. The saturation sensors may identify water production rates. The model processing hub may be in communication with the network of saturation sensors and may include a reservoir simulation model and a processor. The processor of the model processing hub may build a 4D saturation model, compare the reservoir simulation model and the 4D saturation model to generate a saturation Δ, calculate updated permeability distribution data, and update the reservoir simulation model with the updated permeability distribution data to create the 4D guided history matched model. A method of creating a 4D guided history matched model may include comparing a reservoir simulation model and a 4D saturation model, calculating updated permeability distribution data, and updating the reservoir simulation model to create the 4D guided history matched model. |
| US11754744B2 |
Surface wave prospecting method for jointly extracting Rayleigh wave frequency dispersion characteristics by seismoelectric field
A surface wave prospecting method for jointly extracting Rayleigh wave frequency dispersion characteristics in a seismoelectric field. A surface wave prospecting method includes following steps of: acquiring jointly acquired data, where the jointly acquired data includes seismic wave data and electric field data; carrying out jointly imaging processing on jointly acquired data to obtain a superposed frequency dispersion spectrum; carrying out extraction processing on superposed frequency dispersion spectrum to obtain a frequency dispersion curve, outperforming inversion processing on frequency dispersion curve to obtain a stratum structure profile. As seismic wave data and electric field data are adopted to carry out combined imaging processing to obtain superposed frequency dispersion spectrum, multi-mode frequency dispersion curve is extracted, multiplicity of solutions of inversion is greatly reduced during inversion, precision and stability of surface wave prospecting are greatly improved. |
| US11754737B2 |
System and method for quantitative quality assessment of seismic surfaces
Some implementations of the present disclosure provide a method that include: accessing a set of seismic traces from a grid of locations inside an geo-exploration area, each seismic trace records seismic reflections from underneath the geo-exploration area at a location of the grid; accessing an input indicating a surface in the set of seismic traces; extracting a plurality of wavelets from the set of seismic traces, each wavelet covering an adjustable length around the surface; determining a reference wavelet for each wavelet of a corresponding adjustable length; and quantifying a quality of the surface based on correlating the plurality of wavelets with each reference wavelet of the corresponding adjustable length. |
| US11754734B2 |
Placing wells in a hydrocarbon field based on seismic attributes and quality indicators
Systems and methods of placing wells in a hydrocarbon field based on seismic attributes and quality indicators associated with a subterranean formation of the hydrocarbon field can include receiving seismic attributes representing the subterranean formation and seismic data quality indicators. A cutoff is generated for each seismic attribute and seismic data quality indicator. A weight is assigned to each seismic attribute and seismic data quality indicator. The weighted seismic attributes and data quality indicators are aggregated for each location in the hydrocarbon field. A risk ranking is assigned based on the weighted seismic attributes and data quality indicators associated with each location in the hydrocarbon field based on the cutoffs. A map is generated with each location on the surface of the subterranean formation color-coded based on its assigned risk ranking. |
| US11754730B2 |
Mercury chalcoiodides for room temperature radiation detection
Methods and devices for detecting incident radiation, such as incident X-rays or gamma-rays, are provided. The methods and devices use single-crystalline mercury chalcoiodide compounds having the formula Hg3Q2I2, where Q represents a chalcogen atom or a combination of chalcogen atoms, as photoelectric materials. Also provided are methods for growing single-crystals of the mercury chalcoiodide compounds using external organic chemical transport agents. |
| US11754727B2 |
Picture processing method and related device
Embodiments of this application disclose a picture processing method, including: when a copy instruction is detected, obtaining positioning information included in a picture; modifying the positioning information in a preset information modification manner; and copying the picture whose positioning information is modified. The embodiments of this application further disclose a picture processing apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. According to the embodiments of this application, user privacy can be better protected, and information security can be improved. |
| US11754726B2 |
Method and apparatus for in motion initialization of global navigation satellite system—inertial navigation system
A mobile device in a moving vehicle initializes a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-Inertial Navigation System (INS) system while the vehicle is in-motion with the orientation of the mobile device with respect to a global reference frame. The mobile device uses gyroscope measurements made while the vehicle is turning to determine a gravity vector. The gravity vector and accelerometer measurements may be used to determine a forward vector for the mobile device. A north vector is determined using the GNSS measurements. After the GNSS-INS system is calibrated, the mobile device may be positioned with respect to the vehicle. The orientation of the mobile device, prior to repositioning, may be compared to a current orientation, determined while the vehicle is in motion, in order to determine whether the GNSS-INS system should be re-initialized. |
| US11754718B2 |
Time of flight imaging using long and short-exposure storage nodes
Examples are disclosed that relate to time of flight imaging using long-exposure and short-exposure storage nodes for each pixel tap of a pixel in an image sensor. One example provides a time-of-flight camera, comprising an image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel of the plurality of pixels comprising one or more taps, each tap comprising a photogate, a short-exposure storage node configured to receive charge during a short-exposure interval of an integration period, a long-exposure storage node configured to receive charge during a long-exposure interval of the integration period, a short-exposure switch gate configured to direct charge generated during the short-exposure interval to the short-exposure storage node, a long-exposure switch gate configured to direct charge generated during the long-exposure period to the long-exposure storage node, and a readout mechanism comprising one or more floating diffusion capacitors. |
| US11754717B2 |
Distance measurement device having external light illuminance measurement function and external light illuminance measurement method
A distance measurement device includes a light emission unit which is capable of emitting measurement light to be irradiated toward an object, a light reception unit configured to receive light from the object via an optical filter through which light having the same wavelength band as the measurement light passes, a distance calculation unit configured to calculate a distance to the object based on each charge amount obtained by accumulating a charge corresponding to the received light at a plurality of timings which are delayed by a predetermined phase with respect to emission timing of the measurement light, and an external light intensity calculation unit configured to calculate external light illuminance of external light illuminating the object at the spectral sensitivity of the optical filter based on the charge amounts acquired at the light reception unit and a reflectivity of the object. |
| US11754716B2 |
Encoding LiDAR scanned data for generating high definition maps for autonomous vehicles
Embodiments relate to methods for efficiently encoding sensor data captured by an autonomous vehicle and building a high definition map using the encoded sensor data. The sensor data can be LiDAR data which is expressed as multiple image representations. Image representations that include important LiDAR data undergo a lossless compression while image representations that include LiDAR data that is more error-tolerant undergo a lossy compression. Therefore, the compressed sensor data can be transmitted to an online system for building a high definition map. When building a high definition map, entities, such as road signs and road lines, are constructed such that when encoded and compressed, the high definition map consumes less storage space. The positions of entities are expressed in relation to a reference centerline in the high definition map. Therefore, each position of an entity can be expressed in fewer numerical digits in comparison to conventional methods. |
| US11754713B2 |
Range finding apparatus and control method
A range finding apparatus (2000) generates a plurality of range finding signals. The range finding apparatus (2000) generates transmission light acquired by performing at least one of quadrature modulation and polarization modulation on an optical carrier wave by using each of the generated range finding signals. The range finding apparatus (2000) transmits the generated transmission light. The range finding apparatus (2000) receives reflection light which is the transmission light reflected by an object to be measured. The range finding apparatus (2000) extracts a reception signal corresponding to each of the range finding signals by demodulating the reflection light. The range finding apparatus (2000) computes a distance to the object to be measured by using any one or more of the extracted reception signals. |
| US11754711B2 |
Frequency chirp for lidar for high-velocity targets
A device includes a controller with a processor and memory with instructions for controlling power to a light source such that the light source emits a frequency-modulated continuous light beam that, over time, includes an up region, a down region, and a flat region. The up region includes increasing a frequency of the continuous light beam, the down region includes decreasing the frequency of the continuous light beam, and the flat region includes maintaining the frequency of the continuous light beam at a constant frequency. |
| US11754706B2 |
Agile antenna taper based on weather radar feedback
A system and method for applying an adaptive adjustment or taper to an electronically scanned array (ESA) weather radar based on feedback from the weather radar. To minimize ground clutter and enable the ESA to display hazardous weather phenomena, the system adaptively adjusts amplitude and phase of ESA elements to adjust the far field pattern shape and sidelobes to maintain a desirable signal to clutter ratio. The system identifies ground clutter as a strong ground return over several azimuths depending on the radar beamwidth. Once the system IDs the ground clutter, it adaptively adjusts on receive for for the upcoming azimuths. The system selectively suppresses sidelobe echoes while maintaining the signal to noise (SNR) for weather targets. The system adaptively adjusts in real time as well as adjusting using precomputed historically accurate tapers stored in memory. |
| US11754705B2 |
Advanced driver-assistance and autonomous vehicle radar and marking system
A vehicular radar sensing system includes a radar sensor disposed at the vehicle so as to have a field of sensing exterior of the vehicle. The radar sensor includes a plurality of transmitters that transmit radio signals and a plurality of receivers that receive radio signals. The received radio signals are transmitted radio signals that are reflected from from a radar reflective sign that is present along a road being traveled by the vehicle and in the field of sensing of the radar sensor. The radar reflective sign has radar reflective information. A control, via processing of outputs of the receivers by a processor, determines the radar reflective information. A display may display the determined radar reflective information for viewing by a driver of the vehicle. The control may control at least one guidance function of the vehicle responsive at least in part to the determined radar reflective information. |
| US11754703B2 |
Synthetic aperture radar imaging apparatus and methods
A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is operable in an interrogation mode and in a self-imaging mode, the self-imaging mode entered in response to determining a response to interrogation pulses have been received from a ground terminal and position information specifying a ground location has been received from the ground terminal. A ground terminal is operable to receive interrogation pulses transmitted by a SAR, transmit responses, and transmit position information to cause the SAR to enter a self-imaging mode. The ground terminal receives first and subsequent pulses from the SAR where subsequent pulses include backscatter and are encoded. The ground terminal generates a range line by range compression. |
| US11754700B2 |
Electronic device for detecting external object using plurality of array antennas arranged in plurality of directions and method thereof
An electronic device comprises a plurality of array antennas arranged in a plurality of directions, and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit may be set so as to determine a plurality of statuses corresponding to the plurality of directions outside of the electronic device by means of using the plurality of array antennas, deactivate at least one first array antenna if the status of the at least one first array antenna of the plurality of statuses satisfies a first designated condition, activate at least one second array antenna if the status of the at least one second array antenna of the plurality of statuses satisfies a second designated condition, and detect an external object by means of using the at least one second array antenna, when the at least one first array antenna is in a deactivated status. |
| US11754698B2 |
Radar based system for processing radar data representing range and radial velocity of a detected object
A Doppler type radar system holds processing circuitry configured to generate a data array based on received radar data to thereby provide an optimized input of radar data for further processing, such as processing by a neural network or convolutional neural network. |
| US11754696B2 |
Search and rescue UAV system and method
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having at least one sensor for detecting the presence of a survivor in a search and rescue area. The at least one sensor is preferably an ultra-wide band (UWB) transceiver sensor. The UAV includes a UAV data link transceiver for wirelessly communicating information concerning the survivor to a command center. |
| US11754693B2 |
Airborne topo-bathy lidar system and methods thereof
Airborne LiDAR bathymetry systems and methods of use are provided. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system can collect topographic data and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system has a receiver system, a detector system, and a laser transmission system. |
| US11754691B2 |
Target measurement device and method for measuring a target
A target measurement device is provided. The target measurement device includes a fixing ring, a main body, and a transceiver. The fixing ring has a first surface. The main body is over the first surface of the fixing ring. The transceiver is coupled to the main body. The transceiver is at least movable between a center of the fixing ring to an edge of the fixing ring from a top view perspective. A method for measuring a target is also provided. |
| US11754689B2 |
System and method for detecting sensor adjustment need
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for detecting a need for sensor adjustment. Information is received from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) attached to a sensor, including one or more measurements associated with the IMU, where the sensor is deployed on a vehicle for sensing surrounding information to facilitate autonomous driving. The one or more measurements are analyzed with respect to one or more corresponding known measurements of the IMU. The discrepancy between the one or more measurements and the one or more corresponding known measurements is used to determine whether an adjustment to the sensor is needed. |
| US11754687B1 |
Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system including a modular assembly
A modular LIDAR system comprising a seed laser configured to output a beam, a modular modulator coupled to receive the beam output the seed laser and modulate the beam to create a modulated beam, a modular amplifier coupled to receive the modulated beam from the modular modulator and generate an amplified beam, and a modular transceiver chip coupled to the modular modulator and the modular amplifier, the transceiver chip configured to emit the beam perpendicularly from a first surface of the transceiver chip through an optical window; and receive a reflected beam from a target through the optical window. |
| US11754685B2 |
Point cloud compression using a space filling curve for level of detail generation
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute information. Attribute values for at least one starting point are included in a compressed attribute information file and attribute correction values are included in the compressed attribute information file. An order for the points is determined based on a space filling curve, wherein an encoder and a decoder determine a same order for the points based on the space filling curve. Levels of detail are determined by sampling the ordered points according to different sampling parameters, and attribute values are predicted for the points in the levels of detail using the determined order. The encoder determines attribute correction values based on a comparison of the predicted values to an original value prior to compression. The decoder corrects the predicted attribute values based on received attribute correction values. |
| US11754683B2 |
Pseudo monostatic LiDAR with two-dimensional silicon photonic mems switch array
The present disclosure is directed to imaging LiDARs with separate transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) optical antennas fed by different optical waveguides. This pair of optical antennas can be activated at the same time through a dual-channel optical switch network, with the Tx antenna connected to a laser source and the Rx antenna connected to a receiver. The Tx and Rx antennas can be positioned adjacent to each other, so they point to approximately the same far-field angle. No optical alignment between the Tx and Rx is necessary. This LiDAR configuration, referred to herein as pseudo-monostatic LiDAR, eliminates spurious reflections and increases the dynamic range of the LiDAR. |
| US11754682B2 |
LIDAR system with spatial beam combining
A light detection and ranging system includes synchronously scanning transmit and receive mirrors that scan a pulsed fanned laser beam in two dimensions. Imaging optics image a receive aperture onto an arrayed receiver that includes a plurality of light sensitive devices. Scanning mirror offsets may be applied to modify a fan angle of the pulsed fanned laser beam. Adaptive methods dynamically modify the size and location of the field of view, laser pulse properties, and/or fan angle in response to internal and external sensors data. |
| US11754676B2 |
Precision sleep tracking using a contactless sleep tracking device
Various devices, systems and methods for performing targeted sleep tracking are presented herein. Multiple digital radar data streams from multiple antennas may be received. A direction optimization process may be performed to determine a first weighting and a second weighting. The first weighting may be applied to a first digital radar data stream. The second weighting may be applied to a second digital radar data stream. The weighted first digital radar data stream and the weighted second digital radar data stream may be combined to create a first directionally-targeted radar data stream. A sleep analysis can be performed based on the first directionally-targeted radar data stream. Sleep data may be output for a user based on the performed sleep analysis. |
| US11754673B2 |
Cell-average and ordered-statistic of cell-average CFAR algorithms for log detectors
A vehicle radar system, apparatus and method use a radar control processing unit generate compressed radar data signals, to apply the compressed radar data signals to a log detector to generate log detector sample values, and to generate a first log cell-average constant false alarm rate (CA-CFAR) threshold from the log detector sample values by computing and adding an average sample value SAVG from the log detector sample values, a probability of false alarm factor α, and a log CA-CFAR correction factor β, where the first log CA-CFAR threshold may be used with a second log CA-CFAR threshold to generate an ordered statistics CA-CFAR threshold for the compressed radar data signals by sorting the first and second log CA-CFAR thresholds by magnitude to form a sorted list of log CA-CFAR thresholds, and then selecting a kth threshold from the sorted list of log CA-CFAR thresholds as the OS-CA-CFAR threshold. |
| US11754672B2 |
RADAR cross section compensation for calibration of vehicle RADAR
One or more radar sensors coupled to a vehicle receive readings during a calibration time period. Each radar sensor receives data covering a field of view of the sensor, which may be split into angle-based bins. A noise-reducing filter (e.g., median filter) may be applied. A function is generated by processing raw radar cross section (RCS) returns into values plotted against angles compared to the direction that the sensor is facing. The function may be smoothed. Radar sensor measurements captured after calibration are corrected using the function, for example by automatically subtracting or dividing amounts corresponding to the function. |
| US11754667B2 |
System and method for determining interference in a radar system
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a radar system includes activating a transmitter to transmit a radar signal during a first time period, receiving a reflection of the radar signal from a radar antenna, downconverting the reflected radar signal, and digitally processing the downconverted reflected radar signal within a first frequency bandwidth using a first signal path. The method also includes deactivating the transmitter during a second time period, receiving a second signal from the radar antenna during the second time period, downconverting the second signal, measuring a power of the downconverted second signal within a second frequency bandwidth using a second signal path different from the first signal path, and determining an interference metric based on measuring the power. |
| US11754660B2 |
Offline radio maps for crowdsourced GNSS rescue areas
In accordance with the disclosed approach, positioning server(s) could receive, from mobile devices, information indicating a plurality of GNSS rescue areas, each respective GNSS rescue area of the plurality of GNSS rescue areas corresponding to a respective geographic area visited by a respective one of the mobile devices in which (i) at least one GNSS-based position estimate is or was unavailable and (ii) the respective mobile device had demand for positioning data of at least a particular quality level. Given this, the server(s) could generate a GNSS rescue map representing radio data for the plurality of GNSS rescue areas. In this way, the server(s) could transmit, to a mobile device, an offline radio map representing a subset of the GNSS rescue map, to provide radio data for at least one of the GNSS rescue areas or portion thereof. |
| US11754659B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving signal and device supporting same in wireless communication system
Various embodiments relate to a next-generation wireless communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates or the like than 4th generation (4G) wireless communication systems. According to various embodiments, a method for transmitting and receiving a signal and a device supporting same in a wireless communication system may be provided, and various other embodiments may be provided. |
| US11754658B2 |
Radio station for client localization in multipath indoor environment
A radio station, in particular an access point, for client localization in a multipath indoor environment is disclosed. The radio station comprises: a circular antenna array comprising uniform circularly arranged antenna elements; and a processor configured to: transform first input data from the circular antenna array into second input data using a transform that transforms the first steering vector of the circular antenna array into a second steering vector of a virtual linear antenna array; and transform the second input data into third input data by using a transform that transforms the second steering vector of the virtual linear antenna array into a third steering vector of a second virtual linear antenna array, comprising a larger number of antenna elements than the virtual linear antenna array; and determine an angle of arrival based on the third input data. |
| US11754654B2 |
Method and device for determining a motion field from k-space data
The invention relates to a motion determination device for determining the motion of an object. The motion determination device comprises a magnetic resonance (MR) information providing unit (2, 5) for providing an MR image of the object (6) and for providing non-image MR data of the object which have been acquired at different acquisition times, and a motion determination unit (9) for determining a motion field, which describes the motion of the object (6), depending on the provided non-image MR data acquired at the different acquisition times and the provided MR image. Since the non-image MR data, which are preferentially k-space data, are directly used for determining the motion field, i.e. without an intermediate reconstruction of MR images based on the non-image MR data, the motion field can be determined with a very high temporal resolution. |
| US11754653B1 |
Methods for accelerated echo planar imaging with FLEET autocalibration scans
Systems and methods for improving calibration of MRI imaging using echo-planar imaging (EPI) include a multi-shot radio frequency (RF) excitation during a calibration phase and a processor that calibrates the k-space for a slice by acquiring k-space data through multi-shot EPI data acquisition for a plurality of interleaved segments in the slice, each divided into a predetermined number of readout lines. Each EPI data acquisition includes providing a series of frequency encoding pulses throughout a readout period equal to the predetermined number of readout lines, providing a series of phase encoding pulses during a middle portion of the readout period corresponding to a middle section of the k-space, capturing magnetic resonance signals during the middle portion. The frequency and phase encoding pulse each include a rewinder pulse before a spoiler pulse after the magnetic resonance signals are captured. The processor creates a calibration model from the acquired k-space data based on the magnetic resonance signals during the middle portion, wherein k-space data corresponding to each segment in the slice is acquired before acquiring data for subsequent slices. |
| US11754650B2 |
MRI shield
A multi-layered shielding apparatus for reducing the heating of an implanted device within a patient during an MRI scan is disclosed. The shield comprises four internal layers circumferentially surrounded by a waterproof fabric pouch for maintaining composure of the shield and providing a comfortable interface for the patient. The second layer is a thin high conductive energy permeable layer for absorbing a substantial amount of RF energy. The first and third layers are thick low conductive energy absorbent layers that surround the second layer to absorb the RF currents produced by the interaction between the RF energy and the high conductive layer. The fourth layer is a nonconductive polymer layer for insulating the human tissue from any RF currents produced among the other layers. |
| US11754648B2 |
Ferromagnetic particles as ultra-sensitive non-linear response labels for magnetic particles imaging (MPI) and sensing applications
A significant enhancement of detection capabilities of the room temperature MPQ is seen using optical lithography-defined, ferromagnetic iron-nickel alloy microdisks. Irreversible transitions between strongly non-collinear (vortex) and a collinear single domain states, driven by an ac magnetic field, translate into a nonlinear magnetic response that enables ultrasensitive detection of material at relatively small magnetic fields. |
| US11754647B2 |
Magnetic sensor and magnetic sensor system
At a reference position within a first plane, a magnetic field to be detected has a first direction that changes within the first plane. A magnetic sensor includes an MR element. The MR element includes a magnetic layer having first magnetization that can change in direction within a second plane. The first plane and the second plane intersect at a dihedral angle α other than 90°. The magnetic field to be detected can be divided into an in-plane component parallel to the second plane and a perpendicular component perpendicular to the second plane. The in-plane component has a second direction that changes with a change in the first direction. The direction of the first magnetization changes with a change in the second direction. A detection value depends on the direction of the first magnetization. |
| US11754646B2 |
Magnetic sensor system
The present disclosure provides magnetic sensor system that includes a magnetic sensor package comprising a magnetic single turn sensor and a magnetic multi-turn sensor, and a shield arrangement for shielding the magnetic sensor from stray magnetic fields. The shielding arrangement comprises a ferromagnetic tube that houses one or more magnets and connects to an end of rotating shaft, such that rotation of the shaft causes a corresponding rotation of the ferromagnetic tube and magnets. The magnetic sensor package is positioned on a surface of a PCB substrate, which is positioned in close proximity to the ferromagnetic tube and magnet arrangement. A shielding device is then arranged in close proximity to the magnetic sensor package, for example, on the opposite side of the PCB substrate or directly between the PCB substrate and the ferromagnetic tube, to provide additional shielding of any stray magnetic fields. The shielding device may be in the form of a disc or a ring of ferromagnetic material that has a higher level of magnetic conductivity. |
| US11754636B2 |
Estimating the SOH and estimating the SOC of an electrochemical element
The invention concerns a method for estimating the state of health (SOH) of an electrochemical element, comprising: initiating a charging or discharging operation of the electrochemical element; measuring values representing deformations of the electrochemical element while the charging or discharging operation is being performed, the deformation values measured forming a deformations image signal according to the quantity of electricity passing through the electrochemical element over time; comparing the deformations image signal and a reference image signal, one or more differences obtained by the comparison characterising an estimation of the ageing of the electrochemical element. |
| US11754634B2 |
Device to device measurement synchronization
A battery management system includes a set of N battery modules coupled together in series, a set of N battery monitors, and a controller. Each battery monitor in the set of N battery monitors is coupled to a respective battery module in the set of N battery modules and measures a battery parameter of the respective battery module. The controller determines a preprogrammed delay for each battery monitor and provides the respective preprogrammed delay to each battery monitory. The controller transmits a synchronization command to the set of N battery monitors, which wait the respective preprogrammed delays in response to receiving the synchronization command before stopping updates to values of the respective battery parameters. The controller transmits a read command to the set of N battery monitors, which transmit read responses to the controller comprising values of the battery parameters. |
| US11754628B2 |
Contact test device for hi-pot test and hi-pot test system having the same
A contact test device for a hi-pot test includes: a contact test device connected to a hi-pot test device in parallel by lines branched from first and second lines of the hi-pot test device by being connected to first and second terminals of a battery through first and second probes, respectively, and having third and fourth probes directly connected to the first and second terminals, wherein the contact test device includes: a first closed loop including first to third switch units, a direct current (DC) voltage source and a first continuity detection unit; a second closed loop including fourth to sixth switch units, the DC voltage source and a second continuity detection unit; and a control unit controlling turning the first to sixth switch units on and off and detecting a continuity signal of each of the first and second continuity detection units. |
| US11754624B1 |
Programmable scan chain debug technique
A method includes injecting scan patterns into an input of a decompressor that distributes the scan patterns to a plurality of scan chains whose outputs are coupled to inputs of a compressor, which provides a compressed scan test result representing the plurality of scan chains. The method also includes, in response to the compressed scan test result being indicative of failure, identifying a particular scan chain of the plurality of scan chains that is responsible for the failure by a debug circuit that is coupled to the input of the decompressor and to a compressor output. The debug circuit enables an output of any single scan chain of the plurality of scan chains to be available at the compressor output while suppressing outputs of all other scan chains of the plurality of scan chains. |
| US11754620B2 |
DUT placement and handling for active thermal interposer device
A stand-alone active thermal interposer device for use in testing a system-in-package device under test (DUT), the active thermal interposer device includes a body layer having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface is operable to be disposed adjacent to a cold plate, and a plurality of heating zones defined across a second surface of the body layer, the plurality of heating zones operable to be controlled by a thermal controller to selectively heat and maintain respective temperatures thereof, the plurality of heating zones operable to heat a plurality of areas of the DUT when the second surface of the body layer is disposed adjacent to an interface surface of the DUT during testing of the DUT. |
| US11754616B2 |
Methods and systems to test semiconductor devices based on dynamically updated boundary values
A method for testing semiconductor devices is disclosed, which includes: obtaining a result measured on a semiconductor device in one of a set of tests; comparing the result with a maximum value determined among respective results that were previously measured in one or more of the set of tests and a minimum value determined among respective results that were previously measured in one or more of the set of tests; determining, based on the comparison between the first result and the maximum and minimum values, whether to update the maximum and minimum values to calculate a delta value; comparing the delta value with a noise threshold value; determining based on the comparison between the delta value and the noise threshold value, whether to update a value of a timer; determining that the value of the timer satisfies a timer threshold; and determining that the semiconductor device incurs noise. |
| US11754615B2 |
Processor frequency improvement based on antenna optimization
A method is provided to increase processor frequency in an integrated circuit (IC). The method includes identifying a gate included in the IC, the gate having a gate threshold voltage and performing a plasma process to form an antenna signal path in signal communication with the gate. The method further comprises adjusting the plasma process or circuit design to increase plasma induced damage (PID) applied to the gate so as to alter the gate threshold voltage. |
| US11754612B2 |
Distribution transformer localization and monitoring using distributed fiber optic sensing
Distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) systems and methods for monitoring electrical power distribution transformers and locating failing/failed/malfunctioning transformers from humming signals indicative of a transformer's operational integrity and are advantageously detected/analyzed via DFOS mechanisms. |
| US11754611B2 |
Electromagnetic interference suppression circuit and related sensing circuit
An electromagnetic interference suppression circuit and a related sensing circuit. The sensing circuit includes an input and an output operatively coupled with the input. The input is adapted to be connected on a power line and in series between a load and a shunt circuit connected across power lines between a power source and the load. The output is adapted to provide a signal (Vs) associated with an electromagnetic interference signal (Vn) generated by or at the load and arranged to be experienced by the shunt circuit. The signal (Vs) can be used for determining a suppression signal (Vn′) for reducing, or substantially eliminating, the electromagnetic interference signal (Vn). The electromagnetic interference suppression circuit includes the sensing circuit, a regulator circuit, and a controlled signal source. |
| US11754605B2 |
Series tee splitter for impedance measurements
A series tee splitter comprises a primary electromagnetic transmission line and a secondary electromagnetic transmission line that is placed in a series path with the primary electromagnetic transmission line, wherein a load is attached to the end of the secondary electromagnetic transmission line and a network analyzer is connected to opposite ends of the primary electromagnetic transmission line to measure a load impedance. This configuration increases the high impedance measurement limit of the network analyzer normally seen for reflection measurements. The series tee splitter can be electrically small to provide broadband impedance information. |
| US11754601B2 |
Measuring frequency of microwave signal
A frequency measurement method and a system thereof are provided. The method includes: generating to-be-detected emergent light under an action of the electro-optical crystal when a light source irradiates an electro-optical crystal disposed in the microwave electric field; detecting, by a single-photon detector, the to-be-detected emergent light to obtain a detection result of the single-photon detector; and determining a frequency of the microwave signal based on the detection result of the single-photon detector and a Fourier transform algorithm. |
| US11754600B1 |
Method for determining an electric current with a shunt arrangement, with compensation of heating in the shunt arrangement generated by the current
A method for determining an electric current includes sending the electric current to be measured through a shunt arrangement that includes at least three identical resistors. The at least three identical resistors are thermally coupled to a common base plate and are electrically interconnected such that the electric current is at least partially divided such that a first local current through a first resistor is not equal to a second local current through a second resistor. The method also includes measuring, at the shunt arrangement, a first voltage and a second voltage via which the voltage dropping across a first resistor and across a second resistor are directly or indirectly determinable, and determining the electric current via the first voltage and the second voltage. A heating in the shunt arrangement generated by the electric current is at least partially taken into account in the determining the electric current. |
| US11754599B2 |
Precision dynamic range expansion for current measurement
A measurement circuit comprises an input terminal to receive a current signal, a first circuit branch coupled to the first terminal and including one or more circuit elements to receive a portion of the current signal, a second circuit branch coupled to the first terminal and including one or more additional circuit elements to receive another portion of the current signal, a nonlinear circuit element coupling the first circuit branch to the second circuit branch, and a quantization circuit configured to produce an input current measurement of current in the first and second circuit branches, and to include current in the second circuit branch in the input current measurement according to a magnitude of the input current signal. |
| US11754596B2 |
Test site configuration in an automated test system
An example test system includes a test socket for testing a DUT, a lid for the test socket, and an actuator configured to force the lid onto the test socket and to remove the lid from the test socket. The actuator includes an upper arm to move the lid, an attachment mechanism connected to the upper arm to contact the lid, where the attachment mechanism is configured to allow the lid to float relative to the test socket to enable alignment between the lid and the test socket, and a lower arm to anchor the actuator to a board containing the test socket. The actuator is configured to move the upper arm linearly towards and away from the test socket and to rotate the upper arm towards and away from the test socket. |
| US11754595B2 |
Method for calibrating linear vibration and angular vibration based on monocular vision
A method for calibrating linear vibration and angular vibration based on monocular vision. A motion sequence image of a feature mark is acquired by an industrial camera, and an output signal of a linear and angular accelerometer is acquired by a data acquisition card, where the feature mark and the linear and angular accelerometer are fixed on a work table. An exciting acceleration of the linear and angular accelerometer is measured by a monocular vision method integrating a camera calibration method and a sub-pixel edge extraction method based on line segment detection. The exciting acceleration and the output signal are fitted by a sine approximation method, respectively, and corresponding fitted peaks are obtained. A sensitivity of the linear and angular accelerometer is obtained according to the fitted peaks. |
| US11754593B2 |
Signal processing device, inertial sensor, signal processing method, and program
A signal processing device includes a detection circuit, a correction circuit, and a comparator circuit. The detection circuit generates a first detection signal, based on an output signal of a capacitive detection element that detects inertial force. The correction circuit corrects non-linearity of the first detection signal and outputs a second detection signal thus corrected. The comparator circuit compares the first detection signal and the second detection signal with each other and outputs a comparison signal representing a result of comparison. |
| US11754592B1 |
System for detecting peaks in vibrational energy spectra
The magnitude and frequency of a peak in detected vibrational energy emitted from a component that includes a periodic portion is provided to monitor the component for faults. A Fast Fourier Transform of the signal is taken to generate a spectrum. A maximum index in the spectrum is found between a determined frequency bound. An array of parameters is generated and a determined optimized transform root is used on the array of parameters. An interpolated peak location is estimated based on the array and an interpolated frequency is found based on the peak location. An interpolated magnitude is then determined. The use of the optimized transform root in the processing results in significant improvements to the magnitude and frequency estimations, which can improve, for example, detection of defects from vibration spectra of rotating components, estimates of energy radiated from an electronic component, or analysis of spectral content of ionizing radiation. |
| US11754589B2 |
Acceleration transducer
An acceleration transducer defines a rectangular coordinate system with two orthogonal horizontal axes that are both normal to a vertical axis and includes a main body disposed within a housing and defining tangential side faces arranged tangentially to the vertical axis, and a normal side face arranged normally to the vertical axis. A piezoelectric element is secured to one of the tangential side faces, and a seismic mass secured to the piezoelectric element. A signal output is attached to the housing and includes a signal conductor spaced apart by an assembly gap from a tangential side face that is not attached to the piezoelectric element. The assembly gap extends perpendicularly to the vertical axis. The normal side face includes main body output conductors spanning the assembly gap in a direction perpendicular to the vertical axis and directly contacting the signal conductor. |
| US11754587B2 |
Activity tracking using motion sensors in a wireless luminaire network
An example method includes determining, at an aggregated point in time, an aggregated space node motion amount detected in a plurality of node sensing areas of a plurality of the nodes. The determining the aggregated space node motion amount includes compiling a plurality of sensing records from a subset or all of the nodes created by the subset or all of the nodes at a time substantially close to the aggregated point in time. The method additionally includes computing a temporal aggregated motion amount detected in a node sensing area of a respective node over time, using the aggregated time node motion amount. The method further includes computing a spatial aggregated motion amount in a portion of a space, using the aggregated space node motion amount, wherein the portion of the space correlates to the node sensing areas of the plurality of nodes. |
| US11754585B1 |
Air velocity measuring device
A fluid-flow measuring apparatus is made of an enclosure housing that supports a plurality of flow-receiving tubes, each one of which has a plurality of apertures the either face substantially towards the source of fluid flow or away therefrom, a dispersing blade with a surface located in a plane that is parallel to a plane that is tangent to the surface of at least one of the plurality of flow-receiving tubes, a hub intersecting at least one of the plurality of flow-receiving tubes, and a facilitator structure that separates at least two of the plurality of flow-receiving tubes. |
| US11754584B2 |
Bearing and associated sensor bearing unit
The bearing provides a first ring and a second ring centered on an axis, each of the first and second rings being provided with an outer cylindrical surface, with an inner cylindrical surface, and with lateral faces that axially delimit the outer and inner cylindrical surface. One of the inner and outer cylindrical surfaces and/or one of the lateral faces of the first ring includes a textured area provided with a groove extending circumferentially and with two protrusions disposed one on each side of the groove and extending along the groove. |
| US11754581B2 |
Positioning system for positioning end effectors
A positioning system (1) that has a system main part (4), on which multiple working units (6) are arranged next to one another in the axial direction of a y-axis, said working units being linearly movable, thereby carrying out a working movement (8) in the axial direction of a z-axis. Each working unit (6) is paired with a dedicated drive unit (7) in order to be actuated, said drive unit having a stator (23) attached to the system main part (4) and an output element (24) drivingly connected to the working unit (6) via a coupling section (26). The stators (23) are distributed into multiple stator rows (58) which are aligned in the axial direction of the y-axis and are arranged one behind the other in the axial direction of the x-axis, wherein the stators (23) of each pair of adjacent stator rows (58) are offset to one another with a mutual overlap in the axial direction of the y-axis. |
| US11754579B2 |
Systems and methods for rapid generation of droplet libraries
Arrays of droplet-on-demand dispensers are controlled by a row-column addressing scheme that can reduce the number of on-chip address lines, thereby making it feasible to construct large dispenser arrays. Decoders are used to further reduce the number of control lines that select a specific address line. A microfluidic logic controller includes row-select lines, each coupled to dispensers disposed on the same row, and column-select lines, each coupled to dispensers disposed on the same column such that each dispenser is associated with a unique row-column address. A logic circuit can actuate a dispenser only if the logic circuit receives signals from both of the row-select line and the column-select line corresponding to the row-column address of the selected dispenser. Reagents can be dispensed from the dispenser array, thereby allowing for rapid formatting of a reagent library into microfluidic droplets. |
| US11754573B2 |
Methods for the quantitation of polypeptides
Provided are methods for quantitating an amount of a polypeptide that comprises a portion of an antibody present in a sample (e.g., a plasma or serum sample) wherein the antibody comprises a constant region (e.g., a heavy chain or light chain constant region) that comprises an engineered mutation. |
| US11754571B2 |
Labelled compounds and methods for mass spectrometry-based quantification
Methods for peptide and/or protein quantification by mass spectrometry using labeled peptides, wherein multiple labels lead to distinct fragments for the labeled peptides and their unlabeled variant, thus facilitating data analysis and enhancing the potential for quantification. Methods for selecting the label and label position are further given, as well as sets of labeled peptides resulting from or for use in the above-mentioned methods. The methods and substances are especially useful for data-independent or multiplexed parallel reaction monitoring proteomics applications involving peptide quantification. |
| US11754570B2 |
Methods for quantitation of functional C1 esterase inhibitor (FC1-INH)
Methods for quantitation of fC1-INH from dried blood spot are provided herein. Such methods may comprise spotting and drying a blood sample on a support member, extracting protein from the dried blood sample and measuring the level of fC1-INH in the extracted proteins. |
| US11754569B2 |
Methods for characterizing protein complexes
Methods for characterizing protein complexes formed between protein drug products and soluble ligands are provided herein. The disclosed methods can determine the size, heterogeneity, and conformation of protein complexes. |
| US11754565B2 |
Methods and kits for quantifying the removal of mock virus particles from a purified solution
The present invention relates to a method of quantifying the amount of Mock Virus Particles (MVP) removed from a solution as a result of processing that solution through a purification technique. This method involves the steps of adding MVP to a solution, processing the solution through a purification technique, quantifying the amount of MVP removed from the solution. The present invention also relates to a kit that can be used in conjunction with the method. This kit will comprise at least one stock solution of MVP and at least one quantification solution. |
| US11754563B2 |
Porous membranes with a polymer grafting, methods and uses thereof
A device comprising a modified porous membrane is provided. The modified porous membrane comprises a polymer coating grafted to a porous membrane. The device is used for analyte detection from a biological sample using an immunoassay. The device comprises a sample application zone at one end of the device for applying a biological sample comprising a target analyte; and a detection zone present at another end of the device, downstream of the sample application zone for detecting the target analyte, wherein the detection zone comprises one or more first biomolecules immobilized on a modified porous membrane having a structure of Formula (I). |
| US11754557B2 |
Method and apparatus for analysis of protein-protein interaction
Disclosed are a method for analyzing an activation state of a signaling pathway in a cell or tissue through protein-protein interaction analysis, a method for selecting a tailored personal therapeutic agent and/or monitoring efficacy of a therapeutic agent using the analysis method, and a device for use therein. |
| US11754551B2 |
Reprogramming cell aging
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for identifying transcriptional and epigenetic age-related markers. Disclosed herein are also methods and compositions for reprogramming cell age by modulating transcriptional and epigenetic age-related markers identified herein. The identified transcriptional and epigenetic age-related markers can also be used for measuring cellular age in a cell or tissue. |
| US11754545B2 |
Water quality monitor system and method
A water quality monitor system comprising a base having a first end and a second end is disclosed. A cover is removably coupled to the first end of the base such that the cover surrounds and covers the first end of the base. A flow cell jar is connected to the second end of the base. A sensor probe is connected to the second end of the base and extends downward into the flow cell jar. The sensor probe is configured to measure a plurality of water quality parameters. The base includes an inlet and an outlet connected to opposing ends of the base and connected in-line to the plumbing of a pool recirculation system. A controller is configured to provide a connection between the water quality monitor and a cloud-based storage system, using a wireless network. The measured water quality parameters are transmitted to the cloud storage system. |
| US11754542B2 |
System for nutritional monitoring and management
This invention is a system for nutritional monitoring and management which includes a camera, a spectroscopic sensor, a fiducial component, a wearable biometric sensor, a smart utensil or dish, a passive feedback mechanism which provides a person with information concerning food item types and/or quantities, and an active stimulus mechanism which modifies the person's food-related physiological processes. This system can help a person to improve their dietary habits and health. |
| US11754541B2 |
Fluorine detection in a gas discharge light source
An apparatus includes: a gas maintenance system having a gas supply system fluidly connected to one or more gas discharge chambers; a detection apparatus fluidly connected to each gas discharge chamber; and a control system connected to the gas maintenance system and the detection apparatus. The detection apparatus includes: a vessel defining a reaction cavity that houses a metal oxide and is fluidly connected to the gas discharge chamber for receiving mixed gas including fluorine from the gas discharge chamber in the reaction cavity, the vessel enabling a reaction between the fluorine of the received mixed gas and the metal oxide to form a new gas mixture including oxygen; and an oxygen sensor fluidly connected to the new gas mixture to sense an amount of oxygen within the new gas mixture. The control system is configured to estimate a concentration of fluorine in the received mixed gas. |
| US11754536B2 |
Methods and compositions for analyte quantification
Disclosed are methods, libraries, and samples for quantifying a target analyte in a laboratory sample including the target analyte. The methods typically include the step of estimating the amount of the target analyte in the laboratory sample from mass spectrometric data including signal intensities for the target analyte and one or more internal standards, where the mass spectrometric data are an output of a mass spectrometric analysis of a target sample produced from the laboratory sample and a predetermined amount of the one or more internal standards. The present disclosure also provides a method for analyte quantification. The method comprises adding one or more calibrators to a sample comprising one or more analytes; applying mass spectrometry (MS) to the sample; and using a trained machine learning model to determine an absolute concentration of the one or more analytes. |
| US11754535B2 |
Ultrasonic in-situ automatic detection system for creep cracks on inner wall of hydrogen production furnace tube
An ultrasonic in-situ automatic detection system for creep cracks on an inner wall of a hydrogen production furnace tube. The system comprises a computer, a multi-channel ultrasonic system control circuit, a motor driver board, a coreless motor, and a tube crawling machine. Multi-channel piezoelectric transducers are arranged in a circumferential direction of the furnace tube. The computer is configured to send detection instructions to the multi-channel ultrasonic system control circuit through a wireless network; the multi-channel ultrasonic system control circuit is configured to control multiple channels to simultaneously excite the piezoelectric transducers, receive echo signals from the piezoelectric transducers and then send the echo signals back to the computer in a wireless mode; and the motor driver board is configured to drive the coreless motor to drive the tube crawling machine to move, receive motion parameters fed back by motor encoders, and send the motion parameters back to the computer. |
| US11754530B2 |
Structure evaluation method and structure evaluation system
According to one embodiment, a structure evaluation system includes a wave guide, a first sensor, a second sensor, and a calculation part. The wave guide is formed in a rod shape, is inserted into a hole that is formed at a predetermined depth from a surface of a measurement target, and has one end fixed to a deepest portion of the hole. The first sensor is provided at the other end of the wave guide at a position that is substantially the same as the surface. The second sensor is provided on the surface of the measurement target. The calculation part estimates a depth of damage occurring in the measurement target from the surface on the basis of a first detection value of an elastic wave transmitted to the measurement target which is detected by the first sensor through the wave guide and a second detection value obtained by an elastic wave which is detected by the second sensor. |
| US11754525B2 |
Gas detector with an ionizing device
The disclosure provides a gas detector with an ionizing device for producing ions depending on a gas to be detected. The gas detector includes a catcher for receiving the electrical current produced by the ions, and a measuring device with an electrical measuring resistor. The electrical measuring resistor produces an electrical measuring potential from the current and is surrounded, at least in part, by an electrical shield resistor, denoted by RT. The same potentials, up to a deviation of at most 25%, are applied in the longitudinal direction of the electrical measuring resistor to mutually opposed regions of the electrical measuring resistor and the electrical shield resistor. |
| US11754518B2 |
Methods and systems to determine tortuosity of rock and fluids in porous media
Methods and systems are provided that employ a combination of dielectric dispersion measurement(s) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) measurement(s) to determine data that characterizes tortuosity of rock and data that characterizes tortuosity of fluid phases in the rock independently from one another. |
| US11754517B2 |
Inspection apparatus for inspecting semiconductor devices using charged particles
An inspection apparatus and a method of inspecting a semiconductor device are disclosed. The inspection apparatus includes a stage on which a semiconductor device is positioned, a first light source irradiating a high-frequency light onto an inspection area of the semiconductor device to reduce a potential barrier of a PN junction in the semiconductor device, a beam scanner arranged over the semiconductor device and irradiating a charged particle beam onto the inspection area of the semiconductor device to generate secondary electrons, and a defect detector generating a detection image corresponding to the inspection area and detecting, based on a voltage contrast between a reference image and a plurality of detection images, a defect image indicating a defect in the semiconductor device from among the plurality of detection images. |
| US11754514B2 |
Radiography inspection and fail-safe mechanism for pipe traversing robots
A radiography system for use on a pipe traversing robot, including a mechanism configured to automatically adjust the position(s) of a radiation source and/or an imager thereof based on a diameter of the pipe. Another radiography system including a computer vision system configured to process radiography imagery to define a measured interface between the pipe and insulation surrounding the pipe, and a control system configured to automatically adjust a position(s) of a radiation source and/or an imager thereof based on a location of or non-presence of the measured interface in the radiography imagery. A computer vision system for detecting potential anomalies in a pipe's surface. A fail safe mechanism configured to prevent a robot from falling off a pipe while allowing the robot to traverse obstacles extending from or tangential to the pipe. A robot having one or more fail safe mechanisms configured to be selectably extended and retracted. |
| US11754513B2 |
Absorption imaging apparatus and detector array therefor
An array (1) for detecting electromagnetic radiation is provided for a radiographic inspection system (20). The array has a plurality of detector elements (2) arranged consecutively along a scan line which extends in a first direction (Y). Each of the detector elements has a detection surface (3) for receiving electromagnetic radiation and converting the received electromagnetic radiation into a corresponding detection signal. Each detection surface (3) has a surface normal (4, N) that extends in a common plane (S) and converges into a common focus (5). The common plane (S) extends in the first direction (Y). The distances between the common focus and the detection surfaces along the respective surface normal (4, N) are different for at least two detector elements. |
| US11754505B2 |
Measuring deflection to determine a characteristic of a cantilever
Disclosed are methods that, by not physically touching a material being measured, can measure the material's differential response quite accurately. A collimated light shines on the material under test, is reflected off it, and is then captured by a device that records the position where the reflected light is captured. This process is done both before and after the material is processed in some way (e.g., by applying a coat of paint). The change in position where the reflected light is captured is used in calculating the deflection of the material as induced by the process. This measured induced deflection is then used to accurately determinate the stress introduced into the material by the process. Other characteristics of the material under test, such as aspects of the material composition of a bi-metallic strip, for example, may also be determined from a deflection measurement. |
| US11754503B1 |
Measurement deviation correction method and system for spark discharge analysis of large-size metal material
A measurement deviation correction method and system for spark discharge analysis of a large-size metal material includes: performing line-by-line scanning measurement on a surface of the material to obtain a line component content, performing in-line correction on the line component content by adopting a line linear fitting model, and performing inter-line correction by taking a total average value obtained by eliminating an extreme value from a line component content distribution to obtain an inter-line corrected component content; performing column-by-column scanning measurement on the surface of the material to obtain a column component content, performing in-column correction on the column component content by adopting a column linear fitting model, and performing inter-column correction by taking a total average value obtained by eliminating an extreme value from the column component content; and coupling the inter-line corrected component content and the inter-column corrected component content to obtain an optimal measurement component content. |
| US11754495B2 |
Air quality monitoring system and method
In one illustrative configuration, an air quality monitoring system may enable wide-scale deployment of multiple air quality monitors with high-confidence and actionable data is provided. Further, the air quality monitoring system may enable identifying a target emission from a plurality of potential sources at a site based on simulating plume models. The simulation of plume models may take into consideration various simulation parameters including wind speed and direction. Further, methods of determining a plume flux of a plume of emissions at a site, and methods of transmitting data from an air quality monitor are disclosed. |
| US11754483B2 |
Method of estimating a line width of a nanoparticle line formed using a capillary tube, and related methods
A method of obtaining a numerical model is disclosed. The numerical model correlates estimated line width values to minimum pressure for gas bubble generation (MPGBG) values. An MPGBG value of each capillary tube in the reference group is measured for a liquid. A nanoparticle composition is deposited, under standard conditions, on substrate(s) from each respective reference capillary tube, to form nanoparticle lines. A line width of each of the nanoparticle lines deposited using each respective reference capillary tube is measured by a microscope apparatus. A numerical model that correlates estimated line width values to MPGBG values for the liquid is calculated. |
| US11754473B2 |
Method and apparatus to manipulate biological sections
An automated tissue section slicing, staining, and imaging system sequentially adheres tissue sections to a continuous substrate such that the staining, imaging, and interpretation of the tissue sections are readily carried out at high speed under machine control. |
| US11754471B1 |
Techniques for testing a deflection of a structural section of a vehicle
Techniques and methods for testing a structural integrity of a vehicle. For instance, the vehicle may use suspension(s) to lift corners of the vehicle, where lifting the corners creates a torsion force in the body of the vehicle. The vehicle may then use sensor(s) to determine a deflection that is caused by the torsion force. Next, the vehicle may determine a stiffness associated with the body of the vehicle using the force that was applied to lift the corners and the deflection. After determining the stiffness, the vehicle may compare the stiffness to a baseline stiffness in order to determine whether there is a problem with the structural integrity of the vehicle. The baseline stiffness may include s standard stiffness or be based on a previous test of the vehicle. If the vehicle determines that there is no problem, then the vehicle may continue to operate as intended. |
| US11754466B2 |
Mode-dependent loss measurement device and mode-dependent loss measuring method
A mode-dependent loss measurement device measures a mode-dependent loss of a measurement target optical fiber including a coupled MCF. The device includes a light source, a light receiver, a mode coupled state changer, and an analysis unit. The light source inputs light to an input end of an excitation optical fiber including another coupled MCF. The light receiver detects a sum of powers of outputted light beams from a plurality of core end faces positioned on an output end of the measurement target optical fiber. The mode coupled state changer changes a mode coupled state of the excitation optical fiber. The analysis unit obtains a mode-dependent loss of the measurement target optical fiber from variations in optical powers detected by the light receiver. |
| US11754465B2 |
Optical pulse testing device and optical pulse testing method
An object of the present invention is to provide an optical pulse test apparatus and an optical pulse test method that are capable of determining a change in state of an optical fiber connection portion without the need for reference and without being affected by changes in gap interval before and after the change in state. The optical pulse test apparatus according to the present invention is configured to perform an OTDR measurement by using test optical pulses having spectral widths of from several nm to several hundred nm arranged at intervals of several ten nm to several hundred nm, calculate a reflection peak value caused by the Fresnel reflection at the connection portion from the obtained OTDR waveform, and determine a state such as water immersion of the optical fiber connection portion based on the value. |
| US11754464B2 |
Wind tunnel test equipment using wind force integration
A wind tunnel test equipment using wind force integration includes: a structural model whose interior is empty; an internal support disposed inside the structural model; and load sensors disposed outside the internal support and coming into close contact with the inner surfaces of the structural model to measure aerodynamic forces applied to the structural model. |
| US11754460B2 |
System and method intended to estimate a good distribution of loading onboard an aircraft
A system to estimate the good distribution of loading onboard an aircraft capable of carrying out a target mission. The system includes at least one operability index determination module, a module for verifying whether the distribution of loading onboard the aircraft is considered to be a good distribution by comparing the operability index of the target mission with a predetermined operability index threshold. The determination of the operability index makes it possible to know whether the aircraft can carry out a target mission in good conditions. |
| US11754449B2 |
System for inspecting surfaces of an optical wave using a graduated density filter
Systems for inspecting a surface of an optical wave originating from an optical device are provided. The optical device includes an exit pupil, and the inspection system includes an optical measuring head and a computer for processing the images from said optical measuring head. The optical measuring head includes a density gradient filter, the density varying periodically in the two directions in space, a matrix frame having at least four identical lenses of square shape of the same focal length and being arranged symmetrically, and a photodetector array, each of the four lenses forming an image of the pupil in the plane of this array. The image processing computer includes computing means for computing the partial derivatives ∂ Δ ∂ x ( x , y ) and ∂ Δ ∂ y ( x , y ) of the wave surface Δ(x, y) in the plane of the exit pupil. |
| US11754441B2 |
Color filter array having color filters, and image sensor and display device including the color filter array
A color filter array may include a plurality of color filters arranged two-dimensionally and configured to allow light of different wavelengths to pass therethrough. Each of the plurality of color filters includes at least one Mie resonance particle and a transparent dielectric surrounding the at least one Mie resonance particle. |
| US11754440B2 |
Opto-mechanical structure design of thin LGA package with glass cover and a thickness of an aperture ceiling is 0.20MM
The invention provides an optical sensor package. The optical sensor package includes: a printed circuit board (PCB); a sensor disposed on the PCB; a glass cover disposed directly on the sensor; and an aperture disposed on the PCB comprised of a solid perimeter surrounding the sensor and a ceiling having a cut-out section above the glass cover. The cut-out section of the ceiling is smaller in area than the glass cover. The part of the aperture ceiling which overhangs the glass cover is thicker than the remaining part. The optical sensor package further includes an LED die disposed on the PCB, and Kapton tape placed over the ceiling of the aperture. |
| US11754437B2 |
Measuring deflection to determine a dynamic characteristic of a cantilever
Disclosed are methods that, by not physically touching the material being measured, can measure the material's differential, response quite accurately. A collimated light shines on the material under test, is reflected off it, and is then captured by a recording device. The position where the reflected light is captured is used to calculate the deflection of the material. Dynamic characteristics of the material under test may be determined from the deflection measurement. The vibration frequency or vibration amplitude of a cantilever can be determined by repeated deflection measurements, all without physically touching the cantilever during the measurement process. |
| US11754436B2 |
High-frequency reciprocal transducer calibration
A high-frequency dynamic pressure transducer calibration system and method is provided. The method directs a source onto a diaphragm of a dynamic pressure transducer. An oscillating voltage at a target frequency (or range of frequencies) is generated. The oscillating voltage is coupled to an electrical connector of the dynamic pressure transducer. A deflection pattern of the diaphragm is recorded. The dynamic pressure transducer is calibrated by correlating magnitude of the deflection pattern with the oscillating voltage as a function of the target frequency (or range of frequencies). |
| US11754432B2 |
System and method for detecting problems within compound water meters
Embodiments of systems and methods are provided to monitor operation of a compound water meter comprising a low flow meter and a high flow meter. In the disclosed embodiments, a first sensor package is coupled to the low flow meter to generate a first set of sensor data for monitoring operation of the low flow meter, and a second sensor package is coupled to the high flow meter to generate a second set of sensor data for monitoring operation of the high flow meter. The first and second sensor packages may each include, e.g., an optical sensor, a magnetic sensor and a vibration sensor. In the disclosed embodiments, the first and second sets of sensor data are analyzed to detect various potential problems within the compound water meter, such as a register failure, a crossover failure, a measurement failure, a bypass open condition and/or an incorrect flow meter size. |
| US11754427B1 |
Resource consumption measurement system and method
A system is disclosed to obtain energy consumption data for an energy monitored property. An identification module is configured to identify, based on first actual energy usage data for the energy-monitored property, one or more daily, weekly, or monthly future time periods when energy consumption is not likely to occur or is likely minimal within the energy-monitored property. A calibration module is configured to transmit electrical signals to open and close at least one of the gas valve and an AC unit switch in accordance with the calibration schedule during a period of time within the one or more daily, weekly, or monthly future periods of time. A computational module may be utilized to calculate a first computed flow rate for the at least one of the gas valve and the AC unit switch. A method and computer program product related to the foregoing system are also disclosed. |
| US11754423B2 |
Intelligent skin based on small-size distributed optical fiber sensing array
An intelligent skin based on a small-size distributed optical fiber sensing array. The intelligent skin includes an epidermis sensing array, an embedded optical fiber sensing array, a data collection system module, and a data processing mode recognition module. The body of the intelligent skin is made of a flexible material. The embedded optical fiber sensing array in an epidermis includes a plurality of all-fiber interferomatic sensing arrays. The data collection system module includes a broadband light source, an optical combiner/splitter, an optical path change-over switch, a signal detector and a computer. The data processing mode recognition module includes mode recognition and training of a neural network. The intelligent skin further includes an external display software used to perform intelligent sensing recognition for sense of touch, position, shape, and ingredient, temperature and vibration of an object and so on. |
| US11754421B2 |
Resolver signal processing device, drive apparatus, resolver signal processing method, and program
A resolver signal processing device includes a deviation calculation unit, a PI operation unit, and an integration operation unit. The deviation calculation unit calculates a deviation between a first product obtained by multiplying a signal of phase A by a cosine value based on a reference phase θref and a second product obtained by multiplying a signal of phase B by a sine value based on the reference phase θref. The PI operation unit carries out a proportional integration operation which includes a first integration operation and is defined to converge the deviation on zero on the basis of the deviation. The integration operation unit carries out a second integration operation of integrating a value generated from a result of the proportional integration operation and outputs a result of the second integration operation as phase information of the resolver. |
| US11754420B2 |
Accuracy improvement in linear variable differential transformer based position measurements
System and methods for accuracy improvement of an LVDT are provided. Aspects include determining a first voltage from the first PGA and a second voltage from the second PGA, wherein the first voltage is determined from a PGA coupled to a first secondary winding, and wherein the second voltage is determined from a second PGA coupled to a second secondary winding, iteratively performing: analyzing the first voltage to determine a gain correction is needed for a first gain for the first PGA, the gain correction comprising change to the first gain, and analyzing the second voltage to determine a gain correction is needed for a second gain for the second PGA, the gain correction comprising change to the second gain, based on determining a gain correction is not needed for the first gain and the second gain, calculating a position based on the first voltage and the second voltage. |
| US11754419B2 |
Auto-detection of communication module protocol in utility metering systems
A metering system including a utility meter having a processing circuit and a communication module interface. The metering system also includes a communication module electronically coupled to the utility meter via the communication module interface. The communication module interface is configured to transmit information to, and receive information from, the utility meter. The processing circuit of the utility meter includes one or more electronic processors that are configured to receive a first message from the communication, read a header frame of the first message, and determine a message type of the first message based on the header frame. The electronic processors are also configured to verify the first message based on the determined message type, and process the first message based on the determined message type. |
| US11754418B2 |
On-line web accessed energy meter
An electrical metering system capable of performing multiple metering functions, collecting data, and wirelessly provides the collected metering data to a utility operator. In the electrical metering system, at least one computing device for initiating a request for data. A first modem connects the computing device to an infrastructure. A wireless embedded modem for wirelessly connects an electric meter to an infrastructure, and the wireless electric modem receives a request from the computing device and wirelessly transmits the metering data to the computing device, thereby initiating the request. |
| US11754417B2 |
Information generating device, vehicle control system, information generation method, and computer program product
An information generating device according to an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors: acquire environmental information indicating a state of environment around a vehicle; acquire abnormality information indicating an abnormality on a road, the abnormality having possibility of affecting traveling of the vehicle; acquire vehicle information including at least one of information on a traveling operation of the vehicle and information on specifications of the vehicle; and generate notification information indicating an operation to be performed by the vehicle against the abnormality on the road, the notification information being generated based on the environmental information, the abnormality information, and the vehicle information. |
| US11754409B2 |
Dynamic route adjustment
An autonomous vehicle including a vehicle propulsion system, a braking system, a steering system, and a computing system. The computing system includes a processor and memory that stores computer-executable instructions that cause the processor to select a route for a passenger of the autonomous vehicle for a trip to a destination. The route for the passenger is selected from a plurality of potential routes. The route for the passenger is selected based on a preference of the passenger and aggregate ride quality feedback from passengers of autonomous vehicles in a fleet at locations along the potential routes to the destination. The processor is further configured to control at least one of the vehicle propulsion system, the braking system, or the steering system to move the autonomous vehicle along the route as selected for the trip to the destination. |
| US11754408B2 |
Methods and systems for topological planning in autonomous driving
Systems and methods of maneuvering an autonomous vehicle in a local region using topological planning, while traversing a route to a destination location, are disclosed. The system includes an autonomous vehicle including one or more sensors and a processor. The processor is configured to determine the local region on the route and receive real-time information corresponding to the local region. The processor performs topological planning to identify on or more topologically distinct classes of trajectories, compute a constraint set for each of the one or more topologically distinct classes of trajectories, optimize a trajectory to generate a candidate trajectory for each constraint set, and select a trajectory for the autonomous vehicle to traverse the local region from amongst the one or more candidate trajectories. Each of the one or more topologically distinct classes is associated with a plurality of trajectories that take the same combination of discrete actions with respect to objects in the local region. |
| US11754407B2 |
Method and system for shared transport
A transport arrangement system operates to provide a service, which can receive a transport pool request from a rider. The transport pool request can specify a set of parameters, including a pickup location and a drop-off location. A candidate set of transport providers are identified that satisfy one or more criterion, including a criterion of proximity relative to the pickup location. One of the candidate set of drivers is selected to provide a transport pool for the rider. The selection can be based at least in part on determining which individual drivers of the candidate set satisfy one or more constraints, including a first constraint that relate to a predicted trip completion time for the rider. |
| US11754406B2 |
Multi-stop route selection system
A multi-stop route selection system may include a telematics device associated with a vehicle having one or more sensors arranged therein, a mobile device, and a server computer. The server computer may receive driving data of a driver of the vehicle and a vehicle location from the telematics device, determine one or more driving behaviors of the driver based on the driving data, receive data regarding a calendar of the driver from the mobile device, identify a plurality of appointments in the calendar, determine a route comprising multiple destinations for the driver based on the vehicle location, the one or more driving behaviors, and the plurality of appointments, transmit the route to the mobile device, receive a request to add a new destination to the route from the mobile device, generate a modified route comprising the new destination, and transmit the modified route for the driver to the mobile device. |
| US11754403B2 |
Self-position correction method and self-position correction device
A self-position correction method and/or a self-position correction device use a coordinate of the axis parallel to a front-rear direction of a vehicle as a longitudinal coordinate, calculate a corrected vehicle speed by adding a vehicle speed to a correction amount set based on a longitudinal correction amount obtained by subtracting a value of the longitudinal coordinate of a position of a target object detected by a detection unit from a value of the longitudinal coordinate of a position of a target object registered on a map data, and correct a position of the vehicle on the map data by estimating a position of the vehicle based on sequential integration of a calculated movement amount of the vehicle based on the corrected vehicle speed and a yaw rate of the vehicle. |
| US11754400B2 |
Motion constraint-aided underwater integrated navigation method employing improved Sage-Husa adaptive filtering
A motion constraint-aided underwater integrated navigation method employing improved Sage-Husa adaptive filtering includes establishing a Doppler log error model; constructing a state equation for an underwater integrated navigation system employing Kalman filtering; according to a relationship between a centripetal acceleration and a forward velocity of an underwater vehicle, establishing a constraint condition, and constructing a complete motion constraint model; establishing two measurement equations; and establishing a filter equation, conducting calculation by using a standard Kalman filtering algorithm when an underwater glider normally runs, and conducting time updating, measurement updating and filtering updating by using an improved Sage-Husa adaptive filtering algorithm when a measurement noise varies. The motion constraint-aided underwater integrated navigation method improves a filtering accuracy of the underwater integrated navigation system, restrains a filter divergence and has robustness and reliability. |
| US11754393B2 |
Laser level interface and control
Various laser level designs and remote controls are shown. In another example, the remote control for a laser level receives a plurality of interface protocols configured to control one or more laser levels, and subsequently selects one of the interface protocols when initiating control of a laser level. In another example, the relative positions a remote control with respect to a laser level are determined, and subsequently a visual representation is presented at the remote control based on the relative positions. |
| US11754391B2 |
Method and system for determining an angular position of a component of a goods processing apparatus
A goods processing apparatus can include a pivotable display, a sensor, and a controller. The sensor detects an angle of inclination of the pivotable display. The pivotable display is rotatable about a x-axis of a Cartesian coordinate system. The sensor is disposed on the pivotable display and includes respective transducers at least in a direction of a y-axis and a z-axis of the Cartesian coordinate system. The sensor generates respective digital measured values for each of the y-axis and the z-axis. The controller processes the two digital measured values to derive the angle of inclination of the pivotable display based on the two digital measured values, and stores, in a memory of the goods processing apparatus, the derived angle of inclination. |
| US11754390B2 |
Method, system, and apparatus for optical measurement
A method, system and apparatus are provided in accordance with example embodiments for optically measuring workpiece features, and more particularly, to optically measure internal surfaces of round bores and countersinks. Methods include: advancing a probe through a bore and a countersink; and measuring dimensions of the bore and the countersink using a bore laser cone and a countersink laser cone, where the bore laser cone is received at the bore camera lens in response to reflecting from a first reflective surface of the probe to a surface of the bore to a third reflective surface of the probe and to the bore camera lens, and where the countersink laser cone is received at the countersink camera lens in response to the countersink laser cone reflecting from a second reflective surface of the probe to a surface of the countersink to a countersink beam reflector and to the countersink camera lens. |
| US11754389B2 |
Estimation method, measurement method, and estimation apparatus
An estimation method includes projecting a pattern image onto an object via a zoom lens, generating imaging data by capturing the pattern image on the object, estimating, based on the imaging data, a position of a principal point of the zoom lens during the projection of the pattern image, and estimating, based on a first characteristic value representing a characteristic of the zoom lens at time when the principal point of the zoom lens is present in a first position and a second characteristic value representing a characteristic of the zoom lens at time when the principal point of the zoom lens is present in a second position, a characteristic value representing a characteristic of the zoom lens at time when the principal point of the zoom lens is present in the estimated position. |
| US11754384B2 |
Method for measuring axial clearance of bearing device for vehicle wheel
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for measuring axial clearance of a wheel bearing device, with which it is possible to make a high-precision measurement of negative axial clearance. This method comprises: a step (S02) for press-fitting an inner race (4); a first negative axial clearance measurement step (S03); a swaging step (S04); an inner-race press-in amount measurement step (S05); a first inner-race outer-diameter increment measurement step (S06); a second inner-race outer-diameter increment calculation step (S07); an outer-diameter increment difference calculation step (S08); a first axial clearance decrement calculation step (S09); a second axial clearance decrement calculation step (S10); a third axial clearance decrement calculation step (S11); and a second negative axial clearance calculation step (S12). |
| US11754380B2 |
Drone payload—energetic weapons pod
A lightweight energetic weapons pod 2 that integrates to unmanned aerial systems 1 that enables the operator the ability to engage targets without flight degradation. The device utilizes an energetic weapons pod 2 that may be reloaded to support sustained combat operations. The ability of the device to function as intended is based on explosive mitigation compression zones and recoilless configurations that allow drone survivability during detonation events. |
| US11754375B1 |
Apparatuses and wearable armor systems including electrical sources
An apparatus for an armor system includes a housing case, an interior ballistic panel, a frame, an electrical energy storage unit, a flexible backplane system, and a control unit. The housing case includes a top shell and a bottom shell, where the top shell is removably secured to the bottom shell, forming a cavity. The interior ballistic panel is removably arranged within the cavity between the top shell and the bottom shell. The frame is arranged within the cavity between the top shell and the interior ballistic panel, the frame including a compartment. The electrical energy storage unit is arranged within the compartment of the frame, and the control unit is communicatively connected to the electrical energy storage unit to manage operation of the electrical energy storage unit. The flexible backplane system includes electrical connectors and electrical traces on a flexible substrate connecting the electrical energy storage unit to the control unit. |
| US11754374B2 |
Energy absorbing nanocomposite materials and methods thereof
Composite materials capable of absorbing and dissipating high energy forces such as ballistic impacts and explosive blasts. Composites of elastomers and reinforcing nanoparticle materials are configured to absorb and dissipates high energy forces. Composites can be configured as nonwoven webs, and can be layered. Methods of making a ballistic resistant composite material capable of absorbing and dissipating high energy forces. |
| US11754373B2 |
Compact locking rail mount and mounting assembly
A locking rail mount including a body mounted adjacent to a mounting rail and a clamp screw extending through a channel defined by the body and across the mounting rail. The clamp screw includes a screw head having a surface facing toward the mounting rail with locking elements having a surface relief geometry. At least one compression spring is positioned between the body and a rail clamp that pushes the rail clamp toward the surface of the screw head. The surface of the rail clamp includes locking elements having the surface relief geometry that are complementarily arranged with respect to the locking elements of the screw head. When the clamp screw is tightened, the locking elements of the rail clamp and screw head are aligned to lock the rail clamp and clamp screw together to prevent unintended rotation of the clamp screw. |
| US11754372B2 |
Systems and methods for shooting simulation and training
Provided herein are systems and methods for shooting simulation of a target with a projectile. More particularly, the invention relates to virtual reality optical projection systems to monitor and simulate shooting. |
| US11754370B2 |
Electronic archery sights
Aspects of the present disclosure deal with archery sights mounted or mountable on an archery bow. The sight incorporates a sight pin and an adjustment assembly in combination with an electronic module to indicate or control the desired position of the sight pin. The electronic module calculates and displays correlated target distances based on the position of the sight pin. |
| US11754364B2 |
Arrow rest mounting system enabling slide-based position adjustment
An arrow rest mounting system is disclosed. The system, in an embodiment, comprises a main body configured to be coupled to an archery bow and an arm extending along an arm axis and configured to be supported by the main body. The arm comprises one or more main body engagement surfaces configured to engage the main body to at least partially surround the arm on the main body. The arm further comprises an arrow rest support configured to support an arrow rest. The arm is configured to be adjustably slid relative to the main body along the arm axis. |
| US11754363B1 |
Gimballed Precession Stabilization System
The present disclosure incorporates a spinning rotor/mass, a single or multiple gimballed points on one gimballed axis and to the focus the power of precession to “physically” provide resistance against the movements of the device it is attached to. That is why this device is called a Gimballed Precession Stabilization System. A Gimballed Precession Motor(s) of the present disclosure can be placed in a single or in multiple positions on a Firearm to achieve resistance to an angular change. A Gimballed Precession Motor(s) may be used in one or more positions depending on the desired angular constraint. The motor can be self-contained and can be designed to rotate at a high speed and allow the pivoting of the device on its mounting Gimbal Pivot Axis. |
| US11754360B2 |
Trigger assembly group and methods of use
A trigger assembly group for use in firearms is disclosed. The trigger assembly group comprises a primary trigger connected to a secondary trigger that is arranged and configured to reduce the incidence of accidental discharge caused by inadvertently rearwardly actuating a primary trigger. The disclosed primary trigger and secondary trigger are arranged and configured for linear movement within a housing. The secondary trigger includes locking wing members that move from engagement with upper locking housing grooves to lower housing grooves. The disclosed trigger assembly group further includes a trigger shoe connected to the primary trigger, wherein the trigger shoe comprises a channel formed therein. A lower portion of the secondary trigger is configured to move from a forwardmost position, extending outwardly from the front face of the trigger shoe, to a rearmost position in which the lower portion of the secondary trigger recedes into the channel of the trigger shoe. |
| US11754357B1 |
Bolt assembly for a firearm
A bolt assembly for a rimmed-cartridge firearm has a bolt head on a forward end. An extractor is located on the bolt head and engages at least a portion of a rim of a rimmed cartridge without engaging a front surface of the rim, the extractor retaining the rim adjacent the bolt head. |
| US11754353B2 |
Processing water supply system
A processing water supply system for supplying processing water to a processing apparatus includes a first heat exchanger that cools the processing water by heat of vaporization of a cooling medium, a second heat exchanger that cools the cooling medium compressed to reach a high temperature, a cooling water receiving route that receives the cooling water from cooling water supply equipment to the second heat exchanger, a cooling water drain route that drains the cooling water heat-exchanged by the second heat exchanger to reach a high temperature to drain equipment, and a bypass route that is disposed between the cooling water receiving route and the cooling water drain route and adjusts the cooling water reaching the high temperature at the second heat exchanger to a temperature permissible by the drain equipment. |
| US11754351B2 |
Sensor thermal management and stabilization utilizing variable conductance
A system for sensor thermal management and stabilization comprises a sensor block, one or more sensors mounted on the sensor block, one or more heaters mounted on the sensor block, a chassis coupled to the sensor block, a thermal conductor moveably coupled between the sensor block and the chassis, and a thermal control actuation mechanism operatively connected to the thermal conductor. The thermal control actuation mechanism is operative to cause the thermal conductor to vary a total thermal conductance from the sensor block to the chassis by moving the thermal conductor toward the chassis or away from the chassis. The total thermal conductance is varied to provide an optimized thermal stability and optimized environmental range of applicability for the one or more sensors. |
| US11754349B2 |
Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger includes a first flow circuit structure having at least a first portion defined by a plurality of conduits and a second flow circuit structure having at least a second portion disposed at the first portion such that walls of the second portion are disposed between the conduits and are free to move relative to the conduits. Fluid flowing through the first flow circuit structure is fluidically isolated from fluid flowing through the second flow circuit structure. |
| US11754348B2 |
Microchannel flat tube and microchannel heat exchanger
The present application discloses a microchannel flat tube and a microchannel heat exchanger. The microchannel flat tube includes a flat tube body and a row of channels. The row of channels is arranged in the flat tube body along a width direction. The row of channels extends through the flat tube body along a length direction. A cross-section of each channel includes a first width in the width direction and a first height in a thickness direction. The row of channels at least includes a first group of first channels, a second group of second channels and a third group of third channels along the width direction. The first widths of the first channels, the second channels and the third channels decrease at a fixed rate, thereby facilitating the control of the thickness of the microchannel flat tube and improving the heat exchange efficiency of the third channels. |
| US11754346B2 |
System and operation for thermochemical renewable energy storage
Systems and methods for energy storage and energy recovery are provided. An electrical-to-electrical energy storage system includes a thermochemical energy storage device, a blower, a compressor, a turbine, and an electrical generator. The TCES device includes a vessel, a porous bed, and a heater. The porous bed is disposed within an interior volume of the vessel. The porous bed comprises a reactive material. The reactive material is configured to release oxygen upon being heated to a reduction temperature, and generate heat when exposed to oxygen. The heater is in thermal contact with the reactive material. The blower is configured to remove oxygen from the interior volume. The compressor is configured to flow oxygen into the interior volume. The turbine is configured to receive a heated, oxygen-depleted gas from the interior volume. The generator is configured to be powered by the turbine to generate electricity. |
| US11754345B2 |
Heat dissipation device
A heat dissipation device includes an upper cover, a lower cover, an upper wick, a first wick, a plurality of second wicks, a third wick, and a gas-liquid separation plate. The lower cover and the upper cover together form a sealed vacuum chamber therebetween. The upper wick is attached on a first inner surface of the upper cover and is in fluid communication with the second wicks and the third wick. The first wick is attached on a second inner surface of the lower cover. The second wicks are attached on the lower cover. Third wick is attached on a third inner surface of the lower cover and is connected to and in fluid communication with the first wick. The gas-liquid separation plate is attached on a planar area of the third wick so as to separate a vapor from a liquid in the sealed vacuum chamber. |
| US11754344B2 |
Boiling cooler
A boiling cooler includes a boiling part, a condensing part arranged in a substantially horizontal direction with respect to the boiling part, and a connecting pipe that connects the boiling part to the condensing part. The condensing part includes a plurality of stages of refrigerant passages, a first external passage provided between the refrigerant passages, and a second external passage provided on an outer surface of at least one of an uppermost refrigerant passage and a lowermost refrigerant passage. |
| US11754341B2 |
Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger for exchanging heat between first and second fluids, comprising first fluid channels extending in a longitudinal direction for carrying a first fluid, and second fluid channels extending in the longitudinal direction for carrying a second fluid, wherein the first and second fluid channels are arranged in an alternating pattern such that each of a plurality of the first channels is located laterally between second channels and each of a plurality of second channels is located laterally between first channels, and wherein the second fluid channels extend longitudinally beyond ends of the first fluid channels, and have ends that decrease in cross section such that the first fluid is able to pass around and between the ends of the second channels. |
| US11754334B2 |
Refrigerator
A refrigerator includes a main body that defines a storage space, a door configured to open or close the storage space, and a dispenser located in the door and configured to dispense cooled water and purified water. The refrigerator also includes a purified water input part that inputs a command for dispensing the purified water, a cooled water input part that inputs a command for dispensing the cooled water, and a dispensing amount input part that sets an amount of purified water to be dispensed based on the purified water being selected through the purified water input part. The refrigerator further includes a filter device located within the storage space to purify water supplied from a water supply source, and a water tank storing water that has passed through the filter device in a cooled state. |
| US11754333B2 |
Refrigerator
A refrigerator includes a partition wall provided between first and second storage chambers and having a partition wall insulator, an evaporator case arranged in the partition wall and communicating with the first and second storage chambers, an evaporator installed inside the evaporator case, a grill cover provided on a rear side of the evaporator case and configured to accommodate a blower fan, and support guides provided in the grill cover and supporting a rear portion of the evaporator, such that an internal storage space of the refrigerator is increased, and a withdrawal distance of a drawer provided in the refrigerator is increased. |
| US11754327B2 |
Air conditioning system
An air conditioning system, which includes an indoor heat exchanger, an outdoor heat exchanger, a compressor, a throttling device, a four-way valve and an ejection device; the indoor heat exchanger, the outdoor heat exchanger, the compressor and the throttling device form a closed-loop refrigerant circulation circuit, the four-way valve is configured to switch the air conditioning system between a cooling mode and a heating mode, and the ejection device is configured to be capable of being connected to a discharge side of the compressor when the air conditioning system executes the heating mode, so as to improve a heating effect of the air conditioning system. This system has a lower cost and a simple structure for easier maintenance, and the energy efficiency ratio is improved, so that the heating effect of the air conditioning system can be improved when the air conditioning system executes the heating mode. |
| US11754322B2 |
Thermal storage of carbon dioxide system for power outage
A system includes a high side heat exchanger, a flash tank, a first load, a second load, and a thermal storage tank. The high side heat exchanger is configured to remove heat from a refrigerant. The flash tank is configured to store the refrigerant from the high side heat exchanger and discharge a flash gas. The first load is configured to use the refrigerant from the flash tank to remove heat from a first space proximate to the first load. The second load is configured to use the refrigerant from the flash tank to remove heat from a second space proximate to the second load. The thermal storage tank is configured, when a power outage is determined to be occurring, to receive at least a portion of the flash gas from the flash tank, and remove heat from the flash gas. |
| US11754320B2 |
Refrigeration system with multiple heat absorbing heat exchangers
Refrigeration systems are described. The systems include a compression device, a heat rejecting heat exchanger, an ejector, and first and second expansion devices with respective heat absorbing heat exchangers. The ejector is arranged to receive refrigerant fluid from the heat rejecting heat exchanger at a high pressure inlet of the ejector. Fluid pathways extend from an outlet of the ejector into a branched flow path to provide flows of refrigerant from the ejector to the first and second expansion devices. The first heat absorbing heat exchanger provides cooling at a first temperature and refrigerant fluid from the outlet of the first heat absorbing heat exchanger is directed to a low pressure inlet of the ejector. The second heat absorbing heat exchanger provides cooling at a second temperature and refrigerant fluid from the outlet of the second heat absorbing heat exchanger is directed to the inlet of the compression device. |
| US11754318B2 |
Baffles for thermal transfer devices
A baffle for a thermal transfer device can include a body having a multiple first apertures that traverse therethrough, where each first aperture has a first outer perimeter that includes a first base shape and at least one first protrusion extending from the first base shape. Each of the first apertures is configured to receive a tube. The first base shape of each first aperture has a first shape and a first size that is configured to be substantially the same as the first shape and the first size of an end of a tube. |
| US11754315B2 |
Gas manifold
A gas manifold allows each distribution chamber to be fed with fuel gas at an appropriate flow rate irrespective of an increase in the number of distribution chambers included in the gas manifold. Fuel gas flowing through in an inlet is distributed to a plurality of distribution chambers through a main channel. A bypass channel parallel with the main channel also feeds fuel gas to a maximum distribution chamber. This can prevent the feeding of the fuel gas to the maximum distribution chamber from being affected by and reduced by the feeding of the fuel gas to the bypassed distribution chambers. This also prevent the feeding of the fuel gas to the other distribution chambers from being affected by and reduced by the feeding of the fuel gas to the maximum distribution chamber. The plurality of distribution chambers are thus fed with fuel gas at appropriate flow rates. |
| US11754310B2 |
Testing operation of an HVAC system
An HVAC system includes a controller configured to receive weather forecast information including anticipated future outdoor temperatures. Based at least in part on the weather forecast information, the controller determines that test-initiation criteria are satisfied for testing operation of the HVAC system in a test mode. In response to determining that the test-initiation criteria are satisfied, the controller determines that current weather conditions are suitable for operating the HVAC system in the test mode for a test time period. The HVAC system is operated in the test mode for the test time period. |
| US11754308B1 |
Apparatus and method for fresh air cooling of a residence or building utilizing a thermostat
A system and method for cooling a building using cool fresh outside air is disclosed. When the integrated thermostat is operating during a heating period, the integrated thermostat operates a remote air conditioning unit, such as a furnace, an HVAC unit, an electric baseboard heater, or a heat pump, to heat air provided to the building interior. When the integrated thermostat is operating during a cooling period or a fresh air cooling period, the integrated thermostat compares the indoor air temperature with the temperature of the outdoor fresh air. The integrated thermostat operates a remote fan, such as a whole-house exhaust fan, to draw the cooler fresh air into the building interior in response to the outdoor air temperature being less than the indoor air temperature and/or in response to the indoor temperature being greater than a fresh air cooling set point stored in the memory. |
| US11754307B2 |
System and method for heating and cooling system maintenance
An HVAC system is provided. Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to HVAC systems in communication with a test engine configured to schedule maintenance and service calls. In one embodiment the test engine utilizes the ambient temperature and temperature setpoint to establish a maintenance schedule. |
| US11754306B2 |
HVAC zone control panel electronic display systems and methods
The present disclosure includes a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system having a zone control panel suitable to control operation of equipment and/or devices in the HVAC system. The zone control panel may include an electronic display to facilitate user interaction with the HVAC system. For example, the electronic display may be used to view, configure, and/or modify operation of the zone control panel and/or other devices implemented in the HVAC system. Further, the zone control panel may use the electronic display to reproduce user interfaces from the equipment and/or the devices. As such, the zone control panel may centralize presentation of relevant information and/or present the relevant information in a familiar manner. |
| US11754304B2 |
Speed control of an HVAC compressor based on operational envelope
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a compressor having a discharge port and a suction port, a first sensor configured to provide feedback corresponding to a first temperature of the working fluid exiting the compressor proximate the discharge port, a second sensor configured to provide feedback corresponding to a second temperature of the working fluid entering the compressor proximate the suction port, and an automation controller storing data indicative of an operational envelope. The operational envelope defines compressor operation coordinates corresponding to a range of suction temperatures and a range of discharge temperatures inside and outside of a target region of the operational envelope, and the automation controller is configured to control a target range of compressor speeds based on a comparison of the target region to an operation coordinate defined by the feedback from the first sensor and the feedback from the second sensor. |
| US11754302B2 |
Portable air purifier
A portable air purifier may include at least one blower fan which rotates with respect to a rotational shaft extending in a first direction, and includes a hub, and a plurality of fan blades radially connected around the hub; and a fan cover provided with at least one shielding plate that shields the hub, and a plurality of guide vanes that guides a discharge direction of air discharged by the at least one blower fan. A foreground of a rotational area of the plurality of fan blades forms a blowing surface, and the plurality of guide vanes may be arranged in front of the blowing surface and extend radially with respect to the rotational shaft. Each of the plurality of guide vanes may include a first guide surface positioned adjacent to the at least one blower fan and a second guide surface connected to the first guide surface and positioned further from the at least one blower fan than the first guide surface. The second guide surface may extend parallel to the first guide surface. The first guide surface may be oriented at a predetermined angle with respect to the blowing surface. |
| US11754301B2 |
Mist humidifier blower methods and systems
Mist based humidification systems are employed in numerous environments. However, such systems are typically small portable units whilst it would be beneficial to employ ultrasonic based mist humidifiers in larger environments. However, these environments introduce additional requirements such as reducing the emission/distribution of condensed water as droplets from the humidifier, allowing independent placement of the mist generator from the mist distribution element(s), and the requirement to “throw” the mist a reasonable distance into the environment rather than relying upon the circulation within the environment to achieve distribution. Embodiments of the invention address these issues whilst also supporting modular humidification systems operating at multiple capacities. |
| US11754299B2 |
Air conditioner and pipe installation apparatus therefor
An air conditioner includes an indoor unit to be installed in indoor space, an outdoor unit to be installed in outdoor space, the outdoor unit being separated by a building wall from the indoor space, a refrigerant pipe to connect the indoor unit with the outdoor, a ventilation pipe to connect the indoor unit to the outdoor space, a ventilation device to be arranged in the indoor space and to be connected to the ventilation pipe to ventilate indoor air in the indoor space to outdoor space or outdoor air in the outdoor space to the indoor space through the ventilation pipe, and a sleeve to be installed to pass through a hole formed at the wall to guide the refrigerant pipe and the ventilation pipe therethrough. |
| US11754298B2 |
Composite interconnection conduits for HVAC systems
A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) packaged unit includes a first refrigerant circuit component configured to change a temperature or a pressure of a refrigerant flowing through the first refrigerant circuit component and a second refrigerant circuit component configured to change a temperature or a pressure of the refrigerant flowing through the second refrigerant circuit component. The first and the second refrigerant circuit components are within a common refrigerant circuit that is disposed within a common support structure. The HVAC packaged unit also includes an interconnection conduit having a length formed from aluminum, a first end segment coupled to a first end of the length, and a second end segment coupled to a second end of the length. The first end segment and the second end segment are each formed from copper, and the interconnection conduit extends between the first refrigerant circuit component and the second refrigerant circuit component. |
| US11754295B2 |
Cooking device
A cooking device includes a frame to form a cooking chamber; a burner disposed in the cooking chamber and to generate a flame for supplying heat to the cooking chamber; a burner cover in which the burner is installed and having a plate with an outlet opening through which an air passes; a fan to flow an air of the cooking chamber; and a stabilizer to reduce an influence of the air on a flame of the burner when the air of the cooking chamber passes through the outlet opening of the burner cover by the fan. The stabilizer includes: a body having an opening for air passage; a barrier extended from the body; and a fastening unit for fastening the body to the burner cover, and while the fastening unit is fastened to the burner cover, the body is spaced apart from the plate of the burner cover. |
| US11754294B2 |
Thermal management system for multizone oven
A multi-zone, proximate-air oven using air delivered from the shelves provides a compact height through the use of low profile shelves. Intercavity heat leakage is managed by active insulation techniques making use of the oven feedback temperature control and controlled cavity loading. |
| US11754286B2 |
Combustion chamber assembly with specifically arranged mixing air holes on inner and outer combustion chamber wall
A combustion chamber for an engine includes inner and outer combustion chamber walls bounding a combustion space. Three mixing air holes with respective central points at corner points of a virtual first or second triangle are arranged on mutually opposite first and second wall segments of the inner and outer walls. The second triangle of the second wall segment of the outer wall is oriented rotated by 180° with respect to the first triangle of the first wall segment of the inner wall, and the mixing air holes arranged in rows on the first and second wall segments are arranged with respect to one another so the mixing air holes of the first and second wall segments that are arranged at the corner points of the first and second triangles do not lie opposite a mixing air hole of the second or first wall segment. |
| US11754281B2 |
Test loop for simulating steam generator with or without axial economizer and test method thereof
Disclosed are a test loop for simulating a steam generator with or without an axial economizer and a test method thereof. The loop includes a cooling water loop, a water supply loop, a recirculated water loop and a power supply. The cooling water loop is used for condensing and cooling wet steam and providing the wet steam to the water supply loop and the recirculated water loop. The water supply loop is used for providing cold-state water supply for a test device, the recirculated water loop is used for reheating cooled water to be saturated and providing the water to the test device. The power supply is used for supplying power to heating equipment and an electric heater in the test device. The present disclosure provides a test method of the loop. Simulation tests can be carried out on a steam generator with or without an axial economizer. |
| US11754277B2 |
Household refrigeration appliance with platelike lighting module
A household refrigeration appliance having a receiving space for food and a plate-like lighting module for lighting the receiving space. The plate-like lighting module has a support apparatus, on which at least a light source module and a plate-shaped light guide are arranged. The support apparatus has a front frame which is a visible component of the lighting module facing the receiving space, and the front frame has a front strip, on the rear side of which a support web is arranged protruding backward and is formed in one piece with the front strip. The light source module is arranged on the support web. |
| US11754275B2 |
Optical face protection apparatus and face protection apparatus
An optical face protection apparatus is provided having a support body, at least one lens and an elongate heating element. The support body is configured to be supported on a user. The at least one lens is carried by the support body and is configured to hold the at least one lens over an eye facial region of a user. The elongate heating element has an elongate tube and a heat source provided in the tube, carried by the body and configured to traverse an expansive surface area of the at least one lens. |
| US11754274B2 |
LED lighting device
An LED lighting device comprise a lamp cap; a case, connected to the lamp along in a first direction and having a cavity; a power supply disposed in the case; connected to the lamp along in a first direction and having a cavity; and a light emission unit. The light emission unit and the heat exchange unit are connected to form a thermal conduction path, the light emission unit and the power supply are electrically connected. When the first direction is substantially parallel to the horizontal plane, the light emitting unit of the LED lighting device provides downward light emission. The fixing unit comprises a first member, and a second member, the first member and the second member are in a form of slide connection. |
| US11754271B2 |
Lighted footwear
A display apparatus for lighted footwear, having a spring switch, a battery-powered integrated circuit sealingly encapsulated, a plurality of illuminators, and a wiring harness connecting the illuminators to points of the integrated circuit, the integrated circuit being configured for activating the illuminators in a sequential pattern that can include repeated activation cycles when the spring switch is subjected to an effective acceleration. The display apparatus preferably includes the battery being sealingly encapsulated together with the spring switch and the integrated circuit; an ON/OFF switch can be included for selectively producing a deep sleep state of the integrated circuit that is unresponsive to the spring switch. Also disclosed is footwear incorporating the display apparatus, wherein the encapsulated enclosure is located within a sole heel portion of the shoe, and the illuminators are distributed on the footwear for external view. A switch circuit structured and arranged for use in a lighted footwear display apparatus, the switch circuit comprising: an IC chip, a manual switch, and a pull-up resistor; wherein the IC chip has an IO port, a power source positive electrode and a ground terminal, one end of the pull-up resistor is connected to the power source positive electrode of the IC chip, another end of the pull-up resistor is connected to the IO port of the IC chip and one end of the manual switch, and another end of the manual switch is connected to the ground end terminal of the IC chip. The switch circuit can work normally when the manual switch is located in the water. |
| US11754270B2 |
Lamp
The present disclosure provides a lamp. The lamp includes a lamp holder including a first shell and a light source module, where the first shell includes a first inner chamber and a through hole which is in communication with the first inner chamber, and the light source module is movably disposed in the first inner chamber, and at least part of the light source module extends out of the first inner chamber or retracts into the first chamber through the through hole. The lamp further includes a support column and a lamp base, where the first shell is supported on the lamp base through the support column. |
| US11754267B2 |
Optical alignment system
Alignment systems and devices are provided for controlling the alignment of an optical payload. In some embodiments, an optical positioning system is provided that includes a yoke supporting an optical payload. The yoke, which includes a plurality of articulated segments and associated pivot joints, is mechanically coupled to the optical payload, such that when the optical payload is oriented in a given direction, such as towards a distal target, the optical payload is rotatable about a distal pivot axis associated with a distal pivot joint of the yoke. The pivot joints of the yoke may be configured such that the rotation axis associated with a given pivot joint passes sufficiently close to a respective center of mass of a distalward portion of the optical alignment system beyond the given pivot joint, such that the position and orientation of the optical payload is maintained in the absence of external forces. |
| US11754264B1 |
Portable illumination apparatus
A portable illumination apparatus is provided for illumination of an area that is a target of a portable tool for work thereon. The apparatus includes a light head, a clamp, a personal mobile power supply, and a mobile mounting sleeve. The light head is configured to illuminate the target area. The clamp is configured allow the light head to be mounted thereon and secure the mounted light head to the portable tool. The personal mobile power supply is configured to supply the light head with power for the illumination of the target area by the light head. The mobile mounting sleeve is configured to receive the personal mobile power supply therein and secure the personal mobile power supply to an operator of the portable tool. |
| US11754263B2 |
Downlight suitable for embedded tubes of different specifications
The present utility model discloses a downlight that belongs to the technical field of downlights and is suitable for embedded tubes of different specifications; the downlight includes a lamp cup; a drive board is arranged inside the lamp cup, and a light source board is arranged below the drive board; a lampshade is arranged below the lamp cup, and two symmetrically arranged mounts are arranged on the lamp cup; and a spring is rotatably embedded in the mount. The spring of the present utility model can be rotated in the mount along the transverse axle at the bottom of the installation bracket, so as to adjust the relative distance between the two springs, such that one downlight can be applied to the installed embedded tubes of different specifications, thereby saving the cost of manufacturers in inventory storage and reducing the models of downlights purchased by users; the present utility model uses a triangular limit block, which has a horizontal bottom face for limiting the spring and an inclined side face for installing the spring. |
| US11754259B2 |
Fluorescent plate, wavelength conversion member, and light source device
A fluorescent plate including a fluorescent phase which emits fluorescence by excitation light, and a plurality of voids, wherein, in a cross section of the fluorescent plate including cross sections of the voids, voids having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.4 micrometers or greater and 50 micrometers or smaller have a standard deviation in equivalent circle diameter of 1.5 or less. |
| US11754254B2 |
Optic for touch-sensitive light emitting diode switch
An optic assembly for a light emitting diode mounted to a printed circuit board has a primary lens defined by a primary lens anterior surface and an opposed primary lens rear taper with a tip facing the light emitting diode. A secondary lens with a secondary lens anterior surface and an opposed secondary lens posterior surface faces the printed circuit board. The secondary lens defines a central cavity with the primary lens being disposed therein. |
| US11754246B2 |
Lamp for vehicle
A lamp for a vehicle. The lamp includes a light source part that irradiates light, and a lens structure that forms a specific beam pattern by projecting the light radiated by the light source part to a front side, the lens structure includes a body part that forms a body of the lens structure, the body part includes an input area formed in the body part, and that inputs the light irradiated by the light source part to the body part, an output area formed on a surface of the body part, from which the light is output, and that outputs the light input to the body part to the front side. |
| US11754245B1 |
Lamp module for vehicle and lamp for vehicle including the same
A lamp module for a vehicle includes a plurality of light sources that forms two kinds or more of light distribution patterns, a light guide provided in one side of the plurality of light sources, and in which a first recessed area having a shape recessed from a lower surface to an upper side is formed, and an optic part provided between some of the plurality of light sources and the light guide, and to which lights output from the some light sources are input, each of the plurality of light sources includes a first light source that faces a rear surface of the light guide on a rear side of the light guide, and a second light source that faces a lower surface of the light guide on a lower side of the light guide, and the optic part faces the second light source. |
| US11754240B2 |
Flower arrangement with solar lights
Wreath is a popular home decoration or event decorations; especially during holiday season and memorial services. Traditional wreath is made of fresh flower and plant branches. Some of the modern wreath is made of plastic flower and plant branch. Some wreath even is equipped with lights for enhancing its beauty. These lights are powered by batteries or plugged into the home outlets. The connection of the power cable and the life span of the battery lift have hindered the operation of these wreaths. |
| US11754239B2 |
Apparatus for a solar light
An apparatus includes a light unit and a controller for providing a controlled humanly visible illumination. A solar converter unit and an energy storage device supply an energy output to enable the light unit to provide the controlled illumination. The solar converter unit is configured to charge the energy storage device during a substantial shade charging condition. The controller includes a processor coupled to manage the controlled illumination, a memory accessible to the processor, and a program stored in the memory for execution by the processor to manage the controlled illumination. |
| US11754238B2 |
Lighting arrangement
A lighting arrangement includes a first lighting module and a second lighting module. A rail is designed for coupling or at least partially accommodating the first lighting module and the second lighting module. A conductor device is provided along the rail in order to provide electric current and a control signal. The first lighting module is configured to be coupled to the conductor device to receive electric current for supplying the first lighting module and the control signal from the conductor device. The first lighting module is configured to process the control signal and to control the first lighting module in dependence upon the control signal. The first and the second lighting module are configured to be coupled to one another such that a signal for controlling the second lighting module can be communicated from the first lighting module to the second lighting module. |
| US11754233B1 |
Multifunctional camping light
A multifunctional camping light includes a receptacle and at least two movable light bodies separately having an independent battery, and the two movable light bodies separately have a solar panel for providing an automatic charge or charging the receptacle. Unlike the function of the conventional camping lights available on the market, the movable light body of this disclosure can be assembled onto the receptacle in different ways to emit light or removed and used as a flashlight or a wall light to satisfy various different requirements of power bank and illumination for outdoor camping. |
| US11754229B2 |
Processes, apparatuses, and systems for capturing pigging and blowdown emissions in natural gas pipelines
Disclosed are processes, apparatuses, and systems in natural gas pipelines to significantly reduce pigging and blowdown emissions. In an example, a process involves filtering and/or separating pigging or blowdown emissions. The filtered and/or separated pigging/blowdown products can then be stored in a storage, sent back into the natural gas pipeline at a downstream location, or sent to an adjacent pipeline. |
| US11754224B2 |
Single-layer plastic composite board
A single-layer plastic composite board (20; 30; 40) is disclosed. The single-layer plastic composite board is a two-piece single-layer plastic composite board comprising a single-layer plastic sheet (11; 21) and a stiffener (22; 32), wherein the single-layer plastic sheet (11; 21) has a main body portion (111; 211) and a peripheral portion located around the main body portion; the peripheral portion bends towards the back of the main body portion in a direction perpendicular to the main body portion to form a bent portion (112; 212); and the stiffener (22; 32) is engaged with and fixed to the bent portion (112; 212) of the single-layer plastic sheet (11; 21). The single-layer plastic composite board has advantages such as a simple structure, small thickness, light weight, high strength, low cost and ease of manufacturing, and can be widely used as a cabinet board, a box board, a table board, a drawer board, a seat board and a backrest of a chair, etc. |
| US11754223B2 |
Anchor assembly
An anchor assembly (10) comprises an anchor (12) comprising a body (15) defining a cavity (16). The anchor (12) further comprises a reinforcing member (18) extending through the cavity (16) and outwardly from the body (15). The anchor assembly (10) further includes an insertion device (14) insertable into the cavity (16). The insertion device (14) comprises a securing member (49) movable between securing and non-securing positions. When the movable securing member (49) is in the securing position in the cavity (16), the securing member (49) can engage the reinforcing member (18) to secure the insertion device (14) to the anchor (12). |
| US11754219B1 |
Water filter support bracket
A one-piece bracket for supporting one or more water filters is disclosed. The bracket includes a horizontally disposed base plate. A wall extends upwardly from the base plate. A horizontally disposed first support plate extends rearwardly from the upper end of the wall at the upper rearward end of the wall. The first support plate has three semi-circular openings formed therein. A horizontally disposed second support plate extends forwardly from the upper end of the wall at the upper end thereof and has a semi-circular opening formed therein. A horizontally disposed third plate extends forwardly from the front side of the wall below the second plate and has a semi-circular opening formed therein. A water filter may be inserted into the semi-circular opening in the first plate. The semi-circular opening in the third plate acts as a guide. |
| US11754218B2 |
Device mounting bracket with multi-purpose base
An apparatus permitting VESA compliant devices to be mounted onto a flat surface, or placed onto a mobile, securable, and rotatable base plate is disclosed. The apparatus consists of a hollow stem with two (2) ends, one which can be affixed to a “VESA mounting plate”, with the opposing end affixed onto a flat surface directly flush, onto a base, or other mounting plate. The stem ends and accessory components are engineered to permit fast installation and support for multiple mounting options for on-surface or behind-the-surface mounting, as well as standalone mounting with theft-deterrent features, plus support for add-ons that permit easy lateral rotation of the assembly with cable management. |
| US11754216B2 |
Top repairable gas-charged bladder type pulsation dampener
Top repairable gas-charged pulsation dampener designs include one or both of a threaded cover for bladder replacement and a standardized bladder with a double convex, anti-extrusion bladder button. The threaded cover, which speeds up bladder replacement over bolt-on covers, preferably has a two-piece construction to reduce torsion on the bladder neck. The bladder design, which includes a double convex, anti-extrusion bladder button, facilitates use of the same bladder design in both top repairable and bottom repairable gas-charged pulsation dampeners. |
| US11754210B2 |
Gimbaled flexure for spherical flex joints
A duct assembly may include a first duct, a second duct, and a flexible joint assembly coupling the first duct to the second duct. The flexible joint assembly may include a bellows having a first end and a second end and a plurality of convolutions located therebetween, and a gimbaled joint assembly. The gimbaled joint assembly may include a first support surrounding the first end of the bellows and a first portion of the plurality of convolutions, a second support surrounding the second end of the bellows and a second portion of the plurality of convolutions, and a gimbal ring assembly operably coupled to the first support and the second support. The gimbal ring assembly may include a ring body and a plurality of flexure hinges interconnected with the ring body. |
| US11754209B2 |
Pre-assembled pipe coupling with manually manipulatable segments
A pre-assembled pipe coupling includes a gasket, a housing surrounding the gasket, and a fastener. The housing has three segments sequentially coupled to each other to define an insertion boundary. A first segment includes a first mount extending lateral in a first direction from the wall and having a plurality of first lateral walls that define a first aperture, and a second mount extending laterally in a second direction from the wall, the second mount having a plurality of second lateral walls that define a second aperture. A second segment includes a first hook disposed in the first aperture and a first tab defining a first fastener aperture. A third segment includes a second hook disposed in the second aperture and a second tab defining a second fastener aperture. The fastener is disposed through the first fastener aperture and the second fastener aperture. |
| US11754206B2 |
Mechanical orientation control heater hose assembly for quick connect
An end-form fitting includes a tube and an auxiliary component disposed around the tube. One of the tube and the auxiliary component is deformed to cause the auxiliary component to engage the tube in order to militate against relative movement between the tube and the auxiliary component. The auxiliary component includes an array of surface irregularities formed therein and configured to engage an outer circumferential surface of the tube to form a corrugated joint therebetween. The auxiliary component is formed to include a radially outwardly extending orientation structure for establishing a rotational orientation of the end-form fitting when being coupled to a complimentary end-form fitting. |
| US11754201B2 |
Tubing retainer
Tubing retainers use with sensors, sensing systems including the tubing retainers, and methods of using the tubing retainers and sensing systems are disclosed. |
| US11754199B2 |
Valve assembly with cap
A valve assembly includes a body having spaced apart ports defining a flow passageway therebetween and a top surface. A valve is disposed in the flow passageway. A bonnet is coupled to the top surface of the body. A rising stem is supported by the bonnet and is operably coupled to the valve. A cap includes a bottom sealingly coupled to at least one of the body or the bonnet and an opening. The cap is disposed over the bonnet with the stem extending through the opening. |
| US11754192B2 |
Diaphragm valve and method of manufacturing the same
A diaphragm valve, in particular for fluid media, has a valve body, a diaphragm and a valve drive, by the actuation of which the diaphragm can be acted upon. The valve body and the diaphragm are permanently connected to form a unit in that the diaphragm is clamped in a circumferential edge portion between the valve body and a counter piece and is riveted thereto. Further proposed is a method of manufacturing such a valve. |
| US11754191B2 |
Encapsulated system for pressurized fluid processes
Fluid management systems for handling pressurized fluid connect various subsystems or subunits without the need to use reinforced tubing. The system utilizes one or more segments of unreinforced conduit that are encapsulated at various points along a length of the segment with one or more rigid encapsulating members. The unreinforced conduit may be made a disposable element while the rigid encapsulating members may be re-used. In one aspect, the encapsulating member may include a two-part valve body that surrounds and encapsulates a portion of the unreinforced conduit. In another aspect, the encapsulating member may include a two-part jacket that surrounds and encapsulates a portion of the unreinforced conduit. The two-part valve bodies and two-part jackets may be joined at various points within the system as part of the overall flow system. |
| US11754186B2 |
Grounding brush seals
The disclosure describes an apparatus for sealing a rotating machine, such as an electric machine or gas turbine engine. The apparatus includes a brush seal. The brush seal includes a plurality of first filaments and a plurality of electrically conductive filaments. The first filaments are configured to seal a lubricant within a bearing chamber or sump of the rotating machine. The plurality of electrically conductive filaments is configured to contact a shaft of the rotating machine and discharge a shaft voltage-induced current from the shaft to an external ground of the rotating machine. |
| US11754185B1 |
Metal O-ring seal
A metal O-ring is provided. The metal O-ring has a sidewall with an outer surface and an inner surface. The outer surface of the sidewall is machined to selectively thinning the thickness of the sidewall, such that the sidewall of the of the metal O-ring has a plurality of thicknesses equal to or less than a maximum thickness and equal to or more than a minimum thickness. Selectively thinning the sidewall by machining the outer surface allows for control of the elasticity of the metal O-ring. Controlling the elasticity of the metal O-ring, and potentially increasing the spring back, may provide for increased contract pressure at a sealing interface, which would facilitate sealing. The machined outer surface of the metal O-ring are generally machined to flat surfaces. |
| US11754183B2 |
Marine slide ring seal arrangement
The invention relates to a marine meachanical seal arrangement comprising a first mechanical seal (2) comprising a first rotating slide ring (21) and a second stationary slide ring (22) defining a first sealing gap (23) between their two sliding surfaces (21a, 22a), a second meachanical seal (3) comprising a second rotating slide ring (31) and a second stationary slide ring (32), which define a second sealing gap (33) between their sliding surfaces (31a, 32a), a barrier circuit (10) comprising a barrier fluid cavity (8) which is arranged between the first mechanical seal (2) and the second mechanical seal (3) and is filled with a barrier fluid, the barrier fluid cavity (8) being divided into a first sub-cavity (81) and a second sub-cavity (82), the first subcavity (81) and the second subcavity (82) being separated by a flexible lip seal (7) wherein the second sub-cavity (82) is arranged at the second mechanical seal (3), and wherein the lip seal (7) is arranged such that a flow of barrier fluid from the first subcavity (81) into the second subcavity (82) is allowed and a flow of barrier fluid from the second subcavity to the first subcavity is prevented. (FIG. 2) |
| US11754179B2 |
Actuator for the actuation of at least one movable member, in particular for changing gear ratios in a motor vehicle transmission
An actuator for the actuation of at least one movable member of a motor vehicle transmission. The actuator includes a housing, at least one electric motor having a stator and a rotor mounted on a rotor shaft extending along an axis X1, a motor pinion fixed to the opposite end of the shaft from the rotor, a circuit board for supplying power to the stator and controlling the electric motor, and a reduction mechanism driven by the motor pinion. The housing defines a first volume in which the electric motor and the circuit board are received. The circuit board is located axially along the axis X1 between the electric motor and the motor pinion. The actuator further includes a cover defining a second volume in which the reduction mechanism is received, the housing and the cover each have guides for guiding the reduction mechanism. |
| US11754178B2 |
Shift device
A shift device includes a shift switching member including a plurality of valley portions corresponding to shift positions, a motor including a rotor and a stator and configured to drive the shift switching member, a first drive system including a first inverter configured to output a voltage for driving the motor, a second drive system provided separately from the first drive system and including a second inverter configured to output a voltage for driving the motor; and a positioning member configured to be fitted into any one of the plurality of valley portions of the shift switching member to establish the corresponding shift position. When driving the motor, the shift position is switched by the voltages output from the first drive system and the second drive system. |
| US11754175B2 |
Lockup control device of automatic transmission and lockup control method thereof
The controller starts an output of an engagement instruction of the lockup clutch when a vehicle speed becomes a lockup start vehicle speed under a state where the lockup clutch is disengaged. When the vehicle speed, which is obtained a predetermined time after the output of the engagement instruction is started due to the vehicle speed becoming the lockup start vehicle speed, has reached a predetermined vehicle speed, the controller continues the output of the engagement instruction. When the vehicle speed has not reached the predetermined vehicle speed, the controller stops the output of the engagement instruction and restarts the output of the engagement instruction when the vehicle speed reaches a lockup restart vehicle speed which is set to a vehicle speed higher than the lockup start vehicle speed while the output is stopped. |
| US11754174B2 |
Control device and control method for automatic transmission
The transmission control unit includes a gear ratio abnormality determination unit and a limp home control unit. The gear ratio abnormality determination unit is configured to determine that a gear ratio is abnormal when, during travelling at a predetermined gear position, a difference between an actual gear ratio, which is calculated based on a transmission input shaft rotation speed and a transmission output shaft rotation speed, and a set gear ratio at the predetermined gear position is equal to or greater than a set value. The limp home control unit is configured to, when the gear ratio abnormality determination unit determines that the gear ratio is abnormal, output a disengagement instruction for disengaging all of the plurality of friction elements, when it is confirmed that a neutral state is shifted to according to the output of the disengagement instruction, determine engagement/disengagement of a specific friction element among the plurality of friction elements based on rotation/stop information of a rotation member of the stepped transmission mechanism, and determine an evacuation gear position based on determination information on the engagement/disengagement of the specific friction element, and shift the gear position to the determined evacuation gear position. |
| US11754170B1 |
Oil guide device
The present invention provides an oil guide device including a body part, an oil flow path extending from one surface of the body part and coupled to an inner diameter portion of a pinion shaft, a first guide configured to allow oil scattering in an automatic transmission to be introduced into an inner diameter portion of the oil flow path, the first guide being disposed on the other surface of the body part and configured to surround the inner diameter portion of the oil flow path, and a second guide extending from an outer diameter portion of the other surface of the body part and configured to surround the first guide, the second guide being configured to guide the remaining oil, which is not directed toward the first guide, to a desired component. |
| US11754163B1 |
Strain wave generator for harmonic reducer
Proposed is a strain wave generator for a harmonic reducer, the strain wave generator including: a cam formed with a plurality of segmented cams on a long-diameter side and the same number of segmented cams on a short-diameter side alternately abutted along a circumferential direction, wherein each of the segmented cams on a long-diameter side has an outer circumference surface of a certain cylindrical surface of a small radius, each of the segmented cams on a short-diameter side has an outer circumference surface of a certain cylindrical surface of a large radius, and the cylindrical surface of each of the segmented cams on a long-diameter side and the cylindrical surface of each of the segmented cams on a short-diameter side, abutted each other, have a common tangent line at a meeting point thereof. |
| US11754162B2 |
Double-flexspline harmonic reducer
Provided is a double-flexspline harmonic reducer, comprising a strong flexspline (3), a weak flexspline (2) and a wave generator (1). The strong flexspline (3) and the weak flexspline (2) are coaxially fixed in an axial direction and a radial direction, and teeth which can be engaged with each other and are different in the number thereof are provided on the strong flexspline (3) and the weak flexspline (2) respectively. The wave generator (1) causes the weak flexspline (2) to undergo non-circular elastic deformation and then to partially engage with the strong flexspline (3), and a contact portion of the strong flexspline (3) and the weak flexspline (2) undergoes non-circular elastic deformation under a radial pressure from the weak flexspline (2). A wall thickness of the strong flexspline (3) is greater than or equal to 2 times and less than 5 times that of the weak flexspline (2). |
| US11754161B1 |
Hydromechanical transmission and control method
Methods and systems for a hydromechanical transmission are provided herein. In one example, the transmission operating method includes asynchronously shifting between a first pair of drive ranges in the transmission via operation of two clutches and a variable displacement hydraulic pump in a hydrostatic assembly. In the method, asynchronously shifting between the two drive ranges includes a plurality of phases that include a swiveling phase where a speed of the hydrostatic assembly is inverted. |
| US11754160B2 |
Torque converter
A torque converter having a shell formed by a front cover assembly and a rear cover. The front cover assembly further includes a front cover and a front boss, with the front boss being fixedly mounted to the front cover. The torque converter further including an impeller, a turbine located within the shell, a lock-up clutch and a piston. The piston being axially moveable relative to the front cover assembly along a central axis of the torque converter. A leaf spring, positioned between the piston and the front cover assembly, connects the piston to the front cover assembly. |
| US11754155B2 |
Screw actuator for a legged robot
A robot leg assembly including a hip joint and an upper leg member. A proximal end portion of the upper leg member rotatably coupled to the hip joint. The robot leg assembly including a knee joint rotatably coupled to a distal end portion of the upper leg member, a lower leg member rotatably coupled to the knee joint, a linear actuator disposed on the upper leg member and defining a motion axis, and a motor coupled to the linear actuator and a linkage coupled to the translation stage and to the lower leg member. The linear actuator includes a translation stage moveable along the motion axis to translate rotational motion of the motor to linear motion of the translation stage along the motion axis, which moves the linkage to rotate the lower leg member relative to the upper leg member at the knee joint. |
| US11754152B2 |
Apparatus for pressing a toothed rack against a pinion
The disclosure relates to an apparatus for pressing a toothed rack against a pinion, having a pressure piece, wherein the pressure piece can be arranged so as to be displaceable inside a housing and in an axial direction of a centre longitudinal axis, having a bearing element that can be fixed on the housing in an axial direction with respect to the centre longitudinal axis, having a prestressing element that acts in an axial direction, wherein, as a result of the prestressing element being arranged between the bearing element and the pressure piece, the pressure piece is subjected to a prestressing force in an axial direction with respect to the centre longitudinal axis and directed away from the bearing element. In order to be able to reduce the production outlay and/or realize a more compact design, the apparatus is characterized in that a sliding element is arranged on a side, facing away from the prestressing element, of the pressure piece for the purpose of bearing against the toothed rack, wherein the sliding element is designed with a spring function in an axial direction of the centre longitudinal axis in order to compensate tolerances. |
| US11754148B2 |
Gear transmission
A detent mechanism 70 is provided for fixing a shift drum 58 in position at a rotation operation position where shift gears 36, 37 become engageable. The detent mechanism 70 includes a positioning rotation portion 71 formed in the shift drum 58, a positioning arm 72 engageable with a positioning action portion 74 formed in the positioning rotation portion 71 for fixing the shift drum 58 at a rotation position corresponding to a rotation operation position of the shift drum 58, and a positioning spring 73 for urging the positioning arm 72 for its engagement with the positioning action portion 74. The positioning arm 72, as being rotatably supported to a speed changing operation shaft 61 for rotating the shift drum 58, is extended from a speed changing operation shaft 61. |
| US11754147B2 |
Compact gearbox and e-reverse
A gearbox comprising: an outer intermediate shaft carrying a first set of shaft gears; an inner intermediate shaft carrying a second set of shaft gears, the inner intermediate shaft running concentrically within the outer intermediate shaft; a first lay shaft carrying a first set of drive gears and an output gear positioned along the first lay shaft between two of the first set of drive gears, a second lay shaft carrying a second set of drive gears and an output gear positioned along the second lay shaft between two of the second set of drive gears, each drive gear being coupled to a respective shaft gear to together provide a plurality of gear ratios between the intermediate shafts and the output shaft; and an output shaft, each lay shaft being coupled to the output shaft by the respective output gear. |
| US11754145B2 |
Balance shaft assembly
A balance shaft includes an unbalanced shaft (3) comprising a bearing journal (8, 9), the periphery of which is merely partially cylindrical. The cylindrical partial periphery (10) of the bearing journal is oriented toward the shaft imbalance. The balance shaft also includes a needle roller cage assembly (15); and a bearing ring (13), which extends around the bearing journal, lies against the cylindrical partial periphery and forms the inner raceway of the needle roller cage assembly. The cage (27) of the needle roller cage assembly is designed to run on the end faces of the bearing ring axially on both sides by means of radially inwardly extending projections. |
| US11754144B2 |
Damper device
A damper device includes a first rotor, a second rotor, a plurality of elastic members and a stopper mechanism. The stopper mechanism includes a first stopper hole, a second stopper hole and a plurality of stop members. The first and second stopper holes are provided on both circumferential sides of each of a plurality of first window holes of the second rotor so as to circumferentially extend therefrom. One or both of the first and second stopper holes communicates at one end thereof with each first window hole and extends at the other end thereof to a position radially outside one of a plurality of second window holes of the second rotor. The stop members are fixed to the first rotor. Each stop member axially penetrates each of the first and second stopper holes and is circumferentially movable within each of the first and second stopper holes. |
| US11754143B1 |
Laser welded damper having enhanced fatigue performance
A damper for suppressing vibrations of a crankshaft of a vehicle is disclosed. The damper comprises a hub having a circular wall extending about a rotational axis to define a bore formed therethrough. The wall comprises a step portion radially extending therefrom and having a first arcuate portion formed thereon. The hub comprises a body portion radially extending from the wall to a lip to define an open cavity. The damper comprises a weld nugget disposed between the hub and the plate. The weld nugget has a root extending therethrough concurrent with the rotational axis to join the hub and the plate. The root has tip defining a profile such that the hollow channel is disposed at an angle tangent to the profile to lessen cracking due to stress. |
| US11754141B2 |
Spring element
A spring element that includes one or more loop portions. Each loop portion provides vibration isolation characteristics for the spring element. One or more fastening portions of the spring element enable the fastening or connecting of the spring element to one or more structures. A ratio of a longitudinal measure of each loop portion to a transverse measure of the spring element is between 7.5 and 500. A pair of loop portions may be integrally joined together at a middle section to form a continuous loop. A pair of fastening portions may be integrally joined to opposing sides of the middle section, respectively. One of the fastening portions may be connected to a first structure and the other one of the fastening portions may be connected to a second structure. |
| US11754137B2 |
Compression spring assembly and methods of using the same
An all plastic compression spring assembly includes a slotted tubular spring element formed from a tensile polymer material and upper and lower loading cones received at opposing upper and lower ends of the slotted tubular spring element. The upper loading cone may be axially compressible towards the lower loading cone within the slotted tubular spring element whereby the slotted tubular spring element radially expands in tension to create an opposing radial contraction force, and in turn, an axial extension spring force. When released, the spring element elastically returns to its normal at rest shape, returning the cones to their normal at rest positions. In some dispenser configurations, the lower loading cone may be stationary or fixed within the dispensing head and the upper loading cone may be downwardly compressible toward the lower loading cone by movement of a nozzle head. |
| US11754133B2 |
Disc brake pad spring and disc brake device
A disc brake pad spring being attached to a disc brake device in which pads located to sandwich a rotor are supported with a pad support member by inserting in an axial direction pins of the pad support member into a through hole formed in a radially inner side part of a peripheral-direction one-side part of a back plate of the pads, and elastically pressing pads against the pad support member. The disc brake pad spring is formed by a single metal plate, and includes first pressing parts pressing a peripheral-direction one-side part of an outer peripheral edge of the respective back plates of each of the pads toward a radially inner side, and second pressing parts pressing a peripheral-direction one-side surface of the respective back plates of each of pads toward the other peripheral side. |
| US11754131B2 |
Wet brake system and method of operating a wet brake system
A wet brake system, a method therefor, and a vehicle including such system, the system comprising: a housing enclosing a brake compartment, at least one friction plate rotatably disposed within the brake compartment, at least one separator plate disposed within the brake compartment, coupled to the housing and configured to be frictionally engaged with the at least one friction plate for braking the at least one friction plate, the at least one friction plate and the at least one separator plate configured to be at least partially submersed in a liquid held within the brake compartment, and a liquid reservoir, wherein a drain port is arranged such that the at least one friction plate when rotating is configured to convey liquid held within the brake compartment to the liquid reservoir via the drain port and a drain channel for draining the brake compartment. |
| US11754130B2 |
Power transmission apparatus
A power transmission apparatus a centrifugal clutch including a holder and a press. The holder and the press are each circumferentially provided with protrusions fitted and attached to cut-outs of a clutch housing. The holder is an integrated assembly into which a mass that is being held is integrated. The integrated assembly and the press are non-connected separate components and are independently movable toward or away from each other. |
| US11754129B2 |
Method for installing a wrap spring
A method for installing a wrap spring includes providing a first sleeve with a first longitudinal axis extending in an axial direction and a lateral surface, and the wrap spring designed to frictionally abut the lateral surface. The wrap spring includes a nominal diameter and a central axis. The method includes applying the wrap spring in a relaxed state to the lateral surface at an angle α between the central axis and the first longitudinal axis, elastically twisting the wrap spring to change the nominal diameter while the wrap spring contacts the lateral surface, reducing the angle α, threading the wrap spring onto the first sleeve, and relaxing the wrap spring to establish frictional contact with the lateral surface. |
| US11754128B2 |
Bonding part, multiple-plate clutch device provided with said bonding part, and manufacturing method of bonding part
Provided are a joint component formed with fine recessed portions, a multiplate clutch device including the joint component, and a joint component manufacturing method. At the joint component, many fine recessed portions are formed at a joint surface joined to a joint object. The joint surface is formed in a circular ring shape along a peripheral direction of the base body, and is formed with a flatness of equal to or less than 0.15 mm. The fine recessed portions are formed at the joint surface such that adjacent ones of the fine recessed portions do not overlap with each other and a formation density per unit area at the joint surface is uniform. The fine recessed portions are formed as laser processing marks formed at the base body by irradiation with laser light. |
| US11754126B2 |
Drive transmission apparatus
A drive transmission apparatus includes a dog clutch including a dog gear assembly and a dog ring, which are configured for rotation and relative axial adjustment between an engaged condition in which torque can be transmitted and a disengaged condition. The dog gear assembly includes a dog gear, a retractable dog assembly configured for movement relative to the dog gear between an extended position and a retracted position, and a control element that controls movement of the retractable dog assembly. The dog ring includes a plurality of first dogs and the dog gear assembly includes a plurality of second dogs that engage the first dogs in the engaged condition, and that are disengaged from the first dogs in the disengaged condition. The second dogs include a plurality of fixed dogs that are mounted on the dog gear and a plurality of retractable dogs of the retractable dog assembly. |
| US11754125B2 |
Universal joint with reinforced yoke ears
A universal joint for vehicle drivetrains and the like that eliminates the spinning of bearing caps relative to yoke years and trunnions and inhibits inadvertent spreading of opposing ears of a yoke away from each other under increasing torsional loads to reduce wear and failure of the joint. Broadly, the disclosed universal joint includes a central body having a plurality of pairs of opposite apertures, first and second yokes that are disposed about the central body over respective ones of the pairs of apertures, and a plurality of trunnions inserted through the yoke ears and into the apertures of the body to pivotally secure the yokes to the body. Each trunnion is non-rotatable relative to its respective yoke and a locking assembly inhibits movement of each opposite pair of trunnions away from each other thereby inhibiting movement of the opposite ears of each respective yoke away from each other. |
| US11754124B2 |
Torsional vibration reduction apparatus
A torsional vibration reduction apparatus has coil springs. The coil springs are received in paired input member side coil spring receiving portions and an output member side coil spring receiving portion. The paired input member side coil spring receiving portions comprise forward rotation side and reverse rotation side guide portions between forward rotation side and reverse rotation side spring pedestals. The output member side coil spring receiving portion comprises forward rotation side and reverse rotation side guide portions between forward rotation side and reverse rotation side spring pedestals. In forward rotation and reverse rotation, since the displacement of the coil springs under the centrifugal force is received by the guide portions and the vertical component force of the elastic force is small, sliding resistance is suppressed, the hysteresis torque is reduced, additive components are not required, and the installation positions of the coil springs cannot be restricted. |
| US11754123B2 |
Bearing housing and its applications
A bearing housing is provided with a cooling channel in at least part of the circumference around the bearing. The cooling channel is provided with a flow guide member at least in part of its flow section to construct a tortuous passage whose flow distance is longer than the corresponding circumferential length of the flow section. On the basis of the above-mentioned bearing housing, the present invention also provides a bearing housing unit, a continuous casting roll line and a continuous casting machine that use the bearing housing. The above-mentioned bearing housing adopts an optimized cooling channel design, which can obtain a better cooling effect without changing other structures of the bearing housing. Therefore, it is particularly suitable for upgrading existing equipment and has a huge cost advantage and a wide range of application prospects. |
| US11754122B2 |
Rolling bearing with guiding flange for cage
The bearing includes a first ring, a second ring, at least one row of radial and axial rolling elements arranged between axial and radial raceways provided on the rings. The second ring has a protruding nose engaged into an annular groove of the first ring and provided with the axial raceway and with the radial raceway of the second ring. The bearing further provides at least one cage for maintaining the row of axial rolling elements and at least one flange for guiding and maintaining the cage in radial direction. The flange axially abuts against a flat surface of the second ring. The bearing further includes a plurality of fixing screws to secure the flange to the second ring, the fixing screws extending axially through the flange. |
| US11754120B2 |
Linear guide mechanism and linear actuator
A linear guide mechanism includes an actuator side guide member, moving block side guide members disposed on both sides of the actuator side guide member, and a plurality of balls disposed in two rows, respectively, between the actuator side guide member and each of the moving block side guide members. Set screws are attached to a moving block. |
| US11754119B2 |
Apparatus for preloading a bearing
A method for preloading a bearing includes releasably, threadably, and directly attaching an attaching member to a circumferential outside surface of an exposed end of a threaded shaft of an axle or spindle. A frame is axially separated from, and coupled to, the attaching member. A plurality of extensions extends from the frame axially past the attaching member toward the wheel hub assembly. An adjustment mechanism moves the frame and the plurality of extensions axially towards the wheel hub assembly to contact the wheel hub assembly and/or the bearing to apply a preload to the bearing within the wheel hub assembly. |
| US11754116B2 |
Retention configuration for face spline interface
A wheel bearing assembly is disclosed that a bearing ring defining a first splined portion, a joint element including a second splined portion configured to matingly engage with the first splined portion, and a first retention assembly arranged radially outward from the first and second splined portions. The first retention assembly is configured to axially retain the bearing ring with the joint element. |
| US11754111B2 |
Compression fit EME protection seal cap
A protection seal cap for enclosing an end portion of a fastener which extends from a structure, which includes a cap member, which includes a sidewall that defines an interior space within the cap member. The sidewall forms a continuous wall member positioned within the cap member. The continuous wall member defines an opening providing access to the interior space. The continuous wall member is configured to create an interference compression fit between the end portion of the fastener and the continuous wall member. |
| US11754110B2 |
Self-tapping screw
A self-tapping screw (10, 30) comprising a drive (12) and a shank (14) bearing a thread comprising a main thread (16, 32), wherein the main thread (16, 32) has a maximum main thread external diameter (DAF) and a cutting area (F) and a supporting area (T) following in the direction of the drive (12), wherein the shank (14) has a threaded end (18) at an end opposite the drive (12), with the screw end (18) having a diameter (DE) of at least 20% of the maximum main thread external diameter (DAF), The shank further has, in the region of the screw end (18), a tap flute (20), wherein the tap flute (20) comprises at least two tapping thread turns (20a, 20b, 20c) which attain, in their external diameter (DAA), no more than 90% of the maximum main thread external diameter (DAF) and form a tap region in which the tapping thread turns (20a, 20b, 20c) have the same diameter development, and in addition in that the diameter of the main thread (16, 32) in the tap flute region (AB) is less than or equal to the diameter (DAA) of the tapping thread turns (20a, 20b, 20c). |
| US11754108B2 |
Snap nut concrete anchor assembly
The present disclosure describes an anchor device for receiving and securing a shaft thereto. The device includes an outer housing within which a jaw assembly is secured. The outer housing of the device may in turn be secured to or within a support structure such as a building component. Jaw components of the jaw assembly may be threaded. Furthermore, the jaw assembly has at least two configurations. In a first configuration, at least one jaw component is positioned away from a central shaft axis against the biasing force of a biasing member. A removable or reconfigurable holding member or stop member selectively secures the at least one jaw component in this position. A second configuration is the result of the holding member being reconfigured by the inserted shaft. The shaft triggers movement of the at least one jaw component toward the central shaft axis and into contact with the shaft. |
| US11754105B2 |
Connecting device for cables
Disclosed in the present specification is to provide a connecting device for cables, in which a connecting portion and a length adjusting portion for connecting the cables are provided to be separated from each other, and a cable of a seat side and the connecting portion are easily attached to and detached from each other. According to one embodiment of the disclosure disclosed herein, proposed is a connecting device for cables, connecting a first cable connected to a folding unit of a seat of a first direction side and a third cable connected to a switch portion at a second direction side opposite to the first direction, the device including: a connecting portion; and a length adjusting portion. |
| US11754101B2 |
Magnetic standoff system
According to some embodiments, a fastener is disclosed. The fastener comprises a first portion to be coupled to a wall, a second portion to be coupled to signage and a middle connector. The middle connector is coupled to the first portion and is also magnetically coupled to the second portion. |
| US11754100B2 |
Use of treating elements to facilitate flow in vessels
A method for facilitating the distribution of the flow of one or more streams within a bed vessel is provided. Disposed within the bed vessel are internal materials and structures including multiple operating zones. One type of operating zone can be a processing zone composed of one or more beds of solid processing material. Another type of operating zone can be a treating zone. Treating zones can facilitate the distribution of the one or more streams fed to processing zones. The distribution can facilitate contact between the feed streams and the processing materials contained in the processing zones. |
| US11754097B2 |
Electrohydraulic system for a valve
An electrohydraulic system includes an output shaft, a hydraulic piston, and a preload device. The output shaft rotationally drives the valve and extends along a first axis. The hydraulic piston extends along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, is actuated by a pressure medium, and rotates the output shaft. The preload device stores energy via preloading of an elastic element, which extends along a third axis, by a hydraulic cylinder and to transmit the energy to the output shaft in the event of a fault. The hydraulic piston is guided into first and second cylinder housings, and at least one of the cylinder housings is connected to the hydraulic cylinder. A check valve is arranged between the cylinder housing and the hydraulic cylinder, and is configured to decouple the preload device from the hydraulic piston, the blocking direction going from the hydraulic cylinder to the cylinder housing. |
| US11754096B2 |
Pilot device for a directional valve without internal cable connections
A pilot device for a hydraulic directional valve includes a displacement sensor, a pilot valve, an actuating device, a coil assembly, and a circuit board. The displacement sensor has a sensor axis and the pilot valve has a valve axis. The valve axis and the sensor axis are arranged substantially parallel to one another so as to lie in a reference plane. The actuating device and the coil assembly are arranged adjacent to one another. The circuit board is arranged parallel to the reference plane. In each case, to establish an electrical contact, the coil assembly, the actuating device, and an electrical plug connection are either soldered directly to the circuit board or are in breakable electrical contact with a respectively associated, rigid contact assembly. The contact assembly is soldered directly to the circuit board. |
| US11754094B2 |
Modal noise reduction for gas turbine engine
A gas turbine engine according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a propulsor section, a compressor section including a first compressor and a second compressor, and a turbine section including a first turbine and a second turbine. The first compressor includes a plurality of arrays of airfoils defining a plurality of compressor stages. A number of airfoils in each downstream array of the plurality of arrays is a factor (F) of a number of airfoils in a respective immediately upstream array of the plurality of arrays. The factor (F) is between 1.19 and 1.55 for each of the downstream arrays of the first compressor. |
| US11754092B2 |
Radial turbomachine
A radial turbomachine has a first housing part and a second housing part, which jointly form and delimit a flow channel. The first housing part forms a motor chamber for accommodating a drive motor, and the second housing part forms a gas inlet. Furthermore, a radial impeller is provided, which can be driven about an axis of rotation by the drive motor in order to suction a gas from outside the turbomachine through the gas inlet into the flow channel and to convey said gas out of the flow channel through a gas outlet to the outside. The first housing part or the second housing part forms the gas outlet at a radial distance from the axis of rotation and peripherally delimits the gas outlet. |
| US11754086B2 |
Bearing housing for a flow machine and a flow machine with a bearing housing
A bearing housing for a flow machine includes a bearing chamber configured to receive a bearing, and a lubricant chamber arranged at the bearing chamber and configured to receive a lubricant. The bearing chamber is in fluid communication with the lubricant chamber via an opening such that the lubricant is capable of flowing between the bearing chamber and the lubricant chamber. The bearing housing includes a wall portion with a cooling fin to dissipate heat of the lubricant to an environment. The cooling fin includes a conduit for the lubricant through which conduit the lubricant chamber and the bearing chamber are in fluid communication such that the lubricant is capable of being conducted from the lubricant chamber into the bearing chamber through the conduit to dissipate the heat to the environment. |
| US11754083B2 |
Motor for fans or blowers, pumps or compressors, method for operating such a motor and blower system having one or more motor(s)/blower(s)
A motor for a fan, a ventilator, a pump or a compressor includes integrated motor electronics and at least one sensor unit for pressure or volume flow control. The at least one sensor unit may be a module that can be plugged onto or into the integrated motor electronics or may be at least partly integrated into the motor electronics. The motor may be an electronically commutated motor. The integrated motor electronics may be configured to supply the at least one sensor unit with energy. |
| US11754072B2 |
Compressor having capacity modulation assembly
A compressor may include first and second scrolls, and an axial biasing chamber. Spiral wraps of the scrolls mesh with each other and form compression pockets including a suction-pressure compression pocket, a discharge-pressure compression pocket, and intermediate-pressure compression pockets. The axial biasing chamber may be disposed axially between the second end plate and a component. Working fluid disposed within the axial biasing chamber may axially bias the second scroll toward the first scroll. The second end plate includes outer and inner ports. The outer port is disposed radially outward relative to the inner port. The outer port may be open to a first one of the intermediate-pressure compression pockets and in selective fluid communication with the axial biasing chamber. The inner port may be open to a second one of the intermediate-pressure compression pockets and in selective fluid communication with the axial biasing chamber. |
| US11754070B2 |
Pump device, especially for mobile means of transport
A pump apparatus (1) for use in mobile means of transport (100) such as semitrailers, tank trailers, tank semitrailers (101), tank trucks and trucks (102), has a drive motor (40) and a rotary piston pump (2) having two rotor units (10, 20) on rotatably mounted rotor shafts (11, 21), connected to rotor gear wheels (12, 22). A drive pinion (32) of a drive shaft (31) coupled to one of the rotor gear wheels (12) and is received in a recess (81) of the motor shaft (41). |
| US11754068B1 |
Packing sleeve for pump fluid end
A packing sleeve for a pump fluid end. The packing sleeve comprising a tubular body having a first end, a second end, and a total axial length along a center axis extending from the first end to the second end; the tubular body further comprises a first region that is adjacent to the first end, wherein the first region extends away from the first end a first axial distance and a second region that is adjacent to the second end, wherein the second region extends away from the second end a second axial distance and abuts the first region, wherein the first axial distance and the second axial distance equal the total axial length and wherein the first axial distance comprises about 35-70% of the total axial length. |
| US11754065B2 |
Peristaltic pump with sliding chassis connected to cover
A peristaltic pump can include a chassis and a chassis retaining portion forming a cavity. The pump can also include a rotor, a cover, and a linkage. The rotor can be disposed within the cavity such that tubing can be held between the rotor and the chassis and/or the chassis retaining portion. The linkage can couple the cover to the chassis. The linkage can include an arm. When opening the cover, the arm can pivot such that the chassis moves away from the chassis retaining portion to widen the cavity. When closing the cover, the arm can pivot such that the chassis moves toward the chassis retaining portion. When closed, a stop can restrict further movement of a corresponding member toward the chassis retaining portion. |
| US11754063B2 |
Negative pressure wound therapy device with silent piezoelectric pump
A negative pressure wound therapy device includes at least one piezoelectric pump and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to generate a first control signal to control operation of the at least one piezoelectric pump, the control signal having a first root mean square (RMS) voltage, transmit the first control signal to the at least one piezoelectric pump, identify at least one of a change of state of the at least one piezoelectric pump or an expiration of a duration of time associated with operation of the at least one piezoelectric pump, responsive to identifying the at least one of the change of state or the expiration of the duration of time, generate a second control signal having a second RMS voltage less than the first RMS voltage, and transmit the second control signal to the at least one piezoelectric pump. |
| US11754061B2 |
Hybrid thermodynamic compressor
Hybrid thermodynamic compressor (8) for compressing a working fluid, the compressor comprising a volumetric cylinder (1) and a thermal cylinder (2) connected to one another mechanically by a connecting rod system (5) and pneumatically by a connecting circuit (12) optionally with a valve (4), a reversible electric machine (6), the volumetric cylinder comprising a first piston (81) that separates a first chamber (Ch1) from a second chamber (Ch2), the thermal cylinder comprising a second piston (82) which separates a third chamber (Ch3) from a fourth chamber (Ch4), which can be brought into thermal contact with a heat source (21) to thereby generate a cycled movement in the thermal cylinder, and concerning the connecting rod system (5), the first and second pistons are connected to a rotor (52) by first and second respective connecting rods (91,92), with a predetermined angular offset (θd), the volumetric cylinder being equipped with non-return valves (61,62), the power produced in the thermal cylinder being transmitted to the volumetric cylinder essentially via the connecting circuit and not via the rod system. |
| US11754057B2 |
Balanced pressure two-zone fluidic valve with shape memory alloy control element
A fluidic valve having a first zone and a second zone separated by an aperture that is sealed by a deformable element, where: in the first zone, there is a shape memory alloy (SMA) wire secured to a stationary surface and the SMA acts on a first surface of the deformable element either directly or through a piston; in the second zone, there are at least two ports and a plunger connected to a second surface of the deformable element, opposite to the first surface, and suitable to close one of the ports; and there is a bypass channel that permanently connects the first zone to the second zone through a first end aperture positioned in the first zone and a second end aperture positioned in the second zone. |
| US11754054B2 |
Pump system for lubricating components of a wind turbine
A pump system for supplying lubricant to components of a wind turbine comprises: a pump for pumping lubricant through a fluid circuit of the wind turbine; a drive means for driving the pump; and, a gearbox arrangement arranged to couple the drive means to the pump. The gearbox arrangement comprises a rotatable input shaft configured to be driven by the drive means and a rotatable output shaft configured to drive the pump. The input shaft is rotatable in a first direction of rotation and a second direction of rotation when driven by the drive means. The output shaft is rotatable in the first direction of rotation, and the speed of rotation of the output shaft is determined by an operational mode of the gearbox arrangement. In a first mode of operation, when the input shaft rotates in the first direction of rotation at a first speed of rotation, the gearbox arrangement is configured to drive the output shaft to rotate also in the first direction of rotation at the first speed of rotation. In a second mode of operation, when the input shaft rotates in the second direction of rotation at the first speed of rotation, the gearbox arrangement is configured to drive the output shaft to rotate in the first direction of rotation at a second speed of rotation. |
| US11754053B2 |
Rotor blade fatigue testing
Provided is a method and an arrangement of fatigue testing of a wind turbine rotor blade, the method including: operating an actuator attached to the rotor blade, thereby moving a mass connected to the actuator in a reciprocating manner. The mass may be a hanging mass, for example, hanging down from the actuator. |
| US11754050B2 |
Modular tower damper system
The present invention relates to a damper module adapted to be secured to a wind turbine tower section, the damper module comprising at least one liquid damper secured to a frame structure, wherein each liquid damper comprises a container comprising an interior volume containing an amount of liquid, wherein the amount of liquid in the interior volume of the container sets a natural frequency of the liquid damper, and wherein the frame structure comprises an interface arrangement configured for, in cooperation with a damper module suspension arrangement in a tower section, securing the damper module to said tower section, and a liquid damper fastening arrangement configured for securing said at least one liquid damper to the frame structure. The present invention further relates to a liquid damper and a tower section having at least one damper module secured thereto. |
| US11754048B2 |
Tower erection system
Tower erection systems and methods utilizing a load-sharing support member (LS support member) are disclosed. The LS support member can have a first end coupled to a crane tower and a second end configured to repeatably couple to the upper-most tower section of a partially assembled tower stack during assembly. During lifting, a portion of the vertical load is transferred to the partially assembled tower stack. |
| US11754043B2 |
Method and system for controlling a wind turbine to reduce nacelle vibration
Controlling a wind turbine by obtaining a movement signal indicative of a vibrational movement of a wind turbine tower is described. An actuator signal is determined based on the movement signal, the actuator signal being determined to produce a desired force to counteract the vibrational movement of the tower. A pitch reference offset signal for each one of a plurality of pitch-adjustable rotor blades is determined based on the actuator signal. An integration is then applied to the pitch reference offset signals to determine modified pitch reference offset signals based on the integrated pitch reference offset signals. A pitch signal for each of the blades is determined based on the modified pitch reference offset signals, the pitch signals being arranged to adjust the blades to provide the force that counteracts the vibrational movement of the tower. |
| US11754042B2 |
Method for controlling a wind power installation or a wind farm
A control system of a wind power installation and/or a wind farm is provided. The control system has a plurality of operating modes and has an interface. The interface is configured for providing maximum adjustability of the wind power installation and/or the wind farm in critical power grid situations. The interface is configured to receive a signal of a power grid operator, as a result of which all of the plurality of operating modes are released and made available to the power grid operator. |
| US11754034B2 |
Wave energy device with constricted tube and generator pod
A wave energy converter utilizes a flotation module that rises and falls with the passage of waves, a submerged tube containing a constriction which multiplies the speed of the water passing therethrough, a turbine (or other hydrokinetic apparatus) positioned so as to extract energy from the accelerated flow of water within and/or through the tube, and a submerged gas- or liquid-filled chamber housing one or more energy conversion components (e.g. generators, transformers, rectifiers, inverters). By providing a chamber in proximity to the turbine, generators can be placed in closer proximity to the turbine that turns them, and the shared shaft can be shorter than if the generators were placed in the buoy adjacent to the surface. |