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9,287,659 | 1. A coaxial cable connector for coupling an end of a coaxial cable to a terminal, the coaxial cable comprising an inner conductor, a dielectric surrounding the inner conductor, an outer conductor surrounding the dielectric, and a jacket surrounding the outer conductor, the connector comprising: a coupler configured to couple the connector to the terminal; a body assembled with the coupler, and a post assembled with the coupler and the body, wherein the post is configured to receive an end of a coaxial cable, wherein the coupler and post define a plurality of pairs of electromagnetically coupled faces, wherein a first pair of electromagnetically coupled faces is substantially orthogonal to an adjacent pair of electromagnetically coupled faces. | 1,212 |
8,502,050 | 1. A seed of the hybrid corn variety CH437161, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV774864 with a second plant of variety CV131671, wherein representative seed of said varieties CV774864 and CV131671 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-11317 and PTA-12079, respectively. | 49,636 |
9,660,738 | 1. A mobile communications device antenna assembly comprising: one or more matrix antennas comprising a plurality of conductor elements connected by a plurality of radio frequency (RF) switches; an antenna performance assessment component coupled to the one or more matrix antennas, the antenna performance assessment component configured to determine performance of the one or more matrix antennas and to receive control messages from another entity over a wireless communications network, the control messages comprising information about communication performance between the other entity and the mobile communications device over the wireless communications network; and control circuitry coupled to the one or more matrix antennas, the control circuitry configured to change a state of one or more of the RF switches based at least in part on the determined performance of the matrix antenna and the communication performance. | 26,569 |
9,759,117 | 1. A diagnostic system for an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas control system and an exhaust passage, the exhaust gas control system including: the diagnostic system comprising: | 18,756 |
8,902,914 | 1. An apparatus for managing data transmission in a telecommunications system, the apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to the circuitry is configured to forward accumulated data to the transmitter for transmission before the amount of data accumulated reaches the predefined threshold if there is data in the buffer that has been stored for more than a predefined time period. | 24,432 |
8,414,085 | 1. A tool, comprising: a head having a base end with a cavity formed therein, said cavity having an inward protruding catch forming an opening having a breadth, and said head having an impact surface spaced opposite said base end; a collar having a proximal end, a distal end, a central axis, and a bore extending from said proximate end to said distal end, said bore having a wall and a shoulder formed therein, and said proximal end being disposed proximate said base end of said head; an insert having a first breadth that is greater than said breath of said opening, said insert being compressible to a second breadth less than said breadth of said opening such that said insert may be passed through said opening of said cavity and return to said first breadth when in said cavity; and a tensioned element having a first end and a second end, a head disposed at said first end, said tensioned element having a radial extending catch sized and shaped to be retained within said cavity by said insert, said tensioned element disposed axially within said bore of said collar, and said second end of said tensioned element being secured to said shoulder. | 8,226 |
8,935,032 | 1. A torque distribution apparatus distributes an input instructed torque to motors connected to drive wheels, the torque distribution apparatus comprising: an instructed torque acquiring unit that acquires the instructed torque input; an efficiency map acquiring unit that acquires a motor efficiency map that corresponds to the motors; a vehicular speed detecting unit that detects vehicular speed of a vehicle equipped with the motors; a drive wheel rotational speed detecting unit that detects drive wheel rotational speed of the drive wheels; a slip rate calculating unit that based on the vehicular speed and the drive wheel rotational speed, calculates a relational expression of a slip rate at the drive wheels and a friction coefficient; a calculating unit that based on the relational expression of the slip rate and the friction coefficient, creates a performance curve expression that indicates relations between torque and the drive wheel rotational speed that includes the slip rate, superimposes the performance curve expression on the motor efficiency map, creates an efficiency variation expression that indicates for each vehicular speed, the torque and efficiency values of the motor efficiency map, and calculates a torque that optimizes efficiency, from the efficiency variation expression on the performance curve; a distributing unit that based on the instructed torque and the torque optimizing efficiency, calculates a torque distribution value for each of the motors; and a control unit that within a range of the slip rate being 0 to 0.2 and based on the calculated torque distribution values, controls torque distribution to each of the motors. | 27,640 |
9,793,720 | 1. A method for wireless transfer of power from a transmitting side to a receiving side, the method comprising: generating a source field pattern energy from an excitation power source at a focal plane of the transmitting side; generating a subwavelength field pattern of energy from a transmitting side near-field plate when the near-field plate is excited by the excitation source, the transmitter side near-field plate being at a distance, d, from the excitation source; receiving energy at the receiving side in a desired field pattern received by a receiving side near-field plate positioned to excite a power receiver, where the desired field pattern is formed at a focal plane of the receiving side and from the subwavelength field pattern and the source field pattern, the focal plane of the receiving side being at a distance, L, from the excitation source, and wherein the receiving side near-field plate is positioned at the focal plane of the receiving side; and converting the received energy into a received power, at a power conversion efficiency. | 42,798 |
8,459,028 | 1. An energy transfer machine, comprising: passageways defining a closed loop and containing a compressible fluid, the compressible fluid having constant phase in the closed loop; a pressure-displacement coupled interface on the closed loop arranged to move in a conduit between a first side of the conduit and a second side of the conduit and the conduit dividing the closed loop into a hot circuit and a cold circuit, with differential pressure between the first side and second side of the conduit during operation of the energy transfer machine causing or being caused by movement of the pressure-displacement coupled interface, each movement of the pressure-displacement coupled interface from the first side of the conduit to the second side of the conduit and back to the first side of the conduit corresponding to a cycle; first flow control devices on the hot circuit coordinated to permit pulsed flow through the hot circuit with energy transfer through the pressure-displacement coupled interface, the first flow control devices comprising at least a hot inlet valve on the first side of the conduit arranged to control flow between the hot circuit and the first side of the conduit and a cold discharge valve on the second side of the conduit arranged to control flow between the second side of the conduit and the hot circuit; second flow control devices on the cold circuit coordinated to permit pulsed flow through the cold circuit with energy transfer through the pressure-displacement coupled interface, the second flow control devices comprising at least a hot discharge valve on the first side of the conduit arranged to control flow between the cold circuit and the first side of the conduit and a cold inlet valve on the second side of the conduit arranged to control flow between the second side of the conduit and the cold circuit; the first flow control devices and the second flow devices being coordinated by configuration of the energy transfer machine to allow the pulsed flows in the hot circuit and the cold circuit to combine to create flow around the closed loop and cause energy transfer by the cold discharge valve opening in each cycle after opening of the hot inlet valve, the cold discharge valve opening while the pressure-displacement coupled interface is moving towards the second side of the conduit; and an input-output device coupled to the pressure-displacement coupled interface to at least one of input energy into and extract energy from the pressure-displacement coupled interface. | 37,353 |
9,131,694 | 1. A compound according to the following formula: wherein | 1,957 |
8,890,453 | 1. A power conversion apparatus comprising two main circuits on a high side and a low side, which are serially coupled to one another and are coupled to a direct current power supply, and supplying a power from a connection point of the two main circuits to a conductive load, wherein each of the two main circuits includes a main switching element and a diode coupled in anti-parallel between both ends of the main switching element, wherein the main switching element in one of the two main circuits is controlled to repeat an on-off state at a predetermined period, and a dead time in which the main switching elements of the two main circuits are both in an off-state is provided, wherein the diode in the other of the two main circuits is used as a freewheeling diode during the dead time, wherein a plurality of snubbers circuit each including a resistor, a capacitor, and a second switching element, which are serially coupled, is coupled in parallel to the main circuit, wherein the second switching elements in the plurality of snubber circuits coupled in parallel to the main circuit repeats a turn-on and a turn-off at a period of an integral multiple of the predetermined period to produce different combinations of on-states one after another before a turn-on and a turn-off of the main switching element that repeats the on-off state, and wherein a series of resonance frequencies of each resonance circuit formed of device capacitances of the main switching element and the diode, a parasitic inductance of a wiring coupled to the direct current power supply, and the capacitor coupled based on the combinations of the on-states of the second switching elements are different from each other. | 29,784 |
9,645,808 | 1. A computer-implemented method for integrating updates with testing and deployment of a first program, the method comprising performing computer-implemented operations for: deploying the first program to one or more production hosts using one or more deployment rules defined for use in deploying the first program to the one or more production hosts, the one or more deployment rules specifying one or more of a time period to perform deployment or a condition under which deployment occurs, and maintaining a copy of the first program on one or more test hosts for one or more automated tests for subsequent compatibility analysis: identifying updated software components for one or more other programs that are different from the first program: deploying the updated software components for the one or more other programs that are different from the first program to the one or more test hosts having the copy of the first program installed thereupon; in response to deploying the updated software components to the one or more test hosts, performing one or more automated tests for subsequent compatibility analysis on execution of the first program maintained on the one or more test hosts; receiving, separately from the updated software components, changes to the first program; determining, based upon the automated tests for subsequent compatibility analysis, that the first program executed properly on the one or more test hosts; and in response to determining that the first program executed properly on the one or more test hosts, deploying the updated software components for the one or more other programs in conjunction with deploying the changes to the first program to the one or more production hosts executing the first program using the one or more deployment rules specified for deploying the first program. | 31,990 |
8,880,365 | 1. A system for generating an energy usage profile of an electrical device, the system comprising: a meter configured to measure electrical usage; a memory area for storing a plurality of ramp up digital signatures corresponding to a plurality of electrical devices associated with the electric meter; and at least one processor programmed to: | 6,481 |
9,322,033 | 1. An insect inhibitory recombinant polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 34. | 44,097 |
9,303,701 | 1. A method of controlling an impeller clutch comprising: measuring a turbine speed; estimating a turbine torque; estimating an impeller speed based on the turbine speed and the turbine torque; and adjusting a torque capacity of the impeller clutch based on the estimated impeller speed to maintain the impeller speed between an input shaft speed and the turbine speed. | 46,047 |
9,541,433 | 1. A sensor device for detecting at least one property of a flowing medium, comprising: at least one moisture sensor; and | 36,363 |
9,845,789 | 1. A system for monitoring and controlling the operation of wind turbines located within a wind farm, the system comprising: a first wind turbine located within the wind farm, the first wind turbine including a first turbine controller configured to monitor one or more operating parameters associated with the first wind turbine and provide a first control interface for controlling the operation of the first wind turbine; a second wind turbine located within the wind farm, the second wind turbine including a second turbine controller configured to monitor one or more operating parameters associated with the second wind turbine and provide a second control interface for controlling the operation of the second wind turbine, the second turbine controller including a processor and associated memory, the memory storing instructions that, when implemented by the processor, configure the second turbine controller to execute a local supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) module that allows the second turbine controller to both access data from the first turbine controller and access the first control interface of the first turbine controller; and an off-site SCADA system located remote to the wind farm, the off-site SCADA system including a server communicatively coupled to the first and second turbine controllers, the server being configured to communicate control signals to the first and second turbine controllers in order control the operation of the first and second wind turbines, the offsite SCADA system being further configured to receive data associated with the one or more operating parameters monitored by the first and second turbine controllers, wherein, when connectivity is lost between the wind farm and the off-site SCADA system, the second turbine controller is configured to execute the local SCADA module to access the first control interface and generate control commands for controlling the operation of the first wind turbine, and wherein the first turbine controller includes a processor and associated memory, the memory storing instructions that, when implemented by the processor, configure the first turbine controller to execute a separate local SCADA module that allows the first turbine controller to both access data from the second turbine controller and access the second control interface of the second turbine controller. | 24,863 |
8,642,926 | 1. An electric heating system for use in automobiles, the system comprising: a plurality of side-by-side heating rods each comprising a PTC heating element; a plurality of rod connecting plates; a series of sequentially aligned slotted holes formed in each of the plurality of rod connecting plates disposed along a longitudinal length of the rod connecting plates and configured for receiving the side-by-side heating rods, each slotted hole having a length extending longitudinally along each of the plurality of rod connecting plates, at least some of the slotted hole lengths being greater than each heating rod width configured for enabling a distance between heating rods to be changed; and a plurality of tongues formed along an inside perimeter of each of the slotted holes and facing each other, the plurality of tongues configured for clamping the heating rods therebetween. | 25,520 |
9,412,986 | 1. A separator structure for separation of electrodes in an electrochemical cell, the separator structure being in the form of a flat, but foldable or rollable porous layer having a thickness no greater than about fifty micrometers, the separator layer structure comprising micro-fibrillated nanofibers comprising stems with fibrillated, branching fibers, the micro-fibrillated nanofibers having lengths ranging from about five micrometers to a thousand micrometers and a combined specific surface area of from about 50 m 2 /g to about 300 m 2 /g, the micro-fibrillated nanofibers being randomly-oriented in the flat porous layer, and intermixed and spaced-apart with ceramic particles, the micro-fibrillated nanofiber stems having diameters in a range of about 0.01 to about 0.1 micrometers and the overall diameters of the micro-fibrillated nanofiber fiber stems and the branching fibers being up to 2 micrometers, the flat layer separator structure being porous for infiltration with a liquid electrolyte, the separator structure being resistant to shrinkage when heated to temperatures up to 150° C., the composition of the micro-fibrillated nanofibers being selected from the group consisting of cellulose, poly(acrylonitrile), polyamides, and polyethylene terephthalate, and the separator structure having a pore volume that is 20% to 90% of the outline volume of the separator structure. | 43,117 |
9,055,581 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a femtocell, a call setup request from a first user equipment; performing, in the femtocell, an evaluation of a destination number of a second user equipment to which a call related to the call setup request is directed; and directing the call to a private branch exchange deployed in the femtocell network if the destination number is an abbreviated code of a telephone number derived from the destination number; directing the call to a core network communicatively coupled with the femtocell network if the destination number is not an abbreviated code of a telephone number derived from the destination number. | 46,757 |
8,575,861 | 1. A method of sensing lumen depreciation or loss in light output from a light source wherein the light source is operatively mounted in a lighting fixture comprising one or more of a light source holder, electrical supply means, and optical surface including but not limited to a reflective surface or lens, and comprising: a. sensing light quantity of the light source externally from the lighting fixture; b. comparing the sensed light quantity to a reference light quantity related to other than lamp lumen depreciation (LLD); and c. taking an action if the comparison exceeds a pre-determined offset, wherein the action comprises: (i) removing dirt, debris, dust, and/or foreign objects from the lighting fixture if the lighting fixture has LDD; (ii) sensing again the light quantity of the light source externally from the lighting fixture; (iii) making a second comparison of the sensed light quantity to the reference light quantity; and (iv) taking a second action if the second comparison exceeds a pre-determined offset, wherein the second action comprises generating a signal and communicating the signal to another component. | 48,777 |
8,612,006 | 1. A method for inducing neurogenesis in a brain of a human to treat Alzheimer's Disease or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) by means of an implantable signal generator and a lead having a proximal end coupled to the signal generator and a distal portion having at least one electrode, the method comprising: A) selecting a patient suffering from Alzheimer's Disease or mild cognitive impairment (MCI); implanting the at least one electrode in an anterior thalamic nuclei complex of the Papez circuit of the patient; C) coupling the proximal end of the implanted electrode to the sign generator; and D) operating the signal generator to deliver high frequency stimulation of about 50 to about 200 Hz to the anterior thalamic nuclei complex to cause a production of new or replacement neurons in a second portion of the Papez circuit, including at least a hippocampus. | 38,301 |
9,206,747 | 1. A method for operating an engine including a central throttle, a plurality of port throttles, an air flow sensor, and a controller respectively operatively connected thereto, comprising: measuring an air flow being delivered to the engine by the air flow sensor; judging if a flow distribution difference between the plurality of port throttles is greater than a threshold flow distribution difference and if the measured engine air flow is less than a threshold air flow via the controller; and increasing an opening amount of at least one of the plurality of port throttles while decreasing an opening amount of the central throttle in response to the judgement. | 26,434 |
8,555,674 | 1. A quartz glass crucible for pulling a silicon single crystal, said quartz glass crucible comprising a straight body part and a bottom part, wherein the straight body part has a fictive temperature gradient wherein an innermost fictive temperature is set between 1185° C. and 1265° C., and an outermost fictive temperate is set between 1145° C. and 1210° C. respectively, and the outermost fictive temperature is at least 25° C. lower than the innermost fictive temperature. | 42,594 |
9,012,784 | 1. A stretchable electrical interconnect, comprising: an electrical interconnect for coupling two electrical contacts, said electrical interconnect being arranged boustrophedonically to define rungs between said two electrical contacts, said rungs being substantially parallel with one another, and a plurality of said rungs having substantially the same length and displacement therebetween, wherein the ratio of said length of said plurality of said rungs and said displacement between said plurality of said rungs is at least about 10:1. | 24,621 |
9,087,152 | 1. A verification supporting method of a reconfigurable processor, the method comprising: detecting an invalid operation from a result of scheduling on a source code; and generating a masking hint for the detected invalid operation, wherein the masking hint comprises information about a number of a cycle in a prologue or epilogue of a loop in which the detected invalid operation exists and an identification (ID) of a function unit (FU) to which the detected invalid operation is mapped. | 40,713 |
9,439,889 | 1. A method for treating Wolbachia -related Lymphatic Filariasis or African River Blindness in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject a formulation comprising Albendazole sulfone. | 3,557 |
9,378,062 | 1. A computer memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one computer system, perform a method comprising: registering at a resource manager a first scheduler, the first scheduler separate from the resource manager; receiving at the resource manager a request from the first scheduler for processing resources; receiving at the resource manager, first information that describes a first amount of use of a first set of resources allocated to the first scheduler of a first process; and adjusting, by the resource manager, the first set of resources allocated to the first scheduler in accordance with the first information, the resource manager adjusting processing resources to the first scheduler by providing an array of interfaces to a plurality of virtual processor roots and a count of a number of array element to the first scheduler; wherein the first scheduler creates a virtual processor for each interface to a virtual processor root and maps each virtual processor to a corresponding virtual processor root, wherein the virtual processor root maps to a respective hardware thread of the computer system. | 41,585 |
9,495,471 | 1. A computer implemented method to automatically resize view elements in a graphical user interface, comprising: monitoring the graphical user interface; responsive to a triggering event, invoking a view optimization program; responsive to an invocation of the view optimization program, invoking a window preference program for checking window preferences, a portlet preference program for checking portlet preferences for each portlet, and a portlet priority program for checking portlet priority settings; and invoking an apply program for resizing view elements in the graphical user interface based on the window preferences, the portlet preferences, and the portlet priority settings. | 2,845 |
8,418,444 | 1. A method for purification of exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, by using a catalyst for increasing temperature of exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, which comprises introducing hydrocarbon in an amount of from 1,000 to 40,000 ppm by volume, measured as methane, to the exhaust gas, at the upstream side of the catalyst for increasing temperature, along flow of the exhaust gas inside a passage of exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine, wherein the catalyst for increasing temperature is obtained by supporting a catalytically active component (A) consisting essentially of (a) platinum, (b) an oxide of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, an alkaline earth metal and an alkali metal, and (c) palladium, on refractory inorganic oxide powder (B), and supporting the inorganic oxide powder having the catalytically active component supported thereon, on a refractory three-dimensional structure body, and mass ratio of (a)/(c) in said catalyst for increasing temperature is from 20/1 to 1/1, and wherein mass ratio of magnesium, an alkaline earth metal and an alkali metal (b′), in (b) in said catalyst for increasing temperature relative to platinum (a), that is (b′)/(a), is from 0.2/1 to 20/1. | 8,344 |
9,241,649 | 1. An electronic device for long-term adhesion to a mammal, the device comprising: a housing; a physiologic data collection circuit contained in the housing; at least two wings extending laterally from the housing, wherein each wing includes a hinge adjacent the housing; an electrode integral with a bottom surface of each of the wings so as to be inseparable from the wings during use of the device, the electrodes electrically connected to the physiologic data collection circuit; an adhesive layer on the bottom surfaces of the wings, wherein the adhesive layer provides adhesion to the skin of the mammal; wherein the housing is attached to the mammal's skin only via the adhesive layer on the wings and is not directly attached to the skin of the mammal when the electrodes are in contact with the mammal; wherein each hinge extends from the housing to each adhesive layer, each hinge configured to bend at a first intersection between the hinge and the housing and at a second intersection between the hinge and the adhesive layer; wherein the wings are flexibly coupled to the housing to enable the electrodes to move toward and away from each other within a horizontal plane parallel to the mammal's skin, and to enable the housing to move toward and away from the mammal's body within a vertical plane perpendicular to the mammal's skin in response to movement of the mammal; and, wherein the hinges are configured such that forces generated from the movement of the mammal are distributed along each hinge. | 2,859 |
8,591,970 | 1. A beverage containing a soluble whole oat flour, wherein the soluble whole oat flour is prepared by: combining a whole oat flour starting mixture and an α-amylase enzyme water solution to form a wetted enzyme starting mixture having a moisture content of about 25 to about 40 wt. %; heating the wetted enzyme starting mixture to between about 120° F. and about 200° F.; adding the heated wetted mixture to an extruder and extruding for 1 to 1.5 minutes and to form the soluble whole oat flour; and wherein the temperature of the mixture increases in the extruder to a temperature to deactivate the enzyme. | 8,920 |
9,465,428 | 1. A computer device, comprising: a central processing unit (CPU); a chipset electrically connected to the CPU; an input/output (I/O) chip electrically connected to the chipset; a general purpose I/O (GPIO) interface electrically connected to the CPU; and a smart battery electrically connected to the GPIO interface and the I/O chip, wherein the CPU reads information of two bytes saved in the smart battery through the GPIO interface and determines a relative processing according to the information of the two bytes when a status of the smart battery is changed, wherein the information of the two bytes comprises: a first byte recording a proportion of current capacity to full charge capacity and a proportion of the full charge capacity to rated capacity of the smart battery; and a second byte recording a status of an operating temperature and a status of an over-current of the smart battery, wherein the first byte and the second byte are continuous, and the first byte is a high byte and the second byte is a low byte. | 37,694 |
8,469,490 | 1. An inkjet printer comprising: a carriage guide extending along a carriage scan direction; a print region; a media advance system for advancing media across the print region in a media advance direction; an inkjet printhead including a plurality of nozzle arrays; a plurality of ink sources that are detachably mountable to the inkjet printhead, wherein a first ink source and a second ink source of the plurality of ink sources are included within a first ink tank, the first ink source is disposed proximate to the carriage guide and the second ink source is disposed distal to the carriage guide when the first ink tank is in an installed configuration in the inkjet printhead that is operable for printing; and a carriage configured to move the inkjet printhead and the plurality of ink sources across the print region along the carriage scan direction. | 2,399 |
8,426,930 | 1. A sensor module comprising: a housing; and a chip system disposed in the housing, wherein the chip system is disposed on a first substrate and embedded in a sealing layer deposited on the first substrate, the chip system being disposed in a window region of a frame structure disposed on the first substrate, and wherein the frame structure has substantially the same thermal expansion properties as the first substrate and the frame structure is affixed to a second carrier substrate and extends from the first substrate to the second carrier substrate. | 21,607 |
8,541,795 | 1. A light emitting diode (LED) package comprising: an LED structure outputting light in a pattern about an axis; and an optical coupling device having a central axis and positioned relative to the LED structure to accept light from the LED, the device comprising a homogenous first dielectric interface surface that is substantially cylindrical with respect to the central axis, and a multi-faceted reflecting surface comprising a plurality of faces, each of the faces arranged to reflect light in a direction substantially perpendicular to the central axis, the first dielectric interface surface accepting a first portion of substantially unrefracted light from the LED structure and directing it toward the reflecting surface, the reflecting surface accepting the light from the first dielectric interface surface and directing it toward the first dielectric interface surface to exit the device in a direction substantially perpendicular to the central axis; wherein said reflecting surface extends to cover the entire surface of revolution about the central axis; wherein a first face is obliquely angled with respect to the central axis from a side closest to the LED structure that accepts the first portion of light from the first dielectric interface surface; wherein a second face is obliquely angled with respect to the central axis from a side closest to the LED structure that accepts another portion of light from the LED structure and directs it toward the first dielectric interface surface in a direction substantially perpendicular to the central axis, wherein at least one of said first and second faces is straight; and wherein a third face of the reflecting surface extends outward and beyond the first dielectric interface surface. | 48,773 |
9,235,205 | 1. A method for producing a program for a numeric controller (NC) of a machine tool for inspecting a workpiece, the method comprising in any suitable order the steps of: i) providing a path for a cutter of the machine tool; and ii) selecting, from a computer aided manufacture (CAM) program containing data relating to a plurality of geometric features of a workpiece, one of the plurality of geometric features of the workpiece that is to be inspected and generating a measurement probe path based on the selected geometric feature; and then iii) creating an integrated program containing both the machine tool cutter path and the generated measurement probe path for use with a motion control of the machine tool to control the measurement probe path. | 18,402 |
8,696,802 | 1. A heat exchanger, comprising: a frame defining a volumetric body having a longitudinal axis with substantially flat upper and lower sides that each has inwardly extending ribs, each of the ribs being oriented substantially in parallel with the longitudinal axis and having a non-contiguous structure defined along the longitudinal axis that defines airflow pathways; heat exchange elements disposed within an interior of the body; and partition walls disposed to run perpendicularly with respect to the ribs and to transmit loading between the upper and the lower sides from the ribs and through the interior of the body. | 19,691 |
9,556,741 | 1. A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine, the blade comprising: a platform; a blade root extending radially inwardly from the platform; an airfoil portion extending radially outwardly from the platform, the airfoil portion defining a pressure side and a suction side of the turbine blade; and a shroud provided at a tip of the airfoil portion opposite to the blade root, the shroud including: | 163 |
9,582,503 | 1. A method, comprising: identifying a first unique term in a document authored by a user, wherein the document is part of a document corpus and the first unique term is identified by the frequency of use of the first unique term in the document corpus; providing to the user a first notification indicating multiple semantic concepts associated with the first unique term; receiving a selection, by the user, of a first semantic concept in the multiple semantic concepts; in response to receiving the selection, generating a first query to identify a set of semantic concepts comprising the first semantic concept associated with the first unique term and a second semantic concept associated with the first unique term; providing, for display to the user, a second notification indicative of the set of semantic concepts comprising the first semantic concept and the second semantic concept, the first unique term not comprising the first semantic concept and not comprising the second semantic concept; receiving a selection, by the user, of the first semantic concept in the set of semantic concepts but not the second semantic concept in the set of semantic concepts; and responsive to the receiving, associating the first semantic concept but not the second semantic concept with the first unique term as an annotation to the first unique term such that the first unique term remains visible in the document after the associating, at least some of the method implemented at least in part via a processing unit. | 49,817 |
8,573,114 | 1. A beverage forming machine comprising: a brew chamber for receiving a brew cartridge; a reservoir for receiving precursor liquid for use in forming a beverage, the reservoir being fluidly coupled to the brew chamber and having a lid that is movable between open and closed positions to open and close an access opening through which precursor liquid is provided into the reservoir; a brew indication sensor for receiving an indication from a user to begin a brewing cycle; a heater for heating precursor liquid in the reservoir; a detector for detecting a desired temperature of precursor liquid in the reservoir; an air pump for providing pressurized air to the reservoir to cause the precursor liquid to be delivered to the brew chamber; and a controller constructed and arranged to control operation of the heater and the air pump and including a sensor to detect that the reservoir lid is in the closed position; wherein the controller is adapted to begin a brewing cycle only if the reservoir lid is detected to be closed, is adapted to control the heater to heat the precursor liquid in response to the indication to begin a brewing cycle and is adapted to cause the air pump to deliver pressurized air to the reservoir in response to the detector detecting that the precursor liquid is at the desired temperature. | 25,571 |
9,381,910 | 1. A control device for a hybrid electric vehicle having an engine and an electric motor both as a drive source for traveling, a transmission having a first transmission mechanism and a second transmission mechanism, a first power transmission system configured to transmit power of the engine to driving wheels through the first transmission mechanism, a second power transmission system configured to transmit the power of the engine and of the electric motor to the driving wheels through the second transmission mechanism, a first clutch associated with the first power transmission system and arranged between the engine and the transmission, and a second clutch associated with the second power transmission system and arranged between the engine and the electric motor, the control device comprising: a hydraulic pressure supply unit configured to supply operating oil to the first and second clutches such that hydraulic pressure of the operating oil is applied to the first and second clutches; a preliminary pressure application control unit configured to execute preliminary pressure application control such that the first and second clutches are charged in advance with the operating oil by the hydraulic pressure supply unit before the first and second clutches are engaged; and a preliminary pressure application delay control unit configured to delay timing for starting the preliminary pressure application control by the preliminary pressure application control unit, by a predetermined delay time when the vehicle is to be started solely by the electric motor. | 20,345 |
9,238,495 | 1. A straddle electric vehicle which drives by use of driving power generated by an electric motor, the straddle electric vehicle comprising: a battery unit which is an electric power supply for the electric motor; a vehicle body frame including a head pipe supporting a steering shaft for steering a front wheel such that the steering shaft is rotatable, and a main frame unitarily joined to the head pipe; and a sub-frame extending rearward from an upper portion of the main frame; wherein the main frame includes a down frame member extending downward from the head pipe and a lower frame member extending rearward from a lower end of the down frame member, and the sub-frame is detachably joined to the vehicle body frame by use of a bolt; wherein a bottom portion of the battery unit is supported on the lower frame member of the main frame, and a side portion of the battery unit is covered with the sub-frame; wherein at least the lower frame member of the main frame is composed of a pair of right and left lower frame members; and wherein the bottom portion of the battery unit is supported on the pair of right and left lower frame members. | 35,327 |
9,041,376 | 1. A synchronous DC-DC converter having a soft-stop function, comprising: an output stage, for supplying an output voltage, the output stage comprising: an output control circuit, coupled to the output stage, for controlling the high-side transistor and the low-side transistor of the output stage; at least one protection device, for controlling the high-side transistor to be turned off when a specific situation occurs, in order to stop supplying the output voltage; and a soft-stop control circuit, coupled to the output control circuit, for controlling the low-side transistor of the output stage to be turned on when the protection device controls the high-side transistor to be turned off or the synchronous DC-DC converter is disabled, in order to discharge the output voltage, wherein the soft-stop control circuit comprises: | 31,534 |
9,556,824 | 1. A device for the recycling of an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle, comprising: an exhaust gas heat exchanger having a first housing element with a first inlet, a first outlet, a second inlet, and a second outlet; and a compressor having a second housing element with a compressor inlet and a compressor outlet, the first housing element of the exhaust gas heat exchanger and the second housing element of the compressor produced as a unitary housing, the exhaust gas heat exchanger and the compressor arranged inside the unitary housing, wherein the exhaust gas heat exchanger further comprises conduits allowing heat exchange between the exhaust gas passing through the conduits and a coolant passing over the conduits, at least a part of the conduits extending from the first inlet of the exhaust gas heat exchanger to the compressor inlet, wherein the exhaust gas discharged from the conduits is directly conducted into the compressor. | 39,309 |
8,809,259 | 1. A nutritive composition comprising an isolated nutritive protein comprising a first polypeptide sequence, wherein the nutritive protein comprises an aqueous solubility of at least 50 g/l at pH7 and a stimulated gastric digestion half-life of less than 10 minutes, and wherein the first polypeptide sequence comprises: a. a ratio of Leu residues to total amino acids residues of at least 6%; b. a ratio of essential amino acid residues to total amino acid residues of at least 34%; c. a ratio of branch chain amino acid residues to total amino acid residues of at least 18%; and d. 0, 1, 2, or 3 cysteine residues. | 39,973 |
9,519,336 | 1. A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising: a control unit configured to control supply of power to a plurality of power supply domains respectively corresponding to a plurality of functions included in an apparatus, wherein a circuit configured to integrate bus signals between the plurality of power supply domains is included in a specific power supply domain out of the plurality of power supply domains, and the control unit performs control such that the supply of power to the specific power supply domain is carried out prior to the other power supply domains connected with the specific power supply domain. | 9,312 |
8,473,647 | 1. A data device adapted to communicate with another device over a bus, the data device comprising: logic configured to poll the second device according to a first of a plurality of polling schemes; logic configured to determine when polling is non-productive; logic configured to select a progressively lower rate polling scheme from the plurality of polling schemes, responsive to multiple determinations of non-productive polling; logic configured to receive an indication of available data for transfer; logic configured to, responsive to the indication of available data, request resumption of the first polling scheme. | 40,884 |
8,358,090 | 1. A driver circuit comprising: a Light Emitting Diode (LED) driver having an input and output; a switching device coupled to an output of the LED driver; an edge detector coupled to the LED driver; a timing device coupled to the edge detector; and a latch coupled to the edge detector, the timing device and the switching device. | 18,954 |
8,840,856 | 1. A method for producing an imide salt represented by formula [1] wherein, R represents a halosulfonyl group (—SO reacting an alkali metal fluoride, a sulfuryl dihalide (SO wherein the alkali metal fluoride and the sulfuryl dihalide or phosphoryl halide are made coexistent in the reaction system firstly, followed by bringing ammonia or the ammonium salt into the reaction. | 7,869 |
9,284,578 | 1. An isolated and purified methyl butenol (MBO) synthase cDNA molecule, wherein the MBO synthase cDNA molecule comprises any one of SEQ ID NOs: 3-7 or a nucleic acid molecule having at least 95% sequence identity thereof. | 46,128 |
8,746,686 | 1. A reversing sheet transport apparatus comprising: registration rollers configured to transport a sheet of paper after an edge of the sheet has hit against the registration rollers; reverse rollers configured to transport the sheet, placed downstream of the registration rollers in a sheet transport direction; a single transport motor configured to rotationally drive the registration rollers and the reverse rollers; a registration roller clutch configured to permit or block conveyance of rotation of the transport motor to rotation of the registration rollers; and a reverse roller clutch configured to permit or block conveyance of rotation of the transport motor to rotation of the reverse rollers, the transport motor being switched from forward rotation to reverse rotation midway through transport of the sheet in the sheet transport direction by the reverse rollers, to transport the sheet back to the registration rollers by the reverse rollers, and then being switched from reverse rotation to forward rotation to transport the sheet again in the sheet transport direction by the registration rollers, wherein the apparatus further comprises a control section configured to switch the registration roller clutch from a disengaged state to an engaged state so as to permit conveyance of rotation of the transport motor to rotation of the registration rollers during switching of the transport motor from reverse rotation to forward rotation, and switch the reverse roller clutch from the engaged state to the disengaged state so as to block conveyance of rotation of the transport motor to rotation of the reverse rollers after the lapse of a given length of time from a time point of start of forward rotation of the transport motor. | 35,075 |
9,306,211 | 1. A positive electrode active material comprising: a solid solution lithium-containing transition metal oxide represented by a compositional formula: where Li is lithium, Ni is nickel, Co is cobalt, Mn is manganese and O represents oxygen while a, b, c and d satisfy the following relational expressions: and and a lithium-containing transition metal oxide represented by a compositional formula: Li is lithium, Ni is nickel, Co is cobalt, Mn is manganese and O is oxygen, and a′, b′ and c′ satisfy the relations: and | 8,908 |
9,471,994 | 1. A system for generating image data of an object moving through a scene at a known object velocity, comprising: a first imaging system that generates sequential image data samples of the scene; a post processing system configured to analyze the sequential image data samples to determine when the object is present in the scene; and one or more second imaging systems configured, when triggered by the post processing system, to generate one or more second image data samples of the object when the object is present, the one or more second imaging systems each including an adjustable shutter rate and an adjustable shutter direction such that the one or more second image data samples include complete image data of the object in a single sampling of the sensor array; the post processing system being further configured to utilize information of (a) a first time at which the object is determined to be in the scene, and (b) the object velocity, to calculate a second time at which to trigger the one or more second imaging systems, so that the one or more second image data samples are generated when the object is within a field of view of the one or more second imaging systems. | 1,844 |
9,758,155 | 1. A vehicle control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle including an engine, a motor for running the vehicle, and a battery configured to supply an electric power to the motor for running, comprising: a controller configured to update an allowable input current value in accordance with a state of the battery and to control an input to the battery, the allowable input current value being a maximum current value to which the input to the battery is permitted, wherein the controller performs control such that limitation of the input to the battery in accordance with the allowable input current value is not performed if a deterioration degree of a catalyst for purifying an exhaust gas from the engine is larger than a predetermined value when a braking force of an engine brake and a regenerative braking force of the motor for running are applied to the vehicle during deceleration of the vehicle, wherein the controller performs first input control in which the allowable input current value is updated in accordance with at least one of a temperature or a state of charge (SOC) of the battery and the input to the battery is controlled and second input control in which the allowable input current value is updated in accordance with a charge state of the battery and the input to the battery is controlled, and the controller performs control such that the limitation of the input to the battery in accordance with the allowable input current value in the second input control is not performed, and permits an input of a regenerative power exceeding an input limit value of the battery based on the allowable input current value in the second input control in a range not exceeding an input limit value of the battery based on the allowable input current value in the first input control. | 43,807 |
8,828,495 | 1. A method for minimizing emissions of a polyisocyanate while spraying a mixture onto a surface, said method comprising the steps of: A. providing a polyisocyanate; B. providing a resin composition having a hydroxyl content of at least 400 mg KOH/g and comprising (i) a blowing agent that is a liquid under a pressure at least equal to atmospheric pressure, (ii) a first polyol selected from the group of a Mannich polyol, an autocatalytic polyol, and combinations thereof, (iii) at least one additional polyol other than the first polyol, and optionally: (iv) a catalyst, (v) a surfactant, and (vi) water; C. combining the resin composition with the polyisocyanate in the absence of other blowing agents to form the mixture; and D. spraying the mixture onto the surface to form a polyurethane foam having a closed cell content of at least 90 percent, wherein the mixture is sprayed through a spray nozzle at a spray angle corresponding to a control spray angle of from 15 to 125 degrees measured at a pressure of from 10 to 40 psi using water as a standard, and wherein the step of spraying produces less than 10 parts of the polyisocyanate per one billion parts of air within a semicircle emanating from the surface and having a radius of 3 feet measured from the surface according to OSHA Method 47. | 4,538 |
9,738,835 | 1. A process for performing a Fischer Tropsch reaction in a reactor comprising at least two reactor tubes, a coolant chamber, a space below the coolant chamber, a space above the coolant chamber and a gas distribution system in the space below the coolant chamber, whereby at least two reactor tubes extend through the coolant chamber such that the space below the cooling chamber is fluidly connected with the space above the cooling chamber and one or more highly porous catalysts, said catalyst(s) having a size of at least 1 mm and comprising a porous body and a catalyst material, whereby the porous body has a porosity within the range of between 50 and 98 volume %, said process comprising the following steps: providing syngas to each of the reactor tubes individually at the bottom of each of the reactor tubes; transporting liquid hydrocarbons from above the coolant chamber to below the coolant chamber and allowing liquid hydrocarbons to move from below the cooling chamber through at least one of the reactor tubes to above the cooling chamber; and removing Fischer Tropsch product from the reactor. | 42,738 |
8,676,881 | 1. A location update method, comprising: storing pre-stored location area mapping information for a plurality of access networks in an information server; receiving, by the information server, a location update request message of a first interface from a multimode terminal, wherein the request message is sent through the enabled first interface and carries a location update request of a second interface of the multimode terminal and location area information of the first interface; searching pre-stored location area mapping information for location area information of the second interface according to the received location area information of the first interface; sending a location update request message of the second interface to a second Paging Coordinator (PC) of a second access network corresponding to the second interface, wherein the request message carries the found location area information of the second interface so that the second PC can update existing location area information of the second interface; and updating the first interface and the second interface of the multimode terminal after either the location update request message of the first interface or the location update request message of the second interface is received. | 5,541 |
9,741,866 | 1. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, comprising: forming a gate electrode layer, an oxide semiconductor film, a first gate insulating film, a second gate insulating film, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer, wherein the first gate insulating film and the second gate insulating film are between the gate electrode layer and the oxide semiconductor film, wherein the second gate insulating film is in contact with the first gate insulating film, wherein the first gate insulating film is formed by a CVD method, wherein the second gate insulating film is formed by an atomic layer deposition method, wherein a thickness of the second gate insulating film is larger than or equal to 1 nm and smaller than or equal to 20 nm, and wherein the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer are electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. | 6,369 |
9,496,338 | 1. A method of fabricating a nanowire field effect transistor (FET) device, the method comprising: forming a plurality of fins on a bulk substrate of a first type semiconductor material; forming epitaxial semiconductor regions of a second semiconductor type material adjacent bottom portions of the plurality of fins, the second semiconductor type material being different from the first semiconductor type material; performing an anneal so as to condense the second type semiconductor material directly beneath the plurality of fins; and selectively removing the second type semiconductor material with respect to the first type semiconductor material to form a plurality of nanowires from the plurality of fins, the plurality of nanowires being suspended over the bulk substrate. | 4,677 |
8,610,911 | 1. A printing device for executing a print process on the basis of print data including an image inclusion command containing a command part and an image data part, and an image non-inclusion command containing a command part but not containing an image data part, said printing device comprising: a conversion unit which converts the command part of the image inclusion command contained in the print data into an internal command; a first memory unit which stores the internal command converted by the conversion unit and the image non-inclusion command contained in the print data; a second memory unit which stores the image data part of the image inclusion command contained in the print data; a restart page number memory unit which stores restart page number information corresponding to a page number for restarting the executed print process, when the print process being executed is interrupted in order to execute an interruption print process; and, a control unit that, when restarting the interrupted print process after execution of the interruption print process, reads out the internal command and the image non-inclusion command stored in the first memory unit in the print process up to the page indicated by the restart page number information stored in the restart page number memory unit; wherein the control unit, when executing the restarted printing process from the page indicated by the restart page number information, reads out the internal command and image non-inclusion data from the first memory unit, and furthermore reads out from the second memory unit the image data part in accordance with the internal command read out from the first memory unit. | 24,737 |
9,184,630 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that is operable to cause financial transfers responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records, the automated banking machine comprises | 1,760 |
9,690,363 | 1. A method for optimizing power usage by individual subsystems of a portable computing device, the method comprising: determining a plurality of voted voltage values for a plurality of subsystems within the portable computing device, wherein each of the plurality of subsystems is associated with a shared power domain such that each of the plurality of subsystems is supplied a same voltage level dictated by the shared power domain and at least one of the plurality of subsystems is a multiplexed subsystem comprising a plurality of processing engines; determining a reduced set of voltage values based on the plurality of voted voltage values, the reduced set of voltage values comprising three voltage levels; calculating an energy efficient voltage level from the reduced set of voltage values comprising the three voltage levels; determining that the present voltage level exceeds the energy efficient voltage level; then performing the following in sequence: determining an energy efficient operating frequency and power collapse duration for each subsystem based on the energy efficient voltage level while each subsystem is operating at the present voltage level which exceeds the energy efficient voltage level; setting each subsystem to its energy efficient operating frequency while each subsystem is operating at the present voltage level which exceeds the energy efficient voltage level; identifying a subset of active processing engines from the plurality of processing engines; setting the shared power domain to the energy efficient voltage level; and processing a workload allocated to the multiplexed subsystem with the subset of active processing engines at the energy efficient voltage level, wherein processing the workload with the subset of active processing engines increases power usage efficiency of the multiplexed subsystem. | 39,782 |
8,460,387 | 1. An intervertebral implant assembly comprising: an implant member including a body portion and an attaching portion on a proximal face of the implant member, the body portion including first and second surfaces adapted to engage first and second vertebral bodies, respectively, the attaching portion including a male dovetail joint extending longitudinally on the proximal face of the implant member; and a retention member detachably coupled to the attaching portion of the implant member, the retention member defining a female dovetail joint corresponding to the male dovetail joint of the attaching portion, the retention member defining an access bore configured and dimensioned to receive a bone screw therein, wherein the proximal face of the implant member defines a first guide portion that leads into the first surface, whereby when the bone screw is inserted through the access bore the bone screw is directed towards the first vertebral body through the first guide portion. | 31,706 |
8,934,527 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a plurality of channel processors, wherein each channel processor comprises: a multiple-channel processor operable to generate the plurality of cancellation values based at least in part on the plurality of compensated signals and the plurality of decision values. | 23,719 |
9,683,544 | 1. A wave power generating apparatus comprising: a floating part floatable on a sea; a generator coupled to the floating part, wherein the generator comprises a housing and a drive shaft coupled to the housing, the drive shaft being positioned on an extension of a center of rotation extending in a top-bottom direction from the housing; a first rotary unit coupled to the housing of the generator, the first rotary unit being rotatable in a first direction together with the housing about the extension of the center of rotation, wherein the first rotary unit comprises a first blade able to pivot about a first pivot axis perpendicular to the extension of the center of rotation; and a second rotary unit coupled to the drive shaft of the generator, the second rotary unit being rotatable together with the drive shaft in a second direction opposite to a direction in which the first rotary unit rotates, wherein the second rotary unit comprises a second blade able to pivot about a second pivot axis perpendicular to the extension of the center of rotation, wherein, when the generator, the first rotary unit and the second rotary unit are moved upwardly and downwardly in water by waves in a state in which the floating part is on a surface of sea and the first rotary unit and the second rotary unit are underwater, the first blade and the second blade rotate the housing and the drive shaft in opposite directions with a force from water applied to each of the first and second blades, such that the generator generates electricity. | 45,592 |
9,650,246 | 1. A system for synthesizing hydrocarbonaceous compounds, the system comprising: a molten carbonate fuel cell comprising an anode and a cathode, the anode comprising an anode inlet for receiving a fuel stream comprising a reformable fuel and comprising an anode outlet from which an anode exhaust is provided, the cathode comprising a cathode inlet for receiving a stream comprising CO2 and O2 and comprising a cathode outlet from which a cathode exhaust is provided, wherein the anode exhaust comprises H2, CO, H2O, and CO2, and wherein a ratio of H2 to CO in the anode exhaust is at least about 2.5:1. | 17,464 |
8,449,831 | 1. A catalytic device comprising: a shell having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet is in fluid communication with the outlet through an opening extending through the shell; a catalyst substrate disposed within the opening and between the inlet and outlet, the catalyst substrate including a flow through structure in fluid communication with the inlet and outlet, the catalyst substrate having an outer surface surrounding the flow through structure and that faces an inner surface of the shell, wherein a first end of the outer surface is bent over toward the flow through structure, so as to mechanically lock and seal the catalyst substrate in place; a mat disposed between the outer surface of the catalyst substrate and the inner surface of the shell such that the mat is directly pressed against and sealed between the outer surface of the catalyst substrate and the inner surface of the shell; and the outer surface having at least one retention barb in direct contact with the mat, the shell is a spin formed member where the catalyst substrate and mat are disposed within the opening of the shell and between the inlet and outlet when the shell is spin formed. | 4,026 |
9,576,167 | 1. A method for locating parts with electromagnetic identification (EMID) tags on a vehicle, the method comprising: transmitting, with at least one transmit antenna on an EMID reader, at least one first transmit signal having at least one of a first signal strength or a first field of view (FOV), thereby establishing a first radiation region; receiving, with at least one receive antenna on the EMID reader, at least one first receive signal radiated from at least one of the EMID tags; transmitting, with the at least one transmit antenna on the EMID reader, at least one second transmit signal having at least one of a second signal strength or a second field of view (FOV), thereby establishing a second radiation region; receiving, with the at least one receive antenna on the EMID reader, at least one second receive signal radiated from at least one of the EMID tags; subtracting, by at least one processor, the second radiation region from the first radiation region to determine a difference region; determining, by the at least one processor, which of the EMID tags are located within the difference region by using the at least one first receive signal and the at least one second receive signal; and determining, by the at least one processor, a location of the EMID tags located within the difference region. | 41,535 |
9,596,862 | 1. A composition comprising effective amounts of a biological control agent, wherein the biological control agent is Bacillus firmus CNCM I-1582 spores, and a fungicide, wherein the fungicide is fluoypyram, and wherein the B. firmus CNCM I-1582 spores and fluopyram are present at a weight ratio of between 100:1 and 1:100. | 8,425 |
9,586,754 | 1. A dumpster bag with stand comprising: a flexible dumpster bag, wherein the flexible dumpster bag comprises: a portable stand, wherein the portable stand comprises: wherein the dumpster bag is removably secured to the first support frame and the second support frame of the portable stand. | 34,209 |
8,599,057 | 1. A method comprising: receiving portions of a digital signal by a plurality of sub-DACs; converting the portions of the digital signal to a corresponding analog signal by the plurality of sub-DACs; biasing one or more of the plurality of sub-DACs; and calibrating the portions of a digital signal by one or more calibration elements. | 37,545 |
8,968,757 | 1. A method for eliminating pests comprising: applying a pesticide composition to an enclosed or partially enclosed area in a structure inhabited by insects, wherein the pesticide composition comprises a water dispersible granule comprising a substrate, an inner layer comprising a residual kill first pesticide coated on to the substrate and an outer layer comprising a contact kill second pesticide coated on the inner layer, the second pesticide comprising sodium lauryl sulfate and optionally an additional surfactant pesticide selected from the group consisting of alcohol ethoxylates, quaternary ammonium compounds, fatty acids, fatty acid soaps, dioctylsulfosuccinate, and mixtures thereof and the surfactant pesticide has a hydrophobic portion with a carbon chain length of from about 6 to 16, wherein the first pesticide comprises about 20-80 wt-% of the inner layer and the second pesticide comprises at least about 40 wt-% of the outer layer. | 39,078 |
8,617,868 | 1. A variant of a parent polypeptide having asparaginase activity, wherein the variant has an amino acid sequence which, when aligned with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 3, comprises substitution of an amino acid residue corresponding to any of amino acids 41, 62, 63, 76, 77, 101, 104, 106, 108, 119, 122, 123, 132, 140, 142, 143, 145, 162, 163, 169, 170, 195, 213, 217, 218, 232, 233, 234, 268, 269, 270, 272, 273, 293, 297, 298, 300, 301, 304, or 371; said positions being defined with reference to SEQ ID NO: 3, and wherein the parent polypeptide has at least 90% homology with SEQ ID NO: 3. | 37,109 |
8,940,061 | 1. An apparatus for generating hydrogen for a fuel cell the apparatus comprising: a housing having an opening and a reservoir; a button connected to the housing and covering the opening; a first separating plate disposed in the housing for dividing the reservoir into a first sub-room and a second sub-room, wherein the opening communicates with the first sub-room, the first sub-room is suitable for storing a liquid reactant and the first separating plate has a through hole opposite to the button; a solid state reactant disposed in the second sub-room; and a separating membrane disposed on the through hole for separating the first sub-room from the second sub-room, wherein, when the button is pushed, the button damages the separating membrane so that the liquid reactant flows to the second sub-room through the through hole due to gravity and the liquid reactant reacts with the solid state reactant to generate hydrogen. | 19,467 |
8,635,855 | 1. An exhaust gas treatment system for a diesel engine, comprising: a diesel oxidation catalyst in fluid communication with a diesel engine to receive an exhaust gas flow therefrom; a first injection device that is configured to inject a hydrocarbon, CO or H a lean nitrogen oxides (NO a two-way catalyst in fluid communication with the lean NO a second injection device that is configured to inject urea or ammonia, or a combination thereof, into the exhaust gas flow between the LNT catalyst and the two-way catalyst; and a controller that is configured to control operation of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system and periodic and selective injection of the hydrocarbon, CO or H | 34,846 |
9,322,111 | 1. A bismuth-substituted rare-earth iron garnet crystal film which is grown by liquid phase epitaxy on a non-magnetic garnet substrate represented by a chemical formula of Gd 3 (ScGa) 5 O 12 , wherein the bismuth-substituted rare-earth iron garnet crystal film is represented by a chemical formula of La a composition ratio between the La, Gd, and Bi falls within a numeric value range corresponding to the inside of a quadrilateral having the following composition points A, B, C, and D as vertices in a La—Gd—Bi ternary composition diagram: composition point A (La: 0.19, Gd: 1.71, Bi: 1.10), composition point B (La: 0.32, Gd: 1.88, Bi: 0.80), composition point C (La: 0.52, Gd: 1.68, Bi: 0.80), and composition point D (La: 0.39, Gd: 1.51, Bi: 1.10). | 19,856 |
9,250,282 | 1. A method of determining a fault parameter, including a fault direction parameter, of a fault on an AC transmission line of a power distribution system relative to a measurement location of the transmission line, the method comprising: measuring a time-dependent current of the transmission line at the measurement location; transmitting a current signal indicative of the measured current to a decision logic section, the current signal including a plurality of pre-fault current values and a plurality of post-fault current values; determining, by the decision logic section, a plurality of phase difference values indicative of respective phase differences between respective ones of the pre-fault current values and respective ones of the post-fault current values; accumulating the plurality of phase difference values into an accumulated phase difference parameter; obtaining the fault parameter by comparing the accumulated phase difference parameter to a threshold value; and outputting the determined fault parameter, wherein measuring a time-dependent current of the transmission line includes measuring a current but measuring no voltage of the transmission line. | 19,939 |
9,478,578 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate, the substrate having a device region and a periphery region; one or more metal stress release features on the periphery region of the substrate; and an interlayer dielectric layer over the device region and the one or more metal stress release features, the interlayer dielectric layer being a lowermost interlayer dielectric layer. | 48,697 |
8,744,069 | 1. A method of performing voice-switching for periods of doubletalk between a near-end teleconference device and a far-end teleconference device, the method comprising: receiving far-end voice data from the far-end teleconference device; receiving near-end voice data at the near-end teleconference device; identifying frequency subbands of the near-end voice data that have substantial energy; and before playing the far-end voice data on one or more loudspeakers of the near-end teleconference device, passing the far-end voice data to an audio unit, the audio unit selectively attenuating or eliminating from the far-end voice data frequency subbands of the far-end voice data that correspond to the identified frequency subbands of the near-end voice data, and wherein the audio unit does not attenuate or eliminate subbands of the far-end voice data that do not correspond to the identified frequency subbands of the near-end voice data. | 13,495 |
8,792,931 | 1. A method for controlling a carrier Power Amplifier (PA) of a Base Station (BS), comprising: obtaining power control information of the carrier PA at a next timeslot; and adjusting working voltage of the carrier PA at the next timeslot according to the power control information, comprising: calculating the working voltage of the carrier PA at the next timeslot according to the power control information; and adjusting the working voltage of the carrier PA to the working voltage at the next timeslot upon arrival of the next timeslot; wherein the calculating the working voltage of the carrier PA at the next timeslot according to the power control information comprises: calculating output power of a carrier at the next timeslot according to the power control information if a single carrier is configured for the carrier PA, and using the output power of the carrier as output power of the carrier PA at the next timeslot; or calculating output power of each carrier at the next timeslot according to the power control information if multiple carriers are configured for the carrier PA, and using a sum of output power of all carriers as output power of the carrier PA at the next timeslot; and comparing the output power of the carrier PA with a power gain curve of the carrier PA to obtain working voltage corresponding to the output power of the carrier PA at the next timeslot, and using the working voltage as the working voltage of the carrier PA at the next timeslot. | 12,146 |
8,996,227 | 1. A power control system for a hybrid electrical vehicle, comprising: a power network; a power generating unit electrically coupled to the power network by a first electrical state controller, wherein the first electrical state controller is configured to control a first voltage or a first current transmitted from the power generating unit to the power network; an energy storage device electrically coupled to the power network by a second electrical state controller, wherein the second electrical state controller is configured to control a second voltage or a second current transmitted from the energy storage device to the power network; an electrical load electrically coupled to the power network; and control logic configured to: | 9,992 |
8,442,021 | 1. A method for predicting the performance of radio link in a wireless communication terminal, the method comprising: hypothesizing a first codeword, wherein the first codeword corresponds to a control channel; hypothesizing a second codeword, wherein the second codeword corresponds to a control format indicator channel carrying information related to transmission parameters of the control channel; receiving a reference signal; estimating a decoder error rate of the first codeword under a condition that the second codeword may not be decoded correctly, the decoder error rate is estimated based on the reference signal. | 9,405 |
9,306,664 | 1. In an optical network, a method comprising: tapping off a portion of an optical signal without affecting service in the optical network; filtering the portion of the optical signal with an optical filter to select a channel in the signal; passing the filtered signal to a delay line interferometer (DLI); comparing power at a constructive interference output port of the DLI with power at a destructive interference output port to calculate an optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) for the channel; calculating the OSNR for the channel using the power at the constructive interference output port of the DLI and the power at the destructive interference output port of the DLI; and calibrating the calculated OSNR based on a filter profile of the optical filter. | 17,691 |
9,341,934 | 1. A light projector comprising a luminous source, a Fresnel or planar-convex lens having an optical axis, a mirror including a three-dimensional surface starting from a plane that is perpendicular to said optical axis and whereon said source is placed, wherein said three-dimensional surface is obtained by starting from a starting parabola having a vertex, a focus, a curvature and an axis coinciding with said optical axis, and by: rotating the axis of said starting parabola by an angle α<45° with respect to the focus, thereby obtaining a rotated parabola; defining a new optical axis passing through the vertex of the rotated parabola and parallel to the axis of the starting parabola; taking a sector of an angle β≦90° of the rotated parabola profile starting from an axis passing through said focus and perpendicular to said new optical axis, and proceeding towards the vertex of the rotated parabola; and rotating said sector by an angle γ around said new optical axis. | 12,661 |
9,388,115 | 1. A process for preparing polyol esters by reacting polyols of the general formula (I) in which R is an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic hydrocarbyl radical having 2 to 20 carbon atoms and n is an integer from 2 to 8, with linear or branched aliphatic monocarboxylic acids having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, characterized in that a mixture of the starting compounds is allowed to react in the presence of a catalyst selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, hafnium or tin as elements or in the form of compounds thereof and in the presence of an activated carbon adsorbent with removal of the water formed, and then the crude ester obtained is aftertreated by adding a further adsorbent which is an acidic activated carbon having a pH of 1 to 6.5. | 36,402 |
9,318,658 | 1. A method for manufacturing a red phosphor comprising steps of: mixing an element A-containing compound, a nitrogen-free europium, a silicon-containing compound, an aluminum-containing compound and a carbon-containing reducing agent so as to form a mixture, the atomic ratio among element A, europium (Eu), silicon (Si), aluminum(Al) and carbon (C) being a value represented by composition formula (1); firing the mixture; and milling the fired mixture; wherein the element A is at least one element selected from the group of magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr) and barium (Ba), and m, x, z and n satisfy the relation: 3<m<5, 0<x<1, 0≦y<2, 0<z<1, and 0<n<10. | 33,415 |
8,683,188 | 1. A method of preventing the unauthorized rebooting of a server comprising a computer processor, the server having a reboot password comprising: updating a server such that rebooting of the server is required; performing a rebooting routine prior to rebooting of the server, the rebooting routine comprising: wherein after authenticating that rebooting of the server is authorized by the change record, after authenticating that the password entered corresponds to the reboot password, and after authenticating by a computer processor that the reboot key entered corresponds to the valid reboot key, further comprising rebooting the server. | 4,616 |
9,802,505 | 1. A fuel cell vehicle including a fuel cell and a secondary battery, the fuel cell vehicle comprising: a drive motor for driving a load; a pump for supplying an oxygen-containing gas to the fuel cell; a pump motor for driving the pump; and a control device for controlling operations of the drive motor and the pump motor, wherein the drive motor and the pump motor are connected to each other via an electric power line so that the drive motor and the pump motor are configured to receive and supply electric power with each other without involving reception and supply of electric power with the secondary battery, and wherein the control device determines: (i) an upper-limit guard value of torque of the pump motor based on a dischargeable power of the secondary battery and an output power of the fuel cell; or (ii) a lower-limit guard value of torque of the pump motor based on a chargeable power of the secondary battery and an output power of the fuel cell. | 21,481 |
8,766,167 | 1. An interrogator for a plurality of sensor fiber optic gratings comprising: a broadband optical source; at least one beam splitter directing output of the optical source to the sensor fiber optic gratings; at least one linear filter for converting changes in peak reflection wavelength to changes in intensity; at least one optical receiver; at least one amplifier associated with each optical receiver; and an analog integrator following the at least one amplifier. | 15,999 |
9,782,335 | 1. A compound selected from the group consisting of: 3-malate-5,4′-dihydroxystilbene; 4′-malate-3,5-dihydroxystilbene; 3,5-dimalate-4′-hydroxystilbene; 3,4′-dimalate-5-hydroxystilbene; and 3,5,4′-trimalate-stilbene. | 49,324 |
8,808,518 | 1. A method of microbial identification applied with an dielectrophoretic microfluidic chip, wherein the dielectrophoretic microfluidic chip includes a first injection channels, a second injection channel, a third injection channel, a main channel extending horizontally and conducting to the injection channels at one end, and a first microchannel, a second microchannel and a third microchannel conducting to the right end of the main channel respectively, the method comprising the steps of: injecting a continuous fluid containing first dielectrophoretic particles modified with first DNA probes into the first injection channel and a continuous fluid containing second dielectrophoretic particles modified with second DNA probes of a target microbe into the third injection channel respectively; forcing the fluid containing first dielectrophoretic particles and the fluid containing second dielectrophoretic particles to flow through the main channel to the microchannels as laminar flows, the fluid flowing into the first microchannel contains only the first dielectrophoretic particles, the fluid flowing into the third microchannel contains only the second dielectrophoretic particles and the fluid flowing into the second microchannel contains both of the first and second dielectrophoretic particles; assembling first dielectrophoretic particles individually, first dielectrophoretic particles will the second dielectrophoretic particles, and second dielectrophoretic particles individually on a surface thereof in the continuous fluid at a predetermined region in the first microchannel, the second microchannel and the third microchannel to form a particle assembly by a negative dielectrophoretic force and a hydrodynamic force provided by the continuous fluid, respectively; narrowing gaps among the first dielectrophoretic particles, gaps among the second dielectrophoretic particles, and gaps among the first dielectrophoretic particles and the second dielectrophoretic particles of each of the particle assemblies to enhance the electric field in the gaps among the first dielectrophoretic particles, the gaps among the second dielectrophoretic particles, and the gaps among the first dielectrophoretic particles and the second dielectrophoretic particles; injecting a fluid containing target DNAs of the target microbe into the second injection channel and flows into the main channel and the first microchannel, the second microchannel, and the third microchannel at a predetermined flow rate to move the target DNAs toward each of the particle assemblies; and generating a positive dielectrophoretic force by the enhanced electric field to attract the target DNAs toward the second dielectrophoretic particles of the particle assembly for hybridization with the second DNA probes, wherein the target DNAs are modified with fluorescent material or color display material, wherein six trapping electrodes with openings toward the continuous fluid are separately disposed on a top side and a bottom side of the first microchannel, the second microchannel, and the third microchannel with respect to each other. | 24,958 |
9,836,148 | 1. A flexible display apparatus, including: a flexible display; a housing to store at least a portion of the flexible display; and a first guide inside the housing, the same first guide to both guide movement of the flexible display and sense a squeezing motion on the housing, wherein the first guide includes a rotator to rotate according to the movement of the flexible display and a sensor defining a rotation axis of the rotator, and wherein the rotator senses the movement of the flexible display, and the sensor senses the squeeze motion on the housing through the rotator. | 42,668 |
8,515,411 | 1. Logic encoded in a non-transitory, tangible computer readable medium for execution by a processor and when executed operable to: determine whether a first wireless transceiver employing a first wireless technology is in an operating state or in a power save state; determine data representative of a position relative to a wireless network employing a second communication technology while the first transceiver is in the operating state; transmit the data representative of the position via the first wireless transceiver; receive a predetermined signal via the first transceiver; establish communication with the wireless network employing the second communication technology via a second wireless transceiver while the first transceiver is in the operating state responsive to the predetermined signal received via the first transceiver; and switch the first wireless transceiver into the power save state while the second wireless transceiver is communicating with the wireless network. | 35,243 |
8,877,020 | 1. An electrolytic regeneration unit for use in an electrolytic regeneration apparatus for electrolyzing and regenerating a treatment liquid used for desmearing in a desmearing tank, the electrolytic regeneration unit comprising: an anode pipe having an inner circumferential surface functioning as an anode; and a cathode disposed inside the anode pipe at a distance from the inner circumferential surface of the anode pipe, wherein the anode pipe includes: a main pipe portion that has a first connection end portion for connecting one pipe and a second connection end portion for connecting another pipe other than the one pipe, and forms a flow channel for the treatment liquid that continues from the first connection end portion to the second connection end portion; and a secondary pipe portion that has a cathode attachment end portion for attaching the cathode, extends in a tubular fashion from an intermediate section of the main pipe portion, the interior of the secondary pipe portion communicates with the flow channel inside the main pipe portion, and the cathode extends inside the secondary pipe portion from the cathode attachment end portion toward the main pipe portion. | 12,053 |
8,700,289 | 1. A straddle type vehicle comprising: an engine; an engine power controller programmed to control power of the engine; an operation portion arranged to control the engine; an operation input detector arranged to detect whether the operation portion is operated; an operation amount detector arranged to electrically detect an operation amount of the operation portion; and a control portion programmed to control the engine by controlling the engine power controller based on detection results of the operation input detector and the operation amount detector; wherein the control portion is programmed not to control the engine power controller based on an operation amount detected by the operation amount detector in a first region in which the operation amount detected by the operation amount detector is at most equal to a first operation amount; a second operation amount smaller than the first operation amount is set in the first region; and if an operation amount detected by the operation amount detector is greater than the first operation amount, the control portion is programmed to control the engine power controller based on the operation amount detected by the operation amount detector, provided that operation corresponding to the second operation amount is detected by the operation input detector. | 9,709 |
8,841,876 | 1. A method of controlling an electrical machine, the method comprising: exciting a phase winding of the electrical machine with a supply voltage; freewheeling the phase winding when current in the phase winding exceeds a threshold; adjusting the threshold in response to changes in at least one of the supply voltage and the speed of the electrical machine, and increasing the threshold in response to at least one of a decrease in the supply voltage and an increase in the speed of the electrical machine. | 2,089 |
9,414,005 | 1. A method for programming a target remote control, comprising: causing display, by a computing device, of information instructing a user to select a brand of device from a displayed plurality of brands of devices; receiving, at the computing device, input selecting a particular brand of device to be controlled from the displayed plurality of brands of devices; receiving, at the computing device, a control signal transmitted from a source remote control; determining a set of control codes for the device to be controlled using the particular brand of the device selected from the displayed plurality of brands of devices and the received control signal; sending an indicator representing the determined set of control codes to a target remote control, the target remote control configuring itself using the indicator. | 10,444 |
8,938,732 | 1. A method for deploying installable software artifacts in canonical form, the method comprising: storing artifacts in platform independent canonical form; receiving in a dynamic update site server executing in memory of a computer, a request from a client for one of a first time provisioning and an update to a specified application for a specific target platform; locating by the dynamic update site server the stored artifacts according to the specified application; dynamically generating by the dynamic update site server a feature from the stored artifacts for the specific target platform, the feature comprising a plug-in bundle; and, performing by the dynamic update site server one of first time provisioning and updating the specified application in the client with the dynamically generated feature. | 34,470 |
8,618,015 | 1. A method of making a catalyst composition suitable for use in the manufacture of ultra low sulfur diesel, said method comprises: mixing a high purity boehmite starting material comprising more than 98 percent alpha alumina monohydrate in the form of a powder with water in a weight ratio of boehmite-to-water of from 0.1:1 to 10:1, wherein said high purity boehmite starting material has impurities of less than 200 ppm silicon dioxide and less than 200 ppm iron oxide; forming a shaped particle from said mixture comprising at least 90 weight percent, exclusive of water, boehmite; heat treating said shaped particle under a controlled temperature condition to convert said boehmite of said shaped particle to gamma-alumina; controlling said controlled temperature condition to within a calcination temperature range of from about 850° F. and 950° F. so as to convert said boehmite to a crystalline transitional phase of alumina that includes less than 5 weight percent of a transitional crystalline phase of alumina other than gamma alumina, thereby providing a heat treated shaped particle; incorporating a hydrogenation catalytic component into said heat treated shaped particle to thereby provide an impregnated heat treated shaped particle; and heat treating said impregnated heat treated shaped particle at a temperature of from about 870° F. to about 1000° F., to thereby provide a catalyst composition capable of desulfurizing a distillate feedstock to a sulfur concentration of less than 15 parts per million. | 35,232 |
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