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US11314630B1	Container configuration recommendations A processor may identify an occurrence of a code change for a microservice hosted in a container. The processor may generate a representation of the code change. The processor may identify, utilizing an AI model, a set of microservice containers having microservices affected by the code change. The processor may determine recommended changes to system environments for one or more microservice containers of the set of microservice containers.
US11314619B2	Contextualized notifications for verbose application errors Errors encountered by executing applications can be recorded in one or more logs. A search engine can be configured to retrieve error data from the one or more logs using pre-specified rules. A portion of the error data can be included in a small portable message (e.g., SMS text message) and sent to the developers or administrators of the applications. An administrative console can generate different visualizations based upon what errors the search engine retrieved.
US11314605B2	Selecting optimal disk types for disaster recovery in the cloud Embodiments for providing automated selection of optimal disk types for virtualized storage by defining a minimum number of backup samples, selecting, if the minimum number of backup samples is not met for a backup operation, a solid state drive (SSD) for a virtual machine (VM) storage for a disaster recovery operation, otherwise selecting a hard disk drive (HDD) for the VM storage. The method further defines a cold HDD threshold (CHT) value and a minimal percentage of backups (PPT) value, and obtains a cold backup count based on the CHT value. It compares a ratio of the cold backup count to an amount of backups (AB) for the disaster recovery operation to the defined PPT value, and if the ratio is greater than the PPT value, it selects the SSD rather than HDD for the VM storage.
US11314602B2	Information management security health monitoring system An information management security health monitoring system is provided herein that can monitor the security health of one or more information management systems, identify any security issues that are occurring within an information management system, and automatically, or in response to a user input, transmit an instruction to the information management system to execute a workflow to resolve the security issue(s). For example, the information management cell health monitoring system receives security data and security policies, and/or similar data from an information management cell(s) via a network. The information management security health monitoring system analyzes the received information to identify any issues. If an issue is detected, the information management security health monitoring system retrieves workflows and determines whether any of the workflows can be used to resolve the detected issue. The information management security health monitoring system transmits a workflow that resolves the detected issue to the information management system for execution.
US11314596B2	Electronic apparatus and operative method This invention introduces an electronic apparatus and an operative method thereof which are capable of triggering an initialization operation for the electronic apparatus correctly. The electronic apparatus includes a plurality of latches and a power power-on-reset generator. The plurality of latches are coupled to memory cells and are configured to monitor memory data of the memory cells. The power-on-reset generator is coupled to the plurality of latches and is configured to generate a power-on-reset pulse to reset the electronic apparatus in response to a data corruption on at least one of the memory cells. The data corruption is detected during an initialization operation of the electronic apparatus according to memory data of the memory cells and corresponding hardwired code data.
US11314595B2	Adaptive data and parity placement using compression ratios of storage devices A RAID controller periodically collects an indication of a current compression ratio achieved by each of a plurality of storage devices within the RAID. The RAID controller determines a placement of data and the parity information within at least one of the plurality of storage devices according to at least one of a plurality of factors associated with the current compression ratio. The RAID controller writes the data and the parity information to the at least one of the plurality of storage devices according to the determined placement.
US11314592B2	Semiconductor memory devices and methods of operating semiconductor memory devices A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction circuit and a control logic circuit. The error correction circuit includes an error correction code (ECC) decoder to perform an ECC decoding on a codeword including a main data and a parity data, read from a target page of the memory cell array to correct errors in the read codeword. The control logic circuit controls the error correction circuit based on a command and address from an external memory controller. The ECC decoder has t-bit error correction capability, generates a syndrome based on the codeword using a parity check matrix, performs t iterations during (t−2) cycles to generate an error locator polynomial based on the syndrome, searches error positions in the codeword based on the error locator polynomial and corrects the errors in the codeword based on the searched error positions.
US11314584B1	Data quality-based confidence computations for KPIs derived from time-series data A system, computer program product, and method are presented for providing confidence values for replacement data for data that has issues indicative of errors, where the data issues, the replacement data, and confidence values are related to one or more KPIs. The method includes identifying one or more potentially erroneous data instances and determining one or more predicted replacement values for the potentially erroneous data instances. The method further includes determining a confidence value for each predicted replacement value and resolving the one or more potentially erroneous data instances with one predicted replacement value of the one or more predicted replacement values. The method also includes generating an explanatory basis for the resolution of the one or more potentially erroneous data instances.
US11314583B2	Memory data correction using multiple error control operations Methods, systems, and devices for memory data correction using multiple error control operations are described. A single command may be received to correct an error detected in data stored by a memory array. A first error control operation and a second error control operation may be implemented based on the single command. The first error control operation may be performed on the data stored by the memory array using one or more different reference voltages to read the data. The error may be determined to remain in the data after performing the first error control operation. The second error control operation may then be performed on the data stored by the memory array. The second error control operation may use one or more voltage distributions associated with the memory cells of the memory array.
US11314582B2	Systems and methods for dynamically resolving hardware failures in an information handling system An information handling system may include a processor and a basic input/output system configured to, responsive to an occurrence of an exception error, triage among various hardware components of the information handling system to determine existence of any signatures of potential hardware failures, write a database structure to a non-volatile memory including the signatures of potential hardware failures, upon boot of the basic input/output system, enable one or more control methods for hardware failure mitigations associated with the signatures of potential hardware failures, and perform the mitigations during execution of an operating system of the information handling system.
US11314578B2	Information handling system and method to detect and recover from spurious resets of PCIe devices Embodiments of information handling systems (HSs) and computer-implemented methods are provided herein to detect and recover from spurious PCIe device resets. One embodiment of a disclosed method is performed by a host processor of an IHS that includes a plurality of Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) devices, each including a set of PCIe configuration registers containing configuration settings for the PCIe device. The disclosed method includes generating, in response to the IHS transitioning from a lower power state to a higher power state, a PCIe device table containing the configuration settings stored within the set of PCIe configuration registers for each of the PCIe devices; determining, in response to detecting a system management interrupt (SMI), whether or not a spurious reset has occurred for at least one of the PCIe devices; and recovering the at least one PCIe device if said determining indicates that a spurious reset has occurred for the at least one PCIe device.
US11314576B2	System and method for automating fault detection in multi-tenant environments A system and method of automating fault prediction and remediation for a multi-tenant system is disclosed. The system and method offer an intelligent augmentation of a multi-tenant system by automating the harvesting and processing of raw data logs generated by the various aspects of the platform as well as the implementation of an appropriate response. In some embodiments, the proposed system includes a hybrid model that can be configured to offer both assisted and unassisted errors. The incorporation of a dynamic learning algorithm minimizes operation errors for any set of computing units. Potential system faults can be detected with little to no human intervention and allow for an unattended platform that collects performance data across the system from a wide range of sources to provide centralized and automated fault prediction, as well as expedited automated resolutions to such faults that depend on little to no human intervention.
US11314575B2	Computing system event error corrective action recommendation An approach to recommending corrective action to computing system event errors. The approach may include generating a textual description of an event error. The approach may include transforming the textual description into feature vectors with a domain-specific word embedding module. The approach may also include generating a recommendation to correct the event error based on an analysis of the feature vectors. Additionally, the recommendation may be presented for verification.
US11314572B1	System and method of data alert suppression A method for providing automatic suppression of an alert includes receiving a first error associated with a first dataset, the first dataset being among a plurality of datasets in a computer data environment, accessing dependency data that describes a set of dependencies between the first dataset and other datasets, examining the dependency data to automatically identify a second dataset from among the other datasets, the second dataset being a dataset on which the first dataset depends, accessing alert data for the computer data environment to determine whether an active alert for the second dataset provides an indication that the first error is redundant to a second error associated with the second dataset, and upon determining that the first error is redundant, suppressing transmission of the alert and storing data about suppressing transmission in a data structure. In determining whether the first error is redundant to the second error, timing of data generation of the first and second dataset and timing of detection of the first error are considered.
US11314563B1	Context-based generation of activity feed notifications In some embodiments, a computing system may receive at least first data indicative of a first event of a first system of record accessed using first access credentials associated with a user, determine, based at least in part on first stored contextual data associated with the user, to create at least a first notification of the first event based at least in part on the first data, and send the first notification to a client device operated by the user.
US11314558B2	Methods for dynamic throttling to satisfy minimum throughput service level objectives and devices thereof Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that dynamically throttle non-priority workloads to satisfy minimum throughput service level objectives (SLOs) are disclosed. With this technology, a determination is made when a number of detection intervals with a violation within a detection window exceeds a threshold, when a current one of the detection intervals is outside an observation area. The detection intervals are identified a violated based on an average throughput for priority workloads within the detection intervals exceeding a minimum throughput SLO. A throttle is then set to rate-limit non-priority workloads, when the number of violated detection intervals within the detection window exceeds the threshold. Advantageously, throughput for priority workloads is more effectively managed and utilized with this technology such that throttling oscillations are reduced, throttling is not deployed in conditions in which it would not improve throughput, and throttling is minimally deployed to maximize throughput.
US11314553B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining usage change rate of storage system Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining a usage change rate of a storage system. The method comprises determining a first weighted moving average of a plurality of usage change rates of a storage system during a first time window, and determining a second weighted moving average of a plurality of usage change rates of the storage system during a second time window, wherein the first time window is a latter part of the second time window. The method further comprises obtaining a third weighted moving average based on the first weighted moving average and the second weighted moving average, and determining a usage change rate of the storage system based on the third weighted moving average. By performing several weighted moving average operations on a plurality of usage change rates of the storage system in the past time, embodiments of the present disclosure can decrease the lagging and increase the sensitivity of the usage change rate for a specified time window, thereby more accurately predicting the remaining service time of storage space of the storage system.
US11314546B2	Method and system for executing a containerized stateful application on a stateless computing platform using machine learning A technique for executing a containerized stateful application that is deployed on a stateless computing platform is disclosed. The technique involves deploying a containerized stateful application on a stateless computing platform and executing the stateful application on the stateless computing platform. The technique also involves during execution of the stateful application, evaluating, in an application virtualization layer, events that are generated during execution of the stateful application to identify events that may trigger a change in state of the stateful application and during execution of the stateful application, updating a set of storage objects in response to the evaluations, and during execution of the stateful application, comparing events that are generated by the stateful application to the set of storage objects and redirecting a storage object that corresponds to an event to a persistent data store if the storage object matches a storage object in the set of storage objects.
US11314534B2	System and method for interactively guiding users through a procedure An intelligent question and answer (Q&A) system and method for interactively guiding users through a procedure is disclosed. The intelligent Q&A system can dynamically generate process trees (or procedural trees) from the content or procedures presented in a raw document, such as a reference manual. The intelligent Q&A system can include a virtual agent that uses the dynamically generated process trees for interactive conversation with a user. Using the system, the virtual agent can interactively guide users through completing tasks such as updating software or connecting an IoT device to an existing system.
US11314523B2	Master boot record (MBR)/global unique identifer (GUID) partition table (GPT) hybrid disk that includes GPT bootstrap code The present invention relates to a booting disk including a master boot record (MBR) stored in a first region and a globally unique identifier (GUID) partition table (GPT) stored in a second region, wherein the booting disk has a hybrid MBR partition structure in which an MBR partition used by the MBR and a GPT partition used by the GPT are mixed. The GPT partition may include an operating system (OS) partition configured to store an OS and a GPT storage partition configured to store data, the MBR partition may include a GPT protective partition configured to protect the GPT partition and an MBR storage partition configured to store data, the GPT storage partition and the MBR storage partition may be the same the same starting address and size, a starting address of the GPT protective partition may be a logical block addressing (LBA) #1 of the booting disk, and a partition size thereof is zero.
US11314519B2	Distributed resource allocation Disclosed methods, systems, and apparatus, include computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocation of M resources among N users into K pools by solving a knapsack problem (KP) using a distributed computing system. The method includes: receiving data representing K global constraints and L local constraints of the KP; transforming the KP into a dual problem using K dual multipliers; decomposing the dual problem into N sub-problems; performing two or more iterations in solving the dual problem, wherein in one iteration, for each dual multiplier corresponding to a global constraint corresponding to a pool: determining an updated dual multiplier for the global constraint corresponding to the pool to be a non-negative threshold; and computing M decision variables of each of the N users corresponding to the updated dual multiplier in solving each of the N sub-problems corresponding to the each of the N users.
US11314512B2	Efficient checking of a condition code anticipator for a floating point processor and/or unit An aspect includes generating a data result and a special case indicator based on an instruction and at least one input data operand. Outputting the data result to a processor core. Outputting the first condition code to the processor core prior to outputting the data result to the processor core. Generating a second condition code based on the data result and the special case indicator. Performing a check by comparing the first condition code and the second condition code and flagging an error to the processor core upon the first condition code being different from the second condition code.
US11314508B1	FPGA-based computing system for processing data in size, weight, and power constrained environments Technologies that are well-suited for use in size, weight, and power (SWAP)-constrained environments are described herein. A host controller dispatches data processing instructions to hardware acceleration engines (HAEs) of one or more field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and further dispatches data transfer instructions to a memory controller, such that the HAEs perform processing operations on data stored in local memory devices of the HAEs in parallel with other data being transferred from external memory devices coupled to the FPGA(s) to the local memory devices.
US11314506B2	Secure computation device, comparison method, comparison program recording medium, and secure computation system Provided is a secure computation device for computing a comparison operation to two integers without the use of AND/XOR. The secure computation device compares a first integer a and a second integer b when the first integer a and the second integer b, which are 0 or greater and less than 2{circumflex over ( )}k (k being an integer of 1 or greater), are subjected to ring sharing. The secure computation device includes: an addition/subtraction circuitry; a bit decomposition circuitry; and a bit extraction circuitry. The addition/subtraction circuitry uses the first integer a, the second integer b, and 2{circumflex over ( )}k to carry out a predetermined addition or subtraction with ring sharing, and output an added/subtracted result. The bit decomposition circuitry converts the added/subtracted result to bit sharing, and outputs a bit shared result. The bit extraction circuitry extracts a (k+1)-th bit of the bit shared result, and outputs an extracted result.
US11314502B2	Self-healing learning system for one or more controllers Disclosed embodiments relate to automatically providing updates to at least one vehicle. Operations may include receiving, at a server remote from the at least one vehicle, Electronic Control Unit (ECU) activity data from the at least one vehicle, the ECU activity data corresponding to actual operation of the ECU in the at least one vehicle; determining, at the server and based on the ECU activity data, a software vulnerability affecting the at least one vehicle, the software vulnerability being determined based on a deviation between the received ECU activity data and expected ECU activity data; identifying, at the server, an ECU software update based on the determined software vulnerability; and sending, from the server, a delta file configured to update software on the ECU with a software update corresponding to the identified ECU software update.
US11314495B2	In-vehicle synthetic sensor orchestration and remote synthetic sensor service A system comprising one or more computers implements a synthetic sensor service configured to deploy synthetic sensors to an in-vehicle computing device implementing a synthetic sensor orchestration environment for a vehicle. The synthetic sensor orchestration environment determines a placement decision for a new synthetic sensor to be added to the vehicle based on one or more annotations included in a synthetic sensor package for the new synthetic sensor. The synthetic sensor service and respective synthetic sensor orchestration environments implemented in various types of vehicles provide a consistent way to remotely add additional synthetic sensors and/or other functionality to different types of vehicles after the vehicles have already been put in use by respective owners or operators of the vehicles.
US11314494B2	Systems and methods for exporting, publishing, browsing and installing on-demand applications in a multi-tenant database environment In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating, exporting, viewing and testing, and importing custom applications in a multitenant database environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide a vehicle for sharing applications across organizational boundaries. The ability to share applications across organizational boundaries can enable tenants in a multi-tenant database system, for example, to easily and efficiently import and export, and thus share, applications with other tenants in the multi-tenant environment.
US11314477B2	Audio processing apparatus, operation method of audio processing apparatus, and audio processing system An audio processing apparatus includes a first input port, a second input port, a first processor that processes an audio signal input to the first input port and that includes a first adjuster which adjusts acoustic characteristics of the audio signal, a second processor that processes an audio signal input to the second input port, and output ports having a first particular output port. In a first operation mode, the first adjuster is set in an effective state and each of an audio signal as processed by the first processor and an audio signal as processed by the second processor is output from one or more of the output ports. In a second operation mode, the first adjuster is set in an ineffective state and an audio signal as processed by the first processor is output from the first particular output port.
US11314476B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a rear cover behind a display panel, a left cover on a left side of the display panel and a right cover on a right side of the display panel and connected to the rear cover, and a left speaker adjacent to the left cover and a right speaker and the right cover where each of the left speaker and the right speaker includes a diaphragm facing the rear cover and spaced apart from the rear cover to form a slot, an enclosure surrounding a speaker driver, a sound discharge port at one end of the slot adjacent to the left cover or the right cover and through which sound reproduced by the diaphragm is discharged, and a side wall between one surface of the enclosure and the rear cover and surrounding a circumference of the diaphragm excluding the sound discharge port.
US11314467B2	Dynamic adjustments of fill levels of print substance reservoirs in printing devices An example printing device and method of the printing device is disclosed. A print substance usage parameter is determined based on a signal provided from a sensor coupled to a refillable reservoir in the printing device. A fill level of the refillable reservoir is dynamically adjusted with the print substance usage parameter.
US11314465B1	Dynamic scan quality control management for print jobs Systems and methods are provided for reviewing printed jobs. One embodiment is a system that includes a print review device. The print review device includes a memory that stores data which indicates whether regions along a width of print media marked by a printer are flagged as bypassable, and a controller configured to determine printhead conditions within regions that have not been flagged, associate each printhead condition with a corresponding region, and to generate a report with notifications of printhead conditions within each region that has not been flagged, while foregoing determination of printhead conditions in regions that have been flagged.
US11314462B2	Interface circuit and system including same An interface circuit includes; a transmitter interface circuit including an output pad and configured to receive a first input data signal and generate a second input data signal from the first input data signal, and a receiver interface circuit including an input pad and configured to receive the second input data signal via the output pad and an internal channel The transmitter interface circuit also includes an equalization signal generation circuit configured to receive the first input data signal, generate a pulse signal by delaying the first input data signal by applying a target delay time or a target width adjustment to the first input data signal, generate an equalization signal based on the pulse signal, and provide the equalization signal to the output pad to suppress a reflected wave on the internal channel.
US11314453B2	Memory system managing map data based on risk of malware—infection of host, and operating method thereof A memory system includes: a memory device including: a first memory block storing first map data, which maps a first logical address to a first physical address; and a second memory block storing first user data corresponding to the first map data; and a controller configured to: receive a warning signal from a host; and back up the first map data as second map data in response to the first logical address being provided along with a write command received after the warning signal is received; update the first map data to map the first logical address to a second physical address; suspend an erase operation being performed on the first user data is invalidated due to the write command; and restore the first map data based on the second map data and validate the invalidated first user data when it is determined that the host is infected by malware.
US11314452B2	Storage device supporting multi-streaming and method of controlling operation of nonvolatile memory device A method of controlling an operation of a nonvolatile memory device includes monitoring multiple data streams having different stream identifiers to determine a stream data characteristic of each of the multiple data streams, determining a plurality of operation conditions based on a plurality of operation environments, respectively, and determining one of the plurality of operation conditions as a stream operation condition of each of the multiple data streams based on the stream data characteristics of each of the multiple data streams.
US11314448B2	Registering storage hosts for use in automating software-defined storage deployments Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for registering storage hosts for use in automating software-defined storage deployments are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining information pertaining to parameters for accessing storage hosts over at least one network in connection with at least one software-defined storage deployment; processing one or more requests by one or more client devices to access at least a portion of the storage hosts; registering, based at least in part on the processing of the one or more requests, at least one of the storage hosts by persisting data pertaining to the at least one storage host in connection with at least a portion of the parameters; and performing one or more automated actions related to at least one software-defined storage deployment based at least in part on the registration of the at least one storage host.
US11314443B2	Method, device, and computer program product for managing image of container In a method for managing an image of a container in a host device, a first image of a first container is received, wherein the first image includes a first set of image layers for implementing a first set of services of the first container respectively. The first image is loaded to deploy the first container at the host device. Based on an attribute of an image layer in the first set of image layers, an expiration time is set for the image layer. In response to determining that the expiration time is reached, the image layer is deleted from the host device. Stored image layers can be reused to reduce the transmission bandwidth for remotely downloading the image layers. A corresponding device and a corresponding computer program product are provided.
US11314441B2	Block cleanup: page reclamation process to reduce garbage collection overhead in dual-programmable NAND flash devices According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a memory, an erasure-based, non-volatile memory, and a processor. The memory may be configured to store a mapping table, wherein the mapping table indicates a rewriteable state of a plurality of memory addresses. The erasure-based, non-volatile memory may be configured to store information, at respective memory addresses, in an encoded format. The encoded format may include more bits than the unencoded version of the information and the encoded format may allow the information be over-written, at least once, without an intervening erase operation. The processor may be configured to perform garbage collection based, at least in part upon, the rewriteable state associated with the respective memory addresses.
US11314440B1	Distributed object storage supporting difference-level snapshots Techniques for the increased efficiency of storing data objects storage in the object storage of a software designed data center (SDDC) are provided. The techniques include the efficient storage of data, while enabling snapshots of each updating of the data. The snapshots of the data may be efficiently recovered via the techniques. Difference-level mappings for each snapshot are encoded in compact self-balancing data trees included in the object's metadata. The metadata mappings include mappings between various address spaces employed by the SDDC, as well as the address spaces employed by data stores that store the data on physical medium. Because the metadata is efficiently structured, the metadata for an object may be cached for quick lookups during data access and/or snapshot recovery. The techniques also provide low-latency recovery and/or system rollback in the event of any failure in the SDDC.
US11314439B2	Copy from source medium to target medium A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: estimating, by the computer system, a waiting time for copy target data to be transferred from the source medium. The waiting time includes an estimated time for locating and reading the copy target data from the source medium. The method also includes selecting, by the computer system, migration target data on the source medium based on whether migration of data to the target medium is expected to be finished within the waiting time. The selecting is based at least in part on comparing a size of the data and an allowable size calculated based on the waiting time and an estimated write transfer rate to the target medium. The method further includes migrating, by the computer system, the migration target data from the source medium to the target medium.
US11314434B1	Real-time localized data access in a distributed data storage system Disclosed is a distributed storage system and methods for providing real-time localized data access from different storage nodes of the distributed storage system. Providing the localized data access may include tracking access frequencies with which a file is directly accessed from the different storage nodes, storing a source copy of the file at the first storage node in response to the access frequency at the first storage node being greater than the access frequency at the other storage nodes, caching the file at a second storage node, transferring control over the source copy from the first storage node to a third storage node based on a change to the access frequencies, and validating the cached copy of the file at the second storage node against the source copy at the third storage node prior to responding to a request for the file from the second storage node.
US11314433B1	Remote deduplication of data in a storage system Use of a deduplication module remote from a storage system for storage of data subject to deduplication by the remote deduplication module. The storage system may generate a hash of target data and send the hash of the target data to the remote deduplication module. The remote deduplication module may access a hash database corresponding to the storage system and apply a deduplication algorithm on the hash. In turn, information regarding a deduplication result may be returned to the storage system which may either store the unique target data or update a mapping between the target data and duplicate existing data in a persistent storage of the storage device. The remote deduplication module may be executed by scalable cloud resources such that the computational resources dedicated to the deduplication module may be scaled.
US11314432B2	Managing data reduction in storage systems using machine learning A method is used in managing data reduction in storage systems using machine learning. A value representing a data reduction assessment for a first data block in a storage system is calculated using a hash of the data block. The value is used to train a machine learning system to assess data reduction associated with a second data block in the storage system without performing the data reduction on the second data block, where assessing data reduction associated with the second data block indicates a probability as to whether the second data block can be reduced.
US11314430B2	Reading data in sub-blocks using data state information Techniques read data. Such techniques involve: in response to receiving a read request from the user for data on a physical data block, determining whether there is data state information corresponding to the physical data block. The data state information may include a plurality of units for respectively indicating availability of data stored in a plurality of sub-blocks of the physical data block. Such techniques further involve: in response to determining that there is data state information, selecting a target sub-block from the plurality of sub-blocks of the physical storage block based on the data state information. Such techniques further involve: providing the user with data stored in the target sub-block. Such techniques are capable of determining the availability of data at a finer granularity.
US11314429B2	Apparatuses and methods for operations using compressed and decompressed data The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for operations using compressed and decompressed data. An example method includes receiving compressed data to a processing in memory (PIM) device and decompressing the compressed data on the PIM device.
US11314422B2	Non-volatile memory storage for multi-channel memory system A memory system that has a multi-channel volatile memory subsystem is coupled to a non-volatile memory subsystem to provide independent, configurable backup of data. The volatile memory subsystem has one or more main memory modules that use a form of volatile memory such as DRAM memory, for which the NV subsystem provides selective persistent backup. The main memory modules are dual in-line memory modules or DIMMs using DDR SDRAM memory devices. The non-volatile memory subsystem (NV backup) includes an NV controller and non-volatile memory NVM. The NV backup can also include a memory cache to aid with handling and storage of data. In certain embodiments, the NV controller and the non-volatile memory are coupled to the one or more DIMM channels of the main memory via associated signal lines. Such signal lines can be, for example, traces on a motherboard, and may include one or more signal buses for conveying data, address, and/or control signals. The NV controller and the non-volatile memory can be mounted on the motherboard.
US11314419B2	Method, device and computer program product for managing disks Techniques for managing disks involve: determining a current usage parameter associated with each of a plurality of disk sets, the current usage parameter indicating usage associated with a capability of each of the plurality of disk sets, and the capability comprising at least one of the following: a number of permitted accesses per time unit and a number of permitted writes per time unit; imbalance degree associated with the plurality of disk sets, the first imbalance degree indicating a difference in the current usage parameters of the plurality of disk sets; and causing data in at least one disk slice of a first disk set to be moved to a second disk set of the plurality of disk sets, so as to lower down the first imbalance degree. In this way, a better balance can be achieved among performances of respective disks after adjustment.
US11314412B2	Memory system including a nonvolatile memory and control method According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a memory system includes a first nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller controls the first nonvolatile memory. The second memory system includes a second nonvolatile memory. The controller manages information indicative of correspondences between private logical addresses and public logical addresses. The private logical addresses include first private logical addresses and second private logical addresses. Each of the first private logical addresses specifies a location in a first logical address space corresponding to the first nonvolatile memory. Each of the second private logical addresses specifies a location in a second logical address space corresponding to the second nonvolatile memory.
US11314407B2	Device, method, and graphical user interface for providing feedback for changing activation states of a user interface object An electronic device displays a user interface that includes a plurality of controls for adjusting parameters of a user interface element, including a first control and a second control for adjusting a first parameter and a second parameter of the user interface element, respectively. In response to receiving a single input directed to the first control, the device updates an appearance of the first control to indicate that the first control is navigating through a plurality of values of the first parameter, generates a plurality of tactile outputs corresponding to updates in the appearance of the first control; and changes a value of the first parameter for the user interface element based on the single input. In response to receiving a single input directed to the first control, a similar set of operations are performed with respect to the second parameter of the user interface element.
US11314405B2	Real-time scrubbing of online videos A method for traversing a streaming video file includes receiving a representative streaming video file that includes less information than a higher-resolution streaming video file and spans the entire streaming video file. Based on navigation information associated with the representative streaming video file, a playback engine navigates to a different portion of the streaming video file. The navigation information may be based on input information received from a viewer of the streaming video file. One advantage of the disclosed method is that it enables fast and accurate navigation of a streaming video.
US11314397B2	Electronic device for facilitating user interactions with graphical objects on a display An electronic device includes a display, a timer and computing hardware configured to execute a software product. Execution of the software product results in generating and rendering a graphical user interface on the display with four or more user-selectable graphical objects. Selection of a first user-selectable graphical object at a first spatial position on the graphical user interface and a movement of the selected first user-selectable graphical object along a path towards a second user-selectable graphical object at a second spatial position is detected and a position of the first user-selectable graphical object is exchanged with the position of the second user-selectable graphical object. If, during a predetermined time period, a selection of a third user-selectable graphical object and a movement of the third user-selectable graphical object towards a fourth user-selectable graphical object is detected, the positions of the third and fourth objects is exchanged.
US11314395B2	Sharing and using passes or accounts The present disclosure generally relates to a computer system displaying user interfaces for accessing passes and transfer accounts. In some examples, passes are added to the computer system. In some examples, passes are accessed. In some examples, transfers relating to the passes and transfer accounts are displayed, such as in search user interfaces.
US11314392B2	Stopwatch and timer user interfaces An electronic device may display a first lap time representation, and may move the first lap time representation in accordance with a first amount of elapsed time. While moving the first lap time representation, the electronic device may detect a lap input. In response to the lap input, the electronic device may cease movement of the first lap time representation, display a second lap time representation, and move the second lap time representation in accordance with a second amount of elapsed time. A relative positioning of the first lap time representation and the second lap time representation may correspond to a difference between a first lap time and a second lap time. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update the timescales of lap time representation(s) in accordance with a rotational input. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update a timer duration setting in accordance with a rotational input.
US11314384B2	System and user interface for clinical reporting and ordering provision of an item A user interface system enables user selection of related parameters identifying an order for providing an item or service. The system employs a repository including information identifying candidate items or services for order and associated corresponding related order parameters in which an individual item or service for order is associated with multiple related order parameters. A user interface processor for, in response to user entry of order associated data, uses the repository in providing data representing a display image. The display image includes, an initial single candidate order including multiple order related parameters, order related parameter identifiers, multiple concurrently displayed columnar image areas correspondingly associated with the multiple order related parameters and individually incorporating multiple user selectable values for a respective individual order related parameter. In response to the user selection of a first value for a first order related parameter in a first columnar image area for incorporation in the candidate order, corresponding compatible sets of order related parameter values are presented in remaining columnar image areas of the multiple concurrently displayed columnar image areas. The display image enables, in response to user command, user selection of a complete candidate order derived by selection of displayed order related parameter values in the concurrently displayed columnar image areas.
US11314378B2	Persistent group of media items for a media device Improved techniques to utilize and manage a group of media items (or media assets) on a computing device are disclosed. The group of media items can be utilized and managed at a host computer for the host computer as well as a media device (e.g., media player) that can couple to the host computer. One popular example of a group of media items is know as a playlist, which can pertain to a group of audio tracks. One aspect pertains to providing a persistent media device playlist at a host computer. Another aspect pertains to imposing capacity limits to a playlist, such as a media device playlist. Still another aspect pertains to a graphical user interface that enables a user to trade-off storage capacity of a media device between media asset storage and data storage. Yet still another aspect pertains to a graphical user interface that assists a user with selecting media items to fill a group of media items.
US11314374B2	Position specifying method and program An image measuring apparatus includes an imager that acquires an image of a measurement target object, a touch panel display that displays the image acquired by the imager and accepts touch input operation of specifying a position in the displayed image, and an edge detector that searches for and detects an edge present in a predetermined range around the in-image specified position specified by a user's touch input operation in the image displayed on the touch panel display. When edges are found in a vicinity of the specified position, the edge detector causes a control object for selecting each of the edges to be displayed on the touch panel display not only in an aspect that prevents a wrong edge from being selected through the touch operation but in an aspect that allows visual recognition of a correspondence between each of the edges and a corresponding control object.
US11314370B2	Method for extracting salient dialog usage from live data Systems and processes are disclosed for virtual assistant request recognition using live usage data and data relating to future events. User requests that are received but not recognized can be used to generate candidate request templates. A count can be associated with each candidate request template and can be incremented each time a matching candidate request template is received. When a count reaches a threshold level, the corresponding candidate request template can be used to train a virtual assistant to recognize and respond to similar user requests in the future. In addition, data relating to future events can be mined to extract relevant information that can be used to populate both recognized user request templates and candidate user request templates. Populated user request templates (e.g., whole expected utterances) can then be used to recognize user requests and disambiguate user intent as future events become relevant.
US11314369B2	Display device A display device including a display member including a substrate having an active area and a non-active area, and light-emitting elements disposed on the substrate, the non-active area including a bending region, and a touch member disposed on the display member and having a main touch area, in which the touch member includes touch electrodes disposed in the main touch area and touch lines connected to the touch electrodes, the main touch area corresponding to the active area and a portion of the touch lines corresponding to the non-active area, the touch lines include a first touch line part disposed on an upper side of the bending region, and a second touch line part disposed on a lower side of the bending region, and a number of conductive layers forming the first touch line part is greater than a number of conductive layers forming the second touch line part.
US11314364B2	Input-sensing unit and electronic apparatus including the same An input-sensing unit includes first sensing electrodes, second sensing electrodes, first sensing lines, second sensing lines, third sensing lines, and bridge patterns. The second sensing electrodes are electrically insulated from the first sensing electrodes. The first sensing lines are respectively connected to the first sensing electrodes. The second sensing lines are respectively connected to first ends of the second sensing electrodes. The third sensing lines are respectively connected to second ends of the second sensing electrodes. The second ends oppose the first ends. The bridge patterns are respectively connected to the third sensing lines. The bridge patterns are closer to the first ends than to the second ends. The bridge patterns extend in a direction parallel to the third sensing lines.
US11314361B2	Touch apparatus and touch detection method thereof A touch apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a touch panel that includes a plurality of first touch electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and a plurality of second touch electrodes extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction; and a touch driver that applies a first driving signal for generation of a resonance signal of a stylus pen to the touch panel in a first section, and receives a detection signal from the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes in a second section that is next to the first section.
US11314350B2	Display device including position input function A display device including a position input function includes a pixel, a pixel line extending so as to pass transversely across a display area, a signal supply unit connected to the pixel line, a first position detecting electrode placed in a first area A1 beside the signal supply unit, a second position detecting electrode placed in a second area on a side opposite to the signal supply unit, a first position detecting line placed so as to overlap the pixel line in the first area and connected to the signal supply unit and the first touch electrode, and a second position detecting line placed so as to overlap the pixel line in such a manner as to lie astride the first area and the second area and connected to the signal supply unit and the second position detecting electrode.
US11314348B2	Touch panel A touch panel includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, sub-pixels, a first conductive line, a second conductive line, and a conductive layer. The sub-pixels are arranged in columns along a first direction and arranged in rows along a second direction. Each of the sub-pixels includes an active element and a pixel electrode electrically connected with the active element. The active element is electrically connected with a corresponding scan line and a corresponding data line. The conductive layer overlaps the sub-pixels. The conductive layer includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is electrically connected with the first conductive line. The second electrode is electrically connected with the second conductive line. The second electrode is separated from the first electrode. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is a touch electrode, and another one is a common electrode.
US11314346B2	Vehicle control device and vehicle control method Disclosed herein is a control device. The control device includes an interface unit physically connected to a display unit, a control board receiving an input of an occupant, and a camera capturing an image of an area of a body of the occupant and the surroundings of the control board, and a processor exchanging information with the control board, the display unit, and the camera through the interface unit, wherein if it is determined that the occupant is present in the driver's seat through the camera and a first input is received from the occupant through the control board, the processor controls the display unit to display a display area corresponding to a position to which the first input is input on the control board, and when the display area is displayed in the display unit and a second input is received from the occupant through the control board, the processor selects or controls contents displayed in the display area.
US11314342B2	Mouse device A mouse device includes a casing, a button, and an elastic guiding structure. The casing includes a shell plate. The shell plate has a through hole, and the through hole has a hole edge. The button is disposed on the shell plate. The button includes a switch-triggering member, and the switch-triggering member is penetrated through the through hole. The elastic guiding member includes a first elastic bar and a second elastic bar. The first elastic bar is disposed at the hole edge and extends toward the switch-triggering member to have a first free end. The second elastic bar is disposed at the hole edge and extends toward the switch-triggering member to have a second free end. The switch-triggering member is sandwiched between the first free end and the second free end.
US11314341B2	Mouse device A mouse device includes a casing, a button, a connecting rod assembly, an elastic member, and an optical switch. A pressing block of the button extends into the casing. The connecting rod assembly is disposed in the casing and is rotatably disposed on a shaft base of the casing. The elastic member is disposed in the casing and elastically abuts against the connecting rod assembly, so that the connecting rod assembly abuts against the pressing block to allow the button at an initial position. The optical switch is disposed in the casing and adjacent to the connecting rod assembly. The button can be moved from the initial position to a pressed position relative to the casing so as to drive the connecting rod assembly to rotate, so that the connecting rod assembly is moved relative to the optical switch to trigger the optical switch.
US11314329B1	Neural decoding with co-learning for brain computer interfaces Embodiments relate to decoding architecture that rapidly decodes light-derived signals to extract predicted user actions or intents (e.g., commands) in relation to interactions with objects (e.g., virtual objects, physical objects), such that the user can manipulate the objects or otherwise receive assistance without manually interacting with an input device (e.g., touch input device, audio input device, etc.). The decoding architecture thus enables a neural decoding process with a neural signal stream as an input, and provides feedback to the user, where the feedback is used to train the neural decoding algorithm and user behavior. The neural signals can be blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signals associated with activation of different articulators of the motor cortex, and signals can characterize both actual and imagined motor cortex-related behaviors. With training of the decoding algorithm, rapid calibration of the BCI for new users can be achieved.
US11314321B2	Object and environment tracking via shared sensor One disclosed example provides a head-mounted device configured to control a plurality of light sources of a handheld object and acquire image data comprising a sequence of environmental tracking exposures in which the plurality of light sources are controlled to have a lower integrated intensity and handheld object tracking exposures in which the plurality of light sources are controlled to have a higher integrated intensity. The instructions are further executable to detect, via an environmental tracking exposure, one or more features of the surrounding environment, determine a pose of the head-mounted device based upon the one or more features of the surrounding environment detected, detect via a handheld object tracking exposure the plurality of light sources of the handheld object, determine a pose of the handheld object relative to the head-mounted device based upon the plurality of light sources detected, and output the pose of the handheld object.
US11314319B2	Operation methods of communication node in network An operation method of a communication node in an Ethernet-based vehicle network, the communication node including a regulator, a physical (PHY) layer unit, and a processor, includes outputting, by the processor, a first signal to initiate a supply of power to the communication node; outputting, by the processor, a second signal to initiate a transition of the communication node from a normal mode to a sleep mode; and transitioning, by the PHY layer unit, the communication node from the normal mode to the sleep mode when the second signal is received at the PHY layer unit from the processor.
US11314316B2	Modem to selectively superpose electric power An object of the present invention is to provide a modem (5, 6) that is capable of suppressing electric power consumption by switching an operation according to a power supply circumstance in an installation environment. The modem (5, 6) includes a low-voltage power supply terminal (502, 602) and a high-voltage power supply terminal (503, 603). The low-voltage power supply terminal (502, 602) is not connected to a power supply unit (506, 606). When electric power is supplied from the high-voltage power supply terminal (503, 603), a first superposition unit (508, 608) superposes the electric power input from the high-voltage power supply terminal (503, 603) on a signal to be transferred to a communication path.
US11314314B2	Head-mounted display apparatus and power saving control program for head-mounted display apparatus A head-mounted display apparatus includes an image display unit configured to display an image, a sound output unit configured to output a sound, a mounting state determination unit configured to determine a mounting state of the head-mounted display apparatus, and an image sound output control unit configured to turn ON/OFF display, and turn ON/OFF an output of a sound, based on the mounting state. The image sound output control unit is configured to turn ON display of an image and an output of a sound when the mounting state is the first state, turn OFF display of an image and turn ON an output of a sound when the mounting state is not the first state and is the second state, and turn OFF display of an image and an output of a sound when the mounting state is not the first state and is not the second state.
US11314313B2	Screen casting Screen casting on between two devices is described. In an example implementation, a communication link is established by a first device with a second device for casting a screen of the second device on the first device. Upon establishing the communication link, a command message is sent by the first device to the second device to set a backlight of the screen of the second device based on user backlight settings. When no user activity is detected on the second device for a specific time period, a request message is received by the first device from the second device, indicating switching the backlight of the screen of the second device to power-saving backlight settings. In response to the request message, a command message is sent by the first device to the second device to set the backlight of the screen of the second device based on the power-saving backlight settings.
US11314312B2	Smartphone-based radar system for determining user intention in a lower-power mode This document describes techniques and systems that enable a smartphone-based radar system for determining user intention in a lower-power mode. The techniques and systems use a radar field to enable the smartphone to accurately determine the presence or absence of a user and further determine the intention of the user to interact with the smartphone. Using these techniques, the smartphone can account for the user's nonverbal communication cues to determine and maintain an awareness of users in its environment, and only respond to direct interactions once a user has demonstrated an intention to interact, which preserves battery power. The smartphone may determine the user's intention by recognizing various cues from the user, such as a change in position relative to the smartphone, a change in posture, or by an explicit action, such as a gesture.
US11314311B2	Battery runtime and performance management based upon presence detection Systems and methods for managing battery runtime and performance based upon presence detection are described. In some embodiments, a method may include: receiving a first amount of energy from a power source directed to supporting operation of an Information Handling System (IHS); receiving a second amount of energy from the power source directed to charging a battery of the IHS; determining a user's presence state with respect to the IHS; and modifying the first and second amounts in response to the presence state.
US11314308B2	Control method for mobile terminal and controlled device, apparatus and system A control method includes: detecting a distance between a mobile terminal and a controlled device; controlling the controlled device to make the controlled device in power-on status automatically when the distance between the mobile terminal and the controlled device is within a preset distance; establishing a connection between the mobile terminal and the controlled device, so that a user sends a control instruction to the controlled device through the mobile terminal, to make the controlled device execute a corresponding operation. According to the control method, the control apparatus and the control system of the present disclosure, the controlled device may be controlled automatically to be in power-on status when the distance between the mobile terminal and the controlled device is within the preset distance, so that a user may send a control instruction to the controlled device. Thusly, the control efficiency is improved, and the user experience is good.
US11314301B2	Power management for memory device Methods, systems, and devices for power management of a memory device are described. An apparatus may include a substrate and an input/output (I/O) interface and memory device coupled with the substrate. The I/O interface may communicate with a host device and the memory device may store data associated with the host device. The apparatus may include a power management component for providing one or more supply voltages to the memory device. The power management component may receive input voltages associated with the substrate and provide the supply voltages to the memory device based on the input voltages. The power management component may include a first portion integrated with the memory device and a second portion coupled with the substrate. The first portion may include control circuitry for the power management component and the second portion may include passive components for the power management component.
US11314297B1	Electronic device with adjustable airflow diversion A portable electronic device is disclosed. The portable electronic device may include a laptop computing device that includes a base portion and a display housing rotationally coupled to the base portion. The base portion includes a fan designed to drive heated air out of the base portion, thus cooling the portable electronic device. A dynamic (movable) air diverter is integrated into the base portion near the fan's outlet. The air diverter is designed to direct airflow from the fan outlet. Moreover, the air diverter can be repositioned by, for example, rotating the display housing relative to the base portion. As a result of the repositioned air diverter, the airflow from the fan outlet is redirected out of the portable electronic device through a different location. The air diverter can be positioned in different discrete locations, or alternatively, can move continuously with the rotational movement of the display housing.
US11314294B2	Modular heat sink supporting expansion card connector Modular heat sinks are provided that support configurations using combinations of cooling and expansion card components, whereby the expansion card may support coupled devices. Heat sinks may include a fin set that is permanently fixed to the heat sink and a second fin set that can be decoupled from a location on the heat sink base. The second fin set can instead be replaced on the heat sink base by an expansion card connector, such as a M.2 expansion card connector. In some embodiments, an expansion card connector also includes a fin set, with the expansion card connector fastened on top of that fin set. The fin set to which the expansion card connector is fastened may include multiple tiers of fins of different heights that may conform to the space available to the heat sink, thus maximize cooling capabilities of the heat sink while also supporting an expansion card.
US11314282B2	Portable interface system A portable interface system comprising an interface device and a portable base part, wherein the interface device is fixable detachably without tools in an attachment area of the base part and wherein the interface system is designed in such a way that the interface device is activated if the interface device is detached from the base part.
US11314280B2	Portable electronic device case assembly Systems and methods are involved with but are not limited to an apparatus including a first frame shaped and sized to receive a tablet-shaped computing device; and a second frame shaped and sized to receive the first frame. In addition, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US11314274B2	Operation lever for working vehicle and working vehicle An operation lever for a working vehicle, the operation lever being arranged to one side of an operator seat of the working vehicle, includes: a swing body configured to be swingable; and a grip arranged on an upper portion of the swing body. The grip includes: a gripping arranged to the one side; an operating portion arranged to another side opposed to the one side and provided with an operation switch; an extending portion extending backward from a lower portion of the gripping portion; and an anti-slip portion arranged between a surface of the gripping portion and a surface of the extending portion.
US11314273B2	Power supply switching circuit Disclosed is a power supply switching circuit comprising: a first switch pair configured to selectively connect a first power supply node to an output node; a second switch pair configured to selectively connect a second power supply node to the output node; and a switch control circuit configured to: respectively control first and second switches of the first switch pair by a first control signal and a second control signal; respectively control first and second switches of the second switch pair by a third control signal and a fourth control signal; and selectively connect one of the first power supply node or the second power supply node to the output node by at least one of (a) the first and second control signals or (b) the third and fourth control signals. At least one of the second control signal or the fourth control signal is powered via the output node.
US11314271B2	Semiconductor apparatus for power supply control and output voltage variable power supply apparatus A power supply control apparatus includes a voltage control transistor connected between a DC voltage input terminal and an output terminal; a control circuit which controls the voltage control transistor according to an output feedback voltage; and a first external terminal receiving an output control signal to control an output voltage. The control circuit includes a first error amplifier outputting a voltage according to an electric potential difference between a voltage divided by a first voltage dividing circuit which divides the output voltage of the output terminal and a predetermined reference voltage; and an output changing circuit including a second error amplifier receiving a voltage input in the first external terminal, a transistor having a control terminal receiving the output of the second error amplifier, and a current mirror circuit connected to the voltage input terminal which transfers an electric current flowing in the transistor. The current mirror circuit is connected to a node from which the divided voltage is taken out, and the output changing circuit displaces the divided voltage according to a voltage input in the first external terminal to change the output voltage according to the output control signal.
US11314269B2	Electronic circuit for voltage regulation An electronic circuit for voltage regulation is disclosed, the circuit generally includes a low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator function block, including a primary feedback loop, and an output voltage stabilizer block connected to the LDO voltage regulator function block outside the primary feedback loop, wherein the output voltage stabilizer block includes a plurality of peak voltage suppression circuits and a plurality of dip voltage suppression circuits. In some embodiments, the output voltage stabilizer block is set at low bias current to minimize current consumption at normal condition. Other useful features and advantages of an electronic circuit for voltage regulation are disclosed.
US11314248B2	Unmanned vehicle control and sonar operation in a marine environment Many different types of systems are utilized or tasks are performed in a marine environment. The present invention provides various configurations of unmanned vehicles, or drones, that can be operated and/or controlled for such systems or tasks. One or more unmanned vehicles can be integrated with a dedicated marine electronic device of a marine vessel for autonomous control and operation. Additionally or alternatively, the unmanned vehicle can be manually remote operated during use in the marine environment. Such unmanned vehicles can be utilized in many different marine environment systems or tasks, including, for example, navigation, sonar, radar, search and rescue, video streaming, alert functionality, among many others. However, as contemplated by the present invention, the marine environment provides many unique challenges that may be accounted for with operation and control of an unmanned vehicle.
US11314239B2	Method, device and system for replaying movement of robot The present disclosure discloses a method, system and device for replaying movement of a robot. In an embodiment, the method includes a controller receiving a log file in which information about a movement of the robot is recorded; the controller obtaining information of position points passed by the robot when performing the movement based on the log file; and the controller sending the information of position points passed by the robot when performing the movement to a replaying device, to enable the replaying device to replay the movement of the robot according to the information of position points. The technical solutions of the present disclosure may increase the accuracy of locating where the problem is when errors or something unexpected happened to the robot.
US11314238B2	Plant operational plan optimization discrete event simulator device and method The integrated control processing unit is configured to recognize a varying processable amount over time within a predetermined period of each of the simulators; transmit a simulation request for a simulation process within an optimal processing amount within the recognized processable amount of each of the simulators to each of the simulators together with an operation state information group and a simulation condition; receive a plurality of evaluation value groups as a simulation process result based on the operation state information group and the simulation condition from each of the simulators; and recognize a highest evaluation value group based on an operation objective function among a plurality of received evaluation value groups. The operational plan optimization device can perform various simulation operations at high speed at lower cost and recognize an optimal operation efficiently using hardware resources when performing operation simulation.
US11314235B2	Systems to implement a safety state environment among control modules A distributed networking system and protocol is provided to a networking system with a modular design. The distributed networking system may include a networking system, modules, control module, user interface module, input/output module, network module, data transmission network, hybrid modules and composite modules. A method to interface with accessories of a system with a modular design using the distributed networking system and protocol is also provided.
US11314234B2	Substrate processing apparatus, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, and recording medium There is provided a technique that includes a load port on which a plurality of storage containers, each storage container storing a plurality of substrates, are mounted, a plurality of process chambers configured to be capable of accommodating the substrates, a transfer part configured to transfer the substrates stored in each storage container to each of the process chambers; an operation part configured to, when performing the process in a state in which a substrate is not present in each process chamber, count first count data of data tables for corresponding process chambers; a memory configured to store the data tables; and a controller configured to assign first transfer flag data to a data table of a process chamber having largest first count data and configured to control the transfer part based on the first transfer flag data so as to transfer the substrates in the predetermined order.
US11314229B2	Printed circuit board design and manufacturing A spatial model of a printed circuit board assembly is generated based on an input file. The spatial model is used to determine a spatial feature not directly specified in the input file. A manufacturing parameter is determined based at least in part on the determined spatial feature. A proposal to manufacture the printed circuit board assembly is generated programmatically based at least in part on the determined manufacturing parameter.
US11314218B2	Method, system and related devices for operating multiple cranes in unison A crane control system for controlling a plurality of cranes is provided. The crane control system in some embodiments includes a master controller unit, at least one computer readable memory for storing a plurality of tokens, each token from the plurality of tokens associated with a respective crane from the plurality of cranes, and a processing unit responsive to commands inputtable by an operator of the master controller unit to send the commands to individual cranes from the plurality of cranes, wherein the processing unit associates the commands with respective tokens to control the cranes associated with those tokens. The crane control system in some embodiments also includes a processing unit that is responsive to a signal indicative of a synchronization loss to issue a command to bring the plurality of cranes into a safe condition, such as an emergency stop, or a corrective action.
US11314214B2	Geographic analysis of water conditions An apparatus for aggregation of water condition at household appliances comprises a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface is configured to send a reporting message indicative of data collected by at least one appliance to a central server. The controller is configured to receive an analysis message from the central server. The analysis message indicates a condition of water from the at least one appliance or a condition of water in a geographic area associated with the at least one appliance. The controller is configured to provide an alert in response to the analysis message.
US11314208B2	Watch provided with a control member A watch includes a control member which makes it possible to manage one or more electronic functions. The control member includes an optical guide, which extends between a proximal face and a distal face with respect to the middle. A light source is arranged such that it can illuminate the distal face through the optical guide, and an imaging device, including a photodetector, is arranged to capture an image of a portion of the finger of a user of the watch, when they touch the distal face. A processor generates commands based on signals generated by the photodetector, in the way of an optical mouse, for example, to make it possible for the user to browse in a menu displayed on a digital screen.
US11314206B2	Mechanical clockwork Disclosed is a clockwork with pointers or with a pointer module driven by a mechanical driving gear, wherein the clockwork is a hybrid clockwork that in addition to the mechanical driving gear, also at least includes an additional driving gear with a motor and an electric or electronic controller that is internal and which is equipped to be able to drive and/or adjust the pointers or the pointer module in parallel or in series with the mechanical driving gear.
US11314204B2	Holographic reconstruction apparatus and method Provided are an improved holographic reconstruction apparatus and method. A holographic reconstruction method includes: obtaining an object hologram of a measurement target object; extracting reference light information from the obtained object hologram; calculating a wavenumber vector constant of the extracted reference light information, and generating digital reference light by calculating a compensation term of the reference light information by using the calculated wavenumber vector constant; extracting curvature aberration information from the object hologram, and then generating digital curvature in which a curvature aberration is compensated for; calculating a compensated object hologram by multiplying the compensation term of the reference light information by the obtained object hologram; extracting phase information of the compensated object hologram; and reconstructing 3-dimensional (3D) shape information and quantitative thickness information of the measurement target object by calculating the quantitative thickness information of the measurement target object by using the extracted phase information of the compensated object hologram.
US11314193B2	Foreign substance collection apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A foreign substance collection apparatus includes: a frame body; a photosensitive drum; a cleaning roller which collects foreign substances from a surface of the photosensitive drum; a collecting roller which further collects the foreign substances having been collected by the cleaning roller from the cleaning roller; and a scraping member which scrapes off the foreign substances from the collecting roller. A foreign substance collecting portion included in the frame body has, in a posture during use: a first inner bottom surface which is positioned below the scraping member in a gravity direction; an outer bottom surface which is positioned further below the first inner bottom surface; and a connecting surface which intersects the first inner bottom surface and the outer bottom surface and which connects the first inner bottom surface and the outer bottom surface with each other.
US11314184B2	Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and data recording medium A method of forming an image includes forming, on a recording medium (P), a special-light responsive image (201) that includes an image forming material including a special-light responsive image forming material that reacts to special light other than visible light and a special-light irresponsive image (202) that includes an image forming material including the special-light responsive image forming material. The special-light responsive image forming material of the special-light irresponsive image (202) is less than the special-light responsive image forming material of the special-light responsive image (201), and the special-light irresponsive image (202) is a prevention image that prevents visibility of the special-light responsive image (201). The forming includes forming an overlaid portion (203) in which at least a portion of one of the prevention image and the special-light responsive image (201) is overlaid on top of another one of the prevention image and the special-light responsive image (201).
US11314178B2	Toner A toner containing a toner particle, wherein, when a dielectric loss tangent measured at a frequency of 10 kHz in an impedance measurement on the toner in an environment having a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 50% RH is designated by tan δ50° C.(1), and a dielectric loss tangent measured at a frequency of 10 kHz in an impedance measurement on the toner in an environment having a temperature of 30° C. and a relative humidity of 50% RH after the impedance measurement on the toner in an environment having a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 50% RH is designated by tan δ30° C.(2), tan δ50° C.(1) is from 0.015 to 0.050, the relationship tan δ50° C.(1)>tan δ30° C.(2) is satisfied, and tan δ30° C.(2)/tan δ50° C.(1) is from 0.25 to 0.66.
US11314173B2	Topographic phase control for overlay measurement Metrology tools and methods are provided, which estimate the effect of topographic phases corresponding to different diffraction orders, which result from light scattering on periodic targets, and adjust the measurement conditions to improve measurement accuracy. In imaging, overlay error magnification may be reduced by choosing appropriate measurement conditions based on analysis of contrast function behavior, changing illumination conditions (reducing spectrum width and illumination NA), using polarizing targets and/or optical systems, using multiple defocusing positions etc. On-the-fly calibration of measurement results may be carried out in imaging or scatterometry using additional measurements or additional target cells.
US11314171B2	Lithography improvement based on defect probability distributions and critical dimension variations Certain aspects relate to a method for improving a lithography configuration. In the lithography configuration, a source illuminates a mask to expose resist on a wafer. A processor determines a defect-based focus exposure window (FEW). The defect-based FEW is an area of depth of focus and exposure latitude for the lithography configuration with an acceptable level of defects on the wafer. The defect-based FEW is determined based on a predicted probability distribution for occurrence of defects on the wafer. A processor also determines a critical dimension (CD)-based FEW. The CD-based FEW is an area of depth of focus and exposure latitude for the lithography configuration with an acceptable level of CD variation on the wafer. It is determined based on predicted CDs on the wafer. The lithography configuration is modified based on increasing an area of overlap between the defect-based FEW and the CD-based FEW.
US11314161B2	Mask blank, phase shift mask, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device Provided is a mask blank for a phase shift mask including an etching stopper film. The mask blank has a structure where a transparent substrate has stacked thereon an etching stopper film and a phase shift film in this order, in which the phase shift film contains silicon and oxygen, in which the phase shift film has a refractive index n1 of 1.5 or more for light of 193 nm wavelength and an extinction coefficient k1 of 0.1 or less for light of 193 nm wavelength, in which the etching stopper film has a refractive index n2 of 2.5 or more and 3.1 or less for light of 193 nm wavelength and an extinction coefficient k2 of 0.4 or less for light of 193 nm wavelength, and the refractive index n2 and the extinction coefficient k2 satisfy at least one of a set of specified conditions.
US11314155B1	Elevator assembly and electronic device An elevator assembly includes a first bracket, a second bracket, a first connecting rod and a second connecting rod. The second bracket is slidably disposed on the first bracket. The first connecting rod has a first pivot end and a first sliding end. The first pivot end is pivoted to the first bracket and provided with a first gear portion, and the first sliding end is slidably disposed on the first bracket and connected to the second bracket. The second connecting rod has a second pivot end and a second sliding end. The second pivot end is pivoted to the first bracket and provided with a second gear portion, the second sliding end is slidably disposed on the second bracket and connected to the second bracket, and the first gear portion and the second gear portion are engaged with each other.
US11314145B1	Efficient ultrathin all-dielectric nonlinear optical device An apparatus and method are provided for generating harmonic light from a pump beam that is impinged on a metasurface comprising a plurality of all-dielectric resonator bodies. A multiple quantum well structure formed in each resonator body includes asymmetric coupled quantum wells having intersubband transition frequencies that couple to Mie resonances of the resonator bodies.
US11314138B2	Display device The present invention provides a display device including a display panel having a display surface, a polarizer disposed on the display surface, a first phase retardation layer disposed on one side of the polarizer opposite to the display surface, a polymerized cholesteric material layer disposed on one side of the first phase retardation layer opposite to the display surface, a second phase retardation layer disposed on one side of the polymerized cholesteric material layer opposite to the display surface, and a switchable polarizer disposed on one side of the second phase retardation layer opposite to the display surface. A first optical axis of the first phase retardation layer is orthogonal to a second optical axis of the second phase retardation layer. A first absorption axis of the polarizer is in the same direction as a second absorption axis of the switchable polarizer. The polarity of the switchable polarizer can be turned on or off according to a display state or a non-display state of the display panel, respectively.
US11314132B2	Array substrate and display panel An array substrate and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, a thin film transistor layer disposed on the substrate, and a pixel electrode layer disposed on the thin film transistor layer. The pixel electrode layer includes a plurality of pixel regions, and the pixel regions include a first pixel region and a second pixel region. A pixel electrode in the second pixel region is disposed along an outer boundary of the first pixel region, or a pixel electrode in the first pixel region is disposed along an outer boundary of the second pixel region.
US11314130B2	Display device including column spacers A display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate overlapping the first substrate; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; a column spacer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a transistor disposed on the first substrate and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the transistor through a hole. The display device further includes a plurality of column spacers disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The plurality of column spacers include a main spacer having a first height and a sub-spacer having a second height that is different from the first height. At least one of the main spacer and the sub-spacer includes a first spacer having a first planar area and a second planar spacer having a second planar area that is different from the first planar area.
US11314126B2	Backlight module and liquid crystal display device A backlight module and a liquid crystal display device are provided. By forming a diffusion layer on a light emitting surface of each of a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), a light shadow and a LED light path generated by misalignment between the LEDs and a light guide plate and deformation of a reflective sheet can be effectively avoided. The backlight module emits light of uniform brightness to improve display performance of the liquid crystal display device.
US11314125B2	LED backlight module, display screen and detection method of LED backlight module Provided is a LED backlight module, display screen and detection method of a LED backlight module. The LED backlight module includes a substrate and multiple LED chips arranged on the substrate, one first detection group is arranged on the substrate for each LED chip of more than one LED chip arranged at an interval of N LED chips connected in series, where N is greater than or equal to 0, the first detection group includes a first positive electrode detection point and a first negative electrode detection point, the first positive electrode detection point and the first negative electrode detection point of the first detection group are respectively connected to a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the each LED chip.
US11314124B2	Display device The present invention provides a display device. Multiple functional layers on a display panel are provided with a functional region arranged corresponding to a camera module. The functional region includes a light transmissive region arranged corresponding to a first hole and a light shielding region arranged around the light transmissive region. The light shielding region is arranged corresponding to the light shielding member in a backlight module, and the light shielding region shields a light shielding member. Such configuration improves a problem that an aperture of an opening region of an under-screen camera deforms due to the light shielding member.
US11314123B2	Composite pane having a functional element and illumination A composite pane having electrically controllable optical properties, includes an outer pane, a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer, and an inner pane, a functional element having electrically controllable optical properties, which is arranged between the first intermediate layer and the second intermediate layer, and a thermoplastic frame layer, which surrounds the functional element in the manner of a frame, wherein the outer pane and the inner pane are joined to one another via the first intermediate layer, the second intermediate layer, and the thermoplastic frame layer, and an optical waveguide is arranged at least partially between the outer pane and the inner pane.
US11314118B2	Display device and optical film A display device and an optical film are provided. The optical film is disposed on the display surface of the display device, and includes an anti-glare layer and an anti-reflection layer. The anti-glare layer has a first light-incident surface and a first light-exit surface. The anti-reflection layer is disposed on the first light-exit surface. The anti-reflection layer has a second light-incident surface and a second light-exit surface facing away from each other. The second light-incident surface faces the first light-exit surface of the anti-glare layer. The specular reflectance of the optical film is smaller than or equal to 0.14% for a light ray incident to the second light-exit surface at an incident angle ranging from 10 degrees to 30 degrees.
US11314115B2	Array substrate and manufacturing method therefor, display panel and display device An array substrate, a manufacturing method of the same, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region around the display region, a photosensitive layer is in the display region and a peripheral circuit is in the peripheral region. The array substrate further includes an alignment film covering the photosensitive layer and the peripheral circuit. The array substrate further includes an insulating layer between the peripheral circuit and the alignment film. The alignment film is a photo alignment film, and the insulating layer is configured to absorb and/or reflect an alignment light adopted for performing photoalignment to obtain the alignment film.
US11314111B2	Display panel The invention discloses a display panel having a display region and a wire out region on one side of the display region, comprising: a first substrate including a main body part and a glue blocking part connected to the main body part, a thickness of the main body part being different from a thickness of the glue blocking part; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; and a sealant arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and located between the display region and the wire out region, wherein the glue blocking part is located on one side of the sealant close to the wire out region. The thickness of the main body part of the first substrate in the display panel of the invention is different from the thickness of the glue blocking part, and before curing, the sealant does not spill into the wire out region due to obstruction action of the glue blocking part, thereby not affecting a peeling process of the panel after cutting.
US11314109B1	Electrically switchable infrared mirrors using phase-change chalcogenides materials A spatial light modulator cell and arrays of spatial light modulator cells are disclosed. The spatial light modulator cells can comprise a phase change material (PCM) having a first side and a second side; an optical reflector configured to reflect an optical beam passing from the first side to the second side; and a PCM heater thermal conductively coupled to the PCM, wherein thermal modulation of the PCM modulates a phase of the PCM which varies light transmission through the PCM. Methods of making spatial light modulator cells and arrays are also disclosed.
US11314107B2	Optical modulation skew adjustment systems and methods The present invention facilitates optical modulation skew adjustment. Components of an on chip optical device driver system can cooperatively operate to provide modulated driver signals to drive configuration of optical signals. A serializer is configured to receive parallel data signals and forward corresponding serial data signals. A multiplexing component is configured to selectively output an in-phase component and a quadrature component of the serial data signals, including implementing skew adjustments to aspects of a first output signal and a second output signal. An output stage is configured to output signals that modulate an optical signal, including the first output signal and the second output signal. An on chip skew detector is configured to detect a skew difference between the first output signal and the second output signal. A skew calibration component is configured to direct skew adjustment between the first output signal and the second output signal.
US11314100B2	Forming a homogenized illumination line which can be imaged as a low-speckle line A system for forming a homogenized illumination line which can be imaged as a low-speckle line is disclosed. The system includes a laser configured to emit a collimated laser beam; and an illumination-fan generator that includes one or more linear diffusers. The illumination-fan generator is arranged and configured to (i) receive the collimated laser beam, (ii) output a planar fan of diffused light, such that the planar fan emanates from a light line formed on the distal-most one of the one or more linear diffusers, and (iii) cause formation of an illumination line at an intersection of the planar fan and an object.
US11314098B2	Switchable light-collimating layer with reflector A light-collimating film including elongated chambers of bistable electrophoretic fluids. The light-collimating films are suitable to control the amount and/or direction of light incident to a transmissive substrate. Such films may be integrated into devices, such as LCD displays, to provide a zone of privacy for a user viewing the LCD display. Because the light-collimating film is switchable, it allows a user to alter the collimation of the emitted light on demand. Because the films are bistable, they do not require additional power after they have been switched to a display state.
US11314093B2	Light guide display assembly for providing expanded field of view A device includes one or more light guides. The device also includes a first in-coupling element configured to couple a first light having a first input field of view (“FOV”) into a first light guide, and a second in-coupling element configured to couple a second light having a second input FOV into a second light guide. The device also includes a first out-coupling element configured to couple the first light out of the first light guide as a first output light having a first output FOV, and a second out-coupling element configured to couple the second light out of the second light guide as a second output light having a second output FOV substantially non-overlapping with the first output FOV. A combination of the first output FOV and the second output FOV is larger than at least one of the first output FOV or the second output FOV.
US11314091B2	Wavelength multiplexing in waveguides A stacked waveguide assembly can have multiple waveguide stacks. Each waveguide stack can include a plurality of waveguides, where a first waveguide stack may be associated with a first subcolor of each of three different colors, and a second waveguide stack may be associated with a second subcolor of each of the three different colors. For example, the first stack of waveguides can incouple blue, green, and red light at 440 nm, 520 nm, and 650 nm, respectively. The second stack of waveguides can incouple blue, green, and red light at 450 nm, 530 nm, and 660 nm, respectively.
US11314085B2	Viewing device comprising a pupil expander including two mirrors A viewing devices includes an optical assembly comprising a display, an optical system forming of this display an image at infinity and a light guide for expanding a pupil in two spatial directions. The guide comprises three planar mirrors and two semi-reflective plates, the optical axis of the optical assembly being inclined with respect to the surface of the first planar mirror by an angle different from zero and strictly smaller than 90 degrees, the light beams output from the optical assembly propagating inside the light guide via successive reflections from the planar mirrors and the semi-reflective plates, the transmission of the light beams output from the optical assembly to outside of the light guide occurring via successive transmissions by the second semi-reflective plate.
US11314083B2	Beam steering optics for near-eye and head mounted displays A near-eye display system includes a display panel to present image frames to the eyes of a user for viewing. The system also includes a beam steering assembly facing the display panel that is configurable to displace a light beam incident on the beam steering assembly, thereby laterally shifting light relative to an optical path of the light beam incident on the beam steering assembly. The beam steering assembly includes a birefringent plate configurable to replicate a light ray incident on the beam steering assembly such that the replicated light ray is laterally shifted relative to an optical path of the light ray incident on the beam steering assembly.
US11314081B2	Increased bit depth in high frame rate applications Described examples include a process that includes illuminating a spatial light modulator at a first illumination level during a first bit-plane and stopping illumination at a beginning of a second bit-plane subsequent to the first bit-plane. The process also includes resuming illumination after a settling period of the spatial light modulator at a second illumination level for a time period such that a total illumination energy during the second bit-plane is equivalent to an intended illumination energy for the second bit-plane at the first illumination level and stopping illumination at the second illumination level before a subsequent third bit-plane.
US11314073B2	Lighting device and inspection apparatus having the same A lighting device includes a light source generating a beam of illumination light, a ring-shaped aperture shielding a central portion of the illumination light and transforming the beam of illumination light into ring-shaped illumination light, and an object lens focusing the ring-shaped illumination light such that a specimen can be illuminated with the ring-shaped illumination light. An inspection apparatus including the light device also has a beam splitter and an image sensor picking up light reflected and/or diffracted from the specimen through the beam splitter. Because a central portion of the illumination light is shielded, lens flare of light transmitted by the beam splitter and the object lens is prevented thereby preventing speckles in the image produced by the image sensor.
US11314072B2	Microscope system with light sheet microscopy functional unit A microscope system includes a light sheet microscopy functional unit and at least one further light microscopy functional unit. The light sheet microscopy functional unit has an illumination objective which is formed by a first objective and a detection objective which is formed by a separate second objective. The at least one further light microscopy functional unit has a detection objective that is formed by the second objective.
US11314063B2	Zoom lens A zoom lens includes a first lens group with a negative refractive power, a second lens group with a positive refractive power, and an aperture stop disposed in and movable with the second lens group. Each of the first lens group and the second lens group moves individually. The zoom lens further includes a doublet lens disposed on a first side of the aperture stop and between the first lens group and the aperture stop, and at most two lenses including at least one aspheric lens are disposed on a second side of the aperture stop.
US11314058B2	Camera optical lens including six lenses of +−−++−refractive powers The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 3.00≤f1/f≤10.00; and 5.00≤R11/d11≤15.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11314046B2	Camera optical lens The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: −5.00≤f2/f3≤−2.00; and 1.50≤d3/d5≤5.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high optical imaging performance while satisfying a design requirement for ultra-thin, wide-angle camera lenses with large apertures.
US11314045B2	Camera optical lens The present invention discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The second lens has a negative refractive power and the third lends has a positive refractive power. The camera optical lens further satisfies the following specific conditions: 2.00≤f1/f3≤5.00 and −16.00≤R5/R6≤−10.00. The optical lens can achieve an excellent imaging performance and satisfy the design demands of ultra-thin, wide-angle and large aperture.
US11314043B2	Lens assembly including six lenses of −−++−+ refractive powers A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is with negative refractive power. The second lens is with negative refractive power. The third and fourth lenses are with positive refractive power. The fifth lens is with negative refractive power. The sixth lens is with positive refractive power. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens are arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The lens assembly satisfies: 4.9≤TTL/f≤11.5; wherein TTL is an interval from an object side surface of the first lens to an image plane along the optical axis and f is an effective focal length of the lens assembly.
US11314035B2	Adjustable optical element supporting structure The present invention is directed to an adjustable optical element supporting structure comprising a first structure group, a second structure group, a third structure group and a fourth structure group. The second structure group is disposed on the first structure group, the third structure group is disposed on the second structure group, and the fourth structure group is disposed on the third structure group. Each of the first structure group, the second structure group and the third structure group includes a supporting beam and a node assemble, and the position of the node assemble can be adjusted along a radial or a tangential direction. The fourth structure group is a supporting member having three branches, and a supporting pad made by an elastic material is disposed on the supporting member for supporting an optical element. Accordingly, the present invention can evenly support the optical element having different sizes and structures.
US11314031B2	Optical element driving mechanism An optical element driving mechanism has an optical axis and includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, and a driving assembly. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion, wherein the driving assembly moves along a first direction to move the movable portion along a second direction, the first direction is different from the second direction.
US11314025B2	Optical transceiver An optical transceiver that is hot-pluggable to an external device includes: an IC-TROSA including first to third internal fibers extending from a first surface of a package on a side opposite to the device in the first direction; a first substrate on which the IC-TROSA is mounted; a second substrate electrically connected to a light source and the first substrate and to which the light source is attached to generate reference light; a first sleeve provided on the second internal fiber; a second sleeve provided on the third internal fiber; and a fiber tray in which the substrates are mounted in an upper portion and the fibers are housed in a lower portion by being bent greater than a predetermined radius of curvature. The second substrate is arranged between the first and second sleeves and the first substrate in the first direction.
US11314018B2	Polymer optical waveguide and composite optical waveguide The present invention relates to a polymer optical waveguide including: a core; an under-cladding; and an over-cladding, in which the polymer optical waveguide includes a coupling section and an optical waveguide section that are provided along a light propagation direction, the polymer optical waveguide includes portions having different core widths along the light propagation direction, and when a core width at a portion a having a narrowest core width is denoted Wa (μm) and a core height at the portion a is denoted Ha (μm), Ha is 1.3 μm or more and 4.5 μm or less, and Ha/Wa is 1.15 or less.
US11314017B2	Optical fiber An optical fiber includes: a core portion made of glass; and a cladding portion made of glass, having a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the core portion, and positioned on an outer periphery of the core portion. Further, the cladding portion has an outer diameter smaller than 100 μm, and the core portion has a relative refractive-index difference of 0.32% to 0.40% with respect to the cladding portion.
US11314012B2	Rayleigh spacing limited and low z-height LED arrays A light source useful for architectural lighting, general lighting, street lighting, or other lighting applications includes a plurality of light emitting diodes, with at least some light emitting diodes sized between 50 microns and 500 microns. A plurality of micro-optics sized less than 1 millimeter are positioned over at least some of the plurality of light emitting diodes. Each combination of light emitting diode and associated micro-optic is positioned within a Rayleigh distance to each other, sufficient to both present a substantially uniform visual appearance and provide a substantially uniform light beam. In some embodiments the height of the light emitting diodes, their supporting substrate and electrical traces, and associated optics is less than 5 millimeters.
US11314006B2	Method for manufacturing polarizer and polarizer manufactured by the same The present specification relates to a method for manufacturing a polarizer and a polarizer manufactured by using the same, and more particularly, to a method for manufacturing a polarizer, which includes a cross-linking and elongating step using an aqueous solution including a polyvalent carboxylic acid compound and a boric acid compound, and a polarizer manufactured by using the same.
US11314003B2	Special-shaped display screen and display device A special-shaped display screen and a display device are provided. The special-shaped display screen includes a first display area and a second display area. The first display area includes a first boundary and a first pixel area, and the first boundary is disposed on an outer periphery of the first pixel area. The second display area includes a second boundary and a second pixel area, and the second boundary and the first boundary define an effective display area of the special-shaped display screen. The first pixel area is formed by a plurality of triangular pixel units, and the second pixel area is spliced by a plurality of rectangular pixel units arranged alternately in a face-up configuration and a face-down configuration.
US11313997B2	Optical elements having gradient optical properties A method for creating gradient optical properties within a substrate is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention teaches a method whereby a material disposed on a substrate is patterned in three dimensions such that the thickness and diffusivity properties of the material can be used to regulate the diffusion of ions into the substrate. An example is given in which ions, injected into a substrate through an ion exchange process, alter the refractive index within the substrate in a pre-selected fashion to form a gradient refractive index lens.
US11313971B1	Three-dimensional imaging system and method A three-dimensional imaging system and method are provided. The three-dimensional imaging system includes: an ultrashort pulse laser light source configured to generate a detection beam; a supercontinuum spectrum generator configured to generate a supercontinuum spectrum based on the detection beam passing through the supercontinuum spectrum generator; a pulse separation delayer configured to generate a continuous pulse sequence of different wavelengths with a time interval based on the supercontinuum spectrum; a multi-frequency pulse interference fringe generator configured to generate multi-frequency interference fringe patterns of different wavelength ranges with a time interval based on the continuous pulse sequence; and an image acquisition device configured to acquire an optical signal reflected by a sample irradiated by the multi-frequency interference fringe patterns to obtain a three-dimensional topography of the sample.
US11313966B2	Velocity detection in autonomous devices An unmanned aerial vehicle comprising a velocity sensing system is provided. The velocity sensing system comprises a transmitter configured to transmit a first acoustic signal having at least a first frequency and a receiver, configured to detect a second acoustic signal comprising the first acoustic signal after it has been reflected from a reflective surface. The velocity sensing system is configured to determine from the second acoustic signal a second frequency, said second frequency comprising the first frequency after having undergone a Doppler shift; and to use the first and second frequencies to determine a velocity at which the unmanned aerial vehicle is travelling relative to the reflective surface.
US11313963B2	Millimeter wave holographic three-dimensional imaging detection system and method This invention provides millimeter wave holographic 3D imaging detection system, which comprises: a transmitting antenna configured to transmit a millimeter wave transmitting signal to an object to be detected; a receiving antenna configured to receive an echo signal from the object to be detected; a millimeter wave transceiving module configured to generate the millimeter wave transmitting signal transmitted to the object to be detected and receive and process the echo signal from the receiving antenna; a scanning device configured to support the millimeter wave transceiving module, the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna, and move the millimeter transceiving module, the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna along a preset track, so as to scan the object to be detected with millimeter waves; a data gathering and processing module configured to gather and process the echo signal output from the millimeter wave transceiving module to generate a 3D image of the object to be detected; and an image display unit configured to display the 3D image generated by the data gathering and processing module. Besides, this invention also provides a method of millimeter wave holographic 3D imaging detection on an object to be detected using the above system thereof. The technical solution of this invention has the advantages of simple structure, high resolution, short imaging time, and larger field of view.
US11313960B2	Apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium to generate an object image using correlation matrices An object detection apparatus 1000 includes a plurality of transmitting units 1101 configured to emit a transmission signal, a receiving unit 1102 configured to mix the reception signal with a transmission signal to generate an IF signal, a spectrum calculation unit 1103 configured to calculate a spectrum that indicates a distribution of positions of the object, a section determination unit 1104 configured to determine sections for which a reflectance of the object is to be calculated, a reflectance distribution calculation unit 1105 configured to calculate, for each pair of a transmitting unit and the receiving unit, a reflectance of the object for each section, and calculate a product of the reflectance distributions over the sections, the reflectance distributions being calculated for the respective pairs, and an image generation unit 1106 configured to generate an image using a product of the reflectance distributions calculated for the respective pairs.
US11313958B2	Dynamic echo signal emulation for automobile radar sensor configurations A system for testing automobile radar sensor configurations includes multiple probe arrays, multiple enclosures, a channel emulator and a test controller. The enclosures each enclose one of the probe arrays together with a corresponding different automobile radar sensor. Each probe array is configured to receive radar signals from the corresponding automobile radar sensor and emulate echo signals back to the corresponding automobile radar sensor. The channel emulator is configured to supply the echo signals to each of the probe arrays. The test controller includes a memory that stores instructions and a processor that executes the instructions. The test controller controls the channel emulator and is configured to perform performance testing on an automobile radar sensor configuration that includes the automobile radar sensors and an automobile driving controller that reacts to the echo signals received by each of the automobile radar sensors.
US11313937B2	Systems and methods for angle of arrival estimation A method for operating a wireless receiver includes receiving wireless signals from a transmitter at a first antenna and a second antenna. The wireless signals include a signal carrier and one or more data symbols modulated onto the signal carrier. The one or more data symbols in the wireless signal are decoded to determine a symbol phase contribution. The phase of the wireless signals at the first antenna and the second antenna during one or more symbol periods is estimated to provide a first set of phase measurements and a second set of phase measurements, respectively. The symbol phase contribution is removed from the first set of phase measurements and the second set of phase measurements to provide a first corrected set of phase measurements and a second corrected set of phase measurements, respectively, which are used to estimate an angle of arrival of the wireless signals.
US11313936B2	Probe systems and methods for characterizing optical coupling between an optical probe of a probe system and a calibration structure Probe systems and methods of characterizing optical coupling between an optical probe of a probe system and a calibration structure. The probe systems include a probe assembly that includes an optical probe, a support surface configured to support a substrate, and a signal generation and analysis assembly configured to generate an optical signal and to provide the optical signal to the optical device via the optical probe. The probe systems also include an electrically actuated positioning assembly, a calibration structure configured to receive the optical signal, and an optical detector configured to detect a signal intensity of the optical signal. The probe systems further include a controller programmed to control the probe system to generate a representation of signal intensity as a function of the relative orientation between the optical probe and the calibration structure. The methods include methods of operating the probe systems.
US11313931B2	System and method for quantifying T1, T2 and resonance frequency using rosette trajectory acquisition and read segmented reconstruction A method for quantifying T1, T2 and resonance frequency simultaneously using magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) includes accessing an MRF dictionary using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The MRF dictionary is generated by simulating signal evolutions that include associated off-resonance effects for each signal evolution. The method further includes acquiring MRF data from a region of interest in a subject using the MRI system and a MRF pulse sequence having a plurality of radio frequency (RF) excitations and a readout associated with each RF excitation. Each readout includes a plurality of segments and each segment is used to generate a time frame. The method also include comparing the MRF data to the MRF dictionary to identify a plurality of parameters including T1, T2 and resonance frequency for the MRF data and generating a report indicating the at least one of the plurality of parameters of the MRF data.
US11313926B1	Interlockable vapor cells In a general aspect, a vapor cell includes a body defined by a stack of layers bonded to each other. The stack of layers includes a first end layer disposed at a first end of the body and a second end layer disposed at a second, opposite end of the body. Intermediate layers extend between the first and second end layers and define an internal cavity extending through the body between the first end layer and the second end layer. The stack of layers also includes first and second sets of tabs. The first set of tabs extends outward from the intermediate layers on a first exterior side of the body, and the second set of tabs extends outward from the intermediate layers on a second exterior side of the body. The vapor cell also includes a vapor or a source of the vapor disposed in the internal cavity.
US11313923B2	Method for measuring a magnetic field using a magnetic field sensor device having a second magnetic field sensor between parts of a first magnetic field sensor A method includes measuring a first property of a magnetic field using a bridge circuit with spatially separated bridge branches, and measuring a second property of the magnetic field using a magnetic field sensor located between the spatially separated bridge branches.
US11313920B2	Sensor unit This sensor unit includes a base having a substantially-rectangular planar shape including a first side and a second side that are substantially orthogonal to each other, and a plurality of first sensors provided on the base and arranged on a first axis. The first axis is substantially parallel to the first side and passes through a center position of the base.
US11313917B2	Electric current sensor for detecting leakage current An electric current sensor for detecting a leakage current from an electric vehicle charger. The current sensor includes a magnetic core having a gap formed therein, a first conductor wound around the magnetic core to form a first coil, a second conductor wound around the magnetic core to form a second coil, and a tunnel-magnetoresistance (TMR) sensor element arranged in the gap of the magnetic core. A difference between electric current flow in the first and second conductors produces a magnetic field in the gap of the magnetic core proportional to a leakage current, and the magnetic field produces a voltage in the TMR sensor element indicative of a value of the leakage current.
US11313910B2	Anomaly detection system and anomaly detection method for a secondary battery An anomaly detection system for a secondary battery which detects the remaining capacity of the secondary battery on an electric vehicle, cautions against the secondary battery with anomalous characteristics, stops using the secondary battery, changes the secondary battery, or changes charging conditions of the secondary battery is provided. The anomaly detection system is provided; the system compares a value obtained by estimating internal resistance or SOC of a secondary battery based on the measured value of a current or a voltage of the secondary battery with the use of a nonlinear Kalman filter and a value input to an anomaly detection system (network) of AI to predict a change in the internal resistance; the system regards a case where the difference is large as an anomaly; and the system detects an anomaly.
US11313907B2	Arc discharge detection device A control panel includes power supply circuits for supplying power supply voltages to loads and a connection part for connecting wiring. The control panel comprises a system current detection unit that is for detecting a sudden increase in system current that is from a power system and flows through the control panel and includes a second current transformer, and individual current detection units that are for detecting a sudden increase in the individual current of one of the power supply circuits and include first current transformers. An arc discharge detection unit identifies an arc discharge occurring within the control panel separately from a surge flowing into the system based on a system current detection signal and individual current detection signals.
US11313904B2	Testing device and testing method A testing device includes a transmitter circuit, a receiver circuit, and a loopback circuit. The transmitter circuit is configured to receive a plurality of first test signals. The receiver circuit is configured to receive input data from a plurality of pads in a normal mode. The loopback circuit is coupled to the plurality of pads and input terminals of a sampler circuit, and the loopback circuit is configured to transmit the plurality of first test signals from the transmitter circuit to the input terminals of the sampler circuit, in order to generate test data for subsequent analysis.
US11313897B2	Testing wafer and testing method There is provided a testing wafer that simulates heat generation of an inspection target substrate. The testing wafer includes a heater pattern, a plurality of temperature sensors, and first and second electrode pads. The heater pattern is configured to heat the testing wafer having the same shape as a shape of the inspection target substrate. The temperature sensors are configured to respectively measure temperatures of multiple locations on the testing wafer. The first electrode pads are connected to the heater pattern and the second electrode pads are connected to the temperature sensors. The first and second electrode pads are installed to be in contact with probes of a probe card.
US11313891B2	Display device A display device including a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area, a circuit film connected to the first substrate, a printed circuit board (PCB) connected to the circuit film, and a first inspection pad, a second inspection pad, and a third inspection pad located in the non-display area and a bridge configured to electrically connect the first inspection pad, the second inspection pad, and the third inspection pad. The circuit film includes a first line electrically connected to the first inspection pad, a second line electrically connected to the second inspection pad, a third line electrically connected to the third inspection pad, and a branch point configured to branch at least one line from the first line, the second line, and the third line into two sub-lines. The PCB includes a test pad unit connected to the first line, the second line, and the third line.
US11313882B2	Battery management system, battery pack including same, and method for determining failure in current detecting circuit A battery management system, a battery pack including same and a method for determining a failure in a current detecting circuit. The system includes the current detecting circuit configured to detect a reference current representing a current flowing through a high current path of the battery pack, a bidirectional switch including a charging FET and a discharging FET installed on the high current path, and a control unit. The control unit detects a first voltage across the charging FET and a second voltage across the discharging FET while a first high level voltage is applied to a gate of the charging FET and a second high level voltage is applied to a gate of the discharging FET. The control unit determines a failure in the current detecting circuit based on at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage and the reference current.
US11313876B2	3-axis angular accelerometer Angular accelerometers are described, as are systems employing such accelerometers. The angular accelerometers may include a proof mass and rotational acceleration detection beams directed toward the center of the proof mass. The angular accelerometers may include sensing capabilities for angular acceleration about three orthogonal axes. The sensing regions for angular acceleration about one of the three axes may be positioned radially closer to the center of the proof mass than the sensing regions for angular acceleration about the other two axes. The proof mass may be connected to the substrate though one or more anchors.
US11313872B2	Dispensing device and sample analysis device In dispenser-type reagent dispensing, because a reagent is transferred through a piping flow path to a prescribed position and dispensed, some of the reagents may remain in the piping flow path and reagent crystallization may consequently occur in the piping flow path. Thus, crystallization prevention for the entire piping flow path must be taken into consideration. Provided is a dispensing device that comprises a reagent suction pipe for sucking in a reagent from a reagent vessel, a liquid transfer mechanism for transferring the reagent, a nozzle for discharging the reagent, and a reagent discharge pipe that is connected to the reagent container and a port that can be connected to the nozzle. The dispensing device is characterized in that the reagent is dispensed from the nozzle into a reaction vessel and when the reagent is not being dispensed, the nozzle and the port are connected and the reagent is circulated.
US11313866B2	Method of diagnosing and treating asphyxia A method for in vitro diagnosing asphyxia and disorders related thereto, a method of in vitro estimating duration of hypoxia in a patient subjected to asphyxia, and a method for in vitro monitoring of normoxic, hypoxic and hyperoxic conditions and/or normobaric and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, includes quantitatively detecting in a biological sample of a patient a plurality of asphyxia specific endogenous compounds which are selected from the group consisting of biogenic amines; carnitine-derived compounds; amino acids; bile acids; carboxylic acids; eicosanoids; lipids; precursors of cholesterol, cholesterol metabolites; prostanoids; and sugars.
US11313862B2	Method for diagnosing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using signal peptide as indicator The method for aiding ALS detection provided by the present invention includes determining a profile of signal peptides contained in a bodily fluid from a test subject, and comparing the signal peptide profile thus determined for the test subject with a previously-determined profile of signal peptides in a bodily fluid from a healthy subject. The presence of a difference between the signal peptide profile of the test subject and the signal peptide profile of the healthy subject at a specific molecular weight is then associated with the test subject's suffering from or developing ALS.
US11313852B2	Method and pharmaceutical composition for use in the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders The invention relates to compounds which activate the BASIGIN signalling pathway, preferably agonists of BASIGIN, for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.
US11313849B2	Expansion ratio detection system An expansion ratio detection system for rubber, including a controller, a rubber sampling module, a rubber calender, a temperature control module, and an expansion ratio detection module. The rubber sampling module obtains a rubber to be tested consistent with a weight value. After the temperature control module determines that the rubber to be tested has reached a first temperature value, the rubber calender outputs the rubber to be tested having a thickness value. The expansion ratio detection module obtains an expansion ratio according to twice the thickness value and a roller pitch.
US11313847B2	Method and apparatus for in situ cement curing Provided, in one aspect, is a method for performing a rock core flow performance test. The method, in this aspect, includes containing un-cured cement within an in-situ cement curing test fixture. The method additionally includes placing the in-situ cement curing test fixture with the un-cured cement within a pressure vessel of a rock core flow test system, and subjecting the in-situ cement curing test fixture with the un-cured cement within the pressure vessel to non-ambient temperature or pressure to form in-situ cured cement.
US11313839B2	Apparatus, system, and method for ultrasonic inspection of a variable radius joint Disclosed herein is an apparatus for ultrasonic inspection that comprises a base and a contact shoe that is located within the base and movably coupled to the base. The apparatus additionally comprises a sensor carriage located within the contact shoe and movably coupled to the contact shoe such that the sensor carriage is translationally movable relative to the contact shoe. The apparatus further comprises a linkage pivotably coupled to the base at a base pivot point, pivotably coupled to the contact shoe at a shoe pivot point, and pivotably coupled to the sensor carriage at a carriage pivot point. Translational movement of the contact shoe relative to the base causes the linkage to pivot about the base pivot point, the shoe pivot point, and the carriage pivot point and move the sensor carriage relative to the base and the contact shoe.
US11313838B2	Dynamically reconfigurable acoustic diffractive device An apparatus includes an acoustic source for directing an acoustic wave towards a workspace, a variable acoustic diffractive device positioned in a path of the acoustic wave between the acoustic source and the workspace, the variable acoustic diffractive device including an array of elements each having independently variable acoustic properties, and an electronic controller in communication with the acoustic source and the variable acoustic diffractive device, the electronic controller programmed to supply signals to cause the acoustic source to produce the acoustic wave and the variable acoustic diffractive device to diffract the acoustic wave from the acoustic source to provide non-uniform acoustic forces in a medium located in the workspace.
US11313832B2	Wear resistant streaming current measurement flow cell with piston centering A streaming current measurement flow cell, free from potential piston-to-electrode contact, with a flexible, but close-fitting piston and sleeve set, wherein a housing-defined bushing, as it encircles the piston's active segment near its upper end, does so with a short, cylindrical sidewall, the inside diameter of which, in comparison to the active segment's diameter, creates a narrower—but by only 0.002 inch—capillary-sized flow channel between the bushing and the active segment than exists between it and the sleeve. Even so, physical contact between piston and sleeve—a major wear factor—is completely eliminated; and larger particles known to scratch/gouge dielectric surfaces are kept out of the piston/sleeve flow channel. Moreover, a limitation on the piston's downward travel wherein the active segment's upper end is brought just flush with the upper electrode's flat, annular face makes possible a novel system, critical in self-cleaning this electrode where its inner edge and setback are exposed atop the bushing.
US11313831B2	Microelectrode biosensor using dielectrophoresis An interdigitated electrode biosensor includes an insulating layer configured to fully cover a sensor forming region of a substrate, a first interdigitated microelectrode configured such that a plurality of first protruding electrodes is arranged in a shape of a comb on the substrate, a second interdigitated microelectrode configured such that a plurality of second protruding electrodes is arranged in a shape of a comb and each interdigitates with the plurality of first protruding electrodes, and a plurality of receptors that is immobilized in a space between the first interdigitated microelectrode and the second interdigitated microelectrode and reacts specifically to target biomaterials. Different voltages are uniformly or nonuniformly applied to the first interdigitated microelectrode and the second interdigitated microelectrode to generate a dielectrophoretic force by a nonuniform electric field, improving the sensor by increasing the probability of specific reaction with the target biomaterials using the concentration effect through dielectrophoresis.
US11313828B2	Ultra-highly sensitive electrochemical biosensor using beads and method for manufacturing the same The biosensor includes a substrate, an electrode pattern positioned on the substrate, a passivation layer which is formed with a plurality of holes spaced apart from each other, and a bead positioned at one or more holes among the plurality of holes, and to which an antibody is attached, the electrode pattern includes a first electrode pattern part and a second electrode pattern part spaced apart from the first electrode pattern part, which has a same height as a height of the first electrode pattern part, and forms an electric field with the first electrode pattern part.
US11313825B2	Gas sensor and method of manufacturing the same A gas sensor (1) including a sensor element (10) and a separator (90) having an element hole (90 h), as viewed from one of a forward-end or a rear-end side in the axial direction. The separator has end surfaces (90 e) located axially farthest toward the one of the forward-end or the rear-end side, recess regions (90 h), (90 r 1) and (90 r 2) recessed from the end surfaces, and regions R1 and R2. First regions R1 are determined by eliminating a region SB occupied by the sensor element from a region SA defined by imaginary short-side lines and the outer edge of the separator. Second regions R2 are determined by eliminating the region SB from a region SC defined by imaginary long-side lines and the outer edge of the separator. S2/S1≥0.5 is satisfied, where S1 is the total area of R1 and R2, and S2 is the total area of the recess regions.
US11313824B2	Detecting device The detecting device includes a detecting unit including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode being used as a first capacitor. The detecting device includes a drive unit configured to apply a first drive signal to the first drive terminal such that the first drive signal is alternately inverted between a first period and a second period. The detecting device includes a converting unit configured to convert a charge charged at the signal terminal into a voltage and includes a difference processing unit configured to obtain a difference between the first output voltage and the second output voltage.
US11313819B2	Thermal analysis of semiconductor devices A method for determining a thermal impedance of a sample device is described. According to the method, a sample device is heated to an initial temperature. A pulsed power including a sequence of pulses is applied to the sample device. Temperature of the sample device is measured in a time-dependent manner. A thermal impedance of the sample device is determined based on the temperature of the sample device and the pulsed power.
US11313807B2	Image inspection device An image inspection device has a first suction conveyance unit which is arranged on the upstream side with a conveyance surface as an upper surface, a second suction conveyance unit which is arranged on the downstream side with a conveyance surface as a lower surface to make the conveyance surface continuous from the upstream side, a first inspection section which inspects an image on a front surface of an inspection object which is conveyed to the first suction conveyance unit and a second inspection section which inspects an image on a back surface of the inspection object which is conveyed to the second suction conveyance unit. The inspection object is conveyed in a state of being sucked and held on the first and second suction conveyance units and therefore is stable in position and posture in conveyance and an expected accuracy is maintained in inspection performed by the first and second inspection sections.
US11313801B2	Sample imaging apparatus The sample imaging apparatus includes: a housing that forms a closed space; a transparent tray on which a sample is placed in the housing; a plane light source that is formed by using a flat light guide plate, which propagates light emitted by a light emitting element in a plane direction, so as to illuminates the sample with illumination light through the tray in the housing; a lens that is disposed in the housing so as to face the plane light source with the tray interposed between the lens and the plane light source and is used for imaging the sample; and an imaging control unit that adjusts a focal length of the lens and performs imaging in a case of imaging the single sample.
US11313797B2	Optical waveguide and optical concentration measuring apparatus Sticking of core layer is suppressed, and deterioration of sensitivity of a sensor is prevented. An optical waveguide (10) includes a substrate (15), a core layer (11), a support, and a protrusion (18). The core layer (11) can transmit light. The support connects at least a portion of the substrate (15) and a portion of the core layer (11) together. The support supports the core layer (11). The protrusion (18) is arranged at a position different from a position of the support in a space between the substrate (15) and the core layer (11). The protrusion (18) has a maximum height at a position deviated from a central position cp of the core layer (11) in a width direction. The protrusion (18) protrudes toward the core layer (11) from the substrate (15).
US11313793B2	Opto-magnetic sensor device and molecular recognition system An opto-magnetic device includes an integrated optical circuit having an input for an input optical radiation and at least one output for an output optical radiation. The optical circuit defines an area sensible to the variations of a local refraction index probed by the optical radiation, destined to come in contact with the sample. A plurality of probe molecules are included to anchor to the sensible area, and a plurality of magnetic particles are included to anchor to molecules of the analyte, bound to the probe molecules upon a molecular recognition. A magnetic actuator is configured to generate a variable magnetic field and oscillate the magnetic particles to cause variation of the refraction index probed by the optical radiation in the sensible area, and a variation of at least one characteristic parameter of the output optical radiation correlated to a concentration of the molecules of the analyte.
US11313787B2	Sensor device for biosensing and other applications A sensor suitable for detecting specific analytes, a method for manufacturing the sensor, and a method for using the sensor in a diagnostic procedure provided. In an embodiment, the sensor device includes a substrate, a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate, and a probe layer disposed on the dielectric layer. The probe layer is configured to react with an analyte. The reaction may include: binding with the analyte, undergoing a change in a chemical property of the probe layer, or undergoing a change in a structural property of the probe layer. In examples, an attribute of the dielectric layer is configured to identify the device during a process that determines whether the probe layer has reacted with the analyte.
US11313777B2	Reduction of error in testing friction and wear with the use of high-speed reciprocating motion System for conducting measurements of friction of a chosen material with reduced errors. The system includes a sample holder, a bushing accommodating such holder while permitting reversible repositioning of the holder along a bushing axis, a horizontal force sensor, a vertical force sensor, a sample holder pusher and a subsystem including a linear vertical bearing (disposed in the bushing and separating the holder from the bushing) and/or a horizontally-sliding element between the rod pusher and the vertical force sensor. The subsystem is structured to reduce a rocking motion of the holder in the bushing caused by a relative motion between the sample and an auxiliary body brought in contact with the sample. The method for performing measurements with such system.
US11313775B2	Device and method for evaluating fracture initiation and propagation, and stress sensitivity of propped fracture A device and method for evaluating fracture initiation and propagation, and a stress sensitivity of a propped fracture is provided. The device includes a core part, a confining pressure loading part, a fracturing fluid pumping part, a stress sensitivity testing part and a fracture monitoring part. The method evaluates fracture initiation and propagation, and a stress sensitivity of a propped fracture using the above device and is reliable and simple to operate and guides optimization of construction parameters of hydraulic fracturing, thus achieving improvement in productivity of an oil and gas well.
US11313761B2	Test system The purpose of the present invention is to provide a device for controlling a dynamometer of a test system, wherein the device is capable of controlling shaft torque to a prescribed target torque while minimizing low-frequency-range resonance caused by viscous drag of a test piece. This test system is provided with a dynamometer joined to an engine via a coupling shaft, an inverter for supplying electric power to the dynamometer, a shaft torque meter for detecting the shaft torque produced in the coupling shaft, and a dynamometer-controlling device 6 for generating a torque-current command signal T2 that is sent to the inverter and is generated on the basis of a shaft torque detection signal T12 from the shaft torque meter. The dynamometer-controlling device 6 is provided with an integrator 62 for integrating the difference between the shaft torque detection signal 12 and a shaft torque command signal T12ref, and a phase lead compensator 63 for accepting an output signal from the integrator 62 as an input and performing a phase lead compensation process that uses constants (a1, b1) that are dependent on the viscous drag of the test piece. An output signal from the phase lead compensator 63 is used to generate the torque-current command signal T2.
US11313759B2	Method and device for measuring the local refractive power and/or the refractive power distribution of a spectacle lens The local refractive power and/or the refractive power distribution of a left and/or a right spectacle lens in a spectacle frame is measured in the wearing position on the head of a spectacle wearer by capturing at least two images of an eye of the spectacle wearer from different recording positions. The disclosure also relates to a computer program product having a computer program with program code and to an apparatus for carrying out the method.
US11313758B2	Apparatus and methods for measuring thermally induced reticle distortion An apparatus and method for measuring thermo-mechanically induced reticle distortion or other distortion in a lithography device enables detecting distortion at the nanometer level in situ. The techniques described use relatively simple optical detectors and data acquisition electronics that are capable of monitoring the distortion in real time, during operation of the lithography equipment. Time-varying anisotropic distortion of a reticle can be measured by directing slit patterns of light having different orientations to the reticle and detecting reflected, transmitted or diffracted light from the reticle. In one example, corresponding segments of successive time measurements of secondary light signals are compared as the reticle scans a substrate at a reticle stage speed of about 1 m/s to detect temporal offsets and other features that correspond to spatial distortion.
US11313754B2	Leak detection for piping systems using a sound signal A system (100) for monitoring a pipe system (10) includes a first sensor device (102). The first sensor device (102) includes at least one sensor, a wake-up circuit (170), and a processor (172). The at least one sensor is configured to sense an operating characteristic of a piping section (12) of the pipe system (10), and includes a transducer configured such that an audio signal emanating in the piping section induces the transducer to produce a voltage signal indicative of the audio signal. The wake-up circuit (170) is operatively connected with the transducer, and generates a wake-up signal in response to the voltage signal being above a predetermined threshold. The processor (172) is operatively connected to the wake-up circuit (170) and to the at least one sensor, and is configured to identify an operating condition of the pipe system (10) with reference to the operating characteristic sensed by the at least one sensor in response to receiving the wake-up signal.
US11313747B2	Fill fluid thermal management A remote seal assembly for a process transmitter includes a seal body containing a cavity sealed by a diaphragm. The seal body configured to be mounted to a process element containing a process fluid such that a first side of the diaphragm is exposed to the process fluid. A capillary contains a fill fluid that is in fluid communication with the cavity and a second side of the diaphragm. A coupling has a capillary recess and two cavities separated by a second diaphragm. The capillary extends through the capillary recess and connects to the coupling such that the fill fluid in the capillary is in fluid communication with one of the two cavities and the second diaphragm. A thermally conductive element preferably extends continuously along the capillary from the seal body toward the coupling and into the capillary recess without contacting the coupling.
US11313746B2	Pressure sensor having a surface of a diaphragm held in a chemically inactive state A pressure sensor includes a movable electrode formed in a movable region of a diaphragm, and a fixed electrode formed opposite to the movable electrode. A pressure receiving surface of the diaphragm is held in an inactive state. The inactive pressure receiving surface of the diaphragm is in a state in which molecules of gas to be measured are hard to absorb onto the pressure receiving surface. The pressure receiving surface of the diaphragm can be made inactive by predetermined surface treatment. A layer for making the pressure receiving surface of the diaphragm inactive is formed by the surface treatment, and the pressure receiving surface of the diaphragm is held inactive with the presence of the layer.
US11313744B2	Method and system for detecting dynamic strain A system and method for detecting dynamic strain of a housing. The system includes an optical fiber linearly affixed along a surface of a length of the housing and an interrogator comprising a laser source and a photodetector. The optical fiber comprises at least one pair of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) tuned to reflect substantially identical wavelengths with a segment of the optical fiber extending between the FBGs. The segment of the optical fiber is linearly affixed along the surface of the housing. The interrogator is configured to perform interferometry by shining laser light along the optical fiber and detecting light reflected by the FBGs. The interrogator outputs dynamic strain measurements based on interferometry performed on the reflected light.
US11313742B2	System for analysis of the performance in use of a sliding board A system for analysis of the performance in use of a sliding board includes a database storing baseline performance; a sensor sensitive to the deformations of said sliding board; and a monitoring body. The monitoring body determines the performance in use based on measurements from the sensor; and compares the performance in use with the baseline performance. The sensor is secured to the sliding board and has at least one piezoelectric element secured to the sliding board and configured to generate electric energy during the deformations of the sliding board; and an electronic processing circuit, powered exclusively by the electric energy generated by the at least one piezoelectric element.
US11313735B2	Thermistor sintered body and temperature sensor element A thermistor sintered body and a temperature sensor element that can adjust a resistance value in a wider range while suppressing an influence on a B constant. A thermistor sintered body of the present invention includes: a Y2O3 phase as a main phase; and a Y(Cr/Mn)O3 phase as a subphase, wherein a chemical composition of Cr, Mn, Ca, Pr and Y excluding oxygen includes one or two of Cr: 20 mol % or less and Mn: 20 mol % or less, Ca: 1 to 15 mol %, and Pr: 0.5 to 30 mol %, with the balance being unavoidable impurities and Y. In the present invention, preferably, the subphase is a Y(Cr,Mn)O3 phase or a YCrO3 phase, and Pr is dissolved in the Y(Cr,Mn)O3 phase or the YCrO3 phase.
US11313728B2	Temperature sensing system A temperature sensing device comprising a housing including a display, an extension at least 1.5 inches long extending from the housing, a temperature sensor, and a connector from the sensor to the housing for transmitting the output to the housing. The extension has a proximal section at the housing and an opposed distal section, the distal section being movable relative to the housing. The temperature sensor is at the distal section of the extension for sensing the temperature of a target material and providing an output related to the temperature of the target material. Optionally, the device includes a thermal insulator at the distal section of the extension protecting the temperature sensor from heat from the target material. Optionally, the device includes a light source at the distal section of the extension for aiming the sensor at the target material.
US11313710B2	Fastening adapter for a sensor A device for fastening a bar-shaped sensor, in particular a flow sensor, to a component, which has a fastening section that can be inserted into a fastening opening of the component, a hole extending through the fastening section and a retaining section for inserting the sensor, wherein the hole is open to an end face of the fastening section and to an end face of the retaining section. In order to be able to change out a sensor with a reproducible rotational position, it is proposed that the wall of the hole in the fastening section have an opening, into which a section of the edge of the fastening opening protrudes in the free cross-section of the hole for rotationally fixating the sensor in the hole.
US11313708B2	Method for operating a magnetic inductive flowmeter and magnetic inductive flowmeter The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a magnetoinductive flowmeter in which, during a constant phase having a constant magnetic field, a plurality of raw measured values of the raw measurement voltage are determined, the raw measurement voltage including a flow-dependent component, an interference component and a noise component, wherein each raw measured value assigned a flow measured value and an interference voltage value, wherein a raw measured value from a preceding first constant phase and a raw measured value from a second constant phase following the first constant phase are used to calculate a second flow measured value and a second interference voltage value of the interference component, wherein first flow measured values from the first constant phase and/or second constant phase are corrected using the knowledge of the second flow measured value and the calculated second interference voltage value.
US11313707B2	Magnetic-inductive flowmeter A magnetic-inductive flowmeter for determining the flow of at least one medium, having first and second parallel measuring tubes for guiding the at least one medium, a magnetic field generating device for generating a magnetic field permeating the measuring tubes perpendicular to the flow direction of the at least one medium, first and second electrode pairs for respectively tapping a first and second measuring voltage induced in the medium, and an evaluation unit for evaluating the measuring voltages. Increased reliability in functioning of the flowmeter and the determined flow and flow difference values is achieved by the first and second electrode pairs being formed together by a first, second and third electrodes, the second electrode being both part of the first electrode pair and part of the second electrode pair and being arranged between the two measuring tubes. The electrodes are arranged perpendicular to the flow and magnetic field directions.
US11313693B2	System and process for closest in path vehicle following using surrounding vehicles motion flow A system for closest in path vehicle following using surrounding vehicles motion flow is provided and includes a sensor device of a host vehicle generating data related to vehicles upon a drivable surface. The system further includes a navigation controller including a computerized processor operable to monitor the data from the sensor device, define a portion of the plurality of vehicles as a swarm of vehicles, identify one of the plurality of vehicles as a closest in path vehicle to be followed, evaluate the data to determine whether the closest in path vehicle to be followed is exhibiting good behavior in relation to the swarm of vehicles, and, when the closest in path vehicle to be followed is exhibiting the good behavior, generate a breadcrumbing navigation path based upon the data. The system further includes a vehicle controller controlling the host vehicle based upon the breadcrumbing navigation path.
US11313692B2	Navigation server and navigation system Provided is a navigation server or the like capable of promoting enhancement of convenience in traffic of moving bodies with a comprehensive consideration of various factors of each link. There is found a server route R configured by link groups that connect a starting point p1 and a destination point p2 of a navigation client 2 of interest, the server route R having a minimum total value ΣC2 of second moving costs C2 in the link groups. The second costs C2 result from first moving costs C1 corrected based on various factors, such as combinations of “static factors” and “dynamic factors”.
US11313686B2	Moving body A moving body, which a person boards, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire current position information of the moving body, and a recommended path calculation unit configured to calculate a path that is a recommended path toward a predetermined destination and passes through an interior of at least one building, based on the current position information and the predetermined destination.
US11313684B2	Collaborative navigation and mapping During GPS-denied/restricted navigation, images proximate a platform device are captured using a camera, and corresponding motion measurements of the platform device are captured using an IMU device. Features of a current frame of the images captured are extracted. Extracted features are matched and feature information between consecutive frames is tracked. The extracted features are compared to previously stored, geo-referenced visual features from a plurality of platform devices. If one of the extracted features does not match a geo-referenced visual feature, a pose is determined for the platform device using IMU measurements propagated from a previous pose and relative motion information between consecutive frames, which is determined using the tracked feature information. If at least one of the extracted features matches a geo-referenced visual feature, a pose is determined for the platform device using location information associated with the matched, geo-referenced visual feature and relative motion information between consecutive frames.
US11313675B2	Thread shape measuring apparatus and measuring method A thread shape measuring apparatus includes: a first illuminating unit that has an optical axis orthogonal to a cross section including a thread axis, and illuminates the thread portion; a second illuminating unit that has an optical axis that forms an angle θ larger than a lead angle γ of the thread portion with respect to the direction orthogonal to the cross section and illuminates the thread portion; an image-capturing unit that has a visual axis parallel to the optical axis of the first illuminating unit, includes a telecentric lens, has a focusing position matching the cross section, and detects, out of the light emitted from the first illuminating unit or the second illuminating unit, light that has not been blocked by the thread portion to capture an image of the detected light; and an operation unit that calculates a shape of the thread portion based on the captured image.
US11313672B2	Optical position-measuring device An optical position-measuring device for sensing a relative position of two objects, each object being connected to a grating. The optical position-measuring device is configured such that, at one of the gratings, an illumination beam emitted from a light source is split into two sub-beams which, in respective scanning beam paths following the splitting, experience different polarization-optical effects and recombine at one of the gratings. After the differently polarized sub-beams are recombined, a plurality of phase-shifted, displacement-dependent scanning signals are generatable from a resulting signal beam in a detection unit. No separate polarization-optical components are disposed in the scanning beam paths of the sub-beams between splitting and recombination. At least one of the gratings is configured as a polarization grating configured to produce the different polarization-optical effects and such that diffraction orders with different polarization states are produced at each point of incidence on the polarization grating.
US11313671B2	Chromatic confocal range sensing system with enhanced spectrum light source configuration A confocal range sensing (CRS) system is provided including a wavelength detector, source light configuration, and one or more measurement channels. Each measurement channel is configured to sense a respective distance to a workpiece surface and includes a confocal detection aperture and confocal light source aperture. The source light configuration includes first and second phosphor compositions, a wavelength combining configuration, and a shared source light path. The first and second phosphor compositions are located in separate respective first and second phosphor regions. As part of workpiece height measurement operations, the first and second phosphor compositions emit first and second emitted light, respectively, to the wavelength combining configuration which outputs first and second emitted light along the shared source light path as source light (i.e., having an extended wavelength range due to the combination of the first and second emitted light) that is received by each respective confocal light source aperture.
US11313661B2	Electromagnetic induction type coordinate positioning apparatus An electromagnetic induction type coordinate positioning apparatus includes a first induction coil, a second induction coil, a first amplification circuit, a second amplification circuit, and a control circuit. The first induction coil and the second induction coil respectively generate a first induction signal and a second induction signal when a pointer device comes close. The first amplification circuit and the second amplification circuit may be electrically connected to the first induction coil and the second induction coil, to receive the first induction signal and the second induction signal. The control circuit controls the first amplification circuit and the second amplification circuit to amplify the first induction signal and the second induction signal, so that a power level of the amplified first induction signal and a power level of the amplified second induction signal reach a first predefined level and a second predefined level.
US11313660B2	Digital grip gauge with shaped tip In an embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more probes, a tip, a pin, and a measurement device. The one or more probes may be configured for insertion through an aperture in a component. The tip may be slidably engaged with the one or more probes and include a first end configured to contact a first surface of the component. The first end of the tip may be conically shaped. The pin may be slidably engaged with the one or more probes and include a first end configured for insertion into the aperture in the component such that the one or more probes are configured to contact a second surface of the component. The pin may be configured to move between a first position and a second position. An axis of the pin may be substantially aligned with an axis of the tip. The measurement device may be coupled to the tip and configured to measure a value indicating a grip length.
US11313659B2	Measuring tape with end hook having a high friction surface treatment A measuring tape device may include a housing having an aperture, a reel assembly, a blade having a first end configured to extend from the housing through the aperture and a second end configured to be wound on the reel assembly, and an end hook disposed at the first end of the blade. The end hook may have a front face that faces away from the aperture and a rear face that faces toward the aperture. A high friction surface including grains may be disposed over at least a portion of a surface of the rear face.
US11313655B1	Screw off baseplate A rear slip base plate for a round carrying a guidance and control unit payload, which round is launched from a rifled launch tube. To prevent the guidance and control unit payload from also being rapidly spun with the round, the slip base plate unit mechanically isolates the guidance and control unit payload from the round spin rate.
US11313642B2	Valve system for air gun A valve system utilizes a main valve body with a restricted diameter conduit communicating between a propulsion chamber and rear cavity and a smaller venting valve mechanically actuated to open the rear cavity to atmosphere, thereby causing the main valve body to open to pass pressurized air in the propulsion chamber to an orifice to power a projectile. The orifice has a diameter at least as large as the dimeter of the projectile.
US11313635B2	Lever-coupled device for selectively preventing a firearm from discharging The present disclosure generally relates to a bolt catch device that prevents the bolt of a bolt carrier assembly of a firearm from moving to its forward position so as to prevent the firearm from being discharged until the user manually moves the bolt catch. The bolt catch is mechanically coupled to the selector of the firearm via a linkage, so that the bolt catch can be moved by way of the selector. This feature can prevent a self-loading firearm that otherwise could function on a semi-automatic basis from operating in such a manner.
US11313622B2	Air distributor made of plastic material and method for manufacturing this air distributor This air distributor (1) comprises two half-shells (2) made of plastic material and a stack of plates (4) made of plastic material, the two half-shells (2) defining a volume inside of which the stack of plates (4) is positioned, the stack of plates (4) comprising two end plates (40) and the stack of plates (4) defining between its adjacent plates (4) a set of intermediate spaces (10) suitable for a fluid circulation. The plates (4) of the stack of plates (4) are attached to one another, each end plate (40) is attached to one of the two half-shells (2), and the two half-shells (2) are attached to one another.
US11313621B2	Moisture measurement of timber A kiln moisture measurement method and system is provided for measuring the moisture level of a charge of timber in a timber drying kiln. The method includes steps of: transmitting electromagnetic radiation from a transmitter; receiving the electromagnetic radiation at a receiver; wherein the transmitter and receiver are configured such that the electromagnetic radiation passes through at least part of the charge of timber. An electronic data processor determines the gain of the electromagnetic radiation by comparing the intensities of the transmitted and received electromagnetic radiation; and subsequently determines a moisture level of the charge based on the gain of the electromagnetic radiation.
US11313620B2	Intelligent drying method and ultraviolet sterilization container An intelligent drying method and an ultraviolet sterilization container are applied to an ultraviolet sterilization container for drying a sterilized article, the method comprising: that the sterilization container sequentially executes the following steps after receiving a drying instruction: releasing hot air to an article storage cavity; when an initial drying time is reached, collecting the intracavity temperature of the article storage cavity; automatically obtaining an extended drying time corresponding to the intracavity temperature of the article storage cavity; and continuously releasing hot air to the article storage cavity until the extended drying time is reached. The ultraviolet sterilization container includes: an article storage cavity, a heating air duct, a microprocessor, and a memory storing a computer readable program executable by the microprocessor. When the computer readable program is executed by the microprocessor, the sterilization container performs the above steps.
US11313607B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator includes a duct module, wherein the duct modules include a front panel and a rear panel coupled to each other in the front-rear direction and forming a flow path, a plurality of flow path forming protrusions extending from a front surface of the front panel to form a flow path therebetween, and a sealing surface extending parallel to the rear surface of the front panel from front ends of the plurality of flow path forming protrusions and in surface contact with the rear surface of the front panel.
US11313606B2	Refrigerator having very low temperature freezer compartment A refrigerator that includes: a storage space configured to be cooled by a refrigeration cycle cooling system; a wall defines a boundary of the storage space; a low temperature case that is arranged adjacent to a portion of a first surface of the wall; a thermoelectric element module (TEM) assembly that is configured to supply cool air to the low temperature case; and a TEM accommodating part that protrudes from the first surface of the wall and that accommodates the TEM assembly, wherein the low temperature case includes an opening through which the TEM accommodating part is inserted, and wherein a sealant is provided between the low temperature case and the wall to couple the low temperature case to the first surface of the wall is disclosed.
US11313605B2	Insulated carrier for temperature-controlled items The present application generally relates to devices and methods for transporting, delivering, and storing items, and it more specifically relates to insulated carriers for use in transporting, delivering, and storing temperature controlled items such as perishable food and beverage items. Embodiments provide for insulated containers having an interior cavity surrounded by one or more panels having insulation wherein the containers are collapsible to allow for the efficient storage and transport of the containers while empty.
US11313602B2	Refrigerator and ice-making apparatus of refrigerator A refrigerator with an ice-making apparatus, the ice-making apparatus including: an ice tray in which ice is made; a water supply device which supplies water to the ice tray from an upper side of the ice tray; a drive unit which is coupled with the ice tray and rotates the ice tray so as to separate ice made in the ice tray; and an ice-fullness detecting lever which is coupled with the drive unit below the ice tray and is rotated in the same direction as that of the ice tray to detect ice-fullness of the ice bank, in which a tray rotation shaft for rotation of the ice tray and a lever rotation shaft for rotation of the ice-fullness detecting lever are provided in the same surface of the drive unit, and in which the lever rotation shaft is positioned below the tray rotation shaft.
US11313598B2	Digital controlled solenoid capillary tube metering devices of refrigeration systems A refrigeration system includes a compressor; a condenser; an expansion valve having a body with an expansion valve inlet and an expansion valve outlet; an evaporator all arranged in a refrigeration circuit; and a controller. The expansion valve body has a pathway comprising an inlet body capillary tube flow-connected to the expansion valve inlet, and an outlet body capillary tube flow-connected to the expansion valve outlet. The expansion valve comprises a solenoid operated valve element that is selectively positionable between the inlet body capillary tube outlet and the outlet body capillary tube inlet. The controller digitally controls the valve element to position the valve element either to allow flow through the pathway in an open position or to block flow through the pathway in a closed position.
US11313585B2	Heat exchanger A heat exchanger includes front and rear walls forming a flue gas space such that a fluid flowing through a channel formed in the front and rear walls can exchange heat with flue gas in the flue gas space, in use. An entirety of the back wall extends along a first plane, and the back wall is provided with a back fin. The front wall includes a lower portion extending upwardly along the back wall, and an upper portion extending upwardly from an upper end of the lower portion and outwardly away from the back wall to form a combustion space of a flammable gas between the upper portion and the back wall. The upper portion is provided with a front fin. The front and back fins are arranged symmetrically with respect to a virtual line along which the flammable gas is to be injected into the combustion space.
US11313583B2	Fall prevention structure of electric component cover in refrigeration cycle apparatus A fall prevention structure of an electric component cover in a refrigeration cycle apparatus includes an electric component box housing an electric component of a refrigeration cycle apparatus. The electric component box includes a casing, a side of which is open, and an electric component cover configured to cover, in an upright position, an opening of the casing and to be screwed to the casing. The electric component cover includes a catch including a backward-extending portion and an upward-extending portion. The backward-extending portion extends backward from an upper end portion of the electric component cover. The upward-extending portion extends upward from an end portion of the backward-extending portion. In a state in which the electric component cover is screwed to the casing, the catch is inserted into an insertion slot disposed in a portion extending in an up-down direction of the casing. When the electric component cover is unscrewed from the casing, the electric component cover does not fall from the casing by the catch being caught by a portion above the insertion slot.
US11313582B2	Indoor unit of air-conditioning apparatus An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a housing defining an outer shape of the indoor unit, and a pipe hole-opening groove section that is in a form of grid-like grooves on an inner surface of the housing. The housing has a box-like shape and includes a lower one surface panel forming a lower end of one side surface of the housing, a one end bottom panel forming one end of a bottom surface of the housing, a lower other surface panel forming a lower end of the other side surface of the housing, and the other end bottom panel forming the other end of the bottom surface of the housing. The pipe hole-opening groove section is formed in at least one of the lower one surface panel, the one end bottom panel, the lower other surface panel, and the other end bottom panel.
US11313576B2	Air-conditioner communication system, method of confirming connection of air-conditioner communication system, wireless LAN adapter, and connection confirmation instructions of air-conditioner communication system An air-conditioner communication system includes: a ceiling-embedded air conditioner; a wireless local area network (LAN) adapter attached to the air conditioner and that functions as a network communication unit of the air conditioner; a router that configures a LAN; a server that communicates with the router via a telecommunication line; and a terminal device that communicates with the wireless LAN adapter and that includes a display. The wireless LAN adapter is connected to the LAN, acquires connection information that indicates whether the wireless LAN adapter is in communication with the router, and provides the terminal device with the connection information. The terminal device displays indicates, on the display based on the connection information, whether the air conditioner, the wireless LAN adaptor, the router, and the server are in communication with one other.
US11313574B2	Display assembly and window air conditioner A display assembly includes a display box including a base plate having a display portion and a key via hole, an electric control board provided in the display box, and a flexible isolation pad provided in the display box. The flexible isolation pad is located between the base plate and the electric control board, and is configured to isolate the base plate from the electric control board. The display assembly further includes a control key movably provided in the key via hole. The control key is configured to abut against the flexible isolation pad, and to interact with the electric control board through the flexible isolation pad.
US11313569B2	Intelligent air purification robot with mosquito-repelling function The present application provides an intelligent air purification robot with a mosquito-repelling function. In the present application, a robot body has an obstacle detection function and can make a turn automatically. That is, the robot body can automatically find a path after being placed in a room, and can purify air everywhere in the room. Dust-laden air enters a housing from an air inlet and is then treated by a plurality of modular units. Moreover, a UV lamp is further provided, so that air can be disinfected at a designated position.
US11313551B2	Shelf lamp and identification plate lamp A shelf lamp includes a lamp holder, a circuit board, a light source and a first optical element; the first optical element is arranged in the light emitting direction of the first illumination light to deflect upward at least part of the first illumination light; the connection line between the light source and the lower edge of the outer panel is the C direction, and the included angle between the C direction and the vertical downward direction is greater than 45°. The shelf lamp and the identification plate lamp can simultaneously illuminate the upper and lower side areas of the laminate, and achieve different lighting effects. When they are installed on each laminate, the goods on the laminate obtain the illumination of different angles and different effects in two directions.
US11313544B2	Method and system for alignment of illumination device A method for providing assistance in aiming of one or more illumination devices in an area may include, by a processor, receiving photometric data for an area, and using the photometric data to determine an aiming vector for the illumination device. The area may include the illumination device. the method may further include receiving, from an orientation sensor module of the illumination device, orientation data for the illumination device, and using the orientation data and the aiming vector to determine if there is an error in the aiming of the illumination device. The response to determining that there is an error in the aiming of the illumination device, the method further includes causing a controller associated with a driving means of the illumination device for correcting the error in the aiming of the illumination device.
US11313543B2	Screw ramp joiner bracket and system for adjoining light fixture sections An example joiner system for joining a first section and a second section of a fixture includes a joiner bracket that has formed therein a depressed ramp region. A joiner fastener, such as a screw, may engage against the angled walls of the joiner bracket ramp, to translate the vertical movement of the screw into a horizontal, longitudinal movement of the joiner bracket. The joiner bracket may be rigidly coupled to one section of a light fixture assembly, such that engaging the screw ramp with a fastener that extends through another section of the light fixture causes the two fixture sections to move toward each other. As vertical movement of a fastener produces horizontal movement of the joiner bracket, the joiner fastener or set screw may extend outside of the light fixture assembly, so as to be readily accessible by a technician.
US11313535B2	Photoelectric device A photoelectric device including at least five plates and at least one light source is provided. The at least five plates are assembled together to form a chamber. The at least five plates include at least two of a solar panel, a reflective plate, and a light-transmitting plate. The at least one light source is embedded in the at least one of the at least five plates.
US11313532B2	Optic assemblies and applications thereof In one aspect, optic assemblies are provided comprising a collimating optic directing light along a collimation axis and light redirection elements comprising facets for redirecting a portion of the light in one or more directions away from the collimation axis.
US11313530B2	One-piece lens with driven wheel sector The present invention relates to a vehicle lighting device including a lens intended to deflect the light rays emitted by a light source and including a wheel sector with a driven surface. The wheel sector is made in one piece with the lens as a whole. Also included is a driving means with a driving surface such that the driving surface is in contact with the driven surface, and movement of the driving surface drives movement of the lens.
US11313526B2	Lighting unit and lighting fixture A lighting unit includes a first light source to emit first light; and a diffusive body including a first incidence surface that allows the first light to enter, a diffusive part that includes nanoparticles, guides the entered first light and makes the first light be scattered by the nanoparticles into first scattered light, and an emission surface that emits the first scattered light, wherein the first incidence surface is formed on a first edge part of the diffusive body, the first scattered light is emitted from a first region of the emission surface, and a correlated color temperature of the first scattered light is higher than a correlated color temperature of the first light.
US11313524B2	Lighting device A lighting device, preferably a LED, includes a profiled element adapted to be applied to an external structure and coupled to a transparent or translucent longitudinal portion that allows the passage of a luminous flux generated by an illuminating element, preferably a LED strip, housed within a longitudinal chamber defined inside the profiled element. The profiled element also houses, in facing relationship to the illuminating element, a reflecting element oriented to reflect the luminous flux generated by the illuminating element toward the transparent or translucent longitudinal portion of the profiled element. The longitudinal chamber housing the illuminating element is separate from a second longitudinal chamber defined inside the profiled element and housing the reflecting element.
US11313511B2	Anti-ligature enclosure for wall-mounted apparatus Described is an anti-ligature enclosure for a wall-mounted apparatus. The enclosure includes a mounting box configured to be installed at least partially on a surface of a wall and at least partially within a space behind the wall. The mounting box includes a planar frame configured to be fastened to the surface of the wall and a recessed portion extending through the surface of the wall. The enclosure includes a mounting plate configured to contact and support the wall-mounted apparatus in an outward-facing position in the mounting box. The enclosure includes a cover plate configured to be securely fastened to at least part of an outer surface of the planar frame of the mounting box with one or more cover plate fasteners. The cover plate extends over and covers the wall-mounted apparatus and the mounting plate. An outer surface of the enclosure is flush-mounted to the surface of the wall.
US11313510B2	Column and leg locking assemblies for stationary platforms The disclosure relates to locking assemblies. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to locking assemblies for a center column of a stationary platform. In another embodiment, the disclosure relates to locking assemblies for legs of a stationary platform.
US11313509B2	Telescoping lock mechanism The present disclosure may include a leg comprising first and second tubes, the first tube inside of the second tube, a lock mechanism within the second tube, the lock mechanism including a plug, a ramp, and bearings configured to roll along the ramp and contact the ramp and at least an interior wall of the first tube such that as the one or more bearings contact the ramp and the interior wall of the first tube, motion of the second tube relative to the first tube is inhibited, and a third tube inside of the second tube, and in response to the third tube being substantially disposed within the second tube, a proximate end of the third tube configured to push the one or more bearings towards the plug, reducing the interference of the one or more bearings with the interior wall of the first tube.
US11313504B2	Joint restraint device A mechanical joint includes a piping element, the piping element comprising an element flange, the piping element defining a socket extending inwards from the element flange; a pipe length, the pipe length extending through the element flange into the socket, the pipe length defining an outer pipe surface; and a gland, the pipe length extending through the gland, the gland comprising a joint restraint assembly, the joint restraint assembly comprising: a restraint base, the restraint base defining a restraint pocket; and a gripper disposed within the restraint pocket, the gripper configured to rotate in the restraint pocket, the gripper further configured to engage the outer pipe surface to prevent removal of the pipe length from the socket, wherein the joint restraint assembly is selectably configurable from a prepared position to an activated position.
US11313501B2	Hose connector A hose connector has a first connecting joint, a second connecting joint, and a connecting duct. The first connecting joint comprises an inner neck rim having an inner threaded aperture and a containment space connecting to the inner threaded aperture. The first connecting joint further comprises a threaded outer wall, and a bottom surface of the neck rim has a plurality of engaging grooves. The second connecting joint comprises a hollow base having a neck section connected to a lip, and the neck section is configured for insertion in the containment space of the first connecting joint. A top surface of the lip has a plurality of engaging protrusions pushing against the neck rim or engaging with the engaging groove. The connecting duct comprises an outer threaded section and an enlarged flange, and the connecting duct is mounted through the neck section and the lip.
US11313499B2	Pipe fitting apparatus and methods A pipe fitting includes a socket that receives an end of a pipe section therein such that a gap exists between an outer surface of the pipe section and an inner surface of the socket. A pair of ports extend through the socket and are in fluid communication with the gap. A clamp secures the pipe section within the socket as a bonding agent is extruded into the gap via a port. The clamp includes a pair of arcuate segments, each having an inner circumferential wall, first and second end portions, and an elongated sealing member. Each arcuate segment includes a plurality of spring-loaded devices, each having a distal end portion extending through the inner circumferential wall that is urged into contact with the pipe section outer surface.
US11313494B2	Hydraulic hose A reinforced multi-layer hydraulic hose, including a plurality of anti-pressure layers with coiled wires or yarns at a winding angle of about 54.7° with respect to a longitudinal central axis of the hose, and at least one anti-tensile stress reinforcing layer that improves the resistance to the axial force of the hose and has at least one plait or coil of steel wires at a winding angle of less than 35°, in which the hose, owing to the high resistance to the axial force, can be used in a rectilinear configuration to supply a hydraulic fluid also in the presence of significant axial forces.
US11313493B2	Containment sleeve for pressurized piping system On example provides a containment sleeve for a pressurized piping system including a main body comprising a pliable fabric extending in longitudinal and transverse directions. The main body includes an exterior major surface and an opposing interior major surface, first and second opposed transverse edges, first and second opposed longitudinal edges, and a number of pleats extending from the interior major surface, each pleat having opposing sides of the longitudinal pleat being sewn together with breakaway stitching at a base of the pleat at the interior major surface. A number of transversely extending straps disposed on the exterior major surface between the first and second longitudinal edges, the straps to secure the main body about a portion of the piping system with the interior major surface facing the piping system.
US11313488B2	Solenoid valve for brake system Disclosed is a solenoid valve for controlling a flow rate of a flow path connecting a first port to a second port, the solenoid valve including: a valve housing installed in a modulator block; an armature disposed inside the valve housing and reciprocating in an axial direction thereof to adjust a flow rate of a working fluid; and a first elastic member having a damper part, which is inserted between the magnet core and the armature, and providing the armature with an elastic force in a direction opposed to a driving force of the magnet core.
US11313470B2	Contamination guard A contamination guard for a machine is disclosed herein. The contamination guard includes an inner ring, a first annulus, a second annulus, and an impeller. The impeller is configured to promote intake of nearby air with contamination. The first annulus and second annulus form a passage that is configured to sling away air with contamination during operation of the machine.
US11313468B2	Sealing method, assembly, and assembly manufacturing method The sealing method is for sealing between: a rear surface of a first component which is a composite material containing a reinforcing fiber and a resin; and a front surface of a second component facing the rear surface of the first component. The sealing method includes: a step (ST03) in which a molded body is placed at a corner between the front surface and an end surface of the first component, with a first sealing material interposed therebetween; and a step (ST06) in which a second sealing material is applied from the molded body up to the front surface of the second component.
US11313463B2	Transmission and vehicle with a transmission A transmission includes a first shaft with two gears adapted for connecting to a motor and a second shaft with two corresponding gears adapted for connecting to a driveshaft; a shift drum selectively controlling torque transfer between the shafts and defining therein two grooves; a shift rod translatable along a rod axis with a driving member fixedly connected thereto and engaging one groove, at least a portion of the groove causing the driving member and the shift rod to translate along the rod axis upon rotation of the shift drum; an engagement dog disposed on the second shaft for selectively engaging the gears of the second shaft; two biasing members disposed around the shift rod; a fork rod supporting a shift fork slidably connected to the fork rod and the shift rod, the shift fork being engaged in another groove of the shift drum.
US11313462B2	Utility vehicle A utility vehicle comprises a traveling driving power source which generates rotational driving power for driving a drive wheel; a continuously variable transmission including an input shaft to which the rotational driving power transmitted from the traveling driving power source is input, an output shaft which outputs the rotational driving power toward the drive wheel, a drive pulley provided at the input shaft, a driven pulley provided at the output shaft, and a belt wrapped around the drive pulley and the driven pulley; a clutch which is disposed in a driving power transmission path at a location that is between the belt and the drive wheel and is capable of disconnecting the driving power transmission path; and a clutch actuator which operates the clutch.
US11313457B2	Apparatus and method for controlling driving of vehicle An apparatus and a method for controlling driving of a vehicle may include a first sensor that detects whether an accelerator pedal is pressed, a second sensor that detects a number of RPM of an engine, and a controller that determines whether the vehicle coasts based on whether the accelerator pedal is pressed, and determines whether to change a gear ratio of a transmission based on the number of RPM of the engine so that the coasting distance is increased in the coasting deceleration section, improving the fuel efficiency.
US11313453B2	Methods and systems for a drive axle Methods and systems are provided for rear axle having a wet bath. In one example, a system comprises a pump configured to spin in a first direction to flow lubricant to a cooler and a second direction to entrain the lubricant with gas.
US11313452B2	Driveline for powersports vehicle A Powersports vehicle is disclosed which includes a frame, ground engaging members supporting the frame, comprising at least two front wheel, and a power source for driving the front wheels. A front drive is coupled to the power source and to the front wheels, the front drive being coupled to the frame through isolation mounts to reduce vibration of the front drive through the frame.
US11313451B2	Compact electric linear drive for a gear rack, in particular a hydraulic valve, and method for mounting the same An electric linear drive for a gear rack including a stepping motor, a holding plate, a motor output gear, and a gearing. The holding plate, the stepping motor, the motor output gear, and the gearing form a drive unit that, together with a basic housing, form an overall housing. The overall housing has an opening for the insertion of the gear rack. Drive electronics are fixed to the holding plate such that electrical connections are present on the outside of the overall housing. The stepping motor has a rotor axis arranged parallel to the holding plate. During assembly, a rack belonging to a device to be driven can be pushed into a lateral opening of the overall housing, and the device to be driven can be connected to the overall housing. The electric linear drive is compact, allowing devices to be driven to be located close to one another.
US11313435B2	Large V-belt A large V-belt includes an endless rubber belt body including an adhesive rubber layer and a cord embedded in the adhesive rubber layer of the belt body. The large V-belt has a belt thickness of 15 mm or more and the belt width of 10 mm or more at the center, in a belt thickness direction, of a cord embedded position. The belt body further includes reinforced rubber layers made of a rubber composition having a type A durometer hardness of 92 or more, the reinforced rubber layers being stacked on a belt inner side and/or a belt outer side of the adhesive rubber layer in the belt thickness direction.
US11313407B2	Tensioning tool The tensioning tool provides a monolithic tool particularly well suited to use with securing tarp systems used in outdoor recreation, and also useful in other applications and in other fields to anchor or secure weights or loads.
US11313390B2	Hydraulic drive system A hydraulic drive system includes: a first hydraulic pump of the variable capacitance type; a first regulator including a first proportional valve; a second hydraulic pump that dispenses operating oil; a switch valve; a control device; and a malfunction detection device. The switch valve can switch to a third valve position in which the switch valve allows the operating oil dispensed from both the first hydraulic pump and the second hydraulic pump to be supplied to first and second traveling hydraulic motors and first and second hydraulic actuators. The control device controls the operation of the first proportional valve by outputting a first flow rate command signal to the first proportional valve, and when the malfunction detection device detects a malfunction of an electrical system related to the first proportional valve, the control device switches the switch valve to the third valve position.
US11313389B2	Directly-controlled hydraulic directional valve A directly-controlled hydraulic directional valve includes a housing, control piston, first and second springs, double-stroke solenoid, spring plate, adjustment device, and electronics. The piston is longitudinally displaceable in a bore in the housing, either directly or via a control sleeve. The springs are positioned in a region of an end of the piston remote from the solenoid. One end of each spring is supported on the spring plate, which is clamped between the springs and the piston. The other end of the first spring is fixed to the housing, and the other end of the second spring is fixed to the adjustment device. The first spring exerts a force on the piston in a first direction, and the second spring exerts a force on the piston in a second opposite direction, so as to bias the piston into a preferred position. The solenoid is mounted on a side of the housing, and is operable to move the piston out from the preferred position in opposite directions proportional to an electric current from the electronics, such that the piston moves to the preferred position in response to each of non-actuation of the solenoid and a fault in the electronics. The adjustment device is operable to alter a position of the other end of the second spring to adjust the preferred position of the piston.
US11313387B2	System for charging and discharging at least one hydraulic accumulator A system for charging and discharging at least one hydraulic accumulator (10) can be connected to a valve control device (12). The valve control device (12) has at least one logic valve (14). A shuttle valve (16) and a hydraulically operated switching valve (18) are also provided. The valves (14, 16, 18) are interconnected such that the hydraulically actuatable switching valve (18) compares the accumulator pressure (pA) to a minimum accumulator pressure (pA0) that can be adjusted via the control pressure setting of this switching valve (18).
US11313386B2	Spatially controllable eductor for managing solid additives and processes using same A spatially controllable, for example CD controllable, eductor, and more particularly an eductor that is capable of providing a variable motive fluid and processes using such an eductor are provided.
US11313383B2	Fan module frame A fan module frame is configured to fix a fan module in a chassis. The fan module frame includes a first frame component, a second frame component and two latches. The first frame component connects a server fan unit to the second frame component by an elastic fastener. The second frame component has a plurality of chambers, and each of the chambers is configured for the server fan unit to be placed therein. The latches are disposed on two opposite sides of the second frame component and connected to the second frame component. The second frame component fixes the fan module in the chassis through the latches. As such, the fan module is detachably fixed in the chassis and can be removed from the chassis without additional tools, and the fan module frame is compatible with various servers and models, thereby saving design costs and saving space.
US11313382B2	Propeller fan On the blade surface part, a first opening passing through the blade surface part from a negative pressure side toward a positive pressure side is provided between the first blade element and the second blade element. A chord length of the first blade element along a direction connecting the apex A with the point B, is equal to or larger than a chord length of the second blade element along a direction connecting an apex C with a point D.
US11313376B2	Thrust magnetic bearing and turbo compressor equipped with same A thrust magnetic bearing includes a stator having a coil that produces a magnetic flux, and a rotor. The magnetic flux supports the rotor in a non-contact manner. The stator has main and auxiliary stator magnetic pole surfaces. The rotor has main and auxiliary rotor magnetic pole surfaces. The main and auxiliary rotor magnetic pole surfaces face the main and auxiliary stator magnetic pole surfaces. The auxiliary stator magnetic pole surface includes at least one first stator surface and at least one second stator surface, alternately arranged. The auxiliary rotor magnetic pole surface includes at least one first rotor surface, and at least one second rotor surface, alternately arranged. Nr≥1 and Nt≥2, with Nr representing a number of pairs of the first stator and rotor surfaces facing each other, and Nt representing a number of pairs of the second stator and rotor surfaces facing each other.
US11313373B2	Fluid compressor A two-stage, high speed fluid compressor including a case having a fluid inlet and a compressed fluid outlet and containing a shaft rotatably mounted about a longitudinal axis, a first compression wheel and a second compression wheel mounted back-to-back on the shaft, the first compression wheel forming a first compression stage and the second compression wheel forming a second compression stage, and a motor positioned between the first compression wheel and the second compression wheel and arranged to rotate the shaft. The case includes an inner through housing inside which is arranged at least the motor, the inner housing having an inner wall arranged to form, with the motor, channels between at least the inner wall and the motor, the channels extending to cool the motor in contact with the fluid flowing in the channels.
US11313364B2	Peristaltic pump having improved pumping fingers A pumping finger subassembly for a peristaltic infusion pump has a housing, a pinch member, a block member, and at least one biasing spring. The housing includes a transverse slot, a first side wall, and an open second side through which the pinch member and biasing spring(s) are inserted into the transverse slot. The block member includes a foot portion and a side wall portion. The foot portion is insertable into the housing through the open second side such that the block member is constrained against movement relative to the housing and the side wall portion of the block member opposes the first side wall of the housing, whereby the pinch member is supported on both lateral sides to prevent tilting of the pinch member.
US11313363B2	Pump assembly with a rotational to reciprocal action transmission and a diaphragm pump A pump assembly has a motor, a gearbox, a rotational to reciprocal action transmission and a diaphragm pump, in which a shaft of the motor, an output shaft of the gearbox, a reciprocal movement axis of the transmission, and a pump shaft of the diaphragm pump are all aligned on a main axis.
US11313361B2	Rolling diaphragm pump A rolling diaphragm pump that can inhibit an increase in cost with a simple configuration is provided. A rolling diaphragm pump 1 includes: a housing 2; a piston 3 disposed so as to be slidable relative to an inner peripheral surface of the housing 2 and reciprocatable in an axial direction; a rolling diaphragm 4 having a movable portion 41 disposed at one end portion in the axial direction of the piston 3 and reciprocatable together with the piston 3, a fixed portion 42 fixed to the housing 2, and a flexible connecting portion 43 connecting the movable portion 41 and the fixed portion 42 to each other; a pump chamber 5 defined by the rolling diaphragm 4 at one side in the axial direction within the housing 2 and into and from which a transport fluid is sucked and discharged by changing a volume of an interior of the pump chamber 5 by deformation of the connecting portion 43 due to reciprocation of the piston 3; and a working fluid chamber 6 defined by another end portion in the axial direction of the piston 3 at another side in the axial direction within the housing 2 and into and from which a working fluid is supplied and discharged, thereby causing the piston 3 to reciprocate.
US11313358B2	Actuator with shape memory wire The present invention concerns an electric actuator (A, A′), comprising a rotor member (6) and an actuating assembly (4) configured to interfere with said rotor member (6), causing it to rotate, characterized in that said rotor member (6) comprises a pair of eccentric reliefs (63) arranged so as to interfere with said actuating assembly (4), and in that said actuating assembly (4) comprises a shape memory wire (2), wherein said actuating assembly (4) is configured to cause the rotation of said rotor member (6) when electric current flows through at least a portion of said shape memory wire (2).
US11313343B2	Hydroelectric power generation system A hydroelectric power generation system includes: a generator driven by the hydraulic turbine; a head adjuster adjusting an effective head of the hydraulic turbine; and a controller cooperatively executing: flow rate control for controlling the generator such that a flow rate in the hydraulic turbine is brought close to a target flow rate; and head adjusting control for adjusting the effective head of the hydraulic turbine using the head adjuster such that the effective head of the hydraulic turbine falls within a first range.
US11313341B1	Portable river turbine system The portable river turbine system is a small-scale electricity generator whereby boaters, fishers, or other individual entities can use the current of a river or other body of water to power or charge small electronic devices such as phones, lights, or radios. The detachable propeller or wheel is attached at one end of the waterproof turbine housing. The turbine can be secured by the side bolting, by the vertical hook, or optionally by both. Said vertical hook has a telescopic expandable shaft, allowing for the shaft to be the optimal length to best submerge the turbine wheel or propeller and still attach to a boat, dock, or other surface above the water's level. Stationed on the top of the waterproof turbine housing are quick connections that can be used for wires and handles.
US11313340B2	Ignition timing control device for internal combustion engine An ignition timing control device includes a storage device that stores a normal signal generation model configured to output, upon receiving an output value of a knocking sensor, a noise-removed output value therefrom which an unlearned noise component value has been removed, and a first learned neural network pre-learned to output, upon receiving one of the output value of the knocking sensor and the noise-removed output value, an estimated value of a knocking intensity representative value, and a processor that acquires the estimated value by inputting the output value of the knocking sensor to the normal signal generation model and inputting the noise-removed output value to the first learned neural network, and executes retarding control of an ignition timing based on the acquired estimated value.
US11313337B2	Pulsation damper A pulsation damper is small in size and can achieve an appropriate supporting force for a diaphragm damper. A pulsation damper accommodated in a case includes a diaphragm damper having a gas sealed therein, and a first support member and a second support member that are disposed between the case and the diaphragm damper and that hold the diaphragm damper.
US11313335B2	Fixing sleeve for firmly fixing a plug to a socket, and injector assembly A fixing sleeve firmly fixes a plug to a socket. The fixing sleeve has two half-shells, which delimit a receiving space for receiving at least one part of the plug. A fastener is arranged adjacently to a plug-side end face of the fixing sleeve. An injector assembly includes an injector with a socket, a cable fastened to the plug, and the fixing sleeve.
US11313325B2	Gas turbine engine with minimal tolerance between the fan and the fan casing A turbofan having a dilution rate of at least 10 and including a fan having a disc provided with blades at the periphery thereof, a distance between the head of the blades and the housing of the fan being less than or equal to ten millimeters; a primary flow space and secondary flow space that are concentric; a turbine, housed in the primary flow space and in fluid communication with the fan; and a reduction mechanism coupling the turbine and the fan.
US11313321B2	Exhaust nozzle of a gas turbine engine Aspects of the disclosure regard an exhaust nozzle for a gas turbine engine that includes an outer nozzle wall, a flow channel which is limited radially outwards by the nozzle wall, a centerbody arranged in the flow channel, and at least two struts connecting the centerbody to the nozzle wall. One of the struts is connected to the nozzle wall by a first connection, the first connection constraining movement of the strut relative to the nozzle wall in the radial direction and in the circumferential direction. The at least one other strut is connected to the nozzle wall by a second connection, the second connection constraining movement of the strut relative to the nozzle wall in the circumferential direction but allowing movement of the strut relative to the nozzle wall in the radial direction.
US11313319B2	Engine An engine (E) includes a crankcase body (19) including a bottom plate (19a) and a tubular portion (19c), a crankcase cover (20) covering a case opening portion (19b) of the crankcase body (19), a crankshaft (2), a cylinder base portion (21a) located inside the crankcase body (19), a cylinder block (21b) located outside the crankcase body (19), and a camshaft (25) located inside the crankcase body (19) and between the bottom plate (19a) and cylinder base portion (21a). The crankcase body (19) has the bottom plate (19a) detachably attached to the tubular portion (19c).
US11313314B2	Control apparatus of internal combustion engine A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a port injection valve that injects fuel into an intake-air port, and a cylinder injection valve that injects fuel into a cylinder. The control apparatus includes an electronic control unit that controls the port injection valve and the cylinder injection valve such that when returning from a fuel cut, a value of a port increase amount correction, which is a fuel increase amount correction in which a fuel amount is decreased with a lapse of time during a port injection, differs from a value of a cylinder increase amount correction, which is a fuel increase amount correction in which a fuel amount is decreased with a lapse of time during a cylinder injection.
US11313308B2	Injection control device An injection control device includes: a drive control unit that controls energization by correcting an energization instruction time when injecting the fuel by executing the current-drive, and includes an energization time correction amount calculation unit that calculates an energization time correction amount by performing area correction on a current flowing through the fuel injection valve; an abnormality determination unit that determines an abnormality in a control system of the drive control unit; and a correction amount subtraction setting unit that stops a calculation of the energization time correction amount when the abnormality determination unit determines an abnormality, and controls the drive control unit to directly or stepwise reduce the energization time correction amount at an abnormality determination.
US11313307B2	Method and device for evaluating the compression of the cylinders of an internal combustion engine A method for evaluating the compression of the cylinders of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle having an electric starter motor and a respective starting battery, comprising: start capturing the battery voltage signal when the starter motor stars to rotate the internal-combustion engine so as to initiate operation of the engine under its own power; cease capturing the battery voltage signal when the engine enters operation under its own power; process the captured voltage signal for the location of local minimums; calculate the time difference between consecutive local minimums; detect if there is a variation of time between the calculated differences higher than a predetermined threshold between any said calculated time differences; and, if there is such variation, signal a potential engine malfunction. Also provided is a device for accomplishing the foregoing.
US11313306B2	Torque monitoring device A torque monitoring device monitors the occurrence of an abnormal torque state causing an estimated torque as an estimated value for an actual torque of an internal combustion engine to differ from an engine-requested torque required of the internal combustion engine and includes: a discrete value setup unit configured to increase a discrete value correspondingly to increase in a difference quantity between the estimated torque and the engine-requested torque; an accumulation unit configured calculate an accumulation value of the discrete value; and a determination unit configured to determine that the abnormal torque state occurs when the accumulation value becomes larger than or equal to a predetermined abnormality determination threshold value.
US11313304B2	Heater energization control device A gas sensor is provided in an exhaust passage of an engine mounted on a vehicle. The gas sensor includes a sensor element and a heater. The sensor element detects a concentration of a specific component in exhaust gas. The heater is energized with electricity from a power source to heat the sensor element. The heater energization control device controls an amount of electricity supplied to the heater. An ambient temperature acquisition unit acquires an ambient temperature, which is a temperature of an environment surrounding the engine. An energization control unit controls the amount of electricity supplied to the heater based on the ambient temperature in temperature raising energization in which a temperature of the sensor element is raised to an active temperature when the engine is started.
US11313301B2	Control of exhaust energy in internal combustion engines Methods of improving SCR performance in heavy duty vehicles may use multiple interdependent control techniques to increase engine exhaust temperatures in a fuel efficient manner. One method combines cylinder deactivation and mechanical loading of an engine by an electrical generator used to input energy into an exhaust stream to manipulate the exhaust temperature through the combined effect of modified air-to-fuel ratio and supplemental energy input. In particular, cylinder deactivation may be used to modify the engine air flowrate and the electric generator may be used to apply mechanical load on the engine to manipulate the engine fuel flow rate to control the engine air-to-fuel ratio and thereby increase exhaust temperatures. The exhaust temperatures may be further increased by using the electrical generator to add the energy generated as input energy to the exhaust stream.
US11313298B2	Reverse-rotation robust synchronization method Disclosed is a method for synchronizing an internal combustion engine including at least one camshaft, on which a target is mounted, a position sensor for sensing the position of the camshaft and a processing unit, the method transmitting a synchronization or synchronization fault signal as a function of the determined direction of rotation of the target.
US11313292B1	Methods and systems for real-time dosing of additives into a fuel supply unit Methods and systems for real-time dosing of additives into a fuel supply unit. A method disclosed herein includes capturing at least one real-time operating condition of the equipment. The method further includes determining dosage of the at least one additive to be dosed into the fuel supply unit of the equipment, based on the captured at least one operating condition of the equipment. The method further includes enabling an additive dispensing device to dose the determined dosage of the at least one additive into the fuel supply unit of the equipment.
US11313282B2	Hybrid transmission turbojet engine A turbojet engine (2), such as an aircraft turbojet engine, comprising: an epicyclic gear train (36); a turbine rotating a transmission shaft (34) constrained to rotate with the inner planetary gear (60) of the epicyclic gear train (36); a fan (18) rigidly connected to the ring gear (66) of the epicyclic gear train (36); and an electric machine (70) comprising a rotor (72) and a stator (74), the rotor (72) being rigidly connected to the planet carrier (68) of the epicyclic gear train (36). Alternatively, the fan (18) is rigidly connected to the planet carrier and the electric machine (70) is rigidly connected to the ring gear. The invention also relates to methods for using said turbojet engine, in particular for controlling the reduction ratio between the transmission shaft and the turbine, in order to recover kinetic energy or for taxiing.
US11313279B2	Scroll and gas turbine facility An entire scroll is effectively cooled. A scroll of an embodiment leads combustion gas to a turbine stage as a working medium for driving a turbine rotor in a gas turbine facility, and includes a scroll inner cylinder and a scroll outer cylinder. The working medium flows into the scroll inner cylinder. The scroll outer cylinder is provided to cover the scroll inner cylinder with a scroll cooling flow path therebetween where a cooling medium with a temperature lower than the working medium is supplied. The scroll cooling flow path includes an inner ring side flow path part located inside than the scroll inner cylinder in a radial direction of the turbine rotor and an outer ring side flow path part located outside than the scroll inner cylinder in the radial direction of the turbine rotor. Here, a dividing part dividing the outer ring side flow path part in an axial direction along a rotation axis of the turbine rotor is provided at the scroll inner cylinder.
US11313276B2	Supersonic gas turbine engine A supersonic gas turbine engine for an aircraft that comprises a nacelle, a fan, an engine core including a primary duct configured to guide a core airflow through the engine core, a bypass duct extending between the engine core and an engine casing and configured to guide a bypass airflow through the bypass duct, an intake located upstream of the fan, and a tertiary airflow duct extending between the engine casing and the nacelle and configured to guide a tertiary airflow. The intake is configured to extract air from the intake and guide it to the tertiary airflow duct in which the extracted air flows as tertiary airflow. It is provided that at least one heat exchanger is mounted in the tertiary airflow duct.
US11313273B2	Compound engine assembly with bleed air A compound engine assembly for use as an auxiliary power unit for an aircraft and including an engine core with internal combustion engine(s), a compressor having an outlet in fluid communication with an engine core inlet, a bleed conduit in fluid communication with the compressor outlet through a bleed air valve, and a turbine section having an inlet in fluid communication with the engine core outlet and configured to compound power with the engine core. The turbine section may include a first stage turbine having an inlet in fluid communication with the engine core outlet and a second stage turbine having an inlet in fluid communication the first stage turbine outlet. A method of providing compressed air and electrical power to an aircraft is also discussed.
US11313272B2	Cylinder structure of rotary piston internal combustion engine A cylinder structure of a rotary piston internal combustion engine includes a rotating shaft, the two sides of the rotating shaft are installed on machine bases, front deflector rods and rear deflectors rod are fixed to the two outer ends of the rotating shaft respectively, the included angles between the front deflector rods and the rear deflector rods are 29 degrees, the front deflector rods at the two outer ends are arranged in the radial direction of the rotating shaft at 180 degrees, and the rear deflector rods at the two outer ends are arranged in the radial direction of the rotating shaft at 180 degrees, and a combustion device and a compression device are sequentially arranged between the two machine bases.
US11313268B2	Method of monitoring an SCR catalyst A method of monitoring an SCR catalyst in which an area factor (a) of the SCR catalyst is ascertained by means of an observer. It is concluded that there is a fault in the SCR catalyst when a comparison shows that the area factor (a) has gone below a threshold value (S).
US11313266B2	Compact mixer with flow diverter A mixer assembly for a vehicle exhaust system includes an inner wall surface and a flow diverter with a flow directing surface that is spaced apart from the inner wall surface to provide an exhaust gas inlet area. The flow directing surface terminates at a distal end that is spaced apart from the inner wall surface to provide an orifice between the distal end and the inner wall surface through which exhaust gas flow accelerates and is directed to flow along the inner wall surface. A vehicle exhaust component assembly that includes the mixer and a method for mixing injected fluid spray into the mixer are also disclosed.
US11313265B2	Exhaust gas post-treatment device An exhaust gas post-treatment device for an internal combustion engine mixes exhaust gas with a reducing agent. The exhaust gas post-treatment device comprises a mixing chamber through which the exhaust gas circulates and a reducing agent sprayer that sprays a reducing agent in the mixing chamber. The reducing agent sprayer comprises at least one first nozzle and at least one second nozzle, where said at least one first nozzle is designed to produce small droplets, and said at least one second nozzle is designed to produce large droplets.
US11313260B1	Engine having cylinder block casting with oil spray jet gallery and oil admission valve for selective oil jet spraying to cylinders An engine includes a cylinder block having formed therein a plurality of cylinders, a main oil gallery, and a spray jet gallery. A cross-hole is fluidly connected to the main oil gallery and extends to the spray jet gallery. Oil spray jets are each fluidly connected to one of a plurality of oil feed holes fluidly connected to the spray jet gallery. An oil admission valve, which can be hydraulically actuated or electrically actuated, is supported in the cylinder block and movable between a closed position to block the spray jet gallery and each of the oil feed holes from the cross-hole, and an open position.
US11313253B2	Center pivot latched deactivating rocker arm A rocker arm can comprise a cam arm, a valve arm, a lost motion spring, and a pair of deactivatable latches configured to impede travel of the cam arm with respect to the lost motion spring and configured to enable the cam arm to collapse the lost motion spring. The cam arm can comprise a cam interface, a spring pressing area, a cam arm body, and a pivot axle connection. The valve arm can comprise a valve arm body, a rocker shaft bore, a latch socket, and lost motion spring mount. A pivot axle can connect the valve arm body to the cam arm body. Alternatively, a latch socket in a valve arm neck comprises a latch assembly whereby a deactivatable latch is configured to impede motion of the cam arm and to collapse so the cam arm can collapse the lost motion spring.
US11313248B2	3-D lattice bearing support structure A lattice bearing support includes a circular inner structure having a center axis and an inner radial surface, an inner rim projecting axially inward from the circular inner structure toward the center axis, a circular outer structure located outward of the circular inner structure with respect to the center axis and having an outer radial surface, an outer radial flange on the circular outer structure that projects radially outward from the outer radial surface, and a number of struts extending radially between the circular inner structure and the circular outer structure.
US11313245B2	Shaft monitoring system A monitoring system for monitoring one or more properties associated with a rotating shaft is provided. The system includes a first phonic wheel which is mounted coaxially to the shaft for rotation therewith, the first phonic wheel comprising a circumferential row of teeth. The system further includes a first sensor configured to detect the passage of the row of teeth of the first phonic wheel by generating a first alternating measurement signal. The system further includes a processor unit configured to determine the durations of successive first speed samples. Each first speed sample is a block of n successive cycles of the first alternating measurement signal, where n is an integer, and in which the beginning of each cycle is a zero-crossing point from the previous cycle and the end of each cycle is the corresponding zero-crossing point to the next cycle. At least one axial location of the first phonic wheel every mth tooth of the row of teeth of the first phonic wheel has a circumferential thickness which is different from that of the other teeth of the first phonic wheel, where m is an integer, m≠n, and m is neither a factor nor a multiple of n. When the first sensor is positioned at said axial location of the first phonic wheel and at any given rotational speed of the first phonic wheel, the durations of the successive first speed samples display a characteristic repeating pattern of longer and shorter sample durations relative to the average duration of the successive first speed samples. The amount by which the longer and shorter sample durations differ from the average duration is in proportion to the amount by which the circumferential thickness of the mth teeth differs from that of the other teeth at said axial location of the first phonic wheel. The processor unit monitors the properties associated with the rotating shaft from the characteristic repeating pattern.
US11313239B2	Turbmachine fan disc A disc able to support platforms and blades of a fan, and including an external surface having a succession of grooves for receiving the fan blades and teeth interposed between the grooves to support the fan platforms, an upstream face of the disc, and a plurality of radial protrusions disposed radially around the axis of the disc on the upstream face of the disc, and able to be fastened to a fan platform retaining flange, the protrusions being offset radially toward the interior of the disc relative to the grooves of the disc, and being disposed circumferentially between two teeth of the disc.
US11313236B2	Coolant channel A component for a gas turbine engine, comprising: a first wall defining an exterior surface of the component; a second wall, arranged such that a coolant channel is defined by the space between the first and second walls; and a plurality of apertures provided through the first wall to connect the coolant channel to the exterior surface of the component; wherein adjacent at least one aperture the coolant channel comprises a flow modifier, configured to locally change the pressure of the coolant flowing in the coolant channel in the region of the aperture relative to a region of the coolant channel adjacent another aperture.
US11313228B2	Rotor for a pump, produced with a first elastic material A rotor for a pump has a housing and a rotor, and has at least one blade. The rotor is able to be actuated to rotate about an axis of rotation in order to convey a fluid in the axial or radial direction, and the rotor is able to be deformed in the radial direction between a first, radially compressed state and a second, radially expanded state. At a maximum speed of rotation of the rotor at which the power of the pump is at a maximum, the blade is essentially radially oriented, and/or the rotor has its maximum diameter.
US11313227B2	Three-in-one drilling, resin and rod insertion device A device that allows for the sequential operations of hole drilling, resin and catalyst insertion and rod insertion in a single machine is provided. The drilling part uses a regular mining drilling machine that is fitted onto the device. Once the hole is drilled, a pipe is inserted into the hole. There are two possible versions of the pipe, a single pipe configured to work with an air cannon shooting resin tubes and a co-joined double pipe to inject resin and a catalyst in separate co-joined pipes so as to emerge unmixed at the end of the pipes. The next step consists in screwing in the rod into the hole, the twisting motion mixes resin and catalyst and in a matter of seconds, the rod is fully inserted and the chemical reaction has started. Because of the speed and accuracy of insertion and the thoroughness of mixing, more catalyst than usual can be used for a faster hardening of the resin, which secures the rod much better and faster.
US11313216B2	Automated evaluation and fingerprinting of drilling operations utilizing real-time data Real-time data of drilling operations may be utilized to automatically fingerprint and evaluate their values to create enhanced information of interest. Enhanced information of interest may be comparable to given procedure and may facilitate generation of actionable insight and validation of procedural compliance. Real-time data of drilling operations may be analyzed to generate analysis and graphical comparison of specific sub-step operations that make up activities of interest. These operations may correspond to specific actions a driller on a rig may take to manipulate equipment and may be documented as procedural steps.
US11313215B2	Methods and systems for monitoring and optimizing reservoir stimulation operations Provided are methods and systems for monitoring and modifying stimulation operations in a reservoir. In particular, the methods and systems utilize a downhole telemetry system, such as a network of sensors and downhole wireless communication nodes, to monitor various stimulation operations.
US11313209B2	Self-orienting gas evading intake for submersible pumps A self-orienting gas evading intake for a submersible pump provides an efficient, reliable and inexpensive system for pumping a downhole fluid to a surface. An intake section of a submersible pumping system may comprise a blocker sleeve disposed between an external housing and an eccentric intake. The intake section may be self-orienting such that a gas component of the fluid ascends the borehole to separate from a liquid component of the fluid. Actuation of a blocker sleeve exposes one or more ports of the external housing while blocking one or more other ports. The liquid component is drawn into the intake section through an exposed port and through one or more openings of the eccentric intake. The liquid component may then be drawn into the pump. As the liquid component comprises non-detrimental amounts, if any, of a gas component, the pump operates efficiently and effectively.
US11313208B2	Detonation cord alignment and retention Provided is a detonation cord alignment apparatus. The detonation cord alignment apparatus, in accordance with one example, includes a detonation cord alignment housing having a detonation cord opening extending there through, and one or more protrusions extending inward from the detonation cord opening for linearly securing a detonation cord therein.
US11313207B2	Deep-sea submarine gas hydrate collecting method and production house A deep-sea submarine gas hydrate collecting method and a production house for the first time, the collecting method comprises the steps of: determining an active methane leakage zone near a landward limit of a submarine gas hydrate stability zone, acquiring submarine methane leakage in-situ observation data, determining a methane leakage rate and evaluating its economy; mounting a production house on the seabed, opening a monitoring system after the mounting, monitoring the submarine methane leakage condition and hydrate generation progress in real time, evaluating a hydrate generation amount, and performing hydrate acquisition work; and rapidly processing the gas hydrate in the house by a gas hydrate collecting system of an offshore platform, and continuously monitoring the methane leakage condition. A large amount of methane leaked can be collected, thereof, the method has dual meanings of resources and environment.
US11313204B2	Insulating fluid for thermal insulation An insulating fluid system includes an acidic nanosilica dispersion and an alkaline activator. The acidic nanosilica dispersion includes silica nanoparticles and a stabilizer, such as a carboxylic acid. The alkaline activator includes an alkanolamine, such as a monoalkanolamine. A mixture of the acidic nanosilica dispersion and the alkaline activator forms an insulating fluid having a pH greater than 7 and less than or equal to 12, and the insulating fluid forms an insulating gel when heated to a temperature in a range between 100° F. and 300° F. The insulating gel may be formed in an annulus between an inner conduit and an outer conduit. The inner and outer conduits may be positioned in a subterranean formation. Forming an insulating gel may include combining the acidic nanosilica dispersion with the alkaline activator to yield the insulating fluid, and heating the insulating fluid to form the insulating gel.
US11313199B2	Methods and systems for a temporary seal within a wellbore Examples of the present disclosure relate to a temporary seal within a wellbore. More specifically, embodiments include a temporary seal within casing that limits the flow of fluid through the casing until the temporary seal is released.
US11313192B2	Method for lowering oil pipe in gas well without well-killing, soluble bridge plug and material preparation method thereof The present invention discloses a method for lowering an oil pipe in a gas well without well-killing, a soluble bridge plug and a material preparation method thereof, wherein, the method comprises the steps of: lowering a bridge plug in a wellbore such that the bridge plug blocks the wellbore at a predetermined location in the wellbore; injecting water in the wellbore after the pressure in the wellbore has been relieved so as to replace gases in the wellbore; and lowering an oil pipe in the wellbore to the location of the bridge plug. The method for lowering an oil pipe in a gas well without well-killing, the soluble bridge plug and the material preparation method thereof provided in the present invention successfully solve the problem of high cost for lowering an oil pipe under pressure after a fracturing fluid has been injected into the casing.
US11313191B2	Downhole surveying and core sample orientation systems, devices and methods System and method for core sample orientating uses an orientation data gathering device recording core sample orientation belowground at irregular time intervals, preferably while drilling is ceased and the irregular time intervals can be randomly generated by the orientation data gathering device. Target orientation data is closest to time Tx, Tx being greater than, less than or equal to T−t, where T is the time recorded by the data gathering device and t is the recorded elapsed time commenced by a communication device at the surface. The data gathering device is interrogated at the surface by the communication device. Timers in each are stopped or their individual times associated with each other (survey time T and elapsed time t). Target recorded orientation data Tx is identifiable as the largest Tx value
US11313187B2	Loss circulation treatment fluid injection into wells A protective tubular is run downhole into a wellbore in a subterranean formation. A non-metallic tubular is disposed within the protective tubular. The non-metallic tubular includes an adapter. The adapter includes a spring-loaded latch, a ball seat, a shear pin, and a ball catcher. While intact, the shear pin holds a position of the non-metallic tubular relative to the protective tubular. A ball is used to shear the shear pin of the adapter, thereby allowing the non-metallic tubular to move relative to the protective tubular. Pressure is applied to the ball to move the non-metallic tubular relative to the protective tubular. The non-metallic tubular is coupled to the protective tubular using the spring-loaded latch of the adapter. Pressure is applied to the ball to shear the ball seat of the adapter. A fluid is flowed into the non-metallic tubular through an opening defined by the adapter.
US11313175B2	Mud motor catch with catch indication and anti-milling A rotor catch system includes a catch stem having a proximal end coupled to a rotor of a mud motor system and a distal end positioned within a sub housing of a drill string, a catch feature having a top portion and a spindle portion extending from the top portion and coupled to the distal end of the catch stem, a housing catch feature extending radially inward from an inner surface of the sub housing, and a catch bushing positioned between the top portion of the catch feature and the housing catch feature. The housing catch feature restrains axial movement of the catch bushing in the active catch state via contact between the catch bushing and the housing catch feature, and the catch bushing restrains axial movement of the catch feature in the active catch state via contact between the catch feature and the catch bushing.
US11313170B2	Shimming device and method of use A shimming device for attaching a substrate to a stud wall includes a plate, which has a first edge that is linear. The plate can be mounted to a respective opposed side of one of a plurality of studs to which the substrate is to be mounted. The plate is one of a plurality of plates that can be positioned on and mounted to the plurality of studs so that each plate is positioned at a respective support point for the substrate. Each plate is positioned with the first edge of the plate proud of an edge face of the stud and so that the first edges of the plurality of plates define a plane. The substrate, upon mounting to the plurality of studs, is parallel to the plane.
US11313166B2	Drive device for a window regulator It is provided a drive device for an adjustment installation for adjusting a vehicle part, in particular a power window actuator, comprising a carrier element, a cable drum, a cable exit housing which is disposed on a first side of the carrier element and which has a first bearing element for mounting the cable drum so as to be rotatable about a first rotation axis, a drive wheel that is drivable by a motor unit, and a drive housing which is disposed on a second side, facing away from the first side, of the carrier element and which has a second bearing element for mounting the drive wheel so as to be rotatable about a second rotation axis. The cable exit housing and the drive housing are fastened to one another by way of a fastening element which acts between the first bearing element and the second bearing element.
US11313160B1	Receptacle latching mechanism incorporating a go-gauge A latching mechanism includes a gauge defining a passage extending therethrough, and a latch operably connected to the gauge and structured to be rotatable from a latching position to an unlatched position by movement of a component at least partially through the passage. The latch is structured to engage a latch engagement feature positioned on a lid of a receptacle to maintain the lid in a closed condition when the latch is in the latching position. The receptacle lid is released for opening when the latch disengages from the latch engagement feature.
US11313157B2	Latch assembly for opening and closing luggage room of vehicle A latch assembly for opening and closing a vehicle luggage room may include: a base installed on an end portion of an opening and closing member to open and close a vehicle luggage room; a power conversion member to convert the rotational force of a drive motor into a linear motion; a claw to grip and restrain the striker when the opening and closing member is closed; a pawl to inhibit the rotation of the claw so that the claw maintains a state of having the striker restrained; an error lever installed to rotate with the pawl and configured to rotate so that the pawl is separated from the claw; and a link member to rotate the claw so that the claw grips the striker, when the power conversion member makes the linear motion.
US11313156B2	Delayed emergency release unit The manual release mechanism described herein enables a passenger to attempt to manually open the transit door, but delays opening until the vehicle is no longer moving. A motion transfer device (14) moves to an unlocking position of the door lock (10) only when the manual release mechanism is activated to store energy in a mechanical energy storage device (40), and an electromechanical device (26) is de-energized to release the motion transfer device (14).
US11313154B2	Laptop lock A laptop lock used for locking a laptop is provided. The laptop lock includes a body and a fixing device. The fixing device makes the relative position of the body with respect to the laptop fixed and makes extending direction of the shaft connecting the display and the keyboard part of the laptop parallel with the long axial direction of the body.
US11313142B1	Swimming pool leveling system and method of use A swimming pool leveling system includes a bracket extending from a first end to a second end, the bracket having openings; a float valve having a body with a float positioned within an interior of the body, the float valve engaged with the bracket via an adjustment device; a pressure reducing valve engaged with the body and to receive a water source; and a base having a base body with an enclosed interior accessible via an opening, the enclosed interior configured to receive a weight, the base engaging with the bracket via one or more securement devices; the base is to rest on a surface such that the bracket extends the float valve into a pool; and the float valve to allow filling of the pool to a desired height.
US11313126B2	Concrete corner structure with diagonally oriented fiber resin polymer rebar A concrete corner structure with diagonally oriented fiber resin polymer rebar and method that utilizes straight rebar to reinforce the corner structure. The straight rebar intersects with the horizontally disposed rebar in the first and second walls that form the corner structure. The straight rebar is placed at a 45-degree angle with respect to the two walls and tied to the horizontally disposed rebar. This allows for the use of straight rebar to reinforce the corner structure as opposed to a curved rebar.
US11313114B2	Drain cleaner A drain cleaner includes a drum assembly configured to store a cable and an actuator assembly movable relative to the drum assembly between a neutral position, where the cable is free to spin and translate out of the drum assembly, an autofeed position, where the cable is allowed to spin and is automatically driven out of the drum assembly, and an autofeed locked on position, where the actuator assembly is maintained in the autofeed position without continuous input from a user. The actuator assembly includes a handle supported by the drum assembly and an autofeed locking mechanism. The autofeed locking mechanism includes a drive lock and a lock release. The drive lock engages the handle to maintain the actuator assembly in the autofeed locked on position.
US11313112B2	Drain adapter device Described herein are embodiments of a drain adapter device configured as a low-profile drain that provides a dry seal between a drain base and an installed floor drain. The low-profile drain is configured to receive threaded drain gates or strainers. In some embodiments, the drain adapter device provides a low-profile drain system that includes universal receiving features configured to engage with strainers, drain gates, caps, and the like.
US11313108B2	Pumping device A pumping device has a container, an inlet pipe, a float barrel, and a discharging pipe. The container has a box containing water and a first gas, and a pressure gauge and a check valve mounted to the box. The inlet pipe connects to a water supply and has a second section erectly disposed within the box and communicating with an inside of the box. The float barrel is disposed within the box, contains a second gas, and has an opening. The second section is mounted through the opening. The discharging pipe has two opposite ends respectively communicating with a water reservoir and the inside of the box. The first gas has a pressure larger than 1 atm. The second gas has a pressure less than 1 atm. Water enters the float barrel. A water level inside the float barrel is higher than a water level inside the box.
US11313103B2	Work vehicle A work vehicle provided with a loading hydraulic circuit (A), including at least a main hydraulic pump (31), a lift arm cylinder (8) and a control valve (32), an auxiliary hydraulic pump (31), a negative parking brake device (PB), and a parking brake releasing hydraulic circuit (B2), in which the vehicle includes: a loading operation hydraulic circuit (B1) located upstream of the parking brake releasing hydraulic circuit; an emergency flow path (80) for supplying the pressure oil discharged from the auxiliary hydraulic pump to the parking brake device through the loading operation hydraulic circuit in an emergency; and a valve unit (81) located in the emergency flow path. If the pressure of the parking brake releasing hydraulic circuit is lower than the brake release pressure to release the braking state of the parking brake device, the valve unit is switched to the communicating position.
US11313084B2	Device for forming a level crossing A device for setting up a level crossing for crossing a track section having two rails, comprising one or more mouldings forming at least one part of a traffic surface of the railway crossing across the rails, and at least one moulding holder fixable to one of the two rails, wherein the moulding(s) is/(are) detachably attachable to at least one of the two rails by means of the moulding holder, wherein the moulding holder comprises two holding clamps fixable to the rail in juxtaposition to each other on both sides of the rail, and wherein the two holding clamps can be braced to each other such as to clamp the rail foot between the two holding clamps.
US11313082B2	Sheet material comprising fiber and nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler and method of producing said sheet material This invention relates to a sheet material comprising fiber and nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler, wherein the nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler comprises microfibrillated cellulose and starch granule in such a way that the microfibrillated cellulose is dispersed with starch granule, and the nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler has starch granule at least 15 wt %. Besides, this invention also relates to a method of producing said sheet material comprising fiber and nano-microscale organic filler, wherein the method comprises the steps of (i) preparing pulp suspension, (ii) preparing nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler, (iii) adding the nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler into the pulp suspension, (iv) forming sheet material by pressing, and (v) drying the sheet material, wherein the preparation step of nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler provides the nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler comprising microfibrillated cellulose and starch granule in such a way that the microfibrillated cellulose is dispersed with starch granule.
US11313076B2	Transfer paper An object of the present invention is to provide a transfer paper which allows smooth removal of a printed transfer paper from a design-printed fabric before steaming; and is unlikely to cause problems such as partial missing, color unevenness, color-development deterioration, etc. of the design on the fabric. Provided is a transfer paper having a substrate and one or more coating layers, the substrate having a base paper and one or more nonaqueous resin layers on one side of the base paper, the one or more coating layers being located on the one or more nonaqueous resin layers, the coating layer located outermost from the substrate, that is, the outermost coating layer, at least comprising a water-soluble polyester resin, a carboxylic acid-modified polyvinyl alcohol resin, an acrylic resin, a starch, and a white pigment, the acrylic resin having a glass transition point (Tg) of 0° C. to 45° C. and a minimum film forming temperature (MFT) of 0° C. to 50° C.
US11313074B2	Process for the preparation of functionalized weather-resistant and slow-decaying geotextiles Processes for making weather resistant, slow-decaying, durable natural fiber/coir geotextiles produce geotextiles having flexibility, permeability, light weight and cost-effective characteristics. In this process an in situ chemical grafting using a mixture of Cashew Nut Shell Liquid and aminoalkyl trialkoxysilanes with cellulose was done followed by curing in presence of sunlight, UV light or heat. The developed product showed durability and strength more than that of natural fiber/fabric and retaining natural fiber/fabric/geotextiles characteristics. The geotextiles have delayed bio-deterioration having wider long-term end use/applications. This process of making durable geotextiles is eco-friendly and retains the desired characteristic.
US11313061B2	Process for making three-dimensional foam-laid nonwovens A method for making a high topography nonwoven substrate includes generating a foam including water and synthetic binder fibers; depositing the foam on a planar surface; disposing a template form on the foam opposite the planar surface to create a foam/form assembly; heating the foam/form assembly to dry the foam and bind the synthetic binder fibers; and removing the template from the substrate after heating the foam/form assembly, wherein the substrate includes a planar base layer having an X-Y surface and a backside surface opposite the X-Y surface; and a plurality of projection elements integral with and protruding in a Z-direction from the X-Y surface, wherein the projection elements are distributed in both the X- and Y-directions, and wherein the density of a projection element is the same as the density of the base layer.
US11313057B2	Upper for an article of footwear with a cuff In one aspect, an upper for an article of footwear may include a knit element, a collar area configured to form an ankle opening, and a cuff in the collar area. The cuff may be at least partially formed by the knit element and may include a ribbed knit structure of the knit element. In another aspect, an upper for an article of footwear may include a knit element with a first area, the first area including a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The first side may be formed of at least 30% more material than the second side such that the first area is configured to curve convexly away from the first side.
US11313043B2	Coating carbon steel tubing with iron sulfide Treating carbon steel tubing includes contacting the carbon steel tubing with a first treatment solution including a salt; corroding the carbon steel tubing with the salt to yield a corroded surface on the carbon steel tubing; contacting the corroded surface on the carbon steel tubing with a second treatment solution comprising sulfide ions; and forming an iron sulfide layer on the corroded surface of the carbon steel tubing by chemically bonding the sulfide ions in the second treatment solution with iron in the carbon steel tubing. In some cases, the first treatment solution also includes sulfide ions, and the iron sulfide layer is formed by contacting the carbon steel tubing with the first treatment solution.
US11313042B2	Dose-based end-pointing for low-kV FIB milling in TEM sample preparation A method, system, and computer-readable medium for forming transmission electron microscopy sample lamellae using a focused ion beam including directing a high energy focused ion beam toward a bulk volume of material; milling away the unwanted volume of material to produce an unfinished sample lamella with one or more exposed faces having a damage layer; characterizing the removal rate of the focused ion beam; subsequent to characterizing the removal rate, directing a low energy focused ion beam toward the unfinished sample lamella for a predetermined milling time to deliver a specified dose of ions per area from the low energy focused ion beam; and milling the unfinished sample lamella with the low energy focused ion beam to remove at least a portion of the damage layer to produce the finished sample lamella including at least a portion of the feature of interest.
US11313039B2	Nano-coating protection method for electrical devices Introduced here is a plasma polymerization apparatus and process. Example embodiments include a vacuum chamber in a substantially symmetrical shape to a central axis. A rotation rack may be operable to rotate about the central axis of the vacuum chamber. Additionally, reactive species discharge mechanisms positioned around a perimeter of the vacuum chamber in a substantially symmetrical manner from the outer perimeter of the vacuum chamber may be configured to disperse reactive species into the vacuum chamber. The reactive species may form a polymeric multi-layer coating on surfaces of the one or more devices. Each layer may have a different composition of atoms to enhance the water resistance, corrosion resistance, and fiction resistance of the polymeric multi-layer coating.
US11313030B2	Method of forming a thin film of tantalum with low resistivity A method for forming a low-resistivity tantalum thin film having the following steps: depositing a tantalum layer on a substrate, the tantalum of the layer having a β phase, treating the deposited tantalum layer by exposure to a radio frequency hydrogen plasma, such that the layer has tantalum in a mixed β-α phase, at least partially desorbing the hydrogen by carrying out at least one of the following steps: exposure to a radio frequency inert gas plasma, and thermal annealing. The treatment step being configured such that the tantalum layer is subjected to temperatures of less than or equal to 300° C.
US11313022B2	Method for manufacturing soft magnetic member There is provided a method for manufacturing a soft magnetic member where a coating formed of an α-Fe2O3 single phase having a high electrical resistivity is formed on a soft magnetic alloy substrate. A soft magnetic alloy substrate is heated in an atmosphere containing water vapor and inert gas to form a coating on the soft magnetic alloy substrate. The atmosphere has an oxygen partial pressure in a range of 0 to 1.5 kPa. A soft magnetic member including the soft magnetic alloy substrate and the coating formed on its surface can be obtained.
US11313018B2	Transformation-induced plasticity high-entropy alloy and preparation method thereof Present invention is about a transformation-induced plasticity high-entropy alloy which can provide improved mechanical properties compared to those obtained by conventional methods, due to the phase transformation occurring at the time of deformation at a cryogenic temperature. According to the present invention, the high-entropy alloy (HEA) includes 10-35 at % of Co, 3-15 at % of Cr, 3-15 at % of V, 35-48 at % of Fe, and 0-25 at % of Ni (exclusive of 25), and mainly consists of an FCC phase at room temperature, wherein transformation-induced plasticity, in which at least part of the FCC phase changes to a BCC phase, occurs at a cryogenic temperature (−196° C.)
US11313015B2	High strength and high wear-resistant cast aluminum alloy Aluminum alloys having improved properties are provided. The alloy includes about 13 to about 17 weight percent silicon, about 0.3 to about 0.6 weight percent magnesium, and at least 75 weight percent aluminum. The alloy may include copper up to about 2.0 weight percent; iron up to about 0.8 weight percent; manganese up to about 1.0 weight percent; nickel up to about 1.0 weight percent; zinc up to about 0.8 weight percent; titanium up to about 0.5 weight percent; zirconium up to about 0.5 weight percent; vanadium up to about 0.5 weight percent; and other trace elements up to about 0.1 weight percent. In addition, the alloy may contain about 50 to about 1000 ppm of strontium and about 10 about 100 ppm phosphorus. Also disclosed is a die cast article, such as transmission clutch housing.
US11313010B2	Method of forming parts from sheet metal A method of forming a part from sheet metal and a part formed by said method. The method comprising the steps of: (a) heating a metal sheet to a temperature T; and (b) forming the sheet into the part between dies while applying cooling means to the sheet, where in step a) the metal sheet is heated at a rate of at least 50° C.·s−1, and temperature T is above a critical forming temperature and does not exceed a critical microstructure change temperature of said metal sheet.
US11313007B2	High-strength seamless steel pipe for oil country tubular goods, and method for producing the same Provided herein is a high-strength seamless steel pipe containing a particular chemical composition. The volume fraction of tempered martensite is 90% or more in terms of a volume fraction. The number of nitride inclusions with a particle diameter of 4 μm or more is 50 or less per 100 mm2, the number of nitride inclusions with a particle diameter of less than 4 μm is 500 or less per 100 mm2, the number of oxide inclusions with a particle diameter of 4 μm or more is 40 or less per 100 mm2, and the number of oxide inclusions with a particle diameter of less than 4 μm is 400 or less per 100 mm2 in a cross section perpendicular to a rolling direction.
US11313005B2	Seamless steel pipe and method for producing the seamless steel pipe The seamless steel pipe of the present embodiment consists of in mass %, C: 0.21 to 0.35%, Si: 0.10 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, N: 0.010% or less, Cr: 0.05 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.10 to 1.50%, Nb: 0.010 to 0.050%, B: 0.0003 to 0.0050%, and Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, the balance being Fe and impurities. In a main body region of the seamless steel pipe, a grain size number of prior-austenite grain conforming to ASTM E112 is 7.0 or more, a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the grain size number is 1.0 or less, yield strength is 655 to less than 862 MPa, and a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of tensile strength is 27.6 MPa or less.
US11313004B2	FeNi ordered alloy and method for manufacturing FeNi ordered alloy A method for manufacturing FeNi ordered alloy having a L10 type order structure is provided. After a nitrification process for nitriding a powder sample of a FeNi disordered alloy arranged in a tube furnace is performed using a NH3 gas, a de-nitrification process for removing a nitrogen from the FeNi disordered alloy which is processed by the nitrification process is performed using a H2 gas. Thus, the L10 type FeNi ordered alloy with a regularity defined by S equal to or higher than 0.5 is obtained.
US11312998B2	Methods for selecting therapy for a cancer patient Disclosed are methods of selecting a therapy for a cancer patient and methods of treating cancer in the patient. The methods comprise detecting a mutation in one or more genes in a cancer cell from the patient, wherein the one or more genes is selected from the group consisting of PTCD2, TWF1, DEFB134, BBS1, SOX10, APLNR, CD58, COL17A1, CRKL, hsa-mir-101-2, hsa-mir-548s, MAD2L1, MLANA, PSMB5, RNPS1, RPL10A, RPL23, SRP54, TAF3, TAP1, TAP2, TAPBP, TBXAS1, GMIP, OTOA, LAIR1, CLEC1, GPSM3, TRAF1, JAK2, TAPBPL, ICAM1, LILRA1, LILRA3, STAT1, and HLA-F. Also disclosed are methods of screening for one or more genes, the mutation of which confers resistance to T cell-mediated cytolytic activity.
US11312997B2	Methods and processes for non-invasive assessment of genetic variations Technology provided herein relates in part to methods, processes and apparatuses for non-invasive assessment of genetic variations.
US11312995B2	Method for detecting SNP site on SMA gene A method for detecting a SNP site on a SMA gene is disclosed, and includes steps of: (S10) performing a PCR for amplifying a nucleic a nucleic acid fragment containing a SNP site; (S20) performing a dephosphorylation reaction on the nucleic acid fragment; (S30) performing an extension reaction on the nucleic acid fragment, wherein the SNP site is identified by using an extension primer, a 3′-end of the extension primer is extended by a single nucleotide which is complementary to a base of the SNP site, and thus an extended extension primer is obtained; (S40) performing a purification reaction; and (S50) measuring a molecular weight of the extended extension primer, and determining a type of a base of the single nucleotide based upon the molecular weight, thereby determining whether deletion occurs to the SNP site.
US11312992B2	Sequencing by structure assembly A method of sequencing nucleic acids is provided using sequencing by ligation and/or sequencing by hybridization.
US11312986B2	Biosynthesis of everninomicin analogs in Micromonospora carbonacea var aurantiaca Disclosed are methods of preparing everninomicin analogs by genetic alteration of Micromonospora carbonacea. Everninomicin analogs prepared by these methods and methods of using these analogs to treat infections are also disclose.
US11312983B2	Green preparation methods of rice resistant starch Green preparation methods of rice resistant starch are disclosed. In some embodiments, a green preparation method of the rice resistant starch is characterized in that, at a temperature lower than the gelatinization temperature, the rice starch is sequentially modified by enzymes using β-amylase, glucosidase, and pullulanase to obtain the modified starch. In other embodiments, a green preparation method of the rice resistant starch is characterized by using: rice starch as a substrate; and in turn using: (a) β-amylase (BA, EC 3.2.1.2) from barley (Hordeum vulgare); (b) glucoside transferase (TG, EC 2.4.1.24) from Aspergillus niger; and (c) pullulanase (PUL, EC 3.2.1.41) from Pullulanibacillus konaensis below a gelatinization temperature to modify a chain structure of the rice starch, resulting in a number of short linear chains which are effectively arranged, aggregated, and recrystallized at 4° C. to form modified rice starch with high resistant starch content.
US11312980B2	Method for producing 3-hydroxy-4-aminobenzoic acid compound Provided is a method for manufacturing a 3-hydroxy-4-aminobenzoic acid by using a microorganism. The method for manufacturing a 3-hydroxy-4-aminobenzoic acid comprises a step of bringing a 4-aminobenzoic acid into contact with a microorganism that produces the following polypeptide (A) or (B): (A) a polypeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 or a polypeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence that has at least 90% identity to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 and has 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase activity, (B) a polypeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 6 or a polypeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence that has at least 90% identity to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 6 and has 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase activity.
US11312972B2	Methods for altering amino acid content in plants through frameshift mutations Materials and methods are provided for making plants with altered levels of amino acids, particularly by making controlled frameshift mutations in genes that are highly expressed in plant leaves or plant seeds.
US11312966B2	Nucleic acid for treating mite allergy [Problem] To provide a nucleic acid expected to be useful for treating mite allergy. [Means to be solved] Provided is a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a chimeric protein, wherein the nucleic acid comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a signal peptide, a nucleotide sequence encoding an intra-organelle stabilizing domain of LAMP, a nucleotide sequence encoding an allergen domain comprising Der p 1, Der p 2, Der p 23, and Der p 7, a nucleotide sequence encoding a transmembrane domain and a nucleotide sequence encoding an endosomal/lysosomal targeting domain of LAMP in this order.
US11312961B1	Methods and compositions for the specific inhibition of alpha-1 antitrypsin by double-stranded RNA This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for reducing α-1 antitrypsin target RNA and protein levels via use of dsRNAs, e.g., Dicer substrate siRNA (DsiRNA) agents.
US11312960B1	Methods and compositions for the specific inhibition of alpha-1 antitrypsin by double-stranded RNA This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for reducing α-1 antitrypsin target RNA and protein levels via use of dsRNAs, e.g., Dicer substrate siRNA (DsiRNA) agents.
US11312953B2	Compositions and methods of nucleic acid-targeting nucleic acids This disclosure provides for compositions and methods for the use of nucleic acid-targeting nucleic acids and complexes thereof.
US11312951B2	Systems and methods for host cell improvement utilizing epistatic effects The present disclosure provides systems and methods for host cell improvement utilizing epistatic effects. The systems and methods described herein are host cell agnostic and therefore can be implemented across taxa. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods can be implemented to modulate or improve any host cell parameter of interest.
US11312939B2	Constructs for chimeric antigen receptors The present disclosure pertains to immune cells comprising chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) and methods of using immune cells comprising CARs.
US11312936B2	Taurine supplemented cell culture medium and methods of use The specification describes a composition comprising an improved eukaryotic cell culture medium, which can be used for the production of a protein of interest. Taurine can be added to serum-free media or chemically-defined media to increase the production of a protein of interest. Methods for recombinantly expressing high levels of protein using the media compositions are included.
US11312931B2	Photobioreactor belt A belt for an algal growth system includes a flexible sheet material configured to facilitate growth of a biofilm. The flexible sheet material is mounted on a first frame in a first mounted geometry, the flexible sheet material having a substantially vertical orientation when mounted on the first frame such that a first height of the first mounted geometry is greater than a first width of the first mounted geometry, the flexible sheet material being in contact with a contacting liquid.
US11312921B2	Oil recovery aid Compositions for increasing corn oil recovery and embodiments of methods for using the composition for corn oil separation are described. The composition(s) incorporate an admixture that includes a polymer selected from a polyglycol ester, a polyethyleneoxide-polypropyleneoxide block copolymer, a poloxamine, or a mixture thereof. The methods include admixing the compositions with a process stream for, for example, the extraction of oil from milled corn and residues from a fermentation step, including stillage (e.g., thin stillage or mid stillage), distiller's wet grain, distiller's dry grain and distiller's dry grains with solubles.
US11312919B2	Lubrication of transfer plates using an oil or oil in water emulsions This disclosure relates to transfer plate lubricant compositions and methods of transporting open containers across stationary transfer plates.
US11312916B2	Lubricant composition containing ionic liquids The present disclosure relates to a lubricant composition comprising a lubricant, a first ionic liquid which is soluble in polyalphaolefin and a second ionic liquid which is insoluble in polyalphaolefin. By using the two different ionic liquids, the technical properties of the lubricant compositions can be improved.
US11312910B2	Diorganylphosphinic acid salts, method for the production thereof and the use thereof The invention relates to diorganylphosphinic salts containing 0.0001% to 99.9999% by weight of iron, to a process for preparation thereof and to the use thereof.
US11312904B2	Semiconductor nanocrystal particle and production methods thereof A semiconductor nanocrystal particle represented by Chemical Formula 1 and having a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of less than or equal to about 30 nanometers (nm) in the emission wavelength spectrum is provided: AxA′(3+α−x)D(2+β)E(9+γ). Chemical Formula 1 In Chemical Formula 1, A is a first metal including Rb, Cs, or a combination thereof, A′ is an organic substance derived from an ammonium salt, an organic material derived from an organic ligand, or an organic material including a combination thereof, D is a second metal including Sb, Bi, or a combination thereof E is Cl, Br, I, or a combination thereof, 10, −1<β<1, and −1<γ<1.
US11312901B2	Quantum dots, a composition or composite including the same, and an electronic device including the same A cadmium free quantum dot including a semiconductor nanocrystal core and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the core, wherein the quantum dot does not include cadmium and includes indium and zinc, the quantum dot has a maximum photoluminescence peak in a red light wavelength region, a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the maximum photoluminescence peak is less than or equal to about 40 nanometers (nm), an ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) absorption spectrum of the quantum dot includes a valley between about 450 nm to a center wavelength of a first absorption peak, and a valley depth (VD) defined by the following equation is greater than or equal to about 0.2, a quantum dot polymer composite including the same, and a display device including the quantum dot-polymer composite: (Absfirst−Absvalley)/Absfirst=VD.
US11312900B2	Method for producing nitride fluorescent material, and nitride fluorescent material A method for producing a nitride fluorescent material includes preparing fluorescent material core particles having a composition containing Sr, Ca, Eu, Al, Si, and N, in which, when a molar ratio of Al in the composition is 1, a molar ratio of Sr is in a range of 0.45 or more and 1.1 or less, a molar ratio of Ca is in a range of more than 0 and less than 0.55, a molar ratio of Eu is in a range of more than 0 and 0.033 or less, a total molar ratio of Sr, Ca, and Eu is 1.1 or less, a molar ratio of Si is in a range of 0.81 or more and 1.21 or less, and a molar ratio of N is in a range of 2.25 or more and 3.85 or less, subjecting them to a first heat treatment and a second heat treatment.
US11312894B2	Combination for filtrate control and gas migration The present invention relates to the use of a combination of block polymers and particular compositions in a fluid injected under pressure into an oil-bearing rock, where: the fluid comprises solid particles and/or is brought into contact with solid particles within the oil-bearing rock following the injection thereof, the combination comprises (i) a polymer comprising: —a first block that is adsorbed on at least a portion of the particles; and —a second block, having a composition different from that of the first, and having a weight-average molecular weight of greater than 10 000 g/mol, for example greater than 100 000 g/mol, and that is soluble in the fluid; (ii) particles suitable for providing a gas barrier effect, preferably a latex and/or silica particles.
US11312873B2	Aromatic enol ether paint additives Disclosed are aromatic enol ethers that have utility as film-hardening additives for coating formulations. The aromatic enol ethers have particular utility as film-hardening additives for water-based coating formulations. The aromatic enol ethers provide improvements in hardness and hardness related properties such as block resistance without contributing to the volatile organic content of the composition.
US11312864B2	Particulate carbon material producible from renewable raw materials and method for its production The present invention relates to a particulate carbon material that can be produced from renewable raw materials, in particular from biomass containing lignin, comprising: a 14C content that corresponds to that of the renewable raw materials, said content being preferably greater than 0.20 Bq/g carbon, especially preferably greater than 0.23 Bq/g carbon, but preferably less than 0.45 Bq/g carbon in each case; a carbon content in relation to the ash-free dry substance of between 60 ma. % and 80 ma. %; an STSA surface area of the primary particles of at least 5 m2/g and at most 200 m2/g; and an oil absorption value (OAN) of between 50 ml/100 g and 150 ml/100 g. The present invention also relates to a method for producing said carbon material and to the use thereof.
US11312861B2	Solid carrier component including a liquid polyorganosiloxane and methods for preparation and use of the solid carrier component A solid carrier component includes a liquid polydiorganosiloxane, an ethylene-based polymer, and a maleated ethylene-based polymer. The solid carrier component is useful in processes for preparing filled composite articles, such as wood plastic composite building materials.
US11312855B2	Resin composition containing polyvinyl chloride resin and acrylic resin and board for interior materials manufactured using the same The present invention relates to a resin composition containing a polyvinyl chloride resin and an acrylic resin and a board for interior materials manufactured using the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a resin composition having excellent heat resistance due to a high glass transition temperature, having high flexibility even with a low plasticizer content, and having excellent processability due to such properties, as compared with the case wherein a polyvinyl chloride resin is used alone, and to a board for interior materials manufactured using the resin composition. According to the present invention, the resin composition may be applied to both a calendering method and an extrusion method due to excellent processability thereof.
US11312851B2	Fabricating ionic/polyimtde membranes Disclosed are polyimide blends and methods of making and using same. The disclosed polyimide blends are prepared by first blending an ionic polymer and a poly(amic acid) to form a poly(amic acid) precursor, followed by cyclization. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US11312848B2	Powder slush molded body of vinyl chloride resin composition, and laminate The present invention relates to a powder slush molded body of a polyvinyl chloride composition, the polyvinyl chloride composition containing a polyvinyl chloride, a plasticizer, and an acrylic polymer. The polyvinyl chloride composition contains the plasticizer in an amount of 110 parts by mass or more and 150 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polyvinyl chloride. When a cross section of the powder slush molded body extending in parallel with a thickness direction is observed under an optical microscope using reflected light, irregular scale-like polyvinyl chloride particles having a long diameter of 30 μm or more and 500 μm or less are continuous with one another via interfacial portions, and the number of aggregated particles of the acrylic polymer having a long diameter of 30 μm or more and 100 μm or less is 10 particles/mm2 or less. Thus, provided are a powder slush molded body of a polyvinyl chloride composition having high flexibility after heat aging as well as favorable surface characteristics, and a laminate.
US11312845B2	Ethylene interpolymer products and films This disclosure relates to ethylene interpolymer compositions and films prepared therefrom. Specifically: ethylene interpolymer products having: a dimensionless nonlinear rheology network parameter, Δint., greater than or equal to 0.01, satisfying 0.01×(Z−50)0.78≤Δint.≤0.01×(Z−60)0.78 inequality wherein Z is a normalized molecular weight defined by Z = M w M e where Mw and Me are the weight average and entanglement molecular weights, and; a residual catalytic metal of from ≥0.03 to ≤5 ppm of hafnium. The disclosed ethylene interpolymer products have a melt index from about 0.3 to about 500 dg/minute, a density from about 0.855 to about 0.975 g/cc, a polydispersity, M w M n , from about 1.7 to about 25 and a Composition Distribution Breadth Index (CDBI50) from about 1% to about 98%.
US11312842B2	Rubber composition, rubber composition for tires, and tire Provided is a rubber composition having a high vulcanization rate and excellent in storage stability. The rubber composition contains a rubber component that contains at least one type of a dienic rubber, a filler, a vulcanizing agent, a compound represented by a formula (1), a compound represented by a formula (2), and a vulcanization accelerator except the compound represented by the formula (1), wherein the total amount of the vulcanization accelerator and the compound represented by the formula (1) is 1.3 to 2.0 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.
US11312841B2	Pneumatic tire, and rubber composition for tire The present invention provides a pneumatic tire and a rubber composition for tires, which have improved durability at high temperatures and during high-speed running while ensuring good ice performance. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire, including a tread, the tread including blocks having an average ripe density of 1.0 cm/cm2 or higher and an average height of 0.6 to 2.0 cm, the blocks containing a rubber composition having a tan δ at 100° C. of 0.179 or less as determined at an initial strain of 10%, a dynamic strain of 2%, and a frequency of 10 Hz, and has a ratio of the modulus at 100° C. to the modulus at room temperature of 69% or greater as determined in accordance with JIS K6251:2010.
US11312835B2	Expandable polystyrene resin particles, polystyrene pre-expanded particles, and foam molded body Expandable polystyrene-based resin particles may include a styrene-based monomer, a polysiloxane-containing macro monomer, and a coating composition having a melting point of 40° C. or greater. A coefficient of static friction of a foamed molded product, obtained by pre-expanding the expandable polystyrene-based resin particles and molding the pre-expanded expandable polystyrene-based resin particles, may be 4.0 or less. The expandable polystyrene-based resin particles may have a surface layer part that contains polysiloxane as a main component.
US11312831B2	Carrier for bio-related molecule immobilization The present invention relates to a carrier for bio-related molecule immobilization, which comprises a resin substrate, an amino group-containing compound layer that is formed on the resin substrate, and a polyvalent carboxylic acid layer that is formed on the amino group-containing compound layer. The carboxyl groups in the polyvalent carboxylic acid layer are actively esterified; and the (COO peak intensity)/(C—C peak intensity) ratio of the C1s spectrum is from 0.064 to 0.12 (inclusive) if the carrier surface before the active esterification is measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The present invention also relates to a carrier for bio-related molecule immobilization, which comprises a water repellent resin substrate, an aminoalkyl silane layer that is formed on the resin substrate and a polyvalent carboxylic acid layer that is formed on the aminoalkyl silane layer, and which is characterized in that: the carboxyl groups in the polyvalent carboxylic acid layer are actively esterified; and the resin substrate is exposed after the formation of the aminoalkyl silane layer.
US11312826B2	Hot-melt adhesive and use thereof The present invention relates to the use of a hot-melt adhesive for adhesive bonding of at least a first packaging and a second packaging, the hot-melt adhesive comprising: (a) 7-48 parts per weight of a polymer component, the polymer component comprising a styrene block copolymer; (b) 15-52 parts per weight of a tackifying component, wherein the tackifying component comprises thermoplastic adhesive resin, aliphatic hydrocarbon, cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon, aromatic hydrocarbon, the respective hydrocarbon optionally being modified and/or hydrogenated, terpenes, the terpenes optionally being modified or hydrogenated, rosins, the rosins optionally being modified or hydrogenated, or mixtures thereof; (c) 5-25 parts per weight of a plasticizer component, wherein the plasticizer component comprises paraffinic oils, naphthenic oils, polybuten, polybutadien, dibasic esters, polyols or mixtures thereof; and d) 0.02-1.2 parts per weight of a stabilizer component, wherein the stabilizer component is a light stabilizer, preferably as a sterically hindered phenolic antioxidant and/or a sterically hindered amine, most preferably is pentaerythritol tetrakis(3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionate).
US11312825B2	Structure Provided is a structure having excellent flexibility represented by elastic restoring from compression or tensile elongation at break, and excellent lightness. A structure according to the present invention includes reinforced fibers, first plastic, and second plastic that exhibits rubber elasticity at room temperature, the reinforced fibers being discontinuous fibers, and the first plastic and/or the second plastic coating a crossing point between the reinforced fibers in contact with each other.
US11312817B2	Polyurethane polymers cured via azido-alkyne cycloaddition at ambient or mild curing conditions An alternative polyurethane composition is provided which comprises a reaction product of an azidated polyol and a poly(alkynyl carbamate) prepolymer reacted at a temperature of from 20° C. to 120° C., wherein the poly(alkynyl carbamate) prepolymer comprises a reaction product of a polyisocyanate and a stoichiometric equivalent of an alkynol of the formula (I), HC≡C—R1R2—OH (I), and wherein R1 is an electron-withdrawing group selected from the group consisting of carbonyl, ester, amide, and urethane and R2 is a linear or branched alkyl chain having from 1 to 15 carbon atoms. The inventive alternative polyurethane composition position may be used to provide adhesives, sealants, films, elastomers, castings, foams, and composites.
US11312814B2	Solid rocket propellant with low glass transition A solid rocket propellant includes a binder that has hydroxyl-terminated polybudadiene (HTPB) with a curative that is selected from isocyanate-terminated polyether, isocyanate-terminated polysiloxane, or combinations thereof.
US11312790B2	Production method for pentosan polysulfate The present invention provides a method for producing pentosan polysulfate, the method including a first step of obtaining an acidic xylooligosaccharide from a plant-derived raw material, and a second step of obtaining pentosan polysulfate from the acidic xylooligosaccharide. The first step includes a step of depolymerizing the plant-derived raw material. The second step includes a step of sulfating the acidic xylooligosaccharide. The method further includes a deacetylation step of adding a base to achieve a pH of 11 or higher. The deacetylation step is a step performed after the depolymerization step. The production method of the present invention can provide pentosan polysulfate having a low acetyl group content, and also produce pentosan polysulfate with a high yield inexpensively and efficiently.
US11312789B2	Size reduction of ethylcellulose polymer particles Provided is a process for reducing the size of ethylcellulose polymer particles comprising (a) providing a slurry comprising (i) water (ii) said ethylcellulose particles, wherein said ethylcellulose polymer particles have D50 of 100 μm or less; (iii) surfactant comprising 1.2% or more anionic surfactants by weight based on the solid weight of said slurry, with the proviso that if the amount of anionic surfactant is 2.5% or less by weight based on the solid weight of said slurry, then said surfactant further comprises 5% or more stabilizers by weight based on the solid weight of said slurry, wherein said stabilizer is selected from the group consisting of water-soluble polymers, water-soluble fatty alcohols, and mixtures thereof. (b) grinding said slurry in an agitated media mill having a collection of media particles having a median particle size of 550 μm or smaller. Also provided is a dispersion made by such a process.
US11312785B2	Antagonizing CD73 antibody The present invention relates to novel antagonizing antibodies for CD73. The invention also relates to nucleic acids encoding such antibody molecules; to methods for preparing such antibody molecules; to host cells expressing or capable of expressing such antibody molecules; to compositions comprising such antibody molecules; and to uses of such antibody molecules or such compositions, in particular for therapeutic purposes in the field of cancer diseases.
US11312778B2	Method for treating allergic contact dermatitis A method for treating allergic contact dermatitis comprising the administration of an interleukin-4 receptor alpha antagonist.
US11312775B2	Methods for treatment or prevention of a neurological immunity disorder Methods of treating, preventing, inhibiting, delaying the onset of, or ameliorating a neurological immunity disorder can include administering an effective amount of a compound comprising an antibody or antigen binding fragment of an antibody to a subject in need of treatment, prevention, inhibition, delay of onset, or amelioration of a neurological immunity disorder. The antibody or the antigen binding fragment of an antibody binds specifically to CD49a.
US11312774B2	Anti HLA-G specific antibodies The present invention relates to antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, directed against human leukocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) protein and raised against an immunogenic peptide derived from the α3 domain of HLA-G protein. The invention further relates to the immunogenic peptide, and methods for producing said anti-HLA-G specific antibodies.
US11312772B2	Combinations of PD-1 antagonists and benzo [b] thiophene STING agonists for cancer treatment Therapeutic combinations that comprise at least one antagonist of the Programmed Death 1 receptor (PD-1) and at least one benzo[b]thiophene compound that activates the Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) pathway are disclosed herein. Also disclosed is the use of such therapeutic combinations for the treatment of cancers.
US11312771B2	Single-domain antibodies to programmed cell death 1 protein (PD-1), encoding nucleic acids and methods of using same The invention relates to multifunctional PD-1 binding agents and the use of such binding agents in the treatment, prevention and detection of disease.
US11312769B2	Anti-TMEFF1 antibodies and antibody drug conjugates Disclosed herein are transmembrane protein with EGF-like and two-follistatin-like domains 1 (TMEFF1) antibodies and antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), including compositions and methods of using said antibodies and ADCs.
US11312767B2	Cross-species anti-latent TGF-beta 1 antibodies The objective of the invention is to provide cross-species anti-latent TGF-beta 1 antibodies which inhibit a protease mediated activation of latent TGF-beta 1 without inhibiting integrin mediated activation of latent TGF-beta 1. To obtain the anti-latent TGF-beta 1 antibodies of the invention, anti-latent-latent TGF-beta 1 antibodies which inhibit a protease mediated activation of latent TGF-beta 1 without inhibiting integrin mediated activation of latent TGF-beta 1 were screened, and then humanized, and further optimized. The invention also provides combination therapies comprising an anti-latent TGF-beta 1 antibody and one or more immune checkpoint inhibitors, preferably a PD-1 axis binding antagonists.
US11312766B2	Antibodies against growth differentiation factor 15 and uses thereof Provided herein are monoclonal antibodies (e.g., human antibodies) binding to human Growth Differentiation Factor 15 protein (hereinafter, sometimes referred to as “GDF15”), and pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment comprising the same.
US11312763B2	Anti-N3pGlu amyloid beta peptide antibodies and uses thereof The invention is directed to a short term induction treatment with anti-N3pGlu Aβ antibodies of a disease characterized by deposition of Aβ in the brain, that include Alzheimer's disease (AD), Down's syndrome, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). In certain embodiments, patients are administered an induction dose of 10 to 60 mg/kg of an anti-N3pGlu Aβ antibody for a period of 6 months or less.
US11312751B2	MHC class I epitope delivering polypeptides The present invention is directed to T-cell epitope delivering polypeptides which deliver one or more CD8+ T-cell epitopes to the MHC class I presentation pathway of a cell, including toxin-derived polypeptides which comprise embedded T-cell epitopes and are de-immunized. The present invention provides cell-targeted, CD8+ T-cell epitope delivering molecules for the targeted delivery of cytotoxicity to certain cells, e.g., infected or malignant cells, for the targeted killing of specific cell types, and the treatment of a variety of diseases, disorders, and conditions, including cancers, immune disorders, and microbial infections. The present invention also provides methods of generating polypeptides capable of delivering one or more heterologous T-cell epitopes to the MHC class I presentation pathway, including polypeptides which are 1) B-cell and/or CD4+ T-cell de-immunized, 2) comprise embedded T-cell epitopes, and/or 3) comprises toxin effectors which retain toxin functions.
US11312750B2	Soluble and immunoreactive Zika virus NS1 polypeptides comprising the wing domain The disclosure concerns a polypeptide suitable for detecting antibodies against Zika virus in an isolated biological sample having a Zika virus NS1 wing domain specific amino acid sequence and variants thereof, wherein no further Zika virus specific amino acid sequences are present in the polypeptide. This polypeptide does not immunologically cross-react with antibodies raised against structurally related antigens from tick-borne encephalitis virus, Dengue virus 1-4, West Nile virus, yellow fever virus or Japanese encephalitis virus, but immunologically reacts with antibodies raised against full length Zika virus NS1 antigen. Also disclosed is a method of producing a soluble and immunoreactive Zika virus NS1 polypeptide as well as methods and kits for detecting antibodies specific for Zika virus in an isolated sample.
US11312744B2	Method for purifying long chain polypeptide A method for purifying a long chain polypeptide includes: 1) purification step: connecting two chromatographic columns in series to separate a crude product, in which the particle size of a packing in an upstream chromatographic column is larger than that in a downstream chromatographic column; optionally, the method further includes step 2): using the upstream chromatographic column in step 1) for a salt conversion, loading the target peak product obtained in step 1) and rinsing with 95-85% of the A2 and 5-15% of the B for 15-30 min for a desalination, wherein A2 phase is an acetic acid aqueous solution with a volume ratio of 0.05%-0.2%; B phase is an organic phase acetonitrile, and the detection wavelength is 230 nm.
US11312732B2	Apparatus and continuous flow process for production of boronic acid derivative A process for a continuous production of a boronic acid derivative and an apparatus of performing the process are disclosed.
US11312731B2	Boronic esters and methods for making the same There is provide herein a compound of Formula (1): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are each independently H or an organic group.
US11312729B1	Continuous manufacture of DBX-1 The present invention is directed to a process for continuous production of copper (I) nitrotetrazolate (DBX-1) by reacting aqueous copper salt with aqueous 5-nitrotetrazolate salt in the presence of a reducing agent. All the reactants are introduced into a continuous flow reactor system, which is composed of a temperature controlled tubular reactor and a mixer that allows for radial mixing. An optional stirred tank reactor may also be incorporated into the process to complete the reaction and allow for crystal growth.
US11312728B2	Process for preparing 7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine derivatives and co-crystals thereof The present invention relates to processes for preparing 7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine derivatives which are useful as a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, co-crystals thereof, processes for preparing the co-crystals, and processes for purifying 7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine derivatives by employing the co-crystals. The present invention provides, for example, a process for preparing 3-[(3S,4R)-3-methyl-6-(7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)-1,6-diazaspiro[3.4]octan-1-yl]-3-oxopropanenitrile by employing a co-crystal of 3-[(3S,4R)-3-methyl-6-(7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)-1,6-diazaspiro[3.4]octan-1-yl]-3-oxopropanenitrile with 3,5-dimethylpyrazole.
US11312725B2	Compositions and methods for restoring epidermal integrity and function and treating dermatological diseases Novel isohexide esters and isohexide compositions are prepared and used in improving skin health and condition.
US11312724B2	Spirocyclic tetrahydroquinazolines The present disclosure provides compounds represented by Formula I: wherein R3, A, A1, A2, A3, E, E1, E2, L, Q, Z, and are as defined in the specification, and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof. Compounds of Formula I are KRAS inhibitors and are thus useful to treat cancer and other diseases.
US11312720B2	Hydrochloride salt of 2-((3R,4S)-1-(5-(4-chloro-3,5-difluorophenyl)-7-((2-fluoro-6-methylphenyl)(methyl)amino)pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine-2-carbonyl)-3-methoxypiperidin-4-yl) acetic acid and crystals thereof A salt of the compound represented by formula (1) and crystals thereof having the potential to be used as drug substances for pharmaceutical products.
US11312717B2	Organic nano-grid, nano-polymer thereof and preparation method therefor The present invention provides an organic nano-grid, a nano-polymer thereof and a preparation method therefor. The organic nano-grid has a general formula (I), and the nano-polymer has a general formula (II), wherein R1 is an alkyl chain, R2 is halogen or an electroactive group, and X may comprise a heteroatom such as N, O and S, and n is a natural number from 1 to 10. A nano-connection strategy is applied to the construction of a one-dimensional nano-polymer. The polymer starts from a monomer A2B2 to form a corresponding nano-polymer by a Friedel-Crafts polymerization cyclization reaction.
US11312715B2	Fused ring derivative as A2A receptor inhibitor Disclosed are a compound represented by formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and an application of the compound or slat in preparation of drugs for treating diseases related to an A2A receptor.
US11312714B2	Compositions and methods for modulating hair growth The present disclosure relates to compounds that are capable of inhibiting the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier and promoting hair growth. The disclosure further relates to methods of promoting hair growth or treating conditions or disorders affecting hair growth, such as baldness or alopecia.
US11312701B2	Formylpyridine derivative having FGFR4 inhibitory activity, preparation method therefor and use thereof Formylpyridine derivatives having FGFR4 inhibitory activities, a preparation method therefor and use thereof are described. In particular, the formylpyridine derivatives have a structure of formula (I), and the definition of each substituent in the formula are described in the description and claims. The series of compounds of the formula (I) have very strong inhibitory effects on FGFR4 kinases and very high selectivity, and can be widely used in the preparation of medicaments for treating cancers, particularly prostate cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, neuroglioblastoma or rhabdomyosarcoma, and prospectively will be further developed to become a new generation of FGFR4 inhibitors.
US11312700B2	Aryl cyclopropyl-amino-isoquinolinyl amide compounds Provided herein are arylcyclopropyl amino-isoquinoline amide compounds. In particular, the disclosure provides compounds that affect the function of kinases in a cell and that are useful as therapeutic agents or with therapeutic agents. The compounds of the disclosure are useful in the treatment of a variety of diseases and conditions including eye diseases such as glaucoma, cardiovascular diseases, diseases characterized by abnormal growth, such as cancers, and inflammatory diseases. The disclosure further provides compositions containing isoquinoline amide compounds.
US11312692B1	Polymorphic compounds and uses thereof The present invention provides freebase and salt forms, and compositions and methods thereof, useful for treating various conditions in which aldehyde toxicity is implicated in the pathogenesis by the administration of small molecule therapeutics acting as a scavenger for toxic aldehydes.
US11312689B2	Compounds and their use for the treatment of alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency The invention relates to oxopyrimidinyl-methyl-benzamide derivatives, for example in a pharmaceutically acceptable salt form or crystal form, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the derivatives, and their medical use, in particular for use in the treatment of α1-antitrypsin deficiency (A1AD or AATD).
US11312686B2	Methods and compositions for inhibition of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase Disclosed herein are compounds, 3,4,6,8-substituted-2-([1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)quinoline analogs, that are inhibitors of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) with improved pharmacokinetic properties. The disclosed compounds can be used in the treatment of a variety of disorders and diseases in which inhibition of DHODH can be clinically useful, including cancer, such as a hematological cancer, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML); graft-versus-host-diseases; autoimmune disorders; and disorders associated with T-cell proliferation. The disclosed compounds can demonstrate flip-flop kinetics when administered orally, i.e., pharmacokinetics in which the rate of absorption, rather than the rate of elimination, dominates the pharmacokinetics. The disclosed compounds can demonstrate a sustained pharmacokinetic profile instead of an immediate release profile. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US11312680B2	Method for treating a patient having a colon cancer Therapeutic compounds containing a phenyl core and amide link(s). Also described are pharmaceutical compositions incorporating the therapeutic compounds and a method for treating cancer with the compounds. These compounds are cytotoxic to stomach, colon, breast, and leukemia cancer cell lines via dual inhibition of Src kinases and tubulin.
US11312678B2	Solid-liquid separation processes using a large pore filter Solid/liquid separation processes using a large pore filter. One aspect of the disclosure is a process comprising filtering a solid/liquid mixture of a collection of solid aromatic carboxylic acid particles in a solvent in a first zone of a rotary pressure filter apparatus to form a filter cake on a filter surface, and removing the filter cake from the filter surface.
US11312676B2	Small molecule stimulators of steroid receptor coactivator proteins and their use in the treatment of cancer Small molecule stimulators of steroid receptor coactivator (SRC) family proteins are provided, as well as methods for their use in treating or preventing cancer. Also provided are methods for stimulating SRC family proteins in a cell.
US11312673B2	Method for producing 1,1,2-trifluoroethane (HFC-143) The present disclosure provides a method for producing HFC-143 that is not expensive, and that is more efficient than conventional methods. Specifically, the present disclosure provides a method for producing 1,1,2-trifluoroethane (HFC-143) that includes contacting at least one chlorine-containing compound selected from the group consisting of 1,1,2-trichloroethane (HCC-140), 1,2-dichloro-1-fluoroethane (HCFC-141), 1,1-dichloro-2-fluoroethane (HCFC-141a), (E,Z)-1,2-dichloroethylene (HCO-1130 (E,Z)), and (E,Z)-1-chloro-2-fluoroethylene (HCFO-1131 (E,Z)) with hydrogen fluoride to perform one or more fluorination reactions, thereby obtaining a reaction gas containing HFC-143, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen fluoride.
US11312668B2	Organic reactions carried out in aqueous solution in the presence of a hydroxyalkyl(alkyl)cellulose or an alkylcellulose The present invention relates to a method of carrying out an organic reaction in aqueous solution in the presence of a hydroxyalkyl(alkyl)cellulose or an alkylcellulose.
US11312667B2	Compositions and methods comprising nitrification inhibitors containing a mixture of protic and aprotic solvent systems The present invention relates to increasing longevity of the nitrogen content of soil through improved liquid delivery formulations of nitrification inhibitors. The liquid formulation can also be comprised of nitrification inhibitors and optionally urease inhibitors that are blended solutions of each. The nitrification inhibitors are present in a mixture that comprises both a protic and an aprotic solvent system. The novel formulations are designed to be applied to fertilizers, especially urea and manure based fertilizers. The delivery formulations provide an environmentally sound and inherently safe solvating system that improves the storage stability of the urease inhibitors by utilizing liquid organic non-water containing solvents, maintains the nitrification inhibitors in solution to storage temperatures of at least 10° C., and provides improved application to fertilizer of nitrification inhibitors. These delivery formulations enable safe storage, transport and subsequent application or blending with urea-based or manure-based fertilizers that can be applied to soil in either a liquid or granular form to provide improved nitrogen retention in the soil for uptake for plant life.
US11312665B2	Microfibrillated cellulose as rheology modifier in high ionic strength agricultural formulations Described herein, inter alia, is a concentrate including a high ionic strength liquid and a microfibrillated cellulose, and methods of making the same.
US11312658B2	Multi-layer insulated glass unit comprising a low CTE glass layer An insulated glass unit is described and includes at least a first glass layer, a second glass layer and a third glass layer disposed therebetween. The third glass layer is separated from the first glass layer and the second glass layer by first and second sealed gap spaces. The third glass layer has a low CTE as compared to the CTE of the first and/or second glass layers. In some instances, the third glass layer has a CTE of less than 70×10−7/° C. over a temperature range of 0-300° C.
US11312654B2	Composition for glass fiber, glass fiber, glass-fiber-containing composite material containing glass fiber, and method for manufacturing glass fiber Provided is a composition for a glass fiber which has a high elastic modulus and satisfactory productivity, and can facilitate the production of a fine-count glass fiber. The composition for a glass fiber of the present invention includes, as a glass composition expressed as a mass percent in terms of oxide, 50% to 70% of SiO2, 15% to 25% of Al2O3, 3% to 13% of MgO, 3% to 15% of CaO, and 0.5% to 5% of B2O3.
US11312637B1	Yittrium granular powder for thermal spray and thermal spray coating produced using the same Proposed is an yttrium-based granular powder for thermal spraying. The yttrium-based granular powder includes at least one yttrium compound powder selected from the group consisting of Y2O3, YOF, YF3, Y4Al2O9, Y3Al5O12, and YAlO3, and a silica (SiO2) powder. The yttrium-based granular powder is prepared by mixing the yttrium compound powder having a mean grain diameter of 50 nm to 900 nm and the silica powder having a mean grain diameter of 50 nm to 900 nm. The yttrium-based granular powder includes less than 10 wt % of a Y—Si—O mesophase. A thermal spray coating produced using the yttrium-based granular powder can exhibit low porosity, high density, and excellent plasma resistance.
US11312635B2	Productivity of equilibrium-restricted reactions A process for increasing the productivity of equilibrium-restricted reactions and for increasing the productivity of a target compound includes the steps of (a) providing a reaction mixture comprising reactants; (b) subjecting the reaction mixture to the equilibrium reaction in a reactor or sequence of reactors, to obtain a reactor outlet mixture comprising the target compound and at least one of the reactants; (c) regenerating the loaded sorbent obtained in step (e), by flushing the loaded sorbent with the reactor outlet mixture originating from step (b), to obtain regenerated sorbent and an effluent comprising desorbed product; (d) separating the effluent originating from step (c) into a product stream and a reactant stream; and (e) a sorption step to obtain a loaded sorbent and a depleted mixture.
US11312634B2	Production method for dispersion liquid of silica particle A method for producing a dispersion liquid of silica particles, by simultaneously adding a liquid A containing silane alkoxide and a liquid B containing an alkali catalyst and water to a liquid I containing silica seed particles to cause the particles to grow, so as to produce silica particles; wherein the variation rate of the mole ratio of the alkali catalyst to silica components in the reaction system during a period from the start to the end of the addition relative to the initial mole ratio is 0.90 to 1.10; and the variation rate of the mole ratio of water to the silica components in the reaction system during a period from the start to the end of the addition relative to the initial mole ratio is 0.90 to 1.10.
US11312632B2	Tungsten carbide powder Provided is a tungsten carbide powder satisfying such a condition that when the Fsss particle size thereof is represented by a (μm) and the BET particle size thereof converted from the BET specific surface area is represented by b (μm), a is 0.40 μm or more and 1.50 μm or less, and b/a is 0.17 or more and 0.35 or less.
US11312630B2	Modification method for graphene, modified graphene, and composition containing graphene The present invention relates to a modification method for graphene, a modified graphene and a composition containing graphene. The modification method for graphene comprises: mixing graphene oxide, a silicate ester, an inorganic alkali solution, a water-soluble polymer compound and a surfactant, followed by reacting at 10 to 50° C. for 0.1 to 10 hours, collecting and drying solid product of the reaction to obtain the modified graphene.
US11312620B2	Waterproof microphone and associated packing techniques Aspects of the disclosure provide a waterproof packaging technique for fabricating waterproof microphones in mobile devices. A device based on the waterproof packaging technique can include a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device, a housing enclosing the MEMS device, and a liquid-resistant air inlet passive device (LRAPD) on the housing. The LRAPD can include at least one channel connecting an exterior of the housing with a chamber formed between the housing and the MEMS device. An inside surface of the channel can be coated with a liquid-repellant coating. In some examples, the liquid-repellant coating can be a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) coating.
US11312617B2	Mems device built using the BEOL metal layers of a solid state semiconductor process A MEMS device formed using the materials of the BEOL of a CMOS process where a post-processing of vHF and post backing was applied to form the MEMS device and where a total size of the MEMS device is between 50 um and 150 um. The MEMS device may be implemented as an inertial sensor among other applications.
US11312615B2	Method to form a rough crystalline surface Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method to roughen a crystalline layer. A crystalline layer is deposited over a substrate. A mask material is diffused into the crystalline layer along grain boundaries of the crystalline layer. The crystalline layer and the mask material may, for example, respectively be or comprise polysilicon and silicon oxide. Other suitable materials are, however, amenable. An etch is performed into the crystalline layer with an etchant having a high selectivity for the crystalline layer relative to the mask material. The mask material defines micro masks embedded in the crystalline layer along the grain boundaries. The micro masks protect underlying portions of the crystalline layer during the etch, such that the etch forms trenches in the crystalline layer where unmasked by the micro masks.
US11312605B2	Bagged bottle filling and capping devices and methods Method and apparatus are disclosed for capping a plurality of bottles enclosed and sealed in a plastic bag. The method comprises disposing the plurality of bottles in a tray in a predetermined array such that caps, disposed in a plate can be displaced for convenient capping in a single step. Ratchet tools are disclosed for facile threading of caps to bottles.
US11312603B2	Load rest A forklift includes a vehicle frame, wherein at least one load rest platform is movably arranged on the vehicle frame. The at least one load rest platform is movable between a storage position, in which no load can be deposited on the at least one load rest platform, and a working position, in which a load can be deposited on the at least one load rest platform. The at least one load rest platform is aligned essentially horizontally when moved to the working position, and the at least one load rest platform is movably arranged on an upper surface of the vehicle frame via at least one articulating joint. The at least one articulating joint connects the at least one load rest platform with a side face of the vehicle frame.
US11312583B2	Adaptive joint connector system and method for connecting conveyor track A joint connector for track sections of a conveyor wherein the track sections comprise a feature that requires alignment, the joint connector including: a first segment for attachment to an attachment feature of a first track section of the conveyor; and a second segment for attachment to an attachment feature of a second track section of the conveyor, wherein the second segment is configured to be adaptive to non-alignment of the attachment features of the first and second track sections in order to maintain alignment of the feature after installation of the joint connector.
US11312580B2	Article sorting facility An article sorting facility includes a plurality of storage members each configured to store one or more articles, a plurality of article transport vehicles each capable of traveling in at least a portion of a preset travel lane with one or more support members on board, each support member being configured to support one or more articles; a plurality of work areas each configured to allow work to be performed to transfer articles between one or more storage members and at least one of the one or more support members on board an article transport vehicle in the travel lane, wherein each of the work areas is located adjacent to one or more storage members and to the travel lane, wherein the plurality of work areas are arranged one adjacent to another along the travel lane, and wherein two or more article transport vehicles are in the travel lane simultaneously to travel in a line.
US11312576B2	Goods picking system and method Provided are a goods picking system and a goods picking system method, the system includes: a plurality of carrying robots; a plurality of racks used for storing goods and being carried by the plurality of carrying robots, where in a rack area, the plurality of racks are arranged in a rack array with a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and empty rows or columns constitute channels for the plurality of carrying robots to pass; and at least some of the plurality of racks are blocked racks which are not adjacent to any channel instead of being surrounded by other racks and racks except the blocked racks are referred to as unblocked racks; rack-moving robots, which are operable based on instructions of a control system to move racks in the rack area so as to change a certain blocked rack into an unblocked rack; operating positions.
US11312560B1	Storage bin for light sensitive medication A system for a storage container for light sensitive medications including a container assembly and a cover assembly is disclosed. The container assembly includes a container in which the medications are held and stored within. The container includes dividers secured within the container with divider holders and divider guides located on the sidewalls and floor, respectively, of the container. The dividers help organize the medications stored within each storage container. The cover assembly includes a cover that is hidgedly mounted to the container. Importantly, the cover is tinted an amber color to provide protection from light damage to the medications while still permitting visibility of the medications within the container with the cover closed. The cover includes a lifting handle at a front portion for achieving the open and closed configuration of the storage container. Additionally, the storage containers can be stacked atop of one another.
US11312558B1	Multi-point load tub support A tub support that fits inside the top opening of a washing machine to prevent the wash tub from moving relative to the cabinet during shipping and handling, and a blank for making a tub support. The tub support may comprise a rear folded portion having a plurality of rear tub contact points that contact the wash tub, and a sidewall configured to contact the top edge of the wash tub along a plurality of tub contact points and to contact the rim of the washing machine cabinet along a plurality of cabinet contact points.
US11312556B2	False eyelash packaging The present disclosure is directed to a packaging for at least one false eyelash. In one embodiment, the packaging for the at least one false eyelash comprises a tray comprising one or more openings and at least one adhesive tab comprising an adhesive side coupled to a bottom side of the tray, wherein the adhesive side sticks to the at least one false eyelash via the one or more openings in the tray, wherein the at least one adhesive tab comprises a non-adhesive member that is used to pull the adhesive side away from the bottom side of the tray to release the at least one false eyelash from the tray.
US11312549B2	Bottle cap with non-break plates A bottle cap includes a body and a security ring. The body has multiple breakable bridge portions located along the periphery of the body and connected to the security ring. Two non-breakable plates are connected between the body and the security ring. Each of the non-breakable plates includes multiple turning positions and multiple angles. When the multiple breakable bridge portions are broken, the non-breakable plates are still connected to the security ring. The non-breakable plates are extendable so that the body can be pulled away from the security ring for a distance.
US11312548B2	Drink container and leak proof plug lid for use therewith A drink container and three position plug lid for use therewith. The lid includes a tubular seal with a flexible perimeter seal wall attached between upper and lower seal carriers, a lifter member attached to the lower seal carrier and a cam member to control movement of the lower seal carrier relative to the upper seal carrier and thereby laterally flex and axially move the perimeter seal wall and move the lid between closed and opened positions where the lid is retained within the drink container against removal, and a removal position permitting removal of the lid for washing the lid and drink container.
US11312545B2	Tamper-resistant air-permeable container A tamper-resistant air-permeable container includes a cover having a bottom that is formed with a first wall having primary troughs and primary blocks and formed with a retaining engagement portion; and a box including a receiving space and having a second wall that is provided with a first step part lower than the second wall and a second step part lower than the first step part to define forming therebetween a retaining engagement groove. The second wall is formed with secondary troughs, each including a curved section, such that each of the secondary troughs has a curved configuration. When the cover is combined with the box, the retaining engagement portions of the cover are fit into and retained in the retaining engagement groove. The primary troughs and the secondary troughs form passages in communication with the receiving space.
US11312542B1	Closure device for flexible bag A closure device for a flexible bag includes an elongated first clamp member having a channel and an elongated second clamp member that is configured as a blade that is receivable within the channel. The clamp members are pivotally coupled at a proximal end the clamp members to be pivoted between open and closed positions in a scissor-like fashion. The lower end of the second clamp projects a distance from the opening of the channel when the second clamp member is fully received within the channel when the closure device is in the closed position. The closure device facilitates closing the opening of the flexible bag by folding the open end of the flexible bag around at least the upper end of the second clamp member when the closure device is in the open position. The closure device is moved to the closed position so that the open end of the flexible bag is retained in the folded position when the closure device is in the closed position to effectively close off the opening of the flexible bag.
US11312530B2	Speaker packaging device and package body A speaker packaging device. The speaker packaging device comprises a base plate for supporting a plurality of speakers. The speaker packaging device also comprises a series of transverse baffles and a series of pairs of longitudinal baffles. The transverse baffles and the longitudinal baffles interlock over the base plate, forming a matrix of individual cells, or baffle units. Notches are preserved along each longitudinal baffle for accommodating the outer edges of the respective speakers within each baffle unit. In addition, a gap is preserved between adjacent baffle units to further accommodate the outer edges of the respective speakers. The notches are staggered along adjacent baffle units to conserve space.
US11312522B2	Packaging apparatus with package dividing seal mechanism Packaging apparatuses for loading and sealing products into a web of interconnected bags, and methods of using them, are provided. In one aspect, the packaging apparatus includes an intermittently advancing web conveyor that also indexes vertically to facilitate stacked loading of products into the bags. In another aspect, the packaging apparatus includes a dividing seal station that applies a center seal dividing the bag into separate sealed subcompartments, some of the bag contents being distributed to each compartment, such as one of two trays to each subcompartment. To facilitate distribution of contents and even sealing, the dividing seal station may include a dividing sealer lower support that oscillates vertically to promote settling of contents and gases in the bag before applying a dividing seal.
US11312515B2	Medicine packaging apparatus and medicine feeding apparatus A medicine packaging apparatus configured to package medicine based on prescription data, including: a feeder configured to feed solid medicine; a storage configured to temporarily store the solid medicine fed from the feeder; and a packaging unit configured to package the solid medicine discharged from the storage, wherein the storage includes: a plurality of storage containers; a holding table configured to hold the plurality of storage containers so as to be individually detachable; and a drive unit configured to drive the holding table to move so that each of the plurality of storage containers held by the holding table is moved between an introduction position where the solid medicine is introduced from the feeder and a discharge position where the solid medicine is discharged to the packaging unit.
US11312512B1	Early warning reentry system comprising high efficiency module for determining spacecraft reentry time The present invention relates to an early warning reentry system comprising a high efficiency module for determining spacecraft reentry time and a highly efficient method for determining spacecraft reentry time. The method permits more accurate, earlier spacecraft reentry time determinations using publicly available trajectory information without the need for accounting for the actual design configuration of the spacecraft in question. Thus, a module for making such determinations can easily and inexpensively be added to an early warning reentry system.
US11312504B2	Aircraft tug single pivot cradle with latch A pivoting cradle apparatus for capturing an aircraft wheel on an aircraft tug includes a cradle sized for holding the wheel, mounted on at least one pivot block and configured to pivot between a wheel loading position and a wheel retaining position. A latch mechanism is disposed under the cradle, biased to swing into an upright position wherein it seats in a notch on the cradle, locking the cradle in the wheel retaining position. A latch release mechanism is configured to urge the latch out of the upright position, and when it does so, the latch slides along the underside of the cradle as the cradle pivots down. into the wheel loading position.
US11312498B2	Convertible armrest disposed between adjacent seats Convertible armrests and seat assemblies that utilize convertible armrests. In one embodiment, a convertible armrest includes an armrest body connected to a seat frame between adjacent seats, a first arm pad coupled to the armrest body, and a second arm pad coupled to the armrest body. In a contracted configuration, the first arm pad and the second arm pad are stacked. In an expanded configuration, the first arm pad and the second arm pad are disposed side-by-side.
US11312493B2	Unmanned aerial vehicle with non-lethal neuromuscular incapacitation system The present invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle with non-lethal neuromuscular incapacitation system comprising a body, a plurality of rotary assemblies secured to the body and configured to provide lift, a control system disposed within the body, and a telescoping stinger assembly mounted on the body. The telescoping stinger assembly comprises an elongated projectile having a barb at a first end thereof, a wire having a first end attached to a second end of the elongated projectile, a high voltage pulse power supply attached to a second end of the wire, and firing mechanism for launching the projectile from the telescoping stinger assembly toward a target. A protective cage may be attached to and surround the body of the UAV. The non-lethal incapacitation mechanism may include a plurality of stinging stickers attached to a periphery of the protective cage, a RF power supply and RF transmitter attached to the body of the unmanned aerial vehicle, or a mechanism affixed to the body of the unmanned aerial vehicle for discharging a liquid or powder substance at a target. Alternatively, a rotary sting arm may be affixed to the body by a rotary brush high-voltage connection; and a sting arm motor mounted proximate to a center of the body may be used to impart rotary motion to the rotary sting arm.
US11312490B2	Landing and payload loading structures An example UAV landing structure includes a landing platform for a UAV, a cavity within the landing platform, and a track that runs along the landing platform and at least a part of the cavity. The UAV may include a winch system that includes a tether that may be coupled to a payload. Furthermore, the cavity may be aligned over a predetermined target location. The cavity may be sized to allow the winch system to pass a tethered payload through the cavity. The track may guide the UAV to a docked position over the cavity as the UAV moves along the landing platform. When the UAV is in the docked position, a payload may be loaded to or unloaded from the UAV through the cavity.
US11312489B2	Deployable emergency situation awareness support system A deployable device mountable on a carrier vehicle and configured to collect situation awareness data. The deployable device includes at least one recorder device configured to collect situation awareness data. The deployable device is capable of being ejected from the carrier vehicle and can be configured to operate as a vehicle and/or be towed by the carrier vehicle. The deployable device can continue collection of situation awareness data after being ejected.
US11312483B2	Landing gear with hydraulic fluid channels A torque link assembly may comprise an upper torque link, a lower torque link, and a torque link pin. The upper torque link may define an upper hydraulic fluid channel. The lower torque link may define a lower hydraulic fluid channel. The torque link pin may fluidly couple the upper hydraulic fluid channel to the lower hydraulic fluid channel.
US11312467B2	Stiffener for an aircraft assembly A stiffener for an aircraft assembly is disclosed. The stiffener provides structural stability to the aircraft assembly. The stiffener has a first stiffener part having a planar web portion and a second stiffener part arranged with the first stiffener part. The second stiffener part includes a corrugated web portion having a corrugation. The present application also relates to an aircraft assembly, a fuselage for an aircraft, an aircraft and a method of forming a stiffener for an aircraft assembly.
US11312464B2	Vessel power supply system A vessel power supply system for a vessel including a propulsion device that includes an engine and a generator driven by the engine to generate electricity, includes a first battery that supplies power to the propulsion device, a second battery that supplies power to accessories of the vessel, a first open circuit voltage sensor that detects an open circuit voltage of the first battery, a second open circuit voltage sensor that detects an open circuit voltage of the second battery, and a switch that is turned on/off to open and close a current path between the first battery and the second battery.
US11312463B2	Systems and methods for retractable marine power generation Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described herein for providing electrical power to a marine vehicle. In some aspects, a marine vehicle includes a power system arranged to receive and store electrical power delivered from a solar panel assembly. The power system may include one or more batteries. The vehicle also includes a processor arranged to determine an extension time and an retraction time for a solar panel assembly and a controller that, in response to instructions from the processor, is arranged to extend the solar panel assembly and retract the solar panel assembly. The solar panel assembly is arranged to be configured in at least one of an extended position and a retracted position. The solar panel assembly includes one or more solar panels where the solar panel assembly is in electrical communication with the power system.
US11312456B1	Floating structure for solar power generating on water Provided is a floating structure for solar power generating on water. The floating structure includes: unit lines including a main buoyancy body and an auxiliary buoyancy body arranged in a transverse direction and being arranged in a longitudinal direction; a connection member that connects the main buoyancy body to the auxiliary buoyancy body so that the bottom surface of the main buoyancy body is located lower than the bottom surface of the auxiliary buoyancy body; and a platform that connects auxiliary buoyancy bodies included in adjacent unit lines in the longitudinal direction. One or more ends of the main buoyancy body and the auxiliary buoyancy body include a first fastening portion and a second fastening portion that fastens two or more of the main buoyancy body and the auxiliary buoyancy body, and the connection member includes a support portion and third fastening portions provided at ends of the support portion.
US11312455B1	Method and apparatus for wake enlargement system A Method and Apparatus for Wake Enlargement System have been disclosed. By using water pick-ups that are mounted on a boat, controlled filling of ballast tanks is possible without the use of pumps.
US11312451B2	Systems, devices, and/or methods for improving watercraft performance Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system comprising a plurality of discs coupleable to a first watercraft. Wherein, when the plurality of discs is coupled to the first watercraft, each of the plurality of discs deflects a flow of water along the first watercraft such that a partial hydrodynamic lift results as the first watercraft moves across a water surface compared to a second watercraft, the second watercraft not coupled to discs.
US11312445B2	Coupled suspension system for bicycles A bicycle comprising a frame; a handlebar assembly attached to an upper steering tube of the frame in such a way that at least the relative rotation between the two with respect to an upper axis is allowed, but the relative displacements between both in the directions perpendicular to the upper axis are restricted; a fork attached to a lower steering tube of the frame so that it has the same degrees of freedom relative to the lower axis between the fork and the lower steering tube as the degrees of freedom relative to the upper axis between the handlebar assembly and the upper steering tube; and a means for rotation transmission for transmitting at least partially a rotation of the handlebar assembly with respect to the upper tube into a rotation of the fork with respect to the lower steering tube.
US11312436B2	Obstacle crossing robot A robot is provided, the robot comprising a body carrying a first drive arrangement, a second drive arrangement and a stabiliser. The robot further comprises actuators operable to cause relative movement of the first drive arrangement, the second drive arrangement and the stabiliser, and to drive the first and the second drive arrangements. The robot is arrangeable in first, second and third configurations each having static stability. In the first configuration, the stabiliser and the first drive arrangement are arranged to contact the ground. In the second configuration, the stabiliser and the second drive arrangement are arranged to contact the ground. In the third configuration, the first and the second drive arrangements are arranged to contact the ground. No other ground contacting point is involved in conferring said static stability in said configurations.
US11312429B2	Motor vehicle having synchronously operable actuators A motor vehicle having a first portion and a second portion movable relative thereto; the vehicle further includes an actuator arrangement by which the second portion is drivable relative to the first portion; and the vehicle having a control apparatus that is coupled to the actuator arrangement and controls the operation of the actuator arrangement; the actuator arrangement including at least two separate actuators arranged remotely from one another, which are each switchable between an operating state wherein an output member of the actuator outputs a force and/or a motion, and a passive state in which the output member does not, the actuators are synchronously operable in a synchronous operating mode, wherein one actuator, constituting a master actuator, is coupled directly to the control apparatus, and the at least one further actuator is connected to the energy supply of the master actuator only such that the at least one further actuator is supplied with operating energy, and is in the operating state, only when the master actuator is switched by the control apparatus into the operating state.
US11312428B2	Motor vehicle apparatus and method An active wing apparatus for a vehicle. The apparatus comprises a deployable wing assembly and a lifting means for lifting the assembly when the assembly is deployed. The lifting means comprises two lifting arms each having a first end pivotably coupled to a mounting portion, and a second end pivotably coupled to the wing assembly. The apparatus further comprises a cover panel below the wing assembly arranged to be raised and lowered. The lifting arms are configured to protrude through apertures in the cover panel to enable connection of the wing assembly to the body of the vehicle. The cover panel further comprises a pair of infill cover panels slidably coupled to the cover panel and movable between open and closed conditions. When the apparatus is in a stowed condition, the infill panels assume an open position, and when in a deployed condition, the infill panels assume a closed position.
US11312414B2	Motor driven power steering and control method thereof Disclosed herein are Motor-Driven Power Steering (MDPS) and a control method thereof. The MDPS includes an information detection unit configured to detect information about the behavior of a vehicle; and a controller configured to receive the information about the behavior of the vehicle from the information detection unit, to determine whether the vehicle is accelerating and whether the vehicle pulls to one side, and to generate compensation torque and drive a driving motor based thereon.
US11312411B2	Method for testing at least one vehicle component of a vehicle A method for testing at least one vehicle component of a vehicle includes placing a steering system of the vehicle in at least one test operating state, the steering system including a control unit which is at least one of electrically and electronically connected to a steering input unit to provide a steering torque in a normal operating state. The method further includes actuating an actuator of the steering system in the at least one operating state to carry out at least one driving maneuver to test the at least one vehicle component without an active steering demand on a manual steering control of the steering input unit.
US11312410B2	Electric power steering apparatus The electric power steering apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a steering assist mechanism and a controller. The steering assist mechanism is driven by a motor and assists operation of a steering wheel by a driver. The controller acquires the position of the steering wheel and sets a target value of a steering reaction torque acting on the steering wheel. Then, the controller calculates a position target of the steering assist mechanism based on the position of the steering wheel and the target value of the steering reaction torque, and controls the motor of the steering assist mechanism according to the position target of the steering assist mechanism.
US11312395B2	Determination of authorizations when approaching locations with an autonomous vehicle A method for operating an autonomously operable motor vehicle comprising: receiving location data relating to a planned location of a motor vehicle; determining whether the motor vehicle is authorized to approach the planned location according to the location data by using at least one of the following: a) personal data about at least one person using the motor vehicle; b) a number of persons using the motor vehicle; c) load data about a load that is being or is to be transported by the motor vehicle.
US11312392B2	System and method for providing precise driving recommendations based on network-assisted scanning of a surrounding environment A system, method and architecture for providing highly granular driving recommendations to a vehicle based on network-assisted scanning of a surrounding environment. In one embodiment, the system is operative for receiving environmental data from one or more collection agents, each operating with a plurality of sensors configured to sense data relating to the environment. At least one collection agent is operative in association with the vehicle for providing vehicular condition data and vehicular navigation data. The system is configured to calibrate the vehicle to identify a vehicle type responsive to the vehicular condition/navigation data. Road condition information and obstacle condition information relating to a road segment, the vehicle is traversing may also be obtained. Responsive to the road condition/navigation data, vehicle type and positioning, etc., an optimal racing line path over the road segment may be determined. In one configuration, the optimal racing line path may be presented via a display (e.g., AR/MR) associated with the vehicle.
US11312388B2	Automatic parking device An automatic parking device includes a vehicle control unit configured to control a speed, steering of the vehicle, and a shift range of a transmission of the vehicle in order to park the vehicle, a reception unit configured to receive a driving operation by a driver of the vehicle during the automatic parking by the vehicle control unit, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the driving operation received by the reception unit satisfies a predetermined override condition. The vehicle control unit stops the vehicle and sets the shift range of the transmission of the vehicle to a non-drive range in a case where it is determined by the determination unit that the driving operation satisfies the override condition.
US11312385B1	System and method of badging for driver risk assessment Systems and methods of utilizing badging for driver risk assessment are provided. Vehicle telematics data (e.g., speed data, acceleration data, braking data, cornering data, following distance data, turn signal data, seatbelt use data) associated with a vehicle operator may be analyzed. Based on the analysis, a trend of safe operation of the vehicle may be identified (e.g., based on a number of vehicle trips and/or a number of consecutive vehicle trips in which the vehicle telematics data indicates safe operation of the vehicle, a frequency of vehicle trips in which the vehicle telematics data indicates safe operation of the vehicle, a comparison to other drivers, etc.) A digital certificate indicating the trend of safe operation of the vehicle may be associated with the vehicle operator. In response to a third-party query regarding the vehicle operator, the digital certificate associated with the vehicle operator may be displayed to the third party.
US11312372B2	Vehicle path prediction A system, comprising a computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to input second vehicle sensor data received via one or more of vehicle-to-vehicle (V-to-V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V-to-I) networking into a generative query neural network (GQN) trained to generate second vehicle viewpoint data and predict a path for a second vehicle based on the second vehicle viewpoint data with a reinforcement learning deep neural network (RLDNN). The computer can be further programmed to obtain a confidence for the predicted second vehicle path from a Bayesian framework applied to the RLDNN and determine a first vehicle path based on the predicted second vehicle path and the confidence.
US11312371B2	Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle The present disclosure provides a vehicle control apparatus and a vehicle control method comprising a radar for receiving radar signals transmitted from outside the vehicle and reflected from objects around the vehicle and processing the received radar signals to obtain detection data for the objects, and a controller for determining a stationary object among the objects based on the detection data, extracting feature points, determining whether the stationary object is a guardrail based on the extracted feature points, and determining a false target among the objects based on the guardrail. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to prevent the unrecognition or misrecognition of the control targets due to the guardrail.
US11312364B2	Hybrid vehicle A vehicle includes an engine, a first MG, a planetary gear mechanism to which the engine, the first MG, and a counter shaft are connected, and an HV-ECU configured to control the engine and the first MG. The engine includes a turbocharger that boosts suctioned air to be fed to the engine. The HV-ECU controls the engine and the first MG to initially decrease the engine's rotation speed and simultaneously increase torque that the engine generates when on a map indicating a relationship between the engine's rotation speed and torque generated by the engine the controller shifts a first operating point to a second operating point at which torque generated by the engine and the rotation speed of the engine are higher than at the first operating point and the turbocharger boosts suctioned air.
US11312362B2	Electric device control method and electric device In an electric device control method and an electric device of the present invention, during a period in which a rotational speed of an internal combustion engine shifting from a non-combustion mode to a combustion mode is decreased to a rotational speed within a predetermined rotational-speed range by a first electric motor connected to the internal combustion engine, a torque generated by the internal combustion engine is set lower than a required torque within the predetermined rotational-speed range for the internal combustion engine in the combustion mode.
US11312360B2	Control system for vehicle If the destination has not been input, it is judged whether the present location is on the expressway (step S32). If the judgement result of the step S32 is positive, it is judged whether or not the actual SOC is less than or equal to the threshold TH2 (step S34). If the judgement result of the step S34 is positive, the restoring control is executed (step S36). Subsequent to the step S34 or S36, it is judged whether or not the vehicle is still on the expressway (step S38). If the judgement result of the step S38 is positive, it is judged whether or not the actual SOC is greater than or equal to the SOC_T2 (step S42). If the judgement result of the step S42 is positive, the maintaining control is executed (step S44).
US11312355B2	Driving force control method and device for hybrid vehicle Provided are a driving force control method and device for a hybrid vehicle, each capable of effectively absorbing torque fluctuation of an engine while suppressing deterioration in energy efficiency. The driving force control device for a hybrid vehicle comprises a PCM configured to: estimate an average torque output by an engine; estimate a torque fluctuation component of the torque output by the engine; set a countertorque for suppressing the estimated torque fluctuation component; and control an electric motor to output the set countertorque, wherein the PCM is operable, under a condition that the average torque output by the engine is constant, to set the countertorque such that, as an engine speed of the engine becomes larger, the absolute value of the countertorque becomes larger.
US11312354B2	Torque vectoring having automatic yaw torque equalization A method and a system for automatic yaw torque equalization (AYTE) in an electrically driven vehicle having wheel-individual torque distribution (torque vectoring drive).
US11312349B2	Electric brake device An electric brake device that including a pedal, a master cylinder unit including a cylinder storing hydraulic pressure therein, and a piston moved according to a pedal force of the pedal to generate the hydraulic pressure and provide a restoring force, and a pedal force adjustment unit operatively connected to the master cylinder unit to adjust the pedal force of the pedal by the hydraulic pressure, which is capable of adjusting a brake pedal feel.
US11312348B2	Brake apparatus using electric booster and control method thereof A brake apparatus using an electric booster may include: an electric booster connected to a master cylinder and configured to pressure a push rod by pressurizing a reaction disk using an electromotive force of a motor with a pedal stepping force of a driver who steps on a brake pedal, and pressurize a piston of the master cylinder through the push rod; and a control unit configured to compare required brake pressure by the pedal stepping force of the driver and current brake pressure by the motor control to set pressure, and perform cooperation control through an ESC (Electronic Stability Control) and cooperation control through the electric booster.
US11312343B2	Motor vehicle control unit for an electric parking brake The invention relates to a motor vehicle control unit. The control unit comprises a first processor system, which is designed to control an actuator of an electric parking brake and at least one additional motor vehicle function unit. A second processor system of the control unit is designed to control the at least one actuator in an at least partially redundant manner to the first processor system. Furthermore, there is a changeover device, which is designed to enable an activation of the at least one actuator either via the first processor system or the second processor system.
US11312339B2	Snow/ice cleaning tool and method The present invention is a snow/ice cleaning tool for removing snow or ice or a combination of such from a vehicle windshield for also rotating the wiper arms to a rest position for cleaning and returning the wiper arms to a working position in contact with the windshield. The cleaning tool has an elongated handle having one or more working ends incorporating snow/ice cleaning devices. Connected to the handle and slanting away from the handle axis is a grasping device with an opening therein for grasping the wiper arms. The present invention allows for the user to lift and lower the wiper arms from either side of the vehicle in a manner that is safe and ergonomic, regardless of the direction in which the wiper arms pivot.
US11312338B2	Sensor apparatus with cleaning A sensor apparatus includes a sensor window, a nozzle head coupled to the sensor window and including a first orifice and a second orifice, and a deflector fixed relative to the sensor window. The first orifice is shaped to discharge onto a first region of the sensor window. The second orifice is shaped to discharge onto a second region of the sensor window. The deflector is positioned to deflect at least some of the discharge from the second orifice onto a third region of the sensor window.
US11312336B2	Methods of operating a rear wiper system and a full display mirror system of a vehicle A method of operating a rear wiper system of a vehicle that includes monitoring an operational status of a full display mirror system of the vehicle, and automatically activating the rear wiper system when the full display mirror system is switched from an active mode to an inactive mode.
US11312334B2	Real-time remote control of vehicles with high redundancy Described are devices, systems and methods for real-time remote control of vehicles with high redundancy. In some embodiments, two copies of at least one control command are received using two different wireless communication protocols, and are compared. The at least one control command is executed when the two copies are in agreement, but is rejected when the two copies differ. In other embodiments, additional wireless communication protocols may exist to provide a redundant mode of communication when one of the two different wireless communication protocols are unavailable. In yet other embodiments, redundant GPS units may be used to determine availability of any of the communication protocols, and relevant control commands may be downloaded in advance to circumvent the lack of coverage.
US11312333B1	Emergency vehicle multicolor light device locking system Examples provide a multicolor light device having a plurality of lockable functions, such as color combinations and flash pattern functions. At production, one or more of the available functions are placed in a locked state in which the locked function is inoperable. The dealer or user can obtain an unlock code to unlock one or more light colors and/or flash patterns when desired. Thus, if a user wants the red and blue lights to be operable, the user can obtain one or more unlock codes to unlock the red and/or blue lights in the user-selected flash patterns and color combinations. When unlocked, the selected function operates normally. A data storage device on the multicolor light device stores an assigned UID, a set of available functions associated with the plurality of LED lights, and a lock status of each function in the set of available functions.
US11312332B1	Remote emergency vehicle device management and diagnostics Examples provide a system and method for remote management of lockable devices associated with emergency vehicles. A lockable device is a device, such as a multicolor light device or a siren device having one or more available functions which are initially placed in a locked state at the time of manufacture. A user can unlock the locked functions by logging into a remote device manager on a user device while the locked device is connected to the user device. The user selects one or more locked functions to unlock. The remote device manager generates a unique unlock code for each locked function selected for unlock. The unlock code is returned to the user device for utilization in unlocking the selected functions. The unlock code enables operation of the locked function. A lock status is updated to indicate which functions have been unlocked.
US11312329B2	Key fob communication control Communication with a key fob of a vehicle can be controlled based on a key fob jamming condition. One or more sensors can be configured to detect the key fob jamming condition. In response to the key fob jamming condition being detected, a jamming device can be activated to cause one or more jamming signals to be emitted. The one or more jamming signals can prevent the key fob from receiving and responding to other signals.
US11312328B2	Vehicle trim opening device for airbag deployment Airbag cushion modules and vehicles comprising lever elements to facilitate opening adjacent vehicle structures. Some embodiments may comprise curtain airbag cushion assemblies comprising an inflator and a curtain airbag cushion fluidly coupled with the inflator. The curtain airbag cushion may be configured to deploy in a deployment direction adjacent to a vehicle door. A lever member may be coupled, operably and/or physically, with the curtain airbag cushion and may be configured to pivot during deployment of the curtain airbag cushion using forces generated from inflation of the curtain airbag cushion to pry an adjacent portion of a vehicle interior open during deployment.
US11312324B2	Accident determination device An accident determination device which determines whether an accident has occurred in a moving object based on an impact having occurred in said moving object, comprising: an impact detecting unit that detects an impact having occurred in said moving object; an accident determining unit that compares impact value of the impact detected by said impact detecting unit with a determination threshold so as to determine whether an accident has occurred in said moving object; and a threshold setting unit that sets said determination threshold according to an area attribute of the area where said moving object is located.
US11312322B2	Battery power management apparatus and method An apparatus, including a first circuit containing an ignition system and first load which first load does not draw current when the ignition system is not operating; a second circuit containing a second load which draws current when the ignition system is not operating; a first switch capable of disconnecting a first battery from the first circuit; a second switch capable of connecting the first battery to the first circuit, wherein the first switch or second switch disconnects the ignition system from the first battery when the first switch or second switch in an opened position, and the first switch and second switch connect the first battery to the ignition system in a closed position; and a recharger capable of recharging the first battery and second battery. The apparatus is capable of providing electrical power to the second load when the recharger ceases to operate.
US11312318B2	Cladding device for a side sill of a passenger vehicle and method for operating such a cladding device A cladding device of a side sill of a passenger vehicle includes an inherently rigid outer cladding element arranged in a longitudinal region of the side sill below a door opening which can be displaced between a cladding position and a release position. A flexible cladding element is provided, one end of which is arranged on the inherently rigid outer cladding element, which can be displaced with the inherently rigid outer cladding element during a displacement movement between the cladding position and the release position. The flexible cladding element is arranged in a region of the side sill covered by a vehicle door associated with the door opening when the inherently rigid outer cladding element is arranged in the cladding position. In the cladding position, a gap is covered between the end of the inherently rigid outer cladding element, which has the flexible cladding element, and another component.
US11312312B2	Roof rack fixing structure The present invention discloses a roof rack fixing structure, used to fix a roof rack on a car top. The roof rack fixing structure includes a frame case with an opening; a first fastener; a second fastener; and a knob rod. With the implementation of the present invention, the roof rack fixing structure is firmly combined with the roof rack; more than one combining positions provided by the second fastener to be adaptive to various cars; and the position of the first fastener complies with the width of the roof rack rods on the car with no risk of loosening from it; moreover, with further implementation of an anti-theft lock, the roof rack fixing structure can be locked and secured and the risk of driving due to movement or loosening of the roof rack fixing structure is eliminated.
US11312309B1	Vehicle-mounted garment drying rack A rack for holding a wet garment, such as a neoprene wetsuit, to a vehicle for drying while the vehicle is in motion includes two or more mounts each adapted for removably attaching to the vehicle. A standoff is fixed with an upper side of each mount. A pair of elongated jaws comprise a lower jaw and an upper jaw. The lower jaw is fixed with forward and rear brackets. The upper jaw is pivotally attached to the forward bracket and can move between open and closed positions. The forward and rear brackets are fixed with the upper ends of each standoff. A rear bracket is adjustable forward to backward on the lower jaw so as to adapt to the vehicle roof rack of the vehicle. A locking mechanism is adapted to maintain the jaws in the closed position.
US11312306B2	Camera-puddle lamp integrated apparatus and side mirror including the same a camera-puddle lamp integrated apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprising a lens module; an image sensor; and a puddle lamp module, the puddle lamp module includes a light source, a spring, a sliding bar, and a solenoid and is disposed in a second area outside the first area, the light source is formed to be movable to be located in the first area or the second area, the light source is fixed to one side of the sliding bar, a moving part of the solenoid is connected to the other side of the sliding bar, and the spring is formed to be operated to move the sliding bar when the solenoid is switched to a non-operational state so as to move the light source to the second area, the camera-puddle lamp integrated apparatus operates as a puddle lamp when the light source moves to the first area, and the camera-puddle lamp integrated apparatus operates as a camera when the light source moves to the second area.
US11312301B2	Display apparatus, display method, and program A display apparatus projects an image of an object located in an area outside a mobile body onto a target projection surface, the target projection surface being set in a cabin of the mobile body and having a first region and a second region. The display apparatus includes: an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data; an image processing unit that generates projection image data by performing image conversion processing including color conversion in which the first wavelength light is selected for a pixel corresponding to the first region and the second wavelength light is selected for a pixel corresponding to the second region based on region distribution information; a light source unit that emits light selected from either the first wavelength light or the second wavelength light; and a projection unit that projects the image formed by the emitted light onto the target projection surface.
US11312299B1	Systems and methods for notification of exceeding speed limits A wearable device is provided that includes a receiver, a processor, and a transducer. The receiver is configured to receive speed limit data indicative of a posted speed limit corresponding to a route or road upon which the wearable device is traveling. The processor is configured to compare the speed limit to a current speed of the wearable device and/or a vehicle in which the user wearing the wearable device is driving. The transducer is configured to deliver a haptic or other notification to a user upon which the wearable device is worn when the current speed exceeds the speed limit or exceeds the speed limit by a predetermined amount. As a result, safer driving and vehicle collision avoidance may be facilitated. Safe driving auto insurance discounts may be provided to drivers that use the safe driving or speed limit warning functionality discussed herein.
US11312298B2	Modulating attention of responsible parties to predicted dangers of self-driving cars An autonomous vehicle utilizing machine learning method, system, and computer program product include training, by a computing device, a driver attention model utilizing historical ambient sensor data and historical physiological sensor data associated with an autonomous vehicle, receiving ambient sensor data associated with a currently driving autonomous vehicle, receiving physiological sensor data associated with a driver of the currently driving autonomous vehicle, and using, by a computing device, the trained driver attention model in conjunction with the ambient sensor data and the physiological sensor data to generate an alert for a driver of the currently driving autonomous vehicle.
US11312296B2	Vehicle sound generation device A vehicle sound generation device includes a sound control circuit that sets one or more frequencies according to a number of revolutions of the rotary power source, and generates a synthetic sound signal representing a synthetic sound including one or more element sounds having the one or more frequencies. The sound control circuit sets the synthetic sound so that a sound pressure of the synthetic sound includes a reference sound pressure component and a variable sound pressure component. A magnitude of the reference sound pressure component increases as the number of revolutions of the rotary power source increases, and a magnitude of the variable sound pressure component varies within a predetermined amplitude with a period of a predetermined increase amount of the number of revolutions as the number of revolutions of the rotary power source increases.
US11312287B1	Transport device and assembly A device and assembly for loading a watercraft. In one embodiment, the device includes an elongated extension brace and a lever pivotable about the elongated extension's second end. A tether may be aligned about the lever and repositionable between a vehicle and the watercraft. The result is an assembly to repositionably secure a watercraft from a surface to a loaded vehicle position.
US11312281B2	Clip for attachment of floor carpet A clip for attachment of a floor carpet includes a male member having a lower flange portion, and a shaft portion projecting from the lower flange portion; and a female member having a cylindrical portion to which the shaft portion is inserted, an upper flange portion projecting around an outer periphery of the cylindrical portion, and an engaging portion at an inner periphery of the cylindrical portion. The male member also includes a hole portion penetrating through the lower flange portion and the cylindrical portion, engaging projections formed around an outer periphery of the shaft portion, and a regulation member inserted into the hole portion. In case the male member is inserted into the female member to engage the engaging projections with the engaging portion and the regulation member is inserted into the hole portion, the regulation member prevents the engaging projections from being disengaged from the engaging portion.
US11312273B1	Method and apparatus for mat retention in a seat assembly A method and an apparatus, according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a seat pad including at least one trench, a plurality of discrete fasteners positioned within the at least one trench, and a mat placed on the seat pad. The mat comprises a main portion that includes an electrical element and at least one extension panel extending outwardly from an outer edge of the main portion and being devoid of the electrical element. The at least one extension panel includes fastener openings with each fastener opening being aligned with one fastener of the plurality of discrete fasteners when the at least one extension panel is tucked into the at least one trench. A seat cover has an inner surface that faces the mat and includes an attachment feature that is aligned with the fastener openings. The attachment feature extends through the fastener openings and engages the plurality of discrete fasteners to secure the mat between the seat pad and the seat cover.
US11312268B2	Vehicle seat Provided is a vehicle seat having a seat back that can be folded forward, in which the buckle is prevented from interfering with the seat hack when the seat back is folded forward. A seat cushion frame (F1) rotatably attached to the seat back frame (F2) includes a pair of side frames (11) extending in a fore and aft direction, a front frame (12) extending between front parts of the side frames, and a rear frame (13) extending between rear parts of the side frames and provided with a curved portion (13A) protruding forward in a middle part thereof. A buckle support arm is located behind the curved portion, the curved portion being dimensioned so as not to interfere with the buckle when the buckle support arm is in a stowed position.
US11312261B2	Distributed power charging system for charging electric vehicles A smart parking lot system for charging electric vehicles (EVs) includes a charger unit, a switching unit, an interface unit, and a control unit. The charger unit includes m chargers, the switching unit includes matrix switch elements S(i,j) configured to switch a connection between an i-th input port and a j-th output port according to a control signal specifying an address (i,j) and a switching state. An interface unit includes n interface ports to be connected with EVs parked for charging. Each of the m chargers is connected with one of m input ports of the matrix switch, respectively. Each of the n interface ports is connected with one of n output ports of the matrix switch, respectively. The control unit is configured to provide for the EV connected with an interface port, accessibilities to at least two chargers with different output power levels, when available.
US11312257B2	Robot with vehicle charging A processor-implemented robot control method includes: determining a target position from map information; estimating a candidate region for a current position in the map information based on information sensed by an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and first image information received from an image sensor; estimating the current position in the candidate region based on second image information received from either the image sensor or another image sensor; and controlling a movement of a vehicle charging robot based on the target position and the current position.
US11312249B2	Induction charging device with a charging arrangement including an active cooling arrangement An induction charging device for an electrically operated motor vehicle may include an emission protection arrangement and a charging arrangement secured to the emission protection arrangement. The emission protection arrangement may include a metal shield plate. The charging arrangement may include a magnetic plate facing the emission protection arrangement, at least one induction coil disposed in a charging housing, and an active cooling arrangement secured in the charging housing to transfer heat. The magnetic plate may be at least one of (i) at least partially ferrimagnetic and (ii) at least partially ferromagnetic. On a housing bottom side, the charging housing may include at least one cooling recess for the active cooling arrangement. The active cooling arrangement may include at least one cooling duct formed integrally in the cooling recess. The charging arrangement may further include a bottom side cover secured in a fluid-tight manner to the housing bottom side.
US11312245B2	Vehicle power supply system A vehicle power supply system includes a power storage device, a plurality of devices including a plurality of noise generators, and a power distribution circuit connecting the power storage device and the devices. Each of the noise generators is connected to the power distribution circuit via a noise filter. The noise filter includes a first impedance element and a Y capacitor provided closer to the noise generators than the first impedance element. The first impedance element provided for each of the noise generators is an impedance element having a shape and a material that increase a first system impedance of each of the devices to be higher than a predetermined lower limit impedance at least in an amplitude modulation band.
US11312244B2	Open cabin electric wheeled vehicle An open cabin electric wheeled vehicle includes a large-capacity driving battery having a volume energy density higher than the volume energy density of a lead storage battery, the large-capacity driving battery being configured to supply electric power to a driving electric motor. The vehicle also includes a fuel-type electric power generation apparatus that generates electric power using a fuel. As seen from a leftward direction or a rightward direction, between the large-capacity driving battery and the fuel-type electric power generation apparatus, a recess overlaps with a passage region which allows people or baggage to pass through of an entrance and exit opening portion having no door, so that a bottom end of a front wall portion, a bottom end of a rear wall portion, and a bottom portion are located further downward than a top end of the large-capacity driving battery which has a volume energy density higher than the volume energy density of a lead storage battery, and a top end of the fuel-type electric power generation apparatus.
US11312235B2	Drive switching mechanism of utility vehicle A drive switching mechanism of a utility vehicle includes: a two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive switching device that switches between two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive of the utility vehicle; and a control unit that controls the drive switching mechanism. The two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive switching device switches between two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive by using a first clutch. The control unit permits the two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive switching device to switch from two-wheel drive to four-wheel drive when a rotation difference of the first clutch becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.
US11312234B1	Axle system for a vehicle A vehicle axle includes first and second wheel hubs, first and second shafts, a hub lock, and a plug assembly. The first and second shafts extend into the first and second wheel hubs, respectively. The hub lock is configured to selectively couple the first shaft to the first wheel hub. The plug assembly is fixedly coupled to the second wheel hub and is fixedly coupled to the second shaft such that the second wheel hub, the second shaft, and the plug assembly rotate in unison.
US11312233B2	Shift bracket The present disclosure relates to a shift bracket that is coupled to a top plate of a cover panel for covering a floor tunnel and to which a shift lever unit is attached on an upper side. The shift bracket includes: a base plate to which the shift lever unit is attached; and a front leg portion and a rear leg portion that are coupled to the base plate and the top plate of the cover panel and hold the base plate with a space being provided upward in a vehicle vertical direction from the top plate. An ECU is disposed in the space between the top plate of the cover panel and the base plate.
US11312232B2	Center bearing assembly including a rotatable weld collar with a tuned damper A constant velocity joint for a multi-piece propeller shaft includes an outer race extending from a first outer race end to a second outer race end to define an exterior surface. A tuned damper extends radially outwardly from the exterior surface of the of the outer race for reducing noise, vibration, and/or harshness (NVH) generated during operation of the multi-piece propeller shaft.
US11312216B1	Locking structure of vehicle cover A locking structure of a vehicle cover includes a vehicle cover, at least two mounting rods, a depressor and a torsion spring. The mounting rods are arranged in parallel. The vehicle cover is laid on the mounting rods. The depressor is rotatably mounted on the mounting rods through the torsion spring, and cooperates with the mounting rods to clamp the vehicle cover. The depressor is installed on the mounting rods through the spring, and the cover is clamped between the rod and the depressor by the depressor, so that the spring always has a tendency to drive the depressor to clamp the rod, and the cover is pressed against the rods, which means the cover is fixed on the rods, so that a connection between the cover and the rods is more stable and it is not easy for the cover to shake off from the rods.
US11312211B2	Sliding visor A sliding sun visor for use in a vehicle is disclosed. The sun visor includes a first and second visor body shell. The visor also comprises a pivot rod and a carrier slidingly arranged over the pivot rod. The first shell of the visor body includes a monorail arranged on an inside surface thereof. The carrier is slidingly engaged with the first shell wherein the carrier is arranged within or on the monorail. The carrier contacts a top portion of the monorail and a bottom portion of the monorail. The carrier is hence slidingly secured to the monorail and only connected to one of the shells used to engage to form a visor body. The visor bodies are secured via a press fit between a first boss arranged on a first shell and a second boss arranged on the second shell thus creating a secure connection that does not need screws to secure the visor halves to one another.
US11312203B2	Methods and apparatus for vehicle suspension having multiple gas volumes A method and apparatus for a vehicle suspension system gas spring. In one embodiment, a vehicle suspension system gas spring includes a compressible main gas chamber and an additional volume combinable with the main chamber to change a gas spring rate of the system. In one embodiment, a low friction piston seal is created by a flexible seal member.
US11312198B2	Air spring strut having a plastic air spring cover made of thermoplastic Air spring strut for a motor vehicle comprising an air spring with a shock damper for the spring-cushioning and damping of oscillations of a motor vehicle chassis, wherein the air spring comprises an air spring cover and a rolling piston, wherein a rolling bellows of elastomer material is clamped in an airtight manner between the air spring cover and the rolling piston. The air spring cover comprises a damper bearing receptacle in which a damper bearing of the shock damper is arranged, and the air spring cover comprises a clamping base to which a first end of the rolling bellows is attached. At least the damper bearing receptacle of the air spring cover is produced completely from a plastic material, and the plastic material is a thermoplastic.
US11312196B2	Three-row wheel vehicle A three-row wheel vehicle having front, center and rear wheels has laterally spaced front pivot links each pivotably connected at a middle to a vehicle body, laterally spaced swing arms each swingably connected to a front end of the front pivot link and rotatably supports the front wheel at a lower end, laterally spaced rear pivot links each pivotably connected to the vehicle body at a middle and rotatably supports the rear wheel at a rear end, laterally spaced force transmission mechanisms each configured to convert a rearward force transmitted from the front wheel to the swing arm into an upward force and transmit the upward force to the front pivot link on a front side of the middle, and laterally spaced connecting links each pivotably attached to a rear end of the front pivot link and a front end of the rear pivot link.
US11312194B2	Land and aerial transportation vehicle and powertrain thereof A powertrain including an engine; a main drive shaft assembly; a primary clutch mechanism coupled to the engine and the a main drive shaft assembly, the primary clutch mechanism being operable to connect or disconnect the main drive shaft assembly and the engine; an axle shaft coupled transversely to the main drive shaft assembly; a secondary clutch mechanism having a driving member coupled to an end of the axle shaft; a drive wheel coupled to a first driven member of the secondary clutch mechanism; and an air propulsion unit coupled to a second driven member of the secondary clutch mechanism. The secondary clutch mechanism being operable to engage or disengage the first driven member and/or the second driven member to the driving member so as to connect or disconnect the drive wheel and/or the air propulsion unit to the axle shaft. A vehicle including the powertrain.
US11312177B2	Shear band with interlaced reinforcements A shear band that may be used e.g., in a non-pneumatic tire having interlaced reinforcing elements positioned within a shear layer of elastomeric material. A variety of configurations may be used to create the interlaced positioning of the reinforcing elements including e.g., a horizontal diamond or vertical diamond configuration.

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