US11068135B2
A design engine implements a probabilistic approach to generating designs that exposes automatically-generated design knowledge to the user during operation. The design engine interactively generates successive populations of designs based on a problem definition associated with a design problem and/or a previously-generated population of designs. During the above design process, the design engine generates a design knowledge graphical user interface (GUI) that graphically exposes various types of design knowledge to the user. In particular, the design engine generates a design variable dependency GUI that visualizes various dependencies between designs variables. The design engine also generates a design evolution GUI that animates the evolution of designs across the successive design populations. Additionally, the design engine generates a design exploration GUI that facilitates the user exploring various statistical properties of automatically-generated designs.
US11068133B2
An electronic album is created taking into consideration the intentions of the user regarding electronic album creation. Face images are extracted from among a number of images for an electronic album and the face images are displayed on a display screen. A face image of an important person is dragged and dropped onto an important image setting area, and the face image of a person not required to be included in the electronic album is dragged and dropped onto an excluded image setting area. An electronic album in line with user intentions is created so as to increase the proportion of images of an important person and exclude images of unwanted persons.
US11068128B2
Systems and processes for manipulating a graphical user interface are disclosed. One process can include receiving user input through a crown to rotate a virtual object. The process includes selecting a surface of the object from among the multiple surfaces of the object in response to determining that the crown rotation exceeded a speed threshold.
US11068117B2
A tablet supplies energy to a stylus including a resonant circuit including a coil and a capacitor by using an alternating magnetic field. The tablet includes a sensor coil group including plural sensor coils, a switch connected to the sensor coil group, a receiver that receives a pen signal transmitted by the stylus and provided to the sensor coil group through the switch, a transmitter that generates the alternating magnetic field by supplying a signal to the sensor coil group through the switch, and a control circuit that supplies a transmission signal to the transmitter and receives input of the pen signal from the receiver. The transmitter includes an amplifying circuit that supplies the sensor coil group with a voltage-amplified signal. The control circuit alternately performs a first control operation and a second control operation that control the switch.
US11068112B2
Touch sensor including a first detection electrode portion formed on a substrate in a first direction, and a second detection electrode portion formed on the substrate in a second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein a plurality of fine etched patterns are formed in a boundary portion between unit transparent electrodes included in the first detection electrode portion and the second detection electrode portion, the unit transparent electrode has a shape in which a part of the boundary portion having a polygonal shape is removed by fine etched patterns, and the adjacent unit transparent electrodes are electrically connected. The transparent electrode may be visually hidden due to differences in optical properties between electrode regions wherein the transparent electrode is formed and inter-electrode regions wherein a transparent electrode is not formed, and a phenomenon wherein light transmittance of the touch sensor decreases due to the transparent electrode may also be prevented.
US11068109B1
Described as a multifunctional display including a display panel and a sensing and emitting base, the display panel comprising a body forming a layer extending substantially between a viewing surface that an observer can see, or against which an object may be placed, and a base surface facing the sensing and emitting base, and a plurality of optical paths bounded by a light resistant material are formed within the body extending between a base orifice in the base surface and a viewing orifice in the viewing surface for the passage of light between base orifice and the viewing orifice, the sensing and emitting base comprising at least one multi-color light source positioned below or in the base orifice and at least one optical sensor positioned below or in the base orifice. The display comprises non-optical sensors, each arranged under a solid region of the display panel between optical paths.
US11068105B2
Disclosed are touch sensitive devices and methods of responding to hits in touch sensitive devices that include a graphical user interface having interface elements, each associated with a program element. A hit test map updater is used to process graphical user interface information into a hit test map in connection with the rendering of the graphical user interface, such that the hit test map associates properties with interface elements appearing on the graphical user interface. An input processor is used to receive a location corresponding to an input in connection with an input event, search the hit test map in which values are associated with interface elements appearing in the graphical user interface, and identify a property of the interface element from the values. In an embodiment, the identified property is proved to a central processing system and a user interface event is generated. In an embodiment, the properties received from the hit test map updater and the input processor are used to determine a program element associated with the property, and the program element is signaled. In an embodiment, the identified property is processed to determine a change to the graphical user interface, and the change is displayed.
US11068098B2
A proximity detection device is provided and includes detection electrodes including a pair of extending portions that extends in a first direction; and a pair of connector portions that extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction, each of the pair of connector portions electrically connecting an end of one of the pair of extending portions to an end of the other one of the pair of extending portions, and a first dummy pattern portion surrounded by the pair of extending portions and the pair of connector portions, wherein the extending portions has a slit of bending lines having a slit bending angle, wherein the first dummy pattern portion is divided by first gaps of bending lines having a first bending angle, and wherein the slit bending angle and the first bending angle are the same.
US11068094B2
The present embodiments may provide a touch display device including: a display panel in which a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of touch electrodes are disposed; a gate-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of gate lines; a data-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of data lines; and a touch-driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of touch electrodes while the plurality of data lines and the plurality of gate lines are driven. In this touch display device, while a touch-driving signal swings with a predetermined amplitude, a data signal and a gate signal may also swing with the predetermined amplitude. According to the present embodiments, it is possible to enable high-speed image display and high-speed touch sensing, to perform a display operation and a touch operation simultaneously, and to display an image normally without any image change.
US11068093B2
A touch display panel is provided, including a common electrode ring, a first and a second common electrode pattern, pixel structures, an edge common signal line, and common signal lines disposed on a substrate. The first and second common electrode patterns and the pixel structures are located in a region surrounded by the common electrode ring. The first common electrode pattern is spaced from the second common electrode pattern by a gap. The first and the second common electrode patterns respectively overlap some of the pixel structures. The edge common signal line is disposed on the substrate, traces along the gap, and extends toward the common electrode ring to be electrically connected to the common electrode ring. The first common electrode pattern overlaps and is electrically connected to one common signal line. The second common electrode pattern overlaps and is electrically connected to another common signal line.
US11068091B2
A touch panel includes a substrate, a photosensitive layer, a metal nanowire layer and a photosensitive conductive layer. The metal nanowire layer and the photosensitive layer are formed on a display area and a peripheral area of the substrate. The photosensitive conductive layer is formed on the metal nanowire layer on the peripheral area. A removal region and a reserved region of both the photosensitive conductive layer and the photosensitive layer are defined by an exposure process. At the display area, the photosensitive layer and the metal nanowire layer in the removal region are removed by a developer to form a touch sensing electrode. At the peripheral area, the photosensitive conductive layer, the photosensitive layer and the metal nanowire layer in the removal region are removed by a developer to form a peripheral conductive trace. The touch sensing electrode is electrically connected to the peripheral conductive trace.
US11068087B2
An electronic device including a base member having a touch area defined inside a first closed-shape, the first closed-shape being a first imaginary line, and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the touch area and defined outside the first closed-shape, and a touch sensor including a plurality of patterns disposed in the touch area to sense a touch from outside and a driving line disposed in the peripheral area and connected to a pattern disposed adjacent to the first closed-shape. The touch area includes a first area defined inside a second closed-shape being a second imaginary line defined in the touch area, and a second area defined outside the second closed-shape and surrounded by the first closed-shape, and an edge pattern disposed in the second area having an area substantially equal to or greater than approximately one-half of an area of a center pattern disposed in the first area.
US11068086B2
The present invention concerns a terminal (1) comprising a frame (10), a touchscreen (11), a glass panel (12) protecting the touchscreen (11), an outer shell (13), characterized in that successively gripped between the frame (10) and the shell (13) there are: a first seal (14a), a peripheral region (120) of the glass panel (12), and a second seal (14b); and in that the touchscreen (11) is arranged between a central portion (121) of the glass panel (12) and the frame (10), the touchscreen (11) being secured to only one from among the frame (10) and the glass panel (12). The present invention also concerns a process for manufacturing the terminal.
US11068072B2
In a mixed reality display system, a server and a plurality of mixed reality display terminals are connected, and virtual objects are displayed. The virtual objects include a shared virtual object for which a plurality of terminals have an operation authority and a private virtual object for which only a specific terminal has an operation authority. The server has virtual object attribute information for displaying the virtual objects in each terminal, and each terminal has a motion detecting unit that detects a motion of a user for switching between the shared virtual object and the private virtual object. When a detection result by the motion detecting unit is received from the terminal, the server updates the virtual object attribute information depending on whether the virtual object is the shared virtual object or the private virtual object, and transmits data of the virtual object after the update to each terminal.
US11068064B2
A method for controlling application windows is provided for use with a graphical user interface (GUI) display which is divided into at least first and second application windows. Various software applications may be launched in the first and second application windows. In order to switch locations of the software applications launched in the first and second application windows the user selects a swap window button, for example by tapping or clicking on a swap window icon on the GUI display.
US11068056B2
Apparatus, systems and methods configured for eye tracking with slippage detection and correction are disclosed. In one example, a method comprises: obtaining a first image and a second image of a person's eye, with an imaging sensor; determining a position relationship between an eyeball center of the eye and the imaging sensor based on the first image and the second image.
US11068046B1
In one example, the present disclosure improves simulations based on the use of digital twins using social automatons. In one example, a method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes constructing a digital twin of a physical environment, constructing a social automaton, wherein the social automaton comprises a virtual representation of an individual that is programmed to exhibit behaviors and characteristics of the individual, and inserting the social automaton into the digital twin to create an extended reality media in which interactions of the social automaton with the digital twin simulate interactions of the individual with the physical environment.
US11068044B2
An electronic device determines information about a target and provides the information to another electronic device that has an obstructed view of the target. The other electronic device displays an image of the target with an orientation and a location of the target.
US11068041B2
A method and system for managing power for Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports, in particular USB Type-C ports that are connected to USB devices that do not support USB power delivery (USB PD). The method and system present an advertisement of a default power supply to a USB device, receive power attribute information from a USB device configuration descriptor during USB device enumeration, in response to the connecting USB device not supporting USB power deliver (USB PD), and dynamically change the power supply to meet the power requirements of the connecting USB device identified by the power attribute information.
US11068033B2
Some examples include an expansion card retention device, comprising a retaining arm and a retaining bracket. The retaining arm is rotatably attachable to a chassis and moveable between an open state and a closed state. The retaining arm is postionable along the expansion card and includes an interior face to provide multi-point support along a top edge of the expansion card. The retaining bracket is rotatably coupled to the retaining arm. The retaining bracket pivotable about a first axis at a first end of the retaining arm. The retaining bracket includes a contact surface to engage with an interconnect bracket in the closed state. The retaining arm and retaining bracket are movable together between the open state and the closed state with a single user controlled operation.
US11068031B2
An example stand assembly is described, which may include a first support feature extending from a rear end of a first housing of an electronic device and a second support feature extending from a rear end of a second housing of the electronic device. The first housing and the second housing may be rotatable relative to one another between an open position and a closed position of the electronic device. The first support feature may have a first curved shape. The second support feature may have a second curved shape in a direction opposite to the first curved shape. The first support feature and the second support feature may facilitate the electronic device to stand vertically in the closed position.
US11068030B2
A stand that is attachable to a back surface of an electronic device or a protective case for the electronic device. The stand includes a base portion, two legs, and two pivoting spring arms. Each leg pivots at a leg axis along an arc between a stowed position and an extended position. The two pivoting spring arms are attached to the base portion at a first end and attached to a respective one of the legs at a second end. Each pivoting spring arm is configured to apply a spring force to the leg to, alternately, force leg toward the stowed position or the extended position depending on the starting position of the leg.
US11068028B1
A device dock can include a support for a display device; a top side; a bottom side that includes one or more feet; a sloped front side; a sloped back side, where the sloped back side slopes in a direction outwardly away from the bottom side; and a wall mount operatively coupled to the sloped back side.
US11068026B2
Systems and methods for managing communications between a wearable computing device and at least one remote computing device, using a host computing device. The host computing device provides a message handling service that receives one or more messages directed to the wearable computing device from the remote computing device, or directed to the remote computing device from the wearable computing device, and, for each of the one or more messages, determines an action associated with the respective message; and takes the action for each of the one or more messages.
US11068025B2
A smart wearable device and a control method for a smart wearable device relate to the field of computer devices. The method includes: detecting a first touch-control operation that is in afixing band touch-control area, and obtaining first operation information of the first touch-control operation (101); and generating a control instruction according to the first operation information, and executing the control instruction (102). A control manner for the smart wearable device can be added by using a touch-control operation on a fixing band, operability and human-machine interactivity of the smart wearable device are improved, and disadvantages of undiversified operation manners and low interactivity that are caused when an operation is performed on only a part such as a dial or by using only a part such as a crown are overcome.
US11068023B1
Systems and methods are involved with but are not limited to an apparatus including an accessory coupling system to couple at least one accessory to at least one computing device case portion wherein the accessory coupling system includes at least one connection portion being affixed with the computing device case portion; and an engagement component, which includes at least one engagement projection being couplable with the at least one connection portion affixed with the computing device case portion. In addition, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US11068020B2
A synchronization signal output apparatus obtains time from a time server to synchronize an internal clock with the time of the time server, obtains an error between the time of the time server and time of the internal clock, and generate and output a synchronization signal. The apparatus sets, based on a magnitude of the error, an operation mode for generating and outputting the synchronization signal, and generates and outputs the synchronization signal at the timing that is based on the operation mode.
US11068016B2
An output signal generation circuit includes a first pulse generation circuit configured to receive first information and generate a first pulse signal including the first information, the first pulse signal having a first pulse width that is a minimum pulse width of the first pulse signal, a second pulse generation circuit configured to receive second information and the first pulse signal, and generate a second pulse signal in which the second information is superimposed on the first pulse signal, the second pulse signal having a second pulse width smaller than the first pulse width, and an output circuit configured to output the second pulse signal.
US11068008B2
A supply circuit is provided including a supply generation circuit coupled to a supply terminal. A voltage deviation detection circuit is adapted to detect a voltage deviation in an internal supply voltage. A current limiter arrangement is adapted to limit a current through the supply generation circuit to a predefined value.
US11067999B2
A vehicle includes: a cooling box in which a delivery item delivered by a deliverer can be accommodated; a communication device configured to communicate with at least one of a server and a deliverer terminal that is used by the deliverer for delivery; and a communication device configured to acquire a target value of a temperature inside the cooling box from outside. The vehicle acquires the target value of the temperature inside the cooling box from at least one of the server and the deliverer terminal.
US11067991B2
A control system of a self-driving vehicle (SDV) can process sensor data from the sensor system to autonomously operate acceleration, braking, and steering systems of the SDV throughout a given region. The control system can receive a transport directive from a transport facilitation system to service a pick-up request from a requesting user, the transport directive indicating an inputted pick-up location by the requesting user. The control system can then autonomously operate the acceleration, braking, and steering systems along a current route to a pick-up area encompassing the inputted pick-up location. The control system can further determine a corresponding set of pick-up location options for the pick-up area, and as the SDV approaches the pick-up area, perform a hierarchical operation to identify, via the sensor data, an optimal pick-up location to rendezvous with the requesting user.
US11067981B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating an aircraft includes operating the aircraft in a first mode including determining an attitude based on a pilot stick signal, where a translational speed or an attitude of the aircraft is proportional to an amplitude of the pilot stick signal in the first mode; transitioning from the first mode to a second mode when a velocity of the aircraft exceeds a first velocity threshold; and operating the aircraft in the second mode where the output of the rate controller is proportional to the amplitude of the pilot stick signal.
US11067980B2
The invention relates to a ground station for a UAV comprising a housing for accommodating a system on chip (SOC) circuit including a control processor for executing software to wirelessly control functions of the UAV, a first screen, and a second screen, wherein one or both screens are controlled directly by the SOC control processor. The housing may comprise a clam shell housing comprising a first housing member for accommodating the control processor and a second housing member movable relative to the first housing member between a first closed position overlaying said first housing member and a second open position. The arrangement is such that the first housing member has mounted thereon the first screen and the second housing member has mounted thereon the second screen such that both screens are viewable by a user when the second housing member is in its open position.
US11067966B2
A three-dimensional object data generation apparatus includes a physical property value obtaining unit that obtains, using three-dimensional object data indicating a three-dimensional object represented by plural three-dimensional elements, physical property values calculated by analyzing physical properties at a time when the three-dimensional object has been formed under a predetermined forming condition, the physical property values indicating the physical properties of the plural three-dimensional elements, a division unit that divides the three-dimensional object into plural sub-objects on a basis of a result of comparison between the physical property value of each of the plural three-dimensional elements and a predetermined threshold, a representative value calculation unit that calculates a representative value of physical property values of three-dimensional elements included in each of the plural sub-objects, and a generation unit that generates the three-dimensional object data by setting a forming condition corresponding to the representative value for each of the plural three-dimensional elements using predetermined correspondences between the representative values and forming conditions of a three-dimensional object forming apparatus that forms the three-dimensional object.
US11067964B2
System and methods are disclosed for improving manufacturing processes, improving manufactured products, and improving deployed devices. The devices can be reconfigurable holographic antennas (“antennas”). Manufacturing test results for a plurality of antennas is collected. Field performance data and antenna management information is collected for a plurality of deployed antennas. Query selection criteria, machine learning correlation criteria and a minimum correlation threshold are passed to a server to query for matching records from a data store and to perform machine learning on the query results to generate improvements to processes, manufactured antenna performance and deployed antenna performance.
US11067960B2
Method and an arrangement for monitoring status of a production device configured to implement an industrial process or industrial production with a control device with sensors and actuators, where at least one further sensor is carried through the production device with a product being processed by the production device, where further signals are wirelessly transmitted to a status-monitoring device by the further sensor, and where the signals and/or status information items and the further signals are placeable in relationship with one another to generate status information item about the production device such that it is possible to plan the status monitoring separately from the production device, and possible to combine information items of the industrial control device with the information items and data of a mobile sensor (further sensor) that passes through the production device, such that more precise status information items about the production device status can be acquired.
US11067949B2
A cartridge for use with a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the main assembly including a driving shaft having a rotational force applying portion, wherein the cartridge is dismountable from the main assembly in a direction substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the driving shaft, the cartridge including i) a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, the developing roller being rotatable about an axis thereof; and ii) a coupling member engageable with the rotational force applying portion to receive a rotational force for rotating the developing roller, the coupling member being capable of taking a rotational force transmitting angular position for transmitting the rotational force for rotating the developing roller to the developing roller and a disengaging angular position in which the coupling member is inclined away from the rotational force transmitting angular position, wherein when the cartridge is dismounted from the main assembly of the electrophotographic image forming apparatus in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of the developing roller, the coupling member moves from the rotational force transmitting angular position to the disengaging angular position.
US11067947B2
A Process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling member operatively connected to the photosensitive drum, with the coupling member including an arm portion and a projection projecting from the arm portion, the arm portion being capable of transmitting driving force from the projection towards the photosensitive drum. The arm portion of the coupling member extends from a point that is upstream in the rotational direction of the photosensitive drum towards a point that is downstream in the rotation direction of the photosensitive drum.
US11067929B2
There is provided a fixing apparatus configured to fix a toner image on a print medium by spraying a fixing solution, the fixing apparatus including: a plurality of first nozzles from which the fixing solution is sprayed, a first electrode which extends in a first direction, and which faces the first nozzles in a second direction, a holding groove which accommodates the first electrode, which is configured to hold the fixing solution sprayed from the first nozzles, and which has a discharge port through, and a container configured to contain the fixing solution discharged from the discharge port. The holding groove has a bottom surface which is positioned apart from the first electrode in the second direction so that the fixing solution held in the holding groove passes between the first electrode and the bottom surface to flow toward the discharge port.
US11067927B2
A heater of an image heating device, the heater including: a substrate; a first heating resistor and a second heating resistor on the substrate; first to third electric contact portions for electric connection to a power supply; a first conductive portion that connects the first electric contact portion with the first heating resistor; a second conductive portion that connects the second electric contact portion the second heating resistor; and a third conductive portion that connects the third electric contact portion and the first heating resistor and also connects the third contact portion with the second heating resistor, wherein the first electric contact portion is provided close to one longitudinal end of the substrate, the second electric contact portion is provided close to the other longitudinal end of the substrate, and the third electric contact portion is provided close to the center of the substrate in the longitudinal direction.
US11067925B2
A fusing apparatus includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the second surface being opposite the first surface on the substrate, a first resistive trace and a second resistive trace, the first and second resistive traces being disposed adjacent each other along the first surface of the substrate in a length-wise direction thereof. A resistance of the first resistive trace is less than a resistance of the second resistive trace. The fusing apparatus further includes a plurality of thermistors disposed along the second surface of the substrate, including a first thermistor disposed on the second surface of the substrate opposite the first resistive trace in a central location along the length of the first resistive trace, a second thermistor disposed on the second surface of the substrate opposite the second resistive trace in a central location along the length of the second resistive trace, and a third thermistor disposed on the second surface of the substrate opposite a first area of the second surface, the third thermistor being closer to a first length-wise end of the substrate than the second resistive trace and a first length-wise end of the first resistive trace being closer to the first length-wise end of the substrate than the third thermistor.
US11067923B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a high-voltage generation circuit, a current detection portion and a control portion. The image forming portion includes an image carrying member, a charging device, an exposure device and a developing device which includes a developer carrying member for carrying a two-component developer. The control portion can perform a transfer memory prediction mode that includes a step of estimating, when a first reference image is formed, the level of occurrence of transfer memory based on the direct-current component of a development current flowing through the developer carrying member and a step of measuring, when the measured direct-current component of the development current is larger than a predetermined value, the amount of charge of the toner within the developing device and estimating the cause of occurrence of the transfer memory based on the measured amount of charge of the toner.
US11067918B2
A developer supply container includes a developer accommodating portion 2a for accommodating toner, a developer supply opening 5b for discharging the toner accommodated in the developer accommodating portion 2a from the developer supply container 1, a feeding portion 2b for feeding the toner in the developer accommodating portion 2a toward the developer supply opening 5b, a rotatable drive receiving portion 7a for receiving a rotational force for rotating the feeding portion 2b, and a holding projection 4h held by a holding mechanism 304 provided in the developer supply container 1 to determine a position of the developer supply container 1, wherein the developer supply opening 5b is disposed between the drive receiving portion 7a and the holding projection 4h. By this, a stability of connection between the discharge opening of the developer supply container and the receiving port of the image forming apparatus side is improved.
US11067915B2
A cleaning member that is used in an image forming apparatus and that is inserted from outside the image forming apparatus, the apparatus including a holding body that holds a substrate on which light emitting elements that expose a photosensitive drum are aligned and that holds lenses, the cleaning member including a rod-shaped rhabdoid formed of resin, a cleaning portion provided in the rhabdoid to clean a light emission surface of each lens, the cleaning portion moving together with the rhabdoid inserted in the image forming apparatus and opposing the light emission surface in an optical axis direction of the lens, and a magnet provided on the rhabdoid, the magnet emitting magnetic force that generates force drawing the holding body thereto so that the cleaning portion continues to contact the light emission surface.
US11067914B2
The present disclosure discloses a liquid electrophotographic ink. The ink can include (A) a liquid vehicle; (B) at least one colorant; (C) a resin comprising an ethylene acid copolymer; (D) an ethylene/(meth)acrylic acid C1-10 alkyl ester copolymer selected from the group consisting of an ethylene/methyl acrylate copolymer and an ethylene/butyl acrylate copolymer; and (E) a condensation product of urea and aldehyde.
US11067912B2
Herein is described a method of providing a printed label. The method comprises: providing a printed label substrate having disposed thereon an electrostatically printed ink; applying a UV curable overcoat composition to the printed ink, wherein the UV curable overcoat composition comprises (i) a component selected from UV curable monomers and UV curable oligomers, and (ii) a slip agent; curing the overcoat composition under UV irradiation with an output power of 2500 W or less. Printed labels and an ink and overcoat composition set are also described herein.
US11067895B2
After printing common features from a primary mask into a photoresist layer located over a substrate, a functional feature which is suitable for changing functionalities or the configurations of the common features according to a chip design is selected from a library of additional functional features in a secondary mask. The selected functional feature from the secondary mask is printed into the photoresist layer to modify the common features that already exist in the photoresist layer. The selection and printing of functional feature processes can be repeated until a final image corresponding to the chip design is obtained in the photoresist layer.
US11067888B2
A resist composition containing a polymer compound which has a constitutional unit (a0) represented by Formula (a0-1); and an acid generator which is formed of a compound represented by Formula (b1) (in the formulae, Ra00 represents an acid dissociable group represented by Formula (a0-r1-1); Ra01, Ra02, Ra031, Ra032, and Ra033 represent a hydrocarbon group; Ya0 represents a quaternary carbon atom; Rb1 represents a hydrocarbon group which has a steroid skeleton containing at least one hydroxyl group; Yb1 represents a divalent linking group having a single bond or a hetero atom; Vb1 represents a single bond, an alkylene group, or a fluorinated alkylene group; and Rf1 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, or a fluorinated alkyl group).
US11067885B2
A light beam projecting arrangement including a first cluster of light sources arranged to provide a first cluster of light beams having a first etendue and a second cluster of light sources arranged to provide a second cluster of light beams having a second etendue, and means for changing the direction of the first cluster and/or the second cluster of light beams. The light sources are arranged so that the total etendue of the first cluster of light beams is substantially equal to the etendue of the second cluster of light beams; and where the means for changing the direction are arranged so that the clusters of light beams are brought into a combined cluster light beam having substantially the same etendue as the larger one of the first etendue and the second etendue.
US11067882B2
An illumination system including an exciting light source module, a wavelength converter and an anisotropic diffusion element is provided. The exciting light source module is configured to emit an exciting beam. The wavelength converter is disposed on a transmission path of the exciting beam. The anisotropic diffusion element is disposed on the transmission path of the exciting beam and is located between the exciting light source module and the wavelength converter. The anisotropic diffusion element allows the passing exciting beam to expand in a light expanding direction, and the light expanding direction is substantially parallel to a fast axis of the exciting beam. A projection apparatus including the illumination system is also provided.
US11067881B2
The light source system includes a first light source, a light splitting device, a wavelength conversion device, and a light guiding device. The first light source emits first light. The wavelength conversion device includes at least a first color light region and a second color light region, which are sequentially inserted into an outgoing path of the first light. The first color light region emits second light excited by the first light to the light splitting device. The second color light region reflects the first light to the light splitting device. The light splitting device directs one of the first light and the second light to a light path and directs the other to the light guiding device. The first light or the second light is reflected by the light guiding device to the light splitting device, and then is guided to the light path by the light splitting device.
US11067870B2
The disclosure relates generally to an electrochromic system. The system may include one or more electrochromic devices and a central control device. Each electrochromic device may include two glass layers, two adhesive layers, an electrochromic film, a controller, and a control device. The two adhesive layers may be disposed on inner surfaces of the two glass layers. The electrochromic film may be disposed between the two adhesive layers, the electrochromic film including an electrochromic material layer, a solid polymer electrolyte, and a charge storage layer. The controller may include a power converter, a signal receiver, and a power output. The power converter may be configured to receive power from a power source. The power source may include an energy storage integrated with the controller. The signal receiver may be configured to receive a control signal. The power output may be coupled to the electrochromic film and configured to provide power to the electrochromic film to control optical state of the electrochromic film. The control device may be configured to send the control signal to the signal receiver. The central control device may be configured to globally control optical states of all of the one or more electrochromic devices.
US11067860B2
An optical device includes a liquid crystal layer having a first plurality of liquid crystal molecules arranged in a first pattern and a second plurality of liquid crystal molecules arranged in a second pattern. The first and the second pattern are separated from each other by a distance of about 20 nm and about 100 nm along a longitudinal or a transverse axis of the liquid crystal layer. The first and the second plurality of liquid crystal molecules are configured as first and second grating structures that can redirect light of visible or infrared wavelengths.
US11067858B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a plurality of first spacers protruding toward the liquid crystal layer, and the second substrate includes, on a surface closer to the liquid crystal layer, an alignment film, a plurality of second spacers in contact with the plurality of first spacers, and a plurality of pedestal films facing the plurality of first spacers. A height of the plurality of second spacers is greater than a height of the plurality of pedestal films, and the plurality of pedestal films include a first pedestal film having a smaller area than an area of each of the plurality of second spacers, and a second pedestal film having a planar pattern that is longer, as a whole, than a planar pattern of the first pedestal film.
US11067856B2
A display apparatus comprises a first substrate comprising a first external surface and a first internal surface; a second substrate having a second external surface and a second internal surface facing the first internal surface of the first substrate; and a display unit disposed between the first and second substrates and comprising an array of pixels. The first substrate comprises a first side connecting the first external surface and the first internal surface. In a cross section perpendicular to the first external surface, the first side comprises a first straight region and a first curved region located between the straight region and the first internal surface. The second substrate comprises a second side connecting the first external surface and the first internal surface. The second side comprises a second straight region and a second curved region located between the straight region and the second internal surface.
US11067851B2
A light-emitting apparatus according to the present invention, includes: a light source board on which a first light source group including a plurality of light sources and a sensor that detects light or temperature are disposed; and a reflection sheet that is disposed on a side of the light source board where the first light source group and the sensor are disposed, and includes an opening from which the first light source group is exposed, wherein the sensor is surrounded by the plurality of light sources.
US11067849B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a quadrangular liquid crystal panel, a light guiding plate formed in a quadrangular shape substantially the same as that of the liquid crystal panel and having a pair of convex portions that protrude outward from a pair of end surfaces, and a frame having a light source holding plate in which a light source is mounted on a light source fixing plate, the light source fixing plate facing the one end surface, the back-side portion being formed in a quadrangular shape substantially the same as that of the liquid crystal panel. Bent side plate portions, which face the pair of end surfaces, are respectively provided on a pair of side portions of the back-side portion. Notches, into which the convex portions are fitted, are provided in the pair of bent side plate portions.
US11067848B1
An electroactive device may include (i) a first conductor, (ii) a first optically transparent material electrically coupled to the first conductor, the first optically transparent material including a plurality of nanovoids and having a first refractive index, (iii) a second optically transparent material electrically coupled to the first optically transparent material, the second optically transparent material having a second refractive index that is lower than the first refractive index, and (iv) a second conductor electrically coupled to the second optically transparent material. Various other methods, systems, apparatuses, and materials are also disclosed.
US11067845B2
A liquid crystal panel and a method manufacturing the same are provided. The liquid crystal panel including a color filter substrate, an array substrate disposed opposite to the color filter substrate and a built-in polarizer. The built-in polarizer includes a substrate, a first inorganic layer, a metal wire grid layer, and a second inorganic layer. The substrate covers a side of the color filter substrate facing the array substrate. The first inorganic layer covers the substrate. The metal wire grid layer covers the first inorganic layer, wherein the metal wire grid layer has a plurality of metal wires parallel to each other. The second inorganic layer has a plurality of inorganic wires parallel to each other, wherein each of the inorganic wires correspondingly covers one of the metal wires.
US11067843B2
A display device for a head-mounted display includes a first display panel and a second display panel that are arranged in parallel. The first display panel and second display panel each include a pair of substrates having a plane sectioned into a display region and a non-display region, and a columnar spacer interposed between the substrates. The substrate includes a spacer lightproof portion placed over the spacer. The first display panel and second display panel do not coincide with each other with regard to a location where the spacer lightproof portion in the display region is disposed.
US11067842B2
Provided are a contrast ratio improving optical film, a polarizing plate comprising the same, and a liquid crystal display device comprising the same, wherein the contrast ratio improving optical film comprises a contrast ratio improving layer. The contrast ratio improving layer comprises a first resin layer and a second resin layer which faces the first resin layer, wherein the second resin layer comprises a pattern part having optical patterns and a flat part between the optical patterns. The optical patterns have at least one inclined surface with respect to the flat part, and the flat part or the inclined surface has a light absorption layer formed thereon. The contrast ratio improving optical film has a lowest reflectance of 0.5% or less.
US11067841B2
Provided is a display device having high visibility regardless of the intensity of external light. Provided is a display device capable of a variety of display. Provided is a display device that can operate with low power consumption. The display device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first liquid crystal layer, a second liquid crystal layer, a first coloring layer, and a first insulating layer. The first liquid crystal layer overlaps with the second liquid crystal layer with the first insulating layer therebetween. The first electrode is configured to reflect visible light. The second electrode includes a portion not overlapping with the first electrode and is configured to transmit visible light. The second liquid crystal layer includes a first portion overlapping with the first coloring layer and the second electrode, and a second portion not overlapping with the first coloring layer. The first portion contains monomers and liquid crystal. The second portion contains a polymer obtained by polymerization of the monomers.
US11067839B2
Described herein are methods, systems, and apparatuses to utilize an electro-optic modulator including one or more heating elements. The modulator can utilize one or more heating elements to control an absorption or phase shift of the modulated optical signal. At least the active region of the modulator and the one or more heating elements of the modulator are included in a thermal isolation region comprising a low thermal conductivity to thermally isolate the active region and the one or more heating elements from a substrate of the PIC.
US11067838B2
A thermochromic element including a thermochromic layer including a binder and a thermochromic pigment chosen to react at a specific temperature so that the pigment passes from a first color to a second color when the specific temperature is reached. The thermochromic layer coats a thermally conductive layer, and is protected by an optically transparent layer that protects it from chemical and physical degradation.
US11067837B2
Devices, systems and methods are described that efficiently convert an incident light having a particular polarization into light having a plurality of polarizations that are distributed according to a particular pattern. For example, the output light can have a plurality of plurality of polarization states that are randomly distribute over the Poincaré sphere. One polarization scrambler includes a plurality of polarization elements positioned to receive polarized or partially polarized light. Each polarization element includes a half waveplate to rotate a polarization direction of the polarized or partially polarized light, and a quarter waveplate to receive light that exits the first layer and to change a polarization state of the light that exits the first layer to another polarization state. The polarization scrambler further includes a substrate to receive the light after exiting the quarter waveplate, and to provide the output light that includes a plurality of polarization states.
US11067836B2
A multi-stack graphene structure includes a graphene stack that includes graphene layers including amorphous graphene and thin film dielectric layers. The graphene layers include amorphous graphene. The graphene layers and the thin dielectric layers are alternately stacked on one another. The multi-stack graphene structure also includes an electric field former configured to apply an electric field to the graphene layers.
US11067835B2
A starting material powder, which contains a rare earth oxide that is composed of terbium oxide and at least one other rare earth oxide selected from among yttrium oxide, scandium oxide and oxides of lanthanide rare earth elements (excluding terbium) and a sintering assistant that is formed of an oxide of at least one element selected from among group 2 elements and group 4 elements, is produced by having (a) terbium ions, (b) ions of at least one other rare earth element selected from among yttrium ions, scandium ions and lanthanide rare earth ions (excluding terbium ions) and (c) ions of at least one element selected from among group 2 elements and group 4 elements coprecipitate in an aqueous solution containing the components (a)-(c), then filtering and separating the coprecipitate, and subjecting the separated coprecipitate to thermal dehydration.
US11067832B2
A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a person includes a prescription portion having a first refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the eye of the person and a second refractive power different from the first refractive power. The lens element further includes a plurality of at least three optical elements, at least one optical element having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye.
US11067829B2
Embodiments of the invention provide patients with premium progressive lenses that are tailor-made to his or her specific and unique requirements and preferences. An interactive progressive lens optical design determining provides design technology that allows patients or eye care professionals to alter a progressive lens optical design in real-time, while continually displaying the selected lens' optical performance, until the most suitable lens has been designed. The progressive lens optical design determining software mixes and blends a number of cornerstone designs in varying ratios to achieve the desired lens.
US11067825B2
A display system for realizing concentric light field with monocular-to-binocular hybridization, and methods thereof. At least some embodiments include a display arranged to emit or transmit light rays based on image content from a content engine, and an optical subsystem arranged to configure the light rays into a concentric light field. The concentric light field provides a virtual image in a large, contiguous spatial region, such that each eye of the human viewer can detect monocular depth from the light field, to provide a large field of view.
US11067824B2
An optical image stabilization apparatus includes an image stabilization element, a base member, a shift member configured to hold the image stabilization element and movable in a direction including a component orthogonal to an optical axis relative to the base member, an elastic member configured to support the image stabilization element and the shift member, and a driver configured to move the shift member. The driver includes a first magnet part and a second magnet part provided on one of the base member and the shift member, a coil provided on the other of the base member and the shift member, a first magnetized portion provided on a side of the first magnet part with respect to a center axis of an opening in the coil, and a second magnetized portion provided on a side of the second magnet part with respect to the center axis.
US11067823B2
An optical image stabilization mechanism is provided, including a holder for holding a lens, a frame, a base, a first coil, a second coil, a displacement sensor, a first magnetic element, a second magnetic element, and a third magnetic element. The frame is movably connected to the holder and the base. The first coil is disposed on a side of the holder. The second coil is disposed on the base. The first and second magnetic elements are disposed on the frame and correspond to the first coil. The magnetic pole direction of the first magnetic element is opposite to that of the second magnetic element. The third magnetic element is disposed on the frame and corresponds to the second coil. The displacement sensor is disposed on the base to detect relative displacement between the lens and the base.
US11067820B2
A structured light projector including a light source, an irradiation range controlling device, and a diffractive optical element is provided. The irradiation range controlling device is disposed on a transmission path of a light beam from the light source. The diffractive optical element is disposed on a transmission path of the light beam from the irradiation range controlling device. The irradiation range controlling device is adapted to control an irradiation range of the light beam transmitted to the diffractive optical element so as to change a size of a region of the diffractive optical element illuminated by the light beam from the irradiation range controlling device. A three-dimensional image sensing module using the same is also provided.
US11067814B2
A system comprising a processing resource configured to: obtain a first indication of a confirmation, by an operator of a platform, of an alignment of one symbol of a first plurality of symbols with a second symbol as viewed in a head-mounted display of a head-mounting worn by the operator, the first plurality of symbols being projected by at least one optical apparatus disposed on the platform to a plurality of different viewing angles, the second symbol being projected onto the head-mounted display by a projection unit of the head-mounted display; determine which given symbol of the first plurality of symbols was aligned with the second, the given symbol having first orientation data, the second symbol having second orientation data; and perform an alignment of the head-mounting and the head-mounted display at least based on the first orientation data and the second orientation data.
US11067811B2
A waveguide display includes a substrate transparent to visible light, a coupler configured to couple display light into the substrate such that the display light propagates within the substrate through total internal reflection, a first multiplexed volume Bragg grating (VBG) on the substrate, and a second multiplexed VBG on the substrate. The second multiplexed VBG overlaps with the first multiplexed VBG in at least a see-through region of the waveguide display. The first multiplexed VBG is configured to diffract the display light to two or more regions of the second multiplexed VBG, and the second multiplexed VBG is configured to diffract the display light to two or more regions of an eyebox of the waveguide display.
US11067810B2
A head-mounted display apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an imaging light generating device, a first deflection element including a first deflection section configured to deflect imaging light in a first direction and a second deflection section configured to deflect the imaging light in a second direction, a first diffraction element, and a second diffraction element. When a plane surrounded by the principal ray passing plane, the first principal ray, the second principal ray, and the first deflection section is taken as a first plane, and a plane surrounded by the second deflection section, the first principal ray, the second principal ray, and the first diffraction element is taken as a second plane, the first plane overlaps with at least a part of the second plane when viewed from the third direction and does not overlap with the second plane when viewed from the fourth direction.
US11067794B2
A system to scan a field of view with light beams can include a scanning mirror arrangement having a mirror and a drive mechanism configured to rotate the mirror about an axis between two terminal positions; at least one light source configured to simultaneously produce at least a first light beam and a second light beam directed at the mirror from different directions. Upon rotation of the mirror, the first and second light beams can scan a field of view. The scanning mirror arrangement may include a mirror; hinges attached at opposite sides of the mirror; and a drive mechanism attached to the hinges and configured to twist the hinges resulting in a larger twist to the mirror, wherein the hinges are disposed between the drive mechanism and the mirror.
US11067792B2
A two-dimensional optical scanning mirror device, a manufacturing method for the same, a two-dimensional optical scanning device and an image projector. A two-dimensional optical scanning mirror device includes a substrate, a movable mirror portion supported on the substrate in such a manner that two-dimension optical scanning is possible, a hard magnetic thin film provided in the movable mirror portion and a magnetic field generator that includes at least an alternating magnetic field generator for driving the movable mirror portion, where the hard magnetic thin film has a magnetization direction in a direction of a film plane, and the ratio of the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator relative to the coercive force of the hard magnetic thin film is 0.2 or lower.
US11067787B2
An infrared (IR) digital lens (IR Objective) for an optical microscope is disclosed which includes a body, configured to be mounted to an objective interface of an optical microscope, an IR camera disposed in the body, the IR camera configured to receive light in the range of IR and capture images from a specimen disposed under the body without the need to move the specimen from the optical microscope.
US11067771B2
An observation apparatus includes: an image capturing apparatus that includes an imaging surface and captures an image of an object to be observed; an optical system that projects an optical image of the object onto the image capturing apparatus; a focusing unit that adjusts, with reference to the optical-axis direction of the optical system, the relative positional relationship between the object and a surface optically conjugate to the imaging surface; and a processor that controls at least the image capturing apparatus and the focusing unit. The processor decides an in-focus position for the focusing unit based on a plurality of images of the object that acquired by the image capturing apparatus, the plurality of images each being an image acquired when the focusing unit is located at a different position; determines the reliability of the decided in-focus position; and when determining that the in-focus position is not reliable, moves the focusing unit sequentially to a plurality of positions and causes the image capturing apparatus to acquire, for each of the plurality of positions, a candidate image of the object.
US11067768B2
An optical member driving mechanism is provided, including a first module, a second module, a driving module, and an electronic member module. The driving module can drive the second module to move relative to the first module. The electronic member module includes at least one electronic member, at least one lead frame, and a package member. The lead frame is connected to the electronic member and an external circuit outside the optical member driving mechanism. The package member has a single material and covers the electronic member and the lead frame. The lead frame is exposed from the package member, and the electronic member is not exposed therefrom.
US11067762B2
An optical module according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a substrate having a base plane, an optical circuit element having an optical waveguide and a reflector, a support member, a photo detector mounted on the base plane, the photo detector including a condenser lens and a light-receiving layer. The light beam travels along an optical path from the reflector to the tangent plane, the optical path having a shortest distance set to be smaller than a preset value, and as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the base plane, the light beam has an optical axis set apart from the top of the condenser lens by an offset distance.
US11067758B1
A duplex fiber optic adapter, comprising a pair of fiber optic connector assemblies, a housing and a pair of ports positioned within the housing is provided. The housing has a pair of opening structures on one end, configured for fixed attachment of the pair of fiber optic connector assemblies, and a pair of polarity reversal connector openings on an opposing end, configured to receive a pair of ferrules of a fiber optic connector. When a fiber optic connector is inserted into the adapter and the adapter is coupled to a mating fiber optic connector, the pair of ferrules is engaged in the pair of ports of the housing and coupling ferrules of each pair of fiber optic connector assemblies is engaged in a pair of ports of the mating fiber optic connector, establishing a polarity reversal connection between the fiber optic connector and mating fiber optic connector via the adapter.
US11067748B2
A guide transition device including a light source designed to generate a light beam, a light input port on a first plane and coupled to receive the light beam from the light source, a light output port on a second plane different than the first plane, the light output port designed to couple a received light beam to output equipment and plane shifting apparatus coupled to receive the light beam from the light input port on the first plane and to shift or transfer the light beam to the second plane. The plane shifting apparatus is coupled to transfer the light beam to the light output port on the second plane.
US11067747B2
Embodiments herein describe optical interposers that utilize waveguides to detect light. For example, in one embodiment, an apparatus is provided that includes an optical detector having a first layer. The first layer includes at least one of polysilicon or amorphous silicon. The first layer forms a diode that includes a p-doped region and an n-doped region. The apparatus further includes a waveguide optically coupled to the diode and disposed on a different layer than the first layer.
US11067746B2
In a light deflection device, the radiation efficiency of radiated light beams is to be improved. The light deflection device is configured by a photonic crystal waveguide having a lattice array with low refractive index parts periodically arrayed in a surface of a high refractive-index member. The lattice array has a dual-periodic structure consisting of a first periodic array and a second periodic array which differ from each other in periodic arrangement of the low refractive index parts. A line defect where no low refractive index parts are arrayed constitutes a waveguide core for propagating incident light. The cross section of at least either the first periodic array or the second periodic array constituting the periodic arrays of the dual-periodic structure is asymmetrical in the thickness direction of the low refractive index parts.
US11067732B2
Methods of manufacturing a liquid crystal device including depositing a layer of liquid crystal material on a substrate and imprinting a pattern on the layer of liquid crystal material using an imprint template are disclosed. The liquid crystal material can be jet deposited. The imprint template can include surface relief features, Pancharatnam-Berry Phase Effect (PBPE) structures or diffractive structures. The liquid crystal device manufactured by the methods described herein can be used to manipulate light, such as for beam steering, wavefront shaping, separating wavelengths and/or polarizations, and combining different wavelengths and/or polarizations.
US11067729B2
A method for manufacturing a color resist is disclosed. According to the method, a mask is moved so that an alignment mark is aligned with marks of a black matrix layer respectively. Each color resist and a corresponding color block are formed on the black matrix layer by the mask, and a position of each color resist is checked according to a positional relationship between a corresponding color block and hollowed-out region. A distance between a first mark and a second mark and a distance between a first mark and a third mark are configured in such manner that the color blocks do not overlap with one another. Therefore, the color blocks do not overlap with one another while a size thereof does not change.
US11067727B2
A method for manufacturing a multilayer optical element is disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes providing a substrate, applying a first optical layer by applying a first layer having a dielectric first material having a first refractive index, structuring the first layer by sectionally removing the first material and filling first interspaces with a dielectric second material having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index so that the second material has at least the same height as the first material, and applying at least a second optical layer by applying a second layer having the first material, structuring the second layer by sectionally removing the first material so that the first optical layer is exposed in second interspaces between second areas with the first material and filling the second interspaces with the second material so that the second material has at least the same height as the first material.
US11067720B2
The present invention relates to ionic silicone hydrogel polymers displaying improved lysozyme uptake, low contact angle and reduced water soluble polymeric ammonium salt uptake.
US11067719B2
A distributed weather system includes a storage, a plurality of wireless weather stations, a server, and an interface. Each of the plurality of wireless weather stations is associated with a user and has a battery, a location sensor generating location information, an anemometer generating apparent wind speed, a transmitter transmitting the location information with the apparent wind speed to a network at periodic intervals, and a receiver receiving control commands that include a length of the periodic intervals. The server receives the location information with the apparent wind speed and stores them in the storage. The interface is accessible by a mobile computer, and receives the control commands from a user and sends them to the receiver of the wireless weather station associated with the user. The interface displays a true wind speed for each of the plurality of wireless weather stations, which is calculated using the apparent wind speed, the location information, and historical location information.
US11067713B2
Electrostatic field sensor and security system in interior spaces and exterior spaces which can measure electrostatic fields and the variations thereof along a metal conductor that acts as a detection probe or antenna (1). The antenna (1) is connected to an electronic circuit (2, 3, 4, 31, 32) which is able to decode the changes in the electrostatic field around the conductor and to detect minuscule variations in the electrostatic field by means of a processor (7) enabling the clear detection of a human presence in an area surrounding the antenna (1) and the ability to differentiate between a human presence and any other type of animal or object.
US11067710B2
A system for monitoring ionizing radiation in a target area, the system may include a first plurality of consumable nodes deployable within the target area to be exposed to the ionizing radiation. Each consumable node may be progressively damageable over a monitoring time as a result of exposure to the ionizing radiation. A base station may be operable to detect an amount of radiation damage sustained by the consumable nodes and to determine a dosage of ionizing radiation received by any one of the consumable nodes based on a pre-determined correlation between the dosage of ionizing radiation and the amount of radiation damage sustained by the consumable node.
US11067701B2
A positioning control method of a positioning device worn on a user□s body includes switching a positioning mode to a swimming mode and executing a positioning operation for the swimming mode when the positioning mode is switched to the swimming mode.
US11067692B2
A method for adjusting a detector (110) for determining a position of at least one object (112) within a range of measurement (114) is disclosed. The detector (110) comprises at least two longitudinal optical sensors (116) and at least one transfer device (118) for imaging the object (112) into an image plane. The transfer device (118) has a focal plane. The transfer device (118) is positioned in between the longitudinal optical sensors (116) and the object (112). Each of the longitudinal optical sensors (116) has at least one sensor region (120). Each of the longitudinal optical sensors (116) is designed to generate at least one longitudinal sensor signal in a manner dependent on an illumination of the respective sensor region (120) by at least one light beam (178) propagating from the object (112) to the detector (110), wherein the longitudinal sensor signal, given the same total power of the illumination, is dependent on a beam cross-section of the light beam (178) in the sensor region (120). The detector (110) further comprises at least one evaluation device (124). The method comprises the following steps: (i) subsequently moving the object (112) longitudinally to at least two different calibration positions (134, 136) having at least two different longitudinal coordinates within the range of measurement (114); (ii) recording, for each of the calibration positions (134, 136), at least one first longitudinal sensor signal generated by a first longitudinal optical sensor (126) and at least one second longitudinal sensor signal generated by a second longitudinal optical sensor (128); (iii) forming, for each of the calibration positions (134, 126), at least one calibration signal using the first and second longitudinal sensor signals; (iv) generating a calibration function using the calibration signals, the calibration function defining a relationship between the longitudinal coordinate of the object (112) and the first and second longitudinal sensor signals.
US11067686B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed towards obstacle position and extent measurement. In accordance with one aspect, obstacle detection includes creating one or more interferometric measurements to generate a flow of response position locations using a flow of range/Doppler detections by fitting a parametric expression; and deriving one or more scatterer positions and obstacle position and extent measurements from the flow of response position locations.
US11067682B2
A range-direction frequency domain converting unit (231-1) converts reception video signals into signals in a range direction frequency. A hit-direction frequency domain converting unit (232-1) converts the signals in the range direction frequency into signals based on the velocity and the range direction frequency so that the target Doppler frequency belongs to the same velocity bin number independently of variations in frequencies of transmission signals. A correlation unit (233-1) generates signals based on the velocity separated for each of the transmission frequencies and a range after correlation. An integration unit (234-1) generates band-synthesized signals based on the velocity and a range after correlation. A candidate target detecting unit (241) detects candidate targets based on the signal intensity from the output signals of the integration unit (233-1). A target relative velocity/relative range/arrival angle calculating unit (242) calculates the relative velocity, the relative range, and the arrival angle of the candidate targets.
US11067678B2
A radar device according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a clock generator, a transmitter, a receiver, and a signal processor. The clock generator outputs the transmission clock, outputs the reception clock at the second time after the delay from the first time when the transmission clock is outputted, and generates the notification signal when the delay has the minimum value. The transmitter emits a transmission signal based on the transmission clock. The receiver receives an echo signal corresponding to the transmission signal, and generates a first signal corresponding to the echo signal based on the reception clock. The signal processor obtains a third time point at which a delay has the minimum value based on the notification signal.
US11067670B2
A lidar system includes a photonic chip including a light source and a transmit beam coupler to provide an output signal for transmission. The output signal is a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signal. A transmit beam steering device transmits the output signal from the transmit beam coupler of the photonic chip. A receive beam steering device obtains a reflection of the output signal by a target and provides the reflection as a received signal to a receive beam coupler of the photonic chip. The photonic chip, the transmit beam steering device, and the receive beam steering device are heterogeneously integrated into an optical engine.
US11067660B2
An angle of arrival system can be self-calibrating. The angle of arrival system can continuously estimate imperfections caused by the analog RF components and dynamically apply corrections based on these estimates. As a result, an angle of arrival system can employ inexpensive components, will not require factory calibration, but can still perform geolocation with high precision.
US11067657B2
Methods for operating a magnetic resonance apparatus and systems therefrom are provided. A method includes generating, via a coil former surrounding a subject or object of interest and disposed in the magnetic resonance apparatus, a plurality of field modes external to the subject or object, measuring for each of the plurality of external field modes, an associated internal field produced within the subject or object, generating, via the coil former a combination of external modes to produce a target internal field in the subject or object, and measuring nuclear magnetic resonance signals due to the resulting field from the combination to acquire an image or spectrum of the subject or object.
US11067655B2
In a method for creating a first and a second image dataset of an examination object, a train of RF refocusing pulses are radiated into the examination object after the radiation of an RF excitation pulse to generate a spin echo signal after each radiated RF refocusing pulse, phase encoding gradients are activated for encoding the phases of the spin echo signals generated, and readout gradients are activated in each case in a readout window to read out the generated spin echo signals as measurement data. The readout windows alternately include a first time point at which the phases of the different spin species in the spin echo signal are the same, and a second time point at which the phases of the different spin species in the spin echo signal are not the same.
US11067634B2
Method and apparatus for estimating state of charge of battery, and computer readable storage medium
A method for estimating a state of charge of a battery includes obtaining a discharge voltage and discharge capacity curve of a battery under a preset discharge current, in responding to an order for estimating the state of charge of the battery; matching the discharge voltage and discharge capacity curve with a plurality of standard curves in a database, thereby obtaining an optimal matching curve with respect to the discharge voltage and discharge capacity curve; and calculating the state of charge of the battery according to the optimal matching curve, under a preset discharge stage. The present method can accurately calculate the state of charge of the battery with simple calculation manners.
US11067633B2
A remaining battery amount estimation device 2 includes a discharged electric charge amount calculating unit 202 configured to calculate a discharged electric charge amount of a battery 11 that supplies power to an electronic device 1 per predetermined time TR based on operating state information related to an operating state for each predetermined time of the electronic device 1, and a remaining amount estimation unit 206 configured to calculate a total amount of discharged electric charge from the battery 11 based on the discharged electric charge amount per predetermined time, and estimate a remaining amount of the battery 11 based on the total amount of discharged electric charge.
US11067622B2
A method for testing a printed circuit board includes providing a printed circuit board having a first main section, a second main section, a bent connecting section and at least one monitoring conductor track. The connecting section is disposed between the first main section and the second main section. The monitoring conductor track runs from the first main section, in a curved manner through the connecting section, to the second main section. At least one electrical measurement value which is representative of the integrity of the at least one monitoring conductor track is detected. A printed circuit board, a control unit and methods for producing the printed circuit board and for operating the control unit are also provided.
US11067618B2
An example embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of diagnosing root causes of anomalous AMI meter data. The method can include receiving meter data, identifying anomalous data in the meter data, comparing the anomalous data to a database of known root causes, and generating a work order if there is a known root causes of the anomalous data. The method can also include requesting manual review of anomalous data without a known root cause and receiving input indicating a discovered root cause. The method can add the discovered root cause to the database of known root causes.
US11067614B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting node outages in a mesh network. A tracking node in the mesh network detects a set of signals originating from a tracked node in the mesh network. The set of signals includes beacons or communication messages transmitted by the tracked node. The tracking node determines that a threshold number of the beacon intervals have passed since receiving the most recent signal from the tracked node. The tracking node performs outage validation based on data received from another node in the mesh network and updates the status of the tracked node. Based on the updated status, the tracking node outputs a ping to the tracked node requesting a response to the ping. When the response to the ping is not received from the tracked node, the tracking node transmits an outage alarm message to a next topologically higher layer of the mesh network.
US11067607B2
Embodiments described herein are directed to a system having a processor and a bridge circuit. The bridge circuit includes a pair of differential voltage sources, a first pair of sensing elements and a second pair of sensing elements. The first pair of sensing elements generate a pair of measurement signals. The pair of measurement signals are independent of one another and based on the respective sensing element. The second pair of sensing elements communicatively coupled to first pair of sensing elements. The second pair of sensing elements define a first divider. The pair of measurement signals are input into the respective second sensing element of the second pair of sensing elements. The first divider is configured to output a first output signal to the processor. The first output signal is a first differential signal of the first pair of sensing elements.
US11067606B2
A current sensing module for measuring a current includes a conductive substrate, a frame, a circuit board and a magnetic sensor. The conductive substrate has two terminals and at least one slot. The frame has two side portions and a bottom portion, wherein the bottom portion connects the two side portions to form an opening ring-shape. At least one of the two side portions is disposed in the at least one slot, such that the two side portions surround a partial path of the current. A gap exists between two top ends of the two side portions. The circuit board is disposed with respect to the conductive substrate. The magnetic sensor is connected to the circuit board and located in a space between the two side portions rather than in the gap. The magnetic sensor senses the current and generates a first current sensing signal correspondingly.
US11067603B2
An electrical connector comprises a bottom assembly extending in a first direction, a first contact assembly, a first substrate assembly, a second contact assembly, a second substrate assembly, a third contact assembly, a top assembly and a plurality of conductive vias. The bottom assembly, the first contact assembly, the first substrate assembly, the second contact assembly, the second substrate assembly, the third contact assembly, and the top assembly are arranged in a second direction. The plurality of conductive vias extends in the second direction to penetrate the bottom assembly, the first substrate assembly, the second substrate assembly, and the top assembly. Each of the contact member of the first contact assembly, the second contact assembly, and the third contact assembly are of a letter V shape.
US11067602B2
To maintain the horizontalness of a probe card even, if the number of measured DUTs is increased. An electrical connecting apparatus according to the present, disclosure comprises a support member having a lower surface region in which a level part is formed and a wiring board provided adjacent to the lower surface of the support member, and to be connected to a testing device side. The electrical connecting apparatus comprises: a connection unit having multiple connection terminals; a probe substrate electrically connecting multiple probes to the connection terminals; multiple anchors arranged on the upper surface of the probe substrate; and multiple supports functioning as supports between corresponding ones of the anchors and the support member via the wiring board and the connection unit. The anchors and the supports are arranged at positions including: each vertex point of a square; each vertex point of two rectangles having respective two long sides passing through corresponding facing vertex points on one side and corresponding facing vertex points on the other side of the square; and multiple points along a virtual circle centered on the center of the square and having a diameter surrounding each of the rectangles.
US11067601B2
High accuracy electrical test interconnection device and method for electrical circuit board testing
A high accuracy electrical test interconnect method employs a tester interface transfer block to enable the transfer of electrical contact from less accurate tester resource probes to target probes which are contained in the tester interface transfer block and can be positioned with high accuracy using the three dimensional printing to enable reliable contact with smaller test pads. The target probes can directly contact the tester resource probes or a transfer plate can be interposed between the target probes and the tester resource probes to allow positional adjustment of the target probes relative to the tester resource probes. This invention also includes the use of specialized shape target probes that can contact circuit board objects, such as vertical conductive surfaces and irregular shape test pads that have not been accessible with traditional methods.
US11067591B2
A system for determining angular displacement, velocity and acceleration of a rotating member axially mounted to a platform including at least one digital storage disk having data stored concentrically thereon, the disk and rotating member having the same axis of rotation, at least one laser transmitter for emitting a laser beam directed towards the disk, at least one laser receiver for receiving a reflected portion of the emitted laser beam, at least one processor, and at least one memory storing software thereon for determining the angular displacement, velocity and acceleration of the rotating member. A method for determining the angular displacement, velocity and acceleration of the rotating member is also provided.
US11067590B2
A sample dispensing mechanism configured to dispense a sample and a reagent to the reaction vessel at a first dispensing position and the reaction cell positioned at a second dispensing position; a second reagent vessel disposed on a track of the sample dispensing mechanism; and a control unit configured to control the sample dispensing mechanism, in which the control unit is configured to, based on information on presence or absence of incubation of an analysis item, control the sample dispensing mechanism to dispense a sample and a reagent to the reaction vessel positioned at the first dispensing position in a case where the incubation is not required by the analysis item, and control the sample dispensing mechanism to dispense a sample to the reaction cell positioned at the second dispensing position in a case where the incubation is required by the analysis item.
US11067578B2
The present inventors have demonstrated that circulating auto-antibodies to cancer antigens hold promise as specific and sensitive biomarkers for the early detection of cancer. The present invention thus relates to methods of detecting cancer in a sample, comprising utilising a glycopeptide bait derived from human mucins with different cancer-associated O-glycans. Detected antibodies were demonstrated as glycopeptide specific, and it could be discriminated between e.g. colorectal cancer patients and healthy individuals. The inventors have also developed monoclonal antibodies based on the identified glycopeptides epitope baits, and demonstrated differential expression of the relevant target antigens. The invention thus, in a lock and key-based manner includes both glycopeptides and antibody tools for early detection of cancer, as well as methods of using the same for in situ visualisation and treatment of specific cancer types.
US11067576B2
A method for monitoring health maintenance by collecting an initial blood sample from an individual and dividing the collected blood sample into at least two parts. The first of the two parts is immediately analyzed for multiple blood components levels, and the second part is frozen immediately after the collection to be used at a later time as a comparative standard. After a period of time, a second blood sample is collected from the same individual and analyzed for the same multiple blood components levels in a parallel test with the frozen part. The results obtained from the second blood sample are then compared to the results from the frozen comparative standard to detect real changes in the multiple blood components levels over time.
US11067554B2
A gas sensor package includes a package substrate having a hole, the hole having an end that is opened at a first surface of the package substrate; a gas sensor disposed in the hole of the package substrate; a fixing plate disposed on the first surface of the package substrate, the fixing plate having a vent hole extending between a top surface and a bottom surface of the fixing plate, the bottom surface of the fixing plate facing toward the package substrate and the top surface of the fixing plate facing away from the package substrate, and the fixing plate overlapping the hole of the package substrate when viewed in a plan view; and a protective film attached to the fixing plate. The protective film overlaps the vent hole when viewed in a plan view.
US11067549B2
An apparatus for sampling landfill gas from a landfill flowing through a pipe. The apparatus may comprise: an enclosure configured to receive a section of the pipe; a gas sampling port in the section of the pipe; at least one sensor device disposed in a region of the enclosure, the at least one sensor being coupled to the section of the pipe through the gas sampling port; and thermal insulation positioned to retain heat from the section of the pipe in the region of the enclosure. A method of operating a landfill gas recovery system. The method may comprise: flowing gas from a well riser pipe through a sampling subsystem to a collection system; and heating a portion of the sampling subsystem with the gas flowing from the well riser pipe to the collection system.
US11067524B2
A system for testing for contaminants in an assembly line grow pod includes a tray moving along a track arranged in an assembly line grow pod, a plurality of cells arranged on the tray and a contaminant sensor. Each cell supports seeds, plants, or both, and a selected cell includes side walls and a base that define a cavity. The contaminant sensor is arranged in the cavity of the selected cell. The contaminant sensor includes a sensing device and a control device. The sensing device directly senses a characteristic of a content present in association with the selected cell. The control device is coupled to the sensing device and operable to receive a signal from the sensing device. The control device may determine a likelihood of contamination based on the received signal.
US11067523B2
A blood coagulation system analysis device capable of analyzing a blood coagulation system with high accuracy, and a method and a program for analysis of a blood coagulation system are proposed. The blood coagulation system is observed as a temporal change in permittivity before the viscoelasticity manifestation timing (timing at which blood starts to clot from the viewpoint of viscoelasticity (in greater detail, timing at which active polymerization of fibrin monomers starts)). A permittivity of blood which is positioned between a pair of electrodes is measured at predetermined time intervals after the anticoagulant effect acting on the blood is ended, and from the measurement result, a degree of the action of the blood coagulation system is analyzed.
US11067521B2
The present application discloses, in some embodiments thereof, an apparatus, systems and methods for measuring specimens' displacement or transformation while heating. In some embodiments, the present invention discloses apparatus and methods for determining the transformation temperature or range of temperatures of specimens, such as specimens manufactured from a memory shape alloy.
US11067501B2
Fabric validation using spectral measurement is provided. In various embodiments, a near-infrared absorption spectrum of a fabric sample is received from a near-infrared spectrometer. A plurality of features is extracted from the spectrum. The plurality of features is provided to a trained classifier. The trained classifier provides a similarity score indicative of the similarity of the fabric sample to a reference fabric sample.
US11067494B2
A multi-dimensional micro fluid focussing device. The device includes an apparatus for multi-dimensional micro fluid focussing. The device also includes an analyser for analysing the focused fluid. The apparatus includes a microchannel having an inlet defining a first region, a middle region and an outlet defining a second region. A first junction is formed at the intersection of the first region and the middle region. A second junction is formed at the intersection of the middle region and the second region. A first sheath positioned proximal to the first junction and a second sheath positioned at the second junction. The junctions formed, along with the positioning of the sheaths enable the multi-dimensional focusing of the fluid. The analyser includes a holder for removably retaining the apparatus. A microscope is positioned across the holder. A recording unit is coupled to the microscope.
US11067484B2
A detector inlet for providing a sample to an analytical apparatus for detecting a substance of interest, the detector inlet comprising a plenum for allowing passage of a flow of a gaseous fluid, the plenum comprising a sampling volume a sampling inlet arranged in the plenum and arranged to collect samples of the gaseous fluid from the sampling volume and to provide the samples to the analytical apparatus, wherein the flow carries particulates and a flow director arranged to create circulatory flow of the gaseous fluid around the plenum encircling the sampling inlet thereby to vary a spatial distribution of the particulates carried by the fluid to increase a relative proportion of the particulates carried past the sampling inlet without entering the sampling volume.
US11067481B2
Embodiments include a method for monitoring a fracturing operation that includes positioning a pump at a well site where fracturing operations are being conducted. The method also includes arranging one or more sensors at at least one of a pump inlet or a pump outlet, the one or more sensors monitoring a flow rate of a slurry. The method includes receiving flow data from the one or more sensors. The method also includes determining a pump efficiency, based at least in part on the flow data, is below a threshold. The method further includes adjusting one or more operating parameters of the pump.
US11067477B2
The wavefront measurement device performs: generating a first pupil function at a reference wavelength based on input data of a wavefront aberration; calculating a first image plane amplitude at a reference wavelength based on the first pupil function; generating a second pupil function at a multi-wavelength region; calculating a second image plane amplitude at the multi-wavelength region based on the second pupil function; correcting a measured point spread function using the first and second image plane amplitudes; applying a constraint condition using the corrected point spread function to the first image plane amplitude to correct the first image plane amplitude; generating a third pupil function based on the corrected first image plane amplitude; and calculating a wavefront aberration on a pupil plane based on the third pupil function.
US11067467B2
An improved fitting assembly for analytical devices is provided. The fitting assembly includes a tube securable to a fitting component via rear and front ferrules and a nut. The fitting component includes a body having a cavity for receiving the tube and ferrules. The body also includes a channel connecting the cavity to a leak chamber defined in a space between the tube, the fitting component and the inner sidewall of the nut body, the leak chamber being in fluid communication with the exterior of the nut body via the channel in the nut body. Sealing elements are provided between the tube and nut for encouraging leaks to flow through the leak path. A method for detecting leaks in the fitting assembly is also provided.
US11067453B2
A circuit is disclosed that includes a capacitive element, a control circuit, and a first switch and a second switch. The capacitive element is configured to generate an output voltage at a terminal thereof. The control circuit is configured to generate a first control signal and a second control signal in response to a first temperature-dependent voltage, a second temperature-dependent voltage, and the output voltage. The first switch and the second switch are coupled to the capacitive element, and configured to be turned on or off in response to the first control signal and the second control signal respectively. The first switch and the second switch have different switching status from each other in a charge mode.
US11067450B2
An apparatus measures the transverse profile of vectorial optical field beams, including both the phase and the polarization spatial profile. The apparatus contains a polarization separation module, a weak perturbation module, and a detection module. Characterizing the transverse profile of vector fields provides an optical metrology tool for both fundamental studies of vectorial optical fields and a wide spectrum of applications, including microscopy, surveillance, imaging, communication, material processing, and laser trapping.
US11067444B2
A spectroscope includes a light source, at least one static optical element for manipulating or structuring light, at least two adaptive optical elements and at least one detector. The at least two adaptive optical elements are configured to partition an optical function of spectral sorting from at least one of the following optical function: routing, attenuation, and/or encoding. The light source, the at least one static optical element, and the at least two adaptive optical elements are configured to direct light from the light source into first and second distinct light channels, the first light channel containing a sample to be analyzed.
US11067443B2
A handheld spectrometer can be configured with a visible aiming beam to allow the user to determine the measured region of the object. When the visible aiming beam comprises the spectrometer measurement beam, the spectrometer measurement beam comprises sufficient energy for the user to see the measurement beam illuminating the object. When the visible aiming beam comprises a separate beam, the visible aiming beam comprises sufficient energy for the user to see a portion of the aiming beam reflected from the object. The visible aiming beam and measurement beam can be arranged to at least partially overlap on the sample, such that the user has an indication of the area of the sample being measured.
US11067440B2
A dark current compensation circuit comprises a first comparator having inputs for a detection signal and a first voltage, and a second comparator having inputs for the detection signal and a second voltage. The dark current compensation circuit also comprises a controller coupled to the first and second comparators, which has an input for an event signal. An adjustable current source is coupled to the controller and configured to generate a compensation current. The controller adjusts a value of the compensation current based on the first and second comparator outputs and maintains a constant value in response to the event signal indicating photons incident on a photon detector. In some implementations, the dark current compensation circuit further comprises an analog sub-circuit coupled to the adjustable current source and configured to receive the detection signal. The analog sub-circuit generates an analog compensation current in response to the detection signal.
US11067403B2
A system and method of tracking energy usage in a vehicle. The method, in one implementation, involves building an energy usage prediction model, obtaining a planned route for a vehicle that contains one or more planned route segments, applying the energy usage prediction model to each planned route segment of the one or more planned route segments of the planned route to obtain an energy usage plan, receiving onboard data from the vehicle, constructing an actual route based on the onboard data, and performing a match analysis between the planned route and the actual route based on the onboard data.
US11067395B2
The present invention discloses a direction-finding chip, a direction-finding method and a beacon. The direction-finding chip is applied to a beacon of a direction-finding system. The beacon includes multiple antennas and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). A mobile device can calculate angle information according to supplement provided by the beacon. The direction-finding chip includes a computation circuit and a radio frequency circuit. The computation circuit generates coordinate conversion information or a correction amount of the coordinate conversion information according to an acceleration and a magnetic field vector generated by the IMU. The coordinate conversion information or the correction amount can be used to compensate the angle information. The radio frequency circuit is coupled to the computation circuit and configured to transmit the supplement and the coordinate conversion information or the correction amount.
US11067379B2
The current invention concerns a fluid microscope system for analyzing and/or monitoring the contents of one or more fluid-based reactors or canalizations such as bio-reactors, micro-reactors, brewing reactors, water supply systems or sewer systems. The fluid microscope system includes a digital holographic microscope (DHM) with one or more electro-fluidic systems, capable of guiding fluid from the reactors to the DHM. The current invention also concerns an electro-fluidic system for such a fluid microscope system having any or all of the elements mentioned above. Furthermore, the current invention encompasses a method for installing, replacing and removing such an electro-fluidic system in and from a fluid microscope system, and lastly, a method for monitoring and/or observing suspended objects in a fluid in a fluid-based reactor or canalization.
US11067376B1
Embodiments are directed to direct impingement cook-off mitigation systems. As assembled, a munition fuzewell is torqued into the aft end of a munition. During a cook-off event, the expanding gases from the booster energetic will burn instead of detonating. The hot expanding booster gases are vented to the munition's main fill energetic causing the main fill energetic to burn concurrently with the booster energetic. The combined expanding gases from both the booster and main fill energetics are then vented through longitudinal vents.
US11067375B1
An adjustable case sizing die includes a die body having a threaded outer surface and a threaded inner surface. The threaded outer surface of the die body has a first pitch. The threaded inner surface of the die body has a second pitch smaller than the first pitch. A sizing insert is positionable within an interior cavity of the die body. An adjusting spindle is connected to a top of the sizing insert. The adjusting spindle has a threaded outer surface. The threaded outer surface of the adjusting spindle has the same pitch as the inner surface of the die body. The adjusting spindle is threadably insertable into the die body. Turning the adjusting spindle within the die body changes a height of the sizing insert within the die body.
US11067374B2
An ordnance for air-borne delivery to a target under remotely controlled in-flight navigation. In one embodiment, self-powered aerial ordnance includes upper and lower cases. A plurality of co-axial, deployable blades is powered by a motor positioned in the upper case. When deployed, the blades are rotatable about the upper case to impart thrust and bring the vehicle to a first altitude above a target position. An explosive material and a camera are positioned in a lower case which is attached to the upper case. The camera generates a view along the ground plane and above the target when the ordinance is in flight. When the vehicle is deployed it is remotely controllable to deliver the vehicle to the target to detonate the explosive at the target. The ordnance may drop directly on a target as a bomb does.
US11067373B2
Disclosed are an airburst munition and an airburst signal transfer device. By simply signaling information regarding a distance to an explosion location of the airburst munition to an explosion control system inside the airburst munition while the airburst munition passes through a tubular body of the airburst signal transfer device, it is possible to easily, simply, and automatically enter the information regarding the distance to the explosion location of the airburst munition to the airburst munition using the airburst signal transfer device.
US11067371B2
A tail kit assembly of a guided munition having a tail kit base connected to a trailing end of a projectile body. The tail kit base is rotatable relative to the projectile body. A trimmable rudder has forward and rearward ends. The forward end is pivotally coupled to the tail kit base, such that the trimmable rudder can, relative to the tail kit base, between retracted and extended orientations. An actuator is fixed between the tail kit base and the rearward end of the trimmable rudder. The actuator is electrically coupled to an onboard guidance system that controls actuation of the actuator to pivot the trimmable rudder between the retracted orientation and the extended orientation.
US11067370B2
A multi-piece ammunition cartridge casing includes a casing base extending along a central axis and defining an opening extending axially into the casing base from the distal base end. The inner casing surface defines a circumferential groove with a groove radius greater than a radius of an adjacent portion of the opening. The cartridge casing also includes a casing body with a proximal end portion disposed in the opening of the casing base. The casing body is secured to the casing base by way of a flange protruding radially outward in mating contact with the circumferential groove.
US11067363B2
An electronic weapon accessory system includes an electronic weapon accessory, such as a light, and a detachable mount with an integrated control switch. The electronic weapon accessory includes an electronic component, such as an LED, and a power source disposed within a housing. The electronic component and the battery are electrically connected with a circuit having electrical contacts exposed on an outer surface of the housing. The mount has a body with a clamp structure, a dome switch disposed on an outer surface of the mount body and a circuit having electrical contacts exposed on the outer surface of the mount body. Fasteners removably secure the mount body and accessory housing in assembled relation. When the electronic weapon accessory and mount are assembled, the accessory electrical contacts physically and electrically engaging the mount electrical contacts to complete an electronic control circuit and provide integrated control and operation of the electronic accessory.
US11067356B2
A bowstring release having a handle, a jaw, and a sear. The jaw is configured for drawing and releasing the bowstring. The sear includes a plurality of settings for adjusting the rotation of the handle at which the jaw releases the bowstring. While the bowstring is in the drawn configuration, the jaw and the sear are slidingly coupled and the jaw slides along a surface of the sear while the release is rotated. The bowstring is released when the jaw and the sear de-couple.
US11067351B2
A ratcheting magazine for a firearm includes a main body, a floor plate, and an insert disposed inside the main body. The insert includes a front column of supports, a rear column of supports, and a sliding column of supports. The sliding column of supports includes a plurality of positions relative to the insert such that the sliding column of supports moves linearly relative to the insert.
US11067344B2
A thermal energy storage apparatus, including: a block of a heat-absorbing material, the block defining at least one receptacle and being a contiguous block of compressed sintered graphite; and a phase change material stored in the or each receptacle, the phase change material being one that expands as it cools, wherein separation of side walls of the or each receptacle progressively increases as they extend upwardly from the base, whereby as the phase change material solidifies and expands it is urged upwardly to reduce pressure applied to the heat-absorbing material.
US11067341B2
A heat transfer device is disclosed having a housing including a first main wall and a second main wall, the housing having a sealed internal cavity, a liquid contained in the internal cavity, and a mixer able to set the liquid in motion, the heat transfer device being able to be switched between a first state and a second state in which the liquid is in motion and transfers heat by convection between the first main wall and the second main wall, the thermal conductance between the first main wall and the second main wall in the first state being four times less than the thermal conductance between the first main wall and the second main wall in the second state.
US11067336B2
Embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatuses for lyophilizing, storing, and transfusing materials are described. In embodiments, the materials may include whole blood or a component of whole blood such as plasma.
US11067331B1
Provided is a refrigeration appliance having a cabinet defining a storage compartment therein with one or more shelves supported in the compartment. A false wall is provided adjacent an internal wall of the compartment to conceal aspects of a support system that supports both the false wall and the one or more shelves within the compartment, via inter-engagement of the support system with the internal wall and with another internal wall disposed adjacent the internal wall. A wall of the support system including a plurality of mounting holes is retained outward of a major inward face of the false wall to provide a recessed and fluid appearance of the side of the interior of the compartment having the internal wall.
US11067325B2
A refrigeration cycle including at least one outdoor unit including a plurality of compressors and indoor units each placed in indoor spaces comprises a plurality of compressors for supplying refrigerant to indoor units; and a controller for controlling cooperatively a plurality of the compressors in the outdoor unit to provide a capacity for air-conditioning in the indoor spaces through the indoor units, wherein the controller controls operation of the compressors so as to minimize a cost including start/stop of each compressor by prediction of an air-conditioning requirement in a next time chunk.
US11067322B2
A method of minimizing components of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system from malfunctioning, the method includes measuring, by an accelerometer associated with at least one component of the HVAC system, vibration of the at least one component and receiving, by a controller, actual vibration data reflective of the measured vibration. The method further includes determining, using the controller, whether the actual vibration data is greater than pre-defined acceptable baseline vibration data by more than a pre-defined acceptable amount and responsive to a positive determination in the determining step, adding, by the controller, as a deadband frequency, an operational frequency of the at least one component corresponding to the actual vibration data.
US11067321B2
An air-conditioning system includes a refrigerant circuit that circulates refrigerant, a heat exchange unit that houses a load-side heat exchanger provided in the refrigerant circuit and is connected with a plurality of air-conditioned spaces by a plurality of air supply passages for use in the supply of air that passes through the load-side heat exchanger, a refrigerant detection device that detects leakage of the refrigerant and a plurality of opening/closing devices that are each provided in an associated one of the plurality of air supply passages and opened/closed independently of each other. When the refrigerant detection device detects leakage of the refrigerant, the plurality of opening/closing devices are all opened.
US11067317B2
A heat source optimization system capable of alternating configurations between an air exchange system and a geothermal system and/or earth loop systems depending on an instantaneous need and/or desire for taking in or discharging heat, while simultaneously remaining operational and without reversing valving or changing the rotational direction of a refrigerant compressor. The system manages refrigerant, and, via a processor and/or controller system, determines where to obtain refrigerant and also the quantity of refrigerant to be obtained. Additionally, the system, via a processor and/or controller system, both determines the optimal location or locations from which to take in heat or to which heat is to be rejected.
US11067313B2
A floating platform for solar panels is provided. The floating platform may include a plurality of plates. Each of the plurality of plates may have a ballast chamber filled with a ballast material. Each of the plurality of plates may further have a float chamber disposed over the ballast chamber. Each of the plurality of plates may further have a channel passing through the ballast chamber and the float chamber. The channel may further have one or more openings to pass water into the ballast chamber and an opening to pass air from the channel. Each of the plurality of plates may further have a locking member. Each of the plurality of plates may further have one or more connection sections for placing one or more strap assemblies. The strap assemblies may be provided for disposing one or more solar panels on the plurality of plates.
US11067312B2
A modular, solar energy system comprising one or more modular solar panels. The solar panels include a pair of general planar, plates that are secured together to form a narrow channel therebetween for the circulation of a liquid. The solar panels have header assemblies affixed to opposite edges thereof and which control the entry of liquid into the channel and the exit therefrom. The inlet header assembly has a plurality of nozzles that are adjustable in size to control flow therethrough while the outlet header assembly has elongated nozzles to receive flow or liquid from the channel. The plates are preferably constructed of aluminum and one plate has a photovoltaic cell affixed thereto to face the sun and the other plate has a plurality of indentations that enhance the heat transfer characteristics with respect to the liquid flowing though the channel between the plates.
US11067304B2
An air-conditioning apparatus enables a user to recognize both a leakage of refrigerant and an abnormal condition when a refrigerant leakage condition and the abnormal condition have occurred. When a condition in which a leakage of refrigerant is detected and a condition in which an abnormality is detected have occurred together, the refrigerant leakage condition and the abnormal condition are displayed together on a display part. Consequently, when the condition in which the leakage of refrigerant is detected and the condition in which the abnormality is detected have occurred, the user is allowed to recognize the leakage of refrigerant and the abnormal condition at once.
US11067294B1
A system for collecting solar energy to be stored and distributed in a multi-unit building to be used for heat and electricity, comprising one or more solar energy collectors, one or more sunlight concentrating mirrors, photovoltaic panels, a heat mass storage area, and thermos siphoning to distribute heat energy throughout the building in conjunction with radiant heating technology.
US11067293B1
A smoke director device for a cooking device includes a housing containing an extendable and retractable smoke director assembly and a mounting assembly for removably attaching the smoke director device to the underside of an over the stove exhaust system such as those included in microwave ovens. The housing includes a front opening through which the smoke director assembly extends and retracts, a rear opening to guide smoke and other particulates towards the exhaust system and a bottom opening to further capture any rising smoke and particulates. The smoke director assembly can include a fixed inner panel located in the housing, a movable end panel and a movable intermediate panel. The smoke director assembly can be tiltable relative to the housing, to angle the smoke director assembly relative to a cook surface of the stove.
US11067289B2
A water receiving member is reduced in size and is therefore made difficult to visually recognize. A cooking device (1) includes a main body (11), a front door (12), and a waste receiving member (41). The front door (12) has a water droplet restraining part (33) provided on a lower portion of an inner surface of the front door (12) which inner surface faces the heating room (13). While the front door (12) is closed, the water droplet restraining part (33) protrudes diagonally downwardly or horizontally from the inner surface of the front door (12) toward a rear side of the main body (11).
US11067284B2
A cooking grill with a cooking chamber, pellet fuel combustion unit, and ash cleanout system for releasing retained ash from the combustion unit through an access door without requiring the disassembly of the upper components of the grill. The combustion unit has a first end with a first end opening, and a second end with a second end opening. The ash cleanout system includes an access door adjacent to the second end, operable by a user from a position external to the cooking chamber through a pull link, and capable of a first position wherein the second end opening is closed to generally retain ash within the pellet fuel combustion unit, and a second position wherein the second end opening is open to release the retained ash to a separate removal location.
US11067283B2
A combination grill and fire pit heating device. The combination heating device having a grilling mode that is easily converted into a fire pit mode by adjustment of an orientation of the device.
US11067278B2
A fuel system includes a fuel supply system. A plurality of fuel nozzles are connected in fluid communication with the fuel supply system to supply fuel from a fuel source to be issued for combustion from the fuel nozzles. A cooling system is included, wherein at least one of the fuel nozzles includes a cooling circuit in addition to a fuel circuit for issuing fuel from the fuel supply system for combustion. The cooling circuit includes an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is in fluid communication with the cooling system for circulation of coolant through the cooling circuit and back to the cooling system out the outlet of the cooling circuit for cooling the fuel circuit with the fuel circuit staged off.
US11067263B2
A device for pivoting a navigation light and methods that use the device can include a mount assembly with an attachment for attaching the device to a structure. A pivot assembly can be supported by the mount assembly, with the pivot assembly configured to pivot the navigation light to one or more operating, service, or hold positions. A brake pin with an end sized and shaped to fit within an indentation of a disc of the pivot assembly can secure the pivot assembly against rotation when the second end is accommodated by the indentation.
US11067253B2
A luminaire (10) comprises an array of lighting units (12) arranged as a plurality of regions (14a-14e). A reflector arrangement (16) is provided over the array of lighting units (12) for directing the light from each region (14a-14e) of the luminaire (10) to a different spread of light output directions. Each lighting unit (12) of at least one of the regions (14a-14e) comprises a first sub-unit (20, 22, 24) with a first polarised light output and a second sub-unit (20, 22, 24) with a second light output which is different from the first light output in polarisation, wherein the first and second sub-units (20, 22, 24) are independently controllable. In this way, light output in a certain range of directions can be controlled to have a desired polarisation. By actuating different sub-units (20, 22, 24), the polarisation can be dynamically controlled. Thus, a system can be set up with a desired static polarisation output pattern, or the polarisation pattern may be controlled to evolve over time, for example in response to external user, sensor or data input.
US11067251B2
An embodiment of an illumination device comprising a broad band artificial light source and a non-liquid chromatic diffuser transparent to visible light comprising a dispersion of elements of nanometrical dimensions of a first material with of certain refractive index in a second material with different refractive index, wherein the light is scattered producing a separation and different distribution between cold and hot components of the light originally produced by the source, according to a scattering process in “Rayleigh” regime. The device allows illumination effects similar to those of natural outdoor environments to be reproduced in indoor environments.
US11067249B2
The present invention discloses an optical system comprising: a light source (1); a reflection hood (2); a shielding cone (3) arranged below the reflection hood (2); and a double focus lens (4) arranged between the light source (1) and the shielding cone (3).
US11067222B1
A camera mount system includes a clamp having a first side and a second side, the first and second side forming an opening therebetween; a tension device extending between the first side and the second side, the tension device to apply pressure to pull the first side and the second side together; and a camera housing secured to the clamp, the camera housing configured to hold a camera therein; the clamp is to secure to a tree or post.
US11067221B1
A system includes a support structure and a sanitation device secured to the support structure, the sanitation device is configured to dispense a material for removing germs. The method includes securing the sanitation device to the support structure and dispensing a sanitation fluid from the sanitation device.
US11067220B2
A remote anchoring apparatus is mad of two elements, an anchoring element and a connecting element. The connecting element is formed to be guided into a respective space made in the anchoring element and be locked in it. The connecting element may be guided towards the anchoring element by a flexible pulling means such as a rope pulled through the anchoring element.
US11067212B1
A kit for joining cylindrical tubes to form strong orthogonally joints for use in a variety of structures comprises a tool for modifying the cylindrical tubes to demonstrate cutouts of specified width and depth, a Steinmetz solid connector having a shape defined by the volume of intersection of the two cylindrical volumes of equal diameter joined orthogonally; and an adhesive means for securing said connector within said cylindrical tubes. Kits that comprise one-, two-, and four-piece Steinmetz solid connectors are described, as are alternative means and members to secure and shape the resulting joint.
US11067210B2
A coupling system includes a female coupling device, the female coupling device including a first main body with a first front face, the first front face defining a first opening leading into a first fluid passageway; a stem having a stem head positioned within a sleeve; a first spring positioned about the stem that biases the sleeve into a closed position; a first seal that seals between the main body and the sleeve; a second seal that seals between the sleeve and the stem head; and a third seal that is positioned at the opening of the main body.
US11067201B2
A pole collar for mounting cables to a tubular supporting element includes at least one bracket having at least one pass-through hole defined therein, in combination with an insert or adapter having a threaded pass-through hole.
US11067195B2
An actuator includes: a casing; a reciprocating member provided in the casing to be reciprocatable; a drive part provided in the casing to drive the reciprocating member; a booster mechanism which is configured to amplify a drive force applied by the drive part to the reciprocating member; and a moving member which is configured to move on receiving the force amplified by the booster mechanism. The booster mechanism includes a plurality of levers which are arranged in a circumferential direction of the moving member. Each of the levers has an effort portion which is configured to receive the force from the reciprocating member, a fulcrum portion which is configured to come into contact with the casing to serve as a center of a revolution of the lever, and a load portion which is configured to transmit the force to the moving member.
US11067191B2
The present invention relates to a top cover (5) for soft throttling valve body (2), the top cover (5) comprising one or more fluid conduits for transferring a pilot fluid flow for setting a degree of opening of a main valve situated in a soft throttling valve body to the soft throttling valve body. Furthermore, the invention relates to a soft throttling valve (1) and a method for assembling the soft throttling valve (1). The object of the invention is to allow a good control of the pilot fluid flow while protecting the soft throttling valve body from damage due to valve failure. The object is solved by having a follower arrangement arranged to throttle the pilot fluid flow depending on the degree of opening of the main valve, further having a manual opening arrangement for manually opening the main valve and/or by further preventing a step-wise opening of the main valve in less than two opening steps. A method for assembling a soft throttling valve is also disclosed.
US11067190B2
Various devices and techniques related to magnetically-actuated valves are generally described. In some examples, valves may include a bonnet defining an enclosure. In various examples, a movable valve member may be disposed in the enclosure. A valve stem may be disposed in the enclosure and may be operatively coupled to the movable valve member. A first internal ferromagnetic actuation member and a second internal ferromagnetic actuation member may be coupled to the valve stem. The first internal ferromagnetic actuation member and the second internal ferromagnetic actuation member may be disposed in a spaced relationship along the valve stem. In various examples, the valves may include an external actuator slidably engaged to an exterior surface of the valve bonnet. The external actuator may comprise a first magnet magnetically coupled to the first internal ferromagnetic actuation member and a second magnet magnetically coupled to the second internal ferromagnetic actuation member.
US11067189B2
The invention relates to an electromagnetic hinged armature valve device with armature means (14) which are configured for interaction with a stationary valve seat (22), are articulated such that they can be pivoted and/or folded in a housing of the valve device relative to stationary core means (16) and coil means (12) which surround them at least in sections, and which armature means (14) are configured to close or open the valve seat as a reaction to an energization of the coil means, wherein a coil carrier assembly (10) which supports a winding of the coil means and encloses the core means and a valve seat assembly (24) which configures the valve seat are configured in such a way that both can be adjusted with respect to one another for assembly of the valve seat device and can then preferably be connected non-releasably to one another, and, in a connected state or assembled state, limit and/or define a pivoting or folding stroke of the armature means which configure at least one flat side, which pivoting or folding stroke can be influenced and/or is influenced by the adjustment.
US11067182B1
Valve assemblies are described that provide segmented shuttle of liquid into sample vessels and automatic mixing via bubbles in the segmented liquid. A valve assembly includes a first valve member having ports configured to receive a pressurized gas, a first fluid, and a second fluid. The valve assembly also includes a second valve member coupled adjacent to the first valve member. The second valve member comprises a plurality of channels configured to interface with the first valve member. In a first configuration, the first fluid is loaded into an external loop. In the second configuration, the second fluid is eluted from the column into a vial in a segmented stream via bubbles of pressurized gas. Bubbles of gas automatically mix the eluted sample fluid.
US11067179B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a valve assembly that includes a valve body that has a cavity having one or more seating surfaces, a ball body disposed within the valve body and configured to engage the one or more seating surfaces to form a seal, and an actuator configured to drive the ball body in a first axial direction along a central axis of the cavity to wedge the ball body against the one or more seating surfaces to form the seal, and where the actuator is configured to move the ball body in a second axial direction along the central axis to unseat the ball body and to rotate the ball body about the central axis between an open position and a closed position.
US11067171B2
A control device for a continuously variable transmission performs feedback control so that an actual transmission control value becomes a target transmission control value. The control device includes a phase lead compensation unit configured to perform phase lead compensation of the feedback control, a phase delay compensation unit configured to perform phase delay compensation of the feedback control, a first peak value frequency determination unit configured to change a peak value frequency of the phase lead compensation according to a transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission, and a second peak value frequency determination unit configured to change a peak value frequency of the phase delay compensation based on the peak value frequency of the lead compensation.
US11067169B2
An automatic transmission assembly for mounting to a power-source includes a torque converter operatively connected to the power-source. The transmission assembly also includes a turbine shaft for receiving power-source torque from the torque converter. The transmission assembly additionally includes a torque transfer system, having a gear-train and a hydraulic pressure operated torque-transmitting device, for receiving the torque from the turbine shaft and selecting an input-to-output speed-ratio of the transmission. The transmission assembly also includes an output member for receiving torque from torque transfer system and outputting the torque to drive a load. The turbine shaft defines a first passage configured to supply hydraulic pressure to the torque-transmitting device and a second passage configured to vent to atmosphere. The turbine shaft additionally defines a third passage fluidly connecting the first passage to the second passage and thereby configured to bleed air from the torque-transmitting device.
US11067161B2
A transmission for a motor vehicle, includes a housing (1), which has a first housing part (10) and a second housing part (20), wherein, in the assembled state of the transmission, the first housing part (10) and the second housing part (20) are joined together, having a vent duct (30), through which air can escape from the transmission, and having a separate breather element (31), which extends into the first housing part (10) and forms at least one first duct wall of the vent duct (30), and the breather element (31) is located in a plug-in position in the first housing half (10) and has a fixing stop (37), against which the second housing part (20) bears in the assembled state of the transmission and thus securely fixes the breather element (31) in the plug-in position.
US11067146B2
A composite vibration-damping body including a first elastic body and a second elastic body overlapped with each other, wherein the first elastic body is formed of a material having higher attenuation than that of the second elastic body, the first elastic body includes a recessed part opening onto a surface of the first elastic body, and the recessed part forms a gap, and a strain concentration part configured to be subjected to an increased strain during load input is set to a wall of the gap of the of the first elastic body.
US11067141B2
A multi-disk brake assembly includes a static structure defining a plurality of slots, a plurality of disks including stator disks that are supported by the static structure and are non-rotatable, and rotor disks that are interleaved with the stator disks and are rotatable, the plurality of disks being axially moveable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, and a dust-collecting receptacle that is attachable to the static structure for securement during an operative state of the multi-disk brake assembly. The dust-collecting receptacle is in fluid communication with the plurality of slots for receiving and trapping dust from the plurality of disks through the plurality of slots. The dust-collecting receptacle is detachable relative to the static structure during a non-operative state of the multi-disk brake assembly.
US11067140B2
Method for operating an actuator arrangement for a clutch operating system, and actuator arrangement
A method for operating an actuator arrangement for a clutch operating system includes providing an actuator arrangement with a transmission, a piston, and an inductive sensor device. The transmission has an electric motor and a metal lead screw that converts a rotary motion into a linear motion. The piston is connected to the metal lead screw. The method also includes energizing the electric motor to linearly displace the metal lead screw in an axial direction, axially displacing the piston with the metal lead screw, using the metal lead screw as a target for the inductive sensor device, and using the inductive sensor device to determine an axial distance traveled by the piston.
US11067131B2
A turbocharger includes a turbine housing defining a turbine housing interior, a turbine wheel disposed in the turbine housing interior, a compressor housing defining a compressor housing interior, a compressor wheel disposed in the compressor housing interior, and a shaft coupled to the compressor wheel and the turbine wheel. The turbocharger also includes a bearing housing assembly including a bearing housing defining a bearing housing interior, and an anti-rotation assembly. The anti-rotation assembly includes a bearing assembly disposed in the bearing housing interior, an anti-rotation spacer disposed in the bearing housing interior and about the shaft, and a retaining ring disposed about the shaft and coupled to the anti-rotation spacer to axially retain the anti-rotation spacer in the bearing housing interior. The anti-rotation spacer has an engagement member engageable with the retaining ring and configured to limit rotation of the retaining ring relative to the anti-rotation spacer.
US11067127B2
A bearing of which a load supporting position capable of being changed, including: a cylindrical housing comprising a hollow inner circumferential surface; one or more support members provided in the housing and disposed along a circumferential direction of the inner circumferential surface; a plurality of pin holes provided along an outer circumferential surface of the housing; and a rotation preventing pin coupled to a first pin hole of the plurality of pin holes and configured to prevent rotation of the housing. In addition, threads are formed on inner circumferential surfaces of the pin holes and an outer circumferential surface of the rotation preventing pin to enable a pin hole and the rotation preventing pin to be easily coupled and decoupled.
US11067119B2
A wheel hub and slinger assembly includes a wheel hub including a base surface, a tolerance compensation portion extending from the base surface and formed to be concave in an axially outward direction, and a flange surface extending from the tolerance compensation portion in a radially outward direction, and a slinger including a mounting portion having an axially inward end portion and a first inner peripheral surface and configured to be press-fitted to the base surface, a bent portion having a second inner peripheral surface spaced apart from the tolerance compensation portion and extending from the mounting portion in a curved surface shape, and an extending portion extending from the bend portion and having a contact surface in contact with the flange surface in the radially outward direction. A stopper having an axially outward end portion surface and a radially outward end portion surface is formed on the wheel hub.
US11067110B2
A diagnostic instrument is disclosed. The diagnostic instrument may have a highly efficient probe washer station and/or may be able to sense whether there is a tube septum on a specimen tube to be sampled. The instrument may also be able to determine where the bottom of the tube is located. The probe washer station may have a flow of saline that is used to wash both the internal cavity and the external circumference of the probe.
US11067106B2
A system and method for providing redundancy in hydraulic circuits in multi-cycle hydraulic tools is described. The problems of dysfunctional hydraulic tool due to the failure of electromechanical actuators are addressed by providing redundant actuators and associated circuitry design.
US11067094B2
A compressor scroll (1A) is provided with: a scroll-flow-path formation part (8A) that forms a scroll flow path; and an outlet-flow-path formation part (9) that is connected to a winding-end section (11) of a scroll flow path (8a) and that forms an outlet flow path (9a) extending in a direction tangential to a circle around an axis (O), wherein, at least at the winding-end section (11) in an area where a winding-start section (10) intersects with the winding-end section (11), the scroll-flow-path formation part (8A) is provided with a bulging part (15A) that bulges the scroll flow path in the radial direction toward the side where the winding-start section (10) is present.
US11067092B2
Side-channel compressor (1) for a fuel cell system (37) for conveying and/or compressing a gas, in particular hydrogen, having a housing (3), wherein the housing (3) has a housing upper part (7) and a housing lower part (8), having a compressor chamber (30) which is situated in the housing (3) and which has at least one encircling side channel (19), having a compressor wheel (2) which is situated in the housing (3) and which is disposed so as to be rotatable about a rotation axis (4), wherein the compressor wheel (2) on the circumference thereof has blades (5) which are disposed in the region of the compressor chamber (30), and having a gas inlet opening (14) and a gas outlet opening (16) which are in each case configured on the housing (3) and which by way of the compressor chamber (30), in particular the at least one side channel (19), are fluidically connected to one another. According to the invention, the compressor wheel (4) herein has at least one connection bore (21) which in a radial manner to the rotation axis (4) runs through at least one of the blades (5) and which connects an internal chamber (44) of the side-channel compressor (1) to a separation chamber (34).
US11067087B2
An in-line blower having a housing with a substantially straight airflow path. A motor and fan are positioned within the airflow path, below the handle of the blower. A battery powers the motor, and is located below the housing so that the handle, motor and fan, and the battery are vertically aligned so the weight of the blower is aligned with the handle, and reduces moment forces acting thereon.
US11067085B2
Methods and apparatuses for determining operational parameters of a blood pump comprising a rotor which transports the blood are provided. The change in the behaviour of at least one first and one second operational parameter, independently from each other, of the pump, is determined. A determination of the flow through the pump and/or the difference in pressure across the pump and/or the viscosity of the blood takes into account the determined change in behaviour of the at least two operational parameters. A modelling for a dynamic model of the known quantities may be carried out and an estimation method using a Kalman filter may be used.
US11067081B2
A screw compressor includes: a screw compressor main body; a motor for driving the screw compressor main body; a gearbox interposed between the screw compressor main body and the motor to transmit a driving force of the motor to the screw compressor main body; and a gas cooler positioned below either the screw compressor main body or the motor and attached as a separate body to a side surface of the gearbox.
US11067074B2
A system includes a compressor and a controller. The controller operates the compressor in a flooded-start control mode. The flooded start control mode includes operating the compressor according to at least one cycle including a first time period during which the compressor is on, followed by a second time period during which the compressor is off. The controller determines at least one of the first time period, the second time period, and a number of cycles for the flooded-start control mode. At least one of the first time period, the second time period, and the number of cycles is based on received asset data corresponding to at least one of a type and a characteristic of at least one component of the refrigeration system. The controller operates the compressor in the flooded-start control mode after determining the first time period, the second time period, and the number of cycles.
US11067072B2
A diaphragm pump (10), in particular for use as a detergent dosage pump, comprises a pump housing (12) with at least a first check valve (14) and a second check valve (16), a fluid chamber (18), a diaphragm (20) defining a wall of the fluid chamber (18) and reciprocatingly movable, a stepping motor (28) as driving means for reciprocating said diaphragm (20), wherein the stepping motor (28) comprises a controller (34) for actuating the stepping motor (28), and an external control unit (36) for operating the controller (34) of the stepping motor (28), wherein the external control unit (36) is connected to the controller (34) by a power supply line (38) for transmitting an operating signal (42, 46) to the controller (34), wherein the operating signal (42, 46) is a start signal for operating the diaphragm pump (10), in particular the stepping motor (28), at preset parameters. The diaphragm pump (10) according to the invention offers increased cost efficiency of the diaphragm pump (10) by integrating the power supply and the transfer of operating signals from the control unit (36) to the controller (34).
US11067071B2
A cylinder head for a compressor is disclosed. A compressor is also disclosed including the head. A refrigeration system is also disclosed, including the compressor.
US11067070B2
A cylinder coupling structure of a compact air compressor includes a block, a tubular-shaped cylinder assembled to the block, a valve cover which covers the valve assembly, and at least one pressurized bolt which assembles the valve cover and the block. A piston is reciprocated inside the cylinder. A stator is assembled to the block, a rotator is located to relatively rotate as to the stator, and a crank axis is assembled to the rotator to integrally rotate with the rotator to be axially supported in the block and to be rotatable. A connecting rod, each of both ends thereof is connected to the crank axis and the piston, respectively.
US11067069B2
A variable stroke high pressure pump is disclosed. The pump uses a wobble plate design with dynamically variable tilt to provide continuous adjustment of pump stroke length and output. Dynamically variable tilt is accomplished using a linearly actuated tilt thruster rotationally coupled to the drive shaft to maintain a selected tilt of the wobble plate through the rotation of the wobble plate.
US11067054B2
A vortex generator apparatus including a fluid intake duct, a fluid tank including: a first fluid inlet port, a second fluid inlet port, and a fluid outlet port. A turbine is provided outside of the fluid tank in fluid communication with the fluid outlet port.
US11067050B2
A hybrid vehicle includes an isolation switch disposed between a first bus that is electrically coupled to a starter for an engine and a second bus that is electrically coupled to a power converter and accessory loads. The hybrid vehicle includes a controller programmed to normally command the switch closed, and, in response to expiration of a predetermined time interval without starting the engine, command the switch to open for a predetermined duration to perform diagnostics on the isolation switch.
US11067045B2
In a fuel injection device, a driving unit structure has a magnetic aperture, in which an inner diameter is gradually enlarged toward the mover side, provided in an inner peripheral surface of the magnetic core. It is possible to reduce magnetic delay time upon valve opening from the supply of the electric current to the coil to the rise of magnetic flux and magnetic delay time upon valve closing from the stoppage of the electric current to the coil to reduction of magnetic flux, by providing a magnetic aperture in the inner peripheral surface of the magnetic core. Thus it is possible to improve the dynamic responsiveness upon valve opening and valve closing.
US11067033B2
A piston capable of operating at a high temperature and consequently contributing to a high in-cylinder temperature, as well as reducing engine oil temperature, when used in an internal combustion engine, is provided. The piston includes an upper portion and a lower portion welded together to present a cooling gallery therebetween. The cooling gallery extends circumferentially around a center axis of the piston and is spaced the center axis. A partition is located in the cooing gallery and extends from one inner surface to another inner surface of the cooling gallery. The partition extends circumferentially around the center axis, and divides the cooling gallery into at least a first gallery portion and a second gallery portion. The partition can be formed as one piece with the upper portion or the lower portion. Alternatively, the partition can be formed as a separate piece from the upper portion and the lower portion.
US11067030B2
A modular cylinder head is configured for use with combustion engine block configurations each having different valvetrain oiling pathways. Thus, when used with “LA-style” engine blocks, oil receiving/delivery ports provided by the cylinder head are compatibly interfaced with an oil outlet port provided by the engine block, thus allowing oil to pass from the engine block into the head for delivery to a valvetrain carried thereby. Alternatively, when the head is used with “Magnum-style” engine blocks, the oil receiving/delivery ports of the head are not used. Rather, a pushrod and lifter having internal ports are used by the cylinder head to allow oil to pass from the engine block, through the internal ports of the lifter and pushrod, and into the valvetrain.
US11067019B2
A filter is disposed on an exhaust path of the internal combustion engine to capture particulate matter exhausted from the internal combustion engine. A controller is caused to execute regeneration control that incinerates the particulate matter captured on the filter. The controller accomplishes the regeneration control by executing lean incineration control and stoichiometric incineration control in combination with each other. The lean incineration control incinerates the particulate matter, keeping an air-fuel ratio of the internal combustion engine to be leaner than a logical air-fuel ratio. The stoichiometric incineration control incinerates the particulate matter, oscillating the air-fuel ratio of the internal combustion engine about the logical air-fuel ratio as an average air-fuel ratio at a predetermined first cycle.
US11067018B2
A method for regenerating an Otto particle filter of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle includes identifying a loading state of the Otto particle filter above a regeneration threshold and operating the internal combustion engine in a heating mode for the purposes of heating the Otto particle filter to a temperature threshold. The method further includes switching a first cylinder of the internal combustion engine from a fuel supply to an air supply, and continuing to operate at least one further cylinder of the internal combustion engine with the fuel supply.
US11067014B2
A method includes operating a spark ignition engine and flowing low pressure exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) from an exhaust to an inlet of the spark ignition engine. The method includes interpreting a parameter affecting an operation of the spark ignition engine, and determining a knock index value in response to the parameter. The method further includes reducing a likelihood of engine knock in response to the knock index value exceeding a knock threshold value.
US11067011B2
Target compressor ratio and burned gas ratio generation in diesel air charging multivariable control
A control module includes a dynamic target selection module configured to receive an intake manifold pressure setpoint and a measured intake manifold pressure, select between the intake manifold pressure setpoint and the measured intake manifold pressure, and output a selected intake manifold pressure setpoint based on the selection. A multivariable control module is configured to receive at least one target setpoint that is based on the selected intake manifold pressure setpoint and control operation of an air charging system of a vehicle based on the at least one target setpoint.
US11067008B2
When an operation state switches from a first operation region A to a second operation region B, the valve timing of an intake valve and an exhaust valve is switched upon switching of the operation state from the first operation region A to the second operation region B. When the operation state switches from the first operation region A to the second operation region B, the air-fuel ratio is switched after a first predetermined time T1 has elapsed since when the actual valve timing of the intake valve became a second intake valve timing and the actual valve timing of the exhaust valve became a second exhaust valve timing. In this way, it becomes possible to ensure ignition when the operation state switches.
US11067003B2
The present disclosure is directed to a gas turbine engine including a housing circumferentially surrounding an electric machine. The electric machine is supported within the housing. The housing defines a cooling passage proximate to the electric machine. The cooling passage circumferentially surrounds the electric machine and is extended at least partially along a lengthwise direction of the electric machine. The cooling passage provides a flow of fluid therethrough.
US11066991B2
A constant-volume combustion chamber for an aircraft turbine engine, including a compressed gas intake valve configured to adopt an open position and a closed position, and in the closed position blocking intake of compressed gas into the chamber, and a combusted gas exhaust valve configured to adopt a closed position, in the closed position blocking exhaust of combusted gas outside the chamber. At least one of the intake and exhaust valves includes at least one spherical plug.
US11066988B2
A length-adjustable connecting rod for a reciprocating piston machine, which may be a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, is disclosed as well as a reciprocating piston machine and a vehicle. The connecting rod comprises a hydraulic length-adjusting device for adjusting an effective connecting rod length and a control device that can switch between two switching states, for controlling the length-adjusting device. The length-adjusting device comprises a hydraulic cylinder with a piston and a first hydraulic working chamber and a second hydraulic working chamber, the control device comprising a first valve and a second valve, the first valve of the control device being connected to the first hydraulic working chamber of the length-adjusting device in a fluid-communicating manner, and the second valve to the second hydraulic working chamber, the first valve and the second valve each being actuatable by means of a hydraulically actuatable adjusting piston that can axially move along an adjusting axis, the adjusting axis of the first valve being different from the adjusting axis of the second valve.
US11066986B2
A rotary internal combustion engine that has a housing, main rotors with an external cylindrical surface with rigidly fixed gear wheels and blades in the form of gear ledges (protrusions), as well as additional rotors with an external cylindrical surface with rigidly fixed gear wheels and recesses corresponding to the size of the blades on the main rotors. Additionally, the engine includes a unit for preparing and igniting the working mixture and a unit for discharging exhaust gases. Moreover, the circumference values of the main and additional rotors do not match, and are multiples of the length L1 between the nearest points of tangency (physical contact) of the center of the surface of the gear ledge with the housing.
US11066979B2
Combustion cylinder (10) of an internal combustion engine, having a combustion chamber wall (20), which surrounds a combustion chamber (30), and a combustion chamber cover (40), which closes off the combustion chamber (30) on the upper side, wherein at least one inlet valve (50) for letting in a fluid is arranged on an inlet side (42) in the combustion chamber cover (40), and at least one outlet valve (60) for letting out a fluid is arranged on an outlet side (44) in the combustion chamber cover (40), wherein, furthermore, a prechamber spark plug (70) is arranged between the at least one inlet valve (50) and the at least one outlet valve (60) in the combustion chamber cover (40), which prechamber spark plug is arranged between the at least one inlet valve (50) and an injector (80) for injecting combustion fluid.
US11066974B2
An internal combustion engine waste heat utilization system comprises a cooling medium, a cooling medium storage tank (9), a cooling medium delivery pipe (8), a circulation pump (7), a high-pressure pipeline (15), energy storage tanks (14, 12), steam turbines (13,11) and a radiator (10). The cooling medium forms high-temperature and high-pressure gas by absorbing waste heat of an internal combustion engine and exhaust gas, so as to drive the steam turbines to do work and convert thermal energy into kinetic energy.
US11066969B2
A positive crankcase ventilation system includes a positive crankcase ventilation valve, a coupling part, and a plate member. The coupling part is configured to couple the positive crankcase ventilation valve and an internal combustion engine. The plate member is attached to the coupling part on an opposite side from a side where the coupling part and the internal combustion engine contact each other. A portion of the plate member is bent in a direction toward a base of a hose insertion port provided on the positive crankcase ventilation valve, and another portion of the plate member is bent in a direction toward a side wall of an attachment portion of the positive crankcase ventilation valve provided on the coupling part.
US11066965B1
Methods and systems are provided for oil flow for hydraulic lash adjusters of a vehicle engine. In one example, an engine cylinder bank includes a plurality of deactivatable hydraulic lash adjusters and a plurality of non-deactivatable hydraulic lash adjusters. A first linear oil supply passage and a second linear oil supply passage are formed within the cylinder bank and extend linearly through the cylinder bank without bends or curvature to the deactivatable and non-deactivatable hydraulic lash adjusters, with the deactivatable and non-deactivatable hydraulic lash adjusters having a same length.
US11066957B2
An axial-flow fluid machine provided with: a retainer ring holding a stationary blade train; a casing supporting the retainer ring; and an eccentric pin. An engagement part of the casing has a protruding section protruding to the retainer ring side. An engagement part of the retainer ring has a pair of wall plate sections forming a groove into which the protruding section is put. In the casing, a penetration hole is formed extending in a radial direction so as to be centered about a penetration center position that is biased to an axial upstream side in a region of the casing where the engagement part is formed. In the engagement part of the casing, a portion on an axial downstream side relative to the penetration hole exists in the entire circumferential area. The eccentric pin is inserted into the penetration hole.
US11066954B2
A gas turbine engine has a fan drive turbine for driving a gear reduction. The gear reduction drives a fan rotor. A lubrication system supplies oil to the gear reduction, and includes a lubricant pump to supply an air/oil mixture to an inlet of a deaerator. The deaerator includes a separator for separating oil and air, delivering separated air to an air outlet, and delivering separated oil back into an oil tank. The separated oil is first delivered into a pipe outwardly of the oil tank, and then into a location beneath a minimum oil level in the tank. Air within the oil tank moves outwardly through an air exit into the deaerator. A method of designing a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US11066942B2
A gas turbine engine includes a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine arranged around an axis. The turbine includes a turbine vane assembly. A method for creating the turbine vane assembly includes fabricating a plurality of turbine vanes comprising ceramic matrix composite material and selecting and arranging the turbine vanes to form a turbine vane assembly.
US11066936B1
A sealing plate for sealing cooling passages in a cooled turbine blade of a gas turbine engine and directing and controlling air flow through cooling passages is provided.
US11066933B2
A rotor shaft for a turbine rotor of a turbine, in particular a steam turbine, having a shaft main body made of a first material and at least one ring which is made of a second material and is attached to the shaft main body, wherein the second material has equal or greater strength and/or greater corrosion resistance than the first material, wherein at least one blade slot is formed on the ring, and wherein the ring is materially bonded to the shaft main body by narrow-gap welding.
US11066929B2
Carbonate samples are received from a wellbore formed in a geologic formation. An oxygen isotope ratio and carbon isotope ratio present within each of the carbonate samples are determined. A mineral composition of each of the carbonate samples is determined. A plot showing the determined oxygen isotope ratios versus a depth from where within the wellbore each of the carbonate samples was obtained is created. One or more negative oxygen isotope shifts are identified based on the plot. Natural carbonate cement levels within one or more of the plurality of carbonate samples that correspond to the one or more negative oxygen isotope shifts identified in the plot are determined. One or more production sweet spots are determined based on the identified negative oxygen isotope shifts and the determined natural carbonate cement levels.
US11066924B2
A method for determining a total vertical depth (TVD) for a well plan involves measuring differences between a projected BHA position at a depth of a survey station and a calculated BHA position based upon a minimum curvature method at the depth of the survey station. The differences are accumulated at each survey station with respect to the BHA position. Real time TVD corrected gamma logs are generated responsive to the accumulated differences of the BHA position.
US11066920B2
Methods and apparatus for inspecting oilfield infrastructure components. Methods include estimating an optimal value for at least one excitation parameter for an acoustic excitation source to produce a guided wave of mixed multiple modes in the component; selecting at least one excitation parameter corresponding to an optimal simulated guided wave determined in dependence upon the application of waveform criteria to the time domain waveforms; and generating a guided wave in the tubular using the at least one optimal excitation parameter. Methods may include calculating a guided wave dispersion relation; modeling each of the plurality of simulated guided waves, wherein the modeling comprises generating a time domain waveform for each of a plurality of wave modes in dependence upon the acoustic excitation source; selecting the at least one excitation parameter corresponding to an optimal simulated guided wave determined in dependence upon the application of waveform criteria to the time domain waveforms.
US11066913B2
A fracturing fluid delivery system having a fracturing line with a flexible liner is provided. In one embodiment, a method includes moving a flexible polymeric liner through a bore of a fracturing line to a position in which the flexible polymeric liner extends along an inner wall of a flexible pipe body of the fracturing line. The method also includes securing the flexible polymeric liner in the bore of the fracturing line, such as by attaching the flexible polymeric liner to an opposing surface of the fracturing line. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US11066912B2
A system for hydraulically fracturing an underground formation in an oil or gas well, including a pump for pumping hydraulic fracturing fluid into the wellbore, the pump having a pump shaft, and an electric motor with a motor shaft mechanically attached to the pump to drive the pump. The system further includes a torsional coupling connecting the motor shaft to the pump shaft. The torsional coupling includes a motor component fixedly attached to the motor shaft and having motor coupling claws extending outwardly away from the motor shaft, and a pump component fixedly attached to the pump shaft of the pump and having pump coupling claws extending outwardly away from the pump shaft. The motor coupling claws engage with the pump coupling claws so that when the motor shaft and motor component rotate, such rotation causes the pump component and the pump shaft to rotate, thereby driving the pump.
US11066907B2
A subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir is simulated by sequential solution of reservoir and well equations to simulate fluid flow inside the reservoir and well production rates. Sequential solution of reservoir and well equations treats wells as specified bottom hole pressure wells. This avoids solving large matrices resulting from the simultaneous solution of the reservoir and well equations which can be computationally very expensive for large number of unknowns and require special sparse matrix solvers. Such sequential solution involves regular reservoir system solvers complemented by small matrices for the numerical solution of the well bottom hole pressures. The solution is performed on tridiagonal matrices for the adjacent reservoir cells to the well cells at the perforated well intervals; and a vector of the unknown reservoir potentials for the adjacent reservoir cells.
US11066901B2
Methods and apparatus of pressure activated completion tools for hydraulic fracturing and related processes are provided. In some embodiments, the hydraulic fracturing apparatuses for well testing and accessing subterranean formations can include a tubular body to be fluidly connected in-line with a completion string, a pressure storage mechanism to store pressure when exposed to hydraulic pressure, and a movable inner shift sleeve operable to slide along the inside of the tubular body from a first position to a second position when exposed to the stored pressure. The tubular body can have flow-port(s) that are blocked when the movable inner sleeve is in the first position and opened when the movable inner sleeve slides to the second position. Uses of such apparatuses can include fracing, toe intervention, and pressure testing of wells.
US11066899B1
A method of sealing a water-bearing subsurface formation includes introducing an activation solution including an aqueous solution, Na2SiO3, NaOH, and one or both of CaCO3 or Mn3O4 into the wellbore. The method further includes introducing Saudi Arabian volcanic ash into the wellbore. The Saudi Arabian volcanic ash comprises SO3, CaO, SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, MgO, and K2O. The method further includes allowing the Saudi Arabian volcanic ash to contact the activation solution in the wellbore, thereby forming a geopolymer barrier between the wellbore and the water-bearing subsurface formation and sealing the water-bearing subsurface formation.
US11066898B2
A resin plug for wellbore abandonment includes: an amount of a heavier resin and an amount of a light weight resin, the heavier resin configured to have a faster setting rate than the light weight resin. The resin plug creates a seal for wellbore abandonment by the heavier resin setting first followed by setting of the light weight resin thereafter. Any void formed during setting of the heavier resin is filled by the light weight resin before the light weight resin sets.
US11066896B2
A radially expandable backup ring (50) with relatively rigid segments (56) and relatively resilient segments (58) that are integral with one another to circumferentially urge the relatively rigid segments (56) together when the backup ring (50) expands. The backup ring (50) may radially expand to reduce or eliminate a radial gap between the backup ring (50) and a radially inwardly facing surface of a corresponding cased wellbore (22) to prevent or minimize axial extrusion of a corresponding sealing member (32), such as a compressible packer seal of a cased-hole retrievable packer assembly. The relatively resilient segments (58) allow the backup ring (50) to elastically expand and retract to prevent axial extrusion of the sealing member (32). The relatively rigid support segments (54) may be axially aligned with a corresponding relatively resilient segment (58) of the backup ring to prevent axial extrusion of the sealing member (32) through the corresponding relatively resilient segment (58).
US11066886B2
A setting tool for setting frac plugs and the like can include a mandrel having a chamber for housing expandable gas and a gas port in fluid communication with the chamber; a firing head secured to the mandrel for igniting a power charge to generate pressurized gas within the chamber; a barrel piston housing the mandrel and connected to a sleeve for setting the frac plug; and an expansion region defined between the mandrel and the barrel piston and receiving the pressurized gas which exerts force to cause a stroke of the barrel piston over the mandrel as the expansion region expands axially. The setting tool can include various features, such as certain gas bleed systems, an enhanced shear screw assembly, a bleed port and plug assembly, a scribe line, a particular gas port configuration, a liquid escape conduit, no-shoulder barrel configuration, and/or a low-force design for frac plugs.
US11066884B2
The invention provides a downhole initiator tool (10, 210, 410, 610) for use in initiating a downhole operation, and a method of use. The downhole initiator tool comprises a mandrel (34, 234, 434, 634), an initiator assembly (26, 226, 426, 626), and an anchor assembly (28, 228, 428, 628) mounted on the mandrel. The anchor assembly comprises a radially extendable anchor member (26, 226, 426, 626) for engaging an outer bore structure. The anchor assembly and the mandrel are axially moveable relative to each other in a first axial direction to sequentially extend the anchor member and activate the initiator assembly.
US11066883B2
A hydraulic disconnect tool that includes a lug retaining sleeve, the lug retaining sleeve having an upper portion, a base portion and a lower portion. The tool also includes at least one primary prong for engaging at least one primary prong receiver disposed in a latch housing. Furthermore, the hydraulic disconnect tool can includes at least one secondary prong for selectively engaging at least one secondary prong receive disposed in the latch housing when the at least one primary prong fails to properly engage the at least one primary prong receiver and a prop slidably disposed in the lug retaining sleeve, preload sleeve and the latch housing. Fluid can be pumped into and through the hydraulic disconnect tool and the latch housing can be disengaged from the lug retaining sleeve.
US11066882B2
Apparatus for early detection of drilling mud gains or losses that is positioned in the return wellbore of oilwell drilling operations, includes a pair of an upper and lower pressure sensor in an apparatus that is positioned in the return wellbore of an oilwell drilling operation as well as a flow chamber having an inlet port, an outlet port, a flow tube and a flow sensing device for determining the gains or losses in the return wellbore.
US11066881B2
A method and composition for stabilizing drill cuttings commences by providing precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC). The PCC is dried to a moisture level of about 10% or less. Drying by heat not to exceed 400° F. is preferred to prevent changes in the PCC. The dried PCC is blended with kiln dust to compose a generally uniform admixture. In the admixture, the kiln dust is not to exceed 40%. The admixture is introduced to the drill cuttings to initiate a nucleation reaction within the commixture of drill cuttings and the admixture.
US11066877B2
A directional drill securing device and associated methods are shown. Securing devices and methods shown include a plurality of staking devices on a single lateral side of a directional drill. Using examples shown, a lower force is required to drive multiple staking devices than would be needed for a larger staking device of equivalent area.
US11066873B2
A slat angle adjustment mechanism adapted for use with slats of a Venetian blind includes a body shell and a transmission unit. The transmission unit includes a transmission gear set and a retractable member. The transmission gear set has a gear and a screw. A position-limiting hole of the gear corresponds in position to a second through hole of the body shell. The retractable member connects to the extendible segment of the screw and undergoes reciprocating motion along the extendible segment of the screw. Pulling the retractable member from an initial first position of the extendible segment of the screw to a second position of the extendible segment of the screw allows a rib of the body shell to be confined to a limiting portion of the retractable member. Therefore, the slat angle adjustment mechanism is capable of extension, retraction, engagement and fixation.
US11066863B2
A device for adjusting an elevation of a piece comprises a body and a pin. The body is intended to be secured to a support, and has an internal surface defining a central cylinder provided with an internal thread and having a first opening. The pin has an external thread, a first end for carrying the piece, and a second end. The pin and the body are connected to one another through their respective threads. The pin can, when rotated, move in a longitudinal direction to adjust the elevation of its first end. The pin has at least two longitudinal slots on its second end to define at least two flexible legs. The body has at least one boss on its internal surface configured to bend the flexible legs and to fit into one of the slots during the rotational movement of the pin so as to index an elevational position of the piece.
US11066862B1
The electronic hinge has a flexible electrical cable that extends through an abutment of a support bracket, a hollow wire transfer pin mounted in the abutment, a wire transfer hub rotatably mounted on the wire transfer pin and the base of a wire transfer bracket. A spring assembly with a coiled torsion spring is provided for biasing the wire transfer bracket from an open position back to a closed position.
US11066852B2
A vehicle door handle device includes a handle base that is fixed to a door panel back surface of a vehicle, an operating handle that is linked to the handle base from a door front surface side to be rotatable around a rotation center, a stopper protrusion that is provided in any one of the operating handle and the handle base, and an engaged portion that is provided in the other one of the operating handle and the handle base.
US11066850B2
A lock actuator assembly includes an escutcheon defining a longitudinal axis. A rotatable drive disk is rotatably coupled to the escutcheon about a rotational axis. A slide arm is slidingly coupled to the escutcheon and operably coupled to the drive disk such that movement of the slide arm along the longitudinal axis rotates the drive disk about the rotational axis. Additionally, an electronic actuator is coupled to the escutcheon. The electronic actuator is configured to drive the slide arm along the longitudinal axis, and the drive disk is adapted to couple to a lock mechanism so as to shift the lock mechanism between a locked position and an unlocked position when the drive disk rotates about the rotational axis.
US11066845B2
A razor wire barrier is disclosed. In some embodiments, the razor wire barrier includes a frame including a floor and a plurality of walls defining an interior area. The razor wire barrier may further include a first section of razor wire within the interior area, and a component receptacle extending along the floor, adjacent the first section of razor wire. The component receptacle is operable to receive a component of a machine for moving the frame. In some embodiments, the component receptacle is a hollow member operable to receive a forklift prong. In some embodiments, the razor wire barrier may further include a second section of razor extending along the plurality of walls. In some embodiments, the first section of razor wire includes one or more coils of concertina razor wire, and the second section of razor wire includes one or more panels of razor wire.
US11066843B2
A canopy assembly is provided for a ride-on vehicle, such as a wagon. The canopy assembly has a canopy, a support structure and a connecter assembly. The support structure may have longitudinal springs secured to the canopy that can transition between a coiled orientation and a rigid extended orientation to transition the canopy assembly between a use position and a folded or coiled position. The support structure may also have rigid members at opposite ends of the canopy. The connector assembly may have a plurality of connectors secured to the canopy and adapted to operably receive a canopy pole.
US11066842B2
A universal awning anchor is an apparatus that supports an awning with various types of ground, such as soil, concrete, and sand. The apparatus includes a head, a first elongated bar, a second elongated bar, a length-adjustable fastener, and an anchor. The head upholds an awning. The first elongated bar and the second elongated bar define the height of the apparatus. The length-adjustable fastener secures the awning onto the head. The head and the anchor are removable and replaceable with the first elongated bar and the second elongated bar, respectively. The first elongated bar and the second elongated bar are telescopically engaged. The anchor that mounts the apparatus into the soil includes a plurality of threads. The anchor that mounts the apparatus onto concrete includes a plate and a plurality of anchoring holes. The anchor that mounts the apparatus into sand includes a first stake and a second stake.
US11066839B2
A system for repairing a crack in a concrete installation includes a stitch having a center portion configured to span across the crack and an anchor plate coupled to the stitch. The anchor plate includes an anchor bore configured to receive a concrete anchor, a first bore extending parallel to the anchor bore, a second bore extending transverse to the anchor bore, and a groove extending transverse to the first bore and the second bore. The first bore intersects the groove, and the second bore intersects the anchor bore.
US11066828B1
A wall structure comprising horizontal concrete base and top beams; two or more concrete vertical support members integrally joined to the base and top beams and meeting at an essentially right angle; wherein the two or more vertical support members define left and right wall boundaries, and wherein the top and base beams define top and a bottom wall boundaries, respectively; an exterior wall shell extending from the left to the right wall boundaries, and extending from the top to the bottom wall boundaries, and continuous with the base and top beams, and the support members; H-shaped insulation encompassing the vertical support members, attachment strips attached to the insulation along its length with fasteners joining the attachment strip to the vertical support member, wherein the fasteners pass though the insulation; and insulation attached to the exterior wall shell between the vertical support members.
US11066827B2
The present invention generally relates to a precision dry-stack masonry unit made of two spaced-apart face shells and at least one connector joining the face shells. The connector has a top surface, a right surface and a left surface. The top surface of the connector and the face shells form a horizontal channel above the connector, and the right surface and the left surface of the connector and the face shells form vertical channels to each side of the connector. Each of the channels is configured to accommodate one or more reinforcement bars.
US11066817B2
Provided is an integrally assembled sink, which includes a first frame made of a first material and a second sink body made of a second material, wherein the first frame is open at an upper end and a lower end and it has an upper opening at the upper end; and the second sink body is a container with a base and a top opening at its top. The first frame is sleeved on the second sink body, and an inside wall of the upper opening of the first frame is aligned with the inside wall of the second sink body. Several sets of bumps for hanging are arranged on the inside wall of the first frame, and each set of bumps includes horizontally symmetrical bumps protruding from the inside wall of the first frame.
US11066816B2
A faucet extender having a channel adapted to extend and divert a fluid out of an open edge away from a faucet opening. The faucet extender may have a fluid outlet fitting having a receiving opening and a flow-through opening. The faucet extender may have an attachment mechanism that pivotally rotates and secures the fluid outlet fitting in an angle that diverts the fluid to the open edge. The faucet extender is adapted to interface with a variety of different faucet configurations.
US11066814B2
Disclosed herein is a two-layer vanity unit. The two-layer vanity unit includes: a cabinet; an upper vanity unit disposed on a top of the cabinet and exposed to the outside; a lower vanity unit disposed inside the cabinet so that it is selectively put into the cabinet when not in use and withdrawn from the cabinet when in use; drain pipes connected to the upper and lower vanity units; and cold and hot water pipes connected to the upper vanity unit. Control is performed to adjust one or more of water supply and water cutoff for the upper or lower vanity unit and an amount and temperature of the available water according to an operation mode of the lever of the faucet provided on the upper or lower vanity unit, thereby controlling a type of supply of available water.
US11066811B2
A vehicle-side control unit determines whether a long distance communication mechanism is available or not, when determining that the long distance communication mechanism is available, controls a first vehicle-side communication unit to transmit operation data via the long distance communication mechanism, and when determining that the long distance communication means is not available, causes a vehicle-side storage unit to store the operation data, and further determines whether a transmission start command is received from a tablet or not, and when determining that the transmission start command is received, controls a second vehicle-side communication unit to transmit the operation data stored in the vehicle-side storage unit via a short distance communication mechanism.
US11066806B2
Arm for working machine, bearing member, and manufacturing method of the arm for the working machine
The arm for the working machine includes: an arm body; and the bearing member attached to the arm body. The bearing member includes: a boss; and the greasing tube having: one end portion attached to a greasing hole provided on the boss; the other end portion attached to the arm body; and a tube body portion connecting the one end portion and the other end portion. The side surface of the arm body is provided with a cutout portion to which the tube body portion is inserted, the cutout portion opening toward the tip end portion. The one end portion of the greasing tube and the tube body portion are housed inside the arm body. The other end portion of the greasing tube is oriented to an outside of the arm through the cutout portion and fixed to the side surface of the arm.
US11066805B2
A measuring device and method for horizontal dynamic impedance of specified foundation depth based on differential response analysis of pulse excitation. The measuring method is realized based on the measuring device. Two rigid piles with different lengths are embedded into different foundation depths. Motion characteristics of the two rigid piles in the process of collision impact with the outside are different under the same pulse excitation. Dynamic impedance of specified foundation depth is deduced from the formula according to the differential response. Single-degree-of-freedom oscillators are arranged on the pile heads of the two piles, and strain gauges are arranged on the bottoms of the single-degree-of-freedom oscillators to obtain stress states of the single-degree-of-freedom oscillators, thereby calculating the relative displacements of the single-degree-of-freedom oscillators. This is simple in structure, reliable in measurement and convenient in data collection and processing.
US11066804B2
The present disclosure provides a water drainage system comprising: a plurality of lengths of drain pipe comprising a channel and a vertical wall, wherein (i) the vertical wall comprises one or more standoffs extending horizontally from the vertical wall and (ii) wherein the drain pipe comprises a top edge and a bottom edge, each of the top and bottom edges being bifurcated by a v-shaped notch.
US11066800B2
The invention relates to an offshore installation, comprising an underwater foundation structure, a construction placed onto the foundation structure, a docking device for a boat, and a device for cathodic corrosion protection for the underwater foundation structure, said device having at least two anodes (2), which are arranged at a distance from each other and are each fastened to a beam (4) or a support of the foundation structure, the extension arms or the supports being connected directly to the foundation structure below the waterline.
US11066794B2
A bollard panel having adjacent bollards and a gap between the adjacent bollards, a brace having a panel connector, a first longitudinal section, and a second longitudinal section, and the brace supporting the bollard panel in a vertical position relative to a ground with the brace disposed in the gap with the first longitudinal section located on a first side of the bollard panel, the second longitudinal section located on a second side of the bollard panel, and the panel connector attached to the bollard panel.
US11066787B2
A welding apparatus for welding rails of a track comprises two welding units which are movable relative to one another and which are each equipped with clamping jaws at a lower end. The clamping jaws are configured for resting on a web of the rail. Each welding unit is connected to a supporting device which can move relative to the welding unit and which is provided for resting on the track during operation.
US11066784B2
A method for manufacturing dissolving pulp using wood material is disclosed. The method comprises subjecting the wood material to a hydrothermal treatment using steam and/or water, digesting the wood material obtained to a pulp in a kraft cooking process; subjecting the pulp to a cold caustic extraction CCE; and dewatering, washing and pressing the pulp to get a pulp product having a carbohydrate content. The wood material can be a coniferous wood material, and whereby the mild hydrothermal treatment is performed to reach a P-factor of from 100-300, and whereby the cold caustic extraction is executed to reach a combined concentration of anhydromannose and anhydroxylose of 5 weight %, or less, of the carbohydrate content of the pulp product.
US11066780B2
A protective layer for an ironing board comprises an overlay portion and an edge that extends over an entirety of sides of a top surface of an ironing board to prevent slippage of the protective layer from the ironing board. The protective layer includes a plurality of tabs extending from the edge, each tab having a hole positioned therein for hanging items from the protective layer. The protective layer is stretchable to fit over the top surface of an ironing board, and the plurality of tabs are positioned on each elongated side of the protective layer and on a back portion thereof. The protective layer may be part of an ironing board cover that includes a padded textile base section to form a smooth, heat-reflective and secure ironing surface.
US11066778B2
The present application encompasses methods and apparatus for heating a load such as clothes immersed in a medium such as water during a heating period. A method embodiment of the present invention comprises heating the load and medium within an enclosure by subjecting said load and medium to heated air originated from a conventional energy source; and applying heat to said load and medium within the enclosure via an AC electrical field, embodied as a capacitor, originated from an RF power source.
US11066759B2
The present invention provides pitch-based ultrafine carbon fibers that have an average fiber diameter of at least 100 nm and less than 700 nm, and an average fiber length of 10 μm or more, wherein C—O bonds >C═O bonds in terms of the abundance ratio (molar ratio) of C—O bonds and C═O bonds derived from the O1s orbital as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
US11066750B2
A process is provided for inhibiting the corrosion of metal that comes into contact with a static or flowing aqueous medium which comprises contacting at least a portion of the exposed surface of the metal with aqueous medium containing a metal corrosion inhibiting amount of at least one ureido silane and, optionally, one or more added inorganic and/or other organic materials.
US11066747B2
Implementations described herein relate to apparatus and methods for self-assembled monolayer (SAM) deposition. Apparatus described herein includes processing chambers having various vapor phase delivery apparatus fluidly coupled thereto. SAM precursors may be delivered to process volumes of the chambers via various apparatus which is heated to maintain the precursors in vapor phase. In one implementation, a first ampoule or vaporizer configured to deliver a SAM precursor may be fluidly coupled to the process volume of a process chamber. A second ampoule or vaporizer configured to deliver a material different from the SAM precursor may also be fluidly coupled to the process volume of the process chamber.
US11066727B2
Provided is a titanium composite material 1 including: a first surface layer portion 2; an inner layer portion 4; and a second surface layer portion 3; wherein: the first surface layer portion 2 and the second surface layer portion 3 are composed of a titanium alloy; the inner layer portion 4 is composed of a commercially pure titanium including pores; a thickness of at least one of the first surface layer portion 2 and the second surface layer portion 3 is 2 μm or more, and a proportion of the thickness with respect to an overall thickness of the titanium composite material 1 is 40% or less; and a porosity in a cross section perpendicular to a sheet thickness direction is more than 0% and 30% or less.
US11066716B2
Provided are a steel sheet which has a tensile strength of 900 MPa or higher and excellent weldability, and a method for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a specific composition and a microstructure containing, in terms of area fraction, ferrite of 30% or less (including 0%), tempered martensite of 70% or more (including 100%), and the balance other than ferrite and the tempered martensite of 10% or less (including 0%) in total, the tempered martensite having an average grain size thereof is 5 μm or lower, the tempered martensite having iron-based carbides, which have average particle sizes of 100 nm or less, precipitated on grain boundaries, and the tempered martensite containing, in terms of atomic concentration, 5 atom % or more in total of Si and Mn on the grain boundaries of the tempered martensite. The steel sheet has a tensile strength of 900 MPa or higher.
US11066714B2
A batch furnace for annealing material, in particular a single chamber furnace or single coil furnace, with a furnace housing. The batch furnace has a closable charging opening, a receiving chamber for receiving furnace material, and a device for convective heat transfer onto the furnace material by a heat transfer medium. The batch furnace includes at least one fan, which is arranged in the furnace housing, at least one heating device for the heat transfer medium and/or at least one inlet for an externally heated heat transfer medium, wherein the heating device and/or the inlet is arranged directly in front of the intake side or directly behind the pressure side of the fan or circumferentially in an annular gap between the fan and the furnace housing, and a receiving chamber for the furnace material, which is arranged on the pressure side of the fan.
US11066713B2
A method of operating a top submerged lance furnace, and more particularly but not exclusively to a method of coating an end of a lance of a top submerged lance furnace with a slag layer, as well as a method of maintaining a uniform heat distribution about the periphery of the lance of the top submerged lance furnace. In terms of the method, the lance is caused to rotate, and a fluid is passed through the lance before it is inserted into the molten material bath inside the crucible.
US11066706B2
The invention relates to methods and kits for diagnosing and/or treating appendicitis in a subject, comprising obtaining a biological sample from said subject; detecting RNA expression levels of at least three or more biomarkers in the biological sample and comparing the expression levels of said at least three or more biomarkers to a control sample wherein an increase or decrease in the level of expression of said at least three or more biomarkers as compared to the control sample is indicative of appendicitis.
US11066705B2
Methods of monitoring and measuring dynamic adaptive immune cell responses are provided. High-throughput sequencing of T cell receptor and immunoglobulin loci is used to characterize the breadth of an effector cell response to a stimulus, such as a vaccine or infection. Unique responding effector cell clones and abundance thereof can be determined. Additionally, methods for determining the contribution of responding effector cells to the immunological memory compartment are provided.
US11066703B2
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for sequencing nucleic acid molecules and identifying individual sample nucleic acid molecules using Molecular Index Tags (MITs). Furthermore, reaction mixtures, kits, and adapter libraries are provided.
US11066694B2
The present invention concerns compositions and processes that use affinity tags for isolating, and detecting or quantifying analytes, including nucleic acids, proteins and polypeptides. Compositions include nucleic acid compositions and protein compositions with affinity binding pairs, including metal binding peptides and immobilized metals, or peptide affinity groups.
US11066687B2
Provided are a variant of 5′-inosinic acid dehydrogenase, a microorganism including the same, and a method of preparing 5′-inosinic acid using the same.
US11066686B2
The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, variant RNA polymerases, the use of which increases transcription efficiency while reducing the number of double-stranded RNA contaminates and run-on transcripts produced during an in vitro transcription reaction.
US11066680B2
An IL6R block CAR-T transgenic vector for alleviating CRS includes: AmpR sequence containing ampicillin resistance gene (SEQ ID NO: 1); prokaryotic replicon pUC Ori sequence (SEQ ID NO: 2); virus replicon SV40 Ori sequence (SEQ ID NO: 3); eWPRE enhanced posttranscriptional regulatory element of hepatitis B virus (SEQ ID NO: 11); human EF1a promoter (SEQ ID NO: 12); lentiviral packaging cis-elements for lentiviral packaging; humanized single-chain antibody fragment IL6RscFv1 (SEQ ID NO: 21), IL6RscFv2 (SEQ ID NO: 22), or IL6RscFv3 (SEQ ID NO: 23) of human IL6R; IRES ribosome binding sequence (SEQ ID NO: 25); IL6 signal peptide (SEQ ID NO: 26); human antibody Fc segment (SEQ ID NO: 27); and chimeric antigen receptors of the second or third generation CAR for integrating recognition, transmission and initiation. A preparation method of the IL6R block CAR-T transgenic vector and an application thereof in a preparation of drugs for alleviating CRS.
US11066679B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a nucleic acid comprising a heterologous nucleic acid insert flanked by interrupted self-complementary sequences, wherein one self-complementary sequence is interrupted by a cross-arm sequence forming two opposing, lengthwise-symmetric stem-loops, and wherein the other of the self-complementary sequences is interrupted by a truncated cross-arm sequence. Methods of delivering the nucleic acid to a cell are also provided.
US11066677B2
The present disclosure describes genetically-modified plants having enhanced tolerance to multiple abiotic stressors, such as extreme temperatures (heat or cold) and/or drought. Abiotic stress tolerance is enhanced by ectopic expression of a heterologous glutaredoxin. Abiotic stress tolerance (particularly drought) is also enhanced by inhibited function, activity, or expression of an endogenous glutaredoxin. Methods of producing such genetically-modified plants are also disclosed.
US11066668B2
The present disclosure provides compounds comprising oligonucleotides complementary to a portion of the IKBKAP gene. Certain such compounds are useful for hybridizing to a portion of the IKBKAP gene, including but not limited to a portion of the IKBKAP gene in a cell. In certain embodiments, such hybridization results in modulation of splicing of the IKBKAP gene. In certain embodiments, the IKBKAP gene includes a mutation that results in defective splicing and a truncated IKAP protein. In certain embodiments, hybridization of oligonucleotides complementary to a portion of the IKBKAP gene results in a decrease in the amount of defective splicing and truncated IKAP protein. In certain embodiments, hybridization of oligonucleotides complementary to a portion of the IKBKAP gene results in an increase in the amount of normal splicing and functional, full-length IKAP protein. In certain embodiments, oligonucleotides are used to treat Familial Dysautonomia.
US11066666B2
The present invention concerns bioactive renal cells populations, renal cell constructs, and methods of making and using the same.
US11066665B2
This invention provides an antitumor drug delivery formulation for treating a subject having a tumor more highly expressing a TUG1 gene than normal tissues or preventing the subject from tumor metastasis, comprising a polymeric micelle comprising a nucleic acid that suppresses high expression of the TUG1 gene as an active ingredient, wherein the polymeric micelle comprises a block copolymer having a cationic poly(amino acid) segment and a hydrophilic polymer chain segment and the nucleic acid, and wherein the nucleic acid is bound to a cationic group of the cationic poly(amino acid) segment to form a complex and/or the nucleic acid is incorporated in the micelle or attached into the micelle; and the polymeric micelle accumulates in the tumor.
US11066659B2
The present invention relates to polypeptide, preferably to a glucose isomerase, comprising an amino acid sequence, wherein the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide, preferably the glucose isomerase, is at least 95% identical to an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, wherein the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide, preferably the glucose isomerase, comprises an amino acid substitution at one or more amino acid positions, wherein the one or more amino acid positions is/are each and independently selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 amino acid positions 89, 90, 95, 0, 33, 34, 35, and 59. The present invention further relates to methods preparing glucose including the use of the polypeptides of the invention for preparing glucose.
US11066658B2
Polypeptides comprising at least one carboxy-terminal peptide (CTP) of chorionic gonadotrophin attached to the carboxy terminus but not to the amino terminus of a coagulation factor and polynucleotides encoding the same are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the polypeptides and polynucleotides of the invention and methods of using and producing same are also disclosed.
US11066656B2
Modified PH20 hyaluronidase polypeptides, including modified polypeptides that exhibit increased stability and/or increased activity, are provided. Also provided are compositions and formulations and uses thereof.
US11066653B2
The present invention is directed to a producing a DNA methyltransferase in a recombinant host cell, wherein the DNA methyltransferase methylates DNA resulting in a DNA containing 5-methylcytosine within the recognition sequence GCNGC and wherein the DNA methyltransferase comprises less than (35) amino acid residues between amino acid residue (72) and amino acid residue (106) according to the numbering of SEQ ID NO: 33. Furthermore, the present invention is directed to the use of such DNA methyltransferase for the production of bacterial transformants comprising the steps of (a) introducing into a first bacterial host cell a polynucleotide comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding the DNA methyltransferase to produce a methylated DNA and (b) transferring the methylated DNA from the first bacterial host cell into a second bacterial host cell, wherein the second bacterial host cell comprises a restriction endonuclease able to degrade the DNA but unable to degrade the methylated DNA.
US11066650B2
The instant disclosure relates to methods for converting mammalian definitive endoderm (DE) cells into specific tissue(s) or organ(s) through directed differentiation. In particular, the disclosure relates to formation of gastric fundus tissue and/or organoids formed from differentiated definitive endoderm.
US11066649B2
The invention relates to a method for inducing human cholangiocyte differentiation of progenitor cells called hepatoblasts. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for differentiating hepatoblasts to cholangiocytes by culturing said hepatoblasts with a particular medium having interleukin-6 (IL-6) activity. The differentiation method can specifically induce cholangiocyte differentiation from hepatoblasts, and the human cholangiocytes differentiated according to the invention may be useful for drug discovery for treatment of cholangiopathies and bioengineered livers.
US11066647B2
Methods for the efficient isolation and use of pluripotent adipose-derived stem cells (PASCs) are provided. In certain embodiments the methods involve providing an adipose tissue sample from which the stromal vascular fraction is co-cultured with the adipocyte fraction. PASCs can be isolated with a high degree of purification without requiring an additional cell enrichment process (e.g. cell sorting). PASCs and their conditioned media can be used for tissue regeneration within hours of harvesting the adipose tissue, and without requiring cell expansion. PASCs can grow as floating individual cells, as clusters of cells, or attached to surface(s) of the culture vessel. PASCs do not produce teratomas in vivo, nor do they induce immunorejection upon transplantation, and they achieve a high efficiency in grafting. The cells and compositions can be used for cell therapy and to screen new drugs.
US11066644B2
A method for producing natural killer cells is disclosed. The method comprises isolating peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from a blood sample; isolating at least one of CD56+ cells and/or CD3−/CD56+ cells from the PBMCs; and co-culturing the at least one of CD56+ cells and/or CD3−/CD56+ cells with a combination of feeder cells in the presence of a cytokine. A composition for treating cancer is also disclosed. The composition comprises the CD56+ natural killer cells produced by the disclosed method and a cytokine.
US11066643B2
The present disclosure generally relates to compositions of NK cells for adoptive transfer. In particular, the disclosure relates to enhancing viability, proliferation and cytotoxicity of feeder-free NK cells following cryopreservation.
US11066642B2
A method of generating retinal pigment epithelium cells is disclosed. Cell populations comprising same and uses thereof are also disclosed.
US11066636B2
A microchip includes a cell accepting section, a lysis solution chamber and a lysis reaction chamber. The cell accepting section accepts cells obtained from a subject. The lysis solution chamber stores lysis solution for lysis of the cells. The lysis reaction of the cells is executed in the lysis reaction chamber.
US11066628B2
A gluten-free fermented beverage for human consumption includes a mixture including tea and alcohol. The alcohol is formed by a single culture yeast and fermentable sugar not derived from grain. A method for making the beverage includes steeping a form of tea leaves in water to form a tea, adding a form of yeast nutrient to the tea, adding a fermentable sugar not derived from grain to the tea, adding a single culture yeast to the tea, fermenting the tea mixture, adding citric acid before and/or after the step of fermenting, filtering the fermented tea, and carbonating the fermented tea.
US11066627B2
According to the present invention, there is provided a cleaning agent composition for a semiconductor device substrate including at least one of wiring and an electrode in which the wiring and the electrode contain cobalt or a cobalt alloy, the cleaning agent composition including a component (A): at least one compound selected from the group consisting of specific compounds; and a component (B): water.
US11066626B2
The disclosure relates to compositions comprising a polysaccharide derivative, wherein the polysaccharide derivative comprises a polysaccharide substituted with a) at least one hydrophobic group, and b) at least one hydrophilic group, wherein the polysaccharide is poly alpha-1,3-glucan, poly alpha-1,6-glucan, or poly alpha-1,3-1,6-glucan.
US11066625B2
The present invention relates in particular to a mixture comprising the compound of formula (Ia) as described herein, wherein the mixture is free or essentially free of the compound of formula (Ib) as described herein, preferably of the compounds of formulae (Ib) and furthermore (Ic) and/or (Id) as described herein. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing said mixture, fragrance substance compositions containing or consisting of said mixture, perfumed products containing said mixtures or fragrance substance compositions, and various methods and uses for imparting, modifying and/or enhancing certain odour notes.
US11066623B2
The present invention provides method for separating contaminants from a liquid mixture comprising the steps of a) providing a feed of said liquid mixture to be purified, b) adding a separation aid to the liquid mixture to be purified, wherein said separation aid is capable of binding said contaminants and c) supplying a flow of compressed air into said feed after step b) has been performed to provide a feed comprising air. The method further comprises steps d) removing air from said feed comprising air to provide a deaerated feed; and e) supplying said deaerated feed to a separator, and f) separating a phase comprising contaminants and said separation aid from said liquid mixture in said separator, wherein the separation aid added in step b) is insoluble in said liquid mixture at the separation conditions in step f). The present invention further provides a system for separating contaminants from a liquid mixture.
US11066619B2
The invention relates to phosphorous-containing compounds useful as antiwear additive components, lubricant additive compositions and lubricant compositions each comprising such compounds, methods for making and using the same, including methods of lubricating machines and machine parts and methods of extending the useful life of elastomeric seal components of such machines.
US11066614B2
A liquid hydrocarbon marine fuel oil includes a marine distillate fuel or a heavy oil or a blend thereof containing an additive combination including: (A) a polyalkenyl-substituted carboxylic acid or anhydride, and (B) a metal hydrocarbyl-substituted hydroxybenzoate and/or sulfonate detergent, where the mass:mass ratio of (A) to (B) is in the range of 20:1 to 1:20 and the treat rate of the additive combination is in the range of 5 to 10000 ppm by mass.
US11066611B2
Process scheme configurations are disclosed that enable conversion of crude oil feeds with several processing units in an integrated manner into petrochemicals. The designs utilize minimum capital expenditures to prepare suitable feedstocks for the steam cracker complex. The integrated process for converting crude oil to petrochemical products including olefins and aromatics, and fuel products, includes mixed feed steam cracking and gas oil steam cracking. Feeds to the mixed feed steam cracker include light products and naphtha from hydroprocessing zones within the battery limits, recycle streams from the C3 and C4 olefins recovery steps, and raffinate from a pyrolysis gasoline aromatics extraction zone within the battery limits. Feeds to the gas oil steam cracker include hydrotreated gas oil range intermediates from vacuum gas oil hydrotreating.
US11066608B2
The present disclosure relates generally processes and systems for converting a C2-C7 light alkanes feed to liquid transportation fuels or value-added chemicals. The feed is contacted with an aromatization catalyst at a temperature and pressure that selectively converts C4 and larger alkanes to an intermediate product comprising monocyclic aromatics and olefins. Following separation of the aromatics and C5+ hydrocarbons from the intermediate product, unconverted C2-C3 alkanes are thermally-cracked to produce olefins that are subsequently oligomerized to produce a liquid transportation fuel blend stock or value-added chemicals.
US11066604B2
A method for producing a pyrolysis oil is described. In said method, a feedstock to be treated is first pyrolyzed in a pyrolysis zone, in which the feedstock is heated to a temperature of 250 degrees Celsius to 700 degrees Celsius; and pyrolyzed solids and pyrolysis vapors are formed. The pyrolysis vapors are then reformed at a temperature of 450 degrees Celsius to 1,200 degrees Celsius in a post-conditioning zone, in which the pyrolysis vapors are brought into contact with a catalyst bed, wherein the pyrolysis oil is formed. In this case, the catalyst comprises a pyrolyzed solid, which can be obtained according to the pyrolysis, described above. Finally the pyrolysis oil is separated from the additional pyrolysis products, which are formed, in a separation unit.
US11066587B2
Use of a sealing material which is a multifilament or spun yarn coated with a joint sealing composition to seal a joint in a pipe system in which system a fluid having corrosion inhibitors such as diammonium dimolybdate or benzotriazole; and/or sludge removers; and/or an alcohol such as propane diol, or ethylene glycol; and/or a hydrocarbon such as diesel, including biodiesel, fuel oil, or hydraulic oil; and/or steam at a temperature of at least 180° C. and a pressure of at least 10 bar (1000 kPa); is to be passed through the sealed joint. It is surprising that the sealing materials of the invention can maintain a sealed joint despite exposure to such materials.
US11066586B2
Provided is a curable composition that can, when cured, form a cured product having adhesiveness and adhesion to an adherend at excellent levels. The curable composition contains a polyorganosilsesquioxane and one of (A) a compound represented by Formula (X); and (B) a polymerization stabilizer, where Formula (X) is expressed as follows: wherein r1 represents an integer from 4 to 20; L represents a group containing epoxy, oxetanyl or vinyl ether group; R11 and R12 each represent an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group; s1 represents an integer from 1 to 3; t1 represents an integer from 0 to 2, where s1 plus t1 equals 3; and R13 and R14 are selected from hydrogen and an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group. The polyorganosilsesquioxane has a number-average molecular weight of 1000 to 3000 and a molecular-weight dispersity of 1.0 to 3.0, includes a constitutional unit represented by Formula (1), has a ratio of a constitutional unit represented by Formula (I) to a constitutional unit represented by Formula (II) of 5 or more, and has a total proportion of the constitutional unit represented by Formula (1) and a constitutional unit represented by Formula (4) of 55 to 100 mole percent of all siloxane constitutional units. [R1SiO3/2] (1), [RaSiO3/2] (I), [RbSiO2/2(ORc)] (II), [R1SiO2/2(ORc)] (4), where R1 represents an epoxy-containing group; Ra and Rb are each selected from an epoxy-containing group, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl, and hydrogen; and Rc is selected from hydrogen and C1-C4 alkyl.
US11066582B2
This invention relates to improved adhesion compositions and textile materials and articles treated therewith. The improved adhesion composition comprises a non-crosslinked resorcinol-formaldehyde and/or resorcinol-furfural condensate (or a phenol-formaldehyde condensate that is soluble in water), a rubber latex, and an aldehyde component such as 2-furfuraldehyde. The composition may be applied to textile substrates and used for improving the adhesion between the treated textile substrates and rubber materials. End-use articles that contain the treated textile-rubber composite include, without limitation, automobile tires, belts, and hoses as well as printing blankets.
US11066581B2
Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for a foldable display, more particularly, a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for a foldable display which, by satisfying a specific range of storage modulus for each frequency at a temperature of 50° C. or more as well as at low temperature and room temperature, not only allows excellent folding properties to be realized but also satisfies excellent adhesion, excellent heat resistance, and excellent recovery rate requirements at the same time.
US11066577B2
The electrically conductive adhesive film comprises a metal particle (P) and a resin (M), the resin (M) comprises a thermosetting resin (M1), and the metal particle (P) has an average particle size (d50) of 20 μm or less and comprises 10% by mass or more of a first metal particle (P1) having a fractal dimension of 1.1 or more when viewed in a projection drawing in a primary particle state.
US11066569B2
Described herein is a topcoat paint composition having an acrylic resin (A) and a melamine resin (B). The acrylic resin (A), relative to 100 parts by mass thereof, contains 30-40 parts by mass of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, 10-30 parts by mass of styrene and 25 parts by mass or more of 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, and does not contain, relative to 100 parts by mass of the acrylic resin (A), more than 5 parts by mass of caprolactone compound(s) and/or hydroxy group-containing (meth)acrylates constituted of 7 or more carbons. The content of acrylic resin (A), relative to 100 parts by mass of total resin solids of the topcoat paint composition, is 45 parts by mass or more. The content of melamine resin (B), which does not contain complete alkyl ether type melamine resin, relative to the acrylic resin (A), as resin solids ratio, is acrylic resin (A)/melamine resin (B)=50/50 to 80/20.
US11066566B2
The present disclosure is drawn to an inkjet printing system including an ink composition and a microfluidic ejection assembly. The ink composition can include carbon black pigment, from 50 wt % to 80 wt % water, from 10 wt % to 40 wt % of an organic solvent system, and from 0.5 wt % to 6 wt % polyurethane. The microfluidic ejection assembly can include a drop generator for externally ejecting the ink composition, and a fluid pump for internally inducing microfluidic recirculation flow of the ink composition into the drop generator.
US11066561B2
The present disclosure provides a barrier-coating structure that includes a polymer-matrix composite having a first surface and a second surface. The barrier-coating structure includes a flexible layer having a first surface and a second surface and a sol-gel layer having a first surface and a second surface. The first surface of the flexible layer contacts the second surface of the flexible layer. The barrier-coating structure includes a barrier layer having a first surface and a second surface. The sol-gel and/or the barrier layer may comprise one or more reactive substituents. The first surface of the barrier layer may be a laser-ablated surface.
US11066558B2
The present invention relates to an asphalt composition enabling one to provide an asphalt pavement in which the occurrence of rutting and fatigue cracking is inhibited and a method for producing the same, and to an additive for asphalt. The asphalt composition contains asphalt and cellulose, wherein the content of the cellulose is 0.01 part by mass or more and 10 parts by mass or less based on 100 parts by mass of the asphalt, and a crystallization index of the cellulose is 50% or less.
US11066557B2
Disclosed are copolymers comprising a modified protein first monomer, a surfactant, and a second monomer. Methods of making copolymers comprising a modified protein first monomer, a surfactant, and a second monomer are described. Also disclosed are articles comprising the copolymers. Disclosed are blends comprising a protein, a surfactant, and a second monomer. Methods of making blends comprising a protein, a surfactant, and a second monomer are described. Also disclosed are articles comprising the blends.
US11066554B2
Meltable flame retardant compositions and fibers fabricated thereof are provided. Compositions of the present disclosure comprise a polymer, a nitrogenous compounds and/or a phosphorus compound. Fibers and compositions of the present disclosure can be used to make fabrics. When fibers, fabrics, and compositions of the present disclosure are exposed to flame, non-flammable gases are released such that the flames is retarded and/or extinguished.
US11066547B2
A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention comprises: a thermal stabilizer including a rubber-modified vinyl-based graft copolymer and a phenol-based thermoplastic resin thermal stabilizer including an aromatic vinyl-based copolymer resin and a phosphorus-based thermal stabilizer; and a zinc oxide which has an average particle size of approximately 0.5 to approximately 3 μm and a specific surface area BET of approximately 1 to approximately 10 m2/g. The thermoplastic resin composition has excellent low-odor and antibacterial properties.
US11066542B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing a thermoplastic resin, a method of preparing a thermoplastic resin composition including the same, and a method of manufacturing an injection-molded article using the thermoplastic resin composition. By using a mixture of molecular weight modifiers having different reactivities according to the present invention, coagulation may be performed using a small amount of coagulant, productivity may be increased, and a molded article, which is manufactured using a thermoplastic resin, having excellent appearance characteristics along with superior mechanical strength, processability, or the like may be provided.
US11066524B2
The invention relates to a process for producing at least one alkoxylated polyphenol comprising the following successive steps: (a) reacting at least one polyphenol, at least one alkoxylating agent, at least one catalyst, in the presence of at least one alkoxylated polyphenol as a solvent, the polyphenol/polyphenol alkoxylated weight ratio as a solvent being less than 2, preferably less than or equal to 1.5, more preferably less than or equal to 1, even more preferably less than or equal to 0.5; and (b) removing the residual alkoxylating agent.
US11066521B2
The present invention provides a tin-free, room temperature curable silicone elastomer composition, wherein the uncured composition is a putty.
US11066520B2
The present invention discloses vinyl-modified maleimide, a resin composition using the same and a preparation thereof. The vinyl-modified maleimide has better solvent selectivity and solvent compatibility. The obtained preparation can satisfy the properties of no crack between multilayer boards and high frequency and low dielectric properties maintained after moisture absorption.
US11066519B2
This disclosure describes new compositions and methods related to photoresponsive poly(hexahydrotriazines) and related polymers. In an embodiment, a method of patterning a substrate includes forming a liquid poly(hemiaminal) material by a process that includes forming a reaction mixture comprising a polar solvent, paraformaldehyde, and an aminobenzene compound having photoreactive groups, and heating the reaction mixture at a temperature up to 50° C. The method further includes applying the liquid poly(hemiaminal) material to a substrate; patterning the liquid poly(hemiaminal) material with UV light; and curing the liquid poly(hemiaminal) material to form a cured poly(hexahydrotriazine) polymer.
US11066516B2
The present invention relates to a polycarbonate resin composition for a light guide plate and an optical molded article using the same. The polycarbonate resin composition according to the present invention is excellent in transmittance and color tone uniformity required as the light guide plate, and also is excellent in processability and thus can be usefully used as a material of the light guide plate.
US11066514B2
A polymer composition that includes a polyester terephthalate. A method of making a liquid laundry detergent composition using the polymer composition.
US11066511B2
There is provided an oligomeric polyol composition having (a) an oligomeric network containing residues of at least one polyhydroxylated aromatic compound and residues of at least one polyol having at least three hydroxyl groups; and (b) a plurality of peripheral groups having one or more pendant hydroxyl groups bound to the oligomeric network by a plurality of linking units. The residues of the polyol may optionally contain one or more oxygen ether groups, one or more amino ether groups, or both of one or more oxygen ether groups and one or more amino ether groups. Reaction of the oligomeric polyols with isocyanate monomers affords a new class of polyurethanes having superior heat and water resistance. The new polyurethanes exhibit lower peak exotherms, typically less than 250° F. during in-mold polymerization. Articles prepared from polyurethanes incorporating such oligomeric polyol compositions exhibit flexural strengths and moduli in excess of 10,000 psi and 400,000 psi respectively, and outstanding green strength.
US11066503B2
Thermoplastic elastomer compositions can be used for medical skin contact applications, comprising: a) 90.9 to 69.0 wt.-% star-shaped block copolymer A with 4 arms of the general structure [S1—(S/B)k—(S/B)I—(S/B)m—S2]n—X, where S1 and S2 are vinylaro-matic hard polymer and S/B are soft random vinylaromatic/diene copolymer blocks; X is a coupling center; and b) 9.1 to 31.0 wt.-% of a plasticizer B: b1) a mixture of mineral oil B1 and cyclohexane 1,2-dicarboxylic acid C8 to C10 dialkyl ester B2; or b2) a mixture of mineral oil B1 and vegetable oil B3.
US11066502B2
The invention relates to copolymers of vinyl lactams with derivatized maleates. In particular, it relates to copolymers that are suitably used in the area of personal care and pharmaceuticals, to compositions comprising the copolymers and to methods for preparing the copolymers.
US11066501B2
The present invention pertains to a method for manufacturing a melt-processible fluoropolymer, to the melt-processible fluoropolymer obtainable by the process and to uses of the melt-processible fluoropolymer in various applications.
US11066500B2
A crosslinkable surfactant useful for preparing an emulsion polymerization composition; the crosslinkable surfactant including (a) a crosslinkable functionality and a hydrophobic tail with a Tung oil derivative structure, and (b) a polyalkylene oxide or polyglycerin part as hydrophilic head; an emulsion polymerization process using the crosslinkable surfactant; an emulsion polymerization composition; and a process for preparing the emulsion polymerization composition.
US11066496B2
The present invention relates to a super absorbent polymer and a method for preparing the same. According to the method for preparing a super absorbent polymer of the present invention, the super absorbent polymer +having improved absorption capacity and permeability can be prepared.
US11066495B2
Embodiments are directed to phosphaguanidine metal complexes of formula I and using those complexes in α-olefin polymerization systems.
US11066491B2
According to one or more embodiments, cationic polymers may be produced which include one or more monomers containing cations. Such cationic polymers may be utilized as structure directing agents to for mesoporous zeolites. The mesoporous zeolites may include micropores as well as mesopores, and may have a surface area of greater than 350 m2/g and a pore volume of greater than 0.3 cm3/g. Also described are core/shell zeolites, where at least the shell portion includes a mesoporous zeolite material.
US11066490B2
A cyanoethyl group-containing polymer and a preparation method thereof are provided. The cyanoethyl group-containing polymer is characterized by having very low contents of functional groups other than cyanoethyl groups.
US11066489B2
Embodiments are directed to a catalyst system comprising metal ligand complexes and processes for polyolefin polymerization using the metal ligand complex having the following structure: where each X is selected from the group consisting of —(CH2)SiRX3.
US11066483B2
By replacing the antigen-binding domain, the present inventors discovered novel polypeptide complexes that retain BiTE's strong anti-tumor activity and excellent safety properties, as well as have long half-life in blood and can damage various different target cells.
US11066482B2
Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating hemorrhage or bleeding are provided. The pharmaceutical compositions include an effective amount of an antifibrinolytic composition that reduces or inhibits hemorrhage or bleeding in a subject.
US11066480B2
Provided herein are compositions, methods, and uses involving antibodies that immunospecifically bind glycosylated forms of MUC16, a tethered mucin protein. Also provided herein are uses and methods for managing, treating, or preventing disorders, such as cancer.
US11066476B2
The present invention relates to a novel asymmetric bispecific antibody. The present invention also relates to a method for preparing the asymmetric bispecific antibody and a method of treating a disease using the antibody.
US11066475B2
Provided herein are chimeric receptors, such as chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), comprising BCMA-binding molecules, such as anti-BCMA antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, such as heavy chain variable (VH) regions and single-chain antibody fragments, and encoding polynucleotides. In some embodiments, the anti-BCMA chimeric receptors specifically bind to BCMA. Among the anti-BCMA-binding molecules are human antibodies, including those that compete for binding to BCMA with reference antibodies, such as a non-human reference antibody. Also provided are genetically engineered cells expressing the CARs and uses thereof such as in adoptive cell therapy.
US11066466B2
An isolated anti-SCL)BE2 (Signal peptide-complement protein Clr/CIs, Uegf: and Bmp 1 (CUB)-epidermal growth factor (EGF) domain-containing protein 2) antibody or a binding fragment thereof is disclosed. The anti-SCUBE2 antibody comprises an antigen binding region that specifically hinds to a target domain located within SCUBE2 (SEQ ID NO: 66) and exhibits a property of inhibiting vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-induced angiogenesis. The target domain is selected from the group consisting of the EGF-like motifs 4 to 6 ranging from a.a. position 175 to 323, or the spacer region ranging from a.a. position 441 to 659, or the first cys-rich motif ranging from a.a. position 668 to 725 of SCUBE2 (SEQ ID NO: 66). The anti-SCUBE2 antibody or binding fragment thereof is for use in treating a disease associated with VEGF-induced angiogenesis, or in treating a tumor or inhibiting tumor angiogenesis and cancer cell growth in a subject in need thereof.
US11066460B2
The present invention relates to vectors suitable for use in displaying proteins on the surface of bacteriophage M13 as fusion constructs with the surface protein P.III, bacteriophage M13 particles comprising a mutated P.III protein on the phage coat surface, as well as methods for producing bacteriophage M13 particles and methods for transfecting or infecting a host cell comprising the vectors and bacteriophage of the invention.
US11066459B2
The present invention provides a compound having the structure: A-B - - - Z wherein A is a biologically active structure of the compound; wherein Z is a protein component of the compound, which protein component comprises one or more polypeptides, wherein at least one of the one or more polypeptides comprises consecutive amino acids which (i) are identical to a stretch of consecutive amino acids present in a chain of an Fc domain of an antibody; (ii) bind to an Fc receptor; and (iii) have at their N-terminus a sequence selected from the group consisting of a cysteine or selenocysteine; wherein the dashed line between B and Z represents a peptidyl linkage; and wherein the solid line between A and B represents a nonpeptidyl linkage, as well as intermediates dimers thereof, and processes of producing the compounds of the invention.
US11066443B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) wherein X1 to X8 and R1 to R8 are as described herein, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof for the use in the treatment or prevention of infections and resulting diseases caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
US11066442B2
Deuterated compounds, compositions, and methods for treating cancers associated with ETBR activation
Disclosed herein are deuterated compounds, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for treating ETBR-related cancers. Also disclosed herein is a delivery system for the controlled, systemic release of at least one deuterated ETBR antagonist, optionally in conjunction with an additional anti-oncologic agent.
US11066437B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and novel intermediates useful in the preparation of a compound of formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate or amino acid, sulfate or glucuronide conjugate, or prodrug thereof, comprising the step of reacting a compound of formula I-4 with a halogenating reagent to provide a compound of formula I-5a
US11066435B2
A green route for preparing a metal organic framework include mixing metal precursor with a ligand precursor to form a solvent-free mixture; adding droplets of water to the mixture; heating the mixture at a first temperature after adding the water; and isolating the metal organic framework material including the metal and the ligand.
US11066428B2
Embodiments are directed to a catalyst system comprising metal-ligand complexes and processes for polyolefin polymerization using the metal-ligand complex having the following structure, Formula (I), where X is selected from the group consisting of —(CH2)SiRX3.
US11066423B2
Monomeric bimetal hydroxycitric acid (HCA) compounds are provided. The subject compounds include a divalent metal (X) bonded to the carboxylic acids of C2 and C3 and a monovalent metal (Y) bonded to the carboxylic acid of C1. Also provided are methods of preparing the subject compounds from a dimeric starting material (e.g., X3(HCA)2) which include acidifying the dimer to produce a monomeric intermediate which is subsequently neutralized with YOH base. Methods of alleviating at least one symptom associated with a target disease or condition in a subject are provided. Also provided are compositions including the subject monomeric bimetal HCA compounds which find use in a variety of therapeutic applications.
US11066422B2
An industrially excellent production method for cycloalkyl(trifluoromethyl)benzene is free of complicated steps, small in the number of steps, and high in production efficiency. Cycloalkyl(trifluoromethyl)benzene is produced by reacting a halogen-substituted trifluoromethyl benzene with magnesium metal to produce a Grignard reagent and cross-coupling the Grignard reagent with a cycloalkyl halide in the presence of an iron salt or a cobalt salt at a reaction temperature of 60° C. to 80° C.
US11066413B2
Disclosed in the present invention is an aminopyrimidine five-membered heterocyclic compound, and an intermediate, preparation method, pharmaceutical composition and application thereof. The aminopyrimidine five-membered heterocyclic compound provided by the present invention has a significant antagonistic effect on adenosine A2A receptors, and may be used as an antagonist for adenosine A2A receptors to effectively relieve or treat immune tolerance, diseases of the central nervous system, inflammatory diseases and like related diseases, while the preparation method is simple.
US11066412B2
Disclosed herein are novel bifunctional compounds and their uses for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of cancers. The bifunctional compound disclosed herein has the structure of formula (I), wherein, optionally substituted with one or more substituents independently selected from the group consisting of halo, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkenyl, C(O)H, OH, O(alkyl), O(CO)alkyl, O(aryl), aryl, and —O(CH2)xN(Rb)2; R1 is an alkyl optionally substituted with one or more substituents independently selected from the group consisting of halo, —OR, —O(CO)CH3, —OSO2R, and —OCONHR; R is hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, or aryl; R2 is hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or heteroaryl, in which the aryl or heteroaryl is optionally substituted with one or more substituents independently selected from the group consisting of C1-6 alkyl, O(alkyl), halo, cyano, nitro, —N(Rc)2, OCH2O—, O(CH2)2O—, pyrrolidinyl, piperidinyl, piperazinyl, morpholino, and 4—(piperido)piperidinyl; R3 is -NRARB, or -NHPhRC, or -NRARB are taken together to form pyrrolidin-l-yl, piperidin-l-yl, piperazin-l-yl, morpholin-4-yl, 4-(piperidin-l-y)piperidin-l-yl, or 4-(piperidin-4-yl)piperidin-l-yl, wherein the piperazin-l-yl or 4-(piperidin-4-yl) piperidin-l-yl is optionally substituted with one or more substituents independently selected from the group consisting of alky, and —(CH2)nCONH(CH2)mNRARB; RA and RB are independently H or C1-C6 alkyl; RC is hydrogen, halo, alkyl, alkenyl, alknyl, O(alkyl), —NHCORa, —NHC(O)ORa, heterocyclyl or aryl, in which the alkyl is optionally substituted with one or more substituents independently selected from the group consisting of halo, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkenyl C(O)H, OC(O)alkyl, O(aryl), and aryl, in which the aryl is optionally substituted with one or more substituents independently selected from the group consisting of halo, CN, C1-6 alkyl, N(Rc)2, NO2, O(alkyl), —OCH2O—, —O(CH2)2O—,pyrrolidinyl, pepiridinyl, piperazinyl, morpholino, and 4-(piperido)piperidinyl; Ra is C1-6 alkyl or aryl; Rb is C1-10 alkyl, pyrrolidin-l-yl, piperidin-l-yl, piperazin-l-yl, morpholin-4-yl, 4-(piperidin-l-yl)piperidin-l-yl, or 4-(piperidin-4-yl)piperidin-l-yl; Rc, is hydrogen or C1-10 alkyl; and. x, n and m are independently an integral between 1 to 5.
US11066410B2
A compound and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof has the following formula A: These compounds can be PIKfyve kinase inhibitors.
US11066408B2
The present invention is directed to crystalline salt of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid comprising (i) 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid, (ii) sodium and (iii) an organic base having a pKa value from 6 to 11; wherein the molar ratio of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid to the sodium is from 1:0.5 to 1:1.5 and the molar ratio of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid to the organic base is 1:0.5 to 1:1.5 and/or hydrates and/or solvates thereof, as well as, a processes of obtaining the same.
US11066404B2
The present application provides dihydropyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidone inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2), as well as pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of treating cancer using the same.
US11066402B2
The present invention provides compounds useful as c-Met protein kinase modulators, methods of preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and methods of treatment, prevention and/or amelioration of c-Met kinase mediated disease or disorders with them.
US11066397B2
The compounds of the present invention are represented by the following compounds having Formula (I) where the substituents R, R1-R5, k, m, n, and q are as defined herein. These compounds are used in the treatment of cancer, immunologic disorders, autoimmune disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, or inflammatory disorders, infectious disease, or for providing immunosuppression for transplanted organs or tissues.
US11066394B2
The present invention relates to salt forms of the hematopoietic progenitor kinase 1 (HPK 1) inhibitors N-(2-((2S,4S)-4-Amino-2-(hydroxymethyl)pyrrolidin-1-yl)-5-fluorophenyl)-2-(2-fluoro-6-methoxyphenyl)pyrimidine-4-carboxamide and N-(2-((2S,4S)-4-Amino-2-(hydroxymethyl)pyrrolidin-1-yl)-4-(4-cyanopyridin-3-yl)phenyl)-2-(2-fluoro-6-methoxyphenyl)pyrimidine-4-carboxamide, including methods of preparation thereof, where the compounds are useful in the treatment of HPK1 mediated diseases such as cancer.
US11066386B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula II or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful as a CGRP receptor antagonist.
US11066384B2
The present disclosure relates to novel crystalline forms of ARN-509 (structure shown in formula I), processes for preparation of the novel crystalline forms, pharmaceutical composition of the novel crystalline forms, and uses of the novel crystalline forms for preparing drug products of androgen receptor antagonists and for treating prostate cancer. The crystalline forms of ARN-509 provided by the present disclosure have one or more improved properties compared with the prior art, and is of great value to the future optimization and development of drugs.
US11066379B2
Gracilin A congeners and methods for their use as immunosuppressive and neuroprotective agents.
US11066375B2
Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as a pesticides, especially as fungicides.
US11066358B1
The present disclosure relates to: a) a crystalline composition of essentially pure Form IV of N—((R)-2,3-dihydroxypropoxy)-3,4-difluoro-2-(2-fluoro-4-iodo-phenylamino)-benzamide; b) pharmaceutical compositions comprising the crystalline composition of essentially pure Form IV of N—((R)-2,3-dihydroxypropoxy)-3,4-difluoro-2-(2-fluoro-4-iodo-phenylamino)-benzamide, and, optionally, a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; and c) methods of treating a tumor, a cancer, or a Rasopathy disorder by administering the crystalline composition of essentially pure Form IV of N—((R)-2,3-dihydroxypropoxy)-3,4-difluoro-2-(2-fluoro-4-iodo-phenylamino)-benzamide to a subject in need thereof.
US11066347B2
Plant and process for the production of liquid methane from a feed gas stream comprising at least methane and carbon dioxide. A feed gas stream is injected into a CO2 crystallizer in countercurrent fashion against a stream of predominantly liquid methane, thereby crystallizing amounts of carbon dioxide from the feed gas stream. Gaseous methane recovered from the CO2 crystallizer is liquefied at a liquefaction exchanger.
US11066345B2
Processes for increasing an octane value of a gasoline component by dehydrogenating a stream comprising C7 hydrocarbons and methylcyclohexane in a first dehydrogenation zone to form an intermediate dehydrogenation effluent, and then dehydrogenating the intermediate dehydrogenation effluent in a second dehydrogenation zone to form a C7 dehydrogenation effluent. The C7 dehydrogenation effluent has an increased olefins content compared to an olefins content of the intermediate dehydrogenation effluent. The first dehydrogenation zone is operated under conditions to convert methylcyclohexane to toluene and minimize cracking reactions. The intermediate dehydrogenation effluent may be heated before being passed to the second dehydrogenation zone.
US11066343B2
Provided is a method for producing p-xylene, comprising: a provision step of providing a C4 fraction comprising at least isobutene as a product formed by fluidized catalytic cracking of a heavy oil fraction; a dimerization step of bringing a first raw material comprising the isobutene into contact with a dimerization catalyst to produce a C8 component comprising a dimer of isobutene; and a cyclization step of bringing a second raw material comprising the C8 component with a dehydrogenation catalyst to produce p-xylene through a cyclization/dehydrogenation reaction of the C8 component.
US11066342B2
In accordance with the present invention, disclosed herein is a fertilizer core and fertilizer granule and methods related thereto. The fertilizer core particle has an outer surface and comprising one or more fertilizer additives, one or more binders, and one or more pH buffering agents, and wherein the fertilizer core particle comprises from about 10 wt % to about 99 wt % of the one or more binders.
US11066337B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a particle-stabilized inorganic foam based on calcium sulfoaluminate, to a particle-stabilized inorganic foam based on calcium sulfoaluminate, to a cellular material obtainable by hardening and optionally drying the particle-stabilized inorganic foam based on calcium sulfoaluminate, and to a composition for preparing an inorganic foam formulation for providing a particle-stabilized inorganic foam based on calcium sulfoaluminate.
US11066329B2
A method for manufacturing antireflective glass substrates by ion implantation, comprising selecting a source gas of N2, or O2, ionizing the source gas so as to form a mixture of single charge and multicharge ions of N, or O, forming a beam of single charge and multicharge ions of N, or O by accelerating with an acceleration voltage A between 13 kV and 40 kV and setting the ion dosage at a value between 5.56×1014×A/kV+4.78×1016 ions/cm2 and −2.22×1016×A/kV+1.09×1018 ions/cm2, as well as antireflective glass substrates comprising an area treated by ion implantation with a mixture of simple charge and multicharge ions according to this method.
US11066327B2
Examples of a high voltage insulator are described. The high-voltage insulator is vacuum compatible and comprises a glass substrate having a face surface and a ceramic layer with uniform thickness coated on the face surface of 5 the glass substrate. The coated surface of the insulator is able to withstand high voltage pulses and exposure to charged particles radiation for a pre-determined time period. The ceramic coated glass insulator is made of a single piece of glass and can be made to large sizes.
US11066319B2
The invention relates to a method and facility for manufacturing a fiberglass material, in which melted glass is produced in a melting furnace heated via combustion of a fuel with an oxygen-rich oxidant. The fumes generated are used to preheat a combustion reagent in two steps: a first step in which air is heated via heat exchange with the fumes, and a second step in which the combustion reagent is preheated via heat exchange with the hot air. The air is then used in the method for converting the melted glass into a fiberglass material.
US11066317B1
A process to remove nitrates and chrome from water. The process includes the steps of passing incoming nitrate and chrome contaminated water through a nanofiltration membrane. Retentate liquid rejected from the nanofiltration membrane is pumped to effluent or returned to the nanofiltration membrane. Permeate from the nanofiltration membrane is sprayed through a well screen upper collector above an open atmospheric bed having strong base ion exchange resin. The permeate is pumped through the ion exchange resin and through a gravel layer beneath the resin. The strong base ion exchange resin is periodically regenerated.
US11066307B2
A method of forming a polyanion active material that includes providing a carbon source, providing a mobile ion source, providing an active metal material, providing a network material, providing a flux material, and mixing the various materials. In one aspect, the mixing step may include grinding or pulverizing materials to a uniform fine mixture. In one aspect, a ball mill may be utilized to mix the components. Following the mixing of the materials, the mixture is heated to a predetermined temperature in a non-oxidizing atmosphere to form a reaction product. In one aspect, the mixture is heated to a temperature above a melting temperature of the flux material. In this manner, the flux material provides a medium in which the various reactants may react to form the desired reaction product. Following the heating of the mixture the reaction product is washed, forming a carbon coated polyanion active material. Also disclosed is a polyanion active material that includes the in situ reaction product of a carbon source, mobile ion source, active metal material, network material, and a flux material wherein the polyanion active material includes a carbon coating formed thereon.
US11066305B1
A porous silicon material including silicon nanoparticles and clusters of silicon nanoparticles, where the pores are cooperatively defined by the nanoparticles within the clusters.
US11066304B2
The present invention provides graphene in which a polymer having a functional group capable of improving the dispersibility of graphene is bonded to the surface of the graphene. The present invention also provides a method for preparing the graphene described above.
US11066302B2
Provided is a method for producing an inorganic oxide in the form of a thin film, the method including a step of bringing a first liquid and a second liquid into contact with each other, the first liquid having an inorganic oxide precursor dissolved therein, the second liquid phase-separating from the first liquid and having a substance dissolved therein, the substance reacting with the inorganic oxide precursor of the first liquid to form an inorganic oxide derived from the inorganic oxide precursor. The segment size of the first liquid at the time of contact between the first and second liquids is 500 μm or smaller.
US11066290B2
An electric fuel flow control device for use with oil and gas equipment, such as fueling systems for frac pumps. The electric fuel flow control device includes a battery, control circuitry, an enclosure that encloses the control circuity, and includes an electric fluid sensor, a valve, a beacon light, a status light, a button, an adapter cap enabling connection to a fuel tank, and a mandrel. The electric fuel flow control device may be used as a primary fuel flow control device or a backup fuel flow control device.
US11066275B2
A conveyance belt (12) for a conveyor (1) comprises a plurality of cavities (26a-26c). Each of the cavities (26a-26c) is configured for form-fittingly accommodating a corresponding insert (24a-24f) for connecting the conveyance belt (12) with a conveyance element (20) of the conveyor (1).
US11066269B2
A sheet folding processing apparatus suppresses an increase in size and cost of the apparatus and performs folding processing on continuously conveyed sheets. In the sheet folding processing apparatus, a sheet conveyed by a feeding roller pair and hang in a loop shape in a loop forming space is pushed into a nipping portion of a folding roller pair by a pushing plate, so that the sheet is folded in a Z-shape to form a plurality of fold lines. The sheet is conveyed in the conveyance direction until the sheet rear end passes through the feeding roller pair, and after the sheet rear end is stored in a loop forming space by moving the pushing plate from a position for pushing the sheet into a nipping portion to a retracting position, the reinforcing processing of the fold line of the sheet is performed by an additional folding unit.
US11066268B2
A binding device includes a stacking device configured to receive sheets, a sheet alignment member configured to align the sheets on the stacking device, a binder configured to bind the sheets on the stacking device, a binder moving device configured to move the binder, and a retreat device configured to retreat the sheet alignment member from a range of movement of the binder. The retreat device retreats the sheet alignment member in response to a pressing force acting on the sheet alignment member in a direction of movement of the binder.
US11066258B2
This invention relates to a control system and method for rotary car dumpers comprising a positioning car, silos and feeders. Such control system comprises three integrated and communicating controls in closed grid, that is, the positioning car control, the silos level control and the feeder flow control. In this way, with the data of these controls, the rotary car dumpers control system is configured to maintain the level of silo at maximum, performing changes in the cycle time by controlling the positioning car to maintain the level of silos and thus achieve maximum productivity of the equipment.
US11066257B2
A container transport system and method of operation can include: providing a vehicle having a subframe assembly coupled thereto, the subframe assembly including a lifting arm and a clamping arm; clamping the clamping arm onto a corner fitting of a cargo container; raising the lifting arm for raising a portion of the cargo container; inserting a jack stand below the cargo container; lowering the lifting arm for tilting the cargo container on the jack stand, the jack stand configured as a fulcrum; positioning a container trailer below the cargo container; and raising the lifting arm for pivoting the cargo container on the jack stand and lowering the cargo container onto the container trailer.
US11066244B1
A container sorting system can receive a container on a conveyance surface and convey the container in a conveyance direction. A linear induction motor positioned relative to the conveyance surface (e.g., below) can generate a magnetic field that causes movement of a shoe coupled to the conveyance surface. The shoe can move relative to the conveyance surface and engage the container to change the movement direction of the container. The movement direction of the container can be changed to move the container off of the conveyance surface.
US11066243B2
A conveyor for transporting and elevating articles and a method and system for conveying articles up inclines is provided. The conveyor has a conveyor belt and a plurality of support elements extending outward from the article-conveying surface of the conveyor belt advancing upward along the incline. The conveyor may be positioned at an inclined angle relative to the horizontal ground, i.e., between about 5° and 85° or the conveyor can be substantially vertical, i.e., about 90° relative to the horizontal ground. The support elements prevent conveyed articles from sliding down the conveyor belt on the inclined conveyor and carry and hold articles on substantially vertical conveyors. The article-conveying surface of the conveyor belt may provide a low-friction retention surface to articles leaning away from the conveyor belt on the incline.
US11066235B2
A garbage can riser system for facilitating a flip lid on a garbage can to be opened when the garbage can is full includes a garbage can that has a top end. A riser is provided and the riser is positionable on the top end of the garbage can for increasing a functional height of the garbage can. A flip lid is positionable on the riser such that the flip lid is spaced above garbage contained in the garbage can. In this way the entire volume of the garbage can be filled with garbage without having the flip lid contacting the garbage when the flip lid is opened.
US11066232B2
A capsule for preparing beverages in an automatic beverage preparation device, comprising an insert, which divides the capsule inner volume into an upper chamber intended to contain a beverage preparation substance, and a lower chamber for beverage collection and outflow. The insert comprises a relatively rigid disc, which is provided with a number of passages designed to establish a communication between the upper chamber and the lower chamber, and has, on the lower face of the disc facing the lower chamber, some beverage outflow channels communicating with the upper chamber through the passages. The insert further comprises a membrane permanently connected to the lower face of the disc except for one or more areas so as to define, together with the areas, respective membrane valves configured to open under the effect of the beverage pressure, so that the beverage flows out from the upper chamber to the lower chamber, and to close again when the effect of the beverage pressure ends.
US11066230B2
A manually operated applicator for spraying and dispensing expanding foam chemicals from aerosol containers is provided. The applicator dispenses compressed gas in close proximity to the foam as the foam exits the applicator, which results in improved adhesion of the foam to surfaces. The applicator includes a nozzle, an aerosol inlet for connection to an aerosol container, a gas inlet for connection to a source of compressed gas, and a trigger for operation of the applicator. The nozzle includes outlets for dispensing the foam and the compressed gas.
US11066221B2
A package and method for opening the package are disclosed. The package includes a first film and a second film forming an enclosure and at least one tab area and defining a package periphery, the enclosure defining an interior volume configured to receive a product. The package further includes first and second breachable bubbles formed within first and second tab portions of the at least one tab area. Upon application of pressure by a user, the first and second breachable bubbles breach. The package may be alternated between a first position, wherein the first tab portion and the second tab portion are substantially sealed from each other to facilitate breaching, and a second position, wherein the first tab portion and the second tab portion are in fluid communication with each other.
US11066220B2
A bungee device includes an elongated shape portion and a cord loop having a pair of cord segments. The elongated shape portion has a flat part on it where the cord loop segments extend therefrom. The cord segment has at least one flat surface that engages the flat part of the elongated shape portion when the bungee device is in use. The cord can include a tab extending from a portion thereof. The tab makes it easier to grasp the cord and stretch it to allow the elongated shape portion to be removed from the space created by the cord segments and release the bungee device from its secured position. The elongated shape portion and cord loop have a one-piece molded construction. The flat part on the elongated shape portion and flat surface on the cord segment can be optional.
US11066218B2
Discharge head for a liquid dispenser including a housing, a coupling device for attachment to a liquid store, a discharge opening through which liquid is dispensed and an outlet channel extending from an inlet region, pointing in the direction of the liquid store, up to the discharge opening and via which the discharge opening is supplied with liquid. A throttle device is arranged in the outlet channel and includes a throttle channel for reducing liquid pressure and/or liquid flow through the throttle device. The throttle device is designed in the form of a dynamic throttle device, in which a free cross section of the throttle channel is reduced in size with increasing pressure prevailing at the throttle device, or with greater liquid flow flowing through the throttle device.
US11066213B2
A container lid includes a lid for sealing a filling tube connected to an external environment. A bottom end of the lid is provided with a hollow inner cavity, and an inner side wall of the hollow inner cavity is provided with a thread. An upper end of the lid is provided with at least two sliding grooves. The present invention can be used for sealing container filling tubes. Moreover, the lids of the present invention can be assembled to form any combined shapes, thereby reducing garbage pollution and promoting environmental protection.
US11066209B2
A blank used to form a hexagonal shaped box, the blank having a front sidewall and a back sidewall, a first sidewall having a first sidewall top flap and a first sidewall bottom flap, a second sidewall having a second sidewall top flap and a second sidewall bottom flap, a second sidewall bottom flap extension foldably connected to the second sidewall bottom flap, a third sidewall having a third sidewall top panel, a fourth sidewall having a fourth sidewall top flap and a fourth sidewall bottom flap, a fourth sidewall bottom flap extension foldably connected to the fourth sidewall bottom flap, an inner sidewall foldably connected to the fourth sidewall, an inner sidewall flap foldably connected to the inner sidewall, a top panel including an aperture for dispensing food product there through, a bottom panel foldably connected to the front sidewall, and a slide foldably connected to the front sidewall.
US11066203B2
Provided is a test tube automatic alignment and label attaching apparatus including a basket formed in a box shape and whose upper surface is open to receive a plurality of test tubes and having a concave bottom surface; a test tube supply device mounted inside the basket and configured to discharge test tubes received in the basket to one side of the basket; and a test tube feeder configured to move the test tubes discharged from one side of the basket. Various other embodiments are available.
US11066195B1
A system for filling bags with sand including a motor assembly, an auger assembly, and a chute assembly is enclosed herein. The motor assembly includes a motor and a frame having wheels attached to the frame. The motor is configured to provide a user with multiple drive speeds to provide maximum maneuverability. The motor is communicably connected to the auger assembly having an auger enclosed around a body being cubic in shape. The auger assembly is configured to effortlessly and efficiently intake large amounts of sand as a user operates the motor. The sand then collected by the auger assembly is transferred to the chute assembly. The chute assembly comprises a first portion and a second portion to aid an assistant in filling bags with sand. The first portion and the second portion are directionally adjustable to further aid an assistant in collecting sand.
US11066194B2
A method for the safe release of artificial satellite in Earth orbit includes the steps of providing an orbital transport spacecraft able to move at orbital height and comprising a plurality of PODs for releasing satellites transported by the orbital transport spacecraft, housing said orbital transport spacecraft in a space launcher configured to reach an orbital height; generating a release signal and transmitting it to the orbital transport spacecraft to release the orbital transport spacecraft from the space launcher, in case of failure to release the orbital transport spacecraft or in case of breakdown of the orbital transport spacecraft after releasing from the space launcher, activating a safety subsystem of the orbital transport spacecraft to generate a POD activation sequence to release the satellites.
US11066192B2
A satellite dispenser door assembly is disclosed. In various embodiments, a satellite dispenser door assembly as disclosed herein includes a dispenser door having a hinge pin; and a one way clutch bearing within which the hinge pin is free to rotate in a first rotational direction associated with a transition from a closed position of the dispenser door to an open position of the dispenser door.
US11066186B2
A landing pad receives and stores packages delivered from an aerial vehicle and awaiting pickup from an aerial vehicle. The landing pad can be placed outside of a window and can contain a transmitter for sending out an identification signal via radio frequency to aid aerial vehicles in finding the landing pad. The landing pad contains a landing platform with a trapdoor that leads to a storage compartment. The trapdoor can be configured to only open when it receives a signal from an authorized aerial vehicle. The storage compartment can be accessed via a storage compartment door which can contain a locking mechanism. The storage compartment can be climate controlled. The landing pad can also have a transmitter that emits sounds to discourage animals from nesting on or near the landing pad. The landing pad can also include a solar power generator as a source of electrical energy.
US11066179B2
A seal assembly may comprise a door configured to translate relative to a static structure. A seal may be disposed in a seal envelope defined, at least, partially by the static structure and the door. The seal may be configured to compress in a direction generally perpendicular to a direction of motion of the door.
US11066178B2
A gas turbine engine mount for an aircraft wing including a link body having a first joint, a second joint and a linking structure connecting the first joint to the second joint. The linking structure includes at least a flexing portion and an elastic portion. The flexing portion is configured to flex during a load outside of an expected load window.
US11066176B2
An evacuation system may comprise a packboard, an evacuation slide configured to deploy from the packboard, and a lane divider attached to the evacuation slide, wherein a first end and a second end of the lane divider are detachably coupled to a center tube of the evacuation slide, wherein a connecting member is coupled to the center tube between the first end and the second end of the lane divider. The lane divider may be in fluid communication with the center tube. A detachable restraint may be disposed between first end and the center tube, the detachable restraint comprising a first portion coupled to the center tube and a second portion coupled to first end, wherein the first portion of the detachable restraint detachably couples to the second portion of the detachable restraint.
US11066173B2
A multi-function credenza includes at least one cabinet with a first top surface and a seat adjacent the cabinet. The seat has a convertible seat back for converting to a second top surface adjacent to the first top surface when the seat is stowed. A multi-function credenza in an aircraft cabin includes a first cabinet that has a first inboard panel and a first top surface, a second cabinet that has a second inboard panel and a second top surface, and a stowable seat located between the first cabinet and the second cabinet. A stowable seat includes a seat back that has a first side adapted for seating in a first mode and a second side adapted as a working surface in a second mode. The seat back articulates between the first mode and the second mode for deploying and stowing the seat, respectively.
US11066164B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for providing secure remote access to various components of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), for instance, during a flight of the UAV or when the UAV is at a predetermined location. A computing environment may configure an unmanned aerial vehicle to permit access to the unmanned aerial vehicle when presented with a digital certificate signed by a trusted certificate signing service. Further, the computing environment may authenticate a client device requesting access to the unmanned aerial vehicle to perform a configuration and generate a digital certificate signed by the trusted certificate signing service that enables encrypted communication between the client device and the unmanned aerial vehicle.
US11066158B2
A pitch bearing assembly for a rotor blade and a hub assembly of a rotary wing aircraft includes a single inner race. An inboard outer race surrounds an inboard portion of the inner race and includes a first inboard blade connector and a second inboard blade connector that are configured to connect to the rotor blade. An inboard bearing is disposed between the inboard portion of the single inner race and the inboard outer race and includes an elastomer. An outboard outer race surrounds an outboard portion of the single inner race and includes a first outboard blade connector and a second outboard blade connector that are configured to connect to the rotor blade. An outboard bearing is disposed between the outboard portion of the inner race and the outboard outer race and includes an elastomer.
US11066156B2
An aerial vehicle includes one or more propeller units operable to provide thrust for takeoff or hover flight and one or more propulsion units operable to provide thrust for forward flight. At least one propeller unit includes a shaft coupled to a motor, and a first propeller blade and a second propeller blade that are both connected to the shaft. The second propeller blade is located substantially opposite the first propeller blade, and the second propeller blade has a surface area substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation that is greater than a corresponding surface area of the first propeller blade. While the aerial vehicle is in forward flight in a first direction and the motor is turned off, the first propeller blade and the second propeller blade are each configured to orient in a second direction that is substantially parallel to the first direction, such that the first propeller blade is oriented substantially upwind of the second propeller blade.
US11066154B2
A method of engaging a drive system with a rotating wheel of an aircraft landing gear is disclosed. A motor is operated to apply torque to a pinion so the pinion rotates. An engagement command is issued to an actuator at an engagement time, and the actuator operates the actuator in response to the engagement command to move the pinion from a neutral position to a contact position in which it contacts a rotating driven gear at an initial contact time, the rotating driven gear being mounted to a rotating wheel of an aircraft landing gear; then after the initial contact time operating the actuator to move the pinion further to a meshing position where the pinion meshes with the driven gear. A centre-to-centre distance between the pinion and the driven gear reduces as the pinion moves to the contact position and to the meshing position.
US11066153B2
A nose landing gear system is disclosed. In various embodiments, the nose landing gear system includes an electro-hydraulic actuator configured to raise and lower a nose shock strut assembly; a first electro-mechanical actuator configured to steer the nose shock strut assembly; and a second electro-mechanical actuator configured to open and close a fairing door.
US11066149B2
Airflow-dependent deployable fences for aircraft wings are described. An example apparatus includes a fence coupled to a wing of an aircraft. The fence is movable relative to the wing between a stowed position in which a panel of the fence extends along a skin of the wing, and a deployed position in which the panel extends at an upward angle away from the skin. The panel is configured to impede a spanwise airflow along the wing when the fence is in the deployed position. The fence is configured to move from the deployed position to the stowed position in response to an aerodynamic force exerted on the panel.
US11066138B2
A floating structure installation system includes, on a body capable of traveling on water, a first cradle including a first holding part capable of holding a first portion having a submersible section to be located under the water surface during installation, and a second cradle including a second holding part capable of holding a second portion connectable to the first portion. At least one of the first cradle or the second cradle is movable on the body to connect the first portion held by the first holding part and the second portion held by the second holding part. The first holding part includes a first lifting unit for lifting and lowering the first portion.
US11066135B1
A wave-generating watercraft includes a craft body having an installation space receiving a wave-generating unit. A telescopic drive is mounted within the installation space and is connected to a driven unit. A wave-forming fin is connected to the driven unit and is driven by the telescopic drive to move between extended and retracted positions. The telescopic drive is aligned with a front-rear direction of the craft body and is stretchable and retractable along the front-rear direction. The wave-forming fin protrudes from the installation space when the wave-forming fin moves to the extended position and is received in the installation space when the wave-forming fin retracts.
US11066128B2
A collapsible mast of or for a yacht includes a base, a top section, and a rotation mechanism arranged between the base and the top section configured to rotate the top section relative to the base between an upright extended state, in which the top section extends in line with the base, and a collapsed state, in which the top section is rotated downward to reduce a height of the mast. The rotation mechanism comprises an axis oriented transverse through the base. Further, the rotation mechanism comprises a rotation arm, which is rotatably connected to the base via the axis.
US11066121B1
A fluid cylinder assembly for a hydraulic actuation system for a bicycle is provided. The fluid cylinder assembly includes a fluid cylinder. The fluid cylinder includes a housing and a piston that is movable within the housing. The fluid cylinder assembly also includes a force applicator connected to the piston of the fluid cylinder, a support, and an actuator pivotably attached to the support. The actuator is operatively connected to the piston of the fluid cylinder via the force applicator, such that the actuator is configured to translate the piston from a first position to a second position when the actuator is actuated. The fluid cylinder is attachable to a handlebar of the bicycle, such that part of the fluid cylinder is positioned within the handlebar and at least part of the force applicator is radially outer relative to the handlebar.
US11066118B2
A bicycle seatpost system is basically provided with a height adjustable seatpost and an electronic controller. The height adjustable seatpost includes an electric actuator. The electronic controller is configured to control the electric actuator to change a height of the height adjustable seatpost in accordance with detected information about a change of orientation of a bicycle relative to a ground.
US11066111B2
A tailgate assembly for a vehicle includes hinge and track assemblies that enable opening of the tailgate from a closed position to a horizontal open position and further to a vertical open position to enable comfortable access to items within the cargo bed.
US11066109B1
A tire protection system includes a magnet assembly disposed in front of or behind a tire of a vehicle. The magnet assembly attracts and collects metallic debris on the roadway in front of the tire as the vehicle travels along the roadway, thereby preventing the debris from damaging the tire. The magnet assembly may be integrated into a wire-type housing and/or frame that is coupled to a mud flap, lower windscreen, and/or body-side molding located near the undercarriage of the vehicle.
US11066106B2
Provided is a versatile platform having high versatility without increasing its weight. A versatile platform is used for a transport vehicle for crops, a security robot, or the like. The versatile platform includes a first axle, a second axle, a pair of first wheels and, a pair of second wheels and, motors and for driving the four wheels, a first steering portion for steering the first wheels, a second steering portion for steering the second wheels, and a battery support portion. A vehicle body frame integrally joins the first axle and the second axle and supports a work unit for performing operation. The vehicle body frame includes horizontal bar members and vertical bar members and is formed into a frame shape. The whole upper surface of the vehicle body frame is exposed to the outside.
US11066098B2
A vehicle disturbance detection apparatus includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit determines whether a disturbance occurs in a vehicle based on detection signals from a sensor device. The disturbance is a lateral external force that causes the vehicle to veer in a direction different from a direction expected by a driver. The electronic control unit determines that the disturbance occurs in the vehicle when a disturbance determination condition is established in a relationship between a calculated yaw rate and an actual yaw rate. The disturbance determination condition includes a cant traveling exclusion condition that is not established when the vehicle veers by traveling along a cant road but is established when the vehicle veers by receiving a crosswind.
US11066089B2
Provided are wheeled containers having a handle assembly that is configured for providing support to an assembly of containers when in rest position and for permitting locomoting of the assembly upon demand.
US11066080B2
Implemented is a highly reliable vehicle control device capable of performing control transition safely to a degeneration control microcomputer even if an operation abnormality occurs in a control microcomputer in a vehicle control device. Provided are: a control microcomputer 11b that outputs a control command to an actuator control device; and a degeneration control microcomputer 12b for control transition when an abnormality is detected in the control microcomputer 111b. When transitioning to the degeneration control microcomputer 12b when detecting the abnormality in the control microcomputer 11b, the control microcomputer 12b is notified of the abnormality of the control microcomputer 11b, and the control microcomputer 11b is reset after the required transition period of the degeneration control microcomputer 12b has elapsed and the degeneration control has started. As a result, a control blank period is eliminated.
US11066064B2
Systems and methods for operating a vehicle that includes a manual transmission are presented. In one example, a speed rate of change of a driveline torque source is adjusted during a shifting of gears of the manual transmission responsive to a gear that is being disengaged and a gear that is being engaged during the shifting of gears. The torque source may be an electric machine and/or an internal combustion engine.
US11066063B2
A method can be used for controlling torque of a diesel hybrid vehicle. The method includes calculating energy consumptions of an engine for respective engine torques within an engine torque range and calculating energy consumptions of a battery for respective motor torques within a motor torque range. A plurality of total energy consumptions can be calculated based on the energy consumptions of the engine and the energy consumptions of the battery. The torque of the diesel hybrid vehicle can be controlled based on an engine torque and a motor torque that are relevant to the minimum of the plurality of total energy consumptions. The energy consumptions of the engine are calculated based on a lower heating value of fuel, fuel consumption rates, and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.
US11066049B2
An improved chamois drying device includes a malleable chamois body having a pocket that is interposed between a front surface, a rear surface, a pair of opposing side edges, a bottom edge and a top edge. An absorbent sponge is positioned within the pocket of the chamois body and functions to remove water accumulated by the chamois body. The chamois body is constructed from one or more pieces of water repellant chamois and includes an opening that is in communication with the pocket for receiving and positioning the absorbent sponge. One or more connectors are positioned along either side of the opening to secure the opening into an open or a closed position.
US11066046B2
An authentication apparatus configured to identify a user comprises a scanning apparatus configured to capture identifying information of the user and a feedback apparatus configured to communicate alignment information for the scanning apparatus to a user. A controller is in communication with the scanning apparatus and the alignment apparatus. The controller is configured to activate the feedback apparatus to reveal the alignment information identifying an alignment with the scanning apparatus. The controller is further configured to capture the identifying information of the user and identify the user in response to the identifying information.
US11066044B2
A key-shape data management system includes a storage server, an acceptance server, and a transmission server. The storage server stores vehicle identification information capable of identifying a vehicle, mechanical lock identification information capable of identifying a mechanical lock mounted on the vehicle, key-shape data of a mechanical key used in combination with the mechanical lock, and information on multiple manufacturing bases capable of manufacturing the mechanical key. The acceptance server accepts a request for acquiring the mechanical key together with determining information and delivery location information indicating a delivery location of the mechanical key. The transmission server determines the vehicle identification information based on the determining information, determines the key-shape data based on the vehicle identification information, determines one of the manufacturing bases corresponding to the delivery location, and transmits the delivery location information and the key-shape data to the determined manufacturing base.
US11066032B2
An assembly includes a dash and an airbag supported by the dash. The airbag is inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag in the inflated position has a first end and a second end spaced from each other in a cross-vehicle axis and an inflation chamber between the first end and the second end. The airbag includes a tube extending through the inflation chamber from the first end to the second end.
US11066031B2
An airbag device for a driver's seat may include: a housing mounted on a steering part; an inflator mounted on the housing; and a cushion accommodated in the housing, deployed by gas supplied from the inflator, and having a cushion front part and a cushion rear part, wherein the cushion front part is configured such that an upper portion thereof is expanded and deployed and deployment of a lower portion thereof is partially restricted when the cushion is deployed, and the cushion rear part is disposed opposite the cushion front part to partially restrict the deployment of the lower portion of the cushion front part.
US11066026B2
A power supply box includes: a first terminal that is configured to be connected to a first power storage device that supplies power to a first load; a second terminal that is configured to be connected to an alternator and a second load; a normally-off switch that is configured to be connected between the first terminal and the second terminal; and a bypass that is configured to be connected in parallel with the switch between the first and second terminals. The bypass includes a diode that has a forward direction that is from the first terminal toward the second terminal, and a resistor that is connected in series with the diode between the first and second terminals.
US11066023B1
A camera system for a trailer that cooperates with a tarping system of the trailer to capture images during loading and unloading. The camera transmits the images to a display. A driver may watch the display to monitor loading and unloading. The camera system maintains a camera of the camera system positioned to capture images of an interior of the trailer regardless of the operation of the tarping system. The camera system generally includes an arm member, a pivot structure connected to the arm member, a camera connected to the arm member, and a weight connected to the arm member. Responsive to a force of gravity the camera remains oriented upward to capture images of the interior of the trailer during loading and unloading.
US11066021B2
An internal storage structure of a vehicle may include a housing including an opening and configured of having a storage space disposed inside a crash pad, a cover portion configured to include a display module and to cover the opening, a first guide rail configured to be disposed on the side surface of the housing to be tilted by a predetermined angle, and a second guide rail configured to be disposed on the lower end portion of the cover portion to interlock with a gear portion disposed on the lower surface of the housing, and the cover portion is configured to be tilted forwardly along the second guide rail, and to move downwardly along the first guide rail and the second guide rail.
US11066020B2
A vehicle body structure that includes a storage structure, at least one fixed cover and at least on sliding cover. The storage structure defines at least one opening and at least one storage space, the at least one opening exposing the at least one storage space. The fixed cover is non-movably fitted to the storage structure covering a first portion of the opening. The sliding cover is installed to the storage structure for sliding movement along the opening such that in a closed orientation, the sliding cover covers a second portion of storage space such that the fixed cover and the sliding cover completely conceal the storage space, and, in an open orientation the sliding cover exposes the second portion of the storage space. The storage structure is dimensioned and contoured to removably install to a rear interior cargo area of a passenger vehicle.
US11066012B2
Provided is a lighting device capable of minimizing damage of a joint portion between an operation switch and a substrate or the substrate itself due to a force when the operation switch is operated and improving assemblability. The lighting device includes a housing installed in a vehicle, a substrate fixed to the housing, a cover member which is fixed to the housing and presses down the substrate, a light emitting element installed on the substrate, an operation switch which is installed on the substrate and switches the light emitting element on/off by being operated in directions of coming into contact with and moving away from the substrate, and a movement restricting portion which is formed in the housing, engages with a part of the operation switch and restricts movement of the operation switch toward the substrate side.
US11066006B2
A vehicle lamp includes: a variable light distribution lamp capable of generating a beam having a variable intensity distribution; an infrared illumination device configured to irradiate a front; an infrared camera configured to image the front; and a light distribution controller configured to detect a snow particle based on an output of the infrared camera, generate a light distribution pattern in which a portion corresponding to the snow particle is shaded, and control the variable light distribution lamp.
US11066001B2
An device for moving a construction barrier includes a connection member, an alignment member, and an engagement member. The connection member is configured to removably attach the device to a vehicle. The alignment member is configured to attach to the connection member and to the engagement member, and the engagement member extends at an angle away from the vehicle. When the device is attached to the vehicle and engages a construction barrier, the engagement member is configured to move the construction barrier behind the vehicle and toward a path of travel of the vehicle.
US11066000B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for engaging, lifting, and moving objects such as wheeled cargo trailers are provided. In one embodiment, a mobile apparatus includes a transport mechanism, a frame, and one or more lift assemblies. The lift assemblies may be adjusted using one or more attached actuators that position the lift assemblies and/or components thereof for engaging and lifting an object. The transport mechanism may be autonomously operated. A vision system may be used to locate and identify objects and/or guide the mobile apparatus into position to engage and lift the objects. An adapter for a pneumatic braking system of a wheeled cargo trailer is also provided. The adapter provides a pneumatic attachment for a pressurized air source that is separate from a glad hands connector attached to the braking system.
US11065998B2
A finish machined rear pivot support a dump body of a haul truck can comprise a pair of rear pivots spaced apart from each other in a first direction, and a cross-member extending in the first direction between the rear pivots. The rear pivots can be respectively welded in-line with longitudinal support body members on a bottom of the dump body. The cross-member can extend from inward-facing sides of the rear pivots. Each of the rear pivots can include two cut-outs spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The cut-outs can be provided over corresponding one of transverse support body members on the bottom of the dump body.
US11065988B1
An occupant support includes a vehicle seat mounted to a foundation frame for sliding the vehicle seat longitudinally in a vehicle. The vehicle seat is movable from a slid-back configuration to a forward-seating configuration and may be changed from a horizontal-use configuration to a tilted configuration for easy entry into or exit from a rear row of the vehicle. The vehicle seat may be locked in the tilted configuration.
US11065986B2
A longitudinal adjuster for a vehicle seat having at least one pair of rails. The at least one pair of rails may be formed from a first seat rail for connecting to a seat structure, and from a second seat rail for connecting to a vehicle structure. The seat rails of the pair of rails are displaceable in the longitudinal direction relative to each other and mutually engage around each other to form an inner channel. A securing profile, which is fastened to the first seat rail, is arranged in the inner channel. A rack which is fixed relative to the second seat rail is arranged in the inner channel. The securing profile and the rack are normally spaced apart from each other and enter into engagement with each other in a form-fitting manner in reaction to a predetermined action of force.
US11065984B2
A system for detecting a child left in a vehicle, in a coin-like shaped housing, includes: at least two disparate sensors for measuring parameters within a vehicle environment, an alerting mechanism for sending a signal to the vehicle user, and a processor for providing instructions. The system further includes a user interface platform (UIP) having a wireless network connection to at least one of the housing, a user, a vehicle operation system, a social network, an emergency system, a connectable subject and any combination thereof.
US11065982B2
A method including measuring a distance between two successive supporting poles delimiting a section to be realized, inputting data into a computer programmed to output a layout plan indicating a position and a length for each dropper to install, preparing each dropper with a dedicated machine, moving a first platform along the section, which is equipped with a position unit and a marking device to set a mark on the contact wire at each position where a dropper is to installed, moving a second platform along the section, the second platform being loaded with the droppers that have been prepared, and fixing manually each dropper between the messenger wire and the contact wire in registration with a corresponding mark set on the contact wire.
US11065979B1
This disclosure describes at least embodiments of an aircraft monitoring system for an electric or hybrid airplane. The aircraft monitoring system can be constructed to enable the electric or hybrid aircraft to pass certification requirements relating to a safety risk analysis. The aircraft monitoring system can have different subsystems for monitoring and alerting of failures of a component, such as a battery pack, a motor controller, and/or a motors. The failures that pose a greater safety risk may be monitored and indicated by one or more subsystems without use of programmable components.
US11065975B2
A method for electrically charging an energy store. The method includes the following steps: starting an electrical charging process for the energy store in a first configuration; interrupting the charging process, changing the configuration of the energy store from the first configuration to a second configuration, and resuming the charging process in the second configuration. The energy store in the first configuration is designed to be charged with a higher electrical voltage than in the second configuration.
US11065973B2
A distributed converter for delivering power to a set of loads is provided. The distributed converter includes a converter battery distribution unit that includes a converter-modular power tile, and the converter-modular power tile includes a battery pack configured to deliver power to a load of the set of loads.
US11065972B2
A saddle type electric vehicle (1) includes a charging cord (245) that is connectable to an external power supply, a cord accommodating section (230) configured to accommodate a charging cord (245), and a vehicle body cover (5) on which a cord accommodating section (230) provided, a vehicle body cover (5) includes a cover inclined surface (CS) inclined with respect to a ground plane, the cover inclined surface (CS) includes an inclined surface upper section (CS1) located on an upper section of the cover inclined surface (CS), and in the cord accommodating section (230), a cord drawing section (236) disposed in the vicinity of the inclined surface upper section (CS1) and configured to draw the charging cord (245) into the cord accommodating section (230) and an accommodating space (230s) configured to accommodate the charging cord (245) drawn from the cord drawing section (236) from the vicinity of the inclined surface upper section (CS1) to a lower section of the cord accommodating section (230) are provided.
US11065969B2
A method of managing a vehicle parking place system having a management system apparatus which communicates with an information terminal and a vehicle parking place through a network. The method includes outputting vehicle presence information indicating whether or not a vehicle is present in a charging space included in the vehicle parking place; outputting foreign-object information indicating whether or not a foreign object is present, other than the vehicle, in a wireless power-supply region in the charging space; and presenting, in the information terminal, chargeability information that is generated based on the vehicle presence information and the foreign-object information.
US11065967B2
A modular battery system for use with a material handling vehicle, the modular battery system comprises a battery assembly and a counterweight assembly. The battery assembly can include a power source and a battery base, and the counterweight assembly can include a counterweight base configured to slidably receive the battery base and be removably secured thereto.
US11065959B2
Systems and methods for determining and indicating an energy range of a host vehicle. A sensor can be positioned to acquire data corresponding to an amount of energy stored in an energy storage system of the host vehicle. An anticipated operating condition for a forthcoming location of the host vehicle can be determined based on at least one operating condition provided from at least one of a plurality of vehicles that 1) has a vehicle type that is the same as a vehicle type of the host vehicle and 2) is located at a respective location that is proximate to the forthcoming location of the host vehicle. The remaining energy range can be determined based on 1) the amount of energy stored in the energy storage system and 2) the anticipated operating condition, and an output system of the host vehicle can indicate the remaining energy range for the host vehicle.
US11065957B2
The drive power connecting/disconnecting device includes a second shaft disposed coaxially to a first shaft so as to transmit drive power to a wheel axle, a connection/disconnection member which moves a second rotational body along an axial direction with respect to a first rotational body, and which is capable of moving in the axial direction so as to make or break engagement between the first shaft and the second shaft, a supporting member, a shaft cover which covers at least the periphery of the second rotational body, a first pivotally supporting portion which is disposed between the first shaft and the second shaft so as to axially support one end of the second shaft; and a second pivotally supporting portion which is disposed inside the shaft cover so as to axially support the other end of the second shaft.
US11065956B2
A drive device for a motor vehicle includes a drive machine and a transmission device having a triple planetary great set and having a first and second clutch, wherein the triple planetary gear set has a plurality of triple planet gears, wherein each triple planet gear includes a first gear, a second gear, and a third gear. The three gears of each triple planet gear are connected to each other for conjoint rotation and are jointly rotatably accommodated on a planet carrier, and the drive machine is connected to the triple planetary gear set by the first clutch and a first sun gear or by the second clutch and a second sun gear.
US11065947B2
An apparatus for tracking the location of a sunroof blind includes: a motor connected to the sunroof blind by a cable; and a controller for determining whether or not a wake-up is performed according to an electromotive force of the motor, and for correcting location information of the sunroof blind according to a determination result.
US11065930B2
Presented herein are systems and methods for controlling a response (e.g., a roll, a pitch) of a vehicle body to a driver input. In one aspect, a method for controlling the response of the vehicle body is presented, the method comprising receiving an input (e.g., a steering wheel input, a pedal input) from an operator of a vehicle and modifying an aspect (e.g., a roll angle, a pitch angle, a roll rate, a pitch rate) of the response of the vehicle body, the modified aspect having a value based, at least partially, on the input. In another aspect, a controlled vehicle is presented comprising a vehicle body and one or more actuators configured to apply a torque to the vehicle body, the torque having a direction and/or magnitude based, at least partially, on a driver input (e.g. steering command, braking command, and/or acceleration command).
US11065926B2
A cover assembly for a hitch assembly includes a cover and a cover lock assembly. The cover is coupled to the body component for movement between an open position and a closed position. In the open position, the cover permits access to a hitch lock assembly configured to secure a hitch to a hitch receiver and in the closed position, the cover inhibits access to the hitch lock assembly. The cover lock assembly is configured to releasably secure the cover to the hitch receiver when the cover is in the closed position. The cover lock assembly includes a locked configuration and an unlocked configuration. In the locked configuration, the cover is inhibited from moving from the closed position to the open position. In the unlocked configuration, the cover is permitted to move from the closed position to the open position.
US11065921B2
A tire-mounted sensor is to be mounted to an inner wall surface of a tire, and includes a sensor device having a vibration detection element to detect vibration applied to the tire, a circuit board having the vibration detection element thereon, an antenna attached to the circuit board, and an accommodation structure accommodating the vibration detection element, the circuit board, and the antenna. At least a part of the accommodation structure is made of a flexible material to attenuate the vibration applied to the tire. The tire-mounted sensor further includes a vibration transmission member configured to transmit the vibration applied to the tire to the vibration detection element.
US11065890B2
A printer includes a main body casing part in which a storage part is formed; a printer head unit installed on the main body casing part; a cover part installed to be openable and closable on the main body casing part; a platen roller unit installed on the cover part to match with the printer head unit; and a hinge means in which a translational movement area and a rotational area are provided so that the cover part is installed on the main body casing part to be opened and closed through the linear movement and the rotational operation.
US11065889B2
A method and equipment to form a digital image on a surface by applying a powder layer including colour pigments on the surfaces, bonding a part of the powder and removing the non-bonded powder from the surface.
US11065886B2
A printer includes a print head that performs printing on a recording medium, a frame, a platen roller attached to the frame, a head spring that biases the print head toward the platen roller, a hook provided on a facing surface of the frame facing a back surface of the print head, and a support provided at an end of the head spring and attached to the hook. The head spring is rotatable about the support.
US11065885B2
Provided is a recording method including: a first applying step of applying anionic first processing liquid on a medium; a second applying step of applying cationic second processing liquid on the medium, causing the first processing liquid and the second processing liquid to react with each other, and generating mixed liquid, subsequently to the first applying step; and a first drying step of drying the mixed liquid subsequently to the second applying step, in which the mixed liquid is cationic.
US11065881B2
In an image forming apparatus, a controller is configured to: obtain conformance information, for each of at least one color, representing each container conforming to the image forming apparatus; obtain usage information related to a relationship between the total number of recording media on which images are formed within a past particular period and a total amount of a colorant used within the past particular period; based on the obtained usage information, calculate a first initial formable number for each of the at least one color which represents the total number of recording media on which images are respectively formable using the colorant with a particular initial containing amount; and display a detailed-information screen containing conformance detailed information for each of the at least one color. The obtained conformance information and the first initial formable number are associated with each other in the conformance detailed information.
US11065868B2
A jetting device configured to jet one or more droplets of a viscous medium through a nozzle may include an acoustic transducer configured to emit an acoustic signal that transfers acoustic waves into at least a portion of the viscous medium located in a viscous medium conduit a viscous medium conduit configured to direct a flow of the viscous medium to an outlet of the nozzle. The acoustic signal may be an ultrasonic signal. The acoustic signal may adjust one or more rheological properties of the viscous medium, based on acoustic actuation. The acoustic transducer may be implemented by an actuator of the device that is configured to move through an eject chamber to cause viscous medium to be jetted through the outlet of the nozzle as one or more droplets.
US11065867B2
Measuring an inkjet nozzle may include taking at least one impedance measurement after the firing command is sent to detect the presence of a drive bubble and taking another impedance measurement to detect a collapse of the drive bubble.
US11065858B2
An apparatus and method for bonding sheet metal parts to a laminated core in which sheet metal parts are punched from an electrical steel strip, the punched sheet metal parts are stacked and bonded at least integrally to form a plurality of laminated cores, and in order to facilitate the separation of the integrally bonded sheet metal parts into laminated cores, a separating agent is provided at least between two stacked sheet metal parts in that with the punching stage for punching the sheet metal part, the separating agent is both punched from a separating agent support and provided to the sheet metal part. In order to embody the application of a geometrically accurate separating agent in a reproducible and simple way, it is proposed that the separating agent be punched from the sheet-like separating agent support that is supplied below the electrical steel strip.
US11065854B2
A plastics line (1) is described with at least one layer (5) consisting of the following components: (A) 70-94 weight percent of a polyamide selected from the following group: polyamide 516, polyamide 616, polyamide 1016 or mixtures thereof; (B) 4-20 weight percent impact modifier; (C) 2-15 weight percent of plasticiser; (D) 0-5 weight percent of additives different from (B) and (C), wherein the sum of (A)-(D) is 100 weight percent, and with the proviso that layer (5) does not contain polyamide 6, as well as a method of manufacturing such a plastic pipe and uses of such a plastic pipe.
US11065849B2
The invention is directed to a membrane used in waterproofing and roofing applications, the membrane comprising a barrier layer S1 comprising a thermoplastic polymer component P1 and a contact layer S2 bonded to at least portion of the barrier layer S1, the contact layer S2 comprising a mixture of a solid filler component F and a thermoplastic polymer component P2. The invention is also directed to a method for producing the membrane, a method for waterproofing a substrate, to a waterproofed construction, to a method for sealing a substrate against water penetration and to a sealed construction for sealing a substrate against water penetration.
US11065834B2
A method of manufacturing a midsole includes placing first and second preforms into a midsole recess of a mold, with first and second portions of the mold defining a first overflow chamber connected to the first recess; closing the mold by positioning the first and second portions in contact with one another; heating the mold for a predetermined period of time at a predetermined temperature such that the first and second preforms melt and bond together to form a midsole, with a portion of each of the first and second preforms flowing into the first overflow chamber to form a first overflow portion; removing the midsole from the mold; allowing the midsole to expand; and cutting away the first overflow portion.
US11065817B2
Described is a self-cleaning extrusion orifice assembly including an enclosure, a cylindrical body inserted into the enclosure and terminated by an extrusion orifice. The self-cleaning extrusion orifice assembly is operated by a pressurized air flow. The pressurized air flow flushes surfaces of some elements of self-cleaning extrusion orifice assembly removing debris that could be deposited on these surfaces. In addition, some elements of self-cleaning extrusion orifice assembly are configured to scrape extrusion process debris from the same surfaces.
US11065813B2
Apparatus (1) for additively manufacturing of three-dimensional objects by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material which can be consolidated by means of an energy beam, with a stream generating unit (2) configured to generate a stream of a process gas (3) being capable of being charged with particles (4), in particular non-consolidated particulate build material and/or smoke and/or smoke residues, generated during operation of the apparatus (1) and a filter unit (5) configured to separate particles (4) from the stream of process gas (3), wherein the filter unit (5) comprises a filter chamber (6) with at least one filter element (7) at least partly arranged in the streaming path of the generated stream of process gas (3), wherein particles (4) in the stream of process gas (3) are separated from the process gas (3) by the filter element (7).
US11065812B2
Powder module device (1) for an apparatus for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects by successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a powdered build material (2). The device includes a powder module (3), comprising a powder module base body (6) to receive a powdered build material (2), comprising wall elements; delimiting a build material receiving volume (9) for receiving a powdered build material (2) and an opening (10) for introducing powdered build material (2) into the build material receiving volume (9); a lid (4), comprising a lid base body (11) connected to the powder module base body (6) so as to close the opening (10) of the powder module base body (6) in a closed state of the powder module device (1); and a sealing device (5) configured to seal between the powder module (3) and the lid (4) in the closed state of the powder module device (1).
US11065809B2
An apparatus and to a method for producing a three-dimensional object built up from at least one material layer by selective solidification of at least one powder raw material applied successively in raw material tracks to a build platform via an application unit of the apparatus. In this case, the apparatus for solidifying the raw material via energy input from a beam has an irradiation unit forming a build group together with the application unit, wherein the irradiation unit having a contiguous group of irradiation elements is rotatably mounted on the application unit.
US11065808B2
An additive manufacturing device and method for delivering a flowable material from a nozzle of a programmable computer numeric control (CNC) machine, and compressing the flowable material with a compression roller. In one embodiment, the device includes a nozzle configured to deposit a flowable material on a surface; and a roller configured to compress the deposited flowable material, wherein the roller comprises: a flat center portion having a constant diameter; and opposed end portions, wherein each end portion extends outwardly from the flat center portion, and wherein a radially outermost surface of each end portion is angled relative a rotational axis of the roller.
US11065796B2
A method of continuously manufacturing a cured membrane includes continuously compounding and mixing a vulcanizable rubber composition in a mixing extruder while continuously removing gasses from the vulcanizable rubber composition during mixing with a vacuum. The vulcanizable rubber composition may be continuously extruded to form an extrudate, which may be continuously calendered to form a green membrane. The green membrane may be continuously cured, such as by a hot air conveyor curing system, to form a cured membrane.
US11065781B2
A system and method of constructing a 4D-printed ceramic object, the method including extruding inks including particles and polymeric patterns through a nozzle to deposit the inks to form a first elastic structure, subjecting the first elastic structure to tensile stress along at least one axis, extruding inks including particles and polymeric patterns through a nozzle to deposit the inks to form a second elastic structure provided to the first elastic structure under tensile stress, releasing the application of tensile stress from the first elastic structure to allow the first elastic structure and second elastic structure to form a 4D-printed elastomeric object, and converting the 4D-printed elastomeric object into the 4D-printed ceramic object.
US11065780B2
An adjusting mechanism for a cutting tool having knife holders circumferentially interspaced and having a back surface facing a circumferential direction and a seat surface facing a radial direction. The mechanism includes a support member having fixation points securable to the cutting tool. A deformable member is sandwiched between the cutting tool and the support member. The deformable member defines an adjustable lateral reference surface facing an axial direction to be in abutment with the knife inserts. An adjustment member is mounted on one of the support member and the deformable member between the fixation points of the support member. The adjustment member is operable to exert a force on the deformable member to locally deform the deformable member from an undeformed state to a deformed state. An axial distance between the support member and the deformable member is greater in the deformed state than in the undeformed state.
US11065778B2
An optical fiber cutter includes a base that includes a pair of clamps, a blade member moving base that includes a disk-shaped blade member and is configured to move the blade member and bring an outer circumferential edge of the blade member into contact with a surface of the optical fiber, and a pressing that press-bends a scratched portion of the optical fiber to cut the optical fiber. The blade member is rotatably fixed to the blade member moving base to change a position of the outer circumferential edge to be in contact with the optical fiber. The base further includes a rotating member that is rotatably fixed to the base and configured to rotate to transmit power to rotate the blade member, and power transmission between the blade member and the rotating member is releasable.
US11065775B2
A method of cutting a wafer of composite core from a bulk composite core including the steps of placing the bulk composite core in a container, the bulk composite core having a plurality of tube members; depositing a potting compound in contact with an outer surface of the bulk composite core; curing the potting compound; and after curing of the potting compound, cutting through each of the tube members. A method of cutting a wafer of composite core from a bulk composite core, the method comprising the steps of stabilizing the bulk composite core by wrapping an exterior of the bulk composite core with a composite wrap, the bulk composite core having a plurality of tube members; curing the composite wrap; and cutting through each of the tube members.
US11065768B2
A method is provided for automatically calibrating a camera-robot system having tool offsets.
US11065767B2
An object recognizer recognizes a position and an attitude of a target object based on data measured by a sensor. A safe distance calculator calculates a distance from the target object to a certain object which is other than an object manipulation apparatus and the target object. A manipulation controller controls the pickup device based on the position and the attitude of the target object, and based on the distance from the target object to the certain object. When there are a plurality of target objects to be selected by the object manipulation apparatus, the manipulation controller selects one of the target objects having distances to the certain object longer than a predetermined threshold, and manipulates the selected target object using the pickup device.
US11065766B2
The invention relates to a method for correcting errors in a manipulator system, wherein the manipulator system comprises at least one manipulator and is controlled by means of at least one manipulator program, wherein the method comprises the following method steps: ⋅providing at least one manipulator program, wherein the manipulator program comprises several operations; ⋅combining at least two of the operations to form at least one operation structure; ⋅defining at least one placement point (AP1, AP2), wherein the at least one placement point (AP1, AP2) forms the start andor the end of an operation structure (310); ⋅providing at least one reaction structure (320) and assigning the reaction structure (320) to an operation structure (310), wherein tlte at least one reaction structure (320) contains reaction operations (R1 to Rn), upon the execution of which, the manipulator program controls the manipulator system such that it is passed into a system state which corresponds to a placement point (AP1, AP2); ⋅executing the manipulator program and, if an error occurs, ⋅executing the reaction structure (320) such that the manipulator system is transferred into a system stare which corresponds to a placement point (AP1, AP2).
US11065753B2
A breaker machine includes a power source, a tool holder arranged to receive a tool and a power driven striking mechanism arranged to strike a tip of the tool with a striking frequency on a hard surface. The breaker machine further includes control circuitry arranged to control an output from the power source and load detection means arranged to detect the load of the power source and transmit information relating to the detected load of the power source to the control circuitry. The control circuitry is arranged to receive information relating to a load of the power source, select a striking frequency based on the information relating to the load of the power source and to apply the selected striking frequency by ramping a current striking frequency to the selected striking frequency based on a predetermined ramping scheme by controlling the output from the power source.
US11065751B2
A labor-saving stapler is provided, including: a housing, having a nail outlet; a striker, disposed within the housing and movable between a preset position away from the nail outlet and a nailing position near the nail outlet; an energy-accumulating mechanism, including a connection portion connected to the housing and a connection end cooperating with the striker; an operable mechanism, movably connected to the housing and having a depression portion abutable against the energy-accumulating mechanism; a limitation mechanism, connected to the housing, the striker being positionably restricted by the limitation mechanism; wherein when the striker is in a preset position and positionably restricted by the limitation mechanism, the energy-accumulating mechanism is depressible by the depression portion to be in a energy-accumulating state, and when the striker is free of restriction by the limitation mechanism, the energy-accumulating mechanism actuates the striker to move toward the nailing position.
US11065750B2
The present disclosure concerns improvements for a gas-powered fixing tool, and particularly a combustion chamber or precombustion chamber for a gas-powered fixing tool, a working chamber for a gas-powered fixing tool, a fuel gas injection device for a gas-powered fixing tool and a gas-powered fixing tool including one or more of these elements.
US11065748B2
A safety member is adapted for use in a muzzle of a nail gun. The muzzle defines a nail passage that is for passage of a nail, and a gap that spatially communicates with the nail passage. The safety member is slidable in a nail striking direction of the nail, and includes a slider adapted to be disposed in the gap, and having a flat surface, a platform and an abutment end. The flat surface is adapted to face the plate member. The platform protrudes from the flat surface toward the plate member and cooperates with the plate member to define a nail ejection opening therebetween. The abutment end extends from the platform and extends beyond the nail ejection opening for contact with an object to be fastened.
US11065745B2
A fastener cartridge can be used with a shaft of a tool during an orthopedic procedure. The fastener cartridge can have a main housing that can be attached to fastener housing including a fastener chamber and a backstop component. The fastener chamber includes a plurality of non-flexible tabs and the backstop component includes a plurality of resiliently flexible tabs. The fastener housing is configured to include a plurality of fasteners that are arranged therein such that the longitudinal axes of the fastener chamber and the plurality of fasteners are collinear. The plurality non-flexible tabs prevent one of the fasteners from inadvertently passing entirely out of an outlet of the fastener chamber and the plurality of resiliently flexible tabs allow the fasteners to move axially in the first direction and restrict movement of the fasteners in a second direction opposite the first direction.
US11065744B2
A tool bit holder includes an inner sleeve in which a longitudinal bore is defined in which a tool bit is receivable and a detent is engageable with the tool bit for locking the tool bit within the longitudinal bore. An outer sleeve surrounds the inner sleeve and is movable relative to the inner sleeve between a locking position, in which the detent is engaged with the tool bit for locking the tool bit within the longitudinal bore, and a release position, in which the detent may be disengaged from the tool bit to permit removal of the tool bit from the longitudinal bore. A spring is positioned between the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve. The spring biases the outer sleeve toward the locking position.
US11065743B2
A tool holder device includes a receptacle having two conduits perpendicular to each other, a spindle and a shaft are rotatably engaged in the conduits of the receptacle and have bevel gears meshed with each other for allowing the shaft to be rotated relative to the receptacle by the spindle, a housing is secured to the receptacle, a flexible shank is secured to the spindle, a stem is secured to the flexible shank, a flexible sheath is engaged onto the flexible shank and is secured to the receptacle, and a control ferrule is secured to the flexible sheath, and the stem is rotatably received and engaged in the control ferrule. The flexible shank and the flexible sheath allow the tool holder device to be easily operated by the user in a tiny working space.
US11065735B2
A manufacturing method of a carrier for a double-side polishing apparatus, including: preparing a carrier base material and insert thicker than the carrier base material, inserting the insert into a holding hole so as to protrude the insert from both sides of the front surface and back surface of the carrier base material, measuring each of a front protruding amount of the insert protruded from front surface of the carrier base material and a back protruding amount of the insert protruded from back surface of the carrier base material, setting each rotational speed of the upper turn table and lower turn table in starting-up polishing of the carrier so as to decrease the difference between the front protruding amount and back protruding amount, and a starting-up polishing step to subject the carrier to starting-up polishing at each set rotational speed of the upper turn table and the lower turn table.
US11065720B2
By optimizing equipment and processing, magnetic domain miniaturization efficiency can be increased, workability can be improved, and processing ability can be increased through same. Provided is a method for miniaturizing the magnetic domains of a directional electric steel plate, the method comprising: a steel plate supporting roll position adjusting step of controlling the vertical direction position of a steel plate while supporting the steel plate progressing along a production line; and a laser emitting step of melting the steel plate by emitting a laser beam to form grooves on the surface of the steel plate and a removing steel plate surface step of to remove remaining spatters dropped on the surface of the steel plate after the laser emitting.
US11065719B2
A coated article includes a substrate having an interference laser-treated surface portion, and a single-stage coating adhered directly to the interference laser-treated surface portion. A system and method for making a coated article are also disclosed.
US11065712B2
A resistance spot welding method of squeezing parts to be welded, which are a plurality of overlapping metal sheets, by a pair of electrodes and passing a current while applying an electrode force to join the parts to be welded comprises: a first step of passing a current by constant current control to form a fusion zone having a diameter of not less than 2√{square root over (t)}, expressed in mm, between the metal sheets, where t, expressed in mm, is a sheet thickness of a thinnest metal sheet of the metal sheets; a second step of cooling the fusion zone to have a diameter of not greater than 80% of D, where D, expressed in mm, is a diameter of the fusion zone formed in the first step; and a third step of performing adaptive control welding by controlling a current passage amount according to a target that is set.
US11065711B2
An electrical resistance spot welding electrode is disclosed for contact with a narrow or other selected spot weld region in a steel workpiece in a stack-up with an aluminum alloy workpiece for use in a spot welding method in which the weld nugget is carefully formed in the aluminum workpiece at the interface of the stack-up. The welding face of the welding electrode for contact with the steel workpiece is shaped with an aspect ratio greater than one, which fits against the contact surface of the steel workpiece, while the welding face for the aluminum-contacting weld electrode is circular (with an aspect ratio equal to one). The stack-up of workpieces may include a single steel workpiece facing two aluminum workpieces in a sandwich type stack-up or two steel workpieces facing a single aluminum workpiece with the outer steel workpiece having the narrow contact surface for the steel welding electrode.
US11065706B2
Hybrid manual and automated welding systems and methods are described. A hand-held welding tool is manually positioned to engage a workpiece. A weld is started from an initial position based on a first manual operator event. A welding heat source is automatically or autonomously moved along the weld relative to the workpiece from the first position to a second position relative to the workpiece during welding.
US11065705B2
A welding method for obtaining a lap fillet welded joint excellent in tensile strength, without causing an increase in welding deformation, not fracturing at the weld metal when a tensile load is applied, that is, a method of overlaying at least scheduled welding locations of a first steel sheet with a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more and a second steel sheet and fillet welding an end part of the first steel sheet and a surface of the second steel sheet, characterized by providing a reinforcing part at a surface of the first steel sheet at the opposite side to the surface to be overlaid with the second steel sheet and fillet welding one end part of the reinforcing material and the surface of the first steel sheet and by fillet welding the end part of the reinforcing part, the end part of the first steel sheet, and the surface of the second steel sheet so as to be covered by the weld metal.
US11065700B1
Post notch forming tool mounted on a handheld saw blade for forming a notch in a post end. The tool has a base, a handle, and two L-shaped members with bolt assemblies for attaching the tool to the saw blade. The base has a first extended lip which slides downwardly along the post's outer surface to guide the tool to form a 3-inch notch. A spacer member is selectively attached to the L-shaped members and has a second extended lip which slides downwardly along the post's outer surface to guide the tool to form a 1½ inch notch. Method steps include using the power saw blade to form a transverse cut intersecting the longitudinal axis, using the extended lip of the base to form a 3-inch notch, or attaching the spacer member and using its extended lip to form a 1½ inch notch in the post's outer surface.
US11065697B2
Key cutting apparatus for cutting a new key to replicate an existing key. The apparatus comprising a reader determining the type of key blank to be cut and the required shape for the blank to be cut to. A plurality of magazines for retaining a supply of a number of different types of key blanks are provided. A key cutter is provided for cutting a new key from a blank in response to the measured shape of the existing key. A key carrying arrangement is provided to fetch a required key blank from a respective magazine and take the required key blank to the key cutter.
US11065696B1
A method for removing a portion of a structure is disclosed. The method includes attaching a first elongated member to the portion of the structure, receiving a second elongated member of a drilling assembly with the first elongated member, drilling into the structure with the drilling assembly while receiving the second elongated member with the first elongated member, and removing the portion of the structure that is attached to the first elongated member while urging the first elongated member with the second elongated member.
US11065695B2
A positioning jig for locating drill holes or other targets in a workpiece on which the positioning jig is positioned. The positioning jig includes a pinion body and a pair of arms extending from the pinion body. The pair of arms are engaged with a pinion in the pinion body to provide a rack and pinion mechanism for centering the positioning jig on a workpiece. A jig body including at least one aperture is connected with the pinion body. The jig body may be translated with respect to the pinion body for locating the at least one aperture at a target point on the workpiece for drilling a hole or marking the workpiece.
US11065694B2
Example alignment systems for aligning a drill bit with respect to a gang channel and methods of use are described herein. An example alignment system for use with a drill includes a drill block having a guide portion and an attachment portion. The attachment portion is configured to be removably coupled to a foot of the drill such that the drill block is positioned between the foot and a drill bit of the drill. A longitudinal axis of the drill block is coaxial with a longitudinal axis of the drill bit when the attachment portion is coupled to the foot. The guide portion is configured to at least partially contact an inner surface of opposing legs of a gang channel to thereby center the drill bit between the opposing legs of the gang channel.
US11065693B2
A cutting tool shim is to be disposed between a cutting insert and a holder and to be fixed to the holder. The ridgeline between the flank face and the rake face forms a cutting edge. The cutting edge includes an arc-shaped portion. A coolant supply path for jetting coolant to the arc-shaped portion is provided in the cutting tool shim, the coolant being supplied from the holder. The coolant supply path includes a lead-in port for leading the coolant from the holder to the coolant supply path, and a jetting port for arc-shaped portion for jetting the coolant to the arc-shaped portion. The jetting port for arc-shaped portion has a curved shape along the arc-shaped portion. The distance between the jetting port for arc-shaped portion and the arc-shaped portion is not less than 2.2 mm and not more than 8.1 mm.
US11065691B2
A cutting tool may include a holder including a pocket, a cutting insert located at the pocket, a clamp member configured to fix the cutting insert to the pocket, and a flow path including an inflow port and an outflow port. The clamp member may include a screw and a clamp. The flow path may further include a first flow path located in the holder, a second flow path located in the clamp, and a third flow path that is a pipe connecting the first flow path and the second flow path and including a first end part located in the first flow path and a second end part located in the second flow path.
US11065690B2
A powder deposition apparatus has a build plate, a powder source, a recoater arm, and an energy beam. The recoater arm is formed from ferromagnetic material. The recoater arm is arranged to deliver a layer of powder from the powder source across the working surface of the build plate prior to the energy beam fusing a predetermined portion of the delivered powder layer. The recoater arm comprises a magnetic portion.
US11065688B2
The invention relates to nano-particles comprising metallic ferromagnetic nanocrystals combined with either amorphous or graphitic carbon in which or on which chemical groups are present that can dissociate in aqueous solutions. According to the invention there is provided nano-particles comprising metal particles of at least one ferromagnetic metal, which metal particles are at least in part encapsulated by graphitic carbon. The nano-particles of the invention are prepared by impregnating carbon containing bodies with an aqueous solution of at least one ferromagnetic metal precursor, drying the impregnated bodies, followed by heating the impregnated bodies in an inert and substantially oxygen-free atmosphere, thereby reducing the metal compounds to the corresponding metal or metal alloy.
US11065687B2
A method for manufacturing hollow and other metal products of irregular shape provides metal powder and binding agent, and the two are feed-mixed and heated to a plastic state. The feed-mix is injected in a mold cavity of a first injection mold to form a first blank, and injected in a mold cavity of a second injection mold to form a second blank. The first blank and the second blank are welded together to form a built-up blank which is degreased to remove the binding agent therein. The degreased built-up blank is sintered to obtain the metal product of irregular shape.
US11065681B2
A brake carrier casting and a method of making a brake carrier casting. The brake carrier casting may have a first side portion and a second side portion that may be connected by a first bridge and a second bridge. The first side portion, second side portion, first bridge, and second bridge may define an opening of the brake carrier casting.
US11065677B2
A mold assembly cell for sand mold production comprising a turntable wherein sand cores and other mold parts (which together cooperate to define the casting cavity of the sand mold) are automatically and progressively assembled following a sequential pre-programmed schedule by programmable robots located in proximal relationship with the turntable and a core shooting machine. The assembly turntable rotates clockwise or counterclockwise to permit placement of progressively more-complete mold packages in each of at least three assembly stations to allow the robots to reach the molds being assembled at different angles for simultaneously setting the sand cores and other parts of the mold according to said pre-programmed assembly schedule. Also a mold assembly line comprising a plurality of the foregoing assembly cells to form sand molds for casting complex-geometry aluminum parts, such as aluminum engine blocks and cylinder heads, with greater flexibility, efficiency and productivity.
US11065676B2
What are described is a process for producing casting molds, cores and mold base materials regenerated therefrom, a mixture for combination with a solution or dispersion comprising waterglass for production of casting molds and/or cores, a molding material mixture, a mold base material mixture, and a casting mold or a core. What is also described is the corresponding use of an amount of particulate sheet silicates having a d90 of less than 45 μm or a corresponding mixture as additive for production of a molding material mixture comprising waterglass and particulate amorphous silicon dioxide, which is cured by chemical reaction of constituents of the molding material mixture with one another, in the production of a casting mold or a core, to facilitate the breakdown and/or to increase the regeneratability of the casting mold or core.
US11065673B2
The present disclosure relates to a steel forging process, in particular a hot steel forging process in horizontal press of a metal tube, preferably a cylindrical steel tube.
US11065668B2
An apparatus for forming a nacelle leading edge includes an actuation assembly, a punch, and a die. The punch is in communication with the actuation assembly and annularly disposed about a first axis. The punch is configured to mate with an interior surface of a preform. The die is in communication with the actuation assembly and disposed within the first axis. The die is configured to retain an exterior surface of the preform. The actuation assembly is configured to effect relative motion between the punch and the preform. The actuation assembly is configured to offset the punch so that the punch is annularly disposed about a second axis, different than the first axis.
US11065659B2
A harsh environment enclosure for use with sensor systems, such as cameras. The enclosure can include a housing having an end wall, sidewalls, a top wall, and a bottom wall. A door is hinged to the top wall. The enclosure can have a linkage assembly including a door lever having an elongate first end portion connected to the door, a laterally extending second end portion, and an elbow positioned therebetween. A pivot arm having a proximal end is connected to an interior surface of the housing and a distal end of the pivot arm is connected to the elbow. An actuator can be connected between the housing and the laterally extending second end portion. The linear actuator can be positioned with respect to the door lever and pivot arm to move the door to an open position when extended and a closed position when retracted.
