Patents by Inventor Pedro Da Silva
Pedro Da Silva has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240132222Abstract: In an embodiment, a system may comprise at least two power supplies which may comprise a first power source, a first step-down converter, a first switching device, a first bus, a second power source, a second step-down converter, a second switching device, and a second bus, the first and second buses being electrically separate. An exemplary system may further comprise an alternate power supply comprising a third power source and an alternate step-down converter connected to at least the first and second buses via at least a third switching device, the alternate power supply acting as a backup power supply configured to be used after a failure of one or more of the at least two power supplies. In some embodiments, the first and second switching devices may be controlled by at least a first controller and the at least third switching device may be controlled by an alternate controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Archer Aviation Inc.Inventors: Pedro Roberto Paterson CARLEIAL, Marco Da Silva, Daniel Kenji Nishimaru, Denesh Jain
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Publication number: 20240118191Abstract: A method for stratifying a patient infected with a respiratory disease is disclosed. The method comprises providing (1510) a fluid sample (9) from the patient, producing (1520) a light signal from a laser (1), illuminating (1530) the fluid sample (9) with the light signal through a lens in a sensing probe (8), acquiring (1540) a spectrogram from the fluid sample (9), extracting (1550) a plurality of spectrogram features from the light signal, comparing (1560) the extracted plurality of spectrogram features with a model in a database to determine a degree of severity of the respiratory disease. A result is then output (1570) to indicate the degree of severity of the respiratory disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Cristiana Raquel DA SILVA CARPINTEIRO, Joana Isabel SANTOS PAIVA, Simão Pedro MARQUES PINTO DE FARIA, Vanessa Patrícia DIAS PINTO
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Publication number: 20240045382Abstract: A multi-chain measurement circuit is disclosed. The measurement circuit includes first and second chains of serially-connected buffer circuits coupled in parallel, each of which propagates an input signal. A set of storage circuits is configured to store logic values generated by the first and second sets of buffer circuits in response to the transitioning of a clock signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Bo Zhao, Joao Pedro da Silva Cerqueira, Pangjie Xu, Steven Lu
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Publication number: 20230400023Abstract: An orbiting scroll of a scroll compressor includes a platter wall having a first face including a spiral structure projecting therefrom, a second face having a coupling structure configured to couple the orbiting scroll to a drive mechanism of the scroll compressor, and a circumferential surface connecting the first face to the second face in an axial direction of the platter wall. The orbiting scroll includes a mass reduction feature provided as an inwardly indented channel formed in the circumferential surface. The channel is further configured to form a retaining feature for retaining a rim of a mask during a process of coating the spiral structure of the first face with a surface coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Steven Koester, Rance Stehouwer, Armando Nelson Pedro da Silva, Susana Isabel Nobre Salvador
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Patent number: 11804014Abstract: In some implementations, representations of applications are identified, positioned, and configured in a computer generated reality (CGR) environment based on context. The location at which the representation of the application is positioned may be based on the context of the CGR environment. The context may be determined based on non-image data that is separate from image data of the physical environment being captured for the CGR environment. As examples, the non-image data may relate to the user, a user preferences, a user attribute, a user gesture, motion, activity, or interaction, semantics related to user input or an external source of information, the current time, date, or time period, information from another device involved in the CGR, etc.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniele Casaburo, Anselm Grundhoefer, Eshan Verma, Omar Elafifi, Pedro Da Silva Quelhas
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Publication number: 20230318278Abstract: A Shielded electric cable assembly including a first shielded electric cable (1) having a first shield conductor (8) covering a wire (2, 5) and being covered by a first insulative jacket (9); a second shielded electric cable (10) having a second shield conductor (17) covering a wire (11, 14) and being covered by a second insulative jacket (18), the conductors (3, 6) of the first and second shielded electric cables (1, 10) are joined forming a junction (28, 29); an inner insulator (30) covering the junction (28, 29); a shield element (34) covering the inner insulator (30) in contact to the first and second shield conductors (8, 17); a housing (35) covering the shield element (34) and the first and second insulative jackets (9, 18); a first and a second sealing element (36, 37) between the housing (35) and the first and second insulative jackets (9, 18), respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: YAZAKI EUROPE LTD.Inventors: Bruno Miguel Vilar Martins GOMES, Jorge Manuel Machado Regufe, Sérgio Pedro da Silva Soares Fernandes
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Patent number: 11274748Abstract: A mechanical seal provides bi-directional sealing and comprising a body in hybrid material, being structured in a component of elastomeric material and a component of segmented or non-segmented composite material distributed in a lagged way along said body. The seal is resistant to extrusion failure at high differential pressures, which facilitates its installation in several equipment elements, such as underwater or ground.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignees: FMC TECHNOLOGIES DO BRASIL LTDA, NANOBUSINESS INFORMAÇO E INOVAÇÃO LTDAInventors: Alejandro Andueza, Sandro Eugenio Da Silva, Loïc René Le Bourlegat, Thiago Simões Castanheira Francis Chehuan, Ronaldo Pedro da Silva, Lorenzo do Canto Visentin, Ricardo Nascimento Pombo Do Amaral
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Publication number: 20210137126Abstract: The present invention concerns insecticidal peptides and their uses, in particular as plant protection agents. It also concerns transgenic organisms, in particular transgenic plants, expressing said peptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2019Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventor: PEDRO DA SILVA
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Patent number: 9994623Abstract: The invention relates to novel entomotoxic polypeptides of the family of albumins 1b in legumes. Said polypeptides can be especially used as insecticides.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYONInventors: Corinne Royer, Pedro Da Silva, Frédéric Gressent, Lamis Karaki, Yvan Rahbe
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Patent number: 9903893Abstract: A method and device for registering electrical consumption and generation in an energy management network has at least one energy management unit, and, in a power distribution system, a number of electrical consumers or consumer groups and a number of generators are interconnected with the aid of assigned components in the form of switching elements and energy meters, which are influenced or analyzed by the energy management unit, as a function of the purchase price and the feed-in remuneration.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Pedro Da Silva, Wolfgang Friede
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Publication number: 20170137510Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising one or more antibody single domains, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, directed against Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha, in particular, two light chain variable domains in dimeric form, where the dimer has high solubility. It also relates to methods of using anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha polypeptides in treating inflammatory disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis. Compositions and methods for enhancing therapeutic potential of anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha polypeptides are provided, including linking the polypeptide to an albumin-binding domain and/or de-immunizing the polypeptide, to provide therapeutic agents with good solubility, enhanced serum half-life, and/or reduced immunogenicity, while substantially maintaining the specific binding properties of the anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha polypeptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Frederico Nuno Castanheira Aires da Silva, Sofia Volker Côrte-Real, Rui Pedro da Silva Albuquerque e Freitas, Sara Ferreira Llorente Grancho Lourenço
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Patent number: 9588093Abstract: A device for determination of the H2 content of H2/natural gas mixtures comprises an input interface configured to read in a calorific value of a first H2/natural gas mixture from a delivery station of a gas grid, an input interface configured to introduce a second H2/natural gas mixture into the device; a proton-conducting layer fluidically connected to the input interface of the second H2/natural gas mixture and configured to permit determination of a current-voltage characteristic, a volumetric flow rate sensor configured to determine a volumetric flow rate of the second H2/natural gas mixture into the proton-conducting layer, and a control apparatus connected to the proton-conducting layer, the input interface of the second H2/natural gas mixture, and the volumetric flow sensor. The control apparatus is configured to determine whether there is a hydrogen depletion of the proton-conducting layer, and output the current calorific value of the second H2/natural gas mixture.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Dietmar Steiner, Pedro Da Silva
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Publication number: 20160297857Abstract: The invention relates to novel entomotoxic polypeptides of the family of albumins 1b in legumes. Said polypeptides can be especially used as insecticides.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2014Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicants: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de LyonInventors: Corinne Royer, Pedro Da Silva, Frederic Gressent, Lamis Karaki, Yvan Rahbe
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Patent number: 9399678Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising one or more antibody single domains, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, directed against Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha, in particular, two light chain variable domains in dimeric form, where the dimer has high solubility. It also relates to methods of using anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha polypeptides in treating inflammatory disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis. Compositions and methods for enhancing therapeutic potential of anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha polypeptides are provided, including linking the polypeptide to an albumin-binding domain and/or de-immunizing the polypeptide, to provide therapeutic agents with good solubility, enhanced serum half-life, and/or reduced immunogenicity, while substantially maintaining the specific binding properties of the anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha polypeptides.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Technophage, Investigacao E Desenvolvimento Em Biotecnologia, SAInventors: Frederico Nuno Castanheira Aires da Silva, Sofia Volker Cörte-Real, Rui Pedro da Silva Albuquerque e Freitas, Sara Ferreira Llorente Grancho Lourenço
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Patent number: 9399229Abstract: A distributor tray for a gas and a liquid circulating as a co-current, said tray comprising a plate perforated by orifices and supporting hollow chimneys extending perpendicularly to said plate, each orifice of the plate being surmounted by a chimney of identical cross section to said orifice, characterized in that the plate is equipped with a plurality of openings arranged on the periphery of each chimney inside a circumscribed circle, the center of which coincides with the center of the chimney, and the radius of which is less than or equal to ? of the shortest distance separating two adjacent chimneys, and in that a single deflector element is arranged beneath each chimney, the openings and the deflector element associated with each of the chimneys being so arranged as to impart a rotating movement to the gas/liquid mixture under each chimney.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICESInventors: Pedro Nascimento, Pedro Da Silva
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Publication number: 20150143873Abstract: A device for determination of the H2 content of H2/natural gas mixtures comprises an input interface configured to read in a calorific value of a first H2/natural gas mixture from a delivery station of a gas grid, an input interface configured to introduce a second H2/natural gas mixture into the device; a proton-conducting layer fluidically connected to the input interface of the second H2/natural gas mixture and configured to permit determination of a current-voltage characteristic, a volumetric flow rate sensor configured to determine a volumetric flow rate of the second H2/natural gas mixture into the proton-conducting layer, and a control apparatus connected to the proton-conducting layer, the input interface of the second H2/natural gas mixture, and the volumetric flow sensor. The control apparatus is configured to determine whether there is a hydrogen depletion of the proton-conducting layer, and output the current calorific value of the second H2/natural gas mixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: Dietmar Steiner, Pedro Da Silva
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Publication number: 20150037349Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising one or more antibody single domains, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, directed against Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha, in particular, two light chain variable domains in dimeric form, where the dimer has high solubility. It also relates to methods of using anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha polypeptides in treating inflammatory disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis. Compositions and methods for enhancing therapeutic potential of anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha polypeptides are provided, including linking the polypeptide to an albumin-binding domain and/or de-immunizing the polypeptide, to provide therapeutic agents with good solubility, enhanced serum half-life, and/or reduced immunogenicity, while substantially maintaining the specific binding properties of the anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha polypeptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2012Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Frederico Nuno Castanheira Aires da Silva, Sofia Volker Côrte-Real, Rui Pedro da Silva Albuquerque e Freitas, Sara Ferreira Llorente Grancho Lourenço
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Publication number: 20140284392Abstract: A distributor tray (1) for a gas and a liquid circulating as a co-current, said tray comprising a plate (10) perforated by orifices (12) and supporting hollow chimneys (20) extending perpendicularly to said plate (10), each orifice (12) of the plate being surmounted by a chimney (20) of identical cross section to said orifice (12), characterized in that the plate (10) is equipped with a plurality of openings (30) arranged on the periphery of each chimney (20) inside a circumscribed circle, the centre of which coincides with the centre of the chimney (20), and the radius of which is less than or equal to 1/3 of the shortest distance separating two adjacent chimneys (20), and in that a single deflector element (40, 100) is arranged beneath each chimney (20), the openings (30) and the deflector element (40,100) associated with each of the chimneys (20) being so arranged as to impart a rotating movement to the gas/liquid mixture under each chimney.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2012Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICESInventors: Pedro Nascimento, Pedro Da Silva
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Publication number: 20140208812Abstract: It describes the patent of the utility model belonging to the field of products that block or prevent access to a particular area or thing, consisting of a body (1) made of anti-flame plastic, comprising a cylindrical curved metal rod (2), internally locked by two plastic tabs (3) orthogonally fitted, so that said tabs (3) are moved by a zamac trigger (4), which has a predominantly cylindrical shape, consisting of channels in the base which engage in the cylinder (5) for opening and closing located just below. Said cylinder (5) is fixed to the main body by means of a screw (6) and nut (7). The lower cover (8) of the lock is made of anti-flame plastic. The shape of the plastic tabs (3) is predominantly trapezoidal and they have a verve (9) for engaging the guide axis (10) of the trigger (4), and they have, at one end, an is inclined and curved face (11) that facilitates sliding on the recesses (12) for locking the metal rod (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: PADO S/A INDUSTRIAL COMERCIAL E IMPORTADORAInventor: PEDRO DA SILVA FILHO
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Publication number: 20130085693Abstract: A method and device for registering electrical consumption and generation in an energy management network has at least one energy management unit, and, in a power distribution system, a number of electrical consumers or consumer groups and a number of generators are interconnected with the aid of assigned components in the form of switching elements and energy meters, which are influenced or analyzed by the energy management unit, as a function of the purchase price and the feed-in remuneration.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: April 4, 2013Inventors: Pedro Da Silva, Wolfgang Friede