Patents Examined by R. Raevis
  • Patent number: 12265006
    Abstract: Fluid property sensors described herein may include a resonator configured to be immersed in a fluid or flowable medium and a vibrator coupled to the resonator, such that vibrations of the vibrator are transmitted to the resonator, e.g., to discourage and/or remove any buildup or deposits on the resonator and/or increase accuracy of the sensors. The frequency of the vibrator is configured to be substantially lower than the frequency of the resonator, such that operation of the resonator is not negatively affected. The vibrator may be located internal to, or external to, a chassis of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Rheonics GmbH
    Inventors: Joe Goodbread, Daniel Brunner, Sunil Kumar
  • Patent number: 12264987
    Abstract: The present invention enables the measuring and evaluating of variations in vehicle fuel consumption and emission test results due to differences in driving style. An automatic operation device that automatically operates a test part based on a command vehicle speed includes a receiving unit, a command vehicle speed shaping unit, and an operation control unit. The receiving unit receives a driving mode set or changed by a user. The command vehicle speed shaping unit shapes a command vehicle speed r(t) based on the driving mode received by the receiving unit. The operation control unit controls an operation of the test part by a shaped command vehicle speed r?(t) obtained by the command vehicle speed shaping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Saito, Kazuki Furukawa
  • Patent number: 12264063
    Abstract: A stress-sensitive device includes a substrate having a first surface with a cavity defined therein and a three-dimensional deformable material extending along the first surface and into the cavity. The three-dimensional deformable material has an electrical characteristic responsive to deformation. A method of forming a three-dimensional stress-sensitive device includes providing a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, forming a cavity in the substrate, wherein the cavity is open to the first surface, depositing a sacrificial layer in the cavity, depositing a deformable material on the sacrificial layer, and removing at least a portion of the sacrificial layer to form an interstitial space between the deformable material and the substrate in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace Inc.
    Inventor: John C. Christenson
  • Patent number: 12259400
    Abstract: An information processing device includes at least one processor, in which the at least one processor acquires first information related to a first movement state of at least one of an arm and a leg of a user performing a movement, the first movement state on which a movement state of a torso of the user is superimposed, acquires second information related to a second movement state of the torso of the user performing the movement, and generates third information related to a third movement state of the at least one of the arm and the leg of the user based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masao Sambongi
  • Patent number: 12251083
    Abstract: A method for collecting and analyzing urine at the time it is released uses a urine collecting tube joined with a canister. Suction is produced in the collecting tube to join the tube with a penis or to the exterior surface of a female urethra orifice. Once suction is achieved the collecting tube stays in place by suction action. When urine flows into the urine collecting tube a sensor triggers a vacuum pump to produce a higher level of suction to flush the urine into the canister where a level sensor determines the quantity of urine received. Various sensors in the canister determine levels of non-urine partials such as occult blood, drugs, salt, and other substances. When urine is no longer detected within the urine tube, the vacuum pump is turned off and a low-level vacuum remains to assure interconnection with the urine tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: UR24TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Landon Duval
  • Patent number: 12251817
    Abstract: Provided are a device, a system and a method for acquiring a force information based on a bionic structure, including: a force information acquisition layer and a magnetic field signal acquisition chip; wherein a permanent magnet is embedded in the force information acquisition layer; wherein the force information acquisition layer has an elastic structure configured to generate a deformation corresponding to a first force information of a force after being subjected to the force, so that the permanent magnet moves with the deformation to generate a magnetic field signal corresponding to the force information; wherein the magnetic field signal acquisition chip is arranged in parallel with the force information acquisition layer, and is configured to acquire the magnetic field signal and convert the magnetic field signal into an electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaohu Zhou, Zengguang Hou, Meijiang Gui, Xiaoliang Xie, Shiqi Liu, Zhenqiu Feng, Yanjie Zhou, Lingwu Meng, Hao Li
  • Patent number: 12253486
    Abstract: A gas-sensitive material, a preparation method therefore and an application thereof, and a gas sensor using the gas-sensitive material are provided. The gas-sensitive material is a carbon material-metal oxide composite nanomaterial formed by compounding a carbon material and metal oxides. The content of the carbon material is 0.5˜20 wt. % and the content of the metal oxides is 80˜99.5 wt. %; the metal oxides contain tungsten oxide and one or more selected from tin oxide, iron oxide, titanium oxide, copper oxide, molybdenum oxide, and zinc oxide; the metal oxides are formed on the carbon material in the form of nanowires, and the nanowires are tungsten oxide-doped nanowires. The gas-sensitive material has reduced resistance, is capable of responding to various gases at a reduced working temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAFETY ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei An, Bing Sun, Na Li, Lin Wang, Ning Shi, Wei Xu, Shucai Zhang, Haozhi Wang, Shiqiang Wang, Junjie Feng, Chenyang Zhao
  • Patent number: 12247908
    Abstract: A detection device and a detection method for distinguishing types of particles in an aqueous solution are provided. The detection device includes a detection chip, a signal source and a processing device. The detection chip includes a substrate, a coplanar waveguide transmission line and a super-hydrophobic film mask. When a to-be-detected aqueous solution that contains to-be-detected particles is provided on the detection chip, the super-hydrophobic film mask of the detection chip can confine the to-be-detected aqueous solution in a detection area. The processing device controls the signal source to provide detection microwave signals with different detection frequencies, simultaneously measures a first output signal and a second output signal at the different detection frequencies to generate a to-be-detected absorption spectrum, and compares the to-be-detected absorption spectrum with historical absorption spectra, so as to determine types of the to-be-detected particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chi-Kuang Sun, Peng-Jui Wang
  • Patent number: 12247901
    Abstract: A soil layer detection drilling device includes a drilling cylinder, and a soil-sampling assembly is provided inside the drilling cylinder. When the soil is drilled, equipment is in a vertical state, a controller is turned on to control a rotary motor to rotate, and the drilling cylinder is driven to drill the soil with the cooperation of drive wheels and a drive belt. Four slide blocks are evenly distributed around an outer circumference of a sliding disk and are matingly connected with slide grooves provided on an inner wall of the drilling cylinder, so when the drilling cylinder rotates, the soil-sampling assembly also rotates. A conical head first in contact with the ground starts to drill the ground, then the drilling cylinder gradually drills into a soil layer, and the drilling cylinder is idled as the drilling cylinder arrives at a certain depth, to clear soil on auger blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: POWERCHINA SEPCO1 ELECTRIC POWER CONSTRUCION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chuanguo Du, Jiyong Pang, Gaojun Qi, Di Tang, Tao Chen
  • Patent number: 12248945
    Abstract: A system and method that remotely quantifies mass emission rates of emission material emitted from moving vehicles as they operate in real-time. Release locations of these emission materials may or may not coincide, and plumes generated from the releases may be spatially overlapping or distinct. The method can quantify both distance-based mass emission rates (grams/mile) and time-based emission rates (gram/hour). Exemplary approaches can be used to measure vehicle emissions as they move whether the emissions are released from the tailpipe or elsewhere on the vehicle and without touching the vehicle. The approaches might also be used in other situations where material is emitted from a body in a flow field, such as an aircraft or marine vessel moving through air, a stationary source in a wind field, or brake or tire wear particulate material of a heavy-duty truck driving on the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: U.S. GOVERNMENT, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    Inventors: Carl R. Fulper, Timothy Hamacher Defries, Scott Clinton Douglas
  • Patent number: 12240433
    Abstract: A method for estimating a water height on a roadway where a tire of a vehicle is running, the mounted assembly being placed in a wheel arch of the vehicle, comprises the following steps: fixing a sensor onto the vehicle; obtaining a frequency signal from the sensor corresponding to the running of the vehicle at speed V on the roadway covered with a water height heau; isolating a part of the frequency signal, bounded by two strictly increasing frequencies, which is sensitive to the height heau; determining an energy vector linked to the part of the frequency signal; and obtaining the water height on the roadway using a function taking account of the energy vector and the speed V of the vehicle. The sensor is a microphone, and the part of the frequency signal extends at least partly beyond 4 kHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Remi Cote, Florian Bremond
  • Patent number: 12241903
    Abstract: Described is a testing system for performing specimen testing, such as residual seal force (RSF) testing and/or compression friction (CF) measurement testing. The testing system comprising a column supported by a base structure, a load cell supported by said column, a specimen plate configured to receive a plurality of specimens, a motor, and controller. The load cell is configured to move along the column toward and away from the base structure via a crosshead coupled to an actuator. The plurality of specimens comprising a first specimen and a second specimen. The controller is configured to control the motor to adjust a position of said specimen plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Riddick, Daniel Chouinard, Brian Salem, Christopher Hines
  • Patent number: 12237192
    Abstract: A mini-environment apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus may include an enclosure including a frame with two or more openings. The frame may define an internal cavity within the enclosure. The apparatus may include a flapper blade coupled to a portion of the frame. The flapper blade may be configured to close at least one opening of the two or more openings of the frame to form a sealed enclosure when the flapper blade is in a closed position. The apparatus may include a floating plate coupled to a portion of the frame. The floating plate may include one or more slots. The apparatus may include one or more shutters coupled a portion of the floating plate to cover the one or more slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: KLA Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Fridman, Tzachi Pressburger, Herman Vilenchik, Arthur Kalman
  • Patent number: 12235258
    Abstract: A method includes conveying a wellbore fluid into a container of a wellsite system, the container having a float angle hydrometer housed therein and the float angle hydrometer including a buoyant structure, and a measuring component housed within or attached to the buoyant structure. The method further includes determining one or more fluid properties of the wellbore fluid with the float angle hydrometer based on an inclination of the buoyant structure within the wellbore fluid, the one or more fluid properties including at least one of density, specific gravity, or fluid level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Newpark Drilling Fluids LLC
    Inventors: Kendra Hunsley, Jesse Hubbard, Blair Lillejord
  • Patent number: 12227347
    Abstract: A fully automatic inductive sample-collecting bucket capable of storing sample information includes a bucket, and a bucket cover snap-fitted to an upper end of the bucket. A bucket cover cavity is formed in the bucket cover. A locking mechanism, and a control mechanism for driving the locking mechanism to act are integrated in the bucket cover cavity. An integrated circuit (IC) card inductive control assembly is integrated in the bucket cover. The bucket is provided with a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip. The IC card inductive control assembly is configured to identify IC card unlocking information of an external grip for cover opening work and to drive the control mechanism to work to control an action of the locking mechanism. The sample-collecting bucket integrates an RFID card capable of carrying sample coding information, and can realize the automatic cover-sealing and cover-opening function under the identification and control of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: INFINITY INTELLIGENCE & INFORMATION (SUZHOU) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Jiang, Yunfei Luo, Xuan Huan
  • Patent number: 12228585
    Abstract: An automatic analyzer that sets thresholds of measurement items and remaining reagent amounts. A reagent is dispensed, and checked whether a dead volume is set. If the dead volume is not set, and if the amount of a reagent in a reagent bottle is equal to or larger than a dead volume default value, the process proceeds to the measurement of the next specimen, and if the amount is smaller than the default value, the use of the reagent bottle is ended, the reagent bottle is replaced, and the measurement is continued. If the dead volume is set, if the remaining amount of the reagent in the reagent bottle is equal to or larger than the setting amount, the process proceeds to the measurement of the next specimen, and if not, the use of the reagent bottle is ended, the reagent bottle is replaced, and the measurement is continued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomi Sagae, Emiko Ushiku, Kenichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12228479
    Abstract: A gas collection device is installed in a toilet including a toilet seat and a toilet bowl. The gas collection device includes a flow path connected to a predetermined tank, and an introduction portion that introduces a sample gas into the flow path. The introduction portion is located between the toilet seat and the toilet bowl, or located inside or above the toilet seat. The introduction portion does not protrude toward an inside of the toilet bowl from a rim portion of the toilet bowl when located between the toilet seat and the rim portion. The introduction portion does not protrude toward the inside of the toilet bowl from the toilet seat when located inside or above the toilet seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Abe, Daisuke Ueyama, Etsuro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12227360
    Abstract: A measuring system for monitoring atmospheric conditions in an automated storage and retrieval system including a framework structure. The framework structure forms a three-dimensional storage grid structure for storing storage containers for storing items. The grid structure forms vertical storage columns each having a horizontal area defined by the size of an access opening of the vertical storage columns. A rail system is arranged on the framework structure defining the circumference of each access opening on top of each storage column. The rail system provides available routes for container handling vehicles handling and transferring the storage containers to and from the storage columns. The at least one container handling vehicle has at least one rechargeable power source. A container handling platform has a first set of grippers for handling the storage containers. The measuring system includes at least one box-shaped measuring unit of the same size and features as a storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: AutoStore Technology AS
    Inventors: Ivar Fjeldheim, Trond Austrheim
  • Patent number: 12222336
    Abstract: A switching mechanism 110 can perform switching to a pressurized state in which gas is supplied from a pipe 203 to an insertion tube 101, or a derivation state in which gas in a head space 23 that is pressurized is derived from the insertion tube 101 to the pipe 207 via a collection unit 104. The switching mechanism 110 includes a discharge valve 103 that puts the insertion tube 101 and the pipe 207 into a non-communication state in the pressurized state and puts the insertion tube 101 and the pipe 207 into a communication state in the derivation state. A resistance pipe 206 supplies gas to a channel between the collection unit 104 and the discharge valve 103 in the derivation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Aono, Shota Hata, Naru Maruoka, Hideki Sato
  • Patent number: 12222234
    Abstract: An isolated industrial float assembly is sized to fit interior to an existing gauge pole to signal a fluid level to an observer while preventing or lowering emissions from volatilization of fluids from the gauge pole. The isolated industrial float assembly includes a positively buoyant core manufactured from hydrocarbon resistant foam sealed within a shell. End caps enclose the shell. A vertical member secures the end caps tautly in position by connection with fasteners. Assembly and disassembly of the float assembly is enabled to replace parts as needed. The buoyancy of the core is sufficient to cause the float assembly to maintain position at the fluid-atmosphere interface, even in embodiments where the shell is fabricated of stainless steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Inventor: Zach Cadwallader