Patents Examined by E. To
  • Additive-manufacturing methods
    Patent number: 11691218
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of forming products using one or more lasers. In at least one aspect, a method for powder bed additive manufacturing includes defining a uniform pitch raster path for a laser traveling at a predetermined rate of travel. The raster path alternates back and forth within a strip width of less than 0.5 mm such that the laser's power density level is at least 80 percent of maximum power and the predetermined rate of travel yields a travel speed in the scan width direction of not less than 1,000 mm/s. The method includes depositing a layer of powder onto a substrate and causing the laser to solidify a quantity of the powder according to the defined raster path and the laser power setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Paul Nathaniel Wilson, Fatmata Haja Barrie
  • Light-emitting ceramic and wavelength conversion device
    Patent number: 11691921
    Abstract: A light-emitting ceramic that includes a pyrochlore type compound that contains 0.01 mol % or more of Bi with respect to 100 mol % of the general formula M1XM2YM3ZOW, wherein M1 is at least one of La, Y, Gd, Yb, and Lu, M2 is at least one of Zr, Sn, and Hf, M3 is at least one of Ta, Nb, and Sb, X, Y, Z, and W are positive numbers that maintain electrical neutrality, X+Y+Z=2.0, 0.005?Z?0.2, and 3X+4Y+5Z is 7.02 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Kuretake
  • Baccarat gaming methods and systems
    Patent number: 11694521
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a wagering game associated with the game of Baccarat which includes generating game outcomes for one to N games in a single game session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: DK CROWN HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventor: Angel Espino
  • Cable tensioning systems
    Patent number: 11691844
    Abstract: A cable tensioning system including: a body defining a balance point; a cable receiving area having gripping elements configured to grip and bias a cable relative to the cable tensioning system; and a sensor configured to sense changes to a balance of the body about the balance point, wherein the cable tensioning system is configured to maintain the cable within a preset range of tensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: General Electric Company, Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited
    Inventors: Mark John Zajkowski, Huseyin Kandir, Todd William Danko, Don Mark Lipkin, Wayne Ray Grady, Andrew Crispin Graham, Trevor Owen Hawke
  • Predictive model for estimating battery states
    Patent number: 11691518
    Abstract: A battery management system (BMS) for a vehicle includes a module for estimating the state of a rechargeable battery, such as its state of charge, in real time. The module includes a learning model for predicting the state of a battery based on the vehicle's usage and related factors unique to the vehicle, in addition to a sensed voltage, current and temperature of a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: QuantumScape Battery, Inc.
    Inventor: Tim Holme
  • Liquid rocket engine tap-off power source
    Patent number: 11692515
    Abstract: A liquid rocket engine integrates tap-off openings at a combustion chamber wall to direct exhaust from the combustion chamber to a tap-off manifold that provides the exhaust to one or more auxiliary systems, such as a turbopump that pumps oxygen and/or fuel into the combustion chamber. The tap-off opening passes through a fuel channel formed in that combustion chamber exterior wall and receives fuel through a fuel opening that interfaces the fuel channel and tap-off opening. The tap-off manifold nests within a fuel manifold for thermal management. The fuel channel directs fuel into the combustion chamber through fuel port openings formed in the combustion chamber, the fuel port openings located closer to a headend of the combustion chamber than the tap-off openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: FIREFLY AEROSPACE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Markusic, Anatoli Alimpievich Borissov
  • Device and systems for a semi-automatic crossbow
    Patent number: 11692787
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a semi-automatic crossbow having a stock, a plurality of limbs, a drawstring, a bolt feeder, a barrel, a draw assembly, and a release. The draw assembly can be configured to automatically move the drawstring to a cocked position and the release can include a trigger and be configured to release the drawstring when the trigger is actuated. The disclosed technology can further include a truck configured to engage the drawstring and a bolt such that the bolt can be propelled forward by the truck when the drawstring is released by the release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Limin' Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Scott S. Blackstock
  • Desiccant bag spacer and cage
    Patent number: 11692751
    Abstract: A spacer for a body of a refrigerant tank—such as a modulator—in an automotive HVAC device is provided. In embodiments, the spacer is flexible to enable it to be inserted into the modulator, and expanded out against the walls of the modulator when released therein. The spacer inhibits a desiccant bag from contacting the inner wall of the modulator, namely the location where a hole (e.g., for an inlet or outlet) is provided. The spacer can be a cage that surrounds a lower portion of the desiccant bag. And end of the desiccant bag can wrap around a flange of the cage, and be attached to the flange by mechanical fastening (e.g., through a slot), or by welding, or other means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Denso International America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Basinski, Jonathan Radzicki
  • Unitary component for sectional seating apparatus
    Patent number: 11690458
    Abstract: A frame for a unitary component of a sectional seating apparatus having a corner portion having a foundation and an elongate lateral portion having a foundation, interconnected by a longitudinal foundation member extending along a back side of the foundations and a transverse foundation member commonly supporting a side edge of the corner portion and supporting a side edge of the lateral portion intermediate opposing ends of the unitary component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Max Home, LLC
    Inventors: Bruno Policicchio, Joshua Silver
  • Cleaning robot and cleaning system
    Patent number: 11690493
    Abstract: A cleaning robot including: a main body; a drive device; and a cleaning device equipped for wet-cleaning floors to be cleaned, wherein: the main body, on the side facing the floor to be cleaned, is assigned a receptacle unit, a first mop pad configured for wet-cleaning is fastened to the receptacle unit, and the cleaning robot is configured to autonomously exchange the first mop pad fastened to the receptacle unit for a second mop pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: CARL FREUDENBERG KG
    Inventors: Norbert Weis, Marc Heiland, Christian Stenglein
  • Flat steel product with an AI-coating, method for producing the same, steel component and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 11692234
    Abstract: A flat steel product for hot forming may be produced from a steel substrate that includes a steel comprising 0.1-3% by weight Mn and up to 0.01% by weight B, along with a protective coating that is applied to the steel substrate. The protective coating may be based on Al and may contain up to 20% by weight of other alloy elements. Also disclosed are methods for producing such flat steel products, steel components, and methods for producing steel components. Absorption of hydrogen is minimized during heating necessary for hot forming. This is achieved at least in part through an alloy constituent of 0.1-0.5% by weight of at least one alkaline earth or transition metal in the protective coating, wherein an oxide of the alkaline earth or transition metal is formed on an outer surface of the protective coating during hot forming of the flat steel product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Janko Banik, Ulrich Etzold, Norbert Rössler, Manuela Ruthenberg, Thiemo Wuttke
  • Ceramic composite and method of preparing the same
    Patent number: 11691922
    Abstract: A ceramic composite and a method of preparing the same are provided. The method of preparing the ceramic composite includes mixing an aluminum slag and a carbon accelerator to obtain a mixture and reacting the mixture at a temperature equal to or greater than 1600° C. in a nitrogen atmosphere to obtain a ceramic composite. The aluminum slag includes aluminum, oxygen, nitrogen, and magnesium. The weight ratio of the oxygen to the aluminum is 0.6 to 2. The weight ratio of the nitrogen to the aluminum is 0.1 to 1.2. The weight ratio of the magnesium to the aluminum is 0.04 to 0.2. The ceramic composite includes aluminum nitride accounting for at least 90 wt % of the ceramic composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ming-Hui Chang, Hsueh-Ping Weng, Sheng-Min Yu, Kai-Hsiang Chuang
  • Germicidal partition for doorways and portals
    Patent number: 11690931
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a germicidal partition. A germicidal partition system including at least one negative ion generator including at least one negative high-voltage source, at least one high-voltage conductor electrically connected to the at least one negative high-voltage source, and at least one anode electrically connected to the at least one high-voltage conductor, and at least one fan configured to draw air into the system, direct the air through the at least one negative ion generator, and output the air through at least one manifold, wherein the air outputted through the at least one manifold is configured to create a barrier between a first air mass and a second air mass, such that the outputted air reduces at least one of the transfer of contaminants or the concentration of viable contagions between the first air mass and the second air mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: AURA Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alex Blate, Greg Houlgate, Anna Bennett, Garrett Goss, Matthew Feurer
  • Transmitters and receivers
    Patent number: 11695479
    Abstract: An RF transmitter comprising an optical source configured to generate a pair of optical lines separated by an RF carrier frequency. The transmitter may comprise a graphene photodetector having at least two electrical contacts; a transmit antenna coupled to a first of the electrical contacts; and an electrical data signal input connected to a second of the electrical contacts. The graphene photodetector is illuminated by the optical source; it may comprise a graphene photo-thermal effect (PTE) photodetector or a bolometric photodetector. A corresponding receiver is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Per Le Telecomunicazioni, Cambridge Enterprise Limited
    Inventors: Andrea C. Ferrari, Marco Romagnoli, Michele Midrio, Alberto Montanaro, Vito Sorianello
  • Tag anchor and method of use
    Patent number: 11694581
    Abstract: A tag anchor comprises an elastic loop having opposed outer and inner surfaces and an elastic anchor that extends radially from the elastic loop. The anchor includes a shank that extends from one of the outer and inner surfaces and a pair of opposed arms that extend laterally from the shank toward the elastic loop and which are sized to not contact one of the surfaces when deflected toward the shank. The anchor further includes a crown that extends radially from the shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance Rubber Company
    Inventors: Michael C. Hughes, Joseph C. Jackson
  • Quilt roll clip
    Patent number: D991026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventor: Hanxi Li
  • Electric bicycle
    Patent number: D991100
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: HuaiAn PX Intelligent Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aipeng Wang
  • Tire chain
    Patent number: D991157
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventors: Guolin Pei, Junhui Lu
  • Hair tie device
    Patent number: D991557
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventor: Heather Harrison Walsh
  • Filter bucket for cleaning equipment
    Patent number: D991609
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventor: Chang-Hsin Wu