Patents Assigned to Engineering
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Patent number: 11735291Abstract: Techniques regarding determining thermodynamic observables of a chemical system are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can include a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also include a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can include a potential energy component that can fit a potential energy function to a computed potential energy surface of a molecule. The computer executable components can also include a vibrational mode component that can compute an intramolecular vibrational mode of the molecule based on the potential energy surface fitted with the potential energy function. Also, the computer executable components can include a partition component that can compute a partition function based on the intramolecular vibrational mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, EXXON MOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Spencer Troy Stober, Stuart Maxwell Harwood, Don Greenberg, Tanvi Pradeep Gujarati, Sarah Mostame, Sumathy Raman, Dimitar Vasilev Trenev
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Patent number: 11733121Abstract: A sealing integrity evaluation device for high-temperature and high-pressure casing-cement ring-formation and a method thereof are provided. the device includes: a high-temperature autoclave, a temperature and pressure control system, and a casing-cement-formation combination; wherein the autoclave realizes alternating temperature and pressure during the experiment; the control system monitors, controls and records the temperature and pressure data; the combination simulates a full size or a compact size casing-cement-formation of a well.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: Southwest Petroleum University, Engineering Technology Research Institute, Southwest Oil and Gas FieldCompany of Petro ChinaInventors: Zhi Zhang, Duo Hou, Huali Zhang, Yufei Li, You Wu, Lin Zhang, Wei Luo, Chuanlei Wang, Xiankang Zhong, Pengfei Sang
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Patent number: 11732735Abstract: A soft actuator includes an inflation chamber. The inflation chamber has a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The inflation chamber is inflatable during an inflation stage, in which the second end rotates toward the first end about a folding axis, and is operable to be loaded during an inflated stage, in which the inflation chamber is inflated. The soft actuator also includes a variable-stiffness hinge located between the first end and the second end along the folding axis. The variable-stiffness hinge has a decreased stiffness in the inflation stage and an increased stiffness in the inflated stage.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Yuyang Song, Ryohei Tsuruta, Umesh N. Gandhi
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Patent number: 11735872Abstract: A system includes a jack screw including a body portion and a keyed portion extending along a length of the body portion. The system includes a panel including a first aperture configured to receive the jack screw. The system includes a connector including a second aperture configured to receive the jack screw. The system includes a plate including a third aperture configured to receive the jack screw, where the jack screw is configured to be aligned along an axis through the first aperture, the second aperture, and the third plate aperture, where a portion of the body portion of the jack screw extends past a locking plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.Inventor: Brian D. LaFerriere
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Patent number: 11731927Abstract: The present invention relates to a cocrystal of ubiquinol and a hydrogen bond donor coformer, to a process for the preparation thereof, and to its use as a medicament or a dietary supplement. The invention also relates to compositions comprising the cocrystal.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: CENTER FOR INTELLIGENT RESEARCH IN CRYSTAL ENGINEERING, S.L.Inventors: Rafel Prohens López, Rafael Barbas Cañero, Lidia Bofill Herrera, Dafne De Sande López
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Patent number: 11733079Abstract: A method for estimating a flow rate of a material (e.g., a multiphase fluid) may include: flowing the material through one or more of a plurality of receptacles of a dielectric contrast analysis structure that includes: a bulk dielectric substance and the plurality of receptacles in the bulk dielectric substance; exposing the dielectric contrast analysis structure to incident electromagnetic radiation; detecting and analyzing a resultant electromagnetic radiation from the exposed dielectric contrast analysis structure to yield a phase fraction in the material and a phase distribution in the material; measuring a differential pressure across the dielectric contrast analysis structure; and estimating the flow rate of the material using the differential pressure, the phase fraction, and the phase distribution in the material.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: Lang Feng, John J. Valenza
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Patent number: 11735907Abstract: Protection of an electric power delivery system using a traveling wave overcurrent element is disclosed herein. A maximum traveling wave mode among the alpha and beta modes is selected and compared with a traveling wave overcurrent threshold to determine a traveling wave overcurrent. Traveling wave overcurrent protection may be enabled depending on a termination status of the protected electric power delivery system. When a remote terminal is terminated on high surge impedance, a local protection system may use local traveling wave current quantities to determine a traveling wave overcurrent, and the traveling wave overcurrent may be used for line protection. Systems for detecting a termination status use local and remote current quantities.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.Inventor: Bogdan Z. Kasztenny
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Patent number: 11731269Abstract: An artificial muscle includes a housing including an electrode region and an expandable fluid region; an electrode pair positioned in the electrode region of the housing, the electrode pair comprising a first electrode positioned adjacent a first surface of the housing and a second electrode positioned adjacent a second surface of the housing, the first electrode and the second electrode each having a first end proximate the expandable fluid region and a second end opposite the expandable fluid region; a dielectric fluid housed within the housing; and a clamping device applying a force against the first electrode and the second electrode at the second end of the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated state and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state directs the dielectric fluid into the expandable fluid region.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Michael P. Rowe
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Patent number: 11733276Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of sag in a power line. In an embodiment, a monitoring device may include a distance sensor and an operating parameter sensor. A processor of the monitoring device may acquire, via the distance sensor, a first distance measurement. The processor may acquire, via the operating parameter sensor, a first operating parameter measurement. The processor may provide an output signal indicating that the power line is sagging when a combination of the first distance measurement and the first operating parameter measurement exceed a first combined distance-operating parameter threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Scott M. Manson, Shankar V. Achanta, Gregary C. Zweigle, Richard M. Edge
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Patent number: 11731709Abstract: A vehicle is provided including a body having a side, and at least one aero cladding element operably connected to the body along the side so as to be supported for movement between a cladding position and an aero position. In another aspect, an aero cladding system for a vehicle is provided. The aero cladding system includes a base cladding element and an aero cladding element operably connected to the base cladding element so as to be movable relative to the base cladding element between a first position and a second position different from the first position. At least one actuator is operably connected to the aero cladding element and is structured to be operable to move the aero cladding element between the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shinichi Yasui
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Patent number: 11736051Abstract: A system to reconfigure a motor from induction mode to synchronous mode at a zero crossing of the field voltage during startup using only stator current signals is described herein. The zero crossing may be detected by asymmetry induced in the stator currents by a current asymmetry inducing module of the motor. The current asymmetry inducing module may include a resistor and diode in series and in parallel with a discharge resistor of the field windings. Asymmetry is induced in the current obtained from the stator, and used to determine a zero crossing of the field voltage. Upon the rotor reaching a startup frequency and the detected zero-crossing of the field voltage, the motor may be reconfigured from induction mode to synchronous mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Marcos A. Donolo, Anushka M. Dissanayake, Pallavi Kulkarni
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Patent number: 11731750Abstract: The present invention provides a fuel supply system, for an eco-friendly ship, which selectively uses an existing fuel and an ammonia fuel or uses a mixture thereof as a fuel for a propulsion engine and a power generation engine of a ship so as to follow ship greenhouse gas regulations to be reinforced in phases at major points until 2050.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyuk Kwon, Su Kyung An, Seung Woo Jeong, Min Cheol Ryu, Geum Jun Gang
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Patent number: 11731673Abstract: A wheel-mounted sensor ring is configured to be removably attachable to a hub portion of a railcar wheel of a railcar wheelset for use in determining anomalies associated with the railcar wheel, or a railcar bogie assembly that the railcar wheelset is part of, or a track, during motion of the railcar wheelset on a track. The sensor ring includes one or more sensors, such as inertial measurement units (IMU's), mounted thereto to measure parameters that are used for determining the anomalies during motion of the railcar wheel on the track.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: BALANCED ENGINEERING SOLUTION, LLCInventors: Stephen T. Buchanan, Eric L. Canfield
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Patent number: 11735433Abstract: A substrate structure, a package structure, and a method for manufacturing an electronic package structure provided. The substrate structure includes a dielectric layer, a trace layer, and at least one wettable flank. The dielectric layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The trace layer is embedded in the dielectric layer and exposed from the first surface of the dielectric layer. The at least one wettable flank is stacked with a portion of the trace layer embedded in the dielectric layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.Inventors: You-Lung Yen, Bernd Karl Appelt
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Patent number: 11732492Abstract: A method for reinforcing an existing stone masonry wall, wherein, the UHPC (ultra high performance concrete) material for reinforcing an existing stone masonry wall as a reinforcing material, comprising following steps: step (1): carrying out a pretreatment to the existing stone masonry wall to be reinforced; step (2): tensioning and thereby reinforcing the existing stone masonry wall pretreated in the step (1); step (3): injecting a prepared UHPC material into the mortar joint by a manual squeezing; step (4): spraying prepared UHPC material onto the existing stone masonry wall that has been treated in the step (3) by a spraying process; step (5): maintaining; the UHPC material includes: 550-600 kg/m3 of silicate cement, 180-200 kg/m3 of white silica fume, 510-530 kg/m3 of limestone powder, 715-735 kg/m3 of quartz sand, 60-75 kg/m3 of iron ore tailings particles, 50-60 kg/m3 of pumice particles, 15-30 kg/m3 of polycarboxylic acid water reducing agent, 230-255 kg/m3 of water and 25-35 kg/m3 of POM fiber.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: Fuzhou University, Fujian Huidong ConstructionEngineering Co., Ltd., The Eighth Engineering Bureau of China City Investment Group Co., LtdInventors: Yingxiong Wu, Wei Huang, Zhirong Zhang, Yumin Wang, Bingtian Wu, Xiaoling Duan
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Patent number: 11735978Abstract: A free piston generator based on a rigid synchronous transmission system is provided, which belongs to the technical field of power energy. The present disclosure solves the problems of low power generation efficiency and low stability of the existing free piston generator. The free piston generator based on the rigid synchronous transmission system includes a first linear generator set, a second linear generator set, a rigid synchronous transmission assembly, two high-pressure cylinders arranged at two ends of the first linear generator set, and two low-pressure cylinders arranged at two ends of the second linear generator set.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITYInventors: Long Liu, Qihao Mei, Hao Zhao, Zhichun Xu, Yuanheng Tang, Chen An, Xiao Han, Junjie Liu
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Patent number: 11735830Abstract: An antenna device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The antenna device includes a carrier and an antenna element. The carrier includes a plurality of pads and has a surface exposing the pads. The antenna element is disposed above the pads. A lateral surface of one of the pads is farther from a central axis of the antenna element substantially perpendicular to the surface than from a lateral surface of the antenna element.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.Inventors: Jenchun Chen, Chang-Fu Lu
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Publication number: 20230258167Abstract: An air filter apparatus is provided. The air filter apparatus includes a manifold having at least one compressible gas inlet and an outlet. The internal volume of the manifold increases from a distal end of the manifold to the outlet. A shroud is detachably mounted to the manifold so that a compressible gas can enter the shroud and pass through the at least one compressible gas inlet and through the outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Vortech Engineering, Inc.Inventor: James Middlebrook
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Publication number: 20230262341Abstract: A physical body inspection system includes a light source device, an image pickup device and a display. The light source device is configured to apply light in a predetermined wavelength band to a physical body, the physical body being an inspection object, the predetermined wavelength band being a wavelength band in wavelength bands constituting environment light at an inspection time-of-day, and the light in the predetermined wavelength band being low in intensity. The inspection time-of-day is a time of day when the physical body is inspected. The image pickup device is configured to pick up an image of the physical body. The display is configured to display the picked-up image of the physical body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA PRODUCTION ENGINEERINGInventor: Haruki KABASHIMA
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Publication number: 20230258487Abstract: Systems for examining a material comprising: an electromagnetic radiation source; a dielectric contrast analysis structure comprising: a bulk dielectric substance; a plurality of receptacles in the bulk dielectric substance for receiving the material; and an electromagnetic radiation detector, wherein the dielectric contrast analysis structure is between the electromagnetic radiation source and the electromagnetic radiation detector. Wherein the plurality of receptacles are substantially parallel with one another and are disposed in a dielectric contrast analysis structure that is disposed in a pipe. Wherein the dielectric contrast analysis structure comprises: a bulk dielectric substance having a first end, a second end, and the plurality of receptacles disposed within the bulk dielectric substance, wherein a flow path of the material through the receptacles is from the first end of the bulk dielectric substance to the second end of the bulk dielectric substance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: Lang FENG, Stefan S. NATU, John J. VALENZA, II