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9,682,915 | 1. A method for producing a methacrylic acid ester, which comprises the following steps: a dehydration reaction step: a step of having acetone undergo a dehydration reaction in the presence of a dehydration reaction catalyst to obtain a reaction mixture containing propyne, propadiene, and water; a propyne/propadiene separation step: a step of separating a mixture containing propyne and propadiene as main components from the reaction mixture obtained in the dehydration reaction step; a propyne purification step: a step of separating the mixture containing propyne and propadiene as main components separated in the propyne/propadiene separation step into a liquid, gas, or gas-liquid mixture containing propyne as a main component, and a liquid, gas, or gas-liquid mixture containing propadiene as a main component; and a carbonylation reaction step: a step of bringing the liquid, gas, or gas-liquid mixture containing propyne as a main component obtained in the propyne purification step into contact with carbon monoxide and an alcohol having 1 to 3 carbon atoms in the presence of a catalyst containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Group 8 metal elements, Group 9 metal elements, and Group 10 metal elements to obtain a methacrylic acid ester; and wherein the dehydration reaction catalyst is a catalyst containing silicon and at least one selected from the group consisting of Group 1 metal elements and Group 2 metal elements. | 21,447 |
9,648,596 | 1. A method for wireless communication, comprising: receiving a first request, at a first user equipment (UE), to reduce interference on uplink radio resources used for communication with a base station, wherein the first request is based on a second request originating at a second UE and received at the base station; reducing transmit power of the first UE on the uplink radio resources to reduce interference; wherein at least one of the first UE is not served by the base station or the second UE is not served by the base station; and | 17,213 |
9,321,100 | 1. A method of production of a metal reinforcement of a leading edge or a trailing edge of a turbomachine blade comprising: cutting, in at least one flexible metal sheet, a plurality of metal foils corresponding to the evolute of said leading edge or trailing edge metal reinforcement; producing a plurality of metal pockets, each metal pocket being produced by attaching two metal foils together cut during the cutting; stacking said metal pockets one inside the other, in such a way as to form a preform of said leading or trailing edge metal reinforcement, and after said stacking, hot isostatic pressing said preform, causing said metal pockets to bond to one another, in such a way as to obtain said leading or trailing edge metal reinforcement. | 4,332 |
8,787,254 | 1. A method for establishing a protocol entity in a convergence protocol layer of a first wireless station, comprising: receiving a radio bearer setup message from a second wireless station, wherein the radio bearer setup message includes an identifier for a compression algorithm, a compression parameter, and a protocol entity ID; in response to receiving the radio bearer setup message, configuring the protocol entity having the protocol entity ID in the convergence protocol layer of the first wireless station according to the following: transmitting a radio bearer setup complete message confirming the establishment of the protocol entity to the second wireless station, wherein the radio bearer setup complete message includes the protocol entity ID. | 44,906 |
8,518,604 | 1. A nanocomposite for an energy storage electrochemical cell comprising a metal fluoride component and a phosphate component, wherein the nanocomposite is further characterized as having the following properties: | 11,774 |
8,564,763 | 1. A lithographic projection apparatus comprising: a substrate table configured to support a substrate on a substrate supporting area; an inlet for a liquid in the substrate table, the inlet surrounding the substrate supporting area; a plurality of heaters positioned adjacent to an edge of the inlet, at least two of the plurality of heaters positioned in a non-parallel way to each other, positioned respectively adjacent different portions of an edge of the substrate supporting area and being independently controllable of one another; a liquid handling system configured to provide the liquid to a localized area of a top surface of the substrate table and/or the substrate; and a projection system to project a radiation beam through the liquid in the localized area onto the substrate. | 31,379 |
8,763,218 | 1. A structurally reinforced modular casket comprising: a base panel having head and foot end portions and left and right edge portions; a head end panel and a foot end panel coupled to said head end portion and said foot end portion of said base panel, respectively, in a generally upstanding manner; a left side panel and a right side panel coupled to said left edge portion and said right edge portion of said base panel, respectively, and said left side panel and said right side panel coupled to said base panel in a generally upstanding manner to define a cavity between respective inwardly-facing surfaces of said base panel, said left and right side panels, and said head and foot end panels, for receiving a deceased body; a lid that is positionable atop said left and right side panels and said head and foot end panels for enclosing said cavity; a structural sealant applied in an uncured state to said inwardly-facing surfaces of said left and right side panels and said left and right edge portions of said base panel to form a sealant layer extending substantially the length of each of said left and right side panels and filling a portion of said cavity; and wherein said sealant is cured to a hardened state to rigidize, and substantially permanently join said base panel to said left and right side panels. | 17,175 |
9,073,664 | 1. A container comprising: a bottom wall, opposite sidewalls, and opposite end walls all of which foldably joined to one another to form an interior space to receive products therein, first and second top wall panels each of which being foladbly joined to respective longitudinal edges of the opposite sidewalls, a pair of hand holes each of which being formed on the opposite end walls, | 39,616 |
9,099,102 | 1. A microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) head comprising: a magnetic writer main pole extending to an air bearing surface; a shield wrapping around at least a portion of said main pole, said shield comprising a trailing shield at a trailing side of said main pole and a side shield at each respective side of said main pole in a cross-track direction; a gap between said main pole and said shield, said gap comprising a trailing gap between said trailing shield and said main pole and a side gap between each respective side shield and said main pole; a spin torque oscillator (STO) element positioned between said main pole and said trailing shield and offset in a particular offset direction from a centerline of said main pole; and wherein the saturation magnetization of the side shield positioned on the side opposing said offset direction is higher than the saturation magnetization of the side shield positioned on the side of said offset direction. | 13,972 |
9,408,436 | 1. A footwear system, comprising: a first insert including a first casing designed to receive a foot of a wearer; a second insert designed to receive the foot of the wearer, the second insert including a second casing configured to enclose the foot of the wearer, the second casing including a casing material and a high heat capacity material that is configured to remain in a non-solid phase in a working temperature range from approximately 31 degrees Fahrenheit to approximately 99 degrees Fahrenheit; and an outer assembly including an upper portion and an outer sole portion, the outer assembly designed to receive the foot of the wearer while wearing one of the first insert and the second insert; wherein the first insert is formed completely of one or more materials that are solid in the working temperature range; wherein the first insert and the second insert are interchangeable such that the outer assembly is designed to: wherein substantially all of the first insert is formed by a first plurality of areas; wherein the second insert is formed, at least in part, by a second plurality of areas that correspond with the first plurality of areas; wherein, in each area of the first plurality of areas, the first insert has a wall thickness that is substantially the same as a wall thickness of the second insert in an area of the second plurality of areas that corresponds with the area of the first plurality of areas of the first insert; and wherein the second insert is configured to completely enclose the foot of the wearer in order to provide complete encapsulation of the wearer's foot with high heat capacity material. | 5,489 |
9,194,028 | 1. A method comprising: (a) solutionizing an aluminum alloy body, wherein the aluminum alloy body consists of: wherein the aluminum alloy body includes an amount of alloying elements that leaves the aluminum alloy body substantially free of insoluble constituent particles after the solutionizing step(a); (b) after the solutionizing step (a), cold rolling the aluminum alloy body to a final gauge of from 0.006 to 0.249 inches, thereby producing an aluminum alloy sheet product, wherein the cold rolling reduces the thickness of the aluminum alloy body from 55% to 90% to achieve the final gauge; and (c) after the cold working step (b), thermally treating the aluminum alloy sheet product, wherein the thermally treating step (c) comprises maintaining the aluminum alloy sheet product below its recrystallization temperature: wherein the cold rolling step (b) and the thermally treating step (c) are performed to achieve an increase in long-transverse tensile yield strength as compared to a reference-version of he aluminum alloy sheet product in the as cold-worked condition; and wherein the cold rolling step (b) and the thermally treating step (c) are performed such that the aluminum alloy sheet product realizes a predominately unrecrystallized microstructure; and wherein the cold rolling step (b) and the thermally treating step (c) are performed such that the aluminum alloy sheet product achieves a long-transverse elongation of at least 5%. | 42,984 |
9,829,902 | 1. A method comprising: determining, using a power manager, a sequence of phases corresponding to an application comprising tasks for execution on a node, the sequence corresponding to a time interval associated with an energy budget; for each phase, determining a power scaling comprising a measured response in runtime to an increase or decrease in power distributed to a plurality of power domains in the node; based on the power scaling for each phase, determining a temporal power distribution between the phases in the sequence to satisfy the energy budget and improve or optimize runtime performance of the application by the node. | 21,128 |
9,039,561 | 1. A multi-stage automatic transmission for a motor vehicle, the transmission comprising: an input shaft ( first, second and third planetary gear sets (P first and second spur gear stages (S at least third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh rotatable shafts ( at least five shift elements ( the input shaft ( the ring gear of the first planetary gear set (P the third shaft ( the carrier of the second planetary gear set (P the carrier of the third planetary gear set (P the fourth clutch ( | 9,053 |
8,643,771 | 1. An electronic device comprising: an image capturing unit; and a processor for controlling the image capturing unit to periodically capture an image in front of the electronic device, and analyzing the captured image to determine whether a user is using the electronic device, and further controlling the electronic device to be in a working state if a user is using the electronic device; wherein the processor compares the captured image with a pre-stored image to determine whether a difference between the captured image and the pre-stored image matches a preset value, and determine that a user is using the electronic device if the difference matches the preset value; wherein the pre-stored image is an image of a human face without eyes, if the difference matches the preset value, the processor determines that the captured image comprises eyes, and determine that a user is using the electronic device. | 7,631 |
9,514,877 | 1. A method for assembling an insulating member, an amorphous core, and a coil of an amorphous core transformer, the insulating member having a rectangular cylinder and flanges and having a first dimension, the amorphous core having a joint section, and the coil having a hole, wherein the method comprises: folding the rectangular cylinder and flanges of the insulating member, the folded insulating member having a second dimension smaller than the first dimension; inserting the folded insulating member into the hole of the coil; expanding the rectangular cylinder and the flanges of the folded insulating member; disconnecting the joint section of the amorphous core; inserting an open-ended portion of the amorphous core into the rectangular cylinder of the expanded insulating member within the coil; lapping the disconnected joint section of the amorphous core; and covering yokes of the amorphous core with the flanges of the insulating member. | 20,218 |
8,460,891 | 1. An isolated monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to aryloxyalkanoate dioxygenase-12 enzyme (AAD-12), wherein the monoclonal antibody is produced by a hybridoma having an American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) Accession Number selected from the group consisting of PTA-10919, PTA-10920, PTA-10921, PTA-10922, and PTA-10923. | 21,426 |
9,695,313 | 1. A fiber comprising an extruded polymer composition comprising polyethylene terephthlate present as from about 25% to about 100% homogeneously blended deposit post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate by weight and balance virgin polyethylene terephthalate, wherein the homogeneously blended deposit post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate comprises at least one impurity not present in virgin polyethylene terephthlate, and wherein the at least one impurity comprises floatable contamination in an amount less than 15 ppm, PVC contamination in an amount less than 50 ppm, or a combination thereof. | 34,600 |
8,532,843 | 1. An engine automatic control system comprising: a roadside mobile detection device provided at an intersection of a road to detect, as mobile object information, information of a mobile object that passes through the intersection; a traffic light information acquisition device to acquire traffic light information of a traffic light provided at the intersection, the traffic light information containing a light switchover time schedule; a roadside information transmission device provided at the intersection to transmit the mobile object information detected by the roadside mobile detection device and the traffic light information acquired by the traffic light information acquisition device; an in-vehicle information acquisition device provided in a vehicle to acquire the mobile object information and the traffic light information transmitted from the roadside information transmission device; an engine start determination section provided in the vehicle to determine a permission or a prohibition of starting an engine of the vehicle, the engine being in a stop state, based on the traffic light information and the mobile object information which are acquired by the in-vehicle information acquisition device; an engine control section provided in the vehicle to start the engine when the engine start determination section determines the permission of starting the engine; and a turn indicator provided in the vehicle to indicate a turn direction of the vehicle, wherein: the roadside mobile detection device is configured to detect, as the mobile object information, vehicle information which indicates a vehicle that passes through the intersection along a traffic lane; the roadside information transmission device is configured to transmit the vehicle information as the mobile object information; the in-vehicle information acquisition device is configured to acquire the vehicle information as the mobile object information; the engine start determination section is configured to determine the permission or prohibition of starting the engine, which is in the stop state, based on the traffic light information and the vehicle information; the roadside mobile detection device is configured to detect, as the mobile object information, pedestrian information which indicates a pedestrian that passes through the intersection along a crosswalk; the roadside information transmission device is configured to transmit the pedestrian information as the mobile object information; the in-vehicle information acquisition device is configured to acquire the pedestrian information as the mobile object information; the engine start determination section is configured to determine the permission or prohibition of starting the engine, which is in the stop state, based on the traffic light information and the pedestrian information; the engine start determination section is configured to determine the permission of starting the engine when the engine start determination section determines, based on the mobile object information, that there are a plurality of preceding vehicles ahead of a subject vehicle and there is a tracking target vehicle which has started forward movement toward the intersection under a condition that the traffic light information indicates a permission signal, the tracking target vehicle being at least a second preceding vehicle counted from the subject vehicle; the roadside mobile detection device is configured to detect, as the mobile object information, a distance between each of the preceding vehicles and the intersection; the engine start determination section is configured to determine that the tracking target vehicle started the forward movement based on the distance between the intersection and each of the preceding vehicles, the distance being included in the mobile object information; in cases that the subject vehicle is in a turn waiting state so as to cross over an oncoming traffic lane and then enter a cross road of the intersection, the engine start determination section is configured to calculate an estimate of an intersection arrival time duration for an oncoming vehicle running along the oncoming traffic lane, based on a distance between the intersection and the oncoming vehicle and a speed of the oncoming vehicle, the distance and the speed being included in the mobile object information, and to determine the permission or prohibition of starting the engine based on the calculated estimate of the intersection arrival time duration; in cases that the traffic light information indicates an auxiliary entrance permission signal to permit an auxiliary entrance while indicating a stop signal or a prohibition signal, the engine start determination section is configured to determine the permission or prohibition of starting the engine based on the turn direction indicated by the turn indicator of the subject vehicle and a predetermined turn direction permitted by the auxiliary entrance permission signal; and in cases that the subject vehicle is in the turn waiting state so as to cross over the oncoming traffic lane and then enter the cross road of the intersection and the traffic light information indicates a stop signal and the prohibition signal while indicating no auxiliary entrance permission signal, the engine start determination section is configured to determine the prohibition of starting the engine when determining that a position of the subject vehicle specified from the mobile object information is located short of a stop line before entering the intersection. | 2,849 |
8,828,687 | 1. A method for the production of recombinant vector virus, wherein the vector virus comprises nucleotide sequences encoding at least one heterologous protein, or fragments thereof, said method comprising the following steps: (a) providing at least one heterologous nucleotide sequence, (b) providing a vector virus sequence, wherein said vector virus sequence comprises nucleotide sequences encoding the NS1 protein and the E protein sequence of a (c) cloning the heterologous sequence of step (a) into the vector virus sequence, wherein the insertion of the heterologous sequence occurs in the E/NS1 intergenic region, further wherein the nucleotides present at the 5′ end of the NS1 gene and the whole or part of the domains of stem and anchor of the E protein are present at either end of the heterologous sequence; wherein when the heterologous protein is expressed it will be processed normally by a host cell and can induce an immune response. | 33,968 |
9,375,724 | 1. A process for cleaning a screen bottom arranged in the first stage of a flotation process for separating a conglomerate of plastic material dependant from density and from all other material, the flotation process comprising a first stage where all material heavier than plastics is separated from plastics and settle on a screen bottom and a second stage where still floating plastic material is separated depending upon varying density, the process comprising the steps of: moving the screen bottom of first stage slowly in intervals to a final position minimizing a slot between one wall of the flotation tank and one edge of the screen bottom; moving the screen, after it reaches the final position, via an accelerated countermovement to an opposite final position opening the slot; abruptly stopping movement of the screen when the screen reaches the opposite final position. | 17,597 |
9,013,748 | 1. An input display device comprising: a holding unit configured to hold print target data; a display unit configured to aggregate pages of the print target data held by the holding unit and display a plurality of pages at one time as a preview; a rotation detection unit configured to detect a rotation operation performed on the input display device by a user; and a change unit configured to, when the plurality of pages are aggregated and displayed by the display unit, if a predetermined rotation operation has been detected by the rotation detection unit, change a layout order of the plurality of pages displayed by the display unit, wherein the predetermined rotation operation is a return operation in which the input display device is rotated by the user in a predetermined direction from an original base state indicating a state before being operated by the user, and subsequently returned to the original base state. | 47,375 |
9,258,966 | 1. A plant of corn variety CV576465, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV576465 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-121101. | 18,587 |
9,561,726 | 1. A method for calculating a regenerative braking amount of a hybrid electric vehicle having a motor and a multistage transmission, comprising: calculating a first possible charging power of the motor outputted to the multistage transmission when regenerative braking of the hybrid electric vehicle is required; calculating a second possible charging power of the motor by using the first possible charging power of the motor based on shift efficiency of the multistage transmission; converting the second possible charging power of the motor to a torque of a wheel axle; calculating an available amount of regenerative braking by reflecting a coasting torque on the torque of the wheel axle; generating a motor torque command based on the available amount of regenerative braking; calculating a final regenerative braking amount by monitoring a real motor torque according to the motor torque command and correcting an error; and performing regenerative braking according to the final regenerative braking amount after calculating the final regenerative braking amount, wherein when the regenerative braking is performed, a hydraulic braking is performed of a remaining braking amount calculated by subtracting the final regenerative braking amount from a total braking amount based on signals outputted from a vehicle speed sensor and a brake pedal position sensor. | 34,721 |
9,412,894 | 1. A photovoltaic device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a first amorphous conductive semiconductor layer on a first region of a first surface of the semiconductor substrate and containing a first impurity; a second amorphous conductive semiconductor layer on a second region of the first surface of the semiconductor substrate and containing a second impurity; a gap passivation layer formed on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate between the first amorphous conductive semiconductor layer on the first region and the second amorphous conductive semiconductor layer on the second region; and a third amorphous conductive semiconductor layer containing the first impurity on the gap passivation layer. | 39,606 |
9,384,847 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a mode selection circuit to put the semiconductor device in either a first mode of operation or a second mode of operation; a reference voltage input terminal configured to receive a reference voltage; a data terminal configured to receive a data input signal; a first clock terminal configured to receive a first clock signal; a second clock terminal configured to receive a second clock signal, and one of the first and second clock signals being a positive clock input signal; a first comparator to: i) receive the reference voltage and the data input signal; and ii) provide a first data signal; a first buffer to: i) receive the data input signal; and ii) provide a second data signal; a selector circuit to: i) receive the first data signal and the second data signal; and ii) provide an internal data signal; a second comparator to: i) receive the first clock signal and the second clock signal; and ii) provide a third clock signal; a second buffer to receive the positive clock input signal and provide a fourth clock signal; and a clock generator circuit to: i) receiving the third clock signal and the fourth clock signal; and ii) provide an internal clock signal, and wherein the selector circuit provides the internal data signal based on the first data signal in the first mode of operation and on the second data signal in the second mode of operation, and the clock generator circuit provides the internal clock signal based on the third clock signal in the first mode of operation and on the fourth clock signal in the second mode of operation. | 7,237 |
9,657,653 | 1. A method of detecting pressure deviation of a first fluid in an engine, the method comprising steps of: calculating, for each of a plurality of measurements, a delta between an actual first fluid pressure and a target pressure; summing each delta obtained from the calculating step until a summing limit is reached; determining pressure deviation of the first fluid based on a cumulative sum of the deltas; triggering a high pressure event flag when the summing limit is reached in a high pressure fail counter; and providing an operator warning message on a display when the high pressure event flag is triggered. | 28,162 |
9,568,193 | 1. An air pollution control system comprising: a desulfurization device which removes sulfur oxides in a flue gas generated from a boiler; a cooler which is provided at the downstream side of the desulfurization device and includes a temperature adjustment means to adjust a gas dew point temperature of the flue gas to enlarge a particle diameter of SO3 mist contained in the flue gas; and a CO wherein the temperature adjustment means includes a cooling unit including a heat exchanger to cool the cooled water circulating inside the cooler to be lower by 20° C. or more from a flue gas introduction temperature. | 23,042 |
9,108,162 | 1. An energy exchange chamber for utilizing pressure energy of concentrated seawater discharged from a reverse-osmosis membrane-separation apparatus as energy for pressurizing seawater in a seawater desalination system for producing fresh water from the seawater by passing the seawater pressurized by a pump through said reverse-osmosis membrane-separation apparatus to separate the seawater into fresh water and concentrated seawater, said energy exchange chamber comprising: a cylinder configured to define a chamber therein; a concentrated seawater port configured to introduce and discharge the concentrated seawater; a seawater port configured to introduce and discharge the seawater, a first flow regulator and a second flow regulator disposed adjacent to each other in said chamber so as to be spaced apart from said concentrated seawater port, said first flow regulator and said second flow regulator being spaced apart from each other at a certain distance; and a third flow regulator and a fourth flow regulator disposed adjacent to each other in said chamber so as to be spaced apart from said seawater port, said third flow regulator and said fourth flow regulator being spaced apart from each other at a certain distance, wherein each of said first flow regulator, said second flow regulator, said third flow regulator and said fourth flow regulator comprises a porous plate configured to regulate a flow by a porosity of said porous plate, and said porous plate comprises a perforated plate configured to have a plurality of holes perforated across an entire area of said porous plate. | 30,013 |
9,629,019 | 1. A method of transmitting data packets from a transmitter to a receiver within the context of a single radio link control (RLC) entity, the method comprising: transmitting lower priority data blocks containing data segments of a first higher layer packet associated with a lower priority first packet flow context (PFC); indicating interruption of the transmission of said first higher layer packet by including a first Temporary Flow Identifier (TFI) in a header or a data field of an initial one of higher priority data blocks; interrupting the transmission of said first higher layer packet by the transmission of the higher priority data blocks containing data segments of a second higher layer packet associated with a higher priority second PFC; indicating resumption of the transmission of said first higher layer packet by including a second TFI in an initial one of the remaining lower priority data blocks; and resuming the transmission of said first higher layer packet from the point of interruption of the transmission of the first higher layer packet after transmission of a final data segment of said second higher layer packet. | 31,567 |
8,814,982 | 1. A process for separating a mixture of gases comprising contacting said mixture of gases with a UV-cross-linked tetrazole functionalized polymer nanosieve membrane. | 23,136 |
8,425,655 | 1. A process for separating a product gas from a gaseous mixture to yield a high pressure gaseous effluent in which the product gas has a partial pressure higher than in the gaseous mixture, comprising: (a) introducing the gaseous mixture into contact with one or more liquid in an absorption apparatus, to absorb the product gas into the liquid and yield one or more product-enriched liquid; (b) introducing the product-enriched liquid into at least one inlet of a gas pressurized column and into contact with one or more high pressure gas streams to strip the product gas into the high pressure gas stream and to yield one or more product-lean liquid and one or more high pressure gaseous effluents enriched with the product gas, wherein the gas pressurized column includes heat apparatus supplying heat independently at multiple positions along the gas pressurized column including positions having distinct product gas loadings between the leanest position and the richest position along the gas pressurized column thereby allowing for independent control of the temperature along the gas pressurized column; (c) recovering heat from the product-lean liquid; and (d) recycling at least a portion of the product-lean liquid to step (a). | 48,860 |
9,295,937 | 1. A vehicle atmosphere purifying apparatus comprising: a heat source apparatus that is mounted for at least one purpose of vehicle driving and in-vehicle air conditioning; a vehicle component that is arranged at a location at which a flow path of atmospheric air is formed while a vehicle is running, and has a coolant circulation channel through which first coolant that circulates inside the heat source apparatus flows; an ozone purifying body that is provided on the vehicle component and purifies ozone; a heat recovery apparatus through which second coolant flows, the second coolant recovering heat that is generated by the heat source apparatus; a heat recovery channel connected to the heat recovery apparatus and through which the second coolant flows; a valve provided between the coolant circulation channel and the heat recovery channel; and a controller configured to open the valve in a case where a moisture amount that is adsorbed on the ozone purifying body is equal to or greater than a preset amount, and to close the valve in a case where the moisture amount is smaller than the preset amount. | 33,258 |
8,479,499 | 1. A diesel engine comprising: an exhaust system through which exhaust gases created by combustion in combustion chambers pass to atmosphere and which comprises an after-treatment device that treats the gases before leaving the exhaust system but that at times requires regeneration by elevation of temperature of the gases to a regeneration temperature range; an engine control system comprising a regeneration strategy for processing various data to control engine operation in a way that conditions the gases to cause regeneration of the after-treatment device; and one or more personnel operated devices for enabling a person to selectively allow and disallow the regeneration strategy to be active wherein the various data include engine speed, and the regeneration strategy comprises distinct engine speed ranges one of which inhibits the regeneration strategy from being active, another of which automatically allows the regeneration strategy to be active, and still another of which allows the regeneration strategy to be made active in response to intentional activation by a person. | 15,847 |
8,634,051 | 1. Apparatus comprising a main vertical mounting plate, at least one attachment extension connected to a lower end of the vertical mounting plate, and a plurality of used tires separately and rigidly connected to a surface of the vertical mounting plate, the plurality of tires and the vertical mounting plate are attached to rigid reinforced stabilized objects, and wherein the vertical mounting plate is mounted on the top of the rigid reinforced stabilized objects by the attachment extension at the lower end of the vertical mounting plate. | 48,454 |
8,743,629 | 1. A method for reconditioning data that is preloaded into a storage device that is embedded in a host device, the method comprising: in a storage device having a memory, wherein a first group of elements of the memory is configured to store first data according to a first storage setup of a plurality of selectable storage setup options, a storage manager and a storage setup module that is configurable by the storage manager, performing, by the storage manager: reading at least a portion of the first data from the first group of elements of the memory using the first storage setup to access first read data; and writing the first read data into a second group of elements of the memory using a second storage setup. | 48,576 |
9,556,013 | 1. A conveying device for conveying liquids, comprising: a pallet ( at least two containers ( a pump ( a follower plate ( | 18,427 |
8,539,241 | 1. A method for securing communication between a plurality of members, comprising: sending, by a first member, a first input to a second member, wherein the first member is a server, the second member is a client, and the first input comprises a server challenge; receiving, by the first member, a second input from the second member, wherein the second input comprises a password, and wherein the password is provided to the server by the client when creating an account prior to the sending the first input; and generating, by an n-bit generator, an initial message digest using the first input and the second input, wherein communications between the first member and the second member are encrypted using the initial message digest, wherein encrypting the communications between the first member and the second member using the initial message digest comprises: extracting a first secret from at least the initial message digest, generating, by the n-bit generator, a second message digest using the first secret, extracting an encryption key and algorithm selector bits from the second message digest, identifying an encryption algorithm specified by the algorithm selector bits, and encrypting at least one communication using the identified encryption algorithm and the encryption key. | 3,453 |
9,156,536 | 1. A method for changing controlled engine speed of a marine internal combustion engine in a marine propulsion system for propelling a marine vessel, wherein said engine is operated at an operator-selected engine speed and an engine speed control system maintains engine speed at said operator-selected engine speed, said engine having a throttle controlling engine speed according to throttle position, said method comprising: responding to an operator changing said operator-selected engine speed, from a first-selected engine speed to a second-selected engine speed, by predicting throttle position needed to provide said second-selected engine speed; providing a feed forward signal moving said throttle to said predicted throttle position; moving said throttle, in response to said operator changing said operator-selected engine speed from said first-selected engine speed to said second-selected engine speed, to attempt to set engine speed at said second-selected engine speed; and after moving said throttle to said predicted throttle position, using said engine speed control system to maintain engine speed at said second-selected engine speed. | 5,719 |
8,651,282 | 1. An apparatus for segregating particulate material by density and/or size to concentrate a contaminant contained within part of the particulate material for separation from the rest of the particulate material, comprising: (a) an enclosed fluidizing bed having (i) a receiving inlet for receiving the particulate material; (ii) an inlet opening for receiving a fluidizing stream for fluidizing at least a portion of the particulate material to create without mechanically-applied oscillation a first fluidized particulate material stream, and a first non-fluidized particulate material stream containing an increased concentration of the contaminant relative to the particulate material; (iii) a discharge outlet for discharging a portion of the fluidizing stream containing elutriated fines from the particulate material feed; (iv) a discharge outlet for discharging the first fluidized particulate material stream; and (v) discharge outlet for discharging the first non-fluidized particulate material stream containing the increased concentration of the contaminant; (b) a collector box positioned to receive the first non-fluidized particulate material stream discharged from the fluidizing bed, the collector box including means for directing a second fluidizing stream through the first non-fluidized particulate material stream as it is transported through the collector box to fluidize at least a portion of the first non-fluidized particulate material stream to create without mechanically-applied oscillation (i) a second non-fluidized particulate material stream from the first non-fluidized particulate material stream containing a further increased concentration of the contaminant and (ii) a second fluidized particulate material stream containing elutriated fines from the first non-fluidized particulate material stream; (c) a first fluidizing stream operatively connected to the inlet opening of the fluidizing bed for introducing the first fluidizing stream into the fluidizing bed to achieve separation of the first fluidized particulate material stream from the first non-fluidized particulate material stream; and (d) a second fluidizing stream operatively connected to the collector box for introducing the second fluidizing stream into the collector box to achieve separation of the second non-fluidized particulate material stream from the first non-fluidized particulate material stream. | 41,000 |
9,361,745 | 1. A bagged ice vending machine comprising: a refrigerated cabinet with the front of the cabinet being an access door for servicing the bagged ice vending machine; a refrigerated cabinet; the front of the cabinet serving as an access door for servicing the bagged ice vending machine; an electronics control unit; a money receiver/exchanger; a vended product access door; one or more internal vending mechanisms consisting of: an output plate at the end of the bottom of each conveyor set; the output plate is hinged with spring return and an integral ice present sensor to tell the controls that a bag of ice is present; each output plate has a solenoid that is energized by the controls to allow the bag of ice to be vended if it is sensed by an ice present sensor that a bag is on the output plate; when the drive motor is then energized causing the conveyors belts to move; the conveyors belts are designed to move in opposite directions so that the product will move to the end of that conveyor and drop to the conveyor below, which will force the last bag on the bottom conveyor to fall into the vending chute; activating the ice vended sensor; sliding the bag of ice into the vending hopper; accessing the product can then be accessed through the vended product access door; the drive motor remains energized until the product present sensor is satisfied; and if the product present sensor is not satisfied after a predetermined amount of time the drive motor will de-energize and the machine will go into an out of ice condition illuminating the out of ice indicator on the money receiver. | 1,632 |
9,349,000 | 1. A method of removing a potentially harmful script element from a web service response to protect a user's system, the method comprising the acts of: detecting a user action corresponding to a request to obtain information from the web service by a user agent; sending a command corresponding to the user action from a parent HTML page in the user agent hosted in a first domain to a sandbox service operating in an inline frame of the parent HTML page, the sandbox service hosted in a second domain; making a call from the sandbox service to a web service in a third domain based on the command; receiving a response from the web service containing a script element at the sandbox service; parsing the response by the sandbox service to obtain web service data without script elements; sending the web service data without script elements to the user agent; and rendering the web service data without script elements and without interpreting or executing the web service data received from the sandbox service in the user agent and wherein the web service data without script elements maintains having been from the sandbox service hosted in the second domain. | 18,799 |
9,638,698 | 1. A method of manufacturing a plurality of analyte sensor having similar operating characteristics, the method comprising: forming a plurality of substantially functional analyte sensors, each sensor having a channel extending to an edge of the sensor; testing at least one of the sensors to determine a calibration parameter of the sensor; based on the calibration parameter of the tested sensor, trimming a predetermined amount from one or more of the edges of the non-tested sensors, thereby reducing a sample volume of the channels of the sensors and changing a calibration parameter of the sensors. | 26,561 |
9,754,275 | 1. A computer-implemented method for applying a promotion or rebate associated with a transaction account, the method comprising: receiving, with one or more processors from a computing device associated with a first party, offer information representing an offer for a promotion or rebate provided to a purchaser while the purchaser is operating a computing device that is connected to a publisher's Internet web site; in response to a selection of the promotion or offer and while the computing device operated by the purchaser is connected to the publisher's Internet web site, receiving, from a computing device associated with the publisher's Internet website, information representing the purchaser; generating, with the one or more processors, a match key that is associated with the purchaser and usable to access information representing a plurality of transaction accounts of the purchaser; transmitting, with the one or more processors, to a computing device having access to information representing the plurality of transaction accounts, the match key; receiving, with the one or more processors in response to the transmitted match key, the information representing the plurality of transaction accounts; transmitting, with the one or more processors to a computing device associated with the publisher's Internet website, the information representing the plurality of transaction accounts for generating and displaying for the computing device operated by the purchaser, without controlling the appearance of the publisher's Internet web site on other computing devices operated simultaneously by other users, a prompt for a selection of one of the plurality of transaction accounts; receiving, with the one or more processors, from the computing device operated by the purchaser in response to the prompt, a selection of one of the plurality of transaction accounts for future application of the promotion or rebate, wherein the selection of the one transaction account represents an acceptance of the offer; and associating, with the one or more processors, at least some of the offer information with the selected one transaction account wherein the rebate or promotion is applied, without user assistance, to the selected one transaction account as a function of transaction information representing a purchase made by the purchaser using the selected one transaction account in accordance with the offer information. | 4,327 |
9,790,091 | 1. A negative active material comprising: a carbonaceous conductive material; where the carbonaceous conductive material is selected from the group consisting of carbon black, acetylene black, carbon fibers, carbon nanotubes; and an ordered porous manganese oxide, wherein the ordered porous manganese oxide comprises at least one of MnO, Mn wherein the negative active material has a discharge capacity per unit weight of 800 mAh/g or greater, wherein the ordered porous manganese oxide has a pore volume in a range of about 0.1 cm | 5,681 |
9,821,350 | 1. Device (D) for cleaning a drinking-water system (R) of an aircraft (A), said device (D) being independent of said aircraft (A) and being connected to the drinking-water system (R) for cleaning the drinking-water system and being supplied with liquid, the device comprising: a mobile chassis (C); a condensing gas boiler comprising a sealed combustion chamber ( gas bottles ( a primary circuit ( an exchange subassembly ( a discharge subassembly ( | 19,518 |
9,012,505 | 1. A compound of formula (I) or a tautomer, geometrical isomer, enantiomer, diastereomer, racemate form, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or prodrug thereof; wherein X is oxygen; R and R | 16,645 |
9,331,921 | 1. A computer-implemented method for identifying an internet connected household (ICH), comprising: receiving an Internet Protocol (IP) address at an Internet entity; determining a residential internet service status based on whether the IP address belongs to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that provides residential internet service; determining a device activity status based on whether device activity from the IP address does not exceed a defined activity threshold; determining an IP assignment age status based on whether an IP assignment age for the IP address is greater than a defined threshold age; and based on the residential internet service status, the device activity status, and the IP assignment age status, determining whether the IP address is associated with an ICH. | 13,409 |
8,470,352 | 1. A method of increasing magnesium in a subject comprising administering to said subject for a period of at least about 1 month a composition formulated for oral consumption, said composition comprising at least 10 mg magnesium threonate. | 3,373 |
9,070,460 | 1. A non-volatile semiconductor memory, comprising: a memory array, comprising a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix form, | 29,966 |
9,154,003 | 1. A non-contact power transmission system, comprising: a primary coil including a power supply coil and a magnetic resonance coil; and a secondary coil including a load coil, wherein: an electric power is transmitted from said power supply coil at a self-resonating frequency of said magnetic resonance coil, said self-resonating frequency being determined by a parasitic capacitance between wound wires of the magnetic resonance coil and a self inductance of the magnetic resonance coil, the electric power supplied is taken out, from the load coil of said secondary coil through magnetic coupling, with non-contact, the electric power is transmitted, with non-contact, by using magnetic coupling between said power supply coil and said magnetic resonance coil and magnetic coupling between said magnetic resonance coil and said load coil, said magnetic resonance coil has electrically open ends, and the parasitic capacitance between the wound wires of said magnetic resonance coil and the self inductance of said magnetic resonance coil forms a parallel resonance circuit, such that a phase of a magnetic field generated by said magnetic resonance coil at a frequency smaller than the self-resonating frequency of said magnetic resonance coil differs by 180 degrees from a phase of a magnetic field generated by said magnetic resonance coil at a frequency larger than the self-resonating frequency of said magnetic resonance coil. | 14,326 |
9,350,505 | 1. A wireless communication device comprising: a processor configured to: a communication interface configured to transmit at least two packets of the set of packets respectively via at least two sub-bands of the plurality of sub-bands. | 17,502 |
8,542,884 | 1. A method, comprising: comparing, by a processor a first flood map to an updated second flood map, said first flood map and said updated second flood map each including flood zones and non-flood zones; and creating, by a processor a third flood map, wherein the third flood map includes one or more demarcated areas based on the comparison of the first flood map to the updated second flood map, and wherein the one or more demarcated marking areas comprises a change designator indicating a change in risk level status of the first flood map to the updated second flood map and another designator indicating a change in zone of at least one area from the first flood map to the updated second flood map, wherein both designators are derived from the comparison of the first flood map to the updated second flood map. | 20,384 |
9,210,141 | 1. A system for providing scorecards to visualize services in an intelligent workload management system, comprising: an identity vault that stores federated information defining entitlements for a plurality of unique identities across a plurality of authentication domains, the entitlements derived from single sign-on workload identities, generated from authentication tokens that define various credentials and permissions assigned to any suitable user, application, system, service, or resource; a discovery engine that discovers an operational state for an information technology infrastructure from the federated information stored in the identity vault and actual activity monitored for the plurality of unique identities in the information technology infrastructure, wherein the discovery engine is configured to: a display device configured to display a plurality of scorecards that visualize the discovered physical resources, the discovered virtualized resources, the discovered services, the discovered applications, the discovered workloads, the discovered dependencies, and the discovered access information. | 14,014 |
8,459,508 | 1. A shroud, comprising: a body portion for receipt in a dispenser having a first and a second opening for receipt of one of at least two different containers through the first and the second opening, wherein an upper portion of the body portion is adapted to retain one of the containers if inserted through the first or second opening. | 22,842 |
8,892,138 | 1. A server for use in a wireless communications network, the server comprising circuitry configured as: a receiver configured to receive, from a first communication device, information usable to identify a target geographical region, the received information including a geographical location of the first communication device, and data describing a flight sector of the first communication device; a presence function configured to determine the presence of an entity associated with a second communication device, the entity being located in the target geographical region; and a transmitter configured to perform one of: | 16,795 |
8,687,327 | 1. An electronic system, comprising: a first switching element, having a control terminal, which is driven by changing a voltage of the control terminal in response to electric charge supplied or released to/from the control terminal; an on driving switching element, connected with the control terminal of the first switching element, which is set to an on state in order to supply electric charges to the control terminal of the first switching element; an off driving switching element, connected with the control terminal of the first switching element, which is set to an on state in order to release the electric charges, supplied by the on driving switching element, from the control terminal of the first switching element; a control circuit which controls each of the on driving switching element and the off driving switching element according to a driving signal to set the switching element in to the on or off state and to control the voltage of the control terminal of the first switching element and which controls the driving of the first switching element; a protecting circuit which detects a short and/or an overcurrent state of the first switching element, and then if that the short and/or the overcurrent state of the first switching element has occurred, makes the first switching element turn off using an element that switches the first switching element off slower than the off driving switching element; and an element, that switches the first switching element off faster than the off driving switching element, connected with the control terminal of the first switching element, wherein the control circuit, in a case where an on-failure occurs in the on driving switching element, sets the first switching element to an off state using the element that switches the first switching element off faster than the off driving switching element notwithstanding whether or not the first switching element is the short and/or the overcurrent state. | 38,604 |
9,455,362 | 1. A method for making an aluminum doped p-type region in a silicon substrate, said method comprising: forming an aluminum metal contact directly on a surface of a monocrystalline silicon substrate; selectively heating said aluminum metal contact via laser irradiation, thereby causing said aluminum and a portion of said monocrystalline silicon substrate in proximity to said aluminum to reach a temperature sufficient to allow at least a portion of said silicon to dissolve in said aluminum; and allowing said aluminum and said portion of said monocrystalline silicon substrate in proximity to said aluminum to cool, thereby forming an aluminum-rich doped silicon layer on said monocrystalline silicon substrate. | 36,177 |
8,786,001 | 1. An in-process semiconductor device comprising: a plurality of container capacitor bottom plates with each plate comprising a bottom and first and second cross-sections, vertically-oriented sides each having a height with each side being unsupported along a majority of its height; a supporting layer having a bottom surface and a top surface, wherein the supporting layer contacts the exterior of each container capacitor bottom plate of the plurality of bottom plates and completely surrounds the cross sections of the bottom plates, and wherein the top and bottom surfaces of the supporting layer are generally free from contact with any other layer; an array area comprising the plurality of container capacitors, bottom plates and a periphery area; and a moat between the periphery area and the array area and having a first side which faces the periphery area and a second side which faces the array area, wherein the second side is exposed and the first side is not exposed. | 19,456 |
9,255,943 | 1. An information processing apparatus configured to create information representing a locus of an object moving in a building, using data acquired by an acceleration sensor and data acquired by a gyro sensor, the information processing apparatus comprising: a moving speed analysis unit that is configured to analyze a moving speed using acceleration data acquired by the acceleration sensor and calculate moving distance of the object; a relative azimuth calculation unit that is configured to remove each of a plurality of given candidate values of draft components from angular velocity data acquired by the gyro sensor and generate a plurality of relative azimuths data pieces; a moving direction calculation unit that is configured to calculate a plurality of moving directions of the object, based on the respective relative azimuths data pieces generated by the relative azimuth calculation unit; a moving locus creation unit that is configured to create a plurality of moving loci corresponding to the plurality of candidate values of draft components, using information on the moving distance calculated by the moving speed analysis unit and information on the moving directions calculated by the moving direction calculation unit; a moving locus evaluation unit that is configured to evaluate the plurality of moving loci by comparing the positions of actual starting and end points of moving in the building with the positions of starting and end points of each of the moving loci; and an optimal moving locus determination unit that is configured to determine an optimal moving locus out of the plurality of moving loci, based on the evaluation results by the moving locus evaluation unit, wherein when the actual starting and end points of moving differ, the moving locus creation unit is configured to perform at least one of rotation, scaling down and scaling up for each of the plurality of moving loci, adjusts the starting and end points of each moving locus to the actual starting and end points of moving, and create a plurality of adjusted moving loci; the moving locus evaluation unit is configured to take building data on the building structure including information of an outline of the building and evaluate each of the adjusted moving loci as to whether it falls within the outline of the building; and the optimal moving locus determination unit is configured to determine an adjusted moving locus of the longest moving distance among moving loci falling within the building outline as an optional one. | 21,652 |
8,725,073 | 1. A communication apparatus comprising: a communication unit that performs a close-range one-to-one communication with a device of a communication counterpart by electric field coupling by suppressing an electric field intensity to smaller than or equal to a predetermined level to allow the close-range one-to-one communications when brought within 3 cm of the communication counterpart; an intermittent operation unit that performs intermittent operation without releasing connection after the connection is established with the device of the communication counterpart, wherein the communication apparatus operates at a reduced power during a portion of the intermittent operation; and an intermittent operation notifying unit that notifies the device of the communication counterpart of performing the intermittent operation and instructs the device of the communication counterpart to operate at a reduced power for a predetermined period of time. | 4,791 |
8,900,599 | 1. A conjugate comprising a first protein that comprises a Plasmodium vivax surface protein Pvs25 bound to a second protein that comprises a Plasmodium vivax surface protein Pvs25, wherein the conjugate having the formula wherein n is an integer of from 3 to 5, X1 is a | 22,447 |
9,770,270 | 1. A bone plate configured to be attached to a single pedicle and a single lamina on the same level of a spinal column, said single lamina including a fractured pars area of a vertebra, the bone plate comprising: a monolithic structure defined by a continuous, unbroken elongate peripheral outer rim and a continuous, unbroken elongate peripheral inner rim forming a closed loop, said monolithic structure having an elongate upper surface and an opposing elongate lower bone contacting surface, said upper and lower elongate surfaces connecting said elongate outer rim to said elongate inner rim in a spaced-apart relationship, the outer rim and the inner rim extending alongside each other, said continuous, unbroken peripheral outer rim and inner rim defining a pedicle plate section and a lamina plate section, the outer rim of the pedicle plate section structured to conform to a peripheral contour of the single pedicle of the vertebra and the outer rim of the lamina plate section structured to conform to a peripheral contour of the single lamina of the vertebra such that when the bone plate is implanted the outer rim of the structure extends along a periphery of the single pedicle and the single lamina of the vertebra; wherein the upper surface and the lower bone contacting surface of the pedicle plate section lack screw holes therethrough and wherein said upper surface and said lower bone contacting surface of the lamina plate section include at least one screw hole extending therethrough, the inner rim of the pedicle plate section defining a crescent-shaped pedicle screw receiving hole having a bounded portion surrounded by the inner rim of the pedicle plate section and a non-expandable, narrowed aperture defined by opposing portions of the inner rim at a location between the pedicle plate section and the lamina plate section, the non-expandable, narrowed aperture opens into the pedicle screw receiving hole and opens into a lamina open area defined by the inner rim of the lamina plate section, said non-expandable, narrowed aperture connects said pedicle screw receiving hole with the lamina open area, said bone plate structured to overlie the fractured pars area, wherein a dimension of the non-expandable narrowed aperture between opposing portions of the inner rim is less than a dimension of the pedicle screw receiving hole between opposing portions of the inner rim of the pedicle plate section and a dimension of the lamina open area between opposing portions of the inner rim of the lamina plate section; the lower bone contacting surface of the pedicle plate section configured to conform to a three dimensional geometry of a surface of the single pedicle of the vertebra and the lower bone contacting surface of the lamina plate section configured to conform to a three dimensional geometry of the single lamina; and a pedicle screw received in said pedicle screw receiving hole and configured to fix the pedicle plate section to the pedicle of the vertebra such that when the pedicle screw is fully seated in the pedicle screw receiving hole the pedicle screw is configured not to deform the pedicle plate section and the narrowed aperture; and wherein a total surface area between the outer rim and the inner rim of the pedicle plate section is less that a total surface area between the outer rim and the inner rim of the lamina plate section; and further wherein a total surface area defined by the pedicle screw receiving hole is less than a total surface area of the lamina plate open area. | 37,244 |
9,657,917 | 1. An illuminated ornament comprising: a wall which is adapted to allow light to pass therethrough forming an enclosure; a hole extending through said wall adapted to receive an electronics assembly therethrough and within said enclosure; said electronics assembly including a battery holder, a cap located at one terminal end of said battery holder and adapted to seat on said wall adjacent said wall hole, a light emitting source located at another terminal end of said battery holder opposite from said cap, and a control circuit adapted to selectively energize said light emitting source; wherein said electronics assembly is received through said wall hole with said cap seated on said wall adjacent said hole and with said battery holder extending axially within said enclosure thereby locating said light emitting source within said enclosure at a distance from said enclosure wall; and, a diffusing and reflecting cap surrounding said light emitting source which allows light to travel therethough to said enclosure wall and which also reflects light behind said light emitting source and around said battery holder to said enclosure wall. | 37,415 |
9,362,904 | 1. A system having a power on reset circuit, wherein the power on reset circuit comprises: a voltage divider coupled to a supply voltage terminal that has a first output and a second output; a multiplexer having a first input coupled to the first output, a second input coupled to the second output, and an output; and a first comparator having a first input coupled to the output of the multiplexer, a second input coupled to a reference, and an output; a logic gate having a first input coupled to the output of the first comparator, a second input, and an output, wherein the output of the logic gate is a power on reset terminal that provides a power on reset signal; a second comparator having a first input coupled to the first output of the voltage divider, a second input coupled to the reference, and an output coupled to the second input of the logic gate; and an emulation gate having an input coupled to the output of the second comparator and an output, wherein the output of the emulation gate is a power on reset test terminal that provides a power on reset test signal. | 30,247 |
9,808,835 | 1. A sorting device that sorts a specific material type matter and another material type matter from sorting objects, the sorting device comprising: a conveyor that conveys the sorting objects in a placed state in one direction, the sorting objects having the specific material type matter and the other material type matter other than the specific material type matter mixed, and causes the sorting objects to fly at a forefront portion of the conveyor; an identification part that identifies composition of the specific material type matter placed on the conveyor; an air blower that generates an airflow in a flying-out direction of the sorting objects; an upper rectifying plate disposed along a flight path of the sorting objects above the flight path; a lower rectifying plate disposed along the flight path obliquely below the forefront portion of the conveyor under the flight path; and a plurality of injectors that are disposed above the flight path so as to be directed to the flight path, and inject pulse air to the specific material type matter flying from the conveyor, a control device configured to control operations of the conveyor, the air blower, the identification part, and the plurality of injectors, wherein the control device is configured to generate the airflow having a wind velocity distribution including a plurality of wind velocities, wherein a maximum value of the plurality of wind velocities is located less than 10 mm downward in a vertical direction from a surface of the upper rectifying plate to a surface of the conveyor at the forefront portion of the conveyor, wherein a ratio obtained by dividing the maximum value by a wind velocity of the plurality of wind velocities in the vicinity of the surface of the conveyor is 4 or more, and 12 or less, wherein the airflow has a wind velocity equal to the wind velocity in the vicinity of the surface of the conveyor in a range other than less than 10 mm from the surface of the upper rectifying plate. | 25,679 |
9,601,791 | 1. An intake circulatory system for a zinc air fuel cell, comprising: a housing, partitioned on the inside of the intake circulatory system for a zinc air fuel cell to form a first space and a second space; a zinc air cell, assembled on the inside of the housing, and comprising a discharging region located in the first space, and a charging region located in the second space; an air supply system, comprising an air supply device and an air intake device connected to the air supply device and the first space; and an air collecting system, comprising an air collecting device connected to the air intake device, and at least one air output pipe exists in between the air collecting device and the second space; wherein the air supply device transmits external air to the first space via the air intake device, the discharging region of the zinc air cell has a chemical reaction with oxygen from the external air to generate electricity, a charging region produces oxygen by generating electricity to perform a reduction reaction, the air collecting device absorbs oxygen and transmits the oxygen to the air intake device, the external air and the oxygen are mixed and enter the first space, and a power supply efficiency of the discharging region is increased. | 23,110 |
8,353,145 | 1. A capping machine comprising: a shaft turning on a fixed base frame about a substantially vertical axis of rotation; a plurality of capping units arranged radially about the shaft and constrained to revolve as one with the shaft about the axis of rotation; a substantially cylindrical cam interposed between the shaft and the plurality of capping units, by which the capping units are caused to move toward and away from the fixed base frame; a supporting element anchored to the base frame, housed internally of the rotating shaft and connected to the cam, by which the cam is retained in at least one predetermined fixed position relative to the base frame; wherein the supporting element is tubular and comprises a first end anchored to the base frame and a second end opposite to the first end, extending be and a top end of the rotating shaft, and the cam is connected to the supporting element by a coupling mechanism operating between the second end of the supporting element and the cam; and wherein the coupling mechanism comprises an adjustment mechanism for altering a distance between the second end of the supporting element and the cam, in order to translate the cam along a direction substantially parallel to the axis of rotation. | 28,374 |
9,090,640 | 1. A compound of Formula I: wherein X is halo, OC(O)R 9 , nitrate or sulfate; R wherein A is H, —CH R R R q is 0, 1, or 2; R or R R R R either or both of R compound W is one or more amino acids, one or more sugars, polymeric ethers, C wherein R Y is C Z is one or more counterions sufficient to balance the charge of the compound. | 7,530 |
9,454,149 | 1. A method of extracting attribute fail rates for manufactured devices comprising: testing manufactured devices having a set of attributes to provide a set of test results stored in memory; generating a yield model of the manufactured devices based on the set of test results and parsed by the set of attributes; and performing, by a processor, a statistical analysis of the generated yield model to extract fail rates of the selected subset of attributes. | 17,881 |
9,317,469 | 1. A computer network with distributed shared random access memory (RAM), comprising: a clustered memory cache aggregated from and comprised of physical memory locations on RAM chips of a plurality of physically distinct computing systems, the plurality of physically distinct computing systems each including a processor and a memory and operatively coupled via the computer network; a plurality of local cache managers each executed by the processor and the memory of one of the plurality of physically distinct computing systems, each of the local cache managers being local to and associated with a portion of the clustered memory cache; a metadata service, executed by a processor and a memory of a first computing system, and operatively coupled with each of the local cache managers via a network and including a metadata store that stores, for each of the portions of the clustered memory cache, a hash of a path to the portion of the clustered memory cache indicating which of the plurality of local cache managers manages that portion of the clustered memory cache; a plurality of clients operatively coupled with the metadata service and the local cache managers; and a configuration manager, executed by a processor and a memory of a second computing system, and operatively coupled to the plurality of clients, the configuration manager configured to register each of the clients with the metadata service, where in response to a request issuing from any of the clients for a data item present in the clustered memory cache, the metadata service is configured to send a response to the client with an identification of the local cache manager associated with the portion of the clustered memory cache containing such data item based on the hash of the path to the portion of the clustered memory cache in the metadata store, the identification of the local cache manager being different from an identification of the metadata service. | 15,182 |
8,429,053 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a computer processor; a z calculating unit configured to calculate, via the computer processor, based on a confidence level α stored in a storage device, a percentile of a risk factor z corresponding to α using a rating threshold calculating unit configured to obtain, via the processor, a probability p a conditional probability calculating unit configured to obtain, via the computer processor, a constant a where N is a cumulative probability function of a standard normal distribution; a w a conditional expected value calculating unit configured to calculate, via the computer processor, a conditional expected value 1(z) of a portfolio value V under a condition that z is fixed based on w a conditional variance calculating unit configured to calculate, via the computer processor, a conditional variance v(z) of the portfolio value V under a condition that z is fixed based on w a qα calculating unit configured to calculate, via the computer processor, a percentile qα of a portfolio value based on a first derivative 1′(z) of 1(z) calculated in the conditional expected value calculating unit, a second derivative 1″(z) of 1(z) calculated in the conditional expected value calculating unit, v(z) calculated in the conditional variance calculating unit, and a first derivative v′(z) of v(z) calculated in the conditional variance calculating unit using an E[V a portfolio VaR calculating unit configured to calculate, via the computer processor, a portfolio VaR from the percentile q wherein the rating threshold calculating unit includes: a ps a ps a θ | 38,414 |
8,560,171 | 1. A damping force controller which controls damping force generated by a damping force generation apparatus against externally input vibration by operating an actuator, comprising: control input calculation means for calculating a control input u by use of a state feedback controller K designed such that an L operation control means for controlling the operation of the actuator on the basis of the control input u calculated by the control input calculation means; wherein the delay-approximated model M is designed such that the delay compensation element R* acts on the speed dr/dt-dy/dt, its output is multiplied by the control input u, and the delay element R acts on the result of the multiplication. | 16,234 |
9,657,501 | 1. An electric strike assembly for use with a door assembly to releasably retain a door panel of the door assembly in a closed position, the electric strike including; a housing, a keeper which in use interacts with a latch bolt associated with the door panel, the keeper being mounted on the housing and being movable relative to the housing from a closed position by moving the door panel with the latch bolt from the closed position, a locking means including a detent that in an active condition interacts with the keeper to obstruct the keeper from moving from the closed position and in an inactive condition does not obstruct the keeper from moving from the closed position, the locking means including an electrical actuator for adjusting the condition of the detent from the active condition when the keeper is in the closed position to the inactive condition, the detent including at least one pin, said at least one pin is configured with a surface feature in the form of an annular groove on its external surface which catches on the keeper when the condition of the detent is being urged to adjust away from the active condition and the keeper is being urged to move from the closed position. | 22,104 |
8,966,069 | 1. A utility network communication device configured to monitor operating events occurring in connection with at least one node in a utility network, the communication device comprising: a memory unit having threshold operating information and situational information defined and recorded therein, the threshold operating information including data indicative of configured acceptable operating parameters of nodes in the utility network based on respective locational information of each of the nodes in the utility network, the locational information of each one of the nodes respectively including unique information about that node, relative to each other one of the nodes in the utility network, such that unique threshold operating information is respectively defined for each node in the utility network based on the unique locational information respectively defined for that node, and the situational information including data indicative of configured operation data expected to be received from nodes in the utility network during a predetermined time period based on at least one of a condition and an event that is occurring during the predetermined time period; a communication unit configured to receive operation data from nodes in the utility network; a control unit configured to compare the operation data received from a node in the utility network with (i) the threshold operating information defined for the node from which the operation data was received and (ii) the situational information, and to record the received operation data in association with the situational information in the memory unit based on the comparison of the received operation data with (i) the threshold operating information defined for the node and (ii) the situational information. | 43,741 |
8,632,113 | 1. A stowable seat assembly for a motor vehicle having a floor, the seat assembly comprising: a seat bottom having a forward portion and an opposite rearward portion, and an upper or seating side and an opposite lower side facing the vehicle floor; a seat back having an upper portion and a lower portion, the seat back lower portion pivotably coupled to the seat bottom rearward portion; a front pair of legs each having an upper end and an opposite lower end, each upper end pivotably coupled to respective first and second lateral sides of the forward portion of the seat bottom via releasable locking mechanisms, each lower end pivotably coupled to the vehicle via first latch mechanisms configured to enable selective translation of the front legs; a rear pair of legs each pivotably coupled at an upper end to the respective first and second lateral sides of the seat bottom at the rearward portion, and releasably coupled at a lower end to a second latch mechanism selectively securing the rear legs to the vehicle; and a pair of linking members pivotably coupling the lower ends of the front and rear legs coupled to the first lateral side of the seat bottom to each other and the front and rear legs coupled to the second lateral side of the seat bottom to each other, the linking members adapted to be disposed below the floor of the vehicle; the seat assembly being selectively movable from a deployed position to a stowed position whereby the seat bottom is pivoted forward about the front and rear legs to the stowed position while maintaining the lower side of the seat bottom facing the vehicle floor and the front and rear legs pivotably coupled to the vehicle and the seat bottom. | 485 |
8,980,615 | 1. A recombinant microorganism, which is prepared by introducing: a gene encoding a protein having activity of converting lactic acid to lactic-acid CoA; and one or more genes encoding a protein(s) having activity of synthesizing polyhydroxyalkanoate using hydroxyacyl CoA as a substrate into a host microorganism, wherein one of said one or more genes that encode a protein having activity of synthesizing polyhydroxyalkanoate using hydroxyacyl CoA as a substrate is an Alcanivorax borkumensis -derived gene encoding a protein that comprises the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 6. | 37,189 |
9,582,074 | 1. A controlling method, for controlling an electronic apparatus, comprising: detecting a location for vision of an eye on a display of the electronic apparatus; controlling the electronic apparatus to operate in a first mode if a time period for the vision stops on an objective on the display is not larger than a predetermined time period; and controlling the electronic apparatus to operate in a second mode if the time period for the vision stops on an objective on the display is larger than the predetermined time period; wherein the electronic apparatus performs at least one operation corresponding to the vision in the first mode; wherein the electronic apparatus detects at least turning operation for a head comprising the eye and slides data of a document or website data according to the turning operation but not according to the vision in the second mode. | 29,753 |
8,453,506 | 1. A spring mounting element comprising: an inner ring having an inner radial circumference and an outer radial circumference; an outer ring having an inner radial circumference and an outer radial circumference; a plurality of supporting elements attached to and symmetrically disposed around the outer radial circumference of the inner ring, and attached to the inner radial circumference of the outer ring, and wherein the plurality of supporting elements are arranged in an alternating and staggered arrangement, wherein circumferentially adjacent ones of the plurality of supporting elements are located on opposite sides of the inner ring and the outer ring; and wherein, the plurality of supporting elements allow the inner ring to move in three dimensions, and wherein the spring mounting element is configured for use in an accelerometer that allows measurement of acceleration in three dimensions. | 19,529 |
9,294,481 | 1. A system, comprising: at least one master electronic identicator, further comprising: an electronic communication authorization platform, connected to the master electronic identicator, that authorizes execution of at least one electronic communication upon a successful identification of the user by an electronic identicator; a rule-module invocation platform, that invokes at least one previously designated user-customized rule-module upon successful identification of the user, wherein the user-customized rule module includes at least one user-customized pattern data associated with at least one user-customized execution command; an electronic communication execution platform that executes at least one electronic communication upon the invocation of a user-customized rule-module per the execution command, wherein an electronic communication is biometrically-authorized in a tokenless manner. | 19,658 |
8,751,212 | 1. A thermal scheduling method, comprising: obtaining program code including a series of operations; determining thermal attributes associated with one or more of the operations; determining a thermal threshold for a component; estimating, with a processor, the thermal attributes by counting the number of tasks to be performed in each of the operations; and scheduling, with the processor, the operations for execution by the component in accordance with the thermal attributes so that the thermal threshold is not exceeded. | 11,471 |
8,785,061 | 1. A carbon monoxide conversion catalyst for use in a daily startup and shutdown operation of a fuel cell, comprising an amorphous Cu—Al-Ox catalyst which includes a boehmite phase formed in at least a part of the Cu—Al-Ox catalyst which is obtainable by individually dropping solutions of respective nitrates of Cu and Al to ion-exchanged water, stirring to dissolve, and adding a precipitant to the resultant solution to precipitate Cu and Al; maturing the solution in which Cu and Al are precipitated to form a precursor; collecting the obtained catalyst by filtration, after drying, calcining at about 550° C. to give an amorphous Cu—Al-Ox conversion catalyst in which amorphous AlyOx and Cu exposing the calcined CO conversion catalyst to a temperature of 50 to 250° C. in a satured stream atmosphere at 70° C. or higher to form a boehmite phase in a part of the amorphous catalyst. | 9,741 |
9,177,919 | 1. A chip package, comprising: a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite thereto, wherein the first substrate has a micro-electric element and a plurality of conducting pads adjacent to the first surface, and wherein the first substrate has a plurality of openings respectively exposing a portion of each of the plurality of conducting pads; a second substrate disposed on the first surface; an encapsulation layer disposed on the first surface and covering the second substrate; and a redistribution layer disposed on the second surface and extending into the plurality of openings to electrically connect the plurality of conducting pads. | 33,648 |
9,306,022 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a body including a first junction region; a pillar positioned over the body and including a vertical channel region and a second junction region over the vertical channel region; a gate trench exposing side surfaces of the pillar; a gate dielectric layer provided in the gate trench and over a side surface of the pillar; and a gate electrode provided in the gate trench, wherein the gate dielectric layer is interposed between the gate electrode and the gate trench, wherein the gate electrode comprising: | 2,005 |
8,444,719 | 1. A method of generating biodiesel, said method comprising: aerating a first liquid to remove water from said first liquid and to generate a second liquid, wherein said aerating said first liquid further comprises aerating said first liquid at a temperature in the range of approximately 60 degrees Celsius to approximately 65 degrees Celsius, wherein said first liquid is selected from a group consisting of a liquid comprising a source of oil and a liquid comprising a source of fat; and combining said second liquid with methanol and an alkali catalyst to form a mixture comprising alkyl esters. | 31,967 |
9,409,953 | 1. A Clade F adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid protein, wherein the capsid protein comprises a substitution in one or more of amino acids N498, S499, E500, F501, A502, W503 and P504 (according to AAV9 VP1 numbering), in any combination, wherein the substitution in the capsid protein results in a Clade F viral phenotype of decreased transduction of liver cells as compared to a Clade F control or wild-type virus. | 7,815 |
8,595,419 | 1. A memory apparatus for use with a host system, the memory apparatus comprising: a plurality of memory circuits; and an interface circuit operable to present to the host system one or more emulated memory circuits, the interface circuit including: the first and second components being operable to present, in combination, a host-system interface to the host system and to present, in combination, a memory-circuit interface to the plurality of memory circuits, wherein there is a difference in at least one aspect between the host-system interface and the memory-circuit interface, wherein the plurality of memory circuits is electrically coupled to the first component and to the second component, where at least one of the first and second components is operable to identify one or more memory circuits of the plurality of memory circuits that is not being accessed and is operable to perform a power-saving operation on the one or more memory circuits identified as not being accessed, and where the power-saving operation comprises placing the one or more memory circuits identified as not being accessed in a precharge power down mode. | 22,129 |
9,374,736 | 1. A wireless device comprising: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to operate in operative connection with the transceiver and to generate a PPDU (physical protocol data unit), wherein the PPDU is generated by selectively applying a phase rotation pattern according to whether a bandwidth indication is associated with the PPDU, such that the phase rotation pattern is not applied when the PPDU is associated with the bandwidth indication. | 2,130 |
8,700,225 | 1. A method, comprising: monitoring a frequency of an electrical power distribution system; when the frequency of the electrical power distribution system is in a first frequency range, receiving power from the electrical power distribution system and charging an energy storage device at a charging rate with the received power, the charging rate being selected based at least in part on a pre-determined or user-selected completion time for charging the energy storage device; and when the frequency of the electrical power distribution system is in a second frequency range different from the first frequency range, discharging the energy storage device at a discharging rate and delivering power from the energy storage device to the electrical power distribution system, the discharging rate being selected based on a measured average charging rate for the energy storage device, the discharging rate also being selected to allow charging the energy storage device to a completion charge by the end of the pre-determined or user-selected completion time. | 12,909 |
8,514,302 | 1. An image processing equipment, comprising: an image reducing part generating a reduced image of an obtained image being read; a reduced image storing part storing the reduced image being generated; an image storing part storing the obtained image in parallel with a processing by the image reducing part; a low-frequency noise component extracting part sequentially extracting a low-frequency noise component of each of pixels included in the obtained image based on pixel data of pixels included in a predetermined area of the reduced image at a portion corresponding to each of the pixels included in the obtained image; and a noise subtracting part sequentially reading pixel data corresponding to one of the obtained image stored in the image storing part and an adjusted image generated from the obtained image in synchronization with an output of the low-frequency noise component being extracted, and sequentially subtracting the low-frequency noise component from the pixel data being read, wherein respective processings by the low-frequency noise component extracting part and the noise subtracting part are pipelined, and the low-frequency noise component extracting part is configured to sequentially extract the low-frequency noise component by applying a spatial smoothing filter and comprises: a noise component extracting part sequentially extracting a noise component of each of pixels included in one of the reduced image and an adjusted reduced image generated from the reduced image based on pixel data of pixels included in a predetermined area, in which the predetermined area is in one of the reduced image and the adjusted reduced image from which the noise component is to be extracted; and an enlarging part performing an enlarging process on the noise component sequentially passed from the noise component extracting part, and sequentially generating the low-frequency noise component in each of the pixels included in the obtained image, in which the noise component extracting part extracts a difference between values before and after smoothing of the reduced image of the noise component. | 48,512 |
9,058,894 | 1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions, when read by a machine to cause the machine to: allocate first portions of a plurality of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) banks to refresh at a first refresh rate to maintain a context of data stored in the first portions, the first portions allocated to a first physical memory area interleaved between the first portions; allocate second portions of the plurality of DRAM banks to not refresh at the first refresh rate, the second portions of the plurality of DRAM banks to at least maintain a context of data stored in the second portion for a period of time, the second portions allocated to a second physical memory area interleaved between the second portions; and the second physical memory area corresponds to a second memory page of a second application, the second portions of the plurality of DRAM banks allocated responsive to a detected closure of the second application. | 3,024 |
8,868,446 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising: identifying, by one or more processors, a dynamic element within a framework for building a visual representation of a product concept, the visual representation including one or more textual components and one or more graphical components, the dynamic element being one of the one or more textual components and being associated with a variant list including one or more variant elements each being a text string; identifying, by the one or more processors, a longest variant element from within the variant list; and generating, by the one or more processors, a first instantiation of a visual representation of a product concept including the longest variant element as the dynamic element. | 46,291 |
9,615,424 | 1. A light source device connectable to an output of a lighting device, comprising: light sources; switches that are connected in series with the light sources, respectively; and a control unit configured to turn on and off the switches to control and perform identification processing of the light sources, wherein each of the light sources comprises one or more solid light emitting elements, wherein the control unit is configured to turn on and off the switches in a prescribed order depending on characteristics of the light sources, wherein the control unit is configured to output to the lighting device identification information for identifying the characteristics of the light sources, wherein the control unit obtains the identification information by the identification processing as follows: wherein the control unit is configured, in the identification processing, to obtain as the characteristics of the light sources a number of the lights sources and at least one of: | 21,406 |
9,374,743 | 1. A method for providing information on a neighboring user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system in which a macro cell and a small cell coexist, the method performed by a UE served by a small cell and comprising: performing, by the UE, a handed over from the macro cell to the small cell; overhearing a signal transmitted by the neighboring UE after the hand-over is completed; measuring a signal intensity of the neighboring UE; and transferring information on the neighboring UE to the small cell when the signal intensity meets a predetermined condition. | 10,031 |
9,596,960 | 1. A toothbrush holder for a toothbrush having a head portion, bristles extending from the head portion, a handle portion and a neck portion between the head portion and the handle portion, the head portion and handle portion defining a longitudinal axis of the toothbrush, the holder comprising: a clip having two opposing gripping members biased towards each other and having ends with opposed rollers to be separated by insertion of the head portion, wherein the head portion can slide over the rollers until said rollers can hold the neck portion; a cover body adapted to protect the bristles when the toothbrush is held by the clip, said cover body forming a splash proof enclosure at least for the toothbrush head, said enclosure having a bottom opening through which the toothbrush head is inserted and pulled out against a gripping force of said clip along the longitudinal axis of the toothbrush; and at least one tab extending from a portion of said ends of the gripping members for blocking insertion of the head portion into the clip by engaging said tab, wherein the head portion is insertable into the clip to a side of said tab along the longitudinal axis of the toothbrush. | 10,245 |
8,741,493 | 1. A fuel production system comprising: a power generating device that generates variable electric power; a power distribution device that is connected to the power generating device to distribute electric power to a plurality of electrical loads; a mixed gas generating device that is one of the electrical loads and performs electrolysis on water and carbon dioxide upon receipt of electric power distributed by the power distribution device to generate a mixed gas made of hydrogen and carbon monoxide; and a control device that controls the power distribution device so as to supply predetermined electric power to the mixed gas generating device, wherein the predetermined electric power is lower than the minimum power generated by the power generating device within a preselected period of time. | 36,386 |
8,580,018 | 1. A system for isolating carbon dioxide from an exhaust gas stream resulting from combustion, comprising: a cooler to cool a combustion exhaust gas stream containing carbon dioxide; a vessel having an inlet to receive the cooled combustion exhaust gas stream from the cooler, and an outlet to discharge a process stream; an adsorbent contained in the vessel to selectively adsorb the carbon dioxide from the cooled exhaust gas stream; a heat source to heat the adsorbent and desorb the adsorbed carbon dioxide therefrom to produce a process stream of carbon dioxide for release through the outlet; an expansion valve in fluid communication with the outlet and the cooler to provide a cooling fluid to cool the exhaust gas in the cooler. | 40,149 |
9,677,498 | 1. A method for an engine, comprising: selectively deactivating one or more engine cylinders responsive to operating conditions; during reactivation of the cylinders, adjusting an ignition energy of the reactivated cylinders for a number of combustion events, wherein selectively deactivating the one or more engine cylinders includes selectively deactivating a fuel injector of the one or more engine cylinders, and wherein reactivation of the one or more engine cylinders includes reactivating the deactivated fuel injector; and during the selective deactivation, adjusting an ignition energy of active engine cylinders based on engine speed and load conditions of the active engine cylinders. | 10,356 |
9,628,049 | 1. A filter device comprising: a band pass filter; and a delay element that is connected in parallel with the band pass filter and has a same amplitude characteristic as and an opposite phase to the band pass filter at a desired frequency inside an attenuation range of the band pass filter; wherein the delay element includes a transversal elastic wave filter including a first interdigital transducer (IDT) and a second IDT, and a distance between the first IDT and the second IDT is about 12λ or less when a wavelength determined by an electrode finger period of one of the first and second IDTs is denoted by λ; and the band pass filter includes a ladder filter including a plurality of series-arm resonators and a plurality of parallel-arm resonators. | 36,084 |
8,609,740 | 1. A method for closed-loop recycling of polyurethane foam scrap comprising: forming a recycled polyol by subjecting polyurethane foam scrap to glycolysis, wherein said recycled polyol has an average equivalent weight in the range of 100-500 and wherein said recycled polyol has a viscosity range of 40,000 cps at 20° C. to 2,000 cps at 50 ° C.; adding at least a portion of said recycled polyol to a virgin polyol to produce a polyol blend, wherein said virgin polyol has a viscosity range of 1,760 cps at 15° C. to 218 cps at 45° C.; forming a polyurethane foam from said polyol blend; producing said polyurethane foam scrap from said polyurethane foam; wherein said polyol blend comprises 65-95 parts by weight of said virgin polyol, 5-25 parts by weight of said recycled polyol and a viscosity reducer comprising a dibasic ester wherein said dibasic ester is present at a level of 1-10 parts by weight of the polyol blend, wherein the viscosity reducer reduces the viscosity of the polyol blend to a range of 1,100 to 1,300 cps at 20° C.; wherein said foam formation is characterized by a gel time of 220 seconds or longer and/or a rise time of 345 seconds or longer. | 20,934 |
9,298,331 | 1. A capacitive touch sensor comprising a layered structure of a first layer, an intermediate layer, and a second layer, each of which is formed on one main surface of a substrate and is made of a conductive polymer, wherein the first layer has first-electrode lines, each of which is formed of first first-layer electrodes arranged in a first direction and first-layer conductive portions each connecting the adjacent first first-layer electrodes; and second-electrode lines, each of which is formed of second first-layer electrodes arranged in a second direction different from the first direction; the intermediate layer has first intermediate-layer electrodes respectively formed on the corresponding first first-layer electrodes; and second intermediate-layer electrodes respectively formed on the corresponding second first-layer electrodes; the second layer has second second-layer electrodes respectively formed on the corresponding second intermediate-layer electrodes; second-layer conductive portions each connecting the adjacent second second-layer electrodes in the second direction so as to intersect with the first-layer conductive portions; and first second-layer electrodes respectively formed on the corresponding first intermediate-layer electrodes; the first layer further has first-layer insulating portions formed between the first-electrode lines and the second first-layer electrodes; the intermediate layer further has intermediate-layer insulating portions formed between the adjacent second intermediate-layer electrodes; and the second layer further has second-layer insulating portions formed between third-electrode lines and the first second-layer electrodes, the third-electrode lines being formed of the second second-layer electrodes and the second-layer conductive portions. | 10,224 |
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