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| US11802728B2 |
Refrigerator
A refrigerator including an inner case, an outer case, and a vacuum space provided between the inner case and the outer case to insulate the inner case from the outer case. The inner case defines an exterior appearance of a storage space, with a communication hole formed therein. The outer case is spaced apart a predetermined distance from the inner case, and a communication is formed at a position corresponding to the communication hole of the inner case. A connection pipe passes through the vacuum space to connect the communication hole of the inner case and the communication hole of the outer case with each other. |
| US11802726B2 |
Refrigeration cycle device
A refrigeration cycle device includes a compressor to compress refrigerant, a suction-side detector to detect a pressure of the refrigerant to be suctioned into the compressor, a discharge-side detector to detect a pressure of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor, and controlling circuitry that controls the compressor. When the ratio of a second pressure value detected by the discharge-side detector to a first pressure value detected by the suction-side detector is not between a predetermined upper limit and a predetermined lower limit, the controlling circuitry controls the compressor such that the ratio falls between the predetermined upper limit and the predetermined lower limit. |
| US11802725B2 |
Air-conditioning apparatus
The air-conditioning apparatus includes the plurality of heat source apparatuses; a plurality of indoor units each including an indoor heat exchanger and each configured to perform one of cooling and heating operations; a relay device connected to the heat source apparatuses by a high pressure pipe and a low pressure pipe and configured to distribute refrigerant flowing therein from the heat source apparatuses to the plurality of indoor units; and a controller configured to control operations of the heat source apparatuses. The relay device includes a relay device temperature detecting unit configured to detect a temperature of the refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe. During the heating main operation, the controller changes an opening degree of each of the outdoor side expansion devices based on the temperature detected by the relay device temperature detecting unit. |
| US11802721B2 |
Heat source unit and scroll compressor
A heat source unit of a refrigerant cycle apparatus includes a compressor, a pipe, and a fixing member. The compressor includes two or three connection portions of a first connection portion connecting a suction pipe, a second connection portion connecting a discharge pipe, and a third connection portion connecting an injection pipe. The pipe includes a vertical portion. At least a part of the vertical portion extends vertically from each of the two or three connection portions. The fixing member fixes at least two of the vertical portions of two or three of the pipes of the suction pipe, the discharge pipe, and the injection pipe. Each of the connection portions of the pipes fixed by the fixing member is located on a first straight line as seen in a top view. |
| US11802720B2 |
Packed-screen type magnetocaloric element
A magnetocaloric lattice element formed by fibres of magnetocaloric material, wherein the fibres are arranged in respective parallel lattice planes, each fibre having a respective mass of magnetocaloric material, the fibres of given lattice plane do not contact each other but each fibre of a given lattice plane is attached to at least two fibres in a next neighbouring lattice place, and wherein the magnetocaloric lattice element exhibits exactly one predominant mass-weighted direction of longitudinal fibre extension. |
| US11802719B2 |
Refrigeration cycle apparatus
The refrigerant circuit includes a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, and a second flow path switching unit. The outdoor heat exchanger has a plurality of first flat heat transfer tubes, a plurality of second flat heat transfer tubes, and a plurality of third flat heat transfer tubes. The second flow path switching unit switches the refrigeration cycle apparatus between a third state and a fourth state. In the third state, the plurality of first flat heat transfer tubes and the plurality of third flat heat transfer tubes are sequentially connected in series. In the fourth state, the plurality of first flat heat transfer tubes, the plurality of second flat heat transfer tubes, and the plurality of third flat heat transfer tubes are connected in parallel to each other. |
| US11802718B2 |
Thermal storage of carbon dioxide system for power outage
A system includes a flash tank and a thermal storage tank. The flash tank is configured to store refrigerant and discharge a flash gas. The thermal storage tank is fluidically coupled to the flash tank and 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. When a power outage is determined not to be occurring, the thermal storage tank directs refrigerant to a compressor. |
| US11802716B2 |
Heat exchange circuit for a geothermal plant
A heat exchange circuit for a geothermal plant comprising a well excavated in the rock, a casing arranged inside the well, integral with it and comprising at least a first perforated section extending along a first portion of the well and at least a second perforated section extending along a second portion of the well, the perforated sections allowing the exit and the entry of a flow of geothermal fluid contained in an aquifer, an internal duct, located inside the casing in which a heat transfer fluid flows, wherein the well, the casing and the internal duct being arranged as a substantially closed ring, except for at least one surface interruption, at least one heat-exchange section at the bottom of the well between the first portion and the second portion of the well within which the geothermal fluid transfers heat to the heat transfer fluid. |
| US11802711B2 |
Information processing device and air conditioning system
Each of plurality of personal terminals is configured to acquire first data indicating a result of inputting whether a possessor is comfortable, second data indicating a terminal location, and third data indicating a temperature at the terminal location. An information processing device includes a first learning unit to classify the plurality of personal terminals into a plurality of classes based on the first to third data transmitted from the plurality of personal terminals, a storage unit to store a plurality of control details each associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of classes into which the first learning unit classifies the plurality of personal terminals, and a control unit to read, from the storage unit, a control detail associated with a class into which a personal terminal detected in an air conditioning target space is classified among the plurality of classes and control an air conditioning device. |
| US11802704B2 |
Predictive temperature scheduling for a thermostat using machine learning
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control device configured to receive a user input for controlling an HVAC system, to determine whether the user input indicates an energy saving occupancy setting, and to identify a first plurality of time entries that are associated with a confidence level for a predicted occupancy status that is less than a predetermined threshold value in the predicted occupancy schedule. The device is further configured to modify the predicted occupancy schedule by setting the first plurality of time entries to an away status when the user input indicates an aggressive energy saving occupancy setting. The device is further configured to modify the predicted occupancy schedule by setting the second plurality of time entries to a present status when the user input indicates a conservative energy saving occupancy setting. The device is further configured to output the modified predicted occupancy schedule. |
| US11802701B2 |
Air-conditioning apparatus
An air-conditioning apparatus includes: an outdoor unit including a compressor that compresses and discharges refrigerant to a refrigerant circuit; an indoor unit including a load-side heat exchanger that causes heat exchange to be performed between air in an air-conditioned space and a heat medium subjected to heat exchange with the refrigerant; a flow rate detection unit that detects a flow rate of the heat medium; and an alarm unit provided in the indoor unit. The alarm unit includes a determination unit and an abnormality alarm unit. The determination unit determines whether an abnormality occurs in the indoor unit or not based on the flow rate detected by the flow rate detection unit. The abnormality alarm unit outputs an alarm when the determination unit determines that the abnormality occurs in the indoor unit. |
| US11802693B2 |
Combustor swirl vane apparatus
A swirler apparatus for a combustor, including: primary and secondary swirlers disposed axially adjacent to each other along a swirler centerline; the primary swirler including a plurality of primary swirl vanes arrayed around the swirler centerline, each primary swirl vane including opposed sides bounded between opposed forward and aft edges and opposed leading and trailing edges; wherein the forward edge is oriented at a first vane angle with respect to a radial direction; wherein the aft edge is oriented at a second vane angle with respect to the radial direction; wherein the second vane angle is different from the first vane angle; and the secondary swirler including a plurality of secondary swirl vanes arrayed around the swirler centerline. |
| US11802689B2 |
Commissioning power plants
Improved steamblow commissioning of a steam plant with steam discharged to the condenser and increased use of permanent piping instead of temporary piping with quenching/desuperheating and providing a low back pressure environment to enable aggressive steam blow cleaning. |
| US11802688B2 |
Seawater leakage detection device in feedwater system, method for detecting seawater leakage in feedwater system, and steam turbine plant
In a seawater leakage detection device in a feedwater system, a method for detecting seawater leakage in a feedwater system, and a steam turbine plant, an ammonia addition device configured to add ammonia as a pH adjusting agent to feedwater at an upstream side of a high-pressure drum in a feedwater line, an acid electrical conductivity meter configured to measure an acid electrical conductivity of drum water in the high-pressure drum, and a control device configured to control the ammonia addition device such that a pH value of drum water in the heat recovery steam generator expresses alkalinity equal to or greater than a preset predetermined value, calculate a chlorine ion concentration of drum water on the basis of the acid electrical conductivity measured by the acid electrical conductivity meter, and determine whether leakage of seawater is detected are provided. |
| US11802686B2 |
Reverse steam generator for a lead-cooled fast reactor
Reverse steam generator for a lead-cooled fast reactor. The reverse steam generator comprises a cylindrical body with a bundle of heat exchange tubes located inside, the ends of the heat exchange tubes being fixed in tube sheets with intermediate support grids; inlet and outlet spherical chambers for supplying liquid metal coolant; a lower branch pipe for inlet water; and an upper branch pipe for a steam outlet. The cylindrical body is arranged horizontally and is curved in a Z-shape with a difference in height. The bundle of heat exchange tubes is also made in a Z-shape, repeating the bend of the cylindrical body. |
| US11802684B2 |
Illumination apparatus
It is an illumination apparatus (10) that can achieve special illumination in addition to normal illumination. It includes a main illumination light source (21) of a predetermined luminescent color, a sub illumination light source (22) adjustable to an arbitrary luminescent color, and a control unit (30) that controls lighting of the main illumination light source (21) and the sub illumination light source (22), the main illumination light source (21) and the sub illumination light source (22) are arranged in a state where respective irradiated lights are mixed on the same path, and the control unit (30) can set a high illuminance mode in which, in addition to lighting of the main illumination light source (21) during normal use, the sub illumination light source (22) is lighted in the same luminescent color as the main illumination light source (21). |
| US11802683B2 |
Device for accessing runway lighting
A device for removing a light fixture, the device comprising: a handle portion and a lever portion; the lever portion being pivotable relative to the handle portion between a first position and a second position; the handle portion having at least one abutment means; the handle portion and the lever portion defining a device body; a first arm extending from the device body, the arm having an engagement means; and wherein the first position is an engaging position in which the engagement means is engaged with a light fixture and the second position is an open position for mounting the device to the light fixture. |
| US11802679B2 |
Lamp mounting and suspending parts
A lamp includes a mounting part configured to be capable of being mounted on a fixture, a lamp part, and two locking parts arranged on the lamp part. The mounting part includes two locking portions and each of the two locking portions have two first fastening elements arranged on two opposite ends thereof. Each of the locking part defines two slot assemblies corresponding to the first fastening elements. Each of the slot assemblies comprises a first slot, a second slot communicates with the first slot, and a third slot adjacent to the second slot. The lamp part is configured to be capable of moving between a first position where the first fastening elements are received in the first slots and a second position where the first fastening elements are received in the second slots while the ends of the first fastening elements enters the third slots. |
| US11802676B1 |
Art lamp, decorative lamp, and lamp string comprising the same
An art lamp and a lamp string, the art lamp includes a light head, a wire and a light shell. The light head is provided with a power board; the wire passes through a top of the light head to connect with the power board; the light shell filled with a transparent liquid or gel-like medium, at least one decorative piece is disposed in the medium. The lamp string includes a multi-wire conductor and a plurality of art lamps. One end of the multi-wire conductor has multiple wires, the other end thereof has a plug electrically connected to the multiple wires, each of the wires is connected with one of the light heads of the art lamps. The light of the a first LED lamp beads on the power board illuminates the light head, the medium and the decorative piece to present a decorative pattern. |
| US11802675B2 |
Lamp for vehicle and vehicle including the same
A lamp for a vehicle includes a light source that irradiates light, and an inner lens, one surface of which faces the light source, the inner lens may be disposed in a horizontal direction such that a main plane thereof faces an upper side and a lower side, the light source may face a lower side of the inner lens, among the light output from the light source, the light output through one side surface of the inner lens after being input to the inner lens through the lower side of the inner lens may form a first lighting image. |
| US11802673B2 |
Intelligent dimming RGB LED spotlight with high light quality and a method for achieving the same
An intelligent dimming RGB LED spotlight comprises an outer shell, a lamp base and a lampshade. A drive board connects to the lamp base and a light source board. The light source board is provided with dense ordinary-color-temperature lamp beads and RGB color-changing lamp beads, and is connected above to the lampshade corresponding to the RGB color-changing lamp beads. A method for achieving the intelligent dimming RGB LED spotlight includes the lampshade scattering the light emitted by the RGB color-changing lamp beads, so as to reduce the light intensity and make the light-emitting area larger and the emitted light more uniform, while it does not block the light emitted by the ordinary-color-temperature lamp beads, which makes the generated light spot have balanced illumination and a uniform and high-purity color in the color-changing process of a variety of colors, able to achieve the effect of AA level of GB illumination. |
| US11802669B1 |
LED straight tube lamp with an end face switch for a tone adjustment and a power adjustment
The present invention discloses an LED straight tube lamp with an end face switch for a tone adjustment and a power adjustment, which belongs to the technical field of LED lamps, comprising a lamp tube, wherein an inside of the lamp tube is provided with a light source board, one end of the lamp tube is provided with a first plug, another end of the lamp tube is provided with a second plug, the first plug is provided with a first driving board, the second plug is provided with a second driving board, both the first driving board and the second driving board are connected to the light source board, a switch is provided on the second driver board, an end face of the second plug is provided with an oblique groove, and an interior of the oblique groove is provided with a notch for extending a handle of the switch. In the present invention, the handle of the switch is arranged at the end face of the second plug, and an end of the handle of the switch is flush with the end face of the second plug. There is no need to increase the length of the second plug. The length of the whole lamp is not affected. The increase of material cost is avoided. The oblique groove arranged on the end face of the second plug of the present invention makes it easy to toggle the handle of the switch. |
| US11802668B2 |
Multi-element flexible strap light
Disclosed herein is a multi-element flexible strap light which includes a plurality of light elements disposed on a flexible chassis. The flexible chassis may include a first flexible layer, a printed circuit board, and a second flexible layer. The flexible chassis may be further contained within a third flexible layer, such as a layer of polycarbonate plastic. Further disclosed is a multi-element flexible strap light system which includes a plurality of light elements disposed on a flexible chassis and a remote battery. |
| US11802666B2 |
Sealing mechanism of pressure vessel
Main technical features of a sealing mechanism of a pressure vessel provided by the invention are a sealing unit for airtightly combining with the vessel, and a combination unit for positioning the sealing unit in the airtight combination state, and there are common structures disposed between constituent elements of the sealing unit and the combination unit, so that the sealing unit and the combination unit can be combined with each other in order to facilitate use and storage and to avoid losing or missing parts. |
| US11802665B2 |
Hydrogen fueling systems and methods
According to aspects, hydrogen fueling systems and methods are provided, including vehicle-to-vehicle communication techniques, hydrogen cooling techniques and/or hydrogen dispenser control techniques that facilitate improving aspects of a hydrogen fueling station. |
| US11802664B2 |
Storage tank for cryogenic liquid
A storage tank for cryogenic liquid includes an outer tank constructed of a rigid material and an inner tank contained within and spaced inwardly from the outer tank. A supply line supplies cryogenic liquid to a plurality of cryogenic freezers. A fill line having a diameter greater than the supply line allows the storage tank to be filled at a greater speed relative to filling through the supply line and allows the storage tank to be filled while supply cryogenic liquid to the cryogenic freezers. A level sensor processes an impedance to calculate a level of the inner tank and a reporting unit displays the level and may report the level to a remote server. |
| US11802659B1 |
Non-metallic ceiling electrical fixture with metallic brackets
A ceiling electrical box can include a housing and a bracket. The housing is defined by a rear wall at a first end, at least one sidewall, and an opening at a second end and includes a first emboss tab, a second emboss tab, a pair of screw holes, a pair of first bores, and a pair of second bores. The bracket includes a first portion, a second portion, a pair of first threaded apertures, and a pair of second threaded apertures. The bracket can include a third portion and a fourth portion extending on a first plane of the first portion. The ceiling electrical box can also include a pair of first fasteners to attach the housing to the bracket and a pair of second fasteners to engage the bracket through the housing, the second fasteners configured to receive a fixture plate for a ceiling fixture. |
| US11802657B2 |
Display device and fixing module
A display device includes a screen, a screen support and a fixing module. The screen support is pivotally connected to the screen, and the screen support includes a first end and a second end. The fixing module is detachably connected to the screen support and includes a first sub-component and a second sub-component. The first sub-component has a first surface and a second surface, and the first sub-component is selectively connected to one of the first end and the second end. The second sub-component has a third surface and a fourth surface, and the second sub-component is configured for clamping a board. One of the first surface and the second surface of the first sub-component and one of the third surface and the fourth surface of the second sub-component are detachably connected. |
| US11802655B2 |
Display panel mounting systems
A display panel mounting system includes a plate and an adjustment device. The plate includes a plate opening. The adjustment device includes a body, a sleeve, a coupler, and a nut. The body includes a receiver. The body is configured to be received within the plate opening. The sleeve is received within the body. The coupler includes a slot that receives the receiver such that the coupler is coupled to the body. The nut is coupled to the body such that the sleeve is repositionable within the body when the nut is coupled to the body. |
| US11802651B2 |
Accessory for handheld device
The present disclosure provides an accessory for a handheld device. The accessory includes a first base, a second base, a first flexible element and a second flexible element. The first flexible element and the second flexible element are respectively disposed at the first base. The first flexible element has a first track. The second flexible element has a second track. The second base has a fastener for engaging with the first track and the second track. The first flexible element is flexed based on sliding of the fastener along the first track. The second flexible element is flexed based on sliding of the fastener along the second track. |
| US11802647B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for lining conduits
Methods, apparatus or equipment and systems for lining conduits, e.g., preferably subterranean pipelines and passageways, such as sewers, with a liner impregnated with a curable resin in order to secure the conduit against ingress or egress of liquids. |
| US11802645B2 |
Flow management systems and related methods for oil and gas applications
A flow management system includes an expandable device configured for attachment to a wall surface of a conduit and being adjustable between an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration, an electric actuator in fluid communication with the expandable device, and a control module. The control module is configured to control the electric actuator to flow a current to the expandable device to expand the expandable device for compacting a flow blockage within the conduit to create a channel adjacent the flow blockage and to terminate a flow of the current to the expandable device to collapse the expandable device for opening the channel to a fluid flow within the conduit. |
| US11802642B2 |
Hydraulic swivel
Described are systems and methods for a hydraulic swivel. The hydraulic swivel receives fluid flow in one direction and, in certain configurations, changes the direction of the fluid flow to a second direction before the fluid leaves the hydraulic swivel. The hydraulic swivel includes a first banjo, a second banjo, and a base. The banjos of the hydraulic swivel are configured to be repositioned. |
| US11802640B2 |
Tube coupling
A tube coupling for coupling a first tube and a second tube. The tube coupling includes an inner shroud including a ball portion and an outer shroud including a socket portion. The socket portion receives the ball portion. The tube coupling includes a compressive ring configured to elastically compress the outer shroud onto the inner shroud. The ball portion and the socket portion form a ball and socket joint. The ball and socket joint allows relative angular movement and relative axial movement between the inner shroud and the outer shroud. |
| US11802638B2 |
Snap to grid bracket for a sprinkler support assembly
A fire sprinkler support assembly includes a beam defining a first side and a second side; a bracket bar; and a bracket assembly coupled to an end of the bracket bar, the bracket assembly including: a first plate oriented substantially perpendicular to the bracket bar, the first plate having a first end coupled to the bracket bar and a second end coupled to the beam; a second plate rotatable relative to the first plate; and a lever assembly coupling the first plate to the second plate, the lever assembly operable to adjust a distance between the first plate and second plate. |
| US11802636B2 |
Clamping devices
A clamping device for mounting at least one electrical conductor to a structure, including: a first clamping body and a second clamping body mountable together for holding the at least one electrical conductor therebetween, each of the first and second clamping bodies being provided with a clamping face having at least one recess thereon, with the at least one recess of the first and second clamping bodies together forming at least one damping aperture extending through the clamping device when the first and second bodies are secured together; and at least one damping device mountable around the at least one electrical conductor and insertable within the at least one damping aperture for holding in position the at least one electrical conductor, and with the damping device having a predetermined resilience. |
| US11802629B1 |
Solenoid actuated pressure regulator for inflation system
A valve arrangement for inflating an inflatable device includes a valve body comprising an inlet, an outlet, a main fluid channel, a first ball detent, and a second ball detent. A lifter and a sleeve are located in the main fluid channel. A locking ball is disposed at least partially within a locking ball aperture disposed in the sleeve. A piston is coupled to the lifter and fluidly coupled to a command pressure cavity of the valve body. A spring biases the lifter toward a ball locking position whereby the lifter urges the locking ball at least partially into the first ball detent. A valve operation initiator controls a flow of pressurized gas into the command pressure cavity to urge the lifter to a ball releasing position to free the sleeve, as to the locking ball, to translate to an open position to fluidly couple the inlet with the outlet. |
| US11802626B2 |
Valve apparatus
A valve apparatus [11] for connection to a tank or pipe, the valve apparatus [11] comprises a housing [12], a first opening [176a] and a second opening [177a] communicating with respective first conduit [16] and second conduit [17] each for providing ingress and egress of fluid into and out of the housing [11] through the first opening [176a] and the second opening [177a], and discrete first and second valve means or valves [14; 15] which are spaced apart from one another, the first and second valve means or valves [14; 15] selectively controlling fluid flow between the first and second conduits [16; 17], wherein, in use, the principal flow axes along the first conduit [16] and second conduit [17] are parallel and opposed, the first valve means or valve [14] is configured to open when the pressure in the first conduit [16] is greater than a first pressure and the second valve means or valve 15 is configured to open when the pressure in the first conduit [16] is less than the first pressure. |
| US11802623B2 |
Mechanical seal
A mechanical seal includes rotating seal ring which rotate with a rotary shaft, stationary seal rings, and an adaptor which holds the stationary seal rings 30, the adaptor 5 being fixed to a seal cover by bolts. The mechanical seal further includes a plurality of holders brought into contact with the adapter and provided with through holes. A body part of each of the bolts passes through each of the through holes and is screwed into each of threaded holes formed in the seal cover. The plurality of holders 9 being arranged so as to surround the rotary shaft. |
| US11802622B2 |
Shaft seal, in particular radial shaft seal
A shaft seal, in particular a radial shaft seal, has a seal element that is provided with a seal section that under elastic deformation contacts the outer side of a mounting sleeve. The shaft seal has a grease ring located on the mounting sleeve wherein the grease ring is arranged axially adjacent to the free end of the seal section on the mounting sleeve. For installation, grease ring and seal section are pushed by a mounting tool onto the shaft and the seal section on the shaft is pushed onto the grease ring in such a way that the grease of the grease ring is distributed between the seal section and the shaft. |
| US11802612B2 |
Hydrodynamic torque converter and torsional vibration damper for same
A hydrodynamic torque converter and a torsional vibration damper include a pump wheel connected on the drive side and a turbine wheel which is driven by the pump wheel. Between the housing of the torque converter and an output hub, a torsional vibration damper, which includes an input part that can be connected to the housing by a converter bridging clutch, and an output part, which is connected to the output hub, are provided. In order to allow a special wiring of the torsional vibration damper, an intermediate flange is arranged against a respective spring device, which acts in a circumferential direction, between the input part and the output part, said intermediate flange having a centrifugal pendulum and being connected to the turbine wheel. |
| US11802610B2 |
Continuously variable transmission
Disclosed are a continuously variable transmission including a plurality of input links integrated into one input link, a plurality of coupler links integrated into one coupler disk, and at least four even-numbered output gears circumscribed about at least four even-numbered output links via a clutch, wherein, even if two output gears of the at least four even-numbered output gears are put into a slip state by the clutch, the other two output gears rotate in a direction of forcibly transmitting power. |
| US11802609B2 |
Handle assemblies for hand-held surgical instruments
A handle assembly includes a single-motor transmission assembly for actuating various functions of an attached end effector. |
| US11802607B2 |
Damper device
A damper device includes: a first rotating body rotating around a rotation shaft and receiving power transmitted from a flywheel; a second rotating body including a first plate receiving the power transmitted from the first rotating body and a second plate disposed to face the first plate and rotating integrally with the first plate; a third rotating body rotating relative to the second rotating body around the rotation shaft; a fastening body integrating the first and second plates at a position radially spaced apart from a position where the power is transmitted from the first rotating body to the first plate; and an elastic mechanism elastically interconnecting the second and third rotating bodies in a rotation direction. The first plate is provided with a restricting portion restricting relative rotation of the third rotating body beyond a predetermined torsion angle. |
| US11802606B2 |
Planate dynamic isolator
A vibration isolation system is disclosed, including a rigid retaining device having an internal space, a first external side, and a second external side. A rigid anchoring device is retained in the internal space of the rigid retaining device. The anchoring device has a linkage member that extends from the internal space to the first external side of the retaining device and is configured for rigid connection to a first apparatus. The second side of the retaining device is configured for attachment to a second apparatus. A damping material is sandwiched between the retaining device and the anchoring device, and is configured to limit transfer of vibration between the retaining device and the anchoring device. |
| US11802602B2 |
Disc assembly of disc brake
A disc assembly has a braking band, a bell and at least one driving element. The bell has at least one driving surface, forming a tangential abutment surface. The bell rests on at least one surface of the braking band or on a plurality of surfaces of the braking band coplanar with one another. The braking band has at least one driving band surface extending along axial and radial directions, forming at least one tangential abutment surface and slidingly rests on the at least one driving band surface. The driving element is selectively movable from a position in which it avoids resting on the bell to a position in which it rests on the bell and constrains the bell to the braking band in axial and circumferential directions, preventing the braking band from being constrained to the bell in radial direction. |
| US11802601B2 |
Spring for friction pads in a disc brake caliper
A spring for friction pads which can be associated with a caliper of a disc brake to bias the friction pads elastically away from a brake disc may have a central stretch and two opposite transverse stretches, extending from the central stretch in two opposite transverse directions and each forming a supporting stretch, a resting stretch and a wing stretch extending between the supporting stretch and the resting stretch. The supporting stretches lie on the same supporting plane and the wing stretch may have an ascending wing stretch and a descending wing stretch. The spring may also have one or more fixing stretches connected to the central stretch and forming at least two opposite fixing stretches for elastic snap fixing to corresponding fixing seats of the caliper. |
| US11802600B2 |
Caliper body of a caliper for disc brake
A caliper body of a caliper for a disc brake may have two opposite elongated portions, each adapted to face one of the two opposite braking surfaces of the disc of disc brake. The two opposite elongated portions are connected to each other by at least one caliper bridge. At least one of the two opposite elongated portions may have seat walls which delimit at least one seat, adapted to house at least one portion of a thrusting element. The thrusting element may be adapted to determine a thrusting action against at least one brake pad associable with the caliper body to press the at least one brake pad against one of the two opposite braking surfaces. The seat walls may have at least one seat bottom wall, in which the axial thickness of the seat bottom wall is less than 5 mm. |
| US11802597B1 |
Disconnect assembly with a dog clutch and method for operation of the disconnect assembly
Methods and systems are provided for a differential disconnect assembly of a vehicle, the differential disconnect assembly including a dog clutch used to engage and disengage a gear of a differential of the vehicle from a transmission of the vehicle. In one example, a method for operating a dog clutch comprises de-energizing a solenoid coupled to the dog clutch to initiate dog clutch disengagement; and during disengagement of the dog clutch when a return spring coupled to a first toothed interface of the dog clutch applies a first force on the first toothed interface in a first direction away from a second toothed interface, transiently re-energizing the solenoid that applies a second force to the first toothed interface in a second direction which is opposite the first direction. |
| US11802594B2 |
Clutch device
A state changing unit is capable of contacting a clutch, and being configured to receive a force along the axial direction from a translation portion and change a state of the clutch to an engaged state or a disengaged state according to a position of the translation portion in an axial direction relative to a housing. A fixed end is non-rotatable relative to the housing. A return spring is disposed on a side of the fixed end opposite to the clutch, and capable of urging the translation portion in a direction away from the clutch with respect to the fixed end. |
| US11802593B2 |
Off-road recreational vehicle
Embodiments relate to an off-road vehicle comprising a frame, including at a frame, a passenger compartment, a driveline that includes at least a drive system and a driven system, and a constant velocity (CV) joint for coupling the driven system to the drive system. The CV joint includes a housing, a coupling shaft, a detent, a plunge pin and an actuation pin, wherein the actuation pin has a first end that is accessible via an aperture in the housing, wherein actuation of the actuation pin determines whether the plunge pin is in the first position or the second position. |
| US11802586B2 |
Device for releasably retaining carabiner
A device for releasably retaining a carabiner, said device includes: an elongate body with a jaw member hingedly attached at a first position thereto, said jaw member being movable towards and away from the elongate body in a first plane; a first projecting member and a second projecting member extending outwardly from a first side of the elongate body and away from the first plane; a third projecting member extending outwardly from a first side of the jaw member and away from the first plane, wherein the first projecting member and the second projecting member are configured to receive a spine of a carabiner inserted therebetween and whereupon third projecting member is configured to urge a gate of the carabiner toward the spine of the carabiner. |
| US11802585B2 |
Anti-tampering device that envelopes the head of a fastener
An anti-tampering device includes a housing with a bolt channel and a lock channel. The lock channel is aligned with, intersects and is perpendicular to the bolt channel. A head of a bolt and a portion of a shank of a bolt is received in the bolt channel. A lock received in the lock channel extends into the bolt channel, in proximity to the shank of the bolt, when the lock is in a locked position. The portion of the lock extending into the bolt channel prevents removal of the head of the bolt from the bolt channel. |
| US11802580B2 |
Aluminum assembly
An aluminum assembly includes at least an aluminum member. Each aluminum member has a first coupling element and a second coupling element extended from two edges of the aluminum member. The first coupling element has a first groove section and a first protrusion. The first groove section has a first fastener and a second fastener. The second coupling element has a second groove section and a second protrusion. The second groove section has a third fastener and a fourth fastener. As such, the first coupling element of a first aluminum member may be detachably coupled to the second coupling element of a second aluminum member, and the second coupling element of the first aluminum member may be coupled to the first coupling element of a third aluminum member. An aluminum assembly of various forms may be constructed in this way. |
| US11802579B2 |
Electrical box connection to a support rod
A two-part fitting has a first part with an elongated vertical cavity open on a first side, the cavity of a depth and width to accommodate a vertical support rod, with two male threaded posts extending horizontally on a second side of the first part opposite the first side, and a second part having a male threaded screw engaged in a female threaded hole through a portion of the second part. The fitting is characterized in that the first and second parts are adapted to join together enclosing the vertical support rod in a manner that the male threaded screw of the second part impinges on the vertical support rod. |
| US11802577B2 |
System for a tower segment of a tower, a respective tower segment, and a wind turbine having a tower segment
A system for a tower segment of a tower is presented, wherein the tower segment is configured for forming at least partially a part of a tower for carrying a structure, in particular for supporting a nacelle of a horizontal-axis wind turbine or a machine house of a vertical-axis wind turbine. The system is configured to be attached, arranged, and/or mounted to the tower segment and comprises at least an airflow manipulation arrangement and a support arrangement. The airflow manipulation arrangement includes an airflow manipulator which is configured for affecting an airflow around the tower segment. The support arrangement is configured for supporting the airflow manipulation arrangement and for mounting the airflow manipulation arrangement to the tower segment. The airflow manipulation arrangement and the support arrangement are configured such, when mounted to the tower segment, that the airflow manipulator projects a tower diameter in radial direction by at least 5%, in particular at least 10%, preferred at least 15%, in particular not more than 30%, further in particular not more than 20%, of the tower diameter, or that the airflow manipulator is essentially parallel to the tower segment. By this, an effective measure against vortex shedding effects is put in place. |
| US11802576B1 |
Fan device and fan frame with a buffer
A fan device includes a fan frame and a fan impeller. The fan frame includes a frame and a shaft seat. The shaft seat includes a shaft tube and a buffer. At least a part of the buffer is clamped between the shaft tube and the frame. The fan impeller is rotably disposed on the shaft tube of the shaft seat. An elastic coefficient of the buffer is larger than an elastic coefficient of the shaft tube. |
| US11802575B2 |
Vibration/noise reduction device, electric compressor including the vibration/noise reduction device, and vibration/noise reduction method
With an electric compressor including a rotational shaft, a compressor wheel disposed on the rotational shaft, and an electric motor for applying a rotational force to the rotational shaft including a rotor fixed to the rotational shaft, and a stator disposed around the rotor, for applying the rotational force to the rotor by an electromagnetic force, a vibration/noise reduction device includes a detector for detecting a frequency related to a vibration of the stator, and a signal generator for generating a vibration signal that has a frequency of a predetermined integral multiple of an electrical angle frequency, which is obtained from the frequency detected by the detector, and has a signal wave attenuating the vibration of the stator, and a vibrator for vibrating the electric compressor based on the vibration signal. |
| US11802564B2 |
Airend having a lubricant flow valve and controller
A compressor system can include a lubricant injection system useful to supply lubricant to an airend. The compressor system can include a variable lubricant flow valve which can be regulated by a controller on the basis of operating conditions of the compressor system. In one form the compressor system also includes an oil separator and/or an oil cooler with or without a them al control valve. The controller can have one or more modes of operation, including a mode in which the controller regulates the flow of lubricant to the airend to increase an internal flow area of the valve when the airend is operated at an unloaded or loaded condition. In some forms the controller can regulate the lubricant flow valve and/or the thermal control valve and/or the lubricant cooler. |
| US11802563B2 |
Screw compressor
A screw compressor has a slide valve movement mechanism that includes a cylinder provided in a casing body, a piston partitioning an interior of the cylinder into a first chamber and a second chamber, and a communication flow passage through which the second chamber communicates with a low-pressure space. The cylinder includes a first inflow hole, a second inflow hole, and a third inflow hole. The first chamber communicates with a high-pressure space through the first inflow hole, the second chamber communicates with the low-pressure space through the second inflow hole and the communication flow passage, and the second chamber communicates with the high-pressure space through the third inflow hole. The third inflow hole is located at a position at which the third inflow hole is closed by the piston when the piston lies at a stop position at which the piston moves toward the second chamber and stops. |
| US11802560B2 |
Hydrostatic pressure support for spherical pump rotor and spherical pump with same
Disclosed are a hydrostatic pressure support and a spherical pump having the same. The hydrostatic pressure support is arranged between each of two parallel sides of a slipper and a sliding groove, and includes a first liquid flow channel, a second liquid flow channel, and a pressure-bearing groove. An inlet of the first liquid flow channel is communicated with one of two working chambers of the spherical pump, and an inlet of the second liquid flow channel is communicated with the other of the two working chambers. An outlet of the first liquid flow channel and an outlet the second liquid flow channel are respectively communicated with the pressure-bearing grooves provided on the two parallel sides of the slipper. |
| US11802557B2 |
Method for operating an electric motor
A method for operating an electric motor, the electric motor comprising at least one first stator with at least three coils and a rotor with at least two magnets, the first stator and the rotor being adjacently arranged in an axial direction, and the coils being adjacently arranged in a peripheral direction. The electric motor is operated at least in the following two states: a) in a first state, the coils are operated by respectively different phases of a three-phase current, and the rotor is rotated about an axis of rotation; and b) in a second state, the coils are operated by an equal-phase alternating current. |
| US11802554B2 |
MEMS-based airflow system having a vibrating fan element arrangement
A system including an orifice plate, a fan element and at least one channel is disclosed. The orifice plate has at least one orifice therein. The fan element is configured to undergo vibrational motion to drive a fluid through the orifice(s). The fluid is drawn through the channel(s) in response to the fluid being driven through the at least one orifice. |
| US11802550B2 |
Displacement metering pump and use of the displacement metering pump
In a displacement metering pump, comprising a cylinder housing, which has a product inlet and a product outlet and in which a sealed displacement piston can be moved back and forth, the cylinder housing, with a piston rod seal fixedly installed therein for the displacement piston forming a piston rod and with the placement of the product inlet and the product outlet, has no dead space and is self-emptying, i.e. can be flawlessly cleaned with respect to CIP hygiene. |
| US11802542B2 |
Method for installing and retaining a bushing in a bearing block of a rotor blade joint
A rotor blade for a wind turbine includes a first blade segment and a second blade segment extending in opposite directions from a chord-wise joint. Each of the first and second blade segments includes at least one shell member defining an airfoil surface. The rotor blade also includes one or more pin joints for connecting the first and second blade segments at the chord-wise joint. The pin joint(s) includes one or more pin joint tubes received within the pin joint slot(s). The pin joint slot(s) are secured within a bearing block. Further, a gap is defined between the pin joint slot(s) and the bearing block. Moreover, the rotor blade includes a shim within the gap between the pin joint slot(s) and the bearing block so as to retain the pin joint slot(s) within the bearing block. In addition, the shim is constructed of a liquid material that hardens after being poured into the gap. |
| US11802540B2 |
Wind turbine and rotor blade for a wind turbine
A rotor blade for a wind turbine, comprising a rotor blade root for fixing the rotor blade to the hub of a wind turbine, an inner blade portion which extends from the rotor blade root in the direction of a longitudinal extension of the rotor blade, and a rear edge segment for increasing the depth of the rotor blade in the profile depth direction in the region of the inner blade portion, wherein the rear edge segment is fixed to the inner blade portion and has an edge facing the inner blade portion. A cover lip is proposed which overlaps with the edge and is arranged in a transition region from the inner blade portion to the edge of the rear edge segment. |
| US11802537B2 |
Methods and systems for wave energy generation prediction and optimization
Embodiments for managing a wave energy converter (WEC) device by one or more processors are described. At least one environmental characteristic associated with a WEC device in a body of water is received. A prediction of wave conditions on the body of water is calculated based on the at least one environmental characteristic. A signal representative of the prediction of wave conditions is generated. |
| US11802535B2 |
Small hydroelectric power generation apparatus
Power can be efficiently generated in accordance with the amount of water in a channel by including: a first headrace channel positioned on an upstream side; a second headrace channel positioned on a downstream side; a water wheel on a most downstream side of the first headrace channel and the second headrace channel, the water wheel having a rotation shaft in a direction orthogonally intersecting with a water flow; a lateral movement apparatus that enables the second headrace channel to be moved in an upstream direction or a downstream direction; and a vertical movement apparatus that enables the water wheel to be moved in a vertical direction. |
| US11802534B2 |
Control device for internal combustion engine
The present invention is provided to suppress the power consumption, the calorific value, and the volume of an ignition device in an internal combustion engine while suppressing failures in igniting fuel by an ignition plug. To achieve this, a control device 1 for the internal combustion engine includes an ignition control unit that controls energization of an ignition coil 300 that gives electric energy to an ignition plug 200 that discharges in a cylinder 150 of an internal combustion engine 100 to ignite fuel. The ignition control unit controls energization of the ignition coil 300 so that first electric energy is released from the ignition coil 300 while second electric energy is released as electric energy superposed on the first electric energy, the second electric energy changing based on a gas state around the ignition plug 200. |
| US11802531B2 |
Hybrid electric vehicle
A hybrid electric vehicle includes an engine having an in-cylinder injection valve, a fuel supply device that supplies fuel to the in-cylinder injection valve, a motor that can generate an electric power through the use of a motive power output from the engine and can output a running motive power, and an electrical storage device that exchanges electric power with the motor. A deposit removal process where deposits adherent to the in-cylinder injection valve are removed by setting a pressure of fuel supplied to the in-cylinder injection valve to a predetermined pressure higher than a normal pressure and injecting fuel from the in-cylinder injection valve is performed during the performance of a forcible charging process for the electrical storage device, and the forcible charging process is continued until the pressure of fuel is returned to the normal pressure after the end of the deposit removal process. |
| US11802530B2 |
Method of removing particles in an injector of a diesel engine, apparatus for performing the same and diesel engine including the apparatus
In a method of removing particles in an injector of a diesel engine, a stop of the diesel engine may be recognized. An injection signal may be inputted into the injector of the stopped diesel engine. A control valve of the injector may be moved in a low-pressure passage by the injection signal to remove the particles accumulated on an inner wall of the low-pressure passage. Thus, a malfunction of the control valve caused by the particles may be previously prevented. |
| US11802529B2 |
Fuel and air charge forming device
A throttle body has a throttle bore with an inlet, an outlet and an air passage. A throttle valve has a valve head received within the throttle bore. A fuel metering valve is mounted on the throttle body and has a valve element and a fuel outlet, the valve element is movable relative to a valve seat to control fuel flow through the fuel outlet. And the nozzle body is carried by the throttle body and has a fuel passage and a feed passage. The fuel passage is arranged to receive fuel that exits the fuel outlet, and is communicated with a fuel chamber through which fluid flows into the throttle bore. The feed passage is communicated with the air passage and with the fuel passage upstream of the fuel chamber. Air in the feed passage is mixed with fuel in the fuel passage upstream of the fuel chamber. |
| US11802523B2 |
Multi-lobed bullnose ramp
A bullnose ramp is disclosed. In various embodiments, the bullnose ramp includes a forward portion, the forward portion characterized by a first profile; an aft portion, the aft portion characterized by a second profile; and a transition portion positioned proximate an intersection between the forward portion and the aft portion, the transition portion defining a change in slope between the first profile and the second profile. |
| US11802520B2 |
Method and system for water in fuel prognostic monitor
A method for determining the presence of water and diesel exhaust fluid mixed with diesel fuel is disclosed. In one example, output pressure of a fuel pump may be indicative of the presence or absence of water in diesel fuel. The presence or absence of water in fuel may be evaluated in response to filling a fuel tank. |
| US11802519B1 |
Systems and methods for bypassing a compromised engine cylinder via cylinder deactivation
Systems and methods for bypassing a compromised engine cylinder via cylinder deactivation are described according to various embodiments herein. A system includes an engine coupled to a controller. The controller includes at least one processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the controller to: determine that one or more cylinders of a plurality of cylinders of the engine is compromised based on data regarding operation of the engine; and cause the engine to operate in the modified engine operating mode whereby operation of the one or more cylinders that are compromised is modified. |
| US11802518B2 |
Engine system and engine controlling method
An engine system is provided, which includes a vehicle-mounted engine having an injector, a spark plug, an intake valve operating mechanism, and an exhaust valve operating mechanism, an accelerator opening sensor, and a controller. The engine is configured to execute flame propagation combustion and compressed self-ignition combustion. The controller performs a combustion control so that a target torque set based on an accelerator opening is realized in a specific cycle in the future from a present time by a given delay time. The controller sets beforehand the combustion mode based on a target load, estimates an in-cylinder property when the intake valve is closed in the present cycle, sets a target in-cylinder property so that the set combustion mode is realized in the specific cycle, and sets a target operating amount of each of the intake and exhaust valve operating mechanisms based on the set target in-cylinder property. |
| US11802516B2 |
Gearbox efficiency rating for turbomachine engines
A turbomachine engine can include a fan assembly, a vane assembly, a core engine, a gearbox, and a gearbox efficiency rating. The fan assembly can include a plurality of fan blades. The vane assembly can include a plurality of vanes, and the vanes can, in some instances, be disposed aft of the fan blades. The core engine can include one or more compressor sections and one or more turbine sections. The gearbox includes an input and an output. The input is coupled to the one or more turbine sections of the core engine and comprises a first rotational speed, the output is coupled to the fan assembly and has a second rotational speed, and a gear ratio of the first rotational speed to the second rotational speed is within a range of 4.1-14.0. The gearbox efficiency rating is 0.10-1.8. |
| US11802504B2 |
Vehicle side rail, electric transmission system, powertrain assembly and corresponding vehicle
The present disclosure provides a vehicle side rail, an electric transmission system, a powertrain assembly and a corresponding vehicle. The vehicle side rail according to the present disclosure includes a profile body that further comprises a housing and a conduit disposed in the housing, wherein the conduit connects a coolant pump and an electric transmission cooling system and transmits coolant between them. |
| US11802499B2 |
Exhaust system tuner tube to reduce standing wave
A muffler assembly for an exhaust system is in fluid communication with a collector via an exhaust conduit. The muffler assembly includes a primary pipe, a valve, a secondary pipe, a tuner tube and a bleed port. The primary pipe extends through an enclosed volume of the muffler. The valve is operable to restrict flow through the primary pipe. When a standing wave is present, a resonance length is defined by a length of the exhaust system that extends from the collector to the valve. The tuner tube includes an open tuner tube end in fluid communication with the primary pipe and a closed tuner tube end. The tuner tube has a tuner tube length that is substantially one-quarter of the resonance length. The bleed port is formed in the primary pipe, allowing fluid communication with the enclosed volume, and positioned downstream from open tuner tube end. |
| US11802480B2 |
Determination of downhole conditions using circulated non-formation gasses
An example method for determining downhole conditions in a subterranean formation during a drilling operation may include introducing non-formation gas into a flow of drilling fluid through a fluid conduit in fluid communication with a drill string disposed within a borehole in the subterranean operation. The non-formation gas may be received from the flow of drilling fluid through a return line in fluid communication with the borehole. A downhole condition may be determined based, at least in part, on the received non-formation gas. |
| US11802477B2 |
Wide frequency range underground transmitter
An underground transmitter can be configured for use with a drill head and configured for wireless communication. The underground transmitter can include a control circuitry and a multi-coil antenna assembly. The control circuitry is configured for transmitting data associated with an operation of the drill head. The multi-core antenna can include an antenna core and a plurality of distinct wire coils. The plurality of distinct wire coils can be positioned proximate (e.g., around) the antenna core, with the distinct wire coils each having a different inductance associated therewith and thereby capable of transmitting in a separate frequency range. The control circuitry can be selectably coupled with the distinct wire coils to control which of the distinct wire coils are activated and thereby generating data signals at a given time. |
| US11802465B2 |
Encapsulated electric submersible pump
A system includes production tubing, an electric submersible pump, a motor, a shroud, a motor head, and a cable. The production tubing traverses a packer and is disposed within the well. The electric submersible pump is connected to the production tubing and is located up hole from the packer. The motor is located up hole from the packer and is configured to power the electric submersible pump. The shroud encapsulates the motor, isolates the motor from an external environment, and contains a flow of produced fluids coming from the production tubing. The motor head is connected to the production tubing and extends from the external environment into the shroud. The power cable is connected to a section of the motor head that is located outside of the shroud and isolated from the produced fluids by the packer and the shroud. |
| US11802463B2 |
Wireline clean-out tool having improved capacity
A wireline clean-out tool including a first opening and a second opening at or near a free-end portion. The first opening takes in debris from a wellbore, the second opening ejects fluid into the wellbore. A housing defines a first flow path from the first opening at the free-end portion to an opposite end portion of the housing and a second flow path from the opposite end portion to the second opening at the free-end portion. The flow paths couple with each other at the opposite end portion. A collection chamber is in the first flow path for collecting debris during operation. A progressive cavity pump with hollow rotors is placed inside the housing at a predefined distance from the free-end portion being configured for operating on the first flow path while the hollow rotor forms part of the second flow path. |
| US11802462B2 |
Downhole sealing
A downhole tool comprises a hollow body having a wall and a port in the wall, and a closing sleeve movable relative to the body to open and close the port. A seal is provided between the body and the sleeve and is configured to hold differential pressure. An isolation member may be deployed in the tool to isolate the seal from differential pressure and close the port. The isolation member may be deployed following initiation of a tool activation process, a successful outcome of the process being translating the closing sleeve and closing the port, and positioning the seal to hold a differential pressure. If it is detected that the outcome has not been achieved, the isolation member is deployed to isolate the seal from differential pressure and close the port. |
| US11802459B2 |
Side packer for a blowout preventer
The present disclosure relates to a system that includes a ram configured to mount in a blowout preventer. The ram includes a packer assembly configured to form a seal between the ram and a bore formed through the blowout preventer and an insert of the packer assembly, where the insert is coupled to a surface of the ram via a key-slot interface. |
| US11802458B2 |
Predetermined load release device for a jar
A release device for a jarring tool includes a collet positioned between the mandrel of the jarring tool and a trigger sleeve. At least one end of the collet is in contact with a precompressed spring via a bushing. In order for the jarring tool to operate, a force greater than the precompressed force of the spring must be applied to the mandrel so that the collet can move in axial direction against the spring thereby releasing the mandrel. |
| US11802457B1 |
Cutting tool with spiral cutouts for metal cuttings removal
A cutting tool can be used to cut through a tubing string in a wellbore. Metal cuttings are formed during the cutting process. The cutting tool can include a cutting insert with a blade that is rotated around a longitudinal axis of the tool. A nose can include a spiral cutout adjacent to the blade. The spiral cutout can force the metal cuttings down past the outside of the nose and down into the tubing string. The nose can also include a guide on the outside underneath the blade. The guide can also provide a pathway for the metal cuttings to fall past the outside of the nose and down into the tubing string. The spiral cutout and the optional guide can be used to prevent metal cuttings from lodging within the cutting tool and preventing the tool from rotating and cutting. |
| US11802455B2 |
Expandable metal packer with anchoring system
A technique facilitates use of a packer (34) in a borehole (32) or within other tubular structures. The packer (34) may be constructed for mounting about a generally tubular base pipe (36). The packer (34) generally comprises a metal sleeve (40) combined with extremities (44) located at each axial end of the metal sleeve. The metal sleeve maintains a seal once expanded to a surrounding wellbore wall, e.g. a casing wall. For example, the metal sleeve may be combined with an elastomer along its exterior so the elastomer may seal against the surrounding wellbore wall (42) when the metal sleeve is radially expanded. Additionally, an anchoring system (48) is disposed within one or both of the extremities and oriented for engagement with the tubular base pipe so as to act against rotation and sliding of the packer with respect to the tubular base pipe (42). |
| US11802453B2 |
Valve style drilling mud screen system and methods thereof
A valve-style drilling mud screen system comprising a first body having a first portion, a second portion and a third portion, a first drilling mud inlet at a first end of the first portion of the body, a first drilling mud outlet at a second end of the third portion of the body, a rotating subassembly, wherein the rotating subassembly is disposed within the second portion of the first body, wherein the first portion of the first body is fluidly connected to a first end of the rotating subassembly, and wherein a second end of the rotating subassembly is fluidly connected to the third portion of the first body, a pivot subassembly, wherein the pivot subassembly is attached to the rotating subassembly through the second portion of the first body, and a drilling mud screen, wherein the drilling mud screen is disposed within the rotating subassembly between the first drilling mud inlet and the first drilling mud outlet is disclosed. Methods of installing and using the drilling mud screen system are also disclosed. |
| US11802449B2 |
Pressure-equalized wireline apparatus
A wireline apparatus is for moving a tool into or out of a well. The apparatus is configured for forming a pressure vessel in combination with at least a portion of the well. The apparatus has: a first compartment for forming part of the pressure vessel; a hoisting means, the hoisting means being placed inside the first compartment; a wireline connected to the hoisting means; a second compartment arranged inside the first compartment; an electrical motor for driving the hoisting means, the electrical motor placed inside the second compartment; and a drive shaft for connecting the motor to the hoisting means, the drive shaft extending from the motor to the hoisting means through a wall separating the first compartment and second compartment. A method is for moving the tool in the well. |
| US11802448B2 |
Drawworks apparatus and method
A method of manipulating a drum of a drawworks assembly includes removing a first plurality of fasteners releasably coupling a drum with a coupling assembly, removing a second plurality of fasteners releasably coupling the drum with a cradle assembly, and lifting the drum vertically from the drawworks assembly. |
| US11802446B2 |
Swivel for subsea string
An improved swivel with increased sealing capability at fluid pressures up to 20 ksi and at fluid temperatures as high as 250° F. and as low as 35° F. The swivel may be relatively compact, being less than 8 feet in overall length and can operate unpressurized with axial loads of at high as 1,400,000 lbs. The swivel may comprise a swivel mandrel rotationally coupled with a swivel housing. Rotational bearings units can be securely held using cartridge carriers. A pressure seal may be formed between the swivel mandrel and swivel housing via a redundant seal stack. |
| US11802439B1 |
Gated barrier with visual indicator
The present gated barrier includes a visual indicator to show the end user one or more features of the gate barrier such as how to set up the gated barrier, whether the frame of the barrier is true and square, or whether the barrier frame has been set up with sufficient pressure between, for example, two door jambs. |
| US11802437B2 |
Dynamic multi-pane insulating assembly and system
A dynamic multi-pane insulating assembly and system including methods for dynamically maintaining the thermal resistance value of the assembly and system. The dynamic multi-pane insulating assembly and system includes first and second gas permeable panes defining an evacuated gap in communication with a vacuum source; a first exterior pane spaced from the first gas permeable pane defining a first pressurized gap in communication with a source of pressurized gas; and a second exterior pane spaced from the second gas permeable pane defining a second pressurized gap in communication with the source of pressurized gas. |
| US11802436B2 |
Vacuum insulated glass (VIG) window unit with metal alloy spacers, and/or methods of making the same
A vacuum insulated glass (VIG) window unit includes an array of spacers provided between at least a pair of substrates, such as glass substrate. Certain example embodiments relate to a VIG window unit including spacers (e.g., pillars) of or including a metal alloy. The metal alloy of the spacer may be an amorphous metal alloy (e.g., Zr and/or Cu based amorphous alloy). Such metal alloy spacers advantageously reduce the thermal conductivity of the spacer array and can increase the center of glass R-value of the VIG window unit. |
| US11802435B2 |
Frame solution providing reduced deflection restriction at corner parts of VIG unit
A vacuum insulated glass (VIG) unit frame assembly (10) is disclosed, comprising: a rectangular vacuum insulated glass unit (1) comprising two glass sheets (2a, 2b) separated by a sealed gap (11), wherein a plurality of support structures (12) are distributed in said gap (11), and a frame (20) comprising elongated frame profile arrangements (20a-20d) which frames said vacuum insulated glass unit (1) in a frame opening (21), and wherein said frame (20) comprises a fixation system (45a, 45b, 28a, 28b, 80, 22, 23) fixating the vacuum insulated glass unit (1) at the frame (20), wherein said fixation system (45a, 45b, 28a, 28b, 80, 22, 23) is arranged so as to allow edges (8a-8d) of said vacuum insulated glass unit (1) to thermally deflect (DIS4) in a deflection direction (D1, D2) perpendicular to said frame opening due to a temperature difference (ΔT=T1−T2) between the two glass sheets (2a, 2b), wherein said fixation system (45a, 45b, 28a, 28b, 80, 22, 23) is configured to allow the magnitude of said thermal deflection (DIS4) to vary along the edge (8a-8d) between the corners (9) where the respective edge (8a-8d) terminates, wherein said fixation system (45a, 45b, 28a, 28b, 80, 22, 23) is arranged to provide a resistance against said thermal deflection (DIS4) of at least two opposing edges (8a-8d) of said vacuum insulated glass unit (1), said resistance being substantially lower at corner parts of the edges (8a-8d) than at centre parts of the edges (8a-8d), and wherein said centre parts of said at least two opposing, parallel edges (8a-8d) constitute at least a third, such as half of the extend of the edge (8a-8d) between said corners (9). |
| US11802434B2 |
Sash and frame latching assembly
A latch assembly for a fenestration assembly includes a keeper ridge configured for coupling with a fenestration frame. An assembly housing is configured for coupling with a rail of a sash, including upper or lower rails opposed to a check rail of the sash. A latch mechanism is movably coupled with the assembly housing. The latch mechanism is at least partially concealed with the rail. The latch mechanism includes a handle pivotally coupled with the assembly housing and a latch arm pivotally coupled with the assembly housing and operatively coupled with the handle. The latch arm includes a locking face configured for alignment with the keeper ridge. |
| US11802425B2 |
Electric door latch apparatus for vehicle
An electric door latch apparatus includes a catching part for catching a striker, a door locking and unlocking part for applying a torque to the catching part through a main motor, an electric emergency door unlocking part configured to enable the door to be released from the vehicle body through a sub-motor, an inside emergency operation lever connected to an inside handle installed in the door, rotatable by an operational force of the inside handle, and configured to apply a torque to the catching part, an outside emergency operation lever connected to an outside handle installed in the door, rotatable by an operational force of the outside handle, and configured to apply a torque to the catching part, and a manual emergency door unlocking part connected to the inside emergency operation lever and configured to apply a torque to the catching part. |
| US11802424B2 |
Motor-vehicle door lock
A motor vehicle door lock comprising a locking mechanism that essentially consists of a rotary latch and a pawl. In addition, a lock retainer interacting with the locking mechanism is produced, which is introduced into the locking mechanism in order to achieve the closed position and rests on a load arm of the rotary latch in the closed position of the locking mechanism. According to the invention, the load arm is provided with a force deflection contour for the lock retainer. The force deflection contour changes a force direction acting on the load arm from the lock retainer, at least in the event of an excessive impact of the lock retainer. |
| US11802422B2 |
Video recording triggered by a smart lock device
An intelligent door lock system coupled to a door at a dwelling. a door status device is at the dwelling. The door status device is coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device at the door. The lock device is coupled to the door status device and includes a bolt. An engine, an energy source and a memory are coupled together. A camera is coupled to or part of the intelligent door lock system. The camera is configured to record in response to door lock status. |
| US11802420B2 |
Fence construction
A stringer for an off-set board-on-board fence having an inverted U-section elongated body having two mutually opposed sides depending from an intermediate adjoining portion having laterally off-set and longitudinally over-lapping first and second sets of spaced board slots extending flush with inside surfaces of the opposed sides for attaching fence boards of predetermined cross-section flush to the inside surfaces of the opposed sides of the stringer. The stringer has board fastening apertures in the opposed sides of the stringer to fasten the fence boards flush with the inside surfaces of the opposed sides. The stringer has a plurality of bracket attachment apertures, preferably square, arranged longitudinally from end to end, between the first and second sets of board slots for attaching post brackets at each end of the stringer. A stringer support of each opposing bracket is within range of one bracket attachment aperture at each end of the stringer. |
| US11802415B2 |
Continuous composite structural reinforcing device and system
A pre-fabricated composite reinforcement device for installation on a structure, comprising a metal reinforcement layer; a fiber reinforced polymer layer; an adhesive layer configured between the metal and fiber reinforced polymer layer; and a plurality of power-actuated fasteners configured for securing the metal reinforcement, fiber reinforced polymer, and adhesive layer to the structure; and wherein a first side of the metal reinforcement layer is for positioning upon the structure for installation of the fasteners with the first side facing away from the structure, and a second side is configured with the adhesive and fiber reinforced layer across a surface area of the second side of the metal reinforcement layer. |
| US11802413B2 |
Deck construction spotter and container combination
A spotter for assembling building structures and a complimentary container. The spotter includes a web and longitudinally opposite flanges with spaced apart legs that define passthrough openings laterally aligned with each other. The web defines one or more holes for guiding a driven fastener through into a building member. The container includes a bottom member defining a primary cavity for holding accessories and a top cover member. The spotter is positionable within the container in a packed position with the web extending over the primary cavity and each flange extending downwardly on a longitudinally opposite side of the primary cavity. The top cover member lies over the spotter to close the top opening of the primary cavity. |
| US11802405B2 |
Fire resistant coating system and method
Embodiments of a leno weave mesh of the present invention generally include a plurality of high-temperature weft yarns, high-temperature warp yarns, and low melting point warp yarns; wherein each low melting point warp yarn is intertwined with a high-temperature warp yarn, each intertwined pair of warp yarns is positioned such that the low melting point warp yarn and high-temperature warp yarn are disposed alternatingly on either side of the woven mesh at intersections of the weft and warp yarns, and the woven mesh is heated whereby the surfaces of the low melting point warp yarns adhere to the surface of the high-temperature warp yarns and said high-temperature weft yarns at contact points there between. An intumescent coating system employing embodiments of the mesh, and a method of providing thermal protection to a substrate utilizing the intumescent coating system, are also provided. |
| US11802400B2 |
Method of use of flange connectors for double tee beams
A connector for joining concrete structures such as double tee beams to one another. The connector includes a curved bolt that is formed with a shape memory alloy. Through utilization of the bolt, a joint can be post-tensioned following assembly through application of heat to the joint. Post-tensioning can be reapplied following loosening of the joint through application of heat. When considering a super elastic shape memory alloy, the bolt can be a smart bolt that can self-correct following deformation due to excessive load. |
| US11802395B2 |
Modified faucet hose system and valve assembly
A system, a method, and an apparatus for a temperature-adjusting adapter is described. The adapter includes first and second connectors coupled to first and second supply lines, wherein each of the first and second connector comprise an input, an output, and an adjustment port; a tube and an adjustment mechanism positioned between the adjustment ports of the first and second connectors, wherein the adjustment mechanism is movable between an open position and a closed position for selecting a temperature of a third fluid exiting the output port of the first or the second connector, wherein the third fluid is one of the first fluid, the second fluid, or a mixture of the first fluid and the second fluid, and wherein a mixing ratio of the mixture is based at least in part on the position of the adjustment mechanism. |
| US11802392B2 |
Coupler guard system
A coupler guard configured to protect an auxiliary coupler assembly from side impacts in the rough use environment of a loader. The coupler guard comprises an encasement and a side plate. The loader comprises the auxiliary coupler assembly and a hinge extension. The encasement wraps around a top portion and interior side of the auxiliary coupler assembly. The side plate attaches to a portion of the encasement and protect an exterior side portion of the auxiliary coupler assembly. A screw assemblies selectively attaches the encasement to the side plate. A ring attaches to a portion of the side plate. The ring selectively wraps around a portion of the hinge extension of the loader. A ring screw assembly selectively holds the ring and the rest of the coupler guard to the hinge extension. An edge trim selectively sits on top of a portion of a first arm. |
| US11802390B2 |
Hydraulic machinery
A hydraulic machinery may include: a boom actuator including a large chamber and a small chamber; a tank; and an energy recovery circuit provided between the boom actuator and the tank, wherein the energy recovery circuit includes: a discharge valve provided between the large chamber and the tank to allow or block the flow of fluid from the former to the latter; a regeneration valve connecting the large chamber and the small chamber to allow or block the flow of fluid from the former to the latter; a recovery part for recovering energy; and a first valve provided between the large chamber and the recovery part to allow or block the flow of fluid from the former to the latter. |
| US11802389B2 |
Ecological seawall water close side embankment slope drainage structure and construction method thereof
The present invention discloses an ecological seawall water close side embankment slope drainage structure and a construction method thereof. The ecological seawall water close side embankment slope drainage structure includes a seawall, and further includes a wave dissipation ridge and water collecting wells, wherein the wave dissipation ridge is disposed at an upper side of the seawall, a drainage blind ditch is formed in an upper surface of the seawall, and the drainage blind ditch is matched with the wave dissipation ridge; the water collecting wells are distributed at a lower side of the drainage blind ditch at equal intervals, and lower end portions of the water collecting wells communicate with drainage concealed pipes; and pipe seats are disposed at a lower end portion of an inclined plane of the seawall, lower end portions of the drainage concealed pipes are fixedly connected onto the pipe seats, and flap valves are rotationally connected to lower end surfaces of the drainage concealed pipes. The present invention not only can reduce the erosion degree of sea waves to the seawall, but also can collect seawater going over the wave dissipation ridge and discharge the collected seawater into the sea again. |
| US11802388B1 |
Snow plow shovel
The snow plow shovel comprises a blade, a collar, and a handle. The snow plow shovel may be a shovel for removing a wintry accumulation from a surface. As non-limiting examples, the wintry accumulation may be snow or ice and the surface may be a sidewalk or a driveway. The blade is further defined with a first panel and a second panel. The first panel and the second panel may shape the blade to form a V-plow. The V-plow may be operable to push the wintry accumulation off of the surface by placing a leading edge of the blade against the surface and pushing the blade forward. |
| US11802387B2 |
Pet waste vacuum and container
A vacuum and container assembly is provided for collecting and disposing of dog poop. The vacuum includes a housing with an inlet tube or nozzle. The container assembly includes an outer sleeve and an inner flexible, air permeable bag. The sleeve is open at the rear end so as to fit over the vacuum nozzle, with the bag residing in the nozzle. The front end of the container assembly is temporary closed by flexible fingers. When the vacuum is turned on, the dog poop is suctioned past the fingers into the bag, without touching the vacuum housing or nozzle. The container assembly can then be removed from the nozzle and deposited in a waste receptacle for disposal. |
| US11802382B2 |
Quick curb bracket
A concrete form bracket for holding in place concrete forms. The bracket may have horizontally extendable arms with pivotable concrete form engaging surfaces. One or more of the horizontally extending arms pivot from a central area and are independently extendable/adjustable to engage a concrete form at multiple locations. |
| US11802381B2 |
Asphalt shingle waste roofing materials and related methods
Non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method comprising: obtaining asphalt shingle waste (ASW) and performing grinding, screening, and separating steps on the ASW. In some embodiments, granules are removed from the ASW. In some embodiments, the method transforms ASW into ASW powder. In some embodiments, the ASW powder is formed into a plurality of briquettes. In some embodiments, at least one of: the ASW powder, the plurality of briquettes, or any combination thereof is fed into a mixing process that results in an ASW powder filled coating. |
| US11802379B1 |
Self guarded frog copper weld fixture
A self guarded frog copper weld fixture has a rail form and a pair of transverse locator arms. The rail form is configured to abut with a damaged rail frog and define a proper repaired geometry for the rail frog. A pair of locator arms transversely and vertically locate and secure the rail form against one of the rails of a damaged rail frog, by applying an opposing force against a second one of the damaged rail frog rails. Any wear will present as small gaps between the rail form and rail frog. The transverse locator arms are pivotal with respect to the rail form, and so may be rotated from transverse to the rail form to align longitudinally for compact transport or storage, and may also be reversed to allow either one of the longitudinal vertical side edges of the rail form to be abutted to the rail frog. |
| US11802378B2 |
Water-dispersible paper
An object is to provide a water-dispersible paper that exhibits excellent dispersibility in water. As a solution, a water-dispersible paper is provided, which has: a base paper that has a bulky layer containing 10% by weight or higher of a softwood pulp with a lumen width (l) to fiber diameter (D) ratio (l/D) of 0.60 or lower on average; and a water-soluble polymer impregnated into the base paper. |
| US11802376B2 |
Paper strength improving additives, their manufacture and use in paper making
The present invention relates to a polymer composition comprising an anionic polymer composite having a synthesized polymer portion and a polysaccharide portion, obtainable by polymerizing vinyl monomers in the presence of the polysaccharide. The present invention further relates to a strength system and methods of production and use in providing a paper product. |
| US11802371B2 |
Hybrid hoisting cable, method of forming the same, and winch using such a cable
The invention concerns a hoisting cable formed of a steel core coated at its periphery with a textile sheath, wherein said textile sheath is a sheath directly braided on the steel core and made of an abrasion-resistant synthetic material. |
| US11802369B2 |
Laminated light-blocking decorative articles
Laminated light-blocking decorative articles are prepared by applying an aqueous foamed opacifying composition to a non-woven fabric, drying, laminating a decorative fabric to the resulting dry foamed opacifying layer, and densifying that layer to have a thickness that is at least 20% less than before densifying. This operation can be carried out so that non-woven fabric, decorative fabric, and aqueous foamed opacifying composition are supplied in a single-pass, in-line operation to make any desired quantity of a laminated light-blocking decorative article. The applied aqueous foamed opacifying composition has 35%-70% solids and a foam density of 0.1-0.5 g/cm3. It is composed of (a) porous particles, (b) a binder material, (c) two or more additives comprising at least one foaming surfactant and at least one foam stabilizer, (d) an aqueous medium, and (e) at least 0.0001 weight % of an opacifying colorant that absorbs electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of 380-800 nm. |
| US11802365B2 |
Laundry treating apparatus
A laundry treating apparatus may include a main body having a front panel having a laundry inlet port and configured to receive laundry loaded through the laundry inlet port, and a door rotatably coupled to the front panel to open and close the laundry inlet port. The door may include an outer frame provided with an opening and facing an outside of the main body; a front glass coupled to a front surface of the outer frame to cover the opening; and an inner frame coupled to a rear surface of the outer frame and facing an inside of the main body. The outer frame may include an adhesive groove provided on a front surface of the outer frame to receive an adhesive for bonding the front glass to the outer frame; a reinforcing portion provided on a rear surface of the outer frame in correspondence to the adhesive groove to reinforce a rigidity of the outer frame; and a first hook that protrudes from an outer circumference of the outer frame toward an outer circumference of the inner frame. The inner frame may include a second hook that protrudes from an outer circumference of the inner frame toward the outer frame to fasten the outer frame and the inner frame to each other by an interference fit between the first hook and the second hook, thereby enhancing a fastening force between the outer frame and the inner frame. |
| US11802364B2 |
Condensing system for combination washer/dryer appliance
A fluid condensing system for a combination washer/dryer appliance includes a metal condenser coil positioned within a condenser. Water liquid pulses through the metal condenser coil for maintaining the metal condenser coil at a cold temperature as water vapor in the hot exhaust air from the combination washer/dryer appliance condenses on the surface of the condenser coil. A common sump collects the water condensate from the condenser, the cooling fluid exiting the condenser coil, and wash water from the combination washer/dryer appliance. The water condensate, cooling fluid, and wash water is reclaimed and recycled through both a condenser coil recirculation loop and a wash water dispenser system. |
| US11802360B2 |
Self cleaning sump cover
A fluid flow system for a laundry appliance includes a blower that delivers process air along an airflow path having a heat exchanger. A drain channel receives condensate from the heat exchanger and fluid spray from a spray nozzle for directing lint particles to the drain channel and on to a sump for collecting fluid, including the condensate. A pump seat and a fluid outlet are integrally formed in a sump cover. A pump directs the fluid from the sump to the fluid outlet. A fluid level sensor detects at least minimum and maximum capacities of the fluid in the sump. When the fluid is below the minimum capacity, the pump defines an idle state. When the fluid reaches the minimum capacity, the pump defines an active state. When the fluid exceeds the maximum capacity, the pump directs the fluid to the fluid outlet. |
| US11802359B2 |
Optimized backing shifter for variable or multi-gauge tufting
Backing fabric shifting relative to needles and gauge parts for seizing yarns is utilized in a tufting machine having needle plate fingers or backing support that reciprocates in synchronization with the cycles of the needles to support the backing during penetration of the backing fabric while allowing backing shifts between stitches. |
| US11802357B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods of enhancing carbon fiber dispersion in wet-laid nonwovens
The present subject matter relates to systems, devices, and methods of enhancing carbon fiber dispersion in wet-laid nonwovens. A quantity of fibers is deposited in a medium, and each of one or more stirring elements is moved in a pattern to mechanically agitate the medium. In some embodiments, moving each of the one or more stirring elements includes moving the one or more stirring elements in complementary patterns to induce a chaotic advection current within the medium. |
| US11802354B2 |
Fibre spreading
A method of spreading fibres, the method comprises providing a continuous fibre bundle having an initial width Wa and causing the fibre bundle to run, in a running direction, through tensioning means and past or through fluid flow means, the tensioning means intermittently varying the tension in the fibre bundle and the fluid flow means producing a fluid flow through the fibre bundle as the tension varies in the fibre bundle, whereby the width of the fibre bundle increases to a spread width Wb. Apparatus (1) is also disclosed, which apparatus (1) comprises a tensioning means (3) to intermittently vary the tension in the fibre bundle (2) and a fluid flow means (4) for producing a flow of fluid through the bundle (2). |
| US11802350B2 |
Layered GaAs, method of preparing same, and GaAs nanosheet exfoliated from same
The present invention relates to: layered gallium arsenide (GaAs), which is more particularly layered GaAs, which, unlike the conventional bulk GaAs, has a two-dimensional crystal structure, has the ability to be easily exfoliated into nanosheets, and exhibits excellent electrical properties by having a structure that enables easy charge transport in the in-plane direction; a method of preparing the same; and a GaAs nanosheet exfoliated from the same. |
| US11802337B1 |
Atmospheric pressure plasma based fabrication process of printable electronics and functional coatings
Methods for generating one or more atmospheric pressure plasma jets that can be used to deposit various types of conductive traces, coatings, and micro/nano-sized particles/structures on two or three dimensional body surfaces. The method includes generating atmospheric pressure plasma, nebulizing a precursor to generate an aerosol; receiving the aerosol from the nebulizer in a chamber; mixing the atmospheric pressure plasma with the aerosol from the chamber at a nozzle; and printing the plasma-exposed aerosol onto the surface of a substrate. |
| US11802336B2 |
Apparatus for fluidized-bed chemical vapour deposition
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for fluidised-bed chemical vapour deposition from a gaseous phase allowing the temperature of the fluidised bed to be stabilised during the deposition and also to an associated method for its implementation, the apparatus being characterised in that it comprises a porous thermal insulator present in an inlet zone and configured to be passed through by the gaseous phase, said porous thermal insulator having an effective thermal conductivity at 20° C. less than or equal to 3.5 W·m-1·K-1. |
| US11802331B2 |
Method and apparatus for load-locked printing
The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for preventing oxidation or contamination during a circuit printing operation. The circuit printing operation can be directed to OLED-type printing. In an exemplary embodiment, the printing process is conducted at a load-locked printer housing having one or more of chambers. Each chamber is partitioned from the other chambers by physical gates or fluidic curtains. A controller coordinates transportation of a substrate through the system and purges the system by timely opening appropriate gates. The controller may also control the printing operation by energizing the print-head at a time when the substrate is positioned substantially thereunder. |
| US11802319B2 |
Double oriented electrical steel sheet and method for manufacturing same
A double oriented electrical steel sheet includes: 2.0 to 6.0% of Si, 0.0005 to 0.04% of Al, 0.0001 to 0.003% of S, 0.02 to 1.0% of Mn, equal to or less than 0.003% of N, excluding 0%, equal to or less than 0.01% of C, excluding 0%, equal to or less than 0.01% of Ti excluding 0%, 0.005 to 0.10% of P as wt %, and a remainder including Fe and inevitable impurities. Such a double oriented electrical steel sheet satisfies Formula 1: [Mn]/[S]≥60, [Formula 1] where, [Mn] and [S] are contents (wt %) of Mn and S, respectively. |
| US11802316B2 |
Methods and compositions related to T-cell activity
Embodiments concern methods and composition related to anergic T-cells in patients, such as cancer patients. |
| US11802314B2 |
Methods and systems for determining proportions of distinct cell subsets
Methods of deconvolving a feature profile of a physical system are provided herein. The present method may include: optimizing a regression between a) a feature profile of a first plurality of distinct components and b) a reference matrix of feature signatures for a second plurality of distinct components, wherein the feature profile is modeled as a linear combination of the reference matrix, and wherein the optimizing includes solving a set of regression coefficients of the regression, wherein the solution minimizes 1) a linear loss function and 2) an L2-norm penalty function; and estimating the fractional representation of one or more distinct components among the second plurality of distinct components present in the sample based on the set of regression coefficients. Systems and computer readable media for performing the subject methods are also provided. |
| US11802309B2 |
Heating mechanism for DNA amplification, extraction or sterilization using photo-thermal nanoparticles
A heating mechanism for use in DNA applications such as DNA amplification, extraction and sterilization is provided. Nanoparticles having photo-thermal properties are put in contact with a reaction mixture and irradiated with an activation light beam to activate these photo-thermal properties, thereby releasing heat. Nanoparticles of several types may be used. Use of the same nanoparticles or of different one to monitor the reaction using a different light beam is also presented. |
| US11802307B2 |
Amplification oligonucleotides
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are polynucleotides, supports, kits, and methods of use thereof for amplifying, immobilizing, and sequencing polynucleotides. |
| US11802304B2 |
Method for fragmenting DNA by nick translation
Providing herein, among other things, are kits, compositions and methods that relate to DNA fragmentation. An embodiment of a composition provides combining: one or more enzymes capable of nick translating activity, a dNTP mix comprising at least one dNTP having a modified base, and at least one modification-sensitive nicking endonuclease that is prevented from nicking DNA if its recognition site contains the modified base. When the composition is added to a sample comprising a double-stranded DNA template that comprises recognition sites for the modification-sensitive nicking endonuclease, a reaction mix was produced which could be incubated for any time period in excess of about 5 minutes to produce fragments of a desired size of the double-stranded DNA template. In this method, the fragments produced include the modified base and, as such, are not re-nicked by the nicking endonuclease. |
| US11802300B2 |
Genetically engineered strain with high yield of L-valine and method for producing L-valine by fermentation
A genetically engineered strain having high-yield of L-valine is disclosed. Starting from Escherichia coli W3110, an acetolactate synthase gene alsS of Bacillus subtilis is inserted into a genome thereof and overexpressed; a ppGpp 3′-pyrophosphate hydrolase mutant R290E/K292D gene spoTM of Escherichia coli is inserted into the genome and overexpressed; a lactate dehydrogenase gene ldhA, a pyruvate formate lyase I gene pflB, and genes frdA, frdB, frdC, frdD of four subunits of fumaric acid reductase are deleted from the genome; a leucine dehydrogenase gene bcd of Bacillus subtilis replaces a branched chain amino acid transaminase gene ilvE of Escherichia coli; and an acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase mutant L67E/R68F/K75E gene ilvCM replaces the native acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase gene ilvC of Escherichia coli. Furthermore, the L-valine fermentation method is improved by using a two-stage dissolved oxygen control. The L-valine titer and the sugar-acid conversion rate are increased. |
| US11802296B2 |
Methods and systems for guide RNA design and use
The present disclosure provides a method for designing a set of guide RNAs for hybridizing a genomic region of interest. The present disclosure further provides methods of editing at least one genomic region of interest with at least one set of guide RNAs. |
| US11802289B2 |
Transient silencing of ARGONAUTE1 and ARGONAUTE4 to increase recombinant protein expression in plants
A plant or plant cell with reduced endogenous AGO1 and AGO4 expression compared to a wild-type plant or plant cell is provided. In one embodiment, the plant or plant cell further comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding a recombinant protein and the plant or plant cell has increased expression of the recombinant protein compared to a wild-type plant or plant cell comprising the nucleic acid sequence. Methods of reducing aglycosylation of recombinant protein produced in plants are also provided. |
| US11802287B2 |
Methods for genetic modification of plants
Described are methods and materials for the genetic modification of plants by specific gene targeting and precise editing of nucleic acid sequences in a plant. The methods and materials provided herein enable one to edit the plant genome by design to control the expression of endogenous genes and/or control the transmission and expression of transgenic traits. Provided are also methods of producing plants having a desirable agronomic trait by crossing a transgenic plant expressing a gRNA with a plant expressing a Cas enzyme, and selecting a progeny plant having the desirable agronomic trait or a seed thereof. |
| US11802281B2 |
Mammalian cell line for protein production and library generation
According to a first aspect of the invention, a method for the generation of a cell line is provided, comprising the steps of (a) providing a plurality of mammalian B cells, wherein each of the plurality of B cells comprises a transgenic genomic DNA sequence encoding a marker protein inserted into an endogenous immunoglobulin locus comprised in said B cell, and wherein the transgenic genomic DNA sequence is amenable to cleavage by a site directed nuclease, particularly Cas9; (b) replacing the transgenic genomic DNA sequence encoding a marker protein with a second transgenic DNA sequence encoding a protein of interest; (c) sorting B cells based on the presence or absence of the marker protein; and (d) collecting B cells in which the marker protein is absent. |
| US11802280B2 |
Enzyme for synthesizing hydroxyl acetaldehyde and/or 1,3-dihydroxyacetone by catalyzing formaldehyde, and applications thereof
An enzyme synthesizes hydroxyl acetaldehyde and/or 1,3-dihydroxyacetone by catalyzing formaldehyde. Site-directed mutation of benzoylformate decarboxylase (BFD) creates a mutant of the enzyme, which can polymerize the formaldehyde, A phosphoketalose (F/XPK) generates acetyl phosphoric acid from the hydroxyl acetaldehyde or 1,3-dihydroxyacetone (DHA). Combination with phosphotransacetylase (Pta) provides a route from the formaldehyde to acetyl coenzyme A in three steps. |
| US11802277B2 |
Thermostable Cas9 nucleases
Thermostable Cas9 nucleases. The present invention relates to the field of genetic engineering and more particularly to nucleic acid editing and genome modification. The present invention provides in isolated Cas protein or polypeptide fragment thereof having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a sequence of at least 77% identity therewith, wherein the Cas protein or polypeptide is capable of DNA cleavage at a temperature in the range 50° C. and 100° C. inclusive. The invention further provides isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding said Cas9 nucleases, expression vectors and host cells. The Cas9 nucleases disclosed herein provide novel tools for genetic engineering at elevated temperatures and are of particular value in the genetic manipulation of thermophilic organisms; particularly microorganisms. |
| US11802274B2 |
Engineered imine reductases and methods for the reductive amination of ketone and amine compounds
The present application provides engineered polypeptides having imine reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered imine reductases, host cells capable of expressing the engineered imine reductases, and methods of using these engineered polypeptides with a range of ketone and amine substrate compounds to prepare secondary and tertiary amine product compounds. |
| US11802273B2 |
Mutations that confer genetic stability to additional genes in influenza viruses
The disclosure provides for an isolated recombinant influenza virus having at least one of: a PA gene segment encoding PA with a residue at position 443 that is not arginine, a PB1 gene segment encoding PB1 with a residue at position 737 that is not lysine, a PB2 gene segment encoding PB2 with a residue at position 25 that is not valine or a residue at position 712 that is not glutamic acid, a NS gene segment encoding a NS1 with a residue at position 167 that is not proline, a HA gene segment encoding a HA with a residue at position 380 that is not threonine, or any combination thereof, and methods of making and using the virus. |
| US11802271B2 |
Method for irradiating mammalian cells with electron beams and/or X-rays
The present invention relates to a method for irradiating a population of mammalian cells comprising at least one target mammalian cell with electron beams and/or X-rays, characterized in that: (i) a composition comprising a population of mammalian cells is irradiated in vitro with electron beams and/or X-rays, the population of mammalian cells containing at least one target mammalian cell and the dose rate being within the range from 5 Gy/sec to 107 Gy/sec, and (ii) optionally viable target mammalian cells are isolated or enriched from the population of mammalian cells, and to agents obtainable thereby and to uses thereof. |
| US11802269B2 |
Superpiggybac transposase compositions
The disclosure provides a method of producing modified stem memory T cells (e.g. CAR-T cells) for administration to a subject as, for example an adoptive cell therapy. |
| US11802266B2 |
Genetically modified trehalose-expressing yeasts and fermentation processes using such genetically modified yeasts
The present invention relates to genetically engineered yeasts having a heterologous trehalase gene and fermentation processes for using such yeasts. The yeasts can express trehalase in a quantity sufficient to convert significant amounts of trehalose to glucose, thereby improving the yield of the product in a fermentation, and/or reducing or eliminating the need to add exogenous trehalase to the fermentation. The yeasts can also include other heterologous genes for expressing enzymes useful for improving yield and/or for reducing or eliminating the need to add exogenous enzymes to the fermentation. |
| US11802265B2 |
Tissue culture apparatus and method
Described is an apparatus for culturing cells or tissue, the apparatus comprising a container comprising a bottom and at least one sidewall, wherein at least a part of the bottom comprises a gas permeable material or is adapted to engage with a gas permeable material and is perforated to allow gaseous exchange; a detachable top adapted to engage with the container to define a chamber, wherein at least a part of the top comprises a gas permeable material or is adapted to engage with a gas permeable material and is perforated to allow gaseous exchange; and a scaffold adapted to receive a substrate for cells to reside upon. The apparatus is configurable between (a) a first mode in which the substrate is not disposed in gaseous communication with a gas permeable material, and (b) a second mode in which the substrate is disposed in gaseous communication with a gas permeable material. |
| US11802263B2 |
Culture vessel for three-dimensional cell cultivation and three-dimensional cell co-cultivation method using same
The present invention relates to a culture vessel for three-dimensional cell cultivation and a three-dimensional cell co-cultivation method using the same. The culture vessel comprises a well formed by a column positioned thereon and at least one support protruding from the column within the well. In contrast to conventional techniques, the present invention allows cells to be cultured at a position spaced from a culture vessel, thus enjoying the advantage of smoothly supplying oxygen necessary for three-dimensional cell culture structures. |
| US11802262B2 |
Method and system for accelerating food oxidation rate
The present invention provides a system for accelerating the food oxidation rate, comprising a control unit, a baseband circuit, a radio-frequency circuit and an array of antennas. The control unit is used to generate a digital control signal of a spectrum waveform. The baseband and radio-frequency circuits generate analog signal of millimeter-wave according to the control signal of a spectrum waveform. The baseband circuit and the array of antennas emit the analog signal of millimeter-wave toward the food, wherein the analog signal of millimeter-wave has a plurality of first frequency signals and a plurality of second frequency signals, and the first frequency signals and the second frequency signals are alternately arranged and spaced from each other and comprise a plurality of sinusoidal waveforms. |
| US11802258B2 |
Perfume precursor
A fragrance precursor represented by formula (1): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having a carbon number of 1 to 12, a hydroxy group, a methoxy group or an ethoxy group R2 represents a single bond, an alkylene group having a carbon number of 1 to 2, which may have a substituent, or a vinylene group which may have a substituent; and R3 represents a residue resulting from removal of one hydrogen atom of a hydroxy group from a fragrance alcohol having a carbon number of 5 to 20 or a phenol which may have a substituent. |
| US11802252B2 |
Fuel composition rich in aromatic compounds, paraffins and ethers, and use thereof in motor vehicles
The object of the present invention is a fuel composition comprising: (i) from 50 to 79% by mass of a mixture of hydrocarbons comprising: a) from 35 to 55% by mass of aromatic compounds; b) from 30 to 50% by mass of non-cyclic paraffins containing at least 5 carbon atoms; and c) from 5 to 15% by mass of naphthenes; (ii) from 20 to 40% by mass of one or more ethers; and (iii) from 1 to 10% by mass of butane. This composition is useful for supplying a controlled-ignition engine, in automobile vehicles intended for general-public applications or for competition. |
| US11802250B1 |
Systems and processes for processing pyrolysis oil
A system for processing plastic waste may include a feed line, a feed fractionator, a hydrotreater, a catalytic reforming unit, a heavy oil cracker, and a steam cracker. A pyrolyzed plastics feed is separated into light, medium, and heavy hydrocarbon streams. The hydrotreater removes sulfur, and the catalytic reforming unit produces a circular aromatic-rich stream. The heavy oil cracker generates cracked streams. The steam cracker produces a circular olefin stream from a cracked stream. A system for processing plastic waste may include the feed line, the feed fractionator, the hydrotreater, a medium hydrocarbon fractionator, the catalytic reforming unit, a full-range reforming unit, the heavy oil cracker, and the steam cracker. The medium hydrocarbon fractionator produces two hydrocarbon streams. The full-range naphtha reforming unit produces a second circular aromatic-rich stream. |
| US11802248B2 |
Process for reducing unsaturated hydrocarbons in aromatic fraction through selective hydrogenation
Disclosed are a process and system that are capable of performing selective hydrogenation on aromatic fractions by configuring a catalyst bed through staged loading of a plurality of hydrogenation catalysts with different catalytic properties, or configuring a catalyst system in which a plurality of hydrogenation catalysts are arranged using a plurality of reactors in such a way as to be equivalent with the staged loading, and as a result, are capable of suppressing aromatic loss while improving the selective removal of unsaturated hydrocarbons in the aromatic fraction and durability compared to the case of using a single catalyst. |
| US11802243B2 |
Liquid-crystal medium
A liquid-crystal (LC) media having a negative dielectric anisotropy containing a compound of formula I and the use of the LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in energy-efficient LC displays, especially in IPS, FFS, VA or PS-VA displays. |
| US11802240B2 |
Silicon etching solution, silicon etching method, and method of producing silicon fin structure
A silicon etching solution including a component which is a quaternary ammonium hydroxide represented by Formula (A-1), and a component which is a nonionic surfactant, in which an HLB value of the quaternary ammonium hydroxide is in a range of 12 to 15; in Formula (A-1), R1 to R4 each independently represent a monovalent hydrocarbon group, and the total number of carbon atoms contained in R1 to R4 is 10 or greater |
| US11802238B2 |
Ligand exchange of perovskite quantum dots and solar cell devices manufactured using the same
The present invention relates to a ligand-exchanged inorganic perovskite quantum dot thin film and a solar cell comprising the same. The inorganic perovskite quantum dot thin film provided in one aspect of the present invention is capable of more effective ligand exchange by directly inserting the organic ligand ion-based salt generating organic ligand ions, and the thin film can be used to prepare solar cells with high power conversion efficiency. Therefore, the thin film of the present invention can contribute to the commercialization of perovskite quantum dot solar cells in the future. |
| US11802234B2 |
Stimulation of wells in nano-darcy shale formations
Formulations and methods for stimulating the production from wells in nano-darcy shale formations. In one embodiment, the method includes injecting a treatment mixture containing a metal complexing agent into a nano-darcy shale formation adjacent to a well at a pressure below the fracture pressure of the formation. A sufficient contact time is allowed and then the treatment mixture is pumped from the subsurface. This has been shown to stimulate well production in shale formations. Without being held to a particular theory it appears that the metal complexing agent is binding with naturally occurring metals in the shale formation, and particularly divalent metal ions, which are then extracted with the spent fluid. This removal of naturally occurring metals may be increasing the permeability of the formation in the contact region adjacent to the well, thereby causing the observed increased production. |
| US11802231B2 |
Pelletized diverting agents using degradable polymers
Accordingly, this disclosure describes systems, compositions, and methods that may use pelletized diverting agent particulates for diversion, fluid loss control, and/or other subterranean treatments for controlling fluid flow in subterranean formations. In an embodiment, a method comprising: introducing a treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation wherein the treatment fluid comprises: a base fluid; a pelletized diverting agent comprising a degradable polymer, wherein the pelletized diverting agent at least partially plugs a zone in the subterranean formation; and diverting at least a portion of the treatment fluid and/or a subsequently introduced fluid away from the zone. In an embodiment, a treatment fluid comprising: a base fluid; and a pelletized diverting agent comprising a degradable polymer. |
| US11802230B2 |
Liquid-liquid phase transition compositions and processes
The present application pertains to liquid-liquid phase transition compositions and processes. In one embodiment a liquid-liquid phase transition process comprises first forming a composition comprising a glycol polymer and water and then phase transitioning the composition at or above the composition's cloud point temperature to form at least two liquid phases. The enthalpy of liquid-liquid phase transition may be greater than 5 kJ per kg as measured by a calorimeter and each liquid phase may have unique and advantageous properties. In another embodiment the application pertains to compositions suitable for liquid-liquid phase transition compositions. |
| US11802227B2 |
Solvent-based adhesive compositions
Solvent-based adhesive composition are disclosed, the compositions comprising (A) a polyester-urethane resin, (B) an epoxy-terminated polyester compound, (C) a phosphoric acid, and (D) an aliphatic isocyanate curing agent. Methods for preparing a solvent-based adhesive composition, the methods comprising providing a polyester-urethane resin, providing an epoxy-terminated polyester compound, mixing the polyester-urethane resin, epoxy-terminated polyester compound, and phosphoric acid to form a resin mixture, diluting the resin mixture in a solvent to form a diluted resin mixture having an application solid content from 25 to 55 weight percent, based on the total weight of the diluted resin mixture, and curing the diluted resin mixture with an aliphatic isocyanate curing agent at a mix ratio (parts by weight resin mixture before dilution:parts by weight aliphatic isocyanate curing agent) of from 100:1 to 100:12. Laminates prepared comprising the solvent-based adhesives and according to the disclosed methods are also disclosed. |
| US11802217B2 |
Binder composition and use thereof
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a binder comprising one or more siloxane polymers, silicone resins, silicone based elastomers, and mixtures thereof, wherein said binder optionally comprises one or more cross-linker components comprising a silane and/or a siloxane containing silicon-bonded hydrolysable groups; and a hydrophilic powder and/or gel selected from one or more amorphous, porous hydrophilic silica(s), one or more hydrophilic silica aerogel(s) and mixtures thereof, said amorphous, porous hydrophilic silica and/or said hydrophilic silica aerogel having a BET surface area from 100 m2/g to 1500 m2/g or greater and a thermal conductivity from 0.004 to 0.05 W/m·K at 20° C. and atmospheric pressure. The invention also relates to the use of said composition as or in thermally or acoustically insulating materials and to coatings, products and articles made therefrom. |
| US11802209B2 |
Adhesive composition, adhesive film, adhesive optical filter and display device
The present application relates to an adhesive composition, an adhesive film, an adhesive optical filter and a display device. |
| US11802206B2 |
Particles comprising polyamides with pendent pigments and related methods
A nonlimiting example method of forming polyamide polymer particles having pigments therein may comprising: mixing a mixture comprising a polyamide having a pigment pendent from a backbone of the polyamide (PP-polyamide), a carrier fluid that is immiscible with the PP-polyamide, and optionally an emulsion stabilizer at a temperature greater than a melting point or softening temperature of the PP-polyamide and at a shear rate sufficiently high to disperse the PP-polyamide in the carrier fluid; and cooling the mixture to below the melting point or softening temperature of the PP-polyamide to form solidified particles comprising the PP-polyamide and, when present, the emulsion stabilizer associated with an outer surface of the solidified particles. Said solidified particles may be used in additive manufacturing to make a variety of objects like containers, toys, furniture parts and decorative home goods, plastic gears, automotive parts, medical items, and the like. |
| US11802200B2 |
Isoporous self-assembled block copolymer films containing high molecular weight hydrophilic additives and methods of making the same
The invention provides systems and methods for substantially improving the compaction resistance of isoporous block copolymer (BCP) film by adding a high molecular weight hydrophilic additive in the casting dope formulation. Systems and methods disclosed also disclose several other multifunctional enhancements to film properties including: low fouling propensity, improved permeability, improved permeability retention upon drying, and ability to tune the substructure and pore size of these novel BCP films. These porous BCP films are useful in filtration and separations applications and are amenable to standard manufacturing practices. |
| US11802198B2 |
Fluororesin composition, and resin sheet, laminate and printed circuit board
A fluororesin composition is provided. The fluororesin composition comprises the following constituents: (A) a first fluororesin, which is polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin; (B) a first filler, which is a flat glass fiber; and (C) particles of a second fluororesin, which are coated with polysiloxane, wherein, the particle size of the polysiloxane-coated particles of second fluororesin ranges from 0.2 μm to 80 μm, and the melting point of the second fluororesin is lower than the melting point of the first fluororesin. |
| US11802195B2 |
Rubber composition and a tire
In a first aspect, the present invention is directed to a rubber composition comprising, based on 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr), 70 phr to 95 phr of diene based elastomer, wherein said diene based elastomer comprises 25 phr to 60 phr of a first diene based elastomer having a glass transition temperature within a range of −49° C. to −15° C., and 10 phr to 45 phr of a second diene based elastomer having a glass transition temperature within a range of −50° C. to −110° C., 5 phr to 30 phr of one or more of natural rubber and synthetic polyisoprene rubber, 40 phr to 70 phr of silica, and 10 phr to 40 phr of at least one terpene resin having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of at least 900 g/mol. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to tire comprising a tire tread with aforementioned rubber composition. |
| US11802194B2 |
Rubber composition including a specific hydrocarbon resin
A rubber composition is based on at least one elastomer, a reinforcing filler, a crosslinking system and an optionally hydrogenated hydrocarbon-based resin, predominantly composed of units selected from the group consisting of cyclopentadiene, dicyclopentadiene, methylcyclopentadiene and mixtures thereof, said hydrocarbonbased resin having an average molecular weight Mz of less than 2000 g/mol and a glass transition temperature Tg, expressed in ° C., such that: Tg≥80−2*(% HA), wherein % HA represents the content of aromatic protons of said resin, the content of said hydrocarbon-based resin being within a range extending from 15 to 150 phr. |
| US11802191B2 |
Processes, powders, and shaped bodies of polyamides and calcined kaolin with particular size distribution
The present invention relates to a method for producing a molded body by the selective laser sintering of a sinter powder (SP). The sinter powder (SP) contains at least one polyamide (P) and 5 to 50 wt %, preferably 10 to 50 wt %, of at least one aluminum silicate. The at least one aluminum silicate has a D50 value in the range of 2.5 to 4.5 μm. The present invention also relates to molded bodies obtainable by means of the method according to the invention. |
| US11802190B2 |
Polyester textile waste recycling
A method for recycling polyester from a polyester textile. The method comprises the steps of: providing said polyester textile soaked in a mixture comprising a solvent and a catalyst, providing and maintaining a temperature of said mixture comprising said polyester textile within a range of 80-240° C. during depolymerization of polyester in said polyester textile and wherein, in said step of providing said polyester textile soaked in said mixture, said catalyst of said mixture comprises calcium hydroxide. A catalyst may be used for depolymerization of polyester in a polyester textile, wherein the catalyst comprises calcium hydroxide. Natural fibers may b e recovered from a textile comprising polyester and natural fibers. |
| US11802187B2 |
Polyphenylenes, methods, and uses thereof
Described herein are anionic phenylene oligomers and polymers, and devices including these materials. The oligomers and polymers can be prepared in a convenient and well-controlled manner, and can be used in cation exchange 5 membranes. Also described is the controlled synthesis of anionic phenylene monomers and their use in synthesizing anionic oligomers and polymers, with precise control of the position and number of anionic groups. |
| US11802186B2 |
Catalyst formulations with reduced leachable salts
Embodiments of the present technology may include a method of reducing leaching from a fiber-containing composite. The method may include forming an aqueous dispersion of fibers. The method may further include applying a binder composition to the aqueous dispersion of fibers to form a binder-fiber mixture. The binder composition may include a carbohydrate, a nitrogen-containing compound, and a catalyst that catalyzes the reaction between the carbohydrate and the nitrogen-containing compound. The catalyst may be water soluble before curing but water insoluble after curing. In addition, the method may include curing the binder-fiber mixture to form the fiber-containing composite. |
| US11802181B2 |
Di-amine compound, and heat-resistant resin and resin composition using the same
The present invention relates to a novel di-amine compound, a heat-resistant resin using the di-amine compound, and a resin composition using the heat-resistant resin, and a cured film excellent in chemical resistance and film properties even by a thermal treatment at a low temperature of 200° C. or less can be obtained. The novel di-amine compound is represented by the general formula (1). The heat-resistant resin composition of the present invention or the resin composition can be suitably used in a surface protective film and an interlayer dielectric film of a semiconductor device, a dielectric layer or a planarizing layer of an organic electroluminescent element (organic EL), or the like. (In the general formula (1), R1 and R2 each are a divalent aliphatic group, R3 and R4 each are a divalent aliphatic group, aliphatic ring group, aromatic group, a divalent organic group bonded to an aromatic group by —O—, —CO—, —SO2—, —CH2—, —C(CH3)2— or —C(CF3)2— (wherein F is fluorine), a divalent organic group in which two or more aromatic groups are bonded by a single bond, or a divalent organic group in which two or more aromatic groups are bonded by —O—, —CO—, —SO2—, —CH2—, —C(CH3)2— or —C(CF3)2— (wherein F is fluorine), R5 and R6 each are an organic group having any of a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a nitro group, a cyano group, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, an acetyl group, a carboxyl group, an ester group, an amide group, an imide group, and a urea group, A is a divalent aliphatic group, aliphatic ring group, aromatic group, a divalent organic group in which two or more aromatic groups are bonded by a single bond, or a divalent organic group in which two or more aromatic groups are bonded by —O—, —S—, —CO—, —SO2—, —CH2—, —C(CH3)2— or —C(CF3)2— (wherein F is fluorine), p and q each are an integer number in the range of 0 to 3). |
| US11802180B2 |
Polymeric polyoxazolines
Polymeric polyoxazolines of the following structure are disclosed: where X is the residue of a polymeric polyol after reaction with a dicarboxylic acid/anhydride; where R5 is an organic moiety; where Y is an organic moiety containing one or more oxazoline groups; and wherein each R10 is independently hydrogen or an organic moiety. Methods of making such polyoxazolines and using them in a coating, and packages coated therewith, are also within the scope of the present invention. |
| US11802177B2 |
Curable resin composition, adhesive, imide oligomer, imide oligomer composition, and curing agent
An imide oligomer is provided for use in a cured product that has a high glass transition temperature after curing and is excellent in thermal decomposition resistance, adhesiveness, and long-term heat resistance. Also provided are a curable resin composition and an imide oligomer composition each containing the imide oligomer, an adhesive containing the curable resin composition, and a curing agent containing the imide oligomer composition. |
| US11802175B2 |
Epoxy resin modified with polyurethane in low concentration, production method therefor, epoxy resin composition, and cured object
Provided is a polyurethane-modified epoxy resin having favorable processing operability in casting, impregnation, or the like in a composition state, a method for producing the same, and a composition of the same. Provided is a low-concentration polyurethane-modified epoxy resin including: a polyurethane having a secondary hydroxyl group-containing bisphenol-based epoxy resin that has an epoxy equivalent of 150 to 200 g/eq and a hydroxyl equivalent of 2,000 to 2,600 g/eq, added to both terminals and/or a single terminal thereof, in which the polyurethane is a modified product of the epoxy resin that is modified with a middle- and high-molecular-weight polyol compound having an Mn of 200 or larger, a polyisocyanate compound, and a low-molecular-weight polyol compound as a chain extender having an Mn of less than 200, and the epoxy resin is used in an amount of 68 to 92 weight % based on a total amount of the components. |
| US11802170B2 |
Polyolefins prepared with binuclear metallocene catalysts
A catalyst compound and process for olefin polymerization. The catalyst can be represented by Formula (I): wherein: M is a transition metal selected from group 3, 4, or 5 of the Periodic Table of Elements; L is a linking group selected from any one or more difunctional C1-C20 hydrocarbyl, aryl or substituted aryl groups; T is an optional bridging group; each X is a univalent anionic ligand, or two Xs are joined and bound to the metal atom to form a metallocycle ring, or two Xs are joined to form a chelating ligand, a diene ligand, or an alkylidene ligand; R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 hydrocarbyl group; R3, R5, R6 and R7 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 hydrocarbyl group, and, optionally, any two of R5, R6, and R7 can be joined to form a cyclic structure; R4 is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; and R8, R9, R10, and R11 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C6 hydrocarbyl group and, optionally, R9 and R10 are joined to form a cyclic structure. |
| US11802167B2 |
Method for producing cold-water-soluble starch comprising V-type crystals
A method for producing a cold-water-soluble starch. The method includes: 1) adding a starch and 3-45 wt. % of an ethanol aqueous solution to a container, and stirring a mixture of the starch and the ethanol aqueous solution in the container, thus yielding a starch-ethanol-water; 2) introducing the starch-ethanol-water to an extruder and producing a noodle extrudate, where the extruder comprises 3 continuous temperature control areas: a first area having a temperature of 50° C., a second area having a temperature of between 95 and 120° C., and a third area having a temperature of 60° C.; a rotation speed of the extruder is 70-150 rpm; and the noodle extrudate has a diameter of 0.2-0.5 cm; 3) pressing and roll slitting the noodle extrudate, thus yielding a plurality of slices; and 4) drying the plurality of slices in a microwave vacuum oven, cooling, and pulverizing the plurality of slices. |
| US11802162B2 |
Antibodies against glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor (GITR) and uses thereof
Provided herein are antibodies, or antigen binding portions thereof, that bind to glucocorticoid-inducible TNF receptor (GITR). Also provided are uses of these proteins in therapeutic applications, such as in the treatment of cancer. Further provided are cells that produce the antibodies, polynucleotides encoding the heavy and/or light chain variable region of the antibodies, and vectors comprising the polynucleotides encoding the heavy and/or light chain variable region of the antibodies. |
| US11802160B2 |
Anti-CD25 antibody agents
The present disclosure provides antibody sequences found in antibodies that bind to human CD25. In particular, the present disclosure provides sequences of anti-human CD25 antibodies, which do not block the binding of CD25 to IL-2 or IL-2 signalling. Antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof including such sequences can be used in pharmaceutical composition and methods of treatment, in particular for treating cancer. |
| US11802159B2 |
Humanized anti-GDNF family alpha-receptor 4 (GRF-alpha-4) antibodies and chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating diseases, disorders or conditions associated with the expression of the glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-linked GDNF family protein α-receptor 4 (GFRα4). |
| US11802154B2 |
Humanized anti-CD200 antibodies and uses thereof
Provided herein are antibodies, or antigen binding portions thereof, that bind to CD200. Also provided are uses of these proteins in therapeutic applications, such as the treatment of cancer and in conjunction with organ transplantation. Also provided are nucleic acids encoding the heavy and/or light chain variable regions (or heavy and/or light chains) of the antibodies, vectors comprising the nucleic acids, and cells that produce the antibodies. |
| US11802153B2 |
Anti-CD47 agent-based ovarian cancer therapy
Methods, kits, and compositions are provided herein that can be used to treat ovarian cancer using an anti-CD47 antibody. The anti-CD47 antibody can be used alone or in combination with one or more additional agent such as chemotherapy. |
| US11802152B2 |
Methods of treating FGF21-associated disorders
The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that bind to human β-klotho, and pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment comprising the same. |
| US11802148B2 |
Antibody binding a linear epitope of human P53 and diagnostic applications thereof
The invention relates to an anti-human p53 antibody suitable for specifically binding a linear epitope which is exposed only in a conformationally altered isoform of the characteristic p53 protein of patients with Alzheimer's disease or prone to develop Alzheimer's disease or cognitive impairment during ageing. Methods and diagnostic and prognostic kits are also described. |
| US11802145B2 |
Recombinant protein targeting PD-1 and TGFß
A recombinant fusion protein comprising 1) TGFβR2, or a fragment thereof, capable of binding to TGFβ, and 2) an antibody, or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, that binds to PD-1. Also disclosed are a polynucleotide encoding the recombinant fusion protein, an expression vector containing the polynucleotide, a method for producing the recombinant protein and a method for treating a disease caused by over expression of TGFβ and/or PD-1 using the recombinant protein. |
| US11802132B2 |
Small molecules for inducing selective protein degradation and uses thereof
Provided herein are bifunctional compounds that bind a target protein (e.g., a selected protein) and/or induce ubiquitination for degradation of the target protein. In particular, provided are compounds that bind a bromodomain or bromodomain-containing protein (e.g., BET proteins) or histone methyltransferases (HMTs, e.g., enhancer of zeste homolog 1 (EZH1), or FKBP12) and can promote its degradation by recruiting it to the ubiquitin receptor RPN13 (e.g., RA190), for proteasomal degradation. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the bifunctional compounds, methods of treating and/or preventing diseases (e.g., proliferative diseases, cancers, benign neoplasms, pathological angiogenesis, inflammatory diseases, and autoimmune diseases) and musculoskeletal diseases, and methods of inducing the degradation of a target (e.g., a target protein) by recruiting it to the ubiquitin receptor RPN13 of the proteasome in a subject by administering a compound or composition described herein. |
| US11802124B2 |
Compound and organic light emitting diode comprising same
A compound of Chemical Formula 1, and an organic light emitting device including the same. |
| US11802122B2 |
2-oxoimidazolidine-4-carboxamides as NAv1.8 inhibitors
Novel compounds of the structural formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are inhibitors of Nav1.8 channel activity and may be useful in the treatment, prevention, management, amelioration, control and suppression of diseases mediated by Nav1.8 channel activity. The compounds of the present invention may be useful in the treatment, prevention or management of pain disorders, cough disorders, acute itch disorders, and chronic itch disorders. |
| US11802120B2 |
Fused cyclic urea derivatives as CRHR2 antagonist
The present invention relates to fused cyclic urea derivatives which have antagonistic activities against CRHR1 and/or CRHR2, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of disorders and diseases in which CRHR1 and/or CRHR2 is involved. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which CRHR1 and/or CRHR2 is involved. |
| US11802116B2 |
Diamine compound and organic light-emitting device including the same
Provided are a diamine compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and comprising an emission layer, the organic layer including a diamine compound represented by one selected from Formulae 1-1 to 1-8. |
| US11802105B2 |
Treprostinil derivatives and compositions and uses thereof
The present disclosure provides treprostinil derivatives that can act as prodrugs of treprostinil. The treprostinil derivatives can be used to treat any conditions responsive to treatment with treprostinil, including pulmonary hypertension, such as pulmonary arterial hypertension. |
| US11802104B2 |
Method for preparation of acetoacetylated polyols
The invention discloses a method for preparation of an acetoacetylated polyol by reaction of a polyol with deketene in the presence of a base and in the absence of a solvent. |
| US11802103B2 |
Process of making calcium alpha-ketoglutarate
Methods and processes for preparing calcium salts of alpha-ketoglutarate are described herein. |
| US11802102B2 |
Organic compound, and organic light emitting diode and organic light emitting display device including the same
The present disclosure provides an organic compound of following formula and an organic light emitting diode and an OLED device including the organic compound. |
| US11802100B2 |
Olefins and methods for making the same
Provided herein are olefinic feedstocks derived from conjugated hydrocarbon terpenes (e.g., C10-C50 terpenes), methods for making the same, and methods for their use. |
| US11802096B2 |
Calcium sulfate urea granules and methods for producing and using the same
A calcium sulfate urea (UCS) fertilizer granule and methods for making and using the same are disclosed. The granule can include urea, calcium sulfate, and a calcium sulfate urea adduct, wherein a portion of the surface of the calcium sulfate urea adduct includes a layer comprising urea, calcium sulfate, or calcium sulfate urea adduct, or any combination or all thereof. |
| US11802093B2 |
Silicon oxycarbide environmental barrier coating
An article includes a ceramic-based substrate and a barrier layer on the ceramic-based substrate. The barrier layer includes a matrix of barium-magnesium alumino-silicate or SiO2, a dispersion of silicon oxycarbide particles in the matrix, and a dispersion of particles, of the other of barium-magnesium alumino-silicate or SiO2, in the matrix. |
| US11802092B2 |
Concrete curing agent, curing coating layer and preparation method thereof
A concrete curing agent, a curing coating layer and a preparation method thereof, the concrete curing agent comprises a hardening agent and a hydrophobic agent, the raw materials of the hardening agent comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 0.1-10 parts of fluorosilicate salt and 100 parts of water, and the hydrophobic agent comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 0.1-10 parts of a base catalyst, 1-10 parts of a silane coupling agent, 0.1-10 parts of hydrogen-containing silicone oil, 5-10 parts of a cross-linking agent, 10-100 parts of silica sol and 100-1000 parts of water. The present invention can significantly improve the strength, hardness and hydrophobicity, impermeability and freeze-thaw resistance of surface of concrete before and after hardening, and effectively improves the service life of concrete structures. |
| US11802090B2 |
Syntactic insulator with co-shrinking fillers
A thermally-insulating composite material with co-shrinkage in the form of an insulating material formed by the inclusion of microballoons in a matrix material such that the microballoons and the matrix material exhibit co-shrinkage upon processing. The thermally-insulating composite material can be formed by a variety of microballoon-matrix material combinations such as polymer microballoons in a preceramic matrix material. The matrix materials generally contain fine rigid fillers. |
| US11802089B2 |
Method for manufacturing a part made of a composite material
A process for manufacturing a ceramic matrix composite part, includes infiltrating a fibrous structure including a powder composition with a melt infiltration composition including at least silicon in order to form a ceramic matrix in the porosity of the fibrous structure, the powder composition including at least silicon carbide particles, wherein the silicon carbide particles have a bimodal size distribution with a first set of silicon carbide particles having a first average size and a second set of silicon carbide particles having a second average size smaller than the first average size, the number of particles in the first set being greater than the number of particles in the second set. |
| US11802079B2 |
Glazing comprising a functional coating and an absorbing coating having a colorimetric adjustment
A material includes one or more transparent substrates including two main faces, wherein one of the faces of one of the substrates is coated with a functional coating which can have an effect on solar radiation and/or infrared radiation, and a face not coated with the functional coating of one of the substrates includes an absorbent color-adjustment coating including an absorbent layer which absorbs solar radiation in the visible part of the spectrum. |
| US11802072B2 |
Gold containing silicate glass
A glass composition includes greater than or equal to 60 mol % and less than or equal to 85 mol % SiO2; greater than or equal to 0.5 mol % and less than or equal to 20 mol % Al2O3; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 15 mol % Li2O; greater than or equal to 0.5 mol % and less than or equal to 25 mol % Na2O; greater than or equal to 0.1 mol % and less than or equal to 20 mol % 1(20; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 10 mol % CaO; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 10 mol % MgO; and greater than or equal to 0.005 mol % and less than or equal to 0.5 mol % Au. |
| US11802071B2 |
Fiber optic imaging element with medium-expansion and fabrication method therefor
A fiber optic imaging element includes medium-expansion and a fabrication method including: (1) matching a core glass rod with a cladding glass tube to perform mono fiber drawing; (2) arranging the mono fibers into a mono fiber bundle rod, and then drawing the mono fiber bundle rod into a multi fiber; (3) arranging the multi fiber into a multi fiber bundle rod, and then drawing the multi fiber bundle rod into a multi-multi fiber; (4) cutting the multi-multi fiber, and then arranging the multi-multi fiber into a fiber assembly buddle, then putting the fiber assembly buddle into a mold of heat press fusion process, and performing the heat press fusion process to prepare a block of the fiber optic imaging element with medium-expansion; and (5) edged rounding, cutting and slicing, face grinding and polishing the prepared medium-expansion block into a billet. |
| US11802070B2 |
Slow cooling of optical fibers having halogen doped cores
A method of processing an optical fiber includes drawing the optical fiber from an optical fiber preform within a draw furnace, the optical fiber extending from the draw furnace along a process pathway, the optical fiber comprising at least one halogen-doped core; and drawing the optical fiber through at least one slow cooling device positioned downstream from the draw furnace at a draw speed. The at least one slow cooling device exposes the optical fiber to a slow cooling device process temperature greater than or equal to 800° C. and less than or equal to 1600° C. The draw speed is such that the optical fiber has a residence time of at least 0.1 s in the at least one slow cooling device. An optical fiber made by such a process is also disclosed. |
| US11802066B2 |
Greywater treatment system
A system and method for removing contaminates from greywater that uses carbon dioxide (CO2) and a system that adjusts the pH between 6 and 9. The filtration system is cost effective, quick, and easy to use, resulting in purified water. |
| US11802055B1 |
Method for preparing lithium nickle cobalt manganese oxide by reverse positioning of power battery and use thereof
Disclosed are a method for preparing lithium nickle cobalt manganese oxide by reverse positioning of a power battery and use thereof. The method first mixes and grinds a positive electrode tab and a slagging agent, then dries, cools, adds an aluminum powder, mixes well, conducts a self-propagating reaction to the mixed material, cools, takes a lower layer of rough nickel cobalt manganese alloy, grinds the rough nickel cobalt manganese alloy, adds an alkali liquor, then immerses, filters, takes the filter residue for washing and then dries, to obtain a nickel cobalt manganese alloy powder, adds a lithium salt solution to the porous nickel cobalt manganese alloy powder, mixes and drips an alkali liquor, ages, filters, takes a filter residue for washing and then dries, to obtain a mixed powder of precursor, sinters the mixed powder of precursor and cools, to obtain a lithium nickle cobalt manganese oxide. |
| US11802053B2 |
Method and apparatus for the fabrication of diamond by shockwaves
An apparatus for fabricating diamond by carbon assembly, which comprises: a) a hydrocarbon radical generator in operable connection with b) a mass flow conduit extending from the hydrocarbon radical generator in a) to an interface and into a primary magnetic accelerator containing one or more electromagnets in operable connection with c) a diamond fabrication reactor comprising a diamond forming deposition substrate. Also disclosed is a method for fabricating diamond by shockwaves using the disclosed apparatus. |
| US11802050B2 |
Method for producing haloamines and haloamine solutions
A method for producing a haloamine solution with reduced amounts of halogen oxyanions including (a) the on-site generation of a halogen-containing oxidant, such as a solution and (b) reacting on-site the halogen-containing oxidant with a nitrogen source, to thereby produce the haloamine solution. |
| US11802038B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring and maintaining a beverage dispenser
A method and apparatus for configuring and maintaining a beverage dispenser (10) are provided in which an array of flow control icons (60) is presented on the same page as functional sections (62-68). The functional sections (62-68) allow assignment of a beverage component to a flow control element corresponding to a selected flow control icon, and other functions to be performed in connection with the assigned beverage component or flow control element. |
| US11802033B2 |
Capping and de-capping apparatus and a method of operating such an apparatus
A capping and de-capping apparatus for capping and de-capping tubes disposed in a tube holding rack having a two-dimensional array of apertures for holding the tubes. The apparatus comprises a rack support for supporting the tube holding rack, a head unit adapted for carrying a cartridge comprising at least one capping and de-capping gripper, a drive system for moving the rack support and the head unit relatively towards and away from one another, in order to cause engagement or disengagement of the capping and de-capping gripper with or from a cap of at least one tube, and a drive system for rotating the capping and de-capping gripper, wherein rotation in one direction causes attachment of the cap to the tube and rotation in the opposite direction causes detachment of the cap from said tube. |
| US11802032B2 |
Processing device, processing method, notification system, and recording medium
A processing device includes: a calculation unit that is configured to detect a position of an object that is a possible obstacle to a vehicle; a first detection unit that is configured to detect a direction of a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle; a decision unit that is configured to decide an aspect of an alarm on the basis of the position and the direction of the line of sight of the driver; and a control unit that is configured to control a speaker corresponding to the position such that a sound of the aspect is output. |
| US11802025B2 |
Remote control workstation
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a remote control workstation for controlling more than one type of load handling equipment. The remote control workstation is configured for communications with a plurality of types of load handling equipment and configured to cause connecting to one of said load handling equipment, determining a type of the connected load handling equipment, and in response to establishing a connection between the remote control workstation and said load handling equipment, displaying on a user interface of the remote control workstation a load handling equipment type specific control view from a plurality of load handling equipment type specific control views in accordance with a load handling equipment type of said load handling equipment. |
| US11802018B2 |
Sheet stacker comprising a sheet flipping device and a holding device
During flipping sheets may fold upon themselves under the influence of gravity. To prevent a sheet stacker is provided with a holding device for releasably holding at least a portion of the sheet at least partially during the flipping of the sheet by a sheet flipping device, wherein the holding device is configured for movement of the held portion of the sheet in a first direction perpendicular to the flipping axis. |
| US11802016B2 |
Sheet guide, sheet conveyor, liquid discharge apparatus, and printer
A sheet guide comprising a first straight portion in an upstream end of the sheet guide in a conveyance direction of a sheet, a curved portion having a curvature, the curved portion continued from the first straight portion in the conveyance direction, and a second straight portion continued from the curved portion in a downstream end of the sheet guide in the conveyance direction. The curved portion includes a pair of guide plates defining a conveyance path through which the sheet is guided, and a shape retention member retaining a part of the pair of guide plates in a curved shape, the shape retention member holding each end of the pair of guide plates in a direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction. |
| US11802014B2 |
Sheet-shaped-medium feeder and sheet-shaped-medium handling apparatus
A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that vertically raises or lowers the mount portion, a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion to a transport portion by sucking the sheet-shaped media with a suction portion in order from an upper one of the sheet-shaped media, left and right side walls that come into contact with left and right edges, in a feed width, of the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion, left and right air outlets that are disposed in the left and right side walls, and blow air to the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion at the left and right edges in the feed width, left and right first limiters that are respectively disposed on the left and right side walls, and limit a height of at least one of the sheet-shaped media that floats with air blown by the left and right air outlets by coming into contact with an upper surface of the at least one sheet-shaped medium, and left and right second limiters that are disposed in areas between a suction area of the suction portion and the left and right side walls, and limit a height of the upper surface of the floating sheet-shaped medium by coming into contact with the upper surface. |
| US11802011B2 |
Transportable side-access cargo container with a controllably deployable second floor
Disclosed are transportable containers for mounting onto a rearward portion of the frame of a semi-truck comprising. The transportable containers may have a frame comprising: a first wall; a second wall opposing the first wall; two opposed lateral walls extending between the first side and the second side, at least one of the lateral walls comprising an opening formed therein; a top extending over the first wall, the second wall, and the two lateral walls; a second floor contained within an internal space of the frame, the second floor being controllably deployable between a lowered position and a raised position; and a loading ramp hingedly attached to a base of the at least one lateral side having the opening formed therein. |
| US11802010B2 |
Article transport facility
An article transport facility includes a transport conveyor (34) and a weighing device (24), which includes a support portion (28) for supporting a container (C1) and a measuring portion (30) configured to measure a weight of the container (C1) supported by the support portion (28). The article transport facility is configured to perform a state change between a withdrawn state in which the support portion (28) is withdrawn downward relative to a transport surface (34A) and a protruding state in which the support portion (28) protrudes upward relative to the transport surface (34A) by moving the support portion (28) and the transport conveyor (34) relative to each other in a vertical direction (Z). A support surface (28A) of the support portion (28) is inclined such that one corner portion (8A) of multiple corner portions (8) located at corners of the container (C1) is lower than the other corner portions (8). |
| US11802008B2 |
Cross-conveyor sorter with clearing apparatus, and method for removing items misplaced on a cross-conveyor sorter
A cross-conveyor sorter with a clearing apparatus for removing misplaced items (Sd) is described, wherein the cross-conveyor sorter has a plurality of carriages which are connected to one another on an endless conveying track, the carriages are provided with a cross-conveyor device, which is oriented transversely to the transportation direction (x) and on which the items (Sp) can be transported and unloaded at predetermined unloading locations. The cross-conveyor sorter clearing apparatus enables the risk-free removal of misplaced items (Sd) during operation. The clearing apparatus is a blow-off device which is arranged on a first side alongside the conveying track. |
| US11802006B2 |
Pallet centering device
A pallet centering device includes a frame upon which is mounted a plurality of conveyor rollers, the conveyor rollers mounted transverse to a direction of pallet travel. A first pallet pusher unit and a second pallet pusher unit are associated with respective sides of the support frame, both for reciprocal movement transverse to the direction of pallet travel. The first and second pallet pusher units each have pallet pusher members configured for engaging respective sides of a pallet. At least one transverse U-channel rail is mounted to the support frame beneath the conveyor rollers and defining a channel track. Each first and second pallet pusher unit has at least one depending bearing mount aligned with the channel track and provided with a bearing rotatably engaging the channel track. A drive assembly moves the first and second pallet pusher units reciprocally for centering the pallet located on the conveyor rollers. |
| US11802001B2 |
Rubberized textile material for a belt ply, associated rubber mixture and belt
The rubberized textile material for a belt textile ply is provided on at least one side of a textile web with a peroxidically crosslinkable ethylene-alpha-olefin-diene terpolymer rubber mixture, preferably an EPDM mixture. In this rubberization mixture the third monomer content (diene content) of the EPDM is preferably at least 4% and the rubber mixture contains: a peroxidic crosslinker, a mineral oil having an aromatics proportion of at least 50 percent by weight and at least one reactive phenol and/or reactive phenol resin capable of binding to the double bonds of unsaturated polymers. The reactive phenol and/or phenol resin and the mineral oil are present in the rubber mixture in a content of altogether 5 to 60 phr. The rubberization has an exceptional manufacturing tack coupled with good adhesion and good dynamic properties. |
| US11801996B2 |
Trash can assembly
Various trash can assembly embodiments are disclosed. In some embodiments, the trash can assembly includes a body and a lid assembly. The lid assembly can include a lid, and a multicomponent trim ring. The lid assembly can be rotatably connected with the body via a hinge unit. In certain embodiments, a flange of the trim ring is guided into and/or received into the hinge unit. A translating pin of the hinge unit can engage into the flange, thereby providing a rotatable connection between the trim ring and the body. In various embodiments, the translating pin is coupled with a handle to facilitate movement of the pin by a user during engagement of the trim ring and the hinge unit. A positioner can help to position the trash can against or adjacent to a wall or other structure. The movement of both the trim ring and the lid can be dampened. |
| US11801995B1 |
Trash container
Trash container assembly has interior container wall structure with upper edge structure, a bottom, and an upper opening and interior and exterior surfaces. The assembly has an exterior container with front, rear and side walls connected to a collapsible bottom, with the side walls connected to the front and rear walls so that the walls fold inwardly with the side walls positioned between the front and rear walls, and the bottom collapsed within the walls. In the open position the exterior container walls upper opening receives the interior container. When interior container is inserted with the exterior container, a retention member associated with the exterior container wall structure engages the interior container to resist it moving away from the exterior container. Structural supports are between side walls layers with a fold line located in between, and between front and rear wall layers, and above the bottom. |
| US11801994B2 |
Receptacle and latching mechanism for receptacle gate
A receptacle is provided for holding a quantity of solid material. The receptacle includes a container having an open end, and a gate operably connected to the container so as to be rotatable to a closed position structured to prevent solid material from exiting the container through the open end. The gate includes a locking arm mounted thereon. A latching mechanism is operably connected to the container and includes a latch rotatable to a latched orientation structured to contact the locking arm to prevent the gate from being rotated out of the closed position. The locking arm is structured to move rearwardly and upwardly during rotation of the gate out of the closed position. The latch is structured so that contact between the latch and the locking arm when the latch is in the latched orientation prevents rearward and upward movement of the locking arm. |
| US11801987B2 |
Woven plastic bags with angled and/or radial cuts
A woven plastic bag having features that further prevent leakage of contents out of the bag, or infestation of organisms into the contents of the bag is provided. In various aspects the bag can be fabricated from a woven polymer layer and a film layer, can form a pinch bottom bag, and can have one or both sides include graphics and/or printing. The bag can also provide a top end and/or a bottom end either or both of which provide a discrete area which may contain discrete graphics and/or printing. The bag can have an end with a step cut configuration, wherein the step cut configuration includes one or more angled and/or radial cuts between separations. |
| US11801984B2 |
Blank for forming a container tray
A blank for forming a tray, wherein the blank includes a first panel extending along a lateral axis configured to form an outer side of an erected tray and a second panel extending along the lateral axis coupled to the first panel by a fold line, the second panel being configured to form an inner side of the erected tray. Each of the first and second panels includes a base section, a first lateral section foldably coupled to the base section, a first end section foldably coupled to the first lateral section, a second lateral section foldably coupled to the base section, and a second end section foldably coupled to the second lateral section. |
| US11801981B2 |
Packaging with sealing materials having different sealing conditions
Packaging material is provided. The packaging material can include at least one web layer having a surface that includes first and second regions. When corresponding first regions are overlaid with each other and corresponding second regions are overlaid with each other, the overlaid first and second regions can cooperatively surround a cavity. The packaging material further can include a first sealing material disposed in the first region and configured to seal together the corresponding first regions upon application of first conditions to the first sealing material, and a second sealing material disposed in the second region and configured to seal together the corresponding second regions upon application of second conditions to the second sealing material. The second sealing material can be configured such that the first conditions applied to the second sealing material are insufficient to cause the second sealing material to seal. |
| US11801980B1 |
Container-integrated controlled environment systems and methods
Systems and methods including a container assembly configured to maintain a controlled environment for storing a product therein are disclosed. Controlled environmental parameters may include at least one of the following: temperature, humidity, payload moisture content, solar radiation, magnetism, microwave, or light illumination. In certain implementations, the system includes a payload chamber and a self-contained lid-integrated environmental control unit (ECU) that may be coupled to the payload chamber using a substantially airtight seal. In certain embodiments, the ECU may include a condenser, a humidity controller, a liquid tank and a power source. Certain embodiments may include a warmer, temperature and/or humidity sensors, and/or a lock. Various combinations of the foregoing components and features may be incorporated, depending on the requirements of each particular implementation. |
| US11801966B2 |
Cylindrical cardboard container
A cylindrical cardboard container comprising: a circular bottom wall having an outer bottom wall edge; a cylindrical sidewall extending upwardly from the bottom wall edge, the circular bottom wall and the cylindrical sidewall delimiting a receiving cavity sized and shaped to receive a plurality of items; a plurality of item holders for holding the items relative to each other within the receiving cavity, each item holder being configured for holding at least one of the items, the item holders being stackable to form a plurality of item layers within the receiving cavity. |
| US11801962B2 |
Label flagger
Systems and methods include an assembly for a label wrapper to adhere a label to an elongated object, such as a wire. The assembly includes a support structure defining a receiving space. One or more resilient members are positioned within the receiving space and define one or more channels. One or more flexible sheets are disposed over the resilient members and within the channels. The first and second flexible sheets may provide a substantially uniform pressure on the label being applied to the wire regardless of the size of the wire and the label. In some instances, the label is configured to fold around the wire and have first and second opposing end segments that couple with one another remotely from the wire thereby forming a flag label. |
| US11801960B2 |
System for wireless monitoring of operating and production parameters of a machine for food production
A system for wireless monitoring of operating and production parameters of a clipping machine for food production having a sealed housing protected at least against moisture. The system comprises at least one measuring and control device for controlling the production process and measuring the operating and/or production parameters of the machine, sensors for determining operating parameters of the machine, devices for determining production parameters of the machine, at least one wireless communication device, a user interface and display device, and at least one smart device having at least an optical reading unit, wherein the at least one wireless communication device is configured to generate login details for wireless communication and encrypt the login details into a binary code which can be read by the optical reading unit of the smart device via the user interface and display device. |
| US11801958B2 |
Tamper evident packaging and methods of manufacturing the same utilizing a non-contact sealing device
A system for manufacturing tamper evident packaging, for example a bag with a tamper evident seal, includes a noncontact sealing device, a manufacturing conveyor, and in some implementations, a tensioning device and a closure device. The manufacturing conveyor conveys the bag to opposing pairs of in-feed belts of the non-contact sealing device, wherein the belts hold opposing sides of the bag together and a laser with an outlet positioned between a first pair of the belts spot welds the bag along a specified line to fuse the opposing sides of the bag together proximate an opening of the bag. In implementations including the tensioning device and the closure device, the tensioning device draws the opposing sides of the bag together prior to the bag entering the noncontact sealing device, and the closure device applies a removably coupleable closure to the bag after the bag exits the non-contact sealing device. |
| US11801957B2 |
Enhanced taping machine and operating method thereof
Disclosed is a box taping machine equipped with a conveying mechanism for boxes and one or more tape applicators. The taping machine can be manually or automatically adjusted, with or without flap folding. A conveying unit displaces boxes along a sliding plane, moved by an actuator controlled by a drive, with a tape applicator positioned above the plane. A passage sensor detects the moving position of at least a vertical surface of the boxes and outputs sensor signals. A programmable logic unit interfaces with the passage sensor and drive, computing a current position of front and rear vertical surfaces based on the sensor signal, and an actuator control function acts on the drive controlling the actuator, the actuator control function being variable in time based on the current position of front and rear vertical surfaces of the boxes. A retrofit kit and corresponding method are also disclosed. |
| US11801955B2 |
Device for the production of bags filled with infusible material
The present invention relates to a device for the production of bags (8) filled with infusible material having a base plate (50) which separates a drive side (54) from an operating side (52), where a bag-production device is provided on the operating side (52) in which a batch of the infusible material is placed onto the bag material (25) which is shaped into a tube and the tube sections are processed to form closed bags (8), where the bag production device is provided in a work space (68) between the base plate (50) and at least one protective door (56). In order to improve the cleanliness within the work space, the present invention proposes a ventilation device (74) for generating an air flow in the work space (68). |
| US11801953B2 |
Pallet wrapping system with overlapping bands
A method of wrapping a palletized load includes forming at least two composite stretch films, wrapping each of the composite stretch films around the palletized load, and leaving a gap between the first composite stretch film and the second composite stretch film as the composite stretch films are wrapped around the palletized load. Forming the composite stretch films includes narrowing stretch film from a first spool to create a first banded stretch film with a first width, narrowing stretch film from a second spool to create a second banded stretch film with a second width smaller than the first width, and overlaying the second banded stretch film on the first banded stretch film, with the second banded stretch film positioned between the top edge and bottom edges of the first banded stretch film. The gap may have a width that is equal to or larger than the first width. |
| US11801952B2 |
Platform for pallet wrapping machines
A platform for pallet wrapping machines includes a fixed base resting on the ground and a turntable which rotates relative to the base and in which a plurality of rollers is integrated, the rollers projecting from it in such a way as to support a pallet and provided with a movement device integrated with them, in such a way that the platform has a total thickness not greater than 10 centimeters. |
| US11801950B2 |
System and method for packaging powders
The present document presents a system and a method for packaging powders in containers (S) through a hopper (T) and a first tube (TC) connected to the hopper (T). Air is sucked both in the area of the first tube and in the area of the hopper. The powder is then drawn directly from inside the hopper thus keeping the flow rate and the degree of compacting of the system constant. Moreover, the powder sucked inside the first tube is thus compacted and can be conveyed compacted towards the outlet. In this way it is possible to control the dosing of the product exiting from the system with high precision. |
| US11801943B2 |
System and method for detecting a fuel leak in an aircraft
A method of and a system for detecting a fuel leak in an aircraft, the aircraft comprising a first engine and a second engine. The method comprises upon determining that the aircraft has reached a first mode of operation: acquiring a first baseline fuel flow of the first engine; acquiring a second baseline fuel flow of the second engine. The method further comprises monitoring a first current fuel flow measured at the first engine and a second current fuel flow measured at the second engine; and triggering a fuel leak detection based on an analysis of the first baseline fuel flow, the first current fuel flow, the second baseline fuel flow and the second current fuel flow. |
| US11801936B2 |
Preventing helicopter loss of tail rotor effectiveness
Embodiments are directed to a flight control system for a helicopter comprises a pilot interface configured to receive a control input, at least one electronically controlled actuator, and a computing device configured to translate the control input to an actuator command, wherein the computing device is further configured to apply yaw rate limits to the actuator command to avoid loss of tail rotor effectiveness. The yaw rate limits are associated with a vortex ring state (VRS) envelope for a tail rotor of the helicopter. The electronically controlled actuator comprises a tail rotor actuator. The control input is a pedal input. |
| US11801935B2 |
Propeller, propeller kit, power assembly, power kit and unmanned aerial vehicle
A propeller, a propeller kit, a power assembly, a power kit and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The propeller includes a hub and at least two blades connected to the hub. The hub is detachably mounted on a corresponding drive apparatus by a mounting member corresponding to the hub, so that the propeller is mounted on the corresponding drive apparatus. A surface, facing the mounting member, of the hub is provided with a first fitting portion. A surface, facing the hub, of the mounting member is provided with a second fitting portion corresponding to the first fitting portion. The first fitting portion matches the second fitting portion. In the foregoing manner, a user can be prevented from incorrectly mounting a forward propeller and a counter-rotating propeller during the use of a quick-detachable propeller in the embodiments of the present application. |
| US11801933B2 |
Device for detecting the approach of a vortex ring state, rotary-wing aerodyne comprising said device, and associated method
A device for detecting the approach of a vortex ring state for a rotary wing aerodyne, the detection device including a set of vibration sensors configured to be distributed in or on the aerodyne, and a data processing unit configured to receive in real time measurement data from the sensors, process the data in order to calculate in real time the vibration spectrum of the aerodyne, detect in real time, by vibration analysis, the approach of a vortex ring state as a function of the calculated vibration spectrum, and issue an alarm in the event of detection of the approach of a vortex ring state. |
| US11801925B1 |
Vehicle propulsion systems
A field configurable autonomous vehicle includes modular elements and attachable components. The vehicle can be assembled from these modular elements and components to meet desired mission and performance characteristics without the need to purchase specially designed vehicles for each mission. The vehicle can include a modular propulsion system with magnetic drive. |
| US11801924B2 |
Methods and systems for transmitting electric pulses from the hull of a boat towards a motor
Positioning an electrode through a drain plug on the boat to align transmitted pulses with a water intake of the motor. |
| US11801920B2 |
Lateral displacement surf system
The present disclosure generally pertains to a lateral displacement surf system and methods of laterally displacing a watercraft to generate wake. The lateral displacement system includes at least one pair of foils configured to be extended from a hull on a first side of the watercraft at a level of approximately the waterline. Upon forward movement of the watercraft with extended foils, the watercraft is rotated about its vertical axis toward the first side and generates waves sufficient for the conduction watersport activities on a second side of the watercraft. In some instances, foils are built into the hull and extended from this position, while in other instances the foils are attached to the hull using attachment structures. Rotation of the foils about an axis of rotation approximately perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the watercraft alters the angle of attack of the foils relative to the waterline. |
| US11801913B2 |
Bicycle electric component setting system
A bicycle electric component setting system is basically provided a master unit and a plurality of slave bicycle electric components. The master unit is configured to be mounted to a bicycle. The master unit is configured to receive update information from an external terminal device. The slave bicycle electric components are configured to be mounted to the bicycle. The slave bicycle electric components are configured to receive the update information from the master unit to change a setting of at least one of the slave bicycle electric components. |
| US11801911B1 |
Trailing link suspension for a bicycle
A trailing link suspension for a bicycle includes at least one fork arm. The fork arm including a proximal end and a distal end defining a non-linear portion disposed between generally straight portions such that the distal end is at an angle of approximately 70°˜90° relative to the proximal end. The fork arm is rotatably fixed to a bicycle frame. The suspension includes a shock absorber comprising a first end and a second end, defining a length therebetween. The first end of the shock absorber rotatably fixed to the non-linear portion. The suspension includes a link including a first end and a second end defining a length therebetween. The second end of the shock absorber is rotatably fixed to the link, the first end of the link fixed to the second end of the fork arm and the second end of the link fixed to an axle. |
| US11801909B2 |
Multipurpose vehicle
Presented is a multipurpose vehicle capable of being used by a user for travelling related purposes. The multipurpose vehicle comprises a vehicle frame comprising a vehicle rack and a plurality of connector portions, a plurality of swing arms, a plurality of lever arms, a plurality of hinge arms, a plurality of wing board(s) and a plurality of side boards. Each lever arm comprises a connector arrangement for removably connecting the lever arm to the vehicle rack. A handle is connected to a connector portion of the vehicle frame and the handle is manually operable to enable adjustment of the rotation of at least two swing arm(s). The multipurpose vehicle could be positioned in multiple operating modes by operating at least one of the handle and/or connector arrangement(s). |
| US11801907B2 |
Dual front, single rear-wheeled three-wheeler
A three-wheeler including two front wheels and a rear wheel, left and right seats, a steering mechanism steering the front wheels, an electric motor generating a torque by electrical energy, a power transmission mechanism transmitting the torque to the front wheels, and a body frame. A center of gravity of the three-wheeler is more frontward than a front end of the two seats and than a middle point of the wheelbase, and is more rearward than a front end of the electric energy storage device. The seats is, in a top view, partially in a triangle area that has a center of each of the front wheels and the rear wheel as vertices. The electric energy storage device, in the top view, overlaps a foot-resting area and is partially in the triangle area. The electric energy storage device is between the two front wheels. |
| US11801905B2 |
Efficient autonomous trucks
The technology relates to enhancing the operation of autonomous vehicles. Extendible sensors are deployed based on detected or predicted conditions around a vehicle while operating in a self-driving mode. When not needed, the sensors are fully retracted into the vehicle to reduce drag and increase fuel economy. When the onboard system determines that there is a need for a deployable sensor, such as to enhance the field of view of the perception system, the sensor is extended in a predetermined manner. The deployment may depend on one or more operating conditions and/or particular driving scenarios. These and other sensors of the vehicle may be protected with a rugged housing, for instance to protect against damage from the elements. And in other situations, deployable foils may extend from the vehicle's chassis to increase drag and enhance braking. This may be helpful for large trucks in steep descent situations. |
| US11801902B2 |
Aerodynamic mud flap
An aerodynamic mud flap includes a body having a first lateral side, an opposite second lateral side, an upper end, an opposite lower end, a front face, and an opposite rear face. The body extends in a horizontal, vertical, and transverse directions. The body has a generally planar upper portion extending vertically from the upper end to a horizontal transition line, and an arcuate lower portion extending vertically from the transition line to the lower end. The lower portion is curved along the vertical direction such that the lower end of the body is offset from the upper end in the transverse direction and is disposed rearward of the upper end. A plurality of octagonal openings in the body extend from the front face to the rear face to allow for air flow through the mud flap from the front side to the rear side. |
| US11801898B2 |
Deformable bracket for translating vehicle fuel box
A system for reducing risk of fuel leakage of a vehicle during a collision includes a vehicle main body configured to support and at least partially enclose a passenger. The system further includes a fuel inlet box configured to house a fuel inlet. The system further includes a rear bracket coupled to the vehicle main body at a location aft of the fuel inlet box. The system further includes a center shaft coupled to the rear bracket and extending forward from the rear bracket. The system further includes a forward bracket coupled to the vehicle main body at a location forward relative to the rear bracket and coupled to the center shaft, the forward bracket configured to deform in response to a rear collision of the vehicle to actuate the fuel inlet box in order to reduce the likelihood of a fuel leak from the fuel inlet. |
| US11801897B2 |
Frame member
In a frame member, the hardness of a sheet-thickness-direction central section in a portion where a softening layer is provided is greater than or equal to 400 Hv, the softening layer has hardness smaller by at least 10 Hv than the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section in the portion where the softening layer is provided, the thickness of the softening layer is greater than or equal to 2% of the sheet thickness but smaller than 20% of the sheet thickness, the hardness of the softening layer at the surface is greater than or equal to 0.5 times the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section but smaller than 0.9 times the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section, the softening layer has a first hardness changing area and a second hardness changing area, an absolute value ΔHv1 of a change in hardness of the first hardness changing area in the sheet thickness direction is greater than an absolute value ΔHv2 of a change in hardness of the second hardness changing area in the sheet thickness direction, and R/t≤2.5 is satisfied, where R represents the bending radius of the corner section, and t represents the sheet thickness of the corner section. |
| US11801892B2 |
Vehicle with tilt frame and spring damper system
A vehicle with a base frame to which at least two sprung suspensions, in particular sprung wheel suspensions, for driven, non-driven, steerable or non-steerable contact elements, for example wheels, are attached which can be steered by means of a steering knuckle and are located on both sides of the longitudinal direction of travel, in each case transversely to the direction of travel, a tilt frame, tiltable in a tilt axis with respect to the base frame. A steering tube is rotatably attached to the tilt frame in the steering axis and automatically tilts with the tilt frame, at least one track rod connected to the track rod actuating element, and a linear or rotary track rod actuating element rotatable over a guide element. The track rod actuating element is displaced by tilting the tilt frame about the tilt axis and independently thereof by rotating the steering tube about the steering axis in such a way that the steerable contact element is given a steering movement by the track rod actuating element by means of the at least one track rod and no substantial change in the camber of the contact elements takes place during cornering, wherein the vehicle comprises at least one spring damper system which is suitable and provided for reducing a pendulum tilt of a tilt frame about the vertical zero position. |
| US11801884B2 |
Vehicle having multiple driving positions
Vehicles, steering systems, and steering assemblies of a vehicle are provided in the present disclosure. According to one embodiment, a steering system includes a track oriented substantially in a side-to-side direction with respect to the vehicle. The side-to-side direction may be substantially horizontal with a ground surface and substantially perpendicular with a forward-facing direction of the vehicle. The steering system also includes a steering wheel adapted to slide laterally along the track. In another embodiments, the present disclosure provides a vehicle comprising a steering wheel assembly adapted to be positioned in laterally variable locations with respect to the vehicle, whereby the steering wheel assembly is further adapted to enable a driver to manually operate the vehicle from a left-hand side of the vehicle and from a right-hand side of the vehicle. |
| US11801877B1 |
Railcar ant-scissoring system
A railcar anti-scissoring system includes a base controller positioned within a train locomotive that sends a launch initiation command to railcar-stabilizing units when detecting rapid deceleration indicative of a collision or derailment. The stabilizing units include a receiver secured to the rear end of each rail car and a coupling unit attached to the front end of each rail car. The coupling unit houses a deployable locking rod that is thrust into a mating cavity in the receiver upon receipt of the launch command. The deployed locking rod maintains the host railcar and the preceding railcar in a linear orientation during a rapid deceleration to prevent jackknifing. |
| US11801875B2 |
Hybrid cable/rail transportation system, transportation unit for such a transportation system and method for operating such a transportation system
A hybrid cable/rail transportation system comprising: at least one system portion configured as a cable transportation system comprising at least one cable; at least one system portion configured as a rail transportation system comprising at least one rail, wherein the system portion configured as a cable transportation system is upstream and/or downstream of the system portion configured as a rail transportation system; a plurality of transportation units, wherein each transportation unit comprises a cabin; wherein each cabin is configured for being moved along the entire system, respectively supported hanging from the cable along the system portion configured as a cable transportation system and supported resting on the rail along the system portion configured as a rail transportation system. |
| US11801869B2 |
System and method for controlling an autonomous vehicle
A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle is provided. While the vehicle is at a commanded destination the method may be responsive to an absence of an ingress/egress of a passenger for a predetermined period. The predetermined period may depend on whether the vehicle is in arrival mode or departure mode. The method may include commanding the vehicle to travel to a predetermined location selected to have measures of cellular-wireless signal strength that are greater than a predetermined threshold. |
| US11801867B2 |
Vehicle control device and vehicle control method
A vehicle control device of a vehicle includes: an action plan creating part that creates an action plan for autonomous driving by the vehicle; and a distance detection part that outputs detection information on detection of an object. The action plan creating part includes a collision probability map setting part configured to, when the distance detection part detects an obstacle, determine a collision probability map, which is a two-dimensional map of a collision probability distribution representing likelihood of a collision between the vehicle and the detected obstacle in a two-dimensional space of a location and a speed. The action plan creating part is configured to create a current action plan based on the collision probability map, a predetermined target collision probability, and a current location and a current speed of the vehicle. |
| US11801864B1 |
Cost-based action determination
A vehicle computing system may implement techniques to determine an action for a vehicle to perform based on a cost associated therewith. The cost may be based on a detected object (e.g., another vehicle, bicyclist, pedestrian, etc.) operating in the environment and/or a possible object associated with an occluded region (e.g., a blocked area in which an object may be located). The vehicle computing system may determine two or more actions the vehicle could take with respect to the detected object and/or the occluded region and may generate a simulation associated with each action. The vehicle computing system may run the simulation associated with each action to determine a safety cost, a progress cost, a comfort cost, an operational rules cost, and/or an occlusion cost associated with each action. The vehicle computing system may select the action for the vehicle to perform based on an optimal cost being associated therewith. |
| US11801863B2 |
Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium
Provided is a vehicle control device configured to: generate a target trajectory of a vehicle; and determine whether change in speed of a target steering angle in a first period is equal to or larger than a first threshold value and whether change in speed of the target steering angle in a second period is equal to or larger than a second threshold value; and change, in a case where the driving mode of the vehicle is a second driving mode, the driving mode of the vehicle to a first driving mode when the change in speed of the target steering angle in the first period is determined to be equal to or larger than the first threshold value or when the change in speed of the target steering angle in the second period is determined to be equal to or larger than the second threshold value. |
| US11801856B2 |
Electronic control device and selection method
An electronic control device is mounted on a vehicle having a sensor, and includes: a storage unit that stores a control history in which a vehicle control condition and an actual number of measurement times of the vehicle control condition are associated with each other, the vehicle control condition being a condition for performing an arbitrary vehicle control operation for each position; a position specifying unit that specifies a position of the vehicle; a determination unit that determines a current sensor capability that is a current capability of the sensor; and a selection unit that selects, from the storage unit, the vehicle control condition having the largest actual number among the vehicle control conditions that have a position within a predetermined distance from the position specified by the position specifying unit and that can be determined by the current sensor capability. |
| US11801852B2 |
Actively adapting to driving environments based on human interactions
A method performed by an autonomous vehicle includes identifying a condition preventing the autonomous vehicle from proceeding along an intended route. The method also includes prompting a passenger of the autonomous vehicle to interact with a driver of a first vehicle in response to identifying the condition. The method further includes receiving, from the passenger, an input at an interface of the autonomous vehicle indicating a successful interaction or an unsuccessful interaction with the driver. The method also includes controlling the autonomous vehicle to proceed along the intended route based on the input indicating the successful interaction with the driver. |
| US11801850B2 |
Method for synchronizing signals
A method for synchronizing signals of a plurality of participants. A relationship between the signals is given by a physical relation. The signals are each filtered with a first filter in order to determine a shift between the signals. The determined shift is a measure of the phase shift between the signals. The shift is subsequently eliminated by filtering the signals respectively with a second filter. |
| US11801848B2 |
Electronic skin for vehicle components
Systems and methods are provided for adjusting a control of a vehicle system based on a condition of an occupant. The system includes a replaceable or upgradeable electronic skin removably coupled to an interior vehicle component. The electronic skin includes at least one sensor positioned therein, configured to monitor/obtain a biometric, physiological, or wellness condition measurement from an occupant. The system includes one or more processors and a memory communicably coupled thereto. An occupant comfort module is provided including instructions that, when executed, collect and monitor feedback from the at least one sensor; determine that the feedback exceeds a predetermined threshold; and determine an adjustment for a vehicle system based on the feedback. A control module may be provided including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the vehicle system to change at least one setting based on the adjustment determined by the occupant comfort module. |
| US11801846B2 |
Vehicle and method of controlling the same
A vehicle includes a first sensor for acquiring image data of a rear side, a second sensor for acquiring gaze data of a user, a display for outputting a screen of the image data, an input device for setting a sensitivity to a movement of a user gaze, and a controller for determining reference vector data based on the gaze data at a point in time at which the gaze data starts to be acquired or the gaze data that is preset, for outputting a control signal to output a screen of the image data corresponding to the reference vector data, for acquiring result data including relative position data and relative velocity data of gaze movement data with respect to the reference vector data, and for controlling a signal to output a screen of the image data. |
| US11801845B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling alcohol interlock of vehicle
An alcohol interlock control apparatus for a vehicle includes: a sensor configured to acquire a biosignal of an occupant that is seated in a driver's seat; and a controller configured to determine whether or not the occupant seated in the driver's seat has changed based on the biosignal of the occupant, and when changed, to determine whether the occupant is in a drunken state, and may identify a driver based on the biosignal of the occupant seated in the driver's seat without an additional device and cost, and may fundamentally block an improper alcohol measurement of an additional occupant instead of the driver. |
| US11801844B2 |
Systems and methods for friction estimations using bins and dynamic envelopes
Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle using operational constraints, including friction estimates are disclosed. Friction estimation include estimating a tire-road coefficient of friction using bins and envelopes. Bounding envelopes are configured to ensure that stability of the vehicle is maintained. The friction estimate is used to define the bounding envelopes. Further, the bounding envelopes are received as feedback into the friction estimation, itself. Based on the bounding envelope, the friction estimation can be adjusted. Then, the adjusted friction estimation can be fed back to reshape the bounding envelopes. Multiple bins can be used to evaluate an operating range of friction. Each bin can be used to compare actual vehicle dynamics with expected dynamics based on the estimation using the range assigned to that bin. Multiple bins and multiple controllers can run in parallel to re-estimate friction considering the vehicle dynamics over time. |
| US11801843B2 |
Method, system, and computer program product for determining safety-critical traffic scenarios for driver assistance systems (DAS) and highly automated driving functions (HAD)
A method determines safety-critical traffic scenarios for driver assistance systems and highly automated driving functions for a motor vehicle. A safety-critical traffic scenario has a scenario type, a location determined geographic coordinates, and a safety value. The method includes: recording first data of a vehicle while driving along a route, assigning geographic coordinates to the first data in each case; recording second data for capturing physiological and physical reactions of a driver of a vehicle while driving along the route, assigning geographic coordinates to the second data in each case; transmitting the first and second data to a data evaluation unit; combining the first data and the second data having the same geographic coordinates so that they represent data at a specific geographic location; identifying a scenario for the specific geographic location based on the first and second data; classifying the identified scenario with a difficulty value. |
| US11801838B2 |
Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium
A vehicle control device performs first control for causing a vehicle to perform lane change to a fourth lane adjacent to a third lane by causing the vehicle to pass through an area between a first other vehicle and a second other vehicle in a traveling direction and an area between a third other vehicle and a fourth other vehicle in the traveling direction, when it is determined that a relationship between the first other vehicle and the vehicle satisfies a first condition, a relationship between the second other vehicle and the vehicle satisfies a second condition stricter than the first condition, a relationship between the third other vehicle and the vehicle satisfies a third condition stricter than the first condition, and a relationship between the fourth other vehicle and the vehicle satisfies a fourth condition stricter than the second condition and the third condition. |
| US11801834B2 |
Vehicle positioning method via data fusion and system using the same
A vehicle positioning method via data fusion and a system using the same are disclosed. The method is performed in a processor electrically connected to a self-driving-vehicle controller and multiple electronic systems. The method is to perform a delay correction according to a first real-time coordinate, a second real-time coordinate, real-time lane recognition data, multiple vehicle dynamic parameters, and multiple vehicle information received from the multiple electronic systems with their weigh values, to generate a fusion positioning coordinate, and to determine confidence indexes. Then, the method is to output the first real-time coordinate, the second real-time coordinate, and the real-time lane recognition data that are processed by the delay correction, the fusion positioning coordinate, and the confidence indexes to the self-driving-vehicle controller for a self-driving operation. |
| US11801833B2 |
Method for influencing entities at a roadway intersection
One variation of a method for influencing entities proximal a road surface includes, at an autonomous vehicle: over a first period of time, detecting a pedestrian proximal a road surface; predicting an initial path of the pedestrian an initial confidence score for the initial path of the pedestrian based on and motion of the pedestrian during the first period of time; in response to the initial confidence score falling below a threshold confidence, replaying an audio track audible to the pedestrian and calculating a revised path of the pedestrian and a revised confidence score for the revised path based on motion of the pedestrian following replay of the audio track; and autonomously navigating across the road surface according to a planned route in response to the revised path of the pedestrian falling outside of the planned route and the revised confidence score exceeding the threshold confidence. |
| US11801832B2 |
Transport relocation
An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a parking processing node, a parking of a transport at an event location, accessing, by the parking processing node, a device of a transport occupant to determine a transport pickup location and a pickup time based on a conclusion of an event, detecting, by the parking processing node, from the device of the transport occupant at least one modification of the pickup location and the pickup time made based on an updated conclusion of the event, and sending a command to move the transport to a location proximate to the event based on the modified pickup location and the modified pickup time. |
| US11801829B2 |
In-vehicle device, system and method for automatic parking assistance
An in-vehicle device, a system and a method for automatic parking assistance. The in-vehicle device includes a communication interface through which the in-vehicle device receives a parking navigation path from an external device, the parking navigation path including linear road sections and/or arc road sections; and a parking controller coupled with the communication interface. The parking controller is configured to identify line-shape features of each road section; determine whether the vehicle can travel along a road section based on line-shape features of the road section; in the case that the determination is affirmative, control a driving behavior of the vehicle such that the vehicle travels along the road section; in the case that the determination is negative, determine a new travelling path and control a driving behavior of the vehicle such that the vehicle travels along the new travelling path. |
| US11801827B2 |
Automatic parking system
An automatic parking system which controls a vehicle so as to cause the vehicle to be moved to a parking place and accommodated in a parking frame provided in the parking place includes a route where magnetic marker is laid so as to be detectable by using a magnetic sensor array provided to the vehicle, RFID tag providing tag information capable of identifying laying position of the magnetic marker, and a control server device which identifies a vehicle position based on the laying positions of the magnetic markers, allowing highly-accurate identification of the position of the vehicle to be forwarded and allowing operation with high reliability. |
| US11801825B2 |
Unmanned ground vehicle and method for operating unmanned ground vehicle
An unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) includes one or more motors configured to drive one or more wheels of the UGV, a memory storing instructions, and a processor coupled to the one or more motors and the memory. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to cause the UGV to determine location information of a movable target; calculate a direction and a speed for the unmanned ground vehicle based on the determined location information; and drive the one or more motors to move the unmanned ground vehicle in the calculated direction at the calculated speed to follow the movable target when the movable target moves. |
| US11801824B2 |
Hybrid vehicle drive system and method and idle reduction system and method
A hybrid vehicle drive system for a vehicle includes a first prime mover, a first prime mover driven transmission, and a rechargeable power source. The hybrid vehicle drive system further includes an interface between the transmission and the prime mover for coupling to an electric motor. The electric motor can be in direct or indirect mechanical communication with a hydraulic pump. The electric motor can receive power from the prime mover driven transmission through the interface. |
| US11801822B2 |
Operation of vehicle stationary generator
A controller of a vehicle, while the vehicle is within a predefined geofenced region and responsive to the vehicle entering park, increases a maximum state of charge threshold for the battery and decreases a minimum state of charge threshold for the battery. The controller also, while the vehicle is located within the predefined geofenced region and responsive to the vehicle exiting park, decreases the maximum state of charge threshold and increases the minimum state of charge threshold. |
| US11801820B2 |
Electrically actuatable operating unit for a motor vehicle brake, brake booster having such an electrically actuatable operating unit, and motor vehicle brake system having such a brake booster
An electrically actuatable operating unit (106) for a motor vehicle brake comprises a housing body (122) which is arranged so as to be displaceable in a braking direction for operation of the motor vehicle brake, a recess (150) formed in the housing body (122), wherein the recess (150) is delimited at one longitudinal end by a contact shoulder (172), a through-opening (158) delimited by the contact shoulder (172), an operating member (124) which is arranged in the recess (150) so as to be displaceable for operation of the motor vehicle brake and projects through the through-opening (158) of the contact shoulder (172), wherein the operating member (124) can be arranged in a force-transmitting manner between a brake pedal and the motor vehicle brake (400). The operating unit (106) further comprises a return spring (126) which is arranged in the recess (150) and is configured to move the operating member (124) relative to the housing body (122) away from the contact shoulder (172), and a sleeve element (180) which circumferentially surrounds a portion of the operating member (124) at least partially and is held in contact with the contact shoulder (172) by the return spring (126), and wherein the sleeve element (180) projects into the through-opening (158) in such a manner that it is arranged between the operating member (124) and an inner circumferential surface of the contact shoulder (172) that delimits the through-opening (158). |
| US11801816B2 |
Air brake electric control valve
An air brake electric control valve includes a valve body, a force balance unit including a guide member, and an electromagnetic urge unit including a movable column operable to move between an urging position and a retracted position. When the movable column is at the urging position, the movable column pushes the air guide member such that a through hole of the air guide member is blocked. When the movable column is at the retracted position, a gap is formed between the movable column and the air guide member such that an intermediate section and a second passage of the valve body are in fluid communication via the through hole of the air guide member and the gap. |
| US11801814B2 |
Brake compliance calibration with electrohydraulic brakes
An EH braking system including a brake valve operably connected to a brake and a brake pressure sensor. A calibration event for the EH braking system where the compliance calibration time is measured from when the brake valve is operated at full activation to when the brake pressure sensor senses the pressure starts to build in the brake circuit. The compliance calibration time is the time it takes to fill the compliance volume of the brake(s). The compliance calibrated fill time is used during a normal braking event wherein the brake valve will be operated to a full activation condition for duration of the compliance calibration time. After the calibrated fill time has elapsed, the brake valve will be operated at the desired operator command of the brake pedal. This results in quicker fill times of the brake and better brake system response. |
| US11801813B2 |
Stably braking system and method using the same
A stably braking system and a method using the same control wheels on a single axle of a ground vehicle. Firstly, at least one of a wheel deceleration and an actual slip of each of the wheels is calculated. Hydraulic control commands are generated when a braking operation is performed in response to a braking indication signal and it is detected that the wheel deceleration or the actual slip is higher. The hydraulic control commands are configured to control a hydraulic braking system to adjust the wheel speed. When the ground vehicle drives in a straight line or turns with a first pose physical quantity, the hydraulic control command with a low priority is replaced by the hydraulic control command with a high priority and the hydraulic braking system is controlled to adjust the wheel speeds based on the identical hydraulic control commands. |
| US11801811B2 |
Wheel chock device for road vehicles
A wheel chock including a wedge-shaped body defined by at least one substantially flat wall for resting against a ground and at the top, at least one wall for bearing against a wheel, inclined with respect to the wall for resting against the ground, the wall for bearing against the wheel adjoining the wall for resting against the ground at a tip of the wedge-shaped body, the wall for bearing against the wheel including a blocking portion distal from the tip, configured to block a movement of the wheel, and a wheel receiving portion proximal to the tip, further including at least one breakage element constrained to the wedge-shaped body to interfere with a wheel engaged against the blocking portion of the wall for bearing against the wheel, the at least one breakage element configured to partially irreversibly deform when a wheel engages the blocking portion of the wedge-shaped body. |
| US11801800B2 |
Energy absorbing device, motor vehicle body and method for manufacturing thereof
An energy absorbing device is designed to increase the amount of absorbed energy and control the deformation of the device in case of an impact. The energy absorbing device consists in a hollow longitudinal member extending along a first longitudinal axis and a longitudinal guide extending along a second longitudinal axis, arranged within the longitudinal member and suitable for guiding the deformation of the longitudinal member in case of an impact. The length ratio between the longitudinal guide and the member is comprised between the values of 1/5 and 3/5. |
| US11801798B2 |
Joint connector
A joint connector configured to have a plurality of wire harnesses connected thereto and join the plurality of wire harnesses, the joint connector including a sub-connector configured to have connectors of the plurality of wire harnesses inserted therein, a housing inside which the sub-connector is provided, a plurality of joint terminals arranged in parallel with each other in a protruding state within the housing and respectively connected to the connectors of the plurality of wire harnesses, and a relay unit provided in the housing and connected to the plurality of joint terminals, the relay unit being configured to, based on information included in data transmitted from an in-vehicle ECU or in-vehicle sensor connected to the plurality of wire harnesses, perform relay control of the data between the plurality of joint terminals. |
| US11801797B2 |
Vehicle body side part structure
A vehicle body side part structure includes: a center pillar having a base expanding in a fan shape; an inner center pillar having filling openings formed in vicinity to front and rear inwardly-curved corners of the base; a center pillar stiffener defining a filled space to extend in a front-rear direction between the center pillar stiffener and inner center pillar; a side sill joined to lower ends of the inner center pillar and center pillar stiffener; and a partition member having front and rear cover portions and a main body integrated with the cover portions. The partition member includes a filled space partitioner to partition the filled space into a first filled space located closer to one of the inwardly-curved corners and a second filled space located closer to the other of the inwardly-curved corners so as to have a volume substantially equal to that of the first filled space. |
| US11801796B2 |
Apparatus and method for commonization of front doors between vehicle cabs
A garnish configured to enable use of a common door for a two-door vehicle and a four-door vehicle. The garnish may have a body. The body may be directly mountable onto a carriage of the two-door vehicle between an outer panel and a rocker panel of the two-door vehicle. The body may have an edge that is flush to a rear edge of the common door when mounted. The body may have at least two edges forming approximately a 90-degree angle. |
| US11801788B2 |
Vehicle lamp assembly having an on/off switch operating portion
A vehicle lamp assembly includes a lamp finisher, a knob and a retainer. The lamp finisher defines an exterior housing for a light source of the vehicle lamp assembly. The knob is movable with respect to the lamp finisher to operate the light source between an ON state and an OFF state. The retainer is sandwiched between a portion of the lamp finisher and a portion of the knob. The knob is retained to the lamp finisher by the retainer. |
| US11801787B2 |
Digital license plate with active response to infrared license plate recognition
A digital license plate includes a display system capable of showing a license number readable by camera systems even under poor external lighting conditions. A light redistribution element is positioned near the display system and a lighting system is positioned to direct light from the light redistribution element and toward the display system. In some embodiments the lighting system includes a non-visible lighting element such as can be provided by an infrared source, and the display system includes an electrophoretic or LCD display. |
| US11801785B2 |
Vacuum excavator tank and door system
A collection tank for a mobile vacuum excavator includes a front with a closed end, a rear with an open end, a door configured to be closed over the open end, and a linkage assembly having a first end attached to the door and a second end attached to the body. A first pivotal movement drives the first end and second end away from each other, and a second pivotal movement moves the first end and the second end toward each other. An actuator is attached to the first arm and to the second arm so that actuation of the actuator in a first direction drives the first pivotal movement and actuation of the actuator in a second direction drives the second arm the second pivotal movement. |
| US11801782B2 |
Seat pad and seat pad manufacturing method
A seat pad 1 is a seat pad including a resin foamed body 50, and a sheet member 70 buried in the resin foamed body, and when a direction orthogonal to a right-left direction and a thickness direction of the seat pad is referred to as an extending direction of the seat pad, at least a central part of the sheet member is curved in a convex shape on a back surface side of the seat pad in the extending direction. |
| US11801781B1 |
Seat assembly
A seat assembly has a seating cushion defining a first surface to support an occupant and a second surface opposite to the first surface, with the first surface further defining a trench. A fastener has a longitudinal body with a central region positioned between a first end region and a second end region, and a base extending outwardly from the second end region and transversely to the body. The first end region tapers in a direction away from the second end region, and the central region of the body defines a recess intersecting a side wall of the body and angled inwardly and towards the first end region to form a hook. The fastener extends through the seating cushion with the base abutting the second surface, and the first end region of the body extending into the trench. |
| US11801778B2 |
Child safety seat having a headrest
A child safety seat includes a seat portion, and a backrest assembly configured to connect with the seat portion. The backrest assembly includes a backrest portion and a headrest portion, the headrest portion including a headrest mounting part adapted to connect with the backrest portion so that the headrest portion is held with the backrest portion via the headrest mounting part, and a head support that is adapted to provide support for a child's head and is installable on and removable from the headrest mounting part. |
| US11801775B2 |
Seat adjustment switch
A seat adjustment switch includes a multidirectional force sensor, a carrier plate, and a button cap. The multidirectional force sensor is arranged on the carrier plate and includes a sensor pin. The sensor pin is pivotable via which the multidirectional force sensor is actuatable. The button cap is connected to the sensor pin. The button cap serves as an actuating element operable by an operator for pivoting the sensor pin in order to actuate the multidirectional force sensor. The carrier plate includes a receiving sleeve that is integrally formed with the carrier plate and is connected to other portions of the carrier plate via flexible regions, the sensor pin is guided through the receiving sleeve for the multidirectional force sensor to be arranged on the carrier plate. The button cap forms a form-fit connection with the receiving sleeve. |
| US11801774B2 |
Method and system for unattended child detection
A radar sensor system and method for ascertaining whether an unattended child is present within an automotive vehicle. The radar sensor system carries out the method and includes a transmitter, at least one sensor, and processing circuitry. The method includes the steps of: illuminating at least one occupiable position within the vehicle with radiation of multiple frequencies; generating radar sensor signals from reflections of the transmitted radiation, a plurality of the radar sensor signals corresponding to different frequencies; and operating the processing circuitry for generating and determining if a first indicator value indicative of motion in the occupiable position satisfies a first predetermined criteria and, if so, generating and determining a second indicator value indicating a degree of repetitive pattern within the radar sensor signals, and determining presence of an unattended child in the vehicle if the second indicator value satisfies a second predetermined criteria. |
| US11801772B2 |
Thermal management module and operating method
A thermal management module includes a component carrier, at least two, typically multiple electrically controllable function components for temperature-controlling at least one vehicle component of a motor vehicle, which are detachably or non-detachably connected to the component carrier, at least one electrical control unit, which for electrically controlling at least two, typically multiple, particularly typically all of the function components include a control electronic system, which via at least one electrical control line path and/or via a component field bus is electrically connected to the respective function component and arranged in a housing of the control unit, wherein the housing of the control unit is detachably or non-detachably fastened to the component carrier and/or to at least one of the function components. |
| US11801771B2 |
Multiple transport charging sources
An example operation includes one or more of receiving a first energy, at a target transport, from a charging station at a first value during a first amount of time, and the target transport and the charging station are physically connected, and receiving a second energy, at the target transport, from a providing transport at a second value greater than the first value during a second amount of time less than the first amount of time, and the target transport and the providing transport are wirelessly connected. |
| US11801768B2 |
Transport battery health
An example operation includes one or more of sensing that a transport in a group is performing at an efficiency below a threshold and modifying at least one other transport in the group to perform at an efficiency above the threshold, wherein the efficiency above the threshold is similar to efficiency below the threshold, wherein the modification occurs at a final portion of a route of the at least one other transport. |
| US11801766B2 |
Vehicle and control method thereof including recharging a battery with a first current value when a user consents and where a charging interruption history exists
Disclosed is a vehicle including a battery, and a controller configured to check identification information of a charger when the charger and the battery are connected, determine whether a charging interruption history exists in the charger based on the identification information of the charger, determine whether or not a user consents to perform recharging of the battery with a first current value in a case where the charging interruption history exists, and perform the recharging of the battery with the first current value depending on the consent of the user or not. |
| US11801762B2 |
Modularized electrical vehicle supply equipment system
Disclosed illustrative embodiments include docking stations, portable electrical vehicle supply equipment cables, and modular electrical vehicle supply equipment systems. An illustrative docking station includes a receiver configured to be physically couplable with a structure and a source electrical connector configured to be electrically couplable to a power source and the receiver. The docking station also includes an electrical connector configured to be electrically couplable with a portable electrical vehicle supply equipment cable and the receiver. The docking station further includes a communications device couplable in data communication with the receiver and configured to send and receive information relating to use of the electrical connector. |
| US11801759B2 |
Autonomous mobile robot and walking method thereof
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an autonomous mobile robot and a walking method thereof. The autonomous mobile robot includes a machine body, a driving wheel assembly and an obstacle crossing assembly. The driving wheel assembly is rotatably arranged on the machine body through a first rotating shaft. The driving wheel assembly includes a driving wheel. When the driving wheel moves from a first position to a second position relative to the machine body, the obstacle crossing assembly applies a force to the driving wheel assembly to make a change amplitude of positive pressure between the driving wheel and a traveling surface less than or equal to a set threshold value. |
| US11801755B2 |
Braking system for an off-road vehicle
A brake control system for a vehicle includes a brake actuator operable over a range from an initial position that includes contiguous portions of displacement that are a first portion of displacement, a second portion of displacement and a third portion of displacement, a controller and an actuation sensor operatively coupled to the brake actuator. The actuation sensor sends a signal to the controller to activate a regenerative braking system using an electric motor of the vehicle if the actuation sensor detects the brake actuator is in the first portion of displacement. The regenerative braking system is activated and the friction braking system is activated when the brake actuator is in the second portion of displacement. The regenerative braking system is deactivated and the friction braking system is activated when the brake actuator is in the third portion of displacement. |
| US11801754B1 |
System, device, and/or process for determining motor driver safety state for electric vehicle
Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, as techniques to transition between and/or among safety states of an electric motor driver unit (EMDU). |
| US11801753B2 |
Battery system and vehicle including the battery system
A battery system for an electric vehicle includes a high voltage battery including a plurality of battery cells interconnected with one another configured to provide a high voltage output at battery system terminals and a battery disconnecting element powered by the high voltage battery and configured to disconnect the high voltage battery from at least one of the battery system terminals in the event of a malfunction or crash. |
| US11801740B1 |
Flexible cover system
A flexible cover system includes a sheet of flexible material having a first face and a second face. Each receptacle from a set of receptacles has walls coupled to the sheet's first face that extend to an opening of the receptacle. The walls associated with each receptacle are separated from the walls associated with adjacent ones of the receptacles by an air-filled gap. Each body from a set of bodies is configured for retention in one of the receptacles by the walls associated therewith. |
| US11801736B2 |
Door visor
Disclosed is door visor mounted on a vehicle having a door without an upper frame, the door visor including a body portion which includes: a molding portion mounted on a vehicle body of the vehicle; and a visor portion connected to the molding portion and covering a portion of an upper portion of a door window in a state of being spaced apart from the door window based on a state where the door of the vehicle is closed and the door window of the door is closed. |
| US11801733B2 |
Liquid cooling loop design for high performance processors in harsh vehicle environment
In one embodiment, an autonomous driving system to autonomously drive an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) includes one or more processors, a perception module executed by the processors to perceive a driving environment surrounding the ADV, and a planning module executed by the processors to plan a path based on perception data of the driving environment to navigate through the driving environment. The processors are mounted on one or more cold plates coupled to a vehicle cooling system of the ADV, the vehicle cooling system having a first radiator and a first coolant distribution loop coupled to a vehicle engine of the ADV to provide liquid cooling to the vehicle engine. The cold plates are coupled to the first radiator via a second coolant distribution loop to receive a portion of the coolant from the first radiator to extract heat from the cold plates. |
| US11801732B2 |
Radiant heater for vehicle
A radiant heater for a vehicle may include a heat generation device which is coupled to a first surface of a steering column cover through a hinge, has one or more heat generators generating radiant heat, and can rotate with respect to the first surface of the steering column cover by the hinge so that the distance between the heat generators and a heat reception portion can be adjusted. |
| US11801718B2 |
Low profile trolley for a tow saddle
A trolley that couples to a tow saddle is provided. The trolley includes an upper plate and a lower plate. The upper and lower plate are secured against a rear portion of a tow saddle. One or more support bars are coupled to the upper plate. The bars provide structural support for the upper plate and deflect a chain that transits apertures in the upper plate. |
| US11801715B2 |
Tire
A tire includes a tread portion including four circumferential grooves between outboard and inboard tread edges, and five land portions divided by the circumferential grooves. The circumferential grooves include an inboard shoulder circumferential groove located nearest to the inboard tread edge in the circumferential grooves. The land portions include an inboard shoulder land portion disposed axially outward of the inboard shoulder circumferential groove and having a ground contact surface with the smallest axial width in the land portions. The inboard shoulder land portion is provided with inboard shoulder lateral grooves and inboard shoulder sipes. The inboard shoulder lateral grooves include inner ends away from the inboard shoulder circumferential groove. The inboard shoulder lateral grooves extend axially outward from the inner ends to a location beyond the inboard tread edge. The inboard shoulder sipes extends from the inboard shoulder circumferential groove to a location beyond the inboard tread edge. |
| US11801711B2 |
Wheel assembly including controllable operating response gas spring and related methods
A wheel assembly to be coupled to a hub of a vehicle may include an inner rim to be coupled to the hub of the vehicle and an outer rim surrounding the hub. The wheel assembly may also include gas springs operatively coupled between the inner rim and the outer rim. At least one gas spring may have a controllable operating response. |
| US11801709B2 |
Composite wheel and assembling device thereof
A composite wheel includes a rim, a connecting ring, a plurality of spokes and a flange all connected in sequence from the outside to the inside. One end of each spoke is provided with a thread, and the other end of each spoke is provided with a first mounting hole. |
| US11801706B2 |
Printing system
A printing system includes a book body printing section including a book body printing machine and outputting book bodies sequentially, and a cover printing section including a cover printing machine and outputting covers sequentially. The book body printing machine and the cover printing machine respectively receive printing order data indicating a printing order with regard to a plurality of jobs from a print control apparatus, and perform printing in the printing order indicated by the printing order data. The print control apparatus generates the printing order data, so that an inserting order in unit of job to a bookbinding machine of the book bodies output from the book body printing section coincides with an inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the covers output from the cover printing section. |
| US11801700B2 |
Decorated natural leather
A manufacturing method of decorated natural leather including the steps of: attaching a crusted leather (45) with its corium side by an adhesive (46) to a temporary carrier (47); inkjet printing the crusted leather (45) on its grain side with one or more pigmented inkjet inks; wherein the surface area of the temporary carrier (47) is larger than the surface area of the crusted leather (45). |
| US11801697B2 |
Printer with holding and pressing members that are engageable with each other to hold a cover closed
A printer includes a body including a label sheet storage location and a cover rotatably attached to the body and covering the storage location when closed. The cover includes a roller having a shaft that is used for conveying the label sheet when the cover is closed and a peeling bar extending above the roller. The body includes a pressing member extending along the direction and pressing the sheet against the bar for peeling a label from the label sheet and a release lever arranged at an end of the pressing member. The release lever has a recess and rotates between a first position at which the shaft fits into the recess and a second position at which the shaft is released. The release lever rotates from the first to second positions to open the cover when a release button is pressed. |
| US11801690B2 |
Digital-to-garment inkjet printing machine
Disclosed is a carriage for a direct to garment inkjet printing machine. The machine has a frame having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pair of opposed lateral edges. A first row of slots is positioned on the leading edge and a second row of slots is positioned on the trailing edge. The second row of slots is spaced from the first row of slots by a gelling gap. A shelf on the frame supports tanks of white ink and tanks of color ink and a first plurality of tubing connects a tank of white ink positioned on the shelf with a print head in the first row of slots. A second plurality of tubing is for connecting a tank of color ink positioned on the shelf with a print head in the second row of slots. A pair of side heaters attached to opposed lateral edges of the first frame. |
| US11801688B2 |
Recording control device and recording control method
A recording control device. A first portion control section forms a first portion as a portion that is continuous from a first region and is not continuous to a second region in a recording region in an output image that is formed on a medium in an overlapping region in a recording region, in such a manner that a use rate of a first nozzle row of an overlapping portion of a nozzle row is set to a first nozzle use rate. A second portion control section forms a second portion as a portion that is continuous with the first region and the second region in the output image in the overlapping region, in such a manner that the use rate of the first nozzle row of the overlapping portion is set to the second nozzle use rate. |
| US11801683B2 |
Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus
A liquid ejecting head includes a nozzle configured to eject ink, a filter chamber accommodating a filter, and a nozzle introduction port through which the ink flows out of the filter chamber. The filter chamber includes a first side and a second side that extend toward the nozzle introduction port in plan view in a direction perpendicular to the filter, and the nozzle introduction port is elongated along the first side in plan view in the direction perpendicular to the filter. |
| US11801682B2 |
Image former
An image former includes: an inkjet head; a plurality of ink storages that is connected to the inkjet head and stores ink; a pressure generator that generates a difference in internal pressure between the plurality of ink storages so that ink flows between the plurality of ink storages and the inkjet head; and a storage communicator that causes the plurality of ink storages to communicate with each other so that the difference in internal pressure decreases. |
| US11801681B2 |
Severable dispensable substance containers
A dispensable substance container may include a printing substance dispensing nozzle including a first material. The dispensable substance container an elongate body, including a wall, including a second material encompassing a cavity to contain a dispensable substance, and an attachment portion to attach the elongate body to the printing substance dispensing nozzle; and a structurally compromised portion of the elongate body extending along a length of the elongate body, wherein the elongate body and the attachment portion are to be severed along the structurally compromised portion by a pushrod moveable through the cavity to expel the dispensable substance out the dispensing nozzle. |
| US11801678B2 |
Piezoelectric device, liquid ejecting head, liquid ejecting apparatus, and method of manufacturing piezoelectric device
A piezoelectric device includes a substrate, a diaphragm; and a piezoelectric actuator, in which the substrate, the diaphragm, and the piezoelectric actuator are laminated in this order in a first direction, the diaphragm includes a first layer containing silicon as a constituent element, a third layer disposed between the first layer and the piezoelectric actuator and containing zirconium as a constituent element, and a second layer disposed between the first layer and the third layer and containing at least one impurity element selected from the group consisting of a metal, a metalloid, and a semiconductor other than silicon and zirconium, as a constituent element, and the impurity element diffuses into the third layer. |
| US11801677B2 |
Printhead design with multiple fluid paths to jetting channels
Printheads and design of printheads. In one embodiment, a printhead comprises a plurality of jetting channels, and a manifold apparatus fluidly coupled to the jetting channels. For each jetting channel, the printhead includes a first fluid path between the jetting channel and the manifold apparatus, and a second fluid path between the jetting channel and the manifold apparatus. The jetting channel is configured to jet a print fluid via pressure waves generated in a pressure chamber of the jetting channel. Lengths of the first fluid path and the second fluid path are different by a threshold length so that an arrival time of the pressure waves at the manifold apparatus are different by a threshold time. |
| US11801674B2 |
Fountain solution thickness identification via gloss measurement system and method
An optical gloss meter above an imaging member surface measures fountain solution surface gloss on the imaging member surface in real-time during a printing operation. The measured gloss corresponds to a thickness of the fountain solution layer and may be used in a feedback loop to actively control fountain solution layer thickness by adjusting the volumetric feed rate of fountain solution added onto the imaging member surface during a printing operation to reach a desired uniform thickness for the printing. This fountain solution monitoring system may be fully automated. |
| US11801672B2 |
Inspection device and method for inspecting an adhesive pattern on a substrate
Inspection devices and methods for inspecting an adhesive pattern on a substrate are disclosed. The inspection device includes at least one sensor having a heat sensor head for detecting a pattern of the adhesive bead, and a controller. Reference data representing a desired adhesive pattern is initially provided to a controller. A predetermined tolerance range for the desired adhesive pattern is also provided to the controller. An adhesive bead is discharged onto a substrate from a nozzle. A pattern of the discharged adhesive bead is then detected by the sensor when the substrate moves. Signals representing the detected pattern are received from the sensor at the controller. Finally, the signals representing the detected adhesive pattern are compared to the tolerance range of the desired adhesive pattern. |
| US11801662B2 |
Cementitious panels with polymeric-film facing material
Provided are cementitious panels that include a cementitious core material and a plurality of sheets of facing material surrounding the cementitious core material, in which at least one of the plurality of sheets of facing material includes a polymeric-film. The polymeric film may include a thermoplastic composition that has a polymeric matrix including one or more polymeric materials. Additionally, the thermoplastic composition may optionally include a filler material. Additionally, provided are methods of manufacturing such cementitious panels. |
| US11801661B2 |
Paint substitute film, composite film, laminated metal plate, processed article, and molded article
A paint substitute film comprises a base film, a colored layer, and a hard coat layer, wherein the base film, the colored layer, and the hard coat layer are laminated in this order. The base film contains thermoplastic resin and concealing material. Refractive index of the concealing material is not less than 1.70. Scattering coefficient from wavelength 400 nm to 700 nm of the base film is not less than 0.20 μm−1. Contrast ratio of the base film when at 20% elongation is not less than 0.70. |
| US11801656B2 |
Laminated composite structures with interlaminar corrugations to improve impact damage resistance
There is provided a laminated composite structure having improved impact damage resistance and improved strength. The laminated composite structure has a plurality of stacked layers of a composite material. The plurality of stacked layers have one or more interlaminar corrugations formed within the plurality of stacked layers. Each interlaminar corrugation has a substantially sinusoidal shaped profile, and has a depth and a length dependent on a size of the laminated composite structure formed. The laminated composite structure with the one or more interlaminar corrugations has improved strength and improved impact damage resistance at an exposed edge of the laminated composite structure, when the exposed edge is subjected to an impact force. |
| US11801654B2 |
Structure of honeycomb paper expanding machine
An expanding machine includes a chassis, a feeding roller carrying a honeycomb paper, a guiding roller, and an expansion roller assembly including an upper expansion roller, a lower expansion roller, and a passage gap. The upper expansion roller includes upper projection assemblies that are staggered with respect to each other. Each of the projecting assemblies includes upper projecting portions and upper supporting portions that are alternate with respect to each other. The lower expansion roller includes projecting portions and supporting portions corresponding to the upper expansion roller. When the expansion roller assembly is put into rotation, the upper projecting portions correspond to the lower supporting portion, and the lower projecting portions correspond to the upper supporting portions, so that the projections that are separately arranged may pull and expand the honeycomb paper, making it not readily compress down the honeycomb paper or generating apparent compressing marking. |
| US11801651B2 |
System for manufacturing a support structure
A system in accordance with the present invention cures and manufactures a partially-cured tire assembly. The system includes: a functional wheel member being slid into a corresponding annular, radially inner surface of the partially-cured tire assembly; a plurality of elongate spacer members; a first annular curing platen for axially securing the wheel member and spacer members relative to each other; a second annular curing platen for axially securing the wheel member and spacer members relative to each other; and a plurality of elongate inserts for creating a substantially smooth, uniform outer cylindrical surface formed by a radially outer surface of each insert and flap members of the tire assembly positioned by the radially outermost surfaces of the spacer members. |
| US11801650B2 |
Method for manufacturing bowl and glass bowl
A method for manufacturing a bowl and a glass bowl are disclosed. A high borosilicate glass bowl is manufactured with high borosilicate glass, which has characteristics of high hardness, high light transmittance, high chemical stability, cold and hot shock resistance, and the like. A radian of a bottom is measured by a laser scanner, so that an accurate molding die can be manufactured by a numerical control machine tool. A solid rubber compound is mixed by a mixing mill, and then a vulcanizing agent and a silica gel masterbatch are added to obtain a silicone rubber raw material. The silicone rubber raw material is taken out according to a preset weight, then put together with the high borosilicate glass bowl into a molding vulcanizer. Vulcanization compression molding is performed to obtain a high borosilicate glass bowl with an anti-slip silica gel bottom. |
| US11801645B2 |
System and method for determining a build plan based upon an analyzed build plate geometric signature
A three-dimensional (3D) printing system for manufacturing a three-dimensional article includes a resin vessel for containing a volume of photocurable resin having a resin upper surface, an imaging system configured to define a build plane, a build plate having a build plate upper surface, a build plate positioner, a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a fluid-related vertical position of one or more of the resin upper surface and a component of a volume compensator (VC), and a controller. The controller is configured to (1) operate the build plate positioner to vertically translate build plate upper surface, (2) concurrent with operating the build plate positioner, receiving the signal from the sensor, (3) analyze the signal to determine a build plate geometric signature, and (4) determine or suspend a build plan for building the 3D article based upon the determined geometric signature. |
| US11801640B2 |
Additive manufacturing post-processing system
A post-processing system includes a rinse tank, a robot arm, a locking fixture, and a controller. The robot arm is configured to engage and move a workpiece. The locking fixture includes a platform support structure and a clamping assembly. The controller is in communication with the robot arm and the platform locking fixture. The controller is configured to instruct the robot arm to move the workpiece from a workstation to the rinse tank, instruct the robot arm to move the workpiece from the rinse tank to the platform support structure, and instruct the clamping assembly to secure the workpiece onto the platform support structure after the workpiece has been moved to the platform support. |
| US11801638B2 |
Printers
Printers are disclosed. An example printer includes a build controller to access metrics of a layer on a work area and to select a dosing profile from a plurality of dosing profiles to fuse the layer based on the metrics. |
| US11801633B2 |
Apparatuses for continuously refreshing a recoater blade for additive manufacturing including a blade feed unit and arm portion
The present disclosure generally relates to additive manufacturing systems and methods involving a mechanism for feeding in a desired amount of fresh recoater blade. This can be accomplished by, for example, spooling the fresh blade material from a spool. This helps prevent work stoppage when a portion of a recoater blade becomes damaged. As such, the present disclosure also relates to a system and method for detecting whether a recoater blade is damaged, and if there is damage, then causing a fresh blade portion to be fed in. |
| US11801631B2 |
Three-dimensional printed part
In an example, a three-dimensional (3D) printed part comprises a plurality of fused build material layers including exterior layers and interior layers. At least some of the interior layers include a composite portion having a miscible solid physically bonded to an amide functionality or an amine functionality of the build material. The miscible solid is a solid at a room temperature ranging from about 18° C. to about 25° C. |
| US11801630B2 |
Method and system for fabricating object featuring properties of a blood vessel
A tubular structure fabricated by additive manufacturing from non-biological building material formulations, and featuring an elongated core, a shell encapsulating the core and an intermediate shell between the core and the shell. Each of the core, the shell and the intermediate shell is made of a different material or a different combination of materials. Both the core and the intermediate shell are sacrificial. Additive manufacturing of the tubular structure is usable for fabricating an object featuring properties of a blood vessel. |
| US11801628B2 |
Method for producing hollow bodies made of plastics
A method for producing hollow bodies made of plastics by blow molding or deep drawing using a deep-drawing tool or a blow-molding tool, comprising the extrusion of preforms from thermoplastics, the method comprising a wall thickness control of the preforms, wherein a measurement of the wall thickness of the preforms takes place within the tool on the mold cavity side on at least one reference point of a preform, the measured value obtained is compared as an actual value with a predetermined target value and the wall thickness control is triggered to change the wall thickness of the preform during extrusion or between extrusion cycles depending on the deviation between the actual value and the target value. |
| US11801627B2 |
Methods for forming extruded shapes with hydrodynamic focusing apparatus and optionally smart core fluids
A method and apparatus for forming extruded shapes having at least a hollow portion using a hydrodynamic nozzle, a curable fluid, and a core fluid. |
| US11801624B2 |
Forming fastener elements
Arrays of male fastener elements are formed by molding preforms in cavities defined in one or more adjacent plates and shaped to mold preform arms that extend to a plate side, such as in a cross-machine direction of a continuous molding process. The preforms may be deformed to flatten their upper surfaces and lengthen the arms. Stems of preforms have molded side surfaces and each have width, measured in the longitudinal direction of the strip, that narrows with distance from the strip surface, and also narrows with distance from a parting line extending from the strip surface to the head between the arms. |
| US11801622B2 |
Manufactured retaining wall block with improved false joint
A retaining wall block having a false joint and a system of retaining wall blocks. The retaining wall block includes a body having a first textured surface and a second textured surface and a false joint dividing the first and second textured surface. The false joint can have a depth divided by the width greater than two inches. The false joint can have an interior angle of less than ten degrees. The system includes a plurality of retaining wall blocks and a first course of retaining wall blocks engaged with a second course of retaining wall blocks below. Each block in the system comprising a front face having a first textured surface and a second textured surface and a false joint dividing the first and second textured surface. The false joint can extend a predetermined depth of a third surface. |
| US11801620B2 |
Automatic plant for cleaning molds for tires
An automatic plant for cleaning moulds for tyres, wherein the moulds are constituted of sectors and cheeks, includes an apparatus for internal cleaning of sectors and cheeks and an apparatus for external cleaning of sectors and cheeks. The apparatus for internal cleaning of sectors and cheeks comprises fixing means for sectors and cheeks in a stable treatment position, a generating device for generating ultrasonic vibrations, transmitting means for transmitting the vibrations from the device to the sector or cheek treated, in such a way as to carry out cleaning of sectors or cheeks by subjecting them to vibrations. |
| US11801618B2 |
Method for producing an implant from a biocompatible silicone
In a method for producing an implant from a biocompatible silicone, a 3D mathematical model of an implant to be produced is used to create a 3D model of a casting mold for the implant as a negative. The casting mold is produced from a polymeric material through an additive manufacturing process and coated through vapor deposition of a coating material from the parylene family at least in a region that comes into contact with the biocompatible silicone to be cast. A platinum-catalyzed 2-component thermosetting silicone as the biocompatible silicone for the implant is introduced into a mold cavity of the coated casting mold, with a residence time of the implant in a patient's body of more than 29 days. The casting mold is heated to vulcanize the biocompatible silicone, and after cooling down the vulcanized implant is demolded from the casting mold. |
| US11801611B2 |
Package open knife and a package open knives pack
A package opening knife has a body part, a blade part, a gripping part that extends in an elongated shape in a prescribed first direction, and a guide part provided with a guide surface that slides in a surface direction of the package in a state of contacting the package to guide movement of the blade part. When a surface direction of the guide is defined as a second direction, the first direction and the second direction become substantially parallel to each other. |
| US11801604B2 |
Robot of estimating direction based on vanishing point of low luminance image and method estimating thereof
The present invention relates to a robot and method for estimating an orientation on the basis of a vanishing point in a low-luminance image, and the robot for estimating an orientation on the basis of a vanishing point in a low-luminance image according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a camera unit configured to capture an image of at least one of a forward area and an upward area of the robot and an image processor configured to extract line segments from a first image captured by the camera unit by applying histogram equalization and a rolling guidance filter to the first image, calculate a vanishing point on the basis of the line segments, and estimate a global angle of the robot corresponding to the vanishing point. |
| US11801601B2 |
Supporting apparatus for programing a robot operation
A supporting apparatus for programing a robot operation has a display by which an operator sees a movement trajectory corresponding to a movement of the robot and by which the operator is supported to provide a program including moving order and non-moving order. The supporting apparatus for programing has a first operating portion describing a target position of each of the moving orders superimposed with the movement trajectory by using a first code, and a second operating portion describing a number of the non-moving orders operated at the target position by using a second code. |
| US11801600B1 |
Terminal force soft-sensing method of hydraulic manipulator
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a terminal force soft-sensing method of a hydraulic manipulator. The method includes: establishing a dynamic model of the hydraulic manipulator, performing linearization processing on the dynamic model, and establishing a minimum inertial parameter set of the hydraulic manipulator and a linear model of a regression matrix corresponding to the minimum inertial parameter set; generating an excitation trajectory by solving a finite Fourier series coefficient; determining a hydraulic driving torque by collected values of pressure sensors of two chambers of hydraulic cylinders when controlling the hydraulic manipulator to operate the excitation trajectory under a no-load condition; determining a total regression matrix by bringing joint angles, joint angular velocities, and joint angular accelerations at each moment into the regression matrix; and determining dynamic parameters of the hydraulic manipulator based on the hydraulic driving torque and the regression matrix. |
| US11801598B2 |
Substrate transport apparatus with multiple movable arms utilizing a mechanical switch mechanism
A substrate transport apparatus including a frame, a drive section connected to the frame and including at least one independently controllable motor, at least two substrate transport arms connected to the frame and comprising arm links arranged for supporting and transporting substrates, and a mechanical motion switch coupled to the at least one independently controllable motor and the at least two substrate transport arms for effecting the extension and retraction of one of the at least two substrate transport arms while the other one of the at least two substrate transport arms remains in a substantially retracted configuration. |
| US11801597B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamic processing of objects using box tray assemblies
A box handling system is disclosed for use in an object processing system. The box handling system includes a box tray including a recessed area for receiving a box, and the recessed area includes a plurality of floor and edge portions for receiving the box that contains objects to be processed. |
| US11801594B2 |
Power tool
A power tool includes a side handle that can be toollessly positioned and also attached to or detached from a tool body. The power tool includes a tool body having a side surface, a side handle on the side surface of the tool body, and an operable portion operable to attach or detach the side handle to or from the tool body and to position the side handle being attached to the tool body. |
| US11801591B2 |
Powered fastener driver
A fastener driver includes a housing, a cylinder disposed within the housing, and a piston positioned and moveable within the cylinder. The fastener driver additionally includes a nosepiece at least partially defining a fastener driving track through which fasteners are driven, and a driver blade attached to the piston and moveable with the piston to drive the fasteners through the fastener driving track. The driver blade includes an axial guiding projection for guiding the driver blade within the nosepiece, and wherein the projection terminates before a distal end of the driver blade. |
| US11801589B1 |
Expansion tool structure for steering knuckle of vehicle
An expansion tool structure for a steering knuckle of a vehicle contains: a body, a multiple-section positioning set, and a rotatable connector. The body includes a receiving orifice, a first rotation portion, a recess, a second rotation portion, a stopped face, two retainers, a holding protrusion, a notch, a hollow accommodation section, and a threaded orifice. The multiple-section positioning set includes a locating ball, a resilient element, and a threaded post. The rotatable connector includes a holder, four slots, a first rotatable coupling section, a second rotatable coupling section, a stepped edge, an extension, a C-shaped ring, and a non-circular joining portion. The rotatable connector further includes an actuation projection, and the actuation projection has two opposite elongated faces and two opposite short faces. Preferably, a width of a respective one short face is equal to or is less than a width of a respective one retainer. |
| US11801585B2 |
Pliers
A pliers includes a first pliers body (10) and a second pliers body (20). The first pliers body includes a first handle (11) and a first clamp (12). A first pliers knife (13) and a first pliers back (14) are disposed on the first clamp (12). The second pliers body (20) includes a second handle (21) and a second clamp (22). A second pliers knife (23) and a second pliers back (24) are disposed on the second clamp (22). The second clamp (22) is pivotally connected with the first clamp (12) to clamp or cut. The first pliers back (14) or the second pliers back (24) is provided with a chipping blade (50) configured in a concave arc shape for chipping. |
| US11801584B2 |
Chuck structure
A chuck structure includes: a first chuck, provided with a seat slidable relatively thereto, the seat provided with a first stop; a limiting element, swingable relatively to the seat, and provided with a second chuck; and an operating element, respectively connected with the limiting element and a second chuck, and driving the second chuck to move relatively to the first chuck to form an accommodation space between the first chuck and second chuck, an elastic element configured between the operating element and limiting element, and the elastic element pressing against the limiting element to approach the seat, allowing the second and first stops to be in contact with each other. The present invention can use the operating element 3 to adjust the size of the accommodation space, and the second stop in contact with first stop to make the operating element can only be rotated in a single direction. |
| US11801583B2 |
Workpiece clamping device
A workpiece clamping device having a first base body on which a first clamping body is slidably supported in a clamping direction, as well as a second base body on which a second clamping body is slidably supported in the clamping direction. The two clamping bodies are in engagement with a threaded spindle. A contact surface is provided on each base body on the side that faces the other base body respectively. The contact surfaces are arranged with base body distance in the clamping direction. A centering body of the threaded spindle has centering surfaces that abut at one assigned contact surface respectively in order to position the threaded spindle in clamping direction without clearance as far as possible. |
| US11801575B2 |
Method for manufacturing high-torque hexagonal drill shank
A method for manufacturing a high-torque hexagonal drill shank includes: firstly producing an air module, wherein the lower end of the air module is inserted into a molding cavity of a mold, a high-pressure air is injected into the air module, and the surface of the air module is provided with a plurality of air outlets; evenly mixing metal powder and an organic binder together; injecting obtained particulates in a heating-plasticizing state into the molding cavity by an injection molding machine to solidify and form a hexagonal drill shank blank; forming a non-cylindrical cavity inside the hexagonal drill shank blank under the action of the air module; removing the binder in the hexagonal drill shank blank by thermal decomposition; and, finally, obtaining a high-torque hexagonal drill shank by sintering and densifying. |
| US11801574B2 |
Welding systems and methods with knurled weld interfaces for metallic workpieces
Presented are metalworking systems for joining metallic workpieces, methods for forming and welding such workpieces, and lithium-ion battery pouch cells with anodized aluminum tabs joined via knurling and laser welding. A method for laser welding abutting sections of a workpiece or stackup of workpieces includes receiving, via a workpiece support frame, one or more metallic workpieces each with a surface having applied thereto a treatment layer. This treatment layer releases a gas during welding. A metalworking device forms a knurl pattern into the workpiece surface with the treatment layer. The knurl pattern includes a network of channels, such as one or more series of mutually parallel, rectilinear vent channels, designed to exhaust therethrough the gas released from a welded section of the treatment layer. A laser welding device thereafter welds a joint region of the surface(s) of the one or more metallic workpiece with the knurl pattern. |
| US11801572B2 |
Dual gas pierce using coaxial and directional assist
A method and system is provided for laser piercing of thick plate material that allows for rapid transition to a cutting operation that can reliably produce a piercing hole and complete a cutting operation of the intended shape in a short time, while improving the cutting quality of the cutting after switching from the piercing operation. The cutting nozzle has a centrally located laser. The piercing operation applies a laser beam to the cut work while axially supplied pure oxygen gas is applied towards the cutting work. Additionally, a direction controlled nozzle adjacent the main cutting port provides a discharge of high pressure compressed air non-axially relative to the cutting operation to clear excess molten metal and debris from the kerf thereby increasing the efficiency of the piercing and shortening the cycle time. |
| US11801565B2 |
Saw blade
A saw blade including a body, a plurality of cutting teeth, and a plurality of gullets. The plurality of cutting teeth formed on the body. Each cutting tooth includes a first end and a second end. The plurality of gullets is formed between the plurality of cutting teeth. Each gullet having an opening defined between the first end of one tooth of the plurality of cutting teeth and the second end of an adjacent tooth of the plurality of cutting teeth. Each opening has an opening width and a gullet width. A ratio between he gullet width over the opening width is greater than or equal to 1.2:1. |
| US11801562B2 |
Tool for machining a workpiece
The present invention relates to a tool (10) for machining a workpiece, comprising a cutting head (12) which comprises a sleeve (16) and a cutting element (18) which is fixed to the sleeve (16), and comprising a holder (14) to which the cutting head (12) can be detachably fixed. In an assembled state of the tool (10), the cutting head (12) and holder (14) are screwed to each other via an internal thread (40) which is arranged in the sleeve (16) and an external thread (42) which corresponds thereto and which is arranged on the holder (14). In addition, in the assembled state of the tool (10), the cutting head (12) and holder (14) contact each other along a first axial bearing surface (36) which is arranged on the sleeve (16) and a second axial bearing surface (38) which corresponds thereto and which is arranged on the holder (14), and along a first conical bearing surface (44) which is arranged on the sleeve (16) and a second conical bearing surface (46) which corresponds thereto and which is arranged on the holder (14). |
| US11801561B2 |
Tool turret
A tool turret, in particular provided for the use for a machine tool, has a pivotable tool disk (10), which has on its outer circumference a plurality of receptacles (14) for holders (18) provided with working tools. The holders (18) are attached to the tool disk (10) in a changeable manner by a fixing device (20). Each holder (18) can be swiveled into a working position to permit the assigned working tool to be driven by a drive (22). For this purpose, the working tool can be coupled to an output shaft (16) of the respective holder (18) by a coupling device (26). The fixing device (20) can be actuated by the drive (22) when this drive (22) is uncoupled while stopping the working tool. |
| US11801560B2 |
Cutting insert
A cutting insert that suppresses softening of joint material in a joint surface between a sintered body and a base body to improve the joint strength, and that enables size reduction of the sintered body, is provided. The cutting insert includes a sintered body having a cutting edge, and a base body having a leading end where the sintered body is joined via a braze material. The sintered body includes a front surface on a leading side, an upper surface connected to the front surface and forming the cutting edge with the front surface along a connecting edge with the front surface, a bottom surface opposite the upper surface, a back surface opposite the front surface, and two side surfaces. The sintered body and base body are joined together in a joint surface including the bottom surface and back surface of the sintered body. The joint surface in side view has a step-like shape with a leading side thereof being lower than a trailing side thereof. |
| US11801559B2 |
Portable profiler for locomotive or railcar wheels
A portable apparatus for configuring a wheel associated with a track is provided. The apparatus is in a fixed position with respect to a rail associated with the track when in operation. The apparatus includes a tool configured to engage the wheel, a position system for positioning the cutting tool in at least two axis, and a computer control. The computer control is coupled to control the positioning system. The positioning system is controlled so that the wheel is configured in accordance with a profile. |
| US11801558B2 |
Three-dimensional powder bed fusion additive manufacturing apparatus
A three-dimensional PBF-AM apparatus includes a stage on which a powder material is spread, and a tubular build box disposed in a state of surrounding the stage. The build box includes a side wall portion having a first tubular member surrounding the stage and a second tubular member surrounding the stage with the first tubular member interposed therebetween and forming a space with the first tubular member, and moreover, a vacuum heat insulating layer can be formed inside the side wall portion by vacuuming the space. |
| US11801557B2 |
Laminate molding method and laminate molding apparatus
Provided is a laminate molding method for additionally manufacturing a molded object on a table by use of metal powder. The laminate molding method includes: a metal powder layer forming step of forming a metal powder layer by supplying metal powder onto a table; a melting step of melting the metal powder layer by applying, to the metal powder layer, electromagnetic energy emitted from an electromagnetic energy source; a rotating step of rotating the electromagnetic energy source and the table relative to each other; and a table vertically moving step of vertically moving the table relative to the electromagnetic energy source. Gas is emitted from a gas emission port toward an outer side of the table, the gas emission portion being provided in generally a center of the table. |
| US11801555B2 |
Method of manufacturing core-shell particles by a microwave plasma process
Methods are disclosed for producing core-shell particles having a uniform size using a microwave plasma process. More particularly, methods of the present technology are used to manufacture core-shell particles having a core at least partially surrounded by a shell. The core and shell of the core-shell particles are chemically distinct. Methods of the present technology occur within a plasma chamber of a microwave plasma reactor and a microwave formed plasma is utilized to vaporize core precursor material. |
| US11801546B2 |
Cable-tie straightening device
The disclosure relates to a cable-tie straightening device including a receiving unit for receiving a cable tie, a feed unit for moving the cable tie from the receiving unit into a straightening unit, the straightening unit for straightening a strap of the cable tie, and a discharge unit for discharging the cable tie. The cable tie moved by the feed unit with a head of the cable tie pointing in the direction of the movement. The straightening unit configured to receive the cable tie, guide the strap of the cable tie through guide elements and straighten it, and also to move the cable tie into the discharge unit, with a strap tip of the cable tie pointing in the direction of the movement. |
| US11801543B2 |
Reversing reel and method of operating a reversing reel
A reversing reel includes a rotor, on which a reel mandrel with a rotary drive for winding strip into a coil is eccentrically arranged. A driven mandrel support device includes a mandrel support that has a bearing head for supporting a free end of the reel mandrel. The bearing head is movable with the reel mandrel when the reel mandrel is transferred from an initial-winding position into a final-winding position. The mandrel support is a first piston-cylinder arrangement, and the mandrel support is supported in a pivotable manner via a mandrel-support bearing on a slide that is movable tangentially to a circular path of the reel mandrel. The inclination of the mandrel support and the position of the bearing head are adjustable such that the mandrel support is oriented in accordance with a resultant force from the weight force of the coil and the tensile force on the strip. |
| US11801542B2 |
Micro control device for simulating electric thermal field change of plate/strip
The disclosure provides a micro control device for simulating the electric thermal field change of a plate/strip, comprising a plate shape simulating test platform, a high current regulating power supply, a current regulating device, a thermal imager, a thermocouple, a non-contact type full field strain gauge, a high-power current control device and an electro-plastic control system; for a plate/strip with large width to thickness ratio and high hardness and brittleness alloy, different numbers of electrodes are arranged laterally along the movable supporting beam. A high-power current control device is used to realize the sub-regional control of the electric field, thermal field and stress field of the plate/strip; at the same time, the movable supporting beam and tension sensor are used to test the working conditions of the plate/strips with different lengths and widths, to simulate the instantaneous synchronous entanglement process between different fields. An electro-plastic control system is used to realize the intelligent closed-loop control of specific working conditions. The device provides a high-precision physical test platform for studying the non-uniform electro-plastic effect of a high width to thickness ratio and high hardness brittle strip during an actual rolling process, and adds a new and high-efficiency adjustment method to the traditional rolling mill system. |
| US11801535B2 |
Autonomous data collection and system control for material recovery facilities
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for autonomous data collection and system control of a material recovery facility (MRF). A control system receives data from set of sensors that reflect a status of the MRF. The control system determines an operating status of various MRF components (e.g., material handling units (MHUs), sensors, and/or other elements) and/or a composition of a waste stream being processed by the MRF. The control system controls MHU(s) based on the data to optimize the recovery and/or purity of recoverable materials from the waste stream. The control system may rearranging MHUs within the MRF and/or re-tasking individual MHUs to perform different handling functions. Machine learning (ML) and/or artificial intelligence (AI) mechanisms can be used to optimize the operation of the MRF in an autonomous fashion. Other aspects are also disclosed. |
| US11801533B1 |
Automated sorting of sealable bags
Automated sorting of a sealable bag includes contactlessly scanning a surface or surfaces of a sealable bag (upper or lower surface or both) as the sealable bag is conveyed past an inspection station; obtaining a surface profile topology of the scanned surface; calculating apparent volume of the sealable bag from the surface profile topology; determining whether the apparent volume is within volume thresholds of over filled, under filled and unsealed bags; and sorting the sealable bag to a discard station responsive to a determination that the apparent volume of the sealable bag does not fit within the selected threshold(s). |
| US11801531B2 |
Integrated separator
The invention relates to an integrated separator (1) for separating coarse and fine particles in a cement making process, said integrated separator (1) comprising a static separator (2) and dynamic separator (3), said dynamic separator (3) being arranged in an uppermost position relative to said static separator (2) and said static separator (2) comprising an outer housing (11); a de-agglomeration cone (5) and a first inverted frustum cone (6), said de-agglomeration cone [5] arranged adjacent to said first inverted frustum cone (6) by holding rods (18), said holding rods (18) are connected to said inverted first frustum of cone (6). |
| US11801528B2 |
Carbene-functionalized composite materials
The present application provides stable, carbene-functionalized composite materials, and methods and uses thereof. These carbene-functionalized composite materials comprise a material having a metal surface, and a carbene monolayer that is uniform, contaminant-free (metal oxide, etc), and more stable than thiol-functionalized monolayers. Uses of such carbene-functionalized composite materials include semi-conducting materials, microelectronic devices, drug delivery or sensing applications. |
| US11801525B1 |
Vehicle axle galvanizing device
A vehicle axle galvanizing device is disclosed. A driving clamping unit having a hydraulic chuck installed therein and a driven clamping unit clamp an axle. A dust collection case, configured to accommodate a part to be galvanized of the axle, and cooling cases, configured to accommodate heat-treated bearing joints, are closed. The axle is rotated by a motor in the driving clamping unit, and cold air generated by a cooling unit is continuously sprayed on the heat-treated bearing joints through cooling guns respectively fixed to the cooling cases. Further, in this state, an industrial robot is operated to allow a spray gun in a zinc spray unit to enter the inside of the dust collection case, and zinc melted by the zinc spray unit is sprayed on the part to be galvanized, thereby forming a galvanized layer thereon. |
| US11801524B2 |
Fluid substance dispensing device
A device for dispensing a fluid substance includes a manually operated pump with a hollow stem movable counter to a spring, the hollow stem coupled with a piston which slides in a sealed manner inside a cup body to define a compression chamber coupled with a first valve element for the inlet of the fluid substance into the compression chamber fluidly coupled with a second valve element for the outlet of the fluid substance from the compression chamber, there being a dispensing button equipped with a dispensing nozzle mounted on the hollow stem, the dispensing button featuring at least one channel for supplying the fluid substance to the nozzle; the nozzle is formed of an essentially rigid body which is secured, in a sealed manner, into a seat in the dispenser button, the rigid body being coupled with a deformable body defining a dispensing port so that during dispensing, the deformable body—at least in the vicinity of the dispensing port—deforms and then returns to its non-deformed configuration thereafter. |
| US11801519B2 |
Noise suppression system
Disclosed is a noise suppressor for use inside a nozzle and adjacent a nozzle liner. The suppressor can include an inlet with a cross-sectional area larger than that of the nozzle liner outlet. The suppressor can also have an entrance length with a diverging cross-sectional area, and an exit length extending from the entrance length. By incorporating this geometry, the noise suppressor reduces noise and improves performance of the apparatus in which the suppressor is used. |
| US11801517B2 |
Method for recovering gold in cyanide tailing by hierarchical ramified flotation
Provided is a method for recovering gold in a cyanide tailing by hierarchical ramified flotation. The method divides a cyanide tailing into coarse and fine-grained products through screen classification, making preparation for hierarchical ramified flotation. The method then conducts flotation of the coarse and fine-grained products with suitable process parameters and reagent systems, and selects a suitable coarse-grained flotation product as a carrier of fine-grained flotation to maximize the recovery efficiency of fine grains. The method improves the overall recovery rate of gold with the hierarchical ramified flotation of coarse and fine grains, series-carrier flotation and combined reagent enhanced flotation. The method has an advanced process, a good separation effect, and can effectively recover fine-grained gold in the cyanide tailing. |
| US11801515B2 |
Paper scrap pushing structure of paper shredder
A paper scrap pushing structure of a paper shredder, having a paper pushing unit, with a spindle having a longitudinal axis, a spindle flap coupled along the longitudinal axis to the spindle; and a paddle pushing segment, coupled to the spindle flap. The spindle is arranged under a paper outlet of the paper shredder and is in linkage with a paper shredder cutter shaft through a synchronous transmission device. When the rotating shaft rotates, the rotating shaft drives the paddle pushing segment to move in the circumferential direction along with the spindle flap, removing paper scraps at the top of a paper scrap pile in a shredded paper waste bin. |
| US11801514B1 |
Mechanochemical production of tunable planar materials
A particle size reducing method using a ball mill, a vortexer, a Taylor-Couette flow-inducing device (TCFID), a homogenizer, and a dryer. A feedstock with a first particle size is provided to the processing system. In the ball mill, the particle size of the feedstock is reduced to a second particle size. The feedstock is mixed with a carrier fluid to create a working fluid, wherein particles of the feedstock are suspended within the carrier fluid. The particle size is reduced to a third particle size in the vortexer, producing a second reduced working fluid. The third particle size is reduced with the TCFID to a fourth particle size, producing a third reduced working fluid. Using the homogenizer, the distribution of particles in the third reduced working fluid is normalized. In the dryer, the carrier fluid of the working fluid is separated from the particles to produce a granular material. |
| US11801513B2 |
Support for test device
A support holder for a test device is disclosed, wherein the holder may include a base having a first plurality of sidewalls having a first length and a second plurality of sidewalls having a second length, wherein the second length is greater than the first length, wherein the plurality of sidewalls define a cavity in the base, the cavity including a surface for receiving a portion of the test device; and a plurality of projections extending away from the base, wherein each projection of the plurality of projections is configured to be associated with a leg portion, and wherein a first sidewall of the first plurality of sidewalls includes a center notch positioned between a first corner portion and a second corner portion, and wherein a second sidewall of the first plurality of sidewalls includes a removable portion configured to cover an opening into an interior of the base. |
| US11801510B2 |
Dielectric layers for digital microfluidic devices
An electrowetting system is disclosed. The system includes electrodes configured to manipulate droplets of fluid in a microfluidic space. Each electrode is coupled to circuitry operative to selectively apply a driving voltage to the electrode. The system includes a dielectric stack including a first dielectric pair comprising a first layer having a first dielectric constant and a second layer having a second dielectric constant. The second dielectric constant is larger than the first dielectric constant. The dielectric stack includes a second dielectric pair comprising a third layer having a third dielectric constant and a fourth layer having a fourth dielectric constant. The fourth dielectric constant is larger than the third dielectric constant. A ratio of a thickness of the fourth layer to a thickness of the third layer (T4:T3) is in the range from about 2:1 to about 8:1. The second dielectric pair is thinner than the first dielectric pair. |
| US11801509B2 |
Serial cellular analytics
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a cellular analytic system is described. The cellular analytic system includes a series of analytic devices. Each analytic device includes 1) a separator to separate a cellular particle from a surrounding fluid, 2) an analyzer coupled to a first outlet of the separator to analyze the surrounding fluid, and 3) at least one lysing device coupled to at least a second outlet of the separator to rupture a membrane of the cellular particle. An outlet of the lysing device is fluidly coupled to a separator of a downstream analytic device. |
| US11801506B2 |
Fluid ejections in nanowells
A fluid ejection system, in an example, includes at least one nozzle of at least one die from which a fluid is ejected and at least one nanowell at which the at least one nozzle ejects an amount of fluid. A method of dispensing a fluid, in an example, includes addressing at least one nanowell with at least one nozzle of at least one die, and depositing a fluid in the nanowell with the at least one nozzle. |
| US11801503B2 |
Process of manufacture of a solid catalyst made of a support coated with a thin catalytic layer and to a process for eliminating gaseous and/or particulate pollutants in an exhaust gas
A process of manufacture of a solid catalyst made of a support coated with a thin catalytic layer and a process for eliminating gaseous and/or particulate pollutants in an exhaust gas. The process of manufacture includes preparing a solution A by dissolving alkoxide and/or chloride precursors of at least one metal selected from Al, Si, Ti, Zr, Fe, Zn, Nb, V and Ce in a solvent S1, preparing a solution B containing a surfactant, an organic acid, and/or hydrochloric acid (HCl) in a solvent S2, mixing solution A and solution B together, thereby obtaining a washcoat solution C, and dip-coating, drying, and calcinating the support into washcoat solution C. The processes provide for elimination of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), CO, and/or particulate pollutants in an exhaust gas. |
| US11801498B2 |
Catalyst for removal of sulphur oxides from flue gases of power plants
The present invention relates to the catalytic processes for rendering harmless the flue gases of the power stations or more precisely to the catalysts for sulfur oxides reduction to elemental sulfur. The novel catalyst presents the binary polycations of copper and zinc or copper and manganese incorporated into the low silica faujasite X (LSX) having transition metals ratio Cu:Zn or Cu:Mn in the range of 2:1 to 4:1. |
| US11801496B2 |
Catalyst for preparing 1,2-pentanediol and method for preparing 1,2-pentanediol by using same
The present disclosure relates to a catalyst for preparing 1,2-pentanediol from furfural and/or furfuryl alcohol, and more particularly to a catalyst, which is configured such that a catalytically active metal containing both at least one transition metal and tin (Sn) is supported on a basic support and is capable of increasing reaction selectivity for 1,2-pentanediol, and a method of preparing 1,2-pentanediol using the same. |
| US11801488B2 |
Method of preparing alumina catalyst, alumina catalyst prepared using same, and method of preparing propylene using alumina catalyst
A method of preparing an alumina catalyst including: performing primary calcination of an alumina precursor at a primary calcination temperature to form a mixed-phase alumina including 1% to 15% by weight of alpha-alumina, 60% to 95% by weight of theta-alumina, and 4% to 25% by weight of delta-alumina; steam-treating the mixed-phase alumina with water vapor at a steam-treating temperature lower than the primary calcination temperature to form activated mixed-phase alumina; and performing secondary calcination of the activated mixed-phase alumina at a secondary calcination temperature higher than the steam treatment temperature and lower than the primary calcination temperature after step S2. An alumina catalyst prepared using the method, and a method of preparing propylene using the alumina catalyst. |
| US11801486B2 |
Synthetic product production system and carbon dioxide treatment system
A synthetic product production system is provided with: a synthesis plant for producing a synthetic product by synthesizing a hydrogen-containing gas and carbon dioxide; and a carbon dioxide supply line for supplying the carbon dioxide to the synthesis plant from a recovery and storage plant including a recovery device for recovering the carbon dioxide from a carbon dioxide-containing gas and an injection facility for fixing the recovered carbon dioxide into a stratum. |
| US11801485B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling a reactor
The process and apparatus according to the invention allow the production of chemical compounds without the use of catalysts. For this purpose, the reactants necessary for the desired products are fed to compression reactors. In addition, the reaction conditions are controlled by means of an electronic control device. For this purpose, among other things, the compression reactors are combined with an electric motor, thereby influencing the residence time in the reactors. In addition, it is planned to raise the reactant pressures with the help of a compressor. In addition, the operating conditions are recorded with suitable sensors and/or analysers. |
| US11801482B2 |
Mixing fluids in welding-type equipment
Methods and apparatus are disclosed relating to mixing fluids in welding-type equipment. In some examples, a welding-type power supply (and/or wire feeder) may include multiple fluid paths through which to provide fluid from multiple fluid reservoirs to multiple welding-type tools. The power supply may be configured to automatically control fluid flow rates through the fluid paths via proportional valves. Further, the welding-type power supply may be configured to allow and/or prohibit mixing of fluids from different flow paths via control of various valves. |
| US11801477B2 |
Cell retention device
A cell retention device includes a structured support with a plurality of circumferentially distributed ribs to retain the active filtering surface of a flexible, porous membrane filter medium. The filter medium surrounds the support in contact with the peaks of the ribs, thereby forming axial voids between the rib peaks. This arrangement imparts sufficient structural support over small regions of the filter medium to facilitate its use in a circular (or other rounded) configuration while providing sufficient channel volume to support high throughput of fluid sparse of cells. |
| US11801476B2 |
Efficient and fully automated catalytic direct carbon dioxide capture from air system
An efficient low-energy carbon dioxide removal system comprises an automated air mover equipped with sensing devices to measure flow rate, volume, level, pressure, temperature and concentration. Packing materials and air-liquid distributors are used in a multi-stage catalytic reactor. The multi-stage catalytic reactor processes ambient air and generates pure carbon dioxide gas and generates exhausted gas released to ambient air. In operation, air contacts the base solution in the presence of a catalyst via the air mover, distributor, and packing materials. The air reacts with the base solution thereby generating a base solution having carbon dioxide and generating exhaust (absorption reaction). Next, the exhaust is released from the reactor. Next, a catalyst is added, heat is applied to the base solution having carbon dioxide thereby generating carbon dioxide and generating a base solution without carbon dioxide (desorption reaction). |
| US11801462B2 |
Filter element having flow directing tube and standpipe and filter systems including the filter element
Filter elements and filter systems are provided. The filter element allows for a reversed flow of fluid through the filter element when flowing from a first port to a second port of a filter head of the filter system. The filter element includes a standpipe in a central cavity of a tube of filter media that is fluidly connected with an exterior of the tube of filter media by a radial flow conduit and an axial flow tube. |
| US11801461B2 |
Pleated filter element having an additional structure
A filter element has a pleated filter mat (3). The terminal axial ends (7, 8) of the mat are connected to end caps (9, 11). The mat has a main structural layer (15) having filtering properties and a first additional structural layer and a second additional structural layer (17,19). The surface area of each of the additional structural layers (17, 19) is smaller than the surface area of the main structural layer (15). The axial ends (12, 14) of one additional structural layer (17) is located at an axial distance from the axial ends (16, 18) of the other additional structural layer (19) on the filter mat (3). |
| US11801458B2 |
Portable particulate filtering system and method
A filtering system capable of removing particulates from a water slurry is disclosed. The filtering system comprises a base plate, the base plate comprising a sealing surface and a slurry inlet. A flexible vessel is configured to seal to the sealing surface, and an interior cavity, wherein the flexible vessel is formed of a flexible filtering material capable of retaining particulates. The flexible vessel permits liquid entering through the slurry inlet to pass through the filtering material and is capable of withstanding an internal pressure sufficient to form a particulate cake without rupturing the flexible vessel. A sealing system is provided for retaining an upper portion of the flexible vessel against the sealing surface. The filtering system may be part of a portable system that includes a cart, hoses, piping, a pneumatic pump and a control panel. |
| US11801449B2 |
Video compression system and method for reducing the effects of packet loss over a communication channel
Methods for hosting low-latency streaming interactive audio/video (A/V) include executing one or more video games or applications on a server communicatively coupled to a data network. Packet streams are received from a plurality of users and routed to the one or more video games. The packet streams include user control input that are used to compute A/V data in response. The A/V data are received from the video games or applications. Portions of the A/V data are compressed in parallel using processing units resulting in low-latency streaming compressed A/V data. The low-latency streaming compressed A/V data are routed to each of the users over a corresponding data network communication channel. The executing of video games, receiving of packet streams and A/V data, compressing portions of the A/V data and routing the compressed A/V data are performed with a latency such that at least one user has the perception that the controlled video game is responding instantly. |
| US11801443B2 |
Target-based mouse sensitivity recommendations
One embodiment of a computer-implemented method for generating mouse sensitivity recommendations includes generating mouse movement data corresponding to one or more mouse movements performed by a user while interacting with a software application; generating a predicted efficiency for each mouse sensitivity level included in a plurality of mouse sensitivity levels based on the mouse movement data; and determining one or more mouse sensitivity levels to provide to the user based on the predicted efficiencies. |
| US11801440B2 |
Haptic presentation system and apparatus
[Object] To provide a haptic presentation apparatus capable of quickly deforming a surface.[Solving Means] A haptic presentation apparatus includes a base material, an elastic layer, and a fluid transport apparatus. The base material forms a first space and includes a first through hole. The elastic layer covers a surface of the base material including the first through hole. The fluid transport apparatus injects fluid between the elastic layer and the base material via the first through hole. The elastic layer is expanded by injecting the fluid from the fluid transport apparatus such that an internal pressure of a second space between the elastic layer and the base material is higher than an internal pressure of the first space, and the fluid injected into the second space is vented to outside of the second space via a second through hole by stopping driving of the fluid transport apparatus. |
| US11801436B2 |
Ski binding suspension system for vertical load transmission
An impact absorbing ski binding interface device includes an elongated top plate having a toe end and a heel end adapted to engage a boot toe and a boot heel, respectively, and a bottom plate adapted to engage a ski, thereby securing the device between the boot and ski. A plurality of constant force spring linkages between the top plate and the bottom plate include a constant force spring linkage between the toe end and the bottom plate, and a constant force spring linkage between the heel end and the bottom plate, such that each of the constant force spring linkages have an opposed pair of deformable members for exerting a counterforce to vertical displacement forces between the top plate and the bottom plate for load mitigation. |
| US11801431B2 |
Shot making training apparatus
An athletic skill training apparatus includes a generally horizontal upper ring that defines an upper opening, preferably circular and the same diameter as a traditional basketball hoop, made from a strong, lightweight material. Three lower rings are attached to the upper ring and extend downwardly and inwardly to attach to a base plate. A shock absorbing base member is elastically suspended from the lower rings and absorbs a portion of the force from a ball shot through the upper ring. The base member includes vertically spaced concentric rings of different diameters to redirect the ball out of the lower rings. The rings, the shock absorbing base member and the base plate form a goal assembly that can be positioned on a support above a playing surface. |
| US11801429B2 |
Golf shaft with non-uniform base paint and method of applying the same
A method for applying base paint non-uniformly to a golf shaft includes: inserting a portion of a golf shaft lengthwise through an aperture in a paint applicator, the paint applicator having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, where one of (a) the aperture is non-circular and (b) the aperture includes a plurality of slits formed circumferentially around the aperture; actuating a painting apparatus, thereby causing the base paint to contact the golf shaft and the second surface of the paint applicator; and pulling the golf shaft lengthwise through the aperture in the paint applicator, thereby non-uniformly applying the base paint lengthwise along the portion of the golf shaft. |
| US11801426B1 |
Golf club head
A golf club head includes a body including a toe region, a heel region, and a medial region extending between the toe region and the heel region, and a face insert that is coupled to the body. A top edge of the face insert is disposed within a face insert cavity and located between a central plane CP and a topline of the body. |
| US11801424B2 |
Rubber composition for golf ball core, and golf ball
A rubber composition for a golf ball core includes (a) a conjugated diene polymer, (b) a multi-component copolymer having conjugated diene units, non-conjugated olefin units and aromatic vinyl units, and (c) an organic peroxide. The conjugated diene units include butadiene units, the non-conjugated olefin units include ethylene units, and the aromatic vinyl units include styrene units. The content of conjugated diene units with respect to the multi-component copolymer is at least 5 wt %. Golf balls having at least one core layer formed of such a rubber composition and a cover of one or more layers encasing the core exhibit improved durability to cracking on repeated impact while maintaining the basic properties required of golf balls, such as flight and spin controllability on approach shots. |
| US11801423B2 |
Method and system for using artificial intelligence to interact with a user of an exercise device during an exercise session
A method is disclosed for using an artificial intelligence engine to interact with a user of an exercise device during an exercise session. The method includes generating, by the artificial intelligence engine, a machine learning model trained to receive data as input, and based on the data, providing an output. While a user performs an exercise using the exercise device, the method includes receiving the data from an input peripheral of a computing device associated with the user. Based on the data being received from the input peripheral, the method includes determining, via the machine learning model, the output to control an aspect of the exercise device. |
| US11801421B2 |
Systems and methods for integrated automated sports data collection and analytics platform
Systems, methods, and apparatus for data analytics for a sports activity are disclosed. A multiplicity of sensors tracks a multiplicity of world objects related to the sports activity, collects and communicates tracking data to a server platform in real time or near real time. The server platform integrates the tracking data from the multiplicity of sensors and scoring data for the sports activity, and correlates the tracking data and the scoring data with a corresponding UTC timecode based on rules related to the sports activity, thereby creating a multiplicity of UTC-coded data sets. The server platform synchronizes the multiplicity of UTC-coded data sets, thereby creating a time-synchronized data set. The server platform provides analytics based on the time-synchronized data set, thereby creating analyzed data. The multiplicity of user devices displays the analyzed data based on at least one application program. |
| US11801416B2 |
Multifunctional fitness system for rotational exercise
An integrated fitness system including a slidable unit that is slidably attached to a column vertical to the ground and that has exercise units mounted thereon. The exercise units are disposable in any of a plurality of configurations and have arms that are rotatable in any of a plurality of planes. The exercise units can be positioned along the column at any of a plurality of heights by sliding the slidable unit along the column to allow a user to use the exercise units for both arm and leg exercises. |
| US11801415B2 |
Adjustable dumbbell system
An adjustable dumbbell system may include a base, two or more weights, a handle assembly, an additional weight, and selection assembly. The two or more weights may be supported by the base and grouped into a first set of weights associated with one end of the dumbbell system and a second set of weights associated with an opposing end of the dumbbell system. The handle assembly may be selectively fixedly joined to the first and second set of weights. The additional weight may be disposed distally of the handle assembly. The selection assembly may be secured to the additional weight. The selection assembly may include a selection member that may be linearly moveable between a selected position where the additional weight is operatively secured to the handle assembly and an unselected position where the additional weight is disengaged from the handle assembly. |
| US11801409B1 |
Combined double buckle and bungee cord connecting structure for trampoline
A combined double buckle and bungee cord connecting structure for a trampoline is provided. The combined double buckle and bungee cord connecting structure for a trampoline includes a trampoline frame; an edge-folded round steel connected to an inner side of the trampoline frame; anti-friction bearings connected to the edge-folded round steel equidistantly and rotatably; and bungee cords. The trampoline frame is one of a round shape, a hexagonal shape, and a square shape. The edge-folded round steel is connected to the inner side of the trampoline frame by either welding or riveting. The anti-friction bearings are made of one of a plastic, a metal, and a chemical fiber. The bungee cords each are either a round bungee cord or a flat bungee cord. Therefore, the structure effectively reduces the abrasion of the bungee cords in use and can greatly prolong the service lives of the bungee cords. |
| US11801402B2 |
Stevia blends containing rebaudioside b
The present invention relates to the use of sweet steviol glycoside compounds, particularly rebaudioside B, in sweetening compositions. Sweetening compositions comprising selected amounts of rebaudioside B have been shown to possess favorable flavor profiles when compared to other high intensity sweetener compounds and are useful in the preparation of consumables. |
| US11801398B2 |
Beam station treatment planning and radiation delivery methods
Described herein are methods for beam station delivery of radiation treatment, where the patient platform is moved to a series of discrete patient platform locations or beam stations that are determined during treatment planning, stopped at each of these locations while the radiation source rotates about the patient delivering radiation to the target regions that intersect the radiation beam path, and then moving to the next location after the prescribed dose of radiation (e.g., in accordance with a calculated fluence map) for that location has been delivered to the patient. |
| US11801396B1 |
Wearable device including UVC light source for reduction in virus and bacteria transmission
A wearable device includes a support structure wearable by an individual and a UVC light source mounted on the support structure. When the support structure is worn by the individual the UVC light source is directed at oral and nasal cavities of the individual. The wearable device can be eyeglasses. |
| US11801385B2 |
Medical device and method for tachyarrythmia detection
A medical device is configured to determine time intervals between consecutive cardiac events sensed from a cardiac electrical signal, increase a value of a tachyarrhythmia interval count in response to each of the determine time intervals detected as a tachyarrhythmia interval. The device is further configured to detect normal sinus rhythm events and the decrease the value of the tachyarrhythmia interval count in response to a threshold number of detected normal sinus rhythm events. |
| US11801374B2 |
Methods and systems for non-contact construction of an internal structure
The present disclosure includes system, methods, and kits relating to creating a second structure with a plurality of first structures at a target site inside or adjacent to a host object. The methods include the step of generating a field that non-invasively penetrates into the host object. The methods further include the step of positioning a first portion of the plurality of first structures at the target site using a force corresponding to the field. Additionally, the methods include the step of linking the first portion of the plurality of first structures with one another and/or the host object at the target site to form the second structure. |
| US11801372B2 |
Microneedle array
A microneedle array to be used instead of a syringe has, at a tip side of each microneedle, two or four puncture portions disposed facing each other. The puncture portions each have a part of a side surface of each microneedle as outer surfaces, respectively, and one of the puncture portions is shorter than the other(s). A housing section capable of holding a drug is formed by inner surfaces of the puncture portions of each microneedle. The housing section opens toward the tip side and lateral directions orthogonal to an axis core of each microneedle, and has a central bottom surface at a bottom end. The inner surfaces facing each other and forming the housing section of each microneedle each have a downward slope, with a width between the inner surfaces getting narrower as it goes down from tips of the respective puncture portions toward the central bottom surface. |
| US11801368B2 |
Guidewire
A guidewire comprising a hydrophilic surface coating encasing a core and a metal coil along a longitudinal length of the hydrophilic surface coating to form a distal closed tip, the metal coil circumscribing the core along a predetermined length, the core extending longitudinally beyond the metal coil in both a proximal direction and a distal direction, wherein a proximal section of the guidewire includes a hydrophobic surface coating. |
| US11801363B2 |
Slide guide catheter and methods for use thereof
The present disclosure provides a catheter system and methods for use that includes (a) a first catheter having a first end and a second end, where the first catheter has a first diameter, (b) a second catheter having a first end and a second end, where the second catheter has a second diameter that is less than the first diameter of the first catheter, and where the second catheter is positioned at least partially within a lumen of the first catheter and is moveable relative to the first catheter, and (c) a wire having a first end and a second end, where the first end of the wire is coupled to the second catheter. |
| US11801362B2 |
Surgical cannulas and related methods
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to surgical cannulas and methods relating thereto. In some embodiments, a method includes cutting one or more lines in a tubular member to form a tubular body and a hinge of a surgical cannula. In some embodiments, a surgical cannula includes a fiber brag grating (FBG) reflector mounted to a tendon for deflecting a distal tip of the surgical cannula. A controller is coupled to the FBG reflector and is configured to determine a tension in the tendon based on reflected light from the FBG reflector. In some embodiments, a surgical cannula includes a tubular body including a plurality of apertures extending therethrough. |
| US11801361B2 |
Anesthetic dispensing device with a measuring unit
An anesthetic dispensing device (100) includes a measuring unit (150) for determining an anesthetic concentration in an area of an outlet (142) of the anesthetic dispensing device. The measuring unit is configured to measure a first parameter (154) of a gas concentration-dependent characteristic between a mixer unit (140) and a second parameter (155) of the gas concentration-dependent characteristic in a second gas branch (120) or in an area of a breathing gas feed (112) of the anesthetic dispensing device by at least one sensor element (152). The measuring unit is further configured to determine the anesthetic concentration between the mixer unit and the outlet and to output a corresponding concentration signal (160) as a function of calibration information assigned to the second parameter and of the first parameter. |
| US11801359B2 |
Gas concentrator with removable cartridge adsorbent beds
A portable oxygen concentrator designed for medical use where the sieve beds, adsorbers, are designed to be replaced by a patient. The concentrator is designed so that the beds are at least partially exposed to the outside of the system and can be easily released by a simple user-friendly mechanism. Replacement beds may be installed easily by patients, and all gas seals will function properly after installation. |
| US11801355B2 |
Oxygen tank duration of use
The exemplary embodiments disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for determining a duration of use left in an oxygen tank. The exemplary embodiments may include collecting data of a user and corresponding oxygen tank, extracting one or more features from the collected data, and determining a duration of use left in the oxygen tank based on the extracted one or more features and one or more models. |
| US11801354B2 |
Aerosol delivery device with conductive inserts
The present disclosure provides aerosol delivery devices. In an example implementation, an aerosol delivery device comprises an aerosol source member that defines an outer surface and an interior area and includes a substrate material having an aerosol precursor composition associated therewith, a control body having a housing that is configured to receive the aerosol source member, an electrical energy source coupled with the housing, and a heating assembly operatively connected to the electrical energy source. The heating assembly includes a plurality of spikes that may be configured to articulate between a retracted position, in which the plurality of spikes is not in contact with the aerosol source member, and a heating position, in which the plurality of spikes pierces through the outer surface of the substrate material and into a portion of the interior area thereof. |
| US11801353B2 |
Electronic cigarette with illuminated tip
Aspects of the instant disclosure relate to electronic cigarettes. More particularly, to electronic cigarettes including a circumferential light guide that distributes light transmitted by a light source, and controller circuitry that variably illuminates the circumferential light guide of the electronic cigarette based on a user's draw strength. |
| US11801352B2 |
Devices and control systems for inhaled drugs
Inhaled medications present a great opportunity for controlled drug delivery for self medicated patients. With this invention most medicinal aerosol generators have the potential for much more controlled dosage and monitoring of doses to the patient than current inhaled medication systems. The pressurized metered dose inhaler has especially great potential for controlled drug delivery being that the aerosol drug formulation is in a permanently sealed container that can use a digital program controlled electromechanical valve on a metered dose inhaler to control drug dose and time of release. An electromechanical inhaler valve actuator can also provide dose control, monitoring, breath activation timing and other important features. |
| US11801350B2 |
Quick-connect syringe and needle system
A quick-connect syringe and needle system is provided including a syringe having a threaded portion, a needle assembly having a needle body and a needle affixed to the needle body and an intermediate adapter engageable with the syringe and releasably engageable with the needle body. A quick-connect mechanism is provided on the needle body and intermediate adapter for quickly and easily connecting the needle assembly with the syringe and intermediate adapter. The quick-connect mechanism can include a pair of diametrically opposed L-shaped slots formed in a rear portion of the needle body and a pair of corresponding and diametrically opposed projections extending from a front or locking portion of the intermediate adapter. The needle assembly is attached to the intermediate adapter by inserting the projections into the slots and giving the assembly a quick quarter turn to firmly seat the projections within the slots. |
| US11801347B2 |
Cartridge carrier assembly
A cartridge carrier assembly for a medicament delivery device comprises a cartridge carrier adapted to receive a cartridge defining a cavity containing a dose of a medicament, a needle hub being part of the cartridge carrier or coupled to the cartridge carrier such that the needle hub is fixed relative to the cartridge carrier, the needle hub adapted to receive a distal end or part of the cartridge, an injection needle having a tipped proximal needle section adapted to pierce a sealing element distally arranged on the cartridge, and a removable needle cap attachable to a distal end of the cartridge carrier. The needle hub comprises a cartridge retention feature adapted to abut the cartridge or a part thereof to limit axial movement of the cartridge in the distal direction such that the proximal needle section is spaced from the sealing element. |
| US11801344B2 |
Blood glucose rate of change modulation of meal and correction insulin bolus quantity
Disclosed are a system, methods and computer-readable medium products that provide bolus dosage calculations by a control algorithm-based drug delivery system that provides automatic delivery of a drug, such as insulin or the like, based on sensor input. Blood glucose measurement values may be received at regular time intervals from a sensor. Using the blood glucose measurements, the control algorithm may perform various calculations and determinations to provide an appropriate bolus dosage. The appropriate bolus dosage may be used to respond to a trend in a trajectory of blood glucose measurements. In addition, a bolus dosage may also be determined by the disclosed device, system, method and/or computer-readable medium product in response to an indication that a user consumed a meal. |
| US11801343B2 |
Methods and systems for delivering material to a body part
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a surgical system comprising a fluid output device capable of connecting to a syringe comprising a material for delivery to a body part through a cannula connected to the syringe and a controller configured to adjust a pressure of the fluid output to enable a controlled delivery of the material within the syringe at a target flow rate. |
| US11801341B2 |
User experience for infusion pumps
Infusion pump interfaces providing simple and intuitive user experiences. A controller display subsystem for implementing infusion pump interfaces includes a processor, a memory, display logic, keypad I/O, and screen I/O. Display logic can command the processor via the memory to implement desirable displays on screen I/O. |
| US11801337B2 |
Medical device
The present patent specification provides a medical device including an outer tube, an operation portion and a control portion. The operation portion is at least partially located in the outer tube. The control portion has a channel communicating with the outer tube along a first direction; a second end of the control portion is coupled with a first end of the outer tube so that the channel and the outer tube communicate with each other along the first direction. The control portion includes a control module including a suction control unit, a suction, a suction valve actuator and a switching unit. The suction control unit has a stopping unit and is configured to move along a second direction which is different from the first direction. The suction valve actuator is located at a side opposite the suction control unit with the channel therebetween and the suction valve actuator is configured to be activated by the suction control unit. The switching unit is configured to switch the work status of the operation portion. |
| US11801332B2 |
Load-induced hydrodynamic lubrication of porous substrates
A medical device for cooperating with a body surface of a patient includes an elastically deformable substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and a plurality of pores extending from the first surface towards the second surface to define a plurality of spaced-apart projections. A lubricant is provided in the pores. Applying a compressive force to the substrate with the body surface elastically deforms the projections to displace the lubricant out of the pores and provide hydrodynamic lubrication between the medical device and the body surface. |
| US11801327B2 |
Integrated organ and tissue printing methods, system and apparatus
A method of making an organ or tissue comprises: (a) providing a first dispenser containing a structural support polymer and a second dispenser containing a live cell-containing composition; (b) depositing a layer on said support from said first and second dispenser, said layer comprising a structural support polymer and said cell-containing composition; and then (c) iteratively repeating said depositing step a plurality of times to form a plurality of layers one on another, with separate and discrete regions in each of said layers comprising one or the other of said support polymer or said cell-containing composition, to thereby produce provide a composite three dimensional structure containing both structural support regions and cell-containing regions. Apparatus for carrying out the method and composite products produced by the method are also described. |
| US11801326B2 |
Polymeric treatment compositions
Polymeric compositions are described comprising a biocompatible polymer including a biodegradable linkage to a visualization agent and a non-physiological solution; wherein the biocompatible polymer is soluble in the non-physiological solution and insoluble in a physiological solution. Methods of forming the solutions and polymers are disclosed as well as methods of therapeutic use. |
| US11801325B2 |
Tissue-adhesive polymers
The invention is directed to a multi-arm tissue-adhesive polymer wherein at least six or more arms each comprise a reactive functional group that can form a urethane or a urea bond with an amine group present in tissue, as well as to the use thereof for sealing or closing of tissue and use in a medical treatment of a human or animal body. In a further aspect, the invention is directed to a method for the preparation of said multi-arm tissue-adhesive polymer. |
| US11801324B2 |
Method for preparing a haemostatic composition
The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a haemostatic composition comprising thrombin, the method comprising the step of reconstituting a dry thrombin directly in a paste, such as a paste comprising a biocompatible polymer. The haemostatic composition comprising thrombin may be prepared from a dry thrombin composition and a paste in a single step operation and be used for treatment of a wound. |
| US11801323B2 |
Absorbent article with philic anhydrous lotion
A lotion composition is provided. The lotion composition includes a) about 1% to about 90%, by weight, of a rheology structurant; and a b) carrier. |
| US11801318B2 |
UV sterilization system for vehicle
A UV sterilization system for a vehicle includes a sterilization housing in which a sterilizing object is accommodated, an LED module emitting ultraviolet rays to the sterilizing object, and a controller configured to control an operation of the LED module. |
| US11801317B2 |
Surface coating configured to enhance UV sterilization and method of manufacturing the same
A surface coating configured to locally enhance ultraviolet light density of ultraviolet light incident on the surface coating. The surface coating includes a dielectric layer, a conductive layer on the dielectric layer, a series of nano-openings in the dielectric layer and the conductive layer, a series of nano-antennae in the series of nano-openings, and a dielectric gap between the series of nano-antennas and the conductive layer. The conductive layer and the nano-antennae both include a UV plasmonic material. |
| US11801314B2 |
RNA containing modified nucleosides and methods of use thereof
This invention provides RNA, oligoribonucleotide, and polyribonucleotide molecules comprising pseudouridine or a modified nucleoside, gene therapy vectors comprising same, methods of synthesizing same, and methods for gene replacement, gene therapy, gene transcription silencing, and the delivery of therapeutic proteins to tissue in vivo, comprising the molecules. The present invention also provides methods of reducing the immunogenicity of RNA, oligoribonucleotide, and polyribonucleotide molecules. |
| US11801304B2 |
Formulated and/or co-formulated liposome compositions containing TFGB antagonist prodrugs useful in the treatment of cancer and methods thereof
Formulated and/or co-formulated liposomes (LNP) and solid-lipid nanoparticles (SLNP) comprising TB Prodrugs and methods of making the LNPs and SLNPs are disclosed herein. The TB prodrug compositions comprise a drug moiety, a lipid moiety, and linkage unit that inhibit ALK5. The TB Prodrugs can be formulated and/or co-formulated into a liposome or solid-lipid nanoparticle to provide a method of treating cancer, immunological disorders, and other disease by utilizing a targeted drug delivery vehicle. |
| US11801301B2 |
Light-responsive polypeptides and methods of use thereof
The present disclosure provides variant light-responsive polypeptides, and nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the light-responsive polypeptides. The present disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for controlling the activity of a cell expressing a variant light-responsive polypeptide of the present disclosure. |
| US11801300B2 |
Pharmaceutical products and stable liquid compositions of IL-17 antibodies
The disclosure is directed to pharmaceutical products and stable liquid compositions of IL-17 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, e.g., AIN457 (secukinumab), and processes of making these pharmaceutical products and compositions. The disclosure is also directed to the use of these pharmaceutical products and liquid compositions (e.g., as part of a kit having instructions for use) for the treatment of various IL-17-mediated disorders (e.g., autoimmune disorders, such as psoriasis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis). |
| US11801295B2 |
Immunogenic compositions and uses thereof
Immunogenic compositions comprising viral vectors and surfactants are provided. Methods for administration and preparation of such compositions are also provided. |
| US11801291B2 |
Method for treating fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome
The invention provides methods and compositions for treating fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in an individual. The methods provided herein entail administering a composition comprising an isolated Mycobacterium or antigenic fragments derived therefrom. Also provided herein are methods for assessing alleviation of symptoms and/or alteration of immune system functioning following administration of a composition comprising an isolated Mycobacterium or antigenic fragments derived therefrom. |
| US11801290B2 |
Vaccines comprising Mycobacterium leprae polypeptides for the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of leprosy
Compositions and methods for preventing, treating and detecting leprosy are disclosed. The compositions generally comprise polypeptides comprising one or more Mycobacterium leprae antigens as well as polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides. |
| US11801286B2 |
Recombinant intravenous immunoglobulin (RIVIG) compositions and methods for their production and use
Compositions of recombinant intravenous immunoglobulin (rIVIG) proteins and methods for purification and use of rIVIG proteins. The compositions comprise oligomeric Fc molecules which bind to Fc receptors with high avidity. The rIVIG proteins are useful as immunomodulatory molecules for the treatment of immune disorders including autoimmune diseases, such as refractory immune thrombocytopenia, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, multiple sclerosis, lupus, Graves Disease, Kawasaki disease, dermatomyositis, myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and other immune and inflammatory conditions. The rIVIG proteins can also be used as immunomodulators in patients to reduce the immune rejection of organ transplants, stem cell transplants and bone marrow transplantation. Additionally, the present invention provides rIVIG proteins of non-human origin, for use in veterinary immune disorders, such as canine rIVIG proteins for the treatment of dogs suffering from autoimmune hemolytic anemia, immune thrombocytopenia purpura, rheumatoid arthritis, or other canine immune disorder. |
| US11801284B2 |
Compositions and methods for treating motor neuron diseases
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods of treating motor neuron diseases, including spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A modulator of a heat shock protein, such as an Hsp70 family member protein, may be used in the present method. Alternatively, a mutant heat shock protein may be used. |
| US11801274B2 |
Method for alleviating atopic dermatitis
Disclosed herein is a method for alleviating atopic dermatitis using a composition containing at least one lactic acid bacterial strain. The at least one lactic acid bacterial strain is selected from the group consisting of Lactobacillus salivarius subsp. salicinius AP-32 which is deposited at the China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) under an accession number CCTCC M 2011127, and Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis CP-9 which is deposited at the CCTCC under an accession number CCTCC M 2014588. |
| US11801269B2 |
Compositions and methods for transplantation of colon microbiota
The present invention provides compositions that include an extract of human feces, and methods for using such compositions, including methods for replacing or supplementing or modifying a subject's colon microbiota, and methods for treating a disease, pathological condition, and/or iatrogenic condition of the colon. |
| US11801263B1 |
Heartworm medicament
A composition and method for administration to a domesticated animal having heartworm disease includes proportionate amounts of water, acidified copper sulfate, potassium permanganate, and a flavoring agent or binder such as salt. |
| US11801262B2 |
Antibiotic compositions
Disclosed herein are antibiotic compositions, for example compositions that comprise a metal-containing agent and an organoselenium agent, and uses thereof. |
| US11801257B2 |
Stimulation of an immune response by enantiomers of cationic lipids
A composition and method for activating immune cells ex-vivo, or inducing an immune response in a subject including a composition comprising at least one chiral cationic lipid. The chiral cationic lipid in one embodiment comprises a nonsteroidal cationic lipid having a structure represented by formula (I); wherein in R1 is a quaternary ammonium group, Y1 is a space chosen from a hydrocarbon chain, an ester, a ketone, and a peptide, C* is a chiral carbon, R2 and R3 are independently chosen from a saturated fatty acid, an unsaturated fatty acid, an ester-linked hydrocarbon, phosphor-diesters, and combination thereof. |
| US11801250B2 |
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising meloxicam
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising an NSAID such as meloxicam and/or rizatriptan in combination with a cyclodextrin and/or a carbonate or a bicarbonate. These compositions may be orally administered, for example, to improve the bioavailability or pharmacokinetics of the NSAID for the treatment of pain such as migraine, arthritis, and other conditions. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating pain, such as migraine, comprising administering meloxicam and rizatriptan to a human being suffering from pain, such as migraine. For migraine, these methods may be particularly useful when the meloxicam and rizatriptan are administered while the human being is suffering from an acute attack of migraine pain or migraine aura. In some embodiments, the combination of meloxicam and rizatriptan may be administered in a manner that results in a Tmax of meloxicam of 3 hours or less. |
| US11801244B2 |
Parenteral formulations and uses thereof
This invention relates generally to therapeutic parenteral formulations comprising particular substituted pyridine based compounds, their manufacture, and methods and uses of said formulations in treating elevated intracranial pressure for indications such as, but not limited to, traumatic brain injury and stroke. |
| US11801242B2 |
Compositions and methods for adjuvant cancer therapeutics
This invention relates to compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and methods of using the compounds and compositions for treating diseases related to translesion synthesis (TLS) pathway. More particularly, this disclosure relates to small molecule inhibitors of TLS, methods of inhibiting TLS pathway with these compounds, and methods of treating diseases related to the TLS pathway. |
| US11801241B2 |
Muscarinic M2 receptor blockade to delay or prevent onset of progressive memory decline
Provided are methods for delaying or preventing onset of progressive memory decline by administering a muscarinic M2 receptor blocking compound to patients identified as at risk of developing a condition characterized by progressive memory decline, prior to onset of the condition. |
| US11801240B2 |
Combination therapies and uses thereof
The present disclosure relates to combination therapies containing one or more PARP inhibitors and one or more angiogenesis inhibitor. Also described herein are therapeutic uses of such combination therapies for treating various disorders and conditions. The combination therapies and uses thereof can be useful for preventing tumor cell growth, preventing tumor metastasis, inducing an immune response or enhancing an immune response. |
| US11801237B2 |
Amorphous kinase inhibitor formulations and methods of use thereof
Provided herein is an amorphous compound represented by Formula (I): and compositions thereof, which are useful in the treatment of disorders related to the activity of the c-KIT and PDGFRα kinases, and oncogenic forms thereof. |
| US11801235B2 |
Methods and compositions for delivery of biotin to mitochondria
Certain exemplary embodiments are directed to a biologically active composition of matter (and uses thereof) configured for targeted delivery of biotin to mitochondria, the composition comprising a first D-biotin conjugated to a water-soluble, cell-permeable, peptide sequence, wherein the peptide sequence is selected from a polypeptide group with an alternating aromatic-cationic motif. |
| US11801234B2 |
Methods of treating APOL-1 dependent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
This application describes methods of inhibiting APOL1 and treating APOL1-mediated kidney diseases comprising administering Compound I and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The application also describes pharmaceutical compositions comprising Compound I and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| US11801232B2 |
Targeting of ARID1A-deficient cancers by inhibiting de novo pyrimidine synthesis pathway
This application relates to methods and kits for treating ARID1A-mutant tumors, cancers, or aberrantly proliferating cells and subjects harboring the tumors, cancers, or aberrantly proliferating cells. In particular, the methods provided include administering to the subject or cell an effective amount of a pyrimidine synthesis inhibitor and administering to the subject or cell an effective amount of a DNA repair inhibitor. The kits include a) a composition comprising a pyrimidine synthesis inhibitor and b) a composition comprising a DNA repair inhibitor. |
| US11801231B2 |
Oral compositions and methods of use
Compositions that include from 0.1 wt-% to 8 wt-% of one or more compounds of formula (I) based on the total weight of the composition HOCH2—(CHOH)n—CH2NR1R2 (I) wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, C(O)R3, and SO2R4; with R3 and R4 being independently selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an aryl group, and an aralkyl group; wherein n is an integer from about 2 to about 5; from 5 wt-% to 95 wt-% of one or more plant based oils based on the total weight of the composition; from 5 wt-% to 80 wt-% water based on the total weight of the composition and from 0.01 wt-% to 1 wt-% of one or more nonionic aromatic phenolic preservatives based on the total weight of the composition wherein the composition has a pH from 4.5 to 9.5, the composition is an emulsion, and the composition is edible. |
| US11801214B2 |
Crosslinkable coating compositions formulated with dormant carbamate initiator
A crosslinkable coating composition comprising: ingredient A that has at least two protons that can be activated to form a Michael carbanion donor; ingredient B that functions as a Michael acceptor having at least two ethylenically unsaturated functionalities each activated by an electron-withdrawing group; and a dormant carbamate initiator of Formula (1) wherein R1 and R2 can be independently selected from hydrogen, a linear or branched substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms; 1 to 8 carbon atoms; and An+ is a cationic species or polymer and n is an integer equal or greater than 1 with the proviso that An+ is not an acidic hydrogen; and optionally further comprising ammonium carbamate (H2NR1R2+−OC═ONR1R2). The crosslinkable coating composition can be used for a variety of coating applications including nail coating compositions. |
| US11801213B2 |
Hair care compositions comprising a 2-pyridinol-N-oxide material and an iron chelator
The present invention is directed to a hair care composition having an effective amount of a 2-pyridinol-N-oxide material and an effective amount of an iron chelator; wherein the combination of the iron chelator and the 2-pyridinol-N-oxide material provides high anti-fungal efficacy. |
| US11801212B2 |
Composition and method for odor control
A composition for reducing unpleasant odor, the composition includes betaine; musk; and N-Soya-N-ethyl morpholinium ethosulfate. |
| US11801211B2 |
Hair treatment formulations and uses thereof
The present application relates to hair treatment formulations and methods of use in the cosmetics field. The hair treatment formulations include bis(2-ethylhexyl) maleate as the active agent, and may be used in bleaching, conditioning and styling hair. |
| US11801204B2 |
Nasogastric device and method
A nasogastric device and method is provided, including a first flexible tube configured to be threaded through the nose of a patient, down the esophagus and into the stomach for enteral feeding, a second flexible tube disposed adjacent to the first tube having a distal end, the distal end of said second tube configured to terminate inside the esophagus for delivery of liquids to the esophagus or for sampling of the local environment, an inflatable balloon configured around said first and second flexible tubes, a third flexible tube configured to inflate said inflatable balloon; and a fourth flexible tube communicating with an exterior portion of said inflatable balloon, the fourth tube configured to transport suspensions or solutions of materials; and an elastomeric sleeve which is used to control delivery of therapeutic suspensions of solutions of materials to the exterior of the device to the adjacent esophageal tissue. |
| US11801198B2 |
Ice bath
An ice bath having a receptacle section and a temperature control element adjacent thereto and arranged to adjust the temperature of the receptable section. The temperature control element is connected to a refrigeration module that reduces the temperature of the receptacle. The temperature control element is further connected to a heating module that increases the temperature of the receptacle. |
| US11801195B2 |
Negative pressure massage apparatus and method thereof
A negative pressure massage apparatus includes a vacuum pump, two solenoid valves and a control board. The vacuum pump is used to generate a negative pressure outside the negative pressure massage apparatus. Two solenoid valves are used to control a gas flow input into the negative pressure massage apparatus. The control board is used to activate or stop at least one of the vacuum pumps, and the two solenoid valves. The present disclosure further includes a method of using the negative pressure massage apparatus. |
| US11801193B2 |
Monocoque ambulation aid
Example ambulation aid apparatus and associated methods of manufacture are disclosed and described herein. An example ambulation aid apparatus includes an ambulation aid body formed as an integral part, the integral part formed in monocoque construction to provide support for mobility of a user through the integral part, the integral part providing a plurality of grippable areas to facilitate user movement and support through the integral part. Another example ambulation aid apparatus includes a primary panel formed in monocoque construction to provide support for and assist in mobility of a user through the skin of the monocoque primary panel, the primary panel formed to interrelate with one or more subassemblies to provide an integrated monocoque part to assist in providing support for and improved mobility of the user through the integrated monocoque part. Example methods of manufacture are also disclosed and described. |
| US11801191B2 |
Hypotrochoid assembly for generating vibrations in an exercise machine and method for using same
An inner assembly and an outer assembly of a hypotrochoid apparatus with a spindle located inside the inner assembly where a spindle proximate end and a spindle distal end each employ at least one mechanical interface. An eccentric hub provides a central throughbore for receiving a spindle, where the spindle is rotatably engaged with the eccentric hub and the inner bore which enhances vibration when the spindle is rotating and the eccentric hub is engaged. |
| US11801189B2 |
Article of manufacture, patient pad system and method for a surgical procedure
The invention is a patient positioner assembly, system, article of manufacture, kit, and method of a positioning a patient useful in surgical procedures to secure and hold a patient on a support table. The patient positioner comprises a sheet assembly, a pad assembly, a film for protecting a patient-facing surface of the pad assembly, and straps for a patient's limb(s) that operably connects to a support table pad having hook portions configured to operably connect to a loop base of the sheet assembly thereby operably connecting the support table pad to the sheet assembly. The sheet assembly can be configured as a cover, sheet and/or drape from suitable materials impermeable or that otherwise do not permit the passage of a fluid through its substance to the table pad and/or the split-pad assembly. |
| US11801186B2 |
Urine storage container handle and lid accessories
Example urine storage assemblies and systems for storing and disposing urine are described. The assembly includes a urine storage container, a lid, and a handle accessory. The lid is secured or securable to an open end of the urine storage container. The lid includes a vacuum port, a urine collection port, a urine disposal port, and a cap secured or securable to the urine disposal port. The handle accessory includes a sleeve and at least one handle. The sleeve is shaped and sized complimentary to at least a portion of the urine storage container. |
| US11801185B2 |
Therapeutic cushion systems and methods
Apparatus and methods for providing therapeutic treatment for symptoms associated with GERD and/or other digestive disorders and/or other medical conditions are described herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a support element and a conformable riser element adjacent the support element. The riser element and the support element collectively form a body support member configured to support a user and define a receiving portion configured to receive a portion of the user's arm. The riser element and the support element are each disposed within a casing formed at least in part with a stretch material. In some embodiments, the riser element includes a polyester filler material and the stretch material includes a four-way stretch material. The four-way stretch material in combination with the polyester filler material enables the riser element to be conformable. |
| US11801182B2 |
Person support apparatuses with load cells
A person support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, stretcher, chair, or the like, includes a frame, a support surface supported by the frame, a plurality of load cells that detect weight supported on the support surface, at least one A/D converter, and a controller. The load cells output analog signals that are converted to digital by the A/D converters. The controller switches a sampling rate of the A/D converters between at least first and second rates. The outputs from the load cells are forwarded to a plurality of signal acquisition nodes that include the A/D converters. The nodes are positioned at locations that minimize the length of travel of the analog signals, thereby reducing noise interference. Shivering, occupant absence/presence, vital signs, occupant movement, and/or other parameters are detected by the load cells. |
| US11801180B2 |
Patient transport apparatus with movable head section
A patient transport apparatus comprises support structure. The support structure comprises a base, a support frame, and a patient support deck. A headboard and a footboard are coupled to the support structure. The support frame comprises a head section and a body section, the body section coupled to the patient support deck. The patient support deck comprises a patient support surface capable of articulating relative to the support frame. The head section is movable relative to the body section to define first and second configurations of the support frame, the support frame having a first footprint in the first configuration and a second footprint, smaller than the first footprint, in the second configuration. |
| US11801179B2 |
Patient support systems and methods for assisting caregivers with patient care
A patient support system comprises a patient support apparatus for patients. The patient support apparatus comprises a base and a patient support surface supported by the base. The patient support apparatus also comprises powered devices that perform one or more predetermined functions on the patient support apparatus. Multiple input devices are employed to control the powered devices. The input devices are designed to enable caregivers to cause operation of the powered devices, as needed, while freeing the caregivers to perform other tasks. |
| US11801176B2 |
Patient stand assist devices with features for governing the assist path
A patient assisting system includes a frame having a sling assembly attachment point and a lifting arm which is movable relative to the frame and which includes a receptacle. When the sling assembly is attached to the attachment point and extends through the receptacle, a portion of the sling travels through the receptacle as the lifting arm moves relative to the frame. Another embodiment includes exactly one four bar linkage comprised of a frame having an attachment point for a sling assembly, a lifting arm having a receptacle, a lower cross arm and an upper cross arm. The lifting arm is adapted to be movable between a person-seated position and a person-standing position. The receptacle is located along the lifting arm so that motion of the lifting arm causes the receptacle to move along a curved path having a concave side which is person-facing. |
| US11801171B2 |
Defecation detection device
A defecation detection device (2) is adapted to communicate with a receiver (4) and includes a mounting seat (21), a resilient member (22) having a fixed end (221) that is connected to the mounting seat (21) and a free end (222) that is spaced apart from the mounting seat (21), a first conductive sheet (51) that is disposed on the free end (222) of the resilient member (22), a second conductive sheet (52) that is disposed on the mounting surface (211) of the mounting seat (21), and a transmitter module (6). When the free end (222) of the resilient member (22) is pressed to move toward the mounting seat (21), the first conductive sheet (51) is in contact with the second conductive sheet (52), and the transmitter module (6) is configured to wirelessly transmit a signal to the receiver (4) to allow the receiver (4) to output a notification. |
| US11801164B2 |
Bespoke wound treatment apparatuses and methods for use in negative pressure wound therapy
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed relating to the creation and use of bespoke wound fillers and other wound treatment apparatuses. Some embodiments provide for the creation of bespoke wound fillers based on characteristics of a wound. Certain embodiments also include the use of bespoke wound fillers in combination with negative pressure to treat a wound. |
| US11801163B2 |
Multi-stage trigger for ophthalmology cutting tool
A medical device for removing lens tissue from inside a capsular bag of an eye including a cam assembly operatively coupled to a vacuum generation source positioned within the housing. A first portion is operatively coupled to the vacuum generation source and a second portion is operatively coupled to the first portion and to the shaft. The first portion is capable of rotating about an axis to cause the vacuum generation source to generate vacuum through the lumen. The second portion is capable of rotating about the axis with the first portion to cause the shaft to oscillate. A first degree of actuation of a trigger causes the vacuum generation source to generate vacuum within the lumen of the shaft, and a second degree of actuation of the trigger causes the shaft to oscillate as the second portion rotates. Related systems, devices, and methods are provided. |
| US11801162B2 |
Systems and methods for generating and applying biomimicry tear films
An apparatus for treating dry eye, comprising composition chambers respectively containing a first composition and a second composition, wherein the first composition includes 95%-100% of aqueous substances and the second composition includes 95-100% volume of non-aqueous substances; and an air pump that is fluidically connected to the composition chambers and sequentially generates and propels the mists of the first composition and the second composition to a surface that corresponds to a cornea of an eye. The first mist, including droplets of the one or more aqueous substances forms a first film layer that corresponds to an aqueous layer of an artificial tear film, the second mist has a volume within a range of 0.1-3 microliters, and includes droplets of the one or more non-aqueous substances forms a second film layer that corresponds to a lipid layer of the artificial tear film with a thickness within a range of 10 nm-200 nm. |
| US11801161B2 |
Magnetorheological elastomer and magnetorheological fluid for clinical wrap
A reinforcing clinical wrap is provided with integral thermal management. The clinical wrap includes a fluid circuit for a heat transfer medium to circulate between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A shape conforming medium is disposed within a portion of the clinical wrap providing selective reinforcement support of the portion of the clinical wrap to conform to a surface of a patient. Non-limiting examples of the shape conforming medium may include a magnetorheological elastomer, a magnetorheological elastomer, a magnetorheological foam, a UV curable resin, and a phase change material. |
| US11801152B2 |
Valve and prosthetic knee joint having such a valve
A valve with an inlet, an outlet that is connected to the inlet via a fluid connection, and a valve body, which can be brought by displacing it along a displacement direction into a first position, in which the fluid connection is blocked, and a second position, in which the fluid connection is open, wherein the inlet is designed and arranged in such a way that a fluid entering through the inlet exerts a total force on the valve body that at least also acts in a force direction which is perpendicular to the displacement direction when the valve body is in the first position. |
| US11801147B2 |
Monoblock implant and method for cervical spine fusion surgery
A monoblock implant for fusing a cervical motion segment includes (a) an interbody portion configured to be positioned between superior and inferior vertebral bodies, of the cervical motion segment, with a first side of the interbody portion facing a first uncinate joint of the cervical motion segment and a second side of the interbody portion facing a second uncinate joint of the cervical motion segment, (b) a first wing extending away from the first side to extend into the first uncinate joint, and (c) a second wing extending away from the second side to extend into the second uncinate joint. |
| US11801144B2 |
Methods of making medical devices
Methods of making medical devices are described. An example device is an implant used in spaces between vertebrae in a vertebral column of an animal. The example medical device includes a main body that has a lengthwise axis, a proximal end, a distal end, a length that extends from the proximal end to the distal end, an upper wall, a lower wall, a first lateral wall, a second lateral wall, and defines a plurality of pockets, a plurality of pocket supports, an interior chamber, a plurality of windows, and a recess. A pocket support of the plurality of pocket supports is disposed within each pocket of the plurality of pockets. A first mask includes an elongate member and a plurality of projections and is integrally formed with the medical device main body. The mask is used for performing a finishing process on the device and subsequently removed using a tool. |
| US11801142B2 |
Non-invasively adjustable bone prosthesis
The invention herein described is an endoprosthesis intended to replace a resected portion of bone and joint. The invention can be non-invasively, manually operated to lengthen a patient's limb both intraoperatively and postoperatively. It includes bone anchoring components for anchoring to a first and second long bone, a joint to replace the function of an orthopedic joint, and a purely mechanical lengthening mechanism which can be located and operated manually by an operator by pressing on skin of a patient without requiring a surgical incision. An alternative embodiment of the invention describes a similar extendable endoprosthesis which is unlocked by an operator by pressing on skin of a patient and the limb is subsequently pulled or pushed by the operator to change its length. The invention does not need or include any magnets, electric motors, electric current, application of heat or a fluid displacement (hydraulic) system. |
| US11801140B2 |
Catheter assembly with coaptation aid and methods for valve repair
Catheter assembly with a coaptation aid for repair of leaflets of a heart valve includes an elongate catheter shaft adapted to be positioned transvascularly proximate a heart valve and a lever coupled to the catheter shaft. The lever has a hinge to transition the lever between an elongate delivery configuration generally aligned longitudinally with the catheter shaft and a deployed configuration extending transversely from the catheter shaft. The lever also includes an atraumatic tip at a distal end thereof and adapted to contact a distal side of a native leaflet of the heart valve when the catheter shaft is positioned proximate the heart valve and the lever is in the deployed configuration, and an actuation assembly coupled to the lever to remotely transition the lever between the delivery configuration and the deployed configuration. Method for fixation of native leaflets of a heart valve using the catheter assembly also disclosed. |
| US11801135B2 |
Techniques for deployment of a prosthetic valve
A method includes percutaneously advancing an implant to a native heart valve of a subject, the implant being housed in a compressed state within a delivery tool. Next, the method includes unhousing a longitudinally-intermediate portion of the implant, the longitudinally-intermediate portion being longitudinally between a longitudinally-proximal portion of the implant and a longitudinally distal portion of the implant. Subsequently, the longitudinally-proximal portion of the implant is unhoused. Subsequently, the longitudinally-distal portion of the implant is unhoused. By unhousing flanges of the implant, the flanges automatically expand. Upon the flanges expanding, a proximal end of each flange extends radially outward from a central longitudinal axis of the implant and longitudinally in a proximal direction. Other applications are also described. |
| US11801133B2 |
Heart valve docking devices and systems
Docking devices for docking a prosthetic valve at a native valve of a heart can include a coiled docking anchor and a retrieval suture. The docking device and retrieval suture can be configured for improved retention and retrieval of the docking device after deployment. The docking devices can have an end portion with a central axis. The retrieval suture can be connected to the end portion such that a line of force applied by applying tension to the retrieval suture is substantially aligned with the central axis. |
| US11801132B2 |
Prosthetic heart valve
A prosthetic heart valve can include a stent and a leaflet assembly mounted to the stent. The stent is formed by a plurality of struts and includes an inflow end and an outflow end. The stent is deformable from a radially compressed configuration to a radially expanded configuration. The plurality of struts forms a plurality of rows of cells. The plurality of rows of cells includes a row of inflow cells at the inflow end, a row of outflow cells at the outflow end, and a row of intermediate cells that follows the row of outflow cells towards the inflow end. Each inflow cell comprises an inflow free apex. Each outflow cell comprises an outflow free apex and extends along an axial direction of the stent up to an end of said row of intermediate cells that points towards the inflow end of the stent. |
| US11801125B2 |
Reconstruction prosthesis
The disclosure relates to a reconstruction prosthesis including a plurality of prosthesis units connected in series. Each of the prosthesis units includes a main part and a cushion structure. The main part has an abutment insertion opening and an accommodation space. The cushion structure is located in the accommodation space and movably located at the abutment insertion opening and defining an abutment mounting hole connected to the abutment insertion opening. The cushion structure is deformable with respect to the main part. |
| US11801124B2 |
Occlusal blocks for mandibular relocation
A plurality of occlusal blocks for a mandibular relocation may include a first occlusal block including a first engagement surface and a first side surface with a first undercut formed in the first side surface of the first occlusal block. A second occlusal block may include a second engagement surface to engage the first engagement surface and a second side surface with a second undercut formed in the second side surface of the second occlusal block. |
| US11801120B2 |
Systems and methods for trimming dental aligners
Systems and methods for trimming dental aligners include a cut line system for identifying a first point and a second point based on a line around tooth (LAT) for a tooth of a model representative of a dentition of a user, where the first point is disposed on a tooth-gingiva interface of the tooth. The cut line system defines a cut plane at a distance from the first point toward the second point, where the cut plane intersects a line between the first point and the second point, identifies a plurality of points on the LAT based on the cut plane, defines a cut line based on the plurality of points on the LAT and the first point, and controls a cutting system to cut the dental aligner along the cut line. |
| US11801119B2 |
Needle for extracting endodontic separated instruments
There is provided a needle tip for extracting separated endodontic instruments from the root canal of a tooth. The needle tip is fabricated with a thermomechanically treated alloy exhibiting both shape memory and super-elasticity. There is also provided for a needle that includes a handle and a terminal tip, which is fabricated with a thermomechanically treated alloy. The alloy is thermomechanically treated nickel- titanium alloy. The needle is straight at room temperature and takes on a specific shape when inserted in the canal of the tooth from which the endodontic separated instrument is to be extracted. Also provided herein is a method for removal of endodontic separated instruments from the canal of a tooth. |
| US11801113B2 |
Thoracic imaging, distance measuring, and notification system and method
A system and method for enhanced surgical navigation and graphical user interfaces associated therewith. The system includes a 3D endoscope and a computing device including a display for displaying the graphical user interfaces. The 3D endoscope includes a camera source and a scan source and is utilized to generate a 3D spatial map of a surgical site. A position of a surgical tool is detected in the 3D spatial map, a distance between the position of the surgical tool in the 3D spatial map and a location of an anatomy is detected, and a warning is generated when it is determined that the distance between the position of the surgical tool in the 3D spatial map and the location of the anatomy is equal to or not greater than a threshold minimum distance. |
| US11801109B2 |
Container for medical items and disposable waste
A container has a sheet of one or more first flexible materials; a seam around a circumference of the sheet; a cinch tie enclosed within the seam and exposed at each of at least two notches in the seam on opposite sides of the sheet; and a barrier flap of a second flexible material secured to a first side of the sheet along a line that includes the center of the sheet, wherein the barrier flap is configured to divide an interior space of the container into a first compartment and a second compartment when the container is closed, and wherein the barrier flap is configured to be further secured at a location on the first side of the sheet proximal to the circumference; wherein the cinch tie is configured to close the container by drawing the seam shut when pulled out through the at least two notches. |
| US11801108B2 |
Methods of assembling a manifold for a medical waste collection system
Methods of assembling a manifold for a medical waste collection system. A flapper valve unit is secured to a head of a cap. A filter element is positioned within a shell. Basket hands of the filter element are fitted between first pairs of ribs of the cap skirt. Fingers of the shell are fitted between second pairs of ribs of the cap skirt. The cap is secured to the shell to cover an open distal end of the shell. A drip stop is secured to the proximal end base of the shell to seat within the outlet opening. Ears may be fitted through holes defined by the flapper valve unit and cap holes defined by the cap so as to snap lock to the head of the cap. The hub of the flapper valve unit may be compressed with the ears snap locked to the head of the cap. |
| US11801106B2 |
Method for controlling a mechanical arm of a surgical robot following the movement of a surgical bed and a device therefor
A method includes: synchronously calculating offsets of a first mechanical arm, a second mechanical arm and an endoscopy mechanical arm corresponding to a change of posture of the surgical bed when the change of posture of the surgical bed is detected in real time; calculating target joint readings of each of the first mechanical arm, the second mechanical arm and the endoscopy mechanical arm based on the offsets; adjusting in real time the first mechanical arm, the second mechanical arm and the endoscopy mechanical arm, based on the calculated target joint readings. The method acquires the joint readings of the mechanical arm of the surgical robot with information about a change of posture of the surgical bed so as to achieve the purpose of synchronizing the mechanical arm with the change of posture of the surgical bed. |
| US11801105B2 |
Systems and methods to correct for uncommanded instrument roll
Certain aspects relate to systems, methods, and techniques for correcting for uncommanded instrument roll. A method for adjusting a controller-feedback system in a medical instrument may comprise receiving data from a sensor at or near a distal end of the instrument, determining a tip frame of reference based on the data from the sensor, the tip frame of reference representing a current orientation of the distal end of the instrument, obtaining a desired frame of reference, determining an adjustment to a visual frame of reference or a control frame of reference based on the tip frame of reference and the desired frame of reference, and transforming the visual frame of reference or the control frame of reference. |
| US11801103B2 |
Surgical system and method of controlling surgical system
A surgical system includes: a tool manipulator having a tool manipulator arm and a surgical tool; a console having a handling tool configured to receive a tool movement input of a surgeon for the surgical tool, the console being configured to transmit a tool movement command generated based on the tool movement input, the tool movement input including a translation amount and a rotation amount for the surgical tool; and a controller. The controller is configured to calculate an actual translation amount by multiplying the translation amount by a predetermined translation scale factor and move the surgical tool in accordance with the actual translation amount, and to calculate an actual rotation amount by multiplying the rotation amount by a predetermined rotation scale factor and move the surgical tool in accordance with the actual rotation amount. The translation scale factor and the rotation scale factor are different values. |
| US11801102B2 |
Tool memory-based software upgrades for robotic surgery
Robotic devices, systems, and methods for use in robotic surgery and other robotic applications, and/or medical instrument devices, systems, and methods includes both a reusable processor and a limited-use robotic tool or medical treatment probe. A memory the limited-use component includes machine readable code with data and/or programming instructions to be implemented by the processor. Programming of the processor can be updated by shipping of new data once downloaded by the processor from a component, subsequent components can take advantage of the updated processor without repeated downloading. |
| US11801098B2 |
Method of hub communication with surgical instrument systems
A method for adjusting the operation of a clip applier using machine learning in a surgical suite is disclosed. The method comprises gathering data during surgical procedures, wherein the surgical procedures include the use of a clip applier comprising a crimping drive configured to be mechanically advanced through a crimping stroke. The method further comprises analyzing the gathered data to determine an appropriate operational adjustment of the clip applier and adjusting the operation of the clip applier to improve the operation of the clip applier. |
| US11801097B2 |
Robotic fluoroscopic navigation
A registration fixture for use with a surgical navigation system for registration of a medical image or images to a three-dimensional tracking space that includes a first ring having at least one tracking marker, a second ring coupled to the first ring having at least one tracking marker and wherein the first ring and the second ring are spaced apart from one another and further include optical markers. |