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9,300,226 | 1. A solar power generation system that interconnects with an alternating current power system, the solar power generation system comprising: a solar cell; an inverter configured to convert a direct current power generated by the solar cell into an alternating current power; a system voltage measurement unit configured to measure a system voltage of the alternating current power system; a voltage drop detector configured to detect a voltage drop of the alternating current power system, based on the system voltage measured by the system voltage measurement unit; a first direct current voltage controller configured to control a direct current voltage of the inverter such that the power generated by the solar cell is at a maximum power point, when the voltage drop is not detected by the voltage drop detector; and a second direct current voltage controller configured to control the direct current voltage of the inverter such that a ripple of a current output from the inverter is less than a setting value of an overcurrent relay provided on an output side of the inverter, when the voltage drop is detected by the voltage drop detector. | 15,013 |
9,097,190 | 1. A combustion control apparatus for an internal combustion engine comprising: a first intake passage and a second intake passage respectively and independently connected with a combustion chamber defined by at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine, and which supply an intake air to the combustion chamber; an EGR apparatus that circulates an EGR gas comprising a part of an exhaust gas into an EGR gas supply port provided at the first intake passage, from an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine; a fresh air blocking unit that blocks inflow of fresh air to the first intake passage; a supercharger that supercharges fresh air at the upstream of the first intake passage and the second intake passage; an opening and closing property changing unit that differentiates the timing of opening of a valve between a first intake valve that controls the intake air which inflows into the combustion chamber from the first intake passage, and a second intake valve that controls intake air which inflows into the combustion chamber from the second intake passage; and a control unit that, in response to a decision by the control unit to perform a stratified combustion in the combustion chamber where the EGR gas is introduced to the combustion chamber and when the intake air flowing through the second intake passage is allowed to flow into the combustion chamber during a compression stroke, controls | 44,027 |
8,438,737 | 1. A handheld fruit and vegetables slicing apparatus structure comprising: a frame; a plurality of knives pivotally disposed in the frame; a linking mechanism disposed on a side of the plurality of knives and configured to connect the plurality of knives; and an adjustment element rotatably disposed on a side of the frame and connected to one of the knives; wherein the plurality of knives cut fruit and vegetables into a plurality of strips, and the adjusting element disposed on the side of the frame rotates the one of the knives which in turns moves the linking mechanism which rotates the remaining knives concurrently by an angle upon completion of a cutting process performed by the knives, thereby allowing each of the knives to switch from an original upright state to a flat state to thereby enable easy rinsing of the knives. | 41,501 |
8,918,336 | 1. A computer implemented method of managing a charging process of an electric vehicle, the computer implemented method comprising: retrieving a set of trip data for a trip; using the set of trip data to identify a set of options for replenishing the electric charge of an on-vehicle electric storage mechanism of the electric vehicle for the trip; presenting the set of options to the owner or an operator of the electric vehicle; responsive to receiving an initiation by the operator, initiating the charging process at a charging station; identifying a set of parties of a transaction for replenishing the electric charge of an on-vehicle electric storage mechanism of the electric vehicle; the electric vehicle and the charging station exchanging a set of data associated with the charging of the electric vehicle; generating a set of terms and conditions from a set of party preferences, a set of current incentives, and a set of device capabilities; presenting each of the set of parties with the set of terms and conditions for governing the transaction; receiving an approval from each of the set of parties regarding the set of terms and conditions presented; responsive to receiving approval performing at least a portion of the transaction; responsive to receiving a charge notification that the charging process of the electric vehicle is complete, extracting event data associated with the charging process, wherein the event data is extracted from the charge notification, and wherein the event data comprises a duration of the charging process; identifying, from an energy transaction plan, a set of payees participating in the charging process; responsive to performing the portion of the transaction, disbursing a payment owed to the set of payees, wherein an amount of the payment is calculated using payment terms in profiles of the set of payees, and wherein the payment comprises funds from at least one of a payer fund and an incentive fund. | 42,472 |
9,029,486 | 1. A supported metallocene catalyst, consisting essentially of: a carrier; a co-catalyst component 1 of organic metal compound containing aluminum; a metallocene compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, 2, or 3; and a co-catalyst component 2 of organic metal compound containing boron represented by Chemical Formula 8, wherein the co-catalyst component 1 of organic metal compound containing aluminum, the metallocene compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, 2, or 3, and the co-catalyst component 2 of organic metal compound containing boron represented by Chemical Formula 8 are sequentially supported on the carrier, wherein in Chemical Formula 1, 2, or 3 each of Cp and Cp′ is the same or different and is one selected from the group consisting of cyclopentadienyl, indenyl, 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1-indenyl and fluororenyl radical; each of R J is at least one selected from the group consisting of NR B is a C1˜C4 alkyl radical or at least one selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbyl radicals containing silicon, germanium, phosphorus, nitrogen, boron or aluminum; M is a transition metal in group 4B, group 5B or group 6B of the periodic table; Q is a halogen radical, or alkyl radical of carbon number 1˜20, alkenyl radical, aryl radical, alkylaryl radical, arylalkyl radical; or alkylidene radical of carbon number 1˜20, k is 2 or 3, z is 0 or 1, and when k is 3, z is 0; wherein at least one of hydrogen radical presented in the R wherein in Chemical Formula 4, Z is oxygen atom; each of R and R′ is the same or different and is hydrogen radical; alkyl radical of carbon number 1˜20, cycloalkyl radical, aryl radical, alkenyl radical, alkylaryl radical, arylalkyl radical, arylalkenyl radical; two of R′ is optionally connected to each other to form a ring; G is alkoxy radical of carbon number 1˜20, aryloxy, alkylthio, arylthio, phenyl or substituted phenyl, and is optionally connected to R′ to form a ring; wherein in Chemical Formula 5, Z′ is oxygen atom; each of R and R″ is the same or different and is alkyl radical of carbon number 1˜20, cycloalkyl radical, aryl radical, alkenyl radical, alkylaryl radical, arylalkyl radical, or arylalkenyl radical; R and R″, or two R″s is optionally connected to each other to form a ring; wherein in Chemical Formula 6, Z″ is oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorus or arsenic atom; R′″ is the same or different hydrogen radical, alkyl radical of carbon number 1˜40, cycloalkyl radical, aryl radical, alkenyl radical, alkylaryl radical, arylalkyl radical or arylalkenyl radical; R″″ is hydrogen radical, alkyl radical of carbon number 1˜40, aryl radical, alkenyl radical, alkyaryl radical, alkylsilyl radical, arylsilyl radical, phenyl or substituted phenyl; n is 1, In the above Chemical Formula 8, T | 45,176 |
9,376,670 | 1. A nucleic acid construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having cellobiohydrolase activity, wherein the polynucleotide is operably linked to one or more heteroloqous control sequences that direct production of the polypeptide in an expression host, and wherein the polypeptide is selected from: (a) a polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to the sequence of amino acids 26 to 532 of SEQ ID NO: 2; (b) a polypeptide encoded by a polynucleotide that hybridizes under high stringency conditions with the full-length complement of the sequence of nucleotides 76 to 1596 of SEQ ID NO: 1 or the cDNA sequence thereof, wherein the high stringency conditions are defined as prehybridization and hybridization at 42° C. in 5X SSPE, 0.3% SDS, 200 micrograms/ml sheared and denatured salmon sperm DNA, and 50% formamide, following standard Southern blotting procedures for 12 to 24 hours, followed by washing three times each for 15 minutes using 2×SSC, 0.2% SDS at 65° C.; and (c) a fragment of the sequence of amino acids 26 to 532 of SEQ ID NO: 2 that has cellobiohydrolase activity. | 2,500 |
9,550,826 | 1. A composition comprising a population of Fc domain-containing binding proteins wherein 0.1 to 3% of the Fc domain-containing binding proteins in the population comprise M3-M9 glycoforms and wherein the Fc domain-containing binding proteins comprise the polypeptide sequence of adalimumab. | 36,434 |
9,020,673 | 1. A hybrid vehicle that includes an internal combustion engine that outputs power for travel; a motor to and from which power for travel is input and output; and a secondary battery that transmits and receives electric power to and from the motor, wherein the hybrid vehicle travels using only the power input to and output from the motor in an electric-powered travel mode, and the hybrid vehicle travels using the power output from the internal combustion engine and the power input to and output from the motor in a hybrid travel mode, the hybrid vehicle comprising: a hybrid electronic control unit (ECU) including program logic configured to: set an execution travel mode to one of two travel modes including an electric-powered travel priority mode where the hybrid vehicle travels with priority being given to the electric-powered travel mode over the hybrid travel mode, and a hybrid travel priority mode where the hybrid vehicle travels with priority being given to the hybrid travel mode over the electric-powered travel mode; and when the execution travel mode is switched while the internal combustion engine is being operated, control the internal combustion engine and the motor so that charging/discharging electric power for charging or discharging the secondary battery is gradually changed and the hybrid vehicle travels in the switched execution travel mode; and a battery electronic control unit (ECU) including program logic configured to: calculate a charge ratio that is a ratio of an amount of electricity stored in the secondary battery to an entire capacity of the secondary battery, based on a state of the secondary battery, wherein the hybrid ECU sets engine required power that is to be output from the internal combustion engine, based on a sum of travel power that is required for travel based on an accelerator operation, and charging/discharging required power that is required for charging or discharging the secondary battery based on the calculated charge ratio, and controls the internal combustion engine and the motor so that the set engine required power is output from the internal combustion engine under a predetermined restriction imposed on an operation of the internal combustion engine and the hybrid vehicle travels with the travel power; and when the execution travel mode is switched while the engine is being operated, the hybrid ECU sets and controls the charging/discharging required power so that the charging/discharging required power is gradually changed to decrease a difference in the charging/discharging required power due to switching of the execution travel mode. | 1,765 |
8,363,434 | 1. An interleaved bridgeless power factor corrector comprising: an AC input power supply having a first end coupled with an input inductor and a second end coupled between a first passive component and a second passive component; the input inductor comprising a first input inductor and a second input inductor, wherein the first input inductor has one end coupled between a first active component and a second active component, and the second input inductor is coupled between a third active component and a fourth active component; an active component comprising the first active component, the second active component, the third active component, and the fourth active component, wherein the first active component, the second active component, the third active component, and the fourth active component are cascaded in a full-bridge form and are divided into a set of control switches and a set of rectifying switch having different phases, and the set of control switch is directly controlled by a control circuit; and a passive component comprising the first passive component and the second passive component, the first passive component having a cathode coupled with an anode of the second passive component, and the mutually connected first passive component and second passive component being connected with the set of control switches, the set of rectifying switches, an output capacitor, and an output resistor in parallel, wherein the first passive component and the second passive component are provided for guiding a flow of a current. | 44,224 |
8,825,926 | 1. A processor comprising: a central processing unit (CPU); a first CPU register set; a second CPU register set; a multiplexer logic for either coupling said first or said second CPU register set with said CPU wherein the first CPU register set or the second CPU register set forms a general purpose register set of the CPU; control logic for controlling said multiplexer logic to switch from said first CPU register set to said second CPU register set upon receipt of at least one of a plurality of interrupt signals only if said at least one of a plurality of interrupt signals meets an additional condition that is programmable within said control logic. | 13,036 |
8,406,267 | 1. A grazing-incidence-disk optical system comprising: a heatsink; a thin doped region disposed on a first surface of the heatsink, the thin doped region having a front surface substantially parallel to the first surface; an undoped cap coupled to the thin doped region; a pump radiation source configured to generate an optical pump beam transmitted through the undoped cap and incident on the front surface of the thin doped region at a first non-zero angle relative to the normal to the thin doped region, the first non-zero angle being at least 45 degrees; and a symmetric gain region created by the optical pump beam in the thin doped region; and a laser source configured to generate a laser beam incident on the front surface of the thin doped region at a second non-zero angle relative to the normal to the thin doped region, the second non-zero angle being at least 45 degrees, wherein the laser beam has an aspect ratio selected such that the laser beam shears into a symmetric area in the gain region. | 27,154 |
8,766,587 | 1. A motor control apparatus, comprising: an inverter configured to apply a motor driving voltage to a motor based on a control signal; a current detection unit configured to detect a motor driving current applied to the motor; a microcontroller configured to sample the motor driving current, to generate the control signal based on the motor driving current, and to output the control signal to the inverter; and a phase compensation unit configured to compensate a phase error corresponding to a delay time of the microcontroller generating the control signal, wherein the delay time is a time required from the timing of starting the sampling to the timing of applying the motor driving voltage to the motor. | 13,460 |
9,183,612 | 1. A method of controlling a wearable display device connected to a host device, the method comprising: determining, with the wearable display device, a use status of the wearable display device based on feedback from one or more touch sensors of the wearable display device that indicates whether the wearable display device is worn by a user; sending, with the wearable display device, an indication of the use status of the wearable display device to the host device; controlling, with the wearable display device, data processing performed at the host device to generate multimedia data for presentation on the wearable display device based on the indication of the use status of the wearable display device; and controlling, with the wearable display device, operation of the wearable display device based on the use status of the wearable display device. | 17,082 |
9,112,838 | 1. A method comprising: at a mobile device, initiating download of a video using a WiFi network, monitoring a charge state of a battery of the mobile device, and monitoring WiFi network connectivity of the mobile device, after some but not all of the video has been downloaded, suspending the downloading of the video when the monitoring indicates (a) there is a degrading of the battery charge state relative to a threshold charge state or (b) that the mobile device no longer can download through the WiFi network or another WiFi network, or both (a) and (b), the suspension of the download being based on rules or heuristics, later, at a time when the battery charge state has improved relative to the threshold charge state and the device can download through the WiFi network or another WiFi network, automatically resuming the downloading of the video without requiring a previously-downloaded part to be downloaded again, the monitoring, suspending, and resuming occurring without requiring any action from a user of the device, the mobile device making available to the user an indication of how much of the video has already been downloaded. | 25,499 |
8,660,501 | 1. Wireless communications circuitry comprising: transceiver circuitry comprising a first transceiver circuit and a second transceiver circuit, wherein the first and second transceiver circuits communicate using different communications protocols and a common radio-frequency frequency band; an antenna that handles radio-frequency signals in the common radio-frequency frequency band; a radio-frequency coupler comprising an input and first and second outputs, wherein when the wireless communications circuitry is operated in a first mode, the input receives radio-frequency signals from the antenna and simultaneously provides corresponding first and second reduced-power versions of the received radio-frequency signals to the first and second outputs, respectively, wherein the first reduced-power version of the received radio-frequency signals is received by the first transceiver circuit, and wherein the second reduced-power version of the received radio-frequency signals is received by the second transceiver circuit; a first switch that is connected to the antenna and that has at least first, second, and third positions, wherein the first switch is coupled to at least one of the first and second transceiver circuits when placed in each of the first, second, and third positions; and a second switch that is coupled between the first switch and a transmit-receive port of the second transceiver circuit, wherein when the wireless communications circuitry is operated in a second mode, the first transceiver circuit is active and transmits radio-frequency signals through the first switch and the antenna without passing through the radio-frequency coupler, and wherein when the wireless communications circuitry is operated in a third mode, the second transceiver circuit is active and generates, at the transmit-receive port, radio-frequency signals that are transmitted through the second switch. | 46,869 |
8,492,189 | 1. A combinatorial method, comprising: depositing a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) film by physical vapor deposition, wherein depositing the TCO comprises a site-isolated deposition to form site-isolated regions on a single substrate through the physical vapor deposition, each site isolated region having a uniform composition of zinc oxide; annealing the TCO film; forming a molecular mask on the TCO film, the molecular mask allowing for differential texturing, wherein forming the molecular mask comprises applying an etching formulation to the surface of the TCO film; and etching the TCO film to provide a textured surface that scatters light incident upon the textured surface, wherein at least one of the depositing, the annealing, or the etching is performed combinatorially. | 13,917 |
9,047,652 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a retail location recycling return center, a first bag associated with a first consumer, the first bag holding a first plurality of recyclable containers; receiving, at the retail location recycling return center, a second bag associated with a second consumer, the second bag holding a second plurality of recyclable containers; transporting the first bag and the second bag from the retail location recycling return center to a processing center; receiving the first bag at the processing center and receiving, from a scanning device located at the processing center, a first set of information for the first bag representing a first recycling transaction, the first set of information including information about individual recyclable containers of the first plurality of recyclable containers; receiving the second bag at the processing center and receiving, from the scanning device located at the processing center, a second set of information for the second bag representing a second recycling transaction, the second set of information including information about individual recyclable containers of the second plurality of recyclable containers; storing, in at least one memory, the first and second sets of information; associating, in the at least one memory, the first set of information with a first consumer account associated with the first consumer and the second set of information with a second consumer account associated with the second consumer; receiving a query relating to a plurality of recycling transactions from at least one input device; and in response to receiving the query, accessing in the at least one memory information relating to at least the first and second sets of information. | 156 |
8,784,824 | 1. A conjugate of (i) an antibody, or an antigen binding fragment thereof, which is specific for fibronectin ED-B comprising the VH domain and/or the VL domain of antibody L19 and (ii) TNF-α. | 45,047 |
9,807,024 | 1. A method for communication, comprising: transmitting data packets from a communication device to a network, during a first time period, at a rate up to a current maximal permitted rate of transmission; receiving in the communication device a congestion notification from the network, following the transmission of the data packets during the first time period; reducing the current maximal permitted rate of transmission of the data packets from the communication device to the network in response to the congestion notification; transmitting further data packets, during a second time period, after reducing the current maximal permitted rate of transmission, at a rate up to the current reduced maximal permitted rate of transmission; maintaining a count of a volume of data in the transmitted data packets since a previous change in the current maximal permitted rate of transmission; periodically determining whether the maintained current count of the volume of data, since a previous change in the current maximal permitted rate of transmission, reached a predefined threshold; and increasing the current maximal permitted rate of transmission responsively to a determination that the current count of the volume of data in the transmitted data packets reached the predefined threshold. | 23,099 |
8,877,951 | 1. A catalyst comprising: a plurality of nanoparticles comprising a ferromagnetic core and a metal oxide shell covering at least a portion of the outer surface of said core; a siloxane compound having a nucleophilic functional group at least partially coating said nanoparticles, said nucleophilic functional group having an acidic functional group attached thereto. | 1,458 |
9,441,557 | 1. A method for an engine, comprising: determining a vacuum level at a vacuum reservoir and opening a vacuum-actuated valve responsive to the vacuum level at the vacuum reservoir to vary a motive flow through an ejector arranged in a bypass passage coupled across an intake throttle, the valve coupled upstream of the ejector in the bypass passage, wherein a position of the valve is controlled by a vacuum actuator arranged in a passage coupled to the vacuum reservoir; wherein the opening responsive to the vacuum level at the vacuum reservoir includes increasing the opening of the vacuum-actuated valve in response to the vacuum level at the vacuum reservoir being lower than a threshold. | 44,404 |
8,820,930 | 1. A method of ocular deviation correction, the method comprising: identifying a first line of sight of a first eye of a user; identifying a second line of sight of a second eye of the user; identifying a deviated eye among the first eye and the second eye based on the first line of sight and the second line of sight; determining an amount and type of eye deviation of the deviated eye; and adjusting a position of a display for presenting visual content to the deviated eye based on the amount and type of eye deviation. | 10,516 |
9,151,798 | 1. A semiconductor testing apparatus, comprising: a first number of testing pads; a second number of testing units, wherein each testing unit is a respective semiconductor circuit element, and wherein the second number is greater than the first number; a switching circuit coupled between the testing pads and the testing units, the switching circuit containing a plurality of switching devices; and a control circuit coupled to the switching circuit, the control circuit containing a plurality of storage elements, the control circuit being operable to establish electrical coupling between a selected testing unit and one or more of the testing pads by selectively activating a subset of the switching devices in a manner such that the testing units are electrically isolated from one another and such that the testing units share access to at least a common set of the testing pads in a time-divided manner, wherein the storage elements are driven by a clock signal having a plurality of pulses, and wherein at each pulse of the clock signal, the control circuit activates a different one of the testing units to have sole access to the test pads through the respective switching devices coupled thereto. | 15,572 |
9,733,360 | 1. A method for a receiver used with a positioning system, the method comprising: establishing a duration of an observation time period, wherein signals received from the positioning system at the receiver within the duration of the observation time period are subject to a common-mode bias; saving a plurality of records for at least one observation time period, wherein the plurality of records each correspond to a corresponding signal received at the receiver from the positioning system during the duration of the at least one observation time period; receiving, at the receiver from an adjacent receiver, a plurality of donated signals received at the adjacent receiver, wherein each of the plurality of donated signals are grouped into a common observation time period subject to a common-mode bias of the adjacent receiver; and solving for the common-mode bias corresponding to the observation time period using the plurality of records for the at least one observation time period, wherein the solving includes solving for the common-mode bias of the plurality of donated signals from the adjacent receiver. | 11,439 |
9,717,991 | 1. A method to manage an experience during play of an interactive electronic game, wherein the interactive electronic game comprises an interactive electronic game experience management module, the method comprising: monitoring, by the interactive electronic game experience management module, a quality of experience (QoE) of the interactive electronic game, the QoE based at least in part on sensor readings from a physiological sensor that is configured to periodically monitor one or more physiological state(s) of a user while the user plays the interactive electronic game, and wherein the physiological sensor is communicatively coupled to the interactive electronic game; determining, by the interactive electronic game experience management module, when the QoE exceeds a first value; applying, by the interactive electronic game experience management module, a control action to the interactive electronic game in response to the determination that the QoE exceeds the first value, wherein applying the control action reduces the QoE of the interactive electronic game; determining, by the interactive electronic game experience management module, when the QoE falls below a second value; and terminating, by the interactive electronic game experience management module, the control action to the interactive electronic game in response to the determination that the QoE falls below the second value. | 23,605 |
8,866,396 | 1. A lighting device connectable to a socket of a light fixture, comprising: a housing having a first end and a second end, wherein at least a portion of the housing is transparent or translucent; an end cap disposed on one of the first end or the second end of the housing and configured to fit with the socket; and a plurality of light emitting diodes disposed inside and extending between the first and second ends of the housing, wherein the plurality of light emitting diodes is arranged to provide light through at least a portion of the transparent or translucent portion of the housing; wherein a power source is electrically connected to and configured to provide power to the plurality of light emitting diodes through a pulse width modulation circuit and a current limiting circuit, the current limiting circuit comprising an inductive element coupled between the pulse width modulation circuit and at least some of the plurality of light emitting diodes. | 16,697 |
8,845,952 | 1. A method of manufacturing a honeycomb structure including a honeycomb unit, the method comprising: forming water-containing inorganic particles by adding first water to inorganic particles so that the water-containing inorganic particles contain 10 wt % or more of the first water, the inorganic particles having a specific surface area of approximately 50 m preparing raw material paste for the honeycomb unit by adding second water to the water-containing inorganic particles and a molding aid; molding the raw material paste into a honeycomb molded body; and firing the honeycomb molded body to obtain the honeycomb unit, the honeycomb unit having a plurality of cells extending from a first end face to a second end face of the honeycomb unit along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit and separated by a plurality of cell walls. | 21,818 |
9,485,920 | 1. A light emitting component of a horticultural light in a dark cavity, comprising: a light emitting diode (LED) semiconductor chip; and a light wavelength up-conversion quantum dot or phosphor which is deposited in direct proximity of the LED semiconductor chip, wherein the light emitting component is configured to emit two characteristic light emission peaks, and the light emitting component is configured to reduce an emission at wavelengths of 500-600 nm below the intensity in the 400-500 nm band and below the intensity in the 600-700 nm band. | 25,935 |
9,773,853 | 1. A display, comprising: a flexible substrate, wherein the flexible substrate comprises a flexible polymer substrate; an array of pixels that form an active area on the flexible substrate, wherein the array of pixels comprises an array of organic light-emitting diode pixels; metal traces that extend from the active area to an inactive area on the flexible substrate across a bend region on the flexible substrate, wherein the flexible substrate is locally thinned in the bend region; and a neutral stress plane adjustment layer on the flexible substrate in the bend region, wherein the neutral stress plane adjustment layer includes at least one polymer layer having portions that overlap the active area. | 3,138 |
9,356,831 | 1. A method comprising: under control of a node of a network configured with computer-executable instructions: selecting, by the node, a first mode of communication for the node of the network; communicating, by the node, via the first mode of communication; responsive to determining, by the node, a first condition, selecting, by the node, a second mode of communication for use by the node to communicate, wherein the selecting, by the node, the second mode of communication comprises: communicating, by the node, via the second mode of communication; searching, by the node, a predetermined priority listing to determine a higher priority mode of communication, the predetermined priority listing including a mesh network mode being designated higher priority than a star network mode, the star network mode being designated higher priority than a mobile mode; determining whether the higher priority mode of communication has a lower cost of communication than the second mode of communication; and upon determining that the higher priority mode of communication has a lower-cost of communication than the second mode, communicating, by the node, via the higher priority mode of communication. | 40,287 |
9,312,543 | 1. A fuel cell comprising: a first electrode including a first gas diffusion layer having a first porous base material and a first catalyst layer having a second porous base material, the first electrode being supplied with an oxidant gas, the first catalyst layer being stacked to the first gas diffusion layer, the second porous base material containing a catalyst-activating material, an electrically-conductive material, and a proton-conductive material, the second porous base material having a pore diameter distribution with a first peak in a range of 0.04 μm to 0.12 μm, both inclusive, and a second peak in a range of 0.02 μm to 0.04 μm, both inclusive, the second porous base material having a volume ratio of pores with diameters of 0.04 μm to 0.12 μm, both inclusive, to all the pores being 17% or more, and the second porous base material having a total volume of the pores with diameters of not less than 0.1 μm being not more than 0.01 mL/g, the total volume being measured by a mercury penetration method; a second electrode including a second gas diffusion layer having a third porous base material and a second catalyst layer having a fourth porous base material, the second electrode being supplied with a fuel, the second catalyst layer being stacked to the second gas diffusion layer; and an electrolyte film held between the first catalyst layer of the first electrode and the second catalyst layer of the second electrode, wherein the catalyst-activating material includes catalysts that are only particles, and the first catalyst layer does not substantially include a fibrous supported catalyst. | 32,500 |
8,348,199 | 1. A boundary layer energiser for energising a boundary layer flow over a surface, the boundary layer energiser comprising: a plurality of passages terminating in a plurality of respective holes provided on the surface, wherein each of the plurality of passages comprises at least one fin configured so as to generate a vortex flow in the plurality of passages such that, when in use, a fluid emanating from the plurality of passages flows in a vortex, and | 16,008 |
9,548,407 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a back electrode layer on a support substrate; a light absorbing layer including a plurality of glass frits having sodium on the back electrode layer; a buffer layer on the light absorbing layer; and a front electrode layer on the buffer layer; wherein the light absorbing layer includes a CIGSS (Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S) wherein the back electrode layer, the light absorbing layer, the buffer layer, and the front electrode layer are sequentially formed on the support substrate; wherein the back electrode layer makes contact with the support substrate and the light absorbing layer, wherein the plurality of glass frits is distributed ranging from an interfacial surface between the back electrode layer and the light absorbing layer to an interfacial surface between the light absorbing layer and the buffer layer with different concentration gradients, and wherein a distribution of the plurality of glass frits is gradually reduced as the plurality of glass frits is located away from the interfacial surface between the back electrode layer and the light absorbing layer wherein the plurality of glass frits includes a SiO2 glass frit, a SiO2-ZnO (Si—Zn—O) glass frit, a SIO2-B203 (Si—B—O) glass frit or a SiO2-Bi203 (Si—Bi—O) glass frit. | 21,785 |
8,812,215 | 1. A fuel injection system which supplies fuel to an internal combustion engine, comprising: a high-pressure pump which pressurizes and feeds fuel, as stored in a fuel tank; a common rail which accumulates the high-pressure fuel, as fed from said high-pressure pump; an injector which sprays and supplies the high-pressure fuel, as accumulated in the common rail, to the internal combustion engine; a pressure sensor which detects a pressure in the common rail; required flow rate determining means for determining a flow rate of the fuel required to bring the pressure in the common rail into agreement with a target pressure set as a function of an operating condition of the internal combustion engine; actual flow rate detecting means for detecting an actual flow rate of the fuel which has been actually supplied from the high-pressure pump to the common rail; F/B flow rate determining means for determining an F/B flow rate required to bring the pressure in the common rail into agreement with said target pressure based on a difference between the required flow rate of the fuel, as determined by said required flow rate determining means, and the actual flow rate, as detected by the actual flow rate detecting means; and pump controlling means for controlling said high-pressure pump so that a flow rate of the fuel that is the sum of the required flow rate and the F/B flow rate is discharged from the high-pressure pump. | 48,048 |
8,904,789 | 1. Method for generating energy using thermal cycles with high pressure and moderate temperature steam, the method comprising the steps of: a) generating superheated steam at a pressure above 65 bar and a moderate temperature below 400° C. in a waste boiler, the waste boiler comprising waste or biomass as an energy source, b) expanding the superheated steam generated in step a) directly in at least one two-body steam turbine comprising a high pressure body and a low pressure body, steam of an intermediate pressure, comprised between 10-40 bar, with a moderate moisture, below 15%, being obtained in said high pressure body, c) drying the steam obtained in step b) using at least one moisture separator and reheating said steam with a hot fluid different from steam, whereas the hot liquid water, collected in the moisture separator, is used to supply heat to fluids of the process with a lower thermal level, d) expanding the steam obtained in step c) in the low pressure body of said at least one turbine, and e) heating boiler water used to generate the steam in step a) using a plurality of steam extractions from said at least one turbine in order to exchange heat with said boiler water. | 33,341 |
8,489,940 | 1. A method operable in a virtualized storage system utilizing Fibre Channel (FC) communications, the storage system comprising a plurality of physical FC target devices, the method comprising: receiving a read or write command over an FC communication medium from an attached host system, wherein the read or write command is directed to a virtual FC target, the virtual FC target comprising multiple physical FC target devices; allocating a range of sequential exchange identifier (X_ID) values responsive to receipt of the read or write command; issuing multiple physical I/O operations, each physical I/O operation directed to a corresponding one of the multiple physical FC target devices, wherein each of the multiple physical I/O operations is associated with a corresponding X_ID value of the range of sequential X_ID values; selecting a primary X_ID (RX_ID) value based on the X_ID value associated with a first completed physical I/O operation of the multiple physical I/O operations; transmitting a response to the host system indicating success or failure of the read or write command based on the completion of the multiple physical I/O operations, wherein the response transmitted to host system utilizes the RX_ID; and releasing the allocated range of sequential X_ID values responsive to transmitting the response to the host system, wherein the step of issuing multiple physical I/O operations comprises issuing multiple physical I/O operations to be performed substantially in parallel by the multiple physical FC target devices. | 38,831 |
8,438,357 | 1. A method of operating a circuit that includes a memory interface, comprising: operating the memory interface using memory access cycles that each transfer a quantity of data D across the memory interface; receiving a request to transfer a quantity of data Q across the memory interface; and calculating a value M as a function of a plurality of parameters, M being a minimum number of the memory access cycles needed to carry out the transfer of the quantity of data Q across the memory interface, wherein the calculating includes determining a logarithm of one of the parameters, and then determining the value M as a function of the logarithm. | 1,165 |
9,301,155 | 1. A system for managing functionality and/or configuration of an access point in communication with a carrier core network, the system comprising: a network interface; and a server computer coupled to an Internet Protocol (IP)-based computer network through the network interface, | 18,153 |
8,585,868 | 1. A device for subjecting biomass to pyrolysis, which device comprises: a reactor with a housing and a reactor space present therein; a first feed for biomass material or other organic material connecting to an upper zone of the reactor space; a second feed for preheated heat carrier material, for instance sand, connecting to the upper zone of the reactor space; a moving mechanical mixer for the purpose of mixing the incoming flow of biomass material or other organic material with the incoming flow of preheated heat carrier material, wherein the first feed and second feed connect to the upper zone of the reactor space above the moving mechanical mixer; a laterally deflecting surface which laterally deflects flows of pyrolysis gas and thereby entrained solid material from the moving mechanical mixer; a first discharge for the pyrolysis gas connecting to the upper zone of the reactor space at a distance from the first feed; a second discharge for the solid material, for instance carbon and heat carrier material, connecting to an underside of the reactor space; a substantially vertical baffle situated in the reactor space, wherein the substantially vertical baffle has a lower edge that extends below the moving mechanical mixer and above the laterally deflecting surface, whereby the deflected flows from the moving mechanical mixer can only reach the first discharge and the second discharge by passing under the lower edge of the baffle; and a flow separation zone downstream of the moving mechanical mixer and between the first discharge and the second discharge, wherein the maximum average velocity (v) of the pyrolysis gas and the thereby entrained solid material in the flow separation zone at a temperature in the range of about 400° C.-550° C. is about as great as the terminal falling velocity, such that at least a substantial separation between the discharge flows of respectively pyrolysis gas and the solid material takes place predominantly under the influence of gravitational force, in particular without interposing of a cyclone. | 12,104 |
9,682,367 | 1. A catalyst system for the conversion of methanol into light olefins comprising: zeolite nanoparticles in the form of crystals having an average particle diameter of 10-50 nm modified with at least one promoter transition metal selected from the group consisting of iron, nickel, and chromium in the form of nanoparticles with an average particle diameter of 1-10 nm adsorbed onto a surface of the zeolite nanoparticles; and a honeycomb monolith support with 400-1200 cells per square inch coated with the zeolite nanoparticles on the edges and inside the channels of the honeycomb monolith support; wherein the catalyst system comprises 5-15 wt % of the promoter transition metal relative to the total weight of the catalyst system; and wherein the catalyst is capable of converting methanol to propylene with a selectivity towards propylene of at least 40% relative to a total mass of light olefin products and a selectivity towards propylene that is greater than a selectivity towards ethylene relative to a total mass of light olefin products and that is greater than a selectivity towards butylene relative to a total mass of light olefin products. | 32,470 |
8,787,883 | 1. A computer-implemented method of notifying a wireless device in a communications network, the method comprising: receiving, at a server, current location data from the wireless device, wherein the current location data is provided by the wireless device using an algorithm, the algorithm defining at least how often the wireless device provides the current location data to the server, the wireless device having been configured with the algorithm as part of a downloaded application for execution by a processor of the wireless device; storing, by the server, the current location data; receiving, at the server, a notification request from a third party, the notification request defining at least one geographical area within which the wireless device should be notified; and notifying, by the server, the wireless device responsive to receipt of the notification request when at least the current location data corresponds to a location within the at least one geographical area. | 10,761 |
8,844,213 | 1. A system for generating solar power to a building, comprising: a) at least four diamond-shaped cover plates for forming a surface to capture sunlight having photovoltaic elements being contained within the cover plates powered by the sunlight to generate the solar power; b) at least one support bar mounted to an existing wall or roof structure of the building without any bridging between adjacent support bars arranged at a predetermined roof slope with at least three prefabricated fastening sites; c) a fastening device mechanically connecting the cover plates to the fastening sites on the at least one support bar; d) the cover plates arranged diagonally to overlap one another in a scale configuration with respect to the longitudinal direction of the support bars to capture the sunlight and to repel rain water; e) each cover plate includes a first recess through opening in a first corner region and includes a second recess through opening in a diagonally opposite second corner region; and f) the fastening device holding the first corner region of a first cover plate in a first support position at a predetermined distance above the support bar and the fastening device holding the second corner region of a second cover plate in a second support position resting on a top surface of the fastening device above the first support position, the first corner region of the first cover plate being spaced by at least one thickness of the cover plate away from the second corner region of the second cover plate and wherein the fastening device includes a non-conductive tubular support part and a pin placed within a center axis of the tubular support part having one end fixedly fastened to the support bar and having an opposite end with a clamping device for flexible holding of the second cover plate. | 10,038 |
8,595,404 | 1. A method for device dynamic addition processing, comprising: obtaining a dynamic addition dependency relationship list of a target device to be dynamically added, wherein the dynamic addition dependency relationship list records a basic device unit which the target device is dependent on when working in a normal status; and performing dynamic addition processing on the target device according to a state of the basic device unit in the dynamic addition dependency relationship list, wherein the step of performing the dynamic addition processing on the target device according to the state of the basic device unit in the dynamic addition dependency relationship list comprises: | 458 |
8,848,253 | 1. A threshold matrix generation method of generating a threshold matrix that is compared with a multi-tone original image when halftoning said original image, the method comprising the steps of: a) obtaining an evaluation value element for a given undetermined matrix element in a matrix area based on a positional relationship between each determined matrix element and said undetermined matrix element while taking into consideration repetitive application of a threshold matrix when halftoning an original image, said undetermined matrix element being a matrix element whose position in a turn-on order has not been determined, said turn-on order indicating an order in which dots are added with increasing tone level, said matrix area being an area where said threshold matrix is generated and in which a plurality of matrix elements are arranged in a row direction and a column direction, said determined matrix element being a matrix element whose position in said turn-on order has been determined; b) adding up an evaluation value element regarding said each determined matrix element so as to obtain an evaluation value for said undetermined matrix element; c) performing said steps a) and b) for all undetermined matrix elements; d) determining, in said turn-on order, a position of an undetermined matrix element that is most highly evaluated based on the evaluation value among said all undetermined matrix elements; e) repeating said steps a) through d) until positions of said all undetermined matrix elements in said turn-on order are determined; and f) determining a threshold value of each matrix element in said matrix area in accordance with said turn-on order, wherein, at least in a case where a ratio of the number of determined matrix elements to the number of said plurality of matrix elements is within a predetermined range, said step a) includes the steps of: a1) obtaining said evaluation value element based on a distance in said row direction between said undetermined matrix element and said each determined matrix element and a distance in said column direction between said undetermined matrix element and said each determined matrix element; and a2) if said positional relationship between said each determined matrix element and said undetermined matrix element is a predetermined specific positional relationship, correcting said evaluation value element regarding said each determined matrix element such that said undetermined matrix element is less evaluated based on said evaluation value, and if said positional relationship is not said specific positional relationship, correcting said evaluation value element regarding said each determined matrix element such that said undetermined matrix element is more highly evaluated based on said evaluation value, said specific positional relationship being a relationship in which said each determined matrix element is located in the same position as said undetermined matrix element with respect to said row direction or said column direction. | 27,370 |
8,554,357 | 1. A posture control method that controls a posture of a processing unit relative to a process surface by measuring a gap distance between the processing unit that performs processing on an inner peripheral surface or an outer peripheral surface of a round pipe and the process surface of the round pipe to be processed by the processing unit, the posture control method comprising: disposing a plurality of distance measuring units in the processing unit, and at least four given distance measuring units being arranged to face the process surface in a positional relationship of four apexes of a rectangle; controlling the posture of the processing unit in a rotational direction about a roll axis, based on a difference between a first total distance obtained by adding distances measured by two out of the four given distance measuring units located in one diagonal position, and a second total distance obtained by adding measurement distances measured by the other two distance measuring units located in the other diagonal position; wherein the process surface that the distance measuring units face is divided into four virtual partitioned areas, based on a first virtual boundary line extended in a pipe axis direction of the process surface and a second virtual boundary line extended in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to the first virtual boundary line, and the four virtual partitioned areas are composed of a first virtual partitioned area, a second virtual partitioned area adjacent to the first virtual partitioned area in the pipe axis direction, a third virtual partitioned area adjacent to the first virtual partitioned area in the perpendicular direction, and a fourth virtual partitioned area adjacent to the second virtual partitioned area in the perpendicular direction and also adjacent to the third virtual partitioned area in the pipe axis direction, and the posture control method further comprises: positioning measuring units that, among the four given distance measuring units, makes a first distance measuring unit face the first virtual partitioned area, makes a second distance measuring unit face the second virtual partitioned area, makes a third distance measuring unit face the third virtual partitioned area, and makes a fourth distance measuring unit face the fourth virtual partitioned area, wherein the controlling the posture controls the posture of the processing unit in the rotational direction about the roll axis, based on a difference between the first total distance obtained by adding a second measurement distance measured by the second distance measuring unit and a third measurement distance measured by the third distance measuring unit, and the second total distance obtained by adding a first measurement distance measured by the first distance measuring unit and a fourth measurement distance measured by the fourth distance measuring unit. | 27,595 |
8,361,465 | 1. A method selected from the group consisting of: a. a method for treating a cancer associated with sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P), comprising administering to an animal suffering from cancer a chemotherapeutic agent and an antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment that neutralizes S1P and thereby treat the cancer; b. a method for inhibiting tumor growth in an animal having a tumor associated with S1P, comprising administering to the animal a chemotherapeutic agent and an antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment that neutralizes S1P and thereby inhibit growth of the tumor; c. a method for inhibiting tumor metastasis in an animal having a tumor associated with S1P, comprising administering to the animal a chemotherapeutic agent and an antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment that neutralizes S1P and thereby inhibit metastasis of the tumor; and d. a method for inhibiting the growth of metastatic tumors in an animal having a cancer associated with S1P, comprising administering to the animal a chemotherapeutic agent and an antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment that neutralizes S1P and thereby inhibit growth of metastatic tumors; wherein said antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment in any of parts (a)-(d) comprises: (1) a light chain variable domain comprising: (i) a first sequence of amino acid residues of sequence ITTTDIDDDMN (SEQ ID NO: 10); (ii) a second sequence of amino acid residues EGNILRP (SEQ ID NO: 11); and (iii) a third sequence of amino acid residues of sequence LQSDNLPFT (SEQ ID NO: 12); and (2) a heavy chain variable domain comprising: (i) a first sequence of amino acid residues of sequence DHTIH (SEQ ID NO: 13); (ii) a second sequence of amino acid residues of sequence AISPRHDITKYNEMFRG (SEQ ID NO: 16); and (iii) a third sequence of amino acid residues of sequence GGFYGSTIWFDF (SEQ ID NO: 15). | 4,680 |
9,490,467 | 1. A battery pack comprising: a plurality of battery modules, each respective battery module of the plurality of battery modules including a plurality of battery cells connected to one another between first and second terminals of the respective battery module; a plurality of relays comprising main-relays connected to output lines of the plurality of battery modules and a plurality of sub-relays each connected to a respective connection line between a respective pair of battery modules of the plurality of battery modules, the output lines each being connected to a terminal of the first and second terminals of a battery module at a respective end of the plurality of battery modules, each of the connection lines connecting between the first terminal of a first battery module of the respective pair of battery modules and the second terminal of a second battery module of the respective pair of battery modules; a battery control unit connected to the plurality of relays for controlling the plurality of battery cells; and at least one sensor connected to the battery control unit and configured to output a signal to the battery control unit, wherein the battery control unit is configured to control the plurality of relays in response to the signal outputted from the at least one sensor, wherein when the plurality of sub-relays receives a signal from the battery control unit, each of the plurality of sub-relays cuts off electrical connection between the respective pair of battery modules, wherein the at least one sensor comprises at least one of an airbag impact sensor, a moisture sensor, or an impact sensor, and wherein the main-relays and the plurality of sub-relays are operable simultaneously in response to the signal outputted from the at least one sensor. | 2,344 |
8,910,870 | 1. A system for processing a document comprising, an indicia reading terminal comprising a two dimensional image sensor array comprising a plurality of pixels extending along an image plane, an optical assembly for use in focusing imaging light rays onto the plurality of pixels of said two dimensional image sensor array, and a housing encapsulating the two dimensional image sensor array and the optical assembly, wherein the system is operative in a mode in which the system, in response to an operator initiated command, captures a frame of image data and processes the frame of image data for attempting to decode a form barcode on the document, wherein the system is further operative to identify a coordinate system on an image plane from information stored in the form barcode, wherein the system is yet further operative to identify relative to the form barcode and in the coordinate system the position of a content field located on the document, wherein processing of the frame of image data on a first document having the form barcode disposed thereon is faster than processing of the frame of image data on a second document without the form barcode; wherein the system is operative to identify at least one corner of the form barcode; and wherein the coordinate system is located relative to the identified corner. | 23,348 |
9,818,236 | 1. A production line monitoring device comprising: a defect indication detection unit that detects an indication of a production defect of a production line; and a defect cause identification unit that identifies a cause of the production defect, wherein the defect indication detection unit collects measurement information that is measured by an inspection apparatus for each reference that identifies a position on products, and detects an indication of the production defect from a change with time of the measurement information at the references, the defect indication detection unit detects the indication of the production defect when a first process capability index of one of the references calculated from the measurement information or an incidence of the production defect of the one of the references calculated from the measurement information is not within a first predetermined standard range, and the defect cause identification unit performs stratified analysis based on production information that is related to the one of the references when the defect indication detection unit detects the indication of the production defect, and identifies a cause of the production defect when a second process capability index calculated from a result of the stratified analysis of the production information related to the one of the references or an incidence of the production information of the one of the references is not within a second predetermined standard range. | 35,271 |
9,227,621 | 1. A method for controlling a serial hybrid drive of a motor vehicle and which serial hybrid drive includes a combustion engine used as a range extender, an alternator driven by the combustion engine, a battery, and an electric motor driven by the battery and which drives the wheels of the motor vehicle, the method comprising: charging the battery, via the alternator, by controlling a power output of the combustion engine as a function of speed of the motor vehicle using a predefined power demand model based on a power required to drive the motor vehicle by the electric motor as a function of a speed of the motor vehicle; determining an actual power demand by the motor vehicle based upon, when the motor vehicle is being driven by the electric motor, an actual power of the motor vehicle and an actual speed of the motor vehicle; and controlling the combustion engine based on a determined difference between the determined actual power demand by the motor vehicle and the predefined power demand model in such a manner that noise developed during operation of the serial hybrid drive corresponds to a present driving situation in which the motor vehicle, driven by the electric motor, is in a phase of at least one of climbing, descent, acceleration and braking. | 8,102 |
9,376,330 | 1. A unit for pretreating water by direct contact between a first fluid and a second fluid, the unit comprising a heat and ion exchanger configured to carry out transfer between the first fluid and the second fluid, the heat and ion exchanger being composed of two portions: a cooling portion for cooling water to be treated; and a heating portion for heating water to be treated, wherein the first fluid includes a saline water phase, the second fluid includes a continuous fluorinated phase comprising: the fluorinated continuous phase that is cooled in the heating portion is re-used as the fluorinated continuous phase that is heated up in the cooling portion. | 21,660 |
8,683,811 | 1. A method for operating an aero jet engine with compressor air circulation for stabilizing flow conditions, comprising: identifying a highly loaded, surge-prone compressor stage of the jet engine; tapping a compressor bleed air at a bleed point at a compressor stage downstream of the surge-prone compressor stage and routing the tapped compressor bleed air through a heat exchanger to cool the tapped compressor bleed air, the tapped compressor bleed air having a higher pressure than a pressure at the surge-prone compressor stage; reducing surge at the surge-prone compressor stage with the higher pressure bleed air by feeding the tapped higher pressure compressor bleed air through a bleed air line to the surge-prone upstream compressor stage; providing the jet engine with a bypass duct for flowing bypass air that is cooler than the tapped compressor bleed air; positioning the heat exchanger in the bypass duct to be in contact with the cooler bypass air to cool the tapped compressor bleed air prior to the tapped compressor bleed air reentering the compressor through the bleed air line such that a temperature of the cooled compressor bleed air reentering the compressor is lower than a temperature of compressor air at a position of reentering; wherein the compressor air flows in an axial direction from the surge prone compressor stage to the bleed point compressor stage and wherein the heat exchanger is positioned axially between the two stages; feeding the cooled compressor bleed air from the bleed air line at a feed position onto tips of rotor blades of the surge-prone compressor stage to simultaneously cool the tips of the rotor blades while reducing the surge at the surge-prone compressor stage; the upstream compressor stage being a separate compressor stage than the downstream compressor stage with the bleed point being separated from the feed position by at least one stator row; the routing of the bleed air from the bleed point through the bypass duct to the feed position bypassing and separate from a turbine stage of the engine. | 39,165 |
8,608,966 | 1. A method for dewatering a mixture of ethanol and water, comprising: feeding a mixture of ethanol and water into an evaporator, evaporating said mixture in the evaporator and feeding a stream of vaporized mixture of ethanol and water from the evaporator to a vapor recompression unit, pressurizing said vaporized mixture of ethanol and water in the vapor recompression unit and feeding a stream of pressurized vaporized mixture of ethanol and water from the vapor recompression unit to a membrane unit, dividing said stream of pressurized mixture of ethanol and water in the membrane unit in a vapor permeation step into (i) a vaporized permeate stream of vaporized mixture of residual ethanol and water and feeding the vaporized permeate stream of vaporized mixture of residual ethanol and water from the membrane unit and, (ii) into a retentate stream of dewatered mixture of ethanol and residual water from the membrane unit, using a dewatering unit comprising a cooling unit and a distillation column, feeding the vaporized permeate stream of vaporized mixture of residual ethanol and water from the membrane unit into the cooling unit of the dewatering unit and condensing the vaporized permeate stream of vaporized mixture of residual ethanol and water in the cooling unit to a liquid permeate stream of residual ethanol and water and feeding the liquid permeate stream of residual ethanol and water into the distillation column, dividing the liquid permeate stream of residual ethanol and water in the distillation column in a distillation step into (i) a second stream of dewatered mixture of ethanol and residual water, and into (ii) a stream of water, discharging the stream of water from the distillation column, and feeding the second stream of dewatered mixture of ethanol and residual water from the distillation column directly to the evaporator. | 24,820 |
9,806,810 | 1. A system, comprising: a data communication network; a plurality of lighting devices, each lighting device comprising: | 49,616 |
9,607,161 | 1. A computer-implemented method for selecting columns for re-encryption in join operations, the method being executed using one or more processors and comprising: determining, by the one or more processors, a first column and a second column to be joined; receiving, by the one or more processors, a first key corresponding to the first column and a second key corresponding to the second column; receiving, by the one or more processors, a first rank associated with the first key and a second rank associated with the second key; selecting, by the one or more processors, the second column for re-encryption based on the first rank and the second rank; in response to selecting, determining that a difference between the second rank and a cost is less than zero; in response to determining that the difference is less than zero deleting the second key; and providing, by the one or more processors, the first column, the second column, and the first key for performing a join operation, the second column being re-encrypted based on the first key. | 3,349 |
9,103,633 | 1. A hard ballistic material comprising: a monolithic ceramic layer; and a rear face Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) layer continuously bonded to a rear face of said monolithic ceramic layer, wherein said rear face CMC layer includes one of (1) a ceramic matrix and (2) a glass matrix. | 37,108 |
9,273,463 | 1. A prefabricated building panel comprising: (a) an outer wall and an inner wall, each of the outer and inner walls having an outer and an inner surface, the respective inner surfaces of the outer and inner walls defining an open inner space therebetween, the inner space having a width of no more than about 18 inches (about 0.7 m); (b) a frame having first and second horizontal end members each having an outside surface and first and second vertical members each having an outside surface, the frame being adapted to fix the outer and inner walls in spatial relationship to one another and having an outside surface comprising the respective outside surfaces of the first and second horizontal end members and of the first and second vertical members; (c) an inlet adapted to receive an air stream into the inner space; (d) an outlet adapted to permit the air stream to flow out of the inner space; (e) a sensor located within the inner space and adapted to provide a signal indicative of the temperature of at least a portion of the inner space; (f) a heat exchanger located within the inner space and adapted to thermally condition the air stream in response to the signal of the sensor; and (g) an outer surface comprising the respective outside surfaces of the frame and of the first and second walls; | 22,526 |
8,404,840 | 1. A process for the preparation of a compound having the following structural formula: wherein R is methyl or methoxy; the process comprising: a) reacting benzophenone with compound of Formula-3, wherein R′ is a straight or branched or cyclic C1-C6 alkyl group, in the presence of a base and in a solvent to provide compound of Formula-4, wherein R′ is as defined above, which on in-situ treatment with methanol in presence of a suitable acid provides compound of Formula-5 wherein R′ is as defined above; b) hydrolyzing the compound of Formula-5 in presence of a base in a solvent, followed by crystallization from hydrocarbon solvent provides compound of Formula-6 c) resolving the compound of Formula-6 by treating it with a resolving agent in a solvent, followed by crystallization from hydrocarbon solvent provides compound of Formula-7 d) reacting the compound of Formula-7 with an amine of formula NR in an ether solvent, ester solvent, polar aprotic solvent, ketone solvent, alcoholic solvent, hydrocarbon solvent, chloro solvent, water, or a mixture thereof, to provide compound of Formula-11 and isolating the compound of Formula-11; e) reacting the isolated compound of Formula-11 with an inorganic or organic acid in an ether solvent, ester solvent, polar aprotic solvent, ketone solvent, alcoholic solvent, hydrocarbon solvent, chloro solvent, water, or a mixture thereof to provide the compound of Formula-7; f) treating the compound of Formula-7 from step e) with alcohol of formula R′—OH, wherein R′ is defined as above, in presence of an acid catalyst followed by isolation from a hydrocarbon solvent, to provide compound of Formula-8 g) crystallizing the compound of Formula-8 using a solvent to provide crystalline compound of Formula-8, h) reacting the crystalline compound of Formula-8 with compound of Formula-9 wherein R is defined as above, in presence of a base in a solvent, to provide compound of Formula-10 wherein R and R′ are defined as above; i) hydrolyzing the compound of Formula-10 with a base in a solvent followed by isolation from an ester solvent, to provide the compound of Formula-1; j) reacting the compound of Formula-1 with an amine of formula NR in an ether solvent, ester solvent, polar aprotic solvent, ketone solvent, alcoholic solvent, hydrocarbon solvent, chloro solvent, water, or a mixture thereof, to provide compound of Formula-13 wherein R, R k) reacting the isolated compound of Formula-13 with an inorganic or organic acid in an ether solvent, ester solvent, polar aprotic solvent, ketone solvent, alcoholic solvent, hydrocarbon solvent, chloro solvent, water, or a mixture thereof to provide the compound of Formula-1; and l) purifying the compound of Formula-1 in a solvent to provide the compound of Formula-1 having purity greater than 99.00% by HPLC. | 11,634 |
8,382,418 | 1. A utility stowage apparatus mounted to a vehicle for transferring one or more objects between an upper storage position and a lower accessible position comprising: a vehicle having a top surface and a side surface, a stationary mounting frame comprising two L-shaped or U-shaped tracks, wherein the tracks comprise respectively first and second portions, each of the first portions and second portions lying in parallel, wherein the first portions of the tracks are mounted to the side surface and the second portions of the tracks are mounted to the top surface, each of the first and second portions of the at least two tracks comprises at least a channel and at least a rail, at least one carriage movably mounted on the rails and comprising: wherein operation of the power drive rotates at least one of the first or second means for driving the carriage along the tracks between the lower accessible position and the upper storage position. | 28,020 |
9,228,445 | 1. A turbine airfoil component of a gas turbine engine, the airfoil component being a turbine blade comprising: a first subcomponent comprising an airfoil portion and a nub, the nub comprising a base that has outer surfaces, the outer surfaces of the base defining a cross-section of the base that is wider than a region of the nub adjacent the airfoil portion, the first subcomponent being formed of a ceramic-based material and the airfoil portion and the nub being a unitary piece of the ceramic-based material; and a second subcomponent comprising a casting formed and attached to the first subcomponent by casting a molten metallic material in-situ around the nub of the first subcomponent, the second subcomponent comprising a platform portion between the airfoil portion and the nub of the first subcomponent and a dovetail portion on the nub of the first subcomponent and adapted for anchoring the airfoil component to a turbine disk, each of the platform portion and the dovetail portion having at least one off-axis geometric feature that results in the second subcomponent having a more complex geometry than the first subcomponent, the dovetail portion of the second subcomponent having: a shank casing that completely encases the nub so that the region of the nub adjacent the airfoil portion is covered by a nonconformal portion of the shank casing and so that the base of the nub is entirely covered by a conformal portion of the shank casing having an exterior surface that conforms to the outer surfaces of the base, the off-axis geometric feature of the dovetail portion comprising a first set of oppositely-disposed tangs that are exclusively defined by the nonconformal portion of the shank casing and protrude from the region of the nub adjacent the airfoil portion, the off-axis geometric feature of the dovetail portion comprising a second set of oppositely-disposed tangs that are exclusively defined by the base of the nub and by the conformal portion of the shank casing thereon, the conformal portion of the shank casing defining a pressure face on each of the second set of oppositely-disposed tangs. | 43,805 |
9,484,667 | 1. A vehicle-side connector to be connected to a battery mounted in a vehicle, comprising: an outer housing to be fixed to a body of the vehicle, an inner housing to be fitted into the outer housing from a vehicle interior side, terminal fittings respectively connected to a plurality of wires drawn out from the interior of the vehicle including the battery; a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers provided from the inner housing to the outer housing and configured such that the respective terminal fittings are inserted and accommodated thereinto from behind; a retainer assemblable with the inner housing to lock and retain each terminal fitting; a lock mechanism portion configured to lock the retainer and the outer housing in a joined state; and a temperature sensor provided on an end of a wire drawn out from the interior of the vehicle, the temperature sensor being formed into a column shape having a larger diameter than the wire wherein the inner housing includes a sensor accommodating chamber configured to accommodate the temperature sensor, and the retainer includes a sensor locking portion configured to lock and retain the temperature sensor, the sensor locking portion being a hole formed by connecting a large-diameter hole having a larger diameter than the temperature sensor and a small-diameter hole having a smaller diameter than the temperature sensor and enabling the wire to be inserted therethrough. | 37,257 |
9,572,171 | 1. An apparatus for a user equipment (UE), the apparatus configured to: process a first signal received during a single request period of time, the first signal indicating a request to transmit to the UE from a first transmitting UE; process one or more additional signals received during the single request period of time, the one or more additional signals indicating that one or more additional transmitting UEs are requesting to transmit to corresponding target UEs; identify, based on a received power of the first signal and the one or more additional signals, one or more incompatible UEs by identifying those of the first transmitting UE and the one or more additional transmitting UEs that would interfere with each other during simultaneous device-to-device communications; determine to block transmission of at least one of the one or more incompatible UEs by selecting to block at least one of the one or more incompatible UEs that would interfere with at least another of the one or more incompatible UEs; in response to the determination to block transmission of the at least one of the one or more incompatible UEs, cause a signal to be sent, the signal indicating a block on transmission by the at least one of the one or more incompatible UEs. | 22,641 |
9,538,076 | 1. An image processing device comprising: a color transformation circuit configured to generate a color difference based on a first image of normal exposure and a second image of under exposure; a color fringe detection circuit configured to detect color fringe in the first image, and to generate color fringe detection information based on the detected color fringe in the first image; a weight map formation circuit configured to generate a weight map based on the color fringe detection information and the color difference; and an image fusion circuit configured to generate, based on the color difference and the weight map, a third image in which the detected color fringe is suppressed. | 31,214 |
9,406,633 | 1. A contact component adapted to be soldered onto a metal region provided on an insulating substrate of a semiconductor module, the contact component comprising: a cylindrical portion having a hollow hole for fitting an external terminal; and a flange formed at a lower end portion of the cylindrical portion, and having an external diameter larger than an external diameter of the cylindrical portion, wherein an end face of the flange adapted to be soldered includes a flat bottom surface and a concave portion extending from an inner circumference edge of the cylindrical portion in the flat bottom surface to an outer circumference edge of the flange, wherein the cylindrical portion includes a cut-out portion at an inner side of a lower end thereof. | 15,567 |
8,664,896 | 1. A control circuit for an operating device for lighting means, wherein a feedback signal from the lighting means is supplied to an input of the control circuit and the control circuit comprises an error recognition block which recognizes at least two different types of lighting means errors using the feedback signal applied at the input, wherein the feedback signal is a voltage of the lighting means and the error recognition block evaluates the feedback signal using at least two different criteria. | 24,758 |
9,601,751 | 1. A method of annealing a thin film deposited on a substrate, the method comprising: providing the thin film deposited on the substrate; irradiating the thin film with electromagnetic radiation until a predetermined crystal quality of the thin film is achieved, a spectral band of the electromagnetic radiation selected such that the thin film is substantially absorptive to the electromagnetic radiation and the substrate is substantially transparent to the electromagnetic radiation; wherein irradiating the thin film with the electromagnetic radiation until the predetermined crystal quality of the thin film is achieved includes one of: | 45,412 |
8,433,374 | 1. A method for selecting a sleep interval in a mobile communications device, comprising: negotiating a first sleep interval period with an access point; negotiating a second sleep interval period with one or more entities other than the access point, wherein the second sleep interval period is longer than the first sleep interval period, and wherein the second sleep interval is negotiated after registration with the access point is complete, and wherein at least one of the one or more entities other than the access point is configured to buffer data; and sending a signal to at least one of the one or more entities other than the access point indicating that buffering of data should cease. | 30,546 |
8,832,516 | 1. A method for generating a Scheduling Assignment (SA) that reduces a probability of an incorrect action by a User Equipment (UE), in response to a reception of the SA, in a communication system in which a base station transmits the SA being a first type or a second type and including at least one Information Element (IE), the method comprising: setting at least one bit in the at least one IE with a predetermined value, if the SA is of the second type; and transmitting the at least one IE, wherein the at least one IE includes a modulation and coding scheme indicating a modulation scheme and a coding rate. | 28,986 |
8,687,214 | 1. An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus and a mobile terminal, comprising: a reception unit configured to receive print data and account information, which is for placing the image forming apparatus in a state in which wireless communication is possible, from the information processing apparatus; a storage unit configured to store the print data and the account information received by the reception unit; an authentication information reception unit configured to receive authentication information from the mobile terminal after the state in which wireless communication with the mobile terminal is possible has been established using the account information stored in the storage unit; and a print control unit configured to start printing of the print data stored in the storage unit in a case where the authentication information received by the authentication information reception unit matches the account information stored in the storage unit. | 25,085 |
9,164,952 | 1. An adaptive computing engine comprising: a first configurable computational unit including a first plurality of heterogeneous computational elements, the first plurality of heterogeneous computational elements including an adder, a register, and a function generator, the first plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to each other via a first interconnection network to configure interconnections between the computational elements in response to configuration information to perform a first function; a second configurable computational unit for performing digital signal processing functions, the second computational unit including a second plurality of heterogeneous computational elements, the second plurality of heterogeneous computational elements including at least one multiplier computational element and at least one adder computational element, the second plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to each other via a second interconnection network to configure the interconnections between the second plurality of heterogeneous computational elements in response to configuration information to perform a digital signal processing function; and a third interconnection network coupled between the first and second configurable computational units. | 30,385 |
8,592,133 | 1. A chemically amplified resist composition comprising one or more kinds of amine oxide compounds, which are obtained by oxidization, at least having: a carboxyl group; no hydrogen atoms covalently bonded to a nitrogen atom as a basic center; and no nitrogen atom as part of an aromatic ring, wherein the nitrogen atom of the amine oxide compound has three single bonds combined to different carbon atoms, respectively, the amine oxide compounds are blended upon preparation of the resist composition, and the chemically amplified resist composition further comprises, as main components: (A2) a base resin, which is soluble in alkali and can be made insoluble in alkali with the aid of an acid catalyst, and/or a combination of a base resin with a crosslinking agent, the base resin is soluble in alkali and can be made insoluble in alkali via reaction with the crosslinking agent with the aid of an acid catalyst; and (B) an acid generator. | 13,900 |
8,715,978 | 1. A method of enhancing microbial production of hydrogen from a hydrocarbon-rich material, the method comprising: accessing a hydrocarbon-rich deposit; removing at least a portion of the hydrocarbon-rich material from the deposit under anaerobic conditions, wherein the indigenous microbial community of the hydrocarbon-rich material is preserved by protection from exposure to oxygen; depositing the hydrocarbon-rich material in a reactor, wherein the reactor is maintained under anaerobic conditions; and collecting a gas mixture from the reactor comprising the hydrogen. | 43,539 |
9,537,338 | 1. A level shift circuit comprising: a first GaN-based inverter circuit comprising: a second GaN-based inverter circuit comprising: | 44,858 |
8,495,130 | 1. A method for providing access to a service in a structured peer-to-peer distributed hash table based overlay communication network comprising a plurality N of nodes organized on a distributed hash table identifier ring the method characterized by the steps of: configuring in a service node a service object so that it comprises an address pointing to the service node; determining the number R of instances of the service object needed to be distributed among the plurality N of nodes so that any of the service object instances can be located with a predetermined probability p and with a predetermined number of service location requests sent from a user node where the number R of needed instances of the service object is determined from the equation where M is the number of identical service location requests sent from the user node and being an integer having a value equal to or greater than one, where F is a replication factor being an integer having a value equal to or greater than zero, and where S is the total number of service nodes providing the same service, the number being an integer having a value equal to or greater than one; creating R instances of the service object; and distributing the R instances of the service object among the plurality N of nodes in the overlay network. | 44,028 |
9,741,881 | 1. A structure comprising a first support wafer made of sintered silicon, the first support wafer comprising porosity channels formed therein via a sintering process, and a second layer of single-crystal silicon, wherein the porosity channels are interconnected and exit outwards, and contain a doping element or a conductive material. | 30,126 |
8,898,477 | 1. A method of operating a device to securely update the control firmware controlling the device, the method comprising: downloading a firmware update package to a first microcontroller of the device; operating the first microcontroller to: operating the second microcontroller to: upon receiving a message granting permission to install the firmware update, operating the first microcontroller to update the firmware of the device. | 3,041 |
9,530,457 | 1. A semiconductor chip comprising: a semiconductor board including a surface comprised of a quadrangle in plan view, the surface including a first side, a second side facing the first side, a third side crossing the first and second sides, and a fourth side facing the third side and also crossing the first and second sides; a plurality of first pads coupling with a first memory interface circuit formed over the surface of the semiconductor board, the first pads being arranged along the first side of the surface of the semiconductor board in plan view, the first pads being arranged closer to the first side of the surface of the semiconductor board than the second side of the surface of the semiconductor board in plan view; and a plurality of second pads coupling with a second memory interface circuit formed over the surface of the semiconductor board, the second pads being arranged along the third side of the surface of the semiconductor board in plan view, the second pads being arranged closer to the third side of the surface of the semiconductor board than the fourth side of the surface of the semiconductor board in plan view, wherein the first memory interface circuit has a plurality of first data units coupled to the plurality of first pads, wherein the second memory interface circuit has a plurality of second data units coupled to the plurality of second pads, and wherein the plurality of second data units of the second memory interface circuit are the same as the plurality of first data units of the first memory interface circuit. | 18,774 |
9,188,723 | 1. A transparency for converting s-polarized light waves to converted p-polarized light waves, wherein the transparency comprises: a transparent substrate having a first major surface and an opposite second major surface; a tetrahedron comprising points A, B, C and D, wherein a first triangular facet is defined by sides extending between points A-B-D and the sides of the first facet at the point A subtend a first angle and the sides of the first facet at the point B subtend a second angle, wherein the first and second angles are equal to one another; a second triangular facet is defined by sides extending between points A-B-C and the sides of the second facet at the point A subtend a third angle and the sides of the second facet at the point B subtend a fourth angle, wherein the third and fourth angles are equal to one another, a third facet is defined by sides extending between points B-C-D, and a fourth facet is defined by sides extending between points A-C-D, and the sides of the first facet lie in a plane of the first major surface of the transparent substrate and surfaces of each of the second, third and fourth facets have a reflective surface, wherein the points A, B, C and D of the tetrahedron lie on X, Y, Z co-ordinances, wherein the X co-ordinance lies in a first plane, the Y co-ordinance lies in a second plane perpendicular to the first plane, and the Z co-ordinance lies in a third plane perpendicular to the first and the second planes, wherein points A, B, C and D of the tetrahedron lie on the X, Y, Z co-ordinances as follows: | 48,564 |
9,518,786 | 1. Apparatus for storing energy, comprising: a high pressure storage vessel for receiving a high pressure gas, the high pressure storage vessel comprising a high pressure heat store configured to receive thermal energy from the high pressure gas; wherein the high pressure storage vessel is configured for connection to a gas store for storing pressurised gas after exposure to the high pressure heat store or to gas processing equipment for receiving pressurised gas after exposure to the high pressure heat store; wherein the apparatus further comprises: a low pressure storage vessel comprising a low pressure heat store configured to receive thermal energy from a low pressure gas, the low pressure storage vessel being configured for selective connection to the high pressure storage vessel for a transfer process in which thermal energy is transferred from the high pressure heat store to the low pressure heat store; and gas transfer equipment for transferring gas at low pressure between the high pressure storage vessel and the low pressure storage vessel, wherein stored thermal energy is transferred between the high pressure heat store and the low pressure heat store by passing the low pressure gas between the high pressure storage vessel and the low pressure storage vessel, the low pressure gas passing through the high pressure heat store where the thermal energy is transferred to the low pressure gas, and then passing through the low pressure heat store where the low pressure gas transfers the thermal energy to the low pressure heat store. | 7,462 |
8,420,047 | 1. A method of generating alane, comprising the steps of: providing a pressure vessel; providing a controller configured to control at least one of a fluid flow, a temperature and a pressure within the apparatus to fall within a respective one of a desired flow rate and direction, a desired temperature, and a desired pressure; introducing aluminum metal into the pressure vessel; reducing the concentration of unwanted reactive materials in the pressure vessel; introducing into the pressure vessel a fluid capable of attaining a supercritical fluid state; introducing a source of hydrogen into the pressure vessel; raising at least one of the temperature and the pressure within the pressure vessel to attain a supercritical fluid state; and reacting the aluminum with the source of hydrogen to produce alane. | 10,175 |
9,520,771 | 1. An apparatus for controlling a control switch for controlling a link voltage of a power supply including a rectifier for rectifying an AC line voltage to generate the link voltage and a converter for converting the link voltage to a DC voltage, comprising: a line voltage detector for detecting the AC line voltage; and an on-time generator for generating a control signal for controlling the control switch through a pulse signal when the converter operates at a standby operation mode, the pulse signal having an on-time determined based on a peak value of a detected AC line voltage from the line voltage detector. | 25,582 |
9,353,756 | 1. A method for the controlling and feeding of power plants, comprising coal fired power plants with a steam turbine connected to a turbogenerator, characterized in that that in periods of low power consumption power is transferred from the turbine shaft via an on-off clutch onto at least one air compressor, and the air compressed by it is sent to tanks of a compressed air terminal, and then the air is further compressed in subsequent tanks until a pressure close to the pressure of steam fed to the turbine blades is reached, whereas in case of increased power consumption the compressed air is fed through nozzles to the blades of at least one turbine stage along with steam produced by a boiler, whereas the amount of air to be fed is controlled by means of a throttle valve controlled by an electronic circuit coupled with a power consumption recording system. | 23,356 |
8,545,190 | 1. A valve for use in a flow management system comprising: a valve body with a spill port; a shuttle located in a chamber of the valve body; the shuttle having a through hole extending between a shuttle closure end and a shuttle spring end; a valve center line shared by the valve body and the shuttle; a first seat located on a first face of the shuttle; a first seat closure; the first seat closure having a central bore for accepting a rotatable shaft extending through the valve body; the first seat closure for translating along the rotatable shaft; a second seat located in the valve body chamber and a second seat closure located on a second face of the shuttle; a spring located substantially between the shuttle spring end and a valve body support; and, the valve operable to pass a flow entering the through hole at the shuttle spring end and to spill a flow that closes the first seat closure. | 8,968 |
9,159,998 | 1. A process for producing a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery formed of substantially a lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide of a stratified structure having lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese as essential constituent elements, the method comprising: a step of preparing a starting material, which contains a lithium source, a nickel source, a cobalt source, and a manganese source, for production of a composite oxide where said starting material is prepared such that a molar ratio (Li/M a step of producing said composite oxide, with at least a portion of nickel atoms being trivalent nickel atoms (Ni wherein said composite metal oxide is a lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide represented by the following formula: where, a, b, c, and d are numbers that satisfy all of the following relationships: x is a number that satisfies the relationship 1.07≦x/(a+b+c+d)≦1.2; y and z are numbers that satisfy the relationship 0.15≦z/y≦0.95; and Me is either absent, or is one or more elements selected from a group consisting of Mg, Sr, Ti, Zr, V, Nb, Mo, W, B, and Al, and said starting material is prepared comprising a lithium source, nickel source, cobalt source, and manganese source at a molar ratio established so that the complex metal oxide represented by said Formula (1) is produced by said calcination. | 13,800 |
9,034,313 | 1. An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of: SEQ ID NO:1 and a nucleic acid sequence that is 95% homologous to SEQ ID NO:1. | 35 |
9,327,481 | 1. A method of making a first part having at least one surface formed of a first material and coated with at least one coating on said at least one surface, said first material including at least one metallic element and being chosen for an ability thereof to become at least partially amorphous when subject to an increase in temperature above a melting temperature thereof which allows said material to lose any crystalline structure locally, followed by cooling to a temperature lower than a vitreous transition temperature thereof allowing said material to become at least partially amorphous, wherein said method comprises: taking a second part comprising a cavity forming a negative of the first part; depositing said coating, comprising at least a first layer, onto said second part; taking the first material; shaping the first material by filling said cavity of the second part with said first material so as to secure said coating to said at least one surface of said first part, said first material having been subject to a treatment allowing said material to become at least partially amorphous, at a latest at a time of said shaping; separating the first part from the second part so as to obtain said first part coated with said coating. | 18,852 |
8,495,877 | 1. An internal combustion engine, comprising: a transmission with damping clutch; a crankshaft; a turbocompound system that includes: | 24,710 |
9,225,213 | 1. An electrical rotating machine comprising: a rotating shaft; a rotor formed to rotate with rotation of the rotating shaft, the rotor being equipped with permanent magnets; a stator disposed in opposed form on an outside-diametral side of the rotor via a clearance with respect to the rotor; and anti-demagnetization conductors extending in an axial direction of the rotating shaft, the conductors each being disposed inside the rotor, wherein: the anti-demagnetization conductors are provided in pairs of two for each of magnetic poles of the rotor to form a pair of anti-demagnetization conductors; wherein the pair of anti-demagnetization conductors are electrically interconnected; and inside the rotor, the pair of anti-demagnetization conductors are nonuniformly disposed at different-polarity sides of two corresponding permanent magnets in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and are arranged so that one of the pair of anti-demagnetization conductors is more adjacent to the circumference of the rotor than to the permanent magnet. | 4,315 |
9,684,361 | 1. A device comprising: a power management circuit; and a plurality of physical layers, a first of the plurality of physical layers being configured to detect changes in signals associated with a wakeup of the device, and to transmit a detection signal directly to the power management circuit based on the detection. | 5,749 |
9,728,799 | 1. A method of starting a fuel cell system, the method comprising the steps of: providing a fuel cell stack, a plurality of startup components, and at least one power source; starting the plurality of startup components using the at least one power source; connecting the fuel cell stack to a voltage bus after the fuel cell stack achieves open circuit voltage, wherein the voltage bus provides electrical communication between the fuel cell stack and at least one of the plurality of startup components; opening at least one fuel injector after the fuel cell stack achieves open circuit voltage and prior to connecting to the voltage bus; and controlling the fuel cell stack power using a load schedule to maintain a desired fuel cell voltage. | 7,947 |
9,171,268 | 1. A method for locating and providing access to a shared vehicle of a shared vehicle network, comprising, receiving, by a server, a request from a user device of a user to locate a vehicle to use for a shared period of time, the request being associated with a user account of the user; providing, by the server, an option of vehicles within a range of a location identified by the request; receiving data from the user device to identify proximity of the user device to a vehicle that is selected; examining of a user profile of the user, wherein the examining includes identifying available vehicle settings of the vehicle to determine vehicle settings that are compatible to settings defined by one or more user preferences of the user profile; transferring the user profile, wherein after transfer of the user profile the vehicle is configured to automatically set on the vehicle one or more of the available vehicle settings that are determined compatible with settings identified in one or more of the user preferences of the user profile; and receiving, by the server, use data of the vehicle while the user profile transferred to the vehicle is active, the use data being associated to the user account. | 23,433 |
8,786,223 | 1. A system for controlling a vehicle including a permanent magnet (PM) synchronous motor, the system comprising a controller configured to: control the motor with a motor current and, in the presence of a predetermined condition, alter a control angle of the motor current to increase winding loss and reduce torque ripple with respect to an optimal control angle of the motor current for minimal winding loss. | 26,539 |
9,047,882 | 1. A storage system comprising: a storage medium operable to maintain a data set; a read/write head assembly operable to write the data set to the storage medium and to read the data set from the storage medium; a multi-level encoder operable to encode the data set at a plurality of different code rates before it is written to the storage medium; and a multi-level decoder operable to decode the data set retrieved from the storage medium and to apply decoded values encoded at a lower code rate when decoding values encoded at a higher code rate, wherein the multi-level encoder is operable to encode the data set at a plurality of different code rates such that symbols encoded at different code rates in the data set are interleaved on the storage medium. | 32,843 |
8,629,782 | 1. A method for using dual telemetry for communicating with a tool associated with a drill string, the method comprising the steps of: connecting a wired drill pipe telemetry system and a mud pulse telemetry system to the tool the wired drill pipe telemetry system associated with at least a portion of the drill string, wherein the wired drill pipe is configured to transmit first data requests to the tool and further wherein the tool is configured to transmit first data corresponding to the first data requests to the wired drill pipe, wherein the wired drill pipe telemetry system has a plurality of wired drill pipe joints connected to each other that transmit the first data; the mud pulse telemetry system being configured to transmit second data requests to the tool and having a module configured to access the first data transmitted from the tool to the wired drill pipe telemetry system to obtain a portion of the first data, wherein the module uses drilling fluid traveling through the drill string to transmit the portion of the first data; wherein the wired drill pipe telemetry system and the mud pulse telemetry system have a master/slave relationship with the wired drill pipe telemetry system being configured as a master and the mud pulse telemetry system being configured as a slave; transmitting at least one of the first data requests from the wired drill pipe telemetry system to the tool wherein the mud pulse telemetry system does not transmit the second data requests if the wired drill pipe telemetry system is transmitting the first data requests; and transmitting data corresponding to the first data requests from the tool to the wired drill pipe telemetry system. | 27,173 |
8,684,173 | 1. A before-use mixing container comprising: (1) an adapter having an apical wall, an outer tube installed vertically from the apical wall, and an inner tube capable of containing a medicinal solution therein; (2) a container main body having a mouth tube section fit at an inside of the outer tube of the adapter, to be assembled so as not to be rotatable with respect to the adapter; (3) a guide cap having a fit-in tube section into which the outer tube of the adapter is pressed to fit at an inside, to be assembled so as to be rotatable with respect to the adapter; (4) a cap mounted onto the guide cap so as to be freely removable; and a movable plug that tightly plugs a lower end opening portion of the inner tube of the adapter, wherein the movable plug has an airtight-cap section for tightly plugging the lower end opening portion of the inner tube of the adapter, and an axial body which is extended upward from the airtight-cap section and is inserted through a rotation restricting hole for restricting a circumferential rotation, which is formed in the adapter, and moreover, in a state in which a leading end portion of the axial body is brought into contact with an extracting hole formed in the guide cap, an end portion of the axial body is screwed in an axial body mounting section provided inside the guide cap. | 36,499 |
9,517,355 | 1. A method of providing photo-chrono-therapy to a wound site in a human or animal subject, the method comprising: determining or receiving subject circadian and/or ultradian cycle information indicative of a biological rhythm(s) of the subject; and based on the subject cycle information, delivering a photo-chrono-dose of infrared treatment light to the wound site with wavelengths within at least one infrared wavelength range and having a dosimetry configured to promote healing at the wound site. | 22,353 |
8,822,086 | 1. A solvent for an electrolyte solution comprising at least one boric ester represented by the following formula (I), and a boric ester represented by the following formula (II): wherein, in formula (I), each R | 43,979 |
9,656,187 | 1. A fuel deoxygenation system contactor-separator, comprising: a fuel-gas mixture inlet section having a fuel-gas mixture inlet port; a fuel outlet section having a fuel outlet port; a gas outlet section having a gas outlet port; a spiral contactor-separator conduit having an inner wall and an outer wall that defines a spiral contactor-separator flow passage, the spiral contactor-separator conduit coupled to, and in fluid communication with, the fuel-gas mixture inlet section, the fuel outlet section, and the gas outlet section; and a valve element disposed between the fuel outlet port and the gas outlet port and movable between a first position, in which the spiral contactor-separator flow passage is in fluid communication with both the fuel outlet port and the gas outlet port, and a second position, in which the spiral contactor-separator flow passage is in fluid communication with the fuel outlet port and not the gas outlet port, wherein: | 27,084 |
8,486,880 | 1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising: forming a photoresist pattern on a substrate; and removing the photoresist pattern using a composition for removing a photoresist, wherein the composition for removing the photoresist comprises about 60-90 wt % of dimethyl sulfoxide, about 10-30 wt % of a polar organic solvent, about 0.5-1.5 wt % of hydroxy alkyl ammonium and about 1-10 wt % of an amine containing no hydroxyl group. | 6,296 |
9,589,995 | 1. A method for manufacturing a thin-film transistor (TFT) substrate having storage capacitors, comprising the following steps: (1) providing a substrate and depositing and patternizing a first metal layer on the substrate so as to form a gate terminal and simultaneously form a first metal electrode; (2) depositing and patternizing a gate insulation layer on the gate terminal, the first metal electrode, and the substrate so as to form a gate insulation layer through-hole; (3) depositing and patternizing an oxide semiconductor layer on the gate insulation layer; (4) subjecting the portion of the oxide semiconductor layer that is set on and covers the portion of the gate insulation layer that is located on the first metal electrode to N-type doping so as to form a first conductor electrode, wherein the first metal electrode, the first conductor electrode, and the gate insulation layer interposed therebetween constitute a first storage capacitor C (5) depositing and patternizing an etch stop layer on the first conductor electrode, the oxide semiconductor layer, and the gate insulation layer so as to form a first etch stop layer through-hole in communication with the gate insulation layer through-hole; (6) depositing and patternizing a second metal layer on the etch stop layer so as to form source/drain terminals and simultaneously form a second metal electrode, wherein the first conductor electrode, the second metal electrode, and the etch stop layer interposed therebetween constitute a second storage capacitor C (7) depositing and patternizing a protection layer on the source/drain terminals, the second metal electrode, and the etch stop layer so as to form a protection layer through-hole and a second etch stop layer through-hole in communication therewith; and (8) depositing and patternizing a pixel electrode layer on the protection layer so as to form a pixel electrode and simultaneously form a second conductor electrode, wherein the second metal electrode, the second conductor electrode, and the protection layer interposed therebetween constitute a third storage capacitor C | 22,888 |
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