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8,698,639 | 1. A method of controlling one or more vehicle systems in a motor vehicle, comprising: receiving monitoring information, the monitoring information including information from the one or more vehicle systems and information about a state of the autonomic nervous system of a driver; determining a body state index of the driver based on the monitoring information; changing an operating parameter of the one or more vehicle systems based on the body state index, wherein the operating parameter is used to determine activation of a particular function of the one or more vehicle systems; determining if the driver is drowsy based on the body state index; and modifying the control of the one or more vehicle systems based the operating parameter when the driver is drowsy. | 34,299 |
8,973,106 | 1. A computer implemented method for providing permissions to users of a database system, the method comprising: receiving, at a server associated with the database system, criteria; selecting, using the server, a first permission set and a second permission set, each of the first and second permission sets being defined by a respective grouping of permissions indicating accessibility of a component of a system, the first and second permission sets associated with at least one of the criteria, the permissions and the permission sets stored as data objects in the database system; identifying, using the server, one or more of the users as being associated with the at least one criteria; determining, using the server, that a first count of permissions in the first permission set is lower than a second count of permissions in the second permission set; assigning the first permission set to the one or more users responsive to the determination that the first count of permissions in the first permission set is lower than the second count of permissions in the second permission set; and storing or updating a data object indicating the assignment of the first permission set in the database system. | 15,434 |
9,162,313 | 1. A wire feeder, comprising: at least one roller be placed in frictional contact With a wire passing through said wire feeder, where said at least one roller is free to move in at least one direction normal to an axis of rotation of said at least one roller; a supporting member supporting said at least one roller; and a restricting portion which engages with at least one of said at least one roller or said supporting member to limit the movement of said at least one roller in said at least one direction to a maximum deflection distance of G where G is 50% or less of a diameter of the wire; at least one additional roller to be placed in frictional contact with said wire; and a biasing member which provides a biasing force to at least one of said supporting member or said at least one roller to bias said at least one roller into contact with said wire; and a switching mechanism which stops operation of said wire feeder based on said movement of said at least one roller exceeding a threshold distance, wherein said at least one roller and said at least one additional roller drive said wire to a welding torch, and wherein said biasing member increases said frictional contact between said at least one roller and said wire to aid in said driving of said wire. | 14,913 |
8,345,914 | 1. A loudspeaker comprising: a magnetic circuit defining a magnetic gap; a frame mounted on an side of the magnetic circuit; a voice coil bobbin disposed in the magnetic gap, the voice coil bobbin comprising a carbon nanotube layer structure comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes; a voice coil wound around the voice coil bobbin. | 26,579 |
9,835,065 | 1. A method for increasing the temperature in an internal combustion engine system during a temperature critical operation situation, the internal combustion, engine system comprising an internal combustion engine, wherein the internal combustion engine comprises a cylinder block with a plurality of cylinders, wherein the plurality of cylinders of the cylinder block are arranged in at least a first cylinder group and a second cylinder group, a gas intake manifold for providing at least air to the first and second cylinder group and an exhaust gas manifold for exiting the exhaust gas from the cylinder block to a main exhaust gas aftertreatment system, the method comprising the steps of: determining that the internal combustion engine system is operated in the temperature critical situation; after determining that the internal combustion engine system is operated in the temperature critical situation, controlling the first cylinder group to be inactive by providing no fuel to the cylinders of the first cylinder group, and controlling the second cylinder group to be active by providing fuel to the cylinders of the second cylinder group; and wherein each cylinder of the internal combustion engine system further comprises at least one intake valve for opening the corresponding cylinder to the intake manifold and at least one exhaust valve for opening the corresponding cylinder to the exhaust gas manifold, the method comprising increasing the temperature in at least one cylinder by controlling the exhaust valve of the at least one cylinder to be at least partially open at the same time as the intake valve is opened, thereby rebreathing a predetermined amount of exhaust gas into the cylinder, wherein the step of rebreathing exhaust gas is performed on the first inactive cylinder group as well as on the second active group of cylinders, wherein a lift of exhaust valves of the second active group of cylinders during exhaust gas rebreathing is smaller than a lift of exhaust valves of the first inactive group of cylinders during exhaust gas rebreathing. | 9,112 |
8,676,270 | 1. A display apparatus capable of executing content of a mobile communication terminal in cooperation with the mobile communication terminal when the display apparatus is communicably connected to the mobile communication terminal, wherein the communication terminal is also capable of executing the content of the mobile communication terminal, the display apparatus comprising: an operation input device for inputting an operation on the content in the display apparatus; an acquisition device for acquiring input information, which indicates that the operation on the content has been inputted in the mobile communication terminal, from the mobile communication terminal; and a display device for showing that the operation on the content has been inputted in the mobile communication terminal when the acquisition device acquires the input information from the mobile communication terminal; wherein when the acquisition device acquires the input information from the mobile communication terminal multiple times during a predetermined change wait period, the display apparatus changes display thereof in a manner reflecting the operation on the content that is indicated by the most-recently-acquired input information within the predetermined change wait period. | 23,483 |
9,197,036 | 1. A spark plug comprising: an insulator that has an axial hole extending in a direction of an axial line; a center electrode disposed at a front end side of the axial hole; a metal terminal disposed at a rear end side of the axial hole; a connecting portion which is electrically connected to the center electrode and the metal terminal within the axial hole; a metal shell accommodating the insulator therein; and a ground electrode, a first end portion of which is joined to a front end portion of the metal shell, and a second end portion of which is disposed apart from the center electrode so as to define a gap therebetween, wherein at least either of the center electrode and the ground electrode has a tip which defines the gap, wherein the tip contains Ir, Rh and Ru in a total amount of 95 mass % or more with respect to the whole mass amount thereof, and the contents (Rh, Ru) of Rh and Ru (mass %) lie within an area that is surrounded by a line connecting point A (6, 1), point B (6, 15), point C (33, 18), point D (33, 4) and the point A (6, 1) in this order or lie on the line, wherein the tip satisfies a relation of 1.5≦Has/Han≦2.2, wherein Has is a Vickers hardness measured at a cut surface of the tip which results when the tip is cut along a plane which includes the axial line, and Han is a Vickers hardness measured at the cut surface after the tip is placed in a furnace of an Ar atmosphere to be heated and held at 1300° C. for 10 hours and is then cooled down, and wherein the tip is cooled down by stopping the heating of the tip with Ar caused to flow at a rate of 2 liter/min and keeping Ar flowing into the furnace at the same rate even after the heating of the tip has been stopped. | 6,429 |
9,486,805 | 1. A crusher feed distributor for mounting at a crusher input hopper of a crusher, the distributor comprising: a guide body to receive a flow of material to be crushed and to direct the flow of material into the crusher; a first mount to mount the guide body at a region of the hopper and having a first adjustment component to allow adjustment of the position of the guide body at the hopper along a first pathway such that the guide body is capable of moving in a side-to-side direction within the hopper; a second mount to mount the guide body at a region of the hopper and having a second adjustment component to allow adjustment of the position of the guide body at the hopper along a second pathway such that the guide body is capable of moving in an upward and downward direction within the hopper; and an additional mount to mount the guide body at a region of the hopper and having an additional adjustment component to provide adjustment of the position of the guide body at the hopper along a third pathway and/or rotation of the guide body about a rotational axis, the third pathway being aligned transverse or perpendicular to the first and second pathway to allow the guide body to move in a backwards and forwards direction within the hopper and/or rotation about a longitudinal axis extending through the hopper. | 19,643 |
9,228,113 | 1. A method for producing a water vapor barrier film comprising a laminated film comprising a clay membrane coated and dried on a resin film substrate, the method comprising: the resin film substrate comprises polyester resin, and the clay membrane is formed of a clay and an additive consisting of a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin; the clay comprises lithium ion which is at least 90% by mole of intercalating exchangeable ions; a weight ratio of the clay relative to the total solid is 60 to 90% by weight; and applying a clay paste prepared from the clay, the additive consisting of the thermoplastic or thermosetting resin, and a dispersion medium as a solvent to the resin film having a flat surface, to form a coated substrate; drying the coated substrate; removing the dispersion medium; and performing a water resistance imparting treatment under a temperature condition of 100 to 200° C. that is determined depending on the heatproof temperature of the resin film substrate to form the laminated film, and wherein the laminate film has an oxygen gas transmission coefficient at a room temperature of less than 4.0×10 | 43,649 |
9,028,809 | 1. An immunogenic composition comprising: one or more constructs of live attenuated, modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) viruses encoding: at least one V a mammalian secretory signal sequence and a viral translational control sequence, wherein the mammalian secretory signal sequence is tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) secretory signal and the viral translational control sequence is a viral internal ribosomal entry site (IRES), wherein the one or more constructs in the composition are capable of inducing a protective immune response to one more strains of | 9,309 |
9,629,088 | 1. A method for providing preferred power information by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station, information that indicates to provide preferred power information via radio resource control (RRC) signaling; determining whether current preferred power information is different from previous preferred power information; determining whether a timer is running; and transmitting, to the base station, a message if the current preferred power information is different from the previous preferred power information and the timer is not running, wherein the timer starts or restarts if the message is transmitted. | 14,520 |
9,273,643 | 1. A method of selectively reducing intake manifold pressure in a skip fire engine control system to help purge a fuel vapor canister, reduce pressure within a brake vacuum booster reservoir or vent gas from a crankcase interior, the method comprising: operating an engine in a skip fire manner to generate a desired torque level using a throttle set at a substantially open position; further closing the throttle to reduce the intake manifold pressure in order to perform a manifold vacuum-related process selected from the group consisting of 1) purging the fuel vapor canister; 2) reducing pressure within a brake vacuum booster reservoir; and 3) venting gas from the crankcase interior; increasing an engine firing fraction to help maintain the desired torque level; and after the manifold vacuum-related process has been performed, returning the throttle to the substantially open position and decreasing the firing fraction. | 31,905 |
9,331,962 | 1. A method for translating and conveying control channels between first and second legacy end-devices supporting first and second different legacy control formats respectively, the method comprising: discovering, by a network, the first and second legacy end-devices supporting the first and second legacy control formats, respectively; discovering, by the network, a third legacy end-device; wherein the network is not a mere point-to-point connection, and supports at least two different connectivity combinations between the first, second, and third legacy end-devices; spoofing, by the network, a first network view for the first legacy end-device to enable the first legacy end-device to communicate with both the second and third legacy end-devices over the network using the first legacy control format; spoofing, by the network, a second network view for the second legacy end-device to enable the second legacy end-device to communicate with both the first and third legacy end-devices over the network using the second legacy control format; and after receiving an indication that the first legacy end-device selected the second legacy end-device, converting a first legacy message generated by the first legacy end-device to a network message, conveying the network message over the network, and converting the network message to a second legacy message before forwarding it to the second legacy end-device; wherein the first legacy message, the second legacy message and the network message are different. | 8,864 |
8,840,499 | 1. A power transmitting system for hybrid vehicle comprising: first and second planetary gear mechanisms for power derivation, each having an input shaft, an output shaft and a pilot shaft, the first planetary gear mechanism ( a selector ( an electric generator ( an electric motor ( a battery able to absorb or to restitute a balance of electric power from at least one of the electric generator and the electric motor; an engine ( the input shafts of the first and second planetary gear mechanisms ( the output shafts of the first and second planetary gear mechanisms ( the selector ( 7 ) alternatively connects and disconnects each one the pilot shafts of the first and second planetary gear mechanisms ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) to the generator ( 3 ). | 24,259 |
8,943,930 | 1. A wrench device comprising a handle, a driving member and a driving sleeve; and the handle having a fork portion defined at one end thereof, the fork portion being pivotally assembled with the driving member, the handle having a screwing portion defined at another end thereof, a screwing hole being opened at one end of the screwing portion, an opening of the screwing hole being opposite to the fork portion, the driving sleeve sleeving on an outer periphery of the screwing portion. | 5,231 |
8,947,953 | 1. A system for facilitating a write operation to a bit cell, comprising: a pulse generator configured to: a voltage detector configured to: | 38,931 |
9,624,900 | 1. A buoy, comprising: a flotation device configured to float at surface of a body of water; a vibrational linear electric generator (VLEG) configured to generate power from vibrational oscillations caused by waves, said VLEG comprising: a power collection circuit, comprising a first battery, configured to collect and store energy generated by the VLEG; and one or more electronic components powered by the vibrational linear electric generator. | 21,579 |
8,808,855 | 1. Surface-phosphated inorganic pigment and/or filler microparticles having a spherical equivalent diameter of 0.3 μm to 100 μm as determined by the sedimentation method, wherein the surface-phosphated inorganic pigment and/or filler microparticles comprise natural ground calcium carbonate, precipitated calcium carbonate, dolomite, or any mixture thereof, surface-phosphated by treatment with phosphoric acid, and wherein the surface-phosphated inorganic pigment and/or filler microparticles are at least partially coated with (i) a copolymer comprising one or more dicarboxylic acids, one or more diamines, triamines, dialkanolamines or trialkanolamines, and epichlorohydrin; and (ii) a composition comprising alkaline earth carbonate particles in which ≧90% of the particles, based on the number N of the particles, have a spherical equivalent diameter of less than 200 nm as determined by the sedimentation method. | 11,130 |
9,766,954 | 1. A computer system, comprising: a central processing unit; a graphics processing unit; memory configured to be accessed by the graphics processing unit during execution of commands; the central processing unit configured to execute an operating system that is configured to manage access by applications running on the central processing unit to resources in the computer system including the graphics processing unit and memory, wherein the operating system provides an application programming interface that is configured to manage execution of commands by the graphics processing unit and through which the applications running on the central processing unit specify, through a runtime engine, commands to the graphics processing unit, wherein the application running on the central processing unit is operative at runtime to specify commands through the application programming interface including commands specifying shaders to be executed by the graphics processing unit and resources to be used by the shaders, wherein at runtime the graphics processing unit is operative to execute the shaders using the resource specified by the commands from the application using descriptors stored in the memory to access the resources, and wherein the commands specify the resources to be used by the shaders by indicating root arguments, wherein the root arguments have a structure defined by the application using a root signature, wherein the shader accesses resources using the descriptors stored in the memory as specified by the root arguments. | 35,741 |
8,778,544 | 1. A battery with terminal, comprising a power generating element and a housing can accommodating the power generating element, the power generating element comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein: the negative electrode includes a material mixture including a negative electrode active material and a binder; the negative electrode active material contains an amorphous Si phase; the binder includes a polyacrylic acid; the non-aqueous electrolyte includes a non-aqueous solvent, and a lithium salt dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent, the non-aqueous solvent containing vinylethylene carbonate; the housing can has at least one lead terminal welded thereto; a molar ratio of the vinylethylene carbonate to the amorphous Si phase in the negative electrode active material is 0.09 to 0.17. | 40,744 |
9,228,466 | 1. A method for operating a metering valve for introducing a urea-water solution into an exhaust train of an internal combustion engine, wherein the internal combustion engine also has a charge air cooler to which the coolant is fed in order to cool charge air, whereby the method comprises: determining a temperature of the metering valve, feeding a coolant to the metering valve as a function of the temperature of the metering valve, and | 39,656 |
9,419,156 | 1. A package for holding a plurality of heterogeneous integrated circuits, comprising: a first chip having a first conductive pad and a first substrate, the first substrate including a first semiconductor; a second chip having a second conductive pad and a second substrate, the second substrate including a second semiconductor, wherein the second semiconductor is different from the first semiconductor; a molding structure, the first chip and the second chip embedded in the molding structure, wherein a top surface of the molding structure, a top surface of the first chip and a top surface of the second chip are co-planar; a conductive structure over the first chip and the second chip, the conductive structure conductively coupled to the first conductive pad; and a passivation layer over the conductive structure, the passivation layer comprising an opening defined therein, the opening exposing a portion of the second chip; wherein the second conductive pad is a n-type contact, the n-type contact comprising: a first metal layer over the second substrate, a second metal layer over the first metal layer, a third metal layer over the second metal layer, and a fourth metal layer over the third metal layer. | 9,471 |
8,898,082 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a number from a user at a third party site, identifying the number as a credit number corresponding to a credit account of the user at a payment site, the payment site being associated with a financial site that is separate from the payment site and the third party site, the identifying based on a determining that the number does not conform with a traditional numbering method associated with the financial site; and based on the identifying, processing a payment on behalf of a user, the processing including accessing the financial site associated with the credit account of the user at the payment site, the processing being performed by a hardware processor. | 49,292 |
9,616,879 | 1. A vehicle comprising: at least one controller programmed to operate a traction battery to achieve upon completion of a present route segment a target state of charge that is based on a target battery power defined by a classification for a plurality of route segments including the present route segment that results from application of a set of fuzzy rules to vehicle acceleration and road grade associated with the route segments. | 38,961 |
9,756,584 | 1. A method of setting an initial dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) power of a secondary carrier after a transmission gap, the method comprising: determining a reference DPCCH power; determining a power offset; and calculating the initial DPCCH power of the secondary carrier by adding the determined reference DPCCH power to the determined power offset. | 11,966 |
9,772,330 | 1. A method for amplification of the detection of a target molecule in a sample comprising: a. obtaining at least one binding agent capable of binding to said target molecule, wherein said at least one binding agent is bound to a matrix; b. incubating said at least one binding agent which is bound to the matrix with a blocking agent, thereby blocking free active groups on the matrix, wherein said active groups are primary NH c. incubating said at least one binding agent which is bound to the matrix with the sample under conditions allowing the binding of the binding agent to the target molecule; thereby forming a matrix-binding agent-target molecule complex; d. contacting the matrix-binding agent-target molecule complex formed in step (c) with a polymer associated with a member of an affinity couple, wherein said polymer is non-specific toward the target molecule and further comprises reactive groups, and wherein said reactive groups are reactive with primary NH e. contacting said matrix-binding agent-target molecule-polymer complex with a complementary member of said member of an affinity couple, wherein said complementary member is associated with a detectable moiety, wherein the amount of said detectable moiety is indicative of the presence of said target molecule in the sample, wherein said target molecule is a viral antigen, a cancer marker or a soluble antigen selected from the group consisting of soluble cancer markers, inflammation-associated markers, hormones, cytokines, drugs, viral derived soluble molecules, bacterial derived soluble molecules and fungal derived soluble molecules. | 3,253 |
9,707,507 | 1. An oil removing device removing oil from crude ammonia containing oil as impurities, comprising: an oil filter cylinder accommodating a filtration element cylindrically formed from a plurality of filtration membranes processed into a shape of pleat, honeycomb, or space structure; and an oil adsorption cylinder filled with activated carbon, wherein the plurality of filtration membranes comprises filtration membranes having different roughnesses to remove mist oil in order of decreasing particle size. | 49,374 |
9,724,804 | 1. A method of forming a cutting element, comprising: disposing a volume of polycrystalline material adjacent a non-aqueous ionic liquid, the volume of polycrystalline material comprising interbonded grains of hard material and metal catalyst material in interstitial spaces between adjacent grains of hard material, wherein the non-aqueous ionic liquid comprises at least one ion selected from the group consisting of BF applying an electrical potential between the volume of polycrystalline material and a cathode in electrical contact with the non-aqueous ionic liquid to increase an oxidation state of the metal catalyst material while maintaining the non-aqueous ionic liquid at a temperature of less than about 100° C. | 13,225 |
9,339,934 | 1. A method for manually guided adjustment of the pose of a manipulator arm of an industrial robot, the method comprising: detecting with a robot controller a guidance force applied to the manipulator arm by an operator of the industrial robot; in a reference coordinate system having at least two degrees-of-freedom, determining with the robot controller one of the at least two degrees-of-freedom as a selected freedom direction, wherein the selected freedom direction corresponds to the degree-of-freedom in which the guidance force has its greatest force vector component; and controlling the drives of the industrial robot with a robot controller using force control in such a manner that a pre-specified reference point associated with the manipulator arm is moved only in the selected freedom direction as a result of movement of the manipulator arm by an operator during a manually-guided adjustment of the pose of the manipulator arm. | 39,786 |
8,698,415 | 1. Current supply circuitry for at least one luminescent diode having: at least one inductive reactance connected as a storage choke in series with the luminescent diode(s); switching stages for switching over from a charging process to a discharging process in the storage choke when an over-shooting of a threshold value of a first control voltage of the switching stages occurs, and for switching over from a discharging process to a charging process in the storage choke when an under-shooting of a threshold value of a second control voltage of the switching stages occurs; and a free running current path, connected in parallel with the series connection of the luminescent diode(s) and the storage choke, for at least a part of the discharge current released by the storage choke to the luminescent diode(s) upon blocking of the first switching stage. | 20,532 |
9,716,642 | 1. A method for checking a meter indication value input of a gas meter, comprising: receiving, by a server computer, meter indication value data for the gas meter which was input by an operation-responsible person from a client computer; determining, by the server computer, whether or not a meter indication value included in the meter indication value data is a correct value in a predetermined range based on past usage and a supply status for a supply facility associated with the gas meter which were input by the operation-responsible person or other operation-responsible person via each client computer; when the meter indication value is the correct value, storing, by the server computer, the meter indication value in a predetermined data region as the latest meter indication value data; when the meter indication value is a false value, sending, by the server computer, to the client computer, data prompting a reentry of the meter indication value, wherein, when the client computer receives the data prompting the reentry, the client computer clears the inputted meter indication value; receiving, by the server computer, the reentered meter indication value data from the client computer; determining, by the server computer, whether or not the meter indication value included in the reentered meter indication value data is the same as the meter indication value determined as the false value; and when the meter indication value included in the reentered meter indication value data is the same as the meter indication value determined as the false value, storing, by the server computer, the meter indication value included in the reentered meter indication value data in a predetermined data region as the latest meter indication value data. | 28,930 |
8,716,923 | 1. A spark plug assembly, comprising: a spark plug comprising an adapter comprising | 17,204 |
9,093,922 | 1. An inverter comprising: an AC output connected to a utility grid through a first reactor and a second reactor; an energy storage capacitor connected to a photovoltaic (PV) array terminal, wherein a first half bridge and a second half bridge respectively is connected to the positive (+) and negative (−) terminals of the energy storage capacitor, and wherein a first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth diodes being arranged between the first half bridge and the second half bridge, the first and second diodes arranged facing the third and fourth diodes respectively each other, and the fifth diode arranged facing the sixth diode, wherein a first node of the first half bridge is connected to an anode of the first diode and a second node of the first half bridge is connected to a cathode of the second diode, a first node of the second half bridge is connected to an anode of the third diode and a second node of the second half bridge is connected to a cathode of the fourth diode, and the first, second, third and fourth diodes being formed a diode bridge, and wherein | 45,890 |
9,275,429 | 1. A method for hang recovery, the method comprising: determining a first set of instructions of an application a graphics processing unit (GPU) was executing at a time of a GPU hang; resetting the GPU; instructing the GPU to re-execute the first set of instructions of the application that the GPU was executing at the time of the GPU hang; determining that the GPU hung during the re-execution of the first set of instructions of the application; and in response to the determination that the GPU hung during the re-execution of the first set of instructions: | 14,174 |
8,740,744 | 1. A method for a vehicle having an engine, a traction motor, and a transmission coupled in-series, comprising: controlling engine torque to attempt to maintain a cruise control speed of the vehicle as the vehicle travels uphill; and controlling motor torque to maintain the cruise control speed without downshifting the transmission, the motor torque including an initial torque associated with no transmission downshift and an additional torque associated with a commanded transmission downshift. | 26,521 |
9,222,420 | 1. A method, comprising: selectively deactivating one or more engine cylinders via deactivatable fuel injectors controlled according to instructions stored in memory of an engine controller; and during cylinder reactivation, adjusting a combustion air-to-fuel ratio by adjusting a fuel injector based on a change in ammonia content stored in a first exhaust catalyst to regenerate one or both of a second exhaust catalyst and a third exhaust catalyst, the change occurring during selective cylinder deactivation immediately preceding the cylinder reactivation wherein the third exhaust catalyst is coupled upstream of the first catalyst, the second exhaust catalyst is coupled downstream of the first catalyst. | 19,590 |
9,360,201 | 1. A lighting device comprising: a base; a substrate mounted in the base; a conducting rib perpendicularly mounted on the base and having an LED module mounted on the first end of the conducting rib and extending out of the base, and electrically connected to the substrate. | 12,664 |
8,895,013 | 1. A method of treating a CD74-expressing cancer, comprising administering to a human subject in need thereof a conjugate of an anthracycline drug and a humanized anti-CD74 antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof comprising human antibody framework (FR) and constant region sequences, wherein the humanized anti-CD74 antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof is a humanized LL1 antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof comprising light chain CDR1 having an amino acid sequence of RSSQSLVHRNGNTYLH (SEQ ID NO:1), CDR2 having an amino acid sequence of TVSNRFS (SEQ ID NO:2) and CDR3 having an amino acid sequence of SQSSHVPPT) SEQ ID NO:3) and heavy chain CDR1 having an amino acid sequence of NYGVN (SEQ ID NO:4), CDR2 having an amino acid sequence of WINPNTGEPTFDDDFKG (SEQ ID NO:5), and CDR3 having an amino acid sequence of SRGKNEAWFAY (SEQ ID NO:6), wherein the humanized anti-CD74 antibody comprises one or more substituted FR residues selected from the group consisting of light chain variable region amino acid residues 2, 3, 4, 46, 87 and 100 of SEQ ID NO:11 and heavy chain variable region amino acid residues 5, 37, 38, 46, 68, 91 and 93 of SEQ ID NO:8. | 18,588 |
8,992,545 | 1. A delivery system to deliver a medical device through a body lumen comprising: a securement system comprising a first snare wire that is securable to an end portion of the medical device, and a second snare wire that is securable to the end portion of the medical device, wherein the first and second snare wires are operable to release the medical device at a deployment location, and wherein the first snare wire and the second snare wire are independently adjustable to position and release the medical device at the deployment location; and a delivery sheath comprising a center lumen that encloses at least a portion of the medical device, a first side lumen that contains the first snare wire, and a second side lumen that contains the second snare wire, and wherein the first side lumen and the second side lumen each comprise an external slot extending from a distal tip partially along a length of each side lumen. | 46,153 |
9,785,399 | 1. A method of providing zone functionality to media sub-devices the method including the steps of: (i) discovering a plurality of virtual media systems, wherein each virtual media system is configured to control a respective one or more media sub-devices, wherein at least one of the virtual media systems is configured to control a respective plurality of media sub-devices, wherein each virtual media system is discoverable and controllable thereby to collectively control its respective one or more media sub-devices, and wherein the media sub-devices are connected to a common data network; (ii) initiating formation of a zone including a selection of the virtual media systems; (iii) transmitting a single resource identifier for the zone to each of the selection of virtual media systems; and (iv) identifying a zone controller, wherein the zone controller provides a virtual zone super-system that is discoverable and controllable thereby to collectively control the respective one or more media sub-devices of the selection of virtual media systems; wherein, for media playback, the zone controller is responsible for distributing media data to all individual media sub-devices in the zone and wherein, during such playback, a given one of the virtual media systems is configured to implement a volume control command in respect of its respective one or more media sub-devices, wherein the volume control command is not implemented for any of the other media sub-devices; wherein each individual media sub-device is configured to: maintain a zone profile data file; communicate updates to the zone profile data file to all other media sub-devices in the zone; and, in the case that the media sub-device temporarily drops out of a zone, identify a most recent zone profile data file thereby to rejoin the zone; wherein at least one of the media sub-devices comprises: | 42,563 |
9,564,298 | 1. A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus comprising: a chamber; a first electrode formed in the chamber; a second electrode opposite the first electrode; and a first power transmitting rod connected to one of the first electrode and the second electrode, the first power transmitting rod having one end portion and another end portion, wherein, a first conductive stress attenuating unit is formed between the one end portion and the other end portion of the first power transmitting rod. | 39,061 |
8,976,255 | 1. An imaging apparatus comprising: a first imaging unit which is provided on a front face of an apparatus main body and images a first main subject to obtain first acquired image data; a second imaging unit which is provided on a back face of the apparatus main body and images a second main subject to obtain second acquired image data; a clipping unit which clips image data of the second main subject from the second acquired image data obtained by imaging of the second imaging unit; and an image processing control unit which combines the first acquired image data with the image data of the second main subject clipped by the clipping unit to meet combining conditions determined by the first image data, wherein the second imaging unit images the second main subject to obtain the second acquired image data, and the second acquired image data includes at least two pieces of parallax image data having a parallax. | 19,936 |
8,391,633 | 1. An image discernment apparatus, comprising: a count unit to count the number of pixels, of which the gradation levels are smaller than a predefined first threshold value, from among pixels positioned in the periphery of the image; a discernment unit to discern an image to be of an appropriate gradation, even if the image is in a dark tone, if the number of pixels, as a result of the counting, is not less than a second threshold value; and a ratio calculation unit to calculate the ratio of the number of pixels calculated by said count unit to the total number of pixels positioned in the surroundings of said image, wherein said discernment unit discerns an image to be of an appropriate gradation even if the image is in a dark tone if the ratio is not less than a predefined third threshold value. | 43,445 |
9,435,529 | 1. A light fixture, comprising: a hood; one or more reflectors; one or more light sources; a front covering; wherein said hood is comprised of a plurality of openings and an interior surface; wherein said plurality of hood openings is comprised of a front opening and one or more duct openings; wherein said one or more reflectors are positioned between said interior surface of said hood and said one or more light sources such that a light emitted by said one or more light sources is substantially prevented from reaching an interior surface of said hood and wherein said light is substantially reflected by said one or more reflectors out of said front opening; wherein said one or more positioned reflectors creates a front light area and a back dark area in said hood; wherein said one or more reflectors have a plurality of concealed openings that allow the passage of air between said back dark area and said front light area; wherein said one or more duct openings are connected to an air flow system that causes air to flow into and out of said hood; wherein said front covering is transparent; wherein said one or more reflectors generally have a curved concave shape; and wherein said one or more light sources are not in a horizontal position. | 37,126 |
9,422,684 | 1. A beach erosion mitigation device, comprising: an elongated tubular member having a rounded sidewall, a length, an open interior, and a pair of open ends; said rounded sidewall having an enclosed volume of air therein such that said tubular member is buoyant; a first set of openings through said sidewall comprising one or more overflow openings; a second set of openings through said sidewall comprising one or more venturi openings; each of said venturi openings comprising a tapering opening with a frontal portion, a rear portion, and an opening edge; said frontal portion being wider than said rear portion, and said opening edge tapering between said frontal portion and said rear portion. | 48,643 |
9,533,758 | 1. An unmanned aerial vehicle comprising a fuselage, a deployment mechanism supported by said fuselage, and a wing attached to said deployment mechanism, wherein said deployment mechanism comprises a wing root hub attached to said fuselage, a wing root pivotably coupled to and surrounding said wing root hub, and an actuator pivotably coupled to said wing root hub and to said wing root at opposite ends thereof, wherein said wing is attached to said wing root and rotates around said wing root hub from a stowed position to a deployed position in response to extension of said actuator, wherein said wing root comprises a passageway and said wing root hub comprises an opening, further comprising an airfoil-shaped body pivotably coupled to a trailing edge of said wing, a control servo mounted inside said wing, and a control servo wire having one end connected to said control servo, said control servo wire following a path that comprises said passageway in said wing root and said opening in said wing root hub. | 33,854 |
9,387,217 | 1. A method for treating an HPV viral infection in a host in need thereof comprising administering an effective amount of a compound of the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, optionally in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. | 14,023 |
8,910,447 | 1. A mechanical coupling arrangement for a lattice support beam, said mechanical coupling arrangement having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, and comprising: at least a first chord member, a first diagonal member, and a connector element for joining said first chord member with said first diagonal member, wherein each of said first chord member, said first diagonal member, and said connector element is made of extruded aluminum profile; said connector element comprising at least a first attachment portion having a first contact surface in contact with said first chord member, and a second attachment portion having a second contact surface in contact with an abutment surface of said first diagonal member; said first contact surface comprising at least one rib-shaped projection running in said transverse direction and engaged in at least one corresponding groove-shaped recess arranged in said first chord member; said second contact surface is pressed against said abutment surface of said first diagonal member by means of at least one fastener penetrating through the second attachment portion, wherein the longitudinal direction of the at least one fastener is arranged substantially parallel with a longitudinal direction of said first diagonal member. | 16,670 |
9,215,124 | 1. A vehicle communication network comprises: a plurality of vehicle control modules; a network fabric, wherein the network fabric comprises: a network manager operably coupled to the network fabric, wherein the network manager is operable to: wherein the data bridge is operable to: | 18,773 |
9,845,324 | 1. A compound having formula (10) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein R wherein R | 24,029 |
8,633,964 | 1. A computer-implemented method for generating a video from panoramic images comprising: receiving a transition tree corresponding to a current panoramic image from a server, the transition tree having multiple nodes including a first node associated with the current panoramic image and other nodes corresponding to nearby panoramic images in the transition tree, and has two or more decision paths in the transition tree that extend between the first node and the other nodes corresponding to nearby panoramic images for transitioning to the nearby panoramic images; determining a path in the transition tree to a next panoramic image based on a user navigation request, wherein the path is determined based at least on a comparison of image weather conditions between the current panoramic image and the nearby panoramic images in the transition tree; requesting a video chunk from the server for each edge of the determined path in the transition tree; receiving the requested video chunks from the server; and displaying the requested video chunks in sequence according to the determined path in the transition tree. | 40,146 |
9,683,369 | 1. A method for attaching a mounting bracket having opposite horizontal, parallel wings, and a raised portion between the wings, to a roof, comprising: applying a coating of an uncured first sealant material to a first area of a roof surface above decking of the roof, the first area having an outer perimeter greater than overall area of the bracket; pressing undersurfaces of the wings of the bracket into the uncured first sealant material; securing the mounting bracket to the roof by screws applied into the roof decking through holes provided in the wings of the bracket; and applying a second sealant material over heads of the screws on upper surfaces of the wings of the bracket. | 10,030 |
9,255,194 | 1. A method comprising: depolymerizing a polyester with (i) an alcohol and (ii) an amine organocatalyst and/or carboxylic acid salt of same according to Structure 1, wherein, R1, R2, and R3 are independently selected from the group consisting of C carbon spacing between any two nitrogen atoms in Structure 1 is greater than one; and the amine organocatalyst has a boiling point lower than the boiling point of the alcohol. | 5,144 |
8,631,887 | 1. A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle mounted with an internal combustion engine and an electric motor serving as a source of power for causing the vehicle to travel, said hybrid vehicle including: a chargeable and dischargeable power storage unit; a charging unit for externally charging said power storage unit with electric power received from an external power supply, when said power storage unit is caused to enter a state chargeable by the external power supply; and an electric power generation unit capable of generating electric power from drive force received from said internal combustion engine, said electric motor generating drive force from electric power received from said power storage unit, and said power storage unit being configured to be internally chargeable with electric power received from said electric power generation unit, said control apparatus comprising: a mode selection unit for selecting one of a first travel mode and a second travel mode for causing said vehicle to travel, said first travel mode restricting internal charging of said power storage unit by said electric power generation unit, and said second travel mode controlling internal charging of said power storage unit by said electric power generation unit such that a state of charge of said power storage unit is kept within a predetermined range; an operation request generation unit for generating an operation request to said internal combustion engine when a predetermined operating condition is satisfied while said vehicle is traveling; and an intermittent operation control unit for starting said internal combustion engine in response to said operation request and stopping said internal combustion engine in response to cancellation of said operation request, said operation request generation unit changing said predetermined operating condition depending on whether said first travel mode is selected or said second travel mode is selected, said control apparatus further comprises a start preparation unit for preparing for start of said internal combustion engine by preheating a sensor provided to an exhaust system for said internal combustion engine and a calculation unit for calculating a cumulative intake air amount from a time when said internal combustion engine is started, said operation request generation unit generates said operation request when: said operation request generation unit does not generate said operation request when preparation for start of said internal combustion engine is completed while said first travel mode is selected. | 36,347 |
9,009,761 | 1. A method for broadcasting audiovisual information to mobile devices in a wireless manner, wherein the mobile devices comprise receivers, the method comprising: storing training information in a memory; generating a plurality of packets, wherein a first portion of the plurality of packets comprises the training information, wherein an amount of the training information depends on a time of day, wherein the amount is greater at times when more receivers are likely to be moving; wherein at least one of the plurality of packets comprises first information which identifies a first training pattern of a plurality of possible training patterns, wherein the first training pattern specifies one or more locations of the training information in the plurality of packets; wherein the plurality of packets further comprise audiovisual information; wherein the first information is useable by the receiver to determine the first training pattern of the plurality of possible training patterns; transmitting the plurality of packets on a signal modulated in the frequency domain in a wireless manner. | 21,876 |
8,435,295 | 1. An intervertebral implant delivery system comprising: a first end plate holder comprising a first end and a second end; a second end plate holder comprising a first end and a second end; and a pivot assembly that couples the first and second end plate holders together; wherein each of the first ends independently retains an end plate of an intervertebral implant to facilitate insertion of the end plate into an intervertebral space; wherein the pivot assembly is configured to actuate the second ends while the first ends are in the intervertebral space to adjust a thickness of a space between the end plates and adjust an angulation of the first end plate relative to the second end plate. | 11,051 |
9,058,166 | 1. A method of concentrating a processing load comprising individually allocating processing jobs to a minimum number of processing units in a configured set of processing units to maintain a defined level of processing redundancy for the processing jobs, said method comprising: initially activating fewer than all of the processing units in the configured set, thereby logically forming an active set of two or more processing units to which new processing jobs are allocable and an inactive set of one or more processing units to which new processing jobs are not allocable, wherein those processing units currently in the active set are referred to as active processing units and those processing units currently in the inactive set are referred to as inactive processing units; logically dividing the total jobs capacity of each of the active processing units into M capacity quotas, wherein M is the number of active processing units, wherein said total lobs capacity is same for all processing units in the configured set; reserving in each of the active processing units a reserved jobs capacity equal to one capacity quota, thereby leaving the remaining one or more capacity quotas in each of the active processing units as allocable jobs capacity and preserving, as said defined level of processing redundancy, an aggregate reserved jobs capacity across the active processing units that is equal to the total jobs capacity of one processing unit; and allocating new processing jobs to respective ones of the active processing units until more allocable jobs capacity is needed to preserve the defined level of processing redundancy, and then activating one or more of the inactive processing units to increase M, and correspondingly re-computing the reserved jobs capacity that is reserved in each of the active processing units to reflect the increase in M, so that the minimum number of processing units are active to maintain the aggregate reserved jobs capacity across the active processing units as equal to the total jobs capacity of one processing unit. | 29,034 |
9,659,991 | 1. A method for manufacturing a back-side illumination image capturing apparatus, the image capturing apparatus including: a semiconductor substrate having a first surface for receiving incident light and a second surface located on the opposite side as the first surface, and including a photoelectric conversion portion, and a gate electrode located above the second surface; a contact plug connected to the gate electrode; and a light-cutting portion for cutting light, of the incident light, that has passed through the photoelectric conversion portion, the method comprising: forming a first insulating layer above the second surface of the semiconductor substrate after forming the gate electrode; forming an interlayer insulation film above the first insulating layer; forming a first opening for forming the contact plug by etching away part of the interlayer insulation film and part of the first insulating layer; and forming a second opening for forming the light-cutting portion by etching away another part of the interlayer insulation film, wherein in the step of forming the first opening, the first opening reaches the gate electrode; and in the step of forming the second opening, at least part of the first insulating layer is left between the bottom of the second opening and the semiconductor substrate. | 23,194 |
8,886,752 | 1. A method for optimizing transfers of downloadable content from a content provider to a processor, the method comprising: receiving a first local request for a first portion of a plurality of portions of the downloadable content that are to be executed by the processor; translating the first local request into a first remote request for the first portion of the downloadable content; transmitting the first remote request; receiving the first portion of the downloadable content; storing the first portion of the downloadable content; using the processor to execute the first portion of the downloadable content before other portions of the downloadable content are available for execution by the processor; determining if a second portion of the plurality of portions of the downloadable content should be obtained; and if it is determined that the second portion should be obtained, | 17,026 |
8,647,421 | 1. A CO 2 recovery apparatus comprising: a CO an absorbent regenerator for allowing a CO a cleansing section disposed downstream of a gas flow in the CO a reflux line for condensing the water vapor accompanied by the CO a supplying line for adding a part of the reflux water to the cleansing solution; a first heat exchanger disposed in a boiler flue gas duct, for extracting a part of the cleansing solution so as to exchange heat with the part of the cleansing solution; and a superheated cleansing solution supply line for introducing the superheated cleansing solution that has heat exchanged in the heat exchange section into a bottom portion of the absorbent regenerator. | 34,121 |
9,099,946 | 1. A high speed energy storage flywheel system comprising: a rotor located in a vacuum chamber disposed in a stator housing and supported by active magnetic bearings, at least one vacuum valve disposed in fluid communication with the vacuum chamber; and a fluid tank and a control device configured for selectively releasing a fluid inside the vacuum chamber upon detection of an emergency condition and then selectively creating a braking effect on the rotor by friction; wherein the control device maintains the at least one vacuum valve in a closed position when the fluid is released inside the vacuum chamber from the fluid tank so that the fluid is prevented from leaving the vacuum chamber during the braking effect. | 28,604 |
9,582,737 | 1. A method for recognizing a gesture, the method comprising: determining, by a computer system, a first set of metrics to differentiate gestures from among only a first subset of gestures of a plurality of gestures, the first subset of gestures recognizable as valid input in a particular context of a user interface environment of the computer system; receiving, by the computer system, user input that causes a gesture classification context to be applied from a plurality of gesture classification contexts available for a gesture analysis engine, wherein the gesture classification context indicates the first subset of gestures; applying, by the computer system, the gesture classification context to the gesture analysis engine; after applying the gesture classification context, receiving, by the computer system, data indicative of the gesture performed by a user; identifying, by the computer system, using the gesture analysis engine and based on the first set of metrics, the gesture in accordance with the applied gesture classification context, wherein identifying includes identifying the gesture from only the first subset of gestures of the plurality of gestures indicated by the applied gesture classification context while the gesture classification context is applied; determine a second subset of gestures from the plurality of gestures, wherein each gesture of the second subset of gestures is valid in a second gesture classification context; determining, by the computer system, a second set of metrics for the second subset of gestures to differentiate gestures from among only the second subset of gestures, wherein: receiving, by the computer system, user input that causes the second gesture classification context to be applied to the gesture analysis engine; after applying the second gesture classification context, receiving, by the computer system, data indicative of a second gesture performed by the user; and identifying, by the computer system, based on the second set of metrics, the second gesture in accordance with the applied second gesture classification context, wherein identifying includes identifying the second gesture from only the second subset of gestures indicated by the applied second gesture classification context. | 8,236 |
9,638,149 | 1. An air intake duct of a saddle-riding type vehicle forming an air intake passage for supplying an intake air to a supercharger, wherein the air intake duct includes a curve portion and is connected to the supercharger, the air intake passage has a transverse cross-section which is shaped such that a dimension in an orthogonal direction that is orthogonal to a radial direction of the curve portion is gradually reduced from a center of the curve portion toward an outer side, in the radial direction, of the curve portion; and a dimension-reducing shape in which the dimension in the orthogonal direction is gradually reduced is formed in at least the curved portion of the air intake duct from the front-rear direction to the widthwise direction in the air intake duct. | 5,397 |
9,707,619 | 1. A squeeze pin circuit for die casting installed to a direction switching valve, the direction switching valve being configured to switch a direction of hydraulic pressure to a core cylinder, the squeeze pin circuit being configured to drive a squeeze pin, the squeeze pin being configured to partially pressurize molten metal filled in a cavity, the squeeze pin circuit comprising: a squeeze pin cylinder and the core cylinder coupled to the direction switching valve to drive the squeeze pin and a core; and a flow rate adjusting unit installed on a hydraulic pressure path, the hydraulic pressure path coupling the direction switching valve to a head side of the squeeze pin cylinder, the flow rate adjusting unit being configured to ensure pressure compensation and temperature compensation. | 22,131 |
9,491,480 | 1. An apparatus for encoding a motion vector of a current block, the apparatus comprising: a resolution combination determiner configured to select a set of motion vector resolution candidates, to be applied to an image area in which the current block is located, from among a plurality of sets of motion vector resolution candidates, each set of the plurality of sets including one or more motion vector resolution candidates, wherein at least one of the plurality of sets of motion vector resolution candidates includes a plurality of motion vector resolution candidates; and a motion information encoder configured to encode, into a bitstream, motion vector data determined for the motion vector of the current block according to a code table corresponding to the selected set of motion vector resolution candidates, wherein each motion vector resolution is a resolution of each motion vector, wherein the code table is selected from a plurality of code tables and each of the plurality of code tables includes a plurality of codewords corresponding to a plurality of motion vectors, and wherein the plurality of motion vectors included in each of the plurality of code tables corresponds to each of the plurality of sets of motion vector resolution candidates further comprising an encoding cost calculator configured to calculate an encoding cost of the current block according to the one or more motion vector resolutions included in each set of the plurality of sets of motion vector resolution candidates, wherein the resolution combination determiner is configured to select the set of motion vector resolution candidates having the lowest encoding cost among the encoding costs calculated for the plurality of sets of the motion vector resolution candidates. | 30,413 |
9,066,513 | 1. A method for preparing a glyphosate herbicidal aqueous concentrate to improve the handling of the concentrate, the method comprising: forming a mixture of at least two nitrogen bases, and reacting the mixture of the at least two bases with glyphosate acid to provide an aqueous solution comprising a mixture of glyphosate salts wherein the concentration of glyphosate (based on glyphosate acid equivalent) is at least 500 gae/L, wherein the at least two nitrogen bases are selected from the group consisting of ammonia, C 1 to C 10 alkylamine, di-(C 1 to C 6 alkyl)amine, tri-(C 1 to C 6 alkyl)amine, C 1 to C 10 alkanolamine, C 1 to C 6 alkyl(C 1 to C 6 alkanol)amines and di-(C 1 to C 6 alkyl)C 1 to C 6 alkanolamines, wherein the mixture of bases present upon said forming is not a mixture consisting of potassium hydroxide, monoethanolamine and isopropylamine, and wherein the mole ratio of the at least two nitrogen bases:glyphosate acid is in the range of from 0.9:1 to 1.3:1. | 33,755 |
9,131,755 | 1. An umbrella shank comprising: an inner tube ( an outer tube ( a moving mechanism ( a fixing mechanism ( a linking mechanism ( | 5,913 |
9,694,662 | 1. A motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and an electric drive motor and a vehicle drive train connecting the engine and the electric drive motor to drive wheels, the vehicle drive train comprising: an engine drive train exclusively driven by the internal combustion engine when transmitting propulsive power; an electric motor drive train exclusively driven by the electric drive motor when transmitting propulsive power; a common drive train selectively drivingly connected to: an axle drive unit arranged to drive axle drive members that are connected or connectable via a clutch to drive wheels of the vehicle drive train, the axle drive unit including: a first clutch device comprising part of the electric motor drive train and disposed between and selectively drivingly connecting the electric drive motor and the drive member; and a second clutch device comprising part of the engine drive train and disposed between and selectively drivingly connecting the pinion and a remainder of the engine drive train between the pinion and the internal combustion engine, wherein the second clutch device selectively drivingly connects the pinion with a propeller shaft of the engine drive train and the toothed gear is a crown wheel and the electric motor is rigidly fixed to the axle drive unit, and the drive member is a differential housing and a first of the axle drive members is a first side gear in the differential housing and a second of the axle drive members is a second side gear in the differential housing. | 7,890 |
9,193,611 | 1. Composite membrane comprising: a) at least one substrate layer (S) comprising wherein the sulfonated polymer P1 and the polymer P2are independently selected from the group consisting of polyarylether, polyethersulfone, polyphenylensulfone, polysulfone, polyacrylonitrile, polybenzimidazole, polyetherimide polyphenyleneoxide, polyvinylidenfluoride, polyimide and copolymers composed of at least two recurring units of said polymers; wherein the weight ratio of sulfonated polymer P1 to polymer P2 is in the range of 0.4 to b) at least one film layer (F) comprising at least one polyamide. | 46,750 |
8,450,545 | 1. A process of: (a) modifying a zeolite catalyst with a tetraethyl orthosilicate compound with steam treatment and acid treatment to produce a modified zeolite catalyst wherein the modified zeolite catalyst has blocked pore sites; (b) flowing an oxygenated feed over the modified zeolite catalyst, wherein the oxygenated feed comprises hydrocarbons, methanol and dimethyl ether or a mixture thereof; and (c) reacting the hydrocarbons, methanol and dimethyl ether in the oxygenated feed with the modified zeolite catalyst to produce cyclic hydrocarbons, wherein the cyclic hydrocarbons produced has less than 10% durene, less than 3% benzene, and a median carbon number is C wherein the acid treatment consists of: sulfuric acid, hydrocholoric acid, phosphoric acid, formic acid, acetic acid, oxalic acid trifluoroacetic acid, trichloroacetic acid, p-toluene-sulfonic acid, methanesulfonic acid and combinations thereof. | 44,641 |
8,838,796 | 1. A computer-implemented method of allocating resources in a computer system, said method comprising: creating a first quota identifier, said first quota identifier being a unique service quota al location code identifying a quota allocation of a first service and including a first quota value; assigning said first quota identifier to a plurality of users; creating a second quota identifier, said second quota identifier being a unique service quota allocation code identifying a quota allocation of a second service and including a second quota value; associating, using a processor, said second quota identifier to a first user of said plurality of users such that a total quota value for said first user comprises said first quota value and said second quota value; and modifying one of said first quota value of said first quota identifier or said second quota value of said second quota identifier resulting in a modified said total quota value for said first user; wherein said first quota value and second quota value comprises an indication of storage space. | 31,425 |
8,790,247 | 1. A method for guiding a capsule endoscope that is provided in a liquid contained by an organ wall, the capsule endoscope comprising a magnet, by control of a magnetic field generator configured to generate a magnetic field that acts on the magnet, the method comprising: a first moving step comprising moving the capsule endoscope along a vertical axis that is substantially parallel to a direction of gravitational force, by controlling a magnetic field strength of the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator so that the magnetic field acts on the magnet to bring the capsule endoscope into a submerged state between a liquid surface of the liquid and the organ wall; and a second moving step comprising moving the capsule endoscope along a substantially horizontal axis that is substantially parallel to the liquid surface, by controlling the magnetic field generator while maintaining the submerged state of the capsule endoscope, wherein the second moving step is performed subsequently to the first moving step, and wherein each of the first moving step and the second moving step further comprise | 38,743 |
9,544,568 | 1. An image display apparatus comprising: a display; a remote controller including a 3D key, and directional keys; a controller configured to control the display to display a three-dimensional (3D) format setting menu when the 3D key of the remote controller is pressed, wherein the controller is configured to display the 3D format setting menu in a pop-up window, wherein the 3D format setting menu is overlaid on an on-going image on the display, wherein the 3D format setting menu includes a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects including a first object indicating a top and bottom format and a second object indicating a side-by-side format, wherein the first object includes a first image and a second image, which is the same as the first image, which are arranged in a top and bottom arrangement, respectively, wherein the second object includes a third image and a fourth image, which is the same as the third image, which are arranged in a left side and a right side arrangement, respectively, wherein when a direction key among the directional keys of the remote controller is pressed, the controller is configured to move focus of the first object to the second object, to convert the on-going image as a converted image corresponding to the second object, and to display the converted image with the 3D format setting menu, wherein the 3D format setting menu further includes a move icon indicating movement of the focus among the plurality of objects, a setting icon indicating selection of one of the plurality of objects, and an exit icon indicating termination of display of the 3D setting menu, and wherein, when the 3D Key is pressed during displaying a 3D image, the controller is configured to terminate displaying the 3D image. | 25,197 |
9,021,211 | 1. A coherent attached processor proxy (CAPP), comprising: logic that participates in coherent communication of memory access requests within a primary coherent system on behalf of an external attached processor (AP) including a cache memory that holds copies of memory blocks belonging to a coherent address space of the primary coherent system; recovery circuitry including an epoch timer that advances at regular intervals, wherein each of a plurality of values of the epoch timer defines an epoch of operation of the CAPP; and a data structure including one or more entries, wherein each entry specifies a respective epoch; wherein the recovery circuitry initiates recovery operations for the CAPP based on a comparison of an epoch indicated by the epoch timer and the epoch associated with one of the one or more entries in the data structure. | 12,405 |
8,516,970 | 1. A ship-body frictional resistance reducing device for reducing frictional resistance of a sailing ship body by forming an air bubble curtain on a ship's bottom by generating air bubbles, the ship-body frictional resistance reducing device comprising: an air chamber provided on the ship's bottom inside the ship body; a plurality of air ejection holes formed in an arrayed manner on the ship's bottom that becomes a bottom portion of the air chamber; a sea chest provided on the ship's bottom inside the ship body in a manner such that the sea chest covers the air chamber; and a supply pipe in which air supplied from an air supply source flows toward the plurality of air ejection holes, wherein the supply pipe penetrates through the sea chest and is connected to the air chamber. | 29,773 |
8,644,888 | 1. A system comprising: a mobile communications device; a wireless headset including a speaker and a microphone; and a switching unit comprising, separate from and detachably coupled to the mobile communication device through a cabled connection, the switching unit comprising: | 42,209 |
8,361,327 | 1. An agricultural water-recycling system, comprising: an influent tank configured to allow an effluent discharged from a sewage treatment plant to be introduced thereinto; an aeration tank configured to aerate the effluent introduced thereinto from the influent tank; an iron (Fe)-ionizing module insertedly mounted at an upper end of the aeration tank for removing phosphorus contained in the effluent received in the aeration tank; a photovoltaic (PV) power generator configured to supply electric power to the iron (Fe)-ionizing module; and a sedimentation tank configured to allow treated water from which phosphorus has been removed in the aeration tank to be introduced thereinto so as to remove suspended solids (SS) contained in the treated water introduced into the sedimentation tank, wherein the iron (Fe)-ionizing module comprises | 7,255 |
9,313,137 | 1. A first communication node configured to communicate with at least one second communication node over at least one operational digital communication line, wherein the first communication node comprises: a traffic event monitor comprising a call control message intercept unit that monitors received call control messages, wherein the traffic event monitor is configured to: a power mode control unit configured to send to the second communication node, in response to detection of the selected traffic event, a plurality of requests to increase the transmission power of the at least one operational digital communication line in the first communication node in a series of steps from a low transmission power state to a high transmission power state in the digital communication line. | 27,205 |
9,494,124 | 1. An aircraft electrical apparatus comprising: a transformer rectifier unit configured to supply power to an aircraft DC supply bus; an engine starter motor controller configured to provide an AC input voltage to the transformer rectifier unit, wherein the AC input voltage frequency is selected to be above that of an AC supply bus from which the engine starter motor controller is supplied; and a battery configured to supply power to the DC supply bus when the engine is being started. | 25,063 |
9,300,367 | 1. A receiver for retrieving an information signal in a reactive near-field of a transmitter of a magnetic induction signal by direct sampling the magnetic induction signal comprising a carrier signal modulated based on the information signal, the receiver having a signal path comprising: an antenna circuit configured to receive the magnetic induction signal and to provide a corresponding electric antenna signal; an amplifier adapted to amplify the electric antenna signal; a digitiser adapted to digitise the amplified signal; and a digital demodulator adapted to retrieve the information signal by demodulating the digitised signal, wherein the antenna circuit forms a narrow band-pass filter having a centre frequency at a frequency of the carrier signal and performs channel-selection filtering of the electric antenna signal, and the receiver is configured to retrieve the information signal from the electric antenna signal without any frequency mixing of the electric antenna signal to a lower frequency in the signal path between the antenna circuit and the digitiser. | 44,614 |
9,466,435 | 1. An electrochemical capacitor comprising: spaced apart electrodes separated by a separator made of an electrical insulating material, each of said electrodes formed of carbonaceous material and capable of being impregnated with a liquid electrolyte; and a pair of metal current collectors on the sides of said electrodes opposite from said separator, said electrodes having a plurality of spaced holes extending through the carbonaceous material between said metal current collector and said separator, wherein the holes are spaced apart between about 9-13 microns to create a direct pathway for travel of the electrolytic ions during charging and discharging of the capacitor thereby significantly increasing the operational frequency of the capacitor. | 24,429 |
8,683,242 | 1. A system for controlling a computer, comprising: a processor that runs user-centric applications; one or more biometric input devices that are operatively coupled to the processor, the one or more biometric input devices providing information relating to physiological traits of a user of the computer, the physiological traits of the user being correlated to user satisfaction; wherein the processor uses the information relating to the physiological traits of the user to provide a physiological traits-based power-management system, wherein the physiological traits-based power-management system is user-aware due to the information received from the one or more biometric input devices; and wherein the physiological traits-based power-management system optimizes a power consumption of the processor via a dynamic voltage and frequency scaling scheme based on the determined correlation between the user satisfaction and changes in the physiological traits of the user to reduce the power consumption of the processor to a minimum level at which the user is still satisfied, wherein if the power consumption was reduced below the minimum level the user would become dissatisfied. | 36,733 |
9,032,215 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a first user device and from a second user device, a passlet that allows a first user access to a target device and that includes: information identifying the target device, information identifying at least one service providable to the first user device by the target device, and information identifying a second user, which is different from the first user, that created the passlet and has access-determination rights to the target device which allow the second user to grant the first user access to the target device; decrypting the passlet using a key of the first user, resulting in a decrypted portion of the passlet and an encrypted portion of the passlet that is encrypted using a key of the target device; providing at least the encrypted portion of the passlet to an interface to cause communication of at least the encrypted portion of the passlet to the target device via a network; receiving, after providing at least the encrypted portion of the passlet, a response from the target device indicating the first user device is permitted to access the target device for the at least one service. | 6,763 |
9,063,257 | 1. A LED illumination lamp, extending substantially along and about an axis and comprising a LED light source located substantially along the axis; a light diverting optical element located substantially in front of the light source along the axis and shaped so as to laterally divert the light impinging substantially axially on the optical element; and an optical guide plate surrounding the optical element and the axis; the plate extending along the axis between two opposite faces respectively defining a front light-exit surface and a rear active surface having a series of annular projections spaced radially apart from one another and concentric with the axis; the lamp being characterized in that the plate is provided with a seat, that houses the light source and the optical element and is bounded by a lateral wall surrounding the axis, the optical element, and the light source; and in that the optical element has a reflecting surface shaped so as to reflect the light from the light source onto the lateral wall of the seat and, through the lateral wall, into the plate; the face defining the rear active surface being substantially perpendicular to the axis; and the projections projecting from the face substantially parallel to the axis, and beyond an edge bounding the seat in which the light source and the optical element are housed; and wherein each projection has two opposite lateral sides sloping with respect to the axis and the face. | 31,800 |
8,411,624 | 1. A method of managing sub-band resources in a wireless network including a plurality of base stations each corresponding to one or more reception areas, the method comprising: adaptively allocating, at each of the plurality of base stations, one or more sub-band resources to one or more mobile devices in corresponding reception areas based on indications of one or more power adjustments received from the one or more mobile devices, wherein adaptively allocating includes: | 28,293 |
9,711,674 | 1. Method for producing a photovoltaic material able to absorb and exploit high energy or energetic photons, comprising the steps of: a) providing the photovoltaic material made of at least one inorganic crystalline semiconductor material, comprising Si or GaS, the photovoltaic material having a top surface intended to be exposed to photonic radiation, having a built-in P-N junction delimiting an emitter part and a base part and comprising at least one area which is adapted to absorb high energy or energetic photons located adjacent or near at least one hetero-interface; b) generating structural defects within said emitter and/or base part of the photovoltaic material consisting of divacancies able to function as low-energy secondary generation centers grouped together in at least one nanometric formation and persistent under production process and photovoltaic conversion conditions; c) introducing n-type impurities, comprising phosphorus or arsenic, to a first region of said photovoltaic material in order to put the divacancies into an electrical charge state in which they are saturated with weakly bonded electrons and to provide increased conduction within said first region; amorphizing at least a portion of the semiconductor material in order to create the at least one area adapted to absorb high energy or energetic photons, and then preserving any structural defects generated during amorphization during subsequent production steps; and performing at least one thermal treatment step of the photovoltaic material so as to cause recrystallization of the semiconductor material; wherein steps b) and c) are performed in such a way that they result in at least one semiconductor based metamaterial region being created as a transitional region of the at least one hetero-interface, in an area located contiguous or proximate to the at least one area adapted to absorb high energy or energetic photons, wherein absorption in the at least one area adapted to absorb high energy or energetic photons occurs at wavelengths including at least a range which causes thermalization of primary electrons liberated directly by said energetic photons and which collide with metamaterial low-energy generation centers liberating secondary generation electrons in a multistage processing, the order of which depends on remaining energy kept by the primary electrons at the moment of their generation collision; d) providing a built-in electric field or applying an electric field which encompasses or extends over said at least one semiconductor based metamaterial region and shows an intensity sufficient to withdraw and move away said liberated secondary generation electrons from their initial sites within the at least one semiconductor based metamaterial region, and wherein steps b) and c) are performed in such a way that a density of divacancies within the at least one semiconductor based metamaterial region is greater than 10 | 48,087 |
9,379,600 | 1. A method comprising: supplying a first control signal to a first control line; supplying a second control signal to a second control line; controlling an amount of a bias current flowing to a bias line based on the first control signal and the second control signal, a first parasitic capacitance being formed between the first control line and the bias line and a second parasitic capacitance being formed between the second control line and the bias line; changing at least one of the first control signal and the second control signal; supplying an inversion signal of the first control signal to a first balance capacitor that includes one end coupled to the bias line and another end that receives the inversion signal of the first control signal; substantially cancelling a potential fluctuation of the bias line caused by the changing of the at least one of the first control signal and the second control signal, wherein the potential fluctuation propagates via at least one of the first parasitic capacitance and the second parasitic capacitance corresponding to the at least one of the first control signal and the second control signal, and wherein a magnitude of the bias current or a level of a bias voltage into which the bias current is converted is a control parameter of a circuit to be controlled; converting the bias current into the bias voltage; and supplying the bias voltage to a control electrode of a bias transistor, wherein the bias transistor is coupled to a clock transmission line so that transmission characteristics of the clock transmission line are controlled based on the bias voltage. | 35,955 |
9,327,715 | 1. An electric vehicle control device comprising: a motor provided as a drive source; an automatic transmission disposed between the motor and a driving wheel, and the automatic transmission comprising a plurality of shifting elements for switching a plurality of gear stages; a shift controller programmed to set each of the shifting elements that is engaged during a gear shift by the automatic transmission as an engagement element, and set each of the shifting elements that is released as a release element, to execute the gear shift; a frictional engagement element disposed in a power transmission path between the motor and the driving wheel, and fully engaged or slip-engaged as an element other than one of the shifting elements that is involved in the gear shift of the automatic transmission; a control unit programmed to switch a torque sharing rate, which is a sharing rate of transmission torque allocated to the frictional engagement element according to an engagement capacity, such that during a shift transition period a switched torque sharing rate is delayed from a start of the gear shift to an end of the gear shift until a start of a shifting procedure, and continuously switch from a current gear sharing rate to a subsequent gear sharing rate in accordance with a degree of the shifting procedure when the shifting procedure starts; and an engagement capacity control section programmed to control the engagement capacity of the frictional engagement element during the shift transition period, in accordance with the switched torque sharing rate, the control unit being programmed to calculate the torque sharing rate used for continuously switching from the current gear sharing rate to the subsequent gear sharing rate by using a value obtained by dividing the engagement capacity of the engagement element, which is engaged during the gear shift by an input torque to the engagement element, as an index representing the degree of the shifting procedure. | 30,879 |
9,038,061 | 1. An application server comprising: a processor; a memory; a home network middleware module configured to communicate with a plurality of controlled hardware devices for performing an installation and management of applications for the plurality of controlled hardware devices by using Internet access services and middleware services for accessing the plurality of controlled hardware devices, wherein the Internet access services and the middleware services are bundled into a framework capable of providing integrated support to a variety of home network middleware, wherein each of the plurality of controlled hardware devices includes positional information on an application file to be installed, and wherein the home network middleware module is further configured to extract the positional information on the application file from each of the plurality of controlled hardware devices; an application loader module configured to download the application file from a file server to install a relevant application in accordance with the extracted positional information on the application file; and an application management module configured to control operations of the home network middleware module and the application loader module, wherein at least one of the plurality of controlled hardware devices determines whether the application server is connected to a home network and if the application server is connected to the home network, the at least one of the plurality of controlled hardware devices determines whether a new application is to be installed in the at least one of the plurality of controlled hardware devices, and wherein the at least one of the plurality of controlled hardware devices does not have a browser. | 10,744 |
8,348,209 | 1. A universal bracket for fastening at least one panel element and at least one additional installation in an aircraft, comprising: a base plate for fastening to a substructure of the aircraft, said base plate comprising at least one first slot, at least one first bore, a plurality of second bores, and at least one bore screen, wherein said first slot is configured for accommodating at least one first fastener for fastening said base plate to the substructure, a support plate connected to the base plate through at least one second fastener via said at least one first bore; at least one device carrier configured for fastening at least one emergency-related device in one of a plurality of positions, said at least one device carrier further configured to be fastened to said base plate by at least one third fastener through said bore screen, and a plurality of spring clips housed in the support plate for making a releasable and vibration-damping connection to the at least one panel element, wherein each of said plurality of spring clips is configured to pass through one of said plurality of second bores for fastening the panel element to the bracket; wherein the at least one bore screen has a plurality of bores arranged approximately equidistant from each other. | 41,430 |
9,716,630 | 1. A system for transporting datapackets or datagrams to and from a customer server and a first geographically remote data-collecting field unit that lies within a remote geographic region with multiple geographically proximate data-collecting field units characterized by: an IP host, geographically remote from the customer server, communicatively coupled to the customer server, and configured to: receive from the customer server through a network a request datagram for specified data from the first geographically remote data collecting field unit; add to the request data ram a first predefined hopping path that includes the first geographically remote data collecting field unit and at least one of the other multiple geographically proximate data-collecting field units to generate a data request packet; send the data request packet to the first geographically remote data collecting field unit along the first predefined hopping path; and deliver a datagram as received by the IP Host from the customer server to a customer monitor; wherein the first geographically remote data collecting field unit is configured to receive from the customer monitor a response datagram that includes the specified data at the first geographically remote data collecting field unit, to add to the specified data a second predefined hopping path that includes the IP Host and at least one of the other multiple geographically proximate, data-collecting, field units to generate a data response packet, and to transmit the response datagram with the collected data to the IP Host along the second predefined hopping path. | 4,874 |
8,426,426 | 1. A compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: Q is —CH W is C—R X is selected from CH or CF; R each R′ is independently selected from hydrogen, C each R R R each R is independently selected from T-Ar or a C T is (CH Ar is selected from: R | 43,665 |
9,042,882 | 1. A network node, comprising: first and second communication links comprising, respectively, a first radio configured to use a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) and a second radio configured to use a second RAT; a first protocol stack corresponding to said first RAT, a second protocol stack corresponding to said second RAT; a processing logic configured to: | 25,174 |
9,252,677 | 1. A quasi-resonant push-pull converter comprising: a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding; an input circuit configured to apply a DC power source to the primary winding of the transformer; a resonant circuit; a rectifier circuit having an input coupled to the secondary winding and an output coupled to the resonant circuit; and a switching circuit configured to modify a coupling of the secondary winding to the resonant circuit via the rectifier circuit responsive to a voltage of the DC power source. | 45,709 |
8,699,986 | 1. A non-real time data transmission method for use in a base station, the base station connecting to a mobile apparatus via a network, the base station recording a sleep cycle interval which comprises a sleep interval and a listening interval, and the base station exchanging data with the mobile apparatus during a data transmission interval, the non-real time data transmission method comprising the following steps: (a) enabling the base station to determine a sleep ratio relation according to the sleep interval, the sleep cycle interval and the data transmission interval; (b) enabling the base station to determine a transmission efficiency relation according to the listening interval and the data transmission interval; (c) enabling the base station to determine a packet delay relation according to a delay time interval of transmitting data to the mobile apparatus; and (d) enabling the base station to determine a sleep interval value according to the sleep ratio relation, the transmission efficiency relation and the packet delay relation. | 49,935 |
9,197,246 | 1. A method for decoding a transport block including multiple sub-blocks, each of which can be decoded iteratively, wherein the transport block also includes a single cyclic redundancy check, CRC, over an entirety of the transport block; the method comprising acts of: performing a decoding iteration on a particular sub-block of the multiple sub-blocks; checking the CRC for the entirety of the transport block using decoded bits obtained from the decoding iteration on the particular sub-block and decoded bits obtained from a most recent decoding iteration on other sub-blocks of the multiple sub-blocks; and performing a decoding iteration on a different sub-block if the CRC does not check. | 31,120 |
9,847,735 | 1. A power conversion device comprising: a plurality of chopper circuits connected in parallel, each chopper circuit including a reactor, a switching element, and a backflow prevention element; a switching control unit that controls a plurality of switching elements; a smoothing capacitor that smoothes outputs of the plurality of the chopper circuits; a rectified-voltage detection unit that detects a rectified voltage output from the rectifier; a bus-bar voltage detection unit that detects a bus-bar voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor; and a bus-bar current detection unit that detects a bus-bar current to which a rector current flowing into the reactors is added, wherein the switching control unit includes: | 31,282 |
9,358,063 | 1. A method of determining a mode of an electrosurgical instrument, comprising: supplying a first high frequency square waveform voltage input to the instrument; sensing a measured current waveform generated at an electrode of the instrument; determining a peak amplitude and a time-averaged amplitude of the measured current waveform; calculating a peak-to-average ratio based upon the peak and the time-averaged amplitudes; and determining whether the electrode of the instrument is in an ablative mode or non-ablative mode based upon the calculated peak-to-average ratio, wherein while supplying the first high frequency voltage input, the calculated peak-to-average ratio of the measured current waveform increases significantly when the instrument is in the ablative mode as compared to the non-ablative mode and wherein during the ablative mode a plasma is generated at the electrode. | 4,993 |
9,315,352 | 1. An apparatus for dispensing packing material, the apparatus comprising: a support arm configured to support a roll of packing material; an idler roller configured to engage and roll with packing material dispensed from the roll; a brake arm disposed to extend along a length of the roll, a first edge of the brake arm supporting at least one brake arm roller, a second edge of the brake arm disposed opposite of the first edge, the brake arm supported to rotate to selectively engage the roll with either the first edge or the second edge, the brake arm biased to engage the roll on a side of the roll toward the idler roller with the second edge to restrict rotation of the roll; wherein the brake arm is configured to rotate to engage the roll with the at least one roller in response to packing material being dispensed from the roll to engage the idler roller. | 2,250 |
9,834,899 | 1. An arrangement for transporting aquatic animals between tail water and head water, characterized in that the arrangement comprises: a substantially vertical shaft having (i) a wall defining an interior, (ii) a shaft inlet opening, and (iii) a shaft outlet opening, means for opening and closing the shaft inlet opening, and means for opening and closing the shaft outlet opening, wherein: | 23,405 |
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