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8,732,674 | 1. An instrumentation process for making changes to a software program during an execution of the software program by a machine having a processor and a memory in operable communication with the processor, the software program having a digital execution image which is being executed by the machine along an execution path during a current execution, the software program also having a pre-execution image which is stored in a computer-readable storage location apart from the execution image, the process comprising the steps of: obtaining in the machine memory an instrumentation context for the software program's execution image, wherein the obtaining step includes the machine executing at least one high-level programming language statement, and wherein the instrumentation context includes a set of function identifications which identify at least one function from the execution image which is in the execution path and also identify at least one other function from the execution image which is not in the execution path; querying the instrumentation context using a high-level programming language query which specifies at least one query criterion to be satisfied; receiving in the machine memory a query response which identifies one or more functions in the program's execution image that satisfy the query regardless of whether those functions have executed yet during the current execution of the program, the one or more identified functions referred to here as query-satisfying functions; and transforming a function body of at least one of query-satisfying functions in the program's execution image without thereby modifying the program's pre-execution image. | 42,315 |
9,461,049 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor pillar formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, an upper portion of the semiconductor pillar comprising an epitaxially grown silicon layer, the epitaxial silicon layer having at least a portion which extends sideward to form an overhang; a gate electrode embedded in a first trench adjacent to the semiconductor pillar and formed on a side surface of the semiconductor pillar and extending as a line; a storage element formed on the epitaxial silicon layer; and a source/drain region embedded at a location lower than the gate electrode and being elongated so as to form a line shape, wherein the source/drain region is formed only on one side of the semiconductor pillar. | 11,996 |
8,552,688 | 1. A battery condition estimation device capable of estimating conditions of an on-vehicle battery mounted to a vehicle during an operation period of an internal combustion engine counted from a restart operation of the internal combustion engine to a stop operation of the internal combustion engine, the on-vehicle battery being an electric power supply source to supply an electric power to on-vehicle devices such as an engine starter to start an internal combustion engine, comprising: pre-start operation voltage drop estimation means capable of estimating a battery voltage drop amount, as a pre-start operation voltage drop amount of the on-vehicle battery, based on at least one of detection values regarding battery condition, during a period from initiation of the stop operation of the internal combustion engine until initiation of the restart operation of the internal combustion engine; start operation voltage drop estimation means capable of estimating a battery voltage drop amount, as a start operation voltage drop amount, based on at least one of the detection values regarding the battery condition, during a period from the initiation of the restart operation until completion of the restart operation of the internal combustion engine; and minimum voltage estimation means capable of estimating a minimum voltage of the on-vehicle battery during a period from the initiation of the stop operation of the internal combustion engine until the completion of the restart operation of the internal combustion engine based on a voltage value of the on-vehicle battery detected before the initiation of the stop operation of the internal combustion engine, the pre-start voltage drop amount of the on-vehicle battery estimated by the pre-start operation voltage drop estimation means, and the start operation voltage drop amount estimated by the start operation voltage drop estimation means, wherein the pre-start operation voltage drop estimation means comprises pre-stop operation voltage drop estimation means capable of estimating a battery voltage drop amount of the on-vehicle battery, as a pre-stop operation voltage drop amount, during a period from the initiation of the stop operation until the completion of the stop operation of the internal combustion engine based on at least one of the detection values regarding the battery condition, the battery condition estimation device further comprises an internal resistance value map which stores a relationship between a current value or a voltage value and an internal resistance value of the on-vehicle battery in a one to one correspondence, wherein the pre-stop operation voltage drop estimation means estimates the pre-stop operation voltage drop amount based on the internal resistance value obtained from the internal resistance value map and a current change amount of the on-vehicle battery detected during the period from the initiation of the stop operation until the completion of the stop operation of the internal combustion engine, and the internal resistance map has: wherein when the output voltage of an AC generator capable of charging the on-vehicle battery is equal to an adjustment voltage, the pre-stop operation voltage drop estimation means estimates the pre-stop operation voltage drop amount of the on-vehicle battery based on the current change amount of the on-vehicle battery detected during the period from the initiation of the stop operation until the completion of the stop operation of the internal combustion engine, and based on the internal resistance value of the on-vehicle battery obtained from the current-internal resistance value map based on the current value of the on-vehicle battery detected before the initiation of the stop operation of the internal combustion engine, and when the output voltage of the AC generator capable of charging the on-vehicle battery is less than the adjustment voltage, the pre-stop operation voltage drop estimation means estimates the pre-stop operation voltage drop amount of the on-vehicle battery based on the current change amount of the on-vehicle battery detected during the period from the initiation of the stop operation until the completion of the stop operation of the internal combustion engine, and based on the internal resistance value of the on-vehicle battery obtained from the voltage-internal resistance value map based on the voltage value of the on-vehicle battery detected before the initiation of the stop operation of the internal combustion engine. | 5,395 |
8,964,707 | 1. A method in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the method comprising: after providing a network interworking indicator to a wireless device, receiving, from the wireless device, a request message for network information which identifies one or more networks, the network interworking indicator indicating support of a capability of the WLAN to receive network information from a cellular network; and in response to the request message, providing the network information in a container field of a generic container for transmission to the wireless device. | 27,967 |
8,473,025 | 1. An electrode for transmission between a biosignal measurement device and a living body, comprising: an insulation sheet having a plurality of holes; and a plurality of electrode members each formed of a material which is both conductive and adhesive and being insulated from each other, each of the electrode members including a device contact portion in a shape of a flat board on a top surface of the insulation sheet, a body contact portion in a shape of a flat board on a bottom surface of the insulation sheet, and a hole connector connecting the device contact portion and the body contact portion of each electrode member at respective ones of the holes. | 10,631 |
9,461,717 | 1. A method of cooperative multi-antenna communication of a data collecting node, the method comprising: receiving data from at least one node of a node group that receives data from a base station; performing multiple input multiple output (MIMO) signal processing on the received data, the MIMO signal processing indicating signal processing performed in a receiving end of a MIMO system, and the MIMO signal processing being performed to remove interference from a signal destined for at least one target node other than the data collecting node; and transmitting the MIMO signal processed data with interference removed to the at least one target node. | 1,088 |
8,477,859 | 1. A method for communications device operations, the method comprising: estimating, by the communications device, a channel between a controller and a mobile device; generating channel state information from the channel estimate; quantizing the channel state information by selecting a codeword from a rank n codebook in accordance with a codeword selection mechanism, where n is a non-negative integer value; transmitting an index corresponding to the selected codeword; and receiving a transmission from the controller, wherein the transmission is precoded in accordance with the index, wherein the rank n codebook comprises 2 wherein an i-th codeword of the rank n codebook is expressible as C iε[0, . . . , 2 K −1], nε[0, . . . , N t −1], k is a constant, θ i ε[0,2π], and diag( ) is a function that returns diagonal elements of u i . | 6,326 |
9,658,076 | 1. A vehicle system comprising: a charging interface configured to connect a bicycle battery; a processing device programmed to monitor the charging interface to determine a state of charge of the bicycle battery and a vehicle battery, and wherein the processing device is programmed to estimate traveling ranges of both a vehicle and a bicycle; and a navigation module programmed to generate a route to a selected destination based on the estimated traveling ranges of both the vehicle and the bicycle. | 39,400 |
8,846,894 | 1. A double stranded short interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA) duplex consisting of a sense strand and an antisense strand, wherein: (a) each strand is 18 nucleotides in length; (b) the siRNA duplex has 18 base pairs; (c) the antisense strand is complementary to a target RNA encoded by a mammalian gene; (d) the sense strand and the antisense strand are 100% complementary; and (e) each strand of the siRNA duplex comprises 10 or more 2′-O-methyl nucleotides. | 11,437 |
9,711,280 | 1. A method for preparing a rare earth sintered magnet from a corresponding alloy powder using a mold, said mold comprising a die, an upper punch having a pressure surface, and a lower punch having a pressure surface, the pressure surface of one or both of the upper and lower punches being shaped non-planar, the lower punch being divided into a plurality of punch segments which are independently movable within the die in a compression direction, provided that the pressure surface of the lower punch during a compression step has a normal shape, a cavity being defined between the die and the lower punch, said method comprising the steps of: moving one or more selected punch segments upward such a position that their pressure surface is positioned relatively higher than the pressure surface of the remaining punch segments, filling the cavity with the alloy powder, moving the selected punch segments downward until they join with the remaining punch segments to assume the normal shape of the lower punch during the compression step, compressing the alloy powder in the cavity between the upper and lower punches, while the normal shape of the pressure surface of the lower punch is maintained, under a magnetic field for uniaxial pressure molding to form a compact, and heat treating the compact, wherein in the step of moving the selected punch segments downward, the selected punch segments are moved down while a magnetic field is applied. | 29,330 |
8,536,831 | 1. An electric power supply system for vehicle comprising: at least one power transmitting antenna, which is arranged on or under the ground, and a power receiving antenna, which is arranged in or on at least one vehicle, wherein the power transmitting and receiving antennas form a pair of resonators that couples with each other by producing resonant magnetic coupling between them, and wherein supposing that the direction in which the vehicle is traveling is Y direction and the direction perpendicular to the Y direction is X direction, the lengths of the power transmitting antenna as measured in the Y and X directions are greater than those of the power receiving antenna as measured in the Y and X directions, respectively, and the length of the power receiving antenna as measured in the X direction is greater than its length as measured in the Y direction, and the lengths of the power transmitting antenna as measured in the Y and X directions are greater than those of the vehicle as measured in the Y and X directions, respectively, and wherein power is supplied from the power transmitting antenna to the power receiving antenna by a non-contact method when the power transmitting antenna faces the power receiving antenna, and wherein while power transmission is carried out between the power transmitting antenna and the power receiving antenna, the entire power receiving antenna projected onto the plane defined by the outer periphery of the power transmitting antenna is positioned inside the outer periphery of the power transmitting antenna. | 46,495 |
8,526,249 | 1. A method for reading data received from a memory, the method comprising: determining, with a control circuitry, a start time and an end time of a first time interval such that a last falling edge in a first of a plurality of data strobe sequences received from the memory occurs outside of the first time interval, wherein: adjusting a start time and an end time of a close-enable time interval based at least in part on determining whether a last falling edge in a second of the plurality of data strobe sequences occurs i) after the determined start time of the first time interval and ii) before the determined end time of the first time interval; and disabling the sampling of the data received from the memory in response to determining that the last falling edge in the second received data strobe sequence occurs inside the close-enable time interval. | 44,835 |
8,815,347 | 1. An antioxidant agent to be applied to a surface of a metallic starting material, containing: first glass frits having a viscosity of 2×10 second glass frits having a viscosity of 2×10 potter's clay; and at least one of bentonite and sepiolite, wherein the antioxidant agent contains 6 to 30 weight parts of the potter's clay with respect to 100 weight parts of the first glass frits and not lower than 4 weight parts and lower than 9 weight parts of at least one of the bentonite and sepiolite with respect to 100 weight parts of first glass frits. | 21,414 |
9,647,494 | 1. A method, comprising: detecting, by a device in a network, a power outage event in the network; advertising, by the device, a power-protected backbone to an unprotected node as having a path cost of approximately zero to cause the unprotected node in the network to use a first routing topology that includes the power-protected backbone, in response to detecting the power outage event, wherein the power-protected backbone includes one or more nodes that are protected against the power outage event and the unprotected node is not protected against the power outage event; routing, by the device, data for the unprotected node using the first routing topology; and causing, by the device, the unprotected node to use a second routing topology that optimizes a path from the unprotected node to a root node of the network based on one or more performance criteria. | 13,728 |
8,837,584 | 1. A method of removing a blocking artifact using quantization information in a filtering system, comprising: obtaining quantization information related to at least one of a first block and a second block, the second block being adjacent to the first block; comparing the quantization information with a predefined constant value that remains fixed over more than one execution of a filtering process for a plurality of frames to determine whether the quantization information is greater than or less than or equal to the predefined constant value; obtaining block type information for the first and second block, the block type information indicating whether a block is an intra-coded block; and performing the filtering process based on a result from the comparing step when at least one of the first block and the second block is the intra-coded block according to the block type information. | 38,434 |
9,049,656 | 1. A receiving unit driving control method comprising: detecting a code phase based on a signal received by a receiving unit that receives a positioning satellite signal; determining, based on at least the code phase, whether to operate the receiving unit in a first mode in which the receiving unit is constantly driven or in a second mode in which the receiving unit is intermittently driven; and operating the receiving unit in the first mode in which the receiving unit is constantly driven when the code phase is within a predetermined edge of a pseudorandom noise (PRN) code. | 9,727 |
8,751,489 | 1. A system for refining a search, the system comprising: a data store configured to store a mapping table that associates each of a plurality of search strings with one or more item attributes; and one or more computer systems in communication with the data store that are configured to: | 36,597 |
9,780,710 | 1. A method for operating a wind farm, the wind farm comprising a plurality of wind turbine generators and a farm level controller, the method comprising: calculating, with the farm level controller, an available reactive power value for each of the plurality of wind turbine generators; distributing an individual reactive power command to each of the plurality of wind turbine generators, the individual reactive power command individually tailored to each wind turbine generator of the plurality of wind turbine generators based on the corresponding available reactive power value of each of the plurality wind turbine generators; and providing, with each wind turbine generator of the plurality of wind turbine generators, a desired reactive power based on the corresponding individual reactive power command. | 27,488 |
9,594,128 | 1. A two axes MEMS resonant magnetometer comprising: in one plane, a freestanding rectangular frame having inner walls and four torsion springs disposed inside the frame, wherein opposing inner walls of the frame are contacted by one end of only two springs, each spring being anchored by its other end to a substrate wherein the substrate comprises two electrically isolated power supply lines, whereby diagonally facing anchored ends of the torsion springs are electrically connected to the same power supply line, and wherein the substrate is configured for the application of an AC voltage between the two power supply lines, the AC voltage having a frequency equal to the frequency of at least one of two orthogonal modes of the MEMS magnetometer, thereby creating a current flowing between opposite biased anchored ends of the torsion springs, wherein the substrate comprises four electrodes, each electrode being capacitively coupled to a different side of the frame thereby forming four capacitors, whereby the four electrodes are configured for differential capacitive measurement between opposite capacitors corresponding to a respective orthogonal mode, and wherein the differential capacitive measurement is adapted to be used to determine an in-plane component of a magnetic field in which the MEMS magnetometer is placed. | 4,572 |
9,702,337 | 1. A power generating apparatus using flowing water, wherein: a plurality of blades a first straight section S when the blades first and second direction adjusting device the oblique directions of the blades the energy from the flow speed of water is changed into the circulating power of the chain the sprockets wherein the upper and lower ends of the blade | 45,034 |
9,141,049 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a first executing unit that executes an image formation mode which includes a printing process of forming an image by transferring a toner image from an image holder onto a recording sheet, and then, in a fixing device, causing a fixing member heated to a fixable temperature by a heater to thermally fix the toner image on the recording sheet; a second executing unit that executes a non-image-formation mode process that is different from a wait state and that does not include a thermal fixing performed by the fixing device; an instructing unit that selectively instructs the first executing unit to execute the image formation mode or the second executing unit to execute the non-image-formation mode process; a controller that controls a power supply to the heater of the fixing device in accordance with an execution state of the image formation mode and the non-image-formation mode process, wherein the controller performs: (i) a first control of decreasing a temperature of the fixing member by stopping or reducing the power supply to the heater when the non-image-formation mode process starts to be executed, and (ii) a second control of stopping the first control at a predetermined timing in a middle of the execution of the non-image-formation mode process and then increasing the temperature of the fixing member so that the temperature reaches a predetermined target temperature at an end of the execution of the non-image-formation mode process; an obtaining unit that obtains a process time of the non-image-formation mode process to be executed; and a prohibiting unit that prohibits the controller from executing the first control and the second control if the process time is equal to or smaller than a predetermined time. | 7,396 |
9,287,429 | 1. A solar cell sealing film comprising, a resin mixture of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and a polyethylene, and an organic peroxide, wherein a mass ratio (EVA:PE) of the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) to the polyethylene (PE) in the resin mixture is 8:2 to 3:7, wherein a melting point of the resin mixture, which is a temperature at a viscosity of 30,000 Pa·s, is 80 to 105° C., and wherein the polyethylene is a low density polyethylene (LDPE) having a density of 0.910 g/cm | 15,498 |
8,841,104 | 1. A method for isolating pathogen from a heterogeneous sample, the method comprising: providing a vessel that contains a heterogeneous sample comprising pathogen, the vessel being coupled to a microfluidic device that comprises a channel and a magnet; introducing to the sample a cocktail comprising a plurality of sets of magnetic particles, members of different sets being conjugated to different antibodies that are specific for different pathogen, wherein at least two of the sets are provided at different concentrations, thereby forming a mixture; flowing the mixture from the vessel through a channel in the microfluidic device and toward a magnet in the microfluidic device; and separating particle bound pathogen from other components in the sample by using the magnet to retain pathogen bound to magnetic particles while unbound sample components are not retained by the magnet. | 3,067 |
9,319,782 | 1. An audio device comprising: a first speaker to output first audio; a first microphone to capture elements of the first audio and to capture elements of the second audio from a second speaker of an additional audio device, wherein the first microphone produces an audio input signal corresponding to the elements of the first audio and the elements of the second audio; a second microphone to capture the elements of the first audio and to capture a portion of the elements of the second audio, wherein the second microphone produces a reference signal that corresponds to the elements of the first audio and the portion of the elements of the second audio; one or more processors; one of more computer-readable storage media in communication with the one or more processors, the one or more computer-readable storage media including instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: | 7,787 |
8,907,112 | 1. A method for preparing an epoxide, comprising the step of: performing a reaction of an olefin compound and an oxidant by using a titanium-silicon molecular sieve as a catalyst, in the presence of a silicon oxide containing an alkaline earth metal as a coagent, wherein the titanium-silicon molecular sieve comprises a transition metal, and wherein the silicon oxide containing an alkaline earth metal is at least one selected from the group consisting of MgSiO | 6,215 |
9,149,170 | 1. A robot comprising: a chassis; a wheeled drive supporting the chassis and operable to maneuver the robot; sensors responsive to an environment about the robot; a memory storing: a controller in communication with the wheeled drive, the sensors, and the memory, the controller executing the instructions to: | 19,669 |
9,493,704 | 1. A compound represented by formula I, in the formula I, both R A. at least one of group selected from H, —Cl, —F, —CN, —OCN, —OCF B. groups obtained by substituting one or at least two non-adjacent —CH C. at least one of groups obtained by substituting at least one of hydrogen in A groups and B groups with fluorine or chlorine; are at least one of a single bond or following groups: Z a, b and c are an integer from 0 to 3, and a+b+c≦5; when a, b and c represents 2 or 3 respectively, the groups represented by may be same or different, the groups represented by may be same or different, and the groups represented by may be same or different. | 39,918 |
9,316,393 | 1. A burner system for consuming waste fuel, comprising: a combustion unit having at least three combustion chambers arranged concentrically around a variable speed conveyor screw for directing the waste fuel along a fuel consumption path through said at least three combustion chambers; an air chamber surrounding said at least three combustion chambers to facilitate preheating combustion air delivered to said at least three combustion chambers and to facilitate insulating said at least three combustion chambers against thermal losses to the environment; a boiler in fluid communication with said at least three combustion chambers for heating a fluid to facilitate an energy conversion process; and a control system that checks operating parameters of said boiler including pressure, temperature and fluid level and activates an emergency stop alarm if any one of the operating parameters of said boiler is outside a predetermined range of operating values. | 29,107 |
8,780,325 | 1. A method of at least partially compensating for deviation in a property of a pattern feature to be applied to a substrate using a lithographic apparatus, the method comprising: obtaining information related to a deviation in an intended or desired value of a property of at least a first pattern feature of a pattern to be applied to a substrate using a lithographic apparatus, wherein an intended or desired value of the property of at least a second pattern feature of the pattern is different than that of at least the first pattern feature; determining a desired phase change to be applied to at least a portion of a patterned radiation beam that is to be used to apply at least the first pattern feature to the substrate, and which would at least partially compensate for the deviation in the property of at least the first pattern feature, the determination of the desired phase change comprising determining a desired configuration of a phase modulation element; and implementing the desired phase change to at least the portion of the patterned radiation beam when applying the pattern, comprising at least the first pattern feature and the second pattern feature, to the substrate to at least partially compensate for the deviation in the property of at least the first pattern feature while making substantially no change to the value of the property of at least the second feature or compensating for a deviation in the intended or desired value of the property of at least the second feature, the implementation of the desired phase change comprising illuminating the phase modulation element with the at least a portion of the patterned radiation beam when the phase modulation element is in the desired configuration. | 15,646 |
8,603,703 | 1. A method for forming a hydrophilic and electrically conductive layer to a bipolar plate, said method comprising: providing a composition of a hydrophilic and electrically conductive material that will be formed into the layer; mixing the hydrophilic and electrically conductive material in a solution; depositing the solution on a surface of a substrate; heating the substrate to evaporate the solution and leave a coating of the hydrophilic and electrically conductive material on the substrate; positioning the coated substrate in a stamping press; and stamping the substrate to shape the substrate into the bipolar plate and embed the material into a surface of the bipolar plate to form the layer. | 17,354 |
9,553,846 | 1. A method for realizing a Virtual Network (VN), comprising: setting a plurality of virtual network access points (VN-APs) in a data center network, wherein some of the VN-APs are physical switches connecting a plurality of Personal Computers (PCs), wherein some of the VN-APs are virtual switches hosted by Personal Computers (PCs) connecting a plurality of Virtual Machines (VMs), and wherein each VN-AP in the plurality of VN-APs comprises a forwarding table for routing packets; receiving, by a service deployment and management function entity, a VN service request from a user to generate feature information of the VN, wherein the feature information of the VN includes the following information: a VN name, VN-ID of the VN, a MAC address of a PC in the PCs or a VM in the VMs (PC/VM) which can be connected with the VN, and a user name and a user password for authenticating VN's identity of the PC/VM; automatically discovering a VN-AP in the plurality of VN-APs by the PC/VM; and generating, by the automatically discovered VN-AP, a VN forwarding table entry of the PC/VM after the PC/VM passes VN's identity authentication, and performing tunnel encapsulation according to the VN forwarding table entry to forward a packet from the PC/VM, wherein the automatic discovery of the VN-AP by the PC/VM is: wherein identity authentication comprises authenticating the identity of the PC/VM through Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) or 802.1x protocol, and wherein after the PC/VM passes the identity authentication, an AAA server or the service deployment and management function entity returns a VN-ID to the discovered VN-AP; synchronizing the VN forwarding tables of all VN-APs of the VN through MP-BGP or extended MP-BGP, or a learning mechanism of a data plane. | 37,334 |
9,075,871 | 1. A computer implemented method to present a reconfigured webpage based on user defined classifications, the method comprising: importing a folder structure defined in an application, the folder structure comprising a data object associated with a user defined classification of content of a webpage; providing an option to map, using the computer, one or more source data objects associated with a source classification of the content of the webpage to the data object associated with the user defined classification of the content of the webpage, wherein providing the option to map comprises: creating a user interface object based on mapping information of the one or more source data objects associated with the source classification and the data object associated with the user defined classification; and presenting the reconfigured webpage corresponding to the created user interface object. | 17,537 |
8,724,736 | 1. A multi-standard transmitter core, comprising a filter for receiving and filtering a differential transmission signal in accordance with a first standard of at least two different communication standards, the filter providing a differential filtered transmission signal; a mixer for receiving and upconverting the differential filtered transmission signal with an adjusted oscillator frequency for the first standard, the mixer providing a differential upconverted transmission signal; a digital variable gain amplifier (DVGA) for receiving the differential upconverted transmission signal and applying a gain factor to provide a first differential output signal for the first standard wherein the filter, mixer, and digital variable gain amplifier provide a first path for providing the first differential output signal; a digital driver circuit for providing a second differential output signal corresponding to a second of the at least two communication standards in response to a digital transmission signal in accordance with the second standard wherein the digital driver circuit provides a second path for providing the second differential output signal; a transformer; and a switch circuit for receiving the first and second differential output signals and selectively supplying one of the first differential output signal and the second differential output signal to the transformer, the transformer having a primary coil and a secondary coil for converting one of the first differential output signal and the second differential output signal to a single-ended output signal. | 41,137 |
8,409,087 | 1. A surgical instrument, comprising: a first elongate trough movable between an expanded state and a collapsed state including a first fastener extendably disposed thereon; and a second elongate trough movable between an expanded state and a collapsed state wherein said second trough is nestable with said first trough, said second elongate trough including a second fastener extendably disposed thereon; wherein said first and second elongate troughs extend along respective first and second elongate axes and said first and second fasteners are extendable generally parallel to respective said first and second elongate axes; wherein said first and second fasteners are each releasably disposed on their respective said trough; wherein each of said first and second fasteners are each rotatably disposed on their respective said trough; wherein each of said first and second fasteners includes an elongate shank portion and each of said first and second troughs includes an elongate slideway adapted to receive a respective said fastener; wherein each of said slideways includes a slit extending along its length, and wherein each said shank portion has a cross-sectional profile configured such that said shank may be rotatably aligned with a respective said slit whereby said fastener may be released from its respective said trough. | 12,818 |
8,744,978 | 1. A method implemented on a machine having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform, comprising: performing by the at least one processor the steps of: receiving a search query from a user; identifying a plurality of network contents in response to the search query; determining a plurality of ranking criteria for the search query, wherein the plurality of ranking criteria includes at least one criterion different from a criterion of relevance; presenting the plurality of ranking criteria to the user so that the user can selectively assign one or more weights to individual ones of the plurality of ranking criteria; receiving from the user the one or more weights assigned by the user to the individual ones of the plurality of ranking criteria; ranking the network contents identified in response to the search query based on the plurality of ranking criteria and the one or more weights assigned by the user; and presenting the network contents to the user in an order according to their ranking. | 39,083 |
9,667,159 | 1. A power conversion apparatus comprising: a transformer that includes a primary winding and a secondary winding, which is magnetically coupled with the primary winding; an inverter circuit that converts a direct current voltage supplied from a direct current power supply into an alternating current voltage and that supplies the alternating current voltage to the primary winding; a connector that includes a first end and a second end electrically connectable to at least either a commercial power system or a load; a first switching device inserted between the first end of the connector and a first end of the secondary winding; a second switching device inserted between the second end of the connector and the first end of the secondary winding; a third switching device inserted between the first end of the connector and a second end of the secondary winding; a fourth switching device inserted between the second end of the connector and the second end of the secondary winding; and a control unit that controls an amplitude of at least either an output voltage or an output current of the connector, wherein the control unit turns on at least either the first switching device or the fourth switching device at a first on time in a first period, in which a voltage of the secondary winding is positive, wherein the control unit turns on at least either the second switching device or the third switching device at a second on time in a second period, in which the voltage of the secondary winding is negative, after the first period, and wherein the control unit controls the amplitude of at least either the output voltage or the output current by shifting at least either the first on time or the second on time. | 15,705 |
9,601,764 | 1. A positive electrode comprising: a first particle comprising an active material and a second particle comprising the active material; and a first multilayer graphene bonded to the first particle and the second particle, wherein the first multilayer graphene has oxygen at a concentration of 3 atomic % to 10 atomic %, wherein in the first multilayer graphene, a plurality of graphenes are stacked in a layered manner, and wherein the active material comprises a solid solution material of a first component represented by Li | 35,575 |
8,665,792 | 1. A target wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for receiving a first media flow of a communication session associated with a source WTRU, the target WTRU comprising: a receiver configured to receive an Inter-User Equipment (UE) Transfer (IUT) request, the IUT request being received via a local mobility anchor (LMA) and the IUT request indicating a request for receiving the first media flow of the communication session associated with the source WTRU, wherein the source WTRU is associated with a source home address (HoA) and the target WTRU is associated with a target care of address (CoA); and a transmitter configured to transmit an IUT acknowledgement in response to the IUT request; the receiver further configured to receive the first media flow of the communication session based on a binding maintained by the LMA between the first media flow, the source HoA, and the target CoA, wherein the first media flow of the communication session is addressed to the source HoA, and wherein a second media flow of the communication addressed to the source HoA is not transferred to the target WTRU and remains with the source WTRU. | 19,087 |
9,411,165 | 1. A display device comprising: a display portion in which pixels are provided at a resolution of greater than or equal to 80 ppi, the pixels each comprising a light-emitting module capable of emitting light with a spectral line half-width of less than or equal to 60 nm in a response time of shorter than or equal to 100 μs, wherein the display device has an NTSC ratio of higher than or equal to 80% and a contrast ratio of higher than or equal to 500, and wherein a transient characteristic of emission intensity of the light-emitting module has a projecting portion in a portion rising in response to an input signal, the projecting portion having a higher emission intensity than other portions of the transient characteristic. | 47,818 |
8,662,448 | 1. An insulation system for a transport vehicle, the system comprising: first and second frame members in adjacent attachment to a wall of a transport vehicle; a first rigid foam insulation member having a first sidewall and a second sidewall, the first insulation member extending between the first and second frame members and extending around a first free end of the first frame member; a second rigid foam insulation member adjacent the first sidewall of the first insulation member, the second insulation member extending around a first free end of the second frame member, and the first sidewall of the first insulation member being configured to integrate with a second sidewall of the second insulation member; and, a third rigid foam insulation member adjacent the second sidewall of the first insulation member, the second sidewall of the first insulation member being configured to integrate with a first sidewall of the third insulation member; wherein each of the first, second, and third insulation members is surrounded by a protective layer, and installed in the transport vehicle, the first, second, and third insulation members are in contact with respect to each other, such that the first insulation member is secured in place without use of any fastener device between adjacent second insulation member and adjacent third insulation member, by one or more compression forces on the first insulation member from the second and third insulation members. | 49,635 |
9,163,621 | 1. A compressor control apparatus, comprising: a single inverter including first, second and third pairs of switching elements, wherein the first pair of switching elements is commonly connected to a first compressor and a second compressor, and wherein the three pairs of switching elements are switched in response to a plurality of drive signals respectively corresponding to the three pairs of switching elements; and a controller configured to generate an inverter control signal including the plurality of drive signals based on a load state of the first and second compressors, and to output the inverter control signal to the single inverter, wherein an operating frequency of a first drive signal of the plurality of drive signals corresponding to the first pair of switching elements is lower than carrier frequencies of drive signals corresponding to the second and third pairs of switching elements, wherein carrier frequencies corresponds to carrier frequencies of the first and second compressors, and wherein the controller generates the plurality of drive signals such that the controller is able to selectively control operation of at least one of the first compressor or the second compressor. | 231 |
9,321,342 | 1. A modular electrically variable transmission, comprising: one sun-shared module and one of another of the sun-shared module and a sun and ring-shared module assembled to form a two-module electrically variable transmission such that one of the two modules forms a shiftable motor speed reducer (MSR) subassembly and the other of the two modules forms an electrically variable transmission (EVT) subassembly; the sun-shared module including a first motor-generator, a first input member, a first primary planetary gear set and a first secondary planetary gear set each having respective primary and secondary ring gear members, carrier members and associated pinion gear members, the pinion gear members in meshing engagement with a single first shared sun gear member that is non-rotatably coupled to the first motor-generator, the first input member non-rotatably coupled to the primary carrier member; and the other of the two modules including a second motor-generator, a second input member, a single second shared sun gear member and a single shared ring gear member or a second primary ring gear member and a second secondary ring gear member, a second primary planetary gear set having a second primary carrier member rotatably supporting pinion gear members in meshing engagement with the second shared sun gear member and the shared ring gear member or the second primary ring gear member, and a second secondary planetary gear set having a second secondary carrier member supporting pinion gear members in meshing engagement with the shared ring gear member or the second secondary ring gear member and the second shared sun gear member that is non-rotatably coupled to the second motor-generator, the second input member non-rotatably coupled to the second primary carrier member. | 39,098 |
8,870,541 | 1. A centrifugal multiblade fan for drawing air from one end side of the fan in an axial direction of the fan and for blowing out the air radially outward of the fan, the fan comprising: a rotatable shaft; a plurality of blades arranged around the rotatable shaft, wherein: a side shroud coupling together respective end portions of the plurality of blades on the one end side; and a main shroud joined to the rotatable shaft and coupling together respective end portions of the plurality of blades on the other end side of the fan in the axial direction, wherein: when viewed from the axial direction, the corner part on the positive pressure surface-side is located on a tangential line of the positive pressure surface reference curve at the positive pressure surface side reference corner part, and when viewed from the axial direction, a curvature radius of the negative pressure surface becomes larger in the axial direction from the side shroud toward the main shroud when a comparison is made between the curvature radius of the negative pressure surface at a side shroud side portion and the curvature radius of the negative pressure surface at a main shroud side portion, the side shroud side portion and the main shroud side portion are located at the same position in a radial direction of the fan. | 42,407 |
8,671,396 | 1. A computer-implemented model checker framework, comprising: an exposure component that exposes underlying software components and associated well-defined interfaces of a target software system; an exploration component that dynamically performs state-space exploration of the target software system and dynamically discovers all interactions between underlying software components, wherein the exploration component discovers local state space and global state space concurrently, the exploration component includes a local explorer component and a global explorer component, the local explorer component reports newly discovered branching traces to the global explorer component, and the global explorer component discovers and projects new global traces to the local explorer component, wherein the exploration component performs interface equivalency in the local explorer component to check equivalency between branching traces to determine newness of a branching trace and performs interface equivalency in the global explorer component to check if prefixes of two traces are interface equivalent; and a processor that executes computer-executable instructions associated with at least one of the exposure component or the exploration component. | 44,818 |
9,542,199 | 1. A method for setting a mode of a storage device including a plurality of memory chips, the method comprising: determining whether a number of bad blocks of a first memory chip among the plurality of memory chips is higher than a threshold value; setting the first memory chip to a read only mode if the number of the bad blocks is higher than the threshold value; and storing metadata of the first memory chip set to the read only mode to a second memory chip among the plurality of memory chips if the number of the bad blocks is higher than the threshold value. | 5,641 |
8,533,897 | 1. A wiper blade comprising: a frame including an adaptor coupler at a midway portion; a spoiler receiving the frame and provided next to either side of the adaptor coupler, wherein the spoiler forms an upper surface of the wiper blade and has a top surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface, along its longitudinal direction; a wiper lip extending downwardly from the frame to contact a windshield; and an adaptor mounted to the adaptor coupler and connecting the frame to a wiper arm, wherein a width of the top surface of the spoiler connecting the first side surface and the second side surface of the spoiler is maximal near the adaptor coupler and becomes narrower toward a longitudinal end of the spoiler, wherein the spoiler includes a plurality of reinforcing members provided in the spoiler in a longitudinal direction, wherein the frame includes a slit formed in a longitudinal direction at a midway portion, wherein the wiper lip includes a head inserted into the spoiler through the slit and having a width wider than the slit, wherein the reinforcing members include a head seat having a configuration corresponding to the head of the wiper lip such that the head is seated in the head seat, wherein the head of the wiper lip includes a protrusion protruding upwardly and the head seat of the reinforcing members include a groove configured to contact the head and the protrusion, and wherein the protrusion of the head is formed obliquely with respect to the frame. | 32,758 |
8,990,598 | 1. A method affecting a power state transition at a computer having a plurality of component devices, the method comprising: at a power manager of the computer: | 2,102 |
9,435,708 | 1. A computerized method of real-time hysteresis compensation in a signal indicative of a sensed torque parameter experienced by a ferromagnetic member upon application of a torque, the method comprising: (a) using a sense element disposed in sensing relation to a remanently circumferentially magnetized region of a torque-transmitting member to sense a magnetic parameter of the remanently circumferentially magnetized region, wherein the sense element generates a signal indicative of a sensed torque parameter from the torque-transmitting member upon application of a torque to the torque-transmitting member, wherein the signal indicative of the sensed torque parameter exhibits magnetic hysteresis; and (b) using a computer comprising a processor, memory, and power supply to computationally process the signal to compensate in real-time for the magnetic hysteresis in the signal indicative of the sensed torque parameter, wherein the computer processing of the signal indicative of the sensed torque parameter utilizes information for the torque-transmitting member that is correlated with a torque history or a degree of prior magnetic hysteresis compensation for at least one signal indicative of the sensed torque parameter upon prior application of a torque to the torque-transmitting member, thereby compensating for magnetic hysteresis in the signal in real-time. | 20,199 |
9,276,318 | 1. A coupler in a housing of an electronic apparatus, the coupler being arranged to be adjacent to a device in the housing, the device comprising a metal member, the coupler configured to transmit to or receive from another coupler electromagnetic waves by electromagnetic coupling, the coupler comprising: a coupling element made of a first tabular electrical conducting material, wherein power feeding is performed from a feeding cable to a reference point; a ground plane made of a second tabular electrical conducting material, comprising a first surface and a second surface opposed to the first surface, the first surface facing coupling element; at least one short element configured to short the coupling element and the ground plane; and at least one connecting element made of an electrical conducting material, disposed to the second surface of the ground plane, contacting the metal member, and electrically connecting the second surface of the ground plane to the metal member, wherein the metal member is made of a tabular electrical conducting material, and the ground plane and the metal member extend parallel to each other. | 14,398 |
9,553,313 | 1. A method for preparing a 3V class spinel oxide by feeding distilled water purged with carbonic acid gas, an aqueous solution containing at least one transition metal except Mn as a central metal, an aqueous ammonia solution and a carbonate solution into a reactor to prepare a transition metal complex carbonate by carbonate coprecipitation, primarily calcining the transition metal complex carbonate to prepare a transition metal complex oxide, and adding an excess of a lithium salt with respect to the stoichiometric ratio of the transition metal complex oxide, followed by secondary calcining, to prepare Li 1+x [M y Mn (2−y) ]O 4−z S z (0≦x≦0.1, 0.01≦y≦0.5, 0.01≦z≦0.5, and M is Mn, Ni or Mg). | 36,336 |
8,372,919 | 1. A method for making sulfurized polyacrylonitrile, the method comprising: providing polyacrylonitrile, a first solvent, a catalyst, and sulfur or sodium thiosulfate; dissolving the polyacrylonitrile in the first solvent to form a polyacrylonitrile solution; uniformly dispersing the catalyst into the polyacrylonitrile solution; heating the polyacrylonitrile solution with the catalyst dispersed to induce a cyclizing reaction of the polyacrylonitrile, thereby forming a first conjugated polymer solution having a conjugated polymer dissolved therein; uniformly mixing the sulfur or sodium thiosulfate with the conjugated polymer to form a mixture, and heating the mixture, thereby forming the sulfurized polyacrylonitrile. | 37,973 |
9,784,027 | 1. A vacuum insulating glass (VIG) window unit, comprising: first and second substantially parallel spaced apart substrates, at least one of the first and second substrates of the VIG window unit being a heat treated glass substrate; an evacuated gap provided between the glass substrates at a pressure less than atmospheric pressure; a plurality of spacers provided between the first and second substrates; and an edge seal comprising an alloy material including Sn and at least one other material selected from the group consisting of post-transition metals or metalloids from groups 13-15; and Zintl anions from group 13, 14, 15 or 16 and, on each side thereof and in order moving away from the alloy material and towards the first and second substrates, respectively, at least one inter-metallic (IMC) layer, a layer comprising silver, and a layer comprising NiCr that contacts the layer comprising silver. | 420 |
8,999,170 | 1. A process for treating sewage wastewater, using non-biological treatment of an overflow side stream only during peak flow periods, comprising the steps of: receiving sewage wastewater, sending a defined first portion of said received sewage wastewater to biological treatment and to a submerged membrane filter for membrane bioreactor (MBR) filtration, and when in a peak flow period the quantity of said received sewage wastewater exceeds said defined first portion, forming a second portion of sewage wastewater from the received sewage wastewater that exceeds said defined first portion, and sending said second portion to a non-MBR ultra filtration process, adding a flocculating agent to the second portion entering the non-MBR ultra filtration process, filtering said second portion, thereby producing retentive waste including flocculated material and producing a permeate, sending said retentive waste to said biological treatment and submerged membrane filter for MBR filtration, treating said permeate to remove biochemical oxygen demand, treating said permeate to remove ammonia, and combining the resulting filtered, treated side stream with output from the MBR filtration to produce a combined stream to meet a required standard for treated wastewater without further treatment. | 24,832 |
9,661,414 | 1. A directional acoustic apparatus for accommodating an acoustic signal to or from one or more selected target locations in an acoustic environment of the apparatus, comprising: a substrate having a structural configuration including: | 37,442 |
9,760,816 | 1. A transaction card comprising: a card body comprising a metallic material, the card body including a primary surface, a secondary surface, an aperture and a slit, wherein the primary surface and the secondary surface are coated with a diamond like carbon (DLC) coating, wherein the card body comprises a shallow pocket on the secondary surface, the shallow pocket encompassing the aperture, wherein the slit extends from the aperture to an exterior edge of the card body, and a fill panel disposed in the shallow pocket, wherein the fill panel comprises at least one of zirconium oxide, zirconium dioxide, boron carbide, or silicon carbide. | 11,399 |
8,759,600 | 1. A process for converting a fluid hydrocarbon feed at least partially in the gas phase, the process comprising: (a) passing a major portion of the hydrocarbon feed substantially radially through solid particles of hydrocarbon conversion catalyst retained in an annular catalyst bed between concentric, cylindrical upstream and downstream screens; (b) passing a minor sealing portion of the hydrocarbon feed axially downward from the top of a sealing portion of the catalyst and through the annular catalyst bed; (c) withdrawing a hydrocarbon product resulting from contact between the major portion and sealing portion of the hydrocarbon feed with the hydrocarbon conversion catalyst; (d) adding regenerated hydrocarbon conversion catalyst to the sealing portion of the catalyst; and (e) withdrawing spent hydrocarbon conversion catalyst from the bottom of the annular catalyst bed; wherein the upstream screen has openings above highest downstream openings of the downstream screen, wherein a base of a sealing portion of the solid particles is defined by a downwardly sloping line segment from highest upstream openings to the highest downstream openings, wherein a ratio of a) a vertical distance from highest upstream screen openings to a top of the sealing portion to b) a horizontal spacing distance between the upstream screen and the downstream screen is less than about 0.8, and wherein a pressure drop of the fluid across each of the upstream and downstream screens is less than about 10% of a pressure drop across the bed of the solid particles. | 13,896 |
9,054,245 | 1. A method of doping an absorbent layer in a thin film photovoltaic device, the method comprising: depositing a window layer on a transparent substrate, wherein the window layer comprises a dopant; forming a p-n heterojunction on the window layer, wherein the p-n heterojunction comprises an absorber layer, and wherein the absorber layer comprises a photovoltaic material; wherein the p-n heterojunction further comprises an n-type window layer positioned between the window layer and the absorber layer; and, diffusing the dopant from the window layer into the absorber layer. | 37,412 |
8,851,704 | 1. A shell for a lighting device, the shell comprising: a first lamp body, having a first long line and a first short line wherein the first long line lies along a first direction; a second lamp body, having a second long line wherein the second long line has a length not more than that of the first long line, the second long line lies along the first direction, and two ends of the second lamp body have a first end surface and a second end surface, separately; a first connecting part, set in the first end surface and extruding through the first end surface along the first direction; and a second connecting part, set in the second end surface and extruding through the second end surface along a direction opposite to the first direction; wherein the first lamp body and the second lamp body are connected together, the second lamp body are drawn back inside the first lamp body, the two ends of the first lamp body are disposed extending over edges of the first end surface and the second end surface separately, and the sum of lengths of the first connecting part, the second connecting part and the second long line is not larger than that of the first long line. | 37,532 |
9,851,444 | 1. A laser radar device comprising: a laser light transmitter and receiver that emits laser light into atmospheric air, receives laser light which is reflected by an object to be measured existing in the atmospheric air and returns to the laser light transmitter and receiver, and outputs a received signal of said laser light; a coherent integrator that performs a coherent integration on the received signal outputted from said laser light transmitter and receiver; a spectrum calculator that performs a Fourier transform on the received signal on which the coherent integration is performed by said coherent integrator and performs an incoherent integration on the received signal after the Fourier transform to calculate a spectrum of said received signal; a signal to noise ratio calculator that calculates a signal to noise ratio from both the spectrum of the received signal which is calculated by said spectrum calculator, and a spectrum of a noise signal acquired without the received signal and stored in a non-transitory memory of the laser radar device; a peak value detector that detects a peak value of the signal to noise ratio calculated by said signal to noise ratio calculator; and a speed calculator that includes a plurality of speed selection methods of calculating a speed of said object to be measured, and the speed calculator selects one of the plurality of speed calculation methods based on both the peak value of the signal to noise ratio which is detected by said peak value detector and information showing to which one of a calculation rate of the speed and calculation accuracy of the speed a higher priority is given from an external input to the laser radar device, and the speed calculator calculates the speed of said object to be measured according to said speed calculation method. | 36,181 |
9,601,962 | 1. A rotor housing for a generator with an external rotor, the rotor housing comprising: a support structure, wherein the support structure is cylindrical shaped, a cone, and a ring, wherein the ring and the cone are attached together at an inner side of the cone in a horizontal plane, forming a front part of the rotor housing, the support structure is attached to the cone at a front end of the support structure, forming a side part of the rotor housing, and the support structure is formed out of segmented support structure parts. | 40,492 |
8,577,182 | 1. A client based method for image cropping, comprising: capturing an image; uploading the captured image to an image cropping system, wherein the cropping system performs an analysis of the captured image comprising: receiving cropping coordinates from the image cropping system; and cropping the captured image based on the received cropping coordinates. | 9,961 |
9,534,505 | 1. A fan nacelle comprising: a metallic fan containment case includes first and second flanges; a nacelle inlet secured to the metallic fan containment case by permanent fastening elements, wherein the nacelle inlet has an arcuate hollow cross-section, an apex of the arcuate cross-section provides a forward-most portion of the fan nacelle, the nacelle inlet is configured to provide a smooth entry for fluid into the fan nacelle, and wherein the nacelle inlet includes a first wall substantially perpendicular to a second wall, the first and second walls respectively secured to the first and second flanges by the permanent fastening elements; and a rub strip supported by the fan containment case and configured to provide a seal relative to a fan. | 45,422 |
9,436,179 | 1. A computer-implemented method for minimizing energy cost in a building system, the method comprising: receiving, at a processing circuit, a dynamic model describing heat transfer characteristics of the building system, a feedback signal including information representative of a measured temperature and information representative of a measured power usage of the building system, and temperature constraints defining an acceptable range for the measured temperature; using, by the processing circuit, time-varying pricing information for a plurality of pricing structures to define an energy cost function, wherein the energy cost function expresses a total cost of energy as a function of power used by the building system and includes a demand charge term defining a cost per unit of power corresponding to a maximum power usage within a pricing period, wherein the plurality of pricing structures include at least two of off-peak, partial-peak, peak, critical-peak, and real-time brokered; using, by the processing circuit, the dynamic model and the feedback signal to formulate equality constraints; linearizing, by the processing circuit, the demand charge term by imposing demand charge constraints, wherein the demand charge constraints are based on previous demand charges; masking, by the processing circuit, any demand charge constraint which applies to an inactive pricing period, wherein a demand charge constraint applies to a time-step and a pricing period and wherein the demand charge constraint applies to an inactive pricing period if the time-step to which the demand charge constraint applies does not occur during the pricing period to which the demand charge constraint applies; using, by the processing circuit, an optimization procedure to minimize the total cost of energy while satisfying the equality constraints, the temperature constraints, and the demand charge constraints. | 19,754 |
9,247,645 | 1. An article comprising: an electrical article having an uncured polymeric dielectric composition, wherein the polymeric dielectric composition comprises about 10 to about 60 wt % epoxy resin, 20 to 90 wt % dielectric filler, and about 0.1 to about 10 wt % diaminodiphenylsulfone curing agent, and further wherein the article has, upon curing, a relative capacitance at 1 kHz that increases exponentially over the entire range from 120 to 160° C. | 10,971 |
9,239,088 | 1. A brake lining for a disc brake, comprising: a carrier plate ( an insulating layer ( an adapter ( said adapter ( said adapter ( wherein second nonadhesive holding means ( wherein the insulating layer ( | 39,426 |
8,760,086 | 1. An accelerator for accelerating two beams of charged particles and for producing a collision between the two beams, the accelerator comprising: a potential field device for generating an electrostatic potential field, which is configured such that the two beams of the charged particles are acceleratable or deceleratable by the electrostatic field, a reaction zone in which the collision of the two beams occurs, a first acceleration path for the first beam in the potential field, the first acceleration path being directed toward the reaction zone, a first catcher for the decelerated particles of the first beam, the first catcher located at the end of the first beam path and being negatively charged, a second acceleration path for the second beam in the potential field, the second acceleration path being directed toward the reaction zone, and a second catcher for the decelerated particles of the second beam, the second catcher being located at the end of the second beam path and being negatively charged, wherein the reaction zone is geometrically arranged in relation to the potential field and the first and second acceleration paths such that the particles of the two beams are acceleratable toward the reaction zone along the first acceleration path and the second acceleration path, and after interacting in the reaction zone and passing through the reaction zone are deceleratable again in the potential field, such that the energy applied by the potential field device to accelerate the two beams toward the reaction zone is at least partially reclaimable by the deceleration. | 2,289 |
9,810,122 | 1. An engine operating method, comprising: operating a Miller cycle engine with fuel injected in an exhaust system of the Miller cycle engine at a location upstream of a turbine coupled to a crankshaft of the Miller cycle engine; and passing exhaust gases from the Miller cycle engine through the turbine, where the turbine is coupled to the crankshaft via a transmission and where the turbine is coupled to the crankshaft via a turbine clutch; the method further comprising closing the turbine clutch in response to a temperature of an exhaust component exceeding a threshold. | 34,807 |
8,926,341 | 1. An electrical connector comprising: an insulating housing having a mating section on a front side thereof and a mounting section on a rear side thereof, wherein a front surface of the mating section is perpendicular to a bottom surface of the mounting section, and a receiving cavity backward extending from the front surface of the mating section is formed in the mating section, and at least one horizontal isolated plate is disposed in the receiving cavity, and the horizontal isolated plate separates the receiving cavity into a plurality of receiving semi-cavities which are arranged along an up and down direction; a plurality of terminal retaining channels are formed in the mounting section, the terminal retaining channels pass through a rear surface and the bottom surface of the mounting section and forward extend to the receiving cavity of the mating section; a plurality of conductive terminals, wherein each of the conductive terminals has a horizontal retaining section, a flexible contact section forward extends from the horizontal retaining section, a vertical retaining section bent and downward extends from the horizontal retaining section, and a tail downward extends from the vertical retaining section, and the horizontal retaining section and the vertical retaining section of the conductive terminals are received and retained in the terminal retaining channels of the mounting section of the insulating housing, and the tails thereof extend outside the bottom surface of the mounting section from the corresponding terminal retaining channels, and the flexible contact sections thereof extend into the corresponding receiving semi-cavities from the corresponding terminal retaining channels. | 3,309 |
9,070,808 | 1. A method of manufacturing an integrated supplemental solar energy collection system, the method comprising: assembling one panel of a housing; forming fluid channels in the panel with a viscoelastic foam tape; and assembling a photovoltaic panel onto the panel to convert incident radiation into electricity so heat is removed from the photovoltaic panel by fluid flowing in the fluid channels. | 44,723 |
8,356,481 | 1. A dual hybrid fluid heating apparatus; comprising: at least one controller equipped with (a) heat availability logic that determines whether heat from at least one free energy source is or is not available for heat exchange with a heat exchange circulating fluid, (b) demand logic that determines whether a demand for heating potable water is satisfied or unsatisfied and, if unsatisfied, for issuing command signals to circulate the heat exchange circulating fluid between the at least one free energy source and a tank heat exchanger provided the heat availability means determines that the heat is available from the at least one free energy source, and, if satisfied, issuing command signals to circulate the heat exchange circulating fluid between the at least one free energy source and a further heat exchanger to heat a vaporizable fluid so as to bypass the tank heat exchanger provided the heat availability logic determines that the heat is available from the at least one free energy source, (c) heat dump logic that determines whether a parameter of the heat exchange circulating fluid reaches a threshold and, if so, issuing appropriate command signals for dumping heat from the heat exchange fluid at a heat dump, and if not, issuing appropriate command signals for the heat exchange circulating fluid to bypass the heat dump and continue circulating between the at least one free energy source and, as applicable, the tank heat exchanger or further heat exchanger in accord with the determination by the demand logic; (d) vaporization viability logic that determines whether vaporization of the vaporizable fluid is viable and, if so, issuing appropriate command signals for vaporizing the vaporizable fluid into a vapor by concentrated solar radiation from the at least one parabolic dish solar concentrator up to an extent of viability; and (e) heat extraction logic that determines whether heat extraction from the vapor is viable and, if so, issuing appropriate command signals to extract the heat from the vapor to transform the vapor into a condensate. | 32,230 |
9,119,275 | 1. A ballast for driving a gas discharge lamp, the ballast comprising: an inverter configured to generate a lamp supply voltage signal; a voltage regulator coupled to the inverter and configured to generate a regulation signal, the regulation signal being used by the inverter to adjust the lamp voltage signal; a thermistor circuit coupled between the lamp supply voltage signal and the voltage regulator and configured to detect a temperature by the thermistor circuit and vary the regulation signal, the lamp supply voltage signal being varied by the regulation signal in accordance with the detected temperature by the thermistor circuit; and an AC to DC rectification circuit coupled to the voltage regulator, wherein the thermistor circuit is coupled between the lamp supply voltage and the AC to DC rectification circuit. | 46,089 |
9,707,945 | 1. A brake system comprising: a master cylinder configured to generate a brake hydraulic pressure in response to an operation on a brake operator; a first solenoid valve provided between the master cylinder and a wheel brake; a stroke simulator provided between the master cylinder and the first solenoid valve and connected to the master cylinder through a second solenoid valve; a slave cylinder apparatus including a control apparatus configured to control the first solenoid valve, the second solenoid valve and the electric actuator, wherein the control apparatus is configured to close the first solenoid valve and open the second solenoid valve when the brake hydraulic pressure is increased by the electric actuator, and the control apparatus is configured to control the electric actuator so that the larger a carried load on a vehicle is, the larger the brake hydraulic pressure is, and further comprising: the control apparatus includes the control apparatus is configured to | 44,322 |
8,852,582 | 1. A method for treating or ameliorating viral infections comprising: administering a composition which comprises Glutathione Reductase GSSG-r and Oxidized Glutathione GSSG or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof to a subject in need thereof, wherein said viral infections are caused by a virus selected from the group consisting of: flu virus, Poliovirus 3, Herpes Simplex Virus 2, Polyomavirus SV40, and Murine Leukaemia Virus MuLV. | 351 |
8,685,501 | 1. A method of forming a part, comprising: (a) providing a base material, a heat source, and a metallic feedstock in a gaseous atmosphere; (b) delivering a gaseous alloying element proximate to the metallic feedstock; (c) converging the heat source on the metallic feedstock and the gaseous alloying element; (d) melting the metallic feedstock with the heat source to form a molten pool on the base material, such that the metallic feedstock alloys only with the gaseous alloying element to form a composition on the base material; (e) cooling and solidifying the composition to form a first layer directly on the base material, the first layer having different mechanical and physical properties than the base material, and the base material is not alloyed with the gaseous alloying element; (f) repeating steps (b)-(e) to form additional layers on the first layer and defining a shape for the part; and (g) while performing steps (b)-(f), selectively varying a content of the gaseous alloying element being delivered proximate to the metallic feedstock to form at least one first domain and at least one second domain, the first domain having a higher alloy content than the second domain. | 3,045 |
9,242,920 | 1. An integrated process for the production of acetic acid which process comprises: (i) feeding synthesis gas and dimethyl ether into a carbonylation reaction zone and reacting therein the synthesis gas and dimethyl ether in the presence of a carbonylation catalyst to form a gaseous carbonylation reaction product comprising methyl acetate and synthesis gas enriched in hydrogen; (ii) withdrawing carbonylation reaction product from the carbonylation reaction zone and recovering therefrom a methyl acetate-rich liquid stream and a synthesis gas stream; (iii) passing at least a portion of the synthesis gas recovered from the carbonylation reaction product to a methanol synthesis zone and contacting it therein with a methanol synthesis catalyst to form a methanol synthesis product comprising methanol and unconverted synthesis gas; (iv) withdrawing methanol synthesis product from the methanol synthesis zone and recovering therefrom a methanol-rich liquid stream and a synthesis gas stream; (v) supplying at least a portion of the methyl acetate-rich liquid stream and at least a portion of a methanol-rich liquid stream to a dehydration-hydrolysis reaction zone and contacting therein methanol and methyl acetate with at least one catalyst active for the dehydration of methanol and for the hydrolysis of methyl acetate to form a dehydration-hydrolysis reaction product comprising acetic acid and dimethyl ether; (vi) recovering from the dehydration-hydrolysis reaction product an acetic acid-rich product stream and a dimethyl ether-rich product stream. | 15,475 |
9,112,166 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an organic substrate layer; and an inorganic nanowire mesh embedded in the organic substrate layer, the organic substrate layer being configured with the embedded nanowire mesh to provide a composite morphology for nanowires therein being sufficiently flattened to form a conductive film in which some of the nanowires are exposed and at which RMS surface roughness is between 5 nm and 30nm, wherein the organic substrate layer and the inorganic nanowire mesh form an organic-inorganic compound conductive film having a surface roughness value that is at least 25% lower than a surface roughness of the inorganic nanowire mesh, prior to embedding in the organic substrate layer. | 19,595 |
9,399,185 | 1. A method of controlling filter operation, comprising: providing a filter element configured to remove contaminant matter from a flow contained in a filter housing forming a radio frequency resonant cavity, and a filter load monitoring system, comprising at least one probe configured to transmit radio frequency signals through the resonant cavity and filter medium, at least one probe configured to receive radio frequency signals transmitted through the resonant cavity and filter medium, at least one sensor configured to monitor flow characteristics, and a control unit; transmitting radio frequency signals through said resonant cavity and filter medium across a frequency range sufficient to generate at least one resonant mode, where said at least one resonant mode corresponds to a spatial distribution of material in said filter; receiving radio frequency signals transmitted through said resonant cavity and filter medium across a frequency range sufficient to generate at least one resonant mode; monitoring at least one additional flow characteristic; determining, based on the radio frequency resonant curves, the amount of material in said filter; and initiating an action based on the amount of material in said filter, or input from one or more exhaust sensors. | 19,699 |
8,475,711 | 1. A process for producing a near-equiatomic nickel-titanium alloy, the process comprising: vacuum arc remelting an electrode produced from materials comprising a titanium input material and a nickel input material to produce a pre-alloyed near-equiatomic nickel-titanium alloy ingot; melting the pre-alloyed near-equiatomic nickel-titanium alloy ingot; atomizing the molten near-equiatomic nickel-titanium alloy to form molten nickel-titanium alloy particles; cooling the molten nickel-titanium alloy particles to form a near-equiatomic nickel-titanium alloy powder; hot isostatic pressing at least a portion of the nickel-titanium alloy powder to form a fully-densified nickel-titanium alloy preform; hot working the nickel-titanium alloy preform; and cold working the nickel-titanium alloy after the hot working to form a nickel-titanium alloy article; wherein any second phases present in the nickel-titanium alloy article have a mean size of less than 10 micrometers measured according to ASTM E1245-03 (2008) or an equivalent method. | 43,672 |
9,172,081 | 1. A method of preparing a negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery, comprising: preparing a tube-shaped template with a hollow part; forming a first layer comprising a material being capable of doping and dedoping lithium inside the tube-shaped template; forming an inner precursor layer comprising a material being capable of doping and dedoping lithium which includes an organic functional group inside the first layer; forming a carbon layer and a second layer inside the first layer by annealing the tube-shaped template; and removing the tube-shaped template from the first layer, wherein each of the second layer, the carbon layer and the first layer has a tube shape, the carbon layer surrounds the second layer and the first layer surrounds the carbon layer. | 29,936 |
9,491,839 | 1. A driving device that drives a discharge lamp including a first electrode and a second electrode, the driving device comprising: a current supplying unit configured to supply an alternating current having a frequency higher than 1 kHz to between the first electrode and the second electrode in a high-frequency period in a lighting period of the discharge lamp that is after a warm-up period and during a rated state of operation, wherein the current supplying unit repeats the high-frequency period including a period in which a first high-frequency alternating current having a first frequency between 4 kHz-5 kHz is supplied and a period in which a second high-frequency alternating current having a second frequency between 3 kHz-4 kHz is supplied. | 23,667 |
9,392,092 | 1. A method comprising: detecting recharge of battery power of a device; determining that the device is in a lost state based on an authentication performed in response to the detecting the recharge of the battery power of the device; determining an available battery power of the device in response to the determining that the device is in the lost state; determining an amount of battery power required to perform each action in a list of possible actions in response to the determining that the device is in the lost state; determining an amount of time required to perform each action in the list of possible actions; selecting one or more actions in the list of possible actions based on an amount of time required to perform the one or more actions, wherein the available battery power of the device is greater than an amount of battery power required to perform the selected one or more actions; and performing the selected one or more actions by the device. | 25,740 |
8,437,031 | 1. An image processing device comprising: an image processor operably configured to function as: | 26,825 |
8,368,860 | 1. A liquid crystal display panel-comprising: a common electrode disposed on an upper substrate; first electrodes disposed on a lower substrate opposing the upper substrate, and configured to receive a common voltage; an insulating layer disposed on the first electrode, and having contact holes exposing the first electrodes; second electrodes disposed on the insulating layer, and contacting the first electrodes through the contact holes; and a conductive contact member electrically connecting the common electrode with at least one of the second electrodes, wherein the conductive contact member overlaps a whole area of at least one of the contact holes. | 31,862 |
9,323,296 | 1. A method of thermal mitigation, comprising: receiving a mitigation request for a wireless modem; determining whether one or more active connections are currently maintained by the wireless modem; and invoking different levels of thermal mitigation for two active connections in response to the mitigation request if it is determined that a plurality of active connections is currently maintained by the wireless modem. | 15,261 |
8,551,183 | 1. A method comprising: breaking at least one fibrotic band juxtaposed with a space in a muscle wall by divulsion induced by dilating the muscle wall; while the wall is in a dilated configuration, advancing an implant into the space, wherein the implant exerts a radial force against the portion of the muscle wall surrounding the space when the wall is dilated and when the wall is not dilated; and disposing a first portion of a body tissue inside the implant such that a second portion of the body tissue extends into the implant, a third portion of the body tissue extends out of the implant, and the first, second, and third portions of body tissue are connected together. | 46,822 |
9,419,013 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: gate electrodes perpendicularly stacked on a substrate; channel holes extending perpendicularly to the substrate, the channel holes penetrating through the gate electrodes, the channel holes having a channel region; gate pads extended from the gate electrodes by different lengths; and contact plugs connected to the gate pads, at least a portion of the gate pads having a region having a thickness less than a thickness of the gate electrode connected to the at least a portion of the gate pads. | 12,217 |
9,056,403 | 1. A method of treating a mixture of fragmented materials, wherein the mixture of fragmented materials comprises upgradable used polymer materials in small quantities recyclable in the fields of plastics technology and contaminating materials issuing from the grinding of durable consumer goods at the end of their life, (ii) wherein said method comprises a) to f), in the following order: a) separation in a water medium the density of which is adjusted to a value d s chosen in a density range, lower bound excluded, lying in 1.100- 1.900, d s constituting the upper density limit d max chosen for a group of upgradable used polymers to be preselected, whereas the lower density limit d min of said group lies from 0.850 to d s , a water medium in which the mixture of used polymer materials to be upgraded, forming a group of upgradable polymers with densities greater than d s , preconcentrated and preselected, and contaminating materials in introduced, which is separated into a supernatant fraction (a1) of maximum density d s and a settling fraction (a2), containing used polymer materials to be upgraded and at least partly the fraction of contaminating materials of the mixture of fragmented materials with a density greater than d s , extracted from the method, b) separating the supernatant fraction (a1) coming from step a) in a water medium the density of which is adjusted to a value of 1.100 giving a supernatant fraction (b1) with a density of no more than 1.100, which comprises a fraction of ultra-light and/or expanded used synthetic polymer materials and used synthetic polymer materials to be upgraded in a fragmented form as well as contaminating materials and a settling fraction (b2) with a density lying from 1.100 to d c) grinding the fraction (b1) of polymer materials to be upgraded coming from step b), at the mesh releasing the contaminating materials, included in, adhering to or assembled with the fragments of the fraction of polymer materials to be upgraded, d) mechanical separation by a dimensional screening and/or by shape factor or aeraulic, of the fraction of synthetic polymer materials to be upgraded coming from the grinding step c) in order to eliminate therefrom at least partly the fraction (d2) of contaminating materials released during the grinding and the expanded polymer materials and extract therefrom the fraction (d1) of the upgradable materials constituting the required mixture, preconcentrated and preselected according to a group of upgradable materials, delimited by the densities d e) wetting the fraction coming from step d) by means of water with a view to increasing the density of wood contaminant present, and f) separating the fraction coming from step e) in a water medium the density of which is adjusted to the value 1.100, giving a supernatant fraction (f1) of used synthetic polymer materials to be upgraded, forming a preconcentrated and preselected group of upgradable used synthetic polymer materials delimited by the densities d | 46,189 |
8,396,471 | 1. A method for routing calls in a mobile communication network using contact data for a subscriber of the mobile communication network, the method comprising: storing contact data for subscribers of a mobile network located within an area served by a mobile switching centre (MSC); receiving confirmation at the MSC that a subscriber has left the area; updating the contact data to identify that the subscriber has left the area; retaining at least part of the contact data, the retained part of the contact data containing call forwarding details for the subscriber; on receiving confirmation that the subscriber has left the area, determining if an incoming call is expected for the subscriber, wherein retaining at least part of the contact data is performed in dependence on the incoming call being expected for the subscriber; and using the retained part of the contact data to forward to the subscriber the incoming call that arrives at the MSC but which is received by the MSC after the subscriber has left the area. | 39,935 |
9,126,582 | 1. A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle, comprising: an engine that transmits motive power to a driving wheel of the vehicle; a clutch disposed on a power transmission path between the engine and the driving wheel; an electric motor that transmits motive power to the driving wheel on the driving wheel side with respect to the clutch; an arithmetic unit that calculates a first target power before engagement of the clutch upon changeover from a first traveling mode wherein the vehicle is driven by the electric motor to a second traveling mode wherein the vehicle is driven by the engine, the first target power being for driving the vehicle by the engine after the engagement of the clutch; and an engine controlling unit that controls output motive power of the engine to a second target power before the engagement of the clutch, the second target power being set equal to or higher than the first target power calculated by the arithmetic unit, wherein the second target power includes the first target power and a power loss which corresponds to a power that is lost when a rotational speed of engaging elements of the clutch are to be synchronized with each other. | 44,678 |
9,376,121 | 1. A method for determining an item of control information for displaying a driving condition of a vehicle with aid from a display unit of the vehicle, the method comprising: ascertaining a safe driving condition of the vehicle in which no risk of a collision with an object exists; ascertaining a prevailing driving condition of the vehicle in relation to the safe driving condition; and determining the item of control information for activating the display unit based on the safe driving condition and the prevailing driving condition, wherein the item of control information causes the display unit to display of an item of information about the prevailing driving condition together with a relationship between the item of information about the prevailing driving condition and an item of information about the safe driving condition. | 30,886 |
9,273,464 | 1. A floor section, comprising: a plurality of grid members lying spaced-apart and parallel to a first horizontal axis, each of the plurality of grid members including: a plurality of subfloor rails lying parallel to a second axis, perpendicular to the first axis, the plurality of subfloor rails being located below and rigidly and directly coupled to surfaces of the plurality of grid members, providing support for the plurality of grid members. | 27,709 |
8,916,203 | 1. A method of preparing a reconstituted lyophilized pharmaceutical composition suitable for parenteral administration, comprising: providing a formulation comprising polymeric nanoparticles, wherein the polymeric nanoparticles comprise a therapeutic agent and a polymer selected from the group consisting of poly(lactic) acid-block-poly(ethylene)glycol copolymer and poly(lactic)-co-poly(glycolic) acid-block-poly(ethylene)glycol copolymer; adding hydroxypropyl β-cyclodextrin and a sugar selected from the group consisting of trehalose and sucrose to the formulation such that the formulation has 7 to 12 weight percent of the hydroxypropyl β-cyclodextrin and 4 to 6 weight percent of the sugar; lyophilizing the formulation to form a lyophilized formulation; and reconstituting the lyophilized formulation in an aqueous medium to form the reconstituted lyophilized pharmaceutical composition, wherein the reconstituted lyophilized pharmaceutical composition has a concentration of 10-100 mg/mL of the polymeric nanoparticles. | 8,417 |
8,659,403 | 1. A control stick system for an aircraft comprising: a lever; a motor operably coupled to the lever and configured to operably bias the lever; and a controller operably controlling the motor such that the motor biases the lever in such a manner to simulate a detent mechanism, based on a position measurement and a speed measurement from the motor and a position measurement and a speed measurement from the lever. | 47,011 |
8,527,800 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a request for a power level schedule for a network device, the request comprising a time period for the power level schedule; retrieving cron job strings associated with the network device; parsing the cron job strings to determine transitions from one power level to another and times for the transitions of the power level of the network device; and building a visual grid depicting the power level schedule for the network device during said time period based on the determined transitions, wherein the visual grid comprises hour-by-hour power level status for the network device over said time period. | 18,601 |
8,574,247 | 1. A valvuloplasty method for treating a cardiac valve, comprising: placing a balloon adjacent to the valve, wherein the balloon has a longitudinal axis; inflating the balloon with a liquid; introducing a shock wave generator into the balloon at a first location, wherein the shock wave generator is arranged to produce a shock wave within the balloon to propagate through the liquid for impinging upon the valve, and wherein the shock wave generator is mounted on an elongate element that is slidably enclosed within an elongate tube; initiating a shock wave within the balloon from the first location; changing the position of the shock wave generator within the balloon to a second location that is axially and/or longitudinally displaced from the first location; and initiating a shock wave within the balloon from the second location to vary the shock wave impingement upon the valve. | 30,236 |
9,008,879 | 1. A system comprising: a switch control module configured to control operation of a first contactor and a second contactor in a vehicle system, the first and second contactors configured to selectively connect front-end and direct-current (DC) buses, respectively, to an energy storage system of the vehicle system, the front-end bus configured to receive electrical power from an external power source and provide the electrical power to a converter device, the converter device configured to supply DC power to the DC bus. the DC bus configured to he coupled to a propulsion system of the vehicle system and configured to have a designated traction voltage for powering the propulsion system that is approximately equal to a charging voltage of the energy storage system; wherein the switch control module is configured to close the second contactor when the vehicle system is operably coupled to the external power source, the converter device configured to provide the DC power to the DC bus so that the energy storage system is charged and the propulsion system receives the DC power; wherein the switch control module is configured to close one of the first contactor or the second contactor when the vehicle system is operably decoupled to the external power source. the energy storage system configured to supply the electrical power to the propulsion system when the vehicle system is operably decoupled to the external power source, and wherein the switch control module is configured to control the first and second contactors during a regenerative mode in which the second contactor is closed while the vehicle system is braking. | 36,185 |
9,144,021 | 1. A controller in a mobile communication system, comprising: a management unit configured to manage a resource usage condition determined based on at least one of a number of users connected to the mobile communication system, a usage condition of wired link resources, a congestion condition in wired signal processing, a usage condition of radio resources, and a cell restriction condition; and a determination unit configured to determine to which an idle state or a power saving state different from the idle state a user equipment is to transition when a state transition request signal is received from the user equipment upon completion of communication of a data signal depending on the resource usage condition, wherein the state determined by the determination unit is indicated to the user equipment, wherein if the resource usage condition indicates that resources more than or equal to a first threshold are used in the mobile communication system, the determination unit determines that the user equipment is to transition to an idle state or a state where a discontinuous reception cycle is a predefined first time period, and wherein if the resource usage condition indicates that resources less than the first threshold and more than or equal to a second threshold are used in the mobile communication system, the determination unit determines that the user equipment is to transition to one of a Paging Channel (PCH), a URA Paging Channel (URA PCH) or Cell Paging Channel CELL PCH state and a state where the discontinuous reception cycle is a second time period shorter than the first time period. | 24,818 |
9,482,210 | 1. A solar thermal power generation facility comprising: a compressor which compresses a working medium, thereby producing a compressed medium; a heat receiver which receives sunlight, thereby heating the compressed medium; a turbine in which a turbine rotor is rotated by the compressed medium heated in the heat receiver; a power generator which generales electricity by rotation of the turbine rotor; a start-up device which rotates the turbine rotor at a time of start-up; bypass means for making at least a portion of the compressed medium from the compressor bypass the turbine or the heat receiver; and a control device which controls rotational torque of the turbine rotor by making the compressed medium bypass the turbine or the heat receiver by the bypass means before a rotor rotational speed reaches a rated rotational speed in a speeding-up process of the rotor rotational speed by the start-up device and adjusting a flow rate of the compressed medium which is made to bypass the turbine or the heat receiver, wherein the control device makes the compressed medium not bypass the turbine or the heat receiver by the bypass means before the rotor rotational speed reaches a predetermined rotor rotational speed that is lower than the rated rotational speed in the speeding-up process, and makes the compressed medium bypass the turbine or the heat receiver after the rotor rotational speed reaches the predetermined rotor rotational speed, and wherein the control device instantaneously reduces the flow rate of the compressed medium which is made to bypass the turbine or the heat receiver by the bypass means, at a time of incorporation in which the power generator is connected to an electric power system after the rotor rotational speed reaches the rated rotational speed. | 2,785 |
9,728,668 | 1. A method of forming a system of configurable conductivity pathways, the method comprising: disposing a photosensitive layer on a mechanical support; disposing a light source layer on the photosensitive layer; and configuring a controller to control two or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) of the light source layer to illuminate portions of the photosensitive layer corresponding with an image to configure a photoconductive pathway along a plane of the photosensitive layer corresponding with the portions, the photoconductive pathway being configured only during illumination by the light source layer. | 44,241 |
9,287,729 | 1. A secondary battery state management system comprising: a battery charger that charges a secondary battery, wherein the battery charger comprises: a storage server comprising: | 14,122 |
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