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9,090,373 | 1. A palm-held container sized to fit in a user's hand, said container comprising: a central axis; a top dispensing end and a bottom end at opposite ends of said central axis; a side surface extending between said top and bottom ends; a front-back axis substantially perpendicular to said central axis and defining: a side-side axis substantially perpendicular to said central axis and to said front-back axis, said side-side axis defining: a closure at said top dispensing end and having a dispensing orifice offset from said central axis and proximate said front side; a left depression defined by a left upper contour and a left lower contour, said left upper and lower contours converging proximate said front side and said top dispensing end to form a discontinuous left perimeter at least partially surrounding said left depression; a right depression defined by a right upper contour and a right lower contour, said right upper and lower contours converging proximate said back side and said top dispensing end to form a discontinuous right perimeter at least partially surrounding said right depression; wherein said left and right depressions are spaced apart circumferentially by said front side and said back side; wherein said front side is continuously convexly curved and does not have contours; wherein said front side fits in a palm of the user's hand; wherein said left upper and lower contours are circumferentially spaced apart a distance to facilitate a thumb of the user's grasping hand to fit within said left depression; and, wherein said right upper and lower contours are circumferentially spaced apart a distance to facilitate at least one finger of the user's grasping hand to fit within said right depression. | 37,001 |
8,685,282 | 1. A process for the production of syngas and hydrogen starting from reagents comprising liquid hydrocarbons, gaseous hydrocarbons, and/or oxygenated compounds, also deriving from biomasses, and their mixtures, comprising: reacting said reagents with an oxidant including oxygen, air, or air enriched in oxygen to yield syngas in three sections for short-contact-time catalytic partial oxidation (SCT-CPO); cooling the syngas from outlets of said three sections for SCT-CPO in three thermal-recovery sections comprising a first thermal-recovery section for cooling the syngas in the output from a first SCT-CPO section and preheating the reagents to the temperature between 100° C. and 500° C. and a first boiler and a second boiler that generate steam by cooling the syngas produced respectively by a second SCT-CPO section and a third SCT-CPO section; separating the hydrogen using semipermeable membranes that operate at 450-500° C., each of said first thermal-recovery section and said first boiler being followed by a section for separation of the hydrogen using semipermeable membranes, said semipermeable membranes being constituted by metallic or non-metallic inorganic material; removing the carbon dioxide contained in the syngas and for recycling for conversion to syngas in the third SCT-CPO section; and cooling and removing condensate from the syngas in the third SCT-CPO section. | 40,117 |
9,315,136 | 1. A dump trailer comprising: a trailer body having a bottom wall and two opposing side walls that are disposed substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis extending between a front end and a rear end of the trailer body; a front wall extending between the two side walls at the front end of the trailer body; wherein the front wall and side walls of the trailer body each have an upper edge; and wherein the front wall is arcuate when viewed from a lateral side of the trailer body and includes: a tailgate pivotally mounted to at least one of the side walls at the rear end of the trailer body; a compartment defined and bounded by the trailer body, the front wall and the tailgate, said compartment being adapted to carry a load therein; and a shield extending rearwardly from the upper edge of the front wall and towards the tailgate and from the upper edge of a first one of the side walls to the upper edge of the other of the side walls; said shield terminating a distance away from the tailgate; and wherein the shield is arcuate when viewed from the rear end of the trailer. | 36,537 |
9,042,386 | 1. A method for transferring requested data over a node chain from a source node to a destination node through at least two intermediate nodes, comprising: identifying, at a file system level, at each of the at least two intermediate nodes, prior data previously sent to or received from a subsequent node in the node chain that matches at least a portion of the requested data; transmitting, to the subsequent node, at least one pointer to the prior data and a reconstruction recipe for reconstructing the requested data at the subsequent node based on at least the at least one pointer, when the prior data matches at least the portion of the requested data; and transmitting, to the subsequent node, other portions of the requested data previously unsent to or un-received by the subsequent node. | 15,952 |
9,047,719 | 1. A vehicle diagnosing system configured to perform a fault diagnosis of a vehicle by performing communication between a plurality of electronic control units in the vehicle and an external diagnosing apparatus and reading out fault codes recorded in the electronic control units into the external diagnosing apparatus, wherein the vehicle comprises an idling stop controller configured to automatically execute an idling stop for stopping a drive source of the vehicle from idling when an idling stop condition as a predetermined driving condition is satisfied; wherein a plurality of the idling stop conditions for executing the idling stop are registered in the external diagnosing apparatus, each of the idling stop conditions being registered in any of the electronic control units in the vehicle; and wherein while the vehicle connected to the external diagnosing apparatus is driven, if the idling stop is not executed when the vehicle comes to a halt, the idling stop condition which is not satisfied is indicated in a predetermined display unit. | 20,454 |
9,561,715 | 1. A final drive assembly for powering a wheel of a machine, comprising: a hub adapted to support the wheel; a spindle casting coupled to the hub, the spindle casting at least partially defining a steering axis about which the wheel pivots; a bearing disposed within the hub, the bearing defining a plane aligned through a circumference of the bearing; and an electric motor including a housing and an output, the electric motor housing located in the spindle casting and the electric motor output positioned between the spindle casting and the hub; wherein the plane of the bearing intersects the spindle casting and the housing of the electric motor. | 12,787 |
9,485,735 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a memory; one or more sensors; an application processor configured to execute applications; and a sensor processor configured to: wherein, the application processor is further configured to obtain at least a portion of the stored sensing information from the memory based on the notification. | 10,999 |
9,426,237 | 1. An apparatus for generating a navigation map, the apparatus comprising: a memory; and at least one hardware device, coupled to the memory, operative to: for a given web site visited by a user, store in a node for said given web site an address for said given web site, a relevance rating for said given visited web site indicating an importance of said given visited web site to a web navigation task of said user, and a link from said given visited web site to a next web site visited by said user; generate a navigation map comprised of said nodes for a plurality of said visited web sites, wherein each node in said navigation map corresponds to a given one of said given web sites visited by said user and is connected by an edge to at least one other node in said navigation map, wherein a presentation of at least one node in said navigation map is based on said relevance rating; merge a plurality of said navigation maps for a plurality of users, wherein each of said plurality of said navigation maps is comprised only of said nodes for said plurality of said visited web sites visited by said respective user, wherein each node in each of said navigation maps is connected by an edge to at least one other node in said respective navigation map, wherein said plurality of said navigation maps are merged from a common point by identifying nodes in said plurality of navigation maps corresponding to a same web page; and determine a relevance rating for a given node in said merged navigation map based on one or more conflict resolution rules that process a plurality of relevance ratings indicating whether or not said given visited web site associated with said given node is important to a web navigation task of said respective user to resolve conflicting relevance ratings of said given node by different users in said plurality of navigation maps, wherein said one or more conflict resolution rules determine a merged relevance rating for said given node that aggregates a plurality of said users marking said given node as relevant and a plurality of said users marking said given node as irrelevant, wherein said relevance rating of said given node by each user indicates a relevance said importance of said visited web site associated with given node to said web navigation task of said respective user. | 25,007 |
9,525,101 | 1. An optoelectronic device, comprising: a first semiconductor layer having a first lattice constant; a second semiconductor layer having a second lattice constant, wherein the second lattice constant is smaller than the first lattice constant; and a first buffer layer formed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, wherein a lattice constant of the first buffer layer immediately connected to the second semiconductor layer is smaller than the second lattice constant; wherein the lattice constant of the first buffer layer immediately connected to the second semiconductor layer differs from the second lattice constant of the second semiconductor layer at least 0.3% or more. | 28,574 |
8,488,076 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a gate line and a gate electrode on a substrate, wherein the gate electrode is connected to the gate line; a gate insulating layer overlying the gate electrode and the gate line; an active layer overlying the gate insulating layer; an ohmic contact layer overlying the active layer; first source and drain electrodes overlying the ohmic contact layer; second source and drain electrodes connected to the first source and drain electrodes, respectively; a data line extending from the second source electrode and crossing the gate line to define a pixel region; and a pixel electrode in the pixel region and extending from the second drain electrode, wherein the second source electrode overlying the first source electrode such that the first source electrode is positioned between one portion of the ohmic contact layer and the second source electrode, and the second drain electrode overlying the first drain electrode such that the first drain electrode is positioned between one portion of the ohmic contact layer and the second drain electrode, wherein an entire of a bottom surface of the active layer is covered by the gate electrode, and the active layer and the gate electrode are formed simultaneously by one mask process such that the active layer covers a substantially entire top surface of the gate insulating layer. | 6,380 |
9,315,411 | 1. A method of manufacturing an optical fibre preform comprising: producing a core rod having a core rod diameter; inserting the core rod into a glass fluorine-doped intermediate cladding tube so as to form a core assembly having a length, the intermediate cladding tube having an inner diameter and an outer diameter, wherein the inner diameter is larger than the core rod diameter, the radial difference between the inner diameter and the core rod diameter defines an annular gap, and the intermediate cladding tube has a radial thickness of 1 mm to 10 mm; arranging the core assembly in such a way that the core assembly extends vertically; applying a negative pressure inside the annular gap; forming a core preform by heating the core assembly to collapse the intermediate cladding tube around the core rod while maintaining the negative pressure, wherein heating comprises moving a heater outside the intermediate cladding tube at a traverse peed of 20 mm/min to 40 mm/min and along an axial direction at least upwardly of the intermediate cladding tube initially from a position at one end of the core assembly to traverse the length of the same, and in a plurality of passes along opposite axial directions; and forming an overcladding region surrounding the core preform so as to form an optical fibre preform. | 13,268 |
9,333,848 | 1. A hybrid vehicle drive device comprising: a first planetary gear mechanism; a second planetary gear mechanism; a clutch; and a brake, wherein a first sun gear that is a sun gear of the first planetary gear mechanism is connected to a first rotating electric machine, a first ring gear that is a ring gear of the first planetary gear mechanism is connected to an engine, and a first carrier that is a carrier of the first planetary gear mechanism is connected to a second rotating element of the second planetary gear mechanism and to driving wheels, a first rotating element of the second planetary gear mechanism is connected to the engine and the first ring gear via the clutch, and a third rotating element is connected to a second rotating electric machine, the first rotating element is a sun gear of the second planetary gear mechanism, the brake regulates a rotation of the first rotating element, the first planetary gear mechanism and the second planetary gear mechanism include a four-element differential mechanism in which four elements of a first element that is the first ring gear, a second element that is formed by the first carrier connected to the second rotating element, a third element that is formed by the first ring gear connected to the first rotating element, and a fourth element that is the third rotating element rotate in association with each other when the clutch is in engagement and, the four-element differential mechanism is configured such that the first element, the fourth element, the second element, and the third element are in a collinear relationship in respect of rotation speed and are in a line in a sequence of the first element, the fourth element, the second element, and the third element in an alignment chart representing the collinear relationship or that the fourth element, the first element, the second element, and the third element are in a collinear relationship in respect of rotation speed and are in a line in a sequence of the fourth element, the first element, the second element, and the third element in an alignment chart representing the collinear relationship. | 35,420 |
8,557,174 | 1. A single-chamber smelting and fuming reactor for treating Zn-bearing residues, said reactor being designed to contain a molten slag phase up to a determined level, said reactor comprising a plasma fired tuyere attached to a plasma torch as heat and gas source, said tuyere being arranged such that the torch and a connection point between the tuyere and the torch is under said level whereby the plasma is generated under said level. | 3,402 |
8,420,566 | 1. A process for the production of acrylonitrile, acetonitrile and hydrogen cyanide comprising contacting at an elevated temperature, propylene, ammonia and oxygen in the vapor phase in the presence of a catalyst, said catalyst comprising a complex of metal oxides wherein the relative ratios of the elements in said catalyst are represented by the following formula: wherein A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium; and D is at least one element selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, manganese, zinc, magnesium, calcium, strontium, cadmium and barium; E is at least one element selected from the group consisting of chromium, tungsten, boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, vanadium and tellurium; F is at least one element selected from the group consisting of a rare earth element, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, niobium, tantalum, aluminum, gallium, indium, thallium, silicon, germanium, and lead; G is at least one element selected from the group consisting of silver, gold, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, platinum and mercury; and a is from 0.05 to 7, b is from 0.1 to 7, c is from 0.01 to 5, d is from 0.1 to 12, e is from 0 to 5, f is from 0 to 5, g is from 0 to 0.2, h is from 0.01 to 5, and x is the number of oxygen atoms required to satisfy the valence requirements of the other component elements present; wherein the relative yields of acrylonitrile, acetonitrile and hydrogen cyanide from said process are defined by the following: wherein % AN is the Acrylonitrile Yield and % AN≧81, % HCN is the Hydrogen Cyanide Yield, % ACN is the Acetonitrile Yield, % PC is the Propylene Conversion, and α is greater than 100. | 36,266 |
9,786,868 | 1. A method for producing an electronic structure, the method comprising: forming at least one organic layer; forming at least one metal growth layer grown onto the organic layer; and forming at least one metal layer grown on the metal growth layer; wherein the at least one metal growth layer consists of germanium. | 21,624 |
9,796,915 | 1. A method for producing a proppant comprising a. forming a green body from a green body material comprising b. reactive sintering said green body under reactive sintering conditions to form a sintered body comprising whiskers and at least one amorphous phase, wherein the whiskers are non-uniformly distributed. | 6,040 |
9,542,788 | 1. A value document comprising particulate agglomerates respectively containing at least two different homogeneous phases, wherein the first homogeneous phase is based on a first non-luminescent substance detectable by a spectroscopic method and the second homogeneous phase is based on a second non-luminescent substance detectable by a spectroscopic method, and wherein upon an evaluation of measurement values that are obtainable by a location-specific measurement, carried out at different locations of the value document, of the first measurement-signal intensity caused by the first substance and underlying the spectroscopic method and the second measurement-signal intensity caused by the second substance and underlying the spectroscopic method, there is a statistical correlation between the first measurement-signal intensities and the second measurement-signal intensities; wherein the spectroscopic method suitable for the detectability of the first non-luminescent substance and the spectroscopic method suitable for the detectability of the second non-luminescent substance are identical, wherein preferably the exciting electromagnetic radiation of the spectroscopic method is radio-wave, microwave, terahertz or infrared radiation; wherein the non-luminescent substance of the first homogeneous phase and the non-luminescent substance of the second homogeneous phase are chosen from the following five kinds of substance, namely, a substance detectable by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, a substance detectable by electron spin resonance spectroscopy, a substance detectable by nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy, a substance detectable by SER (surface-enhanced Raman) spectroscopy and a substance detectable by SEIRA (surface-enhanced infrared absorption) spectroscopy, on the condition that the kind of non-luminescent substance of the first homogeneous phase is identical with the kind of non-luminescent substance of the second homogeneous phase. | 47,577 |
8,378,233 | 1. An aircraft interior bushing assembly comprising: a. a pair of interoperating bushings each bushing comprising b. a support arm removably coupled to each of said bushing, each support arm comprising c. wherein the bushing assembly is operably configured to support a conduit at a distance from the radially inner surface of the interoperating bushings to substantially prohibit contact between the conduit and the bushing once the conduit is installed and fixed to the conduit receiver. | 7,915 |
9,538,521 | 1. A method for transmitting channel state information by a first user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: communicating with a base station; and transmitting, to the base station, a first channel quality indicator (CQI) based on a first modulation scheme, wherein the first UE is a machine type communication (MTC) UE, and the first modulation scheme is selected from a first set of modulation schemes, the first set of modulation schemes is different from a second set of modulation schemes used by a second UE, which is a non-MTC UE, the second UE transmitting to the base station a second CQI based on a second modulation scheme selected from the second set of modulation schemes, wherein the first set of modulation schemes includes a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) scheme, and the second set of modulation schemes includes a 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) scheme, a 64 QAM scheme, and the QPSK scheme, and wherein the first CQI is determined based on a rank 1. | 12,800 |
9,012,997 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate including a bulk substrate layer, an active semiconductor layer and a buried insulator layer disposed between the bulk substrate layer and the active semiconductor layer; a trench formed through the active semiconductor layer and the buried insulator layer of the SOI substrate to expose the bulk substrate layer; a doped well formed in an upper region of the bulk substrate layer adjacent trench; and a first doped region formed in the trench and directly on the doped well, the first doped region being different from the doped well, wherein the first doped region is disposed between the doped well and a second doped region such that the first doped region and the second doped region are contained in the trench, the doped well and the second doped region each doped with ions having a first electrical polarity and the first doped region doped with ions having a second electrical polarity different from the first doped region. | 24,720 |
8,895,248 | 1. A method of detecting the presence of Salmonella in a sample comprising: providing a sample suspected of containing performing an amplification reaction from a nucleic acid preparation derived from the sample using a forward and a reverse primer capable of amplifying a target region of a detecting an amplified nucleic acid product generated from the amplification reaction; wherein the forward primer sequence is substantially similar to SEQ ID NO: 2; wherein the reverse primer sequence is substantially similar to SEQ ID NO: 3; wherein the target region of ompF amplified is a 59 base pair region located from nucleotides 18 to 76 of SEQ ID NO: 1. | 32,505 |
8,756,150 | 1. In a financial transaction system capable of using at least one limited use transaction card number, which is deactivated upon a use-triggered condition, a method of processing a transaction initiated by a customer presenting the limited use transaction card number to a merchant, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, in a central processing system, said limited use transaction card number, which is associated with a master account number of a customer and has use limitations different from limitations on the master account number, routed from the merchant; remapping, in the central processing system, the limited use transaction card number with the master account number; determining, in the central processing system, whether said limited use transaction card number has been deactivated because at least one use-triggered condition, which occurs subsequent to assignment of the at least one limited use transaction card number, has been satisfied; and transmitting a signal to a facility which issued the master account number, the signal including original transaction details but with the limited use-transaction card number remapped to be the master account number if the limited use transaction card number has not been deactivated. | 30,653 |
9,174,209 | 1. A hydrogen storage composite, comprising: a hybrid catalyst including catalyst particles uniformly covering the surface of a support, wherein the support comprises aluminum oxides, titanium oxides, niobium oxides, or cobalt oxides; and a hydrogen storage material, wherein the hybrid catalyst is embedded on the surface of the hydrogen storage material. | 10,554 |
8,542,439 | 1. A method for scanning-microscopy imaging of a specimen ( 28 ), comprising the following steps: scanning a plurality of specimen points by means of a scanning beam ( repeatedly sensing the intensity of the radiation emitted from the respectively scanned specimen point within the associated scanning time interval, determining an intensity mean value, as a mean value image point signal, from the intensities sensed in the respectively scanned specimen point, and assembling the mean value image point signals into a mean value raster image signal, wherein an intensity variance value is additionally determined, as a variance image point signal, from the intensities sensed in the respectively scanned specimen point, and the variance image point signals are assembled into a variance raster image signal. | 6,024 |
9,323,303 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, with a mobile computing device, that a mode of transportation of the mobile computing device has changed, based at least in part on determining that an average speed of the mobile computing device over at least three geographical locations in a route of geographical locations through which the mobile computing device is traveling has fallen below a first threshold speed; identifying, after having determined that the average speed of the mobile computing device has fallen below the first threshold speed, a particular geographical location at which the mode of transportation of the mobile computing device changed, by going backwards in the route of geographical locations from a location at which the mobile computing device determined that the mode of transportation of the mobile computing device had changed, and analyzing speeds of the mobile computing device at such geographical locations in the route while going backwards in the route until a speed that falls beneath a second threshold speed that is less than the first threshold speed is encountered, the particular geographical location corresponding to a location of the speed that falls beneath the second threshold; responsive to identifying the particular geographical location at which the mode of transportation of the mobile computing device changed, storing, by the mobile computing device, the particular geographical location at which the mode of the transportation of the mobile computing device changed; and displaying a graphical indication of the particular geographical location at which the mode of transportation of the mobile computing device changed, wherein the graphical indication of the particular geographical location is different than graphical indications for one or more other geographical locations of the mobile computing device that were not determined to correspond to a location at which the mode of transportation of the mobile computing device changed. | 43,337 |
9,638,114 | 1. A boat engine idling revolution number control device, comprising: an engine revolution number detecting section for detecting a revolution number of an engine to be mounted in a boat; an engine temperature detecting section for detecting a warmed-up state of the engine; an idling operation state detecting section for detecting an idling operation state of the engine; a neutral switch for detecting whether a shift position state of the engine is neutral, or forward or reverse; and a control unit for performing control so as to converge the engine revolution number to a target revolution number when an engine state of the engine is an idling state, the engine state being defined by results of the detections by the engine revolution number detecting section, the engine temperature detecting section, the idling operation state detecting section, and the neutral switch, the control unit comprising: wherein the running-load correction calculating function section resets the running-load correction signal to zero when detecting, based on a behavior of the engine revolution number after a running-load correction is performed, that the engine revolution number is larger than a threshold value calculated based on the target revolution number and the engine revolution number increases. | 40,257 |
8,970,184 | 1. A method for increasing power factor, the method comprising: determining an input voltage and an input current of a power system driving a low power factor load, the input voltage varying based on a power cycle; determining at least a first portion of the power cycle at which the input current exceeds a threshold; and coupling at least one substantially resistive load to the low power factor load during at least a second portion of the power cycle different from the at least a first portion of the power cycle, wherein the input current is less than or equal to the threshold during the at least a second portion of the power cycle. | 29,113 |
9,739,218 | 1. A throttle drive actuator for an engine, comprising: a first magnet comprising a north pole and a south pole: a second magnet positioned adjacent the first magnet, the second magnet comprising a north pole and a south pole, the north pole of the second magnet positioned opposite the south pole of the first magnet to create a first magnetic field, and the south pole of the second magnet positioned opposite the north pole of the first magnet to create a second magnetic field, a direction of the second magnetic field being directed opposite a direction of the first magnetic field; and an armature positioned between the first magnet and the second magnet, the armature including windings, where the armature rotates between the first magnet and the second magnet when the windings are energized, where the armature rotates a valve of a throttle body of the engine, to open and close an air passage of the throttle body. | 24,904 |
9,333,578 | 1. A method of providing a fiber reinforced braze, the method comprising: providing a substrate; disposing at least a first fiber reinforcement layer on the substrate, wherein the at least first fiber reinforcement layer comprises a fiber material; disposing at least a first braze layer on the at least first fiber reinforcement layer, wherein a melt temperature of the braze layer is lower than a melt temperature of the fiber material, wherein at least one of the braze layers comprise a pre-sintered preform; and, heating the at least first fiber reinforcement layer and the at least first braze layer to bond the fiber reinforced braze to the substrate. | 19,107 |
9,224,677 | 1. A semiconductor package, comprising: a lead frame; a first die pad configured to operate at a first potential; a second die pad configured to operate at a second potential, wherein the second potential is different from the first potential, wherein the second die pad is situated apart from the first die pad, and wherein the second die pad is electrically isolated from the first die pad; a first die disposed on the first die pad; a second die disposed on the second die pad; a first wire bond connected with the first die pad and a first voltage source, which affects the first potential; a second wire bond connected with the second die pad and a second voltage source, which affects the second potential; and an encapsulant surrounding the die pads, the dice, the wire bonds, and at least a portion of the lead frame. | 29,363 |
9,000,921 | 1. A power strip for automatically disconnecting wired connections, the power strip comprising: one or more outlets each of which provides a wired connection to each of a plurality of electronic devices; a receiver configured to receive weather alert data, wherein the weather alert data includes a severe weather event indicating one or more of a thunderstorm, a tornado, a hurricane, an earthquake, a flood, or a tidal wave; a weather alert type; a weather alert location; or a weather event duration; and a control module coupled to the one or more outlets and the receiver, the control module including a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores one or more routines that are executable by the processor, wherein the control module is configured to perform one of two actions in response to identifying the weather alert type specified in the weather alert data, the two actions including: (i) a first action that communicates the weather alert data to a user and maintains the wired connection for each of the one or more outlets when the control module identifies the weather alert type specified in the weather alert data to be an advisory type alert, and (ii) a second action that communicates the weather alert data to the user and automatically disconnects the wired connection for each of the one or more outlets when the control module identifies the weather alert type specified in the weather alert data to be a warning type alert. | 8,008 |
8,389,625 | 1. An integrated method for making synthetic hydrocarbon fluids and/or polar functional fluids comprising: (a) contacting a feed selected from one or more natural oils, which includes one or more triglycerides, one or more mono-esters derived from one or more triglyceride, or a mixture thereof, each of the natural oils and mono-esters including linear C (b) polymerizing the linear alpha-olefins, the internal olefins or a mixture thereof in the presence of a suitable catalyst to produce one or more oligomeric synthetic hydrocarbon fluids, wherein the one or more oligomeric synthetic hydrocarbon fluids is a copolymer of linear alpha-olefins and internal olefins or a polymer of linear alpha-olefins or a polymer of internal olefins. | 44,613 |
8,436,891 | 1. A method for interacting with a virtual object in an augmented video stream, comprising: displaying an augmented video stream having a three-dimensional virtual object inserted in a given physical location of a video scene; receiving a request for interaction with the virtual object from a viewer; changing the appearance of the virtual object at the given physical location based on metadata associated with the virtual object and the request for interaction from the viewer, wherein the changing the appearance includes switching from a first predetermined metadata representing the virtual object to a second predetermined metadata representing a different virtual object. | 29,908 |
9,764,686 | 1. A light-producing assembly for a vehicle, comprising: a plurality of light sources; a photoluminescent structure comprising a plurality of photoluminescent materials arranged to alternate with each other as a repeating shape having a plurality of segments, wherein each segment is adjoined to at least another segment at an angle greater than zero, and wherein the plurality of photoluminescent materials are each configured to luminesce in a distinct color in response to excitation by a corresponding portion of the plurality of light sources. | 32,998 |
9,205,348 | 1. A vapor recovery apparatus for processing liquid produced from a well, the produced liquid containing gas, comprising: a) an inner vessel having a lower end, an intermediate portion, a liquid inlet, a liquid outlet, a first liquid path between the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet, the inner vessel liquid outlet being vertically above the liquid inlet; b) an outer vessel having a closed lower end and a closed upper end and an interior, the inner vessel liquid outlet and inner vessel intermediate portion located in the outer vessel interior, the inner vessel liquid outlet communicating with the outer vessel interior, an outer vessel liquid outlet located in a lower portion of the outer vessel, a gas outlet at the outer vessel upper end; c) a heat exchanger located so as to provide heat to liquid located in the first liquid path; d) a second liquid path extending from where the liquid enters the outer vessel from the inner vessel to a liquid level in the outer vessel. | 8,976 |
9,075,822 | 1. A method of testing an incrementally updated map database, the method comprising: receiving a list of objects derived from an update for the map database; populating a table with map tiles associated with the objects, wherein the table includes a first map tile and a second map tile that is adjacent to the first map tile; generating a test script including a consistency check algorithm for the first map tile associated with one or more of the objects of the update and the second map tile associated with one or more of the objects of the update, wherein the consistency check algorithm is configured to determine whether references of the second map tile to all objects associated with the first map tile are valid and whether references of the first map tile to all objects associated with the second map tile are valid; storing the test script in a memory; executing the test script on the navigation database to generate a return value, wherein the memory stores a threshold value; and finalizing the update package to the navigation database when the return value indicates errors less than the threshold value and roll back the update package when the return value indicates errors in excess of the threshold value. | 49,123 |
9,528,208 | 1. A polymeric matting article comprising: a web of extruded polymer monofilaments, the polymer monofilaments being heat welded at junctions to form a matrix of tangled monofilament; and at least one pair of complementary interlocking formations positioned on opposing sides of a fold line and configured to engage each other to secure the web in a folded position along the fold line. | 39,701 |
8,689,402 | 1. A furniture hinge device comprising: a first fitting to be attached to a first furniture part; a second fitting to be attached to a second furniture part; a lever pivotally connecting said first fitting and said second fitting; a control cam located on a first one of said first fitting, said second fitting, and said lever; a leg spring attached to a second one of said first fitting, said second fitting, and said lever, said leg spring having a circular cross-section at least at a first end thereof; and a sliding element attached to said spring, said sliding element having a cylindrical cavity corresponding to said circular cross-section of said first end of said leg spring, said first end of said leg spring being received within said cylindrical cavity of said sliding element, an outer contour of said sliding element having a non-cylindrical shape; wherein said control cam or said leg spring moves on said sliding element such that said control cam moves along said leg spring to produce a closing force or an opening force. | 24,532 |
9,347,691 | 1. An interlocking system for connecting photovoltaic module frames to a torque tube, comprising: (a) an interlock formed from a generally U-shaped channel extending in a longitudinal direction, the interlock being dimensioned to be positioned between the sides of two adjacent photovoltaic module frames, wherein each interlock comprises: (b) a U-lock connected to the interlock, wherein the U -lock is dimensioned to be connected to a torque tube. | 7,521 |
9,156,726 | 1. A method of producing a tempered glass substrate, comprising: a forming step comprising forming glass into a glass sheet by a float method to obtain a glass substrate to be tempered; a polishing step comprising (1) polishing only a top surface of the glass substrate to be tempered, or (2) polishing the top surface and a bottom surface of the glass substrate to be tempered so that a polishing thickness of the top surface is larger than a polishing thickness of the bottom surface; and a tempering step comprising applying an ion exchange treatment to the glass substrate to be tempered so that the bottom surface has a larger compression stress value than the top surface to obtain the tempered glass substrate. | 3,132 |
8,656,099 | 1. A storage apparatus comprising: a virtual volume accessed by a host computer; a storage pool having a storage resource associated with the virtual volume; and a controller for controlling allocation of a storage area from the storage resource in response to write access from the host computer to the virtual volume, wherein a plurality of storage devices that provide the storage pool with the storage resource constitute a plurality of first groups according to a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks) system and constitute a plurality of second groups including one or more first groups, and wherein the controller: sets some of the plurality of second groups to an active mode in which the storage devices belonging to the some groups are made to enter an activated state; sets other groups, excluding a group which is set to the active mode from among the plurality of second groups, to a power-saving mode in which the storage devices belonging to those other groups are made to enter a power-saving state; sequentially switches between the group, which is set to the active mode, and the group, which is set to the power-saving mode, from among the plurality of second groups; and stores data by allocating a storage area from the storage resource for the second group in the active mode in response to write access by the host computer to the virtual volume, wherein the storage pool has a first pool and a second pool, wherein the first pool has a first storage resource constituted from a plurality of storage devices that are classified into a first tier, wherein the second pool has a second storage resource constituted from a plurality of storage devices that are classified into a second tier, wherein the plurality of storage devices classified into the first tier are classified into a plurality of groups, and wherein the plurality of storage devices classified into the second tier are classified into a plurality of groups, and wherein the controller further: sets all the plurality of groups belonging to the first tier to be capable of switching to the active mode or the power-saving mode; and sets some groups of the plurality of groups belonging to the second tier to be always in the active mode and sets the remaining groups to switch to the active mode or the power-saving mode. | 18,161 |
9,382,388 | 1. A method for processing carbon dioxide contained in an exhaust gas flow to a product suitable for energy production, the method comprising the steps of: a) bringing the exhaust gas flow in contact in a drying and cooling chamber with a moistened porous silicate material and an admixed aluminum hydroxide and/or hydrated aluminum oxide to form a basic aqueous medium containing ionized carbon and to destabilize carbon dioxide, and cooled, wherein the amount of aluminum hydroxide and/or hydrated aluminum oxide to be added is controlled via a continuous pH value measurement; b) feeding the aqueous medium to a subsequent prechamber, which is supplied with material containing oxidizable alkaline earth and/or heavy metal, wherein oxidation of alkaline earth and/or heavy metal occurs with accompanying neutralization of the aqueous medium containing ionized carbon, and the alkaline earth and/or heavy metal oxide formed as a result is discharged from the prechamber, wherein material containing oxidizable alkaline earth and/or heavy metal is simultaneously supplied as a function of continuous measurement; and c) feeding the aqueous medium containing ionized carbon to a main chamber supplied with material consisting of organic carbon compounds and/or containing organic carbon compounds, in which polyreactions with organic carbon compounds occur with participation of the ionized carbon to form a carbon-enriched end product. | 6,507 |
9,069,322 | 1. An image forming apparatus configured to form toner images on a recording sheet, comprising: a chassis; a plurality of photosensitive members configured to be stored in the chassis and to carry the toner images; an intermediate transfer belt unit including an endless belt, the endless belt being configured to roll in a predetermined rolling direction, being arranged to have a surface thereof facing the plurality of photosensitive members, and being configured to have the toner images on the plurality of photosensitive members transferred onto the surface; a sheet feed tray configured to store the recording sheet; a first feeding path extending from the sheet feed tray to the endless belt; a second feeding path arranged in between the sheet feed tray and the endless belt, the second feeding path being merged into the first feeding path and configured to convey the recording sheet therein; and a waste toner container comprising a joint, the joint being arranged on an upper side relative to a part of the second feeding path, a part of the waste toner container being arranged on a lower side relative to the second feeding path, the waste toner container being configured to accept residual toner collected from the endless belt through the joint. | 21,053 |
9,413,244 | 1. A voltage conversion circuit, used for boosting an input voltage, the voltage conversion circuit comprising: an energy-storing inductor, having one terminal connected to the input voltage; a N type transistor, having drain connected to another terminal of the energy-storing inductor, having gate receiving a first driving signal and accordingly determining switched-on or switched-off state, having source connected to a ground voltage; a P type transistor, having source connected to another terminal of the energy-storing inductor, having gate receiving a second driving signal and accordingly determining switched-on or switched-off state, having drain outputting an output voltage; a current comparator, connected to source of the N type transistor for receiving a current value of a sensing current, wherein the current comparator compares the current value of the sensing current and a current value of a threshold current so as to determine load type and accordingly outputs a comparison signal; a multiplexer, electrically connected to the current comparator for receiving the comparison signal, wherein the multiplexer receives the input voltage and outputting voltage and accordingly output a work voltage according to the comparison signal; a first driver, electrically connected to the multiplexer and the N type transistor, the first driver receiving a pulse width control signal and the work voltage and accordingly output the first driving signal, wherein the first driving signal is an oscillating signal and high level voltage value of the first driving signal is equal to voltage value of the work voltage; a second driver, electrically connected to the current comparator and the P type transistor, the second driver receiving the comparison signal, the pulse width control signal and a predetermined DC voltage and accordingly outputting the second driving signal; and a voltage selector, electrically connected to the input voltage, the output voltage and bulk of the P type transistor, and the P type transistor having a first body diode and a second body diode having a series-opposing connection therebetween, source of the P type transistor connected to anode of the first body diode, wherein when current value of the sensing current is smaller than current value of the threshold current, the current comparator outputs the comparison signal with high voltage level, such that the work voltage is equal to the input voltage and voltage level of the second driving signal is the predetermined DC voltage so as to switch off the P type transistor, wherein a switching current flowing through a parasitic capacitor of the N type transistor is generated from the input voltage. | 32,665 |
9,476,793 | 1. A diagnostic apparatus for an evaporated fuel processing apparatus, wherein the evaporated fuel processing apparatus includes a blocking valve configured to selectively allow and shut off communication between a canister and a fuel tank, and adsorbs evaporated fuel by the canister during fuel filling, wherein the evaporated fuel occurs in the fuel tank, and introduces into an intake air line of an internal combustion engine and processes the evaporated fuel while the internal combustion engine is operating, the diagnostic apparatus comprising: a pump configured to pressurize an inside of a system, wherein the system includes the fuel tank and the canister; and at least one pressure sensor configured to sense an internal pressure of the system; wherein the diagnostic apparatus is configured to: | 10,715 |
9,768,257 | 1. A semiconductor device having a field effect transistor, comprising: a channel layer having a first nitride semiconductor layer, an electron supply layer formed over the channel layer and having a second nitride semiconductor layer having a band gap different from that of the first nitride semiconductor layer, a source electrode formed over the electron supply layer, a drain electrode formed over the electron supply layer while being separated from the source electrode, a cap layer having a p type semiconductor layer, formed over the electron supply layer between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and having a tapered side surface such that a thickness of the cap layer, in a horizontal direction from the source electrode to the drain electrode, continuously decreases as the cap layer extends away from the electron supply layer, the thickness of the cap layer continuously decreasing from the bottom of the cap layer to the top of the cap layer, an insulating film having an opening portion on and exposing an upper surface of the cap layer and covering the tapered side surface of the cap layer, and a gate electrode formed in the opening portion that exposes the upper surface of the cap layer and extending over the tapered side surface of the cap layer on a side of the drain electrode via the insulating film, wherein the cap layer has a first layer, a second layer formed over the first layer, and a third layer formed over the second layer, and wherein a p type impurity concentration of the first layer and the third layer is lower than a p type impurity concentration of the second layer. | 8,238 |
8,449,407 | 1. A golf club head comprising: a crown forming the upper surface of the golf club head; a sole forming the lower surface of the golf club head; a hitting face, made from a first material having a first density, disposed between the crown and the sole, welded around a perimeter thereof to the golf club head; a dense insert made from a second material having a second density, the dense insert is attached to an inner surface of the cavity; | 36,267 |
9,836,909 | 1. A chip sorting device, comprising: a chip conveyor unit comprising at least one chip well for transporting chips; at least one chip collection tube having an inner lateral dimension for receiving at least one chip therein, the at least one chip collection tube comprising: at least one chip ejection unit configured and positioned to eject at least one chip from the at least one chip well of the chip conveyor unit into the at least one chip collection tube, wherein the at least one inner surface of the at least one adjustable wall is configured to directly contact the at least one chip in the at least one chip collection tube. | 17,979 |
9,064,993 | 1. A photoelectric conversion device comprising: a light-absorbing layer including a compound semiconductor capable of photoelectric conversion, the compound semiconductor containing a group Ib element including Cu, a group IIIb element and a group VIb element; and a semiconductor layer on one surface-side of the light-absorbing layer, the semiconductor layer having a plane orientation different from that of the light-absorbing layer, the semiconductor layer containing a group Ib element including Cu, at least one element selected from Cd, Zn and In, and a group VIb element, wherein the photoelectric conversion device includes | 32,557 |
9,035,186 | 1. A shielded electrical cable comprising: a conductor set including one or more substantially parallel longitudinal insulated conductors; a shielding film disposed around the conductor set; and two non-conductive polymeric layers disposed around the conductor set and including a concentric portion substantially concentric with at least one of the conductors having a first cross-sectional area and a parallel portion wherein the two non-conductive polymeric layers are substantially parallel; and a transition portion providing a gradual transition between the concentric portion and the parallel portion of the two non-conductive polymeric layers, the transition portion comprising a second cross-sectional area defined as an area between first transition points where the two non-conductive polymeric layers deviate from being substantially concentric with the at least one of the conductors and second transition points where the two non-conductive polymeric layers deviate from being substantially parallel, the second cross-sectional area being equal to or smaller than the first cross-sectional area. | 5,192 |
9,724,488 | 1. A respiratory mask assembly, comprising: a frame; and a cushion provided to the frame, the cushion including: | 33,735 |
8,914,765 | 1. A method of generating a power grid to supply current to a plurality of cells of an integrated circuit, the method comprising: routing, with a processing device, an initial power grid representing a power usage estimate for the plurality of cells; performing a power grid analysis prior to routing of signal wires to make a determination of whether the initial power grid meets power requirements of the integrated circuit; selectively modifying portions of the initial power grid based on the performing the power grid analysis to generate the power grid, the selectively modifying including expanding the initial power grid by adding metal to the portions of the initial power grid that supply current to high-current need regions of the plurality of cells; routing signal wires after the power grid is finalized; and designing the plurality of cells with one or more keep-out regions that provide space for the selectively modifying. | 45,711 |
8,756,651 | 1. A method of verifying client compliance with a set of security policies in order to grant access to secure data, the method comprising: under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, receiving, from a mobile device, a request for an authentication seed that includes security information enabling generation of an authentication code that is distinct from the authentication seed; after receiving the request for the authentication seed from the mobile device, sending a request for a set of parameter values corresponding to a set of security policies to the mobile device in order to determine whether the mobile device complies with the set of security policies; instructing the mobile device to impose at least one of the set of security policies on the mobile device; receiving the set of parameter values from the mobile device; determining whether the set of parameter values received from the mobile device indicates that the mobile device is in compliance with the set of security policies; and after determining, sending the authentication seed to the mobile device to enable the mobile device to generate the authentication code when the set of parameter values indicates that the mobile device is in compliance with the set of security policies, the authentication code being generated based at least in part on the authentication seed. | 23,946 |
8,894,203 | 1. A corrective optical lens adapted to move with and change the power of a user's eye, comprising: a first radially extending optical zone having a first power that, when combined with the power of the user's eye, is adapted to result in a first net power that increases as the radius of the first radially extending optical zone increases; and a second radially extending optical zone having a second power that, when combined with the power of the user's eye, is adapted to result in a second net power that decreases as the radius of the second radially extending optical zone increases; | 4,204 |
8,669,999 | 1. A method of producing a pixel coverage mask based on an alpha value, the method comprising: enabling bits in a quantized alpha mask based on an alpha-to-coverage ordering associated with a sampling mode; combining a virtual coverage mask that indicates which virtual samples and real samples within a pixel are covered by a graphics primitive and a quantized alpha mask based on the alpha value to produce the pixel coverage mask; determining a link field that indicates links between the virtual samples and the real samples; adjusting the link field based on the pixel coverage mask to link any orphaned virtual sample to one of the real samples, wherein each virtual sample inherits color data computed for the real sample to which the virtual sample is linked; and outputting the pixel coverage mask and the link field for the pixel. | 43,986 |
8,954,402 | 1. A computer implemented method for generating search results to be displayed, the method comprising the steps of: retrieving a document to be searched; generating a frequency ordered suffix tree from the retrieved document, wherein the frequency ordered suffix tree is a list of each possible string of the document arranged according to a frequency of use of each possible string within the document; searching the frequency ordered suffix tree on the basis of a keyword to retrieve a set context strings, wherein the set of context strings includes all of the each possible strings of the frequency ordered suffix tree beginning with the keyword, the retrieved set of context strings being a frequency ordered context tree as the context strings thereof are arranged according to frequency of use of the each possible string within the document; compressing the retrieved set of context strings of the frequency ordered context tree to optimize the frequency ordered context tree for display within a limited display region capable of displaying a limited number of context strings, the compressing including obtaining one or more context strings of the frequency ordered context tree to maximize a sum of areas under the condition that only a predetermined maximum number of context strings are displayed within the limited display region, wherein each area is defined as the frequency of use of a given context string within the document multiplied by a length of the context string; and displaying the compressed context strings of the frequency ordered context tree within the limited display region; wherein the steps of retrieving, generating, searching, compressing, and displaying are performed using one or more computer systems. | 23,059 |
8,691,256 | 1. A composition for controlling a target pest comprising a first agent and a second agent, wherein the first agent has a first activity against the target pest, the second agent has a second activity against the target pest, the composition has a third activity against the target pest, and the third activity reflects a synergistic interaction of the first agent and the second agent; wherein the first agent comprises geraniol, isopropyl myristate, and thyme oil white; and wherein the second agent comprises imidacloprid. | 33,888 |
8,902,501 | 1. A stage system, comprising: a stage on which to mount a slide glass; a projection block projected more than a thickness of the slide glass from a surface of the stage on which to dispose the slide glass; a plurality of pressing blocks provided on that surface of the stage on which to dispose the slide glass, being thicker than the slide glass, and pressing toward the projection block the slide glass; and a reciprocation block coupled to the pressing blocks and configured to reciprocate in one predetermined direction, the pressing blocks pressing the slide glass from two different directions substantially simultaneously according to reciprocation of the reciprocation block. | 45,799 |
9,754,539 | 1. A method for setting brightness of a backlighted display screen of an electronic device, comprising: acquiring by a light sensor on the electronic device a measured brightness of ambient light having an actual ambient brightness at where the electronic device is located; detecting whether the light sensor faces away from a light source in the environment; when it is detected that the light sensor does not face away from the light source, determining a reference backlight brightness level according to a backlight brightness level-setting function comprising a correspondence between actual ambient brightness levels and backlight brightness levels, by using the measured brightness as actual ambient brightness; and setting an actual backlight brightness of the backlighted display screen to the reference backlight brightness level; and when it is detected that the light sensor faces away from the light source, setting the actual backlight brightness of the backlighted display screen at a level different from the reference backlight brightness level. | 17,650 |
8,857,760 | 1. A propulsive unit for an aircraft, comprising: a nacelle which defines a duct for channeling an airflow when in use and which provides an outwardly facing surface of the propulsive unit, the outwardly facing surface having an aerodynamic shape; and a fan unit for accelerating the airflow within the duct when in use; the duct having an inlet and an outlet which are defined by the nacelle, and the nacelle being movable to adjust the position of the outwardly facing surface and the areas of the inlet and the outlet whilst substantially retaining the aerodynamic shape of the outwardly facing surface. | 9,493 |
9,323,844 | 1. A method for enhancing search experience of users, comprising: receiving, at a search server, an input query and a metadata related to the input query sent from a user device; selecting at least two resources from a plurality of resources responsive to the input query, wherein the selection is performed based on at least contents of the input query and the metadata; sending the input query as an input to the at least two selected resources, wherein resources are selected based on applications available on the user device; providing a single unique display segment within a display area on the user device for each of the at least two selected resources, wherein the content displayed in each unique display segment corresponds only to content retrieved by a corresponding selected resource; directing the at least two selected resources to respond to the input query directly within the each provided corresponding unique display segment, wherein the each unique display segment includes at least an application of the applications available on the user device; establishing a direct communication link between the each corresponding selected resource and the user device, without user intervention, for at least enabling direct interaction of the each corresponding selected resource with the user within the each corresponding unique display segment to enable transfer of at least contents generated by the each corresponding selected resource to the each corresponding unique display segment; enabling a display of a first mini-display segment over the display area, wherein the first mini-display segment includes content of a first unique display segment not shown over the display area; and displaying content from the corresponding selected resource in the first mini-display segment in a fully functional application form. | 44,383 |
8,793,277 | 1. A forensic system configured to acquire digital information recorded on a plurality of computers or a server to analyze the acquired digital information, the forensic system comprising: a digital information acquiring unit configured to acquire digital information containing digital document information composed of a plurality of document files, and to acquire user information about users using the plurality of computers or the server; a recording unit configured to record therein the digital information acquired by the digital information acquiring unit; a display unit configured to display the recorded digital information; a user-specifying information setting unit configured to set user-specifying information showing which one of users contained in the user-specifying information each of the plurality of document files is related with, to set ranking information showing a first relative degree of relationship a first user from among the users has with litigation, and showing a second relative degree of relationship a second user from among the users has with the litigation, and configured to cause the recording unit to record the set user-specifying information, via the display unit; a user selecting unit configured to select at least one user via the display unit; a control unit, comprising: a searching unit configured to search a document file where the user-specifying information corresponding to the selected user was set, and to provide a book-mark function allowing book-mark search for material set with a hierarchy structure book-mark; a highlight display function configured to highlight, on the display unit, a searched word or phrase; a managing unit including an access right control function configured to set one or more rights for each of a plurality of accounts associated with a browser, wherein the one or more rights set by the managing unit includes a manager right associated with the browser; a statistical data producing unit configured to produce statistical data represented by data size for each data format of the acquired digital document information or statistical data represented by data size for each data format of the digital document information; a digital document extracting unit configured to select a kind of file to be searched; a data converting unit configured to preserve a selected file as a separate file; an additional information setting unit configured to set additional information showing whether or not the searched document file is related with the litigation, wherein the additional information includes at least one of a first tag indicating that the searched document file is related with the litigation, a second tag indicating that the searched document file is potentially related with the litigation, and a third tag indicating that the searched document file is not related with the litigation; and an output unit configured to output the document file which is related with the litigation, based on the first relative degree of relationship the first user from among the users has with the litigation, the second relative degree of relationship the second user from among the users has with the litigation, and the at least one of the first tag indicating that the searched document file is related with the litigation, the second tag indicating that the searched document file is potentially related with the litigation, and the third tag indicating that the searched document file is not related with the litigation. | 21,523 |
8,567,744 | 1. A device for detachably mounting a high value object to a platform, said high value object having a damaging force, said device comprising: a breakaway plate mounted to said high value object, wherein said breakaway plate is formed with a circumferential groove in its outer periphery; a mounting bracket fixed to said platform; and, a disengagement means interconnecting said breakaway plate and said mounting bracket at a breakaway force, wherein said disengagement means further comprises: an o-ring placed in said circumferential groove; a tooth ring positioned over said o-ring and around said breakaway plate; and, a retaining ring positioned over said tooth ring and fastened to said mounting bracket, said o-ring engaging said tooth ring to establish said breakaway force when said retaining ring is fastened to said mounting bracket; said disengagement means causing said high value object to pivot away from said platform when an applied force that is perpendicular to and greater than said breakaway force, but less than said damaging force, is applied to said high value object. | 4,844 |
9,604,058 | 1. A method for treating an ailment of a patient using at least one electrode implanted within a spinal column of the patient, the method comprising: increasing an activation threshold of a side-effect exhibiting neural structure relative to the activation threshold of a dorsal column (DC) nerve fiber of the patient; and applying electrical stimulation energy to the DC nerve fiber via the at least one electrode while the activation threshold of the neural structure is increased, thereby treating the ailment while minimizing stimulation of the neural structure, wherein the at least one electrode is implanted within the spinal column of the patient at a T4-T6 spinal nerve level, and wherein the ailment is lower back pain. | 32,502 |
9,685,516 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a substrate; a graphene layer on the substrate; and a semiconductor layer covering the graphene layer, wherein the graphene layer includes a plurality of nanocrystal graphenes and a plurality of graphene protrusions, the graphene protrusions extending away from the graphene layer in an opposite direction to the substrate and including the nanocrystal graphenes in a stacking configuration and spaced apart from each other, wherein the graphene protrusions are connected to each other by the plurality of nanocrystal graphenes. | 4,930 |
8,771,254 | 1. A method for providing maintenance treatment to a catheter utilizing a syringe device having: a support structure having at least two separate compartments for containing respective liquids; a distal wall traversing the support structure proximate a distal end thereof; a duct extending through the distal wall enabling liquid to exit the at least two compartments; at least one plunger movably affixed to the support structure proximate the proximal end thereof for infusing liquids from the device through the duct upon activation of the at least one plunger, and a closure plug removably attached to the support structure at a distal end thereof, the support structure, the at least two compartments and the at least one plunger being adapted to infuse the respective liquids sequentially in a preselected order into the catheter lumen; the method comprising the steps of: connecting to the distal end of the syringe device, with the closure plug already attached to the support structure, to a proximal end of a catheter such that the closure plug is connected to the catheter proximal end and the duct is in fluid communication with a lumen of the catheter, activating the at least one plunger to express a first liquid from a first compartment, through the duct and into the lumen; activating one of said at least one plunger or another plunger associated with the second compartment, to express a second liquid from a second compartment through the duct and into the lumen; and removing the syringe device from the catheter proximal end such that the closure plug is detached from the support structure while remaining connected to the catheter proximal end. | 32,270 |
8,400,948 | 1. A method for updating real-time data between intervals in a communication processing center having a plurality of data sources and a data collector, the method including: receiving, by the data collector, real-time data at pre-defined intervals from the plurality of data sources, the real-time data including information regarding availability of aspects of a communication network; storing the received real-time data in a memory; detecting occurrence of a specified triggering event between the pre-defined intervals; and updating, between the pre-defined intervals, the received stored real-time data automatically in response to detecting the triggering event by replacing the received stored real time data with calculated update data calculated based on information relating to the specified triggering event. | 1,149 |
8,355,742 | 1. A wireless communications apparatus that enables adaptively selecting a subset of resource sets to utilize in a wireless communication environment, comprising: means for identifying an optimal reuse factor for a base station as a function of a metric based upon a level of service associated with at least one neighboring base station; means for selecting a fraction of available resource sets that are commonly defined across a network to form a base station specific collection, the fraction being based upon the optimal reuse factor; and means for allocating resources included in the resource sets from the base station specific collection to served access terminals. | 49,349 |
9,128,708 | 1. A power saving system of an optical disk drive, comprising: a first set of circuits, which are powered up when the optical disk drive is operating at a first operation rate; a second set of circuits, which are not used when the optical disk drive is operating at the first operation rate; and a power controlling unit, coupling to the first set of circuits and the second set of circuits, for powering up the first set of circuits according to the first operation rate of the optical disk drive and powering down the second set of circuits; wherein the first set of circuits comprise a high speed analog front end, and the second set of circuits comprises a low speed analog front end. | 132 |
9,702,908 | 1. A method of determining an injection current to be supplied into a power grid by a power generation system comprising a converter, the converter comprising a direct current (DC) link, the method comprising: determining whether a sum of a negative sequence component and a positive sequence component of a first component of the injection current exceeds a predetermined current limit; and upon determining that the sum exceeds the predetermined current limit: | 2,995 |
8,800,912 | 1. A vertical takeoff and landing aircraft comprising: a fuselage; three wings fixed to the fuselage, including a front wing, a middle wing and a rear wing; and six rotatable propulsion units, wherein first and second propulsion units are fixed to the front wing, third and fourth propulsion units are fixed to the middle wing and fifth and sixth propulsion units are fixed to the rear wing, and wherein each of the six propulsion units is located radially from each of two adjacent propulsion units by equal or substantially equal angles. | 3,624 |
9,525,172 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode has a positive active material containing a lithium transition metal composite oxide having an α-NaFeO 2 -type crystal structure and represented by the composition formula: Li 1+α Me 1−α O 2 (wherein Me is a transition metal element including Co, Ni and Mn; and α>0), the negative electrode has a negative active material containing a carbon material that is a mixture of graphite and amorphous carbon, the ratio of the amorphous carbon to the total amount of the graphite and amorphous carbon contained in the carbon material is 5 to 40% by mass, and a charge capacity per negative active material is 372 mAh/g or more. | 29,593 |
9,442,279 | 1. A solar concentrator composed of a plurality of linear reflective strips arranged generally in a trough shaped cross-section and further oriented such that sunlight parallel to the trough central axis and falling upon said linear reflective strips is concentrated upon a linear receiver element located at a position along a trough central axis; said reflective strips incorporated as part of horizontal structural members and vertical structural members inter-connected with said horizontal structural members and disposed at right angles to said horizontal structural members; open air spaces disposed between said horizontal and vertical structural members creating a trough shaped lattice structure through which air can pass; said horizontal structural members incorporating aerodynamic contours on their non-reflective surfaces and said vertical structural members incorporating aerodynamic contours on their surfaces exposed to wind. | 18,167 |
9,655,041 | 1. A System-on-Chip (SoC) comprising: a processor; and a computer-readable storage memory device embodying computer-executable instructions, that, when executed by the processor, implement a power conserver configured to conserve power during a discovery phase of a wireless local area network (WLAN) by: | 13,860 |
9,731,603 | 1. An alternating current electrical conductor for conducting alternating current between first and second opposite ends of the conductor, comprising: a plurality of electrically conductive layers, each conductive layer separated from adjacent conductive layers by a respective insulating layer; all conductive layers coupled to a common first terminal at the first end of the conductor; all conductive layers coupled to a common second terminal at the second end of the conductor; whereby current can only flow through all conductive layers in one direction between the first and second ends of the conductor at any given time; all conductive layers comprising a thickness that is many times smaller than a factor of skin depth (δ), wherein: and wherein | 35,385 |
9,203,828 | 1. A service usage management method executed by a plurality of information processing devices each configured to transmit an authentication information to a terminal device, the service usage management method comprising: receiving by a first of the plurality of information processing devices, from the terminal device used by a user, an authentication information for authenticating a user's right to use a service provided by an issuing source of the authentication information, the authentication information including an identifier of the issuing source and a count value indicating a number of information processing devices being different from each other which previously issued the authentication information to the terminal device, for each of the plurality of information processing devices, issuing the authentication information to the terminal device in response to previously receiving the previously issued authentication information from the terminal device, wherein the terminal device transmits the authentication information to a next of the plurality of information processing devices in response to the issuing; generating an updated authentication information from the transmitted authentication information for authenticating the user's right to use the service provided by the information processing device when the identifier of the issuing source is different from an identifier of the next information processing device; updating the count value based on the generating; transmitting the generated authentication information to the terminal device; and accessing, by the terminal device, the service using the updated authentication information in response to receiving the transmitted updated authentication information. | 36,625 |
9,182,868 | 1. An electrode loop structure of a touch panel, the electrode loop structure comprising: an electroconductive substrate having an upper surface formed with an electroconductive layer; an electroconductive film attached to the upper surface of the electroconductive substrate to form an integral structure; and an electrode loop mounted around the electroconductive layer of the electroconductive substrate, wherein the electrode loop comprises: a conducting chain comprising a plurality of I-shaped electrode elements regularly cascaded together, wherein each of the electrode elements has a long section, a short section and a middle conducting section connected to the long section and the short section, and neighboring two of the electrode elements are separately disposed in forward and reverse manners, respectively, wherein the long sections of the neighboring electrode elements correspondingly overlap with each other, top edges of the long section and the short section of the neighboring electrode elements are on the same edge line, and bottom edges of the short section and the long section of the neighboring electrode elements are on the same edge line; a gradient chain extending from a plurality of separately disposed I-shaped electrode elements and serially and separately disposed horizontally linear control elements serving as a base, wherein each of the electrode elements has a long section, a short section and a middle conducting section connected to the long section and the short section, wherein the electrode elements are regularly separately cascaded with the long sections being disposed atop, each of the control elements is disposed below an interval between neighboring two of the electrode elements, and bottom edges of the control elements and bottom edges of the short sections of the electrode elements are on the same edge line; and a discontinuous resistor chain formed by forming discontinuous insulating portions on a surface of the electroconductive layer, wherein the conducting chain and the gradient chain are formed outside and inside the discontinuous resistor chain, respectively, lengths of the insulating portions gradually decrease from an edge to a middle, gaps between the insulating portions gradually increase from the middle to the edge, and each of the insulating portions corresponds to an interval between the long sections of the neighboring electrode elements of the gradient chain. | 45,020 |
9,295,508 | 1. A device, comprising: a bone fracture fixation plate having an outer surface, a bone-facing surface, a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis extending between the first and second ends, wherein the bone plate comprises one or more sliding elements elastically suspended relative to the bone plate, the elastic suspension of each sliding element in the plate being achieved by an elastic material disposed between the sliding element and the plate, each sliding element containing one or more threaded receiving holes for bone screws that have a correspondingly threaded head lockable at a fixed angle into the receiving holes; wherein the one or more sliding elements undergo controlled displacement parallel to the longitudinal axis of the plate but are substantially constrained against displacement perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the plate, and wherein the one or more sliding elements are configured for rigid fixation to the bone screws without compressing the bone plate or sliding elements onto a bone surface. | 5,983 |
9,549,385 | 1. A method comprising: requesting a management server from an end device upon connection of the end device to a shortest path bridging (SPB) network for SPB configuration information for the end device to communicate on the SPB network, wherein the end device communicates with the management server over a non-SPB network connection, wherein the end device is a non-SPB device that is not compatible with the SPB network and includes a first fabric attach agent for processing networking configuration messages; receiving, by the end device, the SPB configuration information from the management server, wherein the SPB configuration information received from the management server includes one or more bindings mapping one or more virtual local area networks (VLANs) to one or more service identifiers (ISIDs) for the end device; and sending, by the end device, the SPB configuration information to an edge configuration device connected to the end device, wherein the edge configuration device includes a second fabric attach agent, and wherein the SPB configuration information causes configuration of the edge configuration device to allow communication of the end device on the SPB network. | 36,812 |
8,553,644 | 1. A wireless terminal which supports peer to peer communication and communication via a base station, the wireless terminal comprising: a receiver module for receiving a first signal from a first communications band, the first signal being from a base station and for receiving a second signal from a second communications band which is different from said first communications band, said second signal being from a peer wireless terminal; a base station link quality determination module for determining from said first signal link quality of a first link between said base station and said wireless terminal; a peer to peer link quality determination module for determining from said second signal link quality of a second link between said wireless terminal and said peer wireless terminal; and a link selection module for selecting between said first and second links for a communication session based on the determined quality of said first and second links; a beacon burst processing module for recovering link information from a beacon signal burst; and a user data recovery module for recovering user data from non-beacon signals used to communicate user data as part of a communication session wherein said first and second signals each include at least one beacon signal. | 12,714 |
8,407,219 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: calculating a probability distribution of a set of items with respect to latent variables including determining counter values incremented in response to user selections of items in the set of items and according to user membership in categories represented by the latent variables, where each counter value corresponds to a category of which the user is a member, and where each counter value is fractionally incremented relative to other categories of which the user is a member; clustering a plurality of users with respect to the one or more latent variables in a probability distribution model of a relationship between a set of users and a set of items, the probability distribution model comprising the calculated probability distribution of the set of items with respect to the latent variables; and generating a relationship score for one or more items in the set of items, each relationship score relating the item to a particular user in the set of users based on the particular user's category memberships and the calculated probability distribution of the set of items with respect to the latent variables. | 2,808 |
8,814,965 | 1. A cubic boron nitride sintered body which comprises about 30 to about 70% by volume of cubic boron nitride; and as the reminder, a binder phase comprising at least one selected from an oxide, carbide, nitride and boride of Ti, Al, Zr, Y, Ce, Mg or Ca and mutual solid solutions thereof; and inevitable impurities, the cubic boron nitride sintered body contains α-type Al when an X-ray diffraction intensity of a (110) plane of α-type Al (Izb/Ia) which shows a ratio of Izb based on Ia satisfies 0.13≦(Izb/Ia)≦0.30, and (Izo/Ia) which shows a ratio of Izo based on Ia satisfies 0.05≦(Izo/Ia)≦0.20. | 35,425 |
9,060,932 | 1. An oral matrix carrier composition for oral delivery of a pharmaceutical agent, the composition being a suspension of a particulate matter in a continuous oil phase, the particulate matter comprising an intermolecular association of at least: a first solid phase comprising nanoparticles having a hydrophobic surface, wherein the size of the nanoparticles is in the range of about 5-1000 nm; a second solid phase, comprising a biopolymer having hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts; and the continuous phase being associated with said first and said second solid phases, wherein the mass of the biopolymer is at least twice that of the nanoparticles. | 14,951 |
8,587,993 | 1. A method comprising: determining a switching current ratio of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure that enables stable operation of a memory cell, the memory cell including the MTJ structure coupled to an access transistor; and modifying, based on the determined switching current ratio that enables stable operation of the memory cell, an offset magnetic field that is incident to a free layer of the MTJ structure, wherein the modified offset magnetic field causes the MTJ structure to exhibit the switching current ratio, wherein determining the switching current ratio and modifying the offset magnetic field are performed at a processor integrated into an electronic device. | 23,133 |
8,908,730 | 1. A laser driver apparatus, comprising: a single laser driver comprising a plurality of digital-to-analog converters; a decoder that communicates electronically with said plurality of digital-to-analog converters; at least one threshold level and at least one undershoot level, wherein said at least one threshold level and said at least one undershoot level are digitally combined into a single output with respect to said single laser driver to reduce an output capacitance of said single laser driver and minimize a circuit power of said single laser driver resulting in a faster and higher fidelity signal thereof; and wherein thermometer decoding of said at least one threshold level and said at least one undershot level via said decoder permits usage of said single laser driver if said at least one threshold level and said at least one undershoot level are digitally combined such that at least one least significant bit of at least one digital-to-analog converter among said plurality of digital-to-analog converters maps to a same bit driver as at least one most significant bit of at least one other digital-to-analog converter among said plurality of digital-to-analog converters. | 25,148 |
8,813,264 | 1. Apparatus for magnetically holding a shirt collar in a position and orientation on a shirt front, comprising in combination: a collar stay configured for attachment to a surface of a shirt collar or positionable within a collar stay pocket of a collar, the collar stay comprising at least one surface bounded by a peripheral edge portion, the collar stay comprising a material attractable by a magnet, and at least the peripheral edge portion of the collar stay being covered by a cover of a plastics material or a rubbery material; and a magnet positionable against an inside surface of a shirt front opposite a collar thereof and operable for magnetic attachment to the elongate collar stay through the shirt front, for holding a collar to which the collar stay is attached, against the shirt front. | 16,110 |
8,763,377 | 1. A method for adapting a lean NOx trap (LNT) in an exhaust system of a motor vehicle, comprising: executing instructions on a control system comprising a computer readable storage medium, the instructions including: if a difference between an estimated NOx concentration and a measured NOx concentration in exhaust downstream of the LNT is greater than a threshold, calculating an adaptation value, the estimated NOx concentration downstream of the LNT based on a kinetic model; adapting the kinetic model, adjusting one or more operating parameters of the LNT, and indicating an aging state of the LNT based on the adaptation value; and determining a storage adaptation rate of the LNT based on the adaptation value and exhaust mass flow, the storage adaptation rate utilized for a diagnosis of the LNT if a value of the storage adaptation rate is below a defined threshold and if LNT temperature is changing by less than a threshold temperature. | 26,742 |
9,567,800 | 1. A deck curtain structure for use with a deck structure, said curtain structure comprising: a) at least one pair of vertical posts, said vertical posts having a first end and a second end, wherein said first end of each said at least one pair of vertical posts is adapted to connect to a rail cap of said deck structure; b) at least one pair of horizontal connectors, wherein said at least one pair of horizontal connectors is affixed to said second end of each of said at least one pair of vertical posts, wherein each said horizontal connector is rotatable in relation to the outer perimeter of each of said at least one pair of vertical posts, wherein each said horizontal connector of said least one pair of horizontal connectors further comprises: c) at least one cross member positioned between said at least one pair of vertical posts, wherein said at least one cross member has a first and a second end, wherein said at least one cross member is positioned between and affixed to said at least one pair of horizontal connectors; and, d) at least one curtain, wherein said at least one curtain is engaged with said at least one cross member positioned between said at least one pair of vertical posts, wherein said at least one curtain is proximate said deck structure. | 18,602 |
8,521,647 | 1. A method for providing a consumer billing data protection capability, the method comprising: storing in a computer system a plurality of consumer records, each of which includes consumer identification information and partial billing information, wherein the partial billing information comprises a predetermined set of p alphanumeric characters of a billing information of said consumer; wherein the partial billing information is less than a data required by a financial institution separate from the computer system to debit funds from a consumer's account at the financial institution, and wherein a remaining m alphanumeric characters of the billing information of said consumer are not stored in the computer system; sending an electronic communication offer to a consumer's communication device corresponding to the consumer identification information stored in one of the plurality of consumer records; processing at said computer system an order received from said consumer's communication device, comprising: | 3,169 |
9,321,284 | 1. An inkjet recording apparatus comprising: a recording head recording on a recording medium; a driving motor moving at least one of the recording head and the recording medium in order to change a recording position on the recording medium; position determining means for determining a position of the recording head relative to the recording medium; and controlling means for controlling the position determining means to continuously determine the position of the recording head relative to the recording medium after an emergency stop command is generated during recordation to turn off excitation of the driving motor, wherein the controlling means controls the position determining means to determine a first position of the recording head relative to the recording medium at a time when a restart command for restarting the recordation is generated after the emergency stop command is generated, wherein after the restart command is generated, the controlling means controls the driving motor to move the recording head in a scanning direction from the determined first position to a second position for restarting the recordation on the recording medium, and controls the recording head and the driving motor to record on the recording medium from the second position by moving the recording head and discharging ink from the recording head, and wherein the controlling means controls the position determining means to determine a third position of the recording head relative to the recording medium at a time when the emergency stop command is generated, the second position being different from the third position. | 35,363 |
8,901,064 | 1. A washing or cleaning agent, comprising i. at least one component selected from the group consisting of surfactants and builders; and ii. microcapsules having capsule walls consisting of resin made from wherein the molar ratio of component a) to component b) is from 1:1 to 1:5, and wherein the molar ratio of components a)+b) to component c) is from 1:1 and 1:0.01. | 18,364 |
8,923,553 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a region setting unit configured to set a specific region in an image in advance of detecting a changed region; a size setting unit configured to set a size of an object to be detected in association with a position in the image; a changed region detection unit configured to detect a changed region from an input image other than the specific region, by comparing a background model and the input image; an object candidate region setting unit configured to set an object region in the specific region based on the size of the object associated with a position of the changed region, in a case where the changed region contacts with a boundary of the specific region; and an extension unit configured to extend the changed region by combining the detected changed region with the object candidate region included in the specific region. | 16,119 |
9,724,264 | 1. A control system, applied to an intelligent terminal and a sexual stimulation device, the intelligent terminal comprising an input unit, a display unit and a display control unit, the sexual stimulation device comprising a vibration unit and a detection unit, the detection unit being used for detecting a pressure of the sexual stimulation device and a moving speed of the sexual stimulation device; the control system comprising a plurality of processing units and a plurality of modules which are collections of instructions executed by the plurality of processing units, the plurality of modules comprising: a data obtaining module configured to obtain the detected pressure and the detected speed and further generate a detect signal containing the detected pressure and the detected speed; a submitting module configured to submit the detect signal to the intelligent terminal, and the display control module configured to control the display unit to display the detected pressure and the detected speed by dynamic graphics according to the detect signal; an instruction module configured to generate a control signal in response to a user's input operation applied on the input unit and further transmit the control signal to the sexual stimulation device; and a vibration control module configured to control the vibration unit to vibrate according to the control signal. | 48,214 |
8,891,824 | 1. A method for detecting fatigue driving, comprising: analyzing a driver's eye image with a rectangular feature template to obtain an upper eyelid line, in particular, traversing the eye image by columns with the rectangular feature template and recording a location in each column where the feature value of the rectangular feature template is maximal, the feature value of the rectangular feature template referring to a greyscale difference between upper and lower halves of a rectangle where the rectangular feature template is located, and obtaining the upper eyelid line by taking the central point of the rectangular feature template at the location as a point on the upper eyelid line; determining the eye closure state according to a curvature or curvature feature value of the upper eyelid line; and collecting statistics on the eye closure state and thereby determining whether the driver is in a fatigue state. | 43,959 |
8,361,683 | 1. A method of determining positioning error between lithographically produced integrated circuit fields on at least one lithographic level comprising: creating a first target pattern on a lithographic field containing a first integrated circuit pattern, the first target pattern and the lithographic field being on a lithographic level, the first target pattern comprising two first sub-patterns at first opposing corners of a first rectangle having a first width and a first length, the first length being different than the first width; creating a second target pattern on a different lithographic field containing a second integrated circuit pattern, the second target pattern and the different lithographic field being on the a different lithographic level than the first target pattern, the second target pattern comprising two second sub-patterns at second opposing corners of the first rectangle; determining the center of the first target pattern and the center of the second target pattern; and measuring positioning error between the lithographic fields by comparing locations of the first target pattern center and the second target pattern center. | 14,592 |
8,617,542 | 1. A composition comprising: (a) Dispersin B®, or variant thereof; (b) 5-fluorouracil; (c) deoxyribonuclease I or an active fragment thereof. | 29,535 |
9,185,657 | 1. A communication device comprising: an input device; a display; a camera; an antenna; a power-off notification implementer, wherein upon the power of another device is identified to be turned off, a power-off notification is retrieved and provided to the user of said communication device; a power-off location notifying implementer, wherein a power-off location which is the location of said another device at which the power of said another device is turned off is retrieved and provided to the user of said communication device; a header displaying implementer, wherein when a first document is transferred from said another device to said communication device, a header relevant data is transferred from said another device to said communication device together with said first document, wherein said header relevant data indicates the text, font type, font size, font color, and/or location of a header of said first document, wherein when said first document is retrieved and displayed on said communication device, said header is retrieved and displayed in accordance with said text, said font type, said font size, said font color, and/or said location of said header, which are identified by said another device in advance to transferring said header relevant data from said another device to said communication device; a footer displaying implementer, wherein when a second document is transferred from said another device to said communication device, a footer relevant data is transferred from said another device to said communication device together with said second document, wherein said footer relevant data indicates the text, font type, font size, font color, and/or location of a footer of said second document, wherein when said second document is retrieved and displayed on said communication device, said footer is retrieved and displayed in accordance with said text, said font type, said font size, said font color, and/or said location of said footer, which are identified by said another device in advance to transferring said footer relevant data from said another device to said communication device; a zone leaving notifying implementer, wherein when said another device is identified to be leaving from a specific geographic zone identified by said communication device, a zone leaving notice is retrieved and provided to the user of said communication device; and a zone entering notifying implementer, wherein when said another device is identified to be entering into said specific geographic zone identified by said communication device, a zone entering notice is retrieved and provided to the user of said communication device. | 40,850 |
8,655,747 | 1. A system for processing sales transactions, the system comprising: a first computing device in communication with a buyer-operated computing device; and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the first computing device, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions for: | 12,564 |
9,145,856 | 1. An apparatus for mixing air with a catalyst comprising: an existing air intake configured to pressurize air and having an intake input and an intake output; a catalyst reservoir having a reservoir input coupled to the intake output and a reservoir output coupled to the intake input; an engine air tube that is configured to be coupled to an internal combustion engine and the existing air intake; and at least one of: an air filter, a restrictor and a valve coupled between the intake output and the catalyst reservoir. | 6,902 |
9,711,965 | 1. A circuit arrangement for connection to an electrical circuit, wherein the electrical circuit comprises a transformer comprising at least one primary winding connected to an electric power grid and at least one secondary winding connected to a power converter with a capacitor, the circuit arrangement comprising: an auxiliary winding coupled to the at least one primary winding; and a switching device coupled to the auxiliary winding, the switching device including: a first anti-parallel connected thyristor pair coupled to a first phase of the auxiliary winding, a second anti-parallel connected thyristor pair coupled to a second phase of the auxiliary winding, and a third anti-parallel connected thyristor pair coupled to a third phase of the auxiliary winding; and a first switch connected to the first anti-parallel connected thyristor pair, a second switch connected to the second anti-parallel connected thyristor pair, and a third switch connected to the third anti-parallel connected thyristor pair; and a fourth switch connecting a connection point of the first switch and the first anti-parallel connected thyristor pair to a connection point of the second anti-parallel connected thyristor pair and the second phase of the auxiliary winding; a fifth switch connecting a connection point of the second switch and the second anti-parallel connected thyristor pair to a connection point of the third anti-parallel connected thyristor pair and the third phase of the auxiliary winding; and a sixth switch connecting a connection point of the third switch and the third anti-parallel connected thyristor pair to a connection point the first anti-parallel connected thyristor pair and the first phase of the auxiliary winding. | 4,751 |
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