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9,357,620 | 1. A light control system comprising: a sensor for detecting an occupancy in an area; a timer for determining if the occupancy is not detected by the occupancy sensor before a first time period expires; a dimmer for changing a light level in said area from a first light level to a second light level when determining that a second time period after the occupancy is not detected is remaining on the timer before the first time period expires, and for changing said light level in said area from the second light level to a third light level when determining that the first time period expired and the occupancy is not detected during the second time period; and a controller coupled to the sensor, the timer and the dimmer to control the light level to remain at the second light level until the first time period expires if the occupancy sensor does not detect occupancy during the second time period, change to the first light level from the second light level, and reset the timer to the first time period, if the occupancy sensor detects occupancy during the second time period, and change to a third light level from the second light level, when the first time period expires if the occupancy sensor does not detect occupancy during the second time period; wherein: the second light level is not equal to the first light level; and the third light level is not equal to the second light level. | 5,134 |
9,326,048 | 1. A radio communication apparatus comprising: a duplexer including a first terminal configured to input and output a signal in a first frequency band, a second terminal configured to input and output a signal in a second frequency band, and a third terminal connected to an antenna; a reception system circuit, including a differential amplifier, configured to process a reception signal, wherein the differential amplifier includes a first differential terminal and a second differential terminal; a transmission system circuit configured to generate a transmission signal; a switch, in a first mode, configured to connect the first terminal to the reception system circuit and connect the second terminal to the transmission system circuit and, in a second mode, connect the first terminal to the reception system circuit and the transmission system circuit alternately, wherein, in the first mode, the switch is configured to connect one of the first terminal and the second terminal to the first differential terminal of the differential amplifier, and connect the other one of the first terminal and the second terminal to the transmission system circuit; and a replica circuit connected to the second differential terminal of the differential amplifier and configured to output a reproduction signal to the second differential terminal of the differential amplifier, wherein the reproduction signal is obtained by reproducing a leakage signal leaked from the transmission system circuit to the reception system circuit through the switch. | 33,881 |
8,349,662 | 1. A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit device having a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, wherein each memory cell includes at least one transistor having a gate, a gate dielectric, and first, second, and body regions, the method comprising: forming the gate and gate dielectric on or over a first semiconductor layer that is disposed on or over an insulating layer or region; forming a cap structure on top and side surfaces of the gate, the gate dielectric, and at least a portion of the first semiconductor layer, wherein the cap structure has a first lateral boundary; removing a portion of the first semiconductor layer between transistors of adjacent memory cells coinciding with at least a portion of the first lateral boundary of the cap structure such that at least one remaining portion of the first semiconductor layer has a second lateral boundary that extends beyond at least one lateral boundary of the gate and gate dielectric and coincides with at least a portion of the first lateral boundary of the cap structure, wherein the body region is formed in the at least one remaining portion of the first semiconductor layer; forming at least a portion of the first region by disposing a semiconductor material on the insulating layer or region where the portion of the first semiconductor layer was removed, wherein the semiconductor material extends continuously between transistors of adjacent memory cells such that first regions of transistors of adjacent memory cells form a common first region, and wherein the semiconductor material is a different type and/or crystalline structure relative to a type and/or crystalline structure of material comprising the first semiconductor layer; forming at least a portion of the second region; and forming an electrical contact on an associated common first region. | 45,895 |
9,844,760 | 1. An aerator for aerating water that comprises a distribution system for distributing air below a water surface and a compressor with an air inlet and at least one air outlet, whereby the compressor is configured to be placed below the water surface in that the compressor is provided with a closed housing configured to prevent an infiltration of the water into the compressor, whereby the infiltration of the water at the air inlet is prevented by an intake pipe being provided of which a first open end is above the water surface and a second open end has a watertight connection to the compressor, whereby the infiltration of the water at the at least one air outlet is prevented by the distribution system having a watertight connection to the at least one air outlet and, due to the watertight connection of the distribution system or by having at least one valve, the housing is closed to hold back the water and whereby the housing is in thermal contact with the water to cool the compressor, wherein the compressor is a centrifugal compressor that comprises an impeller that is driven by a shaft that is mounted on air bearings, wherein a portion of pressurized air from the action of the impeller also flows to the air bearings and then to the intake pipe, and wherein at least one the of the air inlet and/or the air outlet of the compressor is positioned under the motor and/or the impeller such that an air bubble will be enclosed in the compressor to hold back the water in the event of a leak when the compressor is placed below the water surface. | 49,273 |
8,507,766 | 1. A seed of soybean cultivar S110140, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12803. | 19,106 |
9,394,878 | 1. A power generation apparatus ( 1 , 1 a ) using wave energy conversion by gravity, comprising: a sealed body ( a rotor ( a gear box ( a power generation motor ( a pontoon ( wherein the track ( wherein the track ( | 27,621 |
8,837,308 | 1. A link group-based communication apparatus in a communication system that transmits and receives packets to/from an adjacent node connected with a plurality of physical links, comprising: the link group-based communication apparatus being implemented via a computer and including: a traffic distribution unit configured to distribute packets to the selected physical links of the link group currently activated for the packet transmission and transmit the packets through the activated physical links to the adjacent node; link buffers configured to be placed at front ends of the respective physical links and temporally store packets distributed from the traffic distribution unit such that the packets are transmitted through the physical links; and a link status monitoring unit configured to calculate an average of lengths of link buffers which are connected with active mode physical links belonging to the link group, and measure an average amount of traffic transmitted through the selected of the physical links activated for the packet transmission using the average of lengths, and transmit the measured average traffic amount to the link group management unit. | 42,314 |
8,514,758 | 1. A method of communication between a first, a second and a third node in a wireless multi-hop network, the method comprising: bringing the first node and the second node respectively the third node in a fully operative mode for communication with each other, and subsequently bringing the first node and the second node respectively the third node in a reduced operative mode where no communication with any other node is possible, wherein the method furthermore comprises: before bringing the respective node in the fully operative mode, bringing the respective node in a listening mode during a token listening period to check for presence of a wake-up token, bringing the respective node into the reduced operative mode if no wake-up token is received, and bringing the respective node into the fully operative mode for reception of data if a wake-up token is received, and wherein the method furthermore comprises synchronising the timing of the listening mode of the respective node with the timing of the transmitting of the wake-up tokens by another node, wherein synchronising includes one node transmitting a beacon signal and another node synchronising with the beacon signal, wherein the number of wake-up tokens, sent by the respective node during each time the respective other node is in said listening mode, is not more than a single wake-up token, wherein collisions of the wake-up tokens are reduced by using a collision avoidance scheme according to which the third node intending to send a wake-up token to the second node, having received a wake-up token sent from the first node to the second node cancels the wake-up token to the second node, and respectively scheduling a first, second and third time slot selected among different time slots in a beacon period between two subsequent beacon signals, respectively allocating the token listening period of the second node to the first time slot, the token listening period of the third node to the second time slot and the token listening period of the first node to the third time slot. | 40,996 |
8,344,698 | 1. A charging control circuit, comprising: a temperature measuring unit which measures a temperature of a lead storage battery; a charging unit which charges the lead storage battery; a full charging controller which controls the charging unit to charge the lead storage battery until the lead storage battery is fully charged; a refresh charging controller which controls the charging unit to perform refresh charging of charging the lead storage battery with a predetermined refresh charging quantity of electricity, after the lead storage battery has been fully charged; and a refresh charging quantity setter which sets the refresh charging quantity of electricity in the refresh charging of the lead storage battery which has been fully charged at a present time, depending on the temperature of the lead storage battery measured by the temperature measuring unit throughout a deficient charging period, the deficient charging period being a period from a time when the lead storage battery has been fully charged at a previous time to a time when the lead storage battery has been fully charged at the present time by the full charging controller; wherein the refresh charging quantity setter increases the refresh charging quantity of electricity, as the temperature of the lead storage battery measured by the temperature measuring unit is increased throughout the deficient charging period. | 38,653 |
8,484,975 | 1. A power plant, comprising: a gas turbine comprising a compressor for producing compressed air, a combustor for combusting the compressed air with a combustible fuel to produce a heated combustion gas, and a turbine for expanding the heated combustion gas; a heat recovery steam generator for generating a flow of steam from an exhaust of the gas turbine; a steam turbine for expanding the flow of steam from the heat recovery steam generator, the steam turbine comprising a rotor having a rotor bore disposed axially therein; and a conduit for directing at least a portion of the heated combustion gas prior to expansion in the turbine to the rotor bore of the steam turbine, wherein the at least a portion of the heated combustion gas warms the rotor bore of the steam turbine. | 11,350 |
8,992,739 | 1. A method of preparing a silicon-based nanocomposite anode active material for a lithium secondary battery, comprising the steps of: (a) mounting a silicon-based wire between two electrodes provided in a methanol-based solvent atmosphere and then conducting high-voltage discharge to prepare a dispersion solution in which silicon nanoparticles are dispersed; and (b) combining the silicon nanoparticles with a different kind of material to prepare silicon-based nanocomposites. | 27,950 |
9,781,906 | 1. A method for constructing cage body of tapered cage assembled in rigid-flexible manner, wherein a rigid copper alloy stretched net ( 2 ) and a flexible synthetic fiber net ( 1 ) are assembled to the cage body of a tapered marine aquaculture cage, a structure of the cage body of the cage from upper to lower comprises a first segment net circle, a second segment net circle, a third segment net circle, a fourth segment net circle and a bottom net, the first segment net circle and the third segment net circle are produced by assembling a long strip netting standard component made of a knotted net woven by a flexibly connected flexible synthetic fiber net cable; the second segment net circle and the fourth segment net circle are produced by alternately assembling a standard component prepared by the copper alloy stretched net ( 2 ) and an isosceles trapezoid netting standard component prepared by the flexible synthetic fiber net ( 1 ); the bottom net is prepared by the flexible synthetic fiber net ( 1 ); the method is characterized by comprising steps of: (1) selecting a rectangular copper alloy stretched net ( (2) selecting the high performance synthetic fiber net to weave the knotted net, cutting the net after stretching heat shaping and resin consolidation treatment in order to produce a net with a fixed mesh size and fixed longitudinal and lateral mesh amount; producing a long trip synthetic fiber netting and an isosceles trapezoid synthetic fiber netting by assembling a first high performance synthetic fiber rope ( (3) selecting the high performance synthetic fiber net, cutting and assembling the bottom net in order to preset a shape and size of a bottom, performing reinforcement on the bottom net, assembling a second high performance synthetic fiber rope ( (4) assembling the case body comprising firstly installing the long strip synthetic fiber netting standard component on a rope ( | 48,275 |
9,543,784 | 1. An electric power supply system cooperated by a battery and a super capacitor, comprising: a power source module including an electric power transformer, a battery, and a super capacitor, with the electric power transformer including a first positive terminal, a first negative terminal, a second positive terminal, a second negative terminal, a first control terminal, and a second control terminal, with the battery electrically connected between the first positive terminal and the first negative terminal, with the battery connected in parallel to a load, and with the super capacitor electrically connected between the second positive terminal and the second negative terminal; and a processing unit including two transformation control terminals, a switch control terminal, and a plurality of signal detection terminals, with the two transformation control terminals electrically connected to the first control terminal and the second control terminal of the electric power transformer, with the plurality of signal detection terminals adapted for detecting electrical characteristics of the power source module and the load, with the processing unit controlling the battery to charge the super capacitor based on the electrical characteristics, such that both the battery and the super capacitor supply electricity to the load, and such that electricity generated by the load can recharge the super capacitor. | 22,615 |
8,415,644 | 1. A system, comprising: a first particle beam column comprising a focusing lens configured to focus a first particle beam along a first beam path to an interaction region; an object holder configured to arrange an object in the interaction region, the object holder being configured to tilt the object relative to the first particle beam column about a tilt axis transverse to a direction of the first beam path; and a gas supply arrangement comprising a piping and a gas supply line, wherein: | 6,011 |
8,472,028 | 1. An optical coherence tomographic apparatus for obtaining a tomographic image of an eye based on an interference light by interfering a returning light which returns from the eye irradiated by a measuring light with a reference light corresponding to the measuring light, the optical coherence tomographic apparatus comprising: a scanning unit configured to scan the measuring light on a retina of the eye and provided at a position substantially conjugate with a cornea of the eye; a reference light path configured to include at least a first reference light path and a second reference light path, wherein the second reference light path has an optical path length shorter than that of the first reference light path; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first tomographic image of the retina using the first reference light path; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a second tomographic image of the cornea using the second reference light path; and a correction unit configured to correct a positional deviation of the first tomographic image in a depth direction of the eye by changing the cornea in the second tomographic image to a substantially linear line extending in a direction perpendicular to the depth direction. | 6,878 |
8,620,755 | 1. At a receipt application server for a merchant, the receipt application server including one or more processors and system memory, the receipt application server connected to one or more Point-Of-Sale (POS) systems and one or more auditor mobile devices at each of one or more store locations for the merchant, the receipt application server configured to manage a receipt database for the merchant, a method for locating digital receipt data for use in an in-store audit, the method comprising: receiving digital receipt data for a sales transaction conducted at a Point-Of-Sale (POS) system, the Point-Of-Sale (POS) system in a store location selected from among the one or more store locations, the digital receipt data containing a receipt entry for each of one or more items purchased by a customer in the sales transaction; generating a digital receipt for the sales transaction, the digital receipt generated from the digital receipt data, the digital receipt containing the receipt entry for each of the one or more purchased items, the digital receipt providing proof of the sales transaction, the digital receipt for delivery to a customer mobile device associated with the customer; receiving an indication that the sales transaction is to be audited in the store location; and sending the digital receipt to an auditor mobile device at the store location, the auditor mobile device for use in auditing receipt entries contained in the digital receipt against items physical possessed by the customer upon the customer attempting to exit the store location, the auditor mobile device used to reorder receipt entries in accordance with audit rules, the audit rules defining an audit priority for each of the one or more purchased items based on characteristics of each of the one or more purchased items, an audit priority for a purchased item indicating an importance of expressly auditing the purchased item at the store location, the reordered entries displayable during audits at the store location to increase the likelihood of expressly auditing purchased items with higher indicated importance. | 47,116 |
9,598,318 | 1. A refractory brick system comprising a chromia refractory brick, where the chromia refractory brick comprises: a porous chromia refractory, where the porous chromia refractory is comprised of at least 60 wt. % Cr carbon deposits residing within some portion of the plurality of pores of the porous chromia refractory, where the carbon deposits comprise from about 1 wt. % to less than about 10 wt. % of the chromia refractory brick. | 23,940 |
9,789,994 | 1. A packing box, comprising: a plurality of side wall parts that compose peripheral walls, a bottom wall part, a housing part to house an article, the housing part being composed of the plurality of side wall parts and the bottom wall part, an outer lid part to open and close an upper part of the housing part, the outer lid part being provided consecutively with a first side wall part of the plurality of side wall parts, a tuck that extends from an edge part opposed to a consecutive part between the first side wall part and the outer lid part, and is configured to be folded, at least one extending part that extends from a side edge of the tuck in a direction crossing a folding part between the tuck and the outer lid part, an inner flap that is provided consecutively with a second side wall part, the second side wall part being other than the first side wall part, and being opposed to the first side wall part, and is configured to be folded inward, a slit that is provided in the inner flap and is cut along the second side wall part, an obstructive part that is configured to be folded along a folding part from a side edge of the inner flap crossing the second side wall part, wherein the tuck is configured to be inserted into the slit so as to be contacted with the slit along the second side wall part while the extending part is folded, the extending part restricts, once the tuck is inserted, release of the outer lid part by restoration to the original state in a direction crossing an extending direction of the slit, an inner lid part that is provided consecutively with the second side wall part and is to be placed inside the outer lid part is provided on a side of the second side wall part of the inner flap, and the obstructive part is configured to be placed in a course from a clearance between the top edge of the first side wall part which crosses the second side wall part, and the inner flap to the extending part, and the obstructive part includes a projecting part configured to be folded along a side edge of the inner lid part such that the projecting part is opposed to the first side wall part crossing the second side wall part, and obstructs approach from the outside of the packing box to the extending part. | 47,687 |
9,778,033 | 1. A device for placing a plug in a hollow body while simultaneously checking a correct position alignment of the plug, the hollow body having at least one first opening and one second opening, the device comprising: a plug placement means for inserting the plug into the second opening of the hollow body; a measuring head traversed by at least one channel, the channel for fluid connection to the first opening of the hollow body; and a pressure sensor for checking the correct position alignment of the plug, and the pressure sensor fluidically connected to the channel of the measuring head. | 24,976 |
8,811,131 | 1. In an optical tape drive comprising a plurality of optical heads for reading data from a plurality of tracks on an optical tape, each track having an off-track threshold, a method for off-track data recovery comprising: controlling the plurality of optical heads via a plurality of actuators, each actuator configured to control a position of one of the plurality of optical heads associated therewith; determining a position of each of the optical heads relative to an associated track on the optical tape; and permitting, in response to an event causing at least one of the plurality of optical heads to have a position outside the off-track threshold of the associated track, the at least one optical head to stream data read from the optical tape when a loss of data from the at least one head is correctable. | 7,859 |
8,598,112 | 1. A method of directing a therapeutic moiety to tumor blood vessels and tumor cells in a subject, comprising administering to the subject a conjugate which comprises a therapeutic moiety linked to a homing molecule that selectively homes to tumor blood vessels and tumor cells, said homing molecule specifically binding nucleolin, wherein the homing molecule is a peptide having a length of at most 200 amino acid residues comprising SEQ ID NO: 9 or SEQ ID NO: 11, thereby directing the therapeutic moiety to tumor blood vessels and tumor cells. | 40,368 |
8,840,872 | 1. A method of treating a condition of a mammalian eye selected from the group consisting of retinal arterial occlusive disease, retinal vein occlusion, central retinal vein occlusion, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, branch retinal vein occlusion, ocular ischemic syndrome, retinal arterial microaneurysms, Coat's disease, parafoveal telangiectasis, hemiretinal vein occlusion, papillophlebitis, central retinal artery occlusion, branch retinal artery occlusion the method comprising the step of administering to the eye a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of hyaluronic acid and a glucocorticoid derivative comprising an acyl group linked to C17 via an ester linkage. | 10,182 |
8,757,358 | 1. A container handling machine servo control device comprising: an electric motor drive element; a sensor system configured to determine operating conditions or parameters of said servo control device; an electronic control and/or monitoring system comprising at least one memory in which determined operating conditions or parameters, within and/or outside of predetermined operating conditions or parameters, are stored during operation of a container handling machine; and said at least one memory is configured, upon reaching its limit of capacity, to delete the chronologically oldest information to permit storage of new information. | 37,959 |
9,039,558 | 1. An electric vehicle driving system, comprising: an energy-storage device; a first motor electrically connected to the energy-storage device; a speed regulating motor electrically connected to the energy-storage device; and a single row planetary gear mechanism, which comprises a sun gear, a gear ring and a planetary carrier with planetary gear gears, wherein the planetary gear gears on the planetary carrier individually mesh with the gear ring and the sun gear, an output axle of the first motor is connected to the gear ring, and an output axle of the speed regulating motor is connected to the sun gear and a brake, wherein the system further comprises: a main decelerator, which meshes with an output gear of the planetary carrier; and a front axle differential, which is disposed on an output axle of a front axle and connected to the main decelerator to output the power transmitted by the main decelerator via the front axle differential to the output axle of the front axle. | 26,258 |
8,713,119 | 1. A method for processing voice commands, performed at a portable electronic device with one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors, the method comprising: in response to user input, recording at least a portion of a voice command on the portable electronic device; when recording the portion of the voice command on the portable electronic device, storing contextual information of the portable electronic device; after recording the portion of the voice command at the portable electronic device, uploading the portion of the voice command and the stored contextual information from the portable electronic device to remote computing equipment; receiving, from the remote computing equipment, results associated with processing the portion of the voice command and the stored contextual information; and presenting the results. | 33,927 |
9,287,226 | 1. An electronic circuit module configured to reduce signal losses, the electronic circuit module comprising: an electronic circuit device including a first lead, a second lead, a radio frequency (RF) output, and an integrated circuit die associated with a passive component; and a conductive path having a first bonding pad electrically connected to the first lead and a second bonding pad located on the conductive path between the first bonding pad and an output of the electronic circuit module and electrically connected to the second lead, the electronic circuit device configured such that the passive component electrically connects to the first lead and the RF output of the electronic circuit device electrically connects to the second lead. | 19,337 |
9,239,051 | 1. An electrode comprising an electroconductive substrate coated on at least one surface with an aqueous composition comprising: a) from 0.5 to 150 parts of fluoropolymer particles having a weight average particle size of less than 500 nm, wherein said fluoropolymer is a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) homopolymer or copolymer comprising at least 70 mole percent of vinylidene fluoride units; b) from 10 to 500 parts of one or more powdery electrode-forming materials; c) from 1 to 150 parts of one or more organic carbonates; d) 100 parts of water; all parts are by weight and based on 100 parts by weight of water. | 6,795 |
8,977,393 | 1. A method comprising: determining, by a computing system of a robotic device, that a power level associated with the robotic device is below a threshold level; based on determining that the power level associated with the robotic device is below the threshold level, coupling, by the computing system of the robotic device, a mechanical manipulator of the robotic device to a terminal of a power source, wherein the mechanical manipulator includes an elongated arm or leg of the robotic device configured to perform one or more grip operations, and wherein coupling the mechanical manipulator to the terminal of the power source comprises coupling a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact of the mechanical manipulator to respective corresponding portions of the terminal of the power source by performing a respective grip operation of the one or more grip operations; and responsive to coupling the mechanical manipulator of the robotic device to the terminal of the power source, receiving, at the robotic device, an electrical charge from the power source through the mechanical manipulator. | 46,574 |
8,511,342 | 1. A cooling apparatus of an electronic equipment comprising: a driving mechanism that drives a refrigerant; a refrigerant tank that stores the refrigerant, an inflow opening for the refrigerant to flow in and an outflow opening for the refrigerant to flow out being provided to the refrigerant tank; and a pipe body that connects the driving mechanism and the refrigerant tank to form a ring, wherein the refrigerant tank comprises: a side surface to an opposite side of the outflow opening, a refrigerant guide pipe, having one end positioned near the side surface and also near a deepest part of the refrigerant tank and another end connected to the outflow opening, that derives the refrigerant from inside the refrigerant tank to the outflow opening, the refrigerant guide pipe comprises a main flexible guide pipe and a weight attached to an end part of the main guide pipe, the weight having a shape such that the weight is inclined so as to be thicker from an end-part side of the refrigerant guide pipe towards an outflow-opening side of the refrigerant guide pipe in a longitudinal direction of the refrigerant guide pipe, the weight being thicker on the outflow-opening side as compared to an inflow-opening side opposite to the outflow-opening side, causing an end of the refrigerant guide pipe to be inclined relative to the refrigerant guide pipe and point downwards at the inflow-opening side. | 13,777 |
8,640,797 | 1. An endless belt tensioner system comprising: a tensioner adapted to physically apply tension to an endless belt of a vehicle, the tensioner comprising an intervening mechanism adapted to ensure minimum tension in the endless belt of the vehicle, wherein the endless belt tensioner system is adapted to dynamically manage the tension in the endless belt to allow appropriate suspension movement and to prevent the endless belt to disengage from an operating configuration when the suspension is actuated. | 7,153 |
8,360,933 | 1. A method of operating a drivetrain of a motor vehicle in which the drivetrain comprises a drive aggregate, an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal, and when the drivetrain being operated in a crawling mode and the accelerator pedal and the brake pedal being unactuated, the method comprising the steps of: determining a speed of the motor vehicle; if, during the crawling operation, the speed of the motor vehicle is lower than a defined limit value and the brake pedal is actuated by less than a defined limit amount, reducing the crawling torque supplied for the crawling operation without utilizing auxiliary braking energy to assist with braking of the motor vehicle; if, during the crawling operation the speed of the motor vehicle is lower than the defined limit value but the brake pedal is actuated by more than the defined limit amount, both reducing the crawling torque supplied for the crawling operation and utilizing auxiliary braking energy to assist with braking of the motor vehicle; and if during the crawling operation both the speed of the motor vehicle is greater than the defined limit value and the brake pedal is actuated, both reducing the crawling torque supplied for the crawling operation and calling for auxiliary braking energy to assist with braking of the motor vehicle. | 22,308 |
9,848,001 | 1. A method, comprising: retrieving, from a shared storage location on a mobile device, a last activity time associated with a use of a first mobile application in a protected subset of two or more protected mobile applications, wherein a library associated with a second mobile application is configured to retrieve from the shared storage location on the mobile device the last activity time associated with the use of the first mobile application, wherein the library associated with the second mobile application is configured to modify code of the second mobile application to behave differently than an unmodified version of the code, wherein the shared storage location is accessible to the protected subset of two or more protected mobile applications and is not accessible to at least one application not in the protected subset; determining that the last activity time is within a session expiration time period associated with the protected subset; and allowing, by the library associated with the second mobile application, access to the second mobile application in the protected subset based at least in part on the determination. | 31,319 |
9,067,383 | 1. A flexible membrane in rolled form comprising: a basemat in rolled form having at least three plies comprising a center ply of a meltblown polymer and two outer plies of spunbond polymer, wherein said center ply is impervious to a hydraulic composition slurry comprising, by weight percent, 66.8% Class C fly ash, 32.8% acrylic polymer latex, 0.30% polycarboxylate superplasticizer, and 0.13% colorant; and a set and dried flexible coating on one side of said basemat, said coating comprising: | 15,107 |
9,174,791 | 1. A substantially thermally sealed storage container, comprising: an outer assembly including one or more sections of ultra efficient insulation material substantially defining at least one thermally sealed storage region, wherein the ultra efficient insulation material includes at least two layers of thermal reflective film separated by vacuum, and wherein the outer assembly includes a mechanically operable outer assembly interlock configured to reversibly restrict egress of one or more packaged material units when closed or allow egress of the one or more packaged material units when open; an inner assembly including a mechanically operable inner assembly interlock including a region of a size and shape to align with the one or more packaged material units and configured to reversibly restrict egress of the one or more packaged material units when closed or allow egress of the one or more packaged material units when open to provide controllable egress of the one or more packaged material units from one or more of the at least one thermally sealed storage region to the mechanically operable outer assembly interlock; an intermediate region between the inner assembly interlock and the outer assembly interlock, the intermediate region following a serpentine path through which the one or more packaged material units are removable from the at least one thermally sealed storage region, the intermediate region configured to completely enclose the one or more packaged materials therein between the closed inner and outer interlock assemblies; and one or more heat sink units containing frozen water, the one or more heat sink units thermally connected to one or more of the at least one thermally sealed storage region. | 16,889 |
9,529,740 | 1. A method, comprising: replacing a device identification (ID) in a data structure with a device ID of a peripheral device; automatically creating a request based on content of the data structure when data structure creation is completed; sending the data structure to a bus driver, the data structure including the request to add a new peripheral device, a class of the peripheral device and the device ID of the peripheral device; responsive to receiving the data structure at the bus driver, initiating a setup for the peripheral device; and transmitting the request to a device driver of an interface of the peripheral device and a bus that initiates the installation of the peripheral device, wherein the transmitting of the data structure causes a function driver for the bus to determine that a new device is on the bus; wherein entries are added to provide Plug and Play functionality to the data structure generated from an existent setup information file. | 44,796 |
8,882,627 | 1. An electric variable transmission comprising: a first, second, and third planetary gear set, wherein the first, second, and third planetary gear sets are interconnected; wherein the first planetary gear set comprises a plurality of first planetary gear subcomponents including a first sun gear, a first ring gear, and a first planetary pinion rotatably mounted on a first planetary carrier, and wherein the third planetary gear set comprises a plurality of third planetary gear subcomponents including a third sun gear, a third ring gear, and a third planetary pinion rotatably mounted on a third planetary carrier; an input shaft directly connected to the third planetary gear set of the third planetary gear set; a first electric motor continuously connected to the third planetary gear set, and additionally connected to the first planetary gear set through a first selectively engageable clutch; a second electric motor continuously connected to the first planetary gear set, and additionally connected to the second planetary gear set through a second selectively engageable clutch; a transmission housing connected to the first planetary gear set through a third selectively engageable clutch and to the second planetary gear set through a fourth selectively engageable clutch; a fifth selectively engageable clutch connected to at least two subcomponents on the third planetary gear set; an output shaft connected to the second planetary gear set; and wherein the electric variable transmission provides four forward electric variable transmission modes and six fixed gears. | 9,346 |
8,511,098 | 1. A gas turbine engine comprising: a first attachment structure secured to one of an engine casing and an engine liner; a second attachment structure secured to the other one of the engine casing and the engine liner; wherein the engine casing and the engine liner together provide an annular bypass flow path; at least one sliding member held by the first attachment structure and slideable relative to the first attachment structure between a first position and a second position; a pin structure movable with the at least one sliding member between the first position and the second position; and a link pivotally connected to the second attachment structure and the pin structure, wherein the pin structure includes a retainer configured to hold an axial position of the pin relative to the at least one sliding member. | 30,964 |
8,859,075 | 1. A silicon carbide ceramic comprising silicon carbide crystals wherein 0.1 to 25 mass % of 4H—SiC silicon carbide crystals and 50 to 99.9mass % of 6H—SiC silicon carbide crystals are contained in the silicon carbide crystals, and wherein a difference (R 20 −R min ) between the resistivity at 20° C. (R 20 ) and the minimum resistivity (R min ) of the silicon carbide ceramic is 80 Ω·cm or less. | 40,644 |
9,517,617 | 1. A screen printing safety system having two areas of protection from encroachment comprising: a screen printing machine having a loading area and a printing area, and a plurality of textile supporting pallets mounted for movement a first height above a supporting surface between the loading area where an operator can place textiles on or remove textiles from one of the plurality of textile supporting pallets, and the printing area having a plurality of print stations; a first entryway to the loading area from outside the loading area having a first vertical dimension from a floor to a top being sufficient to accommodate a human operator; a segmented barrier to the first entryway enclosing a first area of protection, the segmented barrier comprising: a second entryway to the printing area; a second light curtain sensor surrounding the second entryway to define a second area of protection; and the first light curtain sensor and the second light curtain sensor being adapted to stop operation of the screen printing machine when encroachment is sensed. | 40,254 |
8,814,437 | 1. A method for producing a roller bearing cage, comprising the following steps: providing an integrally formed near net shape base body that defines the roller bearing cage structure produced by a stereolithographic method or by 3D printing, and coating the integrally formed near net shape base body with a thin, nanocrystalline coating. | 34,302 |
8,895,177 | 1. A modular frame comprising: a first row of cell slots configured to receive a first plurality of prismatic cells of a battery pack system; a second row of cell slots configured to receive a second plurality of prismatic cells of the battery pack system; and a central interface beam disposed between the first row of cell slots and the second row of cell slots, wherein the central interface beam comprises a first side that is configured to receive terminals of the first plurality of prismatic cells, and a second side that opposes the first side and is configured to receive terminals of the second plurality of prismatic cells. | 39,219 |
8,715,606 | 1. A method comprising: reacting at least one fullerene with indene, at least one substituted indene, or a combination thereof wherein the volume amount of any solvent in addition to the indene, substituted indene, or combination thereof, is less than about 20% with respect to the volume amount of indene, substituted indene, or combination thereof, and wherein the fullerene is fully solubilized, wherein at the start of the reaction the molar amount of indene, substituted indene, or combination thereof with respect to the molar amount of fullerene is at least about 300, and wherein the reacting provides a mixture of indene-fullerene reaction products, wherein the primary reaction product is a bis-, tris-, or tetra-substituted indene fullerene derivative. | 25,088 |
8,429,344 | 1. A storage apparatus comprising: a power supply unit that is connected to an external power source and supplies power; a storage device that is supplied with power from the power supply unit to operate; and a relay device that controls access to the storage device, wherein the relay device is provided with a first region that stores a first storage device management information to register therein a predetermined number of corresponding relationships between identifying information and time information in an order of time indicated by the time information from newest to oldest, the identifying information identifying the storage device accessed by a server, the time information indicating a time at which the storage device is accessed by the server, the relay device is provided with a second region that stores a second storage device management information to register therein a predetermined number of the corresponding relationships in an order of time indicated by the time information from newest to oldest, the newest time indicated by the time information registered in the second storage device management information being older than the oldest time indicated by the time information registered in the first storage device management information, and the relay device includes an operation control unit that controls an operating state of the storage device based on the first storage device management information and the second storage device management information. | 18,316 |
8,766,188 | 1. A photoconductive element for performing at least one of generation and detection of terahertz radiation, comprising: a photoconductive layer configured to generate photoexcited carriers by being irradiated with excitation light; and a plurality of electrodes provided on the photoconductive layer, wherein the material of the photoconductive layer is a material that makes a depletion layer produced in the photoconductive layer have a thickness smaller than an optical absorption length of the photoconductive layer for a wavelength of the excitation light, wherein the material of the photoconductive layer is a material in which the thickness W of the depletion layer produced in the photoconductive layer is represented by W=(2∈V where ∈ denotes a dielectric constant of the photoconductive layer, Vbi denotes a built-in potential on a surface of the photoconductive layer, e denotes an elementary charge, and n denotes a carrier density of the photoconductive layer, wherein a film thickness of the photoconductive layer is selected to the thickness W of the depletion layer within at least a portion of the photoconductive layer between the plurality of electrodes, and wherein the material of the photoconductive layer is a low-temperature-grown compound semiconductor including three or more elements. | 44,619 |
8,578,666 | 1. A solar device for being configured on a platform, the solar device comprising: a solar module having a first connection hole and comprising a solar cell board and a frame surrounding the solar cell board; a splicing member having a body, a first latching pin, and a second latching pin, the first and second latching pins extending from the body and facing against each other; and a bracket fixed to the platform and having a second connection hole, wherein the first latching pin passes through and is locked to the first connection hole correspondingly, the second latching pin passes through and is locked to the second connection hole correspondingly, such that the splicing member is connected between the solar module and the bracket, and the body is clamped between the frame and the bracket. | 30,575 |
8,765,146 | 1. An adenoviral vector comprising an adenoviral genome comprising Plasmodium antigen-encoding nucleic acid sequences, wherein the Plasmodium antigen-encoding nucleic acid sequences consist of (i) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a (ii) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a (iii) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a wherein the | 30,952 |
9,140,121 | 1. A cutter pick assembly comprising: a cutter pick and a block; the cutter pick comprising a head adapted to hold a cutter bit, a shank extending in a longitudinal direction away from the head, and a heel extending away from the head transverse to the longitudinal direction, the heel comprising first and second sides separated by a thickness of the heel and a through-hole extending through the thickness of the heel, the through-hole having an intake end at the first side of the heel and a discharge end at the second side of the heel; the block comprising an aperture, a spray nozzle, and an outer surface, the aperture capable of receiving the shank and placing the cutter pick in an operating position when the shank is received in the aperture, the spray nozzle comprising an inlet for receiving water and a discharge orifice for discharge of water from the spray nozzle, the spray nozzle extending from the block away from the outer surface and locating the discharge orifice outside of the block; when the cutter pick is in the operating position: | 25,428 |
8,546,439 | 1. A method for disrupting HIV assembly and replication comprising: administering to a patient in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound of formula II, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, wherein R R A, V, W, X and Y are independently CH; and disrupting HIV-1 assembly and replication. | 1,308 |
9,625,971 | 1. A system comprising: a monitoring unit; processing units, wherein each of the processing units is linked to the monitoring unit; peripheral units, wherein each of the peripheral units is linked to the monitoring unit, wherein: each of the processing units is configured to transmit requests to and subsequently receive responses from at least one of the peripheral units through the monitoring unit; and the monitoring unit is configured to measure and store delays between the responses and the respective requests; and a device that is coupled to the monitoring unit and is configured to periodically perform the steps of: | 147 |
9,130,232 | 1. A grid for a battery comprising an electrically conductive grid body having opposed top and bottom frame elements, wherein at least one of the frame elements has an entire length and a coined edge which spans the entire length of the frame element, and a plurality of interconnecting electrically conductive grid elements spanning between the opposed top and bottom frame element defining a grid pattern. | 46,929 |
9,007,572 | 1. An inspection system comprising: optical components for operating the inspection system in an interference fringe imaging mode where three-dimensional surface information is acquired by producing an interference fringe image and in a microscope imaging mode wherein two-dimensional surface information is acquired by producing a two-dimensional image; at least one optical light source configured to emit a first color of light to operate the inspection system in the interference fringe imaging mode and configured to emit a second color of light to operate the inspection system in the microscope mode, wherein the first color of light is different from the second color of light; a wavelength-specific light absorbing filter that absorbs substantially all light from the at least one optical light source except the first color of light so that the interference fringe image is produced with the first color of light and the two-dimensional image is produced with the second color of light; and an image sensor array that simultaneously captures the interference fringe image and the two-dimensional image for viewing in a single exposure. | 48,839 |
9,115,435 | 1. An electrochemical cell comprising: at least two individual cells; one of the two cells comprising metal organic framework having one oxidation state; another of the two cells comprising metal organic framework having another oxidation state, the one oxidation state being different than the other oxidation state. | 16,154 |
9,369,960 | 1. An operation method performed by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the operation method comprising: determining whether to switch a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) state; switching to a new DRX state and operating in the new DRX state, if it is determined to switch to the DRX state; and reporting the switching of the new DRX state to a network, wherein the new DRX state is based on a new DRX cycle comprising an on-duration for which a downlink channel is monitored and an off-duration for which the downlink channel is not monitored, wherein the switching of the new DRX state is operated when the user equipment enters a specific area, wherein the specific area corresponds to a small cell which the user equipment has previously visited, and wherein the user equipment enters the specific area when a distance between a position of the user equipment and a position of the small cell is smaller than a specific value. | 3,840 |
8,851,570 | 1. A seat lifter comprising: a first link rotatably coupled to each of a first base member and a first seat frame which are disposed on one of right and left sides of a seat; a second link rotatably coupled to each of a second base member and a second seat frame which are disposed on the other side of the seat, and interlockably coupled to the first link through a coupling member; and a lifting and lowering mechanism for lifting and lowering the first and second seat frames with respect to the first and second base members, the lifting and lowering mechanism including: a first lifting and lowering mechanism section having a first sun gear and a first planetary gear group to lift and lower the first seat frame with respect to the first base member; and a second lifting and lowering mechanism section having a second sun gear and a second planetary gear group to lift and lower the second seat frame with respect to the second base member in interlocking relation with the first lifting and lowering mechanism section, wherein the first planetary gear group has a plurality of first planetary gears each meshed with the first sun gear, the first seat frame includes a first-link coupling section having a first-frame internal gear, the first link includes a first link body with first and second ends, the first end of the first link body being coupled rotatably to the first base member, the second end of the first link body having a first-link internal gear maintained in meshed relation with the first planetary gear group, the first-link internal gear having fewer teeth than the first-frame internal gear, a planetary-gear operating section adapted to manipulatively allow the first planetary gear group to be moved circularly around the first sun gear, the planetary-gear operating section including a clutch plate, a cam and an operating lever, the cam being locked with the operating lever and being changeably locked and unlocked with respect to the clutch plate, the clutch plate having a shaft insertion hole rotatably receiving a shaft portion of the first planetary gears, and the first link body is rotatable with respect to the first-link coupling section during the circular movement of the first planetary gear group around the first sun gear and along the first-frame internal gear while being meshed with the first-frame internal gear and meshed with the first-link internal gear according to manipulation of the operating lever of the planetary-gear operating section, rotational manipulation of the operating lever causing rotation of the cam that is locked with the operating lever and causing rotation of the clutch plate when the clutch plate is locked with the cam, and the first link body is swingably movable about a rotation axis at the first end of the first link body. | 33,165 |
9,620,249 | 1. A nuclear reactor fuel assembly for an operating reactor nuclear core comprising: a channel having a wall; a fuel bundle including full length fuel rods, tie rods and at least water rod, wherein the wall extends around the perimeter of the fuel bundle, an upper end plug on an upper end of each of the full length fuel rods, the tie rods and the at least one water rod; an upper tie plate within the wall of the channel including a planar network of interconnected ribs and first pin support apertures, wherein the first pin support apertures are adapted to receive the upper end plugs and the planar network includes open regions between the ribs and the first pin support apertures, and a debris shield including a porous region at least coextensive with the planar network, wherein the porous region includes second pin support apertures, the second pin support apertures are each coaxial with one first pin support apertures, and pores in the porous region are individually smaller than each of the second pin support apertures, and wherein the debris shield is adjacent the planar network and is above the full length fuel rods, the tie rods and the at least one water rod. | 12,595 |
8,625,414 | 1. A method of operating a provider edge network element, the provider edge network element comprising a forwarding plane configured to forward packets on a packet network and a control plane configured to control forwarding of packets by the forwarding plane, the method comprising configuring the control plane: to determine a primary Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) tunnel to a destination provider edge network element for a Virtual Private Network (VPN), the primary MPLS tunnel traversing a first input/output (I/O) card; to determine a secondary MPLS tunnel to the destination provider edge network element for the VPN, the secondary MPLS tunnel traversing a second I/O card different from the first I/O card; and after determination of the primary and the secondary MPLS tunnels: | 15,362 |
9,194,449 | 1. A suspension device for use with a refrigerator, comprising: a ring-shaped support base; at least three tension assemblies, each comprising pulleys and tensioning elements; further comprising a band of material that is entrained about the pulleys and held in a taut state by the tensioning elements; wherein each tension assembly is urged by its tensioning element in a generally radially outward direction with respect to the support base. | 20,415 |
9,651,131 | 1. A locking differential assembly comprising: a differential case defining a cavity, the differential case being configured to rotate about an axis; a differential gearset received in the cavity, the differential gearset having a first side gear configured to rotate about the axis; and a locking mechanism for selectively locking the first side gear to the differential case for common rotation about the axis, the locking mechanism including: | 24,973 |
9,029,083 | 1. A method for providing a library of entities, comprising the steps of: producing a plurality of aqueous droplets by partitioning an aqueous fluid as it is flowing through a channel with an immiscible continuous phase that comprises a fluorinated oil and a fluorinated polymer surfactant, each droplet comprising at least one entity; and pooling the droplets into one or more common compartments that have larger cross-sectional areas than the channel that slows the velocity of the droplets as compared to their velocity within the channel, wherein the droplets contact each other but do not fuse within the one or more common compartments, thereby providing a library of encapsulated entities. | 8,090 |
8,991,338 | 1. A vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine configured to be intermittently stopped after said internal combustion engine is started; a pump for circulating a cooling medium for cooling said internal combustion engine; and a control device for controlling said internal combustion engine, wherein, when said cooling medium has a low temperature, said control device controls said pump to limit a flow rate of said cooling medium so that it is smaller than when said cooling medium has a high temperature, and when said flow rate of said cooling medium is limited, said control device relaxes a condition associated with a temperature of said internal combustion engine so as to permit intermittently stopping said internal combustion engine; as compared with when said flow rate is not limited. | 8,206 |
9,041,345 | 1. A battery system, comprising: a plurality of battery cells; and a battery cell balancing unit, configured to adjust voltages across each of the battery cells to reduce variation among the voltages across the battery cells, the battery cell balancing unit comprising: | 23,665 |
9,503,942 | 1. In a wireless communication system comprising a first radio access network (RAN) configured to serve wireless communication devices (WCDs) on a first air interface according to a first air interface protocol, a second RAN configured to serve WCDs on a second air interface according to a second air interface protocol, and a network device communicatively connected to both the first and second RANs, a method comprising: at the first RAN, receiving a wireless transmission on the first air interface from a WCD including a message requesting a wireless service from the first RAN, the message including information indicative of a requested spectral efficiency for the requested wireless service, wherein the spectral efficiency corresponds to a metric of bit rate per utilized bandwidth; at the network device, receiving the information indicative of the requested spectral efficiency; based on the information, determining by the network device the requested spectral efficiency for providing the requested wireless service on the first air interface of the first RAN according to the first air interface protocol; at the network device, making a comparison of the requested spectral efficiency with at least one of (a) a threshold, or (b) a projected spectral efficiency for providing the requested wireless service on the second air interface of the second RAN according to the second air interface protocol; and based on the comparison, providing the WCD the requested wireless service on one of (i) the first air interface of the first RAN according to the first air interface protocol, or (ii) the second air interface of the second RAN according to the second air interface protocol; wherein the requested wireless service comprises a wireless communication service. | 35,946 |
9,718,655 | 1. A hydraulically actuable jib for a loading crane, comprising: at least two jib extensions, wherein a first one of the at least two jib extensions is an outer jib extension and a second one of the at least two jib extensions is an inner jib extension, and at least two thrust cylinders for extension and retraction of the at least two jib extensions, a hydraulic circuit for a working medium, comprising a retraction line for pressure-actuated retraction of the at least two thrust cylinders, wherein a first one of the at least two thrust cylinders corresponds to the outer jib extension and a second one of the at least two thrust cylinders corresponds to the inner jib extension, a tank for delivery of the working medium, and a switching valve which is switchable into an open position by attainment of a defined retraction position of the outer jib extension and thereby is configured to feed the second one of the at least two thrust cylinders which corresponds to the inner jib extension with pressurized working medium, wherein the retraction line opens into the first one of the at least two thrust cylinders which corresponds to the outer jib extension and is adapted to be telescopic in an interior of the second one of the at least two thrust cylinders which corresponds to the inner jib extension, wherein the retraction line is continuous in any position of each of the at least two thrust cylinders with respect to a piston and a piston rod thereof, wherein the retraction line enters and exits the second one of the at least two thrust cylinders which corresponds to the inner jib extension at front and rear end regions of the second one of the at least two thrust cylinders which corresponds to the inner jib extension, wherein the retraction line is sealed from the second one of the at least two thrust cylinders which corresponds to the inner jib extension such that the retraction line only communicates with the second one of the at least two thrust cylinders which corresponds to the inner jib extension once the switching valve is switched into the open position by the attainment of the defined retraction position of the outer jib extension and thereby feeds the second one of the at least two thrust cylinders which corresponds to the inner jib extension with the pressurized working medium. | 21,506 |
8,930,326 | 1. A computer-implemented method of analyzing data in response to detecting occurrence of an event comprising: mapping fields between the data and a fingerprint definition identifying relevant fields of the data to produce a fingerprint for the data including information pertaining to the data, wherein the data is deleted after occurrence of the event and the fingerprint information lacks actual values for elements within the corresponding deleted data; storing the produced fingerprint in a data repository; retrieving the fingerprint from the data repository in response to detection of the event occurrence after the data has been deleted; and analyzing the information within the retrieved fingerprint to identify the elements of the corresponding deleted data and to evaluate an impact of the event on the corresponding deleted data. | 41,991 |
8,762,438 | 1. A method of executing a machine instruction by a central processing unit, said method comprising: obtaining a machine instruction for execution, the machine instruction comprising an opcode and being defined for computer execution according to a computer architecture; and and combining the significand in the decimal floating point format and the biased exponent to create the datum in the decimal floating point format. | 14,708 |
8,800,537 | 1. An ozone generating/sterilizing/disinfecting apparatus comprising: a microwave oscillator for generating a microwave of a predetermined microwave band; a microwave resonant cavity for allowing the predetermined microwave band to resonate; a microwave radiation antenna connected with the microwave oscillator and for radiating the microwave into the microwave resonant cavity; a sensor which measures an amount of ozone; and a controller that controls an input energy of the microwave radiation antenna based on the amount of the ozone measured by the sensor. | 32,340 |
9,493,258 | 1. A method for producing and/or packaging products, namely cigarettes, in a production and/or packaging system, comprising: feeding packaging units from a lower packaging level ( recording, with a camera ( recording, with a camera ( assigning a common identifier to the recorded images ( | 11,638 |
8,754,136 | 1. A topical pharmaceutical or cosmetic composition comprising a pharmaceutically or cosmetically active agent and a gelling agent, wherein said gelling agent comprises a fish gelatin and a polysaccharide, wherein said fish gelatin has a weight average molecular weight in the range 90-140 kDa, wherein said polysaccharide is kappa-carrageenan having a weight average molecular weight of 400 to 800 kDa, wherein said composition has a continuous aqueous phase having a melting temperature in the range 20 to 42° C., wherein said polysaccharide is present at a concentration of 0.5-0.75% wt, and wherein said fish gelatin is present at a concentration of 10 to 15% wt. | 157 |
8,926,399 | 1. A support material removing method for removing a support material on a surface of a three-dimensional object molded by a three-dimensional forming device, comprising: spraying a slurry, which is a mixture of a liquid and abrasive grains, from a slurry sprayer including a spray nozzle, to remove the support material from the surface of the three-dimensional molded object, said spray nozzle made of resin and configured to be detachably attached to a slurry spraying base made of resin, said slurry spraying base including a compressed air passage and a slurry passage having a right-angle bent portion, wherein the slurry supplied from a slurry supplier passes through the compressed air passage with compressed air supplied from a compressed air supplier, and said spray nozzle including a spray slurry producer for mixing the compressed air with the slurry, which is drawn in through the slurry passage by passing the compressed air, and expelling some of the slurry passing through the slurry passage using a slurry outlet, said slurry outlet disposed in a position upstream of and near to the spray slurry producer, and said abrasive grains are columnar-shaped, approximately 0.1 to 0.5 mm in diameter, and approximately 0.1 to 0.5 mm in height, and made of resin. | 43,581 |
8,998,486 | 1. A method for cone beam computed tomography, the method comprising: moving a digital radiation detector along a detector path, the detector path configured so that the digital radiation detector travels between the legs of a human patient who is standing and straddling the detector path while the detector captures a sequence of radiographic images of one of the legs of the patient; moving a radiation source along a source path that is further from said one of the legs of the patient than the detector path, the source path configured to allow radiation exposure of said one of the legs of the patient such that the detector captures the sequence of radiographic images of said one of the legs of the patient, wherein the steps of moving the detector and moving the radiation source are synchronized to keep the detector and the radiation source in diametrically opposing positions relative to said one of the legs of the patient. | 47,814 |
9,594,363 | 1. Apparatus to queue access to a power supply shared by a set of electrical entities, wherein each electrical entity has a power draw value associated with the electrical entity being in an on state, the power draw value associated with a load duration curve, comprising: a hardware processor; computer memory holding computer program instructions, the computer program instructions executed by the hardware processor to: | 16,347 |
9,249,040 | 1. A sludge treatment plant, comprising an extended floor with a work surface for receiving a mass of spread-out sludge; a movable carriage positioned transversely above the work surface and comprising a drive system for moving the carriage in longitudinal translation above the floor, said carriage comprising a displacement tool designed to continuously carry the sludge towards a terminal part of said work surface; and a sludge withdrawal tool positioned at the terminal part of said work surface, to transfer the sludge to an outlet channel, wherein the outlet channel comprises a screw conveyor arranged in interaction with the withdrawal tool, said screw conveyor being provided with a heating means in particular of a type comprising heat transfer fluid circulation or of a type comprising at least one heating resistor, and being associated with a rotational drive system, and a controller jointly arranged to adjust heating in the screw conveyor to obtain a sludge temperature between 90° C. and 100° C., while adjusting the rotational drive of the screw conveyor to obtain a residence time of the sludge within this screw conveyor substantially to a predetermined value of 4 to 10 hours. | 37,287 |
8,841,994 | 1. An intelligent traffic safety decision method based on comprehensive state detection, which is to supply an alarm information for a driver in the process of driving, wherein Firstly an influence of a person condition is considered, when t Secondly a vehicle condition is considered, When second alarm information is not triggered, otherwise the second alarm information is triggered, where an influence of a road condition is further considered, the second alarm information is not triggered, when Where, r | 33,941 |
9,831,895 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a Message Passing Algorithm (MPA) processor, a sequence of samples representative of a received signal from a device; receiving, or otherwise generating, one or more probabilities associated codewords of a codebook assigned to a data stream in the received signal, wherein each codeword in the codebook represents a different spreading sequence; removing, in accordance with the one or more probabilities, at least one of the codewords from the codebook to obtain a pruned codebook, the pruned codebook excluding the at least one codeword; processing, by the MPA processor, the sequence of samples according to the pruned codebook to generate soft decision values corresponding to the received signal; and sending the soft decision values to a forward error correction (FEC) decoder for use in bit-level decoding of the received signal. | 9,917 |
9,071,992 | 1. An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising: a circuit configured to generate a frame comprising a very high throughput (VHT) capability element comprising at least one of: an indication about a maximum length for a Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (MPDU), an indication about a maximum length for an Aggregated MPDU (A-MPDU) or an indication about a maximum length for an Aggregated MAC Service Data Unit (A-MSDU), wherein the maximum MPDU length comprises a value greater than 8191 bytes, the maximum A-MPDU length comprises a value greater than 256 kilobytes, and the maximum A-MSDU length comprises a value greater than 7935 bytes and the indication about the maximum A-MPDU length is expressed as a maximum A-MPDU length exponent field using three bits in the VHT capability element; and a transmitter configured to transmit the frame. | 10,248 |
9,423,172 | 1. An energy-saving optimized control system for a chiller plant room, comprising: an industrial control computer; a programmable controller that communicates with the industrial control computer via an industrial Ethernet; a plurality of devices, including at least one chiller, at least one chilled water pump, at least one condenser water pump, and at least one cooling tower; a plurality of sensors, each sensor respectively connected with the programmable controller; a plurality of drivers, each driver respectively connected with the programmable controller; and a plurality of chillers connected to an RS485 communication interface module that communicates with the industrial control computer via a ModBus protocol, wherein | 40,950 |
9,663,177 | 1. An electric bicycle comprising: a crank; a driving gear and a driven gear spaced from each other; a belt engaged with the driving gear and the driven gear; an electric motor coupled to the driving gear; and a freewheel between the crank and the driving gear, at least a portion of the motor being concentric with the freewheel and extending around the freewheel. | 45,581 |
9,555,268 | 1. A high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) transducer having a replaceable cavitation sensor comprising: a dish-shaped HIFU transmitter having a central region, wherein the HIFU transmitter comprises a plurality of separated composite piezoelectric tiles mounted to a support frame, wherein the separated composite piezoelectric tiles are accessible between ribs of the support frame; a plurality of separated printed circuit boards (PCBs) mounted to the support frame above respective ones of the plurality of separated composite piezoelectric tiles, wherein the support frame maintains a spaced relation between the plurality of separated PCBs and respective ones of the plurality of separated composite piezoelectric tiles; a cavitation sensor; and a modular housing which contains the cavitation sensor, the modular housing being removably located in the HIFU transmitter so that the cavitation sensor is positioned to receive acoustic signals which may be indicative of cavitation. | 10,302 |
8,915,065 | 1. A method to regenerate a particulate filter, comprising: if a temperature downstream of the filter is less than a minimum temperature value, freezing an estimated soot-loading of the filter at a previously estimated value and regenerating the filter based on the previously estimated value; otherwise, estimating soot-loading of the filter using different estimation routines for different exhaust flow conditions, including: | 5,464 |
8,792,386 | 1. A method based on a fiber channel (FC) network for propagating an attribute across interconnecting switches between a first network element and a second network element, wherein the switches have ports that have initial states set to be an empty state, wherein in the empty state, the attribute has not been registered and does not need to be propagated, said method comprising: after a first port of a first switch on the first network element side that is in the empty state is to be in a first state, wherein the first state indicates that said attribute has been registered and needs to be propagated, the first switch configuring a second port of the first switch on the second network element side that is in an empty state to be in a second state, wherein the second state indicates that said attribute has not been registered but needs to be propagated, and sending, through the second port of the first switch, towards the direction of the second network element, a first registration message that informs a first port of a second switch to register said attribute and indicates that the second port of the first switch has not registered said attribute; and after a second port of the second switch on the second network element side that is in the second state is to be in the first state, the second switch sending, through the first port of the second switch that has been configured into the first state, towards the direction of the first network element, a second registration message that informs the second port of the first switch to register said attribute and indicates that the first port of the second switch has registered said attribute. | 18,049 |
9,076,914 | 1. A method for processing a substrate, the method comprising: directing an ion beam comprising a plurality of ions of desired dopant species along an ion beam path, from an ion source to the substrate; disposing at least a portion of a mask in the ion beam path, between the ion source and the substrate, an edge of the mask defining a first part of the ion beam and a second part of the ion beam along a height direction, the mask being spaced apart from the substrate; performing a selective ion implantation on the substrate along a width direction with the ions of desired dopant species from the first part of the ion beam and a blanket ion implantation on the substrate with the ions of desired species from the second part of the ion beam to form first and second doped regions having different dopant doses, wherein the width direction is orthogonal to the height direction; and translating one of the substrate and the mask relative to other one of the substrate and the mask while the substrate is being implanted by the ion beam. | 15,814 |
8,907,203 | 1. An integrated thin-film solar battery, comprising: a string that includes a plurality of thin-film photoelectric conversion elements formed on a transparent insulating substrate and electrically connected in series to each other; and one or more power collecting electrodes electrically joined to the string, wherein the thin-film photoelectric conversion elements have a first transparent electrode layer laminated on the transparent insulating substrate, a photoelectric conversion layer laminated on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer laminated on the photoelectric conversion layer, the power collecting electrode is electrically joined onto the second electrode layer of any thin-film photoelectric conversion element in the string, the string has an element separating groove formed by removing the second electrode layer and the photoelectric conversion layer between the adjacent two thin-film photoelectric elements, the first electrode layer of one thin-film photoelectric conversion element has an extending section whose one end crosses the element separating groove and that extends to a region of another adjacent thin-film photoelectric conversion element, and is electrically insulated from the first electrode layer of the adjacent thin-film photoelectric conversion element by one or more electrode separating line, the second electrode layer of the one thin-film photoelectric conversion element is electrically connected to the extending section of the first electrode layer of the adjacent thin-film photoelectric conversion element via a conductive section passing through the photoelectric conversion layer, in the thin-film photoelectric conversion elements joined to the power collecting electrodes, at least a portion of the first electrode layer just below the power collecting electrodes and another portion of the first electrode layer disposed below the thin-film photoelectric conversion elements joined to the power collecting electrodes are insulated and separated from each other by at least one of the electrode separating line and an insulating line disposed below the thin-film photoelectric conversion elements joined to the power collecting electrodes, wherein the power collecting electrode includes one or more intermediate power collecting electrodes, and the intermediate power collecting electrodes are joined onto the second electrode layer of one or more thin-film photoelectric conversion elements between the two thin-film photoelectric conversion elements on the both ends in the series-connecting direction in the string, the thin-film photoelectric conversion elements joined to the intermediate power collecting electrode have the electrode separating line at least on an upper-stream side of the first electrode layer in the current direction of electric currents flowing in the string with respect to a portion just below the intermediate power collecting electrode, and the insulating line on a lower-stream side of the first electrode layer in the current direction of the electric currents. | 17,396 |
8,524,939 | 1. A process for preparing a compound of Formula 1 wherein P 1 is a protecting group for the phenol group; P 2 and P 3 are a protecting groups for the hydroxyl groups; is a single or double bond; R 2 is a single bond or a C 1-4 -alkylene or —CH 2 O—; and R 3 is a C 1-7 -alkyl or an aryl or an aralkyl, each of which is unsubstituted or substituted by a C 1-4 -alkyl, a halogen or a trihalomethyl, comprising the steps of: (1) reacting a compound of Formula III: wherein P 1 and P 2 are as defined above, with a cuprate derived from the compound of Formula II-1, Formula II-2 or Formula II-3, wherein X is a halogen, R 4 is a lower alkyl, and P 3 , , R 2 and R 3 are as defined above, to form a compound of Formula 1. | 45,546 |
9,781,795 | 1. A light fixture coupled to an alternating current (AC) power source via a light switch, the light switch permitting provision of AC power by the AC power source to said light fixture when conducting, and stopping provision of the AC power to said light fixture when not conducting, said light fixture comprising: a storage unit configured to store therein a lighting state of said light fixture, the lighting state being one of a plurality of reference states that include a brightness selecting state and a selected brightness state; and a driving unit to be coupled to the light switch for receiving the AC power when the light switch conducts, to be coupled to a light emitting module, and determining, immediately after receipt of the AC power, which one of the reference states the lighting state is; wherein said driving unit drives the light emitting module to cyclically emit light according to a plurality of brightness levels that are arranged in a predetermined sequence when said driving unit receives the AC power and determines that the lighting state is the brightness selecting state; and wherein said driving unit drives the light emitting module to stably emit light according to one of the brightness levels when said driving unit receives the AC power and determines that the lighting state is the selected brightness state. | 36,584 |
9,704,321 | 1. A key device ( 1 ) comprising: a mechanical interface ( a clock ( a memory ( a radio communication module ( a controller ( | 46,441 |
8,765,306 | 1. An activated lithium ion battery after a formation cycle with a charge to at least about 4.35V, the activated battery comprising: a positive electrode comprising a lithium rich lithium metal oxide intercalation composition represented by the formula Li a negative electrode comprising a lithium intercalation/alloy composition and a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer associated with the lithium intercalation/alloy composition; a separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and an electrolyte comprising lithium ions, wherein the formation cycle to form the activated battery comprises: performing an initial charge of the battery to a voltage of no more than about 4.3 volts; after completing the initial charge, holding the battery at an open circuit for a rest period of at least about 12 hours; and performing a second charge after the completion of the rest period to the voltage of at least about 4.35 volts, and wherein after discharge, the negative electrode separated from the battery with the solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer remaining associated with the lithium intercalation/alloy composition has an onset decomposition temperature of at least 130° C. as determined based on a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurement. | 23,849 |
8,482,230 | 1. An electric device for driving mechanical equipment comprising: an alternating current motor; an inverter, the inverter comprising, for each phase of the motor, an H bridge structure comprising four switching elements distributed over two branches connecting two terminals of the H bridge structure, wherein one of the two terminals of the H bridge structure is configured to supply the winding of the at least one phase of the motor, the winding being a winding with a mid point; and at least one energy storage unit connected to at least one phase of the motor via the mid point of the winding of said at least one phase and to a terminal of the H bridge structure supplying the said winding. | 19,431 |
9,479,112 | 1. A method of generating at least one of an alternation voltage and current in a resonant circuit including at least one first capacitor, at least one first inductor and at least one reactive component, said method comprising; generating, for at least an energization time interval, at least one of a continuous voltage and current in said resonant circuit, coupling said at least one reactive component to at least one of said at least one first capacitor and said at least one first inductor for a variable coupling interval within a resonant circuit period, and varying said variable coupling interval in time for distributing an average frequency of said at least one continuous voltage and current in said resonant circuit or a radiated field therefrom over a frequency range between a minimal frequency and a maximal frequency such that approximately a same maximal power level is generated within said frequency range. | 22,569 |
8,785,232 | 1. A photovoltaic device comprising: a transparent conductive oxide layer; a semiconductor bi-layer adjacent to the transparent conductive oxide layer, wherein the semiconductor bi-layer comprises a semiconductor absorber layer and a semiconductor window layer and one or more of the semiconductor window layer and the semiconductor absorber layer comprises a carrier concentration modifier comprising silicon; and a back contact layer adjacent to the semiconductor bi-layer. | 20,752 |
9,662,447 | 1. An autoinjector comprising a lower body receiving a reservoir, said reservoir containing fluid product and comprising a piston and a needle, a central body fixed to said lower body and an actuating sleeve comprising a contact end designed to make contact with a body of a user, said actuating sleeve being displaceable in said lower body between a projected position, in which said actuating sleeve at least partially projects out of said lower body and an actuation position, in which said actuating sleeve is axially displaced towards an interior of said lower body, wherein said actuating sleeve comprises a flexible tab that is deformed on the one hand radially and on the other hand laterally relative to said central body when said actuating sleeve is displaced from the projected position towards the actuation position then from the actuation position towards the projected position; wherein said flexible tab is deformed radially when said actuating sleeve is moved from the projected position, prior to actuation, towards the actuation position, and said flexible tab is deformed laterally when said actuating sleeve is moved from the actuation position towards the projected position, at the end of use: wherein said central body comprises a first groove substantially axial and an opening, separate from said first groove, arranged in the axial extension of said first groove, said flexible tab comprising a head cooperating with said first groove when said actuating sleeve is in the projected position prior to actuation, said central body comprising a radial cam arranged between said first groove and said opening, said radial cam cooperating with said head of said flexible tab to radially deform said flexible tab and allow said head to move from said first groove to said opening during displacement of the actuating sleeve towards the actuation position; and wherein said central body comprises a final reception zone offset axially and laterally relative to said opening, said opening being connected to said final reception zone by a laterally inclined groove, an axial shoulder being provided between said final reception zone and said inclined groove, said head of the flexible tab sliding in said laterally inclined groove when said actuating sleeve returns from the actuation position towards the projected position, laterally deforming said flexible tab, said head clipping in under said axial shoulder when said actuating sleeve reaches the projected position, after use, now locking said actuating sleeve relative to said central body. | 9,507 |
8,918,556 | 1. An information-processing apparatus, comprising: communication means configured to communicate with a reader/writer; a module configured to control the communication means; a processing means configured to transmit and receive data to and from the module, respectively; an interrupt-signal output means configured to generate output of an interrupt signal from the module to the processing means when the communication means receives data from the reader/writer; a clock-signal output means configured to generate output of a clock signal from the processing means to the module when the interrupt signal is received; a data output means configured to generate output of data, in synchronization with the clock signal, from the module to the processing means or from the processing means to the module; and a switching-signal output means through which the processing means outputs a switching signal used for switching the direction of data transmission and reception; wherein output data transmitted from the reader/writer for receipt by the module by way of the communication means includes data-length data, command data, and main data, in which the data-length data indicates a data length of the main data to be transmitted to the processing means, wherein upon receipt of the output data the module analyzes the command data and (i) when a result of the analysis indicates that the main data should be supplied to the processing means the module supplies the data-length data and the main data to the processing means and does not supply the command data to the processing means and (ii) when the result of the analysis indicates that the main data should not be supplied to the processing means the module does not supply the main data to the processing means, wherein the module outputs the interrupt signal, and transmits the data-length data when the clock signal is received; and the processing means counts the data length of the main data, after the data-length data indicating the data length is received, and determines the termination of the data output from the module when the count value is equal to or greater than the data length indicated by the data-length data, and the module detects that data is transmitted from the processing means or detects that data transmission from the processing means is terminated based on a changeover in a state of the switching signal. | 5,912 |
9,427,891 | 1. A method for producing particles, comprising the steps of: introducing a fluid to be processed into a processing apparatus including at least two processing surfaces which are disposed in a position facing each other, the at least two processing surfaces being operable to approach to and separate from each other, at least one of the at least two processing surfaces rotating relative to the other; feeding the fluid to be processed into a space between the at least two processing surfaces; forming a thin film fluid in the space between the at least two processing surfaces; separating particles in the thin film fluid formed between the processing surfaces, thereby forming a fluid containing the separated particles; providing a temperature adjusting apparatus coupled to a storing unit which is configured to receive the fluid containing the separated particles after being discharged from the space between the at least two processing surfaces; supplying the fluid containing the separated particles, after being discharged from the space between the at least two processing surfaces, into the storing unit via a transporting flow path communicating with the space between the at least two processing surfaces; and controlling a temperature of the fluid containing the separated particles by the temperature adjusting apparatus, thereby controlling diameter of the separated particles. | 32,112 |
9,577,279 | 1. A polymer comprising a plurality of phosphazenium-containing repeating units (PRU) of formula wherein R taken together, any pair of R W is a direct bond or (C Y is a direct bond or (C Z wavy lines indicate the points of attachment to adjacent repeating units of the polymer, and X is any counterion. | 30,298 |
9,360,909 | 1. A method comprising: providing an interface of a processor to application software during runtime that permits at least one of a user and said application software to set a power management constraint for a power control unit of the processor during runtime of said processor without a reboot of the processor, wherein the power management constraint comprises a plurality of constraint parameters and the method further comprises clearing a respective lock bit for each of the plurality of constraint parameters on a reset event of the processor, wherein each lock bit disables the interface from changing a respective constraint parameter when set. | 12,747 |
8,421,504 | 1. A microcomputer comprising: a first comparator which compares a voltage to be monitored, with a first reference voltage; a second comparator which compares the voltage to be compared, with a second reference voltage; an interrupt control circuit which monitors the voltage to be monitored by the first and second comparators in parallel and, when a preset condition is satisfied, generates an interrupt signal; a first D/A converter which sets the first reference voltage; and a second D/A converter which sets the second reference voltage. | 3,473 |
9,524,981 | 1. A monolithic three-dimensional memory device comprising: a stack of alternating layers comprising insulating layers and electrically conductive layers and located over a substrate; a memory stack structure extending through the stack and including a semiconductor channel; a trench vertically extending through the stack; and a contact via structure located in the trench, electrically connected to an end of the semiconductor channel, and comprising a vertical stack of a lower conductive material portion and an upper conductive material portion, wherein: one of the lower conductive material portion and the upper conductive material portion comprises a doped semiconductor material portion; another of the lower conductive material portion and the upper conductive material portion comprises a metallic fill material portion; the lower conductive material portion and the upper conductive material portion are vertically spaced from each other by a substantially horizontal portion of a inner metallic layer; and further comprising an outer metallic layer laterally surrounding the inner metallic layer and contacting an outer sidewall of the inner metallic layer, wherein the outer metallic layer contacts a bottom surface of the lower conductive material portion. | 3,801 |
9,030,439 | 1. A capacitive writing device, comprising: a capacitive pen including a conductive pen body and a conductive pen head in contact with the conductive pen body, and the conductive pen head including a contact portion and a non-contact portion, wherein the material of the contact portion is softer than the material of the non-contact portion, and the conductive pen head is made of bonded conductive fibers, some or all of which extend from the non-contact portion to the contact portion; a touch sensor including a plurality of driven conductive strips provided with a driving signal and a plurality of sensed conductive strips providing changes in capacitive coupling, each time the driving signal being provided, one or more intersections between one or more of the driven conductive strips being simultaneously provided with the driving signal and each sensed conductive strip generating capacitive coupling; and a control circuit for determining the location of the capacitive pen on the touch sensor based on the changes in capacitive coupling produced at the intersections when the capacitive pen is held on the touch sensor by an external conductive object. | 27,005 |
8,552,520 | 1. A solar cell, comprising: a substrate; an emitter layer at an entire first surface of the substrate; a first lower insulating layer on the emitter layer; a first upper insulating layer on the first lower layer; a first opening through the first lower insulating layer and the first upper insulating layer, the first opening exposing the emitter layer; and a first electrode in the first opening and electrically connected to the emitter layer, wherein a maximum width of the first opening at the first lower insulating layer is different from a maximum width of the first opening at the first upper insulating layer, and wherein an entire bottom surface of the first electrode directly contacts the emitter layer exposed through the first opening. | 10,962 |
8,571,963 | 1. A computer system for administering an investment fund, the fund having a plurality of shares; a managed distribution schedule comprising an investment strategy for investing in assets to provide funds sufficient to meet the managed distribution schedule; the computer system comprising: a computer; and programmed instructions for performing method steps comprising: calculating annually the value of each of the payments to be provided in a period according to the managed distribution schedule, the value comprising 1/n modeling a plurality of asset allocation strategies; plotting an efficient frontier of the modeled asset allocation strategies by probability of year-to-year decline and probability of maintaining real or nominal distributions; receiving instructions selecting an asset allocation strategy from the efficient frontier as the investment strategy; recording issuance of at least one share to an investor in exchange for funds received from the investor; investing the received funds according to the investment strategy, thereby creating an investment portfolio; and providing each of the payments to each investor during the period. | 15,093 |
8,501,485 | 1. A method for risk stratification of acute coronary syndrome, comprising determining the level of copeptin in at least one sample from a patient, wherein a threshold level of copeptin of 10-30 pmol/L in said at least one sample indicates an increased risk of or an unfavorable prognosis of acute coronary syndrome for said patient. | 28,551 |
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