Patents Issued in February 20, 2024
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Patent number: 11906919Abstract: A recording medium determination device includes a light emitter, a light detector, and a hardware processor. The light emitter emits inspection light to a recording medium. The light detector detects incident light including at least one of diffuse reflected light of the inspection light emitted to the recording medium and fluorescent light excited by the inspection light in the recording medium. The hardware processor makes a determination depending on a property of the recording medium based on a detection result of first incident light of the incident light in accordance with first inspection light of the inspection light and second incident light of the incident light in accordance with second inspection light of the inspection light obtained by the light detector. The second inspection light has an intensity whose peak wavelength is shorter than the peak wavelength of the first inspection light.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Shohei Dokiya, Daisuke Kobayashi, Masahiko Takahashi, Makoto Ooki, Takafumi Yuasa, Takaki Uemura
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Patent number: 11906920Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixer, first and second temperature sensors, and storage and control units. The fixer fixes an image formed on the sheet by pressing. The first temperature sensor is disposed away from the image forming unit and the fixer, and measures an ambient temperature. The second temperature sensor is disposed closer to the image forming unit than the first temperature sensor, and measures an ambient temperature. The storage unit stores one or more difference values between first and second temperatures measured by the first and second temperature sensors when a switching condition is satisfied. When a difference between the one or more difference values in the storage unit and a latest difference value is equal to or larger than a threshold, the control unit stores information indicating that a reference value for determining an abnormality is exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masafumi Yoshida, Takashi Ogiwara, Kazuyoshi Takeshita
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Patent number: 11906921Abstract: An image forming apparatus that is capable of properly grasping a load that is imposed on the image forming apparatus by performing high-chroma printing. The image forming apparatus includes a printer engine that causes a heating rotary body to support and convey a sheet with a toner image formed thereon and performs an image formation on the sheet. The printer engine is controlled to perform the image formation on sheets in a first mode in which a toner image based on a piece of image data is formed with a first amount of toner, or a second mode in which a toner image based on the piece of image data is formed with a second amount of toner larger than the first amount of toner. A count function for counting the number of times of the image formation performed in the second mode, rather than the first mode, is performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroshi Oya
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Patent number: 11906922Abstract: A sorting device includes a base portion and a tray portion. The tray portion is supported on the base portion to be reciprocatable between a first shift position, where the tray portion is located at one side in the sheet width direction, and a second shift position, where the tray portion is located at the other side in the sheet width direction. The tray portion has a cutout portion. The cutout portion is formed by cutting away, with a predetermined width, an end part of the tray portion in the sheet width direction inward across the tray portion. With the tray portion at the second shift position, the cutout portion is located below one side end edge of the sheet in the sheet width direction, of sheets stacked on the tray portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tomoyasu Yamada, Hirofumi Tsuji
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Patent number: 11906923Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an upper guide unit fixed to the image forming apparatus and configured to guide an upper surface of the sheet discharged by a roller pair, a stack unit provided at a position recessed from an upper exterior unit of the image forming apparatus, and an operation unit including a display unit. The discharged sheets are stacked on the stack unit. The upper guide unit extends more to a downstream side in the discharge direction than the roller pair. The operation unit and the upper guide unit each have a portion overlapping with each other. When viewed in an axial direction of the roller pair, the operation unit and the upper guide unit are arranged at positions through which a straight line orthogonal to a plane passing through axes of rollers of the roller pair and passing through a nip portion of the roller pair passes.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ko Katahira, Keita Nakajima
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Patent number: 11906924Abstract: A sensor is located upstream of a conveyance roller in a sheet conveyance direction. A switch switches driving and stopping of a photosensitive drum. A controller performs a first mode process as a warm-up process of driving the conveyance roller and a fuser. The first mode process includes: driving the photosensitive drum for a particular time; in response to detecting a sheet within the particular time by the sensor, controlling the switch to continue driving the photosensitive drum after the particular time elapses and to discharge the detected sheet to a sheet discharge tray; and in response to not detecting the sheet within the particular time by the sensor, controlling the switch to stop driving the photosensitive drum at a time point when the particular time elapses, and driving the conveyance roller and the fuser to complete the warm-up process in a state where the photosensitive drum is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiyuki Sano, Masaaki Furukawa
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Patent number: 11906925Abstract: Herein is described a liquid electrophotographic a printing apparatus comprising: a photoconductor; a liquid electrophotographic ink developer unit for applying liquid electrophotographic ink to the photoconductor; a cleaner roller contactable with the photoconductor, the cleaner roller comprising an open-celled foam material having thereon a coating comprising abrasive particles and a binder. Also described herein is a cleaner roller for cleaning a liquid electrophotographic printing apparatus' photoconductor and a method of operating a liquid electrophotographic printing apparatus using a cleaner roller described herein.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Bin Huang, Minedys Macias Guzman, Daniel C. Tanchangco
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Patent number: 11906926Abstract: A developer supply includes a developer accommodating body and a developer discharging body. A track is positioned at a side of the developer discharging body, with the track including a surface that extends from a first position to a second position. When the developer supply container is oriented with the track and the shutter positioned below a horizontal plane that includes the rotational axis and a discharge passageway through which developer is discharged to outside of the developer supply container is formed at the bottommost side of the developer supply container, the track is positioned between the horizontal plane and a shutter in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal plane, the second position is closer to the horizontal plane than the first position is to the horizontal plane, the surface faces upward, and the track extends such that a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis and passing through the track passes through the end of the discharge passageway.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Manabu Jimba, Ayatomo Okino, Katsuya Murakami, Toshiaki Nagashima, Fumio Tazawa
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Patent number: 11906927Abstract: [TASK] To further develop prior art technique. [SOLUTION] A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling. the coupling includes a main body and a movable member movable relative to the main body. The movable member includes an engaging portion which is capable of entering between a driving force application member and a braking force application member by the movement relative to the main body. The movable member receives a driving force for rotating the photosensitive drum, from the driving force application member and also receives a braking force applying a load against rotation of the photosensitive drum, from the braking force application member.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiki Fujino, Akinobu Hirayama, Teruhiko Sasaki, Tachio Kawai, Daisuke Abe, Masanari Morioka, Takeo Kawanami, Yu Fukasawa
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Patent number: 11906928Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: a toner particle containing a binder resin; and an external additive containing alumina particles having a volume average particle diameter of more than 5 nm and 80 nm or less and silica particles having a volume average particle diameter of 10 nm or more and 90 nm or less, and in the toner particle, a Net intensity NA of a total of an alkali metal element and an alkaline earth metal element, measured by fluorescence X-ray analysis, is 0.10 kcps or more and 1.30 kcps or less, and a ratio (Ws/Wa) of a content Ws of the silica particles to a content Wa of the alumina particles is more than 0.5 and less than 35.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventors: Shintaro Anno, Yoshimasa Fujihara, Atsushi Sugawara, Daisuke Noguchi, Satoshi Miura
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Patent number: 11906929Abstract: A detent escapement includes an escape wheel with teeth regularly spaced along a perimeter and a balance having an impulse pallet and receiving driving impulses via the teeth, the balance performing an alternation during which it receives a driving impulse and an alternation without a driving impulse, the detent escapement also including a hook pivotally mounted on the balance and held bearing by an elastic member against an abutment, the detent escapement including a pivotable detent which includes a first arm which collaborates with the escape wheel to block the latter before the start of the driving impulse, as well as a second arm to allow the escape wheel to disengage from its engagement with the first arm at the start of the driving impulse, and which limits the pivoting of this detent to only part of the oscillation of the balance, the detent being configured to again block the escape wheel after the latter has finished providing the driving impulse to the impulse pallet of the balance.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.Inventors: Alain Zaugg, Jérôme Macé, Benoît Légeret
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Patent number: 11906930Abstract: An elastic retaining member for fixing a timepiece component on a support element includes an opening into which the support element can be inserted, and rigid arms and elastic arms defined between connection areas of the member. The rigid arms and the elastic arms are configured to ensure elastic clamping of the support element in the opening, each of the rigid arms being provided with a single flat contact area and configured to cooperate with a corresponding convex contact portion of the support element.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Nivarox-FAR S.A.Inventors: Ivan Hernandez, Pierre Cusin
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Patent number: 11906931Abstract: Disclosed is a timepiece component including at least one housing intended to receive at least one precious or non-precious stone and including at least one first end, referred to as the setting end, and a rail. The rail is located on the periphery of the housing, and is arranged to allow the stone or stones to be inserted into the rail at the first end of the housing, such that the stone or stones can slide in the rail along the longitudinal axis of the housing, and to hold the stone or stones once inserted into the rail in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVEInventor: Eric Le Gall
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Patent number: 11906932Abstract: A dial for a timepiece, preferably a watch, the dial being provided with a relief portion which is made as an assembly of pieces on different levels, juxtaposed on a base, such that the relief portion is formed by the upper surfaces of the pieces. A method for manufacturing the dial with several separate pieces, the upper surfaces of the pieces being subjected to a polishing step and/or possibly an enamelling step. The pieces are then cut along a defined contour and then assembled edge-to-edge on a base, so as to create the relief portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Omega SAInventors: Frederic Jeanrenaud, Gregory Kissling
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Patent number: 11906933Abstract: A dial including a base member having a sheet shape containing reinforced fibers, and a decorative member provided on one surface of the base member containing a brittle material.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masao Amano
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Patent number: 11906934Abstract: An electronic watch includes a driver controlled to be in an ON state in which a drive current is supplied to a coil of a watch motor, and an OFF state in which the drive current is not supplied, a current detector that detects a current value flowing through the coil, a driver controller that controls the driver, a polarity switching controller that alternately switches a polarity of the drive current to a first polarity and a second polarity, a sampling controller that, at a sampling cycle, intermittently causes the current detector and the driver controller to operate, and a sampling cycle setting controller that detects a sampling cycle setting condition and changes the sampling cycle in at least two stages of a first cycle and a second cycle longer than the first cycle.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 11906935Abstract: A removable case back of an electronic or electromechanical watch case, the case back allows the wireless charging or recharging of a power source. The case back includes a first multi-function sub-assembly having a buzzer, an inductive coil on or integrated in a printed circuit board, the inductive coil being covered by a magnetic shield on an inner side of the watch case, and a second multi-function sub-assembly on the first multi-function sub-assembly having an enclosure structure for accommodating the power source, such as a battery or an accumulator.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere SuisseInventors: Marc Schenk, Laurent Mouche
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Patent number: 11906936Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a secondary battery, a first power feeder, a second power feeder, and a processor. The first power feeder feeds power to the secondary battery. The second power feeder feeds power to the secondary battery at a current larger than a current fed by the first power feeder. The processor selects an operation mode of the electronic apparatus based on different reference values selected based on whether the first power feeder is feeding power to the secondary battery or the second power feeder is feeding power to the secondary battery.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumiaki Ochiai, Yoshinori Asami, Yohei Kawaguchi, Katsuhiko Obata
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Patent number: 11906937Abstract: An electronic watch includes a housing defining a side surface of the electronic watch, a transparent cover coupled to the housing and defining a front surface of the electronic watch, an image-sensing element, and a crown extending from the side of the housing and defining an imaging surface. The crown may include a light-directing feature configured to direct, onto the image-sensing element, an image of an object in contact with the imaging surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Michael J. Beyhs
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Patent number: 11906938Abstract: A method for permutation of a time display mode of an electronic watch with an analogue display, including, after manipulation of a control member of the watch, a permutation of the position of main time indicating means of the watch, such that the device changes from indicating a first time to indicating a second time, the position of secondary time indicating device of the watch, such that the device changes from indicating the second time to indicating the first time, the position of an analogue time display mode indicator of the watch, such that the indicator changes from a first position characteristic of the first mode to a second position characteristic of the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere SuisseInventor: Francois Klopfenstein
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Patent number: 11906939Abstract: A lubricating oil volume adjustment system and a lubricating oil volume adjustment method are provided. The system includes a storage device and a processor and is connected to a machine including a motor through a data acquisition device acquiring current information of the motor. The storage device stores a machine learning model trained by a training data set including a plurality of pieces of the current information of the motor during operation and a plurality of temperature values measured during operation of the machine. The processor is configured to acquire the current information of present operation of the motor by using the data acquisition device, predict a temperature value of the machine when the motor operates under the current information by using the machine learning model, and calculate and adjust a lubricating oil volume suitable to be used by the machine during operation according to the predicted temperature value.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Yi-Ming Chen, Tian-You Hou, Shu-Chung Liao
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Patent number: 11906940Abstract: The present invention discloses a feedback control system. The feedback control system comprises a plant, configured to produce an output according to a control signal; a first summing block, configured to produce a first difference between an input signal and a measured output signal; a first controller, configured to generate the control signal, such that the first difference decreases to be less than a first threshold or is less than the first threshold; wherein the first controller comprises a memory configured to store a table, and the table contains information of a plurality of transfer functions corresponding to a plurality of operating conditions; wherein the first controller determines an operating condition under which the plant operates, and chooses to utilize a transfer function corresponding to the operating condition to generate the control signal according to the transfer function and the first difference.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventors: Jemm Yue Liang, Chieh-Yao Chang, Hsi-Sheng Chen
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Patent number: 11906941Abstract: Present invention relates to intelligent three-way switch system having intelligent three-way master switch, intelligent three-way slave switch, and load. In certain embodiments, intelligent three-way master switch includes a DC power supply, a live wire relay, and a switch control unit, and intelligent three-way slave switch includes a switch control unit. The DC power supply provides low voltage DC power to live wire relay and switch control units. When at least one of switch control unit of the intelligent three-way master switch and switch control unit of the intelligent three-way slave switch receives switch control instructions, the switch control unit generates a negative pulse at the switch control unit first terminal, and the negative pulse is transmitted to the live wire relay. The live wire relay detects the negative pulse generated at the switch control unit first terminal and turns “ON” or “OFF” the electrical power to the load.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Mitchell M. Jiang
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Patent number: 11906942Abstract: A power grid control device of the present invention may comprise: a grid input interface for receiving an input of information on an operation state of a power grid; a grid output interface for outputting a signal for operating the power grid; a communication interface for performing data communication with a remote device; a component unit in which a plurality of software components for performing individual functions required for operating the power grid are stored; and a processing module for executing the components to process a work required for the operation of the power grid.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HYOSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Bo Gun Jin, Dae Geun Jin, Jae Sun Huh
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Patent number: 11906943Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for automatic translation of ladder logic to a SMT-based model checker in a network comprising defining (10) the topology of the network as an enriched network topology based on packets exchanged in the network, extracting (20) a program from the packets relating to a PLC in the network and identifying inputs, outputs, variables and a ladder diagram of the PLC, translating (30) the inputs, outputs, variables and ladder diagram into a predefined formal model, wherein the predefined formal model is a circuit-like SMT-based model checker, and wherein the translating (30) comprises translating the set of data types of the program according to a predefined model set of data types of the circuit-like SMT-based model checker, translating the inputs of the PLC as model inputs of the circuit-like SMT-based model checker of the same type, translating the outputs of the PLC as model output latches of the circuit-like SMT-based model checker of the same type, translating the variType: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Nozomi Networks SaglInventors: Roberto Bruttomesso, Alessandro Di Pinto, Moreno Carullo, Andrea Carcano
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Patent number: 11906944Abstract: Methods and systems include ways to implement change analysis of an automated production line including at least one robot. Monitoring a plurality of operating parameters associated with the automated production line including the at least one robot is followed by recording at least one change to the plurality of operating parameters. A notification is then provided identifying the at least one change to the plurality of operating parameters. The notification can include mapping the at least one change onto a graphical representation of the automated production line, thereby identifying a portion of the automated production line affected by the at least one change. As a result, at least one of the operating parameters can be adjusted in response to the notification. An action can also be performed in response to the notification. In this manner, the change analysis can optimize operation of the automated production line.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: FANUC AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Ashok Prajapati, Kenneth W. Krause, Michael B. Longo, Rick E. Wunderlich, Judy Evans, Glenn Nowak
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Patent number: 11906945Abstract: A method and device for generating control data for an additive manufacturing device are described, wherein build-up material is built up and selectively solidified. Irradiating the build-up material on a build field with at least one energy beam occurs An impingement surface of the energy beam is moved on the build field in order to melt the build-up material in a target area in and around the impingement surface. For generating the control data, optimization criteria and/or secondary and/or boundary conditions relating to a local target temperature distribution in the target area of the build-up material are defined so that melting of the build-up material is effected as heat conduction welding. Based on this, an optimized intensity profile of the energy beam is determined, which is substantially non-rotationally symmetric at the impingement surface on the build field.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: EOS GmbH Electro Optical SystemsInventors: Thomas Mattes, Peter Holfelder, Anoush Aghajani-Talesh
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Patent number: 11906946Abstract: This document describes a system and method for selectively switching the fast-wet-etching direction of crystalline silicon, c-Si, nanostructures between the (100) and the (110) crystallographic planes of c-Si by a simple method of sample agitation. This method effectively allows the invention to achieve anisotropic and isotropic wet-etching of c-Si.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCHInventors: Utkur Mirsaidov, Michel Bosman, Tanmay Ghosh, Zainul Aabdin, Frank Holsteyns, Antoine Pacco
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Patent number: 11906947Abstract: Techniques to facilitate synchronization of industrial assets in an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, a computing system receives time-series industrial process data associated with a plurality of process subsystems of an industrial automation process. The time-series industrial process data is fed into a machine learning model associated with the industrial automation process to dynamically generate a process duration prediction for a first one of the process subsystems and responsively determine an updated set point for a second one of the process subsystems based on the process duration prediction for the first one of the process subsystems. The updated set point for the second one of the process subsystems is provided to an industrial controller associated with the second one of the process subsystems.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Nicole R. Bulanda, Fabio M. Mielli, Andrew J. Schaeffler, Peter A. Morell, David C. Mazur, Barry N. Elliott, Scotty Bromfield
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Patent number: 11906948Abstract: The present disclosure provides an Industrial Internet of Things for implementing a production task plan, including at least one user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and one or more object platforms that are interacted sequentially from top to bottom; the service platform is arranged in an independent layout, the management platform is arranged in a front sub platform layout, and the sensor network platform is arranged in a rear sub platform layout; the one or more object platforms are configured as one or more intelligent manufacturing devices or one or more manufacturing management devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zehua Shao, Haitang Xiang, Lei Zhang, Yuefei Wu, Yong Li
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Patent number: 11906949Abstract: The present disclosure provides an Industrial Internet of Things, a control method and storage medium for sheet workpiece processing. The Industrial Internet of Things includes a detecting module and a processing module; the detecting module is configured to detect a machining process of a sheet workpiece to obtain detection information; and the processing module is configured to adjust a production device based on the detection information. By detecting and adjusting a sheet workpiece, on the one hand, the present disclosure can effectively improve the subsequent processing accuracy of the sheet workpiece, on the other hand, the present disclosure can simplify an adjustment process and improve the adjustment efficiency of a bearing mechanism of a target sheet workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zehua Shao, Yong Li, Junyan Zhou
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Patent number: 11906950Abstract: A system for managing industrial enterprise (IE) data models may include a storage device storing instructions and IE data models. Each of the IE data models may include references to artifacts and a directed graph having nodes and edges. Each of the nodes may represent a respective one of the artifacts. Each of the edges may indicate a relationship between a respective pair of the artifacts. The system may also include a processing device operable to execute the instructions to perform operations including managing dataflow through a particular one of the data models, wherein the edges of the directed graph of the particular data model define a direction of propagation of data through the artifacts of the particular data model, and providing version control functionality for the plurality of data models and for the artifacts referenced by any of the plurality of data models.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Element Analytics, Inc.Inventors: Sean McCormick, James Bane, Nicholas Childers, Brian Thompson
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Patent number: 11906951Abstract: A method may include obtaining acquired process data regarding a plant process that is performed by a plant system. The method may further include obtaining from a process model, simulated process data regarding the plant process. The method may further include determining drift data for the process model based on a difference between the acquired process data and the simulated process data. The drift data may correspond to an amount of model drift associated with the process model. The method may further include determining whether the drift data satisfies a predetermined criterion. The method further includes determining, in response to determining that the drift data fails to satisfy the predetermined criterion, a model update for the process model.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Mohammed K Alanazi, Talal A. Altook, Gabriel Winter, Abdulaziz M Alnutaifi
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Patent number: 11906952Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a mining machine with respect to a geofence. One system includes an electronic processor configured to determine a first virtual operation zone positioned around the mobile industrial machine, where the first virtual operation zone is a dynamic area around the mobile industrial machine. The electronic processor is also configured to modify a parameter of the first virtual operation zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: JOY GLOBAL SURFACE MINING INCInventor: Keshad Darayas Malegam
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Patent number: 11906953Abstract: A method for operating a technical system in an environment is disclosed, wherein the technical system can be moved, as a whole or in parts, in the environment by a motor. A person controls movements of the technical system in the environment at least temporarily. The technical system has a steering assistance system which a) observes the environment using sensors and, depending on the observed environment, determines reference movement courses for the technical system for future time intervals, b) registers movement courses of the technical system actually controlled by the person in the time intervals, c) carries out a comparison between the reference movement courses and the movement courses actually controlled, and d) depending on the comparison result, assigns one of a plurality of steering quality levels to the person. This allows greater safety in the operation of technical systems which are controlled by people in the environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: obsurver UG(haftungsbeschränkt)Inventors: Sven Fleck, Benjamin May
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Patent number: 11906954Abstract: A method for providing automated assistance with repairing a motor-driven tool, includes the steps of: ascertaining at least one boundary operating condition of the tool, wherein the tool has previously not functioned properly under this boundary operating condition; determining a set of possible fault symptoms, possible causes of faults of the tool, possible repair action instructions, and/or possible replacement parts for the tool, on the basis of the ascertained boundary operating condition; and outputting the determined set of possible fault symptoms, possible causes of faults, possible repair action instructions, and/or possible replacement parts.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Robert Boeker, Martin Bobert
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Patent number: 11906955Abstract: A system for diagnosing an additive manufacturing device is provided. The system includes a first module configured to: obtain one or more parameters for a digital twin of a component of the additive manufacturing device based on raw data from the component of the additive manufacturing device; and generate physics features for the digital twin of the component of the additive manufacturing device based on the one or more parameters and one or more transfer functions, a second module configured to obtain one or more classifiers for classifying the component as a first condition or a second condition based on physics features; and a third module configured to: determine a health of the component based on the generated physics features of the first model and the one or more classifiers.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: V S S Srivatsa Ponnada, Venkata Dharma Surya Narayana Sastry Rachakonda, Megha Navalgund, Pär Christoffer Arumskog, Mattias Fager
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Patent number: 11906956Abstract: A monitoring device for detecting a diagnostic state of an industrial machine on the basis of vibrations associated with the industrial machine, includes at least one measurement transducer for detecting at least one first signal characterizing the vibration of the industrial machine in a time period and for detecting at least one second signal characterizing the vibration of the industrial machine in the same time period, wherein the at least one measurement transducer has at least one signal processor for evaluating the at least first signal as a first characteristic value and for evaluating the at least second signal as a second characteristic value and wherein the at least one first characteristic value and the at least one second characteristic value form a characteristic value tuple, further having a storage unit, in which different diagnostic states describing the state of the industrial machine are saved, wherein the diagnostic states are determined as a function of the characteristic value tuple, andType: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Prüftechnik Dieter Busch GmbHInventors: Dietrich Brunn, Jan Germer
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Patent number: 11906957Abstract: A method for assessing short-term voltage stability of a power grid based on synchronous spatio-temporal information learning includes: performing a time-domain simulation for each transient fault of a power grid under each operating mode, and extracting temporal response trajectories of each monitoring bus and stability status information of the power grid to obtain a transient sample set; constructing a spatial adjacency matrix and a temporal adjacency matrix separately, and integrating the spatial adjacency matrix and the temporal adjacency matrix into a spatio-temporal adjacency matrix; performing synchronous spatio-temporal information learning by using a graph convolutional neural network algorithm, and performing training to obtain a short-term voltage stability assessment model driven by spatio-temporal information synchronization; and inputting a transient temporal responsive trajectory obtained into the short-term voltage stability assessment model, to obtain an assessment result of short-term voltaType: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HUNAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Lipeng Zhu, Zhikang Shuai, Jiayong Li, Bin Zhou, Cong Zhang, Yuhan Hu, Weizhi Huang, Limengqian Zheng
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Patent number: 11906958Abstract: State-of-the-art approaches have concentrated on building solution(s) to match the amplitude of a time series with a user given one. However, these have failed to implement solution(s) which enables searching for pattern(s) that can depict human vision psychology. Embodiments of the present disclosure determine occurrence of pattern of interest in time series data for anomaly detection, wherein time series data is obtained, and first order derivative is computed. Further an angle of change in direction is derived based on a gradient of change in value of the time series data. This angle is further converted to a measurement unit. The time series data is quantized into bins and a weighted finite state transducers diagram (WFSTD) is obtained based on domain knowledge which is then converted to specific pattern. The specific pattern is searched in the bins to determine occurrence/count of the specific pattern for anomaly detection.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services LimitedInventors: Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Abhisek Das, Suvra Dutta, Shubhrangshu Ghosh, Prateep Misra
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Patent number: 11906959Abstract: Systems and methods of for tire maintenance using machine learning are provided. The system receives one or more values comprising sensor data and a unique identifier associated with the tire. The system can retrieve historical inspection data associated with the unique identifier of the tire. The system can generate a matrix comprising a first dimension based on timestamps and a second dimension based on the one or more values and the historical inspection data. The system can predict, via input of the matrix into a machine learning model constructed, an output matrix comprising an indication to perform a type of maintenance and at least one tire maintenance category. The system can provide the indication to perform the type of maintenance for the tire during the time interval and the at least one tire maintenance category.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLCInventor: Renuka N. Raje
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Patent number: 11906960Abstract: A computing platform is configured to: (a) generate a predicted health distribution of an asset for a failure mode based on a prior health distribution and a wear rate distribution. The computing platform is further configured to (b) update, the predicted health distribution based on (i) an observed state distribution corresponding to an observed state associated with the asset and (ii) a normalized value representative of a probability of the observed state over one or more health values of the asset. The computing platform is further configured to (c) generate a survival curve of the asset based on the predicted health distribution and a set of wear rates; iteratively perform (a)-(c) for each failure mode of the set of failure modes; aggregate the survival curve for each failure mode into an aggregate survival curve; and cause a client device to display a visual representation of the aggregate survival curve.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: UPTAKE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Ruben Gonzalez
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Patent number: 11906961Abstract: Systems and methods of unmanned vehicles having self-calibrating sensors and actuators are provided. The unmanned vehicle comprises a communication interface and a processor for controlling a propulsion system of the vehicle and receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the vehicle. The processor is configured to operate in a guided calibration mode by controlling the propulsion system according to commands received from an external guided control system, while processing the sensor data to determine a degree of certainty on a calibration the sensor data and a position of the vehicle. The processor determines that the degree of certainty is above a threshold value associated with safe operation of the propulsion system in an autonomous calibration mode, and subsequently switch operation of the propulsion system to the autonomous calibration mode based on the determination that the degree of certainty is above the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CLEARPATH ROBOTICS INC.Inventors: Ryan Christopher Gariepy, Kareem Shehata, Prasenjit Mukherjee, Anthony Tod, Teyvonia Thomas, Yan Ma
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Patent number: 11906962Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for tracking and/or controlling unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as well as tracking UAV controllers (UACs) within a cellular network. A UAV/UAC may provide a cellular network with tracking information such as speed, orientation, altitude, C2 communication quality, C2 communication mode change request, measurement report, RRC status, cell ID, TAC ID, current location of the UAV, and destination of the UAV. The network may forward this information to an unmanned aerial system (UAS) traffic management system (UTM). The UTM may determine, based in part on the tracking information, whether to transfer control of the UAV from the UAC to the UTM. In some embodiments, the UAV/UAC may trigger the UTM to transfer control of the UAV form the UAC to the UTM.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Han Pu, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Krisztian Kiss, Srinivasan Nimmala, Vijay Venkataraman, Yip Pong Herbert Wong
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Patent number: 11906963Abstract: A vehicle display device is provided, the vehicle display device including a communication section configured to receive an image of a remote driver remotely operating a vehicle, an external vehicle display section configured to display an image externally to the vehicle, and a display control section configured to cause the image of the remote driver received by the communication section to be displayed on the external vehicle display section.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Toshiki Kindo, Yuji Suzuki, Mutsumi Matsuura, Tomoaki Miyazawa
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Patent number: 11906965Abstract: Consciousness is widely considered to be a mysterious and uniquely human trait, which cannot be achieved artificially. On the contrary, a system and method are disclosed for a computational machine that can recognize itself and other agents in a dynamic environment, in a way that seems quite similar to biological consciousness in humans and animals. The machine comprises an artificial neural network configured to identify correlated temporal patterns and attribute causality and agency. The machine is further configured to construct a virtual reality environment of agents and objects based on sensor inputs, to create a coherent narrative, and to select future actions to pursue goals. Such a machine may have application to enhanced decision-making in autonomous vehicles, robotic agents, and intelligent digital assistants.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Alan M. Kadin
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Patent number: 11906966Abstract: A robot detects, through a sensor, the location and movement direction of a user and an object near the user, sets a nearby ground area in front at the feet of the user according to the detected location and movement direction of the user, controls an illumination device in the robot to irradiate the nearby ground area with light while driving at least one pair of legs or wheels of the robot to cause the robot to accompany the user, specifies the type and the location of the detected object, and if the object is a dangerous object and is located ahead of the user, controls the illumination device to irradiate a danger area including at least a portion of the dangerous object with light in addition to irradiating the nearby ground area with light.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroshi Yahata
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Patent number: 11906967Abstract: Techniques to use a trained model to determine a yaw of an object are described. For example, a system may implement various techniques to generate multiple representations for an object in an environment. Each representation vary based on the technique and data used. An estimation component may estimate a representation from the multiple representations. The model may be implemented to output a yaw for the object using the multiple representations, the estimated representation, and/or additional information. The output yaw may be used to track an object, generate a trajectory, or otherwise control a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Subhasis Das, Francesco Papi, Shida Shen
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Patent number: 11906968Abstract: Mobile devices, control systems and programs are disclosed. In one example, a mobile device performs different processing when an approaching object is a human. The mobile device includes a control unit that performs traveling control. It receives input detection information of a sensor on the mobile device and uses that to determine whether an approaching object is a human. In the case where the control unit determines that the object is a human, the mobile device stops after setting an article mounted in the mobile device in a direction of being visible to the human. In the case where the control unit determines that the object is not a human, the control unit stops or backs the mobile device or changes a traveling direction of the mobile device so as to avoid collision with the object.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Tatsuma Sakurai
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Patent number: 11906969Abstract: An embodiment mobility guidance system includes a sensor provided in a mobility and configured to capture a driving video or an image to transmit the driving video or the image, a memory configured to store a danger zone image, a detector configured to compare the driving video or the image captured by the sensor with the danger zone image stored in the memory to detect an existence of a danger zone on a driving path of the mobility, and a guide configured to set a guide zone in response to the detector detecting the existence of the danger zone and a change in a speed or an acceleration of the mobility, and to provide the guide zone to a second mobility.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Byoung Il Choi