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| US11946452B2 |
Control system for wind turbines in cold climates
Control systems are described that mitigate the effects of icing events on wind turbines. Example methods include determining, with a control system, that an icing event has begun to affect the wind turbine; based on a determination that the icing event has begun to affect the wind turbine, changing a phase of the wind turbine with the control system to an operational-icing phase by modifying angles of attack of blades of the wind turbine via changing blade pitch angles, wherein the wind turbine continues to generate electrical power when the wind turbine is in the operational-icing phase; and based on a determination that electrical power generation of the wind turbine is below a threshold, changing the phase of the wind turbine with the control system to a stopped-icing phase, wherein rotation of the blades of the wind turbine is halted when the wind turbine is in the stopped-icing phase. |
| US11946448B2 |
System for contactless displacement measurement of a blade root of a wind turbine
A system for measuring displacements of a blade root of a rotor blade of a wind turbine includes a hub, and a rotor blade coupled to the hub by a pitch bearing. The system further comprises a reference plane and at least one displacement sensor. The reference plane is configured to move with the rotor blade as the rotor blade moves relative to the hub while the displacement sensor is fixed to the hub and the displacement sensor is configured to detect a displacement of the reference plane relative to the hub without physical contact. Alternatively, the reference plane has a fixed position with respect to the hub while the displacement sensor is fixed to the rotor blade and the displacement sensor is configured to detect a displacement of the reference plane relative to the rotor blade without physical contact. |
| US11946446B2 |
Nacelle for a wind turbine
A wind turbine nacelle configured for mounting on a wind turbine tower and for supporting a rotor-supporting assembly, the nacelle comprising a main unit, and at least one auxiliary unit. To increase flexibility and improve assembly and maintenance procedures of the wind turbine, the auxiliary unit comprises at least two sub units each accommodating at least one wind turbine component, e.g. a converter or a transformer. The sub units are attached individually to the main unit or they are joined and attached as one component to the main unit. |
| US11946443B2 |
Bonded body of object to be bonded to and functional base material
A bonded body wherein functional base material is attached to object to be bonded. Functional base material and object are bonded with functional base material's end portion covered so operational effect neither lost nor adversely affected by fluid, bonded body has strong bonding property preventing functional base material peeled off due to weather. Peelability allows functional base material repair ease. Functional base material provided on object's curved surface to be bonded to along curved and/or smooth surface of object to be bonded to along smooth surface. Functional base material has peripheral side surface with peripheral distal-most end portion. Peripheral gap part provided between object to be bonded to and functional base material on inside of peripheral distal-most end portion and on side opposing to object to be bonded to. Peripheral gap part filled with holding member extending in laminar fan shape from peripheral side surface along curved and/or smooth surface. |
| US11946442B2 |
Autonomous underwater vehicles
Underwater vehicles capable of self-propulsion are described. An underwater vehicle includes a cross-flow turbine including two or more foils spaced apart from a main shaft. The foils have a pitch that is adjustable under control of a pitch control mechanism. The underwater vehicle also includes a frame supporting the main shaft. The frame enables rotation of the cross-flow turbine. The underwater vehicle additionally includes a generator-motor set including rotor and stator elements. The rotor element is in rotary communication with the main shaft. |
| US11946433B2 |
Profiled cylinder liner for bore distortion control
A cylinder liner for a cylinder bore of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine. The cylinder liner includes a cylindrical casing having an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein each surface has a respective surface area. The liner includes a liner seat positioned on the outer surface wherein the liner seat engages with the cylinder bore to position the cylindrical casing in the cylinder bore. The liner includes a relief feature positioned on the outer surface either adjacent the liner seat or above a mid-stop wherein the relief feature resists distortion of the cylindrical casing from the cylinder bore. The liner can include a stiffening feature positioned above the relief feature on the outer surface. The relief feature forms a depressed surface on the outer surface and the stiffening feature forms a raised surface on the outer surface of the cylindrical casing. |
| US11946428B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing aftertreatment system NOx emissions
A controller for an aftertreatment system coupled to an engine is configured to: in response to receiving an engine shutdown signal, determine an estimated amount of ammonia stored on a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst included in the aftertreatment system; in response to determining that the estimated amount of ammonia stored in the SCR catalyst is less than an ammonia storage threshold, cause flow of a heated gas towards the SCR catalyst; cause insertion of reductant into an exhaust gas flowing through the aftertreatment system; and in response to determining that the estimated amount of ammonia stored in the SCR catalyst is equal to or greater than the ammonia storage threshold, cause shutdown of the engine. |
| US11946414B2 |
Manufacture methods and apparatus for turbine engine acoustic panels
An acoustic panel for a gas turbine engine, includes a panel body, a panel-body cover, and a support bracket. The panel body is configured to dampen vibrations caused by the gas turbine engine. The forward support bracket is configured to mount the acoustic panel to portions of the gas turbine engine. |
| US11946412B2 |
Offset cores for gas turbine engines
A gas turbine engine includes a propulsor with a power turbine, a power turbine shaft extending forward therefrom defining a centerline axis, and a fan driven by the power turbine shaft. The fan is aligned with the centerline axis forward of the power turbine and is operatively connected to be driven by the power turbine through the power turbine shaft. A gas generator operatively connected to the propulsor is included downstream from the fan and forward of the power turbine, wherein the gas generator defines a generator axis offset from the centerline axis. The gas generator is operatively connected to the power turbine to supply combustion products for driving the power turbine. |
| US11946411B2 |
Vehicle wheel rotation apparatus
The present disclosure describes an improved vehicle wheel rotation apparatus. The apparatus 300 comprises a combustion chamber 301, one or more turbines (302,311) and at least one non-return valve 306. An auxiliary attachment 305 is retrofitted at surface of each bar 304 present in each turbine. The auxiliary attachment 305 comprises 3-tube arrangement, wherein two tubes (305a, 305b) of the attachment 305 enable entry of jet of exhaust gases into the attachment 305 and further facilitate the plurality of bars 304 for initiating rotation of the runner 303. The jet of exhaust gases, exiting the attachment 305 through last tube 305c, comprises reducing cross-section near opening, enabling further increment in velocity of exhaust gas, resulting in thrust to the bar 304 to which the attachment 305 is already fitted, thus providing additional rotations to the runner 303 and eventually to one or more wheels of the vehicle. |
| US11946409B2 |
Air cooler with water separator
An air cooler assembly includes an air cooler having an air inlet manifold, an air outlet manifold, and a heat exchanger core connected at a first end thereof to the air inlet manifold and at a second end thereof to the air outlet manifold. A water separator includes a chamber having a first end and an opposed second end, an air inlet proximate the first end and connected to the air outlet manifold, and an air outlet proximate the second end. A water outlet is formed in a bottom surface of the chamber, and a channel is positioned beneath the water outlet. A condensate outlet is positioned on a bottom surface of the channel. A helical blade has a first end and a second end, and is positioned within the chamber between the air inlet and the air outlet. |
| US11946408B2 |
Two-stroke internal combustion engine and engine working machine
Provided is a two-stroke internal combustion engine, including: a fuel injection valve configured to supply a fuel to a crank chamber; an intake passage configured to allow only air to be sucked thereinto under a negative pressure generated when a piston is actuated; and a scavenging passage that allows communication between the crank chamber and a combustion chamber. The intake passage is branched into a first intake passage and a second intake passage. The first intake passage communicates with the crank chamber. The second intake passage communicates with the scavenging passage. The fuel injection valve is configured to inject the fuel toward at least one of the first intake passage or the crank chamber. Further, air stagnant in the scavenging passage at end of air suction serves as leading air to contribute to scavenging. |
| US11946406B2 |
Device for electrically heating an exhaust gas catalyst
An electric heating device for an exhaust gas catalyst, the electric heating device including a sleeve and a heating cellular structure which is heated by a flow of electric current and which is contained in the sleeve. The electric heating device being designed to be positioned in a segment of an exhaust gas pipe upstream of a catalyst, so as to completely occupy a cross section of the segment such that exhaust gases flowing in the pipe pass through the cellular matrix before reaching the catalyst. The heating cellular structure is designed to dissipate an inhomogeneous thermal power in a section perpendicular to the direction of flow of the exhaust gases, such that the temperature of the exhaust gases at the outlet of the heating cellular structure is homogeneous in a section perpendicular to the direction of flow of the exhaust gases. |
| US11946401B2 |
Method for predicting urea crystal build-up in an engine system
A method for predicting urea crystal build-up in an engine system when operating according to an intended drive cycle. The method includes providing data representing engine operational conditions for the internal combustion engine during the intended drive cycle, wherein the data comprises values for at least engine speed and engine torque distributed over a time period representing the intended drive cycle; determining values and time variation for at least one exhaust parameter during the time period of the intended drive cycle when the engine system is operated according to the engine operational condition data; providing a reference relation between values and time variation for the at least one exhaust parameter and an expected urea crystal build-up in the engine system when operating the engine system at different engine operational conditions, predicting urea crystal build-up in the engine system when operating according to the intended drive cycle by comparing the determined values and time variation for the at least one exhaust parameter with the reference relation. |
| US11946399B2 |
Temperature sensing unit and urea sensor
A temperature sensing unit includes a temperature sensor and a substrate including a first region and a second region. The temperature sensor is arranged in the second region. The second region extends away from the first region. |
| US11946398B1 |
Broadband resonator with an entrained water removal system for a fuel cell compressor
A broadband resonator for a fuel cell compressor is disclosed. The resonator having a resonator insert having a tubular pipe surrounded by a plurality of disc-shaped walls separating the resonator insert receiving chamber into one or more individual resonator chambers. The tubular pipe is positioned eccentrically within a resonator insert receiving chamber. An entrained water removal system is formed in the resonator, preventing entrained water from accumulating in the resonator chambers which would result in an undesirable detuning of the designed amplitude frequency spectrum response. |
| US11946393B2 |
Camshaft with phasing device for multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with poppet valves
A camshaft for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with poppet valves, comprising a main body, which is rotatable with respect to a first rotation axis, a first disk and means of the hydraulic type for varying the timing of said first disk with respect to said main body. |
| US11946389B2 |
Turbine rotor blade and contact surface manufacturing method
A turbine rotor blade includes a blade body and a tip shroud on a tip of the blade body. The tip shroud has a contact block configured to face a tip shroud of an adjacent turbine rotor blade, and the contact block includes a base material, an oxidation resistant coating on the surface of the base material, and a hard wear resistant coating on the surface of the oxidation resistant coating. |
| US11946385B2 |
Method for controlling the bending deformation of a turbomachine shaft at rest subjected to the residual heat of operation of the turbomachine
A method for controlling the bending deformation of a turbomachine shaft at rest subjected to the residual heat of operation of the turbomachine, wherein the shaft is rotated at a rotation speed between 0.1 and 50 revolutions per minute depending on the bending deformation deflection of the shaft when the turbomachine is at rest. |
| US11946384B2 |
Compressor housing for a turbine engine
A compressor casing for a turbine engine, the casing comprising: a housing comprising a radially inner e surface; an upstream ferrule; and a downstream ferrule; each of the ferrules having a respective inner surface capable of defining an air stream, and each of the ferrules having an outer surface facing the inner surface of the housing, the ferrules being attached to the cantilevered housing and being axially arranged so as to be separated by an axial clearance. Additionally, a turbine engine comprising such a casing and a stage of variable-setting vanes. |
| US11946380B2 |
Aircraft engine lubricant circulation
An aircraft engine circulation system comprises a conduit arranged in use to communicate a lubricant to and from one or more bearings of an engine. The conduits define a space which comprises a material that is selected to change phase at a predetermined temperature. |
| US11946378B2 |
Transient control of a thermal transport bus
A method of transient control of a thermal transport bus of a turbomachine includes measuring a measured temperature and a measured pressure of a working fluid; determining a selected run state of a turbomachine, wherein the selected run state is one of a plurality of run states; selecting a desired operating condition comprising a desired temperature range and a desired pressure range as a function of a desired state of the working fluid; comparing the measured temperature with the desired temperature range, and comparing the measured pressure with the desired pressure range; and modulating control of the thermal transport bus as a function of the comparing of the measured temperature with the desired temperature range and the comparing of the measured pressure with the desired pressure range. |
| US11946372B2 |
Horizontal directional drill with freewheel mode
A horizontal directional drilling machine includes a drill string rotational drive unit having an output member configured to connect with and selectively drive rotation of a drill string, the rotational drive unit including a hydraulic motor. A hydraulic circuit has a configuration that puts the motor in a drive mode to apply torque and a second configuration that puts the motor in a freewheel mode disabled from applying torque. The hydraulic circuit includes a first fluid flow path for connecting the hydraulic motor through a first rotary ball valve to one of an inlet side and an outlet side of a drive pump, and a second fluid flow path for selectively connecting the hydraulic motor through a second rotary ball valve to the other side of the drive pump. In the first configuration, there is no pressure drop across the first and second rotary ball valves. |
| US11946371B2 |
Non-destructive testing device customization
A method for customizing non-destructive testing is provided and includes receiving, by a non-destructive testing (NDT) device, a stock application. The method further includes the device performing a stock NDT function in response to execution of the stock application. The stock NDT function can include a first device manipulation, a first NDT data acquisition by a device sensor, a first analysis employing data acquired by the first NDT data acquisition, or a first NDT output. The method additionally includes the device receiving a custom application after receipt of the stock application. The method also includes the device performing a custom NDT function, different from the stock NDT functions, and including at least one of a second device manipulation, a second NDT data acquisition by a sensor of the device, a second analysis employing data acquired by the second NDT data acquisition, or a second NDT output. |
| US11946367B2 |
Systems and methods for processing drill cuttings
An example system may be used to automate one or more processes relating to drill cutting handling, cleaning, and packing to produce consistently high-quality cleaned samples. In some implementations, an example system may employ cleaning processes including centrifugal and ultrasonic processes to clean a sample automatically without the aid of a human operator thereby increasing efficiency and quality of the produced samples for better subsequent sample analysis. A system may include an unloading module, a cleaning module, and packing module, all of which may be operated in combination with a robotic arm. |
| US11946364B2 |
Removing guided wave noise from recorded acoustic signals
A method for removing a guided wave noise in a time-domain may include recording one or more acoustic signals with one or more receivers at a first location, wherein the one or more acoustic signals are raw data. The method may further include determining a slowness range, estimating a downward guided wave noise by stacking the one or more acoustic signals based at least in part on a positive slowness, estimating an upward guided wave noise by stacking the one or more acoustic signals based at least in part on a negative slowness, and identifying a dominant direction of propagation. The method may further include identifying a slowness from a highest stacked amplitude for the dominant direction of propagation, estimating a downward guided wave noise with the slowness, estimating an upward guided wave noise with the slowness, and subtracting the downward guided wave noise and the upward guided wave noise. |
| US11946362B2 |
Gravel pack sand out detection/stationary gravel pack monitoring
The disclosure provides a packing monitor, method, and gravel pack system for real-time monitoring of a particulate for improved gravel packing. Via the real-time monitoring, the quality of the gravel pack can be detected in real-time. Accordingly, a top-off procedure can be performed without additional tripping of the inner service tool string. Detecting when the gravel pack is approaching screen-out can also be determined in real-time. Detecting when screen-out is approaching allows the operator to prepare to stop pumping in case of miscalculations or early screen-out. In one example, the packing monitor includes: (1) a packing detector configured to, when stationary within the wellbore, obtain measurements indicating presence of a particulate in an annulus of the wellbore at different positions along a length of a screen; and (2) a packing controller configured to determine, based on the measurements, a status of the particulate in the annulus at the different positions. |
| US11946356B2 |
Reverse helix agitator
This application discloses an improved downhole assembly for separating oil and gas in an oil well. A flow through assembly is disclosed wherein separated gas may pass an anchoring device with less restriction. The improved flow through assembly allows for separated gas to pass through the center flow channel of an anchoring device. |
| US11946352B2 |
Coordinated pumping operations
Systems and methods presented herein enable coordinated pumping operations. An example system may include a treatment fluid system configured to pump a treatment fluid into a wellbore, a pump-down system configured to pump a pump-down fluid into the wellbore to convey a perforating tool, a fluid valve system configured to selectively fluidly connect and disconnect the treatment fluid system and the pump-down system to and from the wellbore, and a controller communicatively connected to the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system. The controller may be configured to monitor operational status of the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system, and control operations of the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system based at least in part on the operational status of the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system. |
| US11946349B2 |
Downhole throttling device based on wireless control
A downhole throttling device based on wireless control includes an inlet nozzle, a throttling assembly, an electrical sealing cylinder, a gas guide cylinder, a lower adapter sleeve, an end socket, a female sleeve, and electrical components. The inlet nozzle is connected to the throttling assembly, the throttling assembly is connected to the electrical sealing cylinder and the gas guide cylinder, the electrical sealing cylinder and the gas guide cylinder are both connected to the lower adapter sleeve, the lower adapter sleeve is respectively connected to the end socket and the female sleeve, and the electrical components are arranged in the electrical sealing cylinder. A throttling effect is achieved by detecting the temperature and pressure in a tube by a temperature/pressure sensor in the electrical components and controlling a motor to rotate a movable valve in the throttling assembly by a circuit control assembly, thereby achieving wireless control over downhole throttling. |
| US11946346B2 |
Gravel packing leak off system positioned across non-perforated coupling region
A technique facilitates dehydration of gravel slurry around blank pipe sections of a completion having filters for receiving carrier fluid returns. A sand screen filter system may be assembled with a first filter, a second filter, and a blank pipe section extending between the first filter and the second filter. A fixed leak off tube is mounted to the sand screen filter system such that at least a portion of the fixed leak off tube overlaps the first filter. Additionally, a slidable leak off tube is slidably mounted to the sand screen filter system. The slidable leak off tube is oriented to enable the slidable leak off tube to be slid along the blank pipe section until secured in fluid communication with the fixed leak off tube. |
| US11946340B2 |
Heat treating tubulars
An exposed resistive heating element is coupled to an electric power supply. The exposed resistive heating element is malleable such that it can be wrapped around a component to be heated. A controller is coupled to the power supply and the exposed resistive heating element. The controller is configured to regulate current exchanged between the exposed heating element and the electric power supply. |
| US11946339B2 |
Downhole apparatus with a valve arrangement
A valve arrangement is for a downhole apparatus having a tubular body having first and second ports in a wall thereof. The valve arrangement comprises a valve member that comprises a first port associated with the first port of the tubular body; and a second port associated with the second port of the tubular body. The valve arrangement is configurable to be locked in a first configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is closed and the second port is closed. The valve arrangement is configurable to be locked in a second configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is open and the second port is closed. The valve arrangement is configurable to be locked in a third configuration with the tubular body, such that the first port is closed and the second port is open. |
| US11946333B2 |
Cup plug having a large flow-through inside diameter
A downhole tool is configured on a wireline adapter kit in the run-in position is disclosed. The downhole tool comprises a large open bore when the downhole tool is set and the wireline adapter kit is removed, thereby allowing production to commence without removal of the downhole tool. The large bore diameter may be greater than 2 inches for a 4.5 inch casing, or greater than 2.5 inches for a 5.5 inch casing. |
| US11946327B2 |
Automatic rheological parameter measuring system and use method for flowing drilling fluid with high temperature and high-pressure
The disclosure relates to an automatic measuring system and a method thereof for drilling fluid parameters measurement. The system includes i. mud container, configured for test drilling fluid preparation and samples collection; ii. heat jacket, configured to keep the drilling fluid in the tank warm iii. heat exchanger, configured to simulate the practical conditions; iv. plunger pump, configured to pump the test drilling fluid to the flowing test device; v. flow test device, configured to simulate the flowing states of drilling fluid in the borehole annulus and drilling string, and also measure the pressure and flow rate of drilling fluid vi. control module, configured to obtain rheological parameters and the best rheological mode of the drilling fluid in the borehole annulus and drilling string based on the pressure and flow rate. |
| US11946324B2 |
Support for risers and method for coupling and uncoupling
The present invention addresses to a system for supporting the tension load of the riser, this component with the primary function of supporting the risers, where the riser support mechanism is an integral part of the upper cone, thus eliminating the need to install slips by the shallow dive, and, also avoiding that the locking mechanism is an integral part of the Top Termination of the Riser (L). There is a minimal number of moving parts, which favors the maintainability of the system. In addition, if maintenance is required, the size and weight of the components are compatible with diving operations. For pull-in operations, it is anticipated that the slips will return to their working position only by the action of the force of gravity. In the case of pull-out, the concept of automated slip retraction mechanism was developed. A new Top Termination of the Riser (TTR) (L) geometry is also proposed, aiming at its simplification, in which, in addition to considering the locking mechanism as an integral part of the upper cone of the Support Pipe, there is the elimination of moving components for stabilization of its side movement (a function formerly performed by the locking ring or by the gap compensator). |
| US11946320B2 |
Polycrystalline diamond elements and systems and methods for fabricating the same
Polycrystalline diamond may include a working surface and a peripheral surface extending around an outer periphery of the working surface. The polycrystalline diamond includes a first volume including an interstitial material and a second volume having a leached region that includes boron and titanium. A method of fabricating a polycrystalline diamond element may include positioning a first volume of diamond particles adjacent to a substrate, the first volume of diamond particles including a material that includes a group 13 element, and positioning a second volume of diamond particles adjacent to the first volume of diamond particles such that the first volume of diamond particles is disposed between the second volume of diamond particles and the substrate, the second volume of diamond particles having a lower concentration of material including the group 13 element than the first volume of diamond particles. |
| US11946318B2 |
Closure system
A closure system may include a closure movable between an extended state and a retracted state. The closure may be configured to at least partially obstruct an opening in the extended state and allow access through the opening in the retracted state. The closure may include a first portion and a second portion opposite the first portion. The closure may deflect by a first deflection distance when a vertical force is applied to the closure. The closure system may include a strap coupled to the first portion of the closure. The closure with the strap coupled thereto may deflect by a second deflection distance when the vertical force is applied to the closure. The first deflection distance may be at least 100 percent more than the second deflection distance. |
| US11946316B2 |
Low-power radio-frequency receiver
A low-power radio-frequency (RF) receiver is characterized by a decreased current consumption over prior art RF receivers, such that the RF receiver may be used in control devices, such as battery-powered motorized window treatments and two-wire dimmer switches. The RF receiver uses an RF sub-sampling technique to check for the RF signals and then put the RF receiver to sleep for a sleep time that is longer than a packet length of a transmitted packet to thus conserve battery power and lengthen the lifetime of the batteries. The RF receiver compares detected RF energy to a detect threshold that may be increased to decrease the sensitivity of the RF receiver and increase the lifetime of the batteries. After detecting that an RF signal is being transmitted, the RF receiver is put to sleep for a snooze time period that is longer than the sleep time and just slightly shorter than the time between two consecutive transmitted packets to further conserve battery power. |
| US11946313B2 |
Fenestration unit including slidable glass panels
A fenestration unit includes a first glass unit, a first panel frame, a second glass unit, a second panel frame, a sill flashing, and a frame. The frame includes a header, jambs, and a frame sill including a first track and a second track. The first panel frame and the first glass unit are slidable along the first track when positioned in the frame. The second panel frame and the second glass unit are slidable along the second track when positioned in the frame. The sill flashing includes a base extending under the first and second tracks and a wall extending upward from the base to inhibit moisture intrusion through the fenestration unit. The frame sill is removable from the frame without disassembling the sill flashing, the jambs, and the header. |
| US11946308B2 |
Automated door system
Methods and systems are provided for an automated door system for a vehicle. In one example, the method for a vehicle may include operating an automated door system to enable hands-free actuation of a set of door vehicles while the height of the vehicle is not changing and when the vehicle height is changing, suspending operation of the automated door system until the floor has stopped changing height. |
| US11946306B2 |
Automatic door operator
An automatic door operator includes a lead screw having a first end connected to an output end of an actuating unit and a second end extending away from the output end. A lead screw nut is attached to the lead screw. A slider is attached to the lead screw nut. The slider is provided with a rack portion extending in a direction parallel to an axial direction of the lead screw, and during a movement of the lead screw nut, a length of an overlap of the rack portion and the lead screw in the axial direction varies. The operator includes a housing having a guide hole configured to be slidably engaged with the slider and an output shaft is mounted in a mounting hole disposed on the housing. The output shaft has a gear portion positioned in the guide hole and engaged with the rack portion. |
| US11946300B2 |
Lever-operated latch device
A lever-operated latch device includes an assembly of a case body, an actuation body mounted on the case body, a linking member and a slide body. The actuation body has a free end and a pivoted end pivotally connected with the case body in cooperation with elastic members. The free end of the actuation body is formed with two protruding arms and an opening section positioned between the protruding arms. An operation section is disposed in the opening section. The linking member has a first end pivotally connected with the free end of the actuation body (or the operation section) and a second end connected with the slide body. When an operator presses the operation section, the actuation body is permitted to move from a closed position to an opened position so as to drive the linking member and the slide body to move. |
| US11946299B2 |
Side latch exit device
A latching device for a door includes an actuator, a first rod, a second rod, a transom latch, and a side latch having a hook latch head. The actuator may include a rod holder including a lockout configured to inhibit disengagement of a rod from the rod holder. The side latch may be a mortise latch which may include a channel configured to receive a nut for alignment during installation. When installed in an associated door, the latching device may withstand multiple impacts from windborne objects or pressures induced by high winds. |
| US11946296B2 |
Two-pull, automatic reset, latch system
A two-pull, automatic reset, latch system is configured to operate during a no-power scenario and a power scenario. The latch system includes a release system, a release lever, and a coupling lever. The release lever is pivotally engaged to a stationary structure about a first axis. The coupling lever pivots about a second axis offset from the first axis, and is adapted to couple the release lever to the release system during a no-power scenario and upon two actuations of the release lever. The coupling lever is further adapted to maintain decoupling of the release lever from the release system during a power scenario. |
| US11946294B2 |
Door handle
A door handle including a capacitance sensor configured to detect an operation body is provided. The capacitance sensor includes a substrate formed of an insulator and having a surface, at least one first sensor electrode disposed on the surface of the substrate, a plurality of second sensor electrodes disposed on the surface of the substrate, and a controller. The number of the plurality of second sensor electrodes is greater than the number of the at least one first sensor electrode. The controller applies a voltage to the plurality of second sensor electrodes and detects a coordinate position of the operation body, in a case where a capacitance between the operation body and the at least one first sensor electrode is greater than or equal to a predetermined value. |
| US11946293B2 |
Door unlocking and/or door opening mechanism comprising an actuating device
A door unlocking and/or door opening mechanism may have an actuating device that may have at least one actuating element, a housing, and at least one detection unit. The detection unit may have a sensor, a trigger element and an evaluation unit. The detection unit may be arranged in the housing. The actuating element may be arranged for an actuation outside the housing and in a region that is accessible from the outside. The trigger element may be arranged at a distance from the sensor in a locked state of the door unlocking and/or door opening mechanism. When the actuating element is actuated in the direction of the housing, to the actuating element deforms the trigger element. The sensor detects a change in the distance between the trigger element and the sensor. |
| US11946290B2 |
Delivery rack and delivery vehicle
A rack includes: a casing; M (an integer not less than three) pairs of supports that are provided inside the casing so as to extend in a depth direction and arrayed at regular intervals in a predetermined direction (a height direction or a left-right direction); and a lock mechanism. The rack can house all returnable containers of one or more prespecified sizes along the respective pairs of supports. The lock mechanism includes N (an integer not less than two and meeting N |
| US11946289B2 |
Tubular-type deadbolt door lock with backset adjustment
A tubular-type deadbolt door lock with backset adjustment is disclosed.To this end, the present disclosure is characterized by including: a deadbolt guide case having a predetermined length and including a deadbolt guide and a deadbolt lever therein that is coupled to be able to rotate with respect to the deadbolt guide; a deadbolt case installed at a front portion in the deadbolt guide case and having a predetermined space therein; a tubular deadbolt case coupled to surround an outer circumferential surface of a front portion of the deadbolt case; a worm gear positioned in the deadbolt case; a helical gear engaged under the worm gear and rotating with rotation of the worm gear; and a rack gear engaged with the helical gear, being able to move forward and backward with rotation of the helical gear, and connected the deadbolt guide, in which when the rack gear is moved in a front-rear direction, the deadbolt guide is also moved in the front-rear direction, so the deadbolt guide case is moved in the front-rear direction and a backset length is adjusted. |
| US11946286B2 |
Latch assembly for vertical door and method of operating
A vertical door latch assembly includes a housing and a bolt movably attached to the housing having a catch portion. A drive motor is located within the housing and is configured to selectively move a lock assembly between a locked position preventing movement of the bolt and an unlocked position allowing movement of the bolt. A controller is in electrical communication with the drive motor and is configured to direct the actuator lock assembly between the locked position and the unlocked position. A force sensor is in electrical communication with the controller configured to measured when a force exceeds a predetermined threshold. |
| US11946283B2 |
Sealing of an electronic lock
An electronic lock includes exterior and interior assemblies. The electronic lock includes a bolt movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The exterior and interior assemblies are connected to, and capable of actuating, the bolt. The exterior assembly includes an escutcheon and a sensor to selectively actuate movement of the bolt. The sensor has a first side and an opposite second side and the first side is accessible from the escutcheon and the sensor is in communication with, and connected to, the processor of the interior assembly. The exterior assembly includes a first seal positioned around the sensor at the first side between the sensor and the escutcheon. The exterior assembly includes a retainer that is positioned at the second side of the sensor to position the sensor immediately adjacent the escutcheon. |
| US11946282B1 |
Moving devices used in liquid and pool cleaning robots
The present disclosure provides a moving device used in liquid. The moving device includes a mode switching member configured to achieve a position switching of the moving device above a liquid surface and below the liquid surface. When the moving device is below the liquid surface, the moving device is fully submerged below the liquid surface, and when the moving device is above the liquid surface, at least a portion of the moving device is above the liquid surface. |
| US11946278B2 |
Device and system utilizing ultrasonic waves in spectrophotometrically monitoring the quality of water in swimming-pools
A cuvette for treating and characterizing water via ultrasonic waves and optical measurements comprises at least one ultrasonic transducer for treating said water by introducing at least one ultrasonic pulse into the water. The at least one ultrasonic pulse either varies parameters of the water, and/or moves and repositions particles within the water. The cuvette further comprises a spectrometry device for measuring spectral components of light and at least one light source for irradiating the water with irradiation light. The at least one of the parameters of the water is determined via: (a) measuring the spectral components of light prior to treating the water with said at least one ultrasonic transducer, (b) treating the water with said at least one ultrasonic transducer, (c) remeasuring the spectral components of light to get the difference in said spectral components of light, and (d) determining the value of the at least one parameter of the water based on the difference in said spectral components of light. |
| US11946273B2 |
Shading system and method of use
A system for providing shade onto a surface is described herein. The system includes a canopy configured for engagement with, and aerial suspension by, a frame. The frame includes a plurality of sections configured for end-to-end alignment from a left end to a right end of the frame. Each section is configured to engage with any adjacent sections to form the frame. The ends of the frame are secured to the surface, thereby aerially suspending the canopy and providing shade to the surface. |
| US11946271B2 |
Umbrella base
An umbrella base includes an elongated receiver and a weighted housing coupled to and at least partially surrounding the elongated receiver. The weighted housing includes a bottom surface configured to be placed directly on an underlying surface and an opposite top surface. A retention system is supported on the weighted housing. The retention system includes one or more retractable straps mounted to the weighted housing, and a fastener device coupled to a free end of each of the one or more retractable straps and configured to releasably attach to outdoor furniture. The fastener device is adapted to selectively extend outwards from the weighted housing via the one or more retractable straps so that when the fastener device is attached to the outdoor furniture the weighted housing weighs down the outdoor furniture. |
| US11946270B2 |
Toilet having compressed air flushing technology and water extracting from humidified air
A stand-alone toilet system is powered by photovoltaic cells to operate a dehumidifier from which water is extracted from the atmosphere by dehumidification and used for flushing; an electronic compressor is situated in the toilet tank to compress air which is used with water in the flush cycle; a motorized or hydraulic hinge is utilized to open and close a toilet cover automatically which can be locked in place by an electromagnet securing mechanism to create an airtight seal in the closed position; a heating element and a UV lamp are situated inside the “treatment facility” of the toilet system to evaporate liquid and sanitize waste content therein respectively. |
| US11946269B2 |
Modular integrated system modules
The present disclosure provides for a modular design and build architecture, comprising: one or more integrated system module (ISMs) that are configured to be shipped and assembled on-site to construct an operational infrastructure for one or more application environments, wherein each of the ISMs comprises two or more different functional components that are integrated onto and/or supported by a common structural floor. |
| US11946258B1 |
Adjustable step system
An adjustable step system for assisting a person walking up or down a flight of stairs. The system includes adjustable steps that can be mounted to the stairs of the flight of stairs. The adjustable steps effectively reduce the required vertical height of a step that a person is required to take for each stair. The adjustable steps are also movable and can be positioned at a desired location along the width of the stairs when not in use. |
| US11946257B2 |
Roofing method and apparatus
In an embodiment, a method includes applying a liquid plural component polymer to a sloped roof to form a protective surface that inhibits moisture seepage to the roof sheathing. In some embodiments, the plural component polymer may be a polyurea compound having a hardening time that is less than approximately 10 minutes. In some embodiments, one or more of the components may be aerated prior to application to the roof substrate. In some embodiments, one or more polystyrene panels may be affixed to the sloped roof prior to application of the liquid plural component polymer. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US11946250B2 |
Ceiling system and method of installation
A ceiling system is provided for use in a building space. The ceiling system has an open cell grid structure and is attached to a support structure of the building via hanging hardware. The open cell grid structure is constructed of a plurality of first panels attached to the hanging hardware, a plurality of second panels attached to the plurality of first panels, and a plurality of third panels attached to the plurality of second panels. The first, second, and third panels are attached via a plurality of slots which allow secure engagement and utilize gravity to retain them in the assembled condition. Beneficially, the plurality of second panels and the plurality of third panels are free of hanging hardware. |
| US11946247B2 |
Relating to fire rated movement joints
The present disclosure is directed toward a fire rated movement joint (100) for an internal compartment wall. The joint (100) comprises a wall track (112), a wall board (116) arranged at least partially overlapping the wall track (112) with a gap (124) therebetween, a fire barrier (132). The fire barrier (132) comprises an intumescent (126) and a scrim (134) enclosing the intumescent (126). The intumescent (126) is at least partly arranged within the gap (124) between the wall board (116) and the wall track (112), and the scrim (134) comprises a gusset (136) into which the intumescent (126) expands when reacting to heat. |
| US11946241B2 |
Drain assemblies, and related kits and methods
A drain assembly includes a drain body, barrel, plug, and gasket. The drain body has an interior surface defining a channel along an axis and having interior threads thereon. The barrel has a central body having an upper end, with a flange extending radially outward therefrom and defining a landing surface. The central body has opposed exterior and interior barrel surfaces having exterior and interior threads, respectively. The interior barrel surface defines a channel alignable with the axis. The exterior threads are engageable with the drain body interior threads for axially adjusting the barrel relative to the drain body. The plug has a top wall and an outer body extending axially downward therefrom to a stop surface. A portion of the outer body extends axially below the stop surface and has external threads engageable with the barrel interior threads. The gasket is sealingly receivable between the stop and landing surfaces. |
| US11946239B2 |
Flush toilet
A flush toilet includes: a toilet body; a function unit arranged in a rear part of the toilet body; a panel member covering a side surface of the function unit and including a protruding part protruding toward the toilet body; and a holding part causing the toilet body and the panel member to hold to each other by magnetic force. The toilet body includes: a reception part arranged under the protruding part and receiving the protruding part in a state where the panel member is attached to the toilet body; and a protrusion part extending upward from the reception part. When the panel member is attached to the toilet body, the protrusion part is in a position where at least a part of the protrusion part is overlapped with the protruding part in a rear view when the toilet body is viewed from behind. |
| US11946237B1 |
Drain P-trap
There is an inflow pipe and an intermediate pipe and an outflow pipe forming a passageway there through. The intermediate pipe has an internal surface with a radius of curvature. The outflow pipe is coupled to the intermediate pipe. There is a baffle located within the passageway. The baffle has a lower extent which is a second distance from the first radius of curvature of the internal surface of the intermediate pipe. The second distance is less than the first distance of the radius of curvature of the intermediate pipe. |
| US11946236B2 |
Drain trap assembly
A drain trap assembly for sanitary appliances allows a worker to conveniently and swiftly perform assembly for installation and disassembly for maintenance and repair, without use of a separate tool, since a drain trap has a one-touch connection with an inlet pipe and/or an outlet pipe. |
| US11946233B2 |
Hydrant monitoring system
A sensing assembly of a hydrant can include a sensor housing defining a housing cavity, the sensor housing distinct from a stem of the hydrant and configured to be removably coupled to the stem; a sensor located within the housing cavity; at least one battery in electrical communication with the sensor and located within the housing cavity; and an antenna in electrical communication with the sensor. |
| US11946232B2 |
Systems and methods for generating liquid water using highly efficient techniques that optimize production
Systems and methods for producing water from process gas are provided herein. The systems include a water generating system that adjusts the pressure and temperature conditions surrounding a hygroscopic material in order to release water vapor generated by exposure of the hygroscopic material to the process gas. |
| US11946231B2 |
Method of controlling turf grading equipment
An improved system and method for controlling turf grading equipment is described. The system comprises a turf grading device wherein the turf grading device is moved longitudinally over an area and the turf grading device comprises a left side and a right side with each side being able to independently move vertically and in concert provide a motion of pitch and yaw. The system includes a control system wherein the control system controls movement of the left side and the right side independently. The control system comprises a controller interface capable of selecting between a manual override mode and a module selection mode wherein the module selection mode selected from a grade adjust laser mode, a grade adjust autograde mode, a grade adjust autodepth mode and a grade adjust slope mode. |
| US11946225B2 |
Method and systems for controlling electrically-powered hydraulic circuits
One embodiment of a hydraulic system for a machine has a first hydraulic circuit including a first pump coupled to a first hydraulic actuator configured to move a first implement of the machine. A second hydraulic circuit includes a second pump coupled to a second hydraulic actuator configured to move a second implement. An electric motor mechanically couples to the first pump and to the second pump. An operator interface receives input from an operator requesting movement of the first and second implements. A controller communicatively coupled to the electric motor and to the operator interface determines, based on the requested movement of the first and second implements respectively, first and second flow allocations respectively for the first and second pumps and determines respective target displacements for the first and second pumps. The controller also determines first and second target electric motor speeds based on the target displacements for the first and second pumps, respectively, and controls the electric motor to operate at the larger of the first and second target electric motor speeds. |
| US11946224B2 |
Construction machine
The object of the present invention resides in provision of a construction machine in which a hydraulic cylinder can be driven in a high efficiency by an accumulator. To this end, the construction machine including: a hydraulic cylinder; a first accumulator that accumulates return fluid from the hydraulic cylinder with a first set pressure; a tank that stores hydraulic fluid therein; a first hydraulic pump that delivers the hydraulic fluid sucked from the tank; a hydraulic actuator that is driven by the first hydraulic pump; and a second accumulator that accumulates return fluid from the hydraulic actuator with a second set pressure, includes a first control valve placed in a first hydraulic line that connects the first accumulator and the hydraulic cylinder to each other, and a second control valve placed in a second hydraulic line that connects the second accumulator and the hydraulic cylinder to each other. The second set pressure is set to a value higher than that of the first set pressure. |
| US11946223B2 |
Shovel
A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably attached to the lower traveling body, an actuator mounted on the lower traveling body or the upper turning body, and a controller configured to set a prohibited area for an obstacle located in a work area and restrict movement of the actuator. The controller determines whether the shovel has entered the prohibited area, and slows or stops movement of the shovel in response to determining that the shovel enters the prohibited area. |
| US11946221B2 |
Ground excavation shield apparatus with guide rails
A ground excavation shield that can include a first wall, a second wall, and a third wall, a first guide rail, and a second guide rail. The first wall can be disposed on a first side of the ground excavation shield. The second wall can be disposed on a second side of the ground excavation shield. The third wall can be disposed on a third side of the ground excavation shield and can be coupled to the first and second walls. The first guide rail can be coupled to a bottom of the first wall and the second guide rail can be coupled to a bottom of the second wall. |
| US11946219B2 |
Work machine, control device, and control method
A work machine includes work equipment. A control device of the work machine includes a trajectory generation unit, and an operation signal output unit. The trajectory generation unit generates a target trajectory of the work equipment according to an excavation curve ratio determined in advance. The excavation curve ratio is expressed as a ratio of an excavation depth to an excavation length. The operation signal output unit outputs an operation signal for the work equipment according to the target trajectory. |
| US11946218B1 |
System and method for robotics-assisted foundation installation
A robotics-assisted foundation installation system is provided in which data reporting the X, Y, and Z positions of foundation column tops are sent from a total surveying station to a grid control system. The grid control system receives the data and associates specific data with specific columns in an array—the “grid.” The grid control system compares the actual positions of the columns in the grid to target positions that were determined based on the requirements of the structure to be supported. After determining differences between the actual positions and the target positions, the grid control system sends instructions to column positioning tools associated with the individual columns. Actuators in a column positioning tool are directed by the grid control system to adjust the position of the associated column. Once the live streamed data confirms that each column is in the proper position, the columns are fixed in place. |
| US11946217B1 |
Top plate jacking device and jacking construction method configured for V-shaped columns
The present application relates to a top plate jacking device and jacking construction method configured for V-shaped columns, the top plate jacking device comprising a temporary support pile comprises a plurality of pile holes arranged on a construction surface, a bottom end of the pile hole is cast-in-place with a bearing platform, a temporary support column is inserted on the bearing platform, a plurality of pillars are fixed at a top of the temporary support column, wherein comprises a plurality of vertically connected column segments, two adjacent column segments detachably connected vertically through a connecting component; a support block is provided at a top of the plurality of pillars, the top of the support block abuts against a lower surface of the top plate; a hydraulic jack is configured to jack the top plate and is provided with a plurality of intervals at the top of the temporary support column. |
| US11946216B2 |
Additive manufacturing of support structures
In a general aspect, a method is presented for manufacturing support structures for offshore wind turbines. In some implementations, the method includes constructing a plurality of modular sections that assemble to define the support structure. One or more of the plurality of modular sections are configured to anchor to an underwater floor. At least one of the plurality of modular sections is constructed by operations that include forming a wall along a perimeter to bound a volume, filling the volume with a castable material, and hardening the castable material. In some instances, forming the wall includes depositing layers of printable material successively on top of each other. The method also includes joining the plurality of modular sections to assemble the support structure. |
| US11946214B2 |
Tailings deposition
THIS invention relates to a method of disposing of residues from the comminution and processing of ores. The method includes the steps of classifying the processing residues into a water permeable sand fraction and a tailings fraction and depositing the tailings fraction and the sand fraction to form a multilayer structure contained by at least one containment wall (14) with the sand fraction forming continuous channels (12) through the tailings fraction (10) to allow water contained in the tailings and sand to flow by gravity, through the sand channels, to water discharge points (16), and recovering the water (18) from the water discharge points. |
| US11946205B2 |
Fibrous structures
Fibrous structures that exhibit a Tensile Ratio of less than 1.75 and/or less than 1.49 as measured according to the Tensile Strength Test Method described herein and a Geometric Mean Modulus (GM Modulus) of less than 1402.4 g/cm at 15 g/cm and/or a Machine Direction Modulus (MD Modulus) of less than 1253.4 g/cm at 15 g/cm and/or a Cross Machine Direction Modulus (CD Modulus) of less than 1569.2 g/cm at 15 g/cm, are provided. |
| US11946203B2 |
Device and method for transferring a strip of a web
The invention relates to a device and a method for transferring the tail of a web from a first clothing to a second clothing. It is characterised in that the tail is transferred in a first, short open draw from the first clothing to the second clothing. This enables automatic web transfer requiring significantly less space and with equipment of low complexity. |
| US11946200B2 |
Stranding machine
A stranding machine is provided for producing a cord from a plurality of wires, preferably metal wires. The stranding machine has a stranding device for stranding the wires, including at least one rotatably mounted deflecting roller for deflecting the cord and at least one guide device for guiding the cord. The guide device is arranged in such a way that the cord can be guided on a straight line from the guide device to the deflecting roller in such a way that the cord is pressed against a first flank of the deflecting roller. As the cord is deflected by the deflecting roller, the cord moves from the first flank into the roller base of the deflecting roller. |
| US11946199B1 |
Cord
A cord is provided, including: a core material and an outer layer. The core material includes a plurality of first strands braided with one another, and the outer layer is disposed around the core material and includes a plurality of second strands knitted with one another. |
| US11946197B2 |
Method for modifying polyester by swelling agent combined with cutinase
The present disclosure relates to a method for modifying polyester by a swelling agent combined with cutinase, belonging to the technical field of textile processing. According to the method, a phenol solution or an o-vanillin solution is used as the swelling agent to perform swelling treatment on the polyester, and combined with a Humicola insolens cutinase solution to perform hydrophilic modification on the polyester, which not only significantly improves the release amount of hydrolysates, but also reduces the fabric mass loss compared with the traditional chemical modification method. |
| US11946196B2 |
Atmospheric-pressure plasma device for fabric functional finishing and its application
The present disclosure discloses an atmospheric-pressure plasma equipment for fabric functional finishing and its application, and belongs to the field of textile printing and dyeing engineering. The atmospheric-pressure plasma equipment, including a discharging system, a grafting instrument and a cloth guider, can conduct continuous plasma treatment on fabrics under an atmospheric pressure, including plasma etching and plasma grafting, which breaks through the disadvantage of batch processing of vacuum plasma equipment. The equipment and method of the present disclosure realize functional finishing of the fabrics in the absence of water, and this finishing process is cost efficient, environmentally friendly, uniform, shorter treatment time and higher reactivity, and applicable to many materials and can keep the bulk properties of the treated substances. |
| US11946195B1 |
Programmable automated clothes washer, transfer, and dryer system
A programmable automated clothes washer, transfer, and dryer system is disclosed. The programmable automated clothes washer, transfer, and dryer system allows a person doing laundry to program in a load of laundry to be washed. The programmable automated clothes washer, transfer, and dryer system goes through the wash cycle, spins the clothes, and then transfers the clothes from the washer internally to the dryer, then the dryer starts after the transfer and dries them. |
| US11946190B2 |
Washing machine appliance with hydraulically actuated diverter valve
A fluid circulation system of a washing machine appliance includes a wash tub configured for containing fluid during operation of the washing machine appliance and a drain pump positioned below the wash tub. The fluid circulation system also includes a hydraulically actuated diverter valve coupled to the drain pump. The diverter valve is in fluid communication with the drain pump and is downstream of the drain pump. The diverter valve is configured to selectively direct a flow of fluid from the drain pump to one of the wash tub or an outlet of the washing machine appliance. |
| US11946189B2 |
Infuser and receptacle for a laundry appliance
A laundry appliance includes an infuser into which users may insert a dissolvable treatment material, such as detergent pods of scented pellets. The diffuser may be removably inserted into a receptacle at least partially contained within the cabinet of the laundry appliance. One or more of a moveable cap or lid may be configured to cover an opening at the top of the receptacle, thereby sealing the receptacle. Water or air may be introduced into the receptacle through a fluid inlet line. The water or air may pass through openings in the infuser and interact with the dissolvable treatment material to produce a treatment mixture of treatment material and water or air. The treatment material may then exit the receptacle through a fluid output line, where it may be delivered to a fluid distribution element extending into the laundering chamber of the laundry appliance. The fluid distribution may then distribute the treatment solution into the chamber and onto the articles of laundry. A controller of the laundry appliance may be configured to allow the introduction of water or air to the infuser at a predetermined time based in part on the length of the laundry cycle and/or the rate at which the dissolvable treatment material dissolves. |
| US11946187B2 |
Method for preventing accidental washing of electronic devices in a washing machine appliance
A washing machine includes a cabinet, a door, a tub provided within the cabinet, a wireless communication module provided within the cabinet, and a controller in operative communication with the wireless communication module. The controller is configured to perform a series of operations, including receiving an initiation signal for a laundry operation to be performed by the washing machine appliance; sending a wake-up signal to a mobile electronic device via the wireless communication module in response to receiving the initiation signal; emitting a laundry operation trigger prior to initiating the laundry operation; determining that the mobile device is within a predetermined distance from the washing machine appliance in response to generating the laundry operation trigger; and receiving a confirmation signal before beginning the laundry operation. |
| US11946182B2 |
Sewing machine with adjustable stepping height and related methods
A kit for adding or replacing an automated upper walking foot stepping height adjustment to a sewing machine, the kit includes a mounting assembly including an actuator bracket, an actuator coupled to the actuator bracket, a drive assembly, and a needle drive assembly. The actuator includes an actuator shaft that extends and retracts. The drive assembly includes a drive shaft, a drive arm coupled to the drive shaft and the actuator shaft, and a guide coupled to the drive shaft. The needle drive assembly includes a variable drive crank coupled to the guide and configured to couple to a needle drive shaft of a sewing machine. Selectively extending and retracting the actuator shaft selectively adjusts a stepping height of an upper walking foot. |
| US11946176B2 |
Knitted device with loops, in particular for forming the female part of a self-adhesive fastener for attaching a motor vehicle seat cover
Knitted device (5), in particular a knitted fabric, comprising a first area (6), in particular a rectangular area, from which loops (9) project and at least one second area (7, 8), in particular a contiguous rectangular area, preferably two contiguous areas (7, 8) on either side of the first area (6), the second contiguous border area(s) not including loops (9) and being designed to allow the knitted device to be attached to a cover (4) designed to cover a molded object (1), in particular a motor vehicle seat, for example by stitching, while the first area (6) with loops (9) is designed to cooperate with hooks (14) that project from the molded object (1), characterized in that means are provided to prevent or combat the fraying of the threads of the knitted device (5) forming the one or more second border areas (7, 8). |
| US11946171B2 |
Yarn, apparatus and methods preparing thereof
The present disclosure provides composite yarn, apparatus and methods preparing thereof. The composite yarn of the present disclosure includes wrapping fibers and a central yarn that is formed by a first body yarn and a second body yarn, wherein a portion of the wrapping fibers are combined with the central yarn in at least one of the following states: a first state, a portion of the wrapping fibers wrap around the first body yarn or the second body yarn; a second state, a portion of the wrapping fibers wrap around the first body yarn and the second body yarn respectively at the same time; a third state, a portion of the wrapping fibers wrap around the central yarn. The composite yarn of the present disclosure has low twist factor and high strength, which solves the problem of severe strength loss associated with low twist factors existing in conventional low-twist techniques. |
| US11946168B2 |
Spinnable composition (sC), and polyester fibers (PF) made therefrom
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a spinnable composition (sC) by mixing at least one terephthalate polyester (A), at least one aliphatic-aromatic polyester (B), at least one oligomer (C) and optionally at least one additive (D). Moreover, the present invention relates to the spinnable composition (sC) obtained by this process, a process for the preparation of polyester fibers (PF) by extruding the spinnable composition (sC) through at least one spinneret, the polyester fibers (PF) obtained by this process, textile materials (T) comprising the polyester fibers (PF) a process for dying the textile materials (T), and the use of the oligomer (C) for the improvement of the rheology and/or the dyeability of a composition comprising at least one terephthalate polyester (A) and at least one aliphatic aromatic polyester (B). |
| US11946166B2 |
Anti-counterfeiting modal fiber, preparation method and anti-counterfeiting method
The invention relates to a method for preparing an anti-counterfeiting modal fiber, including: mixing a pulp stock solution with a cellulose catalyst, alkalizing, aging, sulfonating, and then dissolving the pulp stock solution in an alkaline solution to obtain a treatment solution; mixing the treatment solution with multiple amino acid-metal chelates, filtering, defoaming and ripening to obtain a spinning stock solution; and mixing the spinning stock solution with a spinning bath additive, and wet spinning, followed by drafting, defoaming, desulfurizing, water washing, and other post-treatments, to obtain an anti-counterfeiting modal fiber, wherein the amino acid metal-chelates account for 0.5%-1.5% by weight of the spinning stock solution. Amino acid-metal chelates are used to anti-counterfeit and encrypt the modal fibers, and the anti-counterfeiting and encrypting is involved in the spinning stock solution of modal fibers. The fiber source can be tracked and identified by detecting the species of metal elements and amino acids. |
| US11946165B2 |
Method and device for filament spinning with deflection
A method for producing solid cellulose filaments from a fluid of the cellulose by extruding the fluid through a plurality of extrusion openings, whereby fluid filaments are produced, and solidifying the filaments in a coagulation bath, the filaments being bundled in the coagulation bath and being deflected as a bundle in order to be drawn from the coagulation bath above the coagulation bath level, the bundle of filaments assuming a deflection width on a deflecting device, which deflection width is defined in accordance with a formula. A device therefor is also provided. |
| US11946160B2 |
Method for producing a crystalline film on a substrate surface
An apparatus and method is provided for coating a surface of a material with a film of porous coordination polymer. A first substrate having a first surface to be coated is positioned in a processing chamber such that the first surface is placed in a substantially opposing relationship to a second surface. In some embodiments, the second surface is provided by a wall of the processing chamber, and in other embodiments the second surface is provided by a second substrate to be coated. The first substrate is held such that a gap exists between the first and second surfaces, and the gap is filled with at least one reaction mixture comprising reagents sufficient to form the crystalline film on at least the first surface. A thin gap (e.g., having a thickness less than 2 mm) between the first and second surfaces is effective for producing a high quality film having a thickness less than 100 μm. Confining the volume of the reaction mixture to a thin layer adjacent the substrate surface significantly reduces problems with sedimentation and concentration control. In some embodiments, the size, shape, or average thickness of the gap is adjusted during formation of the film in response to feedback from at least one film growth monitor. |
| US11946159B2 |
Method of selectively controlling nucleation for crystalline compound formation by irradiating a precursor with a pulsed energy source
A method of selectively controlling materials structure in solution based chemical synthesis and deposition of materials by controlling input energy from pulsed energy source includes determining solution conditions, searching and/or determining energy barrier(s) of a desired materials structure formation, applying precursor solution with selected solution condition onto a substrate, and applying determined input energy from a pulsed energy source with a selected condition to the substrate, thereby nucleating and growing the crystal. |
| US11946156B2 |
SiC single crystal growth crucible, SiC single crystal manufacturing method, and SiC single crystal manufacturing apparatus
According to the invention, a SiC single crystal growth crucible includes: a raw material accommodation portion which accommodates a SiC raw material; and a seed crystal support portion which supports a seed crystal disposed on an upper portion of the raw material accommodation portion, in which the raw material accommodation portion has a tapered portion, an inner surface of which is tapered off downward. |
| US11946155B2 |
Single-crystal growing crucible, single-crystal production method and single crystal
A crucible for growing a single-crystal in which a raw material melt for growing the single-crystal is solidified while being accommodated includes a side wall part configured to surround the raw material melt and a bottom part configured to support the raw material melt while being continuous with the side wall part, in which the side wall part has circumferential length redundancy inside the side wall part in a cross-sectional view. The side wall part has a portion where the circumference length is redundant inside any portion in the cross-sectional view, and when the crucible for growing a single-crystal is cooled in a cooling process after the single-crystal growth, the portion where the circumference length is redundant inside in the cross-sectional view is expanded to an outside of the crucible for growing a single-crystal. |
| US11946154B2 |
Dielectric material, device comprising dielectric material, and method of preparing dielectric material
Provided are a dielectric material, a device including the dielectric material, and a method of preparing the dielectric material, in which the dielectric material may include: a layered perovskite compound, wherein the layered perovskite compound may include at least one selected from a Dion-Jacobson phase, an Aurivillius phase, and a Ruddlesden-Popper phase, a temperature coefficient of capacitance (TCC) of a capacitance at 200° C. with respect to a capacitance at 40° C. may be in a range of about −15 percent (%) to about 15%, and a permittivity of the dielectric material may be 200 or greater in a range of about 1 kilohertz (kHz) to about 1 megahertz (MHz). |
| US11946152B2 |
Method and system for depositing a zinc-nickel alloy on a substrate
A method for depositing a zinc-nickel alloy on a substrate, including: (a) providing the substrate, (b) providing an aqueous zinc-nickel deposition bath as catholyte in a compartment, wherein the compartment includes an anode and anolyte, the anolyte being separated from catholyte by a membrane, and the catholyte includes nickel ions, complexing agent, zinc ions, (c) depositing zinc-nickel alloy onto the substrate, wherein after step (c) nickel ions have lower concentration than before step (c), (d) rinsing the zinc-nickel coated substrate in water, obtaining a rinsed zinc-nickel coated substrate and rinse water including a portion of the complexing agent and nickel ions, wherein (i) a portion of rinse water and/or a portion of catholyte is treated in a first treatment compartment to separate water from the complexing agent and the nickel ions, (ii) returning the separated complexing agent to the catholyte, and (iii) adding nickel ion to the catholyte. |
| US11946149B2 |
Method for operating apparatus for producing alkali hydroxide
Apparatus for producing alkali hydroxide and method for operating apparatus for producing alkali hydroxide are provided. A cooling chamber through which a coolant can pass is constructed by placing a separation wall in a cathode chamber on a side opposite to an ion-exchange membrane, and a flow rate adjuster, such as manual valves, which can adjust the supply flow rate of the coolant is placed in each unit cell. The electrolytic temperature of each unit cell is regulated at an optimum operating temperature depending on the current density by adjusting the flow rate of the coolant without individually adjusting the flow rate of salt water supplied to the unit cell or the concentration of the salt water. |
| US11946148B2 |
Hafnium oxide corrosion inhibitor
Described herein is an etching solution suitable for the selective removal of TiSiN over hafnium oxide from a microelectronic device, which consists essentially of: water; at least one alkaline ammonium compound selected from the group consisting of ammonium hydroxide, a quaternary ammonium hydroxide, ammonium fluoride, and a quaternary ammonium fluoride; at least one peroxide compound; a water-miscible organic solvent; at least one nitrogen containing compound selected from the group consisting of a C4-12 alkylamine, a polyalkylenimine, and a polyamine; and optionally at least one chelating agent. |
| US11946147B2 |
Thermal barrier coating, turbine member, gas turbine, and method for producing thermal barrier coating
A thermal barrier coating includes a bond coat layer deposited on a substrate, and a ceramic layer deposited on the bond coat layer. The ceramic layer includes a first layer having a porosity of 10% or more and 15% or less, and a second layer having a porosity of 0.5% or more and 9.0% or less and deposited on the first layer. |
| US11946146B2 |
Coating systems including infiltration coatings and reactive phase spray formulation coatings
A coating system configured to be applied to a thermal barrier coating of an article includes an infiltration coating configured to be applied to the thermal barrier coating. The infiltration coating infiltrates at least some pores of the thermal barrier coating. The infiltration coating decomposes within the at least some pores of the thermal barrier coating to coat a portion of the at least some pores of the thermal barrier coating. The infiltration coating reduces a porosity of the thermal barrier coating. The coating system also includes a reactive phase spray formulation coat configured to be applied to the thermal barrier coating. The reactive phase spray formulation coating reacts with dust deposits on the thermal barrier coating. |
| US11946143B2 |
Laminate
A laminate comprising a substrate; and a plating-forming layer disposed on at least one surface of both surfaces of the substrate and containing a thermoplastic resin and a plating catalyst, wherein the plating-forming layer further satisfies conditions of the following (1) and/or (2), (1) the plating-forming layer contains a dispersing agent for dispersing the plating catalyst (2) an abundance of the plating catalyst on a surface side of the plating-forming layer is higher than an abundance of the plating catalyst on the substrate side of the plating-forming layer. |
| US11946142B2 |
Spatially tunable deposition to compensate within wafer differential bow
A plasma processing chamber for depositing a film on an underside surface of a wafer, includes showerhead pedestal. The showerhead pedestal includes a first zone and a second zone. An upper separator fin is disposed over a top surface of the showerhead pedestal and a lower separator fin is disposed under the top surface of the showerhead pedestal and aligned with the upper separator fin. The first zone is configured for depositing a first film to the underside surface of the wafer and the second zone is configured for depositing a second film to the underside surface of the wafer. In another embodiment, a top surface of the showerhead pedestal may be configured to receive a masking plate instead of the upper separator fin. The masking plate is configured with a first area that has openings and a second area that is masked. The first areas is used to provide the process gas to a portion of the underside surface of the wafer for depositing a film. |
| US11946140B2 |
Hot showerhead
Exemplary substrate processing systems may include a chamber body defining a transfer region. The systems may include a first lid plate seated on the chamber body. The first lid plate may define a plurality of apertures through the first lid plate. The systems may include a plurality of lid stacks equal to a number of the plurality of apertures. The systems may define a plurality of isolators. An isolator may be positioned between each lid stack and a corresponding aperture of the plurality of apertures. The systems may include a plurality of annular spacers. An annular spacer of the plurality of annular spacers may be positioned between each isolator and a corresponding lid stack of the plurality of lids stacks. The systems may include a plurality of manifolds. A manifold may be seated within an interior of each annular spacer of the plurality of annular spacers. |
| US11946139B2 |
Atomic layer deposition of lithium boron comprising nanocomposite solid electrolytes
A lithium boron coating and a method of producing the same. Atomic layer deposition deposits lithium and boron to form a lithium borate layer. The lithium borate maybe deposited as a solid electrolyte. |
| US11946137B2 |
Runout and wobble measurement fixtures
A fixture is provided. The fixture includes a base, a turntable, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The turntable is supported on the base, is rotatable about a rotation axis, and is configured to slidably seat a susceptor assembly for rotation about the rotation axis. The first sensor is fixed relative to the base, is radially offset from the rotation axis, and is configured to determine ex-situ runout of the susceptor assembly. The second sensor is fixed relative to the first sensor, is axially offset from the first sensor, and is configured to determine ex-situ wobble of the susceptor assembly. Fixture arrangements and methods of determining ex-situ runout and ex-situ wobble of susceptor assemblies for semiconductor processing systems are also described. |
| US11946133B2 |
Glass roll production method
A production method for a glass roll includes a start preparation step (S1) of feeding-out a first lead film (LF1) coupled to a starting end portion (GFa) of a first glass film (GF1) from an unwinding device (3) and allowing a winding device (8) to wind the first lead film (LF1 after passing of the first lead film (LF1) through a thermal film-forming device (4),). The start preparation step (S1) includes a temperature increasing step of causing the thermal film-forming device (4) to be increased in temperature to a film-forming temperature. The first glass film (GF1) reaches the thermal film-forming device (4) before the thermal film-forming device (4) is increased in temperature to the film-forming temperature. |
| US11946132B2 |
Chalcogenide sputtering target and method of making the same
In one embodiment, a physical vapor deposition device includes a phase change material sputtering target includes a primary matrix and at least one additional phase. The primary matrix includes at least one element from Group VI of the periodic table excluding oxygen and one or more elements from Group IV or Group V of the periodic table. The additional phase is substantially homogenously dispersed in the primary matrix. |
| US11946131B2 |
Sublimation cell with time stability of output vapor pressure
Designs and arrangements for sublimation cells are provided, which enriches an inert carrier gas with organic vapor such that the partial pressure of the organic vapor is highly stable in time. Stability is achieved by controlling the local rates of evaporation along the solid-gas interface through one or more crucibles, thereby reducing the effects of greater headspace and lowering interfacial area as the source depletes. Local evaporation rates also can be controlled using either temperature distribution or convective flow fields. |
| US11946126B2 |
Welded structure and storage tank
A welded structure including a base material made of duplex stainless steel and a welded portion formed by welding the base materials to each other, wherein the base material has a predetermined chemical composition, a volume fraction of a ferrite phase in a metallographic structure of a weld metal of the welded portion is 45 to 75%, a ratio of a hardness of the weld metal to a hardness of the base material is 0.80 to 1.20, and an amount of precipitates formed in the ferrite phase of the weld metal is less than 10% in area fraction. |
| US11946123B2 |
Method of producing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet
Provided is a method of easily producing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet that contains substantially no Al and contains large amounts of Si and Mn and has low iron loss, comprising hot rolling a slab having a specified chemical composition to obtain a hot-rolled sheet; coiling the hot-rolled sheet; cold rolling the hot-rolled sheet once or twice with intermediate annealing being performed therebetween, to obtain a cold-rolled sheet; and subjecting the cold-rolled sheet to final annealing, wherein the hot-rolled sheet after the hot rolling is cooled at an average cooling rate from 800° C. to 650° C. of 30° C./s or more, and thereafter the coiling is performed at 650° C. or less. |
| US11946122B2 |
Micron silver particle-reinforced 316L stainless steel matrix composite and preparation method thereof
The present disclosure relates to a micron silver particle-reinforced 316L stainless steel matrix composite, including a 316L stainless steel matrix and silver particles uniformly distributed in the 316L stainless steel matrix. The silver particles have a weight 1% to 5% of the total weight of the composite; and the composite has a density of 7.9 g/cm3 to 8.2 g/cm3 and a relative density of more than 98%. The composite is prepared by the following method: mixing raw materials of a spherical silver powder and a spherical 316L stainless steel powder; subjecting a resulting mixture to mechanical ball milling to obtain a mixed powder; sieving the mixed powder and adding a resulting powder to a powder cylinder of an SLM forming machine; and charging an inert protective gas for printing to obtain the composite. |
| US11946115B2 |
Process for the desulphurization of materials and/or residues containing lead sulphate employing an amino compound
The present invention claims a process for the desulphurization of materials and/or residues containing lead sulphate, carried out in one or more stages. The main characteristic of this process is that the only desulphurising agent is an amino compound selected among urea, guanidine, guanine, arginine or another similar amino compound. |
| US11946110B2 |
Manufactured twinning in metal structures for improved damage tolerance
A metal structure includes an alloy material containing structural deformation twins embedded during a manufacturing process of the alloy material along defined directions, a defined deformation sequence, and defined strain levels. The embedded structural deformation twins mitigate failure and fracture in the alloy material. |
| US11946100B2 |
Microdroplet container and method for manufacturing the same, method for spreading microdroplets, microdroplet-generating kit, temperature-controlling device, oil phase composition for microdroplet generating and method for treating the same
The present application provides a microdroplet container and a method for manufacturing the same, a method for spreading microdroplets, a microdroplet-generating kit, a temperature-controlling device, an oil phase composition for microdroplet generating and a method for treating the same. The temperature controlling device includes a flexible circuit board a heating substrate, and multiple semiconductor electric couples. The semiconductor electric couples are disposed between the flexible circuit board and a first surface of the heating substrate, and are connected to each other. |
| US11946093B2 |
Enzyme addition to omega 3 fermentation broth for the reduction of oligosaccharides through sterilized dextrose solution
A method and modified fermentation intermediate are disclosed for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA). The method comprises heat sterilizing a fermentation medium comprising dextrose to produce a heat sterilized fermentation medium, wherein the heat sterilizing converts at least a portion of the dextrose to DP2+ sugars. The method comprises combining the heat sterilized fermentation medium with an enzyme capable of converting DP2+ sugars to dextrose, thereby producing a modified heat sterilized fermentation medium comprising more dextrose and less DP+ 2 sugars than without combining the medium with the enzyme. The modified heat sterilized fermentation intermediate may be placed in contact with a microorganism to produce PUFA, wherein the microorganism is capable of utilizing dextrose to produce PUFA. |
| US11946090B2 |
System and method for treating biomass material
According to the present invention, there is provided a treatment process system for biomass material and methods for such system. The system comprises a first dewatering stage arranged to receive biomass material, to remove liquid from the biomass material, and to feed the biomass material forward in the process. Further, the system includes a water treatment stage arranged to collect the removed liquid and an addition stage located downstream said dewatering stage and operatively coupled to the first dewatering stage. The addition stage is arranged to receive the de-watered biomass material, wherein the addition stage includes inlets for adding acid containing solution into the addition stage. A reactor stage arranged to receive the biomass material treated in the addition stage and to perform a pre-hydrolysis process to the biomass material. A filtrate feeding arrangement is arranged to feed liquid from the filtrate tank to the reactor stage. |
| US11946088B2 |
Method for processing oil crops with rhodotorula
The disclosure discloses a method for processing oil crops with rhodotorula, and belongs to the technical field of fermentation. The method includes the step of inoculating the rhodotorula (such as Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, Sporidiobolus salmonicolor and Rhodotorula glutinis) that can produce carotenoid into a fermentation medium that contains oil-rich oil crops for solid state fermentation to obtain oil and oil crop meal rich in carotenoid. The carotenoid as a fermentative metabolite of the rhodotorula has bioactivities of resisting oxidation, preventing vascular sclerosis, enhancing immunity and preventing cancers. Contents of carotenoid in the oil and oil crop meal acquired by the method can be up to 9.071 μg/g and 8.062 μg/g correspondingly. By the method, the oil and oil crop meal rich in carotenoid can be acquired at the same time by just once fermentation and once oil pressing without additional functional substances, and thus the production cost of the functional oil and the fermentation oil crop meal is greatly reduced. |
| US11946086B2 |
Gene involved in synthesis of cyclic peptide compound, method for producing cyclic peptide compound using the same, and transformant comprising the same
This invention is intended to identify a gene cluster involved in biosynthesis of a cyclic peptide compound produced by a filamentous fungus of the Curvularia species and to establish a system for synthesizing such cyclic peptide compound. The gene is composed of a first module to a tenth module and encodes a protein having activity of synthesizing a nonribosomal peptide constituting a basic peptide backbone of a cyclic peptide compound produced by a filamentous fungus of the Curvularia species. |
| US11946084B2 |
Fusion protein comprising a Pab1 element and an eIF4G element and use of the fusion protein for improving protein synthesis
Provided are a fusion protein comprising a Pab1 element and an eIF4G element and a preparation method therefor. The fusion protein can improve in-vitro translation efficiency. A constitutive or inducible promoter (for example, pKlPGK1) may also be inserted in front of eIF4G in the fusion protein for increasing in-vitro protein synthesis ability. |
| US11946083B2 |
Method for the microbial production of specific natural capsaicinoids
The present invention relates to the production of capsaicinoid compounds including Capsaicin and Nonivamide via microbial fermentation. |
| US11946079B2 |
Method for producing a protein hydrolysate using an endopeptidase and a carboxypeptidase
The present invention relates to a method for producing a protein hydrolysate using a polypeptide having endopeptidase activity and a polypeptide having carboxypeptidase activity and the use of these enzymes for hydrolysing a protein substrate. In addition, the present invention relates to polypeptides having carboxypeptidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| US11946078B2 |
Polypeptides with endoglucanase activity and uses thereof
Disclosed herein are cellulase variants, or active fragments thereof, and polynucleotides encoding same, where the cellulase variants, or active fragments thereof, have endoglucanase activity. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising the cellulase variants, or active fragments thereof; vectors and/or host cells comprising the polynucleotides encoding the cellulase variants, or active fragments thereof; and methods for making and/or using the cellulase variants, or active fragments thereof and/or compositions containing same; where the cellulase variants, or active fragments thereof, have endoglucanase activity. |
| US11946077B2 |
OMNI-59, 61, 67, 76, 79, 80, 81, and 82 CRISPR nucleases
The present invention provides a non-naturally occurring composition comprising a CRISPR nuclease comprising a sequence having at least 95% identity to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 1-8 or a nucleic acid molecule comprising a sequence encoding the CRISPR nuclease. |
| US11946071B2 |
Bioengineered in vitro 3D model of human atherosclerotic plaque
The invention provides a method for the generation of a layered cellular 3 D microtissue aggregate, comprising the steps of contacting myeloid cells with a protein kinase C agonist, yielding primed myeloid cells; incubating the primed myeloid cells in the presence of LDL in a confined volume, particularly in a hanging drop culture; yielding a 3 D culture of myeloid cells; and incubating the 3 D culture together with fibroblasts in a hanging drop in the presence of LDL, yielding the layered cellular aggregate. |
| US11946068B2 |
System and method for seeding and culturing
A system for seeding therapeutic active ingredients (TAIs) onto a porous scaffold includes a first chamber for accommodating the scaffold, a TAI storage device for storing TAIs, at least one second chamber for storing TAI media, and a gas inlet for receiving gas from a compressed source. A flow circuit is coupled to the first chamber, the TAI storage device, the second chamber and the gas inlet for delivering the TAIs, the TAI media and the gas to the scaffold. A pump pumps at least one of the TAIs, the TAI media and the gas in the flow circuit. The system also includes a processor that regulates the delivery of the TAIs, the TAI media and the gas to the scaffold via a plurality of valves. |
| US11946066B2 |
RNA-based delivery systems with levels of control
Disclosed herein include methods, compositions, and systems suitable for use in delivering a polynucleotide to a target cell of a subject in need thereof. In some embodiments, a viral vector comprises a polynucleotide encoding nucleoprotein (N), phosphoprotein (P), matrix protein (M), RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (L), and one or more transgenes. The viral vector can comprise one or more of a conditionally stable fusion protein, a protease fusion protein, a degron fusion protein, and/or a glycoprotein derived of another species than the viral vector polynucleotide to enable control of viral vector transduction and/or replication. |
| US11946064B2 |
Compositions and therapeutic methods of microRNA gene delivery
Described herein are compositions and methods for treating a disease in a subject by administering delivery vectors that express artificial microRNAs, artificial microRNA clusters, and/or a combination of microRNA clusters and associated non-coding RNAs to the subject. Also described herein are methods for preparing artificial microRNAs and artificial microRNA clusters. |
| US11946061B2 |
Methods and compositions for herbicide tolerance in plants
The invention relates to novel methods and compositions for conferring tolerance to glyphosate to plants. The invention also provides glyphosate-tolerant plants, seeds, tissue, cells, and plant parts comprising modified EPSP synthases and recombinant DNA molecules encoding modified EPSP synthases, as well as methods of producing the same and the use thereof. |
| US11946059B2 |
In vivo generation of water-soluble cannabinoids in plant cell suspension cultures
The present invention includes systems, methods and compositions for the in vivo bioconversion of water-soluble cannabinoids in plant cell suspension cultures. |
| US11946053B2 |
Methods for overcoming glucocorticoid resistance and for determining glucocorticoid resistance potential in cancer
The invention provides methods for overcoming glucocorticoid resistance of cancers by inhibition of CASP1. Also disclosed are diagnostic methods for determining glucocorticoid resistance potential by measuring expression level or promoter methylation status of CASP1 gene and/or NLRP3 gene. |
| US11946048B2 |
Non-human papillomaviruses for gene delivery in vitro and in vivo
A non-human papilloma pseudovirus or virus like particle has at least one papilloma capsid protein codon-optimized for expression in eukaryotic cells or cell lines. A pharmaceutical composition includes the non-human papilloma pseudovirus or virus like particle, and a diagnostic agent, an imaging agent, and a therapeutic agent. A non-human papilloma pseudovirus or virus like particle can be used as a medicament. A method for producing a non-human papilloma pseudovirus or virus like particle involves codon-optimizing of capsid proteins of non-human papillomaviruses for expression in eukaryotic cells, synthesizing of the sequences and cloning of the synthesized sequences into expression vectors, and producing non-human papilloma pseudovirus or virus like particles. ι-carrageenan can be used as transduction enhancer for non-human papilloma pseudovirus or virus like particles in vitro. |
| US11946047B2 |
Treatment strategies against anthrax by interfering with critical host factors
The present invention includes a composition and method for decreasing Bacillus anthracis virulence or toxicity comprising: at least one inhibitor that decreases an expression of one or more host genes selected from G6pc, Rgs1, Fosl2, Hcar2, Cxcl2 and Cxcl3, or Serpine1 (PAI-1). |
| US11946045B2 |
Compositions comprising a variant polypeptide and uses thereof
The present invention relates to variant polypeptides, methods of preparing the variant polypeptides, processes for characterizing the variant polypeptides, compositions and cells comprising the variant polypeptides, and methods of using the variant polypeptides. The invention further relates to complexes comprising the variant polypeptides, methods of producing the complexes, processes for characterizing the complexes, cells comprising the complexes, and methods of using the complexes. |
| US11946042B2 |
Modification of D- and T-arms of tRNA enhancing D-amino acid and β-amino acid uptake
The purpose of the present invention is to provide, for translation in a cell-free translation system, a novel translation system capable of synthesizing a peptide having therein consecutive non-proteinogenic amino acids. The present invention provides a tRNA containing the base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 and encoding a non-proteinogenic amino acid. |
| US11946040B2 |
Adenine DNA base editor variants with reduced off-target RNA editing
Engineered adenine base editor (ABE) variants with reduced RNA editing activity, and methods of using the same. |
| US11946035B2 |
Microfluidic-enabled multiwell cell culture devices and systems for precision culture, control and monitoring of living cells
Devices, systems, methods, and techniques regarding a microfluidic-enabled multiwell device with closed-loop monitoring and control of various parameters of the microfluidic environment are provided. A microfluidic-enabled multiwell device may have a removable and disposable microfluidics module layer and a reusable sensor module layer. The sensor module layer may be configured to monitor and control parameters of the environment inside the microfluidics module layer, store data regarding the parameters, and wirelessly transmit the data. The device may be configured to individually address flow of fluid to any one of a plurality of wells, using one or more pneumatic micropumps. The device may be configured to automatically execute one or more live cell cultures, assays, and/or protocols. The device may be configured to be received in a docking station and/or portable manifold adapter, and to be fluidly, pneumatically, and/or electronically coupled to the station, adapter, or other laboratory equipment. |
| US11946034B2 |
Sterile sampling apparatus
A sterile sampling apparatus includes a first to seventh flow paths, a sampling section, a first and second pumps, and a first to sixth opening/closing mechanism. The sampling section is disposed in the seventh flow path. The first pump is disposed in the sixth flow path. The second pump is disposed in the seventh flow path. The second flow path includes a first opening/closing mechanism. The third flow path includes a second opening/closing mechanism. The fourth flow path includes a third opening/closing mechanism. The first flow path includes a fourth opening/closing mechanism. The sixth flow path includes a fifth opening/closing mechanism. The seventh flow path includes a sixth opening/closing mechanism. The rate of the second pump is higher than that of the first pump. |
| US11946028B2 |
Fibrosis model on a chip
The presently disclosed subject matter provides a biomimetic organ model, and methods of its production and use. In one exemplary embodiment, the biomimetic organ model can be a multi-layer model including a at least two microchannels and at least one chamber slab with at least one membrane coated with cells disposed between at least one microchannel and the at least one chamber slab. In another exemplary embodiment, the biomimetic organ disease model can be a five-layer model including a first and second microchannel with a membrane-gel layer-membrane coated or encompassing cells disposed between the microchannels. In certain embodiments, at least one device can be coupled to the biomimetic organ model that delivers an agent to at least one microchannel. |
| US11946025B2 |
Whitening agents for cellulosic substrates
This invention relates to novel whitening agents for cellulosic substrates. The whitening agents are comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. Suitable chromophore components generally fluoresce blue, red, violet, or purple color when exposed to ultraviolet light, or they may absorb light to reflect these same shades. The whitening agents are further characterized by having a dispersion component value of the Hansen Solubility Parameter of less than or equal to about 17 MPa0.5. This invention also relates to laundry care compositions including but not limited to liquid and/or powder laundry detergent formulations and rinse added fabric softening (RAFS) compositions that comprise such whitening agents. |
| US11946023B2 |
Glucan fiber compositions for use in laundry care and fabric care
An enzymatically produced α-glucan oligomer/polymer compositions is provided. The enzymatically produced α-glucan oligomer/polymers can be derivatized into α-glucan ether compounds. The α-glucan oligomers/polymers and the corresponding α-glucan ethers are cellulose and/or protease resistant, making them suitable for use in fabric care and laundry care applications. Methods for the production and use of the present compositions are also provided. |
| US11946021B2 |
Solvent composition and process for removal of asphalt and other contaminant materials
A method and composition for removing contaminant material from industrial equipment are disclosed herein. The method includes providing a solvent composition having methyl soyate, an aprotic solvent such as dimethyl sulfoxide, an additional solvent, and a cationic surfactant. The method also includes contacting the contaminant material with the solvent composition and allowing the solvent composition to react with the contaminant material such that at least a portion of the contaminant material is no longer attached to the industrial equipment. |
| US11946018B2 |
Freshening compositions with ethoxylated/propoxylated aromatics
Freshening composition having at least 70% by weight of the freshening composition of water, a perfume, wherein the perfume includes at least 60% by weight of the perfume, Perfume Raw Materials (“PRMs”) having C log P greater than 1; and at least 0.0015% by weight of the freshening composition of an alkoxylated aromatic. |
| US11946014B2 |
Water/glycol-based hydraulic fluid
The present invention provides a water/glycol-based hydraulic fluid that includes a total fatty acid and dimer acid of more than 0.4 and no more than 1.2 mass % as a fatty acid lubricant, and also a phosphate ester at between 0.01 and 0.07 mass %. The phosphate ester has the following structure (1) here R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrogen group with a carbon number between 1 and 30, and may either be mutually identical or mutually different; R3 represents a hydrocarbon group with a carbon number between 1 and 20; R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group with a carbon number between 1 and 30; and X1, X2, X3, and X4 each indicate an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, where these may either be mutually identical or mutually different. |
| US11946011B1 |
Stabilized medium chain triglyceride-based household lubricant and protective coating
Household lubricant compositions containing medium chain triglycerides are non-toxic and biodegradable. The lubricant compositions are made using vegetable oil components and stabilized using alcohol, an antioxidant, and a metal chelator. The lubricant compositions offer safe and environmentally friendly alternatives to petroleum-based lubricants, yet have similar lubricity and are more stable than naturally sourced vegetable oils. The compositions also can be used to clean and coat surfaces, including food preparation surfaces, and to prevent corrosion. Still further uses include sterilization and sanitation of surfaces and as a skin conditioner and lubricant. |
| US11946007B1 |
Natural gas separation and purification and mercury collection system for oil and gas wells, and method of use thereof
A natural gas separation and purification and mercury collection system for oil and gas wells includes a cyclone separator, a condensation purification and separation mechanism, pressure buffer mechanisms, mercury collection and separation mechanisms, and natural gas storage tanks. An inlet end of the cyclone separator is communicated with an external gas source through a pressure buffer mechanism, and an outlet end of the cyclone separator is communicated with the condensation purification and separation mechanism through a pressure buffer mechanism. The condensation purification and separation mechanism is communicated with the mercury collection and separation mechanism through a pressure buffer mechanism. The mercury collection and separation mechanism is communicated with the natural gas storage tank through a guide tube. A method of use of the natural gas separation and purification and mercury collection system includes gas collection, gas purification, mercury separation, and mercury analysis. |
| US11946006B2 |
Method and system for producing a fuel from biogas
A method for producing a fuel includes transporting one or more pressure vessels containing pressurized biogas from a first location to a second location, and removing biogas from the one or more pressure vessels at the second location. The fuel production process is improved by controlling the decanting flow rate to provide a total decant time greater than 30-40 minutes, by actively heating biogas contained within the one or more pressure vessels, or some combination thereof. |
| US11946004B2 |
Atmospheric-vacuum heat exchange system having coil-wound heat exchangers, and heat exchange process
An atmospheric-vacuum heat exchange system with a winding-tube heat exchanger, has a first and second heat exchanging group; a primary distillation tower (4) or flash tower; an atmospheric furnace (5); an atmospheric tower (6); a vacuum furnace (7) and a vacuum tower (8); each winding-tube heat exchanger has a shell-pass cylinder (370), a first and second shell-pass connecting tube (371,372), a first and second tube plate (330,340), a plurality of first and second tube box (310,320), a plurality of heat exchange tubes (360) spirally wounded with multiple spiral tube layers; the number of the first and second tube box (310, 320) are respectively N, and each spiral tube layer has N group(s) of the wounded heat exchange tubes (360), N is a natural number greater than or equal to 1. The loss of heat exchanger is reduced. |
| US11946003B2 |
System and method for producing needle coke
A system for producing needle coke and a method for producing needle coke using the system are provided. The system includes a coke tower, a pressure stabilization tower, a buffer tank and a coking fractionation tower. A pressure controller is provided at the top of the pressure stabilization tower for adjusting the pressure at the top thereof. An oil gas outlet of the coke tower is in communication with an oil gas inlet of the pressure stabilization tower through a pipeline. No pressure controller for adjusting the pressure at the top of the coke tower is provided in the coke tower or on the oil gas pipeline connecting the coke tower to the pressure stabilization tower. |
| US11945996B2 |
In-situ foam generation for water shutoff
A system and method for water shutoff, including providing a treatment fluid including a polymer and a nitrogen-generating compound through a wellbore into a water zone in a subterranean formation, generating nitrogen gas in the water zone by a reaction of the nitrogen-generating compound, generating foam from the nitrogen gas and the treatment fluid in the water zone to give foamed polymer in the water zone, and sealing the water zone with the foamed polymer. |
| US11945994B1 |
Method to design for permeability of portland based systems
A method of designing a cement slurry may include: (a) selecting a target permeability and a density requirement; (b) inputting the target permeability into a permeability model and generating a proposed cement composition using the permeability model, wherein the proposed cement composition comprises at least a cement and concentration thereof, and a water and concentration thereof such that a cement slurry formed from the proposed cement composition water meet the density requirement; (c) preparing the cement slurry based on the proposed cement composition; and (d) introducing the cement slurry into a wellbore and allowing the cement slurry to set to form a hardened cement. |
| US11945993B2 |
In-situ aerogel type hydraulic cement composition for subterranean applications
A method may include: introducing a silane based aqueous soluble resin into a wellbore, wherein the silane based aqueous soluble resin comprises a glycidyl alkoxy silane containing resin and an amino alkoxy silane hardener. The silane based aqueous soluble resin may include 3-glycidoxypropyl trimethoxy silane and n-(3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl)ethylenediamine. |
| US11945991B2 |
Compositions comprising phase change materials and methods of making the same
In one aspect, compositions are described herein. In some embodiments, a composition comprises a phase change material, a hydrophobic sorption material, and a viscosity modifier. In some embodiments, a composition comprises a foam and a latent heat storage material dispersed in the foam, the latent heat storage material comprising a phase change material and a hydrophobic sorption material. |
| US11945989B2 |
Heat transfer compositions comprising R-1225ye(E), HFO-1234yF, R-32, R-125 and CO2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising (E)-1,2,3,3,3-pentafluoro-1-propene (i.e., R-1225ye(E) or HFO-1225ye(E)), HFO-1234yf, R-32, CO2, and, optionally, R-125, and methods of using the HFO-1225ye(E) composition in refrigeration, air conditioning, or heat pump systems, or for replacing R-410A or R-32 in refrigeration, air conditioning, or heat pump systems. |
| US11945988B2 |
Flame retardant product, method for manufacturing such a product and extinguishing device comprising such a product
A flame retardant product that contains an aqueous solution that includes a hydroxylated carbon-based component, an intumescent agent suitable for at least partially or even completely dehydrating the hydroxylated carbon-based component in such a way as to generate, under the effect of heat, a carbonaceous foam, and a thixotropic agent, selected to have a viscosity that increases as a result of water being added in the absence of shear. The solution has a sufficient concentration of the hydroxylated carbon-based component and the intumescent agent so that an addition of water to said solution increases the viscosity thereof in the absence of shear. The content by weight of the hydroxylated carbon-based component is greater than 10%. |
| US11945986B2 |
Biodegradable light wand
A biodegradable light wand is provided, the light wand including: a light transmitting tube comprising a natural hydrocolloid, the tube having a sidewall, a second port and a first port, to define a bore; a first bioluminescence tablet which comprises a light producing enzyme and a second bioluminescence tablet which comprises a bioluminescence-generating molecule, both housed in the bore; a bio-plug in the first port, the bio-plug sized to seal the first port, the bio-plug comprising a beeswax, charcoal, sometimes fungal spores, and a substrate; and a cap, the cap sized to seal the second port, the cap is configured in the second port. Together these components form a biodegradable, non-toxic alternative to plastic chemiluminescent glow sticks. |
| US11945983B2 |
Self-adhering sealing device with an adhesive sealant layer
A sealing device includes a waterproofing membrane, an adhesive sealant layer, and optionally a release liner, wherein the adhesive sealant layer includes at least one elastomer, at least one at 25° C. liquid polyolefin resin, and at least one inert mineral filler. An adhesive sealant composition is used to form the adhesive sealant layer. The sealant device may be used to waterproof a substrate and provide a fully-adhered roof system. The adhesive sealant composition may be used to provide a self-healing roofing membrane. |
| US11945974B2 |
Composition for provisional fixation and method for producing bonded structure
A temporary fixing composition is provided that is used to temporarily fix a first bonding target material and a second bonding target material to each other before the two bonding target materials are bonded to each other. The temporary fixing composition contains a first organic component having a viscosity of less than 70 mPa·s at 25° C. and a boiling point of 200° C. or lower and a second organic component having a viscosity of 70 mPa·s or greater at 25° C. and a boiling point of 210° C. or higher. It is preferable that, when thermogravimetry-differential thermal analysis is performed under the conditions at a temperature increase rate of 10° C./min in a nitrogen atmosphere with a sample mass of 30 mg, the 95% mass reduction temperature is lower than 300° C. |
| US11945973B2 |
Ionic liquid-based coating and method of making articles coated with the same
The ionic liquid-based coating is a coating for both porous and nonporous materials. As non-limiting examples, a porous substrate coated with the ionic liquid-based coating may be used to disinfect and remove microorganisms from air and water, to provide an antimicrobial surface for preventing microbial contamination, or to enhance filtration efficiency of the porous material for airborne and waterborne particulate matter without increasing flow resistance. As a further non-limiting example, a nonporous substrate coated with the ionic liquid-based coating may be used to form a surface capable of self-disinfection from microorganisms contacting surface. The ionic liquid-based coating includes at least one ionic liquid, an adhesive, and at least one additive, which may be a disinfectant, a viscosity modifier, a pH buffer, a fragrance, or combinations thereof. |
| US11945971B2 |
Anti-corrosion material-coated discrete graphene sheets and anti-corrosion coating composition containing same
Provided is a graphene-based coating suspension comprising multiple graphene sheets, thin film coating of an anti-corrosive pigment or sacrificial metal deposited on graphene sheets, and a binder resin dissolved or dispersed in a liquid medium, wherein the multiple graphene sheets contain single-layer or few-layer graphene sheets selected from a pristine graphene material having essentially zero % of non-carbon elements, or a non-pristine graphene material having 0.001% to 47% by weight of non-carbon elements wherein the non-pristine graphene is selected from graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, graphene fluoride, graphene chloride, graphene bromide, graphene iodide, hydrogenated graphene, nitrogenated graphene, doped graphene, chemically functionalized graphene, or a combination thereof. The invention also provides a process for producing this coating suspension. Also provided is an object or structure coated at least in part with such a coating. |
| US11945970B2 |
Water repellent composition
A water repellent composition containing a component that is a condensation reaction product between: an organopolysiloxane shown by the following general formula (1) and having a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group at both terminals of a molecular chain of the organopolysiloxane, (R2O)R12SiO—(R12SiO)m—SiR12(OR2) (1); and a trialkylsiloxysilicate containing R13SiO1/2 an unit, an SiO2 unit, and a siloxane unit having a hydroxyl group bonded to a silicon atom, where a molar ratio of the R13SiO1/2 unit/the SiO2 unit is 0.6 to 1.3, and a content of the hydroxyl group is 0.1 or more and less than 2.0 mass %. A water repellent composition which is used as a water repellent in water repellency, particularly suitably applied as an agent for paintwork and a glass surface of an automobile, so as to impart initial water repellency and long-lasting water repellency. |
| US11945965B2 |
Silicone materials
Silicone material obtained by a reaction between:—at least one organopolysiloxane (A) that has a molar mass of less than 70,000 g/mol, preferably less than 50,000 g/mol, and contains siloxyl units I.1 and I.2; and—at least one organic compound (B) carrying at least two carboxylic acid groups and having no unsaturation. Y a Z b 1 SiO 4 - ( a + b ) 2 ( I .1 ) Z c 2 SiO 4 - c 2 ( I .2 ) |
| US11945964B2 |
Coating compositions for application utilizing a high transfer efficiency applicator and methods and systems thereof
A system for applying a first coating composition and a second coating composition is provided herein. The system includes an atomizing applicator and a high transfer efficiency applicator defining a nozzle orifice. The system further includes a substrate assembly comprising a metal-containing substrate and a plastic-containing substrate. The metal-containing substrate is coupled to the plastic-containing substrate. The atomizing applicator is configured to apply the first coating composition to the metal-containing substrate. The high transfer efficiency applicator is configured to expel the second coating composition through the second nozzle orifice to the plastic-containing substrate. |
| US11945963B2 |
Coated non-conductive substrate
A non-conductive substrate being at least partially coated with a paint including reduced graphene oxide and a thermosetting polymer, the non-conductive substrate being directly coated by the paint, a method for the manufacture of this coated non-conductive substrate, methods for detecting leaks or strain deformation and the uses of said coated non-conductive substrate. |
| US11945962B2 |
Cationic electrodeposition coating composition and method for forming cured electrodeposition coating film
The present invention provides a cationic electrodeposition coating composition that has both good anti-cissing property and good coating film appearance. This is a cationic electrodeposition coating composition containing a silicone compound (A) having an SP value of more than 10.5 and 15.0 or less, and a film forming resin (B), wherein the silicone compound (A) is contained in an amount of 0.01 parts by mass or more and 4.5 parts by mass or less per 100 parts by mass of the resin solid content of the film forming resin (B). For example, the silicone compound (A) is at least one species selected from the group consisting of a polyether modified silicone compound (A-1), a polyester modified silicone compound (A-2), and a polyacrylic modified silicone compound (A-3). |
| US11945960B2 |
Aqueous ink for inkjet recording
The present invention relates to [1] an aqueous composition for ink-jet printing, containing a carbodiimide compound, a polyester resin and water; [2] a ink set for ink-jet printing containing an aqueous composition a containing a carbodiimide compound and water, and an aqueous composition b containing a polyester resin; [3] an ink set for ink-jet printing, containing the aforementioned aqueous composition for ink-jet printing and a water-based ink containing a colorant; and [4] an ink-jet printing method including the step 1 of ejecting a carbodiimide compound, a polyester resin, a colorant and water onto a surface of a printing medium by an ink-jetting method to print characters or images thereon; and the step 2 of subjecting the resulting printed characters or images to heat treatment at a temperature of 50 to 200° C. According to the aqueous composition of the present invention, it is possible to obtain a printed material that is excellent in rub fatness. |
| US11945958B2 |
Method for fabricating collagen bio-ink, collagen bio-ink and 3D bio-printing method
A method for fabricating a collagen bio-ink includes steps as follows. A first component is provided, wherein the first component is to fill a collagen powder to a first syringe. A second component is provided, wherein the second component is to fill a neutral solution or an acid solution to a second syringe. A mixing step is performed, wherein the first syringe is connected to the second syringe with a Lure lock connector and pushing back and forth to mix the first component and the second component to form a hydrogel and become a collagen bio-ink. |
| US11945954B2 |
Method for preparing high-stability liquid blueberry anthocyanins
The invention relates to a method for preparing high-stability liquid blueberry anthocyanins, belonging to the field of food processing. A method for preparing high-stability liquid blueberry anthocyanins comprises the following process steps: adding graphene oxide and chitosan to an MES buffer solution at room temperature, mixing homogeneously and adding EDC and NHS sequentially, reacting to obtain a first solution; adding dry blueberry anthocyanin powder in the first solution, adjusting pH to 4.5 to 5.0 and mixing homogeneously to obtain a second solution, and treating the second solution at 350 to 420 MPa and 2 to 4° C. to obtain the product. The method for increasing the stability of blueberry anthocyanins provided by the present invention uses dry blueberry anthocyanin powder as a raw material and adds graphene oxide combined with chitosan compound as an anthocyanin stabilizer, thereby increasing the stability of blueberry anthocyanins during processing and production. |
| US11945951B2 |
Formulation and its use as defoamer
The present invention relates to a formulation comprising a polyether siloxane, which is characterized in that a polyether that is terminated with an ester group and that is different from the polyether siloxane is present in the formulation in an amount of from 0.5 to 10% by weight based on the complete formulation, to a process for the production of a defoamed composition, wherein the inventive formulation is added to the composition to be defoamed, and to a composition comprising a formulation according to the invention, wherein the composition is a coating agent, a paint or a varnish. |
| US11945944B2 |
Flexible abrasive article
The disclosure relates to a curable composition comprising: a polymerizable epoxy-acrylate resin composition having a complex viscosity at 25° C. and 1 Hz frequency of at least about 4500 Pa-s and a probe tack peak force of at least about 300 kPa; and abrasive particles partially or fully embedded in the polymerizable epoxy-acrylate resin composition. The disclosure also relates to cured compositions formed from such curable compositions, wherein the abrasive particles are partially or fully embedded in the cured composition. In addition, the disclosure relates to abrasive articles made from such cured compositions as well as methods for making abrasive articles. |
| US11945942B2 |
Starch pellets for sheet extrusion and methods for forming the pellets
A processing system for producing starch based expanded products useful as packing material for shipping, packaging and insulating applications. Generally, two processing steps for forming materials are involved. In a first step, dense pellets or granules are formed from starch and a plasticizing agent, such as a plasticizing polymer, for example, polyvinyl alcohol. The starch in the pellets is generally formed, for example with an extruder, into a thermoplastic or thermosetting form for further processing. The pellets generally have an individual density of at least about 70 lbs./cubic foot and a small size for convenient delivery for the second processing step. The second process step is based on the expanding of the material from an extruder with water as the expansion agent in which the dwell time in the extruder is short. The process is designed such that a less expensive single screw extruder is suitable for extruding the expanded material. The starch based pellets are convenient for shipping closer to the end use location. |
| US11945939B2 |
Polypropylene composition comprising glass fibers
The invention relates to a composition comprising a) a propylene homopolymer and/or a propylene copolymer consisting of at least 70.0 wt % of propylene monomer units and at most 30.0 wt % of comonomer units selected from ethylene monomer units and α-olefin monomer units having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, b) an optional ethylene-α-olefin copolymer, c) glass fibers and d) a reaction product of d1) a functionalized polypropylene and d2) a polyetheramine, wherein the total amount of a) and b) is 10.0 to 80.0 wt % or 20.0 to 80.0 wt % with respect to the total composition, the amount of c) is 5.0 to 50.0 wt % with respect to the total composition, the amount of d2) is at least 5.0 wt % with respect to the total composition and the weight ratio of d2) to d1) is at least 0.050. |
| US11945938B2 |
Bimodal polyethylene copolymers
Ethylene-based polymers are characterized by a density from 0.92 to 0.955 g/cm3, a HLMI of less than 35 g/10 min, and a ratio of a number of short chain branches (SCBs) per 1000 total carbon atoms at Mz to a number of SCBs per 1000 total carbon atoms at Mn in a range from 11.5 to 22. These polymers can have a higher molecular weight (HMW) component and a lower molecular weight (LMW) component, in which a ratio of a number of SCBs per 1000 total carbon atoms at Mn of the HMW component to a number of SCBs per 1000 total carbon atoms at Mn of the LMW component is in a range from 10.5 to 22. These ethylene polymers can be produced using a dual catalyst system containing an unbridged metallocene compound with an indenyl group having at least one halogen-substituted hydrocarbyl substituent with at least two halogen atoms, and a single atom bridged metallocene compound with a fluorenyl group and a cyclopentadienyl group. |
| US11945935B2 |
Hydrophilic polymer compositions
The present disclosure relates to methods for preparing a hydrophilic composition including intimately mixing a silicone component including at least one polysiloxane and a polymer component, and to hydrophobic polymer compositions prepared thereby. One aspect of the disclosure provides an article having a major exterior surface, the article comprising an intimate mixture of a silicone component including at least one polysiloxane; and a polymer component including at least one hydrophilic polymer having a water-absorption capacity of at least 50 wt. %; wherein the silicone component and the polymer component are present in the mixture in a dry weight ratio within the range of 99.9:0.1 to 30:70. In certain desirable embodiments as otherwise described herein, the intimate mixture is disposed at an exterior surface of the article, e.g., at the major exterior surface of the article. |
| US11945930B2 |
Three-dimensional solid polymeric foams and a microfluidic process to design them
Organic solid three-dimensional polymeric foams, a process for preparing the same, and use thereof, the foams includes a solid continuous phase and pores, wherein the foams have a pore size ranging from 50 nm to 200 μm and a volumetric fraction of the solid continuous phase is from 0.1 to 60%, with respect to the total volume of the foams, and a polydispersity index from 1 to 30%, the foams being ordered over a volume of at least 100 pores. |
| US11945928B2 |
Polyol composition and polyurethane foam
Provided are a polyol composition in which hard caking does not occur when stored for a long period of time, and a polyurethane foam using the same.The polyol composition comprises a polyol compound, a foaming agent, a filler, and a metal oxide fine particle, the foaming agent including a hydrofluoroolefin, and the metal oxide fine particle having a count number ratio of OH ions of a metal constituting the metal oxide fine particle with respect to a total count number of all ions measured using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry of 0.1 or less. |
| US11945927B2 |
Foam and method for producing same
[Problem] An object of the present invention is to provide a foam including a thermoplastic resin and rubber as a main component, in which a micronized product of a cellulose fiber is uniformly dispersed, and uniformity and mechanical properties are excellent. [Solution] A foam includes a modified cellulose fiber (A) covalently bonded with a diene-based polymer, a thermoplastic resin and/or rubber (B), and a diene-based polymer (C) having a functional group capable of covalently bonding with a cellulose fiber, in which the fiber (A) is micronized, the fiber (A) has a content of 0.05 to 20% by mass, and the thermoplastic resin and/or rubber (B) has a glass transition point of −130° C. to 120° C. |
| US11945924B2 |
Fluorine-containing resin composition, and resin vanish, fluorine-containing dielectric sheet, laminate, copper clad laminate and printed circuit board containing the same
The present invention relates to a fluorine-containing resin composition, and a resin vanish, a fluorine-containing dielectric sheet, a laminate, a copper clad laminate and a printed circuit board containing the same. The fluorine-containing resin composition comprises 30 wt. %-70 wt. % of a fluorine-containing polymer, 30 wt. %-70 wt. % of an inorganic filler which includes the following particle size distribution: D10 is greater than 1.5 μm; and D50 is 10-15 μm. In the present invention, the selection of an inorganic filler with a specific particle size distribution can ensure that the boards prepared by the fluorine-containing resin composition have excellent dielectric properties and voltage resistance performance, even if the inorganic filler is added in a large amount. |
| US11945923B2 |
Conductive polymer dispersion liquid, electrolytic capacitor, and method for producing electrolytic capacitor
Disclosed is a method for producing an electrolytic capacitor, the method including the steps of preparing an anode foil that includes a dielectric layer, a cathode foil, and a fiber structure; preparing a conductive polymer dispersion liquid that contains a conductive polymer component and a dispersion medium; producing a separator by applying the conductive polymer dispersion liquid to the fiber structure and then removing at least a portion of the dispersion medium; and producing a capacitor element by sequentially stacking the anode foil, the separator, and the cathode foil. The dispersion medium contains water. The fiber structure contains a synthetic fiber in an amount of 50 mass % or more. The fiber structure has a density of 0.2 g/cm3 or more and less than 0.45 g/cm3. |
| US11945921B1 |
Biocomposite of algae
A biocomposite of algae and a plant material is provided. The biocomposite of algae comprises glycerol and a plant material including at least one of Abelmoschus esculentus (Okra), and Lepidium sativum (Cress). The biocomposite may optionally include a plasticizer. The algae may be green marine algae (Codium sp). The biocomposite is biodegradable and moldable into any suitable shape. Thus, the biocomposite may be used to form containers, such as for potting plants or seedlings, as a mulching or fertilizing material, or for any applications where a moldable, biodegradable material is desired. |
| US11945920B2 |
Thermosensitive fine particles
Thermosensitive fine particles of the present invention include a side chain crystal polymer which is crystallized at a temperature lower than a melting point and which exhibits fluidity at a temperature equal to or more than the melting point. The side chain crystal polymer may include, as a monomer component, a (meth)acrylate having a straight-chain alkyl group having 14 or more carbon atoms. A mean particle diameter of the fine particles may be 0.1 to 50 μm. The thermosensitive fine particles may include no organic solvents. |
| US11945916B2 |
Oleogel based on fatty acid amide-containing polymer and preparation method therefor
The present invention relates to a fatty acid amide-based oleogel containing polymer and a method for preparing same and, more particularly, to a fatty acid amide-based oleogel containing polymer and a method for preparing same, the oleogel comprising: a substrate formed of a polymer of a fatty acid amide having a single double bond and a silicone polymer, or a composition comprising same; and an oleogel surface formed by impregnating the substrate with oil, wherein, in the silicone polymer, first silyl-terminated polydialkylsiloxane is crosslinked with second vinyl-terminated polydialkylsiloxane, and the fatty acid amide is linked to the first silyl-terminated polydialkylsiloxane. Also, the present invention can provide use of the fatty acid amide-based oleogel containing polymer according to the present invention. |
| US11945915B2 |
Method for synthesizing pre-hydrolyzed polysilicate
A method for synthesizing a pre-hydrolyzed polysilicate, wherein a polysilicate is applied as a reactant when synthesizing the pre-hydrolyzed polysilicate, and the total amount of water added in the reaction system is specified. The method is capable of omitting a condensation reaction by applying a polysilicate as a reactant, thereby significantly shortening synthesis time and reducing production costs when compared with a typical synthesis method in which alkoxysilane-based monomer compound is used as a reactant. In addition, the gelation reaction time and the weight average molecular weight can be easily controlled, and a pre-hydrolyzed polysilicate excellent in storage stability and processability can be synthesized. |
| US11945909B2 |
Process for preparing polycarbonates using a catalyst system having a quarternary nitrogen compond and a quarternary phosphorous compound
The invention relates to a method for producing a polycarbonate and the reaction of one or more diaryl carbonates with one or more aromatic compounds, wherein a catalyst combination is used in the process. The invention further relates to a catalyst combination and to the use thereof in a process for producing a polycarbonate. |
| US11945906B2 |
Epoxy resin curing agent, epoxy resin composition, and use of amine composition
Provided are an epoxy resin curing agent containing an amine composition or a modified product thereof, wherein the amine composition contains bis(aminomethyl)cyclohexane (A), a compound (B) represented by the specific formula (1), and a compound (C) represented by the specific formula (2), and wherein a mass ratio of the component (B) to the component (C) [(B)/(C)] is from 0.01 to 5.0, an epoxy resin composition, and use of an amine composition for an epoxy resin curing agent. |
| US11945905B2 |
Vegetable oil-derived epoxy compositions having improved performance
Embodiments of this invention are directed to bio-based epoxy compositions, and method of their preparation and use. Other embodiments are directed to cured bio-based epoxies, and manufactured articles having bio-based epoxy coatings, adhesives, or composites. |
| US11945900B2 |
Orthodontic articles prepared using a polycarbonate diol, polymerizable compositions, and methods of making the articles
The present disclosure provides an orthodontic article including the reaction product of the polymerizable composition. Further, the present disclosure provides polymerizable compositions and methods of making an orthodontic article. The method includes obtaining a polymerizable composition and selectively curing the polymerizable composition to form an orthodontic article. Further, methods are provided, including receiving, by a manufacturing device having one or more processors, a digital object comprising data specifying an orthodontic article; and generating, with the manufacturing device by an additive manufacturing process, the orthodontic article based on the digital object. A system is also provided, including a display that displays a 3D model of an orthodontic article; and one or more processors that, in response to the 3D model selected by a user, cause a 3D printer to create a physical object of an orthodontic article. |
| US11945899B2 |
Moisture-curable silylated resin derived from polycarbonate diol and coating, sealant and adhesive compositions containing same
A moisture-curable silylated resin is derived from a copolycarbonate diol prepared from diol(s) of specific types. |
| US11945894B2 |
Dielectric film-forming composition
This disclosure relates to a dielectric film-forming composition that includes at least one cyclized polydiene resin, and one or both of at least one reactive functional compound and at least one catalyst. |
| US11945889B2 |
Bimodal polyethylene copolymer and film thereof
A bimodal ethylene-co-1-hexene copolymer consisting essentially of a higher molecular weight component and a lower molecular weight component and, when in melted form at 190 degrees Celsius, is characterized by a unique melt property space defined by a combination of high-load melt index, melt flow ratio, and melt elasticity properties. A blown film consisting essentially of the bimodal ethylene-co-1-hexene copolymer. A method of synthesizing the bimodal ethylene-co-1-hexene copolymer. A method of making the blown film. A manufactured article comprising the bimodal ethylene-co-1-hexene copolymer. |
| US11945887B2 |
Curable composition, film, near-infrared cut filter, solid-state imaging element, image display device, infrared sensor, and camera module
Provided are a curable composition including a compound represented by Formula (1) or Formula (2), a curable compound, and a solvent; a film formed of the curable composition; a near-infrared cut filter; a solid-state imaging element; an image display device; an infrared sensor; and a camera module. In the formulae, X1 to X5 each independently represent O, S, or a dicyanomethylene group, and R1 to R5 each independently represent a group represented by Formula (R2), and the like, in which at least one of R1 or R2 is the group represented by Formula (R2) and at least one of R3 or R4 is the group represented by Formula (R2). |
| US11945884B2 |
Fibrous cellulose, fibrous cellulose dispersion, and production method for fibrous cellulose
An object of the present invention is to provide ultrafine fibrous cellulose capable of exhibiting excellent coating suitability when added to paint. The present invention relates to fibrous cellulose having a fiber width of 1,000 nm or less, in which, when the fibrous cellulose is dispersed in water to form a dispersion liquid having a viscosity of 2,500 mPa·s at 23° C., and the dispersion liquid is stirred under predetermined stirring conditions, a viscosity change rate falls within ±50%, calculated by the following formula: viscosity change rate (%)=(viscosity after stirring−viscosity before stirring)/viscosity before stirring×100. |
| US11945883B2 |
Binder compositions and uses thereof
The present invention relates to new aqueous curable binder compositions comprising a carbohydrate compound, a first cross linker and a second cross linker different from the first capable of undergoing radical polymerization and possibly a free radical initiator. |
| US11945879B2 |
Multispecific antigens binding fragments and multispecific antibodies
The invention relates to multispecific antibody constructs comprising Fab fragments having mutations at the interface of the CH1 and CL domains, said mutations preventing heavy chain/light chain mispairing. |
| US11945878B2 |
Switch molecule and switchable chimeric antigen receptor
The present invention relates to a switch molecule for activating a chimeric antigen receptor effector cell, to a polypeptide or fusion protein binding thereto, and to a chimeric antigen receptor. (i) When a switch molecule of the present invention is used, in order to improve safety of a CAR-T cell, if severe toxicity appears, a switch molecule lacking a targeting moiety can be injected to adjust activation of the CAR-T cell. (ii) When an antigen is mutated, or in order to cure various carcinomas, instead of an existing switch molecule, a switch molecule targeting a new antigen generated due to the mutation or a switch molecule targeting a different tumor associated antigen (TAA) can be injected into a patient to cure cancer more effectively. |
| US11945877B2 |
Anti-HER2 antibodies
Antibodies, antigen-binding fragments and polypeptides that bind to HER2 are disclosed, as well as nucleic acids and vectors encoding the same. Also provided are cells comprising the antibodies, antigen-binding fragments, polypeptides, nucleic acids and vectors, methods of making such molecules, and the use of such molecules for therapeutic applications. |
| US11945876B2 |
Receptors providing targeted costimulation for adoptive cell therapy
Some embodiments provided herein are chimeric costimulatory antigen receptor (CoStAR), useful in adoptive cell therapy (ACT), and cells comprising the CoStAR. In some embodiments, the CoStAR can act as a modulator of cellular activity enhancing responses to defined antigens. In some embodiments, CoStAR and/or fusion proteins, nucleic acids encoding the CoStAR and therapeutic uses thereof are also provided. |
| US11945875B2 |
Motile sperm domain containing protein 2 and cancer
Disclosed herein are methods of treating, reducing the incidence of, or preventing one or more activities in or of a cancer cell, methods of treating, reducing the incidence of, or preventing migration or metastasis of a cancer cell, methods of treating, reducing the incidence of, or preventing a cancer by reducing tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) or their migration, and methods of treating, reducing the incidence of, or preventing a cancer (including metastatic cancer), for example, with an inhibitor of Motile Sperm Domain containing Protein 2 (MOSPD2). Also disclosed are inhibitors of MOSPD2 (e.g., anti-MOSPD2 antibodies or antigen binding fragments thereof) and pharmaceutical compositions containing MOSPD2 inhibitors. Also disclosed are methods for the prediction, diagnosis, or prognosis of cancer, cancer metastasis, tumor progression, or tumor invasiveness in a subject. |
| US11945873B2 |
Antitumor antagonists
Antitumor antagonists that bind specifically to immune checkpoint regulators, angiogenesis pathway regulators and/or TGF pathway regulators are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for treating proliferative disorders, infections, and immunological disorders with the antitumor antagonists described herein. |
| US11945870B2 |
Immunomodulatory IL-2 agents in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors
The invention provides compositions and methods of treating cancer in a patient with a combination therapy comprising a fusion protein of SEQ ID NO: 1 in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. Preferably the patient has failed to achieve complete or partial response with prior or ongoing treatment with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. |
| US11945864B2 |
Monoclonal antibody specifically binding to LAG-3 and use thereof
A monoclonal antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof according to an embodiment of the present invention can bind to lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG-3) including a heavy chain variable region and a light chain variable region and inhibit the activity thereof. Thus it is expected to be useful for the development of immunotherapeutic agents for various disorders that are associated with LAG-3. |
| US11945854B2 |
Transfected T-cells and T-cell receptors for use in immunotherapy against cancers
Disclosed are T-cell receptors (TCRs) binding to tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) for targeting cancer cells, T-cells expressing same, methods for producing same, and methods for treating cancers using same. Disclosed are TCRs and their variants that bind to HLA class I or II molecules with a peptide, such as MAG-003 have the amino acid sequence of KVLEHVVRV (SEQ ID NO:1). The description further relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods, the immunotherapy of cancer, and tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T-cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules. |
| US11945852B2 |
IL-2 muteins and uses thereof
The present application provides for IL-2 muteins, compositions comprising the same, and methods of using the same. |
| US11945850B2 |
B*44 restricted peptides for use in immunotherapy against cancers and related methods
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules. |
| US11945849B2 |
Multi-epitope vaccine for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease
The disclosure provides peptide compositions and immunotherapy compositions comprising an amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide and a tau peptide. The disclosure also provides methods of treating or effecting prophylaxis of Alzheimer's disease or other diseases with beta-amyloid deposition in a subject, including methods of clearing deposits, inhibiting or reducing aggregation of Aβ and/or tau, blocking the uptake by neurons, clearing amyloid, and inhibiting propagation of tau seeds in a subject having or at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or other diseases containing tau and/or amyloid-beta accumulations. The methods include administering to such patients the compositions comprising an amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide and a tau peptide. |
| US11945847B2 |
Optogenetic induction of neurodegenerative disease pathologies
The present disclosure relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for the inducing neurodegenerative disease pathologies. In one aspect, disclosed herein is a nucleotide sequence encoding a chimeric polypeptide, comprising: a first nucleotide sequence encoding a light-induced oligomerization domain and a second nucleotide sequence encoding a neurodegenerative disease in target protein. Disclosed herein is a method of inducing a neurodegenerative disease pathology in a cell, comprising the steps: introducing into the cell an expression vector encoding a chimeric polypeptide, comprising: a first nucleotide sequence encoding a light-induced oligomerization domain and a second nucleotide sequence encoding a low complexity domain from a neurodegenerative disease target protein, wherein the first nucleotide sequence is operably linked to a promoter; expressing the chimeric polypeptide; and inducing oligomerization of the chimeric polypeptide by stimulation with blue light. |
| US11945846B2 |
Stapled intracellular-targeting antimicrobial peptides to treat infection
Structurally stabilized, e.g., stapled, peptides with the ability to translocate through microbial cell membranes to the interior of microbial cells and exert a biological activity there are provided, as are methods of designing, making and using such peptides. |
| US11945843B2 |
Control of coleopteran pests using RNA molecules
Disclosed are double stranded RNA molecules that are toxic to coleopteran insects. In particular, interfering RNA molecules capable of interfering with pest target genes and that are toxic to the target pest are provided. Further, methods of making and using the interfering RNA, for example in transgenic plants or as the active ingredient in a composition, to confer protection from insect damage are disclosed. |
| US11945839B2 |
Depletion of light chain mispaired antibody variants by hydrophobic interaction chromatography
The present invention relates to methods for separating multispecific CrossMab antibodies from light chain mispaired variants thereof in a solution comprising CrossMab bispecific antibodies and mispaired antibody variants thereof by hydrophobic interaction chromatography. |
| US11945838B2 |
Method for synthesis of protein amphiphiles
The present invention discloses a novel cost effective method for synthesis of protein/peptide amphiphiles irrespective of functional and structural classification of proteins useful in designing a vaccine candidate from antigenic protein. The protein modification of the present invention is universal and hence any protein/peptide can be converted into amphiphilic proteins/peptides. |
| US11945835B2 |
Method for producing D-allulose crystals
A new method for producing D-allulose crystals that allows for a continuous production process and ensures a high yield. Also, new D-allulose crystals. Further, the use of a nanofiltration unit in a method for producing D-allulose crystals to improve the yield and/or quality of the resulting crystals. |
| US11945834B2 |
Cyclic dinucleotides as anticancer agents
The present invention is directed to compounds of formulae (I) and (II) wherein all substituents are defined herein, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising compounds of the invention and methods of using said compositions in the treatment of various disorders. |
| US11945833B2 |
Prodrugs of L-BHDU and methods of treating viral infections
In an embodiment, the invention is directed to prodrug compounds of L-BHDU according to the chemical structure I: Where R1 is a —(CH2)n—O—R1a group or a —(CH2)j—O—C(O)Ok—R2a group; R2 is H, a —(CH2)n—O—R1a group or a —(CH2)j—O—C(O)Ok—R2a group; R1a is independently a C6-C30 alkyl group, often a C12-C22 alkyl group, often a C14-C20 alkyl group or a C16-C18 alkyl group, often a C16 or C18 alkyl group; R2a is independently a C1-C12 alkyl group, often a C2-C6 alkyl group, a C3-C4 alkyl group, an isopropyl, t-butyl or sec-butyl group, or an isopropyl or t-butyl group; Each j is independently 1-6, 1-3, often 1 or 2; Each k is 0 or 1; Each n is independently 1-6, 1-4, 2-4 or 2 or 3; or A pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solute or polymorph thereof. Additional embodiments are directed to pharmaceutical compositions based upon the disclosed chemical compounds and methods of treating or reducing the likelihood of VZV, HSV-1 or HSV-2 infections. Methods of synthesizing compounds according to the present invention represent further embodiments of the invention. |
| US11945832B2 |
Psilocybin and O-acetylpsilocin, salts and solid state forms thereof
Disclosed herein are salts and solid-state forms of psilocybin, including psilocybin HCl, and salts and solid forms of O-acetylpsilocin, including O-acetylpsilocin fumarate. Also disclosed are methods for making the salts and solid forms and methods for administering the salts and solid forms. The salts and solid forms disclosed herein are useful for treating neurological disease and/or a psychiatric disorder in a subject. |
| US11945831B2 |
Adducts of triphenylphosphine and triphenylphosphite and their use for the bromination of primary alcohols
The present invention relates to the use of novel adducts of general formula (I) TPPxTPOP(1-x), wherein TPP is triphenylphosphine, TPOP is triphenylphosphite and x is a real number between 0.05 and 0.9. These novel adducts are useful for the bromination of primary alcohols, in particular for the bromination of primary alcohols. |
| US11945818B1 |
Pyrrolo[3,2-c]quinoline compounds as CK2 inhibitors
Novel pyrrolo[3,2-c]quinoline compounds of the formula I, a method of synthesizing these compounds, a pharmaceutical composition comprising these compounds and a suitable carrier, and a method of using the compounds. The pyrrolo[3,2-c]quinoline compounds, identified as CK2 inhibitors, are useful as anticancer and/or antitumor agents, and as agents for treating other kinase-associated conditions including inflammation, pain, and certain immunological disorders, and other types of diseases such as diabetes, viral infection, neurodegenerative diseases. |
| US11945817B2 |
Indolizine derivatives and their application in medicine
This invention relates to indolizine derivatives and their use in medicine. In particular, the present invention discloses novel substituted indolizine derivatives of formula I, or an isotopically labeled compound thereof, or an optical isomer thereof, a geometric isomer thereof, a tautomer thereof or a mixture of various isomers, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a prodrug thereof. The invention also relates to the use of these compounds in medicine. |
| US11945810B2 |
Amines for use as sigma receptor modulators
The present invention discloses a number of polycyclic amines that are useful as opioid receptor modulators. The compounds of the invention are useful in both therapeutic and diagnostic methods, including for treating pain, neurological disorders, cardiac disorders, bowel disorders, drug and alcohol addiction, drug overdose, urinary disorders, respiratory disorders, sexual dysfunction, psoriasis, graft rejection or cancer. |
| US11945809B2 |
Isatin derivatives
A method of treating cancer can include administering one or more of the isatin derivatives to a patient in need thereof. In an embodiment, the cancer is selected from the group consisting of breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, renal cancer and melanoma. The isatin derivative is selected from the group consisting of: |
| US11945802B2 |
Additive for imparting ultraviolet absorbency and/or high refractive index to matrix, and resin member using same
Provided is an additive for imparting ultraviolet absorbency, or an additive for imparting a high refractive index, which has satisfactory compatibility with a resin serving as a matrix and can maintain high transparency even if added in high concentrations. Also provided is an additive with which the function of imparting both ultraviolet absorbency and a high refractive index can be realized by means of one kind of additive. This additive is represented by the following Formula (I): wherein at least one of R1a to R9a is a monovalent sulfur-containing group represented by the following Formula (i-1) or Formula (i-2): wherein R10a to R12a each represent a divalent hydrocarbon group or the like; and R13a represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group or the like. |
| US11945799B2 |
4-ethynylpyridine derivatives useful as GCN2 inhibitors
The invention provides compounds of formula I, wherein the substituents are as set out in further detail in the specification. The compounds are potent inhibitors of GCN2 and they have excellent pharmacokinetic properties. The compounds are useful for the treatment or prevention of a variety of conditions, particularly cancer. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention and uses of the compounds and the compositions. |
| US11945798B2 |
Substituted aminopyridine compounds as EGFR inhibitors
Provided are aminopyridine compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof which exhibit inhibition activity against certain mutated forms of EGFR. |
| US11945795B2 |
Islet cell manufacturing compositions and methods of use
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods useful for manufacturing SC-β cell, and isolated populations of SC-β cells for use in various applications, such as cell therapy. |
| US11945790B2 |
Compounds and methods for treating autoimmune disorders by targeting HLA-DQ2
Compounds and compositions useful in methods of treating, ameliorating, or inhibiting the development of an autoimmune disease by modulating the T cell response to antigenic peptide or fragments of antigenic peptides presented by the major histocompatibility (MHC) class II molecule, DQ2. |
| US11945786B2 |
Compounds, devices, and uses thereof
The present invention provides compounds, e.g., compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, and compositions thereof. Also provided are implantable elements (e.g., devices and materials) comprising the same, as well as methods of use thereof, e.g., for treating or preventing a disease, disorder, or condition. |
| US11945784B2 |
IRE1 small molecule inhibitors
Provided herein are small molecule inhibitors for the targeting or IRE1 protein family members. Binding may be direct or indirect. Further provided herein are methods of using IRE1 small molecule inhibitors for use in treating or ameliorating cancer in a subject. Moreover, IRE1 small molecule inhibitors described herein are for the treatment of cancer, where the cancer is a solid or hematologic cancer. |
| US11945781B2 |
Compounds for the treatment of acute and chronic kidney disease
The present disclosure is concerned with thioquinolinone compounds for the treatment of disorders associated with heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) signaling dysfunction such as, for example, kidney diseases (e.g., chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury). This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| US11945779B2 |
Inhibitors of cancer metastasis through inhibiting migration and invasion of cancer cells
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating cancer metastasis, a health functional food, and a method for preventing or treating cancer metastasis using the same, containing a novel compound for inhibiting migration and invasion of cancer cells or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient. |
| US11945778B2 |
C4-carbonothioate-substituted tryptamine derivatives and methods of using
Disclosed are novel C4-carbonothioate-substituted tryptamine derivative compounds and pharmaceutical and recreational drug formulations containing the same. The pharmaceutical formulations may be used to treat brain neurological disorders. |
| US11945777B2 |
Energy-efficient process for removing butenes from C4-hydrocarbon streams and subsequent n/iso separation
A process for removing butenes from C4-hydrocarbon streams containing butanes and butenes involves extractive distillation with a suitable solvent. The process also involves heat integration, which allows utilization of the heat of the solvent for heating and/or at least partly evaporating various streams. |
| US11945773B2 |
Method for producing propionic acid derivative
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a propionic acid derivative with high productivity. The object can be achieved by a method for producing a compound represented by formula (1): wherein R1 is a halogen atom or the like, R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or an organic group, X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, R4 and R5 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a hydrocarbon group optionally having one or more substituents, R6 is a hydrocarbon group optionally having one or more substituents; the method comprising step A of reacting a compound represented by formula (2): with a compound represented by formula (3): M(R1)n, wherein M is a cation, n is an integer corresponding to the valence of M, and a compound represented by formula (4): R6—X—H; and step B of separating, by filtration, the compound represented by formula (5): MFn from the mixture obtained by the above reaction. |
| US11945771B1 |
Catalyzed depolymerization of a chemically complex feedstock
Depolymerization processes and systems for converting polyolefin waste and other waste plastic to hydrocarbons, specifically liquid and gaseous depolymerization reaction products. A depolymerization or catalytic pyrolysis process can be conducted on a process feed which includes a polyolefin waste and a hydrocarbon co-feed under depolymerization conditions, including contacting the reactor feed with a depolymerization catalyst such as a zeolite-based catalyst. The resulting reactor effluent subsequently can be used as feeds or co-feeds for making circular products such as circular ethylene and circular polyethylene. |
| US11945767B2 |
Method for producing metal alcoholates
Process for preparing metal alkoxides by means of transalcoholization, wherein a lower metal alkoxide is fed via a side feed into a reactive distillation column comprising a rectifying section situated above the feed and a stripping section situated below the feed; a higher alcohol is fed into the stripping section, the bottom and/or a bottoms circuit of the column; a solution of a higher metal alkoxide in the higher alcohol is taken off at the bottom of the column and/or from the bottoms circuit; and a vapor comprising lower alcohol is taken off at the top of the column, the vapor is at least partially condensed and a substream of the condensate is recycled to the top of the column as reflux. The process enables the preparation of metal alkoxides with a reduced energy requirement. |
| US11945766B2 |
Acetonitrile purification process for ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometer
The present invention relates to the technical field of acetonitrile refining, and in particular, to an improved acetonitrile purification process for an ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometer. The present invention provides an acetonitrile purification process. A high-purity finished product may be obtained by performing operations of oxidation, rectification adsorption, drying, reflux rectification and filtration on industrial acetonitrile and controlling related parameters such as temperature, flow and the like, continuous production is ensured, a light transmittance of the finished product in ultraviolet rays of 200 to 260 nm is greater than or equal to 95%, water and impurities in the industrial acetonitrile are removed, and the requirements of the ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometer are met; moreover, by controlling process parameters and equipment. |
| US11945760B2 |
Process for converting one or more methyl halides into ethylene and propylene
The present disclosure concerns a process for converting methyl halides to ethylene and propylene, said process comprising the steps of (a) providing a feedstream comprising methyl halides; (b) providing a first and second catalyst composition, said second catalyst composition comprising a cracking catalyst; (c) contacting said feedstream with said first catalyst composition in a first reaction zone under first reaction conditions to provide a first product stream; and (d) subjecting at least a part of said first product stream to an Olefin Catalytic Cracking with said second catalyst composition in a second reaction zone under second reaction conditions to provide a second product steam. The process is remarkable in that said step (c) is performed under 400° C., and in that said first catalyst composition comprises molecular sieves with a Si/Al atomic between 2 and 18 and with a plurality of pores with a shape of an 8-membered ring or less. |
| US11945758B2 |
Compositions, methods, and systems related to multi-modal distribution of vaterite particles
Provided herein are compositions, methods, and systems related to bimodal, trimodal, and/or multi-modal distribution of reactive vaterite cement particles. |
| US11945757B2 |
Multilayer coatings for optical ceramics
An optical element includes an optical surface including a ceramic material. The optical element further includes a coating that includes a bifunctional molecule arranged on the optical surface. The bifunctional molecule includes a first functional group and a second functional group. The first functional group forms a covalent bond to the ceramic material of the optical surface, and the second functional group includes an aromatic functional group. The optical element further includes a carbon-containing material non-covalently bonded to the second functional group of the bifunctional molecule of the coating. |
| US11945756B2 |
Protective internal coatings for porous substrates
A material contains open pores in which the channels and pores that are internally coated with at least one layer of phosphorus-containing alumina. Such material is formed by infiltrating a porous material one or more times with a non-colloidal, low-viscosity liquid coating precursor, drying, and curing the coating precursor to form a phosphorus-containing alumina layer within pores of the material. |
| US11945752B1 |
Barium slag-modified aluminate quick-hardening special cementing material and preparation method thereof
Disclosed are a barium slag-modified aluminate quick-hardening special cementing material and a preparation method thereof, wherein the raw materials for the preparation of the barium slag-modified aluminate quick-hardening special cementing material includes, in parts by weight: 10-12 parts of aluminate cement clinker, 2-3 parts of barium slag powder, 1.5-2 parts of sulfate material, and 0-1.5 parts of early-setting agent. The present invention, on the basis of ensuring the original advantages of aluminate cement, can increase the long-term strength, durability, and economy, and solve the possible environmental problems caused by the barium slag, making it more suitable for use in various engineering projects. |
| US11945751B2 |
Calcium aluminate cement and calcium sulfoaluminate cement catalysts in gypsum panels and use thereof
Water-resistant gypsum products may be produced using a novel catalyst that includes calcium aluminate cement and/or calcium sulfoaluminate cement. For example, a water-resistant gypsum panel may have a core comprising: interwoven matrices of calcium sulfate dihydrate crystals and a silicone resin, wherein the interwoven matrices have dispersed throughout them a siloxane polymerization catalyst comprising (a) 55 wt % to 100 wt % calcium aluminate cement and/or calcium aluminate cement and (b) 0 wt % to 45 wt % and magnesium oxide, wherein the weight ratio of the siloxane polymerization catalyst to the calcium sulfate dihydrate is 0.01-5:100. The water-resistant gypsum panel may have an absence of one or more of: Portland cement, limestone, aragonite, calcite, dolomite, and slaked lime. |
| US11945749B2 |
High temperature sealant and methods thereof
A method of making a stoichiometric monazite (LaPO4) composition or a mixture of LaPO4 and LaP3O9 composition, as defined herein. Also disclosed is a method of joining or sealing materials with the compositions, as defined herein. |
| US11945745B2 |
Mineral wool
The present disclosure relates to mineral wool compositions and articles, as well as methods for manufacturing mineral wool compositions and articles. |
| US11945743B2 |
Desalination of salt waters by salt repellent technique
A novel Salt Repellent Technique is presented to remove all inorganic salts from seawater to get potable water. The repellent additives recommended throws out all salts of sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium and the like ions from seawater and paves way to get salt free potable water. The conventional washing of ice crystals is completely avoided due to the presence of additives. This technique helps to remove last traces of salts from seawater and analogous waters, without undertaking the conventional washing process. The new salt repellent process assures of high water recovery, ease of operation, lesser pollution, smaller plants, simpler machinery and technology, lower energy cost, nil or lesser pre-treatment and recovery of valuable by-products. To reduce the TDS still lower, it is recommended to have a simplified reverse osmosis unit in addition, as a post-operative arrangement. |
| US11945739B2 |
Testing method for wastewater treatment facility
The present invention relates to a testing method for testing a state of an aeration tank in a wastewater treatment facility that uses activated sludge. The testing method comprises obtaining a difference between: a sedimentation amount when a given period of time has elapsed after an activated sludge mixed liquid collected from the aeration tank and water having a higher dissolved oxygen concentration than the activated sludge mixed liquid are poured into the same container and mixed together; and a sedimentation amount when a period of time equal to the given period of time has elapsed after the activated sludge mixed liquid collected from the aeration tank and water having a lower dissolved oxygen concentration than the activated sludge mixed liquid are poured into the same container and mixed together. |
| US11945737B2 |
Electrochemical devices or systems comprising redox-functionalized electrodes and uses thereof
Various aspects described herein relate to electrochemical devices, e.g., for separation of one or more target organic or inorganic molecules (e.g., charged or neutral molecules) from solution, and methods of using the same. In particular embodiments, the electrochemical devices and methods described herein involve at least one redox-functionalized electrode, wherein the electrode comprises an immobilized redox-species that is selective toward a target molecule (e.g., charged molecule such as ion or netural molecule). The selectivity is based on a Faradaic/redox-activated chemical interaction (e.g., directional hydrogen binding) between the oxidized state of the redox species and a moiety of the target molecule (e.g., charged molecule such as ion or netural molecule). |
| US11945735B2 |
Ultraviolet irradiation of a flowing fluid
A solution for irradiating a flowing fluid through a channel with ultraviolet radiation is provided. Ultraviolet radiation sources can be located within the channel in order to direct ultraviolet radiation towards the flowing fluid and/or the interior of the channel. A valve can be located adjacent to the channel to control the flow rate of the fluid. A control system can control and adjust the ultraviolet radiation based on the flow rate of the fluid and a user input component can receive a user input for the control system to adjust the ultraviolet radiation. The ultraviolet radiation sources, the control system, the user input component, and any other components that require electricity can receive power from a rechargeable power supply. An electrical generator located within the channel can convert energy from the fluid flowing through the channel into electricity for charging the rechargeable power supply. |
| US11945726B2 |
Porous silicon material and method of manufacture
A method for forming a porous silicon material can include forming a mixture of silicon, carbon, and an etchant element, solidifying the mixture, removing the etchant element to form pores within the silicon material. The porous silicon material can include a distribution of pores with an average pore diameter between about 10 nm and 500 nm, wherein the silicon particle comprises a silicon carbon composite comprising 1-5% carbon by mass, 1-5% oxygen by mass, and 90-98% silicon by mass. |
| US11945725B1 |
Synthesis of activated carbon using palm leaves and potassium permanganate
A method of preparing an activated charcoal can include obtaining palm leaves; grinding the palm leaves; refluxing the ground palm leaves with sodium hydroxide (NaOH) to obtain a basic solution; draining the basic solution from the palm leaves; washing and drying the ground palm leaves; refluxing the dried ground palm leaves with potassium permanganate (KMnO4) to obtain a reaction mixture; heating the reaction mixture; washing the reaction mixture with hydrochloric acid (HCl); and drying the reaction mixture to obtain activated carbon. A method of removing a pollutant from an aqueous solution includes contacting the activated carbon as prepared in with the aqueous solution to remove organic dyes. |
| US11945722B2 |
Electrochemical method for the production of graphene composites and cell for conducting the same
A method of making an electrically conductive composite includes applying graphene oxide to at least one non-conductive porous substrate and then reducing the graphene oxide to graphene via an electrochemical reaction. An electro-chemical cell for causing a reaction that produces an electrically conductive composite includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an ion conductive medium, electrical current in communication with the first electrode, and an optional third electrode having a known electrode potential. The first electrode contains at least one layered electrocatalyst, which includes at least one non-conductive porous substrate coated with graphene oxide and at least a first and second active metal layer comprising a conductive metal in contact with the non-conductive porous substrate coated with graphene oxide. |
| US11945721B2 |
Method for producing high purity hydrogen
A hydrogen feed stream comprising oxygen and one or more impurities selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, argon, methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and water, is purified using a cryogenic temperature swing adsorption (CTSA) process with high overall recovery of hydrogen. The CTSA is regenerated using an inert gas to prevent an explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen from occurring. |
| US11945720B2 |
Apparatus and method for generating nitric oxide in controlled and accurate amounts
A nitric oxide generator generates nitric oxide from a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen such as air treated by a pulsating electrical discharge. The desired concentration of nitric oxide is obtained by controlling at least one of a frequency of the pulsating electrical discharge and duration of each electrical discharge pulse. |
| US11945719B2 |
Apparatus and method for generating nitric oxide in controlled and accurate amounts
A nitric oxide generator generates nitric oxide from a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen such as air treated by a pulsating electrical discharge. The desired concentration of nitric oxide is obtained by controlling at least one of a frequency of the pulsating electrical discharge and duration of each electrical discharge pulse. |
| US11945716B2 |
Adsorption-based Claus tail gas treatment
A method for sulfur recovery includes, in a hydrogenation reactor, converting sulfur-containing compounds in a Claus tail gas stream to hydrogen sulfide to produce a hydrogenated gas stream; feeding the hydrogenated gas stream to a quench tower to produce a quenched gas stream by condensing liquid water; feeding the quenched gas stream to a first stage adsorption vessel of a first stage adsorption unit to produce a first outlet gas stream by adsorbing water from the quenched gas stream; feeding the first outlet gas stream to a second stage adsorption vessel of a second stage adsorption unit to produce a second byproduct gas stream by adsorbing hydrogen sulfide from the first outlet gas stream; separating the second byproduct gas stream into a carbon dioxide stream and an enriched nitrogen stream; and regenerating the second stage adsorption vessel using the enriched nitrogen stream. |
| US11945715B2 |
Method for determining at least one temperature compensation parameter for the compensation of temperature effects on the measured values of a sensor system
A method for determining a temperature compensation parameter for compensation of temperature effects on measured values of a sensor system having a sensor unit for acquiring measured values of a sensor measuring variable. The method includes: monitoring the measuring situation of the sensor unit; determining whether the current measuring situation corresponds to a reference measuring situation for which a reference measured value of the sensor measuring variable is known; monitoring the temperature of the sensor unit; determining whether the current temperature lies within a predefined temperature range; acquiring different temperature values within the predefined temperature range and acquiring the respective associated measured values of the sensor measuring variable when the current measuring situation corresponds to a reference measuring situation; determining a temperature compensation parameter based on the reference measured value of the sensor measuring variable, the different temperature values, and the associated measured values of the sensor measuring variable. |
| US11945712B2 |
Process for manufacturing a micro-electro-mechanical device, and MEMS device
A process for manufacturing a MEMS device includes forming a first structural layer of a first thickness on a substrate. First trenches are formed through the first structural layer, and masking regions separated by first openings are formed on the first structural layer. A second structural layer of a second thickness is formed on the first structural layer in direct contact with the first structural layer at the first openings and forms, together with the first structural layer, thick structural regions having a third thickness equal to the sum of the first and the second thicknesses. A plurality of second trenches are formed through the second structural layer, over the masking regions, and third trenches are formed through the first and the second structural layers by removing selective portions of the thick structural regions. |
| US11945710B2 |
Smart inventory management system for a dispensing and blend-in-cup beverage platform
A smart inventory management system is described for a dispensing and blend-in-cup beverage platform including a container having an information tag that is configured to store unique information specific to a particular product, a reader configured to read the stored information from the information tag, a control board configured to host a software based decision engine which is configured to interpret the information specific to a particular product and to control one or more system components based at least in part on the information, a pump controlled by the control board and configured to pump beverage concentrates out of the containers in order to dispense the beverage concentrate into a beverage holder, and a check valve located between an opening on the container and the pump, the check valve configured to provide backflush prevention of foreign solutions into the container. |
| US11945709B2 |
Method and apparatus for dispensing a beverage chilled condition
A mobile beverage dispenser comprises a wheelable platform having mounted thereon a chillable chamber connected to a refrigerated cooling coil for removing heat from a beverage in a bulk storage container placed therein for cooling; and a beverage dispensing tap connectable to the container in fluid communication with the beverage, and mounted in thermally conductive relationship with the chillable chamber, whereby the chamber when chilled removes heat from the dispenser in preparation for dispensing of the beverage, by virtue of the conductive relationship. |
| US11945707B2 |
Apparatus for removing a flip-off type plastic cap from a bottle
An apparatus for removing a flip-off cap from a bottle for pharmaceutical substances, which enables automating the removal process in a pharmaceutical substance handling line and, at the same time, may be easy and inexpensive to manufacture. In an example the apparatus comprises a removal station in which a cap is removed from the bottle. |
| US11945704B2 |
Scissor lift descent control systems and methods
A lift device comprises a base, a retractable lift mechanism, a work platform, a linear actuator, and a descent control mechanism. The base has a plurality of wheels. The retractable lift mechanism has a first end coupled to the base and is moveable between an extended position and a retracted position. The work platform is configured to support a load. The work platform is coupled to and supported by a second end of the retractable lift mechanism. The linear actuator is configured to selectively move the retractable lift mechanism between the extended position and the retracted position. The linear actuator has an electric motor. The descent control mechanism is configured to reduce a speed at which the retractable lift mechanism is moved from the extended position to the retracted position. |
| US11945701B1 |
Lift
A lift is disclosed for ascending and descending between a lower elevation and an upper elevation. The lower elevation has a lower surface and the upper elevation has an upper surface. The lift comprises a main frame coupled to the upper surface. A carrier frame transitions between the lower elevation and the upper elevation. A drive is coupled to the main frame. A linkage extends between the carrier frame and the drive. A linkage block system is coupled to the main frame and engages the linkage for redirecting the direction of the linkage. A drive coupler secures the drive to the main frame. The drive coupler defines an eccentric position relative to the main frame for positioning the drive in an offset orientation relative to the main frame. |
| US11945698B2 |
Mobile construction crane comprising a superstructure and an undercarriage and one or more electrical consumers
The invention relates to a mobile construction crane comprising a superstructure and an undercarriage, wherein one or more electrical consumers are provided in or at the superstructure, wherein a supply of the one or more electrical consumers with electrical energy takes place by at least one current generator installed in the undercarriage. |
| US11945697B2 |
Multiple remote control for suspended load control equipment apparatus, system, and method
Horizontal translation, pendular motion, and or yaw control of a load suspended from a carrier with a suspended load control system, wherein control input to the suspended load control system may be provided through the use of more than one remote pendant. |
| US11945684B2 |
Elevator car with foldable working platform
An elevator car (1) defines an interior space (2) for accommodating passengers and/or cargo. The elevator car (1) includes a support frame (8) positioned above the interior space (2), a working platform (12) moveable between a stowed position, above the interior space (2), and an operational position, suspended within the interior space (2), and at least one suspension arrangement (14) arranged to suspend the working platform (12) from the support frame (8). The working platform (12) includes a platform opening (15) and a platform emergency escape door (13). The platform emergency escape door (13) is movable between a closed position in which the platform door (13) covers the platform opening (15) and an open position in which the platform emergency escape door (13) at least partially does not cover the platform opening (15). |
| US11945682B2 |
Lanyard with locking arm
A lanyard having a locking mechanism is provided. The lanyard locking mechanism actuates between a locked position and an unlocked position. In the locked position, the lanyard spool is restricted from rotating, and in the unlocked position, the lanyard spool is permitted to rotate with reduced interference from the locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes biasing components that bias the locking mechanism to remain stationary unless sufficient force is exerted. |
| US11945681B2 |
Expandable reel assembly for a well system
An expandable reel for a well system includes a support frame configured to receive a torque from a motor a plurality of circumferentially spaced spokes each extending radially away from a central axis of the expandable reel, a core assembly configured to couple to the support frame and receive a tubular of the well system about an outer surface of the core assembly, wherein the core assembly includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced panel assemblies each extending longitudinally between opposed ends thereof that are in sliding engagement with the plurality of spokes, and a linear actuator coupled between the support frame and the core assembly and configured to actuate the core assembly, including the plurality of panel assemblies, between a first configuration providing a first outer diameter and a second configuration providing a second outer diameter that is different from the first outer diameter. |
| US11945678B1 |
Strut for a spool-holding rack and a spool-supporting axle assembly for use therewith
Each of a pair of spool-supporting struts for a spool-holding rack having two pairs of vertical posts between which the struts are mounted utilizes an axle assembly having rotatable end portions for resting upon the struts and a beam having two opposite end portions. The beam includes an upwardly-opening pocket which is adapted to accept a rotatable end portion of the axle assembly directed downwardly therein, and there is associated with each end portion of the beam a platen portion which is positionable outboard of the pair of vertical posts. In addition, an abutment surface is associated with the upwardly-opening pocket for aiding in the locating of an end portion of the axle assembly in vertical registry with the upwardly-opening pocket, and the upwardly-opening pocket includes a pair of spool-centering guide plates along the side opening thereof. |
| US11945677B2 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyance device; an image forming device including a sheet conveyance roller and a pressure roller; a memory; and a controller. The memory stores profile data indicating variation in conveyance amount in a circumferential direction due to eccentricity of the conveyance roller. The controller calculates, in intermittent conveyance processing, a correction value based on corresponding profile data for each of positions included in a width of an image to be formed in next image forming processing, the correction value being a difference between a predetermined conveyance amount and an actual conveyance amount; corrects a reference amount of rotation by a representative value of calculated correction values to calculate a corrected amount of rotation, the reference amount being an ideal amount of rotation of the conveyance roller that conveys a sheet by the predetermined conveyance amount; and rotates the conveyance roller by the corrected amount. |
| US11945676B2 |
Folding apparatus and image forming apparatus
A folding apparatus includes: a folding unit configured to fold a recording medium at an intermediate portion in a transport direction of the recording medium; an upstream roller pair disposed on an upstream side in the transport direction of the recording medium with respect to the folding unit, and configured to transport the folded recording medium toward the folding unit with a fold as a leading end; and a downstream roller pair disposed on a downstream side in the transport direction of the recording medium with respect to the folding unit, and configured to sandwich and transport the recording medium sandwiched between the upstream roller pair, the downstream roller pair being configured to apply a transport force to a portion of the recording medium that is connected to a portion of the recording medium that is sandwiched between the upstream roller pair. |
| US11945675B2 |
Bag dispenser
A bag dispenser includes a frame with a roller portion for receiving a bag roll defined by a plurality of bags attached to a leading bag to be dispensed, the roller defining a longitudinal axis. A brake plate is configured to capture the leading bag against the frame for providing frictional force on the leading bag to limit sliding thereof, the brake plate pivotally attached to the frame via a pivot arm, the brake plate pivotable with respect to the frame between a non-pivoted friction-application position and a pivoted bag roll-installment position, the pivot arm configured to pivot with respect to the frame along a pivot plane generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. |
| US11945670B2 |
Methods and systems for producing pressware
A system for decurling a web from a roll of material comprises rollers, a decurling station actuator, a sensor, and a controller. The rollers are configured to pull the web along a path with an angle. The decurling station actuator is configured to shift one of the rollers relative to the other rollers to adjust the angle of the path. The sensor is configured to sense a characteristic of the roll of material and generate sensor data. The controller is configured to receive a signal representative of the sensor data and direct the decurling station actuator to shift one of the rollers based at least in part on the sensor data. |
| US11945667B2 |
Accident prevention system for a door or passageway
An accident prevention system for a doorway of a loading dock is provided. The system includes a first sensor configured to detect an object in a first predetermined location and having a height that is greater than a predetermined height. A second sensor is configured to activate responsive to detection by the first sensor of an object having a height that is greater than the predetermined height. The second sensor is also configured to detect an object in a second predetermined location after activation of the second sensor. An alert system is configured to generate a humanly-perceivable alert responsive to detection of the object in the second predetermined location after the activation of the second sensor. |
| US11945666B2 |
Manufacturing device and conveyor means
A manufacturing device has a manufacturing cell for processing workpieces, with a laterally circumferential safety partition, in which a lock is formed for performing a loading operation of the workpieces, wherein a first light barrier arrangement is formed at the lock, and with a driverless conveyor with a load receiver for conveying the workpieces. For performing the loading operation, a second light barrier arrangement and a third light barrier arrangement are formed between the conveyor and the lock, so that the load receiver and the workpieces are laterally bounded on opposite sides by the second light barrier arrangement and by the third light barrier arrangement. |
| US11945663B2 |
Extraction station for the extraction from a transport system for an at least partially complete cartridge, in particular for an electronic cigarette
An extraction station for the extraction from a transport system for an at least partially complete cartridge; the extraction station has: a collecting device; at least one holding head, which is designed to grab at least one end of the cartridge; and a moving device which supports the holding head and moves the holding head between a pick-up position, in which the holding head is in the area of the transport system and grabs the cartridge, and a release position, in which the holding head releases the cartridge. |
| US11945662B2 |
Raising/lowering conveyance device for container for conveying article
A raising/lowering conveyance device for a container for conveying an article has container supports that can move toward or away from a container in the horizontal direction and up and down with respect to the container. The container supports have a plurality of container support pins that can advance/retreat in the horizontal direction from the container and that are forcibly held at a position protruding from a front surface of the container support. The container supports are configured to lift the container by the container support pins which protrude under a downward step surface formed on the outside of the container. A pin main body of the container support pins protrudes from the front surface and has a flat tip perpendicular to the center axis of the pin main body, and has a tapered shape that increases in diameter toward the flat tip and is thicker toward the end. |
| US11945650B2 |
Movable box and method for controlling the same, package storage device and computer readable storage medium
The present disclosure discloses a movable box and a method for controlling the same, and a package storage device. The movable box includes a box body, a box door, a security lock and a verification component. The security lock is connected between the box body and the box door, the verification component is disposed on a surface of the box door and is connected to the security lock, and the verification component is configured to acquire verification information, and control the security lock to be unlocked in response to the verification information being preset information, and a first locking member is further disposed in the box body at a bottom thereof, and the first locking member protrudes downward from the bottom of the box body. |
| US11945649B2 |
Bin retrieval and transport systems and methods
Bin retrieval robots configured to pick or put-away bins within a logistics facility and to transport one or more picked bins. Methods and systems for autonomous picking or put-away of bins within a logistics facility that include the bin retrieval robot(s) are also disclosed. The systems include a remote server and at least one bin retrieval robot, wherein the remote server is configured to communicate with the bin retrieval robot(s) to send and receive picking data, and the bin retrieval robot(s) are configured to autonomously navigate and position within the logistics facility. |
| US11945648B2 |
Method for turning a robot in an array of vertical and horizontal rack-based tracks
A method for turning a pinion-driven lift-robot in an intersection of rails. Moving the pinion-driven lift-robot in a first motion mode to position the pinion-driven lift-robot in a first position at the intersection. The pinion-driven lift-robot is turned over a corner of the intersection that is accessible from the first position and that includes continuous rails connecting a vertical track and a horizontal track, whereby positioning the pinion-driven lift-robot in a second position at the intersection. The pinion-driven lift-robot is moved in a second motion mode towards a designated direction. |
| US11945647B2 |
Grabber for a front loader refuse vehicle
A grabber assembly has a beam assembly with a bracket. A grabber gear assembly is coupled with the bracket. The grabber gear assembly has a pair of gear mechanisms coupled with the bracket. Each gear mechanism has a shaft and a pair of thrust bearings, one at each end of the shaft. A grabber arm mounting pad is coupled with each shaft. A gear section is coupled with each shaft. The gear sections of each shaft mesh with one another to drive the grabber arm mounting pads. An actuating driver is coupled with one of the shafts to drive the grabber gear assembly and move the arms between an open and grasping position. |
| US11945645B2 |
Bicycle rack, single bicycle rack and bicycle rack system
A bicycle transport packaging which is in particular suitable for shipping bicycles includes a base body. The base body having four sides arranged all around. Two mutually opposite sides, i.e. an upper side and a lower side of the base body are open. For transport purposes, they are respectively closed by a separate cover element and a separate bottom element. According to the invention, in the area of the cover element a reinforcing element extending in particular over the overall length and width of the cover opening is provided. |
| US11945644B2 |
Aerosol-generating system
A handheld aerosol-generating device may include an emitter configured to emit light, a sensor configured to receive light, and an aerosol chamber configured to hold an aerosol. The emitter may emit light into the aerosol chamber. The sensor may receive light from the aerosol chamber and measure at least one wavelength of the spectrum of the received light. Direct measurement of parameters, and/or the presence, of the aerosol in the aerosol chamber may be enabled, where the direct measurement of parameters of the aerosol in the aerosol chamber may enable optimal operation of an aerosol-generating system that may be the handheld aerosol-generating device. |
| US11945639B2 |
Container structure
A container structure for sealing and keeping food fresh, which can be repacked after unpacking. The container structure has a container body and a covering film; the container body has a housing chamber, a first abutting face, a concave groove portion, a second abutting face and a preset break line; the covering film can seal the housing chamber and bond with the first and second abutting face, specifically, it is bonded to the first abutting face through the micro sealing portion, so that the bonding between the covering film and the first abutting face is weaker than the bonding between the second abutting face; To open the covering film, the user needs to apply a force upon the external edge of the top end of the container body, to break the preset break line, and to separate the covering film from the first abutting face, so as to form a separated and independent frame. |
| US11945638B2 |
Packaged food product for solid state microwave oven
A packaged food product is configured for being heated in a solid state microwave oven and a method heats a food in a solid state microwave oven. Particularly, the packaged food product includes a food, a tray and a susceptor, and a thermal insulation is positioned between the susceptor and the food. |
| US11945637B2 |
Variable volume evacuable container
A variable volume evacuable container has a closed bottom, an open top, and a spirally threaded inner wall extending therebetween. A lid configured to threadably engage the inner wall has a top surface, a perimeter, a bottom surface, and a funneling volume within the perimeter and below the bottom surface. A duct is defined through the top and bottom surfaces at the apex of the funneling volume, and a moveable baffle is coupled to the top surface to cover or uncover the duct. The bottom surface slopes continuously upward to the apex so that downward rotation of the lid against contained liquid forces air out of the duct until the liquid fills the funneling volume, allowing the baffle to seal the liquid from air by covering the duct. |
| US11945636B2 |
Inflatable packaging structure and method of forming thereof
An inflatable packaging structure, including at least one inflatable panel made of a plurality of layers of thermoplastic material, the at least one inflatable panel includes a plurality of fluid chambers, whereas a one-way check valve is incorporated into at least one of the plurality of fluid chambers, an air supply line, configured to commonly communicate with each of the one-way check valves to supply fluid into the fluid chambers; and at least two heat sealed edges formed on the at least one inflatable panel, each of which is configured to attach a portion of the at least one inflatable panel to another portion thereof; and wherein the at least two heat sealed edges extend generally in parallel with respect to each other and configured to form the inflatable packaging structure with at least partially rectangular cross-section, having at least four faces. |
| US11945634B2 |
Container for a heart pump device and method for operating a heart pump device
The invention relates to a container for a heart pump device with a first receiving space for a compressible and expandable heart pump, wherein the first receiving space is delimited on several sides, in particular on all sides, by one or more closure elements and is closed off to the outside for preventing a contacting of the heart pump, wherein the closure elements) leave free an opening for the passage of a catheter from the outside into the first receiving space, wherein the diameter of the opening is dimensioned such that the heart pump can pass this exclusively in a condition which is at least partly compressed compared to the expanded condition. For implantation, the heart pump in the container can firstly be operated by trial in the container whilst feeding a rinsing fluid and can then be pulled through the opening amid simultaneous compression, into a sheath element. |
| US11945633B2 |
Tamper evident blister packaging
A tamper evident package comprises a blister assembly defining at least one cavity, the opening of the at least one cavity being at least partially closed by a membrane. A sleeve housing the blister assembly is provided, the sleeve having a top side and a bottom side, the bottom side having a contact window that is aligned with the cavity. In addition, a package integrity feature is applied to the bottom side and covers the contact window. The package integrity feature is further applied to the membrane covering the cavity through the contact window. |
| US11945632B2 |
Contact lens packages and methods of use
A blister package for a contact lens includes a base sheet and a sealing sheet. Either the base sheet or the sealing sheet includes a bowl, and the other sheet includes a dome and a sealing surface. The dome has a radius of curvature of about 13 mm to 19 mm and a height of less than 7 mm relative to the sealing surface. The dome is configured to protrude into the bowl to form a cavity. Related methods are also described. |
| US11945627B2 |
Locking box
A blank can include a first end panel; a first main panel joined to and extending from the first end panel; a second main panel connected to the first main panel; a second end panel joined to and extending from the second main panel; an inside end panel connected to the second main panel; and a locking tab extending from and separable from the first main panel, passable through a first opening defined between the second end panel and the inside end panel, and engageable with a locking opening separate from the first opening and defined in the blank. |
| US11945621B2 |
Packaging and a method of manufacture thereof
The invention provides a method of manufacturing packaging comprising the steps of: a) providing a packaging material (2) comprising cartonboard, semi-rigid plastics or other semi-rigid packaging material; b) forming fold lines (8) and/or cuts within the packaging material (2) by subjecting the packaging material (2) to laser (12) or mechanical scoring; c) folding the packaging material (2) along the fold lines (8) and/or cuts and securing in position to form a substantially tubular container (200); and d) forming at least one seal (302, 304) by sealing together at least two opposing regions (122, 124, 126, 128) of a blank (4) to form an at least partially sealed package (300); e) performing at least one of steps b), c) and d) on a horizontal or vertical fill, form and seal apparatus (400). |
| US11945617B2 |
Wetting unit and forming machine and method for producing unit dose articles
A wetting unit for wetting a surface of one of a first and a second continuous water-soluble films to be coupled and sealingly joined to each other so as to delimit therebetween recesses containing dosed quantities of at least one fluid composition for producing unit dose articles. The wetting unit is configured to wet only surface areas of one of the first and second continuous water-soluble films which are to be joined to the other of the first and second continuous water-soluble films. |
| US11945616B2 |
Packaging system and method for feeding cardboard blanks
The disclosure relates to a packaging system comprising a deep-drawing packaging machine configured to produce packages in a production direction, and a feeding system for the deep-drawing packaging machine, wherein the feeding system comprises at least one transport belt device configured to transport cardboard blanks in a transport direction extending transversely to the production direction of the deep-drawing packaging machine into a transfer area formed within a machine frame of the deep-drawing packaging machine, and wherein the feeding system comprises a lifting device arranged in the transfer area for collecting and lifting the cardboard blanks transported into the transfer area by means of the transport belt device, wherein the lifting device has a plurality of independently controllable lifting units positioned one behind the other in the transport direction. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a corresponding method. |
| US11945612B2 |
Wrapping device for product wrappers
A device for wrapping product wrappers including a winder, the winder including a gripper mechanically connected to a tubular shaft rotatable about and translatable along an approach axis, the gripper being rotatable and translatable integrally with the tubular shaft; an actuating rod active on the gripper and movable along an actuating axis, the actuating rod being movable along the actuating axis with respect to the tubular shaft and rotationally constrained to the tubular shaft, wherein the gripper is rotatable and movable following a translation of the actuating rod along the actuating axis; a first electric motor active on the actuating rod to translate the actuating rod along the actuating axis; and a second electric motor active on the tubular shaft to translate the tubular shaft along the approach axis. The device further includes a control unit configured to drive the first electric motor and the second electric motor. |
| US11945601B2 |
Methods and systems for in-flight charging of aircraft
A method of operating a supply aircraft for in-flight recharging comprises: transmitting a deploy command signal from a communication unit of the supply aircraft to a communication unit of a receiver aircraft, to cause a line and drogue to deploy from the receiver aircraft; controlling at least one of the supply aircraft and the drogue to engage the drogue with a first end of an electrical cable of the supply aircraft, a second end of the electrical cable being connected to the supply aircraft; and transmitting a return command signal from the communication unit of the supply aircraft to the communication unit of the receiver aircraft, to cause the line and drogue to return to the receiver aircraft with the first end of the electrical cable. The supply aircraft is located behind the receiver aircraft and the deploy command signal is for causing the line and drogue to deploy rearwardly of the receiver aircraft. |
| US11945600B2 |
Fuel delivery system having a fuel oxygen reduction unit
A fuel system is provided for an aircraft having a fuel source. The fuel system includes a fuel oxygen reduction unit defining a liquid fuel supply path, a stripping gas supply path, a liquid fuel outlet path, and a stripping gas return path, wherein the stripping gas return path is in airflow communication with the fuel source. |
| US11945596B2 |
Method for producing an alveolar soundproofing structure including a diaphragm, and alveolar soundproofing structure obtained
A method for producing an alveolar soundproofing structure in which a portion of a membrane of a diaphragm including an acoustic outlet is inserted into a hole of a perforated membrane which covers a cell of the alveolar structure, and the diaphragm is pressed into the cell with the perforated membrane becoming deformed and is fixed at that location. It also relates to the alveolar structure. Such a method enables different types of diaphragms to be inserted into different configurations of cells and enables the diaphragm to be fixed therein, in accordance with the sound frequencies to be processed. |
| US11945594B2 |
Systems and methods for power distribution in electric aircraft
A electric aircraft power distribution system includes a first battery pack connected to at least a first load and to a common bus that connects the first battery pack in parallel to at least a second battery pack; a first electrical component electrically connected between the first battery pack and the first load and configured to disconnect the first load from the first battery pack in response to current above a first threshold current, wherein the first electrical component has a first disconnection time at the first threshold current; and a second electrical component electrically connected between the first battery pack and the common bus and configured to disconnect the first battery pack from the common bus in response to current above a second threshold current, wherein the second electrical component has a second disconnection time at the second threshold current that is higher than the first disconnection time. |
| US11945589B2 |
Passenger seat canopy
A canopy is configured to be mounted to a passenger seat of a passenger transport vehicle, in particular an aircraft. The canopy is foldable between a retracted storage configuration and an extended operational configuration. In the operational configuration, the canopy forms a hood establishing a passenger's personal space below the canopy. The canopy comprises at least one functional device which is configured for modifying a physical characteristics of the personal space. The at least one functional device in particular includes at least one of a lighting device configured for lighting the personal space and a venting device configured for venting the personal space. |
| US11945587B2 |
Aircraft overhead luggage bin and method of modifying same
A door mounting system mountable to an overhead luggage bin, which includes a bucket with a belly wall and side walls extending transversely from the belly wall, includes: a bullnose having a bullnose body extending between a first bullnose end and a second bullnose end, the bullnose body having a trailing edge mountable to the belly wall; and a hinge bracket mountable to one of the side walls of the bucket, the hinge bracket extending between a lower portion mountable to one of the first and second bullnose ends, and an upper portion structured for hingedly mounting a door thereto. The hinge bracket has a rear mounting extending between the upper portion and the lower portion. The rear mounting is mountable to a forward edge of the one of the side walls of the bucket. |
| US11945582B2 |
Coordinating an aerial search among unmanned aerial vehicles
In a particular embodiment, coordinating an aerial search among unmanned aerial vehicles is disclosed that includes receiving, by a server in a UAV transportation ecosystem, search area data, accessing, by the server, UAV parameters for a type of UAV, determining, by the server in dependence upon the search area data and the UAV parameters, a number of UAVs needed to complete a coordinated aerial search of a search area within a time limit, and partitioning, by the server, the search area into a plurality of partitions, wherein the number of partitions is equal to the number of UAVs. |
| US11945581B2 |
Drone backpack systems
A drone backpack includes a housing with a harness that attaches to a main body of a drone without modification of the drone. A boom couples with the harness to position a display module in a field of view of a forward-facing camera of the drone. A compute component is located within the housing and includes at least one processor and memory storing machine-readable instructions that are executable by the processor to output information on a screen of the display module. The information is captured by the forward-facing camera of the drone and included in a live video feed transmitted from the drone. The backpack may also include an effector, controllable via the compute component sensing a light status of the drone, and one or more sensors. The backpack augments the drone to enable one or more of a combat game, aerial labelling, low-cost one-time use, and STE(A)M. |
| US11945571B2 |
Piloting device designed to be integrated into a preexisting aircraft
A piloting device arranged to be integrated in a pre-existing aircraft that includes original systems comprising both a flight control system and an autopilot system is distinct from and autonomous relative to the original systems and includes a positioning unit and a control unit. The positioning unit is arranged to produce positioning data for the pre-existing aircraft. The control unit is arranged to perform a geofencing function from the positioning data produced by the positioning unit and to produce an alternative piloting setpoint for the pre-existing aircraft. The alternative piloting setpoint is adapted to supplement both a manual piloting setpoint produced by a pilot of the pre-existing aircraft via the flight control system and also an autopilot setpoint produced by the autopilot system. |
| US11945566B2 |
Drain mast
A drain mast for an aircraft for discharge of water from the aircraft interior with a line which extends in a line direction from a connector end to a discharge end. The connector end can connect to another line in the interior of the aircraft, through which further line water flows into the drain mast. The discharge end can discharge water into a surrounding area of the aircraft. The line includes a plastic, into which a conductive material is embedded, by which the line can be heated electrically, by a heating current being conducted through the conductive material. A proportion of the embedded conductive material in the line increases in the line direction per length unit from the connector end of the line towards the discharge end such that the heating power which is introduced into the line per length unit increases from the connector end towards the discharge end. |
| US11945557B2 |
Suspension system with pitch and roll adjustment
A suspension system for supporting a body relative to at least four points, including: a respective front left, front right, back left and back right support arrangement between the respective point and the body, each respective support arrangement including a respective resilience arrangement and a respective control ram, each respective control ram including a respective compression chamber forming at least part of a respective compression control volume; a control arrangement including a first and a second diagonal reversible pump for displacing fluid between diagonally opposite compression control volumes. Each respective resilience arrangement can include a respective damping arrangement to restrict and/or selectively prevent compression and/or expansion of at least a portion of the respective resilience arrangement. Each respective control ram can further include a respective rebound chamber, the front control rams being cross connected and the back control rams being cross connected. |
| US11945556B2 |
Posture control system for hull, control method therefor, and marine vessel
A posture control system for a hull includes trim tab main bodies as posture control plates attached to a stern of the hull to control the posture of the hull. Trim tab actuators drive the trim tab main bodies. Engines generate a propulsive force on the hull. A controller controls the trim tab actuators. Based on a throttle opening angle of the engines, the controller determines a time when the trim tab main bodies are to be lowered by the trim tab actuators. |
| US11945552B2 |
Aft-facing transom seating for a boat
A boat, having a transom, includes one or more aft-facing seats. Each aft-facing seat is positioned proximate to the transom and includes a seat bottom that is inclined at a downward angle in a direction extending from aft to fore, a seatback, a headrest, a seat support structure having at least one hidden compartment therein, and at least one pivot mechanism attached to the seatback and the headrest and configured to allow the seatback to move between a first position in which the seatback is capable of supporting the back of a person seated in the seat and a second position in which the seatback is pivoted upwardly to allow access to the compartment and the headrest to move between an upright position and a folded position. A plurality of handles may be provided for each aft-facing seat, with one at an outboard side and another at an inboard side. |
| US11945549B2 |
Method for installing a tension leg platform based floating object
A method for installing a TLP based floating object at anchor points. The floating object includes a central body and buoyancy assemblies positioned around the central body in a horizontal plane, with each buoyancy assembly connected to the central body and connectable to one of the anchor points. The method includes: attaching a mooring leg including a mooring line at each anchor point; for each anchor point connecting a pull-down line between the buoyancy assembly and the anchor point; tensioning the pull-down lines so the floating object is lowered to an installation level below an operational level; for each anchor point connecting the mooring leg with the buoyancy assembly in slack mode; and after connecting the mooring lines with the buoyancy assemblies, paying out the pull-down lines so the floating object rises upward from the installation level to the operational level where the mooring legs are tensioned. |
| US11945543B2 |
Brake unit for a vehicle wheel module comprising the brake unit, and vehicle comprising the brake unit and/or the wheel module
In human-powered vehicles, e.g., bicycles, etc., it is customary to use drum brakes, disc brakes or shoe brakes. Each of the braking systems has different advantages in terms of braking effect, system costs, ease of maintenance, etc. A brake unit with a modified structure for a vehicle is provided. For this purpose, a brake unit 14 for a vehicle 1 is disclosed, having a housing 15, having a brake body device 23, wherein the brake body device 23 supports a stationary brake partner of a brake apparatus 12 for the vehicle 1, wherein the housing 15 and/or the brake body device 23 defines a main axis H, having an actuator for moving the brake body device relative to the housing 15 in order to generate a braking force, wherein the stationary brake partner is formed as a brake disc 13. |
| US11945541B2 |
Electric tricycle
An electric tricycle including a frame having a front end coupled to a steering assembly, the steering assembly having a front wheel, and a rear end coupled to a rear wheel assembly, the rear wheel assembly having two rear wheels. At least two pedals rotatably coupled to the rear wheel assembly and configured to move in a reciprocating motion, the at least two pedals having an engaged configuration wherein the at least two pedals are engaged with the two rear wheels and configured to rotate the two rear wheels in a first direction, and a disengaged configuration wherein each of the at least two pedals is disengaged from the two rear wheels and aligned with another of the at least two pedals. An electric motor electrically coupled to a battery and configured to engage with the two rear wheels and to rotate the two rear wheels in the first direction. |
| US11945540B2 |
All-terrain vehicle
An all-terrain vehicle has an air ventilation system positioned adjacent a rearmost point of the front ground engaging members and directing air rearwardly through an engine compartment, wherein the air ventilation system includes at least one air scoop adjacent a front of the vehicle for directing the air. In addition, an ATV is disclosed having a rear rack having an integral storage bin, where the storage bin is one piece with the rear rack. The storage bin is sealed. |
| US11945536B2 |
Transformable bicycle or tricycle
A transformable bicycle or tricycle is presently provided. The transformable bicycle has a first seat and a second seat disposed rearward or forward of the first seat. At least one of the first seat and the second seat is transformable and has a planar seat and a planar back. The transformable seat is configured and disposed to transform into an enclosure or into a flat planar bench having the planar seat and the planar back substantially in the same plane. |
| US11945534B2 |
Powered unicycle with handle
Various powered unicycles are disclosed. In some embodiments, the powered unicycle includes a central wheel, a motor to power the central wheel, and a control system configured to control the application of power from the motor to the central wheel. The unicycle comprises a body portion and at least one platform for supporting the user. The unicycle can includes a handle that extends upwardly to a position that it can be grasped by a user of the unicycle. The handle can be partially or fully retractable into the body of the unicycle. In some configurations, two platforms upon which the user can stand are provided with one on each side of the central wheel. In some configurations, a pair of auxiliary or outrigger wheels is provided, such as with one outrigger wheel on each side of the central wheel. |
| US11945533B2 |
Bicycle component control
An electrically actuated component of a bicycle includes a first controller configured to receive a data stream from a second controller. The data stream includes one or more packets received by the first controller. For each of the one or more packets received by the first controller, the first controller is configured to identify a number of the one or more packets of the data stream received by the first controller, and compare the identified number of packets to a predetermined threshold number of packets. After all packets of the one or more packets of the data stream have been received by the first controller, the first controller is configured to initiate, based on the respective comparison, an action of the electrically actuated component or another electrically actuated component of the bicycle when the identified number of packets is less than the predetermined threshold number of packets. |
| US11945526B2 |
Electric vehicle
An electric vehicle that comprises a vehicle main body, a driving apparatus that includes a motor unit which includes a motor and a reduction gear which is attached to the motor unit, and a travel unit configured to drive by a driving force of the driving apparatus. The travel unit includes a plurality of wheels that at least includes a front wheel arranged on the side of a front end portion of the vehicle main body and a rear wheel arranged on the side of a rear end portion of the vehicle main body, and a crawler belt wound around the front wheel and the rear wheel. |
| US11945516B2 |
Air flap system
An air flap system for controlling the intake of air into a motor vehicle includes at least one air flap which can be pivoted between an open position and a closed position, and an elastic element which is provided to couple the air flap system to a vehicle frame. The elastic element is elastic at least partially along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. |
| US11945514B2 |
Modular steering system for vehicles
A modular steering system for vehicles can be applied in common to left-hand drive (LHD) and right-hand drive (RHD) vehicles and can avoid interference with peripheral parts. A steering housing and a reducer housing are separately provided to detachably assemble the steering housing and the reducer housing on the left or right of a rack bar housing and to adjust their mounting angles. |
| US11945512B2 |
Lower structure of electric vehicle
An electric vehicle includes a floor panel formed with a floor tunnel; a transmission; a transmission support member; an inverter attached to a case of the transmission; a battery unit disposed behind the transmission and on an outer side in a vehicle width direction of the floor tunnel; and a harness disposed such that an intermediate portion between a first end portion connected to the inverter and a second end portion connected to a front end portion of the battery unit 4 extends across the floor tunnel from inside to outside thereof. The battery unit has a substantially rectangular shape in a bottom view, and a corner on the floor tunnel side of a front end portion of the battery unit is cut out to form a free space between the front end portion of the battery unit and a portion of the floor tunnel behind the transmission support member. |
| US11945509B2 |
Vehicle body rear part structure
A vehicle body rear part structure includes a rear frame and a beam member. The rear frame has: a first inner bead, a first outer bead, a second inner bead, and a second outer bead. The first inner bead and the first outer bead are formed on an inner wall and an outer wall, respectively, in a region close to the beam member. The second inner bead and the second outer bead are formed on the inner wall and the outer wall, respectively, in a region that is separated to a vehicle body frontward direction from the first beads. The first outer bead is formed to have a higher fragility than the first inner bead. |
| US11945505B2 |
Land vehicles incorporating impact management systems
A land vehicle includes a frame structure, a plurality of wheels, and an impact management system. The frame structure includes an operator cage that at least partially defines an operator cabin and a rear compartment positioned rearward of the operator cage in a longitudinal direction. The frame structure includes a pair of rails that each extends in the longitudinal direction from a first end arranged adjacent a pair of front wheels to a second end arranged adjacent a pair of rear wheels. The plurality of wheels are supported by the frame structure. The plurality of wheels includes the pair of front wheels and the pair of rear wheels. The pair of front wheels are positioned forward of the pair of rear wheels in the longitudinal direction. |
| US11945504B2 |
Vehicle
A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a mounted component provided in the vehicle body. The vehicle body includes a pair of side member, a first crossmember, a second crossmember, and a bracket. The side members extend in the vehicle front-rear direction, and the side members are provided on the opposite sides across the mounted component in the vehicle right-left direction when the side members are viewed from above in the vehicle up-down direction. The first crossmember extends in the vehicle right-left direction such that the first crossmember is joined to surfaces of respective inner walls of the side members. The second crossmember extends in the vehicle right-left direction at a position closer to the mounted component than the first crossmember such that the second crossmember penetrates through the respective inner walls. The mounted component is connected to the first crossmember and the second crossmember via the bracket. |
| US11945503B2 |
Method for producing a welded steel blank and associated welded blank
A method for producing a welded blank (1) includes providing two precoated sheets (2), butt welding the precoated sheets (2) using a filler wire. The precoating (5) entirely covers at least one face (4) of each sheet (2) at the time of butt welding. The filler wire (20) has a carbon content between 0.01 wt. % and 0.45 wt. %. The composition of the filler wire (20) and the proportion of filler wire (20) added to the weld pool is chosen such that the weld joint (22) has (a) a quenching factor FTWJ: FTWJ−0.9FTBM≥0, where FTBM is a quenching factor of the least hardenable substrate (3), and FTWJ and FTBM are determined: FT=128+1553×C+55×Mn+267×Si+49×Ni+5×Cr−79×Al−2×Ni2−1532×C2−5×Mn2−127×Si2−40×C×Ni−4×Ni×Mn, and (b) a carbon content CWJ<0.15 wt. % or, if CWJ≥0.15 wt. %, a softening factor FAWJ such that FAWJ>5000, where FA=10291+4384.1×Mo+3676.9Si−522.64×Al−2221.2×Cr−118.11×Ni−1565.1×C−246.67×Mn. |
| US11945500B2 |
Electronic printed circuit board
A printed circuit board may include a top side, a bottom side, and a circumferential surface that connects the top side to the bottom side. The circumferential surface may have a toothing for forming a gear wheel. The toothing may be circumferentially closed and may be arranged over an entire surface area of the circumferential surface. The toothing may be configured as an involute toothing, an epicycloid toothing, a hypocycloid toothing, or a lantern gear toothing. The printed circuit board may be formed of fiber-reinforced plastic. Further, the printed circuit board may include a track, a surface structure, and/or a conductor track configured for inductive sampling, capacitive sampling, optical sampling, and/or acoustic sampling. |
| US11945498B2 |
Work vehicle
A work vehicle includes a steering wheel on a rear side with respect to a display, in front of a driver seat, and that includes spokes and a ring-shaped portion connected to the spokes. An opening is between the spokes and the ring-shaped portion. The work vehicle further includes a steering controller to change a steering angle of a steerable wheel based on a wheel angle that is a rotation angle of the steering wheel about a wheel rotation shaft, and an adjuster to adjust a relationship between the wheel angle and the steering angle. |
| US11945497B2 |
Vehicle steering wheels system
A steering wheel system for a semi-trailer is described. The system uses a retractable encoded system releasably connected to a kingpin, a mechanical steer driving system translating the rotation of the kingpin to a hydraulic system, and a non-circular cogged system driven by the hydraulic system adapted to steer the wheels. A hydraulic generator system powered by the rotation of the wheels is used to decrease the electric energy required by the hydraulic system. Other improvements are also present to increase security, decrease weight and improve time expectancy of the components. |
| US11945478B2 |
High-integrity object detection system and method
A method and system include receiving positioning and motion information from one or more positioning and motion devices on a vehicle on a guideway, based on the positioning and motion information, receiving information from a database on the vehicle, the information comprising track geometry information and infrastructure information corresponding to the guideway, using the track geometry information and positioning and motion information to determine a path of the guideway and a trajectory of the vehicle along the path, receiving data from one or more electromagnetic sensors on the vehicle, and detecting an object by using the trajectory, the infrastructure information, and the information from the one or more electromagnetic sensors. |
| US11945475B2 |
Air conditioning system for a room with a seat, and method for air conditioning a room with a seat
Air conditioning system is at least partially located in a room comprising at least one seat. The system comprises at least one main supply air inlet opening into the room and arranged at a height of ≤0.3 m above a floor of the room, or on the floor, at least one air outlet opening into the room and arranged at a height of <0.3 m below a ceiling of the room, or in the ceiling, and at least one assisting supply air inlet opening into the room and arranged at a height between first and second points of the seat. The first point is the point of the seat having the largest distance to the floor of the room in a direction perpendicular to the floor. The second point is the point of the armrest of the seat having the largest distance to the floor in the direction. |
| US11945472B2 |
Trajectory planning of vehicles using route information
Among other things, techniques are described for improving the trajectory estimates for an object in an environment. The technique includes receiving, by at least one processor, information indicating a presence of an object operating in an environment; determining, by the at least one processor, a trajectory of the object, the trajectory including at least a position, a speed, and a direction of travel of the object; determining, by the at least one processor, an expected route of the object, wherein the expected route is pre-planned and includes an expected future position of the object at a future time; comparing the trajectory of the object to the expected route of the object; and in accordance with the comparison that the trajectory of the object is consistent with the expected route of the object, updating the trajectory of the object based on the expected route of the object. |
| US11945469B2 |
Object uncertainty models
Techniques for representing sensor data and predicted behavior of various objects in an environment are described herein. For example, an autonomous vehicle can represent prediction probabilities as an uncertainty model that may be used to detect potential collisions, define a safe operational zone or drivable area, and to make operational decisions in a computationally efficient manner. The uncertainty model may represent a probability that regions within the environment are occupied using a heat map type approach in which various intensities of the heat map represent a likelihood of a corresponding physical region being occupied at a given point in time. |
| US11945468B2 |
Driver assistance apparatus and method thereof
A driver assistance system (DAS) comprises camera installed on a vehicle, having a field of view in front of the vehicle, and configured to acquire image data; and a controller including a processor configured to process the image data. The controller may be configured to identify at least one object obstructing a driving of the vehicle based on the image data, identify a stopped vehicle among the at least one object based on the image data, and set a driving route of the vehicle based on the position of the at least one object and the position of the stopped vehicle, and controls at least one of a braking device and a steering device of the vehicle so that the vehicle travels along the driving route. |
| US11945467B2 |
Identification of proxy calibration targets for a fleet of vehicles
Example embodiments relate to identification of proxy calibration targets for a fleet of sensors. An example method includes collecting, using a sensor coupled to a vehicle, data about one or more objects within an environment of the vehicle. The sensor has been calibrated using a ground-truth calibration target. The method also includes identifying, based on the collected data, at least one candidate object, from among the one or more objects, to be used as a proxy calibration target for other sensors coupled to vehicles within a fleet of vehicles. Further, the method includes providing, by the vehicle, data about the candidate object for use by one or more vehicles within the fleet of vehicles. |
| US11945463B2 |
Navigation route planning method for autonomous vehicles
A starting point, a set of one or more way points, and a destination point of a route along which the ADV is to be driven are determined. All lane segments near the starting point, the set of way points, and the destination point within a predetermined threshold distance are determined respectively. A set of route candidates are determined with an A-star (A*) searching algorithm based on a set of nodes representing all the lane segments near the starting point, the set of way points, and the destination point respectively. The route is selected from the set of route candidates based on respective costs of the set of route candidates. The ADV is being controlled to drive along the selected route autonomously. |
| US11945462B2 |
Systems and methods for managing speed thresholds for vehicles
Systems and methods for managing speed thresholds for a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. Input is used to provide associations between particular weather-relation conditions (such as rain) and arithmetic operations, that may be used to determine a current speed threshold as a function of a local posted speed limit at the current location of a vehicle. The current speed threshold is subsequently used to detect whether vehicles are exceeding the current speed threshold. |
| US11945461B2 |
System for preventing drunk driving and method for controlling the same
Disclosed are a drunk driving prevention system and a method of controlling the system that includes a sensor module measuring a alcohol content in the exhaled breath of a driver during a breath-checking of the driver and a control module configured to check the intoxication state of the driver from the alcohol content measured by the sensor module to determine whether the breath-checking is complete and block an engine start when the breath-checking fails, wherein the control module includes a check unit displaying breath-checking guide information through a display unit and the check unit displays the breath-checking guide information based on an engine start input of the driver. |
| US11945460B1 |
Systems and methods for interfacing with an occupant
Systems and methods communicate an intent of an autonomous vehicle externally. In one implementation, scan data of a field around a travel path of an autonomous vehicle is obtained. The scan data is captured using at least one sensor. An object in the field around the travel path is determined from the scan data. The object is determined to be mutable or immutable. A navigation condition associated with the object is determined based on whether the object is mutable or immutable. The navigation condition is correlated to a portion of the travel path. Control operation(s) of the autonomous vehicle is determined for the portion of the travel path in response to the navigation condition. A representation link between the control operation(s) of the autonomous vehicle and the object is generated. A representation of the field around the travel path is rendered and includes the representation link. |
| US11945457B2 |
Method for data analysis, electronic device, and computer readable medium
A method for data analysis, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. A trip order is obtained. A smart contract is generated based on the trip order. Trip data uploaded by an on-board equipment is obtained. The smart contract is triggered based on the trip data and the trip order. Early-warning which corresponds to the smart contract is performed. |
| US11945455B2 |
System and method for dynamic customizable vehicle configuration
A control system for a vehicle may include a plurality of vehicle subsystems associated with respective different dynamic vehicle control functions and a plurality of subsystem controllers associated with respective ones of the vehicle subsystems. The subsystem controllers may be configured to control actuators associated with the respective different dynamic vehicle control functions to change an operational state of components of the vehicle subsystems based on respective configuration settings. The system further includes an attribute configuration module operably coupled to the subsystem controllers. The attribute configuration module may include processing circuitry configured to save current configuration settings as a saved configuration responsive to a first actuation of a configuration mode actuator and, after an on/off cycle of the vehicle, instruct the subsystem controllers to implement the saved configuration responsive to a second actuation of the configuration mode actuator. |
| US11945452B2 |
Determination of reliability of vehicle control commands via memory test
A vehicle having a control element for the speed, acceleration or direction of the vehicle, a computing device to generate a command in autonomous driving of the vehicle, and a command controller coupled between the control element and the computing device. In response to the command, the command controller initiates a test of a portion of the memory of the computing device. If the portion of the memory passes the test, the command controller forwards the command for execution via the control element of the vehicle; otherwise, the command controller blocks the command and/or issues a replacement command for the vehicle. |
| US11945450B2 |
Method for predicting a traffic situation for a vehicle
A method for predicting a traffic situation for an automatically operating vehicle involves constantly recording the surroundings of the vehicle and predicting a traffic situation of the vehicle is predicted for a future point in time using recorded surroundings data and prediction parameters. Upon reaching the future point in time, a current real traffic situation is recorded, the current real traffic situation is compared to the predicted traffic situation, and it is determined in the comparison whether a prediction error was present during the prediction. In the event of a prediction error, the prediction parameters are corrected. |
| US11945449B2 |
Using ISA system to implement a speed policy identified based on behaivor parameters of a driving instance
An automated method of controlling a speed of a vehicle includes identifying parameters of a driving instance of the vehicle; identifying a predetermined profile that is applicable to the driving instance based on the identified parameters; identifying a predetermined speed policy applicable to the driving instance based on the identified profile; and implementing the identified speed policy during the driving instance. The method may be repeated during the driving instance, whereby the speed policy that is implemented is automatically updated when one or more changes in the identified parameters cause a different predetermined speed policy to be identified. Parameter may include driver parameters (e.g., driver age and driver experience); vehicle parameters (e.g., vehicle age, mileage, and tire wear) tire maintenance information); behavior parameters (e.g., speed, acceleration, hard braking of the vehicle, following distance, swerving, and cornering); and circumstance parameters (e.g., time of day, road information, inclement weather, and traffic congestion). |
| US11945447B2 |
Transport boundary expansion
An example operation includes one or more of operating, by a transport, within a boundary and determining, by the transport, that the operating of the transport within the boundary is desired to be exceeded. In response to a consensus based on one or more operations of the transport and one or more occupant characteristics of the transport, the method includes operating, by the transport, within the exceeded boundary. |
| US11945444B2 |
Vehicle movement control apparatus
The vehicle movement control apparatus of the disclosure sets an update movement route as a target movement route when an update condition is satisfied. The apparatus acquires a turning characteristic, an acceleration characteristic, and a deceleration characteristic of a vehicle while executing an automatic movement control to cause the vehicle to move along the update movement route. The apparatus updates vehicle behavior characteristic data so as to represent actual vehicle behavior characteristics, based on the acquired turning characteristics, the acquired acceleration characteristic, and the acquired deceleration characteristic. |
| US11945441B2 |
Explainability and interface design for lane-level route planner
Providing explanations in route planning includes determining a route based on at least two objectives received from a user, where a second objective of the at least two objectives is constrained to within a slack value of a first objective of the at least two objectives; receiving, from the user, a request for an explanation as to an action along the route; and providing the explanation to the user. The explanation describes an extent of violating the slack value. |
| US11945436B2 |
Driving assist method and driving assist device
A vehicle speed/headway control function and a lane-keeping function are provided as driving assist functions to assist in a driving operation by a driver. A mode-switching controller is provided for switching between the modes. In the lane-keeping assist mode, it is assessed whether or not a traveling condition has been met that an actual vehicle speed of the host vehicle exceeds a speed limit of a roadway on which the host vehicle is traveling during lane-keeping travel in which “hands-off mode,” which allows the driver to remove their hands from the steering wheel, has been selected. The mode is switched from “hands-off mode” to “hands-on mode,” which has as a condition that the driver has their hands on the steering wheel, upon assessing that the traveling condition that the actual vehicle speed exceeds the speed limit has been met. |
| US11945431B2 |
Vehicle control apparatus
A vehicle control apparatus includes a braking controller individually controlling braking forces of braking devices for left and right front and rear wheels, a side collision detector detecting a side collision against a vehicle, and a yaw behavior detector detecting yaw behavior of a vehicle body. If the yaw behavior detected after the side collision is such that a rear of the vehicle body shifts away from a collision side relative to a front thereof, the braking controller executes yaw amplification control to cause the braking device for the collision-side front wheel to generate a braking force larger than the remaining wheels. If the detected yaw behavior is such that the front shifts away from the collision side relative to the rear, the braking controller executes the yaw amplification control to cause the braking device for the collision-side rear wheel to generate a braking force larger than the remaining wheels. |
| US11945430B2 |
Vehicle motion control system
A vehicle motion control system for coordinating and synchronizing a wheel-individual brake system and a power-train torque vectoring actuator system in a vehicle. The wheel-individual brake system includes at least one first actuator for applying a braking torque to individual wheels of the vehicle. The power-train torque vectoring actuator system includes at least one second actuator for applying a torque to individual wheels of the vehicle through a propulsion system. The vehicle motion control system includes a central control function module including a plurality of yaw torque controllers. Each yaw torque controller is configured to receive data including driver inputs and vehicle motion states to determine a respective yaw torque based on the received data for controlling the yaw behavior of the vehicle. |
| US11945429B2 |
Non-transitory storage medium, vehicle control device, and method for generating data structure
A non-transitory storage medium for use in an information processing device in a vehicle control system. The storage medium stores: pieces of positional information; pieces of cumulative relative frequency distribution information associated with individual vehicle traveling directions, the pieces of cumulative relative frequency distribution information being related to data on traveling loads associated with the individual vehicle traveling directions on a plurality of vehicles having traveled through points indicated by the pieces of positional information, or data on traveling load amounts depending on a traveling time or a traveling distance from the points; and instructions that are executable by processors to perform functions comprising calculating a predicted value of the traveling load amount depending on the traveling time or the traveling distance from an arbitrary point based on the cumulative relative frequency distribution information associated with individual vehicle traveling directions at the arbitrary point. |
| US11945427B2 |
Method and device for securing a motor vehicle during an automated driving manoeuvre
A method for securing a motor vehicle with at least one wheel brake during an automated driving maneuver includes, in order to carry out the automated driving maneuver, setting a hydraulic pressure at the wheel brake in order to generate a defined braking force large enough to securely arrest the motor vehicle during the execution of the automated driving maneuver. The method further includes keeping the hydraulic pressure which is set at the wheel brake essentially constant during the execution of the automated driving maneuver. The method may be implemented in a device. |
| US11945426B2 |
Brake control apparatus and method of controlling the same
A brake control apparatus includes a hydraulic pressure supply device configured to provide a hydraulic pressure to a wheel cylinder of a vehicle; a flow path extending from the hydraulic pressure supply device to the wheel cylinder; at least one valve configured to open or close the flow path; and a controller electrically connected to the hydraulic pressure supply device and the at least one valve. The controller may be configured to control the hydraulic pressure supply device to supply the hydraulic pressure to the wheel cylinder through the flow path, and in response to a change in a gear position of a transmission of the vehicle, to control at least one of the hydraulic pressure supply device and the at least one valve to maintain a hydraulic pressure of the wheel cylinder or a hydraulic pressure of the flow path for a first reference time after the change in the gear position. |
| US11945424B2 |
Method for automatically decelerating a vehicle
A braking system for automatic driver-independent deceleration of a vehicle includes a hydraulic vehicle brake and a backup braking system. The hydraulic vehicle brake includes an adjustable brake pressure control device. A method for automatic driver-independent deceleration of a vehicle includes decelerating the vehicle by actuating a braking pressure control device and, in response to a set point valve set in a hydraulic vehicle brake exceeding a threshold value, actuating a backup braking system. |
| US11945416B1 |
Airstream improver for vehicles
This invention is an air intake device that is to create at least one airstream and to eject the airstream to improve a vehicle's safety functionality and performance, such as clearing raindrops off certain surfaces, e.g., side rearview mirrors, front window, rear window, and headlights of the vehicle for better driver's visibility and/or for improving the aerodynamics of the vehicle. |
| US11945415B2 |
Vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device
A vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device cleans a sensing surface of a vehicle-mounted sensor. The vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device includes a gas nozzle spraying a gas toward the sensing surface, a gas supply device supplying the gas to the gas nozzle, and a control section controlling operation of the gas supply device. A predetermined value is set in the control section, for indicating an abnormal state of detection accuracy of the vehicle-mounted sensor based on detection accuracy information of an object which is obtained from the vehicle-mounted sensor. A gas supply threshold value is also set, for use in operating the gas supply device to direct a supply of the gas toward the sensing surface before the detection accuracy information becomes equal to or lower than the predetermined value. If the detection accuracy information has become lower than the gas supply threshold value, the control section operates the gas supply device. |
| US11945413B2 |
Rainfall amount measurement apparatus
In a rainfall amount measurement apparatus, raindrop amount information corresponding to an attachment amount of raindrops attached to an outer wall surface of a windshield of the vehicle in a measurement period is acquired based on an output of a detector configured to generate an output corresponding to the attachment amount of raindrops. The raindrop amount information is used to set a wiping interval in a wiper wiping the raindrops attached to the outer wall surface. The measurement value of a rainfall amount per unit time is calculated based on the raindrop amount information, and outputted to an outside of the vehicle. |
| US11945410B2 |
Ladder rack system
A ladder rack system may have a slide with a support flange and a spanning flange. The system may also have a ladder support member adapted to selectively receive a portion of the support flange therein. The system may also have a pivot bracket pivotally connected to the ladder support member. The pivot bracket may be adapted to selectively move the ladder support member. |
| US11945409B2 |
Self powered roof system
The vehicle roof cargo carrying system includes front and rear subsystems affixed to the front and rear of the vehicle roof. Each subsystem includes an extrusion guide rail slidably engaging a sliding block. Each sliding block includes a translational actuator for side-to-side movement across the vehicle roof, and an elevation mechanism. The elevation mechanism includes a primary arm and secondary arm, wherein the primary arm first end pivotably attached to the sliding block and the primary arm second end hingeably attach to a first end of a secondary arm. A second end of the secondary arm is attached to a cargo-platform bracket. The primary and secondary arms are reversibly moveable from a folded position wherein the secondary arm is nested within the primary arm, and an unfolded position wherein the secondary arm extends from the primary arm. The primary arm pivots relative to the sliding blocks. |
| US11945408B2 |
Method of forming a one-piece vehicle roof rail
A roof rail for a vehicle is provided that is made of only one piece and is solid across its length. The roof rail may be made using a co-injection molding process, a two-shot injection molding process or an extrusion molding process. |
| US11945407B2 |
Non-woven fabric for a vehicle interior material, manufacturing method of the same and cargo screen for a vehicle using the non-woven fabric for a vehicle interior material
Disclosed is non-woven fabric for a vehicle internal material, a manufacturing method of the non-woven fabric, and a cargo screen for a vehicle using the non-woven fabric for a vehicle internal material, wherein the manufacturing method of non-woven fabric for a vehicle internal material is configured to includes forming a felt by mixing LM PET (Low melting polyethylene terephthalate) staple fibers having a melting point in the range of 120 to 140° C. and 150 to 170° C. and PET staple fibers; and thermo-compression molding the felt. |
| US11945403B2 |
Progressive lockout policy for deviceless vehicle access and remote lockout management interface
A vehicle for improved user authentication is provided. The vehicle includes a biometric sensor; and a controller programmed to initiate a biometric authentication of a user within a vicinity of a vehicle using data received from the biometric sensor, and responsive to occurrence of a secondary trigger condition initiated by the user to gain access to the vehicle, complete the authentication to grant or deny access to the user. A system for remote management of lockout states for a vehicle is provided. A server is programmed to receive a lockout notification from the vehicle, responsive to occurrence of a failed access attempt using an access modality, the lockout notification including contextual information with respect to the occurrence of the failed access attempt; and send, responsive to the lockout notification, an indication of an administrative action to be performed by the vehicle. |
| US11945395B1 |
Vehicle airbag system
A vehicle includes a bulkhead elongated along an axis. The vehicle includes a base supported by the bulkhead and inflatable from a stowed position away from the bulkhead to a deployed position. The vehicle includes an airbag supported by the base and inflatable away from the bulkhead and the base to an inflated position, the airbag in the inflated position having a main portion and extensions extending away from the main portion along a vehicle-longitudinal axis, the extensions being spaced from each other along the axis. |
| US11945392B2 |
Metal-fixing material feedthrough, method for the production thereof and uses thereof
A metal-fixing material feedthrough for at least one of an airbag igniter or a belt pre-tensioner includes a main body having a through opening formed therein and at least one metal pin fused into the through opening in a vitreous or glass ceramic fixing material. A surface of the vitreous or glass ceramic fixing material is a freely fused surface and lies in a same plane as an end face of the at least one metal pin. |
| US11945391B1 |
Vehicle airbag system
A vehicle includes a vehicle body including a roof and a pillar. The vehicle includes a track supported by the roof and elongated along a cross-vehicle axis. The vehicle includes a headliner slideable along the track from a stowed position to a deployed position. The headliner in the stowed position extends along the roof and in the deployed position extends along the pillar. |
| US11945390B2 |
Driver airbag module and steering device comprising such a driver airbag module
The disclosure relates to a driver airbag module rotatable about a steering axis. The driver airbag module can include an inflatable airbag and a module housing with a housing axis substantially parallel to the steering axis. The module housing can define a receiving chamber for the folded airbag. The receiving chamber is delimited by a housing front wall that faces a vehicle occupant when the driver airbag module is installed, an opposing housing rear wall axially spaced therefrom, and a housing lateral wall extending between the housing front wall and the housing rear wall. The housing lateral wall has an opening section via which the airbag is unfolded when the driver airbag module is activated, and the housing front wall is inclined relative to the housing rear wall. |
| US11945388B2 |
Roll cage chassis spine
An apparatus and methods are provided for a chassis for an off-road vehicle that includes a roll cage chassis spine. The chassis is a welded-tube variety of chassis that includes a front portion and a rear portion that are joined to an intervening passenger cabin portion. The roll cage chassis spine includes a front canopy and a rear canopy comprising an overhead spine to the chassis that increases the strength of the chassis and improves the safety of occupants within the vehicle. The rear canopy couples to the rear portion of the chassis, and the front canopy couples to the front portion of the chassis and the rear canopy. The front canopy and the rear canopy are configured to cooperatively reinforce the chassis during loading forces on the front portion due to front struts and loading forces on the rear portion due to rear struts. |
| US11945385B2 |
Energy absorption device
An energy absorption device for a bumper of a motor vehicle has a first deformation element on the front side of the bumper. The first deformation element is a foam shaped part which extends over the width of the bumper and has a density of from 20 to 50 g/l. At least one second deformation element, with a density which is at least 50 g/l higher than the first deformation element, is inserted into the first deformation element. |
| US11945383B2 |
Control system for travelling system
A control system of a travelling system includes a directional controller, a first sensor, a second sensor, an image-capturing module and a preprocessor. The first sensor is disposed on a reference position. The second sensor and the image-capturing module are disposed on the directional controller. The preprocessor compares a first directional data from the first sensor and a second directional data from the second sensor to obtain a difference value, and provides a photographing parameter to the image-capturing module. |
| US11945377B2 |
Vehicle exterior part
A vehicle exterior part includes a decorative body, a heater sheet, a connector pin. The decorative body includes a base material, and a transparent resin layer. The heater sheet includes a heat generating body, and an extending portion. A part of the heater wire in the extending portion is joined to the connector pin inside an outer periphery of the base material by a joining portion made of a conductive material. The outer periphery is formed with a window configured to join the heater wire to the connector pin by the joining portion in a state where a joining position is exposed to an outside of the outer periphery. The window is provided with a waterstop portion configured to restrict water from entering the joining position. The waterstop portion is formed by filling the window with a potting material. |
| US11945371B2 |
Fixed angle car mount for a mobile device
A mount for a mobile device on an internal display screen of an automobile. A housing defines a volume and has a device side attachment surface and a back surface. The housing also has an attachment extension to couple to the internal display such that the device side attachment surface has a permanently fixed orientation relative to the attachment extension. The housing contains a wireless charger and a first arrangement of magnetic material. The magnetic material exposes a pattern of magnetic fields at the device side attachment surface. The attachment extension has a display screen coupling surface with an arcuate contour that substantially mates with a contour of the internal display screen. |
| US11945365B1 |
Pocket light adapter
A lighting assembly includes one or more spheroid lenses and a lighting insert configured to hold the spheroid lens or lenses and to cover a hole in a vehicle body panel. The lighting insert is further configured to form a water-tight seal with each of the vehicle body panel and the spheroid lens or lenses. The lighting insert defines a lens aperture configured to hold a corresponding spheroid lens. The lens aperture is substantially smaller than the hole in the vehicle body panel, and the lighting insert is further configured to form a water-tight seal with each of the vehicle body panel and the spheroid lens. The lighting insert may define a circle shape that is configured to cover a circle-shaped hole in the vehicle body panel. The lighting insert may define an oval shape that is configured to cover an oval-shaped hole in the vehicle body panel. |
| US11945357B2 |
Heated slurry transport system
A heated slurry transport system for receiving, transporting and unloading a cuttings slurry in a non-frozen manner in cold weather environments. The heated slurry transport system generally includes a portable tank having an interior surface, at least one wall, and a rear door. A layer of insulation surrounds at least a portion of the portable tank to help retain heat within the portable tank. A heating unit is attached to the portable tank and adapted to heat a fluid that is transferred through at least one heat loop attached to the portable tank to heat the interior of the portable tank and the contents of the portable tank. |
| US11945356B2 |
Unmanned mobile vehicle configurable as an autonomous power module
The present invention relates to an unmanned (100) and configurable as a standalone energy module mobile vehicle, which comprises: one chassis (1) a body (27) mounted on the chassis (1) a drive system (4) comprising a motor (51), the drive system (4) configured to receive commands from a user-operated controller, the vehicle (100) comprising at least a rechargeable battery module (80) configured to feed the motor (51) and provide a source of electrical energy. |
| US11945355B2 |
Consumer products showroom
Methods and apparatus for advertising, promoting, marketing and/or selling products and services. The inventions include a mobile vehicle and moving showroom for advertising, promotion, marketing, and sales of products and services. The products and services may be promoted for direct sale from the moving showroom, or for sale from other outlets, such as retail stores and internet sales. |
| US11945353B2 |
Holder for mounting a headrest
There is shown and described, inter alia, a holder for supporting a headrest, which holder can be fixed in a retaining structure of a vehicle by insertion in a first mounting direction, wherein the holder is formed with a guide passage for receiving a retaining rod of the headrest, and wherein the holder has fixing means for fixing to a retaining structure of the vehicle.The particular feature consists in that the fixing means have at least one deflection device, having at least one movable element that is supported on the holder so as to be movable from a first position in which the movable element is in the movement path of the retaining rod inserted into the guide passage, and a second position in which the movable element is outside the movement path, wherein the element has a region that is suitable for cooperating with an abutment surface of the retaining structure, in moving between the first position and the second position, such that the retaining element is loaded in a mounting direction relative to the retaining structure. |
| US11945350B2 |
Vehicle seat
Provided is to stabilize a fixed state of each bag body provided at a vehicle seat and configured to expand to push a corresponding one of the shoulders of a seated passenger. Of a seat back provided at the vehicle seat, each shoulder support configured to support a corresponding one of the shoulders of the seated passenger includes an air cell configured to expand by injection of air. The air cell includes protrusions extending in a predetermined direction and provided at respective end portions of the air bag in the extending direction thereof. The air cell is attached to the inside of the seat back in such a manner that each of the protrusions provided at respective end portions in the extending direction is fixed to a corresponding one of fixing positions separated from each other in the width direction of the vehicle seat. |
| US11945345B2 |
Child safety seat
A child safety seat includes a seat shell having two sidewalls respectively provided at a left and a right side of the seat shell for restricting sideways movement of a child sitting on the seat shell, the two sidewalls including a first and a second sidewall, a buffering part movably connected with the seat shell, the buffering part being movable between a stowed position where the buffering part is retracted toward the first sidewall, and a deployed position where the buffering part protrudes sideways from the first sidewall, and a latching mechanism including a latch carried with the buffering part, the latch being movable relative to the buffering part between a locking state for locking the buffering part in position relative to the seat shell and an unlocking state for unlocking the buffering part so that the buffering part is rotatable relative to the seat shell. |
| US11945342B2 |
Autonomous seat adjustment in a vehicle
A method for adjusting a seat in a vehicle includes adjusting the seat from an initial position to a passenger adjusted position based on receiving an input from a passenger. The method further includes determining the passenger exited the vehicle after adjusting the seat and predicting a likelihood of the passenger returning to the vehicle based on determining the passenger exited the vehicle. The method also includes adjusting the seat to the initial position based on the likelihood of the passenger returning is less than a passenger returning threshold. The method still further includes identifying a person approaching the vehicle after the passenger exited the vehicle based on information captured by one or more sensors of the vehicle. The method also includes adjusting the seat to a position associated with the previous passenger based on identifying the person approaching the vehicle as the previous passenger. |
| US11945339B2 |
Energy management system for a towed vehicle
An energy management system for a towed vehicle includes an energy harvesting system for harvesting electrical energy from the energy of the towed vehicle, an energy storage system for storing the harvested electrical energy, and a computer controller for controlling the release of the stored electrical energy to one or more components of the towed vehicle for operating the towed vehicle. |
| US11945331B2 |
Battery module parallel switching device systems and methods
The present disclosure includes an automotive battery system that uses switching devices to increase operational performance and reliability. The battery system includes a battery cell, a primary switching device electrically coupled to a terminal of the battery cell, and a secondary switching device electrically coupled to the terminal of the battery cell and in parallel with the primary switching device. The primary switching device includes an electromechanical switching device that enables charging or discharging of the battery and generates a boosted voltage. A secondary switching device includes a solid-state switching device and a diode, electrically coupled in series, which detect short circuit conditions in a power-efficient manner and remove the short circuit condition by using the boosted voltage to actuate the armature. Furthermore, parallel switching devices work together to deliver appropriate amounts of power as required by an electrical device, increasing the performance, reliability, and life-span of a battery system. |
| US11945320B2 |
Discharging assembly, power feeding system, and power feeding method
A discharging assembly includes: a first end to which electric power is input from a connected discharging port; a first voltage line, a second voltage line and a neutral line; and a second end that outputs first AC power and second AC power. The first AC power applies a first voltage between the first voltage line and the neutral line. The second AC power applies a second voltage between the second voltage line and the neutral line. The second end includes a first electrical outlet and a second electrical outlet. The first electrical outlet includes a first voltage terminal connected to the first voltage line, a second voltage terminal connected to the second voltage line, and a ground terminal connected to the neutral line. The second electrical outlet includes a voltage terminal connected to the first voltage line, and a ground terminal connected to the neutral line. |
| US11945318B2 |
Power supply apparatus and power supply method
The power supply apparatus includes a power transmission apparatus configured to transmit power to a power reception apparatus of the vehicle by non-contact and a processor configured to control the power transmission apparatus, detect a pickup/dropoff operation at the vehicle when power is being supplied by non-contact from the power supply apparatus to the vehicle, and detect a number of surrounding vehicles being supplied with power by non-contact in a predetermined range at surroundings of the power supply apparatus. The processor is configured to decrease power transmitted from the power transmission apparatus to the power reception apparatus when detecting a pickup/dropoff operation, and determine an amount of decrease of the transmitted power based on the number of surrounding vehicles. |
| US11945317B2 |
Inductive power transfer system for derating a battery charging profile of electric vehicle batteries and control method thereof
A power transfer system for supplying electric power to a battery of an electric vehicle including a control architecture including control arrangements capable of controlling the transmission of electric power to a battery of the electric vehicle as a function of detected temperatures at the transmitter and receiver coils. In a further aspect, the application relates to a method for controlling a power transfer system. |
| US11945314B2 |
Method for operating a drive train, and drive train
A method for operating a drive train includes supplying a motor voltage to an electric motor by a converter for achieving a torque setpoint value, determining an angular velocity actual value and an angular acceleration actual value from values of the angular position of the rotor, determining the torque setpoint value from a moment of inertia and an angular acceleration setpoint value, which is determined as an actuation variable, determining the moment of inertia as the sum of the moment of inertia of the drive train without a load and the moment of inertia of the load, and determining the moment of inertia of the load from a torque actual value and from the angular acceleration actual value. |
| US11945313B2 |
Power supply device for vehicle
A vehicle power supply device converts power from high voltage to low voltage by selectively connecting a predetermined power storage element group to a low voltage electric load from a high voltage power supply formed by connecting power storage elements in series. A leakage resistance from the high voltage power supply to the ground is measured when the high voltage circuit is cut by the cutoff means placed between the high voltage power supply and the high-voltage load device. When the value less than a predetermined value, the connection between the high voltage power supply and the low-voltage load device is interrupted, so that electric shock is prevented. |
| US11945310B2 |
Display system
A display system includes a posture detection device that detects a posture variation amount of a moving body, a posture estimator that estimates a posture state of the moving body based on the posture variation amount, a reference position setting device that sets a reference position of an image based on the posture state, a correction processing device that sets a correction amount of a display position of the image based on the posture variation amount, and a display processing device that controls a display position of the image based on the reference position, the correction amount, and a timing command. |
| US11945309B2 |
Display system
A display system includes a display processing device that controls display of an image, a posture detection device that detects a posture change amount of moving body, a correction processing device that sets a correction amount of display position of the image, a display determiner that determines whether or not to display the image, and a gradient change detector that detects a gradient change of a traveling path. The gradient change detector detects that a posture change of the moving body is started when an absolute value of the posture change amount is larger than a first threshold, and that the posture change is completed when the absolute value becomes smaller than a second threshold after start of the posture change. The display determiner determines not to display the image from start of the posture change until completion of the posture change. |
| US11945305B2 |
Method for the performance-enhancing driver assistance of a road vehicle with an augmented reality interface
A method for the performance-enhancing driver assistance of a road vehicle driven by a driver comprises the steps of: determining the current position and orientation of the road vehicle, detecting a plurality of environmental data concerning the surrounding environment, detecting a plurality of dynamic data of the vehicle, determining the current position and orientation of a helmet within the road vehicle and suggesting to the driver, by means of an augmented reality interface device, one or more corrective actions to be carried out in order to accomplish a mission optimizing a cost function. |
| US11945304B2 |
Multifunctional switch system for autonomous vehicle and operating method thereof
A multifunctional switch system for an autonomous vehicle may include a plurality of docking stations in the interior of the autonomous vehicle, sets an operation mode of a mobile operation device for each of positions of the plurality of docking stations, and operates in an operation mode corresponding to the position of the docking station as the mobile operation device is docked to the docking station to enable a driver in the autonomous vehicle to conveniently operate various convenience devices regardless of the driver's location, and an operating method thereof. |
| US11945302B2 |
Low-floor electric axle assembly
A low-floor electric axle assembly including: an axle housing, two hub motors, two planetary gear reducers, two hubs, a brake system, two C-shaped beams, and a suspension system. Mechanical mounting of the suspension system is compatible with a conventional axle. The axle housing has a left and right symmetrical dumbbell-shaped structure configured to bear a weight of a vehicle. The hub motors are inner rotor type motors and are separately arranged at two ends of the axle housing left and right symmetrically. The hub motors are arranged coaxially with two wheels respectively. Two hub motor rotors are connected to the planetary gear reducers respectively. Each of the planetary gear reducers is a single-stage planetary gear reducer. A sun gear of each of the planetary gear reducers receives power outputted by each of the hub motor. Two planetary gear reducer housings are power output ends connected to two rims respectively. |
| US11945300B2 |
Charging or fueling recess and method for the production thereof
A charging or fueling recess for use in a body opening of a vehicle, which has a recess body and a hinge housing as a rigid part made of a first plastic, wherein the recess body is formed integrally with the hinge housing, wherein the hinge housing has a lower part and an upper part, wherein the charging or fueling recess also has a hinge housing sealing body as a flexible part made of a second plastic which is softer than the first plastic, wherein the hinge housing sealing body is arranged at least sectionally between the lower part and the upper part, wherein the recess body, the hinge housing and the hinge housing sealing body are produced using a two-component injection-molding process. |
| US11945297B2 |
Ventilation device equipped with a membrane for a vehicle liquid tank
The ventilation device (4) for a vehicle liquid tank, comprises: a membrane (20) impermeable to a predetermined liquid and permeable to a vapor likely to be produced by this liquid, and at least one pipe (52) suitable for discharging liquid found on the membrane from the device. The or each pipe has an end contiguous with the membrane, the rest of the or each pipe extending at an altitude lower than this end when a main axis of the device is vertical. |
| US11945294B2 |
Modular battery pack for mounting to a vehicle frame
A modular battery pack for mounting to a vehicle frame of a vehicle. The modular battery pack comprising a plurality of modules arranged adjacent to each other, wherein at least one module constitutes an electrical energy storage module. Each module comprises first and second opposite side walls arranged to face respective side walls of adjacent modules, and to provide structural integrity of the modular battery pack. Each side wall comprises a common set of interfaces for interfacing between adjacent modules. The modular battery pack also comprising at least one control unit having a side wall comprising the common set of interfaces, and also a vehicle interface for interfacing with the vehicle. |
| US11945293B2 |
Dual motor electric driveline
Methods and sysemteds for a driveline, comprising: a transmission having an input and an output, a power take-off (PTO), a first electric motor drivingly engaged or selectively drivingly engaged with the input of the transmission, a second electric motor, a first clutching device, and a second clutching device, wherein the second electric motor is selectively drivingly engaged with the input of the transmission through the first clutching device, and wherein the second electric motor is selectively drivingly engaged with the PTO through the second clutching device. The present document further relates to a vehicle including said dual motor electric driveline, and to a method of controlling said dual motor electric driveline. |
| US11945290B2 |
Composite liftgate
A composite liftgate including an inner panel construction having strengthening channel structure in combination with a ribbing. Structural steel reinforcements are bonded to the inner panel where additional strength is needed. Where the extra structure is needed, a minimum amount of steel is used and the structural reinforcement is bonded in place using adhesive. A plurality of access doors are provided that are removable for easier maintenance and repair. |
| US11945289B2 |
Sliding door device for vehicle
A sliding door device for a vehicle includes a door arm including a first end portion rotatably connected to an end portion of the door and a second end portion movable along a side sill of the vehicle body, a door power connection portion provided in the door arm, and a vehicle power connection portion provided in a position corresponding to the door power connection portion of the vehicle body and electrically connected to the door power connection portion according to rotation of the door arm, wherein the vehicle power connection portion includes: a first vehicle power connection portion electrically connected to the door power connection portion when the door is closed, and a second vehicle power connection portion electrically connected to the door power connection portion when the door is opened. |
| US11945285B2 |
Air discharge device
The air discharge device includes a duct defining: a main flow path through which an air flow passes; and a main hole opened in a flat shape to discharge the air flow as a working air flow toward a downstream from the main flow path. A throttle portion is provided in the duct to reduce a flow path height of the main flow path from an upstream of the air flow toward a downstream of the air flow. A plurality of partitions are arranged to divide the main flow path in a major direction into a pair of side flow paths and at least one center flow path. The plurality of partitions are disposed in the duct such that a flow path width of the center flow path is reduced from the upstream of the air flow toward the downstream of the air flow. |
| US11945281B2 |
Vehicle front-arrangement structure and vehicle equipped with vehicle front-arrangement structure
A vehicle front arrangement structure includes high-voltage equipment, air conditioning equipment that includes an air-conditioner blower, and a high-voltage connector part. The high-voltage equipment and air conditioning equipment are arranged in front of a vehicle. The high-voltage connector part is provided at a vehicle rearward end portion of the high-voltage equipment to connect a high-voltage wire harness. The high-voltage connector part is arranged so as to be displaced in at least one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction as viewed from the front of the vehicle. |
| US11945275B2 |
Damping control device and damping control method for vehicle
A damping control device includes a control force generating device and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire road surface displacement related values related to a plurality of road surface displacements in a predetermined sampling zone, acquire an amplitude index indicating a magnitude of an amplitude of the sampled values, determine an operation delay period of the control force generating device based on the magnitude of the amplitude indicated by the amplitude index, calculate target control force for reducing vibration of a vehicle body based on the road surface displacement related values at a predicted passing position where a wheel is predicted to pass after an elapse of the operation delay period from a current time, and transmit, to the control force generating device, a control command for causing the control force generating device to regulate the control force to agree with the target control force. |
| US11945273B2 |
Preview damping control apparatus and method for a vehicle
A damping force control apparatus for a vehicle in which road surface displacement-related information detected by an in-vehicle detection device is transmitted to a preview reference database control device together with detection position information, a preview reference database including road surface displacement-related values is made, preview damping control that reduces vibration of a sprung of the vehicle is performed using the road surface displacement-related values in the preview reference database, and it is assumed that a road surface displacement-related value in a predetermined adjacent region located in a direction crossing a traveling direction of the vehicle with respect to a point where the road surface displacement-related information was detected by the in-vehicle detection device is the same as the road surface displacement-related value at the above point. |
| US11945271B2 |
Rigid-flexible coupling multi-degree-of-freedom walking position-adjusting leg unit and hybrid robot platform thereof
A rigid-flexible coupling multi-degree-of-freedom walking position-adjusting leg unit and a hybrid robot platform thereof is provided and includes a vertical rigid-flexible coupling multi-degree-of-freedom walking position-adjusting leg unit and a horizontal rigid-flexible coupling multi-degree-of-freedom walking position-adjusting leg unit, which both include a moving device, a moving drive, a steering frame, a lifting frame, a spring device and a driving differential wheel set, in combination with a frame, a driver set, a battery pack and a control box, forming a multi-degree-of-freedom parallel mechanism platform. The hybrid robot platform including the rigid-flexible coupling multi-degree-of-freedom walking position-adjusting leg unit as provided by the present disclosure has functions of a rigid position adjustment, an elastic suspension and a rigid-flexible coupling position adjustment, and can automatically adapt to a working condition of the uneven ground. |
| US11945264B2 |
Tire wear prediction system, tire wear prediction program, tire wear prediction method and data structure
A tire wear prediction system (100) is provided with a wear prediction unit (110) for predicting a wear state of a tire mounted at a predetermined wheel position of a vehicle based on the traveling state of the vehicle, a change history acquisition unit (120) for acquiring a change history including the rotation of the wheel position on which the tire is mounted or a content of replacement with another tire, and a wear state correction unit (140) for correcting a reference of the wear state of the tire predicted by the wear prediction unit (110) based on the change history. The wear prediction unit (110) predicts the wear state of the tire based on the reference of the wear state corrected by the wear state correction unit (140). |
| US11945256B2 |
Laser marked optically variable device
A security device for security documents provides an angle-dependent Moiré effect. A security device for a security document and method for making the security device are provided. At least two interlaced laser engraved images form an angle dependent parallax effect. First and second images are laser engraved at a substrate of the security document. To render the security device more difficult to copy, a colour changing effect or a nonreciprocal transmission effect may be achieved by adding a coloured (absorptive or emissive) layer between or within non-laser engravable layers situated between the laser engravable layers, and/or by adding a patterned phase diffraction grating situated between the laser engravable layers. |
| US11945252B2 |
Recording medium and ink jet recording method
A recording medium includes a substrate, a first ink-receiving layer, and a second ink-receiving layer adjacent to the first ink-receiving layer, in this order. The first ink-receiving layer has a positive surface zeta potential, and the second ink-receiving layer has a negative surface zeta potential. The thickness of the second ink-receiving layer is 2 μm to 15 μm. |
| US11945250B2 |
Thermal transfer sheet and printed article
A thermal transfer sheet includes a dye layer disposed on a first surface of a substrate film. The dye layer includes a decolorizable dye. The decolorizable dye has a color difference ΔE*ab between a color A and a color B of 10 or less, where the color A is a color of a transfer-receiving body before the decolorizable dye is transferred to the transfer-receiving body, the color B is a color of a portion of the transfer-receiving body with the decolorizable dye having been transferred thereto, and the color of the portion is a color after the portion is irradiated by a xenon lamp at an irradiation intensity of 1.2 (W/m2) for 50 hours, the portion having a reflection density of 0.5 or greater before being irradiated by the xenon lamp. |
| US11945246B2 |
Craftwork tools and kits
A craftwork accessory may provide a portable and/or easy-to-use tool to help users accurately and repeatedly apply stamp impressions and the like to items such as cardstock. The accessory may include a base portion, one or more elevated side portions and cover portion. The side portions may define a workspace for arranging the item. The cover portion may be movably attached to the base portion or a side portion, for example, by one or more hinges. In operation, the item and stamp may be aligned in the workspace and the cover portion may be pressed onto the stamp to stick the stamp to the cover portion. The cover may then be opened, the stamp may be inked, and the cover portion may be closed and pressed onto the item to stamp the item. The accessory may include alignment indicia on the base portion, side portions and/or cover portion to facilitate placement of the item and/or stamp. The accessory may also include fastening mechanisms, such as magnetic elements, to facilitate placement of the item and/or stamp. |
| US11945244B2 |
Cartridge
A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge includes a ribbon roll around which an ink ribbon is wound, and a cartridge case configured to accommodate a tape roll around which a tape is wound and that accommodates the ribbon roll, in which the cartridge case includes a third case portion, a first case portion that constitutes a tape roll accommodating portion accommodating the tape roll between the first case portion and the third case portion, and a second case portion that is separated from the first case portion and accommodates the ribbon roll between the second case portion and the third case portion, and the first case portion is configured to open and close the tape roll accommodating portion. |
| US11945243B2 |
Manufacturing garments and textiles with printed patterns thereon
Disclosed herein is a technique that improves material efficiency in generating garments and textiles that include graphics. A given product is sorted into cut patterns used to assemble the product. Graphics are digitally applied to each cut pattern in order to generate abstract cut patterns including aligned graphics. Blank cut patterns are nested across a virtual sheet of fabric in a 2D space without any consideration to the graphics. The nested cut patterns implement the abstract cut patterns that include graphics. The graphics are aligned to the positions of the cut patterns according to the nesting scheme. Print instructions including nested cut patterns with aligned graphics are delivered to a printer that executes the print job. The cut patterns are cut away from the fabric sheet including graphic designs that are aligned with the cut patterns. |
| US11945241B2 |
Printer for printing marker cards with markers for marking electrical appliances
A printer for printing plate-like media made of plastic and/or metal such as printing marker cards with markers for marking electrical appliances has various functional devices and an apparatus for handling the printable plate-like media. The marker cards are conveyed in the printer between the functional devices. The handling apparatus has several stations which are formed as receiving and fixing devices for a marker card to be printed. One or more of the stations is configured so as to be pivotable, such that it can be pivoted out of a first pivot position into a second pivot position against a resilient stop. |
| US11945238B2 |
Liquid ejecting device
A liquid ejecting device includes: a printing unit including a liquid ejecting head configured to eject a liquid to a medium and a head holder configured to form an air cooling path, and a cooling mechanism configured to cause air in the air cooling path to flow therethrough to air-cool the liquid ejecting head, wherein the printing unit is provided so as to be movable with respect to a transport path along which the medium is transported, the cooling mechanism includes a first air hole and a second air hole that are configured to be coupled to the air cooling path, and the air cooling path is coupled to one of the first air hole and the second air hole corresponding to a position of the printing unit. |
| US11945234B2 |
Laser-induced cell transfer and sorting
A method for transferring objects includes providing a medium in a reservoir, the medium containing objects; providing a substrate having an acceptor surface, the acceptor surface facing an opening of the reservoir; determining a first target focus point in the medium; and generating a first laser pulse or first laser pulse train focused onto the first target focus point. Pulse intensity of the first laser pulse or pulse train at the first target focus point and/or pulse duration of the first laser pulse or pulse train is/are chosen to generate a droplet of the medium ejected towards the acceptor surface. A center wavelength of the first laser pulse or pulse train is larger than 500 nm, larger than 650 nm, or between 0.9 μm and 1.35 μm. The first target focus point is determined relative to the position of at least one object of the objects. |
| US11945231B2 |
Printing material container, and board mounted on printing material container
A printing material container is detachably attachable to a printing apparatus having a plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The printing material container comprises a first device, a second device, and a terminal group that includes a plurality of first terminals, at least one second terminal and at least one third terminal. The plurality of first terminals are connected to the first device and respectively include a first contact portion for contacting a corresponding terminal among the plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The at least one second terminal is connected to the second device and includes a second contact portion for contacting a corresponding terminal among the plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The at least one third terminal is for the detection of shorting between the at least one second terminal and the at least one third terminal and includes a third contact portion for contacting a corresponding terminal among the plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The at least one second contact portion, the plurality of the first contact portions, and the at least one third contact portion are arranged so as to form one or multiple rows. The at least one second contact portion is arranged at an end of one row among the one or multiple rows. |
| US11945228B2 |
Upward jetting ink jet printing system
A system and method upwards ink deposit onto a substrate in existing printing systems. The system provides for multiple orientations of the print head including jetting in the vertical (or generally upwards) direction to mark a substrate. The system allows the ink jetting to be easily integrated into existing converting or printing processes without the need to add auxiliary web transporting devices such as a turn bar since the print head is jetting the pigment-based ink sets vertically as illustrated in the document provided. To jet vertically the ink viscosity needs to be closely controlled utilizing in line ink heating systems that are deployed throughout the ink supply circuit. The system measures the difference between meniscus and pressure with a predetermined amount of heat applied to the system using in line/integrated heating devices in order to accomplish a vertical jet at speed. |
| US11945227B2 |
Head assembly and printing apparatus including head assembly
There is provided a head assembly including: a rigid substrate; a plurality of heads; a tank; a plurality of tubes; a heater; a plurality of flexible substrates; a relay substrate; a first member; and a second member arranged on one side in a first direction with respect to the first space. The rigid substrate is arranged in a first space formed in the first member. The tank, the heater, the plurality of tubes and the plurality of flexible substrates are arranged in a second space formed in the second member. The relay substrate is located between the first space and the second space in a first direction, and partitions the first space and the second space from each other. |
| US11945226B2 |
Liquid ejecting device and air blowing device
A printer includes an ejecting head that ejects ink, a glued belt including a support surface, a first fan and a second fan configured to blow air toward the support surface, and a facing portion facing a portion of the first fan and a portion of the second fan. The facing portion includes an opening that opens in the Z direction. The opening is located between the first fan and the second fan in the X direction when viewed in the Z direction. When a spacing in the X direction at a first position in the +Y direction is defined as the first spacing and a spacing in the X direction at a second position upstream of the first position in the +Y direction is defined as the second spacing, the second spacing is larger than the first spacing. |
| US11945223B2 |
Head device, liquid jetting apparatus, and head maintenance method
To provide a head device, a liquid jetting apparatus, and a head maintenance method with which it is possible to suppress a decrease in performance of a liquid-repellent film on a nozzle surface that is caused by a wiping process with respect to the nozzle surface. Provided is a head device including an ink jet head (10) in which a liquid-repellent film (10B) is formed on a nozzle surface (10A) and a head control unit. The head control unit applies a negative pressure to liquid in a nozzle, performs a non-jetting driving operation of causing the liquid in the nozzle to vibrate without being jetted, and stops the non-jetting driving operation for a wiping target nozzle (12A) with which a wiping member (22) to be used in a wiping process comes into contact in a case where the wiping process with respect to the nozzle surface is to be performed. |
| US11945218B2 |
Printing apparatus
A printing apparatus includes: a roll paper container portion that accommodates roll paper formed into a roll by wrapping recording paper around a core; a transportation roller that transports the recording paper in a transportation direction; a buffering member that moves in contact with the recording paper; and a guide member that is provided upstream of the buffering member in the transportation direction and guides the core of the roll paper that is moved from an inside of the roll paper container portion to an outside. |
| US11945214B2 |
Processing device
A processing device includes a first light source and a second light source configured to emit light having a peak wavelength from 900 nm to 2,100 nm, a first light receiving portion, a second light receiving portion, and a processing portion configured to subject a medium to processing of increasing or reducing an amount of moisture contained in the medium. the first light source and the first light receiving portion are positioned upstream of the processing portion in a transport direction of the medium, the first light source irradiates, with light, the medium, the first light receiving portion receives light reflected by the medium, the second light source and the second light receiving portion are positioned downstream of the processing portion in the transport direction, the second light source irradiates, with light, the medium, and the second light receiving portion receives light reflected by the medium. |
| US11945213B2 |
Liquid discharge apparatus
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a conveying part configured to convey a medium in a conveying direction. A discharge head is configured to discharge a droplet onto a medium carried by the conveying part. A heating part is arranged at the downstream of the discharge head and configured to heat a medium while contacting with the medium attached with a droplet discharged by the discharge head. The heating part is arranged at a position contacting with at least part of the droplet present on the surface of the medium. |
| US11945209B2 |
Methods and devices for printing on substrates
A system for printing on a substrate can comprise a conveyor that is configured to move the substrate along a substrate movement axis. The system can further comprise at least one print head array. Each print head array has a plurality of print heads, each print head having a respective orientation axis. The plurality of print heads can have at least a first print head and a second print head, wherein the orientation axis of the first print head is angularly offset from the orientation axis of the second print head. The first print head can be offset from the second print head along the substrate movement axis. |
| US11945208B2 |
Systems and methods for improving reliability of replacing items in a stencil printer
A movable cart includes a housing configured to move along a horizontal surface and a plurality of shelves supported by the housing Each shelf of the plurality of shelves is configured to move between a retracted in which the shelf is positioned within the housing and an extended position in which the shelf extends from the housing. The movable cart further includes a sensing system configured to determine whether each shelf of the plurality of shelves is in the retracted position and a type of item supported by the shelf. Other aspects of the movable cart are further disclosed. |
| US11945207B2 |
Web shift compensation
According to examples, an apparatus may include a first feed element and a second feed element, in which a web is to be fed to the first feed element and from the first feed element to the second feed element. The apparatus may also include a controller that may determine whether the web exiting the second feed element is shifted from an intended position and based on a determination that the web is shifted from the intended position, cause the first feed element to be moved laterally a first distance and the second feed element to be moved laterally a second distance to compensate for the shift in the web exiting the second feed element. |
| US11945197B2 |
Multilayer polylactide based structure and articles made therefrom
The present invention relates to a multilayer structure, such as a film or a sheet, and articles made from such multilayer structures. The present invention provides a multilayer structure comprising at least three different layers A, B and C, wherein said layer B is disposed between said layer A and said layer C and is capable of binding said layer A to said layer C, wherein layer A comprises a polylactide (PLA) polymer, layer B comprises a lactide-rich poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) polymer, and layer C comprises a polyglycolide (PGA) polymer and/or a glycolide-rich poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) polymer. The present invention also provides a multilayer structure comprising at least one barrier layer, providing gas barrier properties, wherein said barrier layer comprises a glycolide-rich poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) polymer. |
| US11945194B2 |
Multilayer films and laminates containing slip agents
The present disclosure provides a multilayer film. The multilayer film includes at least two layers including a sealant layer and a second layer in contact with the sealant layer. The sealant layer contains (A) a first ethylene-based polymer having a density from 0.895 g/cc to 0.925 g/cc and a melt index from 0.5 g/10 min to 30 g/10 min; (B) a branched fatty acid amide; and (C) a linear saturated fatty acid amide, wherein the branched fatty acid amide and the linear saturated fatty acid amide have a weight ratio of from 1:5 to 3:1. The second layer contains a second ethylene-based polymer. |
| US11945193B2 |
Dimensionally stable composite wood panel flooring and methods of preparing same
In one aspect, a method of preparing a composite wood panel is provided herein which includes: providing a flat core formed of cellulosic material having opposing top and bottom faces, wherein a density profile is defined across the core representing density of the core at different locations between the top and bottom faces, the density profile including a first density profile portion extending from the bottom face towards the top face and including a first maximum density, a second density profile portion extending from the top face towards the bottom face and including a second maximum density, and a third density profile portion extending between, and connecting, the first and second density profile portions; removing the top face, and an adjacent layer, of the core to remove the second maximum density and to define an exposed face; and, adhering, using an adhesive, a veneer to the exposed face. |
| US11945190B2 |
Laminated glass
Laminated glass includes a pair of glass plates each having a curvature; an intermediate film located between the pair of glass plates; and a light control element enclosed in the intermediate film. The light control element includes a first resin layer; a second resin layer; and a light control layer held by the first resin layer and the second resin layer. One or more slits are provided in a main surface of the first resin layer. |
| US11945185B2 |
Shoe structure and manufacturing method thereof
A method of manufacturing a shoe structure includes: a setting step of setting an upper on a shoe last, and distributing a foam matrix material comprising a plurality of semi-foamed granules of thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) along a bottom of the shoe last to position the foam matrix material between the shoe last and the upper, and a foaming step of heating the shoe last with the upper and the foam matrix material thereon by microwave, so that the semi-foamed granules are foamed to form an insole bonded to the upper, and the upper is shaped along a contour of the shoe last after cooling and removing the shoe last. |
| US11945180B2 |
Method of making silicone containing contact lens with reduced amount of diluents
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a contact lens including the steps of: (i) adding reactive components to a mold, wherein the reactive components comprise (a) at least one hydroxy-containing silicone component having a weight average molecular weight from about 200 to about 15,000 g/mole and (b) at least one mono-ether terminated, mono-methacrylate terminated polyethylene glycol having a weight average molecular weight from about 200 to about 10,000 g/mole; (ii) curing the reactive components within the mold to form the contact lens; and (iii) removing the contact lens from said mold. |
| US11945178B2 |
Methods and equipment for forming tubes of fibrous material
Equipment for forming a tubular rod of fibrous material comprises: a gathering station constructed to receive a continuous supply of fibres and to gather the fibres into a bundle as the fibres advance through the equipment; a divider arranged in the path of the fibres through the equipment and constructed to from a cleft along the length of the bundle as it advances through the equipment; a mandrel positioned in the path of the bundle of fibres in alignment with the divider and constructed to form the cleft into a passage through the bundle of fibres as the bundle of fibres advances over the mandrel; and a die constructed and arranged to cooperate with the mandrel to form the fibres in a tubular configuration around the mandrel. |
| US11945174B2 |
Container with product visualization aperture
The present invention relates to a method for providing a product viewing window in a container. The container has at least a body ply and a liner ply, wherein the body ply has at least one aperture therethrough. The liner ply is adhered to the inner surface of the body ply and has a portion extending across the aperture, forming a window into the container. The method involves providing a window-finishing machine that comprises at least two platens and, optionally, a machine pocket positioned between them, a heating element extending through at least one of the platens, and a pressurized air device that is adapted to release pressurized air into the container through at least one of the platens. The container is engaged between the platens in an airtight manner and, optionally, the container window is positioned adjacent the inside wall of the machine pocket. The heating element heats the window of the container to the desired temperature, pressurized air is injected into the container such that the window is forced at least partially through the aperture of the container (and optionally into contact with the machine pocket wall), and the container window is then cooled to the desired temperature. |
| US11945168B2 |
Colored object generation
In an example, a method includes obtaining object model data describing at least a portion of an object to be generated by additive manufacturing. A color value of a first portion of the object to be generated may be determined, wherein the color value is based on a first color and a second color, different from the first color. Object generation data to generate the object using a fusing agent of the first color and a build material having the second color may be determined by defining a first region of a layer of build material to which fusing agent is to be applied defining a second region of the build material to which detailing agent is to be applied to define an edge of the object and defining a spacing region of build material to separate the first region and second region, wherein the spacing region is defined using parameters selected to provide the color value. |
| US11945166B2 |
Methods for cleaning and post-curing additively manufactured objects
Systems, methods, and devices for post-processing additively manufactured objects are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a plurality of additively manufactured objects on a rotor, the plurality of additively manufactured objects having excess material thereon. The method can include removing the excess material from the plurality of additively manufactured objects by rotating the plurality of additively manufactured objects via the rotor. The method can further include applying energy to the plurality of additively manufactured objects to cure a portion of each additively manufactured object while the plurality of additively manufactured objects are on the rotor. |
| US11945164B2 |
Method for manufacturing microneedle biosensor
A microneedle biosensor includes a microneedle and a substrate. One end of the microneedle is connected to the substrate, an outer surface of the microneedle is provided with a working electrode and a first electrode, an outer surface of the working electrode is provided with an enzyme, and an outer surface of the microneedle biosensor is covered with a biocompatible film. A method for manufacturing a microneedle biosensor includes: manufacturing the substrate and the microneedle in an additive mode simultaneously; spray-printing and curing the working electrode and the first electrode on the outer surface of the microneedle; spray-printing and drying the enzyme on the outer surface of the working electrode; and using biocompatible liquid for spray-printing, and drying the biocompatible liquid to form the biocompatible film. The substrate, the microneedle, the working electrode, the first electrode, the enzyme and the biocompatible film are all manufactured through a full printing method. |
| US11945162B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of providing dynamic hob pinch force in an additive manufacturing print head
The disclosure is of and includes at least an apparatus, system and method for a print head for additive manufacturing. The apparatus, system and method may include at least two proximate hobs suitable to receive and extrude therebetween a print material filament for the additive manufacturing; a motor capable of imparting a rotation to at least one of the two hobs, wherein the extrusion results from the rotation; a dynamic force adjustment capable of exerting force on one of the two hobs to urge the force-receiving hob toward the other of the two hobs; and a controller communicatively connected with the dynamic force adjustment and capable of controlling the force exertion thereof. |
| US11945161B2 |
Combined electrospinning and microextrusion apparatus
A combined electrospinning and microextrusion apparatus includes a robotic manipulator having a plurality of degrees of freedom, an end effector supported and movable by the robotic manipulator, a plurality of extruders housed on the end effector, each extruder having an interchangeable nozzle for extrusion of material, a working plane for deposition of extruded material, a pneumatic circuit supplying a fluid flow to the extruders for controlling extrusion of material, and an electric generator selectively activatable to apply a potential difference between the nozzles of the extruders and the working plane. The extruders are capable of operating selectively in microextrusion mode with inactive electric generator or in electrospinning mode with active electric generator, in an independent manner from each other. |
| US11945159B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling the exposure of a selective laser sintering or laser melting apparatus
A method of additively manufacturing a three-dimensional object may include allocating irradiation of respective ones of a plurality of sequential layers of construction material between a first region and a second region based at least in part on a first irradiation time and/or a second irradiation time. Irradiation of the first region is allocated to a first scanner and the first irradiation time is indicative of a time required for the first scanner to irradiate the first region with respect to at least one of the plurality of sequential layers of construction material. Irradiation of the second region is allocated to a second scanner and the second irradiation time is indicative of a time required for the second scanner to irradiate the second region with respect to at least one of the plurality of sequential layers of construction material. The first irradiation time and the second irradiation time may be at least approximately the same. |
| US11945158B2 |
Interlace scanning strategies and uses thereof
A method, apparatus, and program for additive manufacturing. In one aspect, the method comprises: forming an at least partially solidified portion within a first scan region (801), wherein the solidified portion within the first scan region (801) is formed by irradiating a build material along a first irradiation path (811). A second portion of a build material may be irradiated along a second irradiation path (813), wherein the second scan region (803) is offset with respect to the first scan region (801) thereby defining an offset region (802). The offset region (802) is at least partially solidified by the first irradiation path (811) and the second irradiation path (813) and a reference line (819) intersects the first irradiation path (811) and the second irradiation path (813) within the offset region (802), wherein the reference line (819) is substantially parallel to a side (810) of the first scan region (801). |
| US11945157B2 |
Multi-material additive manufacturing apparatus and method
A method for producing a component layer-by-layer includes: providing two or more resin handling assemblies, each including a resin support which has at least a portion which is transparent, each resin support defining a build surface located in a build zone of the respective assembly; executing a build cycle, including: depositing on each build surface radiant-energy-curable resin, the resin on each build surface being a unique material combination; positioning a stage relative to one of the build surfaces to define a layer increment; selectively curing the resin using applied radiant energy so as to define a cross-sectional layer of the component; separating the component from the build surface; cleaning at least one of the component and the stage; and repeating the cycle, for a plurality of layers, wherein at least one of the layers is cured in each of the build zone. Apparatus is described for carrying out the method. |
| US11945154B2 |
Printer and printing method for space and pressure suits using additive manufacturing
The present disclosure relates to printing apparatus and manufacturing techniques for the manufacture and fabrication of pressure suits and space suits. The disclosure also relates to space suit components formed from additive polymer, and components including one or more layers of a mesh fabric with an applied layer of an additive polymer. One method includes providing an apparatus comprised of a six-degree of freedom motion manipulator with the motion manipulator attached to one or more printing extruder heads. Additive polymers may be extruded via the one or more printing extruder heads to form 3D printed space suit components. |
| US11945149B2 |
Coextruded articles, dies and methods of making the same
Coextruded articles comprising first and second layers each having first and second opposed major surfaces and between the first and second layers a series of first walls providing a series of microchannels, and methods for making the same. Embodiment of coextruded articles described herein are useful, for example, in cushioning applications where high levels of compression are desired. |
| US11945147B2 |
Vehicle interior and exterior member, method of manufacturing vehicle interior and exterior member, and press mold used for manufacturing vehicle interior and exterior member
A vehicle interior and exterior member comprises a fiber molded body and a synthetic resin member fixed to a surface of the fiber molded body. The fiber molded body has a fiber layer including thermoplastic synthetic resin as a base material layer. The base material layer has fiber layer surfaces on its both surfaces or, the base material layer has another fiber layer including the other type of thermoplastic synthetic resin on one of the fiber layer surface to form a fiber laminated body. The fiber molded body is formed by molding the fiber laminated body into a three-dimensional face shape. The synthetic resin member has a fixed portion which is fixed to the fiber molded body by solidifying it in a state that molten synthetic resin has seeped into the fiber layer of the fiber laminated body. |
| US11945145B2 |
Method for producing a component
A method for producing a component, wherein in the method the following steps are carried out, in particular in the following sequence: providing at least one upper mold carrier and at least one lower mold carrier, wherein the at least one upper mold carrier has at least two upper mold modules and the at least one lower mold carrier has at least one lower mold module; moving the at least one upper mold carrier and/or the at least one lower mold carrier in at least one direction into at least one predetermined position; combining a first upper mold module of the at least two upper mold modules of the at least one upper mold carrier and a first lower mold module of the at least one first lower mold module of the at least one lower mold carrier in the at least one predetermined position such that one or more work stations for carrying out at least one step for producing the component are formed; carrying out the at least one production step to form the component, as well as a device for producing a component. |
| US11945142B2 |
Composite resin molded product for acoustic member
A composite resin molded product for an acoustic member is a composite resin molded product for an acoustic member containing a main agent resin and fibrous fillers dispersed in the main agent resin, and a concentration of the fibrous fillers is 50% by weight or more in the composite resin molded product, and crystallinity of the main agent resin around the fibrous fillers is higher than crystallinity of the main agent resin in other parts in the composite resin molded product. |
| US11945140B2 |
Method for manufacturing foam molded body and foam molded body
A method for producing a foam-molded product by using a plasticizing cylinder, includes: plasticizing and melting the thermoplastic resin to provide the molten resin in a plasticization zone of the plasticizing cylinder; introducing a pressurized fluid containing the physical foaming agent at a fixed pressure into a starvation zone of the plasticizing cylinder to retain the starvation zone at the fixed pressure; allowing the molten resin to be in the starved state in the starvation zone; bringing the molten resin in contact with the pressurized fluid containing the physical foaming agent at the fixed pressure, in the starvation zone in a state in which the starvation zone is retained at the fixed pressure; and molding the molten resin having been brought in contact with the pressurized fluid containing the physical foaming agent into the foam-molded product. |
| US11945137B2 |
Powder application device for producing stiffening elements from pulverous material
A powder application apparatus for an at least partially meltable powder to be applied onto a feeding element for producing reinforcing elements comprises a powder container. In the area of an outlet of the powder container a template for defining a basic shape of a reinforcing element to be produced is provided. Further, a closing device for opening and closing the outlet is provided. For producing reinforcing elements having different stiffness, barrier elements in particular connected with the template are provided. The barrier elements reduce the powder supply to the feeding element such that a reinforcing element with areas of different material thickness are created. A method for producing such a reinforcing element. |
| US11945135B2 |
Process for manufacturing a fibrous material pre-impregnated with thermoplastic polymer in powder form
The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a pre-impregnated fibrous material comprising a continuous fibre fibrous material and at least one thermoplastic polymer matrix, characterized in that said pre-impregnated fibrous material is made of a single unidirectional ribbon or a plurality of parallel ribbons unidirectional and in that said method comprises an impregnation step, in particular at the core, of said fibrous material being in the form of a roving or of several parallel rovings by said thermoplastic polymer being in powder form, said step of impregnation being carried out with said at least one thermoplastic polymer and said fibrous material the D90/D10 ratio of which by volume of the thermoplastic polymer particles ranges from 1.5 to 50, in particular from 2 to 10 and the ratio of the average diameter by volume (D50) thermoplastic polymer particles on the average diameter of the unit fibres of said fibrous material ranges from 3 to 40, except for an impregnation process in aqueous suspension of a fibrous material made of carbon fibres by a thermoplastic polymer, said D50/mean unit fibre diameter ratio being comprised from 3 to 8, and excluding any electrostatic process in voluntary charge. |
| US11945132B2 |
Multi-track slicing machine with independently controllable grippers
In order that grippers on individual tracks of a multi-track slicing machine can be moved and controlled independently of one another, they are not all mounted on a same gripper slide guided on the only slide guide present. Instead, at least two slide guides may be present, each of which carries at least one gripper slide, which in turn either carries several grippers or several gripper slides. |
| US11945131B2 |
Device for clamping a roll of paper in a cutting machine
Device for locking two adjacent sections (1, 2) of a roll of paper (3) placed on the sides of a cutting section plane (4) defined by the movement of a cutting blade (5) of a cutting-off machine (M), comprising a pair of clamping devices (6, 7) configured to be able to assume an unlocking configuration with a locking configuration of respective sections (1, 2) of the roll (3); at least a first actuator (8) which can be operated on command to pass said clamping devices from the unlocking configuration to the locking configuration of the respective sections (1, 2), and vice versa; at least a second actuator (10) connected to the clamping devices (6, 7) and configured to perform a movement of reciprocal distancing of the clamping devices in a locking configuration with respect to said cutting section plane (4); means of inhibition (11) of the reciprocal moving away of the clamping devices active during the cutting advancement of the blade (5) through the roll (3); and activation means (12) of the second actuator (10) of the clamping devices (6, 7) configured to activate the reciprocal removal of the clamping devices immediately after the end of the roll cutting phase (3) performed by the blade (5). |
| US11945127B2 |
Outliner hair trimmer with interchangeable workheads
A hair trimmer is provided, including a trimmer housing having a drive end, a drive shaft projecting from the drive end, a support bracket associated with the drive end, and a cutting workhead connectable to the drive shaft and being supported on the trimmer by the support bracket. The cutting workhead is removable from operational engagement with the trimmer housing without the use of tools. |
| US11945119B2 |
Crosstalk mitigation for multi-cell workspace monitoring
Crosstalk mitigation among cameras in neighboring monitored workcells is achieved by computationally defining a noninterference scheme that respects the independent monitoring and operation of each workcell. The scheme may involve communication between adjacent cells to adjudicate non-interfering camera operation or system-wide mapping of interference risks and mitigation thereof. Mitigation strategies can involve time-division and/or frequency-division multiplexing. |
| US11945117B2 |
Anticipating user and object poses through task-based extrapolation for robot-human collision avoidance
An example method includes determining objects and actions associated with the objects for completing a task to be executed by a robotic system, where each action is associated with trajectory. The method further includes determining a pose for each person in an environment associated with the robotic system, predicting a trajectory for each person based on the determined pose associated with the respective person and the actions and trajectories associated with the actions, and adjusting trajectories for one or more of the actions to be performed by the robotic system based on the predicted trajectories for each person. |
| US11945116B2 |
Diagnosis method and apparatus
A method for problem diagnosis in a robot system having one or more robots includes the steps of: a) receiving (S1) a first problem message from a robot of the robot system, the first problem message including one or more data elements descriptive of a problem experienced by the robot; b) receiving (S1) a subsequent problem message from a robot of the robot system; c) if a time elapsed between receipt of the subsequent problem message and receipt of an immediately preceding problem message is shorter than a predetermined threshold (S2), adding the subsequent problem message to a message set which comprises the immediately preceding problem message (S3); and d) if the time elapsed is longer than the predetermined threshold (S2), terminating (S4) the message set of the immediately preceding problem message without adding the subsequent problem message, and establishing (S5, S6) a new message set. |
| US11945115B2 |
Machine learning device and robot system provided with same
An action of a robot included in a robot system is controlled based on a learning result of a machine learning device. The machine learning device includes a behavior observing unit, a displaced amount observing unit, and a learning unit. The behavior observing unit observes a behavior pattern of the robot picking out a workpiece from a container. The displaced amount observing unit observes, based on pieces of image data captured before and after the pick-out action of the robot and output from an image capturing device, a workpiece displaced amount indicating a displaced amount of an untargeted workpiece in the container caused by picking out a targeted workpiece from the container. The learning unit learns an influence rate on the untargeted workpiece with an associated behavior pattern of the robot for picking out the targeted workpiece from the container, the influence rate depending on the workpiece displaced amount. |
| US11945114B2 |
Method and system for grasping an object
The method for increasing the accuracy of grasping an object can include: labelling an image based on an attempted object grasp by a robot and generating a trained graspability network using the labelled images. The method can additionally or alternatively include determining a grasp point using the trained graspability network; executing an object grasp at the grasp point S400; and/or any other suitable elements. |
| US11945113B2 |
Parameter adjustment device, parameter adjustment method, and program
Three-dimensional measurement data is obtained (step S1). The poses of bulk parts are calculated (step S2). The gripping poses of a hand relative to the bulk parts are calculated (step S3). Individual evaluation indices are calculated (step S4). Overall evaluation indices are calculated (step S5). The gripping poses are sorted using the overall evaluation indices (step S6). The calculated gripping poses appear on a screen (step S7). The gripping poses are sorted by a user in an intended order (step S8). Determination is performed as to whether the difference between the results of the sorting in step S6 and in step S8 is small (step S9). In response to the difference being sufficiently small, parameters used in the calculation of the overall evaluation indices are stored (step S11). In response to the difference not being sufficiently small, the parameters are updated (step S10) and the processing returns to step S5. |
| US11945107B2 |
Open-loop control for exoskeleton motor
A method of controlling a drive motor for a powered ankle exoskeleton is disclosed. The method includes modeling motor drive current as a linear function of desired torque and ankle angular velocity, and then controlling motor current as a function of measured torque and determined ankle angular velocity. |
| US11945101B2 |
End effector device and system for suction-based grasping of bagged objects
An end effector device and system for suction-based grasping of bagged objects that can include a body structure with a vacuum line opening and an object engagement region, the vacuum line opening being configured to couple at least one pressure line of a vacuum pressure system to a defined internal channel of the body structure; the body structure comprising an internal structure that defines a concave inner chamber with a chamber opening at the object engagement region; and the internal structure comprising an array of inlets positioned along at least one wall of the concave inner chamber, wherein each inlet defines an opening in the body to the defined internal channel. The body structure may additionally include a suction cup system that comprises a flexible sealing lip at the object engagement region; wherein the chamber opening being positioned within a grasping region of the sealing lip. |
| US11945095B2 |
Interchangeable and interconnectable tool organizing device
A custom tool accessory to hold a tool, the custom tool accessory including a body, at least one tongue disposed at a first side of the body, at least one tongue receiving groove disposed at a second side of the body opposite from the first side of the body, and a tool holding portion disposed on the body to hold the tool. At least one magnet is attached to the underside of a metallic base plate that is in turn secured to the underside of the body. A retainer surrounds the at least one magnet and also underlies the area of the bottom of the base plate that is not covered by the at least one magnet. |
| US11945091B2 |
Power tool
A power tool with a small size in an axial direction includes a reducer allowing smooth and stable switching between variable speeds. The power tool includes a motor, a reducer that reduces rotation from the motor, and an actuator actuated by the rotation reduced by the reducer. The reducer includes a preceding internal gear in a preceding stage, a succeeding internal gear in a succeeding stage, an engagement member radially outward from the internal gears and switchable between a first position to restrict rotation of the preceding internal gear and a second position to restrict rotation of the succeeding internal gear, planetary gears that revolve within the internal gears, carriers supporting the planetary gears, and an operation unit to switch the engagement member selectively to the first position or the second position. |
| US11945086B2 |
Attachment for powered hammer
A powered hammer assembly includes a powered hammer including an output shaft and an axial impact mechanism. The assembly also includes an attachment including an impact portion defining a first axis. The impact portion is fixed to the body and is immovable relative to the body. The impact portion is configured to receive repeated impacts from the powered hammer. The attachment further comprises a receiving portion in which a rod to be driven into the ground is receivable. The clamping portion defines a second axis that is parallel with the first axis. |
| US11945081B2 |
Tool and associated method for temporary fastener placement
A tool for use in installing and removing a cleco fastener. The tool includes a main body of the tool. The main body defines an elongated length. A grip pocket radially extends from the main body and is configured for receiving a shoulder extending from a cylindrical body of the cleco. A pusher surface is spaced-apart along the length of the main body from the grip pocket and also radially extends outwardly of the main body and configured for pushing a plunger extending from the cylinder body of the cleco. The pusher surface is configured for slidable movement along a portion of the length of main body. A handle is slidably received within the main body and coupled with the pusher surface to provide translation to the pusher surface to engage the plunger of the cleco to activate the cleco. |
| US11945076B2 |
Articles including polyester backing and primer layer and related methods
An article (100) has a polyester film backing (110) and a primer layer (120) including a carboxylated styrene butadiene copolymer crosslinked with a polyfunctional aziridine disposed on a major surface of the polyester film backing (110). Another article includes a polyester backing (110), a primer layer (120) including a carboxylated styrene butadiene copolymer crosslinked with a polyfunctional aziridine disposed on a major surface of the polyester backing (110), and a phenolic layer (140) disposed on the primer layer (120) on a surface opposite the polyester backing (110). The phenolic layer (120) can include abrasive particles (160). Processes for making the articles are also described, as well as methods for abrading a workpiece and improving adhesion between a polyester film backing (110) and a phenolic layer (120) on the polyester backing (110). |
| US11945074B2 |
Processing apparatus
A processing apparatus includes a chuck table for holding a workpiece that has a mark representing a crystal orientation, a processing unit, a cassette stage for placing thereon a cassette for storing a plurality of workpieces therein, a temporary rest table, a spinner table, a robot for delivering a workpiece, a determining section for determining whether a workpiece has been properly processed or has not been properly processed, and a control unit for performing a control process for orienting the mark of the workpiece in a predetermined direction if the determining section determines that the workpiece has been properly processed and storing the workpiece in the cassette, and performing a control process for orienting the mark of the workpiece in a direction different from the predetermined direction if the determining section determines that the workpiece has not been properly processed and storing the workpiece in the cassette. |
| US11945060B2 |
Method of forming teeth of a cutting blade or guard
The present invention relates to a method (200) of forming a plurality of teeth of a cutting blade or guard, the method comprises: a) taking (210) a blank of material, the blank having an upper outer surface and a lower outer surface, wherein at least a portion of the lower outer surface is substantially planar and forms a plane of the blank; b) utilizing (220) a cutting device (20) In comprising a first die (40) and a second die (50), wherein the first die comprises a plurality of first elements (42) and the second die comprises a plurality of second elements (52), wherein a first plane (60) is defined with respect to upper surfaces of the plurality of first elements and a second plane (70) is defined with respect to lower surfaces of the plurality of second elements, and wherein each upper surface of the plurality of first elements has a centre part (44) that lies in the first plane and edge parts (46) that are below the first plane; c) placing (230) the blank in the cutting device, such that the portion of the lower outer surface faces the upper surfaces of the plurality of first elements and the portion of the upper outer surface faces the lower surfaces of the plurality of second elements; d) moving (240) the first die and second die with respect to each other such that the first plane is moved toward and passes through the second plane, such that each element of the plurality of first elements passes at least partially between adjacent elements of the plurality of second elements, and wherein teeth (80) of the cutting blade or guard are formed that correspond to the positions of the plurality of first elements and wherein the teeth have a lower outer surface formed from the lower outer surface of the blank; and e) utilizing (250) a bending device (30) to bend edge portions (82) of the teeth of the cutting blade or guard that extend below the plane of the blank after step d) back toward the plane of the blank. |
| US11945053B2 |
Tailored blank, tailored blank manufacturing method, stamped part, and stamped part manufacturing method
A tailored blank including a first steel sheet having a carbon content of 0.27 mass % or more, and a second steel sheet that is butt welded to the first steel sheet and that has a carbon content of 0.20 mass % or less, wherein the tailored blank includes an elongated future top plate portion, a future sidewall portion, and a future flange portion, a first steel sheet region that is configured by the first steel sheet is formed spanning part or all of a length direction of the future top plate portion, and a second steel sheet region that is configured by the second steel sheet is formed at the future flange portion to be joined by welding to another member, and wherein part or all of a length direction of the first steel sheet region is positioned within a length direction range of the second steel sheet region. |
| US11945046B2 |
Laser edge welding of copper substrates
A method of joining electrical connections together includes evaluating at least one weld joint between at least two substrates, determining mismatch between the at least two substrates, and welding the at least two substrates together with a multi-step welding process. The multi-step welding process includes compensating for mismatch between the at least two substrates by welding on both sides but not overlapping a joint line between the at least two substrates with a first welding step and increasing melt volume and penetration depth of a weld between the at least two substrates with a second welding step. |
| US11945044B2 |
Control device for laser machining apparatus, and laser machining apparatus
In a control device for a laser machining apparatus including a plurality of lasers and a plurality of scanners which respectively scans laser beams outputted from the plurality of lasers, the control device includes: a laser control unit which controls the plurality of lasers, in which the laser control unit includes: a machining program analysis unit which analyzes a machining program, and generates a machining condition command for setting a machining condition of the plurality of lasers, a storage unit which stores machining condition information in which a plurality of the machining conditions and a plurality of the machining condition commands are respectively associated, and a plurality of machining condition reading units which references the machining condition information and reads a machining condition corresponding to a machining condition command analyzed by the machining program analysis unit, and sets the machining condition which was read in a laser of a control target. |
| US11945043B2 |
Energy beam generation systems and optical systems with expanded scan fields
An optical system may include a first optical assembly and a first scan field expansion assembly. The first optical assembly may include or may be configured as a first flat-field lens. The first flat-field lens may have a first nominal scan field with a first flat focal plane. The first scan field expansion assembly may include one or more first field-expanding optical elements configured to provide a first expanded scan field coinciding with the first flat focal plane. The first expanded scan field may have a cross-sectional width and/or area that exceeds a corresponding cross-sectional width and/or area of the first nominal scan field. A method of additively manufacturing a three-dimensional object may include directing a first energy beam through the first optical assembly, and directing the first energy beam through the first scan field expansion assembly. |
| US11945042B2 |
Wire and arc additive manufacturing method for magnesium alloy
The present disclosure provides a wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) method for a magnesium alloy. The method includes the following steps: step 1: performing a WAAM process assisted by cooling and rolling; step 2: milling side and top surfaces of an additive part; step 3: performing, by friction stir processing (FSP) equipment, an FSP process on the additive part, and applying cooling and rolling to a side wall of the additive part through a cooling and rolling device during the FSP process; step 4: finish-milling the top surface of the additive part for a WAAM process in the next step; and step 5: repeating the above steps cyclically until final forming of the part is finished. The present disclosure completely breaks dendritic structures and refines grains in the WAAM process of the magnesium alloy, thereby effectively repairing defects such as pores and cracks. |
| US11945038B2 |
Pipe coupon retainer
A tool can include a tool body defining a recess defining a recess depth measured in a radial direction from an outer diameter of the tool body; and a detent member coupled to the tool body, the detent member including a leg extending from the tool body and sized to be received within the recess of the tool body upon one of deformation and movement of the leg at least partly in a radially inward direction, the leg biased in a radially outward direction by one of a wall of the recess and a biasing element of the tool, the leg configured to catch upon a portion of a pipe coupon surrounding a drilled hole in the pipe coupon to facilitate movement of the pipe coupon with the tool. |
| US11945027B2 |
Mold powder
In the mold powder, the content of F is 0.5% by mass or less (including 0% by mass), CaO and SiO2 are included as main components, the mass ratio of CaO to SiO2 (CaO/SiO2) is 0.6 to 1.4, the content of B2O3 is 0.3 to 2.8% by mass, the content of Na2O is 5.0 to 20.0% by mass, the total content of Li2O and K2O is 0 to 4.0% by mass, the content of MgO is 0 to 3.5% by mass, the content of Al2O3 is 1.0 to 8.0% by mass, and the content of MnO is 1.0% by mass or less (including 0% by mass). |
| US11945026B1 |
Multi-path internal microporous efficient refrigeration method and device for frozen sand mold
A multi-path internal microporous efficient refrigeration method and device for a frozen sand mold is provided. The device includes a frozen sand molding chamber, an electric lifting platform, a teflon porous lining, a removable porous aluminum plate, a frozen sand mold refrigeration device box, a sealing cover plate, an ultrasonic piezoelectric sheet, a U-shaped condenser tube, an ultrasonic generator, and a low-temperature refrigeration system. The teflon lining and the removable porous aluminum plate are provided with through hole structures of the same size and shape for rapid cooling from the surface to core of molding sand. The lifting platform is opened and the bumpy-ridge teflon lining rises to a highest point to facilitate demolding. The high- and low-frequency dual mode of the ultrasonic piezoelectric sheet can be used for vibrating and compacting the frozen sand mold, and can also assist in cutting forming. |
| US11945025B1 |
Method of wall control in multi-wall investment casting
A casting method includes passing a metallic spacer through respective apertures in at least two ceramic cores to an installed condition wherein the spacer defines a minimum local separation between the at least two cores. The spacer has a shank and at least one arm extending from the shank. A sacrificial pattern material is molded over the metallic spacer and the at least two ceramic cores and then shelled and fired. An alloy is cast in the shell the shell is removed from the cast alloy. |
| US11945023B2 |
Core molding method and core molding device
A core molding method is a method of molding a core using a metal mold that is pressure-fed with mulled sand, and includes heating the metal mold such that the temperature of the metal mold reaches a temperature higher than a predetermined baking temperature, pressure-feeding the heated metal mold with the mulled sand, holding the temperature of the metal mold having been pressure-fed with the mulled sand at the baking temperature, and removing the core from the metal mold after the holding. |
| US11945020B2 |
Metal pipe and method for manufacturing metal pipe
A metal pipe having an outer diameter of 150 mm to 3,000 mm and a wall thickness of 2 mm to 50 mm, and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes a pipe-end-portion expansion step of expanding pipe end portions that are located at both ends of a mother pipe and an internal pressure application step that is performed after the pipe-end-portion expansion step and in which the mother pipe is expanded by applying an internal pressure, p, to the entire interior of the mother pipe until the internal pressure, p (MPa), that corresponds to changes in an axial compression amount s (mm), the axial compression amount, s, representing an amount of compression in a pipe axial direction against pipe extreme ends which are the both ends of the mother pipe, becomes a preset maximum internal pressure pmax (MPa), and p and s satisfy a specified formula. |
| US11945015B1 |
Semi-automatic adjustment device for suppressing tension fluctuations during rolling process of ultra-thin strip
A semi-automatic adjustment device for suppressing tension fluctuations during a rolling process of an ultra-thin strip includes a semi-automatic tension regulator, a semi-automatic tuned mass damper of variable stiffness and damping, a coiler, a tension roller and a twenty-high roller system. The semi-automatic tension regulator is disposed between the coiler and the tension roller, the semi-automatic tuned mass damper of variable stiffness and damping is disposed between the tension roller and the twenty-high roller system. The semi-automatic adjustment device can be used to reduce a short-time fluctuation impact of tension during startup and shutdown of a twenty-high roll mill when the twenty-high rolling mill rolls an ultra-thin strip, improve system stability, absorb the continuous micro disturbances generated during the rolling process of the twenty-high roll mill, and achieve flexible and stable adjustment of tension during the rolling process. |
| US11945014B2 |
Coupled high and low-frequency ultrasound systems and methods for remediation of contaminated solids
Systems and methods to remediate, degrade, and/or remove pollutants within various contaminated environmental solid media that includes contaminated soils and sediments, biosolids and slurries by subjecting a mixture of the contaminated solids and a liquid to acoustic cavitation generated by more than one type of ultrasonic device. One of the ultrasonic devices operates at a low frequency and the other ultrasonic device operates at a high frequency. The system advantageously provide an efficient, sustainable, and easy to handle approach to degrade contaminant, requiring only electrical energy. |
| US11945012B2 |
Acoustic emitter device for regular cleaning of a downhole filter
The invention relates to methods for restoring well productivity and to devices for cleaning downhole mesh filters without disassembling water-lifting equipment. Well productivity is restored and maintained using an acoustic method based on generating an ultrasonic fluid flow directed at a filter to clean the pre-filter zone of clogging deposits by moving an acoustic emitter along the filter. The acoustic emitter is placed within the lower portion of a casing string, downstream of a submersible downhole pump, and is connected to a means for delivering thereof into the filter zone. The acoustic emitter device comprises an ultrasonic transducer block, which is disposed between two supporting plates and is connected therewith by a rotary unit and an electric motor. The ultrasonic transducer block is configured in the form of two ultrasonic vibration systems located inside separate cylindrical housings positioned transverse to the axis of the filter, while the working surfaces of the waveguide tools of the vibration systems are oriented in the opposite directions toward the inside surface of the filter. The rotary unit and electric motor are connected to the ultrasonic transducer block and are mounted on the upper and lower supporting plates, respectively. The faces of the supporting plates are perpendicular to the filter axis and have bracing elements along the perimeter for anchoring inside the filter. The electric motor is used to facilitate rotary oscillations of the ultrasonic transducers within a 180-degree range (similar to a clock pendulum). In this case, the waveguide tools sweep the inner surface of the filter with an ultrasonic fluid flow along the circumference of the filter within a 360-degree range. Concurrently with this process, the delivery means causes the acoustic emitter to perform reciprocating movement along the filter axis, thus, providing a subsequent treatment of the entire inner surface of the downhole filter with a directed ultrasonic fluid flow, as well as a regular cleaning of the pre-filter zone of the well without disassembling the water-lifting string and submersible pump. |
| US11945009B2 |
Wet laser cleaning apparatus
A wet laser cleaning apparatus includes a machine base, a laser cleaning module, a shielding housing and a filtering device. A base material is placed in a reservoir of the machine base, into which a liquid is introduced through the filtering device. A control module drives first parallel axial track groups, a second parallel axial track group and a vertical axial track group to move an optical fiber laser knife device of the laser cleaning module to irradiate and clean the base material. A height sensor device and an orientation sensor device sense a position and a height of an object, so that the optical fiber laser knife device can automatically focus on the base material. Dusts produced after the optical fiber laser knife device has irradiated the base material are stored in the liquid, and the filtering device filters the dusts from the liquid. |
| US11945003B2 |
Systems and methods for providing for the processing of objects in vehicles
An object processing system within a trailer for a tracker trailer is discloses. The object processing system includes an input area of the trailer at which objects to be processed may be presented, a perception system for providing perception data regarding objects to be processed, and a primary transport system for providing transport of each object in one of at least two primary transport directions within the trailer based on the perception data. |
| US11945002B2 |
Automatic metal sorting system and method using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
The present disclosure relates to an automatic metal sorting system using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy. The system may include: a conveyer configured to move waste metals at a constant speed; a shape measurer configured to measure a position and a shape of at least one waste metal on the conveyer; a laser induced breakdown spectroscopic device configured to determine the kind of the waste metal by emitting a laser to the waste metal and receiving and analyzing a plasma spectrum signal generated by the emitted laser; and a discharger configured to separate and discharge the waste metal in accordance with the determined kind of the waste metal. |
| US11944999B2 |
Vibration device and piezoelectric element
A vibration device includes a bimorph type piezoelectric element having a first main surface and a second main surface facing each other and a vibration member bonded to the second main surface of the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element has a first active region disposed closer to the first main surface between the first and second main surfaces and a second active region disposed closer to the second main surface than the first active region between the first and second main surfaces. When a force generated in the first active region is F1, a force generated in the second active region is F2, and a force by which the vibration member restrains the second active region is Fr, F2−F1≥Fr is satisfied. |
| US11944998B2 |
Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer and method of fabricating the same
A method of fabricating a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) according to one aspect of the present invention may include forming, on a semiconductor substrate, a first region implanted with impurity ions at a first average concentration and a second region implanted with no impurity ions or implanted with the impurity ions at a second average concentration lower than the first average concentration, forming an insulating layer by oxidizing the semiconductor substrate wherein the insulating layer includes a first oxide layer having a first thickness on at least a part of the first region and a second oxide layer having a second thickness smaller than the first thickness on at least a part of the second region, and forming a membrane layer on the insulating layer such that a gap is defined between the second oxide layer and the membrane layer. |
| US11944994B2 |
Device or system for creating a vapour filled bubble
A device creates a vapor filled bubble. The device includes a dispensing nozzle including a liquid retention formation for assisting bubble creation, an air displacement element; a vapor producing means, which includes a source of vapor producing liquid, and a means for heating the liquid. The air displacement element is arranged to provide airflow through the vapor producing means to produce vapor for delivery to the dispensing nozzle. |
| US11944992B2 |
Foam machine
The present disclosure relates to a foam machine. Liquid for generating foams is conveyed onto a laminating member through a liquid pump. The laminating member further conveys the liquid onto a foam forming device. On the foam forming device, a rotating ring is provided with a plurality of forming rings and a plurality of forming ribs, so that a plurality of foam film forming holes are formed in the rotating ring; afterwards, as the rotating ring rotates, the laminating member can form foam films on the respective foam film forming holes, and continuous foams are formed after an air flow is blown through; the foams are pushed by the air flow to be continuously sprayed out; and new foam films are continuously formed on the respective foam film forming holes. |
| US11944986B2 |
Device and method for reducing wind resistance power of large geotechnical centrifuge
A device and a method for reducing wind resistance power of a large geotechnical centrifuge are provided. A semicircular tube cylindrical cooling device is provided between an internal side of a high-speed rotor system and a cylindrical shell. A serpentine top semicircular tube cooling plate is provided right above a hanging basket, and return helium gas inlet holes are provided at a center of the top semicircular tube cooling plate. A helium gas in a helium gas storage tank passes through helium gas outlets on the helium gas inlet pipes, and enters a centrifuge chamber from a bottom sealing plate. The helium gas is used to replace air in the centrifuge chamber to reduce the wind resistance power and corresponding energy consumption. No vacuuming is required, so sealing requirements are lower. Heat dissipation equipment is placed inside the centrifuge chamber, and a helium gas circulation wind duct is added. |
| US11944985B2 |
Bowl for a Batch Centrifugal Concentrator
The present invention is a segmented bowl for a batch centrifugal concentrator constructed from a plurality of segments that are each placed adjacently to one another, so that each segment is in intimate contact with its neighbouring segments, so that when a sufficient number of segments are put into place, they form the bowl of the batch centrifugal concentrator. |
| US11944983B2 |
Electrostatic separator and electrostatic separation method
An electrostatic separation method includes: applying voltage between a lower electrode at a bottom portion of or in the raw material layer and an upper electrode above the raw material layer, generating an electric field between electrodes; fluidizing the raw material layer and bringing conductive particles and the lower electrode into contact in the raw material layer charging only the conductive particles wherein their polarity becomes the same as the lower electrode; generating polarity, the same as the upper electrode, by dielectric polarization on a conveyor belt downward-facing conveyance surface passing through a capture region above the raw material layer and under the upper electrode, the conveyance surface including a nonconductor; separates charged conductive particles from the raw material layer surface by electrostatic force and adhering conductive particles to the conveyor belt conveyance surface; and separating and collecting the particles from the conveyance surface that moved outside the electric field. |
| US11944981B2 |
Crusher
The invention relates to a crusher (10), in particular a rock crusher, having a crusher unit (40), to which a band conveyor unit (60) having an endlessly circulating band conveyor is indirectly or directly assigned, wherein a magnetic separator (70) having a magnet (79) is held in the area of the band conveyor unit (60) above the band conveyor in the direction opposite from the direction of gravity, and wherein an adjustment unit (80) is provided, which can be used to change the height of the magnet (79) above the band conveyor. To enable the reliable operation of such a crusher, it is provided according to the invention that the magnetic separator (70) is suspended from at least two limp ties (81, 82, 84, 85), and that the limp ties (81, 82, 84, 85) can be adjusted by means of at least one actuator unit (90) to change the height of the magnet (79). |
| US11944980B2 |
Magnetic separating conveyor output roll
A magnetic separating conveyor output roll including a first plurality of magnetic rings, each of such magnetic rings having radially inner and radially outer ends, each such magnetic ring having annular north and south poles respectively positioned at its radially inner and radially outer ends; and including a second plurality of magnetic rings having radially inner and radially outer ends, each such magnetic ring having annular north and south poles respectively positioned at its radially outer and radially inner ends; wherein the first and second pluralities of magnetic rings are stacked in an alternating series along a rotation axis; wherein each magnetic ring's radial cross section is rectangular; wherein each magnetic ring includes a circumferential array of radially extending seams, the roll incorporating a plurality of adhesive bonds residing within such seams; the roll further incorporating magnetic armature effect resisting gaps between adjacent pairs of the magnetic rings. |
| US11944975B2 |
Thermal cycler systems and methods of use
A thermal cycler system comprises a sample block configured to receive a sample holder configured to receive a plurality of samples; an adaptor configured to surround a periphery of the sample block; and a drip pan configured to surround a periphery of the adaptor. The drip pan comprises one or more ejector mechanisms and one or more openings, the one or more ejector mechanisms configured to respectively extend through the one or more openings into contact with the sample holder in a state of the sample holder received by the sample block and the adaptor surrounding the periphery of the sample block. |
| US11944974B2 |
Air-matrix digital microfluidics apparatuses and methods for limiting evaporation and surface fouling
Air-matrix digital microfluidics (DMF) apparatuses and methods of using them to prevent or limit evaporation and surface fouling of the DMF apparatus. In particular, described herein are air-matrix DMF apparatuses and methods of using them in which a separate well that is accessible from the air gap of the DMF apparatus isolates a reaction droplet by including a cover to prevent evaporation. The cover may be a lid or cap, or it may be an oil or wax material within the well. The opening into the well and/or the well itself may include actuation electrodes to allow the droplet to be placed into, and in some cases removed from, the well. Also described herein are air-matrix DMF apparatuses and methods of using them including thermally controllable regions with a wax material that may be used to selectively encapsulate a reaction droplet in the air gap of the apparatus. |
| US11944969B2 |
Multilayer microfluidics systems and methods
Systems and methods are provided to assist in developing a precision medicine approach using a microfluidic cell having a releasable, aqueous interfacial film to separate tissue channels. The approach can include a personalized medicine treatment plan. The systems and methods emulate cellular communication in a disease state in a more accurate aqueous environment and provide data on the interaction between the cells that can be used to develop a treatment for a subject in need. The systems and methods also can be used to assess the effect of a particular treatment, such as a drug therapy, radiation therapy, or a combination thereof, for example. The systems and methods can show how a particular therapy is affected by any of several known factors including, but not limited to, the sex of the subject, the age of the subject, hereditary factors or other genetic predispositions, as well as perhaps other physiological states of the subject, or a combination thereof. |
| US11944967B2 |
Deterministic ratchet for sub-micrometer bioparticle separation
Sub-micrometer bioparticles are separated by size in a microfluidic channel utilizing a ratchet migration mechanism. A structure within the microfluidic channel includes an array of micro-posts arranged in laterally shifted rows. Reservoirs are disposed at each end of the microfluidic channel. A biased AC potential is applied across the channel via electrodes immersed into fluid in each of the reservoirs to induce a non-uniform electric field through the microfluidic channel. The applied potential comprises a first waveform with a first frequency that induces electro-kinetic flow of sub-micrometer bioparticles in the microfluidic channel, and an intermittent superimposed second waveform with a higher frequency. The second waveform selectively induces a dielectrophoretic trapping force to selectively impart ratchet migration based on particle size for separating the sub-micrometer bioparticles by size in the microfluidic channel. |
| US11944966B2 |
Systems and methods for high-fidelity capture, threading, and infinite-depth sequencing of single nucleic acid molecules
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an apparatus comprising: a membrane, wherein the membrane has a first side and a second side, wherein the membrane has a first pore disposed therein, wherein the first pore extends through the membrane from the first side of the membrane to the second side of the membrane, wherein the membrane has a second pore disposed therein, and wherein the second pore extends through the membrane from the first side of the membrane to the second side of the membrane; a first channel disposed on the first side of the membrane, wherein the first channel is along a first longitudinal axis; a second channel disposed on the first side of the membrane, wherein the second channel is along a second longitudinal axis, and wherein the first channel and the second channel are disposed side by side adjacent to each other; a third channel disposed on the second side of the membrane, wherein the third channel is along a third longitudinal axis, wherein the third channel is in first fluid communication with the first channel via the first pore, and wherein the third channel is in second fluid communication with the second channel via the second pore; and one or more sensors disposed at one or more locations to facilitate sequencing of a molecule that extends from the first channel, through the first pore across at least a portion of the third channel, and through the second pore into the second channel. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11944962B2 |
Ion exchange reactor with particle traps for lithium extraction
The present invention relates to the extraction of lithium from liquid resources such as natural and synthetic brines, leachate solutions from clays and minerals, and recycled products. |
| US11944960B2 |
Method for fabricating nickel-cerium dioxide-aluminum oxide hybrid nanoparticle cluster catalyst, nickel-cerium dioxide-aluminum oxide hybrid nanoparticle cluster catalyst and method for synthesizing polyetheramine
The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a nickel-cerium dioxide-aluminum oxide hybrid nanoparticle cluster catalyst. The method includes a solution preparation step, an aerosolizing step, a drying step, a first calcining step, a reducing gas adding step, and a second calcining step. The solution preparation step is provided for preparing a precursor solution. The aerosolizing step is performed for obtaining an atomized droplet. The drying step is performed for converting to a precursor crystallite. The first calcining step is performed for obtaining an oxidation state catalyst. The reducing gas adding step is performed for adding hydrogen. The second calcining step is performed for obtaining the nickel-cerium dioxide-aluminum oxide hybrid nanoparticle cluster catalyst. |
| US11944957B2 |
Glass fiber filter element for visible light photocatalysis and air purification and preparation method thereof
A glass fiber filter element for visible light photocatalysis and air purification and a method for preparing the same. The glass fiber filter element includes 4 to 7 wt % of nanoparticles including at least one selected from zinc oxide, graphene oxide, titanium oxide, and reduced graphene oxide, 2 to 7 wt % of silver nanowires, 3 to 12 wt % of an adhesive system, and 78 to 91 wt % of a glass fiber mat, based on the total weight of the glass fiber filter element. The glass fiber mat is made of at least two glass fibers with different diameters, and the diameters are in a range of 0.15 to 3.5 μm. The nanoparticles have a particle size from 1 to 200 nm, and the silver nanowires have a diameter of 15 to 50 nm. |
| US11944956B2 |
Room temperature liquid metal catalysts and methods of use
A catalyst composition includes a liquid metal alloy having a melting point from about 20° C. to about 25° C., the liquid metal alloy including a primary metal and a secondary metal, the primary metal being aluminum and the secondary metal is selected from the group consisting of gallium, indium, and bismuth. |
| US11944955B2 |
Process of obtaining a catalyst, catalyst and pre-treatment process of acidic raw materials
The present invention concerns a catalyst and pre-treatment process for acidic charges consisting of sulfated zirconia and cerium for the production of biofuels, characterized in that the catalyst has greater activity and resistance to deactivation with acidic charges. |
| US11944953B2 |
Method of forming VOC and odor reducing building panels
Described herein are methods of forming a VOC and odor-reducing building panel. The methods include providing a substrate; applying a wet-state coating to a major surface of the substrate, the wet-state coating comprising carrier comprising water; and drying the wet-state coating, thereby evaporating at least 95 wt. % of the carrier to form a dry-state coating. |
| US11944952B2 |
Removing contaminants from water with adsorbents
A composition and process for reducing contaminants from water which includes use of a water-insoluble adsorbent having a surface area of at least about 10 m2/g, where the adsorbent is coated with a water-soluble metal salt. |
| US11944951B2 |
Composition and method for reducing ammonia and soluble phosphorus in runoff and leaching from animal manure
Calcium silicate hydrate nanoparticles are combined with ammonia control materials (e.g. alum, aluminum chloride, ferric chloride, ferric sulfate, and/or sodium bisulfate) to create a phosphorus-binding composition. In the preferred embodiment, the composition is applied to poultry litter, poultry bedding or other non-aqueous substrates that are at least partially comprised of animal manure. The composition binds with phosphorus to at least reduce the amount of phosphorus in runoff water or in leachate from fields fertilized with treated manure. The combining of the calcium silicate hydrate nanoparticles with the ammonia control products has a surprising and unexpected result. The calcium silicate hydrate-ammonia control material mix reduces soluble phosphorus more than either component of the mix alone. |