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8,582,714 | 1. A fixed cluster for a pressurized water nuclear reactor core comprising: rods to be inserted into guide tubes of a nuclear fuel assembly; and a support for the rods from which the rods extend in a longitudinal direction the longitudinal direction being orientated vertically downwards when the fixed cluster is arranged on the nuclear fuel assembly; the support including: an upper head having a longitudinal center axis; fins extending radially outwards from the upper head; systems for mounting the rods so as to be distributed on the fins; and at least two elements for abutment against the upper plate of the core, the abutment elements each protruding longitudinally from the respective fins, beyond the mounting systems, in a direction vertically upwards when the fixed cluster is arranged on a nuclear fuel assembly, the abutment elements being arranged radially outwards relative to the adjacent mounting systems, wherein each abutment element is arranged radially outwards relative to all of the rods supported by the respective fin the abutment element protrudes longitudinally from. | 22,606 |
8,609,563 | 1. A sintered product comprising in percentages by weight based on the oxides: Cr 2%<Al 0.5%≦TiO ZrO SiO | 11,962 |
8,486,166 | 1. A fuel reforming apparatus comprising: a fuel reforming catalyst which is positioned in a flow path of a gaseous material containing a reforming fuel and used to generate a hydrogen-containing combustible gas from the reforming fuel; an upstream air-fuel ratio sensor which is positioned upstream of the fuel reforming catalyst with respect to the flow direction of the gaseous material and used to output an upstream sensor signal representing the concentration of oxygen in the gaseous material; a downstream air-fuel ratio sensor which is positioned downstream of the fuel reforming catalyst with respect to the flow direction of the gaseous material and used to output a downstream sensor signal representing the concentrations of oxygen and hydrogen in the gaseous material; and a hydrogen concentration detection unit which uses the upstream sensor signal and the downstream sensor signal to detect the concentration of hydrogen in the gaseous material at a position downstream of the fuel reforming catalyst wherein the hydrogen concentration detection unit includes a signal correction unit which corrects the influence of the oxygen concentration, which is contained in the downstream sensor signal, in accordance with the upstream sensor signal, the fuel reforming apparatus further comprising: wherein the signal correction unit corrects the characteristic curve data in accordance with the oxygen concentration; and wherein the hydrogen concentration detection unit uses the corrected characteristic curve data to calculate the hydrogen concentration from the downstream sensor signal. | 47,410 |
9,326,353 | 1. A single pole two-wire system phase control trailing edge light modulating circuit, characterized in that: a full-bridge rectification circuit; a power supply circuit; a light-modulating control circuit; a voltage detection circuit; and an active switch; wherein the full-bridge rectification circuit has one input terminal connected to a Live wire and another input terminal connected to a light-emitting load which is further connected to a neutral wire; the power supply circuit, the voltage detection circuit and the active switch are all connected in parallel between a positive output terminal and a negative output terminal of the full-bridge rectification circuit; three inputs of the light-modulating control circuit are connected to the negative output terminal of the full-bridge rectification circuit, an output terminal of the power supply circuit, and an output terminal of the voltage detection circuit, respectively; and an output terminal of the light-modulating control circuit is connected to an input terminal of the active switch. | 22,485 |
9,446,677 | 1. A method of determining degradation of a mounted high-voltage battery in a vehicle, comprising: a) obtaining, by a controller in the vehicle, a plurality of variations in charge capacity with respect to a predetermined variation in voltage of a reference high-voltage battery that is currently being slowly charged, depending on degradation degrees of the reference high-voltage battery; b) slowly charging, by the controller, the mounted high-voltage battery; c) acquiring, by the controller, a charge capacity and a voltage of the mounted high-voltage battery in the vehicle that is currently being slowly charged, wherein the mounted high-voltage battery has identical specifications to the reference high-voltage battery; d) calculating a variation in charge capacity with respect to the predetermined variation in voltage from the charge capacity and the voltage acquired from the mounted high-voltage battery; and e) comparing the variation in charge capacity with respect to the predetermined variation in voltage, which has been calculated in c), with the plurality of variations in charge capacity with respect to the predetermined variation in voltage depending on the degradation degrees, which have been obtained in a) to determine a relevant degradation degree for a current state of the mounted high-voltage battery, wherein the plurality of variations in charge capacity with respect to the predetermined variation in voltage depending on the degradation degrees in a) are obtained by acquiring a plurality of charge capacities and voltages using a slow charting test conducted on a plurality of reference high-voltage batteries which have degraded to respective degrees, wherein the plurality of variations in charge capacity with respect to the predetermined variation in voltage are calculated from the plurality of charge capacities and the voltages acquired, and wherein the charge capacity of the mounted high-voltage batters in c) is obtained by integrating charging currents flowing into the mounted high-voltage battery. | 47,294 |
8,967,904 | 1. A method of assembling a tactile plate assembly including: fastening a first interlocking bracket, having a first end and a second end, to a first tactile plate having a top surface and a bottom surface; fastening a second interlocking, bracket, having a first end and a second end, to a second tactile plate having a top surface and a bottom surface; mating the first end of the first interlocking bracket to the second end of the second interlocking bracket so as to interlock the first and second interlocking brackets to one another; positioning the first and second interlocking brackets at an angle relative to one another; inserting a tab extending at an angle from the first end of the first interlocking bracket into a through-hole in the second end of the second interlocking bracket; and pivoting the first and second interlocking brackets relative to one another to a position in which the first and second interlocking brackets are aligned with one another and the tab on the first interlocking bracket locks into the through-hole in the second interlocking bracket. | 37,559 |
9,647,493 | 1. A control device comprising: a detection unit that determines whether a commercial power supply is in a power failure state or a power distribution state; a power source connection management unit that controls, in accordance with a determination result of the detection unit, whether a renewable energy power generator is to be connected to a first power conditioner connected to a storage battery or to the commercial power supply via a second power conditioner; and a load connection controller that controls, in accordance with a determination result of the detection unit, whether the first power conditioner and the commercial power supply are to be connected to a load or the commercial power supply is to be disconnected from the load while the first power conditioner is being connected to the load, wherein when a determination result of the detection unit is a power distribution state, the power source connection management unit does not causes the power generator to be connected to the first power conditioner but connected to the commercial power supply via the second power conditioner, and the load connection controller causes the first power conditioner and the commercial power supply to be connected to the load, and wherein when a determination result of the detection unit makes a transition from a power distribution state to a power failure state, the power source connection management unit causes the power generator to be disconnected from the second power conditioner and connected to the first power conditioner, and the load connection controller maintains the connection between the first power conditioner and the load and causes the commercial power supply to be disconnected from the load. | 39,447 |
9,426,601 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processor of a communications network, a request from a third party service provider to provision a delivery service of a product to a user in response to a previous request sent to the third party service provider via a machine to machine communication that is initiated from a machine of the user, wherein the third party service provider provides the delivery service of the product, wherein the user is a subscriber of a communication service provided by a communications network service provider of the communications network, wherein the previous request comprises a request that occurred earlier in time than the request; determining, by the processor, that the communications network service provider of the communications network and the third party service provider have a pre-existing agreement to provision the delivery service of the product; and provisioning, by the processor, the delivery service of the product of the third party service provider to the user via the communications network in accordance with the pre-existing agreement, wherein the provisioning comprises allowing the third party service provider to modify a subscription database of the communications network service provider to include a new entry for the user and the delivery service of the product provided by the third party service provider. | 18,682 |
9,654,009 | 1. A method, comprising: determining a voltage at a node between a first switch and a second switch of a power converter; adjusting a frequency of an oscillating signal based at least on the determined voltage, said adjusting comprising: generating a control signal based on the frequency-adjusted oscillating signal that causes the first switch to be enabled. | 736 |
9,612,657 | 1. A viewing system for viewing medical image information, comprising: a computer having a processor configured to process medical image data for determining a set of displayed medical image data to be displayed, the computer executing, on the processor, steps of: a) acquiring, at the processor, the medical image data comprising three-dimensional medical image information describing an anatomical structure, and displaying the medical image information with a visibility value describing the opacity and/or transparency of the medical image information; b) acquiring, at the processor, navigation display feature data comprising navigation display feature information describing at least one graphical navigation feature; c) displaying, based on data determined by the processor, the navigation display feature information simultaneously with the medical image information; d) acquiring, at the processor, viewing direction data from a tracking unit, the viewing direction data comprising viewing direction information describing a spatial relationship of a viewing direction of a user relative to the position of the at least one graphical navigation feature which is displayed in the same image as the medical image information; e) determining, by the processor and based on the viewing direction data, image information subset data comprising image data subset information describing a subset of the medical image information to be selected for display, wherein the subset of the medical image information describes a part of the anatomical structure but not the whole anatomical structure, and wherein the subset of the medical image information represents a visible image of a first part of the anatomical structure which lies in between a different, second part of the anatomical structure which is displayed in a transparent manner and a further different, third part of the anatomical structure which is occluded in the display; a display device for displaying the medical image information and the navigation display feature information; and the tracking unit tracking the eyes of the user and preferably the orientation of the user's head. | 608 |
8,530,857 | 1. A stage device to be used in a vacuum, comprising: a gas supply unit configured to generate a gas; a base member having upper, lower, right, and left surfaces; a slider formed in a frame shape surrounding the base member and having surfaces facing the respective surfaces of the base member, and disposed to be movable; and an air bearing configured to float the slider by supplying the gas to a space between the base member and the slider, wherein the slider includes an air chamber provided on the surfaces facing the base member to accumulate air, an air pad to emit the air for floating the slider above the base member, and an air supply groove to supply the air to the air pad; wherein the base member includes a slider-moving air flow passage buried therein to supply the gas from an inlet port to an outlet port to guide the gas generated by the gas supply unit for supplying the gas to the air chamber of the slider; wherein the base member further includes an air flow passage buried therein to supply the air from the gas supply unit to the air supply groove formed on the slider; wherein the air supplied to the air supply groove is sent to the air pad through an air flow passage buried inside the slider; and wherein the air supply groove is provided only in the slider positioned above the upper surface of the base member. | 30,211 |
9,089,515 | 1. A method of inhibiting morphogenesis of a virus selected from hepatitis C virus (HCV) or bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) comprising administering an effective amount of a nitrogen-containing compound having the formula: or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof to a cell or an individual infected with said virus, wherein: R′ is an oxa-substituted derivative of C each X, independently, is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxy, amino, carboxy, C R R′ is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxy, amino, substituted amino, carboxy, alkoxycarbonyl, aminocarbonyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkoxy, hydroxyalkyl, acyloxy, and aroyloxy, wherein said oxa-substituted derivative contains 1 to 5 oxygen atoms. | 38,320 |
9,321,416 | 1. An in-vehicle battery comprising: one battery module disposed below a floor panel of a vehicle; a different battery module provided adjacent to one side of the one battery module in a vehicle front-rear direction and having a higher height than a height of the one battery module, the different battery module comprising a first end region, a middle region, and a second end region in a vehicle width direction; and a heater module provided, in the first and second end regions, exclusive of the middle region, above the different battery module in a vehicle up-down direction, in such a way as to be opposed to a top surface of the different battery module in the vehicle up-down direction, the heater module configured to heat the different battery module. | 13,550 |
9,588,808 | 1. A method comprising: processing packet data in form of tasks in a multi-core system; executing a context switch instruction for a first task in a first processing core; accessing first context information for the first task in the first processing core by a task manager externally coupled to the first processing core in response to the execution of the context switch instruction; providing the first context information from the task manager to a context storage buffer in a second processing core during execution of a second task in the second processing core; storing the first context information in a next register of the second processing core from the context storage buffer of the second processing core during execution of the second task in the second processing core, wherein the next register stores context information of a next task to be executed in the second processing core; migrating, by the task manager, execution of the first task from the first processing core to the second processing core during execution of the second task in the second processing core; transferring second context information of the second task from a current register of the second processing core to a previous register of the second processing core during a context switch from the second task to the first task in the second processing core; and transferring the first context information for the first task from the next register to the current register during the context switch from the second task to the first task in the second processing core. | 13,367 |
8,988,034 | 1. A drive system for an electric motor, comprising: a connection for a battery, an inverter having an input side connected to an intermediate circuit having a DC intermediate circuit voltage and an output side having a connection for the electric motor, said intermediate circuit comprising an intermediate circuit capacitance and a first thyristor connected directly in parallel with the intermediate circuit capacitance and configured to be activated by a monitor incorporated in or assigned to the drive system when a measure of the intermediate circuit voltage exceeds a predetermined threshold value so as to cause an armature short circuit of the electric motor, a rectifier having an input side connected at the output side of the inverter in parallel with the electric motor and the rectifier further having an output side providing a rectified DC output voltage which is a measure of the AC output voltage of the inverter, and a second thyristor connected to the output side of the rectifier and configured to be activated by a monitor incorporated in or assigned to the drive system when the rectified DC output voltage exceeds a predetermined threshold value. | 37,273 |
9,460,803 | 1. A system comprising: a plurality of sensing devices to sense data from an array of memory cells, each sensing device of the plurality of sensing devices to output data onto a respective local data path in response to a clock signal on a clock signal path; a first multiplexor to pass data from a selected local data path to a global data path; a plurality of local return clock signal paths, each local return clock signal path of the plurality of local return clock signal paths coupled to the clock signal path at a respective sensing device such that each local return clock signal path of the plurality of local return clock signal paths is routed along with a respective local data path; a second multiplexor to pass a return clock signal from a selected local return clock signal path corresponding to the selected local data path to a global return clock signal path; and a data latch to latch the data on the global data path into the data latch in response to the return clock signal on the global return clock signal path. | 5,307 |
9,461,545 | 1. A circuit, comprising: a boost converter having: a softstart circuit configured to receive a softstart signal and generate in response thereto a first control signal applied to a control terminal of the rectification transistor; and a drive circuit configured to generate a second control signal applied to a control terminal of the first transistor and further configured to receive the softstart signal and generate in response thereto a third control signal applied to a control terminal of the second transistor, wherein said drive circuit comprises: a logic inverter configured to generate said third control signal, said logic inverter having a first power supply input selectively coupled to receive first supply voltage from one of the input node and output node in response to said third control signal and a second power supply input coupled to receive a second supply voltage derived from a voltage at the body terminal. | 32,468 |
8,631,649 | 1. An engine exhaust component, comprising: a plurality of coolant passages having parallel coolant flow, each coolant passage at least partially surrounding a respectively corresponding exhaust runner; a coolant inlet manifold coupled to each of the coolant passages; and a coolant outlet manifold coupled to each of the coolant passages and spaced away from each exhaust runner, parallel coolant flow from the coolant inlet manifold to the coolant outlet manifold in an opposite direction of exhaust gas flow. | 16,224 |
9,375,616 | 1. A golf club, comprising: a golf club head including a golf club head body and a hosel, the hosel defining a hosel bore; an elongate shaft; a shaft sleeve coupled to a distal end portion of the shaft, the shaft sleeve including a sleeve body defining a longitudinal axis and a shaft bore; a wedge member interposed between a portion of the shaft sleeve and the hosel, wherein the wedge member defines a wedge angle between the shaft sleeve and the hosel, the wedge member defining a sleeve bore; an extension member interposed between a portion of the shaft sleeve and the hosel, wherein the extension member includes parallel mating end surfaces that engage the wedge member and one of the shaft sleeve and the hosel; and a fastener that releasably couples the shaft sleeve to the club head so that the wedge member and the extension member are interposed between a portion of the shaft sleeve and the hosel. | 15,395 |
8,732,630 | 1. A computer implemented method for implementing analog behavioral modeling and IP (intellectual property) integration using a Hardware Description Language, comprising: at least one processor or at least one processor core executing a process, the process comprising: detecting an incompatible connection that interacts with a wire in a digital modeling environment that is represented using digital signals; representing a real-valued net of a built-in nettype in the digital modeling environment with 4-state logic signals; correlating the real-valued net with a corresponding resolution function that is defined natively in the digital modeling environment; and coercing the incompatible connection to the wire based at least in part upon the corresponding resolution function. | 47,920 |
9,202,025 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in a client device, comprising code that: identifies a request to perform an enterprise function of the client device, the enterprise function being associated with a compliance rule; communicates the request to a compliance server over a network to identify at least one watermark template from a plurality of available watermark templates based at least in part on the enterprise function of the client device requested to be performed, the at least one watermark template identified by querying a data store accessible by the compliance server; applies the at least one watermark template to the enterprise function of the client device such that a performance of the enterprise function complies with the compliance rule by: receives an authorization from the compliance server that causes the client device to perform the enterprise function identified in the request, the authorization being determined using at least a property set forth in the at least one watermark template that indicates whether the client device complies with the compliance rule. | 10,569 |
9,123,850 | 1. An air vehicle, comprising: a plasma propulsion system having a control volume; a fuel dispenser configured to dispense exothermic fuel molecules into a flow of hyperthermal air molecules in the control volume for leading to a hyperthermal-chemical reaction in the control volume between the hyperthermal air molecules and the exothermic fuel molecules to produce internally excited reaction products in an energetic population inversion; a resonant seed current source, said resonant seed current source being distinct from the internally excited reaction products, and under the influence of a controller, the resonant seed current source being configured to controllably inject resonant photons into the internally excited reaction products in the control volume, so as to extract laser radiation from the internally excited reaction products; and opposing surfaces within the control volume comprising a plurality of power harvesting cells downstream of a location where the exothermic fuel molecules and the hyperthermal air molecules form the internally excited reaction products, each opposing surface comprising at least one of the plurality of power harvesting cells, the plurality of power harvesting cells being configured to capture the laser radiation and convert at least a portion of the laser radiation to an electrical current feeding the plasma propulsion system. | 23,002 |
9,575,037 | 1. A method for detecting an analyte in a gaseous phase, the method comprising: 1) providing a liquid crystal assay device comprising: 2) exposing the liquid crystal assay device to a sample suspected of comprising an analyte; and 3) detecting the presence of the analyte, | 34,595 |
8,395,103 | 1. A semiconductor structure comprising: a semiconductor material layer having a doping of a same conductivity type throughout and located on a substrate; at least one first-type electrode having angled corners and conductively connected to said semiconductor material layer; at least one second-type electrode conductively connected to said semiconductor material layer; a plurality of non-uniform electric field regions located in said semiconductor material layer and around said angled corners of said at least one first-type electrode, wherein said at least one first-type electrode is at a first voltage and said at least one second-type electrode is at a second voltage that is different from said first voltage; and a thin material liner in contact with a surface of said semiconductor material layer and all of said at least one first-type electrode and said second-type electrode. | 22,055 |
8,346,590 | 1. A computer-implemented method of scheduling calendar events, the method comprising: performing the following steps by a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors: receiving a calendar search request to schedule a calendar event including a plurality of constraints including at least one participant and a time of meeting constraint; obtaining information identifying one or more preferences associated with the at least one participant, at least one of the preferences based on the at least one participant's historical calendar activity over a predetermined period of time; searching one or more databases in a calendaring system to obtain a set of candidate calendar events that meet at least a subset of the plurality of constraints; ranking the set of candidate calendar events based on the plurality of constraints and the one or more preferences; and preparing for presentation at least a subset of the ranked set of candidate calendar events, each candidate calendar event including a specified start time. | 40,253 |
9,467,947 | 1. A given communications apparatus included among a plurality of first communications apparatuses, performs multi-hop communication with the plurality of first communications apparatuses and thereby, transmits execution results of data processing performed at the given communications apparatus to a second communications apparatus that performs a process based on the execution results, the given communications apparatus comprising: a harvester that charges a battery with self-generated electrical power; a micro control unit that when execution of the data processing is suspended based on a remaining amount of the charged electrical power, can execute any one among a first operation by which a request signal requesting execution of the data processing is transmitted to another communications apparatus among the plurality of first communications apparatuses, and when the request of the request signal is accepted by the other communications apparatus, the data processing is not executed by the given communications apparatus, and when the request of the request signal is not accepted by the other communications apparatus, the execution of the data processing is started by the given communications apparatus after electrical power enabling the execution of the data processing to be completed is charged by the harvester, and a second operation by which, without transmission the request signal to the other communications apparatus, the execution of the data processing is started by the given communications apparatus after the electrical power enabling the execution of the data processing to be completed is charged by the harvester; and a power management unit that: | 24,139 |
8,430,633 | 1. A rotor blade assembly for a wind turbine, the rotor blade assembly comprising: a rotor blade having exterior surfaces defining a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge, and a trailing edge each extending in a generally span-wise direction between a tip and a root, at least one of the leading edge or the trailing edge having a modified aerodynamic contour; and, a blade extension comprising a first panel and an opposed second panel, each of the first panel and the second panel comprising an interior surface and an exterior surface each extending between a proximal end and a distal end, each of the first panel and the second panel further comprising a core and a cover, the cover comprising the interior surface and the exterior surface, the distal end of each of the first panel and the second panel spaced apart from the rotor blade in a generally chord-wise direction in a standard operation position. | 25,918 |
9,241,923 | 1. A method for promoting neuronal health and/or development in a pediatric subject, comprising administering a nutritional composition which comprises a carbohydrate source, a fat source, a protein source, a preservative, and a neurologic component, wherein the neurologic component comprises lactoferrin, zinc sulfate, alpha-lipoic acid, and from about 1.5 mg/100 kcal to about 7.5 mg/100 kcal sulforaphane. | 32,688 |
9,298,579 | 1. A method for regulating link speed for performance enhancement and port diagnosis by a processor device, comprising: in response to identifying an amount of errors in a communications link above a predetermined threshold, selectively reducing (n−1) an applicable transmission speed, wherein: if errors identified at the reduced transmission speed are found to decrease, flagging a communications port incorporating the communications link as potentially dirty, and if the errors identified at the reduced transmission speed are found to remain constant, flagging the communications port as potentially bad. | 43,702 |
9,585,897 | 1. A method for preventing or treating an infection caused by a microorganism, said method comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a hydroxyl-phenyl-benzoate. | 23,592 |
9,145,116 | 1. A driver assist navigation system for a vehicle, the system comprising: at least one image capture device configured to acquire a plurality of images of an area in a vicinity of the vehicle; a data interface, and at least one processing device configured to: | 47,914 |
8,702,726 | 1. A microstructure apparatus, comprising: a substrate; and a plurality of microelements affixed upon a first surface of said substrate; said plurality of microelements being of predetermined sizes and shapes for use in scraping skin cells from skin when said microstructure apparatus is placed upon said skin and moved in at least one direction; said predetermined sizes and shapes including at least one substantially sharp edge at a distal end of the microelements, said predetermined sizes and shapes having a characteristic such that the microelements do not create substantial focal discrete points of pressure on said skin; said plurality of microelements having an inverted wedge shape each having at least one side wall, the plurality of microelements form open areas between at least some of the side walls of adjacent microelements, the open areas being configured for accumulating skin cells. | 36,888 |
8,845,807 | 1. A linear evaporation source for manufacturing flat panel displays comprising a crucible being open on one side thereof and configured to store a deposition material; a plurality of partitions dividing an internal space of the crucible, wherein each of the partitions has at least one opening in a lower portion thereof; a nozzle section located on the open side of the crucible and comprising a plurality of nozzles; a heater configured to heat the crucible; and a housing configured to accommodate the crucible, the nozzle section, and the heater; wherein the housing includes a bottom facing the nozzle section; and wherein the partitions are integrally formed with the crucible; and wherein a stepped recess is formed in each of the partitions; and wherein the stepped recess is formed substantially directly above the opening; and wherein the opening includes a slit formed in a direction extending from the bottom of the housing to the nozzle section such that the opening is connected to the stepped recess. | 24,679 |
9,361,964 | 1. A method of providing a boosted voltage on a signal line on a device, comprising: generating a first supply voltage at a node using a voltage generator, wherein magnitude of the first supply voltage is greater than that of a logic supply voltage for the device; detecting a signal transition signaling a beginning of an operation in the device that is sensitive to variations of the boosted voltage; driving the signal line to the boosted voltage using the first supply voltage at the node; while driving the signal line using the first supply voltage at the node, performing the operation in the device that is sensitive to variations of the boosted voltage; while performing the operation, maintaining the voltage generator in a deactivated state; and reactivating the voltage generator when the operation in the device that is sensitive to variations of the boosted voltage is complete. | 3,001 |
8,964,586 | 1. A method, comprising: in a first device adapted to communicate using a Bluetooth low energy protocol, selecting a connection interval for use in communicating with a second device; generating poll frames to be transmitted to the second device; and transmitting two or more poll frames during the connection interval, the poll frames spaced by a poll interval based on a maximum jitter value (Jitter) and selected using the formula: | 1,483 |
9,240,953 | 1. A system for managing traffic in a communication network, the system comprising: a plurality of queues each configured to store data packets; a plurality of scheduling nodes each configured to selectively process the data packets from one or more of the plurality of queues; a scheduler configured to schedule, using the plurality of scheduling nodes, respective transfers of the data packets from the plurality of queues, wherein an output port configured to output the data packets for transmission according to the selected one of the dynamic scheduling priority and the predetermined scheduling priority. | 10,103 |
9,143,106 | 1. A device for providing speech to a user, the device comprising: a sound wave generator being selectively operable to produce a sound wave; a sound wave guide dimensioned and configured to extend between a first open end adjacent the sound wave generator and a second open end configured to be adjacent a user's body; an airflow generator for producing an airflow through the sound wave guide from the first end to the second end; a pitch controller to modify the pitch of the sound wave; and a volume controller to modify the volume of the sound wave; whereby the sound waves are capable of being caused to pass through the user's mouth, and the sound waves are capable of being converted to speech by the user; wherein the sound wave pitch controller and volume controller are programmed to provide a predetermined pitch pattern of the sound wave and a predetermined volume pattern of the sound wave. | 4,391 |
9,034,071 | 1. A composition, comprising: a first chelating agent; a second chelating agent; and a plurality of metal ions, the composition includes an amount of the first chelating agent by weight, an amount of the second chelating agent by weight, and an amount of metal ions by weight, the sum of the amount of the first chelating agent and the amount of the second chelating agent is greater than the amount of the metal ions. | 22,666 |
9,642,763 | 1. An exercise device that assists with the movement of limbs of a person having a disability, the device comprising: a frame; a chest support device coupled to the frame, where the chest support device is arranged and configured to support the chest region of the person; a hip support device comprising a pivoting seat having a hip support surface that is arranged and configured to support the hip of the person wherein the pivoting seat is adjustable between a horizontal configuration and a vertical configuration; a motorized position adjustment device coupled to the hip support device that adjusts a position of the pivoting seat between the horizontal configuration and the vertical configuration to move the person between a seated position and a standing position; a pair of foot supports configured to support the feet of the person; and a motorized movement device including an electric motor that moves each of the foot supports to move the feet of the person while the frame remains stationary. | 22,203 |
8,650,612 | 1. A computer-implemented method to implement security for an application of a computing device configured to render active content, comprising: Identifying, by the computing device, active content for rendering by the application in a security context used to render content with elevated privileges associated with a default set of security settings for the security context, the security context defined as one of multiple security contexts configured to implement different security policies based upon different levels of trust for content associated with the multiple security contexts; examining a feature setting indicative of a lockdown mode for the security context to determine whether or not the security context is locked down; when the security context is not locked down, rendering the active content with the elevated privileges using the default set of security settings associated with the security context; and when the security context is locked down, preventing the rendering of the active content and locking the elevated privileges otherwise provided in the security context by using an alternate lockdown set of security settings defined for the lockdown mode in lieu of changing the default security settings associated with the security context, the alternate lockdown set of security settings including an alternate set of configuration values for security settings. | 12,189 |
9,694,794 | 1. A vehicle control device applied to a vehicle including a service brake configured to generate wheel cylinder pressure in accordance with brake operation to generate braking force at each wheel, and automatically increase the wheel cylinder pressure to automatically control the braking force of the wheel, the device comprising: an electronic control unit configured to set target speed of vehicle body speed of the vehicle and execute off-road support control of driving force control to cause the vehicle body speed to approach the target speed; wherein the electronic control unit is configured to set brake target threshold speed as the target speed and generate the braking force when the vehicle body speed exceeds the target speed to cause the vehicle body speed to approach the target speed, and the electronic control unit decreases the brake target threshold speed in conformity with the vehicle body speed when the off-road support control is executed and the vehicle body speed is decreased to become lower than the brake target threshold speed by braking force generated by the brake operation, and the electronic control unit sets the brake target threshold speed in accordance with an accelerator open degree and limiting acceleration of the vehicle to an upper limit value when the vehicle body speed increases in accordance with the accelerator operation, and the vehicle body speed is increased so as not to exceed the brake target threshold speed. | 44,287 |
8,705,932 | 1. A method of displaying a timeline of recorded video, the method comprising: dividing the recorded video into timespans; providing a thumbnail and a timestamp for each timespan that has recorded video; providing a gap and a timestamp between thumbnails for each timespan in which there is no recorded video; displaying a first timeline containing the provided thumbnails and timestamps and the provided gaps and timestamps having an uncompressed format; receiving user input requesting that the first timeline be compressed; removing the gaps and their respective timestamps from the first timeline and moving the thumbnails and their timestamps located on either side of the gaps so that the thumbnails and timestamps on either side of the gaps are adjacent to provide a compressed timeline; and displaying the compressed timeline. | 46,180 |
9,148,757 | 1. A method for tracking at least one mobile device on a remote displaying unit through a mobile switching center connected to the mobile device by a wireless communication network and through a head-end linked to the mobile switching center and connected to the displaying unit by a second communication network different from the wireless communication network, said mobile device being identified by a mobile device identifier, said remote displaying unit being identified by a remote displaying unit identifier and being provided with a module for processing messages coming from the head-end identified by a head-end identifier, said mobile device being provided with a locating unit able to determine a current location of the mobile device and with a communication unit for supporting an instant messaging service, said method comprising: performing an initialization phase comprising; performing an operating phase comprising; | 33,933 |
9,140,720 | 1. A microscopy device for measuring properties of soft materials, the device comprising: a cantilever; an actuator connected to the cantilever and configured to resist deflection of the cantilever; an optical detector configured to detect deflection of the cantilever, wherein the optical detector is communicably connected to the actuator; a piezotube arranged in proximity to the cantilever; a first feedback controller communicably connected between the optical detector and the actuator; a second feedback controller communicably connected between the optical detector and the piezotube via a switch comprising a first ON position, a second ON position, and an OFF position, and wherein the second feedback controller is configured to impel movement of the piezotube along a Z-axis when the switch is in the first ON position; a scan signal source communicably connected to the piezotube and configured to impel movement of the piezotube along an X- and a Y-axis; and an inverter coupled to the second ON position of the switch. | 46,674 |
8,347,196 | 1. An error coding circuit comprising: a non-systematic convolutional encoder for coding an input bit stream to produce two or more groups of parity bits; an interleaver circuit for interleaving parity bits within each group of parity bits; and a rate-matching circuit for outputting a selected number of said interleaved parity bits ordered by group to obtain a desired code rate. | 22,730 |
9,827,612 | 1. A method of making a cemented carbide comprising the steps of: forming a slurry comprising a milling liquid, binder metal powders, a first powder fraction and a second powder fraction; and subjecting the slurry to milling, drying, pressing and sintering, wherein the first powder fraction is made from recycled cemented carbide scrap including the elements W, C, Co, and at least one or more of Ta, Ti, Nb, Cr, Zr, Hf and Mo, and the second powder fraction includes raw materials of WC, the first powder fraction being made from gamma phase containing cemented carbide scrap recycled using the Zn recovery process where the first powder fraction is subjected to a pre-milling step, prior to the step of forming the slurry comprising the milling liquid, binder metal powders, the first powder fraction and the second powder fraction, to obtain an average grain size of between 0.2 to 1.5 μm. | 19,315 |
9,735,423 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a cathode and an anode arranged so as to be opposite to each other, and an electrolyte layer put therebetween; wherein the cathode comprises: (a) a conductive polymer and (b) at least one selected from the group consisting of a polycarboxylic acid and a metal salt of a polycarboxylic acid, and wherein the anode comprises a material into which a base metal or ions thereof are inserted and from which a base metal or ions thereof are extracted; wherein the conductive polymer is a polymer having as a dopant at least one protonic acid anions selected from the group consisting of inorganic acid anions, aliphatic sulfonic acid anions, aromatic sulfonic acid anions, polymer sulfonic acid anions and polyvinylsulfuric acid anions; wherein the polymer constituting the conductive polymer is at least one selected from the group consisting of polyaniline, a polyaniline derivative, polypyrrole, a polypyrrole derivative, and polythiophene; and wherein the polycarboxylic acid is at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of polyacrylic acid, polymethacrylic acid, polyvinylbenzoic acid, polyallylbenzoic acid, polymethallylbenzoic acid, polymaleic acid, polyfumaric acid, polyglutaminic acid, polyaspartic acid, alginic acid, carboxymethylcellulose, and a copolymer comprising repeating units of at least two of the polymers listed herein. | 44,204 |
8,881,870 | 1. Lubrication and/or cooling installation in an aircraft engine comprising an oil tank ( 3 ), a main feed pipe ( 6 ) feeding a main pump ( 1 ) and an auxiliary feed pump ( 1 A), said main feed pipe ( 6 ) supplying a flow in a main discharge line ( 7 ) from the main pump ( 1 ) to one or several systems ( 2 ) to be lubricated and/or cooled, wherein the installation comprises a feed pipe ( 8 ) for the auxiliary pump ( 1 A), said feed pipe ( 8 ) being connected at one end to the main feed pipe ( 6 ) and to at another end to the auxiliary feed pump ( 1 A) and being fitted in parallel onto the main pipe ( 6 ), the auxiliary feed pump ( 1 A) supplying a flow in a discharge line ( 8 A) via a three-way circuit, the discharge line ( 8 A) being connected on the one hand to a non-return valve ( 4 A) directed towards the main discharge line ( 7 ), and on the other hand to a recirculation valve ( 5 ), said recirculation valve ( 5 ) being hydraulically controlled ( 9 ) by the oil pressure of the main discharge line ( 7 ) in order to open when said oil pressure reaches a predetermined value and to divert all the flow from the auxiliary feed pump ( 1 A) into a return line ( 8 B) directly towards the tank ( 3 ) or towards the main feed pipe ( 6 ) upstream from the main pump ( 1 ), said recirculation valve being otherwise closed so that all the flow from the auxiliary feed pump ( 1 A) is diverted into the main discharge line ( 7 ) via the opened non-return valve ( 4 A). | 7,867 |
8,435,543 | 1. A method for inducing an immune response in an animal comprising administering a recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara virus comprising a heterologous DNA sequence inserted into an intergenic region (IGR) of the viral genome, wherein the IGR is not a naturally occurring deletion site or the thymidine kinases (tk) locus. | 19,285 |
9,417,005 | 1. A method of improving moisture removal capacity during cooling-mode running of a vapor compression system having a fixed-speed compressor, an evaporator and an evaporator blower having a blower motor with a plurality of multi-speed taps each of the taps corresponding to a discrete motor speed, one of which taps corresponds to a highest blower motor speed and another of which taps corresponds to a lowest rotating blower motor speed, consisting of initially running the evaporator blower motor to the highest blower motor speed upon starting the cooling-mode, then measuring a relative humidity in a return air stream while the evaporator blower motor continues operating at the highest blower motor speed, detecting if the measured relative humidity is above a predetermined relative humidity threshold value, and thereupon reducing the evaporator blower motor speed from the initially set highest blower motor speed to the lowest rotating blower motor speed, only when the measured relative humidity is detected to be above the predetermined relative humidity threshold value. | 44,743 |
8,348,388 | 1. A printhead integrated circuit (IC) for a stationary pagewidth printhead, said printhead IC comprising at least one nozzle row extending along a longitudinal axis thereof, wherein a length of a printable zone corresponding to said nozzle row is longer than a length of said nozzle row, wherein at least one first nozzle positioned at a first end of said printhead IC is configured to fire ink droplets skewed towards said first end; and wherein at least one second nozzle positioned at an opposite second end of said printhead IC is configured to fire ink droplets skewed towards said second end. | 21,010 |
8,635,041 | 1. A method for configuring a seismic data acquisition network, comprising: receiving a first synchronization message from a first neighbor node of the seismic data acquisition network over a first direct communication link that allows for bidirectional communication of synchronization messages, wherein the first synchronization message comprises a first accuracy quality of a first reference clock to which the first neighbor node is synchronized; receiving a second synchronization message from a second neighbor node of the seismic data acquisition network over a second direct communication link that allows for bidirectional communication of synchronization messages, wherein the second synchronization message comprises a second accuracy quality of a second reference clock to which the second neighbor node is synchronized; comparing the first accuracy quality with the second accuracy quality to determine which one of the first reference clock or the second reference clock has a higher accuracy quality; and synchronizing a real time clock to one of the first reference clock or the second reference clock having the higher quality. | 12,450 |
9,483,963 | 1. A display assembly comprising: a base having a front for customer access and a rear; and a plurality of receptacles supported by the base, each of the plurality of receptacles being sized to receive a plurality of cards, each of the plurality of receptacles having a distal end with an opening for display, receipt and removal of at least one of the plurality of cards and a proximal end to provide a limit to a depth of receipt for the plurality of cards within the receptacle, wherein each receptacle is oriented such that a direction from the distal end to the proximal end is angularly offset from the base about a vertical axis for customer access of at least one of the plurality of cards; wherein each receptacle is oriented such that the distal end is spaced apart from the proximal end in a direction from the rear to the front, and the distal end is forward relative to the proximal end for customer access of at least one of the plurality of cards; and wherein each receptacle comprises: | 24,224 |
9,584,706 | 1. A device, comprising a camera unit, which is used to record images of the exterior area of a motor vehicle, and a cover element, which can be moved from a closed position to an open position by means of a drive, wherein the camera unit is behind the cover element and inaccessible from outside in the closed position of the cover element and images can be recorded in the open position of the cover element, wherein the cover element has an outer surface facing away from the camera unit, and the drive interacts with a mechanism in such a way that the outer surface is always in the exterior area of the motor vehicle in each position of the cover element during the movement of the cover element between the closed position and the open position; wherein the mechanism is designed in such a way that, during the movement of the cover element from the closed position to the open position in a first movement phase, the cover element moves away from the motor vehicle and simultaneously swivels around at least one axis, and that, in a second movement phase, the cover element is pulled towards the motor vehicle and specifically simultaneously swivels back around at least one axis. | 7,700 |
8,368,807 | 1. An imaging device having a housed state in which a plurality of optical members of a shooting optical system is housed by collapsing at least a part of the optical members and a shooting standby state in which at least a part of the optical members is moved on a subject side, comprising: a stage configured to be movable along a plane orthogonal to an optical axis so as to move an imaging element which obtains a subject image by the shooting optical system in the plane; a plurality of optical member holding frames each of which is configured to hold each of the optical members; and a lens holding frame driver configured to drive each of the optical member holding frames, the stage including an engagement hole facing to the shooting optical system, and one of the optical member holding frames, which is moved in an optical axis direction in accordance with transition of the housed state and the shooting standby state, including an engagement projection which is engageable with the engagement hole by the movement in the optical axis direction, wherein the engagement projection and the engagement hole have a positional relationship in which the engagement projection engages with the engagement hole if each of the optical member holding frames is moved into the housed state by the lens holding frame driver and the engagement projection disengages from the engagement hole if the each of the optical member holding frames is moved into the shooting standby state by the lens holding frame driver. | 46,172 |
8,610,202 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a columnar structural body which is arranged on a substrate and which includes a first silicon, a second silicon having a different conductivity type from the first silicon, and a first insulator held between the first silicon and the second silicon, which runs in a vertical direction to the substrate, wherein the first insulator has a first side surface and a second side surface opposing the first side surface; a pair of first upper and lower silicon layers arranged on and below the first silicon so as to sandwich the first silicon, and containing a first high-concentration dopant that has a different conductivity type from the first silicon, where at least the first lower silicon layer contacts the first side surface of the first insulator; a pair of second upper and lower silicon layers arranged on and below the second silicon so as to sandwich the second silicon, and containing a second high-concentration dopant that has a different conductivity type from the second silicon, where at least the second lower silicon layer contacts the second side surface of the first insulator; a second insulator which surrounds respective peripheries of the first silicon, the second silicon, the pair of first upper and lower silicon layers, and the pair of second upper and lower silicon layers, and the first insulator; and a conductive body surrounding a periphery of the second insulator, wherein the silicon layer in the pair of first upper and lower silicon layers arranged on the first silicon is electrically connected to the silicon layer in the pair of second upper and lower silicon layers arranged on the second silicon, a first power is supplied to the lower silicon layer in the pair of first upper and lower silicon layers, and a second power is supplied to the lower silicon layer in the pair of second upper and lower silicon layers, and a top surface of the conductive body is lower in the vertical direction than a top surface of the first upper silicon layer and the second upper silicon layer. | 38,698 |
9,030,833 | 1. A remote control device for home automation equipment, of the roaming type, comprising: a housing containing an electronic circuit comprising a radiofrequency transmitter; said housing being of substantially cylindrical or spherical shape and having an axis of revolution, and a viscoelastic ring having the same axis of revolution as that of said housing, and being held elastically against said housing and concealing an opening in said housing, wherein said opening gives access to the terminals of a connector connected to said electronic circuit. | 9,593 |
9,484,595 | 1. An electrochemical cell, comprising: a first anode including a form of lithium; a first cathode including an electrolyte; and a first composite electrolyte structure positioned between the first anode and the first cathode, the first composite electrolyte structure including (i) a first support layer adjacent the first anode and configured to mechanically suppress roughening of the form of lithium in the first anode, and (ii) a first protective layer positioned between the first support layer and the first cathode and configured to prevent oxidation of the first support layer by substances in the first cathode, wherein the electrolyte in the cathode is a fluid electrolyte. | 39,750 |
8,582,785 | 1. A method of enhancing one or more low-frequency components and one or more medium-frequency components of an unmodified input audio signal, the method comprising: performing filtering on the unmodified input audio signal using a plurality of band-pass filters; generating a plurality of harmonic-frequency signals using a plurality of audio signals resulting from the performing filtering operation; adjusting amplitudes of the plurality of harmonic-frequency signals; and mixing the plurality of amplitude adjusted harmonic-frequency signals with the unmodified input audio signal, wherein the adjusting amplitudes of the plurality of harmonic-frequency signals comprises reducing energy of harmonic-frequency as frequency increases, and wherein the performing the filtering comprises extracting one or more audio signals in a low-frequency band and a medium-frequency band from the unmodified input audio signal. | 23,186 |
9,373,337 | 1. A method performed by one or more processing devices for processing an audio signal, comprising: filtering the low-frequency components and the high-frequency components of the audio signal to produce a plurality of subband signal outputs; converting the plurality of subband signal outputs to a scaled representation of a time-frequency grid such that the subbands are mapped over time; computing subband parameters by analyzing each tile of the time-frequency grid using a statistical analysis technique, the subband parameters including one or more of: finding a pattern in the scaled representation for reconstructing the high-frequency components based on the statistical analysis technique; encoding the subband parameters and the high-frequency components into an encoded bitstream based on the pattern; ordering the subband parameters and the high-frequency components in the encoded bitstream such that the subband parameters and the high-frequency components are in order of psychoacoustic importance and subject to the constraint that the subband parameters are placed first in the encoded bitstream followed by the high-frequency components; transmitting the encoded bitstream over a network channel having a bandwidth; and decoding the encoded bitstream to reconstruct the high-frequency components of the audio signal using the subband parameters in the encoded bitstream. | 17,621 |
9,716,371 | 1. A method of operating a corona ignition system, comprising the steps of: providing energy to a corona igniter at a first drive frequency during a first period of time and at a third drive frequency during a third period of time spaced from the first period of time by a second period of time during which no energy is provided to the corona igniter; and obtaining a resonant frequency of the corona igniter from at least one of a first output voltage and a first output current of the corona igniter during the second period of time during which no energy is provided to the corona igniter. | 23,923 |
9,360,232 | 1. A fluidized bed heat exchanger for recovering a heat of a combustion flue gas to produce a hot water, comprising: a compound fluidized bed heat exchanger including a supply water pipe formed outside of the compound fluidized bed heat exchanger and connected to the upper heat transfer tube; a hot water outlet pipe formed outside of the compound fluidized bed heat exchanger and connected to the lower heat transfer tube, wherein a supply second water flows through the supply water pipe, the upper heat transfer tube, the lower heat transfer tube and the hot water outlet pipe; a fluidized medium tank disposed spaced from the compound fluidized bed heat exchanger and supplying and recovering the heat medium and the first water, respectively, to/from the heat medium fluidized bed and the water fluidized bed of the compound fluidized bed heat exchanger, the fluidized medium tank including a first water supply pipe supplying the first water from the water storage unit of the fluidized medium tank to the water fluidized bed and connected between a first water outlet disposed in a lower side of the water storage unit and a first water inlet disposed in an upper side of the compound fluidized bed heat exchanger, the first water inlet being disposed such that the first water is supplied to the third space; a first water recovery pipe recovering the first water overflowing the water fluidized bed to the water storage unit of the fluidized medium tank and connected between a first water recovery hole disposed in an upper side of the water storage unit and a first water exit hole disposed in the upper side of the compound fluidized bed heat exchanger, the first water exit hole being disposed below the first water inlet; a heat medium inlet pipe supplying the heat medium from the heat medium storage unit of the fluidized medium tank to the heat medium fluidized bed and connected between a heat medium outlet disposed in a middle side of the heat medium storage unit and a heat medium inlet disposed in a middle side of the compound fluidized bed heat exchanger, the heat medium inlet being disposed such that the heat medium is supplied to the second space; and a heat medium recovery pipe recovering the heat medium overflowing the heat medium fluidized bed to the heat medium storage unit of the fluidized medium tank and connected between a heat medium recovery hole disposed in a lower side of the heat medium storage unit and a heat medium exit hole disposed in the middle side of the compound fluidized bed heat exchanger, the heat medium exit hole being disposed below the heat medium inlet. | 18,420 |
9,724,075 | 1. A tissue sampling apparatus for obtaining a sample of tissue from a selected site and for placing a hemostatic plug at the selected site, the apparatus comprising: an external needle having an internal passage and a tissue-cutting edge; an internal needle within the internal passage, the internal needle terminating at a forward tissue-penetrating tip and having a chamber adjacent the tissue-penetrating tip, the internal needle and the external needle being selectively movable relative to one another between a first position, wherein the chamber is closed by the external needle, and a second position, wherein the chamber is open; a divider member dividing the chamber into opposite compartments, including a plug compartment for receiving a hemostatic plug, and a sample compartment for receiving a tissue sample, the divider member being movable for displacement from within one to within the other of the opposite plug and sample compartments; and a biasing mechanism enabling displacement of the divider member into the sample compartment for accommodating a hemostatic plug within the plug compartment, when the plug compartment is closed by the external needle, and effecting displacement of the divider member out of the sample compartment and into the plug compartment for expelling the hemostatic plug out of the plug compartment and for drawing a tissue sample from surrounding tissue into the sample compartment upon opening the plug compartment; whereby, upon subsequent relative movement between the internal needle and the external needle to place the internal needle and the external needle into the first position, the tissue sample within the sample compartment will be cut from the surrounding tissue for removal upon removal of the tissue sample apparatus from the selected site, while the expelled hemostatic plug will remain at the site. | 22,487 |
9,402,072 | 1. A signal processing device that outputs a control signal to light emitting elements having a plurality of light emission areas for emitting light to an image display part from a back for the respective light emission areas corresponding to a plurality of display areas included in the image display part capable of displaying a three-dimensional image by receiving a left-eye video signal and a right-eye video signal, the control signal controlling intensity of each of the light emission areas according to intensity of an image, the signal processing device comprising a light emission intensity determination circuit that determines light emission intensity based on at least one of the left-eye video signal and the right-eye video signal and one of parallax information and depth information of the image and outputs information on the light emission intensity to the light emitting elements. | 22,604 |
8,855,492 | 1. A method for an optical network unit (ONU) to access services provided by a plurality of optical line terminals (OLTs) in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) passive optical network (PON), the OLTs being coupled to the ONU through an optical distribution network that includes an arrayed waveguide (AWG) having multiple ports that transmit multiple AWG cycles in both upstream and downstream directions, wherein each of the AWG cycles has a cyclically recurring wavelength pattern with an i-th wavelength in each of the AWG cycles being available at an i-th port of the AWG, the method comprising the steps of: receiving downstream signals from a first plurality of OLTs at the same time through a designated one of the ports of the AWG and a bandpass filter module coupled to the designated port, the first plurality of OLTs being allocated with a first plurality of AWG cycles for downstream transmission, the bandpass filter module being adapted to select any one of the first plurality of AWG cycles at a given time; and transmitting upstream signals to a second plurality of OLTs through the designated port of the AWG and the bandpass filter module based on received downstream signals, the second plurality of OLTs being allocated with a second plurality of AWG cycles for upstream reception, the bandpass filter module and a transmitter of the ONU being adapted to select any one of the second plurality of AWG cycles at a given time. | 36,043 |
9,825,698 | 1. A method for determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio of a modulated optical signal propagating in a transmission link, the modulated optical signal comprising a plurality of wavelength channels, the method comprising: measuring an optical power spectrum of the modulated optical signal, the optical power spectrum comprising at least one of the plurality of wavelength channels; measuring a time-varying parameter comprising at least one of: time-varying optical signal amplitudes and phases in two mutually orthogonal polarization states, and time-varying optical signal power levels in two mutually orthogonal polarization states; wherein the time-varying parameter is measured simultaneously at first and second predetermined optical frequencies in a selected one of the plurality of wavelength channels, wherein the first and second predetermined optical frequencies are separated by a non-zero frequency interval; determining a correlation coefficient between the time-varying parameter measured for the first and second optical frequencies based on at least one of a group velocity dispersion and a differential group delay for the modulated optical signal; and determining an optical signal-to-noise ratio from the optical power spectrum and the correlation coefficient. | 16,317 |
8,453,863 | 1. A urea aqueous solution container used in an exhaust emission purifying apparatus for reductively purifying nitrogen oxides in engine exhaust gas using a urea aqueous solution, comprising: a container body; an inlet port through which a urea aqueous solution is poured into said container body, said inlet port formed to protrude obliquely upward from a side face of said container body; a base portion secured on an outer face of said inlet port and obliquely below said inlet port, wherein the base portion protrudes from the outer face of the inlet port; a lock including a lock body detachably secured on the base portion, an internal cylinder incorporated in the lock body so as to be turned, and a locking member which appears from the lock body by turning the internal cylinder; a cap member configured to be screwed on said inlet port to seal said inlet port; and a plurality of engagement portions with which said locking member of said lock can be engaged, wherein said plurality of engagement portions are formed on an outer peripheral portion of said cap member and each engagement portion is disposed at a position symmetric with another engagement portion on an opposite side of a center of said cap member, wherein said locking member is engageable with said plurality of engagement portions, through locking operation of said lock, to thereby prevent rotation of said cap member. | 37,263 |
9,495,616 | 1. Monitoring system for coffee machines, comprising: a remote server; at least one coffee machine having a device external to the machine and configured for | 27,219 |
9,338,397 | 1. An information processing device comprising: an imaging device configured to take an image; processing circuitry configured to perform a first image process on the taken image; a transmission interface configured to send the image, which has undergone the first image process, to a device that is a communication destination, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to change a process content of the first image process, according to usage scene information received from the device that is the communication destination, the usage scene information specifying at least one usage scene among a plurality of usage scenes defined in advance; and a receiving interface configured to receive an image from the device that is the communication destination, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to perform a second image process on the received image, and the second image process is performed according to a request from the device that is the communication destination. | 22,000 |
9,780,967 | 1. A black-box gateway device implemented in a vehicle and configured to interface with an engine computer, a plurality of cameras, and a plurality of wireless sensors installed in the vehicle, the gateway device comprising: a transceiver comprising: digital logic circuitry programmed with executable instructions that configure the digital logic circuitry to: | 45,471 |
9,140,686 | 1. A method for diagnosing a liver disease in a subject, comprising: (a) determining in a sample of a subject suspected to suffer from a liver disease the amount of at least one biomarker; and (b) comparing said amount of the at least one biomarker with a reference, whereby a liver disease is diagnosed; wherein the at least one biomarker comprises (i) alpha-Tocopherol, Behenic acid (C22:0), beta-Carotene, Canthaxanthin, Ceramide (d18:1,C24:0), Ceramide (d18:1,C24:1), Cholestenol No 02, Cholic acid, Coenzyme Q10, Coenzyme Q6, Coenzyme Q7, conjugated Linoleic acid (C18:trans[9,11]2), Creatine, Cryptoxanthin, Cysteine, DAG (C18:1, C18:2), Docosahexaenoic acid (c22:cis[4,7,10,13,16,19]6), Eicosanoic acid (C20:0), Eicosapentaenoic acid (C20:cis[5,8,11,14,17]5), Eicosenoic acid (C20:cis[11]1), Elaidic acid (C18:trans[9]1), erythro-C16-Sphingosine, Fructose-1,6-diphosphate Fructose-6-phosphate, gamma-Tocopherol, Glucosamine, Glucose-6-phosphate, Glycerol lipid fraction, Glycerol phosphate lipid fraction, Glycerol-3-phosphate polar fraction, Heptadecanoic acid (C17:0), Heptadecenoic acid (C17:cis[10]1), Hexadecanol, 3-Hydroxybutyrate, Indole-3-lactic acid , Indole-3-propionic acid , Isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP), Ketoleucine, Laurie acid (C12:0), Lignoceric acid (C24:0), Linoleic acid (C18:cis[9,12]2), Lysophosphatidylcholine (C17:0), Lysophosphatidylcholine (C18:1), Lysophosphatidylcholine (C18:2), Lysophosphatidylcholine (C20:4), Maltose, Mannosamine, Methionine, 7-Methylguanine, 14-Methylhexadecanoic acid, 17-Methyloctadecanoic acid, myo-Inositol, myo-Inositol lipid fraction, myo-inositol-2-phosphate lipid fraction, myo-Inositolphospholipid, Myristic acid (C14:0), Nicotineamide adenine dinucleotide reduced (NADH), Nicotinic acid, Palmitic acid (C16:0), Pantothenic acid, Pentadecanol, Phosphatidylcholine (C16:0, C18:2), Phosphatidylcholine (C16:0, C22:6), Phosphatidylcholine (C18:0, C18:1), Phosphatidylcholine (C18:0, C22:6), Phosphatidylcholine (C18:2, C20:4), Proline, Pyridoxine, Pyruvate, Ribonic acid, Ribose, Ribulose-5-phosphate, Sorbitol, Sphingomyelin (d18:1,C24:0), TAG (C16:0, C16:1), TAG (C16:0, C18:2), TAG (C18:1, C18:2), TAG (C18:2, C18:2), TAG (C18:2, C18:3), Tricosanoic acid (C23:0), Tryptophan, Uric acid, or Xanthosine, and wherein the liver disease is steatosis; (ii) Behenic acid (C22:0), beta-Carotene, Canthaxanthin, Ceramide (d18:1,C24:0), Ceramide (d18:1,C24:1), Coenzyme Q10, Coenzyme Q6, Coenzyme Q7, Coenzyme Q9, conjugated Linoleic acid (C18:trans[9,11]2), Cryptoxanthin, DAG (C18:1, C18:2), Cysteine, Docosahexaenoic acid (C22:cis[4,7,10,13,16,19]6), Eicosanoic acid (C20:0), Eicosenoic acid (C20:cis[11]1), Elaidic acid (C18:trans[9]1), Flavine adenine dinucleotide (FAD), Glycerol phosphate lipid fraction, Glycerol-3-phosphate polar fraction, Heptadecanoic acid (C17:0), Heptadecenoic acid (C17:cis[10]1), Hexadecanol, 3-Hydroxybutyrate, Hypoxanthine, Indole-3-lactic acid, Ketoleucine, Lauric acid (C12:0), Linoleic acid (C18:cis[9,12]2), Lysophosphatidylcholine (C18:1), Lysophosphatidylcholine (C18:2), 7-Methylguanine, 14-Methylhexadecanoic acid, 17-Methyloctadecanoic acid, myo-Inositol, myo-Inositol lipid fraction, myo-Inositol-2-phosphate, myo-Inositolphospholipid, Myristic acid (C14:0), Nicotineamide adenine dinucleotide reduced (NADH), Nicotinic acid, Oleic acid (C18:cis[9]1), Pantothenic acid, Pentadecanol, Phosphate lipid fraction, Phosphatidylcholine (C16:0, C18:2), Phosphatidylcholine (C16:0, C22:6), Phosphatidylcholine (C18:0, C18:1), Phosphatidylcholine (C18:0, C22:6), Phosphatidylcholine (C18:2, C20:4), Proline, Ribose lipid fraction, Sorbitol, TAG (C16:0, C16:1) TAG (C16:0, C18:2), TAG (C18:1, C18:2), TAG (C18:2, C18:2), TAG (C18:2, C18:3), Tryptophan, or Uric acid, and wherein the liver disease is NASH; (iii) alpha-Tocopherol, Alanine, Arginine, Aspartate, Behenic acid (C22:0), beta-Carotene, Canthaxanthin, Ceramide (d18:1,C24:0) , Ceramide (d18:1,C24:1), Cholestenol No 02, Cholesterol, Cholic acid, Coenzyme Q10, Coenzyme Q7, Cortisol, Creatine, Cryptoxanthin, DAG (C18:1, C18:2) , Docosahexaenoic acid (C22:cis[4,7,10,13,16,19]6), Eicosanoic acid (C20:0), Eicosapentaenoic acid (C20:cis[5,8,11,14,17]5), erythro-C16-Sphingosine, Fructose-1,6-diphosphate, gamma-Tocopherol, Glucose lipid fraction, Glucose-6-phosphate, Glutamine, Glycerol-3-phosphate, Glycochenodeoxycholic acid, Histidine, Indole-3-lactic acid, Ketoleucine, Kynurenic acid, Lignoceric acid (C24:0), Lysine, Malate, myo-Inositol-2-phosphate , O-Phosphoethanolamine Palmitic acid (C16:0), Phosphatidylcholine (C16:0, C22:6), Phosphatidylcholine (C18:0, C18:1), Phosphatidylcholine (C18:0, C20:4), Phosphatidylcholine (C18:0, C22:6), Phosphatidylcholine (C18:2, C20:4), Phosphocreatine Pyridoxine Ribulose-5-phosphate, Serine, Sphingomyelin (d18:1,C16:0), Sphingomyelin (d18:1,C24:0), TAG (C16:0, C16:1), TAG (C16:0, C18:2), TAG (C18:1, C18:2), TAG (C18:2, C18:2), Taurine, or Tricosanoic acid (C23:0), and wherein the liver disease is NAFLD; or (iv) Alanine, Arachidonic acid (C20:cis[5,8,11,14]4), Aspartate, Behenic acid (C22:0), beta-Carotene, Canthaxanthin, Citrate , Coenzyme Q6, Coenzyme Q7, conjugated Linoleic acid (C18:trans[9,11]2), Creatine, Cryptoxanthin, DAG (C18:1, C18:2), 3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC), 3,4-Dihydroxyphenylglycol (DOPEG), Eicosanoic acid (C20:0), Elaidic acid (C18:trans[9]1), erythro-C16-Sphingosine, Fructose-1,6-diphosphate, Fructose-6-phosphate, Glucosamine, Glucose-6-phosphate, Glutamine, Glycerol lipid fraction, Glycerol-3-phosphate polar fraction, Heptadecanoic acid (C17:0), Heptadecenoic acid (C17:cis[10]1), Hexadecanol, Histidine, Homovanillic acid (HVA), 2-Hydroxybutyrate, 3-Hydroxybutyrate, Indole-3-lactic acid, Inosine, Isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP), Lauric acid (C12:0), Lignoceric acid (C24:0), Linoleic acid (C18:cis[9,12]2), Lysine, Lysophosphatidylcholine (C16:0), Mannosamine, Methionine, 14-Methylhexadecanoic acid, myo-Inosito-2-phosphate, Myristic acid (C14:0), Nervonic acid (C24:cis[15]1), Normetanephrine, Oleic acid (C18:cis[9]1), Palmitic acid (C16:0), Phosphate (inorganic and from organic phosphates), Phosphatidylcholine (C16:0, C18:2), Phosphatidylcholine C18:0, C20:4), Phosphatidylcholine (C18:0, C22:6), Phosphocreatine, Pyruvate, Ribulose-5-phosphate, Sedoheptulose-7-phosphate, Serine lipid fraction, Serotonin (5-HT), Sphingomyelin (d18:1,C24:0), TAG (C16:0, C16:1)), TAG (C16:0, C18:2), TAG (C18:1, C18:2), TAG (C18:2, C18:2), TAG (C18:2, C18:3), Taurine Tricosanoic acid (C23:0), Tryptophan, Uridine or Xanthosine and wherein the liver disease is inflammatory liver disease. | 502 |
9,379,547 | 1. An appliance control system comprising: plural electrical appliances configured to operate with electrical power supplied from an external power source; and an appliance control device connected to said plural electrical appliances, wherein said appliance control device comprises an external interface unit, and a control unit, and said external interface unit is configured to receive an energy conservation instruction indicative of a total reduction amount of power consumption of said plural electrical appliances from an external device, and said control unit is configured to, upon acknowledging that said external interface unit receives the energy conservation instruction, send, to at least one of said plural electrical appliances, a control signal including a common control order indicative of an individual reduction amount of the power consumption of said at least one of said plural electrical appliances based on the total reduction amount indicated by the energy conservation instruction, each of said plural electrical appliances comprises: a functional unit having plural operation states with different power consumption; a control instruction storage unit configured to store plural control instructions for changing the plural operation states of said functional unit; an individual storage unit configured to store individual control information indicative of a correspondence relation between the individual reduction amount and the plural control instructions; a time period storage unit; a time period judging unit; and an operation control unit configured to, upon receiving the control signal, refer to the individual control information stored in said individual storage unit, and select, from the plural control instructions stored in said control instruction storage unit, a control instruction corresponding to the individual reduction amount indicated by the common control order included in the received control signal, and provide the selected control instruction to said functional unit, and said functional unit is configured to, upon receiving the control instruction from said operation control unit, perform an energy conservation control process of changing its operation state in accordance with the received control instruction, wherein the energy conservation instruction further includes an energy conservation time period indicative of a continuous time period of the energy conservation control process, the energy conservation time period included in the control signal, and said time period storage unit is configured to store an allowed continuous time period for which said functional unit is allowed to continue the energy conservation control process corresponding to the common control order, said time period judging unit is configured to, upon receiving the control signal, refer to said time period storage unit, and retrieve the allowed continuous time period associated with the energy conservation control process which is performed by said functional unit in accordance with the energy conservation instruction, and prohibit said functional unit from performing the energy conservation control process upon acknowledging that the allowed continuous time period is equal to or less than the energy conservation time period included in the energy conservation instruction by not providing the control instruction to the functional unit. | 40,373 |
9,638,631 | 1. A system for species concentration spatial reconstruction for an exhaust system comprising: an outer exhaust tube portion and an inner exhaust tube portion, the outer exhaust tube portion rotatable relative to the inner exhaust tube portion, the inner exhaust tube portion comprising a plurality of inner interrogation windows at predetermined angular locations of the inner exhaust tube portion, the outer exhaust tube portion comprising an outer interrogation window selectively aligning with one of the plurality of inner interrogation windows; an emitter radially coupled to a first portion of the outer exhaust tube portion, the emitter including a specific wavelength of a species to be measured; a detector radially coupled to a second portion of the outer exhaust tube portion, opposite to the first portion, and positioned to detect a beam attenuation of a beam from the emitter; and a controller configured to receive a plurality of beam attenuation measurements from the detector and to generate a cross-sectional species concentration map based on the plurality of beam attenuation measurements. | 21,497 |
8,360,954 | 1. An apparatus for examining and curing urinary incontinence and exercising the pelvic floor muscles and vaginal muscles using bio-feedback, comprising: an insert expansion part; an insert frame, a portion of which is accommodated in the insert expansion part, extending in its longitudinal direction; a fixing means for fixing the insert expansion part to the insert frame; an air supply source connected to the insert expansion part and supplying air thereinto; an air supply path disposed between the air supply source and the insert expansion part; and a valve installed at the air supply path, wherein the air supply path comprises a spring air cylinder connected thereto, and a controller for controlling the spring air cylinder, and wherein the spring air cylinder is spaced from the air supply source and configured to distribute a pressure of the insert expansion part. | 44,897 |
9,739,260 | 1. A wind turbine blade formed from a pressure-side blade shell and a suction-side blade shell joined to form a blade body having an airfoil profile with a leading edge and a trailing edge, said blade comprising at least one sandwich panel construction in said pressure-side blade shell and said suction-side blade shell, wherein a core is disposed between an inner skin and an outer skin of said pressure-side blade shell and said suction-side blade shell, wherein said core of said at least one sandwich panel construction has a tapered end portion, wherein a structural bond line is arranged adjacent said at least one sandwich panel construction to join a portion of said pressure-side blade shell and a portion of said suction-side blade shell, wherein said structural bond line is spaced from the leading edge and the trailing edge of the wind turbine blade, wherein said at least one sandwich panel construction is arranged to provide parallel bonding surfaces between said pressure-side blade shell and said suction-side blade shell, wherein said structural bond line is arranged between said parallel bonding surfaces, and wherein said structural bond line is arranged adjacent said tapered end portion of said core of said at least one sandwich panel construction. | 7,360 |
9,261,936 | 1. A network terminal which performs communication through a transmission path, comprising: an oscillator circuit which generates a clock; a communication processing unit configured to transmit and receive communication data through the transmission path, using the clock; a controller unit configured to control a function of the network terminal, using the clock; a clock control unit configured to cause the oscillator circuit to start or stop oscillating, and supply the clock generated by the oscillator circuit to the communication processing unit and the controller unit; and a signal detecting unit configured to monitor a wave detection signal communicated through the transmission path in a case where the communication processing unit is not operating, and generate an activation signal according to which the clock control unit causes the oscillator circuit to start oscillating at a time when the wave detection signal exceeds a threshold value, wherein the signal detecting unit is configured with a circuit operable without using the clock, and the controller unit is configured to switch a wave detection signal detectable by the signal detecting unit, by changing a circuit constant of the signal detecting unit. | 39,371 |
8,772,559 | 1. A biochar generator comprising: a pyrolysis chamber; a heater connected to the pyrolysis chamber; a biochar collection chamber in communication with the pyrolysis chamber; a biochar collection chamber sensor to sense a composition of the biochar collected in the biochar collection chamber to define a sensed composition of the biochar; and a controller in electrical communication with the biochar collection chamber sensor; wherein the controller utilizes the sensed composition of the biochar to dynamically alter conditions in the pyrolysis chamber to alter the composition of the biochar. | 1,234 |
9,663,173 | 1. A device for removably mounting at least one accessory to a vehicle, the device comprising: a chassis configured to engage at least a portion of the vehicle; at least one base fixedly attached to at least a portion of the chassis; at least one top rotatably attached to at least a portion of the base, at least a portion of the top being attachable to at least a portion of the at least one accessory; a gasket positioned between the base and the top; at least one first fastener extending into the top, through the base and into at least a portion of the chassis, the first fastener being configured to restrict movement of the top, the base and the chassis along at least one axis; and at least one second fastener extending into the accessory and into the top, the second fastener being spaced-apart from the first fastener, the second fastener being configured to restrict movement of the top and the accessory along the axis. | 25,731 |
9,357,496 | 1. A method, comprising: prolonging at least one duration for a mobile device to be capable of accepting a mobile device location query, including at least: presenting an indication of location of the mobile device at least partially based on accepting a mobile device location query during at least one predetermined time period for accepting mobile device location queries. | 41,206 |
9,815,694 | 1. A catalytic process for reduction of molecular nitrogen (N 2 ) to generate a reduction product, said process comprising the steps of: contacting a transition metal catalyst with a source of protons and a source of electrons in the presence of said molecular nitrogen, thereby generating said reduction product; wherein said transition metal catalyst comprises a metal complex comprising a transition metal atom selected from the group consisting of Fe and Co, and a phosphine ligand (L) having the formula (FX1A), (FX1B) or (FX1C): wherein: X each of L each of R | 21,541 |
9,102,890 | 1. A fluidized catalytic cracking apparatus for co-processing an unenriched renewable fuel oil and a petroleum fraction, comprising: a riser having at least a first injection port and at least a second injection port; the at least first injection port for injecting the petroleum fraction; the at least second injection port for injecting the unenriched renewable fuel oil into the riser, the at least second injection port being corrosion resistant to the unenriched renewable fuel oil; at least one tank for storing and delivering the unenriched renewable fuel oil, the at least one tank being corrosion resistant to the unenriched renewable fuel oil; and a preheater to preheat the unenriched renewable fuel oil prior to injecting the unenriched renewable fuel oil into the riser, wherein the unenriched renewable fuel oil is derived from a non-catalytic conversion of a cellulosic biomass and comprises a carbon content of at least 40 wt. % on a moisture-free basis, an oxygen content in the range of between 20-50 wt. % on a moisture-free basis, and a water content in the range of between 10-40 wt. %, and wherein the at least second injection port is: designed to inject less than 10 wt. % of the unenriched renewable fuel oil into the riser relative to the total amount of the petroleum fraction injected into the riser; and located proximate the at least first injection port. | 1,529 |
9,395,114 | 1. A refrigerator comprising: a cabinet; a fresh food compartment within the cabinet; a freezer compartment within the cabinet; an icemaking compartment positioned within the fresh food compartment and comprising an icemaker within the icemaking compartment; an ice bin removably mounted in the icemaking compartment for storing ice made by the icemaker within the icemaking compartment; an icemaking compartment cover engaged to a front of the icemaking compartment, the cover being moveable between an open position to allow access to the ice bin and icemaker and a closed position; a latch mechanism associated with the cover having a latch member extending substantially between opposite edges of the cover and movable between a locked position and an unlocked position; a catch, wherein when the cover is in the closed position and the latch member is in the locked position the catch is engaged by the latch member such that the latch member retains the cover in the closed position, and further wherein when the latch member is in the unlocked position the latch member is free from the catch such that the catch will not impede movement of the cover from the closed position to the open position; and a cold air duct that has a lower air inlet positioned within the freezer compartment and an upper outlet end engaged with a fan and operably engaged with the ice making compartment to provide cold air to the ice making compartment. | 44,128 |
8,593,091 | 1. A control system for a multiphase electric motor, comprising: an input for a desired torque output of the motor; an input for a measured torque output of the motor; an input representative of optimal motor efficiency; an input representative of a measured efficiency of the motor; an output for a two-dimensional DQ control voltage; a torque feedback control loop which minimizes error between the desired and measured torque outputs by controlling an angle of the DQ control voltage; a motor efficiency feedback control loop which minimizes error between the optimal and measured motor efficiencies by controlling a magnitude of the DQ control voltage; and means for applying the DQ control voltage to the motor. | 13,448 |
9,269,393 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a media; a head configured to write data on the media; a read channel, coupled to the head, configured to detect servo data from the media; and control circuitry, coupled to the read channel, configured to: | 9,196 |
8,436,551 | 1. An arc discharge detecting circuit comprising: a voltage dividing part which divides a driving voltage provided to a light source; a detecting part which includes a loop-shaped wiring spaced apart from the voltage dividing part, and which detects a current corresponding to an arc discharge flowing through the voltage dividing part using a coupling capacitance between the loop-shaped wiring of the detecting part and a wiring of the voltage dividing part; and an output part connected to the detecting part to output a detection voltage corresponding to the arc discharge. | 27,902 |
8,757,434 | 1. A merchandiser, comprising: an ambient compartment with a plurality of different types of ambient products therein; a temperature controlled compartment with a plurality of different types of temperature controlled products therein; and a first of the plurality of different types of ambient products corresponding to a first of the plurality of different types of temperature controlled products; a vending module in communication with the temperature controlled compartment; an identification module to identify the plurality of different types of ambient products for dispensing a corresponding temperature controlled product; the identification module in communication with the plurality of different types of temperature controlled products in the temperature controlled compartment; the vending module adapted to dispense the first temperature controlled product in response to the first ambient product being placed in communication with the identification module and identified therein. | 39,807 |
8,519,012 | 1. A process for storing solar energy in organic compounds comprising carbon and hydrogen, said process comprising the steps of: (i) providing a water source and a carbon source; (ii) activating water from the water source using a form of solar energy, in the presence of the carbon source; (iii) converting the carbon source to organic compounds comprising carbon and hydrogen, said organic compounds having a higher energy content than the carbon source. | 2,489 |
9,323,318 | 1. A method for dynamically applying a power policy to a computing environment, comprising: accessing a scenario data structure comprising a scenario definition for a scenario; performing a scenario evaluation for a computing environment, the scenario evaluation comprising evaluating status information provided by one or more activity components of the computing environment to determine whether the status information satisfies the scenario definition for the scenario; accessing a power policy data structure comprising one or more power policy entries; responsive to satisfaction of the scenario definition, identifying a proposed power policy of the one or more power policy entries which is associated with the scenario; and responsive to the proposed power policy being different than a current power policy, applying the proposed power policy to the computing environment as the current power policy. | 49,711 |
9,544,754 | 1. A first wireless device comprising: a timing module configured to determine a timing of a plurality of discovery windows in a network, wherein a discovery window is a time period in which (i) the first wireless device and (ii) one or more second wireless devices in the network are configured to attempt discovery of a service in the network prior to associating with each other; and a scheduling module configured to generate a schedule including a subset of the plurality of discovery windows in which to allow (i) the first wireless device and (ii) the one or more second wireless devices in the network to attempt discovery of the service, wherein the subset includes fewer discovery windows than the plurality of discovery windows. | 43,868 |
9,064,888 | 1. A method comprising: designating areas within a substrate that will subsequently correspond to a source region and a drain region; selectively forming a stacking fault within the substrate corresponding to the source region; forming a tunneling field-effect transistor incorporating the source region and the drain region; doping the source region and the drain region to form a source and a drain, respectively, of the tunneling field-effect transistor; and forming an inversely doped pocket in the source. | 8,292 |
9,524,726 | 1. An audio signal decoder, comprising: a mechanism for receiving an encoded audio signal representation including a context-based spectral value decoder configured to decode the codeword, to acquire decoded spectral values; a context state determinator configured to determine a current context state in dependence on one or more previously decoded spectral values of the received encoded audio signal representation; and a time warping frequency-domain-to-time-domain converter configured to output a time-warped time-domain representation of a given audio frame of the received encoded audio signal representation on the basis of a set of decoded spectral values associated with the given audio frame and output by the context-based spectral value decoder and in dependence on the time warp information; wherein the context-state determinator is configured to adapt the determination of the context state to a change of a fundamental frequency between subsequent audio frames; and wherein the audio signal decoder is implemented using a hardware apparatus, or using a computer, or using a combination of a hardware apparatus and a computer. | 10,128 |
8,438,032 | 1. A method of tuning synthesized speech, said method comprising: synthesizing user supplied text to produce synthesized speech by a text-to-speech engine; maintaining state information related to said synthesized speech; receiving a user modification of duration cost factors associated with said synthesized speech to change the duration of said synthesized speech, including modifying a search of speech units when the text is re-synthesized to favor shorter speech units in response to user marking of any speech units in the synthesized speech as too long and modifying the search of speech units to favor longer speech units in response to user marking of any speech units in the synthesized speech as too short; receiving a user modification of pitch cost factors associated with said synthesized speech to change the pitch of said synthesized speech; receiving a user indication of segments of the user supplied text and/or the synthesized speech to skip during re-synthesis of said speech; displaying a waveform associated with said synthesized speech and receiving user manipulations of the waveform; and re-synthesizing said speech based on said user supplied text, said user modified duration cost factors, said user modified pitch cost factors, said user indicated segments to skip and said user manipulations of the waveform. | 15,770 |
8,449,549 | 1. A rod coercer, comprising: a handle having at least one rod contacting arm extending therefrom; an implant gripping assembly pivotally interconnected with said handle; and first and second implant gripping levers pivotally interconnected with said implant gripping assembly and including first and second protrusions biased to engage corresponding recesses of an implant, wherein said first and second implant gripping levers are pivotable to selectively retract said first and second protrusions from the recesses of the implant, and said handle is pivotable to urge said rod contacting arm against a rod to reduce the rod into the implant. | 32,637 |
9,166,489 | 1. A layout of a converter circuit, comprising: a main board; a first sub-board; and a second sub-board; wherein the converter circuit having a first output and a second output comprises: wherein the first sub-board is configured with the first rectifiers of the first and second converters and the first output capacitor which are disposed on the same side of the first sub-board, the first rectifiers of the first and second converters are symmetric about the first output capacitor on the first sub-board to make the distances from the first output capacitor to the two first rectifiers respectively are close; wherein the second sub-board is configured with the second rectifiers of the first and second converters and the second output capacitor which are disposed on the same side of the second sub-board, the second rectifiers of the first and second converters are symmetric about the second capacitor on the second sub-board to make the distances from the second output capacitor to the two second rectifiers respectively are close; wherein the first sub-board and a second sub-board are perpendicular to the main board. | 31,615 |
9,262,151 | 1. A computer-implemented method for configuring software compatibility algorithms prior to a compatibility analysis for an application, the method being performed by one or more processors, the method comprising: acquiring one or more compatibility algorithms having attached metadata or executable code, the one or more compatibility algorithms being associated with an application; receiving a request for determining which of the one or more compatibility algorithms are compatible with a platform, wherein the request includes one or more attributes of the platform; comparing the one or more attributes of the platform to information in the attached meta data or executable code; identifying at least one compatibility algorithm based on the comparison, wherein the identified compatibility algorithm can determine whether to run the identified compatibility algorithm; and performing a compatibility analysis for the application and the platform using the at least one identified compatibility algorithm. | 38,857 |
8,899,397 | 1. A clutch control system of a clutch apparatus for a vehicle, the clutch apparatus being a normally-closed type and including a clutch portion selectively connecting and disconnecting an input shaft that is rotatably connected to an engine and an output shaft that is rotatably connected to an electric motor, a compression spring biasing a piston member in a direction in which the clutch portion is connected, a pressurized chamber causing the piston member to move in a direction opposite from a biasing direction of the compression spring to disconnect the clutch portion in a state to be supplied with a hydraulic fluid including a predetermined pressure, and a canceller chamber generating a fluid pressure for cancelling a centrifugal fluid pressure that is generated at the hydraulic fluid remaining at the pressurized chamber by being supplied with a hydraulic fluid in a state where the clutch portion is connected, the clutch control system comprising: an electric oil pump supplying the hydraulic fluid to the pressurized chamber, the canceller chamber, and the clutch portion; a regulator valve being switchable between a first mode in which a fluid pressure of the hydraulic fluid supplied from a first output port to the pressurized chamber is regulated to a first predetermined fluid pressure and a second mode in which the fluid pressure of the hydraulic fluid supplied from a second output port to the canceller chamber is regulated to a second predetermined fluid pressure, the regulator valve discharging a portion of the hydraulic fluid at the first predetermined fluid pressure in the first mode or at the second predetermined fluid pressure in the second mode as a drain lubricant to be supplied to the clutch portion; a switching valve connected between the first output port and the pressurized chamber and being switchable between a supply mode in which the hydraulic fluid regulated to the first predetermined fluid pressure is supplied to the pressurized chamber and a discharge mode in which the pressurized chamber is connected to a reservoir; and a control valve connected to the electric oil pump, the regulator valve, the switching valve, and the canceller chamber, the control valve controlling the regulator valve to be switched between the first mode and the second mode and controlling the switching valve to be switched between the supply mode and the discharge mode. | 21,479 |
8,470,270 | 1. A method for extracting of rare earth elements from phosphogypsum by means of acid extraction, comprising mixing of phosphogypsum with a solution of mixture of sulfuric and nitric acid in a ratio from 3.2:1 to 1.2:1 by mass parts, with the concentration of each of them from 1 to 3 wt. %, with the ratio of “liquid:solid” from 4:1 to 5:1 weight parts during from 8 to 12 minutes to form a suspension, mixing the suspension, hydroacoustic effecting on the suspension simultaneously with its mixing by means of circulation the suspension through a rotary-oscillatory device with grinding of phosphogysum particles to a size from 10 to 15 microns, separating from the suspension of insoluble precipitate and obtaining an extraction solution and extracting compounds of rare earth elements from the extraction solution by means of passing the extraction solution through the cation-exchange filter. | 9,025 |
9,608,143 | 1. A method of forming an n-type diffusion layer, the method comprising: providing a composition for forming an n-type diffusion layer, the composition comprising a glass powder and a dispersion medium, wherein the glass powder includes a donor element and a total amount of a life time killer element in the glass powder is 1000 ppm or less, and wherein the glass powder has an average particle diameter of 3.5 μm or less; applying the composition for forming an n-type diffusion layer to a semiconductor substrate; and conducting a thermal diffusion treatment to diffuse the donor element into the semiconductor substrate. | 27,466 |
8,895,992 | 1. A semiconductor structure comprising: a first III-V compound layer; a second III-V compound layer disposed on the first III-V compound layer and different from the first III-V compound layer in composition, wherein a carrier channel is located between the first III-V compound layer and the second III-V compound layer; a source feature and a drain feature disposed on the second III-V compound layer; a gate electrode disposed over the second III-V compound layer between the source feature and the drain feature, wherein a fluorine region is embedded in the second III-V compound layer under the gate electrode; a third III-V compound layer disposed over the second III-V compound layer, wherein a diffusion barrier layer is located between the second III-V compound layer and the third III-V compound layer; and a gate dielectric layer disposed over portions of the second III-V compound layer and over an entire top surface of the third III-V compound layer. | 22,998 |
9,830,946 | 1. A method comprising: receiving source data; processing the source data to determine rendering parameters; wherein the processing comprises: signaling the rendering parameters for playback; and adapting the rendering parameters to render the processing-free temporal segments from the source content. | 23,409 |
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