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8,892,909 | 1. A data processor comprising: a first data storage for storing therein compressed data; a data transferrer for transferring the compressed data while reading the compressed data; a second data storage for storing therein the compressed data transferred by the data transferrer; a decoder for decoding the compressed data into decoded data to output while reading the compressed data from the second data storage; a third data storage for storing therein the decoded data outputted from the decoder; a DA converter for converting the decoded data into an analog signal while reading the decoded data from the third data storage in real-time; a first controller for controlling at least the decoder to perform intermittent operation by executing a process between reading the compressed data from the first data storage and storing the decoded data into the third data storage at a speed faster than real-time; a clock/power controller for controlling supply of at least one of clock and power to the decoder and the first controller, and making a restriction of supply of at least one of the clock and power to the decoder and the first controller in downtime of the intermittent operation; a second controller for managing a storage status of the decoded data stored in the third data storage, and outputting a control signal in accordance with the storage status; and an activation controller for controlling the clock/power controller to lift the restriction in response to reception of the control signal, wherein the first controller controls the decoder to transit to the downtime with the second data storage holding at least one frame of the compressed data. | 6,694 |
8,769,686 | 1. A method for transmitting secure messages by a transmitter, the method comprising: encoding a message with a secrecy code to produce L output codewords, wherein the secrecy code comprises a first security code and a second security code, and L is an integer greater than 1, and wherein the first security code generates an intermediate secure codeword based on a linear coding of the message; and sequentially transmitting each of the L output codewords to a communications device during periods when a channel quality of a legitimate channel between the transmitter and the communications device exceeds a quality threshold, wherein none of the L output codewords are transmitted during periods when the channel quality of the legitimate channel fails to exceed the quality threshold, wherein periods when the channel quality exceeds the quality threshold have a lower probability of eavesdropping on the legitimate channel than periods when the channel quality fails to exceed the quality threshold. | 13,312 |
9,345,239 | 1. A manual and localized weeding apparatus comprising a heat generator attached to a rod, the heat generator including a fan and a heating resistor mounted for projecting a hot air jet into an inner volume of a bell, the bell having a free edge for supporting the apparatus on a support surface and defining an opening through which a weed extends into the inner volume of the bell after which the hot air jet is projected into the inner volume of the bell to kill the weed, wherein the bell is provided with a plurality of discharge holes oriented in generally equally spaced relationship from one another in an upper exhaust wall of the bell and each discharge hole being oriented to direct a hot exhaust air jet upwardly and outwardly relative to the upper exhaust wall of the bell for continuously discharging the exhaust air from the inner volume of the bell, and wherein the plurality of discharge holes are spaced from the free edge by a distance of more than 2 cm and wherein each discharge hole defines a constantly open cross sectional exhaust opening regardless if an axis X 2 of the apparatus is parallel, or at a tilt angle, relative to a direction of the earth's gravity field G. | 3,102 |
9,803,165 | 1. A method for purifying a biomolecule selected from the group consisting of proteins and antibodies, from a mixture containing impurities selected from the group consisting of cells, cell debris, host cell proteins and DNA, comprising: a. providing an assembly comprising providing a first container having an interior space, a first base sealingly affixed to said first container and supporting at least one membrane sealed to said first base for filtering said mixture; an outlet in said base, a second container in fluid communication with the outlet of said first base, and a second base sealingly affixed to said second container, said second base comprising a second membrane and a supporting surface comprising grooves for fluid flow; b. providing the mixture at a set of conditions, c. adding one or more polymers, soluble in said mixture under the set of conditions and capable of reversibly and selectively binding to the biomolecule, said one or more polymers selected from the group consisting of poly(N-vinyl caprolactam), poly(N-acryloylpiperidine), poly(N-vinylisobutyramide), poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), poly(N,N′-diethylacrylamide), poly(N-acryloyl-N-alkylpiperazine), hydroxyalkylcellulose, copolymers of acrylic acid and methacrylic acid, and polymers and copolymers of 2 or 4-vinylpyridine and chitosan with either a ligand or functional group attached to it, d. mixing the one or more solubilized polymers throughout the mixture; e. precipitating the one or more polymers and bound biomolecule out of solution by changing the set of conditions in the mixture; f. washing said precipitate by contacting said precipitate with a wash solution and filtering the supernatant through said first membrane, and g. recovering the bound biomolecule from the polymer and filtering the biomolecule through said second membrane. | 15,215 |
9,482,871 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a light concentrator to convert incident light to converging light, wherein the light concentrator comprises at least a first light-converging element to focus the converging light in a first direction and a second light-converging element to focus the converging light in a second direction, the second direction making a converging angle with the first direction; the light-converging elements being eccentric type optical elements each of which having asymmetrical thickness distribution; a light splitting element to receive the converging light from the first and second light-converging elements and to split the converging light into a first spectral portion of light and a second spectral portion of light; and a light directing element including at least a first curved surface and a second curved surface to direct the first spectral portion of light through a light guide and to direct the second spectral portion of light to a receiver external to the light guide, wherein the receiver is spaced from the light guide, wherein the light guide is positioned between the receiver and the light concentrator, wherein the first and second curved surfaces are arranged relative the first light-converging element and the second light converging element, respectively, such that the second spectral portion of light from the first curved surface directed to the receiver and the second spectral portion of light from the second curved surface directed to the receiver are collimated, and further wherein a light path of the second spectral portion of light between the light splitting element and the receiver passes through a space separating the receiver and the light guide. | 25,301 |
9,246,389 | 1. A resonant converter for converting a direct current (DC) into another DC with a desired level, comprising: a first switch leg having one end connected to a positive terminal of a DC power source and the other end connected to a negative terminal of the DC power source to independently operate at a switching frequency used in an application of an output voltage for no load or a light load equal to or less than a rated load and operate so as to reduce a ripple of the output voltage at a frequency equal to or less than the switching frequency used in the application of the output voltage for no load or the light load equal to or less than the rated load; and one or more second switch legs having one end connected to the positive terminal of the DC power source and the other end connected to the negative terminal of the DC power source to operate at a switching frequency for the rated load or a frequency equal to or less than the switching frequency used in the application of the output voltage for no load or the light load that the first switch leg takes charge of. | 42,419 |
9,328,931 | 1. A heating and/or cooling system for maintaining an environment at a desired temperature, comprising: a heat pump, comprising; a temperature sensor disposed to measure a temperature of the first environment; and a system controller configured to perform at least one of: | 28,140 |
9,008,424 | 1. A method for comparing a first image with a second image, comprising: identifying first keypoints in the first image and second keypoints in the second image by a computer: associating each first keypoint with a corresponding second keypoint to form a corresponding keypoint match; for each pair of first keypoints, calculating a distance therebetween for obtaining a corresponding first length; for each pair of second keypoints, calculating a distance therebetween for obtaining a corresponding second length; calculating a first plurality of distance ratios, each distance ratio being based on a length ratio between one of the first lengths and corresponding one of the second lengths; calculating a statistical distribution of the first plurality of distance ratios; generating a model function expressing a statistical distribution of a second plurality of distance ratios corresponding to a random selection of keypoints in the first and second images; comparing the statistical distribution of the first plurality of distance ratios with the model function; and assessing whether the first image contains a view of an object depicted in the second image based on the comparison. | 16,128 |
9,747,239 | 1. An integrated circuit (IC) comprising: a plurality of functional circuit blocks, wherein a subset of the plurality of functional blocks are configured to be placed in a sleep mode; an interconnection network configured to couple each of the plurality of functional circuit blocks to one or more additional ones of the plurality of functional circuit blocks; and a plurality of transaction filters, wherein each of the plurality of functional blocks is uniquely associated with and includes a corresponding one of the plurality of transaction filters, wherein each of the plurality of transaction filters is configured to, responsive to its corresponding functional circuit block generating a transaction destined for another functional circuit block presently in the sleep mode, inhibit forward progress of the transaction, wherein inhibiting forward progress of the transaction comprises preventing transmission of the transaction into the interconnection network from the corresponding functional circuit block in which it was generated. | 29,169 |
8,353,153 | 1. A system for controlling the temperature of an exhaust from an engine, the system comprising: a main exhaust passageway adapted to receive an exhaust stream from the engine; a bypass passage having an inlet in communication with the main exhaust passageway and an outlet in communication with the main exhaust passageway at a location downstream from the inlet; a burner positioned within the bypass passage for heating the exhaust passing through the bypass passage; a valve positioned within the main exhaust passageway downstream from the inlet and upstream from the outlet, the valve being operable to vary the exhaust flow through the burner; an exhaust aftertreatment device located downstream of the outlet in receipt of a mixed exhaust supplied from the bypass passage and the main exhaust passageway; and a controller determining the operating temperature of the aftertreatment device, the controller determining the temperature of a supply of ambient temperature air that has not been heated by a combustion process, the controller determining a difference between the aftertreatment device operating temperature and the ambient air temperature, the controller initiating fuel injection and ignition within the burner based on the temperature difference exceeding a predetermined value. | 31,812 |
9,284,886 | 1. A gas turbine, comprising: a combustor configured to output a combustion gas stream; a turbine including at least one turbine stage configured to receive the combustion gas stream; one or more high temperature surfaces in the combustor, the turbine, or the combustor and the turbine; a voltage source operatively coupled to at least one of the high temperature surfaces, and configured to at least intermittently apply a voltage having a polarity to the high temperature surface; and one or more sources of charged particles, configured to add charged particles to the combustion gas stream before the combustion gas stream reaches the high temperature surface, the charged particles having a first sign; wherein the first sign has the same polarity as the polarity of the voltage to which at least one of the high temperature surfaces is driven. | 20,102 |
9,319,898 | 1. A wireless communication system comprising: a control module configured to: a storage module, coupled to the control module, configured to store the maximum throughput in a throughput table; and a communication module, coupled to the control module, configured to transmit a channel quality indicator as a feedback, selected from the throughput table, based on a largest value of the maximum throughput. | 18,853 |
9,664,935 | 1. A method of manufacturing a flexible display panel, comprising: forming an adhesive layer, comprising: with the adhesive layer directly on the flexible substrate and for which a surface thereof is modified to include the hydroxyl group, laminating a glass substrate to the adhesive layer at the modified surface of the adhesive layer to dispose the adhesive layer directly on the glass substrate and the flexible substrate; and with the adhesive layer directly on the glass substrate and the flexible substrate, subsequently forming a heat-treated layer between the modified surface of the adhesive layer and a facing surface of the glass substrate, by heating the glass substrate to which the adhesive layer directly on the flexible substrate is laminated to form the heat-treated layer including a Si—O—Si bond or a Si—O-M bond, where M represents a metal atom. | 24,842 |
9,640,813 | 1. A redox flow battery comprising a cell frame comprising a frame body and a bipolar plate integrated with said frame body, said frame body including | 13,088 |
9,565,541 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a wireless local area network hotspot, a request to initiate emergency communications; determining a number of mobile communication devices connected to the wireless local area network hotspot and location information of the wireless local area network hotspot; determining that the wireless local area network hotspot has been loaded with a contact address for an emergency contact; generating a distress message including the number of mobile communication devices connected to the wireless local area network hotspot and the location information; and interrupting at least one communication session hosted by the wireless local area network hotspot to transmit the distress message to the contact address. | 41,331 |
9,782,666 | 1. A beer pong game comprising: a base with a playing surface that has (i) a first portion with a first designated area for cups and (ii) a second portion with a second designated area for cups, wherein the first portion includes a first end and the second portion includes a second end, the base having a length between the first end and the second end; a game piece; a tether that attaches the game piece to the base, wherein a first end of the tether is attached to the base at a location between the first designated area for cups and the second designated area for cups, and a second end of the tether is attached to the game piece, and wherein the tether has a length that is less than the length of the base; and a first launcher that includes a mechanism to launch the game piece as a projectile, the first launcher being positioned at or around the second end of the second portion to launch the game piece toward the first designated area for cups, wherein the first designated area for cups and at least a portion of the first launcher are within a range of the tether; wherein the first designated area for cups comprises a central recess and a plurality of recesses arranged in a generally circular pattern around the central recess, the plurality of recesses including a first recess and a second recess that overlaps the first recess; and wherein the central recess is defined by a first protrusion, and wherein the first protrusion further defines, together with a second protrusion, at least in part, the first recess and the second recess. | 29,824 |
8,856,697 | 1. A computer implemented method for layout design comprising: importing a layout for a layer within a semiconductor chip wherein the layout is comprised of two-dimensional polygons; decomposing, using one or more processors, the layout into rectangles; representing each of the rectangles as a vertex in a graph; representing relationships between the rectangles as edges in the graph; identifying double pattern lithography violations using the edges in the graph where each edge in the graph is traversed a total of two times, wherein the total of two times that each edge in the graph is traversed are in opposite directions; and performing a local update of the graph based on the double pattern lithography violations identified. | 20,433 |
9,570,048 | 1. A display device comprising: a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a pixel region and including a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit; and a driving circuit arranged in a peripheral region and configured to supply control signals to the plurality of pixel circuits via scan lines including a first scan line, a second scan line, and a third scan line, wherein each of the first pixel circuit and the second pixel circuit include: wherein a control terminal of the first transistor of the first pixel circuit is connected to the first scan line, wherein a control terminal of the first transistor of the second pixel circuit is connected to the second scan line, and wherein a control terminal of the second transistor of the second pixel circuit is connected to the third scan line. | 46,660 |
9,464,621 | 1. A trillium wind turbine, comprising: a plurality of trillium wind turbine blades, each comprising: wherein the plurality of trillium wind turbine blades are attached to a rear portion of a nacelle and used to generate electricity, the nacelle having a front portion that is pointed into a wind. | 39,047 |
8,715,328 | 1. A monocular light source positioning device for use in administering light therapy onto a single eye of a wearer, comprising: a support member adapted to be held on the head of a human wearer by engagement with only a single ear of the wearer; a housing connected with said support member receiving a battery and associated electronics; an elongated readily bendable but self supporting first bendable element connected to said housing and of a length able to position a free end thereof at a point forward of one eye of the wearer; said support member comprising an elongated deformable curved piece configured to extend along in conformity to the antihelix fold within a wearer's ear so as to be held therein, said support member being connected to said first bendable elongated element by an intervening second elongated bendable element so as to thereby solely support said housing by emplacement of said elongated curved piece along said antihelix fold within a wearer's ear; a light source mounted to said free end of said bendable element and electrically connected to said battery and electronic controls thereby; said light source emitting light of a wavelength and intensity effective to stimulate a photoendocrine response when positioned adjacent one eye of the wearer to cause said emitted light to enter said one eye; whereby the wearer can receive such stimulation while wearing said device by positioning said light source forward and aligned with a single eye of the wearer by bending said elongated first element as necessary while leaving the other eye with an unobstructed view. | 32,724 |
9,600,092 | 1. An e-reader accessory device for use on an e-reader of any size, that allows a user to actuate the e-reader such that the hands or fingers never touch the e-reader device, the accessory device comprising: an elongated structure with a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the proximal end further comprises a handle operatively coupled with an axially displaceably mounted finger push rod, wherein the finger push rod is operatively coupled to a flexible, elongated, mechanical power-transmitting member, wherein a distal end of the power-transmitting member is attached to an end effector; a clip comprising a top portion with a bottom surface and a bottom portion with a top surface, wherein the clip is attached about the end effector on the distal end of the power transmitting member, further wherein the clip comprises a spring loaded rotatable connection pivot that provides opposing rotatable forces on the top portion and the bottom portion, wherein these opposing rotatable forces compress and frictionally engage the bottom surface of the top portion with a front periphery surface of the e-reader device over any single actuation button, and the top surface of the bottom portion with a back surface of the e-reader device, wherein the clip engages only one single actuation button anywhere on the front periphery surface of the e-reader device, further wherein the clip engages an e-reader of any size without an e-reader cover; wherein the e-reader accessory device actuates a chosen function of the e-reader device, from a distance of at least six inches from the e-reader device, by depressing the finger push rod so as to actuate the power-transmitting member through the threaded connector aperture so as to displace the end effector onto the actuation button. | 23,392 |
9,239,019 | 1. A method, comprising: during stoichiometric engine operation, flowing exhaust gas over a filter having a catalytic coating; and during selected conditions, operating at least one actuator via a controller to shift engine operation to leaner than stoichiometry lean operation including a first shorter and more lean phase followed by a second longer and less lean phase, the lean operation adjusted via the controller based on a catalyst oxygen content and a filter particulate matter load. | 5,407 |
8,392,163 | 1. A method of modeling a salt history for a geologic region containing a salt formation comprising: defining initial geometry of salt volume and sediment volume in three dimensions; changing geometry of a top of the salt in accordance with changes in overlying sedimentary layers and maintaining the geometries of a top of the sediment and a base of the salt formation for a plurality of time steps; for each change of geometry, conserving a volume of salt and a volume of sediment; initially constraining a geometry of the base of the salt during the changing geometry of the salt and sediment volumes; modeling separately geological activity in the geologic region and modifying separately the base of the salt formation during a time of the time steps based on the separately modeled geological activity; and modifying the volumes in accordance with the separately modeled geological activity. | 47,389 |
9,511,109 | 1. A method for treating cancer, comprising administering to a patient, in combination, (1) a peptide epoxyketone proteasome inhibitor, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and (2) a therapeutic agent; wherein the peptide epoxyketone proteasome inhibitor has the following structure: the therapeutic agent comprises lenalidomide and dexamethasone; | 14,713 |
9,222,458 | 1. Apparatus for mooring an assembly of wave energy converters (WECs) to a floor of a body of water comprising: a plurality of contiguous cells, each cell consisting of first second and third WECs and of first, second and third anchors, each anchor being attached to the floor of the body of water, and each cell being hexagonal in shape and having six vertices, with each one of said WECs and anchors being located at a different one of said vertices with said first WEC being connected to said first and second anchors via first and second mooring lines, said second WEC being connected to said first and third anchors via third and fourth mooring lines, and said third WEC being connected to said second and third anchors via fifth and sixth mooring lines; and the first, second and third WECs being also connected via respective mooring lines to anchors external to said cell such that each said WEC is connected via three mooring lines to three different anchors; and wherein each said anchor is connected to no more than 3 WECs. | 20,592 |
9,701,579 | 1. A transparent glass sheet, the transparent glass sheet having at least one antiglare surface, wherein the antiglare surface has: a first RMS surface roughness Rlong of up to about 300 nm measured in a range of lateral spatial periods from about 40 μm to about 640 μm; a second RMS surface roughness Rshort measured at lateral spatial periods of less than about 20 μm, wherein the ratio (Rlong/Rshort) is less than about 3.9; and a third RMS roughness Rtotal, measured without surface wavelength filtering, wherein the third RMS roughness Rtotal is in a range from about 60 nm to about 600 nm, and wherein the transparent glass sheet has a pixel power deviation of less than about 7.5% when disposed in front of a pixelated display having a plurality of pixels and an imaging plane such that the antiglare surface is distal from the pixelated display and separated from the imaging plane by a predetermined distance, and wherein the transparent glass sheet has a 20° distinctness of image of less than about 60. | 26 |
9,377,378 | 1. A testing apparatus for a diesel engine power assembly, the testing apparatus being separate and apart from the diesel engine power assembly tested and comprising: a first portion providing a first test position for securing a strongback of the power assembly, wherein the first portion comprises a first planar surface and a first plurality of vertical pins and mechanical clamps to secure the strongback; a second portion providing a second test position for securing a cylinder head of the power assembly, wherein the second portion comprises a second planar surface and a second plurality of vertical pins and hydraulically actuated clamps to secure the cylinder head to the second planar surface, and wherein the second planar surface of the second portion is movable about at least one hinge; and a third portion providing a third test position for securing a cylinder liner, wherein the third portion comprises a cylinder liner support. | 45,361 |
8,812,503 | 1. An information processing device comprising a processor to implement: an obtaining means that obtains a plurality of contents to which labels indicating users' subjective evaluation of the contents are assigned as metadata; a selection means that selects labels having a high reliability in regards to evaluation of the contents among the labels assigned to the plurality of contents obtained by the obtaining means; a calculation means that calculates a degree of similarity between the labels selected by the selection means; a clustering means that clusters the labels based on the degree of similarity calculated by the calculation means; a storage means that stores a cluster obtained as a result of the clustering in the clustering means, as one label; and a generation means that generates: a cluster discriminator which is a discriminator used to discriminate relevance to the cluster of the contents based on feature values of the contents assigned with the labels which are clustered by the clustering means; and a label discriminator which is a discriminator used to discriminate relevance to the clustered labels of the contents, wherein the storage means stores the cluster as one label when a discrimination accuracy of the cluster discriminator is better than a discrimination accuracy of the label discriminator, each feature value being associated with a plurality of classes, the plurality of classes being determined by analysis of physical properties for a plurality of the contents, and for each label, each feature value being set to one of the plurality of classes, and wherein the labels include labels in a plurality of respective languages, and the labels of different languages are clustered together based on the feature values such that a cluster includes labels of different languages. | 33,502 |
8,718,245 | 1. A method for remotely conducting counseling sessions between a client and an expert using an IP-based network, the method comprising: providing a website accessible to the network; an expert accessing the website; the expert customizing a first virtual waiting room according to a feature selected from the group consisting of an issue of a client, a need of a client, a want of a client, and a disorder of a client; the client accessing the website; the client searching a list of online experts including the expert; the client logging into the website; the client selecting the expert for a therapy session; the client initially completing intake and registration forms within the first virtual waiting room customized by the expert; the expert remotely conducting a counseling session with the client using videoconferencing; ending the counseling session; the client automatically returning to the first virtual waiting room to review and optionally purchase items selected for the client by the expert; and the client optionally scheduling another counseling session with the expert. | 28,479 |
9,109,199 | 1. A method for generating a recombinant, non-spreading bunyavirus replicon particle, the method comprising: A) culturing a eukaryotic cell with growth medium; B1) expressing T7 polymerase in the eukaryotic cell; B2) expressing bunyavirus Gn protein and bunyavirus Gc proteins, and optionally bunyavirus NSm protein, in the eukaryotic cell, wherein said Gn and Gc proteins may form a heterodimeric polyprotein (GnGc); and wherein upon the optional expression of NSm protein, a heterotrimeric polyprotein (NSmGnGc) may form; B3) transforming or transducing the eukaryotic cell with a vector comprising cDNA that encodes a bunyavirus L genome segment, wherein said L genome segment cDNA is flanked by a T7 promoter and cDNA of a ribozyme sequence; B4) transforming or transducing the eukaryotic cell with a vector comprising cDNA that encodes at least part of a bunyavirus S genome segment, wherein said S genome segment cDNA comprises at least the N-gene and the 3′ and 5′ UTRs, wherein said S genome segment cDNA is flanked by a T7 promoter and cDNA of a ribozyme sequence; and, optionally, B5) transforming or transducing the eukaryotic cell with a vector comprising cDNA that encodes a bunyavirus M genome segment from which the GnGc coding region has been functionally inactivated, wherein said M genome segment cDNA is flanked by a T7 promoter and cDNA of a ribozyme sequence; C) following steps B1-B5, the eukaryotic cell is maintained in the growth medium and recombinant, non-spreading bunyavirus replicon particles are generated and isolated from the growth medium; wherein the sequence of steps B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 is random and all or part of these steps may be performed simultaneously. | 13,355 |
8,461,392 | 1. A continuous process for preparing at least one monocyclic ketone having from 4 to 20 carbon atoms which comprises reacting a mixture G 1 at a temperature of 170 to 340° C. comprising at least one monocyclic olefin having from 4 to 20 carbon atoms with a mixture G 2 comprising at least dinitrogen monoxide, which comprises performing said reaction adiabatically, and the mixture G 1 and/or G 2 is preheated to a temperature of from 170 to 270° C. before the reaction to give at least one monocyclic ketone having from 4 to 20 carbon atoms, wherein the thermal energy needed to preheat mixture G 1 and/or G 2 is withdrawn at least partly from the product stream of the process. | 17,528 |
8,501,139 | 1. A method for producing a silicon (Si) and/or germanium (Ge) foil, said method comprises: dissolving Si and/or Ge source material in a molten metallic bath to form a molten solution, wherein a density of solid Si and/or Ge is lower than a density of the molten metallic bath by at least 1 g/cm cooling at least a portion of the molten solution from a saturation temperature through an initial precipitation temperature to a lower temperature T and separating at least a portion of the floating Si and/or Ge foil from the interfacial area when a thickness of the at least a portion of the floating foil, which thickness is measured along a direction perpendicular to the interfacial area, is in a range from about 10 micrometers to about 200 micrometers. | 35,324 |
8,921,517 | 1. A process for the production of bivalirudin of formula comprising the steps of: (a) reacting an optionally side chain-protected peptide of formula wherein P1 is a protecting group being stable to catalytic hydrogenation, with an optionally side chain-protected peptide of formula wherein P2 is a protecting group being removable by catalytic hydrogenation and being orthogonal to the optional side chain protecting group(s), to produce an optionally side chain-protected peptide of formula wherein P1 and P2 are as defined above, (b) removing P2 of the peptide produced in step (a) to produce the optionally side chain-protected peptide of formula wherein P1 is as defined above, (c) reacting a side chain-protected peptide of formula wherein P3 is a protecting group being removable by catalytic hydrogenation, with a phenylalanine of formula wherein P4 is a protecting group being orthogonal to the side chain protecting group(s) of the peptide of formula X and to P3, to produce a side chain-protected peptide of formula wherein P3 and P4 are as defined above, (d) removing P4 of the peptide produced in step (c) to produce the corresponding N-terminally deprotected, side chain protected peptide of formula XII, (e) reacting the peptide of formula XII produced in step (d) with a side chain protected aspartic acid of formula wherein P5 is a protecting group being orthogonal to the side chain protecting group(s) of the peptide of formula XII, to the side chain protecting group of the amino acid of formula XIII, and to the protecting group P3, to produce a side chain-protected peptide of formula wherein P3 and P5 are as defined above, (f) removing P5 of the peptide produced in step (e) to produce the side chain-protected peptide of formula wherein P3 is as defined above, (g) reacting the optionally side chain-protected peptide of formula II produced in step (b) with the side chain-protected peptide of formula III produced in step (f) to produce a side chain-protected peptide of formula wherein P1 and P3 are as defined above, (h) removing P1, P3 and the side chain protecting groups of the peptide produced in step (g) to produce bivalirudin of formula I, and wherein steps (a) through (g) are performed in solution phase. | 883 |
9,185,028 | 1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising: a memory that stores a path information table in which a destination and a sum value of signal intensities from the wireless communication apparatus to the destination correspond to each other; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising: receiving a first packet, transmitted from a downstream node, in which an information on the downstream node included in a multi-hop network and a sum value of signal intensities from the downstream node to the destination are sequentially stored for each downstream node; and transmitting a second packet to an upstream node to the destination based on the path information table, the second packet being a packet in which an information on the wireless communication apparatus and a sum value of the signal intensities from the wireless communication apparatus to the destination is are added to the information on the downstream node and the sum value of the signal intensities from the downstream node to the destination, the information on the downstream node and the sum value of the signal intensities from the downstream node to the destination being sequentially stored for each downstream node. | 23,884 |
8,774,537 | 1. An image decoding device comprising: circuitry configured to | 35,697 |
9,849,869 | 1. A method for optimizing an operation of a powertrain for an HEV vehicle, the powertrain for the HEV vehicle comprising a prime mover; a first electric motor-generator, said first electric motor-generator mechanically coupled to said prime mover via a first clutch; a second electric motor-generator, said second electric motor-generator mechanically coupled to said first electric motor-generator via a second clutch; a battery, said battery electrically coupled to said first electric motor-generator and said second electric motor-generator, said battery configured to supply electrical energy to said first electric motor-generator and said second electric motor-generator; and a controller, said controller configured to receive signals from one or more sensors and supplying control signals to said prime mover, said first clutch, said first electric motor-generator, said second clutch and said second electric motor-generator; said method comprising: determining torque and speed of the first electric motor-generator; determining torque and speed of the second electric motor-generator; upon a power demand by a user, determining a combination of torque and speed of both first electric motor-generator and said second electric motor-generator according to motor efficiency information of both first electric motor-generator and said second electric motor-generator; wherein determining the combination of torque and speed further comprise: determining coefficients, a and b, such that the combination of (a*M wherein M further wherein the combination of torque and speed of both first electric motor-generator and said second electric motor-generator is more efficient than other combinations of said torque and speed. | 28,737 |
9,140,162 | 1. An exhaust purification system of an internal combustion engine, the exhaust purification system comprising: an engine exhaust passage; an exhaust purification catalyst for reacting NO a precious metal catalyst carried on an exhaust gas flow surface of the exhaust purification catalyst; a basic exhaust gas flow surface part formed around the precious metal catalyst; an intermediate NO an electronic control unit, wherein the electronic control unit is configured to control a vibration of a concentration of hydrocarbons flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst within a predetermined range of amplitude and within a predetermined range of period, and is configured to control the vibration period of the hydrocarbon concentration longer than the predetermined range of period, wherein | 18,834 |
8,856,607 | 1. A relay node comprising: a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity providing a first HARQ functionality in connection with an access node; and a second HARQ entity providing a second HARQ functionality in connection with a user agent. | 37,918 |
8,870,980 | 1. A process for producing enzymes, the process comprising: (a) cultivating a microorganism capable of producing both single cell oil and extracellular enzymes under conditions suitable for single cell oil production and extracellular enzyme production in a single cell oil production process, and producing single cell oil and enzymes by said microorganism; (b) obtaining a microorganism culture comprising single cell oil and extracellular enzymes, and recovering at least part of a protein fraction enriched from supernatant of the culture for use as an enzyme preparation or as a source of enzymes, and (c) recovering single cell oil from the microorganism cells. | 40,440 |
8,500,609 | 1. A weight assembly attachable to a shaft, the weight assembly comprising: an elongated main body having a first end and a second end; a bore running through the first end, second end and elongated main body, wherein the bore is sized to fit over the shaft; the first and second ends each having a storage area; at least one removable and interchangeable molded weight sized and shaped to fit in the storage area; wherein the elongated main body comprises at least two separable main body sections, wherein each of the first end and the second end comprise at least two separable end sections, and each storage area of the first and second ends comprise at least two storage sections; means for attaching the main body sections together; whereby the main body is secured to the shaft for use during exercise. | 49,960 |
9,292,594 | 1. In a computing system environment, a method of finding relevancy data available on one or more computing devices, comprising: monitoring computing events on the one or more computing devices relative to current data; triggering an evaluation of the current data against original data earlier grouped together on the one or more computing devices according to relatedness of the original data based on the monitored events, the evaluation processing ordered symbol frequency vectors and ordered bit vectors for the current data and the original data to determine relatedness, and at least one vector contains one coordinate position for a set of symbols defined in a symbol dictionary for the original data, and wherein each symbol frequency vector includes a count for a number of times each particular symbol occurs within a given file's symbol dictionary, and wherein each bit vector includes a single bit representing each unique symbol within a given file's symbol dictionary, and wherein triggering further includes determining a common file of members grouped together in response to the evaluation; adding semantic meaning and metadata to the grouped to tether data by harvesting unions of the members that share the common file; and suggesting offerings that some other body of data exists that may be of interest to the current data based on the added semantic meaning and the metadata, and presenting the suggested offerings in a separate user interface for a user to explore when the user choses to do so. | 27,830 |
8,630,604 | 1. A method for wireless communication, comprising: determining, for a client device having a first wireless connection with a first connection point, to initiate a second wireless connection between the client device and a second connection point, wherein the first connection point includes an Access Point and the second connection point includes a Base Station; sending a message from the second connection point to the first connection point, the message including instructions for the first connection point to communicate with the client device using either a Point Coordinate Function (PCF) or a Distributed Coordinate Function (DCF); and initiating the second wireless connection between the client device and the second connection point, wherein the method further includes receiving, at the second connection point, data from the client device during one or more periods of idle communication between the client device and the first connection point, the one or more periods of idle communication being determined based on the PCF or the DCF. | 11,296 |
8,573,710 | 1. A brake control system comprising: a hydraulic fluid decrease detecting portion that detects a decrease in an amount of hydraulic fluid in a reservoir tank connected to a master cylinder; a valve opening and closing controlling portion that switches at least one valve arranged in a hydraulic fluid path between being open and closed, the at least one valve including a master cutoff valve and a pressure increase valve, the master cutoff valve being interposed in a hydraulic fluid path that connects the master cylinder with a wheel cylinder in which a hydraulic pressure of stored hydraulic fluid is higher than a hydraulic pressure of the master cylinder, and the pressure increase valve being interposed in a hydraulic fluid path that connects an accumulator with the wheel cylinder; and a brake operation detecting portion including a master cylinder pressure sensor that detects a master cylinder pressure by detecting hydraulic pressure in a hydraulic fluid path from the master cutoff valve to the master cylinder, wherein the valve opening and closing controlling portion determines depression and release of a brake pedal based on the detecting result of the brake operation detecting portion, wherein when the decrease in the amount of hydraulic fluid in the reservoir tank is detected by the hydraulic fluid decrease detecting portion, the valve opening and closing controlling portion opens the master cutoff valve to supply hydraulic fluid to the master cylinder from the wheel cylinder that is connected to the master cutoff valve, wherein when the decrease in the amount of hydraulic fluid in the reservoir tank is not detected by the hydraulic fluid decrease detecting portion, the valve opening and closing controlling portion determines that the brake pedal is being depressed when a master cylinder pressure detected by the master cylinder pressure sensor exceeds a first pressure threshold value, and opens the pressure increase valve to increase a wheel cylinder pressure, and wherein when the decrease in the amount of hydraulic fluid in the reservoir tank is detected by the hydraulic fluid decrease detecting portion, the valve opening and closing controlling portion additionally determines that the brake pedal is being depressed when the master cylinder pressure detected by the master cylinder pressure sensor exceeds a second pressure threshold value that is higher than the first pressure threshold value while the master cutoff valve is open, and opens the pressure increase valve to increase the wheel cylinder pressure. | 43,684 |
9,012,187 | 1. A process for the preparation of succinic acid, comprising: fermenting a yeast in the presence of a carbohydrate-containing substrate and low amounts of oxygen at a pH value which is below the lowest pKa of the succinic acid, wherein the oxygen is supplied at a specific oxygen uptake rate ranging from 8 to 0.2 mmol oxygen/g biomass dry weight/hour, and wherein, in an acid production phase, said process produces more than 10 g/L succinic acid during cultivation for 90 hours. | 35,889 |
9,686,431 | 1. A communication system comprising a cloud server, a management server, a gateway-enabled device, and a printing apparatus, the cloud server, the management server, and the gateway-enabled device being connected to each other through the Internet, the printing apparatus being connected to the gateway-enabled device through a communication network, the cloud server configured to: the management server configured to: wherein the printing apparatus executes the print job received from the gateway-enabled device. | 48,837 |
8,798,672 | 1. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising: controlling, via a Windows processor, a plurality of peripheral devices of the mobile terminal; temporarily granting, via an arbiter control processor, a control authority for controlling predetermined peripheral devices required for an incoming call processing among the plurality of peripheral devices to a 3G modem when the Windows processor is booted up or switched into a sleep state; receiving, via a communication unit on the mobile terminal, the incoming call; managing, via the 3G modem, circuit data and the predetermined peripheral devices for the incoming call until the Windows processor is woken up and switched into an operating state or the Windows processor is booted up and normalized; and automatically returning, via an arbiter control processor, the control authority that has been granted to the 3G modem to the Windows processor when the Windows processor is woken up and switched into the operating state or the Windows processor is booted up and normalized, wherein a wake-up time and a booting speed of the 3G modem are faster than those of the Windows processor. | 28,619 |
8,483,938 | 1. An engine control device which can execute intermittent operation control of an engine having a variable valve timing mechanism, the engine control device comprising: an abnormality recovery process executing part which executes an abnormality recovery process for the variable valve timing mechanism while continuing an engine operation when there is an abnormality in the variable valve timing mechanism during the engine operation; an intermittent operation control prohibiting part which prohibits the intermittent operation control of the engine during execution of the abnormality recovery process of the variable valve timing mechanism; and an intermittent operation control allowing part which allows the intermittent operation control of the engine when the abnormality recovery process of the variable valve timing mechanism is not being executed. | 39,017 |
9,447,004 | 1. A process for removing at least one halogenated ethylene impurity from a mixture comprised of said halogenated ethylene impurity and at least one fluoroolefin selected from 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, 1,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-1-propene and 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene, said process comprising: contacting said mixture comprised of said at least one fluoroolefin and at least one halogenated ethylene impurity with at least one adsorbent selected from silica, amorphous semicrystalline syndiotactic polystyrene, cross-linked polymer and chemisorption catalyst to reduce the concentration of said at least one halogenated ethylene impurity. | 49,734 |
9,366,144 | 1. An airfoil comprising: a leading edge and a trailing edge; a suction surface and a pressure surface, the suction surface and the pressure surface both extending axially between the leading edge and the trailing edge, as well as radially from a root section to a tip section of the airfoil; a cooling passageway located between the suction surface and the pressure surface; and a plurality of oblong pedestals connecting the suction surface to the pressure surface, the oblong pedestals having a cut downstream end perpendicular to a directly adjacent flowpath of the cooling passageway and connecting a downstream end of the pressure surface and a downstream end of the suction surface, the oblong pedestals terminating at the trailing edge of the airfoil. | 12,114 |
9,364,787 | 1. A device for removing a substance from a gas stream by spraying a liquid into said gas stream, said device comprising: a plurality of conduits for dividing said gas stream into a plurality of separate gas streams, said conduits being substantially unobstructed to permit flow of said separate gas streams therethrough without significant resistance; at least one spray nozzle positioned in each said conduit for spraying said liquid into each of said separate gas streams thereby subjecting said entire gas stream to said liquid while passing through said conduits. | 39,580 |
8,572,691 | 1. A computer implemented method for selecting a particular web service, the method comprising: a computer requesting a web service from a service registry; responsive to requesting the web service, the computer receiving a list of possible web services from the service registry, wherein the list of possible services includes a plurality of web services, each of the plurality of web services having a one of a plurality of levels-of-trust assigned thereto, wherein each of the plurality of web services comprises a corresponding policy construct comprising descriptions of an applicable government regulation which the specific web service is compliant with, a description of which attributes of a transaction are included in an audit trail, descriptions of a level of protection used to store audit data, descriptions of a level of encryption used to store audit data, descriptions of the type of data retention that is employed, and descriptions of the length of data retention that is employed; the computer making a selection of an acceptable web service based on the corresponding policy construct, wherein the acceptable web service is one of the plurality of web services, wherein the acceptable web service has an acceptable degree-of-trust; and responsive to making the selection of the acceptable web service, the computer invoking the acceptable web service. | 25,046 |
9,325,031 | 1. A battery comprising: a positive electrode comprising a lithium-cobalt composite oxide and a lithium-manganese composite oxide wherein the lithium-manganese composite oxide is present in an amount greater than 50% by weight based on the total weight of the lithium-cobalt composite oxide and the lithium-manganese composite oxide, a negative electrode comprising a lithium titanium composite oxide, and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein: the battery satisfies the following formula (1), and an open circuit voltage of the positive electrode being 3.6 V (Li v.s. Li wherein Qp is a charge capacity (mAh/m 2 ) of the positive electrode per unit area, Qn is a charge capacity (mAh/m 2 ) of the negative electrode per unit area, and a charge and discharge range of the positive electrode is from 3.0 to 4.25 V (Li v.s. Li | 38,206 |
9,539,142 | 1. A method for performing an ophthalmic procedure comprising: compressing an actuation structure of a handle wherein the actuation structure has an actuation structure distal end and an actuation structure proximal end and wherein the handle has a handle distal end and a handle proximal end; rotating a first link about a first link pin; preventing movement of the first link relative to the first link pin; rotating the first link about a second link pin; preventing movement of the first link relative to the second link pin; extending the second link pin relative to the handle proximal end; rotating a second link about a third link pin; preventing movement of the second link relative to the third link pin; rotating the second link about a fourth link pin; preventing movement of the second link relative to the fourth link pin; extending the fourth link pin relative to the handle proximal end; extending a nosecone relative to the handle proximal end by a rotation of the first link about the first link pin and the second link pin and by a rotation of the second link about the third link pin and the fourth link pin; extending an inner hypodermic tube relative to the handle proximal end wherein the inner hypodermic tube has an inner hypodermic tube distal end and an inner hypodermic tube proximal end and wherein the inner hypodermic tube proximal end is fixed within a piston and the inner hypodermic tube distal end is fixed within the nosecone; actuating the piston within an actuation guide; extending the piston relative to the handle proximal end wherein the piston has a piston distal end and a piston proximal end; extending a flexible housing tube relative to the handle proximal end wherein the flexible housing tube has a flexible housing tube distal end and a flexible housing tube proximal end; applying a force to a portion of the flexible housing tube; curving the flexible housing tube; curving an optic fiber relative to the flexible housing tube proximal end wherein the optic fiber has an optic fiber distal end and an optic fiber proximal end and wherein the optic fiber is disposed in the flexible housing tube, an optic fiber guide, the piston, the inner hypodermic tube, and the nosecone; aiming the optic fiber distal end at a photocoagulation target; and performing a photocoagulation procedure. | 41,060 |
9,443,651 | 1. A power supplying system comprising: a plurality of power supplying coils to which electric power is supplied; a power receiving coil to which electric power from the power supplying coils is transmitted by electromagnetic resonance with the power supplying coils when the power receiving coil is arranged opposite to and separated from the power supplying coils in a central axis direction thereof; a position detecting device configured to detect one power supplying coil closest to the power receiving coil among the plurality of power supplying coils as an adjacent coil; a first power supplying device configured to supply the electric power to only the adjacent coil detected by the position detecting device among the plurality of power supplying coils; a second power supplying device configured to supply the electric power sequentially to the plurality of power supplying coils; and a reflective wave detecting device configured to detect reflective waves of the electric power reflected by each of the power supplying coils, wherein the position detecting device detects the power supplying coil having the smallest reflective wave detected by the reflective wave detecting device as the adjacent coil among the plurality of power supplying coils while the second power supplying device supplies the electric power. | 42,938 |
8,451,256 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display panel which displays an image; a gate driving circuit and a data driving circuit which drive the liquid crystal display panel; a timing controller which supplies a pixel data signal to the data driving circuit, and supplies a control signal to the gate driving circuit and the data driving circuit; a common voltage/gamma voltage generator which generates a gamma voltage supplied to the data driving circuit and a common voltage supplied to the liquid crystal display panel; a light emitting diode which supplies light to the liquid crystal display panel; and a DC-DC converter comprising a gate-on voltage/light emitting diode driving voltage generator which receives a first input voltage, simultaneously generates a light emitting diode driving voltage and a gate-on voltage based on the first input voltage and a pulse width modulation voltage, supplied to the light emitting diode and the gate driving circuit, respectively, and outputs the pulse width modulation voltage; a gate-off voltage generator which receives the pulse width modulation voltage and generates a gate-off voltage supplied to the gate driving circuit; and an analog voltage generator which receives the first input voltage and generates an analog voltage supplied to the common voltage/gamma voltage generator, wherein the gate-on voltage/light emitting diode driving voltage generator comprises: | 38,173 |
9,026,291 | 1. A vehicle hybrid drive device having: an EV running mode enabling a vehicle to run only with a second rotating machine used as a drive power source while an engine is disconnected from a drive power transmission path, a series HEV running mode enabling the vehicle to run only with the second rotating machine used as the drive power source while a first rotating machine is rotationally driven to generate electricity by the engine disconnected from the drive power transmission path, and a parallel HEV running mode enabling the vehicle to run with the engine and at least one of the first and second rotating machines used as the drive power sources while the engine is connected to the drive power transmission path, the running modes being selected in accordance with a mode switching condition defined based on at least one of a required drive power and a vehicle speed, wherein: the mode switching condition is set such that the series HEV running mode and the parallel HEV running mode are selected after the EV running mode as the vehicle speed increases, and a range for selecting the series HEV running mode in accordance with the mode switching condition being changed depending on a driver's intention, if a driver desires fuel-efficiency-oriented running, the range for selecting the series HEV running mode is wider than when in a normal mode, and an upper limit of a range of the vehicle speed for selecting the series HEV running mode is made higher than when in the normal mode. | 43,329 |
8,427,598 | 1. An input device with display function comprising: a transparent panel having an input-receiving surface and an opposite surface, the panel having a frame that is unitarily formed with the transparent panel and that is projecting substantially perpendicularly from the opposite surface to form a housing space defined by the frame; a flat panel display unit housed in the housing space such that a display surface of the flat panel display unit opposes the transparent panel; a flat sensor for detecting a position indicating operation performed on the input-receiving surface of the transparent panel, which is arranged adjacent to the flat panel display unit and is housed in the housing space, wherein the flat panel display unit and the flat sensor are so housed in the housing space to be fixed to the transparent panel; and a case including an opening and a hollow interior, the opening is configured to receive and house within the hollow interior the transparent panel having the frame defining the housing space in which the flat panel display unit and the flat sensor are fixedly housed, wherein the frame is positioned spaced away from an outer edge of the transparent panel to project substantially perpendicularly therefrom to thereby define an end portion of the transparent panel that extends along a periphery of the transparent panel outside the frame, and wherein the end portion of the transparent panel is fixed to a portion of the case that defines the opening to thereby secure the transparent panel having the frame defining the housing space, in which the flat panel display unit and the flat sensor are housed, in the case. | 29,906 |
9,695,715 | 1. An electrothermal energy storage system having a charging cycle and a discharging cycle, the system comprising: a refrigeration unit configured to generate a cold energy storage comprising a solid carbon dioxide, wherein the refrigeration unit is driven by an electric power, and wherein the refrigeration unit comprises a liquid pump configured to increase pressure of a liquid carbon dioxide, an expansion device configured to expand the liquid carbon dioxide to produce the solid carbon dioxide and a vaporized carbon dioxide, a compressor configured to increase pressure of the vaporized carbon dioxide, and a cooling unit configured to convert the vaporized carbon dioxide into the liquid carbon dioxide by exchanging heat with an ambient environment; a thermal unit configured to provide at least one of a hot energy storage and a hot source; and a power unit configured to operate between the cold energy storage and at least one of the hot energy storage, and the hot source to retrieve energy, wherein the power unit is configured to produce a high pressure carbon dioxide and a supercritical carbon dioxide, and to generate an electric energy using the supercritical carbon dioxide. | 1,296 |
9,475,611 | 1. A preform for blow-moulding a bag-in-container, said bag-in-container comprising: an inner layer forming the bag and an outer layer forming the container, and a mouth fluidly connecting the volume defined by the bag to the atmosphere, said container having at least one interface vent fluidly connecting the interface between inner and outer layers to the atmosphere; and said at least one vent runs parallel to the interface between inner and outer layers and opens to the atmosphere at a location adjacent to, and oriented approximately coaxially with said bag-in-container's mouth; said preform includes the inner layer and the outer layer, and a body, a neck region, and the mouth fluidly connecting the space defined by said inner layer to the atmosphere, wherein said inner and outer layers are connected to one another by an interface at least at the level of the neck region, said preform includes the at least one interface vent running parallel to said interface and opening to the atmosphere at a location adjacent to, and oriented coaxially with said preform's mouth. | 22,332 |
9,640,992 | 1. A method for providing power to a plurality of electrical devices, the method comprising: receiving status information from one or more power supply components of one or more power supplies, the status information indicating an amount of current or power the one or more power supplies are capable of outputting; selecting an output voltage to be provided by the one or more power supplies to the plurality of electrical devices based on the status information, the output voltage being selected to initialize a first subset of the plurality of electrical devices, where the first subset does not include all of the plurality of electrical devices; controlling, with a controller, the one or more power supplies to provide the selected output voltage to the first subset of the plurality of electrical devices so that the first subset is initialized; and reducing, but not eliminating, the selected output voltage below an initialization threshold of a second subset of the plurality of electrical devices so that the second subset is not initialized with the reduced but not eliminated selected output voltage. | 20,893 |
9,481,969 | 1. A safety trailer, comprising: (a) first and second platforms, at least one of said first and second platforms having an axle and wheels attached thereto; (b) a plurality of interconnected wall sections positioned between and connected to the first and second platforms, the plurality of wall sections defining a protected work area on a side of the trailer; (c) and wherein each wall section has a plurality of full height and partial height wall members, the full height wall members extending substantially the height and width of the wall section and the partial height wall members extending substantially the width but less than the height of the wall section, the full height and partial height members alternating along a length of the wall section. | 26,648 |
8,700,105 | 1. A device comprising: a receiver adapted to receive signals from one or more transmitters; and a transceiver adapted to communicate with a server through a wireless communication network, wherein: | 32,150 |
8,957,304 | 1. A sheet for a solar cell encapsulant consisting of: at least one ethylene copolymer (A) selected from the group consisting of the following (1a) to (4a), the ethylene copolymer (A) having a melting point of 90° C. or higher and containing a constituent unit derived from ethylene: at least one ethylene copolymer (B) selected from the group consisting of the following (1 b) to (3b): optionally a copolymer (C) obtained by copolymerization of at least α-olefin and an ethylenically unsaturated silane compound; optionally a silane coupling agent (D); and optionally an ultraviolet absorber, a light stabilizer, an antioxidant, or combinations thereof. | 24,945 |
9,446,673 | 1. A charging port device for an electric vehicle, comprising: a charging port having an engaged part configured to engage an engaging part of a charging connector, and receive power from an external power supply being supplied to the charging port when in an engaged state; and a lock mechanism including a restricting member moveable in a locking direction and an unlocking direction to regulate release of the engaging part, the lock mechanism being locked when the engaging part and the engaged part are in the engaged state, and the restricting member is moved in the locking direction to restrict the engaged state between the engaging part and the engaged part from being released, and the lock mechanism being unlocked, when the restricting member is moved in the unlocking direction, which is opposite the locking direction, enabling a release operation, the lock mechanism, while the restricting member is being moved to a predetermined position which corresponds to one of a locked state or an unlocked state, imparts a torque using a motor to move the restricting member to an inner-side position that is near the predetermined position and to move the restricting member from the inner-side position to the predetermined position using a toggle spring that is disposed between the restricting member and a vehicle body side. | 4,323 |
8,666,633 | 1. An engine system for starting a gas turbine engine, comprising: a starter generator coupled to the gas turbine engine and configured to provide torque to the gas turbine engine; a controller coupled to the starter generator and configured to provide a command signal to the starter generator, the starter generator providing the torque to the gas turbine engine based on the command signal, the controller configured to command the starter generator at a dwell speed until ignition, wherein the controller is configured to command the starter generator to continue providing the torque to the gas turbine engine beyond a self-sustaining speed; and a power source configured to provide electrical power to the starter generator, wherein the controller is configured to determine a level of electrical power of the power source and to provide the command signal based on the level of electrical power. | 20,465 |
8,835,019 | 1. An organic light emitting device comprising: a substrate; at least one first electrode; a second electrode; an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer comprising: a first emission layer patterned to correspond only to a first subpixel and for emitting light selected from the group consisting of green light, red light and blue light; a second emission layer patterned to correspond only to a second subpixel and for emitting light selected from the group consisting of green light, red light and blue light, wherein the second emission layer is for emitting light different from the light emitted by the first emission layer, and each of the first emission layer and the second emission layer consists of a single host material and a single light emitting dopant; and a single electron transport-emission layer for transporting electrons and emitting light selected from the group consisting of red light and green light, wherein the electron transport-emission layer emits light different than the light emitted by both the first and second emission layers, wherein the electron transport-emission layer covers the first and second emission layers. | 26,805 |
9,821,642 | 1. A vehicle back door structure comprising: an upper window and a lower window; a rear spoiler located between the two windows, wherein the rear spoiler projects toward a rear of a vehicle; a back door frame that supports the two windows and the rear spoiler; and a resin panel including a window portion that functions as the lower window and a spoiler portion that functions as the rear spoiler, wherein the window portion and the spoiler portion are resin-molded and integrated together, wherein the window portion of the resin panel includes a curved wall having an arcuate cross-section that is recessed toward a front of the vehicle in a side view of the vehicle, the spoiler portion of the resin panel includes an upper wall portion extending in a front-rear direction and a rear wall portion extending downward from a rear end of the upper wall portion, the curved wall of the window portion is continuous with a lower end of the rear wall portion of the spoiler portion, and the resin panel is connected to the back door frame only at a peripheral portion of the resin panel that includes a front end of the spoiler portion and a lower end of the window portion. | 22,302 |
8,581,515 | 1. A light emitting diode driver, comprising: a power supplier including a primary side and a secondary side electrically insulated from each other and configured to a driver configured to a transfer unit configured to transfer a switching control signal for controlling the switching of the power supplier from the driver, from the secondary side to the primary side of the power supplier, wherein the driver includes: | 1,447 |
9,207,021 | 1. A geothermal based air-conditioning system for controlling the temperature of a remotely located electrical equipment cabinet, comprising: an electrical equipment cabinet having a housing, said electrical equipment cabinet comprising: a thermostat for monitoring the temperature in said primary enclosure; a programmable controller; a closed loop, said closed loop comprising: said radiator, a first working fluid line, a second working fluid line, a heat exchanger portion, and a closed-loop pump for pumping working fluid around said closed loop; a groundwater motor housing containing a groundwater pump motor operably connected to said closed-loop pump; and a cylindrical groundwater discharge pipe extending laterally from the base of said groundwater motor housing, said ground water discharge pipe encloses said heat exchanger portion of said closed loop, wherein said first and second working fluid lines are connected to said groundwater discharge pipe through corresponding side ports in said groundwater discharge pipe, said side ports extend perpendicularly to the flow of groundwater in said groundwater discharge pipe, wherein said working fluid line transmits fluid to said heat exchanger portion through one of said corresponding side ports and said second working fluid line carries fluid from said heat exchanger portion through another of said corresponding side ports, wherein during normal operation groundwater is directed onto said heat exchanger portion, such that said heat exchanger portion is immersed in said groundwater as said groundwater flows through said groundwater discharge pipe, wherein the groundwater pump motor and close-loop pump are collectively configured to pump ground water into said groundwater discharge pipe. | 32,130 |
9,131,563 | 1. A light-emitting diode driving apparatus comprising: a rectifying circuit which rectifies an AC voltage input from an AC power source, to output a DC voltage; a switching element having an input terminal connected to a high side of the rectifying circuit, which turns on and off the DC voltage; a choke coil having one end connected to an output terminal of the switching element; an output current sensing circuit connected between the output terminal of the switching element and the one end of the choke coil, for sensing a current through the choke coil; an LED light source which includes one or more light-emitting diodes each having an anode terminal connected to another end of the choke coil and a cathode terminal connected to a low side of the rectifying circuit; a rectifier diode having an anode terminal connected to the low side of the rectifying circuit and a cathode terminal connected to the output terminal of the switching element, the rectifier diode supplying the LED light source with counter electromotive force developed in the choke coil; a control circuit which outputs a drive signal that controls on and off operation of the switching element, based on an operation reference voltage which is a voltage at a same potential as a node between the output terminal of the switching element and the cathode terminal of the rectifier diode; a feedback sensing circuit connected to the output current sensing circuit, for receiving an output feedback signal output from the output current sensing circuit; an input voltage sensing circuit which senses input voltage information rectified by the rectifying circuit; and a conduction time counting circuit which counts a switching grant period signal output from the input voltage sensing circuit, wherein the feedback sensing circuit outputs a feedback dummy current to the output current sensing circuit, the conduction time counting circuit adjusts the feedback dummy current to be output from the feedback sensing circuit, depending on the counted switching grant period signal, and the feedback sensing circuit outputs to the control circuit a control signal which controls switching of the switching element in response to a signal based on an error between the output feedback signal and a feedback dummy signal generated from the feedback dummy current. | 5,465 |
9,577,425 | 1. A photovoltaic (PV) energy system, comprising: a first PV panel; a first power switching converter coupled to the first PV panel; a second PV panel; a second power switching converter coupled to the second PV panel; a system load coupled to the first power switching converter and the second power switching converter, the system load configured to receive a signal having current from each of the power switching converters; a sensor configured to sense the current or a voltage of the signal; and a controller configured to adjust energy transfer characteristics of each of the power switching converters based on the sensed current or voltage, the controller configured to adjust a duty cycle of the first power switching converter during a first time period while keeping a duty cycle of the second power switching converter constant, the controller further configured to adjust the duty cycle of the second power switching converter during a second time period while keeping the duty cycle of the first power switching converter constant, wherein adjustments to the duty cycle of the first power switching converter and adjustments to the duty cycle of the second power switching converter affect the current or the voltage of the signal received by the system load, wherein the controller is configured to set the duty cycle of the first power switching element based on measurements of the current or the voltage of the signal by the sensor during the first time period while the controller is adjusting the duty cycle of the first power switching converter and keeping the duty cycle of the second power switching converter constant, and wherein the controller is configured to set the duty cycle of the second power switching converter based on measurements of the current or the voltage of the signal by the sensor during the second time period while the controller is adjusting the duty cycle of the second power switching converter and keeping the duty cycle of the first power switching converter constant. | 5,608 |
9,245,358 | 1. A non-transitory program storage device, readable by a programmable control device and comprising instructions stored thereon to cause one or more processing units to: (a) obtain a representation of a first two-dimensional image, wherein the representation comprises a first plurality of pixels, and wherein each pixel in the first plurality of pixels comprises a first plurality of pixel color values and a transparency value; (b) convert the first plurality of pixel color values into a luminance value for each pixel in the first plurality of pixels; (c) create a height map over the first two-dimensional image using the converted luminance values for each pixel in the first plurality of pixels, wherein each position in the height map corresponds to a pixel from the first plurality of pixels; (d) create a first normal map over the first two-dimensional image by calculating a normal vector for each pixel in the height map; (e) create a first blurred height map according to a first parameter; (f) create a second normal map over the first two-dimensional image by calculating a normal vector for each pixel in the first blurred height map; (g) scale the second normal map in accordance with a range of the first normal map; (h) blend the second normal map with the previously-created normal map to create a resultant normal map; and (i) repeat steps (e)-(h) iteratively, increasing the value of the first parameter with each iteration, until the resultant normal map has a desired level of smoothness. | 35,928 |
8,868,941 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: an interconnect-power-manager that has hardware circuitry and signaling ports configured to cooperate and communicate with an integrated-circuit-system-power-manager as well as with different agents within an interconnect network for an integrated circuit, where the interconnect network is partitioned into multiple power domains, and the interconnect-power-manager has the hardware circuitry integrated into the interconnect network to manage a quiescent state for all components in each power domain in the interconnect network when a routing pathway for transactions in the interconnect network spans across one or more power domain boundaries and causes interdependencies of power domains within the interconnect network other than the locations of the power domains containing an initiator agent generating a new transaction and a final target agent of the new transaction, where one or more initiator cores each couple to their own corresponding initiator agent, and one or more target cores each couple to their own corresponding target agent, and those different agents have their power state managed by the integrated-circuit-system-power-manager, which is separate than the interconnect-power-manager managing the multiple power domains of the interconnect network, where the integrated-circuit-system-power-manager is configured to cooperate and communicate with the interconnect-power-manager 1) to quiesce, 2) to wake up, and 3) any combination of the two, one or more of the multiple power domains within the interconnect network, where each power domain is separately controllable from other power domains in the interconnect network by the interconnect-power-manager. | 34,345 |
8,877,803 | 1. A compound selected from the group consisting of: or an enantiomer, diastereomer, tautomer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 10,399 |
8,521,363 | 1. A driving assist system for use with a vehicle that can be maneuvered via a driver's steering operation, the system being configured to assist steering by enabling the vehicle to travel along a preset target course within a lane, the driving assist system comprising: a steering operation sensor configured to detect an input value of the driver's steering operation; an information sensor configured to detect information relating to a vicinity around the vehicle; and a controller configured to correct the preset target course, and thereby create a second target course within the same lane that is different from the preset target course, the preset target course being corrected based on the detected information and the detected driver's steering operation input value, such that the controller corrects the preset target course within the lane if: 1)the information indicates that an object is disposed in the vicinity around the vehicle, and 2) the driver's steering operation input value is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference; and the controller does not correct the target course within the lane if: 1) the information does not indicate that the object is disposed in the vicinity around the vehicle, or 2) the driver's steering operation input value is less than the predetermined reference. | 872 |
8,960,482 | 1. A liquid storage tank, comprising a wall that defines and substantially surrounds a fluid storage space, the wall including: a hard layer; a flexible layer sealed to the hard layer such that a sealed compartment is formed between the hard layer and the flexible layer; and a first intermediate layer in the sealed compartment between the hard layer and the flexible layer, the first intermediate layer being made from a plurality of first-layer sections, each of these first-layer sections having a lateral periphery that laterally abuts the lateral periphery of one or more of the other of the plurality of first-layer sections to extend laterally throughout the wall; wherein the first-layer sections are each aerogel tiles made from aerogel powder; and wherein the sealed compartment is evacuated of air such that the first-layer sections are held in tight contact with the hard layer and one another. | 4,932 |
8,719,975 | 1. A shower system comprising: an enclosure, the enclosure comprising: an exterior power button located on an exterior wall and configured to turn the shower system on or off; a control panel located on an interior wall; a thermostatic valve located on an interior wall, a mirror located on an interior wall; an overhead light attached to the top, and configured to stay on about one minute after powering off, the overhead light in communication with the exterior power button and the control panel; audio speakers located at the top, and in communication with the control panel and exterior power button, and configured with the control panel to provide audible alerts including indicating when the shower system has achieved the proper preselected water temperature; a phone system in communication with the control panel, and the control panel configured to allow a user to make calls via the phone system. | 41,973 |
9,715,971 | 1. An electrode of a secondary battery, comprising: an aluminum alloy foil, comprising: 0.03 to 0.1 mass % (hereinafter referred to as %) of Fe, 0.005 to 0.02% of Ti, 0 to 0.1% of Si, 0 to 0.01% of Cu, 99.85% or more of Al, with the rest consisting of unavoidable impurities, wherein tensile strength of the aluminum alloy foil is 175 MPa or higher, and electrical conductivity of the aluminum alloy foil is 60% IACS or higher; and an active material layer provided on the aluminum alloy foil. | 1,658 |
8,970,606 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a first graphics chip having a first drawing processing capacity and being capable of producing a first image signal; a second graphics chip having a second drawing processing capacity higher than the first drawing processing capacity and being capable of producing a second image signal; an inputting section configured to input a user operation, the user operation being other than a change to supply of power to the apparatus from a power supply external to the apparatus, to select one of the first graphics chip and the second graphics chip in a state where the information processing apparatus is started; and a controller configured to enable, without re-starting the information processing apparatus, one graphics chip for performing drawing processing out of the first graphics chip and the second graphics chip based on the input user operation, the controller being configured to detect a starting event of the information processing apparatus, to supply operating power to the first and second graphics chips if the starting event is detected, and to stop the operating power supply to the one of the graphics chips which has not been selected by the user, in response to a result of a decision based on the input user operation that determines which one of the first and second graphics chips is selected. | 32,925 |
8,766,988 | 1. A computer-implemented method for providing state information to two or more shader engines within a processing pipeline, the method comprising: storing first pipeline state information in a constant buffer that is coupled to, and concurrently accessible by, each of the two or more shader engines; receiving second pipeline state information from an application; copying the first pipeline state information in the constant buffer to a page pool, in response to receiving the second pipeline state information; and updating the first pipeline state information stored in the constant buffer based on the second pipeline state information, in response to receiving the second pipeline state information, wherein the updated first pipeline state information stored in the constant buffer and the first pipeline state information stored in the page pool are both concurrently accessible by each of the two or more shader engines, and wherein the first pipeline state information includes a first version of a programmable constant and the second pipeline state information includes a second version of the programmable constant. | 19,300 |
8,812,883 | 1. A method for informing a second device it is connected to a first device, the method comprising: receiving a power supply signal, wherein the power supply signal has a first characteristic or a second characteristic; detecting that the received power supply signal having the first characteristic has been received for at least a pre-determined amount of time; after detecting that the received power supply signal having the first characteristic has been received for the pre-determined amount of time, providing a series of predetermined current pulses to the power supply signal; and receiving the power supply signal having the second characteristic while the series of predetermined current pulses are provided on the power supply signal. | 89 |
8,757,888 | 1. A shaft arrangement comprising: a shaft with functional elements arranged thereon and at least one bearing point, wherein at least one rolling bearing with rolling bodies is arranged between the shaft and the at least one bearing point, the bearing having at least one rolling body cage configured to accommodate the rolling bodies and an outer ring, the rolling body cage fixed at least one of directly and indirectly to the shaft by a carrier ring, and wherein the outer ring is fixed in the bearing point, the carrier ring including the rolling body cage fixed thereon, the cage having a greater radial extent than the functional elements, and the carrier ring having a radial extent smaller than the greatest radial extent of one of the functional elements. | 41,357 |
9,145,854 | 1. A method of controlling an exhaust gas recirculation circuit of a motor vehicle internal combustion engine, the combustion engine being connected to an air intake circuit and to an exhaust gas circuit connected to the air intake circuit by the exhaust gas recirculation circuit, a first valve regulating an airflow rate upstream of the recirculation circuit and a second valve regulating a flow rate of recirculated exhaust gases in the recirculation circuit, the method comprising: with the first valve open, progressively opening the second valve; and progressively closing the first valve concomitantly with the opening of the second valve when the second valve is opened by an angle greater than a predetermined angle, wherein the predetermined angle is between 25° and 35°. | 11,267 |
9,358,095 | 1. A prosthesis for controlling flow through a bodily lumen, the prosthesis comprising: a body having a proximal portion, a distal portion and a body lumen extending therethrough; a first valve for controlling flow through the body lumen in a first direction, the first valve forming a first opening in the prosthesis; and a second valve for controlling flow through the body lumen in a second direction, the second valve comprising a tubular member that at least partially coextends longitudinally and circumferentially with the body, an outer wall of the second valve being sized and shaped to fit against at least a portion of an inner wall of the body, the second valve having a portion that contacts the body in a closed configuration and the portion is spaced apart from the body in an open configuration to form a second opening; wherein the first opening is positioned apart from the second opening; and the second opening opens in response to a higher pressure than the first opening. | 35,242 |
9,710,093 | 1. An input device comprising a plurality of pressure sensitive keys forming a keyboard configured to initiate corresponding inputs of a computing device, each of the plurality of pressure sensitive keys formed from a flexible contact layer spaced apart from a sensor substrate by a spacer layer, a first said pressure sensitive key configured to have a greater sensitivity to pressure than a second said pressure sensitive key through configuration of at least one of respective said flexible contact layers or respective said sensor substrates, the first said pressure sensitive key positioned at a location outside of a home row of the keyboard that is likely to receive less pressure when pressed by one or more fingers of a user's hand than the second said pressure sensitive key included as part of the home row, the plurality of pressure sensitive keys configured to provide a normalized output between the plurality of pressure sensitive keys of the keyboard and each pressure sensitive key configured to have different sensitivities at different locations to counteract differences in flexibility at different positions of each respective pressure sensitive key. | 41,339 |
9,006,128 | 1. A method for preparing a catalyst for a fuel cell electrode, the method comprising: heat-treating a linear crystalline carbon nanofibers of catalyst support at a temperature of 2,000 to 2,800° C. in an inert gas atmosphere to improve oxidation resistance due to an improvement in crystallinity of the carbon nanofibers; heat-treating a spherical crystalline acetylene black of catalyst support at a temperature of 1,000 to 1,500° C. in a high temperature steam atmosphere to increase the surface area of the acetylene black; dispersing the linear crystalline carbon nanofibers of catalyst support and the spherical crystalline acetylene black of catalyst support; mixing the linear crystalline carbon nanofibers of catalyst support and the spherical crystalline acetylene black of catalyst support in a predetermined mixing ratio to form a slurry; and preparing a platinum-supported catalyst or a platinum alloy-supported catalyst by adding NaOH, a platinum precursor or a platinum alloy precursor, and the mixture of the linear crystalline carbon nanofibers of catalyst support and the spherical crystalline acetylene black of catalyst support to a solvent for catalyst synthesis, and refluxing at a temperature of 140 to 180° C. to reduce the platinum precursor or the platinum alloy precursor, wherein the linear crystalline carbon nanofibers of catalyst support has a peak diameter of about 30 to 200 nm. | 22,415 |
9,451,267 | 1. An apparatus of decoding an image, the apparatus comprising: an information extractor which obtains a prediction mode of a current block and motion vector predictor information with respect to a motion vector predictor of the current block from a bitstream; and an image data decoder which, when the prediction mode of the current block is inter-prediction, obtains motion vector predictor candidates of the current block using at least one motion vector of neighboring blocks adjacent to the current block, obtains a motion vector predictor of the current block from among the motion vector predictor candidates based on a motion vector predictor information obtained from the bitstream, and restores a motion vector of the current block based on the motion vector predictor and a difference motion vector, wherein the motion vector predictor candidates are obtained by searching for an available motion vector from the neighboring blocks adjacent to a left side of the current block according to a first order, and by searching for an available motion vector from the neighboring blocks adjacent to an upper side of the current block according to a second order, and wherein the neighboring blocks adjacent to the left side of the current block comprise a lower left block and an upper block located on the upper side of the lower left block. | 39,951 |
9,841,486 | 1. A detection calibration circuit comprising: a first distributor that distributes a first high frequency input signal into a first high frequency signal and a second high frequency signal; a first amplifier that amplifies the first high frequency signal; a second distributor that distributes the amplified first high frequency signal further into a third high frequency signal and a fourth high frequency signal; a reference signal generator that uses the second high frequency signal to generate a reference signal in accordance with a switchable reference voltage; a switcher that selects the third high frequency signal or the reference signal of the reference signal generator; a detector that outputs a detection signal obtained by detecting the selected signal; a sensitivity switcher that adjusts an input-output sensitivity for the detection signal; and a calibration control circuit that adjusts a detection gain of the detector and an input-output sensitivity for the detection signal. | 18,108 |
9,368,656 | 1. A photovoltaic cell, comprising: a plate shaped substrate of a semiconductor material with a solar face and a connection face, wherein a first volume of the substrate adjacent to the solar face is doped with a first polarity, the remaining second volume of the substrate is doped with a second polarity opposite the first polarity and in which the first and the second volumes are separated by a pn-junction extending parallel to the main plane of the substrate; a number of through apertures in the substrate extending between both faces of the substrate and in each of which a single piece plug has been positioned of which at least a part is electrically conducting, which part is adapted to provide an electrical conducting connection between the solar face and the connection face; contact tracks located at the solar face of the substrate and being electrically connected with the first volume of the substrate and with the electrically conducting part of the plug; first contacts located at the connection face of the substrate and being electrically connected with the electrically conducting part of the plug; and second contacts located at the connection face of the substrate and being electrically connected with the second volume of the substrate, wherein the specific electrical conductivity of the plug decreases from its centre to its circumferential boundaries. | 27,721 |
9,376,163 | 1. A driving unit that assists a rider's pedaling effort by a providing driving force from an electric motor, the driving unit comprising: a crankshaft to which pedals are to be connected; a crank rotation detector that detects rotation of the crankshaft and outputs a pulse signal in response to the rotation of the crankshaft; a torque detector that detects a torque generated at the crankshaft; a motor rotation detector that detects a rotation speed of the electric motor; and an assist control stopping unit programmed to stop an assist control in response to a rotation of the crankshaft detected by the crank rotation detector, wherein the assist control stopping unit is further programmed to stop the assist control based on a result of a comparison between a determination time interval which is set in response to the rotation speed of the electric motor and a measured duration in which the torque is determined as being not more than a torque threshold and the rotation speed of the electric motor is determined as being equal to or more than a rotation speed threshold, the measured duration being measured based on the pulse signal. | 44,556 |
8,658,318 | 1. An electrochemical cell comprising: a fuel electrode for oxidizing a fuel; an oxidant electrode for reducing an oxidant; an ionically conductive medium for conducting ions between the fuel and oxidant electrodes to support electrochemical reactions at the fuel and oxidant electrodes; wherein the ionically conductive medium comprises at least one additive for enhancing at least one electrochemical reaction with the cell; and an additive sorbent material in contact with the ionically conductive medium and containing an additional amount of the additive, the additive sorbent material being configured to release the additional amount of the additive to the ionically conductive medium as a concentration of the additive in the ionically conductive medium is depleted during operation of the cell. | 40,961 |
8,389,925 | 1. An optical encoder device comprising: a light emitting element; a light receiving element disposed to face the light emitting element; a movable slit plate disposed between the light emitting element and the light receiving element and including a slit row in which a plurality of light transmissive slits each having a slit width of 180° in terms of angle and a plurality of light non-transmissive slits each having a slit width of 180° in terms of angle are alternately formed in a moving direction of the movable slit plate, wherein a slit pitch is 360°; and a stationary slit plate disposed between the light emitting element and the light receiving element and including a slit row in which a plurality of light transmissive slits each having a slit width of 180° in terms of angle and a plurality of light non-transmissive slits each having a slit width of (360Xk-180)° in terms of angle are alternately formed, wherein: defining the number of the plurality of light transmissive slits formed in the stationary slit plate as n where n is an integer of five or more, the value of k satisfies k=1±(⅓n). | 17,719 |
8,508,840 | 1. A device for reducing the temporal distortions induced in light pulses by an optical frequency converter system, said system comprising at least one nonlinear optical component ( 4 ) having a nonlinear optical susceptibility χ of the order of 2 or 3, said converter system being capable of receiving at least one incident pulsed light beam ( 2 ), the incident light pulses having a duration Δt 0 , an optical frequency ω 0 ±Δω 0 and an intensity I 0 (t), and of generating, by frequency conversion, at least one output pulsed beam ( 3 ), the output light pulses having a duration Δt 1 , an optical frequency ω 1 ±Δω 1 different from ω 0 ±Δω 0 , and an intensity I 1 (t) that is a function of I 0 (t) β , β being a coefficient of saturation of the frequency converter, characterized in that said device comprises: a linear temporal filter ( where γ | 8,665 |
8,935,915 | 1. An internal combustion engine comprising: combustion chambers within which fuel is combusted to operate the engine; an intake system through which air for supporting combustion is introduced into the combustion chambers; an exhaust system comprising an SCR catalyst through which exhaust resulting from combustion in the combustion chambers passes to atmosphere; an ammonia delivery system for introducing ammonia into the exhaust system upstream of the SCR catalyst for entrainment with exhaust flow toward the SCR catalyst to build ammonia storage on the SCR catalyst; an upstream NOx sensor upstream of the introduction of ammonia into the exhaust system; a downstream NOx sensor downstream of the SCR catalyst; and a processor for controlling the introduction of ammonia into the exhaust system by the ammonia delivery system over an interval of time in sufficient quantity without significant ammonia slip past the SCR catalyst until the quantity of ammonia stored on the SCR catalyst reaches substantially the maximum ammonia storage capacity of the SCR catalyst; the processor also comprising an algorithm which is operable a) to calculate the quantity of ammonia stored on the SCR catalyst at various times during the interval of time by processing certain data, including the aggregate quantity of ammonia introduced into the exhaust system by the ammonia delivery system during the interval of time, b) to calculate the efficiency of catalytic conversion of NOx to N | 47,064 |
8,519,239 | 1. A seed of hybrid maize variety X13B606, wherein representative seed is produced by crossing a first plant of variety PHHHD with a second plant of variety PH1D1W, and wherein representative seed of said varieties PHHHD and PH1D1W have been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13281 and PTA-120170, respectively. | 18,093 |
8,521,055 | 1. A developing device comprising: a casing having an opening extending in a first direction; a developing roller positioned adjacent to the opening and configured to rotate about an axis extending in the first direction, the developing roller having an outer circumferential surface on which developer is carried; a thickness-regulation portion comprising a sealing member disposed on the thin-plate member and in intimate contact with the end face of the regulating portion for suppressing leakage of the developer from the casing; and a contact portion fixed on the thin-plate member at a position closer to the lateral end than the sealing member to the lateral end, the contact portion being in contact with the outer circumferential surface of the developing roller and made of a material having a hardness higher than that of the sealing member. | 5,220 |
8,401,867 | 1. A method allowing a content or service provider to own an anonymous profile of a consumer, comprising the steps of: using at least one request sent by the consumer through a communication network, including in the request sent by the consumer identification data of the consumer, and substituting the identification data in the network with an alias so as to anonymize the request vis-a-vis said content or service provider, wherein the identification data is not accessible to the content or service provider and there is a one-to-one and immutable correspondence between the identification data and the alias, and wherein said profile is established by said content or service provider, and in that said profile is updated each time a request is received from said consumer. | 17,721 |
9,790,439 | 1. A process for producing a mixture of fuel components, wherein the process comprises providing a feed of biological origin selected from tall oil, crude tall oil, resins and resin acids obtained from plants, and bio-oil from hydropyrolyzed wood; subjecting said feed of biological origin and a hydrogen gas feed to a single step of hydroprocessing in the presence of a catalyst system comprising a NiW catalyst supported on zeolite-Al said NiW catalyst supported on zeolite-Al separating from the mixture of fuel components a fraction comprising C17 and higher hydrocarbons and recycling the fraction back to the feed of biological origin and/or to the step of hydroprocessing. | 47,871 |
8,575,783 | 1. A method of controlling and monitoring solar modules by optical communication comprising steps of: transmitting an optical signal from a transmitter; receiving said optical signal at at least one solar cell in a solar panel, said solar cell and solar panel concurrently electrically connected to provide electric current to a power sink; propagating said received optical signal through busbars electrically engaged with said solar cell and said power sink to a processor; and processing said received optical signal to execute a command on said solar panel; wherein said processor is powered by a battery, and if said command is received when said solar panel produces electrical current output insufficient for execution of said command, said processor stores said command in non-volatile memory, and said command is executed only when said solar panel produces sufficient electrical current output to execute said command. | 46,452 |
8,845,126 | 1. A lamp assembly, the lamp assembly comprising: a lens comprising a seating flange and a sleeve portion, the sleeve portion extending from the seating flange and defining a volume, wherein the seating flange extends laterally from the sleeve portion such that a width of the seating flange is greater than a width of the sleeve portion, and wherein the seating flange defines a seating surface upon which the assembly may seat upon a mounting surface such that the assembly extends through the mounting surface, and at least a portion of the lens extends above the mounting surface; a housing comprising a first chamber and a second chamber adjacent the first chamber and separated by a housing wall, the housing disposed within the volume of the sleeve portion, and the first chamber further defined by the lens; a photovoltaic array comprising at least one photovoltaic cell, the photovoltaic array disposed within the first chamber; an electronic circuit disposed within the housing and electrically connected to the photovoltaic array; a light source disposed within the first chamber and electrically connected to the circuit such that the light source extends above the mounting surface; and a battery disposed within the second chamber of the housing and electrically connected to the circuit, and wherein the first chamber and at least a portion of the second chamber are sealed from the environment. | 31,740 |
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