Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Patent number: 12157982
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a fish-passing system and a fish-passing method with tourist ornamental function, belonging to the technical field of water conservancy and hydropower ecological protection. The system comprises a dam, a Ferris wheel, a water supplement component, and a central controller (9). The upstream of the dam is equipped with a fish-release chute, and one end of the fish-release chute extends into the water body of the dam reservoir. The downstream of the dam is equipped with a fish passage transfer mechanism, and the fish passage transfer mechanism is connected to the downstream water body of the dam through a fish passage. The Ferris wheel is located between the fish passage transfer mechanism and the fish-release chute, and a number of human-ascending mechanisms (8) are evenly arranged on the Ferris wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: POWERCHINA GUIYANG ENGINEERING CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Jiafei Zhou, Tengfei Tang, Fan Chen, Zaixing Zhao, Xiao Zong, Yi Zhao, Lang Wei, Hao Xia, Hongxin Cai
  • Patent number: 12158950
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies related to generation of a summary of a function in binary code for review by an analyst. A first sequence to sequence model is configured to receive binary code (or a derivative thereof) and translate the binary code to an intermediate representation of the binary code, wherein the intermediate representation approximates source code for the binary code. A second sequence to sequence model is configured to receive the intermediate representation of the binary code and translate the intermediate representation to a human-readable summary of the binary code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Jina Lee, Christopher B. Harrison, Michael Bierma, Kina Kincher-Winoto, David Kavaler
  • Patent number: 12159385
    Abstract: A method for monitoring and safety evaluation of a dam body defect of a check dam is provided, including steps of: obtaining multi-source remote sensing data, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data, ground monitoring data and sensing images through a three-dimensional data network; identifying the sensing images through an R-CNN algorithm and a Fast R-CNN based on the UAV data and check dam body database to determine check dams having defects and types of defects, defect data and position data; performing classification statistics of the check dams having defects according to the types of defects; building a three-dimensional model of the dam body safety evaluation standards for check dams after classification according to the position data and the ground monitoring data; input the defect data in a check dam safety performance evaluation module to obtain simulation data; and completing the evaluation according to the simulation data and the three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, PowerChina Northwest Engineering Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Shu Yu, Naichang Zhang, Penghai Yin, Fan Yue, Jianwei Hao, Zhaohui Xia, Jianqin Wang, Yongxiang Cao, Zuyu Chen, Heng Zhou, Ziyu Lv, Xiaomei Kou
  • Patent number: 12159744
    Abstract: An inductor includes a magnetic core composed of a magnetic material having variable permeability characteristics based on at least one of design parameters or operational parameters of the inductor that includes one or more air gaps. A coil is wound through the one or more air gaps and is configured to be excited by an electric current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Masanori Ishigaki, Ercan Mehmet Dede, Danny J. Lohan
  • Patent number: 12160808
    Abstract: A system, method and storage medium for operating a stealth mode of an emergency vehicle includes receiving input data including at least one of an input from an operator or one or more program input parameters; determining a data operation mode based on the received input data, wherein the data operation mode is one of a normal mode and one or more stealth modes; and generating a control signal based on the determined operation mode. When the data operation mode is one of the one or more stealth modes, the control signal is adapted to control a first device to suspend a transmission of at least one data group among candidate suspended data to at least one second device in communication with the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: WHELEN ENGINEERING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: George W. Whelen
  • Patent number: 12157485
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for a monitoring system to monitor and detect a vehicle load. The monitoring system includes a first camera configured to capture first image data including a load in the vehicle, a memory configured to store image data, and an electronic control unit coupled to the first camera and the memory. The electronic control unit is configured to obtain, from the first camera, the first image data including the load, determine a movement of the load based on the first image data, and provide a notification when the movement of the load exceeds a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Thomas S. Hawley
  • Patent number: 12157860
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for increasing the yield of products generated during co-processing of biomass oil in a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) system. The systems and methods can allow for increased yield by reducing or minimizing formation of carbon oxides, gas phase products, and/or coke yields during the co-processing. This can be achieved by adding a hydrogen-rich co-feed to the co-processing environment. Examples of hydrogen-rich co-feeds include high hydrogen content vacuum gas oil co-feed, high hydrogen content distillate co-feed, and/or high hydrogen content naphtha co-feed. Additionally or alternately, various types of fractions that contain a sufficient amount of hydrogen donor compounds can be used to reduce or minimize carbon oxide formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Hyung Rae Kim, Jihad M. Dakka, Xiaochun Xu
  • Patent number: 12158738
    Abstract: A press machine includes a display that displays a plurality of images, and a processor that generates a plurality of images corresponding to a slide operation and a movement operation. The plurality of images include a first image having an annular shape, a second image having an arc shape, and a third image. A first region of the second image represents a movement time required for the movement operation, a third region represents a stop time required for a slide stop process, and a second region represents a delay time until the slide stop process starts after the movement time elapses. The processor displays the third image on the display as a determination element for determining whether the slide operation and the movement operation are settable in a relationship between the slide operation and the movement operation based on an input from the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: AIDA ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Harada, Shintaro Bando
  • Patent number: 12157550
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a controllable pitch propeller capable of changing a blade pitch according to the sailing conditions of a ship and, specifically, to a controllable pitch propeller having an optimal hub-to-tip diameter ratio, the propeller being capable of reducing the size of a hub so as to have a high efficiency that is close to the propulsion efficiency of a fixed pitch propeller (FPP). In order to accomplish the aforementioned objective, the present invention relates a controllable pitch propeller which comprises a hub mounted at the propelling shaft of a ship, and a blade that is mounted at the circumference of the hub and that has a variable pitch, and which is technically characterized by a H/D ratio, of diameter (H) of the propeller and diameter (D) of the hub, of 0.170-0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co., Ltd., Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Boo Kim, Chan Kyu Choi, Sung Hoon Kim, Kil Hwan Moon, Do Wan Kim, Gwan Hee Son
  • Patent number: 12157151
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for cleaning a channel, especially a transmission and/or cooling channel, in any type of device, machine, installation, and/or tool, particularly in any type of heat exchanger and/or a molding core, cavity and/or insert is proposed, wherein a channel is cleaned through dynamic, bi-directional pulsation of cleaning medium inside the to-be-cleaned channel, the method being realized by a cleaning apparatus equipped with a diaphragm pump module, plugged either only in the feed side of the transmission line or in the feed side and in the return side, which, after connecting the diaphragm pump module to the external energy source and shutting off the flow control system from the reservoir and the feed pump, allows for putting cleaning medium into a state of two-way dynamic pulsating motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: OTEK ENGINEERING JERZY DOMERACKI
    Inventor: Jerzy Domeracki
  • Patent number: 12160234
    Abstract: A method of operating a capacitive sensing device that includes exactly two electrically conductive antenna electrodes, which are placeable in two layers at a vehicle steering wheel rim, and a current measurement circuit for determining complex electric currents in the antenna electrodes. The method includes at least the following steps for constituting a measurement cycle: operating each one of the exactly two antenna electrodes in loading mode and determine the complex impedance of the respective antenna electrode; and generating a classification signal that is indicative of a present scenario, based on a fulfillment of at least one predetermined condition concerning at least one characteristic quantity of the first complex impedance as well as of the second complex impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: IEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS & ENGINEERING S.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Faber, Gianluca Favalli, Baptiste Anti, Valentin Catalin Mica, Miguel Ribeiro
  • Patent number: 12160363
    Abstract: This disclosure pertains to identifying and configuring an in-band controller operating on a host in a software defined network (SDN), the host configured to use a parallel redundancy protocol (PRP). In one embodiment, a system may include a network in communication with the host, the network comprising a plurality of switches interconnected with a plurality of physical links. The in-band controller is in communication with the network and includes a PRP identification subsystem to generate a packet configured such that the network forwards the packet back to the in-band controller, to analyze the packet and determine that the packet conforms to PRP, and to identify a first communication host in communication with the network and configured to operate using PRP. A traffic routing subsystem of the in-band controller may create a plurality of PRP communication flows between the in-band controller and the first communication host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Tristan Lloyd Mullis, Rhett Smith, Kylan T. Robinson
  • Patent number: 12158670
    Abstract: Various arrangements described herein relate to a dual-sided display with improved light scattering. In one embodiment, a display is disclosed. The display includes an inside transparent layer disposed parallel to and spaced apart from an outside transparent layer. The display also includes a liquid crystal (LC) layer disposed between the inside transparent layer and the outside transparent layer and together forming a waveguide that is planar. The display includes ground electrodes disposed between the LC layer and the outside transparent layer and arranged in strips along the transparent layer, the strips being spaced apart and parallel. The display includes inside electrodes and outside electrodes disposed between the inside transparent layer and the LC layer and defining a geometric pattern that is in plane with the waveguide and a light source disposed at an edge surface of the waveguide and providing light along the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Kent State University
    Inventors: Sean P. Rodrigues, Suman Halder, Deng-Ke Yang
  • Publication number: 20240392896
    Abstract: A plurality of elements of which each element is for use as part of a fire-resistant sealing system for sealing off a conduit by making with the elements a support structure in the conduit and optionally by providing against that support-structure a sealant. Each element is of an elastic material that comprises predominantly fire-resistant rubber. One or more of the elements, and preferably each of the elements, exhibits at room temperature a color that has a calming physiological effect on humans and/or a calming psychological effect on humans. Preferably the optional sealant also exhibits such a color. Even more preferably the optional sealant exhibits the same color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Beele Engineering B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Alfred Beele
  • Publication number: 20240391040
    Abstract: A coupling device includes a fluid pressure cylinder fixed to the first member. The fluid pressure cylinder includes a cylinder main body, a first piston and a second piston each reciprocally movable with respect to the cylinder main body along a first direction, and a biasing member that drives each of the first piston and the second piston to one side in the first direction. The cylinder main body has a first cylinder chamber that drives the first piston to the other side in the first direction, and a second cylinder chamber that is formed to be separated from the first cylinder chamber and that drives the second piston to the other side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: PASCAL ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240391467
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to indicating a vehicle virtual connection based on user confusion. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory storing machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to 1) monitor an environment surrounding a first vehicle that has a virtual connection to a second vehicle, 2) determine a confusion score for a user within the environment, the confusion score indicative of how confused the user is about the virtual connection, and 3) generate an indicium of the virtual connection based on the confusion score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Lisa Maitre
  • Publication number: 20240390714
    Abstract: A flame arrester capable of automatically eliminating defects of a fire arresting portion. The flame arrester includes a fire arresting section, wherein the fire arresting section is provided with a fire arresting section housing, the fire arresting section housing is hollow and fire arresting section openings are respectively formed at two ends of the fire arresting section housing, blocking portions are respectively arranged at the fire arresting section openings so as to define a fire arresting cavity between the two blocking portions, a plurality of openings are formed in the blocking portion, the fire arresting cavity is filled with fire arresting particles, the fire arresting section further includes a fire arresting particle replenishment structure, and the fire arresting particle replenishment structure is configured to automatically fill the fire arresting cavity with the fire arresting particles when a gap is generated in the fire arresting cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicants: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC Research Institute of Safety Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anfeng YU, Peng WANG, Lei BAO, Zhe YANG, Xiaodong LING, Jinling LIU, Yazhen WANG, Yuntao MU, Yihao WANG, Xue JIANG
  • Publication number: 20240395784
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a flexible carrier, an electronic component disposed over the flexible carrier, and a first flexible connection element configured to connect the flexible carrier and the electronic component. The first flexible connection element is configured to extend along a deformation direction of the electronic device. An interconnection structure is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Kuei-Hao TSENG, Kai Hung WANG, Chih Lung LIN
  • Publication number: 20240391380
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to indicating a vehicle virtual connection to users in an environment surrounding the virtually-connected vehicles. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to 1) detect that a first vehicle and a second vehicle are in a virtual connection mode and 2) based on the first vehicle and the second vehicle being in the virtual connection mode, control an exterior lighting element of the first vehicle to illuminate in a particular pattern and in coordination with the second vehicle to indicate a virtual connection between the first vehicle and the second vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Lisa Maitre
  • Patent number: D1053407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Liuyang East Coast Silk Road Engineering Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hui Yang, Kaihui Liu