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9,011,681 | 1. A mobile, self-contained water polishing system, comprising: a first containment basin, said first containment basin having an inlet for inflow of water from a collection source and containing calcium carbonate for treatment of water flowing through said polishing system and separation device to remove impurities from the water; a pump compartment, said pump compartment being in fluid communication with said first containment basin and having a pump operable to transfer water through an outlet of said pump compartment; at least a first polishing basin, said first polishing basin containing calcium carbonate for treatment of water flowing through said first polishing basin and at least a first and second pollutant collection substrate for treatment of water flowing through said polishing system, said at least first polishing basin being in fluid communication with said pump compartment; a vacuum pumping system in fluid communication with said at least first polishing basin, said pump tank, and said first containment basin and operable to draw water through said polishing system, wherein said first containment basin, pump compartment, first polishing basin, and vacuum pumping system are located within one or more means of transportation, wherein said first polishing basin is a vertical baffle wall separating an interior of said first polishing basin into first and second interior compartments, said vertical baffle wall defining at least one opening therein to allow for movement of water from said first interior compartment to said second interior compartment, and wherein said first pollutant collection substrate is positioned in said first interior compartment and said second pollutant collection substrate positioned in said second interior compartment. | 12,637 |
9,247,178 | 1. A demonstration device comprising: a handheld terminal comprising: a receiving terminal coupled to the handheld terminal, the receiving terminal comprising: wherein the receiving terminal is configured to draw a picture according to movement information of the handheld terminal when the receiving terminal is in the whiteboard mode. | 49,330 |
8,440,886 | 1. A fertile transgenic Zea mays plant containing heterologous DNA which is heritable, wherein said heterologous DNA confers a beneficial trait to the plant, wherein said beneficial trait is selected from the group consisting of pest resistance, stress tolerance, drought resistance, disease resistance, and the ability to produce a chemical, wherein the plant expresses a selectable marker gene, and wherein the plant is from a subsequent generation of a plant that is regenerated from a selected transformed cell. | 44,649 |
8,411,611 | 1. A method of setting a packet transmission path in a wireless communication network, the method comprising: determining N number of hops based on a delay time permitted with respect to a packet to be transmitted, N denoting an integer greater than or equal to two; setting N−1 routing regions including at least one node between a source node and a destination node based on the number of hops; determining a node in the routing regions as a relay node based on an estimated channel gain which is based on a threshold; wherein the source node and the relay node set transmission power based on the predetermined N number of hops, the hop distance, and the distance from the center of each of the N−1 routing regions to the boundary. | 38,951 |
9,818,757 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a plurality of first conductive layers arranged above a substrate in a first direction intersecting an upper surface of the substrate; the conductive layers including a portion in which positions of ends of the first conductive layers made different from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a transistor electrically connected to the portion of the conductive layers, the transistor comprising: a channel layer extending in the first direction; a gate electrode layer disposed in a periphery of the channel layer; and a gate insulating layer disposed between the channel layer and the gate electrode layer, wherein the gate electrode layer comprises a connecting portion extending in a third direction intersecting the first direction. | 30,114 |
8,808,923 | 1. A separator for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the separator comprising a biaxially-oriented polyolefin porous film including extended-chain crystals and folded-chain crystals, wherein: the extended-chain crystals and the folded-chain crystals form a biaxially-oriented structure in which the extended-chain crystals are rod-like crystals oriented in a first direction corresponding to an orientation direction of molecules, and the folded-chain crystals are plate-like crystals whose planes are oriented so as to cross the first direction, an average distance between the extended-chain crystals adjacent to each other is 1.5 μm or more and less than 11 μm, and an average distance between the folded-chain crystals adjacent to each other is 0.3 μm or more and less than 0.9 μm. | 44,665 |
9,252,283 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate; an oxide semiconductor stack in which a first oxide semiconductor layer, a second oxide semiconductor layer, and a third oxide semiconductor layer are stacked in this order from the substrate side over the substrate; a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer in contact with the oxide semiconductor stack; a gate insulating film over the oxide semiconductor stack, the source electrode layer, and the drain electrode layer; and a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating film, wherein the first oxide semiconductor layer comprises a first region, wherein the gate insulating film comprises a second region, wherein, when a thickness of the first region is T wherein the gate electrode layer covers a part of a side surface of the second oxide semiconductor layer through the gate insulating film. | 21,896 |
8,788,252 | 1. A method of performing nodal analysis for a multi-well petroleum production system comprising a plurality of wells coupled to a reservoir, the method comprising: for a node in the multi-well petroleum production system: determining an operating point for the node based upon the reservoir simulation. | 8,083 |
9,849,433 | 1. A reactor cartridge comprising: a body ( a core within a containment vessel having an exit nozzle; at least one elastomeric winding surrounding the containment vessel; a water line to deliver fluid to the core; an expanded PTFE tube ( wherein fluid delivered to the core via the water line urges the core to produce hydrogen via a reaction and the hydrogen permeates the ePTFE tube and is delivered to the valve. | 23,896 |
9,529,331 | 1. A conductive member adapted to electrically connect a first battery cell and a second battery cell disposed adjacent to each other, each of the first battery cell and the second battery cell having a first side and a second side that are opposed to each other, an electrode being positioned on the first side and an electrode being positioned on the second side, the conductive member comprising: a base member having flexibility; a first conductive layer disposed on one surface of the base member; and a second conductive layer disposed on the other surface of the base member, the base member being bent so as to connect the first conductive layer to the first side electrode of the first battery cell, and connect the second conductive layer to the second side electrode of the first battery cell and the first side electrode of the second battery cell, the first battery cell being provided with a first cutout, and the second battery cell being provided with a second cutout, the base member including a main body section, and a first extending section and a second extending section extending from the main body section in respective directions different from each other, the first extending section of the base member being bent at the first cutout, and pulled out toward the first side of the first battery cell, and a part of the first conductive layer disposed on the first extending section being connected to the first side electrode of the first battery cell, the second extending section of the base member being bent at the second cutout, and pulled out toward the first side of the second battery cell, and a part of the second conductive layer disposed on the second extending section being connected to the first side electrode of the second battery cell, and the main body section of the base member being located on the second side of the first battery cell and the second battery cell between the first cutout and the second cutout, and a part of the second conductive layer disposed on the main body section being connected to the second side electrode of the first battery cell. | 38,304 |
9,417,944 | 1. A master device for a bi-directional point-to-point bus, the master device comprising: a downstream two-wire bus segment interface for connection to a downstream two-wire bus segment; a transceiver having a transceiver downstream two-wire interface; first and second downstream AC couplings respectively connecting the transceiver downstream two-wire interface to the downstream two-wire bus segment interface; the transceiver configured to transmit data signals to the downstream two-wire bus segment interface via the first and second downstream AC couplings, the data signals encoded to allow downstream slave devices to derive clocking information; and at least one circuit monitoring device coupled to the downstream two-wire bus segment interface to detect at least one of an open wire situation at the master device, a short circuit situation at the master device, a short of a negative wire to ground or other low voltage sink, a short of a positive wire to ground or other low voltage sink, a short of a positive wire to a high-voltage source, a short of a negative wire to a high-voltage source, or a reverse polarity. | 4,892 |
9,699,575 | 1. A device for emitting sound to an ear of a user, comprising: a shell adapted to fit within an ear canal of the user and including a compartment therein, the shell having a first face for facing toward an interior of the ear and a second face for facing toward the surroundings of the user, the shell providing a venting passage between the first and second faces for permitting air to pass between the first and second faces, the first face including an opening that leads to the compartment; a closing member positioned at the opening for closing off the compartment; and a receiver unit mounted within the compartment by suspension elements, the opening of the first face being shaped to allow the receiver unit to be inserted into the compartment though the opening, the compartment being acoustically connected to the venting passage such that sound emitted by the receiver unit is guided from the compartment and out of the shell via the venting passage. | 42,712 |
8,619,779 | 1. A method of incorporating resources of a cloud network into a private enterprise network, the method comprising: creating, by a Cloud Data Center, a logical customer edge router in the Cloud Data Center in the cloud network; receiving, by the Cloud Data Center, an IP subnet that is within an address space of the private enterprise network; allocating, by the Cloud Data Center, an IP address from the IP subnet to a plurality of resources within a logical network in the cloud network comprising resources allocated to the private enterprise network; adding, by the logical customer edge router, a routing entry for said IP subnet at a virtual routing and forwarding table at the Cloud Data Center; forwarding, by the logical customer edge router, the routing entry to at least one customer edge router in the private enterprise network; and adding, by the logical customer edge router, a default entry in a directory server at the Cloud Data Center, the default entry mapping a plurality of IP addresses associated with devices belonging to the private enterprise network to at least one IP address of the logical customer edge router in the Cloud Data Center. | 12,231 |
8,929,949 | 1. A mobile terminal, comprising: a casing; a motion sensing unit provided within the casing and configured to gather motion data of the mobile terminal; a judging unit connected to the motion sensing unit and configured to judge whether the mobile terminal is performing a predetermined motion based on the motion data gathered by the motion sensing unit; a generating unit connected to the judging unit and configured to generate an operation instruction when the judging unit judges that the mobile terminal is performing the predetermined motion; and a transmitting unit connected to the generating unit and configured to transmit the operation instruction together with content inputted by a user of the mobile terminal to another terminal, the another terminal performing a vibration operation in response to the operation instruction while outputting the content. | 6,443 |
9,102,334 | 1. A method comprising: determining a machine operation path that a machine is planned to follow; determining forecast weather conditions; determining, via a processor, a projected component health parameter of a first motor of the machine based on the forecast weather conditions and the machine following the machine operation path; comparing, via the processor, the projected component health parameter to a first threshold; and issuing an alert when the projected component health parameter meets the first threshold. | 49,481 |
9,337,186 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor body comprising a diode-structure with a pn-junction; and an edge-termination structure arranged in a peripheral area of the semiconductor body, the edge-termination structure comprising: | 29,903 |
9,038,709 | 1. A thermal energy storage material system comprising: a. a container having a wall surface; and b. a thermal energy storage material in at least partial contact with the wall surface, wherein the thermal energy storage material is a metal containing compound comprising wherein the thermal energy storage material has a liquidus temperature, T L , from 100° C. to 250° C. | 1,861 |
8,400,030 | 1. A dispersant additive composition comprising a reaction product of (a) a hydrocarbyl substituted carboxylic acid or anhydride and (b) an amine, wherein the reaction product has a nitrogen content ranging from about 2400 ppm up to 10,000 ppm by weight, and a boron plus phosphorus to nitrogen ((B+P)/N) weight ratio of from 0:1 to about 0.8:1, and wherein the dispersant additive composition in combination with a metal detergent is effective to provide an electrical conductivity to a lubricant composition of from about 300 pS/m to less than 1700 pS/m. | 24,525 |
9,167,875 | 1. A protection case for an electronic device, comprising: a hollow baseboard; a hollow sidewall extending from a periphery of the baseboard towards a same direction and defining a receiving space in cooperation with the baseboard to receive the electronic device; and at least one buffering module received in the baseboard and the sidewall; wherein the hollow baseboard and the sidewall are filled with water, and the at least one buffering module releases active metal powder into the water when the protection case is impacted by an external force. | 29,106 |
8,482,015 | 1. An LED light emitting apparatus, comprising: a substrate having a first edge and a second edge that is faced to the first edge and parallel to the first edge, and a conductive pattern provided on an upper surface of the substrate, the conductive pattern having a first bonding area which lies on a first edge side of the substrate and a second bonding area which lies on a second edge side of the substrate; an LED chip having a first edge and a second edge that is faced to the first edge and parallel to the first edge, and having a first pad electrode which lies on a first edge side of the LED chip, and a second pad electrode which lies on a second edge side of the LED chip, the first and second pad electrodes being provided on two diagonal corners of an upper surface of the LED chip, the LED chip being mounted on the substrate so that the first edge of the LED chip and the first edge of the substrate become parallel to each other at intervals and the second edge of the LED chip and the second edge of the substrate become parallel to each other at intervals; a first wire installed between the first pad electrode and the first bonding area; and a second wire installed between the second electrode and the second bonding area; wherein an installing direction of the first wire from the first pad electrode, as viewed from thereabove, is inclined at 15 to 40 degrees relative to a first orthogonal moving-away direction extending toward the first edge of the substrate from the first edge of the LED chip that is orthogonal to the first edge of the LED chip; and wherein an installing direction of the second wire from the second pad electrode, as viewed from thereabove, is inclined at 15 to 40 degrees relative to a second orthogonal moving-away direction extending toward the second edge of the substrate from the second edge of the LED chip that is orthogonal to the second edge of the LED chip. | 23,011 |
8,341,894 | 1. An active enclosure for use in buildings comprising: two transparent or translucent panes having a top and a bottom defining a height dimension, and fixed to a frame that build up a liquid chamber through which a liquid flows in closed circuit and free or absorb energy from outer and inner environments; a hydrostatic pressure reducer device connected to the liquid chamber through a perforation, the hydrostatic pressure reducer device housing a liquid column separate from the liquid chamber, wherein the liquid column has a constant height equal to one half of the height dimension between the top and the bottom of the transparent or translucent panes; wherein said closed circuit comprises the liquid chamber fed through inlet holes of a distributor, a collector gathering the liquid coming from the liquid chamber through outlet holes and whose exit is connected to a circulation pump, a heat exchanger fed by the circulation pump and whose outlet is connected to the distributor. | 1,237 |
9,648,811 | 1. A system for aeroponic plant growth, the system comprising: N growing units, where N is an integer greater than 1, each growing unit comprising: N−1 supply plumbing sections, each supply plumbing section connecting a submersible pump in a corresponding one of the growing units to a spray manifold in one other of the plurality of growing units, such that a linear array of growing units linked by supply plumbing sections is formed; one drain plumbing section connecting the Nth growing unit to the first growing unit, such that a closed loop of N growing units linked by N−1 supply plumbing sections and one drain plumbing section is formed; and an electronic cyclic sequencer, operatively connected to each of the N submersible pumps. | 31,811 |
9,322,327 | 1. A single-stage turbocharger assembly, comprising: a catalytic exhaust gas treatment device that requires heating to at least a minimum temperature in order to become effective for treating exhaust gases to reduce emissions; an exhaust line arranged for conveying exhaust gases from an engine to the catalytic exhaust gas treatment device; a 3-way valve disposed in the exhaust line, the valve defining a primary through-passage that, when open, conveys exhaust gases from the exhaust line directly to the catalytic exhaust gas treatment device, the valve further defining a bypass passage that, when open, diverts a bypass flow of exhaust gases away from the primary through-passage; and a single-stage turbocharger comprising a compressor wheel mounted within a compressor housing and a turbine wheel mounted within a turbine housing and connected to the compressor wheel by a shaft, the turbine housing defining an exhaust gas net connected to a turbine volute that surrounds the turbine wheel, the turbine housing further defining an exhaust gas exit for discharging exhaust gases that have passed through the turbine wheel; | 19,775 |
8,373,361 | 1. Greenhouse system for providing illumination to plants in a greenhouse for the benefit of plant growth, the system comprising a lamp or lamps for the illumination of the plants inside the greenhouse; a sensor or sensors for measuring wavelength distribution of actual light in the greenhouse; and a controller coupled to the lamp or lamps and the sensor or sensors and configured to control the lamp or lamps in dependency of the output of the sensor or sensors by varying intensity and spectral distribution of the light emitted by the lamp or lamps in dependency of the output of the sensor or sensors for measuring the wavelength distribution. | 49,323 |
8,344,716 | 1. A switching power supply comprising: a circuit including at least two reactive components, wherein the circuit provides an output voltage and is switched from one output voltage state to another output voltage state; at least one switching component operatively connected to switch the circuit between at least two switching states, wherein the at least two switching states include the one output voltage state and the another output voltage state; a driver component operatively connected to drive the at least one switching component to cause switching between two of the at least two switching states; a compensator component operatively connected to receive an input control signal and parameters, and to provide the at least two switching states to the driver component; a signal generator to provide sinusoidal basis signals having in-phase and quadrature components as input to the switching power supply; at least one correlator to receive the basis signals from the signal generator and at least one power supply signal from the switching power supply, and to provide at least one correlation between the at least one power supply signal and one of the in-phase and quadrature components; and a processor to: | 44,566 |
9,520,573 | 1. A light emitting device comprising: a pair of electrodes comprising an anode and a cathode; an emissive layer comprising electroluminescent quantum dots disposed between the electrodes, wherein the quantum dots comprise a core comprising a first semiconductor material and an outer shell surrounding the core, the outer shell comprising a second semiconductor material; a first layer comprising an electron injection and transport material comprising nanoparticles of an n-doped inorganic semiconductor, the first layer being in contact with the cathode and positioned between the emissive layer and the cathode, wherein the n-doped inorganic semiconductor comprises zinc oxide, titanium oxide, or a mixture including at least one of the foregoing that is n-doped, and a second layer comprising an electron transport material comprising nanoparticles of an inorganic semiconductor, the second layer being disposed between the emissive layer and the first layer, wherein the second layer has a lower electron conductivity than the first layer, and wherein the device has a peak external quantum efficiency of at least 14% when measured over the voltage range of 1 V to 10 V. | 1,570 |
9,712,889 | 1. A method for decreased latency during a skip-ahead trick-mode operation, the method comprising: receiving, from a storage device, a stream of video data; transcoding, as temporally current content, the received stream of video data by using a first transcoder; retrieving, from the storage device, forward content, which is associated with a predetermined forward time offset with respect to the temporally current content; transcoding the forward content by using a second transcoder to generate a second transcoder output; providing the transcoded temporally current content to a client device; receiving a skip-ahead trick-mode request from the client device; responding to the skip-ahead trick-mode request by providing an output of the second transcoder to the client device; and retrieving from the storage device a new forward content associated with a first forward time offset with respect to a time associated with the second transcoder output and assigning the first transcoder to transcode the new forward content. | 24,982 |
9,183,155 | 1. A microprocessor, comprising: a processor core, providing a fetch address of an instruction stream, wherein the instruction stream comprises one or more instructions, and wherein the fetch address comprises a tag and an index; and an instruction loop cache, receiving the fetch address from the processor core, comprising: a cache array, coupled to the processor core, storing a first predetermined number of cache entries, wherein each said cache entry comprises a tag identification (ID), and wherein the cache array outputs the tag ID of the cache entry indicated by the index of the fetch address; and a tag storage, coupled to the processor core and the cache array, configured to store a second predetermined number of tag values and output the tag value indicated by the tag ID output by the cache array, wherein the instruction loop cache determines whether a cache hit or a cache miss occurs based on a bitwise comparison between the tag of the fetch address and the tag value output by the tag storage. | 11,297 |
8,403,952 | 1. A method comprising: straightening a flexible tubular anchor that includes a material that has an elastic memory which biases the anchor towards assuming a pre-selected curved configuration, by inserting a straightening rod into a central core extending from an open proximal end toward a distal end of the anchor; inserting, into a stomach of a subject, the straightened anchor with the rod therein, and a therapeutic device comprising a balloon, coupled to a portion of the anchor; and while the anchor is in the stomach, removing the anchor from the rod, thereby allowing the anchor to assume the entire pre-selected curved configuration in the stomach; and inflating the balloon in the stomach. | 250 |
9,581,357 | 1. A solar energy concentration system comprising: a curved lower solar reflective dish; a curved solar concentrator that is smaller than the curved solar reflective dish located on the focal line of the curved solar reflective dish a distance above the curved solar reflective dish, the curved solar reflective dish reflecting input light rays onto the curved solar concentrator; a deformable solar concentrator with moveable supports to adjust a shape of the deformable solar concentrator mounted directly below the curved solar concentrator to receive the concentrated light rays reflected from the curved solar concentrator, the deformable solar concentrator having a width W and length L; a controller for storing and executing a set of instruction to control a shape of the deformable concentrator to focus the reflected concentrated light rays onto a focal collector that comprises a solar thermal device selected from one of a sterling engine and a heat sink and a fiber optics collector; and a mirror point list used by the controller to adjust the shape of the deformable solar concentrator based on a sun angle, wherein the solar energy concentration system only has one dimensional axis of rotation during operation. | 35,739 |
9,784,159 | 1. A method performed during a start of an engine, the engine comprising at least one cylinder with its associated piston, to reduce undesired emissions from the engine, and a SCR catalytic converter for the cleaning of exhaust gases is arranged in an exhaust passage at the engine, the method comprising: during the start of the engine, determining a temperature of the SCR catalytic converter; setting a set length of a certain delay in a dosage of a fuel to the engine based on the temperature of the SCR catalytic converter; activating the dosage of the fuel by applying the certain delay for the set length in the dosage of the fuel, relative to a dosing when a crankshaft angle is 0 degrees, to reduce development of heat that results from combustion of the fuel; and deactivating the dosage of the fuel with the certain delay when the temperature of the SCR catalytic converter is above a pre-determined temperature, wherein the pre-determined temperature is to reduce or to minimize a risk that yellow smoke or brown smoke is emitted from the SCR catalytic converter. | 18,823 |
9,611,798 | 1. A control device of an internal combustion engine, comprising: an operation state detection portion that detects an operation state of an internal combustion engine; a target intake air flow rate calculation portion that calculates a target intake air flow rate based on the operation state of the internal combustion engine; a throttle that is provided to an intake channel of the internal combustion engine; a throttle opening control portion that variably controls an intake amount into the internal combustion engine by varying an effective opening area of the intake channel by controlling a throttle opening of the throttle; a throttle opening detection portion that detects the throttle opening; a pressure detection portion that detects a pressure of air adjacent to the throttle on a side of the internal combustion engine as an intake manifold pressure; an intake air temperature detection portion that detects an intake air temperature of air adjacent to the throttle; an intake air flow rate detection portion that detects an intake air flow rate into the internal combustion engine; and an atmospheric pressure estimation portion that estimates an atmospheric pressure used in a calculation which calculates a target throttle opening of the internal combustion engine, wherein: the atmospheric pressure estimation portion includes: an effective opening area calculation portion that calculates an effective opening area corresponding to the throttle opening from an estimated atmospheric pressure, the intake air flow rate, the intake manifold pressure, and the intake air temperature, a throttle opening learning value calculation portion that calculates a learning value based on a set relation map which maps a stored effective opening area to a stored throttle opening and further based on a relation of the effective opening area and the throttle opening, a learning value range determination portion that determines whether the relation of the effective opening area and the throttle opening is within a predetermined learning value range, an error variation calculation portion that calculates an error variation from an error between the relation map which maps the stored effective opening area and the stored throttle opening and a relation map which maps an effective opening area and a throttle opening and is corrected according to the learning value, a variation range determination portion that determines whether the error variation is within a predetermined range, an atmospheric pressure estimated value update portion that updates a value of the estimated atmospheric pressure in a case where the relation of the effective opening area and the throttle opening is out of the predetermined learning value range and the error variation is out of the predetermined range, and a target throttle opening calculation portion that calculates the target throttle opening using the value of the estimated atmospheric pressure that is updated by the atmospheric pressure estimated value update portion; and the throttle opening is controlled to be the target throttle opening. | 29,135 |
8,624,519 | 1. A method to control and regulate a power supply attached to a non-linear plasma load comprising the steps of: utilizing a multi-parametric load line intercept control of a series source impedance; sequencing of a voltage and a frequency control; allowing a highly dynamic gas plasma load curve to be tracked through a load dynamic without a loss of conduction or plasma stability; shaping of an initial current, as a load is energized during a conduction cycle, wherein a means of feedback is provided as to the appropriateness and quality of the adjustment. | 36,192 |
9,359,058 | 1. An outboard marine propulsion device comprising: an internal combustion engine; at least one engine cooling passage that conveys cooling water through the internal combustion engine; an exhaust manifold that comprises a plurality of exhaust runners and an exhaust log, wherein the plurality of exhaust runners axially conveys exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine to the exhaust log; and a cooling jacket on the exhaust manifold, wherein the cooling jacket comprises an exhaust log cooling jacket that conveys the cooling water along an outer surface of the exhaust log and a plurality of exhaust runner cooling passages that each axially convey the cooling water along an outer surface of a respective one of the plurality of exhaust runners from the exhaust log cooling jacket to the at least one engine cooling passage. | 44,994 |
9,439,585 | 1. An analyte sensor, comprising: a substrate including a core of conductive material and a cladding of a semiconductor material, wherein the cladding is disposed around the core, a protective layer disposed concentrically around, immediately adjacent, and in contact with the substrate, the protective layer including a base layer positioned between a reference electrode and the cladding, wherein an additional layer covers the reference electrode, and a working electrode formed from a portion of the cladding not covered by the protective layer, the working electrode being at least partially coated with an electrochemically-active layer formed from at least one of a noble metal, carbon nanotubes, and a conductive polymer, an active region positioned on the substrate and adapted to be exposed to a fluid environment, the active region including an agent on the electrochemically-active layer on the working electrode. | 44,280 |
9,032,456 | 1. A method for playing alternate content during playing of a video segment at a receiver, comprising: detecting, at the receiver, a beginning of the video segment during playing of a multimedia program; receiving information, at the receiver, from a service provider, identifying a plurality of alternate contents to present while fast-forwarding, the plurality of alternate contents comprising particular alternate content and extended alternate content, the extended alternate content being an extended version of the particular alternate content; responsive to fast-forwarding during the video segment, the receiver presenting at least one of the plurality of alternate contents, including the particular alternate content; responsive to receiving a request to pause certain alternate content of the plurality of alternate contents, retrieving and presenting a print version of the certain alternate content that comprises one or more of product information, contact information, or a store location; responsive to receiving particular input while presenting the particular alternate content, presenting the extended alternate content; after presenting the extended alternate content, resuming playback of the multimedia program at the end of the video segment; wherein the method is performed by the receiver, comprising at least one processor. | 27,740 |
8,992,654 | 1. A method for manufacture of a fertilizer comprising: providing an organic material containing biosolids wherein the organic material has a solids content of at least ten percent; adding an odor control agent to the organic material to create a mixture; adding an acid to the mixture under a first pressure and elevated temperature for a first period of time forming a liquefied mixture; adding ammonia to the liquefied mixture under a second pressure and elevated temperature for a second period of time; and processing the liquefied mixture to form the fertilizer. | 16,021 |
9,800,157 | 1. A switching regulator, comprising: a feedback resistor divider for outputting a feedback voltage representative of a voltage at an output terminal of the switching regulator; a reference voltage circuit configured to generate a reference voltage; a comparator, which includes a first input terminal connected to an output terminal of the feedback resistor divider, and a second input terminal connected to an output terminal of the reference voltage circuit, and which is configured to compare the feedback voltage and the reference voltage to each other; a light load mode detecting circuit configured to detect a light load mode; a first switch directly connected between the output terminal of the feedback resistor divider and the first input terminal of the comparator; and a second switch directly connected between the first input terminal of the comparator and the second input terminal of the comparator, the switching regulator being configured to control, based on a signal output from the comparator, a power FET connected between a voltage input terminal and the output terminal of the switching regulator, to thereby output a desired output voltage, the first switch being turned off and the second switch being turned on when the comparator switches an operation current based on a detection signal from the light load mode detecting circuit indicating the light load mode. | 30,141 |
8,961,884 | 1. An electric heating catalyst comprising: a heat generating element which generates heat by applying electricity; a case which accommodates the heat generating element; an inner tube which is provided between the heat generating element and the case; and a mat which is provided between the heat generating element and the inner tube and between the inner tube and the case and which insulates the electricity, wherein: the inner tube protrudes from the mat toward an upstream side and a downstream side in a flow direction of an exhaust gas, the inner tube is composed of at least two substances having different thermal conductivities, the substance having the lower thermal conductivity is arranged on an inner side as compared with a surface, and the substance having the higher thermal conductivity is arranged to surround the substance having the lower thermal conductivity. | 40,374 |
9,505,647 | 1. A method of manufacturing a barrel-integrated lens, in which a molded glass product is molded integrally with a barrel made of metal by means of a molten glass drop molding method, said molten glass drop molding method being a method of, providing a lower die and an upper die, dropping a molten glass drop on said lower die, and then press molding said molten glass drop by said lower die and said upper die, said lower die including a lower cylindrical die, said lower cylindrical die having an optical surface for applying pressure to said molten glass drop at an upper end face of the lower cylindrical die and extending toward said upper die, said upper die including an upper cylindrical die, said upper cylindrical die being opposed to said lower cylindrical die, having an optical surface for applying pressure to said molten glass drop at a lower end face of the upper cylindrical die, and extending toward said lower die, said barrel including a through opening extending in an axial direction, said through opening including said method of manufacturing a barrel-integrated lens comprising the steps of: inserting said lower cylindrical die into said through opening from a side of said first cylindrical opening of said through opening such that an upper end portion of said lower cylindrical die is positioned part way in the axial direction of said first cylindrical opening to expose a portion of an inner circumferential surface of said first cylindrical opening; dropping a prescribed amount of said molten glass drop from a side of said second cylindrical opening such that said molten glass drop forms a substantially spherical shape by surface tension, while not contacting an exposed opening surface of said connection opening, said molten glass drop disposed in a region bounded by said upper end face of said lower cylindrical die and the portion of the inner circumferential surface of said first cylindrical opening; and inserting said upper cylindrical die into said through opening from the side of said second cylindrical opening, and press molding said molten glass drop by said lower cylindrical die and said upper cylindrical die such that said molten glass drop is pressure welded to said connection opening. | 497 |
9,705,947 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a hardware identifier associated with a streaming player at a server, wherein the streaming player is configured to receive on-demand services for display on a communicatively coupled video display; determining streaming player attributes based at least in part on the hardware identifier, wherein the streaming player attributes comprise a hardware or software configuration of the streaming player; determining demographic data based at least in part on the hardware identifier, wherein the demographic data is associated with a user of the streaming player; receiving criteria from a provider of available content, wherein the criteria specifies streaming player attributes and demographic data associated with providing the available content to the streaming player; selecting content for the user of the streaming player from the available content based at least in part on the determined streaming player attributes and the determined demographic data at least partially satisfying the criteria; and providing information associated with the selected content to the streaming player. | 4,802 |
9,440,538 | 1. A housekeeping circuit for use within a vehicle comprising: a multi-tapped transformer configured to step-down a high voltage input to at least a first low voltage output and a second low voltage output, the first low voltage output being used to power a first load within the vehicle and the second low voltage output being used to power a second load within the vehicle; and a trickle circuit configured to provide a trickle current to a battery of the vehicle when the multi-tapped transformer is active, wherein the trickle circuit is further configured to provide a first current from the battery to the first load when the multi-tapped transformer is inactive, and wherein the trickle current is a fixed current establishing a minimum load on the first voltage output. | 9,227 |
9,417,232 | 1. A system for enabling a first user to actively communicate its sobriety to a second user by self-administering a breath test in accordance with a schedule, the system comprising: a portable, cordless, handheld breath testing device operable to receive the first user's breath during the self-administered breath test and determine whether alcohol is present within the first user, the breath testing device including: a web-based server communicatively coupled to the handheld breath testing device, the server including a user-interface and a database; wherein the controller includes a first processor and a first non-transitory computer-readable medium containing a first sequence of instructions that, when executed by the first processor, causes the breath testing device to execute the following operations: wherein the server further includes a second processor and a second non-transitory computer-readable medium containing a second sequence of instructions that, when executed by the second processor, causes the server to execute the following operations: | 44,216 |
9,199,635 | 1. A vehicle comprising: at least one electric machine; a fraction battery; a voltage boost converter electrically connecting the at least one electric machine and traction battery; and at least one controller programmed to, in response to a request for drive mode while in a driver selected coastdown mode that disables one or more powertrain circuits, enable the boost converter and drive an output voltage of the boost converter to a predetermined target, in response to the output voltage achieving the predetermined target, enable the at least one electric machine and drive a current through the at least one electric machine to zero such that an output torque of the at least one electric machine is approximately zero, and in response to the current achieving approximately zero, increase the current through the at least one electric machine such that the output torque is greater than zero. | 8,562 |
9,847,524 | 1. A method for manufacturing a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell, comprising: (A) preparing a pre-cell comprising: (B) carrying out an anode aging treatment that is a charge-discharge cycle treatment of applying a voltage between the cathode and the anode of the prepared pre-cell; (C) subsequently carrying out a cathode activating treatment that is a charge-discharge cycle treatment of applying a voltage between the cathode and the anode, the cathode activating treatment carried out by applying a voltage lower than a potential plateau region of the cathode active material; and (D) subsequently applying a voltage within a range of 4.5 V to 4.8 V that is a voltage within or over the potential plateau region of the cathode active material. | 38,900 |
9,716,868 | 1. A color filter array comprising: a plurality of tiled minimal repeating units, each minimal repeating unit including at least: | 6,153 |
9,654,052 | 1. A method of installing a solar structure comprising, sequentially: implanting at least two anchor posts on a ground portion in an aligned position; placing a pivot support having a pivot axis (X) at a free end of each of the anchor posts above the ground portion; aligning each pivot axis (X) of each pivot support with one another in a predetermined direction; fixing each pivot support to a respective anchor post, wherein the fixing step includes a step of drilling fixing orifices in the anchor posts followed by a step of screwing on the pivot supports; and placing the solar structure on the pivot supports. | 14,939 |
9,137,754 | 1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: transmitting a random access channel (RACH) preamble at a maximum transmit power during each frame of a plurality of consecutive frames of a first time period; and adjusting, when a RACH response has not been received during the first time period, a transmit power of RACH preamble transmissions for a plurality of consecutive frames of a second time period to alternate between the maximum transmit power and a zero transmit power. | 28,230 |
8,520,292 | 1. A process for forming an electrophoretic display, comprising the steps of: a) filling display cells with an electrophoretic fluid comprising charged pigment particles dispersed in a dielectric solvent; b) coating a sealing composition comprising a solvent onto the electrophroetic fluid in each of the filled display cells; and c) hardening the sealing composition by evaporation of the solvent while the sealing composition is on top of said electrophoretic fluid. | 40,280 |
9,319,950 | 1. A method for a wireless local access network, the method performed by a first station operating in a power save mode, the method comprising: transmitting, to a second station, a multi-band switch request message for requesting a switching from a first frequency band to a second frequency band, the second frequency band including a plurality of channels, wherein the multi-hand switch request message includes switching channel information indicating the second frequency band and a wakeup schedule for periodically operating in the power save mode in the second frequency band; receiving, from the second station, a multi-band switch response message in response to the multi-band switch request message, the multi-band switch response message comprising a status code indicating a success or a failure cause of the switching from the first frequency band to the second frequency band; and if the status code indicates the success, switching from the first frequency band to the second frequency band, wherein the wakeup schedule includes a start time field and a duration field, the start time field indicates a start time of an operation in the power save mode and a duration field indicates a duration of the operation in the power save mode, and wherein the switching channel information includes channel number information specifying at least one channel of the plurality of channels to be operated in the second frequency band. | 25,726 |
9,707,349 | 1. An antiseptic cap assembly for use with an access site comprising: a cap comprising: an absorbent material within the cap having an antiseptic substance prior to contacting a distal surface of the access site; and a housing comprising: | 41,195 |
8,787,558 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a processor configured to: determine a power management (PM) state from a plurality of PM states for a digital subscriber line (DSL) transceiver, wherein the plurality of PM states comprise an idle state, a full on state, and a low power state, wherein the full on state consumes more power than the low power state, wherein the low power state consumes more power than the idle state, and wherein the DSL transceiver supports a very high speed digital subscriber line 2 (VDSL2) data transmission protocol; instruct the DSL transceiver to use the PM state; and instruct the DSL transceiver to transition from a first PM profile corresponding to the PM state to a second PM profile corresponding to the PM state using a PM command that comprises a profile index that identifies the second PM profile. | 38,654 |
9,406,447 | 1. A method for producing a photoelectrode, the method comprising: forming a mesoporous inorganic oxide layer on a conductive substrate using a composition containing neutral mesoporous inorganic oxide particles; forming a pattern on the mesoporous inorganic oxide layer using an elastic stamp for pattern formation; adsorbing a dye to the mesoporous inorganic oxide layer on which the pattern is formed and injecting a hole transfer material into the mesoporous inorganic oxide layer in which the dye is adsorbed. | 7,146 |
9,393,516 | 1. A system for producing carbon dioxide comprising: a collection subsystem configured to collect a process gas from a source, said process gas comprising a hydrocarbon; a combustion subsystem configured to combust said hydrocarbon in said process gas and output a gaseous combustion effluent, wherein said gaseous combustion effluent comprises carbon dioxide and water; and a separation subsystem comprising: | 7,008 |
9,794,126 | 1. A binary data encoding system for compressing a sequence of binary data, the binary data encoding system comprising: a microprocessor; and computer-readable memory encoded with instructions that, when executed by the microprocessor, cause the binary data encoding system to: receive a sequence of words of binary data; compare pairs of adjacent words of the sequence, and to determine a difference between a second word and a first word of each of the pairs of adjacent words; select a subword size from a set of predetermined subword sizes, the selected subword size being a minimum one of the set of predetermined subword sizes that are capable of representing the determined difference between the second word and the first word of each of the pairs of adjacent words; generate a size tag and a corresponding subword of the selected subword size, the size tag indicative of the selected subword size and the corresponding subword representing the determined difference between the second word and the first word of each of the pairs of adjacent words; and output the generated size tag and subword. | 40,346 |
9,276,152 | 1. A photovoltaic cell tab comprising: a front contact portion having a top surface and a bottom surface and a first profile; and a back contact portion having a second profile, wherein the first profile is formed such that the top surface is laterally folded under the bottom surface such that a top surface of the front contact portion is configured to contact a photovoltaic front contact and the profile provides an interior void. | 8,051 |
8,795,196 | 1. A micro spike comprising: a main body part capable of being mounted on a medical device and configured for insertion into a patient body along with said medical device for sampling a tissue sample from an organ in the patient body; at least four extension parts configured for insertion into the tissue of the organ in the patient body for sampling the tissue sample and are integrally extended toward the direction of the patient body in which the main body part is inserted, and are extensions on the upper, lower, left and right parts of one side of the main body part; and protrusion parts integrally protruded from side surfaces of the extension parts which are opposite to each other and configured for insertion into the tissue to sample the tissue sample together with the extension parts for sampling the tissue sample; wherein the width between said extension parts (t) is narrower than the width of said main body part (x), wherein the protrusion parts are not formed on the outer side surfaces of the extension part on the left-most part and the extension part on the right-most part, and are inclined toward an opposite direction from a direction spiking the patient body so that an angle between the protrusion part and the extension part is an acute angle, wherein at least one of the protrusion parts are formed on the side surfaces of each extension part to face each other. | 1,892 |
8,681,121 | 1. An electrostatic capacitive coupling type touch panel having: an input region; and a plurality of wirings formed around the input region; the input region having a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes crossing the X electrodes; the plurality of wirings respectively being connected to corresponding electrodes of the plurality of X electrodes and the plurality of Y electrodes; wherein the plurality of wirings respectively have: a conductive layer; and a metal layer formed on the conductive layer; wherein the conductive layer is formed to have a width greater than that of the metal layer; wherein the plurality of wirings have a corner; and wherein, in a wiring provided in a farthest position from the input region, among the plurality of wirings, an outer edge of the corner of the metal layer is chamfered and an outer edge of the corner of the conductive layer is not chamfered. | 28,497 |
9,034,348 | 1. A chitosan composition which forms a hydrogel at near physiological pH and at 37° C., comprising at least one acetylated chitosan having a degree of acetylation in the range of from about 30% to about 60%, and at least one deacetylated chitosan having a degree of deacetylation that is about 70% to about 95%, the composition being in the form of an aqueous solution at neutral pH, wherein the ratio of said acetylated chitosan to said deacetylated chitosan in the composition is in the range of 1:1 to 4:1. | 15,057 |
9,653,946 | 1. A power distribution system, comprising: at least one server; and a power distribution unit coupled to the at least one server, wherein the power distribution unit comprises: | 34,857 |
9,810,132 | 1. A catalyst deterioration diagnosis apparatus that diagnoses deterioration of a catalyst converter to which exhaust gas of an engine is introduced, the apparatus comprising: an upstream side air-fuel ratio detector configured to detect an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas being introduced to the catalyst converter; a downstream side air-fuel ratio detector configured to detect an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas being discharged from the catalyst converter; an air-fuel ratio variation integrator configured to calculate an output variation integrated value of the upstream side air-fuel ratio detector and an output variation integrated value of the downstream side air-fuel ratio detector when a predetermined diagnosis running condition is satisfied; and a determiner configure to determine catalyst deterioration of the catalyst converter when the output variation integrated value of the upstream side air-fuel ratio detector exceeds a predetermined integration ending threshold, and further when a ratio of the output variation integrated value of the downstream side air-fuel ratio detector to the output variation integrated value of the upstream side air-fuel ratio detector exceeds a predetermined determination threshold, wherein the air-fuel ratio variation integrator is configured to hold the current output variation integrated value of the upstream side air-fuel ratio detector and the current output variation integrated value of the downstream side air-fuel ratio detector when the engine stops operating and the diagnosis running condition becomes unsatisfied before the output variation integrated value of the upstream side air-fuel ratio detector reaches the integration ending threshold, the air-fuel ratio variation integrator is configured to resume integration of the output variation integrated values using the held output variation integrated value of the upstream side air-fuel ratio detector and the held output variation integrated value of the downstream side air-fuel ratio detector as initial values when later the engine restarts and the diagnosis running condition is satisfied again, and the air-fuel ratio variation integrator is configured to reset the output variation integrated value of the upstream side air-fuel ratio detector and the output variation integrated value of the downstream side air-fuel ratio detector when a remaining amount of fuel is equal to or less than a predetermined lower limit at an end of operation of the engine. | 28,826 |
8,981,957 | 1. A method for remote operation of a downhole tool positioned in a subterranean wellbore extending from the surface and through at least one hydrocarbon-bearing zone, the method comprising the steps of: maneuvering an untethered, first mobile device from the surface through an interior passageway defined in a downhole tubular extending through the wellbore and on to a substantially annular first seat positioned in an interior passageway defined in a downhole tool positioned in the wellbore; transferring an electrical signal between the first mobile device and the downhole tool; powering the downhole tool utilizing the first mobile device, wherein the first mobile device substantially restricts fluid flow through the interior passageway, wherein the fluid flow is altered by the first mobile device to operate a power producing assembly operably connected to power the downhole tool; removing the first mobile device from the downhole tool; maneuvering an untethered, second mobile device from the surface through the interior passageway defined in the downhole tubular extending through the wellbore and on to a substantially annular second seat positioned in an interior passageway defined in the downhole tool; transferring an electrical signal between the downhole tool and the second mobile device; operating the downhole tool; operating one or more additional downhole tools positioned in the wellbore in response to a transfer of an electrical signal from the first or second mobile device to the downhole tool; removing the second mobile device from the second seat; and transferring data from the first or second mobile device at the surface. | 19,977 |
8,812,946 | 1. A computerized method for generating an online collaborative editable document to be rendered by a web browser, comprising: receiving, at a server, a raw online collaborative editable document, having one or more data objects including one or more graphical elements and one or more textual elements, wherein the raw online collaborative editable document is configured to be rendered in a graphical format in a web browser and the raw document includes one or more presentation slides, one or more spreadsheets, or one or more word-processing document pages; identifying, at the server, the one or more graphical elements from the raw document, and generating a graphical data file including the one or more identified graphical elements; identifying, at the server, the one or more textual elements from the raw document, and generating a textual data file including the one or more identified textual elements, wherein the textual data file includes Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) data and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) data, wherein generating the textual data file including the one or more textual elements includes identifying the one or more textual elements in the document and generating the textual data file having HTML data and CSS data representative of content and appearance of only the one or more identified textual elements; identifying, at the server, alignment of the one or more graphical elements and alignment of the one or more textual elements; adding, at the server, HTML and CSS data to the textual data file to include the graphical data file, thereby generating a composite document, wherein the CSS data aligns graphical elements with textual elements matching the alignment of the one or more graphical elements and the one or more textual elements in the raw document; and wherein, when rendered by the web browser, the textual data file overlays the graphical data file such that alignment, content and appearance of one or more graphical elements and one or more textual elements of the composite document are the same as the alignment, content and appearance of the one or more graphical elements and the one or more textual elements of the raw document. | 4,378 |
8,999,387 | 1. A method for treating pain comprising administering a solid oral unit dose of a pharmaceutical composition containing 18 mg of diclofenac acid, wherein the diclofenac acid has a median particle size, on a volume average basis, of less than 1000 nm and greater than 25 nm, wherein the unit dose, when tested in vitro by USP Apparatus I (Basket) method of U.S. Pharmacopoeia at 100 rpm, at 37° C. in 900 ml of 0.05% sodium lauryl sulfate in citric acid solution buffered to pH 5.75, has a dissolution rate of diclofenac acid such that at least 94%, by weight, is released by 75 minutes. | 48,298 |
9,541,930 | 1. A system for reducing power consumption in a power supply circuit including: a variable autotransformer including a winding having a first end and a second end, wherein an output of the variable autotransformer is positioned between the first end and the second end of the winding; a second transformer including: a controller for variably controlling an output voltage at the output of the second transformer, wherein the output voltage is less than a supply voltage at the input, to reduce the power consumption of the load; wherein the second end of the winding of the variable autotransformer is connected to the junction of the first and second windings of the second transformer, and the output of the variable autotransformer is connected to the first end of the first winding of the second transformer. | 36,130 |
8,605,246 | 1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising: first and second substrates spaced apart from each other, on which a display area and a non-display area are defined; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates; a seal pattern in the non-display area between the first and second substrates; a driver with a signal line in the non-display area on the first substrate; column spacers in the display area between the first and second substrates; and a first auxiliary spacer between the signal line and the second substrate in the non-display area, the first auxiliary spacer comprising a plurality of pattern structures spaced apart from each other, a width of each pattern structure of the first auxiliary spacer being narrower than a width of the signal line, an entire bottom side surface of the first auxiliary spacer being in direct contact with the signal line, wherein a distance between adjacent pattern structures is shorter than a distance between adjacent column spacers, wherein the first auxiliary spacer is in direct contact with the driver and the signal line, and wherein the first auxiliary spacer is a honeycomb-like structure. | 35,779 |
8,907,438 | 1. A semiconducting organic photovoltaic sensor device, comprising: a glass substrate upon which is coated a transparent ITO layer, wherein the transparent ITO layer is used as a positive anode connection; a photoresist layer applied onto a cathode connecting portion of an exposed side of the ITO coating; a semitransparent conducting polymer layer applied onto a sensing portion of said exposed side of the ITO coating; an active polymer layer of the device applied onto an exposed side of said semitransparent conducting polymer layer of said sensing portion; a lithium fluoride layer uniformly applied onto an exposed side of both the photoresist and active polymer layers; and an aluminum layer applied onto an exposed side of said lithium fluoride layer, where a negative cathode connection is provided to the aluminum layer, wherein the layers in between the anode and cathode make up the active layers of the device. | 7,598 |
8,621,712 | 1. A self-closing internal hinge ( 100 ) comprising: A. an internal axle ( B. a first gate-hinge connector piece ( C. a first washer ( D. a first stationary hinge part ( E. a washer ( F. a spiral spring ( G. a bushing ( H. an outer tubular midsection ( I. a second washer ( J. a second stationary part ( K. a third washer ( L. a second gate rotating connector piece ( said second end ( | 27,225 |
9,816,395 | 1. A turbine housing comprising: a scroll passage that extends spirally and is located outside a turbine wheel, wherein exhaust of an internal combustion engine that is to be blown onto the turbine wheel flows through the scroll passage, and the scroll passage includes a spiral beginning and a spiral end; a medium passage through which a cooling medium flows; an exhaust introduction passage that is connected to the spiral beginning and introduces the exhaust into the scroll passage; and a partition wall extending between the spiral end and the exhaust introduction passage and in a circumferential direction of the turbine wheel, wherein the medium passage includes a start section that includes an adjacent portion, wherein the adjacent portion is adjacent to the partition wall in a direction of a rotation axis of the turbine wheel, the start section includes an inlet that introduces the cooling medium into the medium passage, and the medium passage does not fully surround the exhaust introduction passage, and an outer wall of the medium passage that contains the cooling medium traverses the exhaust introduction passage from the adjacent portion toward a radially outer portion of the turbine housing. | 45,513 |
9,073,079 | 1. A method for separating overspray from overspray-laden booth exhaust air of coating systems comprising the steps of: taking up the overspray by an air stream and conveying the overspray to an electrostatically operating separating device, wherein solids are separated from the overspray at a separating region of at least one separating surface; using a cohesive material web as a separating agent, which is arranged, at least partially, along the separating region of the at least one separating surface; and, ensuring during operation of the separating device that the material web is electrically conductive, at least in the separating region of the at least one separating surface. | 46,397 |
9,757,722 | 1. An analyzing device having a main body, the analyzing device being configured to draw a sample liquid from a spot application section of the main body and transfer the sample liquid to a measurement chamber of the main body via a microchannel structure formed inside the main body by a centrifugal force, the spot application section having an inlet, the analyzing device comprising: a supplying capillary channel formed within the spot application section, the supplying capillary channel having an end connected to the inlet of the spot application section; a holding chamber connected to another end of the supplying capillary channel, the holding chamber having a thickness sized to generate a capillary force to move the sample liquid, the holding chamber being formed between a first side wall and a second side wall; the first side wall and the second side wall defining the holding chamber; and a filling confirmation region formed at a trailing end of the holding chamber, the filling confirmation region being located centrally between the first side wall and the second side wall without contacting either the first side wall or the second side wall, the holding chamber being located between the filling confirmation region and the supplying capillary channel, wherein the filling confirmation region has a thickness that is smaller than a thickness of a recessed portion located between the filling confirmation region and the first side wall, and wherein the holding chamber has a uniform thickness. | 35,886 |
8,985,249 | 1. An inverted pendulum type vehicle at least comprising: a first travel operation unit capable of traveling on a floor surface; a first actuator that drives the first travel operation unit; a base body to which the first travel operation unit and the first actuator are installed; and a rider mounting section attached to the base body such that the rider mounting section is tiltable relative to a vertical direction, wherein the first travel operation unit is configured to be capable of traveling in all directions, including a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction relative to the rider mounting section, by a driving force of the first actuator, the inverted pendulum type vehicle further comprising: a second travel operation unit, which is connected to the first travel operation unit or the base body at an interval from the first travel operation unit in the longitudinal direction and which is configured to be capable of traveling in all directions on a floor surface; a second actuator which generates a driving force for causing at least the second travel operation unit to travel in the lateral direction; an operation device which outputs a turn command for causing at least the inverted pendulum type vehicle to turn in response to an operation performed by the rider on the rider mounting section; a first control unit which controls a traveling motion of the first travel operation unit by controlling the first actuator; and a second control unit which controls a traveling motion of the second travel operation unit by controlling the second actuator, wherein the first control unit controls the first actuator to cause the first travel operation unit to travel on the basis of at least the tilting of the rider mounting section in one or both of the longitudinal direction and the lateral direction in both a case where the turn command has been output from the operation device and a case where the turn command has not been output therefrom, the second control unit controls the second actuator such that the moving velocity of a ground contact point of the second travel operation unit in the lateral direction is different from the moving velocity of a ground contact point of the first travel operation unit in the lateral direction in a case where the turn command is issued from the operation device in a situation in which at least the first travel operation unit is traveling in the longitudinal direction or at rest, the second travel operation unit is disposed at the rear of the first travel operation unit, and the second control unit controls the second actuator such that a relative traveling velocity of the ground contact point of the second travel operation unit in the lateral direction with respect to the ground contact point of the first travel operation unit becomes a leftward relative velocity in the case where the turn command for turning the inverted pendulum type vehicle to the right has been output from the operation device, or such that a relative traveling velocity of the ground contact point of the second travel operation unit in the lateral direction with respect to the ground contact point of the first travel operation unit becomes a rightward relative velocity in the case where the turn command for turning the inverted pendulum type vehicle to the left has been output from the operation device. | 45,611 |
9,538,467 | 1. A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system employing a radio interface including an arrangement of downlink reference symbols, the method comprising: monitoring reference symbols transmitted by a base station; identifying that transmission by the base station of at least one reference symbol from the arrangement of downlink reference symbols is suppressed; determining a period of time for which to enter a reduced activity mode based on the identified at least one reference symbol for which transmission is suppressed; and initiating the reduced activity mode for the determined period of time, wherein the radio interface comprises a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) sub-carriers spanning a system frequency bandwidth, the radio interface supports a first carrier for communicating with a first class of terminal device using a first group of the OFDM sub-carriers distributed across the system frequency bandwidth, and a second carrier for communicating with a second class of terminal device on a second group of the OFDM sub-carriers distributed across a restricted frequency bandwidth that is narrower than and within the system frequency bandwidth, and the terminal device is a terminal device of the second class operating on the second carrier. | 29,008 |
8,605,821 | 1. An apparatus for a transmit end in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: a selector for selecting a scrambling scheme to be applied to a transmission bit stream according to a modulation scheme to be applied to the transmission bit stream; a plurality of scramblers for scrambling the transmission bit stream according to a scrambling scheme corresponding to each of a plurality of modulation schemes; and a plurality of modulators for modulating the scrambled transmission bit stream according to the plurality of modulation schemes, wherein the plurality of scramblers comprise a different number of output ports and a different number of register streams per a circulation unit, and wherein the number of output ports and the number of the register streams per a circulation unit are identical to a number of bits which is necessary to generate one complex symbol according to a corresponding modulation scheme. | 10,413 |
9,693,135 | 1. A differential microphone comprising: a first microphone electrode; a central microphone electrode; a second microphone electrode; an output port configured as a differential port; a differential amplifier stage having a differential input port and a differential output port that is connected to the output port of the microphone; and a common mode feedback circuit having a differential port that is connected to the output port of the microphone, wherein the first microphone electrode and the central microphone electrode establish a first capacitive element and the central microphone electrode and the second microphone electrode establish a second capacitive element, and wherein the first and second capacitive elements provide a differential capacitor output port. | 44,108 |
9,465,814 | 1. A method comprising: indexing by a search engine each of a plurality of different websites, the indexing for a particular website comprising: storing by the search engine each association of domain name with obtained image; receiving a plurality of search results responsive to a query submitted to the search engine, each search result referring to a corresponding web page for a website operated by the entity; for one or more of the search results: providing the plurality of search results including the one or more annotated search results in a response to the query for presentation in a page; receiving selection of an annotated search result's image; determining local search results for the domain associated with the selected image; and providing the local search results for presentation in the page, the local search results presented in the page with at least some of the plurality of search results by expanding the page to include an area within the page for presenting the local search results. | 38,297 |
8,916,366 | 1. A multi-cellulase enzyme composition for the enzymatic hydrolysis of a substrate comprising cellulose, said composition comprising: a cellobiohydrolase (CBH) enzyme, an endoglucanase (EG) enzyme and a β-glucosidase (BG) enzyme, wherein the CBH enzyme comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2; the EG enzyme comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4 and/or the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:6; and the BG enzyme comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:8 and/or the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 10. | 34,909 |
9,448,936 | 1. A processor comprising: a cache comprising a plurality of banks, wherein each bank of the plurality of banks can be accessed independently of other banks; wherein the processor is configured to: | 25,145 |
9,688,619 | 1. A process for obtaining an organic isocyanate from a phosgenation product comprising the isocyanate, comprising: a) working up the phosgenation product, wherein the workup comprises at least one distillation step where a first portion of the organic isocyanate is removed as distillate and a distillation residue comprising a second portion of the organic isocyanate is obtained, and b) working up the distillation residue obtained in a), wherein the workup comprises at least one distillation step carried out at a temperature of up to 110° C. at a pressure of not more than 1 mbar, wherein at least 50 wt % of the second portion of the organic isocyanate is removed from the distillation residue. | 16,452 |
9,193,404 | 1. A self-propelled device comprising: a drive system comprising one or more motors and one or more wheels; a spherical housing that contains the drive system; a support structure coupled to the drive system to cause the one or more wheels to continuously engage an inner surface of the spherical housing and cause the spherical housing to move; a wireless communication port that receives control commands based on a number of two-dimensional control inputs on a controller device; and an internal controller to implement the control commands on the drive system as three-dimensional rotational commands to maneuver the self-propelled device. | 35,055 |
9,594,772 | 1. A method of generating a multi-modal journey itinerary, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors, a desired destination from a user; determining, by one or more processors, a user's current location for the user; determining, by one or more processors, a user's current mode of transport for the user, wherein said determining the user's current mode of transport comprises: accessing, by one or more processors, a multi-modal route graph; in response to said determining the user's current location and in response to determining the user's current mode of transport, determining, by one or more processors, a user's position in the multi-modal route graph; in response to said determining the user's position in the multi-modal route graph and in response to determining the user's current mode of transport, calculating, by one or more processors, a multi-modal journey itinerary from the user's position in the multi-modal route graph to the desired destination based on the user's current location and the user's current mode of transport, wherein the multi-modal journey itinerary includes travel directions that are specific for the user's current mode of transport; determining, by one or more processors, that the user's current mode of transport is a public vehicle, wherein the public vehicle is a vehicle on a fixed route that is available to public passengers; receiving, by one or more processors, positioning sensor readings from a user positioning sensor for the user and a public vehicle positioning sensor for the public vehicle; determining, by one or more processors and based on the positioning sensor readings, that a physical distance between the public vehicle and the user is increasing: predicting, by one or more processors and based on the physical distance between the public vehicle and the user increasing, that the user has disembarked from the public vehicle and that user's current mode of transport is ambulatory; updating, by one or more processors, the travel directions on the multi-modal journey itinerary in real time based on the user currently being off the public vehicle and ambulatory; and displaying, by one or more processors, the updated travel directions on a mobile device used by the user. | 48,856 |
9,395,801 | 1. A finger detection device of a fingerprint recognition integrated circuit, comprising a plurality of sensing electrodes arranged into an array and defined as a fingerprint sensing zone; a capacitive sensing layer covering said sensing electrodes; a signal processing circuit arranged below said sensing electrodes and electrically connected with said sensing electrodes; a multiplexer module including at least one of a first multiplexer and a second multiplexer, wherein said first multiplexer is electrically connected with said sensing electrodes along a first direction, and wherein said second multiplexer is electrically connected with said sensing electrodes along a second direction, and wherein said first direction is perpendicular to said second direction, and wherein said multiplexer module triggers at least one of said first multiplexer and said second multiplexer and defines a finger detection zone, and wherein said finger detection zone includes at least one of said sensing electrodes; and a signal register electrically connected with said signal processing circuit, receiving a detection signal generated by said finger detection zone, and comparing said detection signal with a preset value. | 12,076 |
8,476,035 | 1. A method for assaying pesticidal activity of a test substance, which comprises: (1) a first step of measuring the activity of a choline acetyltransferase selected from the group consisting of (a) to (h) in a reaction system in which said choline acetyltransferase contacts with a test substance; and (2) a second step of evaluating the pesticidal activity of said test substance based on the difference obtained by comparing the activity measured in the first step with the activity of a control: (a) a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; (b) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence that has sequence identity of at least 90% to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein said protein has choline acetyltransferase activity; (c) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence that has sequence similarity of at least 90% to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein said protein has choline acetyltransferase activity; (d) a protein comprising the amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or 3; (e) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence encoded by a nucleotide sequence that has sequence identity of at least 90% to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or 3, wherein said protein has choline acetyltransferase activity; (f) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence encoded by a polynucleotide, wherein said polynucleotide hybridizes under stringency conditions comprising a salt concentration of about 6.0×SSC and a temperature of about 65° C., to a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or 3, and wherein said protein has choline acetyltransferase activity; (g) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence of an insect choline acetyltransferase; and (h) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence of a cotton aphid choline acetyltransferase. | 35,138 |
9,847,540 | 1. A fuel cell unit comprising: a fuel cell stack including a cell stack body in which unit cells are stacked; and a cell monitor for monitoring a voltage of the unit cells, wherein: the cell monitor is connected to a voltage detector to which a voltage detection wire is connected; the voltage detector is constituted by cell monitor terminals that detect cell voltages of the respective unit cells; the cell monitor has an area of at least a certain size that is required for mounting all of the cell monitor terminals; the cell monitor is arranged in a state in which a surface having the area of at least the certain size required for mounting all of the cell monitor terminals is inclined with respect to a vertical direction; and the cell monitor is inclined by providing a part of the cell monitor in the vicinity of a heat-generating part in a fuel cell on an opposite side of the heat-generating part relative to a central part in the vertical direction of the cell monitor and providing a part of the cell monitor in an area other than the heat-generating part in the fuel cell on a heat-generating part side relative to the central part in the vertical direction of the cell monitor. | 8,163 |
8,343,672 | 1. A catalyst coated electrolyte membrane comprising an anode catalyst layer and a cathode catalyst layer in a hot pressed condition on an electrolyte membrane at opposite sides thereof, respectively, wherein: the electrolyte membrane is an H micro cracks of the anode catalyst layer or cathode catalyst layer in the hot pressed condition on electrolyte membrane occupy 0.01-1 area % of the total area of the respective anode catalyst layer or cathode catalyst layer. | 16,046 |
8,723,467 | 1. A system, comprising: a motor configured to actuate a window covering; a glass controller configured to adjust a variable characteristic of a glass; and a central controller configured to control the motor and the glass controller, wherein the central controller utilizes a proactive algorithm, and wherein the proactive algorithm is configured to utilize at least one of lighting information, radiation information, brightness information, or solar heat gain to calculate a total foot-candle load on a structure. | 4,903 |
8,643,794 | 1. A heat-insulating film, comprising, at least one absorbing layer which absorbs ultraviolet light and infrared light; at least one cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed under the absorbing layer, wherein the pitch of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is configured such that the cholesteric liquid crystal layer reflects infrared light; an adhesive layer; and a release layer disposed as the lowermost layer of the heat-insulating film covering the adhesive layer. | 2,518 |
8,600,548 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a medication delivery unit, an input medication carrier comprising a plurality of unit dose packages in a two-dimensional arrangement and storing at least one medication, each unit dose package of the plurality of unit dose packages comprising a unit dose of one of the at least one medication, the input medication carrier further comprising at least one identifying indicator capable of being read by the medication delivery unit; reading, by the medication delivery unit, the at least one identifying indicator to provide decoded data; providing, by the medication delivery unit, the decoded data to a remote controller; receiving, by the medication delivery unit from the remote controller, authorized medication carrier information regarding the at least one medication based on the decoded data; determining whether the input medication carrier is authorized for the medication delivery unit based on whether the at least one identifying indicator compares favorably with the authorized medication carrier information; and when the input medication carrier is not authorized for the medication delivery unit, refusing to store the input medication carrier in the medication delivery unit. | 32,545 |
9,407,936 | 1. A decoding method of a video, the method comprising: obtaining a split transformation flag for a current depth, from a bitstream; when the split transformation flag indicates a non-split for the current depth, determining that a transformation depth is equal to the current depth; determining a context increasement parameter for determining a context index based on whether the transformation depth is equal to a predetermined value without using a size of a transformation unit; obtaining a context model for a transformation unit significant coefficient flag among a plurality of context models using the context index obtained by adding the context increasement parameter and a context offset; arithmetic decoding the transformation unit significant coefficient flag based on the context model; and determining whether at least one non-zero transformation coefficient exists in the transformation unit of the transformation depth, based on the transformation unit significant flag, wherein, when the split transformation flag indicates a split for the current depth, a transformation unit of the current depth is split into one or more transformation units of a next depth, and a split transformation flag for the next depth is obtained from the bitstream. | 43,099 |
9,072,109 | 1. A method for detecting collisions in a multicarrier wireless network, comprising: detecting, by a first communication device, an idle condition on a data channel of a shared transmission medium, where the data channel is divided into a plurality of subcarrier frequencies; generating, by the first communication device, a collision probe from a binary codeword comprised of k bits, where one or more values of the binary codeword correlate to a signal magnitude of zero; transmitting, by the first communication device, the collision probe over the data channel, such that each bit of the binary codeword is transmitted using a different subcarrier frequency of the data channel; receiving, concurrently with the transmission of the collision probe, an incoming signal from a second communication device, the incoming signal received via the data channel by the first communication device; and identifying, by the first communication device, a collision on the data channel based on presence of a signal on a subcarrier frequency of the incoming signal whose corresponding bit value in the collision probe is zero. | 28,355 |
8,948,469 | 1. An information processing device comprising: a light source estimation unit configured to estimate a light source illuminating a predetermined target from an input image; a shaded region recognition unit configured to recognize a shaded region on which shading occurs due to the light source in the input image based on an estimated result of the light source; a correction information calculation unit configured to obtain a correction coefficient correcting a threshold of the weak learner and to provide correction information; a correction unit configured to correct parameters of an ensemble learner using the correction information for correcting the parameters of the ensemble learner having a plurality of weak learners that receive characteristic amounts extracted from the input image and output weak hypotheses indicating whether or not the predetermined target is reflected in the input image; and a discrimination unit configured to integrate the weak hypotheses output from the weak learners with respect to the characteristic amounts using the ensemble learner of which the parameters are corrected and discriminate whether or not the target is reflected in the input image based on an integrated value of the weak hypotheses; wherein the ensemble learning is carried out using a plurality of learning images which include positive images in which the target is reflected and negative images in which the target is not reflected, and wherein the correction unit corrects the threshold value of the weak learner of which one pixel location is within the shaded region and the other pixel location is outside the shaded region in a pixel location pair by a multiplication value obtained by multiplying a subtraction value by a pixel value of the one pixel location, the subtraction value being obtained by subtracting the correction coefficient, which is equal to or smaller than 1, from 1, in an average image of which the positive images included in the learning image are averaged. | 28,926 |
8,809,605 | 1. An upgrading system to convert polyols into hydrocarbons comprising: a) a feed stream comprising a oxygenate feedstock, b) a catalytic upgrader comprising a zeolite catalyst and configured to upgrade the feed stream to mixed hydrocarbons, c) a separator operatively connected to the catalytic upgrader and configured to receive and separate the mixed hydrocarbons to generate a light gas stream, an aqueous stream and an organic stream, d) a reformer configured to receive the light gas stream c) and the aqueous stream c) and to convert the light gas stream into a hydrogen stream, e) a hydrotreater operatively connected to the separator and reformer and configured to convert part of the organic stream (c) and hydrogen stream (d) into a saturated hydrocarbon stream, and f) a recycle system operatively connected to the catalytic reactor and the hydrotreater and configured to recycle a portion of the hydrotreater product comprising saturated hydrocarbons to the catalytic upgrader (a) as a hydrogen donor. | 343 |
9,108,780 | 1. A cardboard container for bottles comprising a base wall, a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall, in a single body with the base wall at two opposite longitudinal sides of the base wall, the first lateral wall and the second lateral wall being foldable with respect to the base wall, wherein the cardboard container comprises: a first series of tabs, each tab exhibiting a first portion and a second portion, the first portion exhibiting a through-hole having dimensions such as to enable inserting a bottle and which is connected in a single body with the first lateral wall, at the opposite side to the side with which the first lateral wall is in a single body with the base wall, and with the second portion that is fixed to the base wall, and a second series of tabs, each tab exhibiting a first portion and a second portion, with the first portion exhibiting a through-hole having dimensions such as to enable inserting the bottle and which is connected in a single body with the second lateral wall, at the opposite side to the side with which the second lateral wall is in a single body with the base wall, and with the second portion fixed to the base wall, and wherein the first lateral wall and the second lateral wall are foldable with respect to the base wall in such a way as to reciprocally distance one from the other up to being arranged on a plane containing the base wall, externally of the two opposite longitudinal sides of the base wall, and the tabs of the first series of tabs and the tabs of the second series of tabs, when the first lateral wall and the second lateral wall are folded with respect to the base wall in such a way as to reciprocally distance from one another up to being arranged on a plane containing the base wall, externally of the two opposite longitudinal sides of the base wall, are contemporaneously bendable both with respect to the base wall and, respectively, with respect to the first lateral wall and the second lateral wall in such a way that the tabs of the first series of tabs can take on a flat configuration above the base wall and the first lateral wall and the tabs of the second series of tabs can take on a flat configuration above the base wall and the second lateral wall in such a way that the container takes on a flattened configuration, and wherein the first lateral wall and the second lateral wall are further bendable foldable with respect to the base wall in such a way as to be able to be arranged opposite one another and in such a way as to form an angle with respect to the base wall, and the tabs of the first series of tabs and the tabs of the second series of tabs, when the first lateral wall and the second lateral wall are folded with respect to the base wall in such a way as to be arranged opposite and at an angle with respect to the base wall, are further contemporaneously respectively bendable in such a way as to take on a corner-folded shape and in such a way that the first portion of the first series of tabs and the first portion of the second series of tabs are arranged opposite the base wall, such that the container takes on an opened-out configuration, and wherein the container is provided with stabilizing means usable for maintaining the first series of tabs and the second series of tabs corner-folded, with the first portion, provided with the through-hole, of the first series of tabs and with the first portion, provided with the through-hole, of the second series of tabs, opposite the base wall such that the container maintains the opened-out configuration in order to receive the bottles in said through-holes; wherein the tabs of the first series of tabs are connected, with the relative first portions, in a single body with the first lateral wall in such a way that the first portions are distanced from one another such that there is a first space between them having dimensions that are at least the same as the transversal dimensions of the bottle, and the tabs of the second series of tabs are connected, with the relative first portions, in a single body with the second lateral wall in such a way that the first portions are distanced from one another in such a way that between them there is a second space, of dimensions that are at least equal to the transversal dimensions of the bottle, and such as to be in a staggered position with respect to the first portions of the first series of tabs in such a way that, with the container in the opened-out configuration and with the first portions of the first series of tabs and with the first portions of the second series of tabs that are opposite the base wall, the first portions of the first series of tabs are in front of the second space present between the second portions of the second series of tabs in such a way as to delimit first seatings for inserting bottles, and the first portions of the second series of tabs are in front of the first space present between the first portions of the first series of tabs such as to delimit second seatings for inserting the bottles; wherein each tab of the first series of tabs comprises a central portion, between the first portion connected in a single body to the first lateral wall and the second portion fixed to the base wall, which is foldable both with respect to the first portion and the second portion and exhibits dimensions such that, with the container in the opened-out configuration, the central portion is corner-arranged with respect to the base wall and facing a respective seating of the first seatings, between the first portions of the second series of tabs, such as to constitute a lateral containing wall for the bottle, and each tab of the second series of tabs comprises a central portion, between the first portion connected in a single body to the second lateral wall and the second portion fixed to the base wall, which is foldable both with respect to the first portion and the second portion and exhibits dimensions that are such that, with the container in the opened-out configuration, the central portion is corner-arranged with respect to the base wall and facing a seating of the second seatings, between the first portions of the first series of tabs, such as to constitute a lateral containing wall for the bottle; wherein each of the tabs of the first series of tabs exhibits, between the relative first portion and central portion, a first appendage which, with the container in the opened-out configuration, is projecting from the central portion in such a way as to interest a seating of the first seatings, between the first portions of the second series of tabs, and which exhibits an arched profile having a shape corresponding to the profile of a part of the bottle, in such a way as to constitute an abutment for the bottle, and each of the tabs of the second series of tabs exhibits, between the relative first portion and central portion, a second appendage which, with the container in the opened-out configuration, projects from the central portion, in such a way as to interest a seating of the second seatings, between the first portions of the first series of tabs, and which exhibits an arched profile having a shape corresponding to the profile of a part of the bottle, in such a way as to constitute an abutment for the bottle. | 21,851 |
8,503,709 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a housing; an electronic audio circuit coupled to the housing; an acoustic exit that exits the housing the acoustic exit having a shape that facilitates the grasping of the housing with a plurality of fingers from a single human hand; and a textured grille applied to a front surface of the housing through which acoustic energy from drivers inside the housing radiates; wherein the acoustic exit is located next to an exterior surface of the housing such that the shape of the exit together with the exterior surface facilitates grasping of the housing with a plurality of fingers and the thumb from the single human hand; wherein the acoustic exit exits a back surface of the housing such that the plurality of fingers can be inserted into the exit while the thumb of the same hand can rest on at least one of the top surface and the front surface of the housing. | 12,806 |
9,262,399 | 1. An electronic device comprising a processor configured to execute a process of: accepting a character input; causing a display module to display a character or a character string, which has been input by the character input; causing the display module to display a plurality of words which are conversion candidates corresponding to the input character or character string; causing the display module to display, responding to designation by a user of a word of the plurality of words which are conversion candidates, at least one synonym corresponding to the designated word; and causing the display module to display, responding to selection by the user of a synonym of the displayed at least one synonym, the selected synonym in place of the input character or character string. | 33,240 |
9,342,407 | 1. A storage control apparatus connected to an upper device by a communication device and controlling a data access to a storage device, the storage control apparatus comprising: a detection unit that detects a soft error of a memory for setting information included in a programmable logic circuit; a communication control unit that changes a state of a communication path between the communication device and the upper device; and a restoration processing unit that performs processing of restoring the memory for setting information of the programmable logic circuit, wherein when the detection unit detects the soft error, the communication control unit changes the state of the communication path between the communication device and the upper device from a usage state to a connection recovery state by outputting a communication control signal to the upper device so that the upper device does not recognize a path disconnection. | 3,505 |
8,960,035 | 1. A rack shaft supporting device, comprising: a support yoke accommodated in a rack housing, and movable in a pushing direction in which a rack shaft is pushed toward a pinion shaft; a plug having a plug end portion formed on a support yoke side and a plug cam face formed in the plug end portion, the plug being arranged on a side opposite to the support yoke in a direction opposite to the pushing direction, and the plug being fixed to the rack housing; an intermediate component arranged between the plug and the support yoke in a state where the intermediate component is rotatable relative to the rack housing and movable relative to the rack housing in the pushing direction, the intermediate component having an intermediate opposed portion opposed to the plug end portion and an intermediate cam face formed in the intermediate opposed portion and opposed to the plug cam face; a torque generation spring that applies, to the intermediate component, a spring force for rotating the intermediate component relative to the plug; and a rolling element arranged between the plug cam face and the intermediate cam face and making contact with each of the plug cam face and the intermediate cam face. | 27,238 |
9,679,704 | 1. A method of making a cathode, comprising: activating a non-lignocellulosic sourced carbon material at from 500 to 1000° C. for from 1 to 10 hrs, in an inert atmosphere to produce activated particles; treating the activated particles with an acid, and then neutralizing; heat treating the neutralized particles at from 500 to 1000° C. for from 1 to 10 hrs, in an inert atmosphere; mixing the heat treated particles with a binder, and a solvent to form a mixture; and applying the mixture to a conductive current collector to form the cathode. | 34,808 |
8,976,138 | 1. A touch display device comprising: a display module configured to provide an image light; a touch module disposed above the display module, the touch module comprising: | 14,753 |
9,044,988 | 1. A method for assembling presentations in a binding machine comprising: inserting a sheet into a punching device of the binding machine; triggering a lever to punch cutouts along an edge of the sheet, wherein at least a portion of the cutout has a width wider than a width of the cutout measured at the edge; removing the sheet from the punching device and inserting the sheet into a binding portion of the binding machine; and triggering the lever to actuate a binding member to press portions of the sheet surrounding each cutout onto a raised periphery of a corresponding disc of a plurality of discs; wherein triggering the lever comprises pressing down in a linear direction a three-arm lever. | 39,603 |
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