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9,435,288 | 1. A fuel management system for a spark ignition engine that introduces fuel into at least one engine cylinder by direct injection and also uses port injection for introducing the same fuel; where the fuel management system uses closed and/or open loop control to reduce particulate emissions by controlling the fraction of fuel provided by port fuel injection and where, during at least one of certain portions of the drive cycle, variable valve timing is adjusted so as to allow the fraction of fuel that is port fuel injected to be increased relative to the fraction used at other portions of the drive cycle at the same value of torque and speed while preventing knock, so as to achieve the reduction in particulate emissions; and where the fuel management system prevents the engine performance from falling below a selected value; and where the fuel management system also prevents engine efficiency from falling below a selected value. | 31,031 |
9,677,348 | 1. A valve for a downhole tool, the valve comprising: a plurality of discrete valve members and an actuator, each valve member being located in a respective valve chamber, the valve having a reservoir of hydraulic fluid, each valve member comprising a valve element and a valve seat, the valve element being movable within the valve chamber and being engagable with the valve seat, each valve member having a closed condition in which the valve element engages the valve seat and an open condition in which the valve element does not engage the valve seat, the valve element having a larger cross-sectional area than the valve seat, the valve element being engaged by a valve piston which is movable relative to the valve seat within a valve cylinder in the valve chamber, each valve chamber having a first inlet for hydraulic fluid, the first inlet being connected to the reservoir by a first fluid conduit, the valve seat being between the first inlet and the valve cylinder, each valve chamber having a second inlet for hydraulic fluid, the second inlet being connected to the reservoir by a second fluid conduit, the valve piston being between the second inlet and the valve seat, the actuator being adapted to move the valve members to their open conditions sequentially. | 27,353 |
9,816,842 | 1. An optoelectronic position measuring apparatus, comprising a code carrier, which carries an optically detectable position code, a radiation source for emitting optical radiation onto the code carrier and a detection element having a multiplicity of light-sensitive receiving regions for receiving at least part of the optical radiation, as a result of which a scanning signal dependent on the position code can be generated and a position of the code carrier relative to the detection element can thus be detected, wherein wherein at least that measuring component having the greater height is arranged on a plane that is parallel to the code carrier and situated further away from the code carrier in comparison with the front side such that its overhang is less than its height, wherein a smaller value can be chosen for the distance, compared with an apparatus in which the measuring components are arranged on a plane defined by the front side, wherein: the radiation source and the opening are aligned with one another in such a way that optical radiation from the radiation source can be emitted through the opening onto the code carrier, wherein the opening serves as a diaphragm. | 16,329 |
9,832,222 | 1. An anti-malware mobile content data management apparatus, for use in managing content data within an input electronic file containing content data to be sent over a wireless network comprising at least one mobile device being served by the wireless network, comprising: at least one processor; at least one memory, the at least one memory including instructions that, when executed by one or more of the at least one processor, implement the following: a regenerator to regenerate a new content data; at least two tokenisers to tokenise the content data contained within the input electronic file into a tagged generic representation of the content data, the at least two tokenisers operative to generate the tagged generic representation of the content data regardless of a language syntax used in the content data, the tagged generic representation of the content data specifying a validator function to use in validating the tagged generic representation of the content data, each of the at least two tokenisers arranged to re-tokenise the new content data before a subsequent processing step; a content management engine to apply a predetermined content management policy to the tagged generic representation of the content data to form content-managed tagged generic content data, the content-managed tagged generic content data omitting a portion of the tagged generic representation of the content data based on the predetermined content management policy; and a validator to create validated content-managed content data by being arranged to ensure the content-managed content data represented in the content-managed tagged generic representation conforms to any predefined limits and rules applied to each form of content data appearing in the content data of the input electronic file; wherein an output of the validator is operably coupled to the wireless network, and arranged to provide a substitute output electronic file derived from the validated content-managed content data. | 38,107 |
8,732,343 | 1. A computer-implemented method for creating dataless storage systems for testing software systems, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: creating a dataless storage system that contains data that is required for the proper operation of software systems but omits all other data, the dataless storage system comprising: using the dataless storage system to test at least one aspect of a software system by causing the software system to attempt to read data from and/or write data to the dataless storage system; determining that a location specified by an I/O request corresponds to a location within the software system that contains user data; upon determining that the location specified by the I/O request corresponds to the location within the software system that contains user data, directing the I/O request to the virtual null device. | 21,306 |
9,687,753 | 1. A cryopump comprising: a housing; a first refrigerator having at least first and second stages; a second refrigerator; a thermal coupling between a cold end of the first stage of the first refrigerator and a cold end of the second refrigerator, the thermal coupling formed by a bridge conductor restricted to form a thermal choke that restricts heat flow, to maintain a temperature difference between the cold end of the second refrigerator and the cold end of the first stage of the first refrigerator, the thermal coupling being a plate separated from and not defined by the housing; a radiation shield in thermal contact with the cold end of the second refrigerator, wherein the thermal coupling is distinct from the radiation shield and coupled to the radiation shield; and a condensing surface, spaced from and surrounded by the radiation shield, in thermal contact with the second stage of the first refrigerator. | 9,303 |
8,427,012 | 1. An inductive power transfer system comprising at least one inductive power outlet comprising at least one primary inductive coil wired to a power supply via a driver; said primary inductive coil for forming an inductive couple having a characteristic resonant frequency with at least one secondary inductive coil wired to an electric load, said secondary inductive coil associated with an inductive power receiver wherein said driver is configured to provide a driving voltage across said primary inductive coil, said driving voltage oscillating at a transmission frequency significantly different from said characteristic resonant frequency of said inductive couple, said driving voltage oscillating at a transmission frequency higher than the resonant frequency of said inductive couple, wherein said primary inductive coil is further wired to a reception circuit comprising a voltage monitor for monitoring the amplitude of a primary voltage across said primary coil, and said secondary inductive coil is further wired to a transmission circuit for connecting at least one electric element to said secondary inductive coil thereby decreasing capacitance of the system; such that a control signal may be transferred from said transmission circuit to said reception circuit. | 32,624 |
8,766,912 | 1. A method for adjusting a dynamic range of gesture recognition, the method comprising: detecting an environment of a user of a gesture-recognition capable electronic device, wherein the environment comprises one of a public location and a private location; determining whether the detected environment is proper for large gestures or small gestures; and adjusting a gesture input dynamic range for the gesture-recognition capable electronic device based on the detected environment of the user and the determination of proper gesture size. | 27,565 |
8,700,360 | 1. A method of detecting fault in a closed-loop system, comprising: monitoring a tracking error signal indicative of a difference between a reference value of a variable of the closed-loop system to be controlled and a measured value of the variable being controlled; filtering the tracking error signal to isolate a band of frequency components impacted by deviation in the tracking error signal caused by a fault to be detected, said isolated band being a subband having less frequency components than a band of frequency components corresponding to the tracking error signal, the subband present in a bandwidth of a tracking error signal of a corresponding predetermined nominal version of the closed-loop system, and the subband having a cutoff frequency toward a lower end of the band of frequency components corresponding to the tracking error signal; generating an accumulated error signal from the filtered tracking error signal; comparing, using a processor, the accumulated error signal with a predetermined fault threshold characteristic, said comparison based on a difference between spectral power of the subband of the filtered tracking error signal and spectral power of the subband present in the bandwidth of the tracking error signal of the corresponding predetermined nominal version of the closed-loop system; and providing an indicator of fault in the closed-loop system if the accumulated error signal meets the predetermined threshold. | 42,461 |
9,742,132 | 1. An electrical connector, comprising: an insulating body comprising a top board, a bottom board, and two side boards that form a docking chamber, wherein the top board has a first surface, the bottom board has a second surface facing to the first surface, a plurality of terminal grooves are formed on the first surface and the second surface, and the docking chamber has an opening; a plurality of conductive terminals each having a contacting portion and a tail portion connected to the contacting portion, the contacting portion being disposed in a corresponding one of the terminal grooves, the tail portion being extended to outside of the insulating body; a shielding body having two side walls opposite to each other, having a plurality of fixing ends extending outward, and being fixed to a portion of the insulating body adjacent to the opening; and two convex portions respectively located on inner surfaces of the side walls, and each of the convex portions protruding to cover a portion of a surface of a corresponding one of the side boards adjacent to the opening. | 12,902 |
8,593,014 | 1. A method for operating an energy installation comprising at least two photovoltaic modules linked to an inverter, the method comprising: (a) providing switching means to electrically arrange the photovoltaic modules in parallel or in series, (b) measuring current values and voltage values supplied individually by each photovoltaic module; (c) calculating or choosing at least one of (i) a first electrical magnitude according to the values measured in the case that the photovoltaic modules are arranged in parallel, or (ii) a second electrical magnitude according to the values measured in the case that the photovoltaic modules are arranged in series; (d) comparing the first and second electrical magnitudes with each other or with a reference magnitude; and (e) selecting an arrangement of the photovoltaic modules according to the result of the comparison. | 28,962 |
9,624,720 | 1. A system comprising: a dongle inserted into a portal of a video display that generates a signal at a moment when the video display is turned to a state of at least one of on or off; a controller that receives the signal and automatically actuates a window blind in response thereto, the controller receiving the signal directly from the dongle without requiring intervening electronic devices; and a motorized gearbox assembly, the controller being housed inside the motorized gearbox assembly, and a tilt rod of the window blind passing entirely through the motorized gearbox assembly. | 24,528 |
9,218,717 | 1. A method of gaming in an electronic gaming machine having a credit accepting mechanism configured to accept a physical item associated with a monetary value for establishing a credit balance based on the monetary value, the credit balance being increasable and decreasable based at least on wagering activity, a payout mechanism configured to cause a payout associated with the credit balance, a game controller, a memory storing data indicative of a plurality of symbols, a random number generator, and a display having a plurality of subsets of display positions, the method comprising: establishing credit balance including receiving the physical item via said credit accepting mechanism; in response to having established the credit balance via the credit accepting mechanism, decreasing the credit balance, and generating via the game controller a first game outcome for a game of chance by randomly selecting via the random number generator a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols from the memory; obtaining via the game controller a player skill based result from play of a game of skill having a potential award value, wherein the game of skill is played at the electronic gaming machine; generating via the game controller a second game outcome by modifying via the game controller the first game outcome based on the player skill based result, wherein said modifying comprises removing via the game controller at least one of the randomly selected plurality of symbols; evaluating via the game controller based on the second game outcome whether the potential award value has been lost, wherein the potential award value is associated with a predefined combination of the selected plurality of symbols, and wherein a potential award value is lost when at least one symbol making up a predefined combination is removed through said play of said game of skill; allocating via the game controller the lost potential award value to a prize pool; and in response to evaluating that the potential award value has not been lost, increasing via the game controller the credit balance; and causing via the payout mechanism an initiation of a payout associated with at least a portion of the credit balance. | 36,635 |
9,428,913 | 1. A modular thermal insulating system based on a porous mixture of organic and inorganic compounds comprising: a) a rigid planar container of prismatic shape having a length, a width, and a depth, the rigid planar container comprising a plastic material or a metal material or a combination of both; b) a first layer comprising a porous mixture of organic and inorganic compounds, wherein the inorganic compounds are presernt in an amount of 20 volume % or less, based on a total volume of the porous mixture, and the inorganic compounds comprise sodium polyarylate; and c) a base and anchorage structure comprising wherein the rigid planar container contains the first layer and the first layer is located above the base and anchorage structure; and the rigid base has a perforated area. | 26,645 |
8,881,947 | 1. A dispensing container, the dispensing container comprising: an elongate frame with a first end and a second end; and an elongate reservoir extending between the first end and the second end of the frame; wherein the reservoir comprises: a foldable wall which is connected at a first end thereof to the frame close to the first end of the frame for rotation around a longitudinal axis of the frame by means of an operating element, and which is connected non-rotatably to the frame at a second end thereof; a dispensing opening close to the first end of the frame; and a closing element displaceable between a closing position and an open position relative to the dispensing opening, wherein in the closing position the closing element closes the dispensing opening of the reservoir, and in the open position the dispensing opening is clear of the closing element; wherein the closing element is connected to the operating element and the frame via a movement-transmitting connecting construction; wherein the movement-transmitting connecting construction is adapted such that in the closing position of the closing element a displacement of the closing element from the closing position to the open position is associated with a rotation of the operating element around the longitudinal axis of the frame in the dispensing direction; in the open position of the closing element a displacement of the closing element from the open position to the closing position is associated with a rotation of the operating element around the longitudinal axis of the frame in the direction opposite to the dispensing direction; in the open position of the closing element a displacement of the closing element from the open position to the closing position is disassociated from a rotation of the operating element around the longitudinal axis of the frame in the dispensing direction. | 44,825 |
9,315,112 | 1. A power supply apparatus for an electrically powered vehicle comprising: a main power storage device; a power control unit configured to control output of an electric motor by power conversion between said main power storage device and said electric motor configured to be capable of supplying and receiving driving force to and from a wheel; a subpower storage device having output voltage lower than that of said main power storage device; a power line connected to said subpower storage device, for supplying auxiliary electric power for operating an auxiliary load; a first power converter for converting output electric power of said main power storage device into said auxiliary electric power for output to said power line; a charger for executing, during external charging, first power conversion for converting electric power from an external power supply into electric power for charging said main power storage device; a second power converter connected to a predetermined node on a path of said first power conversion, for converting electric power on said predetermined node into said auxiliary electric power for output to said power line; and a control device for controlling operation of each of said charger, said first power converter, and said second power converter, said first power converter outputting said auxiliary electric power by operating in response to a first auxiliary power feed instruction from said control device, said charger being configured to execute, while the vehicle is running, second power conversion for converting electric power of said main power storage device into electric power to be input to said second power converter and outputting the converted electric power to said predetermined node, by at least partial reverse conversion of said first power conversion, in response to a second auxiliary power feed instruction from said control device, said second power converter outputting, while said vehicle is running, said auxiliary electric power by operating in response to said second auxiliary power feed instruction from said control device, and said control device controlling, while said vehicle is running, said charger, said first power converter, and said second power converter to generate said auxiliary electric power, by switching between a first mode in which only said first auxiliary power feed instruction is generated and a second mode in which both said first and second auxiliary power feed instructions are generated, in accordance with at least one of charge restriction of said main power storage device and regenerative electric power from said electric motor. | 5,097 |
9,007,751 | 1. A flip-type electronic device, comprising: a first section, having a receiving portion, and an elastic plate received in the receiving portion, the elastic plate having an arched portion and a pair of fixed portions bended and extended from two ends of the arched portion, the pair of fixed portions fixed in the receiving portion; and a second section, having a rotating axle fixedly exposed outside one side thereof, the rotating axle rotatably disposed in the receiving portion, a periphery of the rotating axle having a stopping protrusion protruded therefrom and an arc portion opposite to the stopping protrusion, the arc portion having a gradual portion formed on one end thereof and a concave portion formed on the other end thereof, wherein the gradual portion is opposite to the concave portion, wherein a force from the elastic plate tightly against the arc portion makes the second section fixed related to the first section. | 48,212 |
9,522,842 | 1. A vitroceramic glass composition, wherein the composition is selected from the group consisting of: a glass composition (A) consisting of in molar percentages: a glass composition (B) comprising molar percentages of: a glass composition (C) comprising molar percentages of: wherein the glass composition comprises more than 50% by weight of Crystalline phase, obtained by maintaining the glass composition at a temperature plateau from 600° C. to 1,000° C., for a duration of more than 1 hour said temperature plateau being reached by observing one or several temperature rise ramps at a rate from 0.5 to 3° C./minute. | 47,306 |
9,564,274 | 1. A photoelectric conversion element, having: an electrically-conductive support; a photoconductor layer having a layer of semiconductor fine-particles that have adsorbed a dye; a charge transfer layer containing an electrolyte; and a counter electrode; which are provided on one side of the electrically-conductive support in this order, wherein the dye has at least one terdentate ligand having at least one acidic group; at least one ligand coordinating to a metal atom M has an sp2 carbon atom; a cyclic group binds to the sp2 carbon atom; in a circle position connecting through a carbon atom(s) from an atom of the cyclic group directly binding to the sp2 carbon atom, a substituent R is substituted at an atom of an α-position or β-position to the atom of the cyclic group directly binding to the sp2 carbon atom, with the substituent R being selected from a linear or branched alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkoxy group, a cycloalkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkylthio group, a cycloalkylthio group, an arylthio group, an amino group, an alkylamino group, a cycloalkylamino group, an arylamino group, a heterocyclic amino group, a silyl group, or a silyloxy group; and when the atom of the α-position or β-position to which the substituent R binds is defined as G1 and an atom of the substituent R which directly binds to the atom G1 is defined as G2, an angle θ (∠MG1G2) formed by the metal atom M, the atom G1 and the atom G2, which is centered on the atom G1, is 150° or less, wherein the metal complex dye is represented by formula (I): wherein, in formula (I), M represents Ru or Os; LD represents a bidentate or terdentate ligand represented by formula (A-4) or (A-5); LA represents a terdentate ligand represented by formula (B1); X represents a monodentate ligand; CI represents a counter ion in the case where the counter ion is necessary to neutralize a charge in formula (I); m1 represents 1 or 2; m2 represents 1; and m3 represents 0 or 1; wherein, in Formulae (A-4) and (A-5), the ring A represents a thiophene ring or a benzene ring; when the ring A is a thiophene ring, R and R wherein, in formula (B1) A represents a carboxylic acid; and a0 is 1. | 27,447 |
8,967,015 | 1. A device ( 1 ) for moving and positioning a member in space, comprising: a mobile member ( a first member ( a first carriage ( a second carriage ( a first pair of arms ( a second pair of arms ( a third member ( a third pair of arms ( a fourth member ( a first actuator ( | 18,915 |
9,033,907 | 1. An adjustable hinge comprising: a) a first support arm having a first end; b) a second support arm having a second end disposed proximal to the first end of the first support arm; c) a deformable insert between the first end and the second end and continuously connected to the first end and the second end; d) a locking mechanism along the deformable insert that assists in maintaining the shape of the deformable insert, the locking mechanism including: e) a first washer having a rectangular shape, the first washer disposed adjacent the first retention member and attached movably along the first support arm; and f) a second washer having a rectangular shape, the second washer disposed adjacent the second retention member and attached movably along the first support arm. | 11,446 |
8,442,871 | 1. A system comprising: a communication module configured to: a processor configured by a publication module to publish the plurality of user submissions received from the user application configured according to the provided configuration information. | 13,609 |
9,086,980 | 1. A method for processing a request in a multi-core system, said multi-core system including multiple processors, each processor having a respective cache memory, said method comprising: receiving, at a filter in a cache associated with a second processor, a request for data from a requesting cache associated with a first processor; comparing an indicator indicative of a logical partition in the request with an indicator indicative of a logical partition in a record of the filter in the cache associated with the second processor; searching in the cache associated with the second processor where the filter is located based on the request and returning a search result to the requesting cache associated with the first processor if the comparison result matches; and returning a NONE response to the requesting cache associated with the first processor from the filter if the comparison result does not match. | 19,533 |
8,366,562 | 1. A play system, comprising: a first arch situated within a first arch plane, wherein the first arch includes first and second ends positioned on opposite sides of a circumference of a first imaginary circle that is perpendicular to the first arch plane; a second arch situated within a second arch plane, wherein the second arch includes first and second ends positioned on opposite sides of a circumference of a second imaginary circle that is perpendicular to the second arch plane; a third arch situated within a third arch plane, wherein the third arch includes first and second ends positioned on opposite sides of a circumference of a third imaginary circle that is perpendicular to the third arch plane; wherein the area within the third imaginary circle at least partially overlaps with the area within the first and second imaginary circles such that there is an area common to all three imaginary circles; and wherein at least two of the first, second, and third arches are substantially vertically oriented such that their associated imaginary circles are substantially positioned within a common plane rather than being tilted at an angle relative to one another. | 2,167 |
9,037,573 | 1. A method of personalizing a search of a document collection to a user, the method comprising: monitoring a plurality of documents accessed by the user; identifying a plurality of first phrases present in one or more of the accessed documents; receiving a query from the user, the query including one or more second phrases; selecting a plurality of documents selected from the document collection that are responsive to the query; identifying one or more of the first phrases as related phrases that are related to the one or more second phrases, wherein a particular related phrase is related to a particular second phrase when an information gain exceeds a threshold, the information gain being a ratio of an actual co-occurrence rate of the particular related phrase and the particular second phrase in documents of the document collection and an expected occurrence rate of the particular related phrase and the particular second phrase in the documents; weighting a plurality of scores, each score corresponding to a respective document of the plurality of selected documents responsive to the query, wherein the score of the respective document that includes the one or more related phrases is boosted by the weighting; ranking the plurality of selected documents for presentation to the user based on their corresponding weighted scores, to provide personalized search results; and presenting the personalized search results to the user. | 34,085 |
9,720,409 | 1. A surveying system, comprising: a ground vehicle maneuverable within a surveying site; a plurality of ground-based mobile communication stations positioned at different locations in the surveying site, each of the plurality of ground-based mobile communication stations being associated with a set of predefined coordinates corresponding to the location at which it is positioned; a first wireless transceiver onboard the ground vehicle and in communication with each of the plurality of ground-based mobile communication stations, a location of the ground vehicle within the surveying site being determined based upon a triangulation thereof by the plurality of ground-based mobile communication stations from the set of predefined coordinates associated therewith; a surveying total station onboard the ground vehicle; and a navigation unit onboard the ground vehicle, the navigation unit being loaded with a representation of the surveying site and including one or more points of interest thereon, the navigation unit maneuvering the ground vehicle to a selected one of the one or more points of interest. | 9,712 |
8,671,074 | 1. A computer-implemented database management system having computer readable media that store executable instructions executed by a processor, comprising: a shared-nothing cluster that employs adaptive cloning to store database segments of a database as clones across cluster nodes, for maintaining redundant copies of the database segments within the cluster, each database segment having transaction log records that track changes of a transaction, the transaction log records formed into a transaction log stream, where adaptive cloning comprises activating a secondary clone to become primary when a primary clone becomes unavailable, where the share-nothing cluster does not preserve a user transaction boundary when refreshing a stale clone, wherein if it is determined that a degree of staleness of the stale clone is above a predetermined threshold, the stale clone is rebuilt in its entirety; a replication component that receives multiple transaction log streams of a database to create a change history of the changes by coordinating clone state transition with transaction log harvesting to ensure correctness of logical replication, the replication component replicates the changes to a destination data system as a single stream of changes; and a microprocessor that executes computer-executable instructions associated with at least one of the shared-nothing cluster or the replication component. | 751 |
8,880,616 | 1. A method for distributing contents to several users, comprising: interconnecting users as members of one or more social groups with the social group members pre-arranged from the user side by the user, comprising a) based on a user's context and using a pull agent in one of i) a user-side device and ii) a network-side component, obtaining contents items from contents offered from different content channels, by executing a channel management operation comprising the sub-steps of: using the pull agent to gather information regarding channel profiles from the different content channels, the different content channels serving as different sources of information, the channel profiles containing information of the content of the respective content channels, and based on the gathered information regarding the profiles provided to the pull agent, using the pull agent to perform a pull process from each of the different content channels to obtain the contents items; b) based on the pull process from each of the different content channels, executing a distribution logic to create personalized group-related contents, the group-related contents being personalized to each of the members of each social group, by the sub-steps of: a selecting sub-steps of i) analyzing information stored in the obtained contents items and ii) creating a correlation of content and group profiles, the group profiles stored in a database and contain information regarding a group ID, a social group profile with social group properties, and a push period, based on the created correlation, gathering selected contents items from the obtained contents items, embedding communication IQ triggers into the gather contents items to initiate a communication with the members of the group to define a delivery configuration; and c) based on the delivery configuration, using a push agent to push the personalized group-related contents to the pre-arranged members of the social group with the content being distributed to multiple users and personalized for each of the multiple users, wherein in the framework of the generation of the group-content-correlation a communication channel, over which the group members can be reached, is set, and wherein the distribution logic includes the user selecting a distribution mode from plural available distribution modes, the selected distribution mode determining i) which members of the pre-arranged members of the social member to which the personalized group-related contents will be pushed by the push agent, and ii) for the members receiving the personalized group-related contents pushed by the push agent, further distribution rights of the personalized group-related contents. | 9,356 |
9,545,995 | 1. A method for an autonomous vehicle override control system to provide override commands to a target unmanned autonomous vehicle (UAV), comprising: identifying, via a processor of the autonomous vehicle override control system, a certification for a remote pilot for a first UAV type based on login credentials from the remote pilot; obtaining, via the processor, a first control model for the first UAV type based on the certification; obtaining, via the processor, a second control model for the target UAV of a second UAV type; receiving, via the processor, an input command from a control input device corresponding to the first UAV type; calculating, via the processor, a first physical movement of a virtual UAV of the first UAV type using the first control model and the input command; estimating, via the processor, a second physical movement of the target UAV that is similar to the first physical movement; and generating, via the processor, an override command for the target UAV using the second control model and the second physical movement. | 2,586 |
9,331,218 | 1. A method of manufacturing a solar cell module, comprising: forming a bottom electrode layer on a substrate; forming a light absorbing layer on the bottom electrode layer and the substrate, wherein the light absorbing layer generates electricity from light energy by photoelectric effect; forming a first trench that exposes the bottom electrode layer by patterning the light absorbing layer; and forming a transparent electrode layer that extends from the top of the light absorbing layer to the bottom of the first trench and comprises a first oxide layer, a metal layer on the first oxide layer, and a second oxide layer on the metal layer, wherein the first oxide layer is disposed on an upper surface of the bottom electrode layer exposed by the first trench as well as on two opposite side surfaces of the light absorbing layer without discontinuity. | 11,762 |
9,131,057 | 1. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure including a computer device, comprising: establishing a primary conference call including a plurality of participants; establishing a subconference call including a subset of the plurality of participants; maintaining a list of which of the plurality of participants that are members of the primary conference call and a separate list of which of the plurality of participants that are members of the subconference call; providing, by the computer device, respective output signals to each of the plurality of participants, wherein members of the primary conference call are provided with audio only of the primary conference call, and members of the subconference call are provided with audio of the subconference call, and wherein a mixer receives media inputs from the plurality of participants and generates the respective output signals for each of the plurality of participants; providing, by the computer device, a visual display that shows respective groupings of members of the subconference call and members of the primary conference call; and transmitting, by the computer device, a text transcript of a conversation of the primary conference call to the members of the subconference call. | 6,150 |
8,915,896 | 1. An apparatus for administering reduced pressure to a tissue site, the apparatus comprising: a reduced pressure source, the reduced pressure source generating a reduced pressure; an indicator that is movable into a plurality of positions, the indicator moving into a retracted position in the plurality of positions in a presence of reduced pressure from the reduced pressure source; and a coiled spring coupled to the indicator, the coiled spring exerting a biasing force on the indicator toward an extended position in the plurality of positions and wherein the coiled spring has a particular spring constant such that the coiled spring biases the indicator into the extended position when an absolute pressure exceeds approximately 125 millimeters of mercury. | 33,635 |
9,027,981 | 1. A resin product for a vehicle, comprising a plurality of members welded by vibration welding, wherein welded parts by the vibration welding are arranged in a plurality of different surfaces discretely provided in a vibration direction, and one of the plurality of surfaces faces in a direction perpendicular to the vibration direction with a tolerance of 15 degrees to the vibration direction. | 39,851 |
9,404,654 | 1. A combustor section for a gas turbine engine comprising: a combustion chamber; and a combustor vane that extends at least partially into said combustion chamber; wherein said combustor vane includes an internal helical axial swirler configured with a passage that extends helically through said helical axial swirler and about and along an axis. | 26,511 |
9,010,831 | 1. A motor vehicle, comprising: a cargo space situated behind a seat arrangement; an adjustable loading panel arranged inside the cargo space, the adjustable loading panel including guides, at least one eccentric, and a first spring loaded shaft with a distal end connected to the at least one eccentric, the at least one eccentric being movable to releasably fix a position of the loading panel within the cargo space; and an actuating handle mounted on the spring loaded shaft and configured to swivel the at least one eccentric out of a position that fixes the loading panel in place into a position that releases the loading panel for adjustment, wherein the actuating handle is mounted in the loading panel so that it swivels around an axis of the spring loaded shaft, and is secured to the first spring loaded shaft and a second spring loaded shaft, wherein the first spring loaded shaft and the second spring loaded shaft are synchronized to each other by means of a tolerance compensating device. | 42,454 |
9,603,046 | 1. A method for uploading data by a first fixed station, the method comprising: broadcasting, by the first fixed station, a wake-up signal; receiving, from a vehicle by the first fixed station, a response signal including route information of the vehicle different from the first fixed station in response to the wake-up signal, the route information indicating a route of the vehicle; and uploading, by the first fixed station, data destined for a second fixed station, which is different from the first fixed station and the vehicle, onto the vehicle when the received route information includes the second fixed station on the route that the vehicle will take. | 33,563 |
8,641,978 | 1. A power supply for ozone generation, comprising: a transformer-less oscillator comprising a power source and a series resonant circuit; the series resonant circuit having a q-factor and being directly coupled between the power source and an ozone generating unit, where the q-factor is greater than or equal to 10, the series resonant circuit including a resonant inductor coupled in series with a resonant capacitor; and the power source being configured to providing a first AC voltage to the resonant circuit, and the resonant circuit being configured to providing a second AC voltage to the ozone generating unit, the second AC voltage being greater than the first AC voltage and sufficient to power the ozone generating unit. | 35,476 |
9,266,664 | 1. A protective case for a portable handheld electronic device, comprising: a first protective component, sized and configured to extend to fit snugly over at least a portion of a back and at least a portion of the perimeter of the electronic device, wherein the electronic device includes a display screen and at least one port provided on the perimeter of the electronic device, wherein a window and at least one opening are provided on the first protective component, wherein the window is located on the first protective component to expose the display screen of the electronic device and said at least one opening is located on the first protective component to provide external access to said at least one port provided on the perimeter of the electronic device when the first protective component is fitted over the back of the electronic device, wherein the first protective component is sized and configured to extend to cover at least a portion of the back of the electronic device, and wherein the first protective component is sized and configured to extend to cover at least a portion of the perimeter of the electronic device; and a second protective component covering at least a portion of the first protective component, wherein the second protective component comprises a plurality of extending members extending towards the perimeter of the electronic device and covering the first protective component over at least a portion of the perimeter of the electronic device, wherein each extending member has lateral edges, and wherein each adjacent lateral edge of an extending member is not connected to a lateral edge of an adjacent extending member. | 47,821 |
8,925,949 | 1. A bicycle frame comprising a front triangle and a rear triangle; said front triangle comprising, in turn, the following tubular elements: and said rear triangle comprising, in turn, the following tubular elements: the elements in said front triangle are manufactured as one single piece, and said two chain stays are joined to said front triangle by means of a bushing, which is inserted into a seat, which is positioned in correspondence to said bottom bracket axle; said bushing being suited to house a bottom bracket; wherein said bushing laterally protrudes with respect to said seat, thus forming two protruding portions, each chain stay, which is advantageously shaped as a connecting rod, is arranged beside the respective protruding portion, so that each respective protruding portion is inserted into a respective through hole belonging to a head of each chain stay, and wherein each head is provided with at least one protruding button, which is inserted into a respective seat, which is obtained on the outer surface of said seat tube. | 8,520 |
9,085,502 | 1. A process for dehydration of an ethanol feedstock into ethylene comprising: a) vaporizing of said ethanol feedstock in a mixture with at least a portion of a purified water stream recycled from f) in an exchanger owing to a heat exchange with the effluent that is obtained from a last adiabatic reactor, introducing said ethanol feedstock in a mixture with at least a portion of said purified water stream that is recycled into said vaporization at a pressure of between 0.1 and 0.4 MPa, b) compressing vaporized ethanol feedstock purified water mixture, in a compressor, c) introducing compressed vaporized ethanol feedstock purified water mixture, at an entrance temperature of between 350 and 500° C. and at an entrance pressure of between 0.2 and 1.3 MPa, in at least one adiabatic reactor that contains at least one dehydration catalyst and in which dehydration reaction takes place, d) separating effluent that is obtained from a last adiabatic reactor of stage c) in an effluent that comprises ethylene an effluent that comprises water, wherein the effluent that comprises ethylene is at a pressure that is lower than 1 MPa, e) purifying at least a portion of the effluent comprising water that is obtained from d) and separating at least one purified water stream and at least one unconverted ethanol stream, f) recycling at least a portion of the purified water stream that is obtained from e), upstream from a). | 7,802 |
8,358,772 | 1. A system to direct a caller through any IVR system, the system comprising: a telephony switching module configured to measure call volume to an inbound call center; an assenter module configured to prompt an operator to join a call channel in response to the call volume measured by the telephony switching module satisfying a predetermined criteria; a joiner module configured to join the operator with the call channel in response to the operator accepting the prompt of the assenter module to join the call channel, the joiner module being configured to allow the operator to exit and rejoin the call channel at will; a switcher module configured to transfer input control from the call channel to the operator upon command of the operator such that a caller on the call channel is unaware that input control has been transferred, the switcher module configured to transfer input control back to the call channel upon command; a commercial IVR system with which the call channel interacts; a control module configured to convey audio input from the operator to an IVR system such that the IVR system receives the audio input but the audio input is not heard by the call channel; and a point of sale module configured to prompt a second operator to select a recommended digitized audio script for replay on the call channel from one of a plurality of digitized audio scripts exclusively sorted into one of a plurality of closing categories, each closing category corresponding to one of a plurality of predetermined steps of a method of closing a commercial transaction, wherein the recommended digitized audio script is preselected by the point of sale module to be the most efficient after cross-referencing data collected by the IVR system with historical data. | 11,656 |
8,990,606 | 1. A method for generating a timer signal in a microprocessor, the method comprising: generating a reference code, the reference code configured to increment based on a reference clock signal; calculating a difference between a first value of the reference code and a second value of the reference code, the second value of the reference code occurring after the first value of the reference code; selecting from a plurality of inputs to a multiplexer based at least on the calculated difference between the first value of the reference code and the second value of the reference code; and incrementing a recursive timer signal based at least on the selected input to the multiplexer; wherein a timer signal circuit configured to increment the recursive timer signal based at least on the selected input to the multiplexer comprises: | 49,946 |
8,509,681 | 1. A method of using a relay in a communication system, the method comprising: continuously transmitting a signal based on superposition coding without time division and additional resource allocation, in a base station-relay link and a relay-terminal link, wherein the transmitting in the base station-relay link includes performing superposition coding of a direct-transmission terminal signal and at least one relay-supported terminal signal, and wherein transmitting in the relay-terminal link is allocated with at least one second resource different from a first resource used for the superposition coding transmission of the base station-relay link, to relay-transmit at least one relay-supported terminal signal. | 41,934 |
9,347,828 | 1. A method for detecting ambient light brightness, comprising: detecting light from a direction of a projection screen by using an optical sensor deployed on a projection device; performing preset operations at an occasion free of projection, so that a first preset image and a second preset image are presented on the projection screen; acquiring light sensing values of the first preset image and the second preset image, and obtaining a reference value of an ambient light brightness change and a threshold value of the ambient light brightness change according to the light sensing value of the first preset image and the light sensing value of the second preset image; acquiring a current ambient light brightness value in real time, and determining a change direction and magnitude of actual ambient light brightness according to the current ambient light brightness value, the reference value of the ambient light brightness change, and the threshold value of the ambient light brightness change; and obtaining a current actual ambient light brightness value according to the change direction and magnitude of the actual ambient light brightness and the light sensing value of the second preset image. | 14,862 |
9,849,523 | 1. A rotary cutting tool, comprising a rotary tool body, a blade clamp, a cutting insert, a clamp fastener, and a blade fastener, wherein said rotary tool body has an insert pocket to define a bottom positioning face, a first lateral positioning face and a second lateral positioning face, wherein said cutting insert is affixed to said blade clamp via said blade fastener, wherein said first lateral positioning face is orientated opposite and parallel to an outer lateral cutting edge of said cutting insert, wherein said blade clamp is slid into the insert pocket in an axial direction of said rotary tool body, wherein said blade clamp is coupled by said first lateral positioning face and second lateral positioning face in an interference fitting manner and is affixed at said rotary tool body by said clamp fastener. | 34,935 |
9,163,489 | 1. A method of injecting CO 2 into an aquifer or a depleted hydrocarbon reservoir via at least one injection well that penetrates said aquifer or reservoir, wherein the injection well is provided with an injection tubing that is in sealing engagement with the injection well and wherein the pressure of the aquifer or the reservoir pressure of the depleted hydrocarbon reservoir is less than the critical pressure of CO 2 , which method comprises: operating an injection facility to inject a CO wherein the injection tubing terminates at or immediately above the interval of the aquifer or the reservoir into which the CO | 39,577 |
8,911,820 | 1. A method for manufacturing a cathode for a molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC), that is, an electrolyte impregnated cathode for the MCFC, the method comprising: uniformly applying eutectic carbonate electrolyte powder on a surface of the cathode; and performing heat-treatment to impregnate an electrolyte into pores of the cathode, wherein in the step of performing the heat-treatment, the applied eutectic carbonate electrolyte powder is pressed by a porous pressure plate having pores isolated from an outside of the pressure plate, and the pressure plate has a coated surface to prevent the cathode from adhering to the pressure plate, and in the step of performing the heat-treatment, the coated surface of the pressure plate covers the applied eutectic carbonate electrolyte powder. | 6,581 |
9,341,111 | 1. An ammonia-engine system, comprising: an ammonia engine employing ammonia supplied from a NH an ammonia cracking device comprising an ammonia cracking catalyst that cracks ammonia from the NH an ammonia oxidizing device, provided between the ammonia engine and the exhaust gas introduction side of the ammonia cracking device, to provide heat to the ammonia cracking device at start-up of the ammonia engine by oxidizing ammonia according to the following formula: wherein the heat provided by the ammonia is sufficient to heat the ammonia cracking catalyst in the ammonia cracking device to a temperature of 290° C. or greater. | 9,170 |
8,761,656 | 1. An edge detecting device for detecting an edge of a moving recording medium, the edge detecting device comprising: a reflecting unit that includes a reflecting surface having reflectance higher than reflectance of the recording medium; a light source that irradiates the recording medium and the reflecting surface of the reflecting unit with light; a light receiving unit that includes a plurality of pixels of a photoelectric conversion element arranged in a width direction of the recording medium and receives reflected light that has been emitted from the light source and has been reflected by the recording medium and the reflecting surface of the reflecting unit on the pixels of the photoelectric conversion element; a control unit that determines a region of the pixels of the photoelectric conversion element that makes output higher than a preset determination threshold value in the light receiving unit as the edge of the recording medium; an angle adjusting unit that adjusts an angle of the reflecting surface of the reflecting unit; and a cleaning unit that cleans the reflecting surface of the reflecting unit, wherein the angle adjusting unit moves the reflecting surface to a position such that the cleaning unit can clean the reflecting surface. | 5,545 |
9,424,581 | 1. A system, comprising: a web server comprising one or more processors and one or more memories, to present a question received from a first user to a plurality of users, to receive a first answer and a second answer to the question from a second user, wherein the second user is one of the plurality of users, and to: a session border controller of the connection provider to interface with a packet switched network; and a telecommunication server of the connection provider coupled with the session border controller to connect the third user to the second user for real time communications in response to a request made via the communication reference. | 19,860 |
9,204,243 | 1. A method comprising: by a first control circuit as part of a personal telephony device having local access to both a Bluetooth-compatible transceiver and a Bluetooth Low Energy-compatible transceiver: during a first operating state communicating with a second control circuit via the Bluetooth-compatible transceiver, the personal telephony device configured to operate in the first operating state when actively engaged in two-way voice telephony communications; and during a second operating state, automatically switching from communicating with the second control circuit via the Bluetooth-compatible transceiver to communicating with the second control circuit via the Bluetooth Low Energy-compatible transceiver; such that the first control circuit uses both the Bluetooth-compatible transceiver and the Bluetooth Low Energy-compatible transceiver when communicating with the second control circuit but not in an overlapping manner, the personal telephony device configured to operate in the second operating state when not actively engaged in two-way voice telephony communications. | 7,970 |
8,997,461 | 1. A system, comprising: an internal combustion engine capable of producing an exhaust stream; an aftertreatment system operationally coupled to the exhaust stream, the aftertreatment system comprising an upstream selective reduction catalyst (SCR) component and a downstream SCR component, wherein the upstream SCR component is positioned in a substantially different thermal environment than the downstream SCR component when the internal combustion engine is producing an exhaust stream; an upstream reductant delivery device positioned upstream of the upstream SCR component and a downstream reductant delivery device positioned between the upstream and downstream SCR components; and wherein the upstream SCR component and the downstream SCR component are sized to fully treat the entire exhaust stream at a first highest NOx conversion condition corresponding to at least one of cold start and warm-up operating conditions of the system with reductant delivered only from the upstream reductant delivery device, and wherein the downstream SCR component is sized to fully treat the entire exhaust stream at a second highest NOx conversion condition corresponding to operating conditions of the system during at least one of an aftertreatment component regeneration event and a particulate filter regeneration event with reductant delivered only from the downstream reductant injector and with reductant delivery from the upstream reductant delivery device prevented during the at least one of the aftertreatment component regeneration event and the particulate filter regeneration event. | 33,964 |
9,445,445 | 1. A method for transmitting data between a first communication device associated with an analyte sensor and a second communication device configured to provide user access to sensor-related information, comprising: activating a transceiver of a first communication device associated with an analyte sensor, wherein the activating comprises waking the transceiver from a low power sleep mode using a forced wakeup from the second communication device; establishing a two-way communication channel with the second communication device at a first time; sending sensor-related information to the second communication device using the two-way communication channel during a transmission window; deactivating the transceiver of the first communication device at a second time; and periodically repeating the establishing, sending and deactivating, wherein a difference between the first time and the second time is less than or equal to one minute, and wherein the periodic repeating is performed at least once every 30 minutes, and wherein the forced wakeup is out of sync with the periodic establishing, sending, and deactivating. | 3,430 |
9,246,802 | 1. A computer-implemented method for routing table management in a distributed network switch having a plurality of switch modules, wherein each switch module comprises: a plurality of bridge elements and a routing table, wherein the routing table in each switch module is shared among the plurality of bridge elements in the respective switch module, wherein the plurality of switch modules are logically partitioned into a plurality of logical networks, the method comprising: receiving, by a first switch module, a first frame having a source address and a destination address, wherein the first frame is associated with a first logical network of the plurality of logical networks; upon determining that the routing table of the first switch module does not include a routing entry for the source address, modifying the routing table in the first switch module to include a first routing entry having routing information determined for the source address and the first logical network; updating a count of routing entries in the routing table that are associated with the first logical network; and upon determining that the count of routing entries associated with the first logical network exceeds a first threshold value associated with the first logical network, modifying the routing table to invalidate a second routing entry in the routing table based on the second routing entry being associated with the first logical network, wherein the modifying comprises: determining that the second routing entry is a non-static routing entry; determining that the second routing entry is not replicated from other portions of the routing table; and determining that the first switch module is an owner of the second routing entry, wherein the owner of a routing entry for a network address is characterized as a switch module having a forwarding database that learned the network address. | 34,728 |
8,756,916 | 1. A hydraulic driving device for a working machine comprising: an engine; a variable displacement hydraulic pump driven by being transmitted with power of the engine; a single rod double acting cylinder including a rod chamber formed on a rod side of a piston and a bottom chamber formed on a bottom side of a cylinder tube, and driven by being selectively supplied with oil discharged from the variable displacement hydraulic pump to the rod chamber and the bottom chamber; a spool valve capable of switching to a first actuating position leading the discharged oil to the rod chamber and leading hydraulic fluid inside the bottom chamber to a hydraulic fluid tank, a second actuating position leading the discharged oil to the bottom chamber and leading hydraulic fluid inside the rod chamber to the hydraulic fluid tank, and a neutral position leading the discharged oil to the hydraulic fluid tank without leading it to the single rod double acting cylinder; an exhaust emission control device catching particulate matter in exhaust gas generated by the engine by a filter; a clogging detection section detecting clogging of the filter; a variable throttle disposed downstream of the spool valve and capable of throttling a flow of oil discharged from the hydraulic pump which passes through the spool valve and is discharged to the hydraulic fluid tank; and a discharge pressure control section controlling the variable throttle, the discharge pressure control section controlling the variable throttle to raise discharge pressure of the variable displacement hydraulic pump so that a load of the engine increases to a degree to which temperature of exhaust gas reaches temperature required for burning particulate matter when a valve position of the spool valve is held at the neutral position and the clogging detection section detects clogging of the filter, wherein a prevention section is provided to prevent the flow of oil directed from the rod chamber of the single rod double acting cylinder toward the spool valve when the variable throttle is controlled by the discharge pressure control section so that the load of the engine increases to the degree to which the temperature of the exhaust gas reaches the temperature required for burning the particulate matter. | 39,520 |
9,242,734 | 1. An air distribution system of a cargo aircraft which includes at least one cargo deck which is connected to the air distribution system, the at least one cargo deck including a plurality of different cargo compartment areas, the system comprising: a source for bleed air, at least one air conditioning unit that treats the bleed air, a mixing unit which receives recirculation air exiting the at least one cargo deck and treated bleed air from the air conditioning unit and delivers an air supply of the recirculation air and the treated bleed air to the at least one cargo deck, a plurality of lines, each extending between the mixing unit and one of the different cargo compartment areas, such that the air supply from the mixing unit is routed out of the mixing unit through the plurality of lines to the different cargo compartment areas, at least one shut-off valve in the form of a motor-operated control valve located in each of the plurality of lines extending between the mixing unit and the at least one cargo deck in order to interrupt or completely release the air supply to each of the corresponding different cargo compartment areas of the at least one cargo deck, a cockpit switch located in a cockpit of the cargo aircraft and co-operating with the at least one shutoff valve to cause the at least one shutoff valve to take up an intermediate position between a position interrupting the air supply to the at least one cargo deck and a position completely releasing the air supply to the at least one cargo deck, and a control unit that determines a desired air volume balance for a plurality of operating states of the air distribution system and that adjusts flow volume through the at least one air conditioning unit in a current operating state of the air distribution system in accordance with the desired air volume balance determined for the respective current operating state such that air flow into and out of the mixing unit is equalized to cause a pressure prevailing in the mixing unit to remain at a constant, predetermined value for all of the plurality of operating states, wherein the mixing unit receives the recirculation air from a recirculation fan, and the control unit adjusts the throughput of the recirculation fan and the flow volume through the at least one shut-off valve in accordance with the desired air volume balance established for the respective current operating state. | 45,186 |
9,402,227 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a user device, network information for a future destination of the user device; storing, by the user device, the network information for the future destination in a local store of the user device; and responsive to the user device starting up, searching, by the user device, for an available network using the network information in the local store of the user device, wherein searching for the available network excludes searching for a last registered network. | 12,687 |
8,808,507 | 1. A microwave-assisted flash pyrolysis system, comprising: at least one microwave generator connected to a chamber; wherein the chamber comprises: at least one feedstock inlet, at least one first baffle plate, a microwave-transparent rotating window, and at least one microwave inlet, at least one wet gas outlet, and at least one dry-end product outlet; wherein the feedstock inlet for introducing feedstocks to the microwave-transparent rotating window is disposed over the microwave-transparent rotating window and in front of the first baffle plate; wherein the first baffle plate is used for leveling out the feedstocks on the microwave-transparent rotating window and separating the chamber with at least one pyrolysis sector in which flash pyrolysis is to take place; wherein the first baffle plate is disposed over the microwave-transparent rotating window, and a gap between the first baffle plate and the microwave-transparent rotating window is adjustable and used for determining the thickness of input feedstocks; wherein the microwave-transparent rotating window carries the input feedstocks through the gap and into the at least one pyrolysis sector; wherein the at least one pyrolysis sector is disposed over the microwave inlet; wherein the microwave inlet is connected to the microwave generator for introducing microwave energy upward into the at least one pyrolysis sector that is disposed over the microwave-transparent rotating window and limiting the microwave energy between the first baffle plate and the dry-end product outlet; wherein the wet gas outlet is connected to a gas collection unit for collecting wet gas from the at least one pyrolysis sector, and the wet gas outlet is disposed over the microwave-transparent rotating window; and wherein the dry-end product outlet is connected to the chamber for collecting pyrolyzed dry-end products from the microwave-transparent rotating window. | 2,397 |
9,203,912 | 1. A method for determining suitability for a mobile client to receive a targeted content message, comprising: generating a first value for a first targeted content message based on at least a first weighted sum of first user profile attributes, wherein each first user profile attribute is a numeric quantity relating to at least one of a preference and a demographic, wherein the generating generates the first value by determining a cache space availability for a plurality of different message categories, determining a category for the first targeted content message and in the case where the category for the first targeted content message is among the plurality of different message categories, determining the first value for the first targeted content message based at least in part on the cache space availability for the category for the first targeted content message; comparing the first value with a stored list of second values related to respective stored messages in a local cache memory that is maintained on the mobile client to produce a comparison result; and updating the local cache memory based on the comparison result by storing the first targeted content message in the local cache memory if the comparison result indicates a higher desirability of the first targeted content message over at least one stored message. | 37,518 |
9,417,342 | 1. A nuclide decay discriminator system comprising: (a) radiation detection device (RDD); (b) analog-to-digital converter (ADC); (c) digital computing device (DCD); (d) operator interface console (OIC); (e) real-time display (RTD); (f) nuclide state database (NSD); (g) transition probability database (TPD); and (h) state permutation engine (SPE); wherein said RDD is configured to detect radiation and produce an analog electrical signal corresponding to the detection of a radiation event; said RDD is configured to electrically couple said analog electrical signal to said ADC; said ADC is configured to convert said analog signal to digital radiation data (DRD) representing the presence of detected radiation in said RDD; said DCD is configured to count occurrences of said DRD that are above a predetermined energy detection threshold (EDT) to produce a radiation detection count (RDC); said DCD is configured to accept via said OIC a nuclide inspection list (NIL); said DCD is configured to retrieve nuclide state information (NSI) from said NSD that defines the possible states of nuclides within said NIL; said DCD is configured to use said NSI to define nuclide state branches (NSB) that define transitions between states listed in said NSI; said DCD is configured to associate a state transition probability (STP) for each of said NSB by retrieving a probability associated with said NSB from said TPD; said DCD is configured to recursively permute said NSB using said SPE to form a nuclide state chain (NSC) list associated with each of said nuclides within said NIL; said DCD is configured to compute an overall nuclide chain probability (NCP) for each said NSC; said DCD is configured to generate a nuclide probable decay chain (PDC) list from said NSC by including in said PDC only chains in said NSC having a NCP above a predetermined threshold; said DCD is configured to associate a detected energy level in said DRD with entries in said PDC to produce a detected nuclide decay (DND) list; said DCD is configured to display said DND list to said RTD for review by an operator in real-time; and said DCD is configured to display said RDC associated with entries in said RTD for review by said operator in real-time. | 4,501 |
9,620,782 | 1. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a power generating element enclosed within an outer casing, wherein the power generating element has a positive electrode obtained by forming a positive electrode active material layer on a surface of a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode obtained by forming a negative electrode active material layer comprising an aqueous binder on a surface of a negative electrode current collector, and a separator for maintaining an electrolyte liquid, Tc/Ta is in a range of 0.6 to less than 1.0 when Tc is a soak-in time of the electrolyte liquid into the positive electrode active material layer and Ta is a soak-in time of the electrolyte liquid into the negative electrode active material layer, and a porosity of the positive electrode active material layer is in a range of 20 to 30% and a porosity of the negative electrode active material layer is in a range of 25 to 40%, and a ratio value of a battery area (cm | 9,755 |
9,528,511 | 1. A liquid injection device configured to inject liquid from an injection nozzle comprising: a liquid supplying unit configured to supply liquid to a liquid chamber connected to the injection nozzle; a volume varying unit configured to vary a volume of the liquid chamber according to a drive voltage applied to the volume varying unit; and a controller configured to apply the drive voltage to the volume varying unit, wherein the drive voltage has a voltage waveform, wherein the liquid supplying unit is configured to output a phase signal to the controller, the phase signal indicates a pressure variation of the liquid supplied from the liquid supplying unit to the liquid chamber, wherein the controller varies the voltage waveform of the drive voltage on the basis of the phase signal. | 41,739 |
9,166,458 | 1. A pump/generator over-unity apparatus, said apparatus comprising: (a) a plurality of pump/generator devices said plurality of pump/generator devices in matter flow augmenting relation, each of the plurality of pump/generator devices further comprising: (b) the plurality of pump/generator devices being in a serial arrangement and connected by a pressurized recirculating pipeline, said pipeline comprising a first pump connection, an opposite second pump connection and a plurality of connecting means connecting the plurality of pump/generator devices to the pipeline; and (c) at least one pumping means being connected to the serial arrangement between the first pump connection and opposite second pump connection. | 49,678 |
8,894,751 | 1. A removable module for a portable oxygen concentrator, comprising: at least one cartridge, comprising: at least one enriched-oxygen product tube, comprising: a product end block comprising at least one passageway for transport of said oxygen-enriched product; wherein said at least one cartridge and said at least enriched-oxygen product tube are connected to said product end block. | 26,144 |
9,142,015 | 1. A circuit for providing an image representation supporting accurate guidance of an intervention device in a vessel intervention procedure in a region of interest of a patient, in which region a position of an object of interest is depending on at least a first source of motion, said circuit being configured for performing a plurality of acts, from among said plurality there being the acts of: (i) acquiring a first sequence of images of said region of interest with the intervention device inserted into said region of interest during a time frame without a first motion of the patient; (ii) detecting a first motion sequence of a periodic motion of the intervention device during a cycle of second motion by analyzing motion of the intervention device in the first sequence of acquired images; (iii) creating a motion model representative of motion, of the intervention device, that is solely induced by the second motion; (iv) determining an operator (H) defining a relationship between said first motion sequence and the second motion; (v) acquiring live images of said region of interest with the intervention device inserted into said region of interest; (vi) subtracting said solely induced motion using the operator (H) and determining the motion of the intervention device induced by the first motion of the patient; and (vii) registering of a previously acquired image of an object of interest based on the first motion. | 14,270 |
8,392,417 | 1. A method for organizing information in a database and displaying portions of the information during research using a processor, comprising: defining a proposition comprising a generic expression of an idea wherein the idea can be expressed in a plurality of forms and wherein the proposition includes a legal theory; identifying a first expression of the proposition as expressed by a first individual or entity and a second expression of the proposition as expressed by a second individual or entity, wherein the first expression of the proposition comprising a first set of characteristics and the second expression of the proposition comprising a second set of characteristics and wherein the first expression and the second expression are each a source of information providing support for the proposition; using the processor to arrange the proposition hierarchically within the database, wherein the proposition is represented by a first node within the database, wherein subordinate to the first node is a second node, and the generic (abstract) expression of the idea does not define a category; using the processor to associate the proposition with the first expression of the proposition and with the second expression of the proposition using the first set of characteristics and the second set of characteristics; separating a plurality of propositions from a corresponding plurality of expressions of the propositions, wherein the arrangement of each of the plurality of propositions hierarchically within the database creates a taxonomy having a plurality of levels; and displaying, in at least one portion of a display, the proposition, a visual representation of a conceptual relationship between nodes of the database, and information about at least one expression of the proposition. | 43,134 |
9,311,066 | 1. A computer-implemented method for managing update deployment, the method comprising: obtaining an update to be deployed and implemented within a target computing environment, wherein the target computing environment includes a plurality of receiving computing devices on which to implement the update to provide functionality corresponding to the update on behalf of at least one client; obtaining a set of monitoring criteria that defines a set of performance metrics to be monitored on the target computing environment; selecting a computing device of the plurality of receiving computing devices within the target computing environment to initially implement the update and provide functionality corresponding to the update on behalf of the at least one client; deploying the update to the selected computing device within the target computing environment; monitoring the set of performance metrics on the target computing environment; determining a number of additional computing devices, from the plurality of receiving computing devices, to which to deploy the update, wherein the number of additional computing devices is proportional to a level of increase of the set of performance metrics over a set of baseline performance metrics; and deploying the update to the determined number of additional computing devices from the plurality of receiving computing devices. | 8,270 |
8,400,634 | 1. A semiconductor wafer, comprising: a wafer substrate having an alignment marker, the alignment marker including: a first structure and a second structure, each structure having: wherein the pitch for the first structure is different than the pitch for the second structure. | 19,592 |
9,255,632 | 1. An integrated torque limiter/no-back device for use in an actuator with an input shaft driven by a power drive unit, an output and gear reduction for transmitting rotary motion from the input shaft to the output, the device comprising: an input ramp, wherein the input shaft transfers torque to the input ramp, and wherein the input ramp is one of a no-back ramp and a torque limiter ball ramp; a combined ramp to transfer torque, wherein the combined ramp comprises: an output ramp to transfer torque to the gear reduction, wherein the output ramp is the other of the no-back ramp and the torque limiter ball ramp; one or more balls between the input ramp and the first face of the unitary body to transfer torque from the input ramp to the combined ramp; one or more balls between the output ramp and the second face of the unitary body to transfer torque from the combined ramp to the output ramp; a pin extending from the combined ramp to the output ramp for transferring torque; a brake for causing torque to be grounded by preventing movement of one or more of the input ramp, the combined ramp and the output ramp when a torque threshold has been met; and a second brake for preventing backdriving of the input shaft by preventing movement of one or more of the torque limiter ball ramp, the combined ball ramp and the no-back ball ramp when the torque threshold has been met. | 37,844 |
9,576,951 | 1. A diode comprising: first diode region comprising a III-N semiconductor crystalline material having a polar plane and a non-polar plane; and a second diode region proximate the first diode region, an active diode region being disposed between the first diode region and the second diode region, at least a portion of the active diode region and the second diode region being along the polar plane and the non-polar plane of the III-N semiconductor crystalline material. | 42,157 |
8,860,938 | 1. A method for detecting viability of a test cell, said method comprising: mixing the test cell with a combination of 4,6-diamion-2-phenylindole (DAPI) dye or substituted variance of DAPI and Acridine Orange or other stains of Acridine; allowing staining of cells for a time period of at the most 60 minutes, such as 30 minutes, such as 20 minutes, such as at most 10 minutes; obtaining a stained cell sample, wherein the Acridine Orange/other stains of Acridine stains the entire population of cells and DAPI/substituted variance of DAPI stains only non-viable cell; exposing the stained test cell to an excitation light; detecting a fluorescence signal from the stained test cell; and processing the fluorescence signal to identify whether the test cell is non-viable. | 330 |
9,588,510 | 1. A command processing system for transferring motion commands from at least one command source to a plurality of command targets, where each command target supports at least one of a plurality of command target types, the command processing system comprising: a set of motion commands; a plurality of command manager objects, where each command manager object a command source configured to communicate at least one communicated motion command; a command processor comprising the command processor routes the each communicated motion command to one of the command manager objects; and the command manager objects cause the motion command communicated by the command processor to be executed using at least on command target. | 36,093 |
9,834,484 | 1. A plant enhancer comprising: a ferrocenyl polymer composition, a polyaryl ether nitrile-carbonyl iron magnetic material, silica nanoparticles, and an amino acid powder. | 11,939 |
9,182,096 | 1. An LED light fixture comprising: a heat-sink body having a circuit-board mounting surface; an LED circuit board in thermal-contact relationship to the circuit-board mounting surface, the circuit board having an LED-populated area and a surrounding non-LED-populated area such that lateral heat conduction within the circuit board is greater than heat conduction from the circuit board to the circuit-board mounting surface, whereby removal of heat from the LED-populated area is facilitated by lateral conduction of heat therefrom to the non-LED-populated area of the circuit board from which heat is conducted to the heat-sink body. | 16,593 |
8,365,781 | 1. Arrangement for manufacturing edge glued laminations for the manufacture of edge glued laminated panels from thin timber logs, the arrangement comprising: a first saw for sawing the logs through in parallel sections to form pieces of wood, a drying section for drying the pieces of wood, a planing section, and a cutting section for longitudinally cutting the pieces of wood to form lamination pieces ( said cutting section being followed by: a gauging system for continuously gauging each lamination piece and obtaining a gauging result, a feeding section comprising endless feed conveyors ( means for controlling and optimizing the width adjustment of said sawing machine based on said gauging result. | 14,357 |
8,689,738 | 1. A method for preparing a fully vegetarian feed for growing and fattening carnivorous fish and shrimp, said method comprising: a) producing a quantity of electrolyzed water; b) forming a first mixture comprising either, wherein the electrolyzed water is provided in said first mixture in an amount sufficient to at least partially reduce undesired algae and bacteria therein, and also to oxidize organic substances contained in said first mixture; c) adding to said first mixture a quantity of sodium thiosulfate sufficient to at least partially neutralize chlorine compounds in the first mixture; d) culturing a quantity of the algae in said first mixture; e) removing at least a portion of the cultured algae from the first mixture; f) drying the removed algae; g) admixing the dried algae with a quantity of a second mixture formed of guar gum powder, an oligofructan powder and a quantity of sterilizing electrolyzed water; and h) producing a quantity of pellets of said fully vegetarian feed from said admixture. | 9,288 |
9,782,761 | 1. A selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst comprising: a support layer; a copper-loaded chabazite (Cu/CHA) layer supported on the support layer; and a pre-aged copper-loaded beta zeolite (Cu/beta) layer supported on the Cu/CHA layer and having a surface area at least 20% per unit volume less than the surface area of an un-aged Cu/beta. | 34,838 |
9,077,918 | 1. A photoelectric conversion apparatus arranged on one semiconductor substrate thereof, comprising: a plurality of pixels; a vertical scanning circuit that includes a digital circuit configured to supply a driving signal to the plurality of pixels; a plurality of A/D conversion circuits configured to convert analog signals received from the pixels into digital signals; a signal processing unit that includes a digital circuit configured to sequentially receive the digital signals from the plurality of A/D conversion circuits and execute signal processing; and a horizontal scanning circuit configured to sequentially output the digital signals converted by the A/D conversion circuit to the signal processing unit, wherein: a first voltage and a second voltage, different in value from the first voltage, are supplied to the digital circuit of the vertical scanning circuit; a third voltage and a fourth voltage, different in value from the third voltage, are supplied to the digital circuit of the signal processing unit; a main portion of a first conductor that supplies the first voltage to the digital circuit of the vertical scanning circuit and a main portion of a second conductor that supplies the third voltage to the digital circuit of the signal processing unit, wherein the main portion of the first conductor and the main portion of the second conductor are isolated from each other; the third voltage and the fourth voltage are supplied to the horizontal scanning circuit; and a main portion of the second conductor and a main portion of a fifth conductor that supplies the third voltage to the horizontal scanning circuit are not isolated from each other, and/or a main portion of a fourth conductor that supplies the fourth voltage to the digital circuit of the signal processing circuit and a main portion of a sixth conductor that supplies the fourth voltage to the horizontal scanning circuit are not isolated from each other. | 33,907 |
9,418,114 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, from a content provider and by one or more processors, an augmentation-eligible content item that includes pre-augmentation content; receiving, from a user device and by one or more processors, a search query; identifying search results that are responsive to the search query for inclusion in a search results page; selecting, by one or more processors, the augmentation-eligible content item for presentation along with the search results; after identifying the search results, but prior to transmitting the augmentation eligible content item to the user device: transmitting, by the one or more processors, the augmented content item to the user device, including causing the user device to present the augmented content item with at least a portion of the identified search results in the search results page. | 40,690 |
9,515,826 | 1. A method for a network topology aided by a smart agent download, the method comprising: authenticating, with at least one authenticator device, at least one claimant; transmitting, by at least one transmission source, the smart agent download to at least one receiving source associated with the at least one claimant; receiving, by the at least one receiving source, the smart agent download; executing, by at least one processor, the smart agent download; and monitoring, by the smart agent download, for anomalous network behavior related to cyber security, wherein the at least one authenticator device authenticates the at least one claimant by verifying a location of the at least one claimant by using geolocation techniques, which use random liveness information from at least one secure spot beam based authentication signal to derive at least one secret authentication key, in order to obtain the location of the at least one claimant. | 49,305 |
9,494,993 | 1. A washing machine capable of communicating with a network system and capable of receiving electricity information related time-based pricing and information other than information related to time-based pricing, the washing machine comprising: a motor that operates to manage laundry received in the washing machine; a sensor to detect a rotation cycle of the motor; a control unit to receive the electricity information related to time-based pricing and the information other than the information related to time-based pricing, wherein the control unit controls an operation of the motor based on a value detected by the sensor, wherein the control unit is configured to: | 46,924 |
8,807,788 | 1. A sign, comprising: a light pipe including a receiving surface and an emitting surface; an information filter including an information port disposed in proximity to the emitting surface; a first light source of a first color disposed in proximity to the receiving surface; a controller in electrical communication with the first light source and a power supply, wherein the controller powers the first light source to illuminate the light pipe in the first color, and further wherein the light pipe is visible through the information port to deliver visual information in a shape of the information port; and a housing, comprising: | 3,108 |
8,446,034 | 1. A device to create electrical power using a wind chute that is comprised of: a. a tower, wherein the tower is of a predetermined size; said tower has a top section; b. electrical generating means, wherein the means to generate electricity is housed in the tower; c. chute, wherein a chute of a predetermined shape is provided; d. a first pulley, wherein the first pulley is allowed to freely rotate; said first pulley supports the first cable; e. a first cable, wherein the first cable is secured to the interior of the chute at the first end; wherein the first cable is secured to a winch at the second end; wherein the first cable passes through a cable ring; wherein the first cable passes over the first pulley; f. a second pulley, wherein the second pulley is allowed to freely rotate; wherein the second pulley supports the second cable; g. a second cable, wherein the second cable is connected to the means to generate electricity at the first end; wherein the second cable is connected to a cable ring at the second end; h. a cable ring, i. support cables for the cable ring, j. ring to chute cables, k. rigid reinforcing member, wherein the rigid reinforcing member is secured to a portion of the chute; l. weight, wherein a weight is placed opposite from the rigid reinforcing member, m. software, wherein software is provided, said software determines the stopping point of the first cable, said software determines when the chute is retrieved after being inverted; said software determines the ideal positioning of the chute depending on the direction of the wind; n. means to rotate the top section; wherein a means to rotate the top section is provided. | 13,110 |
8,541,767 | 1. A memory component, comprising: a storage component comprising a resistance changing material; an electrical contact coupled to the storage component, wherein the electrical contact comprises silicide; and a dielectric layer disposed within the storage component; wherein the memory component is free of a metal layer between the storage component and the electrical contact, and wherein the electrical contact is free of a metal layer. | 43,525 |
9,649,426 | 1. A method of reducing 10 kDa interferon-γ inducible protein, IP-10, in a subject suffering from a disease characterized by adverse expression and/or release of IP-10, said method comprising administering granules or particles made of a metal or an oxide of a metal to said subject, wherein said metal is a metal of group 4 or 5 of the periodic table of the elements and selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, hafnium, niobium and tantalum, and wherein said disease characterized by adverse expression and/or release of IP-10 is selected from the group consisting of a viral infectious disease, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, atherosclerosis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, an inflammatory disease of the gastro intestinal tract, an inflammatory skin disease, an acute graft rejection and a foreign body reaction. | 29,359 |
9,654,870 | 1. A method for processing data during idle listening, comprising: sampling, in an idle listening mode, a first analog signal using a one-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC); and sampling, in a transceiving mode, a second analog signal using an M-bit ADC, wherein M is an integer greater than 1. | 42,716 |
8,518,572 | 1. A method of manufacturing a graphite/dimensionally-stablilized-anode (DSA) assembled electrode for a redox flow battery, comprising: preparing a mixture comprising a graphite active material, a conductive material and a binder into a slurry using an alcohol; evaporating the alcohol from the slurry, thus preparing a paste; thinly spreading the paste, thus preparing an electrode sheet; and rolling the electrode sheet along with a DSA electrode, thus obtaining the qraphite/DSA assembled electrode, wherein the DSA electrode is manufactured by: acid-washing a titanium mesh with sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid; thermally treating the titanium mesh, which was acid-washed, at 400° C. for 30 hours in air; dipping the titanium mesh, which was thermally treated, in a solution of 10 wt % H thermally treating the titanium mesh, which was dried, at 450° C. for 15 min in air and performing cooling. | 38,140 |
8,451,792 | 1. A base station apparatus for performing time and frequency scheduling in uplink packet access, comprising: an interference amount measurement part configured to measure an uplink interference amount for each interference amount measurement unit which comprises a predetermined number of unit time lengths in a time domain and a predetermined number of frequency blocks in a frequency domain, each frequency block included in the interference amount measurement unit being a unit in the frequency domain for performing the time and frequency scheduling; an interference amount determination part configured to determine whether the uplink interference amount satisfies a predetermined condition; and an overload indicator reporting part configured to report an overload indicator to a neighboring cell when the predetermined condition is satisfied. | 10,626 |
8,996,312 | 1. A computer-implemented method for providing alternative trips for a computer-implemented trip search, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors, a trip request from a client computer, the trip request comprising a request for directions from an origin to a destination via a primary transportation mode; determining, by one or more processors, in response to the trip request directions between the origin and the destination; determining, by one or more processors, a primary trip price associated with the trip request based at least in part on the directions between the origin and destination; determining, by one or more processors, an alternative transportation mode between the origin and the destination, the alternative transportation mode different than the primary transportation mode; determining for the alternative transportation mode, by one or more processors, an alternative trip price; providing over a network, by one or more processors, to the client computer the directions between the origin and the destination; and providing over a network, by one or more processors, to the client computer an alternative trip notification having information associated with the alternative transportation mode if the alternative trip price is less than the primary trip price. | 29,701 |
9,517,678 | 1. A high-voltage equipment cooling system for electric vehicle comprising: a motor that drives an electric vehicle; a high-voltage equipment that is installed in the electric vehicle to supply power to the motor; a blowing means for high-voltage equipment that supplies cooling air to the high-voltage equipment; an outlet valve that opens and closes by the pressure difference between inside and outside of a vehicle compartment and discharges cooling air heat-exchanged with the high-voltage equipment out of the vehicle compartment; an air conditioning means that includes: an ambient air flow channel that extends from an ambient air inlet for inletting air outside the vehicle compartment to a first discharge port for discharging air into the vehicle compartment; a cabin air flow channel that extends from a cabin air inlet for air conditioning for inletting air in the vehicle compartment to a second discharge port for discharging air into the vehicle compartment; an ambient air fan that is arranged in the ambient air flow channel; a cabin air fan that is arranged in the cabin air flow channel; an air cooling means that cools air flowing through the ambient air flow channel and the cabin air flow channel; and an air heating means that heats air flowing through the ambient air flow channel and the cabin air flow channel, wherein the ambient air flow channel and the cabin air flow channel are separate from each other; a channel that branches from a portion on the ambient air flow channel, at a downstream side of the air cooling means but at an upstream side of the air heating means, to an inlet of the blowing means for high-voltage equipment; a cabin air inlet for cooling that is arranged at an upstream side of the blowing means for high-voltage equipment and inlets air from the vehicle compartment in a way that does not pass through the air conditioning means; and an air inlet mode selection means that is arranged at the portion where the channel branches, and switches a channel for air, which is sucked into the inlet of the blowing means for high-voltage equipment, between the ambient air inlet and the cabin air inlet for cooling, wherein the air outside the vehicle compartment is introduced by the air inlet mode selection means when supplying air cooled by the air cooling means to the high-voltage equipment from the blowing means for high-voltage equipment. | 5,122 |
8,746,055 | 1. A rain intensity sensor, the sensor comprising: a circuit which includes: | 23,457 |
8,856,413 | 1. A dynamically addressable slave unit, comprising: a bus interface; an enable circuit having a switch; two control ports, which are connected through the switch of the enable circuit; wherein the enable circuit is designed to enable the slave unit for the assignment of an address with addressing signal provided at the bus interface only when a control signal is provided at one of the control ports and when the switch of the enable circuit is opened; wherein the enable circuit is designed to otherwise prevent the slave unit from being assigned an address; wherein the slave unit is designed to close the switch depending on a closing signal that is provided depending on a switching signal on the bus interface and directed to the address signal assigned to the slave unit; and wherein the enable circuit comprises an evaluation circuit having an enable input, wherein the state of the enable input depends on whether a control signal is provided at one of control ports, and whether the switch of the enable circuit is opened or closed, and wherein the evaluation as to whether the slave unit is released for or locked to addressing is determined depending on the state of the enable input. | 40,735 |
8,988,042 | 1. A vehicle in which a power storage device mounted thereon is configured to be charged with electric power transmitted from an external power supply device via a power cable, the vehicle comprising: an inlet to which said power cable is connected; a PLC communication unit configured to establish power line communication with said external power supply device via a power line in said power cable; and a control device for controlling a charging operation of said power storage device, said power cable or said external power supply device including a switching device for switching between supply and interruption of the electric power from said external power supply device to said vehicle, said switching device includes a relay for switching between electrical connection and disconnection between a power source in said external power supply device and said vehicle, wherein said control device starts transmission of a request signal from said PLC communication unit to said external power supply device in response to connection of said power cable to said inlet, and when a transmission signal from said external power supply device to said PLC communication unit is not received, said control device closes said relay, and thereafter, retransmits said request signal from said PLC communication unit to said external power supply device. | 40,386 |
8,997,720 | 1. A fuel circuit of a fuel injector, comprising: a first channel configured to receive a first fuel and define a flow path for the first fuel; a second channel configured to receive a second fuel and define a flow path for the second fuel; and a valve in fluid communication with the first channel and the second channel, the valve adapted to direct the second fuel to the first channel when a pressure in the first channel reaches a predetermined level. | 48,188 |
9,191,868 | 1. A method of timing reference management for a mobile device in a wireless communication system comprising a network, the method comprising: being configured as a first cell of a timing advance group, in which cells have the same uplink timing, as a timing reference cell of the timing advance group, wherein a downlink timing of the timing reference cell is used for deriving an uplink transmission timing; and when the timing reference cell is changed from the first cell to a second cell of the timing advance group and a timing alignment timer applied for the timing advance group for uplink transmission synchronization is running, deriving a new uplink transmission timing according to a second downlink timing of the second cell; adjusting from the uplink transmission timing associated to the first cell to the new uplink transmission timing associated to the second cell. | 32,207 |
9,540,865 | 1. A vacuum glass comprising: a plurality of panes separated a predetermined distance from each other; a sealing material disposed along edges of the panes and sealing a space between the panes while bonding the panes to each other; and a plurality of pillars interposed between the panes and maintaining the distance between the panes, the plurality of pillars being arranged to have different arrangement distances between vertical and horizontal directions, wherein the plurality of pillars has an arrangement density Pa, corresponding to the number of pillars per square centimeter, in the range of 0.25≦Pa≦0.44, and a maximum stress at contact surfaces of each pillar to the panes is 4.8 MPa or less under a condition that an inner space between the panes is set to a pressure of less than 1.0×10 | 12,142 |
9,103,275 | 1. A supercharged internal combustion engine, comprising: at least one intake line, arranged in an intake system, for supplying charge air from a charge air cooler to the internal combustion engine; at least one exhaust line, arranged in an exhaust-gas discharge system, for discharging exhaust gases; at least one compressor, arranged in the at least one intake line, which comprises at least one rotor mounted on a rotatable shaft and a housing in which said at least one rotor is arranged, wherein the compressor is equipped with a liquid-type cooling arrangement, for which purpose, the housing has at least one integrated coolant duct, an exhaust-gas recirculation arrangement, the recirculation line of which branches off from the exhaust-gas discharge system and issues into the intake system upstream the compressor; wherein, to form the liquid-type cooling arrangement, a cooling circuit is provided which leads through the at least one coolant duct integrated in the housing, wherein a heat exchanger is arranged in the cooling circuit upstream of the housing, which heat exchanger serves for heating a cooling liquid passing through the integrated coolant duct; and the at least one compressor is a constituent part of an exhaust-gas turbocharger. | 21,678 |
9,067,205 | 1. A valving structure on a sample processing device, the valving structure comprising: a valve chamber; a process chamber positioned to be in fluid communication with an outlet of the valve chamber; a valve septum located between the valve chamber and the process chamber and vertically above at least a portion of the valve chamber, with respect to a vertical thickness of the sample processing device, the valve septum having: a fluid pathway in fluid communication with an inlet of the valve chamber, wherein the fluid pathway is configured to inhibit a liquid from entering the valve chamber and collecting adjacent the second side of the valve septum when the valve septum is in the closed configuration. | 8,112 |
8,611,863 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, if executed by a server, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising: receiving, at the server, at least one contact directory corresponding to a selected message recipient, wherein the at least one contact directory includes primary contact information of the selected message recipient and alternative contact information of the selected message recipient, and wherein the at least one contact directory is received from a mobile subscriber terminal via a packet switched wireless communications connection between the server and the mobile subscriber terminal; recording at least one voice/video message to at least one data file, wherein the at least one voice/video message is received from the mobile subscriber terminal; disconnecting the packet switched wireless connection; communicating the data file to one of a telephony network or an Internet to be relayed to at least one recipient terminal associated with the at least one contact directory; and providing a notification to the mobile subscriber terminal, wherein the notification indicates whether the at least one data file was delivered to the at least one recipient terminal. | 13,584 |
9,185,807 | 1. An integrated circuit (IC) structure comprising: a substrate layer having an upper surface; an IC chip mounted on the substrate layer and aligned with a minor axis perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate layer; an aperture in the substrate layer, the aperture physically separated from the IC chip; and a capacitor in the aperture and at least partially contained within the substrate layer, the capacitor being physically isolated from the IC chip, wherein the capacitor is aligned with an axis perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate layer and offset from the minor axis of the IC chip. | 44,265 |
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