Patents Examined by An Do
  • Patent number: 11972235
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving user input representative of user selection of a set of decision elements to be included in a workflow task UI and a data object, each decision element being associated with a decision identifier, the workflow task UI including a container component and metadata, the container component storing parameters of the application at run-time, the metadata including logic that is executable within a view of the container component during run-time, during run-time use of the application: displaying the workflow task UI, and receiving user input to a decision element within the view of the container component, and in response, passing a decision identifier associated with the decision element from the container component to the metadata, and executing at least a portion of the logic of the metadata to update the decision identifier with a workflow backend to complete the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Yan Zang, Rasheed Abdul Azeez, Yi Quan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11971113
    Abstract: An equalization valve includes a valve body defining an inlet body, an outlet body, and a gate slot, the inlet body defining an inlet passage and the outlet body defining an outlet passage; a gate defining an equalization chamber, a first equalization channel, and a second equalization channel, the equalization chamber and the first and second equalization channels defining an equalization pathway across the gate; and an actuation stem slidable within the equalization chamber between a first chamber position, wherein the actuation stem blocks the equalization pathway, and a second chamber position, wherein the actuation stem unblocks the equalization pathway; wherein the actuation stem is further slidable within the gate slot of the valve body between a first valve position, wherein the gate is seated with the valve body, and a second valve position, wherein the gate is unseated from the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mueller International, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Wayne Stern, Rock Allen Powell, Jr., Mohammad Unnus Qasim
  • Patent number: 11971116
    Abstract: A rotary-type valve device is provided, and includes: a tubular valve having an inner passage Ip and opening parts opened in an outer circumferential wall and rotating about a predetermined axial line a shaft rotating integrally with the valve, a housing accommodating the valve, supporting the shaft to be able to turn, and defining a communication port causing the inner passage to communicate with outside; a passage member assembled in the housing such that that the passage member abuts on an outer circumferential wall of the valve and defining a radial-direction passage. The valve includes a recessed part in the axial line direction and surrounding one end part of the shaft. The housing includes a tube part inserted into the recessed part and supporting the one end part and a support hole supporting the other end part of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tochigi, Shoichi Ishiguchi
  • Patent number: 11969996
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform both heater drive control and fuse drive control without increasing the number of signal lines. One embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus including: a print head having a plurality of heaters for heating and ejecting ink and a fuse for retaining information; and a print head control unit configured to control the print head, and the print head control unit has a heater drive control unit configured to control drive of the plurality of heaters and a write pulse generation unit configured to generate a write pulse for performing write for the fuse and data that is generated by the heater drive control unit and the write pulse are transmitted from the print head control unit to the print head via an identical terminal and an identical signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuki Hirobe, Hironori Naka
  • Patent number: 11969908
    Abstract: A razor blade is provided comprising a substrate comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may comprise first and second generally parallel outer surfaces. The second portion may comprise first and second sections separated by a split line. The first section may comprise a first facet extending directly from the first outer surface of the first portion and an end facet extending directly from the first facet. The second section may comprise an end facet. The end facets of the first and second sections may converge at a tip to define a cutting edge. The split line may pass through the tip and is generally parallel with and extends between the first and second outer surfaces of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Bin Shen, Yongqing Ju, Kenneth James Skrobis, William Owen Jolley, Thorsten Knobloch
  • Patent number: 11969916
    Abstract: A wafer forming method includes a modified layer forming step of applying a laser beam of such a wavelength as to be transmitted through an ingot to the ingot with a focal point of the laser beam positioned inside from a side surface at a position corresponding to the thickness of a wafer to be formed, to form a modified layer over the whole circumference of the side surface, a peeling-off layer forming step of exerting an external force from an upper surface of the ingot and concentrating a stress on a crack extending from the modified layer to the inside, to cause the crack to develop from the side surface side toward the inside and form a peeling-off layer, and a wafer forming step of peeling off a wafer to be formed, from the ingot, with the peeling-off layer as a start point, to form the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiji Nomaru
  • Patent number: 11969136
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner for performing autonomous driving may include: a main body; a driving unit; a suctioning unit; a plurality of sensors for sensing obstacles present in each direction; and a control unit for controlling the driving unit to move the main body on the basis of a preset driving pattern. The control unit uses sensors provided at the front side of the main body and a first side of the both sides of the main body so as to detect whether entry into a corner area among cleaning areas is made while driving along the preset driving pattern, and controls the driving unit such that the first side of the main body comes into contact with a first wall forming the corner area at least one time when the main body enters the corner area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Woochan Jun
  • Patent number: 11965351
    Abstract: A tent shelter is adapted for various uses, designs configurations and combinations, along with riggings and accessories. It includes a flat material for its main body having anchor points along its peripheral edges. An anchor apparatus (including a hole) can be coupled at the anchor points. It also includes anchor apparatuses used to couple the tent shelter to another tent shelter, tent shelter accessories or a fixed object using a paracord or other materials. It also includes different ridged, hinge and awning assemblies to support the tent. The assemblies can anchor, manipulate, adjust and support the tent. An awning assembly coupled to the pole rigging system can be coupled to a tent shelter when laid flat. A hinged rigging system can be adjusted and supported so that the tent can be manipulated into desirable shapes including a shape that folds into a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventor: James John Wiseman
  • Patent number: 11964333
    Abstract: A pipe cutting apparatus has a rigid annular frame adapted to be coupled to a pipe to be cut. A cutting blade for cutting the pipe is removably associated with the annular frame. A mechanism is included to move the cutting blade with respect to the annular frame about an axis of revolution designed to coincide with a longitudinal axis of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: RITMO S.P.A.
    Inventors: Alessandro Apolinari, Renzo Bortoli
  • Patent number: 11964779
    Abstract: In order to fill a reservoir while avoiding laborious manual filling operations, there is added to the existing device, including a supply duct, a pump and a measuring probe, a stop valve designed to interrupt the filling as soon as the desired level has been reached, which is detected for example by an air intake which controls the closure of the valve. Two level indicators are added and make it possible to ascertain either that optimum filling has been achieved or that a malfunction is present in the system. Application to the systems for oil filling of aircraft engine reservoirs from another reservoir arranged within the aircraft, generally common to all the engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Mathieu Jean Jacques Santin, Clément Dupays, Bellal Waissi
  • Patent number: 11965536
    Abstract: A clip for attaching an attaching article to an object member may include an engagement claw configured to engage an attaching hole formed in the object member. The clip may also include a slide body configured to retainably hold the engagement claw on the attaching article and configured to slide the engagement claw with respect to the attaching article so as to project and retract the engagement claw. The clip may also include an elastic body configured to apply a restoring force to the engagement claw when the engagement claw slides from a projected state to a retracted state with respect to the attaching article, so as to provide a biasing force to return the engagement claw toward the projected state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: DAIWA KASEI KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junya Ukai
  • Patent number: 11958152
    Abstract: A safety system for a power miter saw comprises a support member, at least one multidirectional manipulator including a workpiece holder member moveably mounted to the support member for securing a workpiece in place, and a control box. The workpiece holder member includes a presence indicator operatively connected to the control box and configured to detect the physical presence of a saw operator's hand on the at least one multidirectional manipulator when the saw operator's hand engages the presence indicator. The control box is operatively connectable to a trigger switch of the power miter saw so that an electric motor of the power miter saw is activated only when both the presence indicator of the safety system and the trigger switch of the power miter saw are engaged by both hands of an operator of the power miter saw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MASONITE CORPORATION
    Inventors: James A. Stevens, Frank Wilhelm, Kohl L. Knopp, Robert Woods, Kurian A. Anthraper
  • Patent number: 11958205
    Abstract: A score die including a body with a generally planar first surface. The first surface includes a score blade. The score blade has a number of cutting portions, and, each cutting portion has a substantially uniform cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: STOLLE MACHINERY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathon D. Ledford
  • Patent number: 11958670
    Abstract: A cable tie has a band and having a tensioning device which is integrated in the band and which divides the band into a first and a second region, each of which regions has a toothed portion. A cable channel, or a component, to which an object, such as for example a cable harness, is to be fastened can remain in the fitting position because both ends of the cable tie can be plugged into cable locks from one side. No tools are required for the fitting of the cable tie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventor: Gerhard Lindner
  • Patent number: 11958399
    Abstract: A strap end manager holds a loose cargo strap end against a tight portion of the strap. The manager fits over an end of a loose strap, and the loose strap is wound around the manager. Top and bottom, right and left wings, fold around the strap and around the tight portion, and secure the wound loose end. The wings may include hook and loop material to retain the wings around the wound loose end. The strap end manager may further be used to facilitate storing cargo straps in the same manner as for holding loose cargo strap ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventor: Rodrigo Martinez
  • Patent number: 11960011
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of validating an output from a GNSS at a receiver including a fusion system comprising location sensors. A location estimate and a location error estimate are computed. A navigation update including a sensor location estimate and sensor location error estimate is also computed with the fusion system based on sensor measurements from the location sensors. A determination is made as to whether or not GNSS filters should be applied based at least on the location estimate, the sensor location estimate, and the sensor location error estimate. When GNSS filters should be applied, the location estimate and/or the location error estimate may be adjusted or rejected and a new navigation update may be computed with the fusion system based on the adjustment or rejection. When the GNSS filters should not be applied, the new navigation update is computed with the location estimate and the location error estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TRX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: John George Karvounis, Benjamin Edward Funk, Jonathan Morton Fetter-Degges, Carole Ann Teolis
  • Patent number: 11959564
    Abstract: Example aspects of a seat assembly for a valve, a valve, and a method for opening a valve are disclosed. The seat assembly for a valve can comprise a diaphragm defining a first diaphragm end and a second diaphragm end, the diaphragm comprising a diaphragm end wall at the second diaphragm end, the diaphragm end wall defining an inner diaphragm end wall surface and an outer diaphragm end wall surface; and a diaphragm guide comprising a guide disc, the guide disc defining an inner guide disc surface and an outer guide disc surface, the outer guide disc surface abutting the inner diaphragm end wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mueller International, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Wayne Stern, Stephen Adrianus de Boer, Fairlyte Paige Eubank
  • Patent number: 11959970
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present specification provide a method and device for capacity degradation prediction of a lithium-ion battery. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring an original battery discharge capacity; decomposing the original battery discharge capacity through a predetermined mode decomposition method to obtain battery discharge capacities composed of a plurality of different frequency signals; inputting the respective frequency signals into a pre-constructed capacity prediction model to obtain capacity prediction results corresponding to the respective frequency signals; selecting capacity prediction result that satisfies a predetermined relevance condition corresponding to the respective frequency signals; and reconstructing the finally predicted battery discharge capacity according to the capacity prediction result that satisfies the predetermined relevance condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Huixing Meng, Mengyao Geng, Cheng Wang, Jinduo Xing
  • Patent number: 11958363
    Abstract: A vehicle includes first and second electric machines constrained to rotate in unison and configured to power a common axle. A controller is programmed to, in response to activation of the vehicle, select one of the first and second speed sensors as a representative speed sensor, and, in response to the electric machines being in speed control, command speeds to the first and second electric machines based on a difference between a target speed of the electric machines and a measured speed of the representative speed sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dev Saberwal, Christopher Golecki
  • Patent number: 11951736
    Abstract: An inkjet printing system includes: (a) an inkjet printhead having a rigid elongate manifold with first and second parallel ink supply channels extending along a length of the manifold between respective ink ports positioned at opposite ends thereof; and a plurality of printhead chips mounted to a lower surface of the manifold, the ink supply channels supplying ink to the printhead chips via ink outlets defined in the lower surface. One end of the manifold has a first ink inlet port for the first ink supply channel and an ink outlet port for the second ink supply channel. The other end of the manifold has a first ink outlet port for the first ink supply channel and a second ink inlet port for the second ink supply channel. An ink delivery system is configured to flow ink along the first and second channels in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Memjet Technology Limited
    Inventors: Michael Hudson, David Burke, Qing Chen, Graeme Lowe, Jason Mark Thelander, Ellaine Munton