Patents Examined by Natalie Huls
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Patent number: 12214775Abstract: A vehicle having a road surface recognition apparatus, may perform obtaining, by a controller, sound data for a sound detected by a sound detector while driving; obtaining, by the controller, driving data for driving information detected by a driving information detector; recognizing, by the controller, a type of road surface based on the obtained sound data and the obtained driving data; and controlling, by the controller, a traction control system based on information related to the recognized type of the road surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University (IUCF-HYU)Inventors: Ik Jin Um, Jun Han Kang, Jungho Park, Man Dong Kim, Chung Choo Chung, Seung-Hi Lee, Dae Jung Kim, Jin Sung Kim
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Patent number: 12216000Abstract: The disclosure includes a scale comprising a housing, an arm hingedly coupled to the housing, and a display located on the housing. In some embodiments, the arm is configured to receive at least a portion of an item to be weighed, and the display is configured to show the weight of the item. The scale may be configured to couple to a wall of a building.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: WallaWeigh LLCInventors: Broc Vierzba, Trisha Vierzba
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Patent number: 12203801Abstract: A railway track (1) including at least two railway rails (2) and at least one measuring apparatus (3), disposed under at least one of the railway rails (2), for measuring vertical contact pressure, wherein the measuring apparatus (3) has at least one mat-shaped or planar carrying body (4) with a multiplicity of measuring sensors (5), disposed at a distance from one another, for measuring the vertical surface pressure at the respective positions of the respective measuring sensors (5).Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Getzner Werkstoffe Holding GmbHInventors: Michael Sehner, Harald Loy
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Patent number: 12196659Abstract: The disclosure provides example mass-sensing instruments and methods for use thereof. A mass-sensing instrument includes a mass sensor that includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The mass sensor has a natural oscillation frequency configured to correspond to a mass of a deposited material on the mass sensor. The mass-sensing instrument also includes a first driving circuit configured to control a first voltage of the first terminal and a second driving circuit configured to control a second voltage of the second terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Igor Paprotny, Mehdi Azadmehr
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Patent number: 12196599Abstract: A system for singulating objects includes a bin for receiving a collection of objects, a robotic manipulator for grasping objects from the bin, a scale for measuring a weight of the grasped objects, and a computer system for comparing measured weights to acceptable weight ranges to detect double picks. Methods include determining acceptable weight ranges by weighing a plurality of objects.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ocado Innovation LimitedInventors: James Sterling Bergstra, David Gabriel Hallock
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Patent number: 12181331Abstract: A transducer assembly for mounting in a roadway includes a hollow profile defining sides extending along a longitudinal axis, an insulating element arranged on the exterior of the sides of the hollow profile. The profile defines an interior facing away from the exterior of the sides and defining a cavity. A force sensor assembly is disposed within the cavity of the hollow profile. The insulating element is secured to the hollow profile by a positive fit connection and is configured to insulate the transducer assembly from a rolling force acting on the sides of the hollow profile. When the transducer assembly is installed in a roadway, the force sensor assembly is configured to detect a weight force exerted onto the hollow profile.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Kistler Holding AGInventor: Kim Pfluger
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Patent number: 12175509Abstract: A system, method, computer program product, and mobile receiving station for receiving and processing leaf tobacco at a location of a tobacco farmer, including processing the tobacco leaf at the location, including means for weighing and grading of the received tobacco leaf and, optionally, determining moisture content and transmitting information relating to the optionally determined moisture content, the weight, and the grade of the received tobacco leaf to a tobacco product manufacturing facility over a communications link.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Hal L. Teegarden, David Scott Ray, John Stewart Livesay, Isidro Gomez
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Patent number: 12174021Abstract: The own vehicle position estimation unit 17 of the in-vehicle device 1 acquires the point cloud data which is the measurement result of the landmark by the rider 2, and acquires the feature information associated with the landmark in the map DB10. Then, the own vehicle position estimation unit 17 calculates, on the basis of the difference between the size of the landmark specified based on the acquired point cloud data and the size of the landmark indicated by the feature information, calculates the reliability information indicative of the measurement accuracy of the landmark by the lidar 2.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Kato
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Patent number: 12169126Abstract: A method for measuring elevation of an accumulating resource with a visually distinguishable intersecting object includes providing an electronic device comprising a camera and at least one position sensor, performing at least one survey by obtaining sensor readings while the camera is aimed at an intersection, determining an altitude and pitch angle of the camera using the sensor readings; and computing the elevation of the accumulating resource using the geolocation and pitch angle of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Ibrahim Demir, Muhammed Yusuf Sermet
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Patent number: 12165360Abstract: Machine vision devices may be configured to automatically connect to a remote management server (e.g., a “cloud”-based management server), and may offload and/or communicate images and analyses to the remote management server via wired or wireless communications. The machine vision devices may further communicate with the management server, user computing devices, and/or human machine interface devices, e.g., to provide remote access to the machine vision device, provide real-time information from the machine vision device, receive configurations/updates, provide interactive graphical user interfaces, and/or the like.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Samsara Inc.Inventors: Anubhav Jain, David Liang, Amanda Wang, Arthur Pohsiang Huang, Carla Berteil Pons, Hilary Louie
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Patent number: 12163866Abstract: The invention relates to an adapter part (9) for connecting a medical hollow body (11) to a tension/compression measuring device (3), comprising a first connecting end (13), which is designed to connect the adapter part (9) to an interior (15) of a medical hollow body (11) in a fluid-tight manner, and comprising a second connecting end (17), which has a pressure chamber (19) and is designed to operatively connect the adapter part (9) to a tension/compression measuring device (3), so that a pressure in the pressure chamber (19) can be adjusted by means of the tension/compression measuring device (3), a hollow channel (21) passing through the adapter part (9) from the pressure chamber (19) to the first connecting end (13).Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Petra Hund
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Patent number: 12163849Abstract: A board analysis supporting method comprising the following to be executed by an information processing device: board analyzing processing of setting a surface on which a component is mounted on a predetermined board, and calculating strain generated in the board from which the component has been removed, based on three-dimensional structure data indicating the board from which the component has been removed, and data indicating a predetermined force; and strain calculating processing of calculating the calculated strain on the set surface as strain of the component mounted on the set surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Yokohari
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Patent number: 12163928Abstract: A detection device includes a frame body and a main pipe positioning assembly, a branch pipe positioning assembly, and a first driving assembly disposed on the frame body. One side of the frame body is provided with an opening. The branch pipe positioning assembly is disposed inside the opening. The first driving assembly adjusts the branch pipe positioning assembly, so that the branch pipe positioning assembly is adapted to positions of the two branch pipes. During detection, the branch pipes are located in the opening, the main pipe positioning assembly connects two ends of the main pipe, and the branch pipe positioning assembly connects the two branch pipes. Two limiting members are slidably disposed on the frame body to open and close the opening, and the limiting members abut against an outer wall of the main pipe, such that the main pipe is located inside or outside the opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2024Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Tianjin UniversityInventors: Lianyong Xu, Lei Tian, Lei Zhao, Chao Feng, Molin Su, Yongdian Han
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Patent number: 12140468Abstract: The invention relates to a method for dosing a target component (20), wherein a dosing system (10) doses the target component (20) to a target value (Z20), which corresponds to a desired nominal value (S20soll), wherein an additional dosing system (12) doses at least one additional component (21, 22, 23) to be follow-on dosed, to a target value (Z21) of the component (21, 22, 23) to be follow-on dosed which is lower than a desired nominal value (S21soll) of the component (21, 22, 23) to be follow-on dosed, wherein an actual value (G20ist) of the target component (20) and at least one actual value (G21ist) of the component (21, 22, 23) to be follow-on dosed are then determined, a content (A) of the target component (20) then being calculated according to the actual value (G20ist) of the target component (20) and/or the actual value (G21ist) of the component (21, 22, 23) to be follow-on dosed and the content (A) being compared to a limit value (T) or tolerance band (T), at least the component (21, 22, 23) to beType: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Hüttlin GmbHInventors: Syed Muhammad Mushahid Azher, Christian Gebauer, Christian Karl Paasche, Marc Michaelis, Isabelle Hemming
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Patent number: 12136800Abstract: A gas leakage detection system 1 with high detection accuracy for a remaining gas amount and a gas leakage amount of an insulation gas 28 in a container 27 forming a electrical apparatus 2 is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Kei Takano, Tooru Washiyama
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Patent number: 12135232Abstract: A remaining mobile phase scale includes a weighing scale (2) including a plurality of individual stages (10A, 10B) on which mobile phase bottles containing a mobile phase are placed and a plurality of individual weight sensors (12A, 12B) that respectively measure weight of mobile phase bottles respectively placed on the plurality of individual stages (10A, 10B), a detachment-attachment holder (4) detachably and attachably placed on the plurality of individual stages (10A, 10B) such that the plurality of individual stages (10A, 10B) are integrated as one common stage, and a mobile phase monitor (6) that monitors a remaining amount of a mobile phase in mobile phase bottles, and the mobile phase monitor (6) is provided with a mode switcher (28) configured to selectively switch a mobile phase monitor mode to one of a normal mode and a large capacity mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiki Sano
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Patent number: 12130168Abstract: A method for generating a calibration function of a WIM sensor that is arranged in a roadway and measures a wheel force exerted on the surface of the roadway includes recording the roadway's road profile. A wheel force is determined by a simulation. The simulation is used to determine the dependency of the wheel force on the road profile for at least one position of the road profile that has been recorded in the first step. The dependency is used to minimize the influence of the road profile on the measured wheel force of the WIM sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Kistler Holding AGInventor: Biruk Hailesilassie
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Patent number: 12130169Abstract: Systems for estimating an axle load of a vehicle wherein axle load is estimated in response to an angle between two components of an axle. The angle may change as weight is added to or removed from the axle such that axle load may be determined as a function of the angle.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLCInventors: Mark A. Davis, Anthony N. Passero, Stoyan I. Stoychev
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Patent number: 12130259Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a non-baseline on-line stress monitoring system and monitoring method based on multi-mode Lamb wave data fusion. A Lamb wave dispersion curve is established according to geometric dimensions and material parameters of a measured object, a cut-off frequency of a first-order Lamb wave mode is obtained, an excitation frequency of a Lamb wave signal is determined, and then pure Lamb waves in S0 and A0 modes obtained inside the measured object are obtained; an acoustoelastic equation is established, an elastodynamic equation of the measured object under a prestress condition is solved, and linear relationships between a group velocity and a stress of the Lamb waves in the S0 and A0 modes under the excitation frequency are obtained; data is processed through the on-line monitoring system; a stress gradient in a depth direction is calculated, and finally, a stress state of the measured object is represented.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Harbin Institute of TechnologyInventors: Jiaxin Li, Jiubin Tan, Bo Zhao, Weijia Shi
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Patent number: 12114970Abstract: A method and apparatus for simulating, measuring and recording a subject's ability to perform a varying range of barrier reaches is provided. The apparatus includes a variable barrier reach instrument for simulating an actual barrier that the subject may lean against in performing a work task The variable barrier reach instrument may include a physical barrier having a substantially horizontal upper surface at a height above a base point. A sensing and recording device may be positioned proximate to the variable barrier reach instrument for sensing and recording a plurality of barrier reach data points as the subject bends forward against the physical barrier. A computer and an associated software program are also provided into which the recorded data points are entered. An algorithm may be contained within the software program that generates an interpolated arc reflecting the subject's reach at the physical barrier height from the recorded data points.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: ProgressiveHealthCompanies, LLCInventors: Keith Bersch, Patrick Staples, Ricky Lockard, Donald Osgood, Phillip Chumbley