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9,530,940 | 1. A light-emitting device comprising: a light-emitting stacked layer comprising a first conductivity type semiconductor layer; a light-emitting layer formed on the first conductivity type semiconductor layer; and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer formed on the light-emitting layer and comprising a first plurality of cavities such that an upper surface of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer is a textured surface; a first planarization layer formed on a first part of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer; a first transparent conductive oxide layer formed on the first planarization layer and on a second part of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer, the first transparent conductive oxide layer including a first portion in contact with the first planarization layer and including a second portion in contact with the upper surface of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer; a first electrode formed on the first portion of the first transparent conductive oxide layer; and a first reflective metal layer formed between the first transparent conductive oxide layer and the first electrode. | 37,113 |
9,660,547 | 1. A method comprising: during an OFF mode of a dimmer, alternately enabling by a switching power converter controller at least two different current paths for a current flowing through the dimmer, wherein two of the current paths comprise a low impedance path to a reference node to allow a supply current from a voltage source to flow and a path to a voltage supply node of the switching power converter controller; during a dimming mode of the dimmer, controlling power conversion by a power converter; and providing power to one or more light emitting diodes coupled to the power converter. | 5,305 |
9,481,441 | 1. A trim deflector for a marine vessel, the trim deflector comprising: at least one surface configured to be attached to the marine vessel and controllably moved relative to the marine vessel along at least two degrees of freedom, wherein the at least one surface is configured to generate forces in different directions when the at least one surface is at different positions along the at least two degrees of freedom, wherein the at least two degrees of freedom comprises a first degree of freedom and a second degree of freedom, wherein the at least one surface is coupled to a first actuator and a second actuator configured to controllably move the at least one surface relative to the marine vessel along the at least two degrees of freedom, wherein the at least one surface comprises: wherein the second surface is movably coupled to the first surface via a first joint, wherein an axis direction of the first joint is at a first diagonal relative to a transverse axis of the marine vessel, wherein the at least one surface further comprises a third surface movably coupled to the first surface via a second joint, wherein an axis direction of the second joint is at a second diagonal relative the transverse axis of the marine vessel, wherein the second diagonal is different from the first diagonal. | 16,307 |
8,782,576 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed by at least one processor perform a method to bridge together cells in an integrated circuit, the method comprising: adding a marker layer to each edge of a cell; for each marker shape touching two diffusion edges, growing a shortest diffusion edge of the two diffusion edges touched by the each marker shape, wherein the growth is a width of the each marker shape; applying a Boolean AND to grown diffusion edges and marker shapes to define new diffusion regions; growing each new diffusion region to have a polysilicon pitch of the integrated circuit; and growing each floating gate proximal to a grown new diffusion region. | 48,760 |
9,155,267 | 1. A plant of soybean variety A1035341, wherein a sample of seed of said variety has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-121813. | 19,865 |
9,794,001 | 1. An optical receiver, comprising: a photo detector to convert an optical signal into a first electrical current signal; a transimpedance amplifier, included in a main feedback control loop, to: a replica transimpedance amplifier to: a first differential amplifier to: the main feedback control loop comprising a third differential amplifier to: | 11,696 |
9,322,309 | 1. An exhaust gas treatment unit, comprising: a housing having first and second mutually oppositely disposed ends; a tube extending from said first end to said second end as an inflow region for an exhaust gas; a deflecting region next to said second end for deflecting the exhaust gas; and a return flow region extending between said tube and said housing; said tube having an outlet region, adjacent said second end, from which a first partial exhaust gas flow flows into said deflecting region; and said tube having at least one lateral opening in said deflecting region upstream of said outlet region, causing said first partial exhaust gas flow to collide in said deflecting region with at least one second partial exhaust gas flow flowing out of said at least one opening, said at least one opening defining a downstream boundary of said at least one opening in an exhaust gas flow direction; said at least one opening having at least one baffle element configured to deflect said at least one second partial exhaust gas flow out of said tube and into said deflecting region; said at least one baffle element being punched out and bent over at said downstream boundary from a wall of said tube into said inflow region and said at least one baffle element extending at an angle in an upstream direction for directing said at least one second partial exhaust gas flow into said deflecting region. | 32,523 |
9,512,765 | 1. A method for controlling a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine and a catalytic converter, the method configured to be performed by a processor, the processor configured to perform the method comprising the steps of: determining an oxygen storage value for oxygen stored in the catalytic converter based on a deceleration fuel cut out, detecting an engine load, and carrying out a part evacuation of the oxygen from the catalytic converter with a fuel enrichment based on the oxygen storage value exceeding a trigger evacuation threshold value and the engine load being below a low-load threshold value; adjusting an air/fuel ratio to a rich mixture based on the carrying out of the part evacuation of the oxygen from the catalytic converter; and maintaining the air/fuel ratio at the rich mixture based on the oxygen storage value exceeding a lower evacuation threshold value and the engine load remaining less than a high-load threshold value, wherein the low-load threshold is less than the high-load threshold, and the carrying out of the part evacuation of the oxygen from the catalytic converter with the fuel enrichment and the maintaining the air/fuel ratio at the rich mixture are each based on the determining of the deceleration fuel cut out. | 1,200 |
8,844,076 | 1. A patient handling device comprising: a plurality of components; a plurality of sensors for generating sensor signals corresponding to said plurality of components; a user-selectable control operable to initiate monitoring of said components of said patient handling device; and a controller in communication with said sensors and said user-selectable control, said controller acquiring said sensor signals from said sensors in response to said user-selectable control and generating initial sensor data based on said acquired sensor signals to establish a desired state of said components, said controller periodically acquiring sensor signals from said sensors and generating current sensor data from said sensor signals based on said periodically acquired sensor signals from said sensors, and said controller comparing said current sensor data to said initial sensor data, generating a unified indication that said patient handling device is in a desired configuration when said current sensor data does not deviate from said initial sensor data, and generating another indication in response to a variation between said current sensor data and said initial sensor data. | 26,688 |
8,555,262 | 1. A method, performed by a processor, for building an output message from a common internal message format object, the method comprising: determining a schema for the output message, the output message comprising a plurality of fields; retrieving a plurality of handlers based on said schema, each handler being code for building at least one field of said plurality of fields of the output message from said common internal message format object, each of said handlers being separately compiled; and translating said common internal message format object into said output message using said handlers. | 27,122 |
9,076,972 | 1. A polymer having the structure: where n is an integer. | 28,801 |
9,812,224 | 1. A data storage system comprising: a memory device, including a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller configured to program data to at least m pages of the nonvolatile memory, where m is a natural number; and a RAID controller configured to generate a RAID configuration signal, including a RAID operation signal for activating and deactivating a RAID operation of the memory device, and to transmit the data and the RAID configuration signal to the memory controller, wherein the memory controller is further configured to generate a RAID parity using first to (m−1)th data from the RAID controller and program the first to (m−1)th data to the first to (m−1)th pages and the RAID parity to the mth page when the RAID operation signal is activated, and wherein the memory controller is further configured to program the first to mth data received from the RAID controller to the first to mth pages when the RAID operation signal is deactivated. | 42,420 |
9,285,033 | 1. A substantially rigid steam generator pressure vessel having a wall with an access opening of 2 in. (5.1 cm) or larger and a closure for the access opening comprising: a sealing surface on said wall surrounding the access opening; one of either a male or female locking device formed on or in said wall radially outward from said sealing surface at a plurality of locations around said access opening; an insert positioned to span said access opening, said insert having a peripheral flange that rests over at least a portion of said sealing surface and a continuously rounded concave portion completely extending between opposing sides of an inner edge of the flange and completely closing off the access opening with the rounded concave portion extending into the access opening; a sealing member between the sealing surface and the flange of the insert; a cover extending over the access opening and the insert and extending radially outward to at least said one of either the male or female locking device; and the other of the male or female locking device connecting the cover to the wall by engaging the one of the male or female locking device and pressuring the cover against the flange of the insert. | 30,533 |
9,137,268 | 1. A method for obtaining a heartbeat period comprising: sending, by a terminal, a first heartbeat message to a server, wherein the first heartbeat message comprises location information of the terminal; receiving, by the terminal, a heartbeat period sent by the server and corresponding to the location information, wherein the heartbeat period is obtained from a pre-established heartbeat period table when the server matches the location information with the heartbeat period table successfully; sending, by the terminal, a second heartbeat message periodically to the server by using the heartbeat period as a sending period, wherein the second heartbeat message is used to inform the server of an online state of the terminal; and sending, by the terminal, indication information to the server when the terminal does not receive, within a preset time, a heartbeat response which is sent by the server and corresponds to the second heartbeat message, wherein the indication information is used to indicate that the heartbeat period which corresponds to the location information is invalid such that the server updates the heartbeat period which corresponds to the location information. | 3,437 |
9,735,443 | 1. A power storage device element comprising: a first body having a depressed portion; a second body in the depressed portion and over the first body; a stack body in the depressed portion between the first body and the second body; and a first tab outside the first body and the second body, wherein the stack body includes a plurality of layers, wherein the plurality of layers each includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electrolyte interposed therebetween, wherein the depressed portion including the stack body is filled with a part of the second body, wherein a space between edges of the plurality of first electrodes and a space between edges of the plurality of second electrodes are filled with the part of the second body, wherein edges of the plurality of first electrodes are exposed at a first side surface of the first body, and | 28,240 |
9,746,310 | 1. A method for measuring an implant dosage distribution of a semiconductor sample, the method comprising: generating a photomodulation effect in a three-dimensional structure of the semiconductor sample and measuring a reflection information of the three-dimensional structure; obtaining a geometry information of the three-dimensional structure of the semiconductor sample by a metrological apparatus; converting the geometry information of the three-dimensional structure into an estimated reflective data by a converter; and comparing the reflection information with the estimated reflective data by an analyzer to determine the implant dosage distribution of the three-dimensional structure of the semiconductor sample. | 19,535 |
9,029,976 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate of a first conductive type; a first well region of the first conductive type, disposed in the substrate; a separation region of a second conductive type, disposed in the substrate, wherein the first well region is disposed in the separation region, wherein the separation region comprises: a second well region of the second conductive type, disposed at peripheral of the first well region; and a buried layer of the second conductive type, disposed in the substrate below the first well region and the second well region, wherein a doping concentration of the buried layer is different from a doping concentration of the second well region; a first doped region of the first conductive type, disposed in the first well region and a first voltage being applied to the first doped region; a second doped region of the second conductive type, disposed in the first well region at a first side of the first doped region, and a second voltage being applied to the second doped region; a third doped region of the second conductive type, disposed in the separation region at a second side of the first doped region, and a third voltage being applied to the third doped region; and at least one field plate disposed on the substrate between the first doped region and the second doped region, or disposed on the substrate between the first doped region and the third doped region. | 23,436 |
9,680,307 | 1. A control system for regulating the voltage at a point of interconnection between an energy plant and a grid, the control system comprising: a voltage regulator configured to generate a reactive power command in response to a voltage variation at the point of interconnection, the reactive power command controlling the reactive power output for one or more inverters in the energy plant; a rejection module configured to reduce a response of the voltage regulator to a voltage shift caused by a voltage control device of a second control system, the voltage control device configured to control voltage variations occurring at a frequency less than a threshold frequency at the point of interconnection; and a reset module configured to decrease over time the reactive power command generated in response to the voltage variation at the point of interconnection to preserve the dynamic reactive power output range of the one or more inverters and allow the voltage control device to control voltage variations occurring at a frequency less than the threshold frequency at the point of interconnection. | 46,730 |
9,319,922 | 1. A method for multicasting over a mesh network that prevents network congestion normally associated with multicast relay via flooding, the mesh network comprising a plurality of nodes, the method comprising: maintaining, in each of the nodes, a list of nearby nodes with good links, wherein total path traversal time is used to help establish a cost metric for each link into the local node, and wherein each good link is determined using the cost metric; periodically broadcasting, from each of the nodes, the maintained list to other ones of the nodes within range; and relaying a multicast from each of the nodes only if the node can reach nodes not seen as good by the node sending the multicast. | 6,905 |
9,649,943 | 1. A recharging system of a hybrid vehicle, comprising: a battery in which DC voltage is stored or for outputting the DC voltage; first and second motors configured to function as an electric motor or a generator; first and second inverters for operating the first and second motors respectively; a voltage converter for raising or lowering the DC voltage of the battery such that the raised or lowered DC voltage is supplied to the first and second inverters, in order to raise or lower the DC voltage supplied from the first and second inverters such that the raised or lowered DC voltage is supplied to the battery, and provided with a DC link; first and second diodes each provided with an anode terminal connected to a negative terminal of the first and second inverters, and a cathode terminal connected to a source of commercial electricity and also connected to first and second neutral points of the first and second motors; a recharging controller for carrying out a recharging mode by detecting at least one of a phase of the commercial electricity supplied to the first and second neutral points of the first and second motors, a voltage of a DC link capacitor connecting the voltage converter and the first and second inverters, a battery voltage, a voltage of a smoothing capacitor connected at both terminals of the battery, a battery current, and a current flowing from the voltage converter to the battery, and controlling the voltage converter through a PWM duty according to the recharging mode of the battery such that the voltage of the DC link capacitor is raised or lowered, and is supplied to the battery; a main relay selectively connecting the battery with the voltage converter; a recharging port selectively connecting the commercial electricity disposed at an exterior of the vehicle to the first and second diodes; a connection detector for detecting a connection of the commercial electricity; and an input terminal switch mounted between the recharging port and the first and second motors and selectively connecting the commercial electricity to the first and second neutral points of the first and second motors by control of the recharging controller, wherein the input terminal switch comprises a first relay connected to the first diode and the first neutral point of the first motor; and a second relay connected to the second diode and the second neutral point of the second motor. | 48,035 |
9,272,962 | 1. A process for making styrene comprising: reacting toluene and formaldehyde in one or more reactors over a metal supported on a substrate to form a product stream comprising styrene, wherein the substrate comprises silica or titania, and wherein the metal comprises Ru, Rh, Ni, Co, Pd or Pt. | 39,590 |
8,967,990 | 1. Device for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by a subsequent solidification of layers of a building material in powder form at those positions in the respective layers corresponding to the cross-section of the object by the action of a laser or another energy source having a support, on which the object is built, an application device for applying layers of a powder material onto the support or a previously solidified layer in a work plane, wherein the application device is movable in at least one application direction across the support or the previously solidified layer, a solidification device for solidifying the powder material at those positions in the respective layer that correspond to the object, the application device further comprises a blade the blade having two surfaces that are extending substantially perpendicular to the work plane and are aligned substantially in parallel to each other, the blade further having a planar application surface that rises in the direction of the application, wherein the application surface is provided at the bottom side of the blade facing the support, and the planar application surface rises at an angle, which is larger than 1.43° and smaller than 2.86° in the direction of movement of the application device. | 4,867 |
9,634,273 | 1. A method for producing a fully aqueous phase-synthesized semiconductor nanocrystals/conducting polymer hybrid solar cell, comprising: (1) preparing an aqueous semiconductor nanocrystal solution in an aqueous phase; (2) preparing a conducting polymer precursor solution in an aqueous phase; (3) separating the semiconductor nanocrystals from the aqueous semiconductor nanocrystal solution; (4) preparing a mixed solution by mixing the separated semiconductor nanocrystals with the conducting polymer precursor solution in a mass ratio of 1:1 to 10:1; (5) forming a film by coating the mixed solution on a surface of a conducting anode or the surface of a conducting anode covered with an electron blocking layer and drying the same; (6) forming an active layer having an interpenetrating network structure of the conducting polymer and the semiconductor nanocrystals by heating the film under nitrogen gas; and (7) evaporating or spin-coating a hole blocking layer and a metal cathode on the active layer in this order so as to produce the nanocrystals/conducting polymer hybrid solar cell. | 17,603 |
8,622,344 | 1. A device for receiving baggage, the device forming a stowage compartment for baggage and intended for a passenger cabin of an aircraft and configured for being movably arranged above seat rows for passengers of the aircraft, wherein the device comprises: a housing having an access opening, the housing being swivellable from an open loading position to a tilted transport position or from the tilted transport position to the open loading position, wherein the transport position closes the stowage compartment, and wherein in the transport position, a bottom of the housing is less horizontal than in the loading position thereof, wherein the housing comprises a load-path-optimised pivot axis near the centre of gravity, wherein the pivot axis is located in the bottom and on both end faces of the housing and is configured for being stationary, wherein the pivot axis is connected by holding means to a structure in a region of an aircraft fuselage fixed to the aircraft, and wherein the holding means comprises a U-shaped bracket having first and second end faces, said first and second end faces receiving the pivot axis. | 42,389 |
9,696,495 | 1. An optical tap comprising: a support structure; a first port fastened to said support structure and facing a first ferrule supporting a first fiber along a first axis; a polarizing beamsplitter connected to said support structure and intersected by the first axis; a second port fastened to said support structure and facing a second ferrule supporting a second fiber along a second axis that intersects said polarizing beamsplitter; and a third port fastened to said support structure and facing a third ferrule supporting a third fiber along a third axis that intersects said polarizing beamsplitter, wherein said polarizing beamsplitter splits a first light signal from said first port, which first light signal represents a communication signal traveling in a first direction through a network, to send first and second portions of the first signal, each of the first and second portions representing the same communication signal traveling in the first direction through the network, to said second and third ports, respectively, and wherein said polarizing beamsplitter includes first and second polarizing plates configured to rotate relative to each other to change a ratio of the first portion of the first signal to the second portion of the first signal. | 45,226 |
8,853,997 | 1. An apparatus for charging a battery, comprising: a monitoring unit configured to be electrically coupled to said battery and a power source, wherein said monitoring unit is configured to: | 1,111 |
8,601,674 | 1. A method for producing an image capture device comprising: providing a horizontal shift register electrically connected to a pixel array for receiving charge packets from the pixel array; providing a non-destructive sense node connected to an output of the horizontal shift register; providing a charge directing switch electrically connected to the non-destructive sense node, wherein the charge directing switch includes first and second outputs; providing a charge multiplying horizontal shift register electrically connected to the first output of the charge directing switch; providing a discharging element connected to the second output of the charge directing switch; providing a computing device electrically connected to the charge directing switch, wherein the computing device is operable to transmit a switch signal to the charge directing switch in response to a signal received from the non-destructive sense node; providing a pipeline delay horizontal shift register connected between the non-destructive sense node and the charge directing switch; and providing a length of the pipeline delay horizontal shift register based on a pipeline delay time of the first amplifier and the first output circuit. | 24,419 |
9,579,980 | 1. A system comprising: a first electric current generator device configured to be disposed onboard a self-propelling mobile vehicle having first and second prime movers, the first electric current generator device configured to be mechanically coupled with the first prime mover to convert movement created by the first prime mover into first electric current; and one or more electric pump motors onboard the self-propelling mobile vehicle and configured to receive the first electric current to power a hydraulic pump; wherein the second prime mover is configured to generate movement that is converted into a propulsive force that propels the self-propelling mobile vehicle, and wherein the one or more electric pump motors are configured to receive the first electric current in order to power the hydraulic pump disposed off-board the self-propelling mobile vehicle to pump a fluid into a pumping location located off-board the self-propelling mobile vehicle. | 32,290 |
9,075,928 | 1. A multi-core shared memory controller for managing memory coherence among a plurality of processing cores which may cache data and a shared memory comprising: a plurality of input ports, one corresponding to each one of the plurality of processing cores, for receiving memory access requests to the shared memory including read address, write address and write data from the corresponding processing core; a coherence maintenance address queue having a plurality of entries, each entry storing an address of an access request committed to the shared memory and an assigned ID tag; an ID allocation block coupled to said coherence maintenance address queue assigning an available ID tag from a set of ID tags to an access committed to the shared memory for storage in said coherence maintenance address queue and retiring a coherence maintenance address queue entry upon receipt of a completion signal from the shared memory indicating completion of the corresponding access; and a comparator coupled to said input ports and said coherence maintenance address queue and receiving an address of a memory access request, said comparator comparing the address of the memory access request with all addresses stored in said coherence maintenance address queue and generating a hazard stall signal if the address of the memory access request matches any address stored in said coherence maintenance address queue. | 43,080 |
9,444,268 | 1. A discharge controller for controlling discharge of a plurality of cells connected in parallel with each other, wherein the cells of the plurality of cells comprise a degradation region defined within an intermediate region of a discharge capacity of the cells, the controller comprising: a remaining capacity calculation section that calculates remaining capacities for each of the plurality of cells; and a control section that, when the remaining capacity of a first cell of the plurality of cells calculated by said remaining capacity calculation section becomes equal to a first threshold value, prioritizes discharge of the first cell until the remaining capacity of the first cell becomes equal to a second threshold value, wherein the first threshold value is an upper limit of the degradation region representing a first discharge capacity, wherein the second threshold value is a lower limit of the degradation region representing a second discharge capacity. | 47,009 |
8,692,555 | 1. A vertical receiver antenna device including first and second receiving electrode units interconnected by a receiver antenna cable and connected to apparatus for the electromagnetic surveying of electrically resistive targets containing hydrocarbons, said receiver device comprising: receiver antenna arranged in an antenna housing having an elongated body formed of a non-magnetic material, the antenna housing extending from a seabed downwards within an underground structure; and one of the first and second receiving electrode units being connected in an electrically conductive manner to the underground structure, and the other one of the first and second receiving electrode units being arranged in a portion of the antenna housing distantly from said first one of the first and second receiving electrode units. | 34,861 |
9,845,208 | 1. A system for stacking containers in an automated storage and retrieval system, comprising: two substantially perpendicular sets of rails forming a grid and having at least one robotic load handling device operable thereon, the load handling device including a body mounted on two sets of wheels, the first set of wheels being arranged to engage with at least two rails of the first set of rails, the second set of wheels being arranged to engage with at least two rails of the second set of rails, the first set of wheels being independently moveable and driveable with respect to the second set of wheels such that only one set of wheels is engaged with the grid at any one time thereby enabling movement of the service device along the rails to any point on the grid by driving only the set of wheels engaged with the rails; one or more clamps, each clamp defining a stack location and configured for clamping to a lowest container in a stack, the one or more clamps configured to support a weight of a plurality of containers in the stack; and a lifter configured for enabling engagement by one of the clamps to a container which is disposed beneath the stack, wherein engagement and disengagement of the clamps enables containers to be added to or removed from a bottom of the stack, the at least one overhead load handler configured for lifting one or more containers from a top of the stack, and for lowering one or more containers onto the top of the stack. | 33,610 |
8,936,482 | 1. A safety lock device for locking a charging connector in a charging receptacle of an electric vehicle, the safety lock device comprising: a locking pin movable between a first position and a second position; an actuator configured to drive the locking pin between the first position and second position; a sensor configured to measure information used in determining a distance the actuator has driven the locking pin; and a control unit electrically connected to the sensor and configured to receive the measured information from the sensor and determine the status of the safety lock based on the measured information received from the sensor. | 602 |
9,771,063 | 1. A powertrain operating method, comprising: in response to an actual transmission input shaft speed decreasing to less than a threshold value, classifying a type of transmission degradation into temporary or continuous, and adjusting a negative wheel torque limit to be less negative by adjusting the limit toward a value of zero; and adjusting a torque of a motor/generator to provide negative wheel torque less negative than the limit based on the type of transmission degradation. | 11,151 |
9,362,974 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a multi-wire bus configured to receive a set of N signals corresponding to N elements of a code word, wherein the elements of the code word comprise a set of at least three values, wherein the code word represents a set of n input bits, wherein n is an integer greater than 1 and N<2n; a reference-less line receiver comprising a set of n+1 comparators, the set of n+1 comparators configured to operate on the received set of signals and responsively form a set of n+1 comparator outputs based on the received signals, wherein at least two comparators receive a common signal of the received set of N signals; and, a decoder configured to receive the set of n+1 comparator outputs and responsively generate a set of n output bits representing the set of n input bits. | 9,675 |
8,745,036 | 1. A method of improving the robustness of an optimizer executable by a processor and the predictability of the performance of execution plans in a database system, comprising: receiving, with the optimizer, a first query to be executed, wherein the first query is one of a plurality of requests in a database workload; obtaining, with the optimizer, a confidence threshold parameter associated with the first query; generating, with the optimizer, a query execution plan for the first query utilizing an optimizer confidence value compliant with the confidence threshold parameter; obtaining, with a runtime query execution system executable by the processor, an error exception threshold associated with the first query; determining, with the runtime query execution system, an exception count, wherein the exception count is indicative of a number of times that a query execution cost of the query execution plan exceeds an optimizer estimated cost of the query execution plan by an amount that exceeds the error exception threshold; determining, with the runtime query execution system, the exception count equals a maximum exception count parameter within a predetermined period of time; generating, with the runtime query execution system, an adjusted confidence threshold parameter responsive to determining the exception count equals the maximum exception count parameter within the predetermined period of time; and applying, with the optimizer, the adjusted confidence threshold parameter to at least one other request in the database workload. | 26,293 |
8,468,159 | 1. A method of specifying categories of data elements during a service specification phase of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) life cycle defined in a service modeling methodology, the method comprising the step of: during the service specification phase of the SOA life cycle defined in the service modeling methodology, a computer system specifying first, second, third and fourth sets of one or more data elements included in a plurality of data elements specific to a service as being in a first, second, third and fourth categories, respectively, wherein the first category specifies transaction elements that provide information required to be sent in a response to a request for the service and that are required for integrating applications, wherein the second category specifies glue elements that associate an operation of the service to middleware elements, wherein the third category specifies core Common Information Model (CIM) elements, and wherein the fourth category specifies extension elements that extend the core CIM elements. | 48,243 |
9,316,559 | 1. A leak detection apparatus comprising: a test inlet for connection of a test chamber, a high-vacuum pump connected to a test gas detector, and a backing vacuum pump including at least two pump stages wherein a tap is provided between said pump stages of the backing vacuum pump and that the pump stages are selectively operated in series for a leak detection, or in parallel for roughing of the test chamber; wherein a tap valve device which comprises said tap is provided in a suction line connecting the outlet of the first pump stage with the inlet of the second pump stage of the backing pump, said tap valve device, when in a first state, connecting the outlet of the first pump stage to the inlet, and, when in a second state, to the outlet of the second pump stage via said tap; and wherein a bypass valve is operative to connect the test inlet to the inlet of the second pump stage and said bypass valve is opened when the tap valve device is in its second state, said bypass valve being separate from the tap valve device. | 17,690 |
9,054,804 | 1. A Z-pluggable optical communications module (OCM) comprising: a generally rectangular module housing, the module housing being configured to be inserted through an opening formed in a front panel of a box in a Z-direction of an X, Y, Z Cartesian Coordinate system, wherein the box houses an optical communications system; a first circuit board disposed within the housing; at least one parallel optical communications module (POCM) mounted on the first circuit board, said at least one POCM having a plurality of channels, each of the channels being either a transmit channel for transmitting optical data signals or a receive channel for receiving optical data signals; first ends of optical fibers of an optical fiber cable being connected to said at least one POCM, wherein the first ends are received in the module housing through an opening formed in a first end of the module housing; and an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding device fixedly secured to or integrally formed in the first end of the module housing such that when the module housing is fully inserted through the opening formed in the front panel of the box in the Z-direction of the X, Y, Z Cartesian Coordinate system, the EMI shielding device abuts the front panel and surrounds the opening to form an EMI seal about the opening that prevents, or at least helps prevent, EMI from escaping from the module housing through the opening. | 21,517 |
8,692,069 | 1. A recombinant expression vector comprising a drought stress-inducible 557 promoter, the promoter consisting of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein the promoter is operably linked to a heterologous coding sequence for a target protein. | 37,688 |
9,171,981 | 1. A photovoltaic module arranged in layers from top or sky face (a) to bottom or roof face (e) comprising: (a) a transparent tempered glass, (b) a transparent adhesive layer, (c) a rigid silicon cell or a plastic or metallic foil, (d) a back layer comprising an adhesive layer and a dielectric film, and (e) a layer selected from the group consisting of (i) a lower metal sheet, (ii) a glass with a frame, (iii) a rigid plastic sheet, and (iv) a metal frame with classical backsheet, wherein the plastic or metallic foil carries an active layer arranged above (c), wherein the dielectric film comprises PA, and wherein the adhesive layer of (d) comprises an adhesive selected from the group consisting of (i) an EVA film or hot-melt, (ii) a tie layer comprising an olefin copolymer with acrylic acid (EAA), (iii) a polyolefin grafted with maleic anhydride, (iv) an epoxy glue, and (v) a PUR glue. | 18,900 |
9,066,113 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving playout data at a remote site from a central site in a digital media distributor system, wherein the playout data includes at least one playlist; responsive to a determination that a spot file within the at least one playlist is missing at the remote site using a look-ahead mechanism, receiving the missing spot file from the central site, wherein the look-ahead mechanism includes a remote site parameter that sets a look-ahead window to identify at least one spot file which will be needed; broadcasting at least one spot file within the at least one playlist from the remote site; and generating an as-run log of the at least one spot file. | 23,782 |
9,272,618 | 1. A misfuelling prevention device for a filler neck of a fuel tank, comprising: a tubular element with an inflow side and an outflow side; a closure element that is mounted on the outflow side of the tubular element, the closure element, in an open state, permits a flow of fuel through the outflow side of the tubular element, and, in a closed state, the closure element obstructs a flow of fuel through the outflow side of the tubular element; a tubular actuating element that is arranged coaxially within the tubular element so as to be movable in a longitudinal direction of the tubular element, the tubular actuating element being configured to move the closure element into the opened state as a result of actuation by a discharge pipe of a fuel pump nozzle that is inserted into the tubular element; and a tubular locking element that is arranged coaxially within the tubular actuating element and has a smaller outside diameter than an inside diameter of the discharge pipe of the fuel pump nozzle, wherein the tubular element includes a lateral surface in which is formed at least one opening that permits a flow of fuel from an inside of the tubular element to an outside of the tubular element, wherein the tubular element is mountable in the filler neck of the fuel tank such that at least a portion of the lateral surface of the tubular element in which the at least one opening is formed is spaced apart from an inner surface of the filler neck such that fuel flowing through the at least one opening is adapted to flow through the filler neck into the fuel tank, wherein the tubular actuating element includes a lateral surface in which is formed at least one opening that permits a flow of fuel from an inside of the tubular actuating element to an outside of the tubular actuating element, and wherein the tubular locking element is attached to the tubular actuating element and the tubular locking element is movable in the longitudinal direction of the tubular element. | 4,742 |
9,629,372 | 1. A composition for selectively repelling termites to prevent damage to wood, the composition comprising 0.1-20 wt % of citronella oil, 0.1-20 wt % of lemongrass oil, 0.01-1 wt % of a ginkgo leaf extract and 60-99 wt % of ethanol. | 48,096 |
8,774,089 | 1. A wireless terminal call method in which a plurality of wireless terminals each having a unique ID share a wireless frame including a plurality of wireless slots and a wireless base station calls at least one of the plurality of the wireless terminals using a broadcast slot of the wireless frame, the wireless terminal call method comprising: generating, by the wireless base station, a first broadcast signal and a second broadcast signal, the first broadcast signal including not all but a part of a wireless terminal ID of a wireless terminal to be called, the wireless terminal being included in the plurality of the wireless terminals, the second broadcast signal including assignment information which is information on assignment position of at least one of the plurality of the wireless slots for the wireless terminal, the at least one of the plurality of the wireless slots being included in the second broadcast signal; generating, by the wireless base station, a wireless frame including the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal such that the second broadcast signal is subsequent to the first broadcast signal in the broadcast slot; transmitting, by the wireless base station, the wireless frame to the plurality of the wireless terminals; receiving, by the plurality of the wireless terminals, the first broadcast signal transmitted from the wireless base station; detecting, by the plurality of the wireless terminals, whether the not all but the part of the wireless terminal ID of own wireless terminal is included in the first broadcast signal received in the broadcast signal reception or not and determining that the second broadcast signal is to be continuously received when the not all but the part of the wireless terminal ID is included; and receiving, by the plurality of the wireless terminals, the second broadcast signal when it is determined in the broadcast signal determination that the second broadcast signal is to be received, stopping receiving data transmitted from the wireless base station when the assignment information is not included in the received second broadcast signal, and receiving the data based on the assignment information when the assignment information is included in the received second broadcast signal. | 3,845 |
9,778,138 | 1. A light physical constant measurement method for measuring distribution of light physical constants within an optical transmission medium, the light physical constant measurement method comprising: obtaining information indicating a power spectrum and a phase spectrum of an input optical signal of a plurality of intensities; measuring, for each of the plurality of intensities of the input optical signal, a power spectrum of an output optical signal that is output after the input optical signal of the plurality of intensities propagates within the optical transmission medium; virtually dividing the optical transmission medium along a propagation direction to set a plurality of first segments; estimating light physical constants of the plurality of first segments based on a result of a first propagation simulation that uses a model in which the input optical signal of each of the plurality of intensities propagates sequentially through the plurality of first segments; combining adjacent first segments included in the plurality of first segments, based on the estimated light physical constants of the plurality of first segments, to set a plurality of second segments; estimating light physical constants of the plurality of second segments based on a result of a second propagation simulation that uses a model in which the input optical signal of each of the plurality of intensities propagates sequentially through the plurality of second segments; and outputting the estimated light physical constants of the plurality of second segments as the distribution of the light physical constants within the optical transmission medium, wherein the first propagation simulation requires, as input, the obtained information indicating the power spectrum and the phase spectrum of the input optical signal of the plurality of intensities, and the light physical constants of the plurality of first segments, and outputs a power spectrum of the output optical signal as a simulation result, in the estimating of light physical constants of the plurality of first segments, the light physical constants of the plurality of first segments are searched for using an evaluation function of evaluating a difference between the measured power spectrum of the output optical signal and the power spectrum of the output optical signal obtained as the result of the first propagation simulation, to estimate the light physical constants of the plurality of first segments without using information indicating a phase spectrum of the output optical signal, the second propagation simulation requires, as input, the obtained information indicating the power spectrum and the phase spectrum of the input optical signal of the plurality of intensities, and the light physical constants of the plurality of second segments, and outputs a power spectrum of the output optical signal as a simulation result, initial values of the light physical constants of the plurality of second segments are set in the second propagation simulation using the estimated light physical constants of the plurality of first segments, in the estimating of light physical constants of the plurality of second segments, the light physical constants of the plurality of second segments are searched for using an evaluation function of evaluating a difference between the measured power spectrum of the output optical signal and the power spectrum of the output optical signal obtained as the result of the second propagation simulation, to estimate the light physical constants of the plurality of second segments, and each of the light physical constants of the plurality of first segments and the light physical constants of the plurality of second segments includes a dispersion parameter and a nonlinear optical constant. | 6,222 |
9,388,017 | 1. An accumulator apparatus for strip steel, the accumulator apparatus comprising: a base; a frame extending upwardly from said base; a reel rotatably mounted to said frame, said reel having a surface adapted to wrap the strip steel therearound; and a pair of air bags connected to one side of said base in spaced relation to each other, said pair of airbags adapted to direct an air flow toward the underlying surface; at least two wheels connected to said base and extending therebelow, the wheels being extendable such that said base is supported above an underlying surface and retracted such that said base is supported by said underlying surface, said at least two wheels positioned between said pair of airbags, said at least two wheels having a surface at a level below a level of a bottom surface of said pair of airbags when in the extended position; and a pair of motors cooperative respectively with the wheels such that the wheels rotate with a common rotational velocity. | 16,911 |
8,627,671 | 1. A self-contained heat transfer system that conveys heat from a first heat reservoir at a relatively low temperature to a second heat reservoir at relatively high temperature, the heat transfer system defining a closed loop that contains a working fluid, the self-contained heat transfer system comprising: a hermetically-sealed housing that defines an enclosure; a first heat transfer device having an exposed surface configured to be in thermal communication with the first heat reservoir; a second heat transfer device having an exposed surface configured to be in thermal communication with the second heat reservoir; and an electrochemical compressor within the enclosure and between the first and second heat transfer devices, wherein the electrochemical compressor includes one or more electrochemical cells, each electrochemical cell including a gas pervious anode, a gas pervious cathode, and an electrolytic membrane disposed between and in intimate electrical contact with the cathode and the anode. | 14,252 |
8,425,615 | 1. A prosthesis system for replacement of a head portion of a proximal radius, comprising: a stem component including a longitudinal axis and an anchoring portion operable to be attached to the proximal radius, said stem component supporting a first attachment feature; a head component having a channel slidably engaging said first attachment feature in a first direction substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis and a bore formed through a wall of said head component and in communication with said channel; and a fastener inserted into said bore to secure a position of said head component relative to said stem component. | 21,855 |
9,628,098 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a first signal from a first acquisition channel having a first sensitivity; receiving a second signal from a second acquisition channel having a second sensitivity that is different from the first sensitivity; generating a blended signal by mapping the second signal to the first signal; outputting the first signal while the first signal is below a first threshold and above a second threshold; and outputting the blended signal when the first signal is above the first threshold and when the first signal is below the second threshold. | 41,532 |
8,656,938 | 1. A method of reducing rupture damage to a liner of a fuel cell tank during fueling with compressed gas comprising: providing a supply of compressed gas; providing a storage tank defining the liner therein with a fueling line, and a nozzle in the fueling line, the nozzle movable between at least a flow reduction position and a full fuel flow position; providing a controller configured to determine a calculated tolerance margin comprising a minimum pressure, a signal tolerance, a degradation and a safety margin; using the calculated tolerance margin in conjunction with the controller to initiate a low pressure fueling from the supply of compressed gas with the nozzle in the flow reduction position until the minimum pressure of approximately 20 bar within the storage tank is obtained after which the nozzle is moved to the full fuel flow position to deliver a high pressure fueling; fueling the storage tank from the supply of compressed gas with the nozzle in the full fuel flow position until fueling is completed wherein the initiating of the low pressure reduces a tendency of the liner to rupture through lower impact force between the liner and a surface of the fuel cell tank. | 35,222 |
9,356,743 | 1. An integrated circuit, comprising: a receiver to serially receive a signal via at least one electrical conductor from a transmitter and to equalize the signal using a set of equalization coefficients, the signal comprising a repeating test pattern during a test mode and a data signal during a normal mode; and circuitry to evaluate the repeating test pattern received by the receiver during the test mode against an expected pattern to generate comparison outputs using first values of the set of equalization coefficients during a first time period and second values of the set of equalization coefficients during a second time period; where the receiver is to equalize the data signal during the normal mode using the first or the second values for the set of equalization coefficients selected in dependence on the comparison outputs. | 17,102 |
8,902,910 | 1. A memory system including a plurality of memory modules connected in a ring-of-clusters configuration, the system comprising: a memory controller in packetized communication with a plurality of memory modules interconnected to input and output ring segments; the input and output ring segments being interconnected in a ring configuration, thereby forming a cluster of memory modules that share the same input ring segment and the same output ring segment, each cluster having at least one memory module designated as a master memory module configured to control the input to each memory module in the cluster such that a packet from the same input ring segment is received by the at least some of the slave memory modules. | 12,809 |
8,514,446 | 1. An information processing apparatus for determining whether a print object is in color or monochrome, comprising: a character determination unit that is operable to determine whether a character as the print object is a character which is necessary to be drawn or a character which is not necessary to be drawn by determining whether the character as the print object corresponds to a specific character code and whether the character as the print object contains an additional image to be drawn; and a monochrome determination unit that is operable to determine whether the character as the print object is in color or in monochrome based on a color attribute of the character in a case where said character determination unit determines that the character as the print object is a character which is necessary to be drawn, wherein said monochrome determination unit is operable to determine that the character as the print object is in monochrome regardless of the color attribute of the character in a case where said character determination unit determines that the character as the print object is a character which is not necessary to be drawn, and wherein the color attribute of the character is a foreground color attribute, such that said monochrome determination unit is operable to determine that the character as the print object is in monochrome regardless of the foreground color attribute of the character in a case where said character determination unit determines that the character as the print object is a character which is not necessary to be drawn. | 17,346 |
9,849,437 | 1. A method for preparing fibrillar supramolecular species comprising triarylamines of formula (I) below: wherein: each of the groups -A each of the groups R an aromatic group; or a hydrocarbon chain comprising from 4 to 30 carbon atoms, optionally halogenated and optionally interrupted with one or more heteroatoms selected from N, O or S; or a polyethylene glycol chain; and R is a terminating group; said method comprising: (i) preparing a liquid medium containing said triarylamines of formula (I); (ii) subjecting said liquid medium containing said triarylamines of formula (I) to an electric field and irradiating said liquid medium containing said triarylamines of formula (I) with an electromagnetic radiation; and (iii) obtaining said fibrillar supramolecular species comprising triarylamines of formula (I). | 14,426 |
9,746,711 | 1. A pixel structure, comprising: a substrate; an insulating layer on the substrate and comprising a plane region; and an electrode pattern disposed on the insulating layer and located on the plane region, wherein the electrode pattern comprises a bottom layer and a plurality of protrusions connected to the bottom layer, wherein the plurality of protrusions protrude from a top surface of the bottom layer towards a direction away from the substrate, and wherein a height of the plurality of protrusions is in a range of 50-150 nm, wherein the bottom layer covers the plane region and a plurality of slits are formed between the protrusions so as to expose portions of the bottom layer. | 5,061 |
9,633,373 | 1. A mobile communication terminal comprising: a touch screen display; a camera; a power button configured to turn on and off the terminal by pressing; and an activation button separate from the power button and located outside the touch screen display, the activation button configured for pressing to turn on the touch screen display and to initiate one or more additional functions of the terminal, wherein the terminal has a first function and a second function to perform in response to user input via the activation button and is configured to provide user settings for configuring at least one of the first and second functions such that at least one of the first and second functions is set to be performed in addition to turning on the touch screen display upon pressing of the activation button while the touch screen display is turned off, wherein the first and second functions are different from each other and selected from the group consisting of fingerprint authentication, activating the camera, and an operation that involves playing a sound, wherein upon one-time pressing of the activation button while the touch screen display is turned off, the terminal is configured to turn on the touch screen display and further perform at least one of the first and second functions in addition to turning on the touch screen display such that: | 4,574 |
8,428,806 | 1. A system integrated into a vehicle, the system comprising: a motor, said motor providing propulsion power to said vehicle; a battery coupled to said motor and providing energy to said motor; a generator system, said generator system comprising an engine, said engine burning fuel selected from the group consisting of fossil fuels, synthetic fuels and bio-fuels, wherein said generator system provides charging energy for said battery; an engine control circuit to power on and power off said engine, wherein said engine control circuit powers on said engine when it receives an engine control signal; a state of charge circuit configured to monitor a battery state of charge and preprogrammed to provide said engine control signal in accordance with an operational mode, wherein said operational mode is selected from at least a first operational mode and a second operational mode, and wherein a user interface coupled to said state of charge circuit and configured to receive a user command selecting said operational mode for the state of charge circuit, wherein said operational mode is selected from at least said first operational mode and said second operational mode. | 39,393 |
8,858,179 | 1. A rotor control system operatively linked to a plurality of rotor blades, the rotor control system comprising: a swashplate assembly including a stationary member and a rotating member; a blade attachment member operatively connected to the plurality of rotor blades; a control horn operatively connected to the blade attachment member and one of the plurality of rotor blades; at least one hydraulic actuator member operatively coupled to the control horn; and at least one hydraulic actuator element operatively coupled to the swashplate assembly and the at least one hydraulic actuator member, the at least one hydraulic actuator element transmitting control signals from the swashplate assembly to the one of the plurality of rotor blades through the at least one hydraulic actuator member. | 39,659 |
9,519,992 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a processor configured to execute: a ray generator configured to generate at least one ray; a plurality of tree searchers configured to perform a tree search of the generated at least one ray; an area divider configured to divide the generated at least one ray into a plurality of subareas based on information regarding a number of tree searches of a previous image frame; and a ray allocator configured to allocate the plurality of subareas divided by the area divider to the plurality of tree searchers, respectively, wherein the area divider is configured to store a plurality of division categories wherein the subareas are divided by at least one method, determine a division category having a shortest tree search time for the previous image frame among the plurality of division categories, and divide the generated at least one ray into a plurality of subareas corresponding to the determined division category. | 32,481 |
9,674,284 | 1. A method performed by a terminal for detecting a state of a networking channel, the method comprising: determining a smart device to be detected, comprising: selecting an Internet of Things (IoT) control protocol used by the smart device to be detected; accessing, based on the selected IoT protocol, the IoT server via a networking channel used by the smart device to be detected; and collecting a state of the networking channel during the accessing of the IoT server, and presenting the collected state on a screen of the terminal. | 47,463 |
8,464,513 | 1. A system, comprising: a reductant storage system including a reductant reservoir for holding a water-based reductant, and an exhaust delivery system to deliver the water-based reductant to exhaust; a fuel system including a fuel tank, a water separator for separating water-based fluid from fuel in the fuel tank, and a separation reservoir to collect separated water-based fluid; a controller including instructions to indicate mis-filling of the water-based reductant into the fuel tank in response to an amount of separated water-based fluid, and a water-in-fuel sensor to detect the amount of water-based fluid in the separation reservoir or a rate of change of water content. | 22,130 |
9,670,463 | 1. A method of producing induced pluripotent stem cells, the method comprising inhibiting Dot1L in a differentiated cell and culturing the differentiated cell under reprogramming conditions to produce induced pluripotent stem cells, wherein the reprogramming conditions comprise a reprogramming cocktail comprising a transcription factor, and wherein the reprogramming cocktail does not include Klf4 or c-Myc. | 5,990 |
9,086,781 | 1. A method for displaying an HTML based cascading menu, the method comprising: a computer system searching HTML code for a webpage with a plurality of links for a first link specified with a first target file name comprising a pop type element; the computer system, responsive to detecting the first link specified with the first target file name comprising the pop type element, inserting a first command into the HTML code to disable the first link and set an event to pop up a first menu layer of a plurality of layers of a cascading menu and inserting a second command into the HTML code to specify the content of the first menu layer from a file accessed for the first target file name; and the computer system, responsive to detecting the event, triggering a browser to display the first menu layer with the specified content by the second command within an interface displaying the webpage. | 38,332 |
9,562,206 | 1. A method for increasing the high load (knock) limit of an internal combustion engine operated in a low temperature combustion mode, the method comprising operating the engine with a fuel composition comprising (a) gasoline having a Research Octane Number (RON) greater than 85 and (b) one or more cetane improvers. | 44,276 |
9,583,786 | 1. A secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the positive electrode and the negative electrode comprise first solid electrolyte particles, the solid electrolyte layer comprises second solid electrolyte particles, and a particle diameter of the second solid electrolyte particles is greater than a particle diameter of the first solid electrolyte particles. | 729 |
9,303,621 | 1. A wind turbine blade ( 10 ) for a rotor of a wind turbine ( 2 ) having a substantially horizontal rotor shaft, said rotor having a hub ( 8 ), from which the blade ( 10 ) extends substantially in a radial direction when mounted to the hub ( 8 ), the blade having a longitudinal direction (r) with a tip end ( 14 ) and a root end ( 16 ) and a transverse direction, the blade comprising: a profiled contour ( the wind turbine blade is provided with a longitudinally extending flow guiding device ( a base ( a plate-shaped element ( the flow guiding device ( | 49,167 |
9,450,269 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising: a flat winding electrode assembly formed by winding an elongated positive electrode and an elongated negative electrode with an elongated separator interposed therebetween; and an outer body storing the flat winding electrode assembly and a nonaqueous electrolyte, the nonaqueous electrolyte containing at least one of a lithium salt having an oxalate complex as an anion and lithium difluorophosphate (LiPF the flat winding electrode assembly having eight or more layers of a winding portion formed only of the separator in the central portion thereof, wherein | 29,751 |
9,681,507 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a switched-mode converter circuit having an output configured to be coupled to at least one light-emitting device, the switched-mode converter circuit comprising an energy storage device and a switch configured to control charging of the energy storage device; and a control circuit configured to generate a measure of a voltage magnitude of a time-varying voltage applied to an input of the switched-mode converter circuit and a measure of a dimming level to be applied to the at least one light-emitting device and further configured to generate a pulse width modulated signal having a pulse width that varies responsive to both the measure of the voltage magnitude and the measure of the dimming level and to control the switch of the switched-mode converter circuit responsive to the pulse width modulated signal. | 20,737 |
9,787,160 | 1. An electrical machine operable with partial power, said electrical machine comprising a rotor and a stator, the rotor being rotatable in relation to the stator about a rotational axis, one of the rotor and the stator comprising a plurality of field modules arranged adjacent to each other about the rotational axis and configured to create a magnetic field for an armature to interact with, and the other one of the rotor and the stator comprising a plurality of armature coils, at least two of the armature coils being connected to different power converters, wherein each field module comprises one or more field coils which are configured to be activated independent of the one or more field coils of the neighboring field modules, wherein when at least one of the field coils is inactivated, each power converter provides for less power to pass through when one of the armature coils connected to the respective power converter is moving over an inactivated field coil, and for more power to pass through when the one of the armature coils connected to the respective power converter is moving over an activated field coil. | 16,668 |
8,891,826 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an object detecting unit implemented by one or more microprocessors that detects a candidate object from image data of an image of a predetermined area; a storing unit that stores information of a mask area; and a valid-object determining unit implemented by the one or more microprocessors that determines whether the candidate object detected by the object detecting unit is a true detected object and/or whether the candidate object detected by the object detecting unit is a false detected object, the determination based on at least one of a relationship between a current position of the object and the mask area and a relationship between a past position of the object and the mask area. | 42,465 |
8,349,919 | 1. A composition for use with water to be used as an erosion control spray matrix, said composition comprising: alpha-calcined calcium sulfate hemihydrate; a non-gypsum, redispersible polymeric binder; biodegradable primary fibers; and wood fiber mulch. | 46,216 |
9,462,862 | 1. A shopping bag dispenser, comprising: a fabric storage and dispensing bag with an open end having a width and height of opening, and a length, implemented with a closure along one side for a portion of the length, allowing the fabric storage and dispensing bag to be opened to facilitate loading with a stack of shopping bags; a plurality of shopping bags having common dimensions, each formed from a material having a low coefficient of friction capable of forming permanent fold creases, each shopping bag formed with two flat panels joined along a bottom and opposite side edges, and open along a top edge, each bag thus exhibiting a height dimension from the bottom edge to the open top edge, and a width dimension across the opposite side edges, at a right angle to the height dimension, each bag having one or more vertical permanent fold creases from bottom to top parallel to the side edges, dividing the side panels into substantially equal portions, such that each bag when folded along the vertical permanent fold creases exhibits a folded dimension less than the length of the fabric storage and dispensing bag, and each bag further having three or more permanent horizontal fold creases from side edge to opposite side edge dividing the bag into substantially equal portions such that each bag when folded along the horizontal permanent fold creases exhibits a folded dimension less than the width of opening of the fabric storage and dispensing bag; and a wrapper implemented as a fabric panel having a width and a length, attachable at one end of the length to an inner surface of the storage and dispensing bag with the width of the wrapper in line with the length of the storage and dispensing bag, such that a stack of shopping bags may be wrapped in the wrapper within the storage and dispensing bag prior to closing, the wrapper having fastening elements providing fastening the wrapper around the stack of shopping bags once the stack of shopping bags is wrapped; wherein with the plurality of shopping bags each folded along both the horizontal and vertical permanent fold creases, stacked conformally, and placed in the fabric storage and dispensing bag, may be grasped and pulled from the fabric storage and dispensing bag one bag at a time, and opened along the permanent fold creases to be used as a shopping bag. | 28,090 |
9,050,348 | 1. A non-heat sealed transdermal drug delivery device that comprises: (a) a polymer matrix active ingredient (AI) layer having a skin-contacting surface and a non-skin contacting surface; the AI layer comprising an active ingredient, a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA), and at least one volatile component which is at least partly solubilized in the PSA of the AI layer; (b) a release liner in direct contact with the skin-contacting surface of the AI layer, the perimeter of which extends beyond the perimeter of the AI layer in all directions; (c) an overlay adjacent to the non-skin contacting surface of the AI layer, the perimeter of which extends beyond the perimeter of the AI layer in all directions; the overlay comprising: (d) an internal backing layer between the AI layer and the overlay; in which device: the PSA of the Al layer is a polyacrylate PSA; the volatile component comprises DMSO, ethyl lactate, or both; the PSA layer of the overlay is a polyisobutylene (PIB) PSA, a silicone PSA, a styrene/butadiene/styrene PSA, styrene/isoprene/styrene PSA, a styrene-ethylcne /butylene-styrene PSA, a styrene/butadiene PSA, a styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene PSA, a styrene-ethylene/propylene-styrene PSA or an isoprene rubber PSA; the release liner and the PSA layer of the overlay are in direct contact with and adhered to each other around the perimeter of the Al layer to form a PSA seal between the overlay and the release liner; the solubility of the volatile component in the PSA of the PSA layer of the overlay is less than the solubility of the volatile component in the PSA of the AI layer such that the PSA seal between the overlay and the release liner reduces or prevents loss of the at least one volatile component from the Al layer; and the overlay covering is non-tacky, flexible, and moisture permeable; whereby at the end of an extended wear period, the patch causes cumulative moderate irritation plus significant irritation of less than 5% or exhibits meaningful degree of detachment over a seven day wear period of less than 20%, or both. | 25,886 |
8,885,375 | 1. An inverter for converting a DC power into an AC power, comprising: a switch circuit configured to receive a DC power and convert the DC power into an AC modulating voltage for output between a first output terminal and a second output terminal, the switch circuit comprising: a first switch branch including a first switch element, a second switch element, and a third switch element connected in series with each other, wherein the second switch element and the third switch element are connected to the first output terminal, and the second switch element is serially connected between the first switch element and the third switch element; a second switch branch connected in parallel with the first switch branch, and including a fourth switch element, a fifth switch element, and a sixth switch element connected in series with each other, wherein the fifth switch element and the sixth switch element are connected to the second output terminal, and the fifth switch element is serially connected between the fourth switch element and the sixth switch element; a first freewheeling unit having one end connected between the first switch element and the second switch element, and another end connected to the second output terminal; and a second freewheeling unit having one end connected between the fourth switch element and the fifth switch element, and another end connected to the first output terminal; wherein the first switch element and the sixth switch element are turned on and off simultaneously and continuously and the second switch element is turned on during positive half-cycles, and the third switch element and the fourth switch element are turned on and off simultaneously and continuously and the fifth switch element is turned on during negative half-cycles. | 21,476 |
8,979,014 | 1. A multilayer board for acoustic insulation for a panel lining an interior space, comprising a core sheet comprising: at least two core layers, with each core layer comprising: a honeycomb structure in which a plurality of cells extend in a direction of a core sheet thickness, the plurality of cells are separated by cell walls; slits in the cell walls that extend within the core layer along a longitudinal axis in the direction of the core sheet thickness, the slits arranged so as to divide the plurality of cells of the honeycomb structure into subpluralities of cells, and the slits extend to a respective substantially continuous edge region of the core layer, the substantially continuous edge region devoid of the slits; and a first covering layer; a second covering layer, and an intermediate layer, wherein at least one of the first covering layer and the second covering layer is a closed design, wherein the core sheet is arranged between the first covering layer and the second covering layer and firmly connected in a planar fashion to the first covering layer and the second covering layer, and the slits are open slits, and wherein the substantially continuous edge regions on both sides of the core sheet extend parallel to the first covering layer and the second covering layer, with the substantially continuous edge region of each core layer each firmly connected to a respective one of the first cover layer and the second cover layer, and the longitudinal axis of the slits is transverse to the first covering layer. | 37,938 |
9,642,835 | 1. A method of therapeutically treating ovarian cancer which overexpresses Cdc42 GTPase in a human patient in need comprising administering to said patient an effective amount of at least one compound according to the chemical structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or enantiomer thereof, optionally in combination with at least one additional anticancer agent. | 23,909 |
9,587,857 | 1. A solar thermal device comprising: a receptacle configured to contain a heat-transfer medium; and a sheet comprising a polymeric material optically transparent to radiation present in sunlight, the sheet configured over at least a portion of the surface of the receptacle, the sheet comprising: a first uppermost surface defining an entrance interface through which photons initially enter the sheet, the first uppermost surface having a first pattern defined therein, the first pattern configured to redirect photons incident upon the first uppermost surface over a predetermined range of incident angles into a narrower predetermined range of transmittance angles, wherein the incident angles and the transmittance angles are measured with respect to a global surface normal of the sheet, the global surface normal defined with respect to a flat plane extending longitudinally through the sheet, wherein the transmittance angles are more orthogonal with respect to the flat plane than the incident angles; and a second surface disposed opposite the first uppermost surface and having a second pattern defined therein, the second pattern configured to focus the photons transmitted to the second surface onto the surface of the receptacle, wherein the first pattern comprises a plurality of projections extending in a direction opposite the second surface, and further wherein the polymeric material from which the sheet is formed extends from the first uppermost surface to the second surface. | 35,708 |
9,417,576 | 1. A fixing device for fixing a toner image on a recording material by heating the recording material on which the toner image is formed while feeding the recording material, said fixing device comprising: a cylindrical film; a nip forming member including a heater configured to contact an inner surface of said film, said heater being provided so that an upstream end of said heater protrudes from a nip and a downstream end of said heater is inside the nip with respect to the recording material feeding direction; a roller configured to form the nip in cooperation with said nip forming member through said film; and a thermo-sensitive member configured to interrupt electric power supply to said heater when the temperature of said heater reaches an abnormal temperature, wherein said thermo-sensitive member is provided on said nip forming member so as to sense the heat of a downstream area of said heater which is downstream of a center of said heater with respect to the recording material feeding direction. | 46,735 |
9,431,757 | 1. A connection socket for oven temperature sensor, comprising: a plug guide hole seat ( 1 ), a shell ( 2 ), an inner ceramic plate ( 3 ), an outer ceramic plate ( 4 ), a long lead ( 5 ), a short lead ( 6 ), a long elastic contact clip ( 7 ) and a short elastic contact clip ( 8 ), wherein one end of the shell ( 2 ) is sleeved and fixed on the plug guide hole seat ( 1 ), and the other end is internally disposed and fixedly provided with the inner ceramic plate ( 3 ) and the outer ceramic plate ( 4 ); the long elastic contact clip ( 7 ) and the short elastic contact clip ( 8 ) respectively traverse the inner ceramic plate ( 3 ) and the outer ceramic plate ( 4 ), and are respectively connected with the long lead ( 5 ) and the short lead ( 6 ); both the long elastic contact clip ( 7 ) and the short elastic contact clip ( 8 ) are provided with a lug boss ( 9 ), and the lug bosses ( 9 ) are clamped by the inner ceramic plate ( 3 ) and the outer ceramic plate ( 4 ). | 38,627 |
9,368,824 | 1. A redox flow battery system comprising a positive electrolyte comprising Fe(III) and Fe(II) in a positive electrolyte supporting solution, a negative electrolyte comprising S 2− and S in a negative electrolyte supporting solution, and a membrane or a separator contacting and separating the positive electrolyte solution and the negative electrolyte solution, the positive electrolyte and negative electrolyte supporting solutions both having pH values greater than or equal to 6. | 28,964 |
8,483,168 | 1. A method for wireless communication, comprising: identifying multiple candidate base stations for a terminal, each candidate base station being a candidate for selection as a serving base station for the terminal; and selecting a candidate base station from among the multiple candidate base stations as the serving base station for the terminal; wherein said selecting includes determining a projected data rate metric for each candidate base station based on an effective geometry for the candidate base station, determining a transmit energy metric for each candidate base station based on pathloss for the candidate base station, and selecting the candidate base station having the highest projected data rate metric among all candidate base stations whose transmit energy metrics are below a predetermined threshold; and wherein said selecting permits selection of a candidate base station having a lower signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio (SINR) than a highest SINR among the multiple candidate base stations. | 31,562 |
8,409,999 | 1. A method of etching a transparent electrode layer comprising: forming the transparent electrode layer on a substrate; forming a photo resist pattern on the transparent electrode layer; and etching the transparent electrode layer by using an etchant, wherein the etchant comprises an inorganic acid, an ammonium (NH wherein the inorganic acid comprises H | 49,419 |
8,408,859 | 1. A wafer transfer device comprising: a first rotatable semiconductor wafer carrier receiver removably mounted to a first wafer carrier having an opening allowing entry of a wafer into the first wafer carrier and allowing egress of the wafer from the first wafer carrier; a second rotatable semiconductor wafer carrier receiver disposed at a position adjacent to the first semiconductor wafer carrier receiver and removably mounted to a second semiconductor wafer carrier having an opening through which the wafer is transferred through the opening of the first semiconductor wafer carrier; an actuator operatively coupled to at least one of the first semiconductor wafer carrier receiver and the second semiconductor wafer carrier receiver, the actuator operative to concurrently rotate the first semiconductor wafer carrier receiver and the second semiconductor wafer carrier receiver so that both openings of the first and second semiconductor wafer carriers are rotated and face one another; a moving mechanism coupled to the actuator, the moving mechanism comprising: | 3,191 |
9,585,228 | 1. A system operative to associate information with an asset or a physical space, comprising: a plurality of building control fixtures, one or more of the plurality of building control fixtures comprising: wherein at least one of an external controller or at least one controller of the plurality of building control fixtures is operative to: | 20,856 |
8,543,594 | 1. A system comprising: an element server in a video hub office that includes at least one device configured to provide a media signal to a content processing device located at a customer premises; and at least one computing device that includes at least one processor and that is located remote from the video hub office and the customer premises, the at least one computing device comprising: wherein the at least one computing device remote from the video hub office and the customer premises provides a user interface remote from the video hub office and the customer premises, the user interface presenting a screen displaying information about the one or more presentation elements associated with the chunk and an image of the chunk showing the one or more presentation elements associated with the chunk in the user interface as the one or more presentation elements associated with the chunk would appear when displayed at the customer premises. | 40,002 |
9,587,612 | 1. An in-cylinder pressure detecting device of a direct injection type internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber and an injector, the injector having an extremity and a base end on opposite ends thereof, and the extremity of the injector facing the combustion chamber, the in-cylinder pressure detecting device comprising: a pressure detection element surrounding a fuel injection hole formed in a valve seat member of the injector that injects fuel via the fuel injection hole into the combustion chamber, the pressure detection element having an extremity capable of being compressed in an axial direction of the injector, wherein the valve seat member is disposed on an inner periphery of an extremity of the injector, wherein the pressure detection element is provided in the vicinity of the extremity of the injector and outside of an outermost periphery of the valve seat member such that the pressure detection element faces the combustion chamber, and wherein the pressure detection element is provided at a position closer to the extremity of the injector than a seal member that prevents a passage of combustion gas between an outer periphery of the injector and an inner periphery of an injector mounting hole of a cylinder head. | 17,514 |
8,398,657 | 1. A surgical suturing instrument comprising: a housing having a handle and an actuating member; an elongated guide member attached to the housing, and having a distal end; a tissue engaging gap formed proximal to the distal end of the elongated guide member; a needle extending from the housing through the guide member to the distal end, the needle reciprocally movable across the gap from a proximal end of the gap to a distal end of the gap by movement of the actuating member from a rest position to a retracted position, and movable proximally from the proximal end of the gap by movement of the actuating member to an extended position beyond the rest position in a direction opposite the retracted position. | 19,674 |
9,594,415 | 1. A method implemented by a host computing device comprising: ascertaining a power exchange state defined by a power scheme implemented by the host computing device by looking-up the power exchange state in a power management state table based upon configuration and operating condition criteria, the power management state table configured to map a plurality of power exchange states to corresponding power management control actions, the power management state table defining at least some of the plurality of power exchange states according to remaining capacity for an internal battery of the host computing device, the power scheme configured to enable a three-way power exchange between power supplies corresponding to the host computing device, an accessory device connected to the host computing device via an accessory interface of the host computing device, and an adapter accessory connected to the host computing device via an adapter interface of the host computing device; and controlling the three-way power exchange with the accessory device connected to the host computing device based on the ascertained power exchange state in accordance with the power scheme and as defined in the power management table. | 27,288 |
8,820,265 | 1. An apparatus for use in animal sensory discrimination, comprising: a support platform; means for supporting a plurality of samples; means for moving sample support means and support platform relative to each other; means for signaling an animal to sample a sample of the plurality of samples; and means for the animal to record a sensory response to the sampled sample, wherein said sensory response discriminates between at least two taste or olfactory stimuli; and wherein the sample support means comprises a sample plate; wherein the apparatus is programmed such that: 1. upon a signaling to the animal to sample, the animal is exposed to and may sample a sample of the plurality of samples and record a sensory response to the same; 2. upon recording a sensory response, the apparatus removes access to the sampled sample; and 3. upon a subsequent signaling to the animal to sample, the animal is exposed to and may sample a subsequent sample of the plurality of samples, and record a sensory response to the same; wherein steps 1 through 3 take place within an order of a few minutes; and wherein steps 2 and 3are repeated until all of the samples of the plurality of samples are sampled and a sensory response recorded for each. | 37,086 |
9,548,458 | 1. A light-emitting device comprising a compound represented by a formula: wherein Cy Cy Cy Cy | 7,112 |
9,690,340 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a processor with a plurality of selectable performance levels; a thermal sensor to measure a current temperature of the electronic device; an airflow sensor to determine if the electronic device is positioned proximately to an active airflow and to determine a fan state corresponding to the active airflow; and an adaptive thermal and performance management subsystem in data communication with the processor, the thermal sensor, and the airflow sensor, the adaptive thermal and performance management subsystem to: | 36,957 |
9,611,895 | 1. A roller alignment device, comprising: a main jig comprising an alignment space having an annular shape capable of aligning plural rollers so as to be in parallel to each other in a circumferential direction of the alignment space, a width direction of the alignment space coinciding with an axial direction of the plural rollers in an aligned state; a roller-supply means comprising a chute section that can store the plural rollers therein arranged in a row in the axial direction of the plural rollers and has a bottom-end section located above a roller-supply position which is one part in the circumferential direction of the alignment space, and a roller-supply-fluid-supply means for generating a flow of fluid inside the chute section in a direction toward the alignment space, and sequentially supplying the plural rollers to the roller-supply position in the alignment space; and an alignment-fluid-supply means spraying fluid on each of the plural rollers that are supplied to the roller-supply position by the roller-supply means from a direction that is orthogonal to the width direction of the alignment space, so that the each of the plural rollers moves in the circumferential direction in the alignment space from the roller-supply position. | 44,702 |
8,499,181 | 1. A DC/DC converter comprising: an inductor; a smoothing capacitor coupled to said inductor; a controller for controlling an output voltage according to each power state of a processor operating in a transition state where a power state of said processor transitions between an active state and a predetermined sleeping state at a predetermined transition frequency; and an arithmetic circuit for determining a transition stop condition based on power consumption of said processor and charging loss generated at said smoothing capacitor during transition of said active state, and for outputting a transition stop signal to stop said processor from transitioning to said predetermined sleeping state if said transition stop condition is satisfied; wherein said transition stop condition is satisfied when a difference between power consumption of said processor maintaining a C0 state and power consumption of said processor operating in a transition state is smaller than said charging loss. | 3,717 |
8,656,004 | 1. A system for delivering multimedia content, the system comprising: a processor; and a memory having stored therein instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising: receiving a user profile and a history of previously viewed multimedia content from a device associated with a user, the user profile indicating preferences for content providers; selecting and sequencing the multimedia content from the content server based at least in part on the user profile and the history of previously viewed multimedia content to yield selected multimedia content; and transmitting, to the device, the selected multimedia content and metadata associated with the selected multimedia content, the metadata comprising information for updating the history of previously viewed multimedia content at the device. | 22,028 |
9,666,139 | 1. A terminal apparatus, comprising: a touch panel; an illuminance sensor provided adjacent to the touch panel; a proximity sensor provided adjacent to the illuminance sensor, the proximity sensor detecting a presence of an object approaching the terminal apparatus; a processor; and memory storing instructions for causing the processor to execute: performing an automatic light modulation of the touch panel; determining whether or not an illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor varies by a predetermined amount; and determining whether or not an operation of the touch panel occurs in a predetermined area in a vicinity of the illuminance sensor, wherein after the processor determines that the illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor decreases by the predetermined amount, the processor suspends the automatic light modulation of the touch panel when the processor determines that the operation of the touch panel occurs before a first time elapses and when the processor determines that the operation of the touch panel does not occur before the first time elapses and the proximity sensor detects a presence of an object approaching to the terminal apparatus before a second time elapses after the first time elapses, the processor restarts the suspended automatic light modulation of the touch panel when the proximity sensor does not detect the presence of the object, and the processor suspends the proximity sensor when the proximity sensor does not detect the presence of the object before the second time elapses. | 15,551 |
9,056,310 | 1. A process for the preparation of nanocrystalline Pt—Ce oxide catalyst wherein the said process comprising the steps of (a) mixing a salt of Cerium (Ce), a surfactant and water, with constant stirring for 2-4 h at a range of 35-45° C. while maintaining pH in the range of 8-9 to obtain a gel and further solidifying the gel by autoclaving the gel at temperature ranging between 150-180° C. for 7-10 days to obtain a solid; (b) filtering out and washing the solid as obtained in step (a) with ethanol and drying in an oven at a temperature range of 100-120° C. for a period ranging between 6-18 h followed by calcining the dried product at temperature range of 450-750° C. for a period ranging between 4-10 h to obtain Ce oxide; (c) preparing a solution by stirring Ce oxide as obtained in step (b) in ethanol for a period ranging between 30-120 min at temperature ranging between 30-40° C. (d) preparing second solution by stirring ethanol, water, CTAB (cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide) and platinum (Pt) salt by stirring at temperature ranging between 30-40° C. until the solution becomes homogeneous; (e) mixing solution as prepared in step (d) with the solution as prepared in (c) dropwise and stirring for a period ranging between 30-120 minute at temperature ranging between 30-40° C. followed by adding hydrazine and stirring for 1-2 h at 30-40° C. and subsequently evaporating to dryness at 60-100° C. and further drying at 100-120° C. for 4-12 h then calcing in air atmosphere for 4-6 h at 450-750° C. to obtain nanocrystalline Pt—Ce oxide catalyst. | 4,827 |
8,614,930 | 1. A computer-implemented method for accounting for temporal dispersion in low-order finite difference seismic wave propagation, comprising: a. transforming, by a computer processor, a seismic dataset containing artifacts caused by temporal dispersion from time domain to frequency domain to obtain a frequency-domain seismic dataset; b. applying, by a computer processor, a frequency-domain time varying filter based on an effective phase velocity to the frequency-domain seismic dataset to obtain a filtered frequency-domain seismic dataset; and c. transforming, by a computer processor, the filtered frequency-domain seismic dataset from the frequency domain to the time domain to obtain a time-domain filtered seismic dataset, wherein the artifacts caused by temporal dispersion have been reduced in the time-domain filtered seismic dataset. | 32,158 |
9,021,281 | 1. A method, in a data processing system, for run-time task-level dynamic energy management, the method comprising: responsive to an application being marked for energy management, mapping an instruction address for a first instruction of the application to a portion of application code in the application; responsive to the portion of the application code being listed in a scaling table, identifying an intensity indicator associated with the portion of the application code; and implementing a level of energy management for the portion of the application code based on a value of the intensity indicator; and incrementing a tick indicator associated with the portion of the application code, wherein a level of the tick indicator indicates an importance of the portion of the application code and increases the intensity indicator as the level of the tick indicator increases. | 23,240 |
9,122,216 | 1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a storage unit; an interface unit connected to an external host apparatus and at least one of other image forming apparatuses; an image forming unit to print image data received through the interface unit; and a controller which, when image data is received from the host apparatus when the image forming apparatus is in a normal mode, controls the image forming unit to perform an image forming job using the image data stored in the storage unit, and when the image data is received from the host apparatus when the image forming apparatus is in a power saving mode, controls the interface unit to transmit the image data to another image forming apparatus which is in the normal mode so that the another image forming apparatus which is in the normal mode performs an image forming job, and wherein the controller, when the image data is received from the host apparatus when the image forming apparatus is in the power saving mode, controls the interface unit to analyze information regarding other image forming apparatuses which are connected through the interface unit, search for image forming apparatuses which satisfy predetermined conditions, and transmit the image data to another image forming apparatus which operates in the normal mode from among the searched image forming apparatuses, wherein the predetermined conditions include at least one of a warming-up state, information on usage of consumables, amount of jobs to be performed, and an expected job processing time, wherein the controller checks an amount of jobs to be performed in the another image forming apparatus which is in the normal mode, and when the amount of jobs to be performed is less than a threshold level, controls the interface unit to transmit the image data to the another image forming apparatus which is in the normal mode; and when the amount of jobs to be performed exceeds a threshold level, converts the operation mode of the image forming apparatus from the power saving mode to the normal mode and performs the image forming job using the image data. | 1,187 |
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