Patents Examined by Omair Chaudhri
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Patent number: 11982035Abstract: A washing machine appliance includes a wash basket that is rotatably mounted within a wash tub and that defines a wash chamber for receiving a load of clothes. A basket speed sensor monitors the speed of the wash basket and a camera assembly is mounted within the wash tub for taking images of the load of clothes during and/or after a wash or rinse cycle. A controller determines the basket speed, adjusts a frame rate of the camera assembly to match the basket speed, obtains a still image from the camera assembly, analyzes the image using a machine learning image recognition process to determine a remaining moisture content (RMC) of the load of clothes, and adjusts at least one operating parameter of the washing machine appliance based on the remaining moisture content, e.g., such as ending the drain cycle when a target RMC is reached.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Khalid Jamal Mashal
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Patent number: 11970806Abstract: The present invention relates to a dyeing machine (1) having at least one each vertical guides (24) positioned at the two sides of at least one body (20) for realizing dyeing during wrapping of the yarn (223) from at least one first bobbin (21) to the second bobbin (22), at least one sprayer drive mechanism (17) which can move vertically on said vertical guide (24), at least one bobbin carrier (224), at least one drum (23) which contacts the surface of said second bobbin (22) positioned on said bobbin carrier (224), at least one first drive element (231) where said drum (23) is connected from one side for providing movement of said drum (23), at least one fourth drive element (171) for moving said sprayer drive mechanism (17), at least one sprayer (16) which realizes dyeing while the yarn (223), positioned on said sprayer drive mechanism (17), is wrapped onto the second bobbin (22), and at least one pump (14) connected to at least one dye kier (11) for obtaining the dye needed by said sprayer (16).Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: HABIBE YILDIZ ARIFIOGLUInventor: Habibe Yildiz Arifioglu
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Patent number: 11960076Abstract: A vibrating device includes a translucent cover, an ejector to eject a liquid onto the surface of the translucent cover, and a first vibrating portion to vibrate the translucent cover at a vibration acceleration of larger than about 8.0×105 m/s2 and equal to or smaller than about 21.0×105 m/s2.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji Nishiyama
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Patent number: 11945415Abstract: A vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device cleans a sensing surface of a vehicle-mounted sensor. The vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device includes a gas nozzle spraying a gas toward the sensing surface, a gas supply device supplying the gas to the gas nozzle, and a control section controlling operation of the gas supply device. A predetermined value is set in the control section, for indicating an abnormal state of detection accuracy of the vehicle-mounted sensor based on detection accuracy information of an object which is obtained from the vehicle-mounted sensor. A gas supply threshold value is also set, for use in operating the gas supply device to direct a supply of the gas toward the sensing surface before the detection accuracy information becomes equal to or lower than the predetermined value. If the detection accuracy information has become lower than the gas supply threshold value, the control section operates the gas supply device.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Hayashi, Kohei Toyama
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Patent number: 11945010Abstract: A system and method for removing a coating from an excavated pipe section includes impacting liquid jects against the coating and collecting a mixture of the liquid and debris of the removed coating. The mixture is subjected to active separation and passive separation to capture the debris, wherein the debris can be appropriately disposed.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: LMC INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTORS, INC.Inventor: Lawrence D. Mehlenbacher
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Patent number: 11938906Abstract: A cleaning apparatus, optimized for cleaning optical and optoelectronic sensor devices in motor vehicles, comprising a housing, and a reciprocating piston movable in a pressure-controlled manner in the housing and movable from a retracted position into a deployed position along an actuation axis is disclosed. The reciprocating piston has an inner channel to transport a cleaning fluid through the reciprocating piston to a spray nozzle. A miniaturized, easily and inexpensively producible cleaning apparatus which makes possible exact and precise orientation of the cleaning jet, quick operational readiness, reduced tendency for follow-up flow of the cleaning fluid, and improved adaptability to different installation positions, is also disclosed. In an embodiment at least the cleaning apparatus has at least one guide to prevent rotation of the reciprocating piston about the actuation axis during its entire stroke, the at least one guide means arranged at least regionally in the inner channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Dirk Ringler, Stefan Schäckel, Reiner Krauße, Ilja Prygunkov
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Patent number: 11932209Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for protecting the operation of a train under an air pollution environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Central South UniversityInventors: Hui Liu, Chao Chen, Guangxi Yan, Zhihao Long
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Patent number: 11921208Abstract: A sensor apparatus includes a first sensing device, a sensor housing, a bracket, a second sensor, and a channel plate. The sensor housing includes a first sensor window and a top panel, and the first sensing device has a field of view through the first sensor window. The bracket is mounted on top of the top plate. The second sensor is held by the bracket and includes a second sensor window. The channel plate is fixed to the bracket. The bracket includes a first nozzle aimed at the first sensor window and a second nozzle aimed at the second sensor window. The bracket includes a channel fluidly connected to the first nozzle and the second nozzle. The channel plate covers the channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael Robertson, Jr., Raghuraman Surineedi, Venkatesh Krishnan, Tyler D. Hamilton, Kunal Singh, Shibu Koyadan Chathoth
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Patent number: 11897007Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for processing a substrate. The apparatus for processing a substrate includes a base portion configured to provide a rotational force in a circumferential direction; a holding module located on the base portion and configured to hold the substrate; a nozzle module located above the base portion and configured to jet a chemical liquid onto the substrate on the holding module; and a scattering prevention module located on the base portion at a peripheral portion of the holding module and configured to, when the chemical liquid is scattered after being jetted onto the substrate, guide the scattered chemical liquid to be discharged, wherein the scattering prevention module guides the scattered chemical liquid with a variable movement caused by the rotational force.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.Inventor: Yun Hwa Hong
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Patent number: 11872963Abstract: A motor vehicle has a passenger compartment, a tank designed to contain a wiper fluid and a dispensing device, which is connected to the tank and is operable to dispense and/or spray the wiper fluid on a transparent wall, for example on a windshield; the motor vehicle further has a filling device provided with at least one duct to feed the wiper fluid into the tank; said duct having an inlet that is arranged in the passenger compartment.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: FCA ITALY S.p.A.Inventors: Alberto Dilillo, Andreas Wuppinger, Michele Longo, Daniele Calonaci
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Patent number: 11866871Abstract: A washing machine includes a casing, a tub, a drum, a pump, a gasket that is arranged between a case opening and a tub opening and that includes first nozzles and second nozzles, and a water pipe assembly that includes: first nozzle ports affixed to the first nozzles, second nozzle ports affixed to the second nozzles, a first conduit, and a second conduit. The gasket further includes port insertion pipes into which the first and second nozzle ports are inserted. Each of the first and second nozzle ports includes at least one press-fit protrusion that is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the nozzle supply port and that is configured to, in a state in which the nozzle supply port is inserted into a corresponding port insertion pipe, maintain contact with an inner circumferential surface of the port insertion pipe.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Junghoon Lee, Kyungchul Woo, Jaehyun Kim, Myunghun Im, Hwanjin Jung
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Patent number: 11854792Abstract: A method for treating high aspect ratio (HAR) structures arranged on a surface of a substrate includes a) spin rinsing the surface of the substrate using a first rinsing liquid; b) spinning off the first rinsing liquid from the surface of the substrate; and c) directing a gas mixture containing hydrogen fluoride onto the surface of the substrate after the first rinsing liquid is dispensed.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: LAM RESEARCH AGInventors: Dries Dictus, Ta-Yu Lo
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Patent number: 11840202Abstract: The vehicle control apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus includes a cleaning unit capable of performing a first cleaning operation to clean a detecting surface part of a LiDAR using cleaning fluid, and a cleaning control ECU configured to execute a first light-degree cleaning process to let the first cleaning unit perform a first cleaning operation for a first light-degree cleaning time. The cleaning control ECU executes the first light-degree cleaning process when a first light-degree cleaning condition becomes satisfied within a first allowable period.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryusuke Shimizu
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Patent number: 11827189Abstract: A sensor assembly includes a first sensing device and a second sensing device spaced from the first sensing device. The sensor assembly includes a bracket supporting the first sensing device and the second sensing device and a sensor cover including a first sensor window and a second sensor window. The first sensing device has a first field of view through the first sensor window and the second sensing device having a second field of view through the second sensor window. The sensor assembly includes an air nozzle housing supported by the bracket and defining a first air nozzle aimed toward the first sensor window and a second air nozzle aimed toward the second sensor window. The sensor assembly includes a washer nozzle spaced from the first air nozzle. The washer nozzle aimed toward the first sensor window in a direction opposite to a direction of the first air nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Tyler D. Hamilton, Kunal Chaudhari, Venkatesh Krishnan, Camila Silva, Michael Robertson, Jr., Anthony Michael Regalbuto
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Patent number: 11827186Abstract: A vehicle cleaning device includes a cylinder to which a cleaning fluid is supplied; a piston slidably inserted in the cylinder; a spray nozzle unit mounted at a leading end of the piston and configured to spray the cleaning fluid toward an object-to-be-cleaned; and a cap that closes a gap between the cylinder and the piston in an opening of the cylinder through which the piston protrudes. The cap includes a tubular part inside the cylinder, and the tubular part defines an end of movement of the piston. A communication hole is provided between a communication groove provided in an outer peripheral surface of the tubular part and an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder, and the gap between the cylinder and the piston communicates with the outside of the cylinder through the communication hole.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaru Sakai, Yasuhiro Ichikawa
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Patent number: 11826797Abstract: A pipe snow removal device is supported for movement longitudinally along a pipe to clear snow and/or ice from the pipe. A main housing has boundary walls defining an outer boundary of a bounded space within a hollow interior of the main housing. An inner boundary of the bounded space is open to the pipe upon which the main housing is supported. A mounting arrangement supports the main housing relative to a work vehicle that is movable alongside the pipe to displace the main housing along the pipe. A heater heats the bounded space to melt the snow/ice on the pipe. A scraper assembly supported in leading relationship to the main housing clears loose snow before melting remaining snow and ice on the pipe as the housing passes.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Inventor: James A. McLeod
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Patent number: 11806763Abstract: According to an embodiment, a substrate cleaning device includes a processing tank, at least one spray tube, and a scanning mechanism. The processing tank can accommodate a plurality of substrates arranged in a thickness direction of the substrates. The spray tube extends in the thickness direction and is configured to emit a cleaning liquid to each substrate accommodated in the processing tank. The scanning mechanism is configured to move the spray tube along an outer periphery of the substrate to perform a scan.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Yosuke Maruyama
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Patent number: 11802363Abstract: A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to an automatic cycle of operation includes a cabinet defining an interior. A treating chamber is located within the interior. A dispenser is fluidly coupled to the treating chamber. The dispenser includes first and second drawers slidable along a slide path relative to the cabinet between opened and closed positions and having one or more treating chemistry chambers.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventor: Andrea Stopponi
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Patent number: 11786100Abstract: A dishwasher (1) for cleaning washware items (2) in the form of drinking vessels is configured as a counter module of a counter system and includes at least one treatment zone (3) having a placement area (4) associated with the treatment zone (3) and a removal area (5) associated with the treatment zone (3), wherein the washware item (2) can be placed into the treatment zone (3) via the placement area (4) and the cleaned washware item (2) can be removed from the treatment zone (3) via the removal area (5), wherein the placement area (4) and the removal area (5) are disposed opposite one another with the interposition of the treatment zone (3). At least one bracket (15) is provided in the treatment zone (3) for in releasably securing and/or positioning the washware item (2) placed onto a placement surface (20) in the treatment zone (3).Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Harald Disch, Martin Schrempp, Adrian Boldt, Axel Beck, Jeffrey R. Newcomer
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Patent number: 11791174Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a chuck stage, a scrubber nozzle, a scrubber nozzle scan mechanism, a stage rotation mechanism, and a holding stage including a holding fluid nozzle and a top plate, the top plate having one main surface facing an opposite surface of a wafer, and the holding fluid nozzle being disposed adjacent to a center rather than a periphery portion of the top plate. A holding fluid discharged from the holding fluid nozzle is caused to flow through an area between the opposite surface of the wafer and the one main surface of the top plate to produce holding force, and the holding force causes the opposite surface to hold pressure applied to a processing surface of the wafer by a scrubbing fluid discharged from the scrubber nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Tanaka