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9,542,875 | 1. A method of processing input image data of a display device comprising a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels comprising a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels alternately arranged in horizontal and vertical directions, each first pixel consisting of a green subpixel and a red subpixel disposed in a diagonal direction relative to the horizontal and vertical directions and each second pixel consisting of a green subpixel and a blue subpixel disposed in the diagonal direction, the method comprising: performing a gamma-conversion on a first input image data corresponding to the red subpixel in the each first pixel and a second input image data corresponding to the blue subpixel in the each second pixel; distributing the gamma-converted first input image data corresponding to one of the first pixels, which corresponds to a center pixel, to the gamma-converted second image data of one of the second pixels by a first ratio, wherein the one of the second pixels is adjacent to the one of the first pixels in the vertical direction; and distributing the gamma-converted first input image data corresponding to the one of the first pixels to the gamma-converted second image data of another of the second pixels by a second ratio, wherein the another of the second pixels is adjacent to the one of the first pixels in the horizontal direction. | 8,323 |
9,167,848 | 1. A method of preparing capsules with improved water retention, comprising: preparing hydrogel capsules having a diameter of 1 to 5 mm and comprising one or more optional additives and a polymer selected from the group consisting of alginates, pectins, carrageenan; applying a polymeric coating to the capsules; and treating the polymeric coating and optionally applying a second coating to form capsules with improved water retention that exhibit water retention of at least 40% after three days at 23 degrees C. and 50% relative humidity, wherein the capsules further comprise a hydrophilic core. | 40,420 |
9,352,904 | 1. A trash can assembly, comprising a trashcan body, comprising a base, a peripheral wall extending upwardly from said base, and a top rim of said peripheral wall defining an opening of the trashcan body; a removable trashcan liner engagement member, capable of being substantially aligned with an exterior surface of the peripheral wall; and a holder for the trashcan liner engagement member, positioned on the exterior of the peripheral wall, configured to receive the trashcan liner engagement member, wherein when the trashcan liner engagement member is received by the holder, a trashcan liner can be folded over the top rim of the peripheral wall and gathered to pass underneath the trashcan liner engagement member, and wherein the removable trashcan liner engagement member comprises | 25,628 |
9,301,153 | 1. A radio relay apparatus in a communication system including a server on the Internet, the radio relay apparatus and a plurality of radio terminals, the radio relay apparatus comprising: a memory unit configured to store information of MAC addresses of the radio terminals and IP addresses assigned to the radio terminals by the server; and a control unit configured to monitor the information of MAC addresses and IP addresses of a source radio terminal and a destination radio terminal included in a packet routed through the radio relay apparatus, wherein the control unit controls, when the control unit determines, based on the information of MAC addresses and IP addresses stored in the memory unit, that the radio terminals communicate with each other via its own apparatus, so that the communication between the radio terminals is transitioned from communication in a first communication mode over the Internet to communication in a second communication mode not over the Internet but over a local area network, and when communication quality drops to below a predetermined level or at least either one of the radio terminals is handed over during communication in the second communication mode, the control unit returns the communication between the radio terminals from the communication in the second communication mode to the communication in the first communication mode. | 32,917 |
9,070,994 | 1. A plug comprising: electrodes that transmit direct-current power; an electrode cover that covers the electrodes, wherein the electrode cover includes a lock detection unit that electrically detects that the electrode cover is locked to a plug receptacle including a lock mechanism after the electrode cover is completely inserted into the plug receptacle; and a detection line that electrically detects that the electrode cover is locked to the plug receptacle after the electrode cover is completely inserted into the plug receptacle, wherein the lock detection unit electrically detects that locking is performed with the detection line short-circuited, when the electrode cover is locked to the plug receptacle after the electrode cover is inserted into the plug receptacle, and wherein the electrode cover includes on an outer circumferential surface a lock groove for locking with the plug receptacle in a bayonet type, and the lock groove includes at a terminating portion a lock detection electrode to electrically detect locking with the plug receptacle. | 26,941 |
9,062,190 | 1. A biodegradable food container product comprising limestone, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and a biopolymer, the food container product formed by the process of: forming a substrate by: forming the food container product by extruding the substrate material using at least one of bubble form, thermo form, injection mold or rotary molds, the food container product comprising 50-85% by weight limestone, 2-25% by weight of the high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and 2-25% by weight of the biopolymer. | 6,906 |
8,747,666 | 1. A recycling apparatus for recycling contaminated water from a river or a stream comprising: a holding vessel constructed to contain contaminated water from the river or the stream; a main tank constructed and arranged for holding filtered river or stream water and having at least one opening to the environment to allow air to freely transfer between the main tank the environment; a first filter assembly in gravity feed relation with the main tank, said first filter assembly having a first filter sheet; and a second filter assembly in gravity feed relation with the main tank, said second filter assembly having a second filter sheet having a filtration size of 10 microns or less, wherein said first and second filter assemblies are constructed and arranged such that during operation contaminated river or stream water flows through the first filter assembly to form a first filtered water solution, the first filtered water solution from the first filter assembly filters through the second filter assembly to form a recycled water solution and drops into the main tank a second distance of from about 1 to about 30 inches before contacting recycled water solution in the main tank, wherein at least one of the first or second filter sheets comprising polyester. | 8,038 |
9,049,663 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a first sensor having a first power consumption level when operating in an active mode, the first sensor further having a dormant mode; a second sensor having a second power consumption level that is less than the first power consumption level, wherein the second sensor is deactivated in response to the first sensor operating in the active mode; and circuitry configured to determine whether to transition the first sensor from the active mode to the dormant mode, wherein the first sensor includes a video camera and the second sensor includes an echolocator, wherein the echolocator generates an ultrasound signal, and wherein the echolocator detects a return of the ultrasound signal, the circuitry further configured to activate the second sensor based on the first sensor transitioning from the active mode to the dormant mode. | 31,731 |
8,377,403 | 1. A gas treatment plant comprising: a COS hydrolysis unit configured to hydrolyze COS in a mercaptan-containing feed gas to form a treated feed gas; an absorber fluidly coupled to the COS hydrolysis unit and further fluidly coupled to a first and a second conduit that are configured to provide a first and a second lean hydrocarbon fluid to the absorber; wherein the absorber is configured to allow contacting of the treated feed gas with the first and a second lean hydrocarbon fluid to thereby produce a mercaptan enriched hydrocarbon fluid and a desulfurized product gas; a distillation column coupled to the absorber and configured to receive the mercaptan enriched hydrocarbon fluid and further configured to produce a light overhead vapor and a sulfur rich bottom product; and a hydrocarbon processing unit comprising a hydrotreater, wherein the hydrocarbon processing unit is fluidly coupled to the distillation column and configured to receive the sulfur rich bottom product and to produce a sulfur-containing product and at least one of the first and second lean hydrocarbon fluid. | 10,724 |
9,461,982 | 1. A secure system for providing user interaction with online services, a user accessing the secure system through a local client machine, the secure system comprising: a user authentication memory comprising user authentication indicators and computer instructions for performing user authentication; a web authentication server in communication with the user authentication memory; and an application server comprising a hardware processor associated with a computing device, said hardware processor programmed to provide a secure browser application operable to configure a secure access channel to remotely control a secure disposable browser using a local client machine, the secure browser application being further operable to: whereby the application server configures the secure access channel to the local client machine to display the image protocol as images representative of accessed web pages displayed by the local client machine, the images displayed without the local client machine receiving the web code commands from the online service provider site, such that control of the secure disposable browser via images through use of the secure access channel by the local client machine operates to allow the execution of the web code within the secure system rather than the local client machine; and the application server being further operable to establish private user areas, wherein the private user areas can be established and/or disposed of within the secure system, thereby protecting user data from unauthorized access. | 41,979 |
9,337,375 | 1. A seed, comprising: a crystal, constituted by at least one grain; an impurity diffusion-resistant layer, formed to overlay an outer surface of the crystal; and a hetero-nucleation promoting layer, formed to overlay the impurity diffusion-resistant layer wherein the impurity diffusion-resistant layer is formed of one selected from the group consisting of BaO, tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), silicon powders, BaCO and wherein the at least one grain is formed of one selected from the group consisting of Si, SiC, SiO | 46,301 |
9,345,997 | 1. A polymer comprising at least one pendant dioxirane moiety represented by Formula III or IV: wherein: | 5,362 |
8,669,221 | 1. A laundry detergent or cleaning composition which comprises an amphiphilic water-soluble alkoxylated polyalkylenimine of the general formula I in which the variables are each defined as follows: R are identical or different, linear or branched C B is a branch; E is a block alkylenoxy unit of the formula R R R R wherein the block alkylenoxy unit, E, comprises an inner polyethylene oxide block and an outer polypropylene oxide block; x, y, z are each from 2 to 150, where the sum of x+y+z means a number of alkylenimine units which corresponds to an average molecular weight M m is a rational number from 0 to 2; n is a rational number from 6 to 18; p is a rational number from 3 to 12; where 0.8≦n/p≦1.0(x+y+z) or quaternization products thereof. | 41,951 |
8,787,357 | 1. A method comprising steps of: registering a mobile station and a plurality of client devices with equipment of a service provider of a voice over packet communication service prior to a respective first push to talk (PTT) session for the mobile station and the plurality of client devices, the registering including transmitting information indicating respective communication capabilities of the mobile station and the plurality of client devices to the equipment of the service provider when the mobile station and the plurality of client devices are capable of transmitting their respective communication capabilities, the transmitted communication capabilities of the mobile station and the plurality of client devices being at least one of hardware and software capabilities inherent to the mobile station and the plurality of client devices prior to the respective first PTT session; and transmitting, during a PTT session subsequent to the registration, packets of digital audio information from the mobile station through a mobile wireless communication network, for communication to one client device of a plurality of client devices, using: when the default communication capability is used during the PTT session subsequent to the registration, switching from transmitting using the default communication capability during the PTT session subsequent to the registration to transmitting using the communication capabilities of the one client device that are compatible with communication capabilities of the mobile station during another PTT session with the one client device in response to the service provider indicating to the mobile station to use, during the another PTT session, the communication capabilities of the one client device. | 13,124 |
8,756,934 | 1. A combustor, comprising: a. a shroud that extends circumferentially inside the combustor, wherein the shroud defines at least one inlet passage; b. a first plate that extends radially inside the shroud downstream from the at least one inlet passage, wherein the first plate defines at least one inlet port, at least one outlet port and at least one fuel nozzle passage; c. a sleeve at least partially surrounded by the shroud and that extends radially around the at least one fuel nozzle passage, wherein the sleeve extends from the first plate radially outward from the at least one fuel nozzle passage; d. a tube at least partially surrounded by the sleeve and that extends through the at least one fuel nozzle passage, wherein the tube, the sleeve, and the first plate at least partially define an outlet passage; e. a first fluid flow path from the at least one inlet passage to the at least one inlet port; and f. a second fluid flow path from the at least one outlet port to the outlet passage. | 39,302 |
9,563,575 | 1. A method comprising: determining, in a cache memory that stores a plurality of cache lines, that a first eviction is to be performed from the cache memory; identifying a first group of cache lines that are selectable for the first eviction; identifying one or more invalid cache lines in the first group; selecting a least recently used cache line from the one or more invalid cache lines for the first eviction; determining that a second eviction is to be performed from the cache memory; identifying a second group of cache lines that are selectable for the second eviction; determining that none of the cache lines in the second group are invalid; identifying one or more second cache lines in the second group that are not also stored in a higher level cache memory; selecting the least recently used cache line of the one or more second cache lines for the second eviction; determining that a third eviction is to be performed from the cache memory; identifying a third group of cache lines that are selectable for the third eviction; determining that none of the cache lines in the third group are invalid; determining that the cache lines in the third group are also stored in the higher level cache memory; selecting the least recently used cache line of the third group for the third eviction; allocating a cache line within a least recently used hierarchy having a plurality of positions beginning with a position zero, wherein a cache line designated as being in position zero of the least recently used hierarchy is the least recently used cache line, and wherein cache lines in lower numbered positions of the least recently used hierarchy are selected for eviction before cache lines in higher numbered positions; and storing a prefetch bit in each of the cache lines, the prefetch bit indicating whether the corresponding cache line was generated responsive to a cache memory prefetch operation, and wherein the method further comprises allocating a cache line associated with a memory prefetch request to one of positions zero through three of the least recently used hierarchy. | 16,568 |
9,610,378 | 1. A method for preparing an antibacterial wound dressing, the method comprising the steps of: preparing an antibacterial coating solution using water-soluble chitosan and a silver compound to form chitosan-silver nanoparticles, the coating solution having a chitosan concentration of 0.075-10% w/v and a silver compound concentration of 0.01-10% w/v; adsorbing and coating the prepared coating solution onto a foam dressing having a plurality of pores; placing the foam dressing adsorbed and coated with the coating solution beneath an air blower; blowing pressurized air of at least 0.1kgf/cm subsequent to the step of blowing pressurized air, air drying the foam dressing adsorbed and coated with the coating solution at a temperature not to exceed 200° C. to remove excess moisture while maintaining the physical properties of the foam dressing, thereby obtaining a wound dressing uniformly coated with chitosan-silver nanoparticles. | 13,737 |
9,592,290 | 1. A method of killing cells that express a pancreatic carcinoma associated antigen, comprising delivering to said cells an effective amount of 31.1 monoclonal antibody, wherein said cells are killed in vitro. | 8,616 |
9,439,116 | 1. A method for a communication network comprising: receiving, by a first Home eNodeB (HeNB), a first attach request from a user equipment (UE) for attaching a subscriber associated with the UE to a small cell network; determining whether the subscriber has transitioned into the small cell network from a macro cell network; exchanging, based on the determination, a first pair of messages between the first HeNB and the UE to determine an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) of the subscriber; exchanging, based on the determination, one or more second pairs of messages between the first HeNB and the UE to advance a sequence number for Non-Access Stratum (NAS) messages for the UE to a value corresponding to a received sequence number for the first attach request from the UE; receiving, by a second HeNB, a second attach request from the UE for attaching the subscriber to the small cell network; determining whether the subscriber has transitioned to the second HeNB from another HeNB in the small cell network; and retrieving, by a Home eNodeB gateway (HeNB-GW), the IMSI of the subscriber by recovering an association of the IMSI with a Globally Unique Mobility Management Entity Identity (GUMMEI) and a Mobility Management Entity UE S1AP Identity (MME UE S1AP ID) for the subscriber if the subscriber has transitioned to the second HeNB from another HeNB in the small cell network. | 27,366 |
9,054,274 | 1. A thermoelectric conversion element comprising: a p-type metal thermoelectric conversion material containing at least 50 weight % metal; an n-type oxide thermoelectric conversion material containing an oxide as its main constituent; and a composite oxide insulating material containing a composite oxide as its main constituent; wherein the p-type metal thermoelectric conversion material and the n-type oxide thermoelectric conversion material are directly bonded in a region of a junction plane between the p-type metal thermoelectric conversion material and the n-type oxide thermoelectric conversion material; the p-type metal thermoelectric conversion material and the n-type oxide thermoelectric conversion material are bonded to each other with the composite oxide insulating material interposed therebetween in another region of the junction plane so as to define a plurality of pn junction pairs; and the p-type metal thermoelectric conversion material is provided on both ends of the thermoelectric conversion element; wherein the p-type metal thermoelectric conversion material contains the n-type oxide thermoelectric conversion material. | 32,379 |
9,182,766 | 1. A voltage regulator, comprising: a current limit detector configured to detect an over-current condition when an output current meets a first current limit; a pulse-width modulation (PWM) module coupled to the current limit detector and configured to convey a PWM signal based on a programmed switching frequency and an output voltage and in response to the over-current condition, wherein an OFF-time of the PWM is determined from a lookup table and derived from the programmed switching frequency and the output voltage, and wherein the output current is increased to a second current limit lower than the first current limit and then decreased for the OFF-time, the increase and the decrease occurring one or more times until the output voltage reaches a threshold. | 6,425 |
9,547,962 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a locker manager configured to: | 28,605 |
9,050,596 | 1. A fluidic capacitor comprising a first layer having a continuous fluid path thereon; a second layer having a recess thereon; a third layer of elastomeric material, wherein the third layer is sandwiched between the first layer and second layer such that the recess is in direct alignment with the fluid path, the recess fluidically isolated from the continuous fluid path by the elastomeric material; wherein the continuous fluid path, the recess on the second layer, and the elastomeric material are configured to control a fluid flow rate through the continuous fluid path on the first layer in response to a predetermined frequency of a time-varying fluid input pressure imposed on a fluid in the continuous fluid path. | 32,986 |
8,708,029 | 1. An injection mold for producing a model of a turbine engine blade to be produced by a lost wax casting technique, comprising: an upper face that folds onto a lower face, the two faces including a footprint reproducing an external shape of the blade to be produced and carrying long rods for supporting a core configured to generate cooling cavities inside the blade, the core having a shape of an aerofoil between a root and a tip and extending within a predetermined clearance envelope in a case of deformation of the core, the long rods of the lower face configured to come into contact with a first face of the aerofoil in a region of bearing points and the long rods of the upper face configured to come into contact with a second face of the aerofoil in a region of clamping points, each clamping point of the second face being positioned opposite a bearing point of the first face; at least one short rod extending from one of the faces of the mold and pointing toward a false point positioned on one of the faces of the aerofoil, a length of the short rod being less than a distance between a face of the mold and that of the aerofoil in a region of the false point and a difference between the length and the distance being equal to a tolerance at a position of the false point. | 43,012 |
8,358,227 | 1. A method of encoding data related to voltages for each of a plurality of battery cells for transmission in a hybrid vehicle, the method comprising the steps of: generating a plurality of voltage groups, each of the plurality of voltage groups comprising the voltages for a different combination of the plurality of battery cells; and generating a validity measure for each of the plurality of voltage groups. | 10,051 |
9,576,666 | 1. An operating method of a non-volatile memory device comprising a string having a plurality of memory cells and a plurality of auxiliary cells, the plurality of memory cells and the plurality of auxiliary cells being connected in series, the operating method comprising: detecting a threshold voltage of an auxiliary cell among the auxiliary cells; and generating an output signal corresponding to a deterioration level of the plurality of memory cells, based on the threshold voltage. | 25,480 |
9,717,219 | 1. A water inlet arrangement for use in a fish tank in aquaculture, comprising: a pipe to feed water into the fish tank, the pipe having a first plurality of openings therein, and a second element surrounding the pipe and spaced therefrom for providing a space between the pipe and the second element in which a volume of water is received from the first plurality of openings, the second element having a second plurality of openings therein directed into the fish tank and being rotatable in use with respect to the pipe to position the second plurality of openings for use at an orientation with respect to the first plurality of openings to effect water flow from said second element directly into the fish tank. | 16,379 |
9,121,040 | 1. A method for producing methane from biomass, said biomass comprising fibrous plant material, which method comprises the steps of anaerobically digesting the biomass with anaerobic microorganisms that digest said biomass, and reducing partial pressures of methane and carbon dioxide produced from said digestion by applying a partial vacuum to the digesting biomass so that combined partial pressure of methane and carbon dioxide is less than one atmosphere, thereby converting organic acids produced during said digestion to methane to thereby favor production of methane. | 49,938 |
9,263,980 | 1. A method for controlling the operation of an electromechanical transducer, the method comprising: determining during a first period of time a first strength of the harmonic operational behavior of the electromechanical transducer, wherein the electromechanical transducer is a permanent magnet generator in a wind turbine, wherein the electromechanical transducer exhibits a harmonic operational behavior which is given by electric and/or mechanic oscillations having frequency components different from a fundamental frequency being assigned to a fundamental operational behavior of the electromechanical transducer, determining during a second period of time a second strength of the harmonic operational behavior of the electromechanical transducer, wherein the second period of time is different from the first period of time, calculating a harmonic control signal in response to both the determined first strength of the harmonic operational behavior and the determined second strength of the harmonic operational behavior by observing at least one value of operational parameters of the electromechanical transducer and by deriving from a database the harmonic control signal as a function of the at least one observed value of the operational parameters of the electromechanical transducer, generating a modified drive signal based on the calculated harmonic control signal, supplying the generated modified drive signal to electromagnetic coils of a stator of the electromechanical transducer, modifying at least one output value of the database, evaluating strength of torque ripple oscillations and/or radial force/pressure ripple oscillations which occur in response to the at least one modified output value, and determining at least one improved output value of the database based on the evaluated strength. | 28,751 |
8,900,688 | 1. A grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a glass coating film formed on a surface of a base metal iron portion of the steel sheet, comprising: a linearly altered portion generated in the glass coating film at one of side edges of the steel sheet, in a continuous line or in a discontinuous broken line in a direction parallel with a rolling direction of the steel sheet, and having a composition different from a composition in other portions of the glass coating film, wherein the glass coating film comprises Mg, wherein an average value R of deviation angles θa of crystal grains positioned below the linearly altered portion in a base metal iron portion of the steel sheet is 0° or more and 20° or less, when the deviation angle θa is defined as a deviation angle of a direction of an axis of easy magnetization of each crystal grain relative to the rolling direction, wherein a characteristic X-ray intensity Ia of Mg in the linearly altered portion of the glass coating film is smaller than an average value Ip of the characteristic X-ray intensity of Mg in the other portions of the glass coating film, wherein the characteristic X-ray intensity Ia of Mg in the linearly altered portion and the average value Ip of the characteristic X-ray intensity of Mg in the other portions of the glass coating film are obtained through an EPMA analysis, and the linearly altered portion is identified in the glass coating film as an Mg reduced portion whose Mg reduction ratio Ir that is a ratio of the Ia relative to the Ip is 0.3 or more and 0.95 or less, and wherein the linearly altered portion is generated only in the glass coating film and not in the base metal iron portion of the steel sheet. | 15,731 |
9,297,322 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, which performs air-fuel ratio feedback control to set an air-fuel ratio to a target air-fuel ratio, and which determines abnormality of a fuel system based on a feedback correction amount by the air-fuel ratio feedback control, comprising: a double tank type oil pan including: an inner tank and an outer tank for storing oil; and a mechanism which switches between connection and disconnection of the inner tank and the outer tank; and a controller configured to control the mechanism to connect the inner tank and the outer tank in a case where the feedback correction amount is equal to or larger than a first predetermined value. | 34,730 |
8,869,376 | 1. A method of manufacturing a substrate mounting table comprising: preparing a first plate shaped member having a plurality of gas injection openings; preparing a second plate shaped member provided with a plurality of grooves configured to serve as a gas supply channel supplying a gas to the gas injection openings; joining the first plate shaped member and the second plate shaped member; forming a layer on a surface of the first plate shaped member by a thermal spraying process while flowing a first fluid through the grooves; and removing lumps attached to the grooves during said forming the layer by introducing a second fluid for cleaning into the grooves, wherein a size of each of the gas injection openings is smaller than a width of each of the grooves at a joint surface of the first and the second plate shaped member, wherein a bottom of each of the grooves has a curved shape, wherein said preparing the second plate shaped member includes forming a plurality of gas supply openings and a plurality of cleaning openings extending through the second plate shaped member and into the grooves, and the method further comprises, after said removing the lumps, closing the plurality of cleaning openings by plugging members, and wherein the second fluid is introduced into the grooves through the cleaning openings, and wherein the second fluid for cleaning is supplied into or exhausted from the gas supply channel by using the gas supply openings and the cleaning openings. | 39,459 |
9,319,653 | 1. A white balance compensation method, adapted to an electronic apparatus, the white balance compensation method comprising: obtaining a first specific color ratio and a second specific color ratio of a predetermined color in a predetermined color temperature; obtaining a first reference color ratio and a second reference color ratio of a reference color in the predetermined color temperature; capturing an image comprising a plurality of pixels, and obtaining an exposure index corresponding to the image, wherein each pixel has a first color ratio and a second color ratio; retrieving a plurality of specific pixels from the pixels when the exposure index corresponds to the predetermined color temperature; calculating a plurality of white balance compensation values of the image according to the specific pixels; obtaining an image color temperature of the image; updating the white balance compensation values according to the first reference color ratio and the second reference color ratio when the image color temperature corresponds to the predetermined color temperature; and performing a white balance operation to each of the pixels according to the updated white balance compensation values to generate a compensated image. | 46,887 |
9,776,620 | 1. A control system for a hybrid vehicle, the control system comprising: a drive wheel; an engine coupled to the drive wheel such that power is transmitted to the drive wheel; an electric motor coupled to the drive wheel such that power is transmitted to the drive wheel; a transmission provided in a power transmission path between the drive wheel and both the engine and the electric motor; a battery configured to be charged with electric power generated by the electric motor; and a controller configured to cause the hybrid vehicle to travel by using power of the engine while keeping a charging rate for charging the battery at or below a limit charging value in response to a charging request for charging the battery, the controller being configured to set the limit charging value such that the limit charging value is lower when a speed position of the transmission is high than when the speed position is low. | 4,128 |
8,880,547 | 1. A method, comprising: detecting when a first query generated from a search string in a computing device identifies less than a predefined threshold number of items from among a plurality of items in a data store, wherein the search string comprises a plurality of search terms; generating, by a search engine, upon detection, a plurality of altered versions of the search string in the computing device that are restricted to containing a subset of the plurality of search terms of the search string, by performing at least one of the following: implementing, in the computing device, a submission of the plurality of second queries to the data store, each of the second queries corresponding to a respective one of the altered versions of the search string; generating, in the computing device, a presentation of at least two separate groups of the items resulting from a corresponding at least two of the second queries to be rendered; facilitating a selection of one of the at least two separate groups of the items in the presentation to be rendered apart from other groups of items; and sending the presentation to a client to be rendered by the client. | 38,285 |
9,102,735 | 1. A process for producing a compound of the structure, wherein the process comprises the reaction scheme: | 847 |
9,481,610 | 1. A method for stimulating the growth of a cultivated mycorrhizal plant, comprising the step of applying a growth effective amount of a fertilizer comprising a nitrogen source to soil having a cultivated mycorrhizal plant, wherein the cultivated mycorrhizal plant is a tree of a species of wherein the nitrogen source comprises an inorganic compound comprising nitrogen and a naturally occurring L-amino acid; wherein the naturally occurring L-amino acid is L-arginine; wherein the growth effective amount of the fertilizer is effective to stimulate growth of the whole cultivated mycorrhizal plant; wherein the naturally occurring L-amino acid is present in the fertilizer in an amount effective to stimulate mycorrhiza development and to increase the root mass fraction of the cultivated mycorrhizal plant, which amount is 30% to 80%; whereby the growth of the whole cultivated mycorrhizal plant is stimulated and the root mass fraction of the cultivated mycorrhizal plant is increased. | 31,815 |
8,840,502 | 1. A propulsion device for a vehicle comprises: an output shaft of a combustion engine; an input shaft of a gearbox; an electrical machine comprising a stator and a rotor; a planetary gear comprising movable gear components; a locking sleeve which is movable between first and second positions; in the first position, the locking sleeve engages with a first movable component of the planetary gear which are so configured that the engine output shaft and the gearbox input shaft are allowed to rotate at different speeds via the planetary gear, and in the second position, the locking sleeve engages with the first movable component and also with a second movable component of the planetary gear, and the first and second movable components are located and configured so that the locking sleeve firmly connects the engine output shaft to the gearbox input shaft via the planetary gear; the electrical machine rotor is connected to the planetary gear's ring gear, the first movable component is connected to the electrical machine's rotor and the second movable component is connected to the gearbox input shaft. | 44,141 |
8,713,507 | 1. A computer-implemented method for placing fills in a circuit design layout comprising a plurality of nets, the method comprising: placing a plurality of fills in the circuit design layout; identifying a set of critical nets; and for each critical net in the set of critical nets: | 21,080 |
8,903,887 | 1. A method in a data processing system for extracting Web services from resources of various types using a programming model, the method comprising: receiving a request from a user for extraction of Web services from resources of various types, wherein each resource is a file or document that includes a reference to one or more Web services and each resource may include a reference to one or more other resources; invoking a Web service parser of the programming model to parse the request to determine a type of each resource, wherein the programming model is extendable to accommodate additional resource types; and determining other resources referenced by each resource based on the type of the resource. | 6,084 |
8,624,825 | 1. A display apparatus comprising: a light source; an all-in-one type light guide plate including a light guide member and light emitting members, wherein the light guide member reflects light incident from the light source toward the light emitting members, and the light emitting members protrude from a first surface of the light guide member and emit light incident from the light guide member; a reflective plate on a second surface of the light guide member, the second surface being on an opposing side of the light guide member from the first surface; and a display panel configured to modulate light emitted from the all-in-one type light guide plate to form an image. | 36,719 |
9,718,540 | 1. An aircraft landing gear arrangement, comprising: a nose landing gear assembly having a nose landing gear wheel with a brake apparatus configured for landing or rejected take-off braking arranged therein, | 45,797 |
9,814,388 | 1. A patient monitoring system comprising: at least two wireless sensing devices, each wireless sensing device configured to measure a different physiological parameter from a patient and wirelessly transmit a parameter dataset; a receiver that receives each parameter dataset from each of the at least two wireless sensing devices; a processor; a monitoring regulation module executable on the processor to: | 10,968 |
9,574,061 | 1. A process for producing a cyclic acetal comprising: contacting gaseous formaldehyde with a liquid medium comprising a liquid aprotic compound, wherein the liquid aprotic compound is selected from the group consisting of organic sulfoxides, organic sulfones, organic sulfonate esters, and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a catalyst; and at least partially converting the gaseous formaldehyde into a cyclic acetal comprising trioxane. | 44,778 |
8,561,269 | 1. A male assembly for a fastener, the male assembly comprising: a stud comprising at least one protrusion defined by a hollow sidewall having an approximately U-shaped cross-section, and at least one approximately U-shaped pocket defined by an interior surface of the hollow sidewall such that the pocket is inside the protrusion; and a flexible base bonded to the stud, the flexible base comprising at least one extension that substantially fills and bonds to the at least one pocket of the stud, wherein the flexible base is flexible and capable of conforming to a non-planar mounting surface and wherein the flexible base further comprises a layer of adhesive, and wherein the at least one protrusion is a ring-shaped protrusion that extends continuously around the stud. | 35,460 |
8,504,305 | 1. An anti-terrorism monitoring system that provides for the remote monitoring of a potable water treatment system and associated potable water distribution system which is positioned downstream from the potable water treatment system and is configured to distribute water treated by the potable water treatment system to a potable water consumer, said monitoring system being configured to: (a) access raw operating and performance data from one or more sensors positioned within the potable water treatment system and from one or more sensors positioned within the potable water distribution system; (b) transmit said stored raw data via the world wide web using transmission methods to a remotely located Internet server computer; (c) store said raw data remotely; (d) determine a selected performance parameter within said potable water treatment system based on the raw data obtained from said one or more sensors positioned within the water treatment system; (e) determine a corresponding selected performance parameter within said potable water distribution system based on the raw data obtained from said one or more sensors positioned within the water distribution system; (f) compare the selected performance parameters within said potable water treatment system with the selected performance parameters within said portable water distribution system to produce a comparison result; and (g) generate an alarm signal if the comparison result exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 21,472 |
8,669,625 | 1. A photoelectric conversion device, comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; an electron transport layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, the electron transport layer including a plurality of particles of potassium octaniobate (K a dye layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. | 10,485 |
9,096,264 | 1. An agricultural implement having a steering mechanism comprising: a) an outer hitch adapted to be operably connected to a tractor; b) a main carriage having a carrier and a rear support pivotably connected thereto, the rear support interconnected to the outer hitch by a first pivoting connection such that the main carriage is pivotable about a horizontal axis; c) a steering system connected to the carrier of the main carriage by a second pivoting connection such that the steering system is pivotable about a first vertical axis; and d) at least one endless track assembly connected to the steering system by a third pivoting connection configured to maintain the steering system perpendicular to a ground travel path of the implement and generally perpendicular to the outer hitch, the at least one endless track pivotable about a second vertical axis; and e) a fourth pivoting connection pivotably connecting the carrier to the at least one endless track assembly, the fourth pivoting connection configured to provide independent articulation of the least one endless tract assembly relative to the main carriage. | 4,172 |
8,848,397 | 1. A magnetic integration double-ended converter, comprising: an inverter circuit with double ends symmetrically working, wherein the inverter circuit acts on a primary winding; an integrated magnetic member having a magnetic core with three magnetic columns, wherein the integrated magnetic member comprises at least three windings and at least one energy storage air gap, wherein the primary winding and a first secondary winding are both wound around a first magnetic column, wherein a second secondary winding is wound around a second magnetic column, wherein a total output current flows through the second secondary winding; and a group of synchronous rectifiers having a plurality of gate electrode driving signals, wherein the synchronous rectifiers' gate electrode driving signals are configured to work complementary with a plurality of gate electrode driving signals of a group of power switch diodes of the inverter circuit, wherein the energy storage air gap is disposed only on a third magnetic column, and wherein the number of turns of the first secondary winding is twice the number of turns of the second secondary winding. | 2,816 |
8,879,667 | 1. A transmitter comprising: a layer mapper configured to map a first set of quadrature amplitude modulated (QAM) symbols to a first transmission layer and a second set of QAM symbols to a second transmission layer, wherein individual QAM symbols of the first and second sets include a real component and an imaginary component; and a layer shifter configured to substitute a real component of a first QAM symbol of the first set of QAM symbols for a real component of a second QAM symbol of the second set of QAM symbols or substitute an imaginary component of the first QAM symbol of the first set of QAM symbols for an imaginary component of the second QAM symbol of the second set of QAM symbols. | 16,869 |
9,158,652 | 1. A configurable particle counting instrument comprising: at least one airstream chamber; at least one light source focused into a beam that passes through the airstream chamber; at least one photo-detector within the airstream chamber, the photo-detector detects changes in light as airborne particulates pass through the beam; at least one amplifier in communication with the photo-detector, the amplifier converts signals from the photo-detector into amplified electrical pulses; at least one particulate size channel, where the volume of air and light intensity are used in conjunction with the amplified electrical pulses to infer particulate counts for the particulate size channel; a core instrument board in communication with the particulate size channel, the core instrument board including at least one communications interface; and at least one module coupled through the communications interface with the core instrument board, the module including an onboard microcontroller and memory, where the module provides at least configuration information to configure operating parameters. | 46,998 |
9,516,597 | 1. A method of power management, comprising: detecting, at a user equipment (UE), a state transition trigger, wherein the state transition trigger indicates a current data transmission termination or an anticipated data transmission termination; sending a state transition indication to a network entity in response to detecting the state transition trigger, wherein the state transition indication comprises at least one additional bit in a signal connection release indication (SCRI) to indicate UE autonomous state transition without network control; and adjusting a state of the UE based at least in part on sending the state transition indication to the network entity. | 44,781 |
9,715,930 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) device; a selection mirror circuit coupled with the NVRAM device to apply a selection mirror voltage to a word line of the NVRAM device to select a memory cell of the NVRAM device, wherein the selection mirror voltage approximates an inhibit voltage associated with the NVRAM device, wherein a voltage on the word line decreases to a level of the inhibit voltage, then increases at a snap-back event associated with the memory cell, and then settles to a level sufficient to supply a selection current to the memory cell; and a reset mirror circuit coupled with the NVRAM device to apply a reset mirror voltage that is lower than the selection mirror voltage, to the selected memory cell of the NVRAM device, subsequent to the application of the selection mirror voltage, to facilitate delivery of a reset current above a current threshold to the memory cell, to reset the memory cell, wherein the reset mirror circuit is to switch on to apply the reset mirror voltage when the word line voltage settles to the level sufficient to supply the selection current to the memory cell, wherein in response to the application of the reset mirror voltage, the word line voltage settles substantially within the inhibit voltage level. | 8,885 |
8,569,890 | 1. A power semiconductor device module, comprising: a base plate; an insulating substrate mounted on said base plate; and a power semiconductor device mounted on said insulating substrate, said device module being obtained by modularizing said base plate, said insulating substrate, and a power semiconductor device, wherein said insulating substrate has a first electrode layer disposed on a first main surface and a second electrode layer disposed on a second main surface, said power semiconductor device is joined onto said first electrode layer, said second electrode layer is joined onto a first main surface of said base plate, and a thermal resistance reducing section that reduces thermal resistance is provided in said second electrode layer or said base plate of a portion corresponding to a place immediately below the power semiconductor device. | 2,893 |
9,181,867 | 1. A carrier housing for a turbocharger arrangement to be fastened at an internal combustion engine, with a fastening area for mechanical fastening of the carrier housing at an internal combustion engine, comprising: a first fastening flange for the mechanical fastening of a turbine of a high-pressure turbocharger at the carrier housing, a second fastening flange for the mechanical fastening of a turbine of a first low-pressure turbocharger at the carrier housing, and a third fastening flange for the mechanical fastening of a turbine of a second low-pressure turbocharger at the carrier housing; wherein exhaust is fed to at least one of the turbine of the high pressure turbocharger via the first fastening flange and both the turbine of the first turbocharger via the second fastening flange, and the turbine of the second low-pressure turbocharger via the third fastening flange when the turbines of the high-pressure and first and second low-pressure turbochargers are fastened at the first, second and third fastening flanges, wherein the carrier housing comprises first and second connection flanges in fluid-connection directly with the first fastening flange, with the first and second connection flanges being embodied to be further fluidly connected directly to an exhaust pipeline, such that exhaust flows from the internal combustion engine through the first and second connection flanges and directly to the first fastening flange. | 36,423 |
9,279,941 | 1. An optical waveguide lens comprising: a base; a Y type waveguide formed on a top surface of the base, the Y type waveguide having a first gate, a second gate and a third gate located on edges of the base, the Y type waveguide comprising a first waveguide and a second waveguide, and the first waveguide and the second waveguide being intersected on the first waveguide; and a polarized grating formed on the Y type waveguide and adjacent to the first gate; wherein the polarized grating comprises a plurality of strip-shaped films arranged in parallel and spaced from each other; and wherein each strip-shaped film extends along a length direction of the first waveguide from the first gate to a joint of the first waveguide, the second waveguide and the third waveguide, and the strip-shaped films are arranged along a width direction of the first waveguide. | 40,767 |
9,108,523 | 1. A communication apparatus in a wireless power transmission system, the communication apparatus comprising: a controller configured to switch an operating mode of the communication apparatus between a transmitting mode and a receiving mode according to a predetermined timing; and a transmitter configured to transmit state information of a communication channel occupied by a source comprising the communication apparatus using a continuous wave signal while the communication apparatus is operating in the transmitting mode irrespective of whether the communication apparatus is performing communication via the occupied communication channel, the source comprising the communication apparatus being configured to transmit wireless power, the occupied communication channel having been assigned to the source comprising the communication apparatus from a plurality of communication channels available in a communication cell for assignment to a plurality of sources each configured to transmit wireless power. | 41,229 |
9,818,770 | 1. An electronic circuit device, comprising: a plurality of electrical circuits disposed on a support substrate; at least one primary electrode extending along a trace on the support substrate, wherein the primary electrode forms a primary electrical pathway of at least one of the electrical circuits; and a secondary electrode disposed along and in electrical contact with the primary electrode, wherein the secondary electrode extends along the trace substantially parallel with the primary electrode and forms a secondary electrical pathway adjacent the primary electrical pathway; wherein the secondary electrode is formed of a secondary conductor that is electrically conductive and has a higher strain limit than the primary electrode, and wherein the secondary electrode handles a higher amount of strain than the primary electrode without breaking the secondary electrical pathway and thereby completes the electrical circuit when a gap in the primary electrode interrupts the electrical circuit through the primary electrode. | 26,118 |
9,122,830 | 1. An integrated circuit (IC) device comprising a standard cell having a first metal layer (M1) pin coupled to a second metal layer (M2) wire at a via, wherein the M1 pin has a width at least equal to a width at a first horizontal side of the via and at least equal to a second width at a second horizontal side of the via sufficient to satisfy an enclosure rule for the via, wherein the M1 pin and the M2 pin each entirely enclose the via, and wherein the M1 pin extends vertically past the via towards an adjacent power rail a distance substantially equal to zero. | 21,808 |
9,247,680 | 1. A gasket for shielding electromagnetic waves, the gasket formed by applying an adhesive on four sides of an elastic body of a closed cell polyurethane material, wrapping a copper film around the elastic body other than a bottom bonding surface, forming a nickel coating layer by depositing or plating nickel on a top surface and a side surface where the copper film is exposed, forming a resin coating layer on the nickel coating layer, and applying a conductive adhesive on the bottom surface. | 3,839 |
9,083,989 | 1. An output system comprising: a transmitting device; and an output device, the transmitting device wirelessly transmitting content to the output device, and the output device receiving and outputting the content, the transmitting device including: a first buffer in which the content that is being transmitted is buffered; determining means for repeatedly determining whether or not buffer overflow has occurred in the first buffer; and notifying means for giving a predetermined notification to the output device in a case where it is determined that the buffer overflow has occurred during the transmission of the content, the output device including: a second buffer in which the content that is being received is buffered; determining means for repeatedly determining whether or not buffer underrun has occurred in the second buffer during the reception of the content; first executing means for executing a predetermined error avoiding process in response to the predetermined notification; and second executing means for executing the predetermined error avoiding process in a case where it is determined that the buffer underrun has occurred; wherein: the output system has (i) a first mode in which the transmitting device receives content from an outside of the output system and wirelessly transfers the content to the output device and (ii) a second mode in which the transmitting device wirelessly transmits content stored in a recording medium to the output device; the determining means of the transmitting device is configured not to make the determination in the second mode, and the determining means of the output device is configured not to make the determination in the first mode; the notifying means is configured to give the predetermined notification to the output device in a case where it is determined that the buffer overflow has occurred predetermined times or more in the first mode; and the second executing means is configured to execute the predetermined error avoiding process in a case where it is determined that the buffer underrun has occurred predetermined times or more in the second mode. | 214 |
8,669,748 | 1. A device for DC-DC conversion transforming a DC input voltage to generate a DC output voltage, the device comprising: a main switching transistor connected between a power input terminal and a switch node; a synchronous rectifying transistor connected between a ground and the switch node; a soft-start circuit configured to generate a soft-start voltage rising from an initial voltage at start-up of the DC-DC conversion; and a control circuit which includes a comparator having a first input terminal and a second input terminal, the first input terminal connected to the switch node and the second input terminal connected to the soft-start circuit, the control circuit configured to control switching of the main switching transistor and the synchronous rectifying transistor based on a voltage at the first input terminal and a voltage at the second input terminal, wherein the control circuit holds both of the main switching transistor and the synchronous rectifying transistor in an off state based on an output signal of the comparator while the voltage at the second input terminal is lower than or equal to the voltage at the first input terminal. | 28,378 |
9,382,179 | 1. A process comprising: (a) contacting cyclic compounds with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst composition in a reaction zone to produce a vapor hydroxy ether hydrocarbon, (b) withdrawing from the reaction zone a vapor product stream comprising a vapor hydroxy ether hydrocarbon and hydrogen, and (c) separating and recovering a hydroxy ether hydrocarbon composition from the product stream, wherein said cyclic compounds comprise a cyclic acetal, a cyclic ketal, or a combination thereof, and wherein the catalyst composition comprises an aluminum oxide support containing or on which is deposited 0.8 to 5 wt % of palladium and 500 to 3,000 ppmw of nickel, based on the weight of the catalyst composition. | 8,905 |
8,896,083 | 1. A phototransistor comprising: a p-type substrate; an n-type source and an n-type drain formed within said p-type substrate; an n-type channel, connected between said n-type source and n-type drain, is formed within said p-type substrate; and a gate formed above said p-type substrate such that a current, in response to an incident light at said n-type source or said n-type drain is transported through an accumulation layer formed within said one n-type only channel. | 33,393 |
9,458,398 | 1. A biomass gasification system, comprising: a reactor having an internal chamber, wherein the reactor is configured to gasify a biomass feedstock in the presence of aft to generate a producer gas; a first neat exchanger external from the reactor and separate from the internal chamber, wherein a flow path of air passes through the first heat exchanger and passes to the reactor, a flow path of the producer gas passes downstream from the reactor and through the first heat exchanger, and the first heat exchanger is configured to transfer heat from a first position along the flow path of the producer gas to the flow path of air; and a second heat exchanger external from the reactor and separate from the internal chamber, wherein the flow path of the producer gas passes downstream from the first heat exchanger and through the second heat exchanger, a flow path of the biomass feedstock passes through the second heat exchanger and passes to the reactor, and the second heat exchanger is configured to transfer heat from a second position along the flow path of the producer gas to the flow path of the biomass feedstock to dry the biomass feedstock and cool the producer gas, wherein the first position and the second position are located along the flow path of the producer gas downstream from the reactor and upstream from all of at least one scrubber or a filter unit. | 25,320 |
9,386,194 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a receptacle configured to receive a mobile computing device that has an integrated image capture component such that an external perimeter of the mobile computing device is in contact with an internal perimeter of the receptacle without an intervening component, the receptacle comprising an aperture configured such that the integrated image capture component is positioned to capture images through the aperture, the receptacle further comprising a geometrical shape portion that surrounds the aperture; and a plurality of handles such that (i) a top portion and a bottom portion of each handle are each externally connected to a portion of an external perimeter of the receptacle that conforms to a shape of the mobile computing device without an intervening component between the external perimeter of the receptacle and the plurality of handles, (ii) a central portion of each handle externally extends, in at least one of a plane that encompasses the external perimeter of the receptacle and one or more planes directed toward a user, a distance from the external perimeter of the receptacle without connection to the external perimeter of the receptacle and without protruding through the external perimeter of the receptacle, and (iii) at least one of the plurality of handles being directly connected to the geometrical shape portion. | 48,027 |
8,995,641 | 1. A method for processing a telephony communication comprising: associating a first telephony application with a first telephony endpoint of a first account, which comprises associating a universal resource identifier (URI) of the first telephony application with the first telephony endpoint; associating a second telephony application with a second telephony endpoint of a second account, which comprises associating a URI of the second telephony application with the first telephony endpoint; initiating a first telephony session for a telephony communication to the first telephony endpoint; mapping the first telephony application to the first telephony session; at a resource of a communication resource cluster, processing the first telephony session with the first telephony application; initiating a second telephony session for a telephony communication to the second telephony endpoint; mapping the second telephony application to the second telephony session; at the resource of a communication resource cluster, processing the second telephony session with the second telephony application. | 43,776 |
9,429,144 | 1. An electricity-generating system using solar heat energy comprises: a fixed body ( 11 ) in the form of a mesh net having mesh openings, which has a spherically-shaped top portion extending above the ground; a condenser lens ( 12 ) coupled to each of the mesh openings of the fixed body ( 11 ), which focuses sunlight at the bottom portion of the fixed body ( 11 ); a condenser unit ( 10 ) installed at the bottom portion of the fixed body ( 11 ), which includes a collector lens ( 13 ) that increases the concentration of energy focused through the condenser lens ( 12 ) and transfers heat to the bottom of the body thereof; a heat storage tank ( 30 ) combined with the bottom portion of the fixed body ( 11 ), which has a heat storage medium ( 40 ) filled inside the body thereof, and which heats and stores the heat storage medium ( 40 ) by means of heat energy transferred through the collector lens ( 13 ); a circulation conduit ( 50 ) which has an upper plate-shaped coiled tube ( 51 ) and a lower coiled circulation tube ( 52 ), which is stacked and contained in the heat storage tank ( 30 ), and which selectively moves steam to each component through the operation of a valve of a circulation pump ( 53 ); a generator ( 60 ) for generating electricity when steam in the upper plate-shaped coil tube ( 51 ) of the circulation conduit ( 50 ) is heated and converted to a sensible heat state in the heat storage tank ( 30 ) and the sensible heat steam is discharged in order to drive a steam turbine ( 61 ); a first heat-sensitizing unit ( 70 a ) for further thermally contracting the sensible heat steam that passes through the generator ( 60 ); and a generating unit ( 20 ) having latent heat steam that is thermally contracted by the generator or the first heat sensitizing unit ( 70 a ) pass through the lower coil circulation tube ( 52 ) of the circulation conduit ( 50 ) and through the inside of the heat storage tank ( 30 ) to be heated, and including a second heat-sensitizing unit ( 70 b ) thermally contracting the heated sensible heat steam, wherein the heat storage medium ( 40 ) in the heat storage tank ( 30 ) is heated by the condenser unit ( 10 ) and performs heat exchange with the upper plate-shaped coil tube ( 51 ) and the lower coil circulation tube ( 52 ) in the tank, sensible heat steam is fed therein, the sensible heat steam discharged through the upper plate-shaped coil tube ( 51 ) drives the steam turbine ( 61 ) in order to generate electricity, latent heat steam is further thermally contracted when passing through the first valve ( 54 a ) and the first heat-sensitizing unit ( 70 a ), the latent heat steam is supplied to the lower coil circulation tube ( 52 ) through a second valve ( 54 b ) so as to exchange heat with the heat storage medium ( 40 ), and the sensible heat steam heated in the lower coil circulation tube ( 52 ) is thermally contracted when passing through a third valve ( 54 c ) and the second heat-sensitizing unit ( 70 b ), and is supplied to the upper plate-shaped coil tube ( 51 ) through a fourth valve ( 54 d ) in order to be circulated. | 22,777 |
9,245,944 | 1. A silicon carbide device, comprising: an epitaxial silicon carbide layer comprising a first conductivity type; and a buried lateral silicon carbide edge termination region located within the epitaxial silicon carbide layer comprising a second conductivity type, wherein the buried lateral silicon carbide edge termination region is covered by a silicon carbide surface layer comprising an increased density of intrinsic point defects in comparison to a density of intrinsic point defects of the buried lateral silicon carbide edge termination region, wherein the increased density of intrinsic point defects is caused by an increased density of carbon vacancy defects. | 6,679 |
9,478,784 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising: an electrode body provided with a positive electrode and a negative electrode that face each other through a separator; a non-aqueous electrolyte; and a porous heat resistance layer that is disposed at least in one of a space between the positive electrode and the separator and a space between the negative electrode and the separator and contains an inorganic filler, wherein a porosity of the separator is not less than 70% by volume and not more than 80% by volume; and a ratio of a porosity of the porous heat resistance layer with respect to the porosity of the separator is not less than 0.3 and not more than 0.6. | 42,840 |
8,742,205 | 1. A transgenic plant comprising a transgene encoding a mutant Brassica napus Kinase Inhibitor Protein (KIP) related protein (BnKRP) comprising an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 93, SEQ ID NO: 94, SEQ ID NO: 97 and SEQ ID NO: 101. | 14,517 |
8,758,792 | 1. An osteoinductive composition, the composition comprising: heat and gaseous supercritical carbon dioxide treated surface demineralized bone particles, the bone particles ranging from approximately 1 mm to approximately 4 mm in their longest dimension, and being approximately 10 to approximately 50% demineralized; demineralized bone matrix; and a delivery vehicle. | 1,758 |
9,404,268 | 1. A method of installing flashing laminate between a thermoplastic roofing membrane and a non-heat-weldable surface of a roof, the method comprising: providing a flashing laminate including wherein said adhesive tape is adhered to only a portion of said bottom surface of said sheet, leaving the remaining portion of said bottom surface of said sheet exposed; heat welding said exposed portion of said bottom surface of said thermoplastic sheet to the thermoplastic roofing membrane along said first longitudinal edge; applying a primer to the non-heat-weldable surface and allowing the primer to dry; removing said release liner from said adhesive tape; and contacting said adhesive tape to said non-heat-weldable surface. | 42,408 |
9,035,215 | 1. A laser irradiation apparatus for irradiating a laser beam to a semiconductor layer including a plurality of pixel areas, comprising: a laser generator generating the laser beam; and an optical switching unit time-dividing the laser beam generated from the laser generator and transmitting a plurality of time-divided laser beams to a plurality of optical systems, wherein: wherein a time difference between the first time-divided laser beam of the first optical system and the second time-divided laser beam of the second optical system is adjusted in accordance with the predetermined distance. | 22,912 |
9,302,693 | 1. A coiled tubing servicing system comprising: a servicing cart comprising two or more support frames; a length of coiled tubing supported by the servicing cart; a servicing fixture disposed about a portion of the length of coiled tubing adjacent the servicing cart, wherein the servicing fixture is movable along a longitudinal axis of the length of coiled tubing and radially about the longitudinal axis of the length of coiled tubing; and a servicing tool coupled to the servicing fixture, wherein the servicing tool comprises an x-ray assembly. | 2,753 |
9,068,684 | 1. A sealed stopper for plugging an opening of tubing connecting a chamber with piping, a fastening ring being arranged around the opening of the tubing leading into the chamber and secured onto an inner surface of the chamber, the stopper comprising: a rigid bearing plate formed by a cylindrical part and a flat annular part, the cylindrical part having a diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the fastening ring, and the flat annular part having a diameter larger than the inner diameter of the fastening ring, and a sealing member carried by the cylindrical part of the bearing plate, the sealing member including a seal having a planar flexible central part of narrow thickness extending underneath the cylindrical part of the bearing plate and a peripheral part, the peripheral part being radially deformable by a central expander for expanding the peripheral part against the inner surface of the fastening ring, the central part being integral with the peripheral part, the peripheral part being thicker and more resistant than the central part of the seal and delimits, with the central part, an inner housing for the central expander, the inner housing being open at an end thereof that is opposite the central part. | 18,436 |
8,671,005 | 1. A method of displaying a three-dimensional (3D) rendering of raw material distribution in a production process comprising: electronically displaying on a display unit a field, wherein a proximal end of the field appears to be closer than a distal end based on a user's point of view; electronically displaying on said display unit a first lane along a longitudinal length of the field representing a time axis; electronically displaying on said display unit a plurality of raw material bars representing orders of raw materials in a stock segment of the field laid out along the longitudinal length of the field; electronically displaying on said display unit a plurality of work-in-progress bars representing orders for first work-in-progress products comprising the raw materials and further representing subassemblies that produce second work-in-progress products based on the first work-in-progress products, the work-in-progress bars positioned in a demand segment of the field laid out along the longitudinal length of the field; electronically displaying on said display unit a plurality of finished product bars representing products to be delivered to a customer to fulfill a sales order of the customer in a customers segment laid out along a lateral length of the field; electronically displaying on said display unit a plurality of connection lines between two or more raw material bars, work-in-progress bars, and finished product bars representing paths for the raw materials through the production process, wherein a first color of each raw material bar is used to represent a portion of a quantity of the raw material that is available for an order represented by the raw material bar and a second color of each raw material bar is used to represent a portion of the quantity of the required raw material that is unavailable for the order represented by the raw material bar but necessary to fill the order; and electronically rendering on said display unit a reallocation of an available upstream product from a first downstream product order to a second downstream product order when the first and second downstream product order use the same upstream product as an input, wherein the rendering the reallocation comprises dragging a portion of the first color segment of a first bar to a second bar on said display unit if the first bar and second bar are connected to a common upstream bar. | 11,308 |
8,626,977 | 1. A computer, comprising: a connector that can be configured to couple to a console; an integrated central processing unit and graphics subsystem in a single chip; a Low Voltage Differential Signal (LVDS) channel directly extending from the integrated central processing unit and graphics subsystem to convey encoded address and data bits of a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus transaction in a serial bit stream, wherein the LVDS channel comprises a first unidirectional, differential signal pair to convey data in a first direction and a second unidirectional, differential signal pair to convey data in a second, opposite direction; and a serial bit channel that couples to the connector, wherein the serial bit channel is adapted to transmit data packets in accordance with a Universal Serial Bus (USB) protocol; wherein the integrated central processing unit and graphics subsystem outputs digital video display signals. | 20,111 |
8,683,239 | 1. A method of allocating power among one or more ports in a switch, comprising: pre-allocating a first configuration power to a selected port, wherein the first configuration power is representative of a power drawn from the selected port by a non-system powered device coupled to the selected port; determining whether a device coupled to the selected port draws more power than the first configuration power; and allocating a second configuration power representative of a power limit of the device to the selected port if the selected port draws more power than the first configuration power. | 7,217 |
8,843,216 | 1. An implantable electrode array assembly including: an elongated carrier having a proximal end, a distal end, and an inner surface; a plurality of electrodes mounted within the carrier, at least one of the electrodes having a surface that is adjacent the inner surface of the carrier; and an electrochemical actuator which changes chemical structure due to an ionic transfer when an electric potential is applied thereto, the actuator being configured to adjust a curvature of the carrier, wherein the curvature is adjustable by applying the electric potential to the actuator. | 15,255 |
8,779,186 | 1. A compound as represented by the structure of the following Formula I: wherein: Ar is a C m=2, n+m is less than or equal to 8, R is H or a branched or linear C | 44,257 |
9,402,829 | 1. A method of treating colon cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, renal cancer, sarcoma, neuroblastoma, gastric cancer, multiple myeloma, myeloproliferative neoplasms, or hematologic cancers in a patient, the method comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula: wherein R R R X and Y are the same or different and are independently selected from the group consisting of: R R R or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 31,951 |
9,732,919 | 1. A multifunctional module-type light comprising a light-emitting module and a supporting assembly, wherein the light-emitting module comprises at least one LED module, a plurality of the LED modules being connected via a connecting assembly, the supporting assembly comprising a supporting frame and a positioning assembly, the supporting frame is installed on the light-emitting module in a manner that an angle thereof is adjustable through the positioning assembly, the supporting frame comprises two installation feet connecting with the light-emitting module and a supporting plate connecting between the two installation feet, the supporting plate comprises a flat surface or a slanted surface, the light-emitting module is fixed on a surface through the supporting plate, each LED module comprises a heatsink, a light-transmitting cover fixed on the heatsink, a driving device and an LED light panel, the heatsink comprising a mounting surface and a plurality of heat-dissipating fins formed on the mounting surface, the light-transmitting cover being formed thereon with a plurality of reflectors to meet light distribution requirements in different angles, the light-emitting module comprises one independent LED module, the support frame is disposed across the heatsink of the LED module, and the two installation feet of the supporting frame are installed on the heat-dissipating fins at two sides of the heatsink in a manner that an angle thereof is adjustable through the positioning assembly. | 11,030 |
9,496,589 | 1. A system for packaging and thermal management of one or more battery cells in a battery module, the system comprising: one or more battery cells, each of said battery cells being a prismatic battery cell comprising two end surfaces, a first end surface on which battery terminals are situated, and a second end surface, four side surfaces, a first side surface and a second side surface having a larger surface area than a third side surface and a fourth side surface; the battery module comprising: at least one extruded aluminum or aluminum alloy profile provided with a plurality of thermal transfer fins arranged at a space from each other; and a plurality of battery cells mounted in said at least one profile in thermal contact with the thermal transfer fins, whereby thermal transfer medium is arranged in thermal contact with said at least one profile so that thermal energy is conducted through said aluminum or aluminum alloy profile from/to the battery cells to/from said thermal transfer fluid, each profile comprising a body with a channel for thermal transfer fluid and parallel thermal transfer fins arranged at a space from each other, said fins having free ends, the fins together with the body forming a groove in which battery cells are positioned so that the first and second side surfaces of the battery cells are in contact with the thermal transfer fins and that the aluminum or aluminum alloy profiles are cut to different and desired lengths in order to obtain a protective housing and supporting structure for a desired amount of battery the profiles are formed so that direct contact between the battery terminals and the profiles is prevented, the profiles comprising a shoulder structure arranged so that a space configured for electric insulation is formed between the battery terminals and the prefile and that an electrically insulating but thermally conductive compound is applied in the space between the battery terminals and the profile to provide thermal contact between said profile and the battery terminals. | 33,152 |
9,329,900 | 1. A processor comprising: a first set of one or more physical processor cores having first processing characteristics; a second set of one or more physical processor cores having second processing characteristics different from the first processing characteristics; logic to determine that a number of active processor cores from the second set is below a first threshold; and virtual-to-physical (V-P) mapping logic to expose a plurality of virtual processors to software, the plurality of virtual processors to appear to the software as a plurality of homogeneous processor cores, the software to allocate threads to the virtual processors as if the virtual processors were homogeneous processor cores; wherein the V-P mapping logic is to map each virtual processor to a physical processor core within the first set of physical processor cores or the second set of physical processor cores such that a thread allocated to a first virtual processor by the software is executed by a physical processor core mapped to the first virtual processor from the first set or the second set of physical processor cores, wherein the V-P mapping logic is to remap at least one virtual processor from mapping to one physical processor core within the second set to mapping to one physical processor core within the first set based on the determination, and wherein the mapping and remapping is performed without being based on input from an operating system of the processor. | 32,036 |
9,781,370 | 1. A pixel of a CMOS imager, the pixel comprising: an infrared photodiode suitable for generating an electric current when it is exposed to an optical radiation having a wavelength greater than 950 nanometers; a conversion circuit for receiving electrons and delivering a voltage with a value varying as a function of the number of received electrons; a first switch connected between the infrared photodiode and the conversion circuit; an electron reservoir that is a buried photodiode; and a first diffusion node connected between the first switch and the conversion circuit; wherein the first switch is movable between an open position and a closed position, and the electron reservoir and the first diffusion node are connected in the closed position of the first switch. | 3,932 |
8,797,263 | 1. An apparatus for measuring 3-dimensional positions of objects, the apparatus comprising: an image capturing module that acquires an image including an object; a detecting module that detects the object from the image acquired by the image capturing module and calculates sizes and coordinates of the object within the image; and a position calculation module that calculates the 3-dimensional position of the object in the space in which the object is positioned by using the following equations: where X F F I I θ θ D | 23,656 |
9,094,798 | 1. A system, comprising: a user profile database comprising: a communicator location database comprising: an analysis unit that: | 46,292 |
8,409,303 | 1. A process of converting biomass into a renewable fuel comprising the steps of: providing biomass comprising at least about 10% water; slurrying the biomass by performing at least one of the steps of grinding and adding at least one of fresh water, recycled water, steam, and a combination thereof to form a pumpable slurry; applying sufficient pressure to the biomass slurry to maintain liquidity and form pressurized biomass; heating the pressurized biomass to a first temperature, wherein the first temperature is sufficient to form an aqueous char slurry, carbon dioxide, and free water; depressurizing the biomass char slurry; separating the carbon dioxide from the biomass char slurry; removing at least a portion of the free water from the biomass char slurry to provide a dewatered biomass char product containing a decreased oxygen content; drying a portion of the dewatered biomass char product to remove more of the free water and to provide a dried biomass char product; providing a first output of the dewatered biomass char product; and providing a second output of the dried biomass char product. | 35,513 |
9,600,439 | 1. A cache location manager including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising: extracting all combinations of a transfer device caching content and candidate paths relaying the content from the transfer device to another transfer device requesting for the content by using network topology information indicating a relation of connections among transfer devices, the candidate paths being extracted so that the candidate paths has larger number of transfer devices to store the content and shorter length to delivering the content when number of accesses to the content becomes larger; calculating, with respect to each of the combinations extracted at the extracting, a sum of an amount of electric power consumed by the transfer device included in the combination when the content is cached in the transfer device and an amount of electric power consumed by transfer devices included in the combination when transferring the content through the candidate paths; selecting, among the combinations, a combination of which the sum of electric power calculated at the calculating is a minimum sum out of the combinations extracted at the extracting; and outputting information indicating the combination selected at the selecting, wherein the outputting includes identifying a transfer device to cache the content on a content centric network in which each transfer device is allowed to cache the content based on the combination selected at the selecting, and providing a cache list indicating the content to be cached by each transfer device to the transfer devices. | 15,309 |
8,979,973 | 1. A method for recovering hydrogen pulverized powder of a raw-material alloy for rare-earth magnets, comprising a hydrogen storing step of storing hydrogen into the raw-material alloy for rare-earth magnets accommodated in a processing container, a heating step of heating the raw-material alloy for rare-earth magnets which are already pulverized by storing the hydrogen and dehydrogenating the raw-material alloy, a cooling step of cooling the heated raw-material alloy for rare-earth magnets, and a recovery step of recovering the cooled raw-material alloy for rare-earth magnets into a recovery container, wherein the recovery step is carried out in a recovery chamber which is adjacently connected to one or more processing chambers where the hydrogen storing step, the heating step and the cooling step are carried out, the recovery chamber includes: wherein the recovery step comprises the steps of: | 41,976 |
8,944,850 | 1. A connector to form a plurality of signal paths between a printed circuit board and a card, the connector comprising: an insulative housing having a number of slots formed along a front and top; a plurality of first contacts, each having: a plurality of second contacts, each having: a top shield over at least a top of the insulative housing; and a front shield along the front of the housing and contacting the fourth portions of the plurality of second contacts. | 38,255 |
9,388,011 | 1. A printing apparatus which has a plurality of trays for stacking sheets on which an image is printed, wherein stacking capability of a first tray included in the plurality of trays varies according to stacking status of a second tray included in the plurality of trays, and stacking capability of the second tray does not vary according to stacking status of the first tray, the printing apparatus comprising: a controller unit configured to select, according to a user operation, the first tray or the second tray as a tray to be used; accept an instruction to start a job; control, when the instruction is accepted, such that sheets on which an image is printed based on the job are stacked on the selected first or second tray; detect, after the selected first or second tray becomes full, that the sheets stacked on the selected first or second tray are removed; and control, after it is detected that the sheets stacked on the selected first or second tray are removed, such that other sheets on which an image is printed based on the job are stacked on the first tray regardless of the selection. | 21,121 |
8,717,089 | 1. A method comprising: measuring a supply voltage that is powering a series of delay stages; measuring a number of delay stages corresponding to how many of the delay stages a pulse traverses in a predetermined tune period; converting the measured supply voltage to a derived number of delay stages, based on a predetermined correlation of number of delay stages versus voltage; adjusting the supply voltage by increasing the supply voltage if the measured number of delay stages is less than the derived number of delay stages. | 6,748 |
9,381,990 | 1. A power supply system for compensation for heave of a marine drilling vessel, the power supply system comprising: a main power source; an electric energy storage device coupled to the main power source via a DC bus; and an electric motor/generator electrically coupled via the DC bus to the main power source and the electric energy storage device, wherein the electric motor/generator is configured to receive electric energy from one or more of the main power source and the electric energy storage device to operate the electric motor/generator as a motor in a first operating state when the marine vessel lowers to a wave trough, wherein the electric motor/generator is configured to charge the electric energy storage device to operate as a generator in a second operating state when the marine vessel rises to a wave crest; and wherein the electric motor/generator is an electrical drive of at least one or more of a marine active heave compensating draw works, a draw works of a marine drilling rig, a marine anchor winch drive, and a top drive of a marine drilling rig. | 38,466 |
9,006,846 | 1. A via layer for a MEMS device, the via layer comprising; a substrate having a pair of trenches separated in a horizontal direction by a portion of the substrate, wherein each trench of the pair of trenches includes first and second vertical layers including a dielectric, the first and second vertical layers separated by a third vertical layer including polysilicon, wherein each of the first and second vertical layers include thermal oxide and a third material having a dielectric constant lower than the dielectric constant of the thermal oxide. | 5,592 |
9,730,590 | 1. A method of assessing a subject by producing a subject-dependent indicator that measures a response of a subject's blood circulation system to postural change, comprising: providing a signal for a first posture dependent upon a blood volume in a limb of the subject when the subject is in a first posture by measuring a parameter indicative of the blood volume of the subject's limb when the subject is in the first posture prior to a postural change; providing a signal for a second posture dependent upon a blood volume in a limb of a subject after a change in subject posture from the first posture to a second posture, different to the first posture by measuring the parameter when the subject is in a second posture after the postural change; isolating at least a pulsating component of the measured parameter; and using a processor to calculate a quantitative subject-dependent indicator that measures a response of the subject's blood circulation system to the postural change and is dependent upon at least the pulsating component of the measured parameter for the first posture and the pulsating component of the measured parameter for the second posture. | 33,155 |
9,690,008 | 1. A system for the detection of atmospheric icing conditions comprising: a Doppler lidar (light detection and ranging) entity, including a pulsed lidar, configured to emit electromagnetic radiation, in a plurality of directions, to the atmosphere and to receive radiation backscattered from an aerosol, including a cloud, present in the atmosphere, and a data processor in electronic communication with the Doppler lidar entity configured to obtain at least one indication of signal intensity including carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR), which is based on the received backscattered radiation relative to at least one altitude of the location of the Doppler lidar entity emitting the electromagnetic radiation, and further configured to compare said at least one indication of the CNR in the signal intensity, with at least one predetermined reference CNR, in order to obtain an indication of the likelihood of cloud presence at said at least one altitude, and configured to determine an indication of the icing potential at said at least one altitude on the basis of the comparison and an indication of the temperature at said at least one altitude. | 38,637 |
8,576,423 | 1. An image processing device, comprising: a scanner configured to scan an image formed on a sheet; a first image obtainer configured to obtain a first image scanned by the scanner from a first area, the first image being a processable image, and the first area being allocated on the sheet; a second image obtainer configured to obtain a second image scanned by the scanner from a second area, the second area being allocated on the sheet separately from the first area; and a control device configured to: judge whether the second image obtained by the second image obtainer qualifies a predetermined authentication criterion and is identical to a predetermined user-identifying image which is registered in association with a user and a predetermined function of the image processing device, the predetermined function being configured to process the first image obtained by the first image obtainer and being allowed to be activated by the user; and activate the predetermined function of the image processing device, which processes the first image obtained by the first image obtainer, when judgement is made that the second image is identical to the predetermined user-identifying image, wherein the second image obtainer completes obtainment of the second image from the second area prior to activation of the first image obtainer; and wherein the first image obtainer is activated to start obtaining the first image when the judgment is made that the second image obtained by the second image obtainer is identical to the predetermined user-identifying image. | 2,320 |
8,511,939 | 1. A construction for protecting a shore side of a shore line water barrier wall from flooding from a storm surge overtopping the barrier wall, comprising: a water trap arranged above ground at the shore side of the barrier wall and comprising an above ground front wall having a height and above ground later walls connecting the front wall, the front wall being contiguous with the barrier wall, for entrapping storm water overtopping said front wall to form a pool, at least one normally horizontally buoyant gate or gate unit recessed below grade inside the water trap and spaced from said front wall sufficiently to allow formation of the pool between the gate or gate unit and the front wall, the gate or each gate unit comprising later sides, an underside face and a length spanning form an end distal to said barrier wall to an end proximal to said barrier wall and greater than the height of the front wall, the gate or each gate unit being rotatingly pivotable from horizontal to a full upright position about an axis at said distal end generally parallel to the barrier wall, at least two of said above ground lateral walls being proximately adjacent the side of the gate or each gate unit and having a height at least as tall as the height of the front wall, said front wall in concert with the lateral walls serving to impound storm water overtopping the front wall to a pool depth sufficient to produce a hydrostatic pressure, impressible on the underside face of the gate or each gate unit after the gate or gate unit is rotatingly buoyed partially upward from horizontal by water accumulating in the water trap, effective to rotate the gate or gate unit to a fully upright position. | 3,479 |
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